I went to my mom's place and stayed with her for thanksgiving. while eating tons of food I also watched the entire Avatar series on her new computer I helped pick out and set up. the past few days i've had more food in me than I've had all the other days combined this month.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AppleCare-Apple-Smoke-Damage-Macbook,9137.html

first saw this on Toms Hardware, the link points to this site containing an article on how Apple has refused servicing their product that is covered under extended warranty because the computer's owner was a smoker.

quote from the article:
"I bought an iMac for my son (for school) along with the extended Applecare warranty. A month ago, it quit working. My son took it to the authorized Mac service center. The "tech" informed him it would be ready in 48-72 hours. Five days go by and he's heard nothing, so I called. They informed me that his computer can't be worked on because it's contaminated.

When I asked for an explanation, she said he's a smoker and it's contaminated with cigarette smoke which they consider a bio-hazard!"


Gotta love corporate bullshit. This even furthers my resolve on hating Apple as a company.

Also, Iphone virus

I just have to say wow. That movie has such deep meaning behind it than so many movies I've seen in a while. It's a little dark and definitely not a kids movie. It's more of a deep analysis movie of a kid coming to terms with a few things in life and how he doesn't know it all yet there's so much more there but i'm not about to spoil a lot of it now.

didn't hit up the two parties I heard about. Instead hung out with a few other people. Now before leaving I'd thought it would be a cool idea to ride around to their house with my large tail that I have hanging off the back of my bike like it was attached to me. well that was a bad idea. The FZ6 has the exhaust coming out right under the seat and going back. my tail, huge as it is, hung down over the exhaust. yeah, there was a nice little burned fur area where the heat of the exhaust pocketed against the fur. Oppsie on my part, I'll have to have Chairo help patch that up with the rest of my fur I have left over. thankfully it was only a small spot under the tail.

Now for the way back, deciding to leave my tail back at my friend's place to be brought over at another time, I rode home on the streets to test out my new Scorpion helmet and found it to be very nice for air flow. I felt a nice little breeze coming up over my face the entire time riding which was nice. though I'm not sure how to stop that when it gets colder and I don't want my face to freeze. Ah, at least it's very nice and comfy.

One last thing I saw. Just past the Denny's restaurant on my way home I saw a few cars and a large van parked next to the Auto dealership that was there. I couldn't tell what it was for but as I drove past I saw a woman getting out (or in?) the vehicle in front and the way she was dressed made me laugh. At 2am at night no woman would be wearing a thin bra, a short skirt that didn't even drop below the crotch and a white, very white thong that was just barely escaping the crack of the ass to show, unless this woman was a Ho. Ho, hooker, whore, whatever, this woman were these guys' bitch either by cash or someone there was the pimp. In either case, I found this most laughable as it was happening right next to the denny's.

Course, by the time I was almost home I saw tons of college students out on the street, more than likely busted out of the party that was happening nearby by the police, who of which had at least 5 squad cars and two patty wagons (Ford vans not armored transports) in front of an apartment complex. Most of the female college students looked a bit like Hoes themselves with their short skirts and their revealing costumes they wore. I guess the appeal of being a ghost on halloween when you're a child transfers into your clothes turning ghostly (as in there but not quite there) when you're a horny college student.

so no insurance company is paying for anything on my accident. I've tried calling lawyers around San Jose to help me with my accident claim to try and get money from the individual but they won't help because i didn't have uninsured motorist coverage.

Now people keep telling me that uninsured motorist coverage is so cheap, that it's like $6 or so and that is true but ONLY FOR PROPERTY. If I had uninsured motorist coverage for property i'd have Geico trying to write me a check for as small amount as possible. Even if I got a lawer to help me out I'd only be getting money for property, not for medical expenses. I can't go to small claims anymore as my medical bills have gotten close to $10,000 now thanks to other bills coming in. did you know that the ambulance ride was nearly $1,500 in itself? yeah, so the if I had uninsured motorist coverage for medical that would nave been a few hundred dollars more, not $6 like people keep telling me.

I don't have medical coverage myself because I can't justify spending about $200 or so every month of money I don't have. As is, i'm getting nearly $1,000 a month on unemployment for now. $420 a month is house rent, $100 a month for cell and internet and gas money for my bike, and about $300 a month for food. I just don't have any other money free to spend on medical that just won't cover me completely (and lets face it, all these corporations are greedy pigs and medical would have still forced me to pay a decent chunk of the bill anyways thus forcing me to sue the other person).

I'm not sure where to go now to try and get the money I'm due. I'll still try the Santa Clara Superior court and visit the small claims office to see where to go from there (since they don't provide easy information on where to go if the claim is over the small claims limit).

I'm tired, annoyed, and I need to study yet all this crap hovering over my head, these bills that somehow i'm the one to pay and not the other person, is hindering me and I'm fucking pissed.

On and off note does anyone have a Halloween party that they'll be throwing that I can come to? I want to at least enjoy myself while I can.

got a fracking D on my history midterm. the question I apparently didn't quite completely answer was: Define and explain the conflict between urban and rural America. Why did rural Americans feel so threatened by urban Americans in the late 19th century, and how do we see this conflict continue into the 1920s between Modernists and Traditionalists?
for the first part I explained quite well the Agrarian myth, but I didn't explain how the rural americans feared the urban americans. for some reason it had to do with the shift in the political and economics to urban areas. I don't understand how this shift was what caused fear in rural americans. second part the teacher notes that I didn't explain how this conflict changed into womens rights and about evolution and the scopes trail. what I don't get is how the scopes trial is tied into traditionalist and/or modernists views or how the woman's rights movement is tied into this. or to restate it, I didn't see anywhere that the women's suffrage movement was a modernist view.

damnit. I studied all the terms and their meanings and yet I still got a D.

bah, i've been up reading my book and doing my paper for philosophy on death yet there are many great pieces of wisdom in here.

Published first in the book "The Mysteries of Life and Death" back in 1936 by Bertrand Russell
"Another emotion which encourages the belief in survival is admiration of the excellence of man. As the Bishop of Birmingham says, "His mind is a far finer instrument than anything that had appeared earlier - he knows right and wrong. He can build Westminster Abbey. He can make an airplane. He can calculate the distance of the sun... Shall, then, man at death perish utterly? Does that incomparable instrument, his mind, vanish when life ceases?"
"The bishop proceeds to argue that "the universe has been shaped and is governed by an intelligent purpose," [(see also intelligent design, creationism and others)] and that it would have been unintelligent, having made man, to let him perish."
"To this argument there are many answers. In the first place, it has been found, in the scientific investigation of nature, that the instrusion of moral or aesthetic values has always been an obstacle to discovery. It used to be thought that the heavenly bodies must move in circles because the circle is the most perfect curve, that species must be immutable because God would only create what was perfect and what therefore stood in no need of improvement, that is was useless to combat epidemics except by repentance because they were sent as a punishment for sin, and so on. It has been found, however, that, so far we can discover, nature is indifferent to our values and can only be understood by ignoring our notions of good and bad. The univers may have a purpose, but nothing that we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to [our perceived notion of this purpose]."