Zhanga: June 2010
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Thursday, June 24, 2010 (2 comments)
I already posted similar pics on Facebook, but here's another pic of Morgan wearing the cone of shame:
The cone of shame shamed me pretty badly. As I was leaving the vet, I put the cone on top of my car so I could get Morgan and her medicine into the back seat. Then I drove off with the cone still on top of my car...
By the time I heard a thump on the back of my car from the cone falling off, I was already driving on a 5-lane road. I had to make a U-turn, wait for a gap in traffic, and then shamefully pluck the cone from the middle of the road...
Here is something that showed up when I tried to update MS Office on my Mac:
I clicked Continue and it seemed to work fine.
2:10AM
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 (5 comments)
The post was inspired by Gene's apartment quest. The story behind this one is that I had put an ad on Craigslist for tutoring, and I figured if someone wants computers fixed I'd just name a comfortable price and enjoy the cash if they were actually willing to pay that.
From: Van Maqez <maqez.van01@gmail.com> To: serv-75cxc-1631435069@craigslist.org Date: Monday, March 08, 2010 6:46 AM i would like to know if you are capable of repairing computers involumes due to the mass computer damage in our company. We got a Pentium M dell laptops . Below are the things needed to be done one on each laptops. 1 Format Hard Drive 2 Install Win Xp with Service Pack 2 3 Microsoft Office Package 4 AVG Virus Software (Free Lifetime Updates) 5 Adobe Acrobat 6 Laptop Cleaning of the keyboard, screen and other case. 7 Diagnostics of the entire system after to check hard, cdrom, floppy, etc. Get back to me with your total cost for the services of 5 Laptops. Thanks
From: serv-75cxc-1631435069@icydog.net To: Van Maqez <maqez.van01@gmail.com> Date: Mon Mar 8 10:17:48 2010 Hello, I do carry the CompTIA A+ certification for computer repair and would be happy to assist you. For five laptops, I will charge a flat $350 with a turnaround time of three days. I will require Win XP serial keys provided by you. Also, while I will do my best to clean the keyboards, it is extremely time-consuming to clean the part under the keys because it involves removing each key individually and replacing them. If you want cleaning under the keys then I will have to add on an extra $25 per machine. Regards, David Zhang
From: Van Maqez <maqez.van01@gmail.com> To: serv-75cxc-1631435069@icydog.net Date: Tue Mar 9 02:32:11 2010 Thanks for the reply i have all the necessary software needed for the service installations. Here is my Number 206 202 2980 .Let me know the final asking price of The jobs I will instruct our secretary to prepare a Certified check for you. We will need you to send me your name and address. Do send me details below Full Name: Physical Address: City: State: Zip code: Cell phone #: We have a reliable shipper that will pickup the laptops when your finished with the service. Im looking forward to hearing from you so we can get this ball rolling. Thanks..
From: serv-75cxc-1631435069@icydog.net To: Van Maqez <maqez.van01@gmail.com> Date: Tue Mar 9 08:29:35 2010 The final price is $350. My address is: David Zhang 810 Virginia St. Seattle, WA 98101 Thanks, and looking forward to business with you.
(810 Virginia St is Seattle Police.)
From: Van Maqez <maqez.van01@gmail.com> To: serv-75cxc-1631435069@icydog.net Date: Wed Mar 10 02:15:16 2010 Hello, thank you for your response concerning the Repairs. In order to conclude ourarrangement concerning repairing of the laptops, Like I told you my Secretary will have the payment mailed out to you. The payment will be in check, More so the shipping fee for the laptops to be delivered back to my place will be added to the payment in which will be check and you will have to deduct the money for the Service from the check which is $350 and the rest will be sent to the shipper as soon as you have the cash available. I'll look forward to hearing from you to assure me you can handle this with all perfection. Regards and God Bless Please, do confirm the information you have provided me for payment to be mailed out to your address.
From: serv-75cxc-1631435069@icydog.net To: Van Maqez <maqez.van01@gmail.com> Date: Wed Mar 10 06:27:03 2010 Yes, it is correct. I'll be waiting for the shipment.
From: Van Maqez <maqez.van01@gmail.com> To: serv-75cxc-1631435069@icydog.net Date: Wed Mar 10 08:19:17 2010 Thanks for the reply,i will update you with the tracking number soon...
