MYTHBUSTERS: Computer Myths!!!

1. You can recover data from a failing hard drive by putting it in the freezer for a few hours and then reinstalling it in the computer.
*The answer is TRUE.

While this method won't magically fix whatever is wrong with your computer, it can get your hard drive working long enough for you to recover important data before it gives up the ghost for good. This generally works best when the drive is making a tell-tale clicking sound caused by overheated metal parts that have expanded. Freezing the hard drive cools and shrinks the metal so the drive will mount properly and run long enough (hopefully) for you to copy your files to another source.


2. Microsoft once announced it was developing a portable toilet, called the iLoo, in which users could surf the Internet.
*The answer is TRUE.

In 2003, Microsoft's MSN U.K. division announced plans to develop a portable toilet for use at summer music festivals that would be equipped with a keyboard, plasma screen and wireless Internet access. They already had some success with Internet-ready park benches in London, and were carrying the idea through to the "iLoo," complete with special toilet paper printed with URLs.The iLoo project quickly became the butt of jokes in the media and on late-night talk shows. Microsoft's corporate headquarters in the United States responded by saying the whole thing was a hoax, but later confirmed that while their British MSN division had been working on such a project, it had been scrapped after the announcement prompted so much ridicule.

3. The term "bug" was coined in 1945 when a trapped moth was found to be the cause of a malfunction in a primitive computer at Harvard University.
*The answer is FALSE.

Although Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, the mathematician who oversaw the project at Harvard, is largely credited with coining the term "computer bug," the word "bug" had been used to mean a glitch or error for many years before this incident occurred. In fact, she was not even there at the time, but the technician who removed the moth from the machine carefully taped it into the logbook with the notation, "First actual case of bug being found."

4. Creating a fake email address in your address book will prevent your computer from spreading viruses.
*The answer is FALSE.

According to a bit of email advice that has been circulating on the Internet since 2001, you can foil a computer virus by adding a fake email address, such as aaaaaa@aaa.aaa, to the beginning of your address book. Unfortunately, most computer viruses don't go through your address book alphabetically and stop as soon they encounter one that doesn't work – they just send a separate message to each address – so the only result would be having that particular one bounce back while the virus sent itself to everyone else you know.The best way to beat a virus is to install anti-virus software and avoid opening emails and attachments from unfamiliar senders.

5. In 1977, the CEO of a major computer company said, "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
*The answer is TRUE.

Ken Olsen, co-founder and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, did indeed utter those words at a 1977 meeting of the World Future Society. While his comments seem remarkably shortsighted, particularly considering that his company manufactured personal computers in the 1990s, they should be examined in context. Olsen was not referring to PCs, which he later had in his own home, but to the more complex computers of science fiction that could run all the systems in your home (climate control, meal preparation, cleaning, entertainment) – such as the ship's computer in Star Trek.Of course today that possibility doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore, either …

Revenge Trilogy: Oldboy

Category: Movies
Genre: MindFuck
Rate: 5 stars

This is definitely not a drama, revenge defines this movie. One hell of a sick, wicked and devilish revenge! This movie fucked my heart and my fucking guts 'til its end. From the time Daesu opened the purple gift, to Daesu begged for forgiveness and licked Woo-jin's foot fucked and crushed my heart! :( The ending is one hell of a shock-wave!

Daesu-Oh's(lead) acting is unbelievably REAL! The story is so cold and violent yet fascinating at the same time. Makes you sweat to your thighs!lol. The story is so fucking twisted that leaves your hand covering your mouth in disgust and surprise.

I think this one is better than Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the scenes here are not dragging and it did not made me sleepy like the Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance did. I like Oldboy better!:)

You should watch this one, so psychologically challenging! It still sends me goosebumps every time i recall the scenes in this movies.Woo! I can't imagine the story in a true to life situation! Fucking disturbing and 'disgusting' at the same time.

What a thrill! This is the BEST psychological movie I've ever seen!
Two thumbs up!

Corny Joke

Q: Who killed Koko Crunch?

A: Cereal Killer.

Guy Fieri for The Next Food Network Star Season 2!

