BigWhale's rambling
Lyrics, what do they tell us?

Nothing. People don’t really care too much about lyrics. I am sure that most of the people don’t even listen to themselves when they are singing a long under the shower. Remember this?

7am, waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
Seein’ everything, the time is goin’
Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends

Pretty silly. Utterly silly! Damn stupid and really, really, really dumb! Right? Well, we could try something else. How about this?

I know you got it clap your hands on the floor
And keep on rockin’, rock it up on the floor
If you’re a criminal kill it on the floor
Steal it quick on the floor, on the floor
Don’t stop keep it moving
Put your drinks up
Its getting ill it’s getting sick on the floor
We never quit, we never rest on the floor
If I ain’t wrong we’ll probably die on the floor
Brazil Morocco
London to Ibiza
Straight to LA, New York
Vegas to Africa

Why is nobody making fun out of this? Who came up with this crap? How did this come to be?

JLo: “I’m writing this new, cool song, I am trying to find something that rhymes with floor?”
Pro-Hired-Lyrics-Writer: “Floor? Hmm, floor? You should try with FLOOR!”
JLo: “Excellent! At least I know what I am paying you for!”

I have to dig deeper to find some more meaningful lyrics. How about if I try iTunes charts? I am sure that people listen and like meaningful songs.

Number one is Rihanna and she found love in a hopeless place.

We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place

That’s most of the song. Maybe second place is better. LMFAO! Literally.

Girl look at that body
Girl look at that body
Girl look at that body
I work out
Girl look at that body
Girl look at that body
Girl look at that body
I work out

I’ll give them some credit for the comedy part, but I am old school. I prefer Weird Al. Let’s see number three! Honestly, this will be my first song by Justin Bieber that I listened voluntarily. He’s so christmasy! Mistletoe!

It’s the most beautiful time of the year
Lights fill the streets spreading so much cheer
I should be playing in the winter snow
But I’mma be under the mistletoe

Justin under the mistletoe and me at the missile tow! Har, har, har. Standard AABB setup, not all that bad! Number four is Adele, no complaints with her. Number five, Foster The People? The official video has a disastrous vocals. They probably can’t sing and they had to distort the sound so badly that everything is barely audiable. It really doesn’t matter what the lyrics are.

David Guetta and Usher really can’t do without you. Without your votes on all those charts.

I can’t win, I can’t reign
I will never win this game
Without you, without you

Reign, vein, fight, fly, climb, blind, yada yada yada. Guetta, next time get a half naked chick to sing this crap for you. Next!

You want the moves like jagger
I’ve got the moves like jagger
I’ve got the mooooooves… like jagger

Speechless. Next!

If I was an old school, fifty pound boombox
Would you hold me on your shoulder, wherever you walk
Would you turn my volume up before of the cops
And crank it higher everytime they told you to stop

I liked the boombox. The lyrics too, not to repetitive. The next song is also awesome. Cobra Starship featuring Sabi. Never heard of them, but the chorus is amazing:

You make me feel that
La la la la la
You make me feel so
La la la la la
You make me feel that
La la la la la
You make me feel so
La la la la la
You, you make me feel that

La la la la la? I bet they are the first to come up with this amazing thing! Melodic and easy to remember! Just a hint for Sabi; Atmosphere and there don’t really rhyme. Seriously. And at last, but not least, It Girl.

I’ve been looking under rocks and breaking locks
Just tryna find ya
I’ve been like a manic insomniac
5 steps behind you
Tell them other girls, they can hit the exit
Check please…
Cause I finally found the girl of…my dreams
Much more than a Grammy award
That’s how much you mean to me

‘Check please’ was my cue. Grammy? I hope he is not serious, because he doesn’t sound like a manic insomniac but like someone with a terrible stutter, stutter.

Can’t seem to stop you from…running, running
Through my, through my mind, mind
Just keep it coming, coming
Til I make you mine, mine
You’ve got that something, something
I wanna be with girl
You’re my greatest hit girl
Just say this is it girl…
Hey baby…
Don’t you know you’re my it girl

But I did remember that Stephen King’s novel. It.

In the long run, Rebecca Black isn’t that bad. Really!

Ease of Windows

One of my servers died. The one that is used as a file server, media server, streaming server and also as a torrent client.

I came home from vacation and I wanted to download certain files that were available on certain torrent tracker. My computer was booted in Windows 7 and I decided that I’ll do it in Windows. Shouldn’t be too hard, right?

I was told that µTorrent is what I should use. I googled utorrent and clicked my way to the download link. Easy! Well, not as such. What I got was a downloader, a downloader that will download µTorrent for me. When I installed the downloader, it asked me if I want to install a super-duper-awesome toolbar for my browser that will make my life su much easier. I refused.

µTorrent was downloaded and installation started. Now µTorrent installer asked me if I want a super-duper-even-more-awesome toolbar for my browser that will make my life easier. I refused, again.

µTorrent was installed and I started downloading files. Coincidentally Firefox stopped displaying videos and I decided to restart it. When it came back I was surprised by the µTorrent Bar in my browser. Wait. What? How? Why? ??? I said NO! Really! I unchecked all the boxes that said: “install the awesome-uber-browser-bar”. Really. I did. I always do. I always read the fine print. I also read between the lines!!!

