Greetings from China!

My new HP Tablet PC shipped today. In my excitedness I check the tracking number and find out thanks to FedEx that my new tablet was proudly built in Shanghai. Thats right, China. It's official, America makes nothing useful besides porn and useless shit that you can buy off TV at 4am.

K-Hop's Official Soundtrack

Here's the official track list. Digital release coming when you goto Youtube or iTunes.

Opening credits: Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push
Waking Up: The Beatles - A Day in the Life
First Day at School: The Who - My Generation
Falling In Love: Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love
Fight Song: Metallica - Master of Puppets
Breaking Up: Fort Minor - Where'd You Go
Prom: Ludacris - Whats Your Fantasy
Life’s OK: Wale - Chillin
Mental Breakdown: Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong
Driving: Led Zepplin - How Many More Times
Flashback: Steve Wonder & SRV - Superstition
Getting Back Together: John Legend - Green Light
Wedding: Sisqo - Thong Song
Birth of Child: The Who - Pinball Wizard
Final Battle: Micheal Jackson - Beat It
Death Scene: Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven
Funeral Song: Aerosmith - Dream On
End Credits: Chappelle ft/ John Mayer & Questlove - Diff'rent Strokes

The Summer of Loaf

Long time no post. Unforgivable.

So this summer has opened up my eyes to a lot of things since I have all this time to loaf and reflect...

1) Undergrad professors here do not give a damn for the most part. They say they are here to help but that's a lie. Unless they are one of the literal handful then they are not going out of their way to help you. This goes triple + 1 if it is a CORE class. Unforgivable...

2) I drive to damn fast. Yes, first step to recovery is admittance. Well bam...there it is. I guess that blue sign that says 95 really isn't the speed limit. Touche on my nig...

3) Music is my second language. And it is a world language. I'm sure I could go to Africa and jam with some African drummers now on guitar now and we could all vibe even if we can't speak the same spoken language. YEZZIR

4) Computer repair shops suck when it goes beyond crashed hard drives and viruses. (As of this post) my laptop is in the shop for the fifth time (that's right, one two three four FIF!). EPIC FAIL.

5) I need some damn guitar effects. If someone has a Delay or Wah pedal they wanna give away, hit a brotha up :)


K-Hop, OUT!

3-peeves

The three biggest things to urk me lately.

1) . - Thats right. A period. Why? Because of wacklab...I mean MATLAB. If you forget the period then no floating numbers for you. Yup. Just a quantized equation. t^2 is a nono but t.^2 is a-ok. SMH.

2) The Courtyards bus driver - He likes pulling off and not stopping even if you sprint for the bus. I've fallen victim to this too much in the past couple of weeks.

3) The color black - my car looks grey with shit-a-dots on it. Boo school and no place to wash a car besides the car wash that always has 20 ricers at any given hour.

1s and 0s

Do people even know what the hell they want out of life? We contradict ourselves so much that it's sickening. It seems technology has taken our lives over so much we forget what words we say and what they really mean. Unlike a hard drive that stores stuff and spits it back out when needed, people have those two things that thump hard when used. And always in opposition. Do we truly mean what we are saying when we say it or is it just talk? I don't know, life is turning into nothing more than ones and zeros. It is or it isn't. No more in between or outside the range.

Those dreaded locks!

Today I was at an interview for a job that I am more than qualified to do. However I was turned down upon getting to the interview. Why you may ask? My hair. Both the color and the fact they are dreadlocks. I am ok with the color issue. The dreadlock itself though? Hmp….stereotypes are alive and well I see. Let’s look at some shall we?


1.You can’t wash your hair with dreadlocks.


Uhh…are you stupid? Dreadlocks are like any other hairstyle. If you don’t take care of it then you’re head will look a hot mess. If I white person doesn’t wash their hair everyday then it’ll start getting nasty. If a black person with their hair natural (let’s just say long hair for women and shortish for men) doesn’t wash their hair every few days then it’ll get nasty too. We can talk about every ethnicities hair maintenance but bottom line is shit will start smelling and looking a mess if you don’t take care of it. Dreadlocks are no different


2. People wearing dreadlocks are just pothead hippies.

Ok, you are stupid. Dreadlocks are only associated with this because of cultural traditions that have members that do smoke. Also Rastafarians get a lot of flack because they believe smoking a damn plant is sacred. Ok, let it be and lets move on. Giving them a headache is like saying drinking wine as a sacred refreshment should be banned in Christian institutions. Get outta here with this mess…
I have never smoked. I know many locked people that have never smoked. Can we lay this to rest? Hair doesn’t dictate what substances you like to put in your body.