Since food network aired here in the Philippines is LATE! I went to Food network's site, sneak in and look who won this season and my instinct said that Guy would win this and he did!!!

This likeable laid back California "guy" with his trademark bleached blond spiky hair began his love affair with food at the age of ten, selling soft pretzels from a three-wheeled bicycle cart he built with his father named "The Awesome Pretzel." Through selling pretzels and washing dishes, Guy earned enough money in six years to study abroad as an exchange student in Chantilly, France. While there, he gained a true appreciation not only for international cuisine, but the culture and lifestyle associated with it.

Thank God, Carissa Seward "the yummy chef" did not win!:P Suck on this bitch! You're no Food Network Star!

Baking Soda as Skin Exfoliant

Just when you can't afford expensive beauty products for your skin, baking soda comes to the rescue!
Weeks ago, my mom told me that she learned from Martha (a lifestyle network star, channle 40) that baking soda can be use as an exfoliant and she has been using it for weeks already. I was jealous and started using it too. lol.

The Hypothesis
Baking soda will lighten (or maybe whiten) your skin in the process of exfoliation.

The Methodology
Before I take a bath I mix baking soda and peroxide (10% vol.) in a small bowl until ice cream like texture appears, I'm experimenting the ratio of 4:4, I'm using 4 tablespoon and 4 tablespoon of peroxide (it depends on where do you put it) In my case, I'm applying it all over my body so I think 4:4 is enough.
I rub it all over my body, scrubbing those area with dark spots (neck, underarms,ankle, etc.) and wash it thoroughly with soap and water.

The Data

• After washing, my skin feels soft and smooth (-er than before)
• It does not make my skin dry even without applying lotion.
• Scrubbing - it peels off dry skin and it doesn't hurt! :D

The Analysis

In the past weeks of using it, I think baking soda is a great skin exfoliant! I think my skin got smoother and lightened up. My feet used to have darkspots caused by my shoes, it was actually lightened when I started using baking soda and possibly it will be gone when I use it regularly.

The Conclusion

Baking soda is indeed a great way to exfoliate skin, it is cheap (1/4 kl. for Php 8.50) and gentle on skin. I did not experience allergic reaction at all. In regular use, it will make skin look healthy and white.

Further Exploration

Although I did not experience allergic reaction, I can not prove that this won't be happening too to everyone. To anyone willing to try it, leave a comment on how it worked on you.

I've been using baking soda for weeks, I think this is very convenient than buying St.Ives Apricot Scrub which costs around Php 160-300 per 150 ml! That would be a pain in the ass!

Wake up and Spread Some Brandless Peanut Butter

I woke up this morning around 8:30 and I was really hungry, so I went to the kitchen to look for something to eat. I was craving for toasted bread with bacon as a filling but unfortunately we were out of bacon, which is really frustrating early in the morning. Good thing there's loaf bread so I pop it in the oven toaster and look for anything that I can put together with the bread. Nothing was there in the fridge, I saw "atchara" but that would be disgusting to eat together with the bread, yuch! So I opened the kitchen cabinet and I saw a peanut butter, sealed in a plastic jar with an orange cap on it. (the one on the picture) I was hesitating to grab it and spread it all over my toasted bread. Why? (maybe) because I saw this stuffs in the libertad sidewalks and it looks not delicious at all. or maybe I was just used in Lady's Choice Peanut Butter or I was just used in foods with trusted brands and I was afraid to try brandless stuffs in fearing that my stomach might get upset and I'll feel poopy inside. But this one, was really yummy! Thick and creamy! It actually made my mouth water. I wish I could write its name here for "exposure"-slash-"advertisment" (or peanut butter review...haha) but enough said...it was brandless.

Dissolving Subjects and Changed Schedules... No more!

I think dissolving the regularly offered subjects this semester are just plain annoying and are so fucking me up!

For the past weeks, (Mrs. Puffs) has been dissolving our subjects with LAME excuses and eye-rolling reasons! I find this hard because changing the schedules (time, day and classrooms) is just pissing me off! I look like an idiot wandering around my bitchin' school looking for my teacher and classmates but in the end I missed the class because it was CHANGED again without me knowing it. Plus, dissolving subjects which were the original subjects offered to BSIt's and us taking the Computer Science's subjects as an exchange for our dissolved subjects is just absurd! YOU (Mrs. Puffs), waving the payment for the additional subjects doesn't impress us at all on how you solve these mother fucking school problems!

