Kelvin's Corner

Just when you think its over....

[edit}..Just got this in my email today.....

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1768836,00.asp

Bloggers beware!!
[end edit]

....it comes right back again. Snow, icy rain, gloomy ass weather for us in Chicago. Okay, I think its official now, everyone here and anywhere else for that matter dealing with this God-awful winter season is ready for the spring and summer months to get here. I mean its expected for us here but dammit enough is enough.

Dear God,

     I know that you control all things and everything is in your power, but Lord don't you think we have had our fair share of this cold weather, snow, ice and rain? I will admit that you have been pretty leniant on us these last few winters and spared us all the dreaded snow and after effects it tends to bring on. Thus I understand the pounding we took this year, but I mean its almost March and we are still being pummelled with snow and ice. I am not complaining ( I guess) but just asking that this be the last of it until next year. I have been good. I don't see why it should take me an hour to get to work on a Monday morning. Just because mommy-dearest in the brand new mini-van/SUV/vehicle-too-big-for-me-too-see-over-the-steering wheel should decide to get into the far left lane and decide she wants to slow down to a crawl and there is no room to pass? That ain't right. In no shape form or fashion is that right. I guess I am complaining just a tad so I will stop. Just hear me out Lord, can you give us a little slack on the crummy weather?

Kelvin

In other news.....

Attended my sister's commencement ceromony on Friday night. Wonderful occassion. Everything was pretty much the same as mine except done in about half the time. From the time the opening speaker took to the podium to the closing of the ceromony only took an hour and 45 minutes. I was very impressed. You all know how they give that little spill about remaining quiet during the presentation of degrees? What is the purpose of that? I mean who in the hell do you think is gonna remain quiet when said graduate is walking across the stage? That is a major milestone and dammit it deserves some recognition!! So you know how WE do..LOL When they called my sisters name, my brother-in-law, dad, moms, and me had to give it up. All loud and ghetto as hell!! LOL and why not? But it was a nice ceromony and we are all very proud of her.

Got a chance to spend some time with my parents which is always great. I hung out with both of them and we got caught up on things. I alsto attended a going away party for a friend of mine. That was cool. On Saturday went shopping for a TV for the basement. I didn't know how hard buying a television could be. There are so many different models and features on the newer TV's today. Amazing how something that entertains you can be so damn complicated. Didn't do too much on Sunday. The folks left early Sunday morning so I was up at like 6:00 and could go back to sleep. I am trying to get the basement together so I spent most of the day downstirs trying to decide how I'm gonna put it together. Got big plans for that space downstairs...Big plans...LOL

All in all it was a pretty good weekend, and thanks God for keeping this crummy weather for a Monday morning...

Accomplishments

I just want to send a special shout out ( do people still give those?) to my sister on her big accomplishment of graduating with her Bachelor's in Technical Management!!!

**Gives it up like Arsenio Woo, Woo, Woo**

The ceremony is this evening at the Arie Crown theater in Chicago. This actually got me to thinking about my big day......which seems like soooooo long ago. I too am a DeVry alumni. Those were some of the best days of my life. The people I met, the things I learned, those hard ass math classes...lol. It was cool though. Hell I was only there like a year and a half.

*Sidenote: Is DeVry the only University that will accept transfer credits from damn near any other school or what?**

The reason I ask is because like so many other folks, when I first started college I had no freakin' clue what I wanted to do...I started out in engineering, then it went to education, and finally Computer Science...LOL. So when I finally made it to DeVry, I had a plethora of miscellaneous college credits and they accepted every one of them..WTF?!?! Don't get me wrong, I am not tripping over it, I am glad they did accept them. It allowed me to finish up alot earlier. And since Keller is affliated with DeVry it only made since for me to finish up the Master's program there.

I still rememeber my big night. Our ceromony was held at the Chicago Theatre downtown on State Street. The folks flew into town, a couple of my aunts came,  Grandma was there. I felt like the man that night. I was the first to graduate from college and it seemed like I did it against unsurmountable odds. I had recently moved to Chicago, was only working a partime job but had full time bills, I had made friends here, but not a lot, I was away from my daughter, ....it was rough ya'll, but I stayed FOCUSED MAN!! and it all worked out for me. I guess it must've been in God's plan for me because I managed to get it done. I am getting away from my point, this was supposed to be a post where I am giving it up to my sis on her big day so I say again

CONGRATULATIONS!! IT WAS A LONG TIME COMING!!

