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Upcoming Features

2007-10-26T00:10:00.000-05:00

After our weekly meeting, we have planned out the near future of our website. It will be very exciting and something to look forward to. So make sure you’re coming back and checking us out!

1. FierceApple Mascot - Most websites have a logo, some even have a little character/mascot. We’re taking it to a new level. We’re introducing our own FierceApple.com mascot. It will be a live, walking, talking, crazy, fierce, apple. He/she will be feature in many new videos that are coming up.

2. Videos - We’re also focusing on creating our own, original, videos in addition to the videos that you, the users, also post. They will mainly be short, comedy clips. Watch out for those at your local FierceApple.com website.

3. Themed Logos - Our logo will be themed starting next week. It will be themed mainly by seasons (halloween, thanksgiving, christmas, etc.), but we will also have a lot of different, whacky themes.

4. Sponsorship - FierceApple.com is also sponsoring an electric, drag racing, mini bike. The bike will be completed and debuted within a week. What does this say about us? We care about the environment by supporting alternate fuels. Electricity isn’t technically an alternate fuel, but you get what we’re trying to get at. Basically the bike will be kick ass, our logo will be on it, and you will get a kick out of it.

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New Update

2007-09-25T22:08:00.000-05:00

Wow, I didn't know this thing even existed. I think blogs are really over rated. I don't think anyone even reads mine at all. Who cares. Anyways for those two people that randomly stumble upon this page:

1. A lot has changed in the past few years, duhh... People be goin' to college and sh*t. Bla bla bla.

2. Politics suck. Everyone's dumb as all hell. Hillary sucks, IMO. She's trying to push her health care plan. What some people don't realize is that she tried to do this while Bill was in office. She was chugging along fine until someone came and wrote a big check and told her to shut up. Who's to say it won't happen again if she's elected.

Lately I've been listening to AM talk radio. Don't ask. I've been listening to Rush Limbaugh (sp?) and Sean Hannity. Wow these two conservative nuts are just ridiculous. If you're up for a good laugh listen to them. If you don't know who they are, just think of Bill O'Reilley.

3. I've started, along with 2 other people, a new website. It's a video sharing websites where the users who have the most viewed videos get paid! How does this work, Haris? Well lets say someone uploads a video on my website and they share it with their friends by either linking to the site, putting an embedded code on MySpace or their blog, etc. and their video gets the most views during the contest period. What we do then is actually PAY that person. There is really no trick. It's free to sign up. All you have to do is refer your friends to watch your video on our website.

Check it out!

Our Promotional Video:

tell your friends about it, and go post your videos too, to earn a chance to win cash!

daaaaamn

2006-03-16T19:03:00.000-06:00

yeah, I haven't posted in a while for no obvious reasons.

I don't think anyone reads this, and to prove my point: boobies.

People are f*cking stupid

2005-08-30T02:35:00.000-05:00

I'm basically sick and tired of people's stupidity these days. It just seems as each day progresses people get more stupid.

People don't want to think for themselves anymore. Let the goverment tell you what and how much to eat, let the media think for you about the Iraqi "war", lets believe every damn chain letter that gets sent to your e-mail inbox by your "friends" and family that you only see during Thanksgiving.

So, this hurricane Katrina, eh? Supposed to be a category 5 hurricane? Pretty messed up stuff, wouldn't you say? THEN WHY THE FUCK DO YOU NOT EVACUATE YOUR DAMNED HOUSE WHEN IT WAS REPORTED A WEEK AGO THAT YOUR CITY WILL BE SEVERELY HIT??!!!?? Did you think that the hurricane will just go away if you made fun of it? Or, even maybe, that it will call in sick on Monday morning. "Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays."

So this MySpace dealie is getting pretty popular. You got the 14-17 year old chicks getting hit on by 45 year old guys living in their mothers' basements. It doesn't stop there. Then they proceed to take pictures with their webcams, half naked, with captions such as "take me home tonight", "I do this because I'm sad", and/or "does my left boob seem bigger than my right? Well let me just take it out of my bra so you can see." Wait a minute, I'm not done yet. Then you go and read their profile. It has got to be the dumbest s*it you will ever read. "LiKe oMg i'M a soPHomOrE at DumASS High.. cAnT waittT tiLL jR yr. OmG kylE is SoooO hoT like He lO0keD a T me duRinG lUNCH anD mY gRRRlfrends weRE liKe cHeErIn me Onn.. WelL I'm rEalLy intO God and wOw JesUs is LiKKEE oooooh So hot, aNd I mean like BraD PitT face aND BeN AFLEck BodYY hoTTT" Seriously, what do you think your mother/father would say if they saw your exhebition like profile?

