what kind of behavior would qualify one as a douche bag?

Initially, my friend and I were discussing how people dress at work. We talked about how a certain someone who wears shorts all the time, someone who wears t-shirt and jeans, checker shirt and dickies worker pants, someone who dress in between punk rock and goth, and lastly a douche bag who just wears anything from the banana republic/j.crew catalog. So, we moved on to a more in-depth discussion on.. what should a douche bag wears to be recognized as a douche bag. 

My friend's take was a guy who wears abercrombie shirt, cargo shorts, surfer jewelry, and flip-flops. I agreed with him since I was able to picture a person who would be a douche bag wearing the above mentioned clothing. Now, I have a slightly more to add onto this douche bag discussion. 

So what are some of the known quality of a douche bag? The dude probably scored numerous chicks in some party, which is the first and the most important requirement to make the vast majority of guys despise him. Secondly, the guy must be well off. I mean.. who would consider ANY poor man douche bag? and it certainly is not difficult to make yourself a douche bag if you are rich. Last but not least, I think the last set of quality a douche bag would posses should be the way he speaks. You see, we would never consider a guy douche bag if we never hear anything from him. 

Lets dive deeper into the topic of how you can speak like a douche bag. The way a douche bag speaks must be of ignorance. Ignoring any opinions coming from the others and in the end trying to force and deceive everyone into thinking that his idea is indeed the best without convincing argument. The guy must be competitive in nature. Douche bags are always better than everybody else. If there are something that he cannot do, it is usually because of lack/waste of time or it is just simply not challenging enough for him. That leads to my third and final point, the guy must be so full of himself that he would take credits for the work that the others have done. I mean.. if you ever talk to someone who you would consider as a.. you know a publicly recognized douche bag, you would notice that he has accomplished many things... and of course without mentioning any help he has ever received from anybody.

I put in some examples as I was writing this entry. I cut them out for the sake of preventing this entry from turning into a "I fucking hate that guy" post. This is very distasteful..  I know I know..  oh well, who cares.

A change of mind set

I have stepped away from blogging for a while.. This last year has been the darkest time in my life. I had the realization of how my life has not turned out to be.. exactly what I had in mind when I was much younger. 

For one instance, my coding mentality has transformed to.. who cares about the person who will be reading my code? I had to bump around to figure out stuff all the time without being considered either.

Same mentality also surfaced in this one incident when I was installing media tomb on my kuro box. A while ago, I installed debian on my kuro box in hopes of apt-get install would ease some pain in my life. Well, I thought installing media tomb would just be apt-get install mediatomb, until I found out the fact that there is no ppc compiled binary in the repository... So, there went another night of linux dependency chasing... consists of: 

1. ./configure

2. get something else

3. repeat step 1 & 2 for however many times needed.

4. ./make which took about close to 30 minutes since the hardware is so weak.

5. finally ./make install

now.. it complains that the sqlite db tables for media tomb was not set up correctly.

then after some amount of googling.. I was finally able to reconstruct the tables.

The next day at work, I mentioned this to Luke. His response was "why don't you put up that ppc binary up to save some folks from the same process?". Good point. Did I do it? Nope.. Nah.. Too much trouble for meee. 

I am just glad that not everyone on the internet is like me.

(edited: photo removed)

This photo is taken from my dell mini 9 netbook with photobooth effect.