the coolest nerd

Operator, I need an exit!

Justin Ong — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:30:13 +0000

Man, I need an iPhone now, but I still won’t join AT&T so I guess I won’t be getting one. (Someone really needs to make this App for the T-Mobile G1!) If I had this I wouldn’t have to text you guys for “exits”. Not that I’ve done that in a long time… (^_-);;

Another interesting application has popped up on the Apple App Store that allows you to send fake phone calls to yourself, presumably to get you out of a spot of bother.

Called aptly Fake Call, the call won’t cost you anything as it doesn’t actually pick up on the other end, but who’s to know you are not speaking to yourself when you answer the phone?

1. When you’ve just realised that the girl you’ve taken out on a date has a five o’clock shadow.

2. When you’re at a funeral wake and while talking to an elderly person you realise that you don’t actually know the deceased.

3. When your girlfriend comes back from meeting her friend who just had a baby with a wistful look in her eyes and says : “You know what would make this relationship even better…?”

via techradar

Google Adsense and Proposition 8

Justin Ong — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:57:24 +0000

I doubt anyone would assume otherwise, but despite what the ad on the right might say, I’m in no way affilitated with the yes on 8 campaign.

In fact, it kinda sucked to have it there.

Yes on 8 Google Ad

I’ve been dethroned! (T_T);;

Justin Ong — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:56:48 +0000

SquidXXX: hey there
SquidXXX: how do u know justin ong
CookiesX: i met him through a friend
SquidXXX: oh okay haha
SquidXXX: he is my friends older brother
SquidXXX: he used to be the video game king
CookiesX: hahah i’ll tell him that
CookiesX: he has like every system x2
SquidXXX: yea
SquidXXX: and he had like freakin arcade
SquidXXX: like the actual arcade thingies before

Used to be king.. so sad. Wait — I still have an arcade machine. Then again, it doesn’t get used anymore, does anyone have a use for one? Cheap! (41″ Screen!)

Sega Megalo 410

The ant and the grasshopper

Justin Ong — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:29:29 +0000

(I didn’t write this, it appeared on one of my forums)

OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’ Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

OMG Thirty Thousand Hits!

Justin Ong — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:08:41 +0000

I only started this site as an experiment — to see about building sites and fooling with advertising and to keep my skills sharp — since before this one, I hadn’t built a site since the bad old days of pure HTML done in a text editor. After launching this site in 2005 — I got around to using some of my other domains, and now I have a half dozen disparate sites running on as many different content management systems (drupal, wordpress, mediawiki, phpbb). I’ve learned a lot during this process and I intend to keep trudging along with them all.

In the coming days I’ll write about my experiences with all of the above.

I’m still curious though, how do people stumble upon this site if they don’t know who I am?

Learning to Cook with a Nintendo DS, Part 1

Justin Ong — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:42:59 +0000

I’ll be the first to admit that I really have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to cooking. In fact, learning to do so was one of my New Year’s Resolutions. Sure, the year is almost over, but thanks to the Nintendo DS and “Can’t Decide What to Eat?” (a digital cookbook) I’ve finally begun.

It makes it so much easier to grasp cooking concepts with speech, video, and plenty of photos and additional instructions should you not know what certain terms mean.

I took a lot of liberties with the ingredients and did things not exactly to the recipe, but I’m pretty happy with how my fried rice turned out. It was pretty tasty. Here are the results!

I’ll keep experimenting with it and will report back with updates as I gain more experience and become more comfortable with cooking.

nerdcore for life~!

Justin Ong — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:06:32 +0000

I’m perhaps a little bit *too* amused by this.

Two of the 21st century’s most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and Geek Culture, collide head-on in the feature length documentary, Nerdcore For Life. Born on the Internet, Nerdcore is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy topics as comic books, video games, anime, sci-fi, astrophysics and technology. Filmed over the course of two years, Nerdcore For Life follows the top names in this new genre as they celebrate ‘geek life’ and their love of Hip-Hop to the fullest, fight anti-nerd stereotypes and struggle to overcome the common obstacles that prevent musicians of all genres from fulfilling their dreams.

Obsessed much?

Justin Ong — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:32:02 +0000

On Facebook, I found an app that lets you list your past and present cars — I thought that’d be fun, so I dug through my old photos and came up with the long list below. I couldn’t find photos of my 1990 RX-7 Convertible, so that isn’t listed in there.

I figured my 10th rotary powered car would be an RX-8, and I had decided that I was done with RX-7s, FCs in particular, but here I am posting that I want another. Though I can claim that it really isn’t all for me..

Someone help me. Oo;;

Creepy intern at work… hilarity ensues (pics and vid)

Justin Ong — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:57:04 +0000

Every so often someone asks me if they should be worried if their internet access is being monitored at work; my answer is always maybe. It’s definitely possible to figure out what sites are being visited, entire IM conversations can be logged (so use encryption), who and what your emailing (so don’t use your corporate account for personal use) (and don’t assume that just because it’s deleted it’s gone forever).

My intention is not to make you paranoid. It’s very unlikely that you’re being watched, unless you’re constantly hitting “questionable” sites or the higher ups want to monitor you — but I suspect you’d know if that were the case. (reprimands, complaints)

Please note that the above is not the official policy of my workplace. I’m only informing you of what is possible.

The link below provides screenshots, video, and background on one such incident. I LOL’d. ^^ I don’t care what you do at home, but please don’t do this at work.

So we started monitoring him on the camera and using DameWare so we can view his desktop and see just what the hell he does all day since he has no actual work to do at the moment. Aside from the grunts and noises which came as expected, we noticed some interesting sites/chats going on. I will let the screenshots speak for themselves–

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Happy Birthday America

Justin Ong — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:28:56 +0000

Hey yos here some pics from the BBQ. Thanks again Marv, Eldo, Eric and the McChan Residence!! -faithy

Here are mine: (thanks to everyone who helped take pictures) Click below for 154 more photos.

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