On the train

Haven't written lately. The reason is because i haven't really been riding trains. That's usually when I'm sitting and my thoughts are louder than my surroundings. I'm usually alone on a train, and there's no way of calling anybody with no cellphone signal, so I just write. The reason why I haven't been taking trains is simply because I no longer have anywhere to go anymore. Doors aren't being closed anymore, they're being destroyed and turned into walls. That's a big fear of mine. To be caught in a riddle of a life. Like that riddle that asks: what would you do in a room with no doors, no windows, and nothing but a table and a saw? The answer: cut the table in half. Put the halves back together. Two halves make a (w)hole. Jump in the hole and escape. Hahaha. Ok goin to church now. Bye, blog.

semicolon

Benjamin asks me
"hey what's that thing that looks like a comma with a dot on it?"
He was asking about the semicolon. " ; "
I told him it's like a comma and a period at the same time.
"You'll use it when u get older".
He says "how much older?"
I answered... "old".

Mac Oh Ess Ex

so a friend of mine got an old white macbook. Doesn't have the greatest processor or an immense amount of RAM. We wanted to see what it would take to make this computer freeze.

He opened all of the following applications:

RAM-heavy apps are marked*

- iChat with the Screenshare function and voice chat*

- Quicktime streaming a 1080p video online**

- Safari with three tabs open

- Photobooth

- Skype (with a running video chat)

- Address book

- iCal

- Preview

- iTunes (with a song playing)

- iPhoto

- iMovie*

- iDVD

- GarageBand*

- Logic***

- Microsoft Word

- Powerpoint

- MSN messenger

- TextEdit

We ran all that and i was still able to watch the 1080p video on my screen which was running off his screen. No choppyness, no lag. No freeze at all. The fan went pretty crazy but that's about it. Proof:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2703/4129700079_0cf632073a_b.jpg

Jesus.

Girls DO fart

Jesse

yo this girl was madd rushing out of the computer lab and rushing her friend to come

Jesse

and i think it was cause she farted

Carlos Fernandez

hahahahahahahahaha

Carlos Fernandez

LMAOOO

Jesse

cause  i sat down where they were sitting

Jesse

and it smelled

Jesse

she was like, "Come on, come on!"

Jesse

imagine in the mad quiet lab i say "dzzaaa"

Jesse

you farted

My mom tells Benjamin "you have to eat all your food. Don't leave not
even one grain!"
Benjamin is like "not even a bean?"
"no"
"not even a germ?"
"no"
"not even a molecule?"
"mira muchacho!"

Free music

So i had this big argument with a friend of mine. It was a stupid
argument because my "side" of the argument was just an analysis of
history and it's application to the future, and her "side" of the
argument was that I shouldn't "think" these things.
Let me make myself very clear from the very beginning:
I am not perfectly fine with accepting it as "ok", I am simply
speaking about it.

Anyway here's the point:

Just as selling horse shoes is obsolete, as will be selling music.

Right now, let's say you're a fan of R&B. You make about $12/hr,
working at RadioShack or whatever. You work ur ass off, standing all
day, lifting boxes when the truck comes (lol), dealing with retarded
customers. For a measly $12/hr. Then R Kelly comes out with a new CD
and the single is on the radio, the album is FIRE (lol). They're
charging you $13.85 for a piece of round plastic sitting in a plastic
box, wrapped in plastic. iTunes is charging you $11 for some music
floating in a computer. Then you realize that CD's get scratched, get
lost, or break, and iTunes sells music at 256Kbps mp3's. Then you go
online and see that you can get the same music thru a torrent, in 4
minutes, the entire album, at 320Kbps, plus the bonus tracks (that
album costs $15)... For free.

What are you going to do?

Are you going to be a law abiding citizen, wait til next week after
you pay your bill for your T-Mobile sidekick, and u get ur next pay
check, and give it to Sony BMG. OR will you get the music. Now. For
free. At an awesome quality. With absolutely no way of getting caught
or fined or whatever.

I remember when facebook was not "accessible" by old ppl. Now I see
even my mom on it. I believe the same can happen with torrents. Right
now it's still a nerdy world. The top most downloaded torrents are
usually action movies or anime. Clearly a bunch of nerds fueling the
free-media community. But just like facebook, it will become easier
and more accessible. When Luis Miguel comes out with his "farewell" or
"greatest hits" album, by then, my mom will probably be torrent-savvy,
and will get the album no-strings-attached, for free, at a high
quality, and in less than 4 minutes.

Artists will record album after album, and record companies will be
unable to make money off of this, because ppl will realize that
there's no reason in paying, when it's free and easy to get. There
will probably come a time when a software developer will make a
program that looks and acts exactly like itunes, except is just a
graphical representation of free torrents. They say that filling an
ipod costs $30,000 or more if u have a bigger ipod. You will save THAT
much money if you just click on "download" rather than "buy". People
will learn this VERY quickly.

See, the beauty of downloading thru torrents is that there is no
single source. There is no "mother load" of music. You get bits and
pieces of files from different users, and u feed the world bits and
pieces of your music too. What this means is that you're basically
walking into a supermarket, and stealing one grape, then visiting a
hundred other super markets and stealing one grape from each place. By
the time you're done, you'll have many many grapes. I'm sure it IS
illegal. But which supermarket cares enough to press charges?

The record companies will be like the horse shoe companies of today.
Who wants a horse, that you have to feed and maintain and has a speed
limit and stinks and sleeps and poops and dies... when u can have a
car that just needs gas and your foot on a pedal? The horse shoe
companies went out of business. Nobody cried. Nobody cared. The guys
working at that factory just left and found jobs at Ford. The iron
companies didn't care. Ford was still buying iron to make steel. It's
all good.

The same will happen in the future. Instead of Best Buy having shelves
full of pointless discs that nobody wants, they'll have shelves full
of concert tickets or something else that they'll think of. Maybe
merchandise will get as popular as it used to be, and artists will be
forced to make part of their earnings off T-shirts. Producers will
stop asking for royalty checks, since records arent selling, and
instead will ask for a big chunk of money up front.

Honestly, I don't care how it happens. I just think that it will.
That's all I'm saying. It's sad, but it's not like it's happening cuz
i'm sayin it.

My Defining Decade

i just realized that my "defining decade" is over. One's "defining
decade" is age 13-23. It's the age where the music u listen to is
defined, the way u dress, the TV shows u enjoyed most. From now on,
i'm gonna refer to stuff made between 1999 and 2009 as "the music i
listen to".
For example....
Say you were born 1957. 13 yrs later it's 1970. The music u enjoy
most, is stuff from 1970-1980. That is definitely a great way of
describing my mom's favorite music. My mom's "prime", when she felt
the best-looking in her life; where she felt "young" enough to do her
thang, yet old enough to remember it all and really absorb her
experience. Her "decade" is the 70's.

I mean this applies to more stuff besides music and clothes. It goes
for movies, philosophies, mentalities, etc. When my mom says "the way
we did it back in the day" is usually referring to something in the
70's. Yo i just realized my grandmother's "decade" was the 40's. LOL!!

Usually ppl stick to their fav. music forever. I seriously listen to
albums that came out in 2001, 2002, etc. more than anything coming out
today. I also enjoy artists that came out during that time; ppl who
initiated their "sound" in that decade. This is nuts. I'm growing up.
Now i gotta get a job HAHA.

What's your "defining decade"?