Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Perforated ceiling.
Do you know why the ceiling is perforated. It is meant for people to break through it easily. Watch out though, in older places which hold legacy, the ceilings contain materials that are not allowed in modern construction.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Response to
Some of you were put off by my post titled "Nissan probably reads my blog". In it I wrote a satirical piece praising Nissan's new ad. While the car is indeed, a small step in the right direction when it comes to energy independence, I was disgusted with Nissan's use of charismatic megafauna. It was a blatant attempt to tug at the heart strings of the viewer and guilt them into considering the car. The ad is also a reason why there is an environmental counter culture. There is a stigma of elitistism or a smug mentality when is come to driving a hybrid vehicle that is better for the environment. This ad reinforces the picture viewed by the public that the self-righteous owners of the car will be hugged by polar bears. The thought of that is repulsive and reaches new levels of absurdity. I for one am not a critic of the environmental movement, but after seeing this ad, I am afraid it has created hundreds more who are smart enough not to be feed the ridiculousness Nissan has created.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Life in 16bit Color
Wait not 'life'.
It seems my computer is expectedly not adapting to a more aggressive resource heavy internet landscape. For a made up statistic somewhere around 90% of the things I do, the computer is fine. But when it comes to script heavy web pages, this computer will stutter at times. A lot of forums, message boards are now switching over to vBulletin 4 or whatever its rivals equivalent is. While offering no extra content to the end user, the pages are slower to load with older devices.
It has come to this point. For greater speed I must switch over to a world in 16bit color. World as in the computer. The color pallet I see is diminished, though it was already crippled from the display monitor not achieving all 4.2 billion colors of the 32bit pallet, which would still be limited since I, as a human, can only see about 10 million distinct colors.
My hopes are in the next generation of browsers, firefox4 or chrome 7, which will have gpu acceleration. Currently none of the stable releases use it, my Radeon 9600 needs some work to do.
It seems my computer is expectedly not adapting to a more aggressive resource heavy internet landscape. For a made up statistic somewhere around 90% of the things I do, the computer is fine. But when it comes to script heavy web pages, this computer will stutter at times. A lot of forums, message boards are now switching over to vBulletin 4 or whatever its rivals equivalent is. While offering no extra content to the end user, the pages are slower to load with older devices.
It has come to this point. For greater speed I must switch over to a world in 16bit color. World as in the computer. The color pallet I see is diminished, though it was already crippled from the display monitor not achieving all 4.2 billion colors of the 32bit pallet, which would still be limited since I, as a human, can only see about 10 million distinct colors.
My hopes are in the next generation of browsers, firefox4 or chrome 7, which will have gpu acceleration. Currently none of the stable releases use it, my Radeon 9600 needs some work to do.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Nissan probably reads my blog.
I do periodic posts on tips that will save the planet once in a while. In it, I give tips and suggestions (though that should be commands) that will in fact save the glorious world we live in. It seems Nissan is being proactive to my approach, and has produced a vehicle and an ad campaign for it to send a message to the world.
I think my readers, being as dumb as they are, need an explanation of this ad. You see the polar bear encompasses everything about the fragile world, a juxtaposition of an animal if there was ever one. Large and powerful it viciously hunts down smaller, weaker and unworthy animals and eats them for survival, but the bear is dressed in the most pure and innocent color of the rainbow, White, it couldn't possibly want to harm anything. The polar bear in the ad travels far away, most likely in search of food given today's climate. The bears see a raccoon, a dirty and dark city dwelling vermin unfit for existence, Nissan spares showing you the bear's moral duty to rid the world of such creatures. The bear finds it way to a suburban community. The bear see a white man, married, progressively dressed in a natural shouldered brown blazer, dark jeans and sneakers. The bear then stands proudly, human-like and hugs the white man. My first thought for the bear's action was that who wouldn't want to hug that man of seemingly perfect Aryan blood, but no, do not make that mistake. The bear hugged the man because he was driving the Nissan Leaf, a car which symbolizes the antidote to environmental collapse.
Of course! To save the planet you must buy this new car and dump your old one, it only makes sense. Everyone needs to do it. The ad is perfect. It targets it demographic perfectly. Anyone gullible to believe the ad is gullible enough into buying the car.
I think my readers, being as dumb as they are, need an explanation of this ad. You see the polar bear encompasses everything about the fragile world, a juxtaposition of an animal if there was ever one. Large and powerful it viciously hunts down smaller, weaker and unworthy animals and eats them for survival, but the bear is dressed in the most pure and innocent color of the rainbow, White, it couldn't possibly want to harm anything. The polar bear in the ad travels far away, most likely in search of food given today's climate. The bears see a raccoon, a dirty and dark city dwelling vermin unfit for existence, Nissan spares showing you the bear's moral duty to rid the world of such creatures. The bear finds it way to a suburban community. The bear see a white man, married, progressively dressed in a natural shouldered brown blazer, dark jeans and sneakers. The bear then stands proudly, human-like and hugs the white man. My first thought for the bear's action was that who wouldn't want to hug that man of seemingly perfect Aryan blood, but no, do not make that mistake. The bear hugged the man because he was driving the Nissan Leaf, a car which symbolizes the antidote to environmental collapse.
Of course! To save the planet you must buy this new car and dump your old one, it only makes sense. Everyone needs to do it. The ad is perfect. It targets it demographic perfectly. Anyone gullible to believe the ad is gullible enough into buying the car.