Updated

So I finally managed to get my site moved over to TypePad.....
This is a new look I am trying so bear with me guys, it may change at any given moment so sit back, relax, grab a beverage of choice and stay awhile!!
If anyone knows how to bring the comments section over as well PLEASE email it to me, there are some on the old page that are just too good to lose...:-)

Let me know what you guys think....

Hump Day....

Today I was battling within myself to try and figure out what to post about this morning. I have a few ideas, but trying to decide which ones to put on paper isn't always the easiest thing to do. So this morning I am going to write about some of my favorite lines from some of my favorite movies. I was thinking about this on the way to work this morning and thought I could make this sort of "interactive" where you guys can contribute some of yours in my comments section.

Let me start the ball rolling with one of my favorites:

Tony Montana: "I never fucked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one. Do you understand? That piece of shit up there, I never liked him, I never trusted him. For all I know he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed. But that's history. I'm here, he's not. Do you wanna go on with me, you say it. You don't, then you make a move."

Classic... I don't even need to say anything else about that one...

Darius Lovehall: "Let me tell you somethin'. This here, right now, at this very moment, is all that matters to me. I love you. That's urgent like a motherfucker."

Now that has to be one of the most playeristic lines I have ever heard in a movie to this date. I know plenty of panties got wet when he said that one...heh heh

Stringer Bell:"Every business goes through cycles and we going through a down cycle and ..."
Avon Barksdale:"String, this ain't about your motherfucking business class either. It's that other thang.The streets is the streets always."

There were sooooooo many famous lines in this series that I just had to pick one but anyone that follows it knows what I mean.

Malcom X: " We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us!"

Another classic that has so many lines I just had to pick one...

Goldie: "Listen to me and listen good. I don't give a shit what happened to you. You hear me? Now get yourself together, get back out there and git me my money!

You know I had to end it with a classic!! That is some true P.I.M.P. shyt!!!

So you guys can let me know what some of your favorite lines were from the classics to the current stuff....Let's see what we come up with!!

The Lord Does Work In Mysterious Ways.....

"Well we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.

Fish don't fry in the kitchen;
Beans don't burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin'
Just to get up that hill.
Now we're up in the big leagues
Gettin' our turn at bat.
As long as we live, it's you and me baby
There ain't nothin wrong with that.

Well we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie."

Stop laughing, I can't get that song out of my head since I got this great news!!

I know that may sound so cliche, but its so true when you think about it. So yesterday afternoon I am down to my final hour here at work and am helping one of the guidance counselors in student services. This particular counselor and I have a very good repoire and I have even gone out to her house to do some computer work for her. Anyway we are just shooting the shit a little bit and she mentioned to me that her husband is the superintendent at a grammar school district which caters to gifted kids out in the West Suburbs. She went on to tell me that the top guy in their IT Department was not quite "up to snuff" as my Grandma used to say, so he was thinking that he may have to let the guy go. Good guy, great employee, loyal, the whole nine yards its just that he can't keep up with the pace at which technology changes.

**Sidenote- When I found out that the 3rd and 4th graders at this particular school carry PDA's to communicate with their teachers and each other, I found myself with my jaw hanging open in awe!!**

Back to the story...

so this guy that is in the job now, they are probably going to try to place him somewhere else or be letting him go for obvious reasons. Now in comes me... I have been looking to move out of my current position and into a more Senior Level/ Managerial position since I finished grad school at the end of 2003. Those few months before I finished up, I was trying to network with people and see what kind of connects I could get going so I could land something right out of school *wishful thinking*. This went on until about last summer when I just decided to slack up on the job search and concentrate more on investment properties. So anyway she went on to tell me that she mentioned my name to him and told him all about my work ethics and my extensive knowledge of the systems here at school and he must have been interested because he asked her for copy of my resume. You guys should have seen my ass damn near running upstairs to print off my cover letter and resume to give to her!!!LOL

Now I am not 100% sure of what will happen with this whole thing, but I know if I at least get an interview with him, I can win him over....All I need is to get my foot in the door and the rest is gonna be history..:-)

So you all keep your fingers, toes, legs, arms, and anything else crossed for me, because Lord knows I need a change..:-)

Some Scary Shit....

