About Me
I'm Tarik, a 22 year old freelance web assistant, writer, and editor living in New York. I have absolutely no idea where I'm going to end up in life so, for the time being, I'm having as much fun as possible trying as many new things as possible.This page is sort of like a release valve to keep my sanity. In other words, it's basically a stream of consciousness for anything and everything I find interesting like the music I'm listening to or have tried to make to new gizmos and games I really want but probably can't afford.
PS. I reserve the right to blog about anything else nerdy or geeky that catches my eye.
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After finally making up my mind that I wanted more flexibility with my blog and how it’s formatted I’ve decided to move to WordPress. I’ve already started migrating my old posts, to the new site (www.electronicgraffiti.net) and have made quite a few new entries as well.
I came across this just yesterday and it made me laugh my ass off. Regardless of one’s political leanings, I think pretty much everyone out there agrees that Sarah Palin running for president (or any office really) is a bit of a bad joke. Anyways, here’s what the much more eloquent Aaron Sorkin had to say about her:
“Unless you’ve never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten meat, save your condemnation.”
You’re right, Sarah, we’ll all just go fuck ourselves now.
The snotty quote was posted by Sarah Palin on (like all the great frontier women who’ve come before her) her Facebook page to respond to the criticism she knew and hoped would be coming after she hunted, killed and carved up a Caribou during a segment of her truly awful reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, broadcast on The-Now-Hilariously-Titled Learning Channel.
I eat meat, chicken and fish, have shoes and furniture made of leather, and PETA is not ever going to put me on the cover of their brochure and for these reasons Palin thinks it’s hypocritical of me to find what she did heart-stoppingly disgusting. I don’t think it is, and here’s why.
Like 95% of the people I know, I don’t have a visceral (look it up) problem eating meat or wearing a belt. But like absolutely everybody I know, I don’t relish the idea of torturing animals. I don’t enjoy the fact that they’re dead and I certainly don’t want to volunteer to be the one to kill them and if I were picked to be the one to kill them in some kind of Lottery-from-Hell, I wouldn’t do a little dance of joy while I was slicing the animal apart.
I’m able to make a distinction between you and me without feeling the least bit hypocritical. I don’t watch snuff films and you make them. You weren’t killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun. You enjoy killing animals. I can make the distinction between the two of us but I’ve tried and tried and for the life of me, I can’t make a distinction between what you get paid to do and what Michael Vick went to prison for doing. I’m able to make the distinction with no pangs of hypocrisy even though I get happy every time one of you faux-macho shitheads accidentally shoots another one of you in the face.
So I don’t think I will save my condemnation, you phony pioneer girl. (I’m in film and television, Cruella, and there was an insert close-up of your manicure while you were roughing it in God’s country. I know exactly how many feet off camera your hair and make-up trailer was.)
And you didn’t just do it for fun and you didn’t just do it for money. That was the first moose ever murdered for political gain. You knew there’d be a protest from PETA and you knew that would be an opportunity to hate on some people, you witless bully. What a uniter you’d be — bringing the right together with the far right.
(Let me be the first to say that I abused cocaine and was arrested for it in April 2001. I want to be the first to say it so that when Palin’s Army of Arrogant Assholes, bereft of any reasonable rebuttal, write it all over the internet tomorrow they will at best be the second.)
I eat meat, there are leather chairs in my office, Sarah Palin is deranged and The Learning Channel should be ashamed of itself.
I ran across this photo set earlier today and I have to say I was really impressed. I was hard pressed to pick them, but these are my 10 favorites of the gallery (which can be found here).
There are no apps just yet, but Google’s Chrome browser is now reportedly updated to support the impending Web Store launch. Version 8.0.552.215 — just call it ‘8,’ for short — also provides a built-in PDF viewer and over 800 claimed bug fixes. Download’s a no-brainer if you’re rocking the current stable release. And if you look at the code close enough, you might spot a Chrome OS release date. Okay, no, not really.
Text from engadget.
Some really good points here. I know I definitely work better at home when I can shut myself off and work alone for a few hours at a time.
Since I’ve come down with a bit of a cold and don’t really have it in me to go out, I did the next best thing…google around for awesome backing tracks to use while I sit on my couch and fiddle with my strat (got a new set of Bare Knuckle Sultans put in and now I just can’t put the thing down…it blows my Les Paul out of the water, even though it costs less than half the price). This is one of my favorites of the night. It’s great for taking any blues guitar you may know, “grunging” it up and playing it a bit quicker.
Edit: I forgot to mention that the track is in E minor.
A while ago I blogged about this cool app that records mouse usage and then turns it into an image…well I just found out about 30 seconds ago that it has since been updated and has new features such as a timer to tell you how long it’s been recording, as well as showing you the image being created in real time. Here’s a link to the new site: click me.
