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Larry (May 2011 - Oct 2012) The best cat I’ve ever had the...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:49:00 -0500

With my brother. You can see the look of despise for everyone in the room.

Larry (May 2011 - Oct 2012)

The best cat I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing. Larry didn’t give a fuck about anyone, living his life on his own terms. He’s the kind of guy would would step on a child to escape from a burning train, or just any train. He stole food till the end of his days. He was an asshole, almost human in that nature, and for that and so many other things, he was my favourite cat yet.

Larry Jr. and Julian have big shoes to fill.

Don’t mind me, just testing out something for a thing....

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:56:19 -0500

Don’t mind me, just testing out something for a thing. These are LDJ and Untitled, btw.

cats-and-stuff: Thanks Well hey, that’s Smally and...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:38:24 -0500

cats-and-stuff:

Thanks

Well hey, that’s Smally and Larry!

It’s been a while since I’ve released an update to my well...

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:02:15 -0400

It’s been a while since I’ve released an update to my well received Safari/Chrome extension Facebook Neue. I don’t want to do any explaining so here’s the update if you’re still keen on making Facebook look presentable.

The temporary-which-might-very-well-turn-permanent page for the extension is set up so you can keep that in your bookmarks if you wish. Might come in handy if they don’t auto-update or some shit like that. Who knows, right?

Well, that’s all for now.

Download link for Safari

Download link for Chrome

Photo

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:15:35 -0500

photojojo: When you have nine lives, you can do stuff like this...

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:20:28 -0500

photojojo:

When you have nine lives, you can do stuff like this to get good photos.

Can’t decide which is better, the photo or the caption.

Open Letter To The World

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:55:02 -0500

Open Letter To The World:

We stand at a unique time in our history, the rise of the internet and computer technology have contributed to an unparalleled rate of prosperity for the First World.

We have created for ourselves and empire unlike any other, a global network of constant trade and communication, a new age of technological advancement. We have come a long way from our humble roots in the Industrial Revolution and the days of Manifest Destiny. We are now pioneers on new digital frontiers expanding our domain from the quantum world to the far reaches of space.

And yet, the empire faces a crisis, a global recession, growing poverty, rampant violence, corruption in politics, and threats to personal freedom

Read this.

lharboe: Lion’s All My Files icon. Read the quotes.

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:50:52 -0500

lharboe:

Lion’s All My Files icon. Read the quotes.

Hey! Its Finn the Human, do you like Adventure Time? Submit your favorite Adventure Time posts and I will publish them!

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:47:48 -0500

Once there was an asshole who called himself ‘Finn the Human’, who incorrectly used its in place of it’s, and was a big fat whore.

Adventurous enough?

Deep (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:05:37 -0500

Deep (Taken with instagram)

Photo

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:50:16 -0500

Stair Porn: A Collection.

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:21:27 -0500

Stair Porn: A Collection.

"4CHAN was a community of people who delved so deep into the shittyness of internet subculture, that..."

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:55:04 -0500

“4CHAN was a community of people who delved so deep into the shittyness of internet subculture, that we defined what it was, and it was shit, and we recognised that. We created our community, over time, on the basis that it’s al pretty much shit anyways, and so we revelled in our little nerdy memes and inside jokes. But suddenly, all our old jokes and material, and basically our personalities and subculture, has becoming THAT HIP NEW THING.”

- 4chan-er

"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for..."

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:54:26 -0500

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

- Socrates, 400 BC.

Seems like more of a human trait than a quality of youth at any particular time. Fuck you, Socrates.

So I’ve decided to share my Instagr.am UserCSS...

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:23:30 -0500

So I’ve decided to share my Instagr.am UserCSS customisation. I found myself clicking a lot of instagr.am links in twitter, and the landing page was just too full of marketing material. Knocked it all off, and increased the image size from 480px to 612px—I’ve always liked bigger pictures.

Grab the code if you feel like it.

There is Superstition

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:12:59 -0500

The other day I was playing Ludo on the iPad with my brother and cousin. It was our favourite boardgame as kids, and I’m surprised it continues to give us a thrill.

Now when it comes to throwing dice, you’re always rooting for that magic six. There’s no better feeling. I remember as kids we’d try to throw the dice in a particular way and if that produced a six more than once it was established that it was the right way to throw a six — even though as science would show it’s totally random. But every time one threw the dice that way or after that particular chant, and it produced a six, it reaffirmed the belief. We’d of course ignore the fact that there were so many times that it produced a one or a two; consider those misfires.

So now that we’ve moved to the digital platform, as well as grown up, you’d think we’d learn to throw the dice straight. So with Ludo for iPad, you get a 2D image of a dice in the middle of your screen, which you must tap. Being that it’s digital, you can also increase the frequency of a six. I don’t know what the fuck happened, but by the end of the second game everyone was tapping the iPad with their pinky finger because that was the trick to produce a six. We were joking of course, but on some level I think we all believed that using the pinky increased the likelihood of getting a six, and we tapped it that way. The digital Ludo of course was more than willing to produce multiple sixes in a row, for further confirmation.

I can only imagine how easier it must have been to make up superstitions before science explained nature.

Dell’s SEVENTH monitor replacement is a dusty, scratched and broken piece of garbage!

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:20:11 -0500

I was convinced that after the story frontpaging reddit Aayush would get the best of treatment. Little did I realise how dumb and stupid Dell can be. Read on.

aayush:

After I made a video about it and wrote about my wretched and ongoing experience with Dell the last time on reddit, the post garnered immediate and significant attention and shot to the top of the front page within a couple of hours and stayed there for several hours after that. Thank you to all of you who voted for that story and left me your comments and advice. It strengthened my resolve not to take this sort of mistreatment lying down and here’s a followup to that story.

Past Updates

Employees from Dell called me four times on the following Monday. I was relieved that all this finally struck a cho…oh wait, they didn’t call to tell me that they were extremely sorry and that they would fix the problem once and for all. No, that would make too much sense and be far too customer-friendly for this company to do.

Instead, their calls were to ask me to return the notebook that they’d delivered to me by mistake. I hadn’t so much as cracked open the packaging by then but I flat out refused to return that notebook until they righted the situation. Why did they need to call four times? To harass me. They would not take no for an answer and I wouldn’t say yes, so I did the only thing I could: I hung up.

I then got a call from a member of Dell’s Executive Customer Support Team on Tuesday and it was the same old hemming and hawing about not being able to give me a refund because I was not the original owner and defending the company’s actions so far. Not a single word expressing regret or shame, just the businesslike manner of a person conducting a negotiation. He ended the call with something along the lines of “we’ll see if we can get you a refund but, if we do (and this in no way constitutes a guarantee), you will have to return the defective monitors first”.

Yeah, fat chance! It’s the same old crap that I’ve been dealing with for the past year. No change in attitude or action. For the purposes of full disclosure, I will make it clear that I spoke shortly with him and whenever asked to make even the tiniest concession, I rudely cut him off and refused. I think I have earned the right to.

The Seventh Monitor

The same guy called me again that day and assured me that I would be getting another monitor within a few days and that this one had been personally checked by them and was brand new and fully functional. I told him I did not want it and, at this point, the only thing I would accept was a refund. He refused. I said, “Guess I will see you in court then.” To which he replied, “Yes, we’ll meet in court.”

This leads us to today. I received the seventh replacement monitor today, the one that this guy was so cocky about, the one that Dell considers the best way to solve this problem, and it was broken. But let’s get to the quality of the display itself in a moment.

The guy who delivered the display wanted me to return the notebook that had been accidentally delivered to me back to him. I asked him for a written confirmation from Dell or DHL that I was indeed returning the notebook and he said he didn’t have anything to give me. He put me on the phone with someone from Dell logistics who told me that I wouldn’t need any such confirmation and that I should stop harassing him and the company. And he knew what I had been through, having sent all those monitors to me himself.

I asked him if he would accept it if I refused to sign on the proof of delivery document for the monitor and he said no and yet it seemed illogical to him that I should want the same thing for my own records when it came to returning the notebook. He did finally send me the document but after having rudely shouted at me and wasted a half hour of my time.

Back to the monitor now. It was physically broken at one of the corners and had huge, ugly scratches all over the actual display and was caked with dust. It’s dingy and, for all intents and purposes, looks like something pulled out of the trash can. I would not have accepted this piece of junk if it had been the first replacement they sent me, let alone the seventh one!

Take a look at these pictures:

And this video:

What I Am Going to Do

Once again, this is the seventh replacement monitor sent to me over the course of a year and that too upon realising that I’d published a story about it on reddit that had been read by tens of thousands of people! Every single employee in this company—from the engineers to the designers, the assemblers, QA specialists, the customer care department, right down to the logistics team—is mind-bendingly incompetent.

Don’t forget, these are all huge 30-inch monitors that weigh upwards of 15kg (34lbs) each and I have had to unpack, install and then uninstall seven of them; twice for each one, to replace them with the original unit. I’ve wasted days doing all that and talking to customer service executives and logistics guys and the shipping people. It’s a never-ending nightmare.

I’ve had it with this jackasses! I am not waiting for any more resolutions and am suing Dell for damages. I do not want any more replacements or refunds, I want compensation for what this company has put me through and I will get it. Thank you to everyone who is reading this for your support.

tl;dr

Dell’s seventh replacement is worse than most of the others they have sent me so far. Their employees have now taken to harassing me and being rude to me over the phone. The executive customer support representative wants to “meet me in court”, so that is what he will get.

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-Aayush

You know, I have a Dell monitor, but the power button doesn’t work (it’s always ON). I thought of asking for a replacement, but with this shit, I think I can live with it.

Indus Creed The best Indian rock album ever produced. I’m...

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:01:56 -0500

Indus Creed

The best Indian rock album ever produced. I’m not talking bollywood music, nor Hindi rock; they’re geographically limited. I still remember 1995; couldn’t believe this was produced in India. Sadly, they split up after that, and have only recently reformed, set to release an album in May.

You can download some of the tracks from their self titled album, courtesy me.

Trapped
Cry
Thrown it all away
Fly
Celibate

Mango tree is packed with flowers. Let’s hope they stick.

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:42:51 -0500

Mango tree is packed with flowers. Let’s hope they stick.

On Why Milind Alvares Left Facebook [but then came back]

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:18:19 -0500

On Why Milind Alvares Left Facebook [but then came back]:

ramymajouji puts me in the spotlight, as he quits Facebook:

Editor-in-chief of Smoking Apples (and all-around vulgar Internet clown) Milind Alvares wrote his own piece — in a form of an open letter to his Facebook fellows — on why he decided to leave the “world’s most popular social network”. […]

For some reason — he doesn’t really explain — Alvares came back to Facebook and decided to write a Safari and Chrome extension to make his (and everyone’s) experience more enjoyable—from a strictly visual point of view, that is. Facebook Neue is free to download and works pretty damn well. Thanks for that one, Milind.

[…]

I’ll tell you why I came back. It wasn’t because I couldn’t take it anymore and I had to have my wall back. It wasn’t that at all. I quit it, and while it was weird for the first two weeks, I survived quite well for around four months. Facebook was out of my workflow and I was quite comfortable with it.

But.

There came a point where I realised that a social network for local friends really is required. Sure many of them are uncultured buffoons who wrte lk dis and upload every picture their camera shoots, but they’re still my friends. Friends who I like. I’m not in college anymore, so meeting them all regularly would be near impossible; many are busy with their jobs, gone abroad. I know I’m supposed to move on in life and make new friends, but considering most of my new friendships are established over an internet connection, I didn’t want to lose contact with the people I knew were real. If this was the only way I could keep in contact, so be it.

I decided to dive back in, but remain primarily in spectator mode. I unfriended over 400 people, keeping just 80 of the closest ones (and a few hot girls) in my list. I ‘facebook around’ sometimes, look through photo albums, and comment on statuses. I’m not addicted, but as of right now it adds value to my life.

And that’s why I created Facebook Neue.