I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday and she was telling me about this new strain of the AIDS virus that is even more potent than the shit that's out there right now. This AIDS is supposedly resistant to the current drugs that are being used to treat AIDS and HIV patients. So she emails me the link and I read the article and it basically went on to tell the story of this dude in New York that has contracted this new strain of HIV that quickly evolves into the AIDS virus. Rapidly. As in like 2 weeks time!! And did I mention that current medications for that shit don't seem to work with this new strain of HIV? Oh, yeah I did I guess I just wanted to reinterate the fact...Scary.As.Hell.

Of course as I kept reading the article went on to say that there could have been other genetic factors that played a part in the rapid transformation into this "SuperAIDS". But if you asked me for my 5 cents on the matter, I say that's bullshit. I can believe that this AIDS has taken on a new and more powerful form, hell its only a matter of time. Just like the human body has evolved over time, so can diseases and viruses. I mean you don't hear of people dying of polio, mumps, measles, etc. because modern science has allowed us to come up with vaccines and cures for things of that sort. On the other hand you have things like cancer, AIDS, etc. that there is no cure for(supposedly, I say that's bullshit too because if you have the right amount of scrilla you can get that cure). I mean hell look at Magic Johnson, retired from the NBA and now is doing the damn thing in the business world and when did Magic announce that he tested positive? Like 1991 and this is what 2005 so 14 years? C'mon now. But on the other hand you have people like Easy-E and Arthur Ashe that caught the shit and died soon after. Now many folks say that Magic was able to control his infection and it never turned into full blown AIDS but still I think there is more to the shit nonetheless.

Back to the story, so the report went on to say that the same sort of thing was happening in Massachusetts where a man was said to have been resistant to the current meds that are out there right now. This man, a homosexual, is said to have been with many partners over the last 12 months. The doctors are trying to contact the men that he has been with. Apparently the man could not remember how many because at the time he was doing crystal meth and it was a club scene so the drugs and sex were both plentiful.....once again Scary.As.Hell

Well the whole thing just got me to thinking that we have GOT to be more careful about who and what we choose to lay down with because you never know. A mofo could look as healthy as a horse, but still be sick as hell carrying around some shit that the doctors can't just write a prescription for and easily pass the shit on to you.

Lesson of the day:

Fellas- Strap the fuck up

Ladies- Make him strap the fuck up

Everyone- PLEASE BE CAREFUL....this is for real ya'll

All is not lost/ High Ranking Officials....

Sup er'body?

Not a whole lot going on in the Corner this week. Raining like hell here in Chicago. And they are talking snow flurries later on this evening..Great, just freakin' great!!

**UPDATE**

Remember in my last post how I was all bummed about my hard drive crashing?, Well Thanks to a little patience and this utility I was able to salvage 98% of my stuff!! It was pretty cool and I normally am skeptical of stuff that I find online that claims to recover data. I know its not all together impossible, just very rare to find one that does what it says it can do.

I went back and read some of the article that I posted on about that judge that was masturbating under his robe while holding sessions!! Now when I originally read that post, I found it to be just humorous and decided to post it. Now that I went back and re-read what the article said, it actually caused me much concern. Especially considering the fact that there are so many falsely accused persons sitting in the penitentiary because of jury tampering, weak evidence, fucked up lawyer/judge relationships, and now this....some weird ass judge that can't control when and where he decides to "let one go". I mean seriously, how many poor bastards are locked up behind this dude that just could not control his damn sexual urges. I tell you what, you better believe all the cases he presided over will be or at least should be appealed. Who's to say the judge was in his right mind when he was slamming that gavel down and pronouncing sentence? I can just hear it now...

**Judge presiding over a damn capital murder case with solid evidence and air tight witnesses, this is a no-brainer for real**

JOJ (Jack Off Judge): Has all the evidence been presented in this case before I render my decision?

Lawyers ( In Unison): Yes, Your Honor.

JOJ: I will return in 10 minutes with my decision.

*Judge leaves the bench and heads to his chambers*

10 minutes pass.....

*muffled sound of corny ass porno music playing in the background*

20 minutes pass.....