Nevertheless, now I know what the weather is in Bratislava, Slovakia. Sunny, at 20 degrees Celsius. Who cares if I’m from Slovenia, not Slovakia, it’s close enough, right?

How about µTorrent? All is well. It installed itself in /Program Files (x86)/µTorrent/ and it contains µTorrent.exe which is exactly 639.864 bytes long. I also have µTorrent.exe on my desktop, they are both the same size and they are both 32bit executables. µTorrent is currently running from desktop. Oh, and I also have /Program Files (x86)/µTorrentBar/ which contains several files and their size is  4.855.594 bytes.

Amazingly, I needed a special downloader to download an installer for a program that is only 635 kilobytes long. And I had to ask people about it and use google to find it. As a bonus, I was raped with a browser toolbar.

Easier than eating pancakes!

BigWhale on Osama Bin Laden

After almost ten years they tracked him down and killed him. Immediately people started to finger-point and celebrate.

Was he guilty for certain crimes? Most likely yes, but we will never know, there will be no trial.

Celebrating the death of a human being is, at least for me, a little eyebrow raising. In general I do not think death is a joyful moment that should be celebrated. Nevertheless, I can understand that. He caused a great deal of turmoil, sadness and pain.

The whole killing him part? Did USA just ‘prove his point’? Could this be called ‘getting down on the same level’ with him? That depends. It was a military operation and if Osama was resisting arrest with shooting at the soldiers, then I see no reason on why not to shoot back.

Of course, it would be better if they got him alive but unfortunately this isn’t always and option.

Europe has gone insane

Japan is facing a serious crisis, not only because of the Earthquake and Tsunami, but also because of troubles at Fukushima I nuclear plant. Situation there is serious and Japanese are doing extremely well. If something similar happened in Europe or in United States, people would probably raid local shops and stores for supplies. We lack the discipline that Japanese have.

Trolling on Internet is easy, when you are safely away from all the happening, but what countries in European Union are doing is simply insane, irrational and dead right stupid.

Various sources reported that Italy banned all food import from Japan. Everything that was grown after March 11th is banned. Seriously?

Germany, oh, boy, Germany shut down seven of their nuclear plants for three months. Just in case. Prices for electricity are already raising a rough 20% of increase is expected.

Austrians decided that Croatia shouldn’t be allowed to join EU until nuclear power plant in Slovenia is closed down. This nuclear power plant was the only one in former Yugoslavia and is now providing around 40% of electricity for Slovenia and 21% for Croatia. Austria has no nuclear power plants.

The need for ‘clean and green’ energy is driving people insane. So, first we ban nuclear power, then we ban fossil fuel power plants, then what? Wind turbines are inefficient and apparently they also kill birds! Hydro power? Yes, because flooding of large areas and draining rivers is so friendly to the environment.

You see, pretty soon we will ran out of options, My suggestion is that tree huggers start building tree huts right now, so we don’t ran out of them when we decide to move back on trees. 

Will fast food make you less of a man?

Three days ago, first Burger King opened in Slovenia. Yes, we had to wait 56 (or 53) years for Burger King to come here. Whole event, again, stirred a lot of debate online and offline. I will just say it here, once and for all.

If you don’t eat fast food it really doesn’t make you a better man.

Really. You will not live much longer than me and your food is not much better than mine. Waiters, chefs, cooks, … that serve you are not god-like creatures that prepare your food with love, caring and uncanny dedication. Their hands are not covered in pixie dust, their eyes aren’t full of double rainbows and their laughter is not like the sound of unicorns running around in virgin forest on a virgin meadow. 

Really, it is not.

You will not live for 250 years because of your diet and your general health isn’t that much better than mine. Get it into your head already, the problem is not the food itself, it is the way of living, it is the lifestyle.

Think about that next time you’re buying a pack of cigarettes or a six-pack of beer together with all your organic homegrown vegetables and dead cows.

BigWhale passing Turing Test

A mysterious stranger approached me tonight …

(23:51:18) bneathdyingxskys: hii
(23:51:40) BigWhale: Errr
(23:51:43) BigWhale: Hi
(23:52:16) bneathdyingxskys: wats upp this is lame =( u doin anything fun?
(23:52:42) BigWhale: No, I’m just a bot with nothing fun to do…
(23:54:50) bneathdyingxskys: i founnd a pretty cool iq tester thingy that was pretty fun wanna try it?/
(23:54:58) BigWhale: No.
(23:59:18) bneathdyingxskys: take a look at thiis one it’s really quik nd i got a pretty high score too see if u can beat me http://brainteasers.cz.cc
(08. 03. 2011 00:12:11) BigWhale: Thanks, but no thanks, kthxbai.
(00:12:18) bneathdyingxskys: it sends yoor score to your cellye wen your done nd only takes a sec
(00:12:39) BigWhale: Whole IQ test in one second? Wow.
(00:12:42) BigWhale: Do I get to see you naked?
(00:12:47) bneathdyingxskys: let me kno what you get im on the top scored boared 2day
(00:13:19) BigWhale: I scored 230, is that good?
(00:17:02) BigWhale: What now? Am I too smart for ya?