So this basically sums up that people are f*cking stupid. If you see anything on the street, online, in a teenie bopper magazine that doesn't make sense, just say to youreself "People are f*cking stupid" and it will all make sooo much more sense.

Rules of the road

2005-04-26T14:39:00.000-05:00

Many people really don't want to read the whole rules of the road book in order to pass their driving test. I mean who has time to skim over 30 pages of pictures and text? NOT ME! Well I've devised a more abstract and slimmer version of "Rules of the road."

1. When on the expressway, merge all the way to the left lane. Go the speed limit. It is actually prefferable to go under the speed limit, your choice. Make sure that one of the blinkers is on without intention of switching lanes. No matter how many honks, high beams, or middle fingers you encounter, do not, I reapeat, DO NOT, increase speed or switch lanes. It also helps to be on your cell phone and/or to read a novel while in this situation.

2. On a two lane highway, always go 10 miles under the speed limit. The cars behind you are in no hurry at all, no matter how their face expressions look like in your rear view mirror. Actually, you shouldn't even be looking in your rear view mirror. You're not driving backwards are you? Exactly! As the two lane highway expands into more lanes the best thing to do in that situation is to slam on your car's brakes. By doing this you are performing a random brake check to make sure your brakes are still working. It also will alert the drivers behind you. Nothing wakes a person up more than a car in front of them slamming on their brakes.

3. Seating and mirror positions: The key to adjusting yourself and your car seat is to have minimal visibility and functionality. The seat should be pushed and reclined all the way back, no matter your height. The mirrors should be randomly adjusted. It is best to adjust them so you can see yourself in them, because they serve no other purpose. Position yourself so that you are sitting in the driver's seat while leaning towards the center of your car. You are only required to keep one hand on the top of the steering wheel. The other hand is strictly used for, but not limited to: eating, drinking, smoking, radio adjusting, talkin on the cell phone, reaching for the CDs on the floor and in the back seat, doing your makeup (male and female), brushing your teeth, and shaving (male and female).

That is all you need to know now. Stick around for part two of Rules of the road.

guess

2005-04-17T22:14:00.000-05:00

if you can guess what's pissing me off right now, you'll get $500.

Contest rules and conditions: No purchase necessary. In order to win $500 you must respond within 2 minutes of the posted date with a 500 word or more essay explaining in detail what is currently pissing off. The winner will be paid in installments over a ten (10) year period. Void in Puerto Rico.

DELL HELL, Part Deux

2005-03-25T00:31:00.000-06:00

Yup, you guessed it. Dell has, again, failed to deliver its promises.

On Thursday, March 23, 2005 I knew, that obviously my computer was not coming in on time. I proceeded to call Dell customer support.

The lady on the phone told me my system exchange approval wasn't processed yet. WTF. 9 Business days later when I should be getting a new laptop in the mail, the exchange wasn't even approved!!!

I then had to speak to a manager. After he got on the phone, he decided to tell me that my system exchange was approved on March 22nd. So now I did not know who to believe. He at first said my computer will be coming in about 6-7 business days. I started bitching him out. Then he changed his story again. He said it will be at my house in 2-3 business days.

I obviously knew he was lying his ass off. He said there was nothing else he could do. So I started messing around with him and askin him the same questions twice and each time he answered differently.

So now I can only hope I'm getting a new computer within the next 3-4 business months. In the mean time I have written an official complaint letter to dell. I also expect someone to answer this within the next 3-4 business months.

Do not ever buy anything Dell. Just go to google and search Dell complaints, and you will have things to read for the next 3-4 business months while i wait for my new computer to come in.

DELL HELL

2005-03-14T15:29:00.000-06:00

Thursday March 03, 2005

I go to turn on my Dell laptop, hoping to do something productive on it (no joke) and lo and behold, nothing comes on the screen. I think to myself, oh crap it's the same shit as before. New video card is needed. So I go on www.support.dell.com and go to the live chat because most of the time when I talk on the phone, I cannot understand "Jim" or "Brian" who speak in a very thick English accent.

