A Cajun-Asian View

Got an electric guitar from a friend for pretty cheap, so here's my small collection of guitars!

Yeah, both are beginners guitars, though I've had the Yamaha Eterna EF-10 acoustic (top one in the picture) since 1995 and played it on-and-off through-out the years. That acoustic will just not die; It's been dropped, bumped into things, and generally abused and ignored by me, but it always shrugs it off with only the rather rare minor chip here and there. And I've always enjoyed the sound it produces.

The Fender Squier Bullet electric is also a beginner's guitar, and according to Wikipedia, made in 1984 in Japan. It seems to be in very good condition for it to be 23 years old; it was either rarely played or very well taken care of. It is my first electric (and well, only the second guitar that I owned), and still getting used it it. I'm not as comfortable on it as I am with my acoustic, but I feel that way on just about any electric guitar I try out. I'll probably get used to it as I play on it more.

My two guitars, a Yamaha Eterna EF-10 acoustic on the top and a Fender Squier Bullet electric on the bottom.

From Dell's Ideas in Action page on March 28, 2007:

Dell has heard you and we will expand our Linux support beyond our existing servers and Precision workstation line. Our first step in this effort is offering Linux pre-installed on select desktop and notebook systems. We will provide an update in the coming weeks that includes detailed information on which systems we will offer, our testing and certification efforts, and the Linux distribution(s) that will be available. The countdown begins today.

I know I have temper issues. But this comment on Balloon Juice really got my blood boiling (Emphasis, mine):

No Rome, it’s not just you who hates Christianity, it’s most of the left. You’re in good company. Louder now freaks, I can’t hear you!

I'll argue with just about any extreme "leftist", but if I had heard this statement within earshot, my first inclination would be to send a fist into the speaker's jaw for such an asinine statement. I may not agree with them, but I know this is far from the truth about the type of people who make up the "left".

I know it shouldn't bother me, especially since this commenter is probably just a troll on that blog. But it's his presence there does more damage to the "right"'s image than anything anybody from the opposite spectrum can do. Which makes me think that he's a spoof at times.

This music video rocks!

(via Ambient Irony)

I just decided to use an image that I had found in relation to one of my favorite animes:

Supposedly, there was some buzz recently about whether the NHL should tolerate fighting, though I haven't been reading around about it. It seems this fight between Fedoruk and Orr in a recent Flyers vs Rangers game sparked it:

This is a case of two willing participants going at it with a unfortunate result for Fedoruk.

Truthfully, as for the "should professional hockey even tolerate fighting" subject, I have mixed feelings about it. I'll be frank: I do enjoy the brutal nature of hockey. I love hockey because it's one of the few sports that combines, at its basic nature, a high amount of skill, high speeds, tactical and strategic thinking by the players, team play, and full body contact in the same game. Trying to take away the physical side of hockey would take away a core part of the reasons I watched and played hockey.

Looks like Beryl developers are talking about merging with Compiz. Beryl originally forked from Compiz because several developers were dissatisfied with the amount of patches that were being rejected and the conservative route Compiz was taking. Hopefully, this possible merge is a sign of good things to come, and that the advances that Beryl has made can be merged with the stability that Compiz has aimed for.

(via Digg)