Archmaille

On this lazy Sunday I present you with an old classic. White and nerdy!

They see me mowin’
My front lawn
I know they’re all thinking
I’m so White N’ nerdy

Think I’m just too white n’ nerdy
Think I’m just too white n’ nerdy
Can’t you see I’m white n’ nerdy
Look at me I’m white n’ nerdy!
I wanna roll with-
The gangsters
But so far they all think
I’m too white n’ nerdy
Think I’m just too white n’ nerdy
Think I’m just too white n’ nerdy
I’m just too white n’ nerdy
Really, really white n’ nerdy

First in my class here at M.I.T.
Got skills, I’m a Champion of DND
MC Escher that’s my favorite MC
Keep your 40
I’ll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin to the contrary
You’ll find they’re quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Steven Hawkings in my library
My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
I got people begging for my top 8 spaces
Yo I know Pi to a thousand places
Ain’t got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I’m a whiz at minesweeper I can play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you’re gonna stay amazed,
my fingers movin’ so fast I’ll set the place ablaze
There’s no killer app I haven’t run
At Pascal, well, I’m number 1
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain’t got a gat but I gotta soldering gun
Happy days is my favourite theme song
I can sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I’ll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I’m fluent in Java Script as well as Klingon
Here’s the part I sing on

They see me roll on, my Segway!
I know in my heart they think I’m
white n’ nerdy!
Think I’m just too white n’ nerdy
Think I’m just too white n’ nerdy
Can’t you see I’m white n’ nerdy
Look at me I’m white n’ nerdy
I’d like to roll with-
The gangsters
Although it’s apparent I’m too
White n’ nerdy
Think I’m just too white n’ nerdy
I’m just too white n’ nerdy
How’d I get so white n’ nerdy?

I’ve been browsing, inspectin’
X-men comics you know I collect ‘em
The pens in my pocket
I must protect ‘em
my ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
Shopping online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
I got a business doing websites
When my friends need some code who do they call?
I do HTML for them all
Even made a homepage for my dog!
Yo! Got myself a fanny pack
they were having a sale down at the GAP
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
POP POP! Hope no one sees me gettin’ freaky!

I’m nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour creme
I was in AV club and Glee club and even the chess team!
Only question I ever thought was hard
Was do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?
I spend every weekend
at the renaissance fair
I got my name on my under wear!

They see me strollin’
They laughin’
And rollin’ their eyes ’cause
I’m so white n’ nerdy
Just because I’m white n’ nerdy
Just because I’m white n’ nerdy
All because I’m white n’ nerdy
Holy cow I’m white n’ nerdy
I wanna bowl with-
the gangsters
but oh well it’s obvious I’m
white n’ nerdy
Think I’m just too white n’ nerdy
Think I’m just too white n’ nerdy
I’m just too white n’ nerdy
Look at me I’m white n’ nerdy!

written by Archmaille

Okay, so don’t tell my wife… but I might have, maybe, kind of taken a peak at her Christmas present… the Kindle Fire. My wife is big on the portable computing thing… but she’s been hinting that her laptop gets a little too toasty on her lap after extended use, and maybe I could find her something that is a little more portable friendly Well I also know she’s big on reading, tons of books all over the house of hers. And yeah, you can read books on any tablet if they are in PDF form… but why not get one with thousands of books available with service designed for it? That’s why I settled on the Kindle Fire, and I just couldn’t keep my hands off of it when it arrived today! So after my little hands on review of my wifes Kindle Fire… I have to say that I might be hooked, I might need one of my own

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Just another slow, boring day huh? Not much to do around here on this Veteran’s Day other than donating to Ron Paul… aside from that just sittin’ around playing some Alliance of Valiant Arms, making fun of Herman Cain, and being bored. I know I need to keep up with the blogging stuff, but don’t have a whole lot of inspiration to do so… actually I think I can attribute that to I never had my morning coffee… it’s too late now, I think the only redemption for me would be to take a nap, then coffee up and get to work. Sounds like a plan to me if I don’t say so myself Also need to get gas in the car… and do some other silly things… Maybe some driving games for the heck of it, I’m thinking blowing up some cop cars would be nice, so Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit might be my game of choice today my Fanatec wheel and Clubsport pedals might be my peripherals of choice for this adventure… thought a vibration feedback racing wheel would be sufficient for NFS: Hot Pursuit since the game only has vibration feedback anyways. Aight, off to nap time, then maybe gaming world… and maybe work to follow