I am greeted by a customer service representative (CSR), and I present my problem. "Hi, my LCD will not display any images whatsoever. The computer powers on correctly, if I plug in an external monitor, the image will show up after windows loads up. I've had this problem and the video card was at fault. "

CSR: Hi, please turn the computer on and restart in safe mode.
ME: As noted above, nothing appears on my screen, I really cannot see what I'm doing at boot up.
CSR: Thank you so much, please connect the external monitor and run in safe mode.
ME: Also, as noted above, the image will only show up after windows loads, therefore I cannot see what I'm doing at boot up.
CSR: Thank you so much, please reboot the computer and press F12 to run the diagnostic tool. After you press F12 scroll down to video test.
ME: Am I talking to a fucken brick wall? I cannot see shit on the screen! How the fuck am I supposed to do this??
CSR: Sorry about that, you will need to reboot your computer and press F12 to run the diagnostic tool. This will take 5 hours.
ME: Holy mother of god.
CSR: Have a good night.

Now this was at around 2am and I had school the next morning so I decided to give up, as Dell support is dumber than a bag of rocks.

Friday March 04, 2005

After school I decide to call up Dell again and to resolve my issue.

ME: **Described the problem as stated above**
CSR: Hi, please reboot your computer and press F12 to run the diagnostic tool.
ME: Hello. I cannot do this because my LCD doesn't display anything. I'm very tired of all these damn diagnostics tests and I want a technician to come to my house to fix this already.
CSR: Sorry about that, it seems that the problem is with your motherboard.
ME: hmm...
CSR: So we'll schedule an appointment and get that fixed for you.
ME: Just in case, send the technician a new video card and flex cable.
CSR: But the problem is with your motherboard.
ME: I've had this problem before, trust me.
CSR: Ok thank you. A technician will be at your house within 48 hours.
ME: Thank you.

Monday March 07, 2005

Technician comes in with only a motherboard. Problem not solved. He goes back to order more parts from Dell.

Later that afternoon I get a call from the same CSR I talked to on Friday.
CSR: Hi, my computer here shows that your issue has been fixed today. How are you enjoying your machine?
ME: No.... nothing was fixed. I told you to send the video card and flex cable along with the motherboard, but you didnt.
CSR: Sorry about that, we will need to setup another appointment to get this fixed.
ME: When is that going to be?
CSR: The technician should be in on Tuesday or Wednesday.
ME: Well, it's not like I have any other choice.
CSR: Thank you, have a good day.

Wednesday March 09, 2005

It's about 6pm and no technician has arrived. I give a call to Dell. They have noooo idea what's going on. They set up another appointment for Friday.

I'm really pissed off by this point. It has been almost a week, and nothing has been fixed, Dell support is still dumber than a bag or rocks, and I need that damn laptop for school.

Friday March 11, 2005

I'm in my Computer Science class and I get a phone call. It's the technician.
TECH: Hi, Haris, it's the technician that is fixing your laptop.
ME: Hi, what's up?
TECH: Well, Dell has sent me 2 boxes full of stuff to fix the computer. They said if this doesn't fix the problem, they will give you a new system.
ME: OK, so what's going on?
TECH: I've replaced EVERY SINGLE PART excpet the hard drive and cdrom drive, and still nothing shows up on the screen.
ME: WOW... looks like I'm getting a new computer.
TECH: Well, abou that. I've just called Dell before calling you, and they are saying now they do not want to give you a new system. As of now, they're not doing anything to fix this problem.
ME: Thanks for notifying me, I'll be giving them a call and I'll see what's going on. I'm pretty sure I'll be getting a new system.
TECH: Alright. I mean I've tried everything and nothing will work, and now Dell will not cooperate.
ME: No problem.

15 minutes later, I get a phone call.

ME: Hello?
DELL: Hi, this is Michael from Dell...
ME: Yes, I'll be expecting a new system soon.
DELL: Yes, actually that's why I'm calling.
ME: Good. You saved me an hour of bitching at your customer support in India.
DELL: Sorry about everything. We will be sending you your new system. This process takes about 7-10 business days. We will replace it with the same sytem, or one very similar to it.
ME: Well the model that I have has been discontinued for being notorious with motherboard and video card problems.
DELL: Yes, like I said this will take about 7-10 business day for the system to arrive.
ME: Thank you.

Monday March 14, 2005

Hopefully everything works out for the best. It's going to take over 3 weeks for my computer to get fixed from the inital problem date. Sucks alot, but what can I do?

midterms? already?

2005-03-01T00:10:00.000-06:00

So the second semester midterms are in progress. I already took the math one(got an A) and the physics one (got a C) and still have Computer Science and Materials Science to take.

