Controlled No More

For too long, I have been out to sea without a sail nor a rudder.
I have been at the mercy of the ocean and Davy Jones.
Having no choice of destination, doing the will of the sea.
But for no longer.

I grew tired of not being in control.
I fought my way to where I am now.
I have broken the grip that Davy Jones held over me.
I made myself a sail and a rudder.
I am now master of my own will.
I control where I want to go.

~Captain Steak

Framed and shot!

Ok so for my college assignment I had to take some pictures of nature. There happens to be a size that the pictures have to be, but this just took some beauty away from the picture. So I just wanted to post them here for all to see. Enjoy, or it'll be the brig for ya!

~Captain Steak

Been Awhile and Great Song

So this past month or so has been quite hectic and busy. But I have come out better and stronger than ever. Which also brings me to an incredible song by a new band Device. Their debut song is Vilify and the lyrics are quite powerful. Even though Draiman, the lead singer and also of Disturbed fame, has stated this is about our dependency on technology, I thought of other places this could be applied. But anyway, enjoy. Lyrics and video to follow.

~Captain Steak

As You Vilify, Every Single Move That I Make
And Try To Bind Me In Your Insanity
You'll Come To Know
That You Never Had Control From The Onset
Go Find Another Lap Dog, Fucker
Your Need To Clarify
Every Single Word That I Say
Has Left Me Wrestling With Our Disparity
Leave Me Alone
Take Another Wretched Soul On The Hell-Ride
Go Find A More Susceptible Sucker

I Cant Believe This Is Happnening
I Dont Want To Start Over Again
A Stone I Keep Falling Over Again, And Again, And Again

When You Vilify
You Begin To Nullify, Everything That We've Ever Done
You're Fucking With My Head
As You Vilify All I'v Ever Given
I Dont Want To Fall Apart Anymore
I Want To End It Right Now
When You Vilify, I Start To Ponder Every Battle Ever Fought
Every Thought, Imploding In My Head
If You Vilify, Its A Bitter Pill That I Will Force You To Devour
Enough, Why Dont We End It Right Now?

I've Had My Fill, And I Think I've Had Enough.
When You Open Your Mouth, Every Word Incenses Me
Dont Want To Know, Why You Every Waking Moment
Revolves Around, Criticizing Every Part Of Me
Another Bill, The Number Cannot Be Defined
For The Blood And The Soul, That Had To Flow Incessantly
Fuck You All
And Let Every Minute Be A Reminder Of
How You Let It All Come Crashing Down

I Cant Believe This Is Happnening
I Dont Want To Start Over Again
A Stone I Keep Falling Over Again, And Again, And Again

When You Vilify
You Begin To Nullify, Everything That We've Ever Done
You're Fucking With My Head
As You Vilify All I'v Ever Given
I Dont Want To Fall Apart Anymore
I Want To End It Right Now
When You Vilify, I Start To Ponder Every Battle Ever Fought
Every Thought, Imploding In My Head
If You Vilify, Its A Bitter Pill That I Will Force You To Devour
Enough, Why Dont We End It Right Now?

And When Youre Broken, And Bitter Inside
And Reality Sucks, Because You Know I'm Right
All Over Nothing, Unforgiving Inside
Well Does'nt It Suck, Just To Know I'm Right

Never be afraid to be whatever you want

from xkcd

~Captain Steak

American Ride

Toby Keith with his single American Ride:

Winter gettin' colder, summer gettin' warmer
Tidal wave comin' cross the Mexican border
Why buy a gallon, it's cheaper by the barrel
Just don't get busted singin' christmas carols

That's us, that's right
Gotta love this American ride
Both ends of the ozone burnin'
Funny how the world keeps turning
Look ma, no hands
I love...This American Ride
Gotta love this American ride

Momma gets her rocks off watchin' Desperate Housewives
Daddy works his ass off payin' for the good life
Kids on the youtube learnin' how to be cool
Livin' in a cruel world, it pays to be a mean girl

That's us, that's right
Gotta love this American ride
Both ends of the ozone burnin'
Funny how the world keeps turning
Look ma, no hands
I love...This American Ride
Gotta love this American ride

Poor little infa-Miss America's down
She gained five pounds and lost her crown
Quick fix plastic surgical antidote
Got herself a record deal, can't even sing a note

Plasma gettin' bigger, Jesus gettin' smaller
Spill a cup of coffee make a million dollars
Customs got a thug with an aerosol can
If the shoe don't fit...the fits gonna hit the shan

That's us
That's right
Gotta love this American Ride
Both ends of the ozone burnin'
Funny how the world keeps turning
Hot dog...hot damn
I love...this American ride


~Captain Steak <(")

Crapple

Instead of me spewing out my hate for Crapple, I am going to instead link you to this article that sums up Crapple fairly well.

~Captain Steak

Windows 8: A true story and review

Warning: Lots o' Language Ahead. Hooray for college. I recently began a class about Windows Server 2008. This involved going to the Software Alliance thing that my college has. This alliance basically allows students to have free software for school purposes. While I was downloading Server 2008, I decided what the hell, the Captain should try out Windows 8.  And what a fun filled trip that was. Following is my no holds barred review of the fucked up version of Windows.

First off, some more background information about me. I tend to favor Ubuntu over Windows, but for schooling purposes I do use Vista. I do well with adapting to new layouts and OSes fairly well. I have bounced around several Linux variations and each of them have small differences. I am also not getting into the specs of my system. This would just spiral into a debate of how my system affected the fucked upness of Windows 8. The one thing I will say though is that I did do Windows 8 through a virtual machine so the system was slightly slow. This will not affect my opinion of 8 at all.