3. Dreadlocks are for hoodrats.
Ugh. Stereotypes piss me off. I’m just a pitbull and Crown Vic away from getting a frequent stopper card with the PG police I believe. Hair does not dictate hoodrat thangs. Hoodrat thangs dictate hoodrat thangs. This is where we really need to stop looking at outward appearance and look at things that actually matter a lil bit. “What else is there then?” Let’s see, we have community involvement, education, experience in a field…I think the point is clear. Obviously my resume will look different than a 350lbs, 6’6” Tiny that’s serving double life sentences for murder (oh, and just happens to be black with locks).

Well, at least I have 2-3 years before I join white (opps, I mean cooperate) America!


Part 2 coming soon...

The Mustang Mentality

1964. Year of the Mustang. The year people lost their damn mind over a car.

The situation.

Red light. In the right lane yours truly in his kitted Focus. Jamming to 'Let it Rock' not paying attention. In the left lane, middle age dude in a fifth generation Stang with his obviously younger blond with the big ol ballons the doctor implanted. Light turns green. I get off the line fast because that's how I drive. Ol dude guns it and pulls away from me as you hear his engine revving to redline. Sidebar: He has the single exhaust tip so that means he only has a V6 mustang...aka a punkass mustang.

This situation is fairly common among Mustang owners I see. Guy's always want to go against any car they might think has ANY kind of modifications. And if they don't see one then just drive like a general asshole. Why do these guys drive like such pricks and think they're cool? It's because they have big dicks. When I say big dicks I don't mean real dicks. I mean imaginary i type of dicks. They are only fooling themselves. Oh yea, no homo.

Gone Fishin'

Fishing in the Potomac. You'll never know what kind of fish you'll pull out of that mess. Could be something with five eyes or two tails. No matter what it is you'll be left kinda blown you caught it and wasted your time. Throw it back and keep on going. There will be someone down stream that wants it or is desperate enough for catching anything. Or maybe they like that kind of thing, I'm not one to judge.

I'm tired of fishing in the Potomac river, it leaves me disappointed in the end. I'm upgrading. Taking a trip to the Caribbean and do some chill ass fishing in a chill ass world. Or maybe I just need to take a break from fishing and take up a new hobby. Maybe fencing or hiking? Who knows...

My starting 5

I did one of these on FB but didn't go into too much deep stuff. If your reading this you probably deserve to know more anyway...


1) I've been an athlete since I was 5. At a time when most kids were inside playing games I was still outside getting bruises and busting ish. I feel that this has been a gift and a curse. Gift because I know what being healthy is like. I know what motivation is. I know how it feels to reach goals. Curse because I know how it feels to fall short. I know how it feels to under perform. I feel because of this my college experience hasn't been all it could have been at this point. Between mono my freshmen year and my current state as a track runner since the start of this school year I don't know how to define myself anymore. My motivation toward any of my goals has been dwindling a lot lately because of this. It's a feeling noone can relate to unless they have been in my situation...that includes fellow athletes and normies.

2) People piss me off. Too many excuses and false promises. On top of this people cannot admit to admitting when someone makes a human mistake. Whether it be someone messing up a pizza at a pizza place or a QB makes a bad pass. Give them a break folks...

2a) I feel this needs a sub bullet. I FUCKING HATE liars. I've been trying to cut my cursing back but that is how I feel about liars. No one knows this but I've been lied to more times then I care to count by people that claim they care. Your lies hurt. Stop it. And people wonder why I don't show emotion much or tell all my business....

3) If I ever met my sperm donor or his mother I'd probably kick them in the shins. Jackasses.

4) As much as this post show far makes me sound evil and bitter I'm really not. If your one of the few that really knows me and is cool with me you know I'm too soft for my own good sometimes. That is only if your good with me....or your lucky.

5) I've come to realize music is my outlet for everything. Music is my religion, the fretboard is my church, and pinch harmonics are my savior...

This a way, that a way

Running to piss poor standards. Being a major bum. Playing guitar more and more. Considering how to make money to buy guitar stuff. Making decent grades at last. Flashbacks galore. Regret.