For CS, I'm not too worried, but for MS I think I'm screwed. The damn professor speaks Australian. I'm like "We're in Ameri-kuhhh speak American, you bastard." Seriously if English was good enough for Jesus and all the foreigners in American movies, it should be good enough for him and the Mexicans.

Lately I've been thinkin of dropping out of IIT and takin the easy way out. Maybe an English teacher in a different country. You know, slack off a bit while I get to know myself.

Someone will figure out where I took a lot of my context out of.

P.S. fat people should not be allowed to body surf.
P.S.S. fat chicks should not wear tube tops

the state of illinois sucks

2005-02-06T20:35:00.000-06:00

this state is fuckin horrible, state government wise.

1. the tollway
This shit should've been done with a long time ago, like promised. Instead they decide to _double_ toll rates for people without IPASS. In a year or two the rates will also be doubled for IPASS users too. Go figure.

2. construction
yeah we have two seasons: winter and construction. Lazy bastards.

3. and much more that doesn't come to mind as of now.

Laptop Broke

2005-01-13T02:13:00.000-06:00

Yeah, so I'm casually surfing the world wide web of the internets, and all of a sudden my monitor goes black. I think to myself I'm in super hybernation mode (somethin i made up cuz my battery would sometimes disconnect and it would just turn off till i turned it back on), but no the computer was still running. So I do the ol' trusty take out the ac adapter out the laptop try to restart it, same thing.

Then i plug in my regular ass monitor into it, and lo and behold, the computer works perfectly. So i decide to call dell.

First attempt at calling them I explained the problem like so: "Yeah so I was watching my porn and all of sudden my monitor turned off" Stupid ununderstanding bastard hung up on me.

Second attempt: "Hi I wasnt watching porn this time, but my monitor turned off." yeap hung up on again.

Third try: "I think my porn is frozen in full screen, it was transitioning scenes and then stopped when it was all black... help me my parents are coming home soon and they can't see this... omg what am I gonna do?????~~~!!!"

Actually none of those things happened, but yeah the screen is being replaced tomorrow.

stupid flash drive

2004-12-21T17:03:00.000-06:00

so I have a flash drive that I use for school to transfer files and shit like that. Well one day it fell off my keys and I lost it. I have found it recently. Good thing only like 3 people or so stepped on it.

So I put the little chip thing in the computer, and bam it works... Now I had to put this beast together.... but how? Clear tape! Turns out, you can't even tell the difference...

Before:

After:

Lookin good!!

ohh yeah I got a D on my math final...

last day o finals

2004-12-15T07:10:00.000-06:00

fucken yea....
slept 4 hours last nite (finally).... got to school at 6am and studied for math test...

F`(x) = f(g(x)) where f`(x)=f(u) and g(x)=u....?

wtflolomg???

we need more problems "like if u have 3 apples how many apples do you have? solve for dy/dx as x approaches infinity."

spring break

2004-12-13T04:28:00.000-06:00

WHOOOO SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!

Finals suck

2004-12-13T04:20:00.000-06:00

yeah it's like 4.20am, just finished one of my papers that's due today in like 12 hours. I took one of those caffeine "concentration" pills, had about 7 iced teas, and like 3 pepsis, so i can't sleep for shit, but that's ok cuz i gotta be up in like 4 hours anyways... it's gonna suck when the caffeine wears out.

There's a small friggen animal in the attic that wont stop trying to chew thru the fucken ceiling.

Yeah, buncha stuff happened within the last month so didnt update really.

BTW. best buy sux.

virgin mary in cheese

2004-11-22T22:35:00.000-06:00

what people will do.... so there was an ebay auction where this woman sold a 10yr old cheese that LOOKED like it had virgin mary on it... buncha crap i think...

funny thing, i found a grilled cheese that looked like Mr. T...

dictator and more rants

2004-11-22T22:20:00.000-06:00

if i was a dictator there'd be a few things I'd fix:
1. kill all the damn bastards who do 10mph under the speed limit in the morning on a 2 lane road when i'm almost late for the friggen train. I would kill them very slowly... just the way they friggen drive. Something like a bulldozer running them over going 5 mph... maybe that's too fast

but yeah I wish hand guns were legal for that purpose only. It would decrease accidents and drunk driving. Why you think the guy who's driving drunk is drunk?