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This is my sweet spot, my little piece of heaven! I’ve been waiting for the AMD FX 8150 for a VERY long time! Or at least it feels like a very long time… A beast CPU for 3D rendering, and gaming. The FX lineup from AMD is a multi-taskers dream come true! A lot of people are quick to judge the fact that the AMD FX-8150 only barely passes similarly priced Intel CPU’s… what they haven’t taken into account is A) real world use, and B) overclocking! This beast overclocks itself, when under full load I’ve never seen mine hit less than 3.8ghz across the whole spectrum! It only runs at 3.6ghz if the heat is too much, and well… THE HEAT DOESN’T GET TOO MUCH WITH THIS CPU!!! Seriously, 8 cores and it runs cool still… That is an amazing feat, it means AMD could of pushed these bad boys a lot further than they did… but they give you that option! If you want to push your CPU to its limits you can easily do so overclocking (the 3.8ghz mine runs is a factory setting, it does so automatically unless heat gets too much). I’ve read a lot of reviews where they get a 30% performance increase (in some instances) from an overclock to 4.2ghz across the whole spectrum! That’s pretty intense… haven’t messed with it myself, but I imagine with my quad 120mm fan radiator I should be able to hit 4.5ghz without breaking a sweat

Oh, and I was talking about real world performance… Granted I’m moving from an AMD quad core CPU… but the AMD FX-8150 makes everything faster for me! I’ve got 4 15,000 RPM hdd’s in RAID 5, and the speed in which I can load, save, and boot up increased dramatically. For someone who multi-tasks using multiple monitors, and 5 or 10 programs at once… there isn’t anything faster! The AMD FX-8150 has helped my computer keep up with my rate of work! So to all the nay sayers… maybe it’s not for you, but for me the AMD FX 8150 8-Core Processor 3.6ghz x8 Socket AM3+ FD8150FRGUBOX is exactly what the doctor ordered

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if life were as easy as a video game? I mean seriously, instead of money we should just earn points! Want to eat? Oh here make yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich about 100 times until you level up to being able to make yourself some chicken stir fry! Video games are always striving to be more and more realistic… I think that’s the wrong way to go, that’s digressing in my opinion… no… make life more like video games with better graphics! Last night we took Connor “Trunk-Or-Treating” at a local church… so a bunch of volunteers from the church parked their cars in the parking lot and you just walked around to each car and got candy… it was like h4x for trick or treat! There should be h4x for everything in life… well there are… and we’re continually developing them every day (Henry Ford developed the assembly line h4x) I guess what I’m trying to say is that I need to get into the business of life h4x and start developing some 1337 h4x to deploy on the world

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Well for all the newbs out there who need Alliance of Valiant Arms Hacks you are in luck! Alliance of Valiant Arms has been pretty hack free, but now you can get Alliance of Valiant Arms Hacks to supplement the fact that you just plain suck at playing! Of course it is up to you whether you want to use some skill or if you’re going to resort to Alliance of Valiant Arms Hacks only the newbiest of newbs needs Alliance of Valiant Arms Hacks and if you’re here you are probably one of those n00bs looking for Alliance of Valiant Arms Hacks because you can’t aim worth a crap!

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I just stumbled upon this petition to Stop auto insurance companies from using Credit Scores as a basis for insurance rates and thought you all might want me to share! Because we could all use a little break from “the man” of the auto insurance agencies. If you’re tired of insurance companies that are able to use credit score as their primary basis for insurance rates then I urge you to sign the petition!

Help stop auto insurance companies from using your credit score as a basis for their insurance rates.

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My wife and I have decided to add Cycling to our work out routine. I’ve been cycling ever since I can remember, as a little kid our family used to play bicycle tag, we’d play around in parking lots not being used at night (mostly schools or churches) and play tag all night long. At first we started with trying to touch the other person… that didn’t work so well, neither did trying to hit the other persons tires with your own. So we settled for pulling up beside the other person for them to be “it” I’m the only one in the family that kept up riding though.