So many opportunities. So many blown chances. No time to wallow in past mistakes so where to now? Forward. How can I go forward if part of me keeps going backward? Where am I anyway? Forward and backward must cancel each other out. I = 0. Whatever happened to I >> 0?

I just want a chance to shine, who will give me my chance? It'll be hard since I'm not me.

Save the greenbacks

As soon as you cross the bricks at the main entrance to the University of Maryland you are entering the zone of no return: wallet edition.

Before even crossing the brownish brick road you will be hit hard by tuition first. I think in state rates are bad enough, however I really feel for my out of staters, those just hurt. Then there all the random "mandatory fees." If they are mandatory than why not add that into the cost of tuition instead of getting my hopes up on a decent tuition rate?

If you cross in a vehicle you WILL be spending at least $10 minimum just for parking. Free parking and UMD are an oxymoron such as a good Soulja Boy. So you have three choices; get a permit (day or semester), meter king/queen, or park illegally and take the $75 minimum ticket. Once you leave your vehicle that is when the real fun starts.

As a student you will soon realize a lot of the professors you encounter have their own books of some form so more than likely you will have to shell out serious dough to get these custom editions that might only say UMD on them and be done. Or if your in a science major you will realize that the publishers like to update the books every t=2.5 seconds which trickles down to us. woohoo!

If you are a sciency major, you will realize that technology is going to be your lover and hater. You will have to have your own personal computer, and pretty much get a laptop since group projects will become your new friend. You have to have applications on your computer to make it useful too, so be prepared to shell out money for wonderful programs such as MATLAB. This is where the colleges wonderful secrets start coming out.

First of all, a good 75% of the time when a new edition of a book rolls out the professor claims you need the newer edition when in reality the old edition will suffice. You might have to get one or two problems from a friend or add a couple pages to an assignment to get to the right place but other wise its all good.

MATLAB is available on the computers in the WAM lab. The professors say it would be a wise investment to buy said program for your own personal use. If you live off campus where you cannot access the UMD servers this is true. HOWEVER, if you live on campus or have access to the UMD servers you can get MATLAB running on your computer without spending a dime. XliveCD Xming with Putty. Do some research on it then go become friendly with the help desk. They'll help you right after you shell out a little bit of knowledge.

So at our fine institution we really do embody the importance of knowledge espicially in a recession. Know shit and save money is the moral of this story. Plus, work on your hustle.

FML

fmylife.com makes me feel good about life. Sure that makes me a slightly horrible person but the site is still better than some (JuicyCampus anyone?)

"Today, I was at a bar in Canada and was really hitting it off with a girl. She asked how big my junk was and I told her in inches... They use centimeters. FML"

Why we need one measuring system for the whole world.

Time to gear up to beast this first wave of exams. Diff Eq = first victim.

Diggin up dem holes..

I need to drop out of college and just dig holes for a living. I seem to be good at that.

My fourth semester at Maryland. Most people are well into taking classes for their majors and are on track to graduating on time (spring '11). Me however...

-Still majorless
-No way in hell I'm graduating on time
-My desired major is looking pretty bleak personally

How is it I can understand electromotive forces and differential forms of harmonic oscillators but I cannot get over a C in a class related to sports in our society? If your wondering if it's as simple as it sounds then you are correct (even if my grade says otherwise).

Why am I busting my ass in these core classes when I get no help from the professor or TA? Even after going to see them outside of class in office hours what do I have to show for it? A wonderful C+ (thanks History).

I'm not crying over spilled milk. I just know times are rough and I want the most for my time and money so I want to like that shit up. But alas, all you can do now is move forward with life either wise nothing will get done or better.

Any adviser or professor that tells you the knowledge you gain from a course is more important than the grade is smoking something. If that was the case then this post would not be and I'd be in the James Clark School of Engineering right now.

So 2009 is make or break for I. Either I get a 3.0 and stay at UMD or it's time to chuck the dueces. I WILL graduate an engineer, even if its not from UMD or within even 5 years.

New year, New beginnings

Everyone makes all these new years resolutions and ends up breaking them before the end of January. I broke mine main 2008 resolution on January 3 (whoops!)

Anyway, 2009 has to be a good year. Last year of being a teenager and I need a major! So with that, my goals this year (goal sounds better than resolution to me):

• Get into the Engineering school
• Do well at track, 24' Long Jump well
• complete an Autocross

Only thing is I come in from 2008 with several roadblocks to these goals...

• Mediocre GPA
• injury
• Lack of money

Better get on my grind starting now!