I just hope before July 22 comes, you already hired a legal, atleast legal teacher to handle out subject that is in danger (to be dissolved next.)


I tend to call her Mrs. Puffs because when I look at her I can see Spongebob's driving instructor!LOL.

Some Computer Fun Facts!

1. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

2. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

3. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

4. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

5. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

6. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

7. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

8. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*

9. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

10. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

11. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

12. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

13. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

14. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

15. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

16. The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

17. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

18. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

19. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

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Technology + Fashion = *guess what*

In the ultimate merger of Technology and Fashion, these funky boots are highly popular with teens all over Japan. I don't know if i'd be seen wearing them though. Surprisingly the Gameboys are still playable! Just pop it out and play, anytime anywhere.

Bullshit and the Art of Crap Detection by Neil Postman

(Delivered at the National Convention for the Teachers of English [NCTE], November 28, 1969, Washington, D.C.)
With a title like this, I think I ought to dispense with therhetorical amenities and come straight to the point. For those of youwho do not know, it may be worth saying that the phrase,“crap-detecting,” originated with Ernest Hemingway who when asked ifthere were one quality needed, above all others, to be a good writer,replied, “Yes, a built-in, shock-proof, crap detector.”
As I see it, the best things schools can do for kids is to help themlearn how to distinguish useful talk from bullshit. I will ask onlythat you agree that every day in almost every way people are exposed tomore bullshit than it is healthy for them to endure, and that if we canhelp them to recognize this fact, they might turn away from it andtoward language that might do them some earthly good.
There are so many varieties of bullshit I couldn’t hope to mentionbut a few, and elaborate on even fewer. I will, therefore, select thosevarieties that have some transcendent significance.
Now, that last sentence is a perfectly good example of bullshit,since I have no idea what the words “transcendent significance” mightmean and neither do you. I needed something to end that sentence withand since I did not have any clear criteria by which to select myexamples, I figured this was the place for some big-time words.
Pomposity:Pomposity is not an especially venal form of bullshit, although it isby no means harmless. There are plenty of people who are dailyvictimized by pomposity in that they are made to feel less worthy thanthey have a right to feel by people who use fancy titles, words,phrases, and sentences to obscure their own insufficiencies.
Fanaticism:A much more malignant form of bullshit than pomposity is what somepeople call fanaticism. Now, there is one type of fanaticism of which Iwill say very little, because it is so vulgar and obvious — bigotry.But there are other forms of fanaticism that are not so obvious, andtherefore perhaps more dangerous than bigotry
Eichmannism is a relatively new form of fanaticism, and perhaps itshould be given its own special place among the great and near-greatvarieties of bullshit. The essence of fanaticism is that it has almostno tolerance for any data that do not confirm its own point of view.
Eichmannism is especially dangerous because it is so utterly banal.Some of the nicest people turn out to be mini-Eichmanns. When Eichmannwas in the dock in Jerusalem, he actually said that some of his bestfriends were Jews. And the horror of it is that he was probably tellingthe truth, for there is nothing personal about Eichmannism. It is thelanguage of regulations, and includes such logical sentences as, “If wedo it for one, we have to do it for all.” Can you imagine some wretchedJew pleading to have his children spared from the gas chamber? Whatcould be more fair, more neutral, than for some administrator to reply,“If we do it for one, we have to do it for all.”
Inanity:This is a form of talk which pays a large but, I would think,relatively harmless role in our personal lives. But with thedevelopment of the mass media, inanity has suddenly emerged as a majorform of language in public matters. The invention of new and variouskinds of communication has given a voice and an audience to many peoplewhose opinions would otherwise not be solicited, and who, in fact, havelittle else but verbal excrement to contribute to public issues. Manyof these people are entertainers. The press and air waves are filledwith the featured and prime-time statements from people who are in noposition to render informed judgments on what they are talking aboutand yet render them with elan and, above all, sincerity. Inanity, then,is ignorance presented in the cloak of sincerity.
