Although the situation isn’t funny, I had a good chuckle at the reference to gaming.

Then there was this:

Having to do query optimization in my studies in database systems I was in shock that somebody would actually deem that an acceptable solution. I I’m sure my professor would have a fit if we ever tried to do anything like that. I then soon learned that there was a site is devoted to coding WTF’s and it’s called The Daily WTF. I had a good laugh and spent a good amount of time on there, it’s like the FailBlog for programmers, and if you don’t know what that is you need to get caught up.

Which brings me to why I even started this post in the first place, and the word of the week. I was trolling on Facebook again and I cam across a mock motivational poster which was in a group called “Do you even have a life?”.. “Im a gamer, I have plenty of lives!” I found it pretty funny.

You are instructed to place the code above the </body> tag.

UPDATE: Apparently Google’s implementation of the script on to the page should work. They do it to prevent page lag, due to the script contacting Google’s servers. Allowing the page to load, and if there are any errors it doesn’t disrupt and can die in the background.

Needless to say being a tech nerd myself I’ve “Binged” a few things, including myself… check it out, and Bing someone you love.

It’s an Inkscape SVG there’s also a (PNG version).

I like front row, it allows you to play your iTunes library, browse trailers of upcoming movies, music videos, and television shows; and with it’s HTPC-esk navigation system it’s easy to do with the Apple Remote (and even sleep your computer when your done).
So I’ve decided to through to together this little walkthrough for the not-so-tech-savy. It’s easy, and prevents you from having to keep those files on your main hard disk. I’d rate this a 3/10 on the difficulty scale.

First things first. Open up terminal.

Open Terminal

Screenshot of Terminal

This will change directories (cd) to your home folder (~), and print the working directory (pwd). Then you want to change directories to your Movies folder, where Front Row looks for videos by default.

Now from here you’re going to need to open up Finder and find the directory of the media files you want to add. Mine is Storage HD/_V. Now that that you know the path go back to Terminal and and type this:

Where are you hiding your media files?

NOTE: Notice there are two types of slashes. ‘/’ is a directory structure where ‘\’ is required only if the directory or drive name has a space. Otherwise it would look something like this:

Once you’re able to get to that directory press the up arrow and copy everything after the $ cd.

now go back to your Movies directory with:

Now we’re going to create a link to the directory with your media inside of your Movies folder so that Front Row can see it. Remember that directory you just copied? Past it in like so.

add a space and add the Movies directory with the new folder name. This would be mine:

Hit enter and presto, you should now be able to see your external drive’s data in Front Row.

Presto! New folder for Front row

I’m all about the world of the unknown and pretty open minded to theories of the universe. But when I saw this it kinda put things into perspective. Most people can understand vastness of the universe and that it’s and endless, continually expanding mass. But do they really? I was one of those people. Sure you see pictures of the solar system, Milky Way galaxy, and pictures of far off stars and nebulae. But they are rarely, if ever, compared to us, and the planet Earth. Needless to say after seeing this, saying that we are specs is a mere understatement, IMO. I don’t know I’m just finding it hard put it into words, but check it out (I also really like the music, so if you know it, hit me up):

The Size of Our World: Special Edition

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