Adam's Blog

Most of you know that I work for the Government. What you may not know is that, even though I get frustrated as an employee, I have recently gotten very upset as a taxpayer. Nothing is upsetting me more than this stupid contract called NMCI. NMCI is the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet, a great idea on paper but utter shite in reality. In an effort to link the armed forces, the Navy and Marine Corps awarded a 6 billion dollar plus contract to the (completely unprepared) EDS. The Information Strike Force, hereafter referred to as the morons, simply don't know what the hell they're doing. They are doing things like replacing new hardware with old hardware that they actually know how to use. They are planning to "upgrade" our 12 million dollar cat 6 infrastructure to cat 5 (ungeeked: NOT an upgrade), and they are charging us -- and taxpayers, mind you -- an obscene amount of money. For God's sake, installing the Flash plugin to your browser is going to cost about $125! What in the hell? Some recently retired Admiral better be smoking a cigar and sitting on serious cash in a Cayman bank account, because otherwise, we got...

Hey, somebody buy me an iBook, please. Those damned things are sweet. They have this ultra smooth look and feel, and aside from being kinda slow, they rock. Yes, it sucks that Macs run on proprietary hardware, but their product is awesome: it's UNIX, but it's easy. I've read one too many reviews on Macs recently, and now I want one. Who's gonna step up and shell out the cash for me...pretty please?

You can say whatever you like about how incredibly lame pop culture is, but I'm starting to fall victim to it. I have a "Pop" mix that I made not too long ago, and it features Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, the Backstreet Boys, even *NSync, for crying out loud. That alone shows you how much it gets beat into your head. Either way, though, Britney is money. But the cherry on top is that, last night, as I was watching the finale of "American Idol," I found myself liking that ridiculous Mariah Carey-sounding song the finalists sang. Something must be done about this, and quickly. Music today is just starting to suck. The RIAA wonders why CD sales are down, and they blame KaZaa and Napster, when in reality, there's just lots of shitty music bombarding us. And in the space, when we lack good music, we start listening to crap -- and liking it! Something big needs to come. The world is ready for another "Nevermind."

Do people actually buy the X10 web camera? If so, do they actually buy it from pop-up ads? That's the question of the day. Honestly, that friggin ad follows me all over the damned internet. You'd think it was just that necessary, "Hey, buying a CD...why not pick up an X10 too?" "Say, checking your e-mail....need an X10 while you're at it?" Seriously, I need to know - who is buying these things?

Remember Atari and that awesome game Pitfall? Well, I discovered the coolest thing the other day - check it out for yourself.

Well, I think I'm about ready to tell people about this thing. It really didn't take very long to build, and so far, I'm digging it. I also added a "Canada" category so I can shoot out random information on Canada. I'm also going to make a concerted effort to say "aboot" more. Hey, a few weeks ago I convinced some girl I was from Vancouver. I told her Americans couldn't name the Canadian provinces but that I could name all the state capitols. She got upset and said America could bomb Canada, and I told her I was going to get a moose to poop on her lawn. She was pissed, but I laughed like a kindergartner. This is just one more in a long line of tales that somehow have Canada as the butt of my jokes. God, Canada rules.

Once, when I was like 15, my buddy Benny and I made flyers for a ficticious play called "The Computer" to be put on at a local high school. We snuck out at about 2 AM and put them in people's mailboxes. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever heard of. I'm willing to bet, in retrospect, that no one was fooled, but who knew at the time? It was friggin hilarious.

Dammit. You know what qualifies as "too slow" for the internet? Anything than takes longer than absolutely i-friggin-mmediately.

Dude, what's mine say?

Why do some people pronounce the name Cheryl, which I always hear as being pronounced Sherrull, like Shurl? That's f'ed up, no? If my name were Cheryl, I'd say, "Excuse me, my name is Sherrull, not Shurl. Get it right, please."