Superstition:Superstition is ignorance presented in the cloak of authority. Asuperstition is a belief, usually expressed in authoritative terms forwhich there is no factual or scientific basis. Like, for instance, thatthe country in which you live is a finer place, all things considered,than other countries. Or that the religion into which you were bornconfers upon you some special standing with the cosmos that is deniedother people. I will refrain from commenting further on that, except tosay that when I hear such talk by own crap-detector achievesunparalleled spasms of activity.
If teachers were to take an enthusiastic interest in what languageis about, each teacher would have fairly serious problems to resolve.For instance, you can’t identify bullshit the way you identifyphonemes. That is why I have called crap-detecting an art. Althoughsubjects like semantics, rhetoric, or logic seem to provide techniquesfor crap-detecting, we are not dealing here, for the most part, with atechnical problem.
Each person’s crap-detector is embedded in their value system; ifyou want to teach the art of crap-detecting, you must help studentsbecome aware of their values. After all, Vice President, Spiro Agnew,or his writers, know as much about semantics as anyone in this room.What he is lacking has very little to do with technique, and almosteverything to do with values.
Now, I realize that what I just said sounds fairly pompous initself, if not arrogant, but there is no escaping from saying whatattitudes you value if you want to talk about crap-detecting.
In other words, bullshit is what you call language that treats people in ways you do not approve of.
So any teacher who is interested in crap-detecting must acknowledgethat one man’s bullshit is another man’s catechism. Students should betaught to learn how to recognize bullshit, including their own.
It seems to me one needs, first and foremost, to have a keen senseof the ridiculous. Maybe I mean to say, a sense of our impending death.About the only advantage that comes from our knowledge of theinevitability of death is that we know that whatever is happening isgoing to go away. Most of us try to put this thought out of our minds,but I am saying that it ought to be kept firmly there, so that we canfully appreciate how ridiculous most of our enthusiasms and evendepressions are.
Reflections on one’s mortality curiously makes one come alive to theincredible amounts of inanity and fanaticism that surround us, much ofwhich is inflicted on us by ourselves. Which brings me to the nextpoint, best stated as Postman’s Third Law:
“At any given time, the chief source of bullshit with which you have to contend is yourself.”
The reason for this is explained in Postman’s Fourth Law, which is;
“Almost nothing is about what you think it is about–including you.”
With the possible exception of those human encounters that FritzPeris calls “intimacy,” all human communications have deeply embeddedand profound hidden agendas. Most of the conversation at the top can beassumed to be bullshit of one variety or another.
An idealist usually cannot acknowledge his own bullshit, because itis in the nature of his “ism” that he must pretend it does not exist.In fact, I should say that anyone who is devoted to an “ism”–Fascism,Communism, Capital-ism–probably has a seriously defectivecrap-detector. This is especially true of those devoted to“patriotism.” Santha Rama Rau has called patriotism a squalid emotion.I agree. Mainly because I find it hard to escape the conclusion thatthose most enmeshed in it hear no bullshit whatever in its rhetoric,and as a consequence are extremely dangerous to other people. If youdoubt this, I want to remind you that murder for murder, GeneralWestmoreland makes Vito Genovese look like a Flower Child.
Another way of saying this is that all ideologies are saturated withbullshit, and a wise man will observe Herbert Read’s advice: “Nevertrust any group larger than a squad.”
So you see, when it comes right down to it, crap-detection issomething one does when he starts to become a certain type of person.Sensitivity to the phony uses of language requires, to some extent,knowledge of how to ask questions, how to validate answers, andcertainly, how to assess meanings.
I said at the beginning that I thought there is nothing moreimportant than for kids to learn how to identify fake communication.You, therefore, probably assume that I know something about now toachieve this. Well, I don’t. At least not very much. I know that ourpresent curricula do not even touch on the matter. Neither do ourpresent methods of training teachers. I am not even sure thatclassrooms and schools can be reformed enough so that critical andlively people can be nurtured there.
Nonetheless, I persist in believing that it is not beyond yourprofession to invent ways to educate youth along these lines. (Because)there is no more precious environment than our language environment.And even if you know you will be dead soon, that’s worth protecting.