From: Van Maqez <maqez.van01@gmail.com> To: serv-75cxc-1631435069@icydog.net Date: Wed Mar 17 07:59:27 2010 Hello, Are you still interested in repairing my laptops..pls email me back and i also need to know If you have Agreed to help handle the shippers fee smoothly by sending out the funds via either Money Gramm. .cause i really need you to get the laptops done this week...
From: serv-75cxc-1631435069@icydog.net To: Van Maqez <maqez.van01@gmail.com> Date: Wed Mar 17 08:42:16 2010 Yeah, I've been waiting for your tracking number. Have you shipped the laptops and the check?
Unfortunately, that was the end of it. I did call Seattle police to report certified check fraud, since the guy has a 206 (Seattle) phone number, but they wouldn't even take a report unless I lost money on it. I didn't really feel like taking one for the team so it looks like he got away this time.
9:56PM
Thursday, June 10, 2010 (5 comments)
Handi has an account on the Chinese Facebook clone (renren.com), so naturally I have one for stalking her. One of her Renren friends wrote a post which can be summarized as "a girl can live a life without a lover but her life will be empty and meaningless." Talk about melodramatic. The author was a dude too, which I didn't figure out until I asked Handi because the thing just sounds like a recently-dumped girl crying out of her crotch.
The best part is the excellent English. It has such spectacular paragraphs as:
however, being alive does not survive. it depends on the status of the rest of life without that man, for instance, living hell is absolutely worse than stepping forward to the real hell.
you would never know how losing, blue and painful you would feel, if the man was such charming and helpful to your past life, and then you just lost that man.
Being betraying your lover or partner is a easy case, because you can still win him back if you are really in good faith. On the other hand, being leaving and just gone-by, deep down you would know it that you deserve what you are facing the exsitence such as living hell.
I literally had to read every part of this a minimum of three times before I could figure out what was going on. In the comments section, I just couldn't resist.
Me 2010-06-07 17:07
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
The author replied a few minutes later:
Fob 2010-06-07 17:13
that is really a good point. normally, people don't think before they do. But I am sure one thing that everybody needs love.
I still haven't figured out whether I got counter-trolled.
1:55AM
Monday, June 7, 2010 (5 comments)
There are so many articles out there from Apple fanboys talking about how Macs are really not that expensive. Why are these people so obnoxious? These examples always pick a Mac configuration, then add a bunch of options to a Dell machine to match it. Why not the other way around? Oh wait... because Apple doesn't let you configure its machines.
I recently bought a Mac for iPhone development. My requirements were basically the following:
- A screen with a minimum of 1440x900 pixels, more is better
- At least 4 GB RAM
- Around 6 lbs max
Apple offers six MacBook Pro machines. The 13-inch ones have too few pixels to do any real work on. The 15-inch models start at $1799 and that one meets the rest of my requirements.
Meanwhile, at Dell:
- A comparable Vostro 3700 has the same CPU/memory, a faster video card and hard drive, a few more pixels, and is 0.35lb heavier for $1024.
- A comparable Studio 15 laptop with 60% more pixels is $855 and is lighter.
- The most expensive Latitude E6510 has a faster CPU, memory, and hard drive. With the screen upgrade to give it 60% more pixels than the Mac, it's still $1328 and is also lighter.
Sure, the Mac has nice things like a backlit keyboard (actually at least one of the Dells above does too), a shiny logo, a Firewire port, blah blah blah, but who cares? That's not what I need. I imagine most people want to do X thing, which in my case is make iPhone apps, and don't care about the extra features. Too bad Apple doesn't give me a choice.
Apparently being able to do iPhone development outside my office is worth $2000 to me (resolution upgrade + sales tax). Sigh.
4:15AM
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 (6 comments)
The end is near!
- North Korea sinks a South Korean ship. South Korea officially blames North Korea. North Korea responds with threats of war. The Koreas cut off relations with each other.
- Israel massacres civilians on some ships in international waters. Turkey says it will send more civilians, this time escorted by the Turkish Navy.
- Lebanon fires on Israeli warplanes.
- Some Afghan jirga thing with a bunch of rockets fired... is that normal?
- Japanese prime minister resigns.
- German president resigns.
2:02AM
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