*Intense "whoosing sound" emanating from the judge's chambers

30 minutes pass.....

*Loud ass OH SHIT I'M BOUT TO NUT!!!, followed by moans and groans of pleasure*

Finally the judge comes back out of his chambers with his robe all disheveled, sweating, with a weird grin on his face and smoking a damn Newport...

JOJ: I have made my decision. In the trial The People vs. Leroy Brown, I find the defendant Not guilty on the count of murder in the first degree, I also find the defendant not guilty on the count of sexual misconduct. Case DIS-MISSED!!

LOL....How in the hell can we expect the judge to give a reasonable verdict if he is all worn out from stroking himself? I mean honestly folks, you never know what the hell to expect from even the highest ranking officials in 2005..LOL

I guess that's it for today boys and girls...until next time...

...Techie Woes

[edit] 12:30p.m.

See how quickly things can change for you...I got this from a co-worker..LOL

Just a damn shame, what is this world coming too!!LOL

5:15 a.m.

You ever have one of those days where you know its gonna be a good day?

Most people believe in the theory that you choose your attitude each day. It is strictly up to you to determine what type of day you are gonna have. Stay positive is what they say. Don't let anyone rain on your parade, right?

One of those where from the time you wake up and get outta bed to start your day you just know on the inside that its gonna be a great one?!

....well today was not one of those days for me. The reason I say this is because I woke up this morning and while getting ready for work, I hear this awful screeching, grinding sound coming out of my office. I had no idea what the hell this noise was because the house is usually quiet in the mornings. Just the light from the television and the sound of traffic and weather reports coming from the news commentators. I am brushing my teeth so I turn the water in the sink off and I walk into my computer room and see the most horrifying thing that any techie can see...I mean it was almost unbearable to look at. What I saw when I walked in the room was the black screen of death....no, not the blue screen of death that so many of you Windows users are familiar with, but the dreaded Black screen of death that very rarely shows up and is usually an indication of some serious hardware issues.

A feeling of emptiness fell upon me, like everything stopped moving for a few minutes. Thoughts of Grad school papers and research that took hours of digging to prepare, vacation pictures from when Deja came to visit over the last couple of summers, "backups" of DVD movies that I had slowly and meticulously organized on my storage drives. All of it GONE. I stood in the doorway in boxers and a T-shirt with a toothbrush hanging out of my mouth speechless. As the light from the monitor lit up the room, I begin to feel light-headed (maybe it was the Wintergreen Mint flavoring coming from the toothpaste, I don't know) and I got an empty feeling in the pit of my stomach, seriously. So I slowly walk up to the screen and begin reading the error messages on the screen and notice that one of my hard drives seems to have just died overnight. I couldn't believe it.

** pro·crasti·nation n.- To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness. **

See above as being the reason for said hard drive dying at the most inopportune time. Now I must admit my main server is not that old and the drives should be in good shape or so I thought. I am a stickler for telling people that I do work for to make sure they back up their data, buy an anti-virus program, get those updates from Microsoft, etc. I mean the whole 9 yards so how can this happen to me? I mean, I have no justifiable reason to be going thru this shit own my own server. Right?

Well my ass actually knew that I needed to start moving files off that drive because it had been having problems out of it and didn't want to lose any of my stuff. I didn't have time to work on it this morning as I left the house but have to figure out how I can try and salvage my stuff off that drive when I get home today.

...this day has to get better for me

...At Last

Well as you all know, it’s ON this Sunday. Yes you guessed it, Superbowl time.

The Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots will meet in Jacksonville this Sunday to go head to head in the 39th Annual Superbowl. And as you know, my ass will be glued to the tube for those three hours. Some of my buddies may end up coming through and we watch the game at the tip. We may go out to a sports bar somewhere and watch it and have a few beers, not too sure just yet.

I can hardly wait. Now I know that statistically speaking and all the odds say that the Pats are heavily favored to win their third championship in four years and I can agree with that. Although it would be great to see Donovan McNabb and the Eagles win one for Philly. I will be pulling for Philly, but if I had to bet money on it, I would put my money on Tom Brady and his crew. I was actually reading an article about them and the columnist said that Bill Belichick and his coaching staff are formulating what some in the NFL are deeming the “ideal” franchise and the reasoning behind this was the fact that they had a very unselfish group of players that understood what team play actually meant.

They did a comparison between the Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots which outlined why the Colts never make it to the big game. Basically it boils down to salary caps and money. Payton Manning has a contract worth over 100 million and anyone that watched anything even remotely related to football knows about the spectacular season HE had as a quarterback. The article talked about how the Colts topped out their salary cap by getting all the best offensive weapons and paying the big bucks for them…..not a bad idea, until you realize that defense wins championships. So until Tony Dungy and staff decide to let go some of those high paid receivers and offensive linemen and pick up some decent defensive players and a secondary that can actually stop any other team with a decent throwing game, they will never see the big game. The reason for the Pats success is that they have team players that realize getting the ring is much more important than an outrageous bank account. The article highlighted players like Tedy Bruschi, Tom Brady, Richard Seymour, Adam Vinatieri, and a host of other superstars for their willingness to sacrifice cash for a winning team. This is a great philosophy in my opinion.

Like I said earlier, I would love to see The Eagles soar in Super Bowl 39, especially after the 3 consecutive losses in the NFC championship games, but I just think that New England is too well rounded as a team. The Eagles are good no doubt and have one helluva defensive core with some of the best linebackers and a secondary that will wreak havoc on unsuspecting wide receivers and quarterbacks, but I just don’t think it will happen.

…man, I could go on about this for hours, but I will spare you all my predictions and random azz thoughts and leave you guys with this….

GO EAGLES.

...Is this the future of Amerikka?

So I want to talk to you all about an issue that is a long withstanding problem in the Black community. Well I won't say that it affects just the Black community, I am sure it affects communities of all kinds.

What is DaKelzz talking about you might ask?

Well just take a look....

BEGGING MOFO'S!!! That is what the hell DaKelzz is speaking of people. Now don't get it twisted, I can understand some people hit hard times and it can become difficult to make ends meet. Hell I can even understand when some people hit rock bottom and have no where else to turn. But to have shorties, kids like 12 and 13 at the gas station begging for spare change!?!?. WTF!! I don't know about ya'll but I had a damn JOB when I was 13. Granted it was working in a shoe repair shop, but it was cool for a 13 year old kid to be walking around with cash in his pocket everyday. And having been brought up to believe that you have to work to survive, maybe that is why this puzzles me so. Not too sure, I just think there is something VERY wrong with kids in America having to beg for spare change. But you know what's really messed up is the fact that you don't know if they are lying or telling the truth.

Case and point:

I am at the gas station on yesterday afternoon about to walk into the store. As I approach the store, I see a bunch of kids standing around the door. I didn't think too much of this because I know there are a bunch of grammar schools in the area and it was about 4:30 in the afternoon. So I am walking up to the door and I guess they scoped me pulling into the lot, because one of them gave me a compliment on the car, which was immediately followed by "Excuse me sir, do you think you could help me out with some spare change on your way out?" It hit me so off guard that I couldn't react right away. I was actually speechless for about 1.2356845872 seconds! So when I snapped back to reality, I told the young boy, who was standing there with his little sister I am guessing, that I would see what I could do on the way out. So I purchased my items and on the way out the door I gave the kid a few dollars and asked him what his name was. He told me Cory and that was his little cousin with him. Now the rest of the bunch that was there had already departed and I asked him why didn't he go with his friends. He told me that the both of them had not eaten in since yesterday afternoon and his mom was strung out. Didn't know where his pops was and that he goes to school when he can, but mostly looks out for his little cousin.

...this is not right. Not in Amerikka. Land of the free, home of the brave right? Nah, can't be. But it is. Sad but true. What the hell is this world coming too when we can send cats halfway across the world to "protect" Amerikka from terrorists and provide some sort of stability to a country that has been in turmoil for damn near thousands of years. Yeah right, when you got kids on the street begging right here in the fuckin' neighborhood....I don't know. I intended for this to be a sort of humorous post about the shady characters that I encounter at random places, but I can feel myself getting warm all over again just thinking about it.

...so again I ask you, is this the future of Amerikka? Where mofo's just blatatnly let you know that they need a beer, by putting it on a sign and waiting for people to contribute to their cause? Fucked up, but you gotta respect the honesty I guess...