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Bacolod AMAers Rallied: We want Engr. Debbie Gulmatico back!

Last July 8 ,2009 (Wednesday), my schoolmates rallied in front of our school saying that they wanted our dean back. I heard a rumor from my classmate (actually you can find him in the pictures below.haha) that our dean failed the school director evaluation for her, which made the students angry because this results to getting the dean out of her position. Well, the radical students of AMA thinks it's unfair because the dean was so nice and this and that blah blah blah.

I was actually told to join the rally, unfortunately I don't have the "activist" spirit in me plus I don't really give a darn, so I just supported the rally by wearing a white shirt, a manifestation that I also wanted the dean back.

Too bad I only got few shots of the rally , I have to attend my networking class because I suck on networking! I have to learn something in this subject so I won't end up being a dummy in the coming prelim examination. Anyways, after the event I heard from a friend (I usyuso a lot no?!?) that the students rallied earlier that day were not allowed to enter the school and attend they're classes which again pisses them off. What happened next is... I don't know because I didn't attend my class last Thursday and Friday (wala pa ko ka chismis...hehe) not because I am a school junkie but because every time I go to my respective classroom, there's no one in there.
No classmates + No professor = No class. Therefore, I conclude I am not really fucking up school.

Here are some pictures I got last Wednesday.I'm sure Ven Francis has a lot more pictures but too bad I don't even know where did he post them all.

I think these are the school government officers, I just have no idea why Rhimar was there, naka RayBan pa!lol.

AMA Bacolod Campus + students rallying + some motorcycle jerk who blocked my view.

An ABS-CBN reporter interviewing an engineering student. (Too bad I forgot to watch this at TV Patrol Negros.)

Daw sa piho si King mag kapot sang megaphones kag masinggit singgit sa tunga!lol

In the picture above contains these:

I heard this funny story from some kiddos making fun of King. King has this script kuno that says:

"Nadula ang USB ko 2 gig pa to! Sin-o ang basulon?! ADMINISTRASYON!!!" lol.

"Paaralan ay walang patutunguhan sa SD na hindi maasahan"

Now that they've mentioned it! Where the hell is the school clinic by the way?! I know there was, but I think it was renovated and it turned out to be the school director's current office. Amazing! That could be very annoying if your head is aching and you can't find a damn clinic to get some medicine. I know, analgesic antipyretic costs less than Php 5.00 but let's put it this way, what if someone fainted or was injured, the school can't even respond to a first aid matter. I don't think even have a first aid kit at all!


There was a librarian, WAS. I suppose she resigned last year but now, only working students are managing the library. Who's going to be in-charge if these students have their class?! What an idea, not smart at all AMA. Plus, the bulletin boards in the library are so boring! Not inviting at all in any angle.

I don't know what the hell is this jerk doing there.lol! I didn't even see him when I took the picture. Look at him, he even took a pose. I think they just let him join the rally so they have someone that would annoy the school director, and look, his face is indeed annoying.LOL. peace!

BURNING BRIDGES

RULES:
1. Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.


IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
Gila E'te - Queso
(pwede man no? new word!)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF
Saturday - Go betty go
(daw ka saturday fever party animal.)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Survive - Rise Against
(Survive me baybeh!)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
The Good Left Undone- Rise Against
(my shuffle is turned on, pu daw pasunod japon.)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Dweller - Fastpitch
(hahaha!)

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
Change - Deftones
(but i can't!)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Lovesong - Snake River Conspiracy
(hehe...)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Sailing - Urbandub
(mom, dad i'm not!haha)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Manila Ice - Queso
(what--ever!!)

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Soft Turn - Imago

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Al the killer - Coheed and Cambria
(bestfriend, kill for me!)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Tranquilizers - Skindive

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth - Coheed and Cambria
(sus sakit mana sa ulo man.)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Blind - Korn
(boof, you make me goin' blind!lol)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Another Minute Until Ten - Typecast
(daw pahamak man ni ginapangbutang di ni harvey sa mp3 player)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
I have become what I always hated - Saosin
(er..?)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Breathe - Fastpitch
(of course, sagad sang iPod ko.haha)

Just wanted to kill time. Fuck the rain!

