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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
6:49 am	proud (Comment on this)
5:56 am	no metronome... http://youtube.com/watch?v=qF6vUW2frOI I like the original video better. But this kid nailed it. This kid spent hours on this, and it changed him. Forever. It makes me happy to see the artist connect with someone so directly at this level. No Handlebars - as so clichéd as it is, really reflects the era well. I heard this on the radio about a month ago for the first time, and then saw it on a video game server a week ago. I'm entranced by it. Greenday made their rock opera, American Idiot, but this song is much more powerful. The fact that people are responding to it gives me hope. Even if you don't take the actual message at face value, there's a positive message to be had. Things may be going downhill, but you can always count on the youth to look up to the future. 1920s? Hello, please meet the 2010's. no metronome... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
2:35 am	Update I could have sworn I updated this thing more recently than October 2007. Congratulations, world, I've made it 24, and almost a half, years. It's time to get a new(er) car, pay off those credit card bills once and for all. Guitar is getting better, adopted Stacy's old cats. Three quarters done building an electric guitar, one eighth of the way done with an acoustic guitar. Bought a les paul, hopefully going sailing tomorrow at lake lewisville. Snowed yesterday. Living in Dallas now - 75213. Fully employed. Huzzah. Where do I go from here? It's a glass ceiling for the mean time, but it's a good ceiling to be at. Six months till my bonus... and then... Peru? Always wanted to see Machu Picchu. I guess that's all for now. Not sure what my direction in life is next. My dad was a bachelor till 38, he seemed to enjoy things. Maybe not that long for me, but I'll figure something out. I always do. (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
6:17 pm	The zero meridian used by satellite navigation systems (on the WGS84 datum) is 102.5 metres (336.3 feet) to the east of the line marked at Greenwich.[1]. WGS84 uses the zero meridian as defined by the Bureau International de l'Heure,[2] which was defined by compilation of star observations in different countries. The mean of this data caused a shift of about 100 metres east away from the Prime Meridian at Greenwich, