Echo Binary

I attended my girlfriend’s birthday today. She didn’t throw a big party or anything splendid; it’s just a simple dinner with her family and some of her family’s closest neighbors. There’s palabok fiesta from Amber (one of my favorite palabok), chicken, chocolate cake, blah blah… there’s so much food on the table but those are my best picks

You may ask why she didn’t have a debut celebration. Simple put, she’s not a party girl and she don’t like formal dresses. In my opinion, she could have celebrate her birthday with a grand debut party if she really wanted. Well, it’s her decision anyway and it’s ok with me. As for my birthday present to her… it’s secret.

Well, not you… but at least let your name go to Pluto…

Join the first mission to the last planet

Well… the probe will return to earth in approximately fifty thousand years (50,000 yrs.) So we are certainly dead in that far future (uhm… unless you decided to get frozen in cryogenics). It’s not a bad idea to keep a memento on space, so sign your name now; there’s nothing to lose.

Thank you for joining the first mission to the last planet! A compact disc bearing your name will be included on the New Horizons spacecraft, set for the first voyage to a new class of planets on the solar system’s farthest frontier.

Come with us as we complete the reconnaissance of the solar system and unlock the secrets of Pluto, its moon, Charon, and the Kuiper Belt.

The quote above came from the web certificate that you can print… in fact I printed one sample. You also get a certificate no. Mine is Certificate No. 299411 The registration will close on September 15, 2005.

I was browsing the new album releases at OPM section in Tower Records, ATC when I noticed a seemingly sesame-street-like album cover. Oh! “Halina sa Parokya” is the title of the album. Without doubt, that’s a Parokya ni Edgar album. Hilarious, I thought. Chito and Vinci made up 2 puppets that resemble themselves (look closer, you’ll see)! There goes Buwi looking like the dirtbag Oscar the grouch. I don’t know about the rest…. I don’t recognize their imitated characters. They look… odd.

It seems that this album cover was inspired by Sesame Street and its local counterpart Batibot. I don’t know why… I just laughed when I saw the cover. LOL. That’s so wity and humorous. They look like kids trying to portray Batibot and Sesame Street desperately. On the musical side, the tunes of Parokya ni Edgar in this album stay true to their roots, keeping the songs distinguishably Parokya ni Edgar. Most of the lyrics in this album are so comical you’ll just laugh in between tracks. That’s the typical Parokya ni Edgar style that no one could match.

The familiar song “First Day Funk” as featured by Rexona is included in this album. I wasn’t surprised when I heard a rap song in the album because of Parokya ni Edgar’s influences in rap. The song is titled “Bagsakan” featuring Francis Magalona and Gloc-9. Man, that’s really a good collaboration. There’s also a song entitled “Walang Nangyari”, a spoof of Andrew E’s hit single “Andrew Ford Medina”. Here’s my favorite… “The Ordertaker”, a somewhat explicit yet funny rendition of System of a Down’s “Toxicity”. Just listen to it and you’ll be surprised how close Parokya ni Edgar managed to perform instrumentals as good as the original.

Of course there are more songs in the album, but the songs I mentioned above captured most of my attention while listening the sample CD in Tower Records… Geeez, I wanted to get a copy of that album but I didn’t have the budget. Nevermind, I will manage to get one soon.

I’m in the middle of completing our case study in Cisco but it seems that I’m the only one working on it… I am hopeful that they are doing some reading about ACLs so that they can double check my work.

The only reason why { I | we } didn’t schedule an online collaboration is because I let someone else assign a date for the collaboration since I will not be able to get online due to certain circumstances. Apparently my internet connection is back and I am left doing this project.

I used Visio to draw our diagram and it’s looking good. Check it out…

I find these quotes amusing..

63% of all statistics are made up… including this one.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Technical people respond to questions in three ways
It is technically impossible (meaning: I don’t feel like doing it);
It depends (meaning: abandon all hope of a useful answer);
The data bits are flexed through a collectimizer which strips the flow-gate arrays into virtual message elements (meaning: I don’t know).

The Dogbert method of eliminating guilt is simple. All of your problems are caused by invisible people named Juan and Cindy. All you have to do is find them and kill them.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

Work is for losers. A winner says ‘That’s on my list’ and never commits to a deadline.

Btw, all credits to http://www.dilbert.com
(official site of Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert comic strips)