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Hole in the Earth - Deftones

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Whoa! - Paramore
(hahahahaha! safe answer ba!)

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
Rose of Sharyn - Kill Switch Engage
(who's sharyn?! what's with her rose haw?!lol.)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Nobody - Skindred
(You're all nobody bitches!hahahahaha)

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Burning Bridges - Kittie
(can be!haha)

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Singles: Flirt up your Life!

Nah…I’m not giving you tips on how to flirt up your life! Plus I don’t even know how! I’m talking about this simulation game by Deep Silver. It’s all about playing the relationship between two room mates, Mike and Linda. The game shows them in their shared flat, which means that everyday routines are focused as well: cooking, watching TV and cleaning are as important as talks and cuddles. This is basically like Sims (of course it is both a simulation game, duh!) you could change your flat’s interior design and you also have to work for a living in order to buy your needs like food and furnitures. But unlike Sims, this can make you choose on how to make friends with your flat mate, the romantic-slash-flirt way. You can make your characters kiss, cuddle, hug and even sex (with lots of positions and styles! haha). I’ve started playing this game months ago and my characters are already a perfect couple, has stable jobs and an inviting flat place. If you want to download this game, visit this site for free download: www.singles-the–game.de or contact me (kay may ara ko installer…hehe)

The Beach Life

My brother is going crazy about this so I started playing too.
It’s a simulation game that allows you to choose an island to build your own beach resort and manage it to earn money for repairs and upgrades. You can also decide on how much the food and hotel fees will cost. And maintain the wages of the workers so they won’t get lazy building structures in you resort like:
Pavement- you should build this first, build a cat walk from the hotel to the beach, if the beach people can’t find a path to the beach they will get lost and get irritated.
Electricity Plant- after building the pavement, you should make some of this to supply electricity in your resort so you won’t spoil the fun (especially in the disco bar).
The General Store- which sells sun block lotions (I make this very expensive because it always have a high demand.)
The Cleaner’s Shack- you need to build this so you can hire janitors to clean the resort or the customers will start to complain or worse they will get sick because your resort is filthy and worst is they will leave the resort with a sad face and that would lower you popularity bar.
The Electrician’s Shack – build this so you can hire an electrician to fix electricity problems.
Police Station- so you could hire police officers to maintain peace in your beach resort especially when everybody’s wasted already from drinking booze.
Amusement Park – this is like a small casino, you should build this when the customers start flowing or they’ll get bored.
Disco Bar- this is just a big circle with disco lights and speakers. You can adjust the entrance fee as well. if this gets crowded you should build another one.
Hot dog, Burger and Soft drinks Stalls – Of course your customers need this, they have to eat! But you would want to put trash cans beside every stall; the customers tend to be very dirty sometimes.
Restaurants – they also want to have decent meal when they get tired of eating only hotdogs and burgers.
Booze Stands - what is beach without booze?!
Beach Rides – Banana ride, speed boats etc.
Swimming Pool – you should build this as an alternative when sharks are playing at the shores (you don’t want your customers to be eaten by sharks, you’ll lost a big amount of money and even lose the game.)
“Smaller” Hotel – at the start of the game you already have a hotel which can accommodate 200 guests (I guess, I forgot.) But when people are still flowing, this “smaller” hotel comes to the rescue to accommodate them.
Lifeguard House – people would freak out if somebody’s drowning and there’s no lifeguard around. There are other structures (I forgot some of them but the above mentioned are the important ones), they are very easy to build, no worries.

To unlock the other islands which are bigger and has prettier weather to celebrate summer and to perfect tanning, you should complete the goals given in every island. Goals like you have to sell 15 of sun blocks in just 3 days or you have to build 2 disco bars or don’t let your customers to get eaten by the sharks (this goal pisses me off, ‘ços my beach people are always getting eaten. I never had the chance to unlock the last island because of that goal.) To survive the game, just be spontaneous in adjusting the prices and fees don’t be greedy or else no one will visit your resort, of course you have to increase fees if you upgraded something. Always put lights on the pavement so when they light up at night, people will like it and it’ll increase your resort’s reputation (which is sometimes needed to complete goals.) Try to buy flyers for advertisements to increase the number of people visiting your resort. You will know your customer’s thoughts and comments about your resort by clicking the bubble above their head, of course you know what sad and happy faces means.