It seems that I passed The Test.

I believe that National Enquirer is a peer reviewed medical journal publishing only articles that contain arguments based on relevant medical data and clinical tests and trials. I think that they are very well informed about Steve Jobs’ health and condition.

Did your sarcasm detector just overload? It better did.

What is happening with this world, seriously? They gave him six weeks based on couple of photos? Employ them in a hospital, ASAP, err, STAT! Seriously! Who needs MRI, CT, ultrasound, such expensive machines. Will just have Enquirer reporters taking pictures with compact digital cameras. Couple of hundred bucks, a reporter and we’re all done.

“Please, step here. No smiling.”

*snap*

“Sir, you have couple of years left.”

That is really not the worst part. Because we come to other media quoting and paraphrasing National Enquirer. Seriously? You need to do that? Is there really nothing more interesting you can write about?

Get a life.

1UP!

The world where people are told how long they have to live simply by looking at their picture, a picture of questionable quality, could really be a nice world to live in. Unfortunately that is not our world.

Don’t you people have your own lives to deal with?

PS: I don’t own a Mac, I don’t like Macs and I don’t like Apple and some of their business practice.

YouTube recommends! WTF?

YouTube recommends! WTF?

BigWhale on Windows

For a Linux zealot I own a lot of non-linux software. Starting with Windows 7 and Office 2007 which I use for opening more complex Word/Excel files. Then there’s around 20-30 games. I play games and this is where my usage ends. I don’t use Windows for anything productive.

The whole system is unintuitive and awkward. The lack of a decent command shell and simple commands, such as dd which is used for direct reading and writing of various devices, frustrate me. Nevertheless, Windows UI integration is quite nice and things play well together. I do miss virtual desktops, more advanced window placement and multiple screen awareness.

I have three 320GB hard drives. In Linux I created a nice little RAID5 array and left 50GB on each drive for Windows. In Windows I was forced to use three separate partitions. It turns out that you can’t create RAID arrays with Windows Home Premium. You need Windows Professional to create RAID1 (mirror) and Windows Server to create RAID5 arrays. This was the first big WTF, but I lived with it for some time.

What really ticked me off? Usage of GUID Partition Tables. I installed new hard drive and I wanted to reinstall Windows on it. Three 50GB partitions were almost full and I was shifting data here and there all the time, so a nice 1TB drive should be enough for all the gaming. I booted Windows, created a single partition on that drive and copied all my drivers and game installations on it.

Then I booted Windows 7 USB drive to install. Unfortunately, you can’t install Windows on GPT drive. Which is quite bizarre, because this is the default that is used in Computer Manager where you create partitions.

I ended up booting back to old Windows 7, removing the GPT partition, converting disk drive to MBR, creating new partition and copying the data, again.

Windows fail on many levels when it comes to more advanced and complicated use and that’s why I use them almost exclusively for gaming.

Those poor zombies. Poor little things, they walk so slow and they drag their feet behind them, they must be in pain! Poor, poor little zombies. Ah, well. We have to kill all of them.
5 year old girl while playing Plants vs. Zombies
We’re all set for the next Christmas. 6 year old boy wants a computer (I wonder where did he get that from) and a 5 year old girl wants a BEN10 watch, but not the toy that she got this year. The real thing.
This time, Santa, better be good. Milk and cookies are already waiting!

We’re all set for the next Christmas. 6 year old boy wants a computer (I wonder where did he get that from) and a 5 year old girl wants a BEN10 watch, but not the toy that she got this year. The real thing.

This time, Santa, better be good. Milk and cookies are already waiting!

BigWhale on Christmas madness

This is the last year I am celebrating Christmas. No more gifts, no more Christmas spirit and mood and other whatnots that go with it.

Gifts, gifts are becoming, no, they already are, an abomination of the whole ritual. Shopping for gifts takes time and depending on the people that you buy gifts for, you are more or less consumed thinking if they will like your gift or not. Will they be talking about it next year? Will they be talking about it behind your back? Is it expensive enough for them? Was the store you bought it special enough or was it too common?

I wish Christmas would be more about gifts and less about good will and all the other mushy things. I could be saving money whole year then just buy the most expensive stuff I can get and make people around me happy! Well, at least for a year …

There are people who would appreciate happy thoughts and all the good will, unfortunately, sometimes, we can’t reach them.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

Data & Lal

One of my favorite moments in Star Trek. I wonder if @BrentSpiner would agree … :)

Data: “Lal, I am unable to correct the system failure.”
Lal: “I know.”
Data: “We must say goodbye now.”
Lal: “I feel …”
Data: “What do you feel, Lal?”
Lal: “I love you, Father.”
Data: “I wish I could feel it with you.”
Lal: “I will feel it for both of us … Thank you for my life …”

BigWhale On Slovenian Porn

We are probably the only country that has only one porn actress, one porn actor and one porn director and a localized version of AVN awards.

Enough said.

I don’t know love. I was built to protect not to love, so there is no use for me other than this.
 Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat