Welcome to yoonamania where I put down the nonsense that pops up in my head from time to time. Please do not expect to make any sense out of my blatherings. It's called nonsense for a reason. Nor should you expect to enjoy any good writing. My English sucks moose ass. But I don't really care since I'm sure your Korean isn't any better. Please try to keep your expectations low and just chill like potatoes... or beets... or parsnips. Oh and yeah, don't take it seriously unless you think I think you must.

Yours truly, etc. yoonamaniac

Georgia’s First Snow (WW#4)

December 10, 2008>

Beasts, Georgia, Pix, Wordless Wednesday

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Cinemania

December 8, 2008>

Meme

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I was overcome by exhaustion over the weekend and I’m still feeling a little sick suffering from inevitable brain fuzziness, so I couldn’t think of anything to blog. And of course my plurk friend perpstu came to my rescue, or I might have stolen it, but I know she doesn’t mind.

So here is a meme about Top 100 movies. The way I’m supposed to do this seems like:

  • Bold the movies I’ve seen
  • Italicize the movies I love
  • Only count the movies I’ve seen in their entirety

Well, my brain is too fuzzy but my count is that I’ve seen 38 movies in their entirety. I gotta watch some more movies, man.

1. Godfather, The (1972)
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
5. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
6. Schindler’s List (1993)
7. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
8. Casablanca (1942)
9. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. Citizen Kane (1941)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
13. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
14. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
15. Rear Window (1954)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17. Pulp Fiction (1994)
18. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
19. Memento (2000)
20. North by Northwest (1959)
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
22. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
23. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
24. Psycho (1960)
25. Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
26. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
27. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. American Beauty (1999)
30. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
31. Vertigo (1958)
32. Matrix, The (1999)
33. Cidade de Deus (2002)
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
35. C’era una volta il West (1968)
36. Apocalypse Now (1979)
37. Pianist, The (2002)
38. Third Man, The (1949)
39. Paths of Glory (1957)
40. Taxi Driver (1976)
41. Fight Club (1999)
42. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
43. Some Like It Hot (1959)
44. Double Indemnity (1944)
45. Boot, Das (1981)
46. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
47. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
48. Chinatown (1974)
49. L.A. Confidential (1997)
50. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
51. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
52. All About Eve (1950)
53. M (1931)
54. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
55. Se7en (1995)
56. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
57. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
58. Rashômon (1950)
59. Raging Bull (1980)
60. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
61. Alien (1979)
62. American History X (1998)
63. Sting, The (1973)
64. Léon (1994)
65. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
66. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
67. Vita è bella, La (1997)
68. Touch of Evil (1958)
69. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
70. Finding Nemo (2003)
71. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
72. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
73. Great Escape, The (1963)
74. Modern Times (1936)
75. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
76. Amadeus (1984)
77. On the Waterfront (1954)
78. Ran (1985)
79. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
80. Annie Hall (1977)
81. Wo hu cang long (2000)
82. Jaws (1975)
83. Apartment, The (1960)
84. Braveheart (1995)
85. High Noon (1952)
86. Aliens (1986)
87. Fargo (1996)
88. Strangers on a Train (1951)
89. Shining, The (1980)
90. Metropolis (1927)
91. Blade Runner (1982)
92. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
93. City Lights (1931)
94. Donnie Darko (2001)
95. Duck Soup (1933)
96. Great Dictator, The (1940)
97. General, The (1927)
98. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
99. Princess Bride, The (1987)
100. Dogville (2003)

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13 Topics Considered For Thursday Thirteen (TT#3)

December 3, 2008>

Mania, Thursday Thirteen

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I didn’t have much time to think about a list of thirteen things, items, reasons, people, etc today due to problems with a couple of servers at work. The following is a list of thirteen things that I could have or would have listed for my third Thursday Thirteen post today given enough time. I’d probably do most of them in the future.

  1. Thirteen things I complained about this week
  2. Thirteen people to whom I cursed “Plague on you and your house” this week
  3. Thirteen reasons that confirm the upper management at work are douche bags
  4. Thirteen ways to annoy the crap out of me driving on the highway
  5. Thirteen things I really need that I can’t afford to buy
  6. Thirteen things I really don’t need that I really want but can’t afford to buy
  7. Thirteen signs I’m getting too old
  8. Thirteen food items I stuffed myself with that I really shouldn’t have this week
  9. Thirteen reasons why I should get married
  10. Thirteen reasons why I should not get married
  11. Thirteen reasons why I prefer dogs and cats to humans
  12. Thirteen signs I am probably not getting enough sleep at night
  13. Thirteen things I need to get rid of, but keep them because I don’t know the protocol of throwing them out

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I Like ‘Em Warm Right Out Of The Oven (WW#3)

December 3, 2008>

Beasts, Brandy, Pix, Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday

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The Despised

December 2, 2008>

Mania, Peeps

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As a misanthrope, I despise a number of people. But I do have my reasons for every single one of them. I know some people were wondering about the coworkers I despise. This is why I despise one of them, the storage guy, i.e., the guy I despise who in turn despises me.

Yesterday around 3pm, along with the other members in our team at work, I started getting pages from a number of system monitoring software. Seemingly servers were coming down in droves. So of course we didn’t believe the servers were really crashing, but we suspected network problem and let the computer operators notify the network group to investigate. Then we started getting email notifications from a slew of other servers notifying the disks were missing. They were losing disks left and right. We were like what the fuck is going on???

We scrambled to the data center, which by the way, we have to drive to get to, now that some ridiculously stupid managers decided it’s a swell idea to move the system administrators far away from where the systems are physically located because you know, wasting time is sorely underrated. We brought the servers back up, fixed the corrupt filesystems, started the applications, let the application group know so that they could verify. We ran around lightening speed, but like a well-oiled machine, systematically and methodically.

Came to find out the storage guy made a mistake trying to zone some SAN disks and caused this problem. But while we were running around staying late at work, guess what the guy who caused all this problem did? He went home on time, not filling out the required outage report, not filling in the managers on what happened. A coworker had to stay until after 2:00am this morning to recover one server, and he had to contact the storage guy, who did not answer the calls or pages until he was good and ready.

Today, I look at the outage report written by the despised, and instead of seeing “I made a mistake while working on…” sort of report, but “There appears to have been an issue with the SAN coonnectivity…” sort of lies. And that’s the kind of person he is. Can you blame me for my contempt towards this guy?

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