Wakefield, although you are probably in the ICU or morgue, I will write this anyways.
You are a brave soul. Driving a hundred miles to get your ass kicked...that takes balls. If it is any consolation, at least you're going out a man. A dumb man, but a man nonetheless.
I'm just messing Wake, but seriously, you are going to get your butt kicked.
Godspeed Wakefield. Godspeed.
Smackdaddy V
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
http://restructure.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/white-american-culture-is-general-tsos-chicken-and-chop-suey/
Hello, everybody. So this is my first post, and I'm not sure what to post about, so after some time of brainstorming and inactivity, I figure I'd post about this video. As we all know, food is necessary for daily sustenance. This necessity alone has led to the creation of many types of food that we know and love, like hamburgers and stinky tofu. These are only two of the many foods available to us.
Life without choice of food would be sad. What would be even more sad is that if immigrants couldn't bring their foods to other country. Unfortunately, this thought can lead to good and bad. Regardless of the fact, different variations of the original recipe specific to the home country have come about. The video above gives some examples of foods, the origins of which we rarely question. Of course, eating is more important. I just stumbled upon the fact that it's nice to have so many different types of food, authentic or not, like the fortune cookie. As a collector of the fortunes, I like to think that I appreciate both the authentic and the not, broccoli beef and
say gwai dou" (some sort of beans). I think it's all great and I hoep you think so too.
Hello, everybody. So this is my first post, and I'm not sure what to post about, so after some time of brainstorming and inactivity, I figure I'd post about this video. As we all know, food is necessary for daily sustenance. This necessity alone has led to the creation of many types of food that we know and love, like hamburgers and stinky tofu. These are only two of the many foods available to us.
Life without choice of food would be sad. What would be even more sad is that if immigrants couldn't bring their foods to other country. Unfortunately, this thought can lead to good and bad. Regardless of the fact, different variations of the original recipe specific to the home country have come about. The video above gives some examples of foods, the origins of which we rarely question. Of course, eating is more important. I just stumbled upon the fact that it's nice to have so many different types of food, authentic or not, like the fortune cookie. As a collector of the fortunes, I like to think that I appreciate both the authentic and the not, broccoli beef and
say gwai dou" (some sort of beans). I think it's all great and I hoep you think so too.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Youtube - What the hell?!
While I wait for youtube to process a 4 mb video I just uploaded (I've been waiting for about 3 hours, by the way), I'll go ahead and talk about youtube's new way to fight copyright infringement.
Copyright infringement in youtube has always been a problem, to copyright owners anyway. It's very easy to just post up a show, movie, or a song and gain at least ten thousand hits. Now, youtube has a new way to counter copyright infringement of music. They will analyze the audio in any video and if they find any audio that belongs to a copyrighted song, they will MUTE (yes, MUTE) the audio completely. I'm not really sure how they do this, but I think they check the audio against a huge database of copyrighted music, and if any audio from the video matches anything from the database, they will mute it. As you can imagine, this might take a lot of time, because there are terabytes of music out there, which why I'm guessing that they're taking so fucking long to upload and process my 4 megabyte, 50 second video!!! Muting audio on youtube might curb copyright infringement on music a bit. I don't know if they're doing this only for newly uploaded videos or if they will run audio checks against already existing videos. If they do mute the older videos, they will effectively be purging at least half of all youtube. Anything that has non-original music will be muted, and that includes short movies, video logs, anime music videos, and much more. Is this really a smart thing for youtube to do? The copyright holders might temporarily satisfied, but is it worth decimating the youtube community?
Copyright infringement in youtube has always been a problem, to copyright owners anyway. It's very easy to just post up a show, movie, or a song and gain at least ten thousand hits. Now, youtube has a new way to counter copyright infringement of music. They will analyze the audio in any video and if they find any audio that belongs to a copyrighted song, they will MUTE (yes, MUTE) the audio completely. I'm not really sure how they do this, but I think they check the audio against a huge database of copyrighted music, and if any audio from the video matches anything from the database, they will mute it. As you can imagine, this might take a lot of time, because there are terabytes of music out there, which why I'm guessing that they're taking so fucking long to upload and process my 4 megabyte, 50 second video!!! Muting audio on youtube might curb copyright infringement on music a bit. I don't know if they're doing this only for newly uploaded videos or if they will run audio checks against already existing videos. If they do mute the older videos, they will effectively be purging at least half of all youtube. Anything that has non-original music will be muted, and that includes short movies, video logs, anime music videos, and much more. Is this really a smart thing for youtube to do? The copyright holders might temporarily satisfied, but is it worth decimating the youtube community?
The New Smackdad
Okay, stupid Al made me do this so for the sake of time, I will simply give the world some insight into the mind of Smackdaddy V lately.
Over the past month or two, I have grown more and more irritable, snapping at people, nearly running over an Asian guy because he stole my parking spot, and generally being a complete asshole. There are many factors that led to this change...college life, chauffeuring people around, etc. etc., but the main reason is that I am fed up being the pushover in all my belonged groups (clubs, A-men, family, it does not matter). I bust my ass off for people with little to no recognition or appreciation and I've grown sick and tired of it.
So there you go.
Over the past month or two, I have grown more and more irritable, snapping at people, nearly running over an Asian guy because he stole my parking spot, and generally being a complete asshole. There are many factors that led to this change...college life, chauffeuring people around, etc. etc., but the main reason is that I am fed up being the pushover in all my belonged groups (clubs, A-men, family, it does not matter). I bust my ass off for people with little to no recognition or appreciation and I've grown sick and tired of it.
So there you go.
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