Carl Pei

I’m going to Barcelona, Spain on Monday with my Geography class. The problem is, we have to meet up at 3:40 AM in the city in order to take a buss to the airport. It will not be the main airport, as we have booked budget tickets, hence the uncomfortable times.

We’re going to stay there for six days, and meet a class of students in Barcelona. Hopefully, I will be able to make a few new friends and have a good time. The last day is unplanned, which means free time for us to do what we want. In total, there are around 20 people from the Geography and Spanish classes going.

My plan is to arrive in the city around 9:00 PM tonight and wait in McDonald’s with a few friends until the bus leaves tomorrow morning. Because at one point in the night, public transport will stop, and I wouldn’t want to be left stranded missing my trip. The airport is several hours of driving away from here, so getting a ride from the parents isn’t such a good idea either. Wouldn’t want to mess their circadian rhythms up.

This blog will still be updated, regularly. I’ve already made and timestamped a few posts, so they’ll be showing up like clockwork. Some day in the week I’ll try to squeeze in a post with some photos while I’m in Barcelona, if I can find a computer and internet.

I haven’t been to Spain before, so it will be an awesome experience. Although I’ve studied Spanish for three years in junior high, I don’t think I’ll be able to maintain a conversation in Spanish, but we shall see.

Accepted is a 2006 teen movie that received notoriously negative reviews. Although these poor ratings could seem justified on the at first, the movie has a deeper underlying message often ignored by the reviewers.

What is it about?

Accepted is the story of a high school senior, Bartleby Gaines, who was rejected from every college he applied to. Desperate to make his conservative parents happy, he creates a fake college and accepts himself. His college, dubbed South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.) is complete with facilities and even a website. Little did he know that his website was fully functional and accepted all applicants. Soon enough, he finds a large crowd of people lined up outside his college, all accepted and there with their tuition fees. These people are of all walks of life, mostly social misfits that have lead lives of rejection.

The ending shall not be revealed. If you are interested, watch the movie.

I can agree with critics saying that this movie promotes laziness and underachievement, but there is a great underlying message often ignored. (more…)

Yesterday I got Dugg big time. It started with me using Stumble Upon to stumble my own article, Six Funny Life Lessons. A while later, I noticed via the real time hit tracker HitTail that I was getting serious traffic from Stumble Upon, and after a while from SU’s Humor Buzz. From there on, someone Dugg the article which then started to gain momentum around 10 hours later.

Soon enough I hit the Digg front page. Upon hitting it, the server went down immediately. The server had to be restarted two times and port 80 had to be closed for me to install WP-Cache. If you plan on getting Dugg, install WP-Cache. After installation, CPU usage remained at around a constant 15% with 70 requests per second.

Aftermath

- As of now, the article has had 2,137 Diggs and 7,285 Stumbles.

- Noticed that my FeedBurner subscription has rose to 563 people from 10. How shall I entertain all of you?

- Technorati rank of this blog has risen from 200,000+ to around 70,000.

- It was featured on the front page of del.icio.us.

- A bitter comment was received from a guy who thought I had stolen his post when visiting his blog, while in fact I visited it in a Google search to check whether the content was unique or not. Check it out below.

Comment:
I wonder where you got this post? I noticed you visited esofthub’s web finds. You should at least give credit. I doubt you will publish this comment.

Don’t live a life of doubt.
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Below are 6 very funny and true life lessons to be learned that I’ve received via email. Jokes aside, the insight gained is valuable to everyone and I somehow don’t think you’ll regret reading them.

Lesson 1: Naked Wife

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.” After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob.

After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks,…

“Who was that?” “It was Bob the next door neighbor,” she replies. “Great!” the husband says, “Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?”

Moral of the story:
If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

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