(Forgive my wrong grammars; I just want to write something.)

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I can't think of anything specific on what this blog may contain. I should think of something that is often searched in the net. Well, the most common on blogs are usually reviews, so I'm thinking of something specific (because my professor told me so… to be specific in the category to be used.) Music? Movies? Softwares?(which is very appropriate with my subject.) or maybe recipes! or crafting...But it has to be No. 1 in the google results when searched! And it has to be specific to separate concerns. Maybe if it's a little bit random I won't find it hard to fill this blog, I would put everything I desire in here! No personal issues of course... and pornos (which is very sayang, I think everybody’s looking for this on the net, and that could make me no.1 hehe). This is very baffling and terrifying! Thinking of a possible category makes me wanna throw up!

Computer Stupidities

These are some funny stories from people who had a very bad time with those people who are not good in computers. Laugh all the way with me :D

KEYBOARD

The quintessential input device, the keyboard, despite its similarities to the typewriter, is nevertheless the subject of great confusion. Some of the most important, basic keys are misunderstood. Some even fail to recognize that hitting a letter on the keyboard causes the same letter to appear on the screen. With a keyboard as a prop, hysterical antics of many sorts can follow.


For a computer programming class, I sat directly across from someone, and our computers were facing away from each other. A few minutes into the class, she got up to leave the room. I reached between our computers and switched the inputs for the keyboards. She came back and started typing and immediately got a distressed look on her face. She called the teacher over and explained that no matter what she typed, nothing would happen. The teacher tried everything. By this time I was hiding behind my monitor and quaking red-faced. I started to type, "Leave me alone!"
They both jumped back, silenced. "What the..." the teacher said. I typed, "I said leave me alone!" The kid got real upset. "I didn't do anything to it, I swear!" It was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud. The conversation between them and HAL 2000 went on for an amazing five minutes.
Me: "Don't touch me!"
Her: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hit your keys that hard."
Me: "Who do you think you are anyway?!"
Etc. Finally, I couldn't contain myself any longer and fell out of my chair laughing. After they had realized what I had done, they both turned beet red. Funny, I never got more than a C- in that class.

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Many people have called to ask where the "any" key is on their keyboards when the "Press Any Key" message is displayed.
Tech Support: "If there is anything else we can help with, please give us a call."
Customer: "Well...I was wondering if you could just tell me something people ask you that is really stupid, so I don't feel like such a moron."
Tech Support: "Ma'am, you're not stupid. People aren't born with knowledge, it takes time. One of the silliest questions we get from new users is, 'Where is the any key?'"
Customer: "Well, DUH! Even I know where that is!"

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I have a friend who just bought a computer and was instructed to load a program by typing "A:" and then the name of the program.
My friend told me it would not work because his keyboard was no good. He said he couldn't type the "dot over dot thingie" and that every time he tried to type the "dot over dot thingie" he kept getting the "dot over comma thingie" no matter how careful he was to press only on the very top of the key.
When I taught him about the shift key, he thought I was a genius.

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Tech support: "Now, press the up arrow."
Customer: "I don't see any up arrow."
Tech support: "It's above the rest of the arrows at the lower left."
Customer: "All I see above the arrows is an 'I' with a funny little hat on it."
Tech support: "Press that!"
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Our last receptionist called me to complain that the keys on her new keyboard were hard to push. She asked me to install a program to "soften up her keyboard keys."

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My journalism teacher was the most computer illiterate person that I have ever met.
Her: "What does the F1 key do?"
Me: "It depends on what program you are using, it usually is just a keyboard shortcut."
Her: "No, I mean what does it DO?"
Me: "It just simplifies a function, so you don't have to select it from the menu."
Her: "But how does it WORK?"
This went on for a few more minutes, and eventually I had to tell her the truth: that it really doesn't do anything.

