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            <title>Drunkenness</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Let me just start this off by stating that my friend, lets call him Steve, is a borderline alcoholic. Last Thursday, he got written up by two Resident Assistants (RAs) for arguing with them and such while they were trying to document what was a somewhat clear case of possession of alcohol by minors (there were several visible beer cans in the room he was in). So he and two of my friends got written up, while two of us (including myself) got off because we were studying elsewhere at the time. </p>

<p>Anyways, on Monday we meet with the director of the building, Austin, who tells Steve that him and Thomas must write a letter to the RAs, apologizing for their actions. He also read the report they wrote, which was comedic gold, but a copy could not be obtained for this publishing. It basically consisted of the RAs stating how Thomas was physically and verbally threatening the RAs, which was mostly true, but not to the extent that it was documented, and then Steve joined in, quieting down when the RAs threatened to call the police (which was not true, he actually stated that the police would be more reasonable than they were being). </p>

<p>So on Monday night, Steve gets drunk again, and decides that it is the perfect time to write his apology letter. The letter is as follows:</p>

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<blockquote>Dear RA’s,

<p>I’m heartfuly sorry for my actions on Thursday. I realize now that what I have done is wrong because you are just doing your job. I realize your job is stressful and painful to deal with college students your same age especially if they backtalk you. I was very inconsedirate of your time and your job since you are trying to keep us alal safe. I love the safety of this campus. I thinki your job is more imporatneat than veingn an RA. Austin is really homosexual.</p>

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<p>Thomas was the root of all evil. He keeps wanting to finght everyone, and really I have no idea what he is saying. I was just backtalking because the fact that I have never been written u- p before so I didn’t understand the procedures that followed. I thought it was ridiculous that they said I should be written up since I wasn’t even drinking and iwas about to go to my bed. I had an early class in the morning which made me feel like sleep was more imporatnat than this campus’ welfare.</p>

<p>I feel safe but whatever floats your boat works for me I mean if I wanted to kill people I would too. Alcohole kills millions a year right? WRONG that is not proven factual or not factually. Alcohol increases less taxes than doess cigarette consumption but yes lets allow people to smoke thos e fuckers have no idea what they are talking about since all they like is homosexual butt sexu or lesbian scissoring.</p>

<p>I felt I would have gotten off the hook if I spoke to BC PD instead of you guys since BC PD would have understood that I wasn’t drinking and I was only being disrespectful because of the circumstances. The circumstances were ridiculous since I mean who cares if they write up other students in the community oh what you guys do and that is the reason I hate this shit. I know I should have refused to even deal with you until BC PD could have came since they are men and realize what is going on and they can’t put me in jail or someshit like that just like you guys the only difference s they are men you are women and they understand drinking is a part of like and all men engage in the activity ot takae advantage of females haha just messing with your guys who would mess with you guys. I mean you guys were the biggest dikes I’ve ever met and deserve to burn at the stakes. Thomas is actually sorry since he is a huge pussy, and I on the other hand think that this whole assignment is a huge pile of horse shit. I would rather spend a week at a jewsish nun convent. I don’t even understand how this is a valid assignment since this is huge fucking pile of shit.</p>

<p>I don’t see how drinking can be so bad when my parents think that it is okay to drink as long as I don’t drive. Oh wait?</p>

<p>Maybe I was driving? NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. I’m in college and I don’t have a fucking car jackass. But wait I do have public transportation oh yeah that’s the same as driving. NO wait it isn’t since I don’t physically drive the bus you huge fucking homo! I don’t even have a drivers license in MASS you fucking MASSHOLE. Holy shit why did you even get this job is it because you two are the biggest flaming dikes in the whole world or only at BC. This is fucking ridiculous I think that BC is going downhill unless you just want a bunch of smart people that have no lives and will amount to nothing in the future since they can’t even talk to people. The only thing they can talk to is their textbooks. I mean wow big fucking complimemnt I know I said it. Hhaha jackass got you again. Why are you even at BC because it’s the best fucking school you guys got into? Yeah that’s probably right you two wanted to get into Harvard but you couldn’t that’s why you hate alcohol go back to your books and leave me the fuck alone you two desperate whores that will end up single and unmarried throughout your lives.<br />
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<p>He then saved this in a file titled "Blahfhlajgljag.doc" and went to bed.</p>]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[I am now listed on Technorati.<br /><br />Trying to start to get this thingy out into the public eye, but have no idea how to promote it. Figure I need a few more posts before I do that, but I just started yesterday, so give me a break.<br /><br />So how do you recommend getting and maintaining visitors?<br />]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:15:05 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>XBox 360 is a streaming pile of crap</title>
            <description><![CDATA[So I download a movie (of unknown origin) to my computer and wanted to watch it on my big screen TV. The movie was in XviD format, which would soon become an issue. So I hook up my Vista Media center to my 360 and it all works fine. All my WMV files play, but little else does. So I try to figure out what is going on, and it turns out that the 360 doesn't support almost any codecs at all. So I look for some solutions to hack together a way to stream media to the 360, including <a href="http://www.runtime360.com/projects/transcode-360/">Transcode 360</a> and <a href="http://tversity.com/home">TVersity</a>, neither of which were going to work or be easy to set up. So I figured it would be quicker to just convert the files.<br /><br />So I ended up using VLC to transcode them to WMV using a batch script. Quick(ish) and easy, however it was far from an ideal solution. Microsoft needs to get off their ass and implement some other codecs, namely XviD and DivX. If it wants to compete with the <a href="http://www.apple.com/appletv/">Apple TV</a> in the living room, this is a must-have feature.<br /><br />Does anyone have a better solution to stream these types of files to a 360 from a Vista machine?<br />  ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:24:57 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Feed me!</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"><a href="http://www.briandemaio.com/rss.xml"><img alt="rss_icon_glass128.png" src="http://www.briandemaio.com/images/rss_icon_glass128.png" class="mt-image-center" style="margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;" height="128" width="128" /></a></span> <div>Just so I am absolutely sure you are aware, this site has an RSS feed. You can subscribe to it on the left sidebar or by clicking the giant icon above, or the one in your navigation bar. Use whatever feed reader you prefer, but I prefer <a href="http://bloglines.com/">bloglines.com</a>. I'm using the Vista sidebar for it which is nice, so I can get all my feeds right to my desktop at all times. So subscribe and let me know.<br /><br />What feed reader does everyone use?<br /></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:18:37 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Sharing is good!</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Just felt I should let you know that all content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons license, specifically the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0</a> license.<br /><br />Open source/Creative Commons is my life. How about you?<br /><br />]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:17:31 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Welcome</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Yes, I know this is probably the shittiest blog you have ever seen, but I plan on updating it semi-regularly with whatever the hell I feel like updating it with. <br /><br />For starters, my favorite sites include<br /><br /><a href="http://xkcd.com/">xkcd.com</a><br /><a href="http://penny-arcade.com/">penny-arcade.com</a><br /><a href="http://penny-arcade.com/">digg.com</a><br /><a href="http://kotaku.com/">kotaku.com</a><br /><a href="http://engadget.com/">engadget.com</a><br /><a href="http://boingboing.net/">boingboing.net</a><br /><br /><br />I am interested in computer science, and am majoring it it at Boston College, video games (Wii, PC, and DS), and comics (but I just started reading them, so don't assume I know too much).<br /><br />Hope to see you stick around. Please comment and introduce yourself!<br />]]></description>
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