First up was the installation process. This has been completely redone. It was pretty straight forward, but is the rotating background of offensively bright colors really necessary? During the install, there was no progress bar. Instead there was just text on the screen mentioning what it was doing. Installing Apps. Getting things ready. Almost ready. and on and on. All while the background rotates through some offensively bright colors.The install could have been better if not for the rotating colors and I would have liked it more if there were some sort of progress bar.

Now after the install is done, 8 boots into the infamous new Start screen. As my fiancee described it, "That's ugly." There is little to no customization to this start screen. Yes you can change the color and the background art and change the size of the tiles but that is about it. Oh yeah, the background art is preselected and limited. I could not figure out if you could put your own background on it. The other feature I despised is the constants full screen. Every app is in full screen which means less multitasking.  Needless to say, the Start screen is horrid. But oh wait, this is just half of the fucked up bastardized OS.

The other half is the desktop. Even though these two halves are the same OS, they both seem very disjointed. The desktop behaves nearly identical to 7. The main difference is the start menu is gone. But if you do hover in that same start corner, you can get back to your start screen. Maybe. By hovering down in the corner, a pop up comes up to click on. When I moved the mouse slightly to click it though, I would instead click on the internet icon.

A backassward part I noticed was the window frames and buttons. For so many years, PC makers have been rounding these out to make them look smoother and more advanced. So what does Windows 8 do? "They kinda verk, out the fucking window with them. We want boxes. Boxes are more attractive then smooth corners." They just came across to be very jagged and rough and not user friendly at all. Almost made me feel I stepped back in time to Windows *shudder* ME or even worse 3.1.

The other backassward part I noticed was the sidebar on the right of the screen. This seemed to be a reasonable menu. This had a link to the start screen and a settings button. This settings button is context sensitive. You know, sensitive to context. When on the start screen, gave you limited choices for the start screen. On the desktop, you can get into control panel.

I went into this experience wanting to like Windows 8. I tried to like it as much as possible. I even installed Firefox to make it more homey. But alas this could not do it.

My lovely analogy to describe this mess is simple. Windows 7 was nice. Lets take out all of the nice features that people absolutely love. Let's take this scrap and throw it on this formerly known as Metro start screen that may or may yes be a copy of some Apple software. Viola, a bastard child we can call Windows 8.

As is evident from this, I did not enjoy this experience with 8. After shutting down my virtual machine, I have never been happier to see Vista. My only hope is that the next OS Microsoft makes will not by such a steaming pile of shit. Here's to hoping.


~Captain Steak

R.I.P. Duncan

The world will miss Michael Clarke Duncan. He was an incredible actor with a true gift. He was always a great to fill the role of the big black guy with a warm heart. He will be missed R.I.P. Duncan.


~Captain Steak

Yay Election Season 2012

Warning: Thar be language ahead. Only two more months till the big election of 2012. About 9 months ago was when I got tired of the political bullshit. I for one say that no candidates are of any worth this year. The entire advertising and campaigning has turned into squabbling bullshitting over how much the other candidate sucks. Romney sucks. Obama sucks. Any other candidate probably also sucks. Have I offended you enough that you stopped reading yet? No. Damn, gonna have to try harder. Instead of actually campaigning, we are just gonna throw shit around and make ourselves seem like a god. This is the stance that both parties are taking right now. They both don't deserve the office. They are both scumbag. Sorry, scumbag for insulting you.

Good news everyone.
I now humbly present to you a few of my choices for a write in for this presidential season.

For the White Collar geeks out there:
Neal Caffrey for president and  Burke (Elizabeth, not Peter.) for vice.

For the Royal Pains geeks:
Lawson and Lawson
Hank and Evan, either one for either position
Campaign slogan: "How can we make your country feel better today?"
Slogan suggested by: Becky

For the Castle geeks:
Castle Beckett
not sure who should get the president and vice in this case

For the Stargate geeks:
Samantha Carter for president and Jonathan "Jack" O'neall for vice.

For the American Dad geeks:
Klaus Roger, need I say more?

For the Family Guy geeks:
Griffin Griffin
Stewie for president, Brain for vice

Firefly anyone?
Reynolds for president, Washbourne for vice.

And can't forget Back to the Future.
Doc Brown for president and Marty Mcfly for vice.

What about Dr. Who?
Who Dalek

What about Nintendo geeks?
Bowser for president, Mario for vice

We got Star Wars too.
Vader, Luke Skywalker

And Star Trek too.
Piccard for president and Kirk for vice. and Sec. of State would be Janeway.

And Futurama
Bender as president and Phillip Fry as vice.
Campaign slogan of "Bite my shiny metal ass!"
Slogan suggested by Becky. 

Now these are somewhat not real scenarios for president. Fine be that way. Here are some real write in options for ya.

Bill Nye for president and George Takei for vice
Campaign slogan: "Science!!!! Ohhhh My!!"
Slogan Suggested by Becky

Joss Whedon for president with Nathan Fillion for vice

or if all else fails:
Seth Macfarlane and David Hasselhoff

Any of these candidates would be a much better fit. Also this is still a work in progress. I am working on coming up with more options and campaign slogans. Any ideas will be recognized and added in.


~Captain Steak

RIP Neil Armstrong and Jerry Nelson

Further proof that my generation is aging. Two legends have passed this week. Jerry Nelson was prominent in several Muppet acts and Sesame Street, most famously the Count von Count. Neil Armstrong was one of the first men on the moon and a pioneer in several science industries.

The world will miss you both. RIP.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket-protector nerdy engineer – born under the law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-flow dynamics, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow. ~Neil Armstrong


~Captain Steak