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One user told me he couldn't find the 'OK' button on his keyboard.
I had a call from a customer who was complaining that when she typed, the wrong letters came up on the screen. After some investigation, I learned she had pried off all the letter key caps off her keyboard and rearranged them in alphabetical order. You'd think she'd have figured out the problem herself when her computer stopped working afterward.
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Tech Support: "Is the caps-lock light on?"
Customer: "I'm not a computer person."
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I had an otherwise computer-literate friend who would put the caps-lock on and off every time he wanted a capital letter. He thought the shift key was just for the symbols on the number keys. This probably went on for years.
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I was doing usual work in my Computer Literacy class, when a kid came in and sat at the computer next to me to type up a report for another class. I went to get something I had printed off to turn in and glanced at his screen. He wasn't double-spacing, like the teacher had told us to, I though maybe he forgot.
Me: "Hey, you know, this is supposed to be double-spaced, right?"
Him: "I am double spacing. See?"
He proceeded to type a word, hit the spacebar twice, and continued typing. He then asked me how to make it so that whenever he hit the spacebar, it would make two spaces.
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MOUSE

Once optional, now essential, the mouse is one of the most misused, misunderstood peripherals in the home computer market. Keyboards and printers are easier to grasp by those already familiar with typewriters, but the principles of the mouse are unprecedented in the mainstream.

Several years ago I was at a computer show demoing software. The audience was comprised of retired school teachers. I explained how to use the mouse to point to things on the screen. As I walked around the room making sure everyone was doing ok, I saw one woman holding her mouse to the Mac's monitor moving the mouse around on the screen.
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One customer held the mouse in the air and pointed it at the screen like a TV remote, all the while clicking madly.
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A user called in to say her mouse was only moving left and right and not up and down. This was a common fault with that particular model of mouse, so I brought a replacement over, swapped it out, and she tried it out.
"Nope, same problem," she said, and showed me. For left and right movements, it worked fine, but when she moved the mouse up and down -- that is, physically off the desk and into the air -- it just didn't work at all.
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I was teaching a user about Windows.
Me: "Move the cursor up to the menu line. . . . Move the cursor to the menu line. . . . Move the mouse up to move the cursor up to the menu line. . . ."
Still, nothing was happening on the screen. Finally I looked over her right shoulder to see what she was doing. She had raised the mouse literally up -- about a foot off the desk.
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My family gave my grandmother a laptop, and we were teaching her how to use it when she asked how to send an email to her sister in England. They had been sending postal mail to each other for decades, and she had heard that this "Er-Mail" thing was easier.
I pointed to the Outlook Express icon, and told her to put the mouse there. She picked up the computer mouse and placed it on the screen.
It was a long day.
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Tech Support: "Ok, can you see the arrow in the middle of the screen?"
Customer: "Yes."
Tech Support: "Good! Now trying moving the mouse around. Do you see the arrow moving?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "Not even a little?"
Customer: "No, not at all."
I spent several minutes having the user follow the cable from the the mouse to the back of the PC. It was plugged in all the way.
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Tech Support: "Ok, try moving it again. Up, down, left, right -- anything?"
Customer: "Nope, still nothing."
Tech Support: "Hmmm, maybe the table is too slippery -- why don't you try rolling the mouse on a book or a piece of paper?"
Customer: "Oh!! On the table!"

Cool Grungy Wings Photoshop Brushes (free download)

I was surfing the net and look for some photoshop free brushes and I saw this site that provides lots of free photoshop brushes (and the brushes are high-res!) I downloaded this interesting GRUNGY WINGS brushes and played with this little girl's photo.

Installation:
1. Download the file and unzip it.
2. Copy the .abr file to your Photoshop/Presets/Brushes folder.
3. In your Photoshop Brushes palette, click on the arrow in the upper right and click on “Load Brushes.”
4. Navigate until you find the file and load it (Photoshop/Presets/Brushes/BB_HiRes_Grungy_Wings.abr )
Note: The next time you restart Photoshop you will not have to load the file, it will be in the list of Brush Libraries.

to download grungy wings brushes click the link below:

https://bittboxllc.box.net/shared/tfe2hkx0kk

enjoy brushing!:D