I'll tell you why... he's going home from work and hits the friggen rush our.... some bastards are barely crawling. What does he do? he goes to the bar and drinks his angryness away...

ehh that's all i got on that topic.

college tests/quizzes/classes suck! I havent gone to my humanities class in like over a week. When the hell is an electric engineer going to need to know about Darwin's natural selection? Maybe when he realizes all the jobs are being outsourced to India, and the ones surviving are the ones working for $2/hr.

good job... assholes

2004-11-03T18:35:00.000-06:00

so remember during the debates when Bush said something like "I believe it's the state's decision to allow or ban gay marriage..." Guess what? The republican party is hoping to bring that ammendment back in January. Now that both the house and the senate are majority republicans, it seems much easier to pass that ammendment.

It's been only one day since election and the republicans are already doing differently than they promised...again. Who's to say they will stop here? The draft? Bush doesn't care anymore what the public thinks about his decisions in Iraq. Why should he? He's not planning on running again. While he's doing all this, the real terrorists are doing and planning much worse things.

So there you have it? Didn't you already have four years to find out how big of an idiot Bush is? Ohhh but he's a religious man and a man that believes in morals. Is it moral that thousands of people are dying in Iraq continuously?

Well that's enough of ranting for right now. F*ck Bush.

Election '04

2004-11-02T01:55:00.000-06:00

Yeah tomorrow's the big day....

I found out I never got my Voter's Registration Card mailed to me. Now I'm wondering if those fucken bastards at AT ever sent in my voter registration form in.

It probably doesn't matter since most of Illinois is Democrat anyways.

Hopefully, Bush-ass will finally be out of the office.

Anyone who votes for Bush has no place in my heart, unless you're a hot chick, then you have a place in my pants too....

Kerry/Edwards'04

vote or die

2004-10-29T01:54:00.000-05:00

vote or die? WTF is this shit? dictatorial democracy?

It would be funny if Puff Daddy, himself, didn't vote, and then some home boys shot him in a drive by. That would be ironic, I think.

I hate how every year people are like "this is the most important election of your lifetime." I thought the 2000 election was the most important one.

The electoral college sucks. If you're a democrat and live in a republican state, well you're vote doesn't really count.

The electoral college is worse than a crappy community college.

hmmm....

2004-10-27T22:26:00.000-05:00

Opinionated and judgemental people suck, especially if they support Bush. Basically anyone who doesn't agree with me sucks. I think I'd make a great dictator.

P.S. Jesse Jackson sucks too.
P.P.S. Colin Quinn (sp?) sucks too.
P.P.P.S. Best Buys, also, sucks.

joke and such

2004-10-20T20:22:00.000-05:00

I've traveled to the future and back and actually saw a real question on the ACT math test. Here goes:

Jimmy works for $3.50 an hour. He wants to buy a cd by his favorite band. The cd is $13.50 plus 8.50% tax. If Jimmy's salary is taxed by 15%, how many hours must he work in order to afford the cd?
A)4 hours

B)4.5 hours

C)5 hours

D)Fuck work, Jimmy's ass is gonna download that cd off of Kazaa!

rant:F*ck those fu*ckin UGG boots and them Ponchos. They are worse than fucken tie die shirts and you only see them on fat ugly chicks.

if you don't see a picture up top, click here

in class

2004-10-18T09:09:00.000-05:00

i really can't stand when nerds try to outnerd each other. It's just horrible, very very horrible. Especially when they're trying to prove that their anti-wizard spray is better than the other person's level 3 sorcerer skulls or wtf ever it is. STFU it's just a fucking game!

whatever happened to the cool games like tic tac toe and hangman and make fart noises in class?

this kinda reminds me of the Triump the Insult Dog's bit with the Star Wars geeks.

Wow, i need sleep.

by the way, it was my birthday yesterday.

today

2004-10-12T18:55:00.000-05:00

so today i lost my friggen hat in school. don't really planning on finding it tomorrow. ehh shit happens.

was bored in chemistry so got one of them text-to-voice programs on my laptop and wrote a buncha stuff for the computer to say. It entertained the people around me for at least 15 minutes or so. it was all good until the teacher gave us a pop quiz that i had no idea wtf it was on.

in conclusion chemistry sucks.

first post

2004-10-11T21:31:00.000-05:00

wass happnin bitches (with all due respect)

this is my first post. thought it would be kinda cool to keep a track of my exciting (sarcasm) life.

well to start off, i have a real fugged up tongue infection.
click here if you want to be disgusted

yeah anyways that's it for now.

more news to come later on.

This sure as hell beats the other blogger