Anyways I’ve been riding my Trek 4900 since High School (Got it my Sophomore year) and lets face it the old thing is starting to show its age. I’ve already had to replace several parts on it, do tune ups, and really should of got the shocks rebuilt long ago. I crunched the original seat about two years ago doing some off road riding, bent the thing darn near in half. Now I don’t do near as much off road riding as I used to, it’s hard to find trails that allow it, and quite frankly it’s no fun in parks where riding isn’t allowed, especially when you’re dodging walkers/joggers the whole time, you just can’t get up to speed. Either way my once amazing $700 purchase that has lasted me years and held up to the abuse I dished out to it is being put into semi-retirement. The decision for me is easy, some time next year I want to save my pennies and get a Trek Elite 9.7 it’s about time I quit being afraid of the carbon fiber frames and accept that the only way I’m going to get a noticeably lighter ride is with all carbon fiber. I’ve always been afraid of breaking a carbon frame… which is why the old 4900 will only be in semi-retirement I want the aluminum frame for when I go to do some major off road riding until I am proven that the Carbon Fiber will hold up.

Anyways, the real decision is for my wife. Do I spend the $2,000 on a 8000 series for her, and hope she enjoys riding as much as I do, or start out with the 4000 series and save a little bank? Granted even the 4000 series is better than anything you’d ever find at Wal-Mart or Dick’s Sporting Goods I don’t want her to hate riding because of cheap components. On my 4900 I’ve had to change the chain, and cassette a couple of times because of the aggressive riding that I do they wear out and start jumping or skipping to other gears randomly when putting a lot of power down going up hills. I’m afraid annoyances like this would be discouraging to a beginner… but then if she doesn’t like riding or doesn’t ride more than a few times a year $2k is a lot for a bike.

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The biggest thing that I hate about the new health care bill is that people do not speak of what health insurance has done to the economy. Now that things are crashing and banks are failing we’re finally starting to talk about why a country dependent upon credit is not such a good thing. No one has uttered a word about what the effects of insurance have been. In my mind having and insurance card, or a credit card in your wallet are the same thing. Only difference is one you pay in advance to get screwed over in the end, the other you pay back over long periods of time. So why would you get health insurance at all? Think of what the average person pays towards health insurance, if you are just covering yourself it costs $500 per month and doesn’t usually start paying out immediately. If you saved that much money and put it into an account that you never touched you’d be rich by now… not to mention the rapid inflation caused by insurance.

First hospitals started catching on, they started to get the mindset that they could double their costs because the patients were no longer paying for procedures themselves. Now hospitals are getting rich… so what happens suppliers start getting the same idea, they realize that the hospitals are making tons of money and it is coming from the insurance companies anyways so no one is getting hurt, now a simple hospital bed costs well into the half million dollar range. Colleges catch on quick realizing that their doctors and nurses are going to be making tons of money and can get loans easily so they hike up the fees for those in nursing and medical doctor fields because all the money is coming from the insurance companies anyways… no one is getting hurt. Now your monthly fees have begun rising because the insurance company is there for one purpose, to make money. They say they are there for your well being, and so you can feel safe at night… but that safety comes at much too high a price. If people would just be smarter and more patient with their money our country would not be in the situation it is right now… Remember that what is gathered little by little is hard to get rid of, but what we gain quickly is burned off twice as fast.

I’ve been surviving with a wife and a now four month old son on an average of $30 a day from blogging and working online. Trust me we treasure every penny that comes in, but it also allows me to spend time with my precious son, and my beautiful wife. Two things that I wouldn’t give up for the world. Things get hard, and it can be stressful at times, but it forces us to be smart with our money and you learn what is really important around you.

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One of my favorite applications on Facebook anymore is Street Racing. Once you get up to a certain level you sort of run out of things to do… but luckily Zynga has been adding in just enough to keep the game interesting. Every time I run out of things to do there is something new to do. You also get rewarded as a car collector like myself for adding friends slowly to the game. As once a week you can collect a new car with new friends.

The point of the game is to gather as much wealth as possible… much like any other online role playing game, this one has one fatal flaw however. You can never decrease in value, I understand that is to get all the trend hoppers on FB to pass the application along. It also means that the game will definitely be a hopped trend. I have no reason to stick around with the game. I currently make $150M per hour, the most I can lose is $100k per race lost to another player and they can’t get me below 20 health unless they put a bounty on my head. Now when I go down to 0 health I lose 6 points. It takes me 5,000 points per level… 6 doesn’t mean anything to me. So all I have to do is sit back and let money come in, once a month if that I can get on and nothing bad has happened I’ve just grown in wealth it is a fatal flaw on Zynga’s part that will require them to continue building new RPGs or continue to improve this one to keep people around. Of course if the game is trend hopped enough then they will continue to make enough money so why should they care?

written by Archmaille