spoonfork

so there was a blackout at the basement parking lot of 1u's new wing this afternoon. i was about to get my parking ticket when it turned dark - there were'nt any emergency lights either. so i got stuck for twenty minutes before the parking attendants and security guards managed to guide the rest of the cars behind to reverse and get out.

now, anyone who knows me well enough will know what i was thinking during that time: i was anticipating and wishing for looting, rioting, random chaos and acts of violence. which of course i would be one of the willing participants. unfortunately that never materialized. what a bummer!

instead, i managed to get out, went to the old wing, found a parking and had bad hong-kong style food for lunch which was unnecessarily expensive. and it came 30 minutes late. damn those incompetent teenage-waitressess!

remember the shoelaces that was flushed down the toilet? timberline don't have a suitable replacement. bummer!

as usual a few eyebrows raised when i mentioned that i needed ruby programmers. the reason was partly because i don't carry myself around as a programmer (i'm more well known as a security conslutant, to my detriment). inside of programming, if the topic ever crops out, is that i do perl and mostly php. some said that i have (or rather had) the knack for finding good looking java programmers. but let's focus on the question: why ruby?

to be frank, ruby solves what java (or j2ee) solves, have more or less the same features as python and php. heck, even .NET solves some of the inherent problems that come with web application development: complexity, flexibility, usability and agility.

where ruby excels (and to be specific, rails) is that it solves these problems with such simplicity - a good example that i think most kl-lites can refer to is going to say berjaya times square (in KL) from PJ using only public transport. now you need to take the putra lrt, stop at masjid jamek, then take the star lrt and, lo and behold, you gotta find out the stop where you can hop into the monorail. but if you're on rails, you'll get to times square straight from kelana jaya without having the hassles to change trains and stations or figuring out where the nearest transfer stations are at. the other frameworks assume that you need the hand-holding to get things done, while rails just gets you there.

dj shadow - fixed income

does anyone has recommendations for good bad cop movies, preferably from hollywood? by bad cop i mean the ones that are corrupt, abusive, violent, and just plain ass-holes. no, not something like assault on preccint 13 or lethal weapon, but something along the lines of shaft and training day. as fucked up as it may sound, i'd like to watch a movie where the bad cop goes scot-free in the end.

recommendations?

update: thanks alpha, but thanks to mr. dvdman, i got myself stander, a movie based on true stories of andre stander, son of a police general in south africa who rob banks while a captain in the police force, and later became his country's most wanted men. great movie! links:

• the police office turned bank robber


• interview with allan heyl, the surviving member of the stander gang who was released from prison last year

for some unknown, twisted and fucked up reasons that can only happen in the twilight zone, i readjusted the date on my watch to 1, moving it forward by two full days. and then later in the evening, i was aghast when typing date on the command prompt it showed jan 30th. then it hit me.

for the past 30 days i've been under the impression that it was february, heck, i even have happy thoughts for those born on the 29th. i didn't think it was the whole 30 days though. it probably happened the past few days - maybe due to the hot weather and made even worst today realizing that the the hamas is probably, at this very hour, thinking of effective ways to destroy isreal. ugh i don't know. must be the weather.

listening to: beastie boys - intergalactic planetary

hooo dawggies! happy lunar new year!


top dog. please mr bush don't f*ck the dog


drunk dog


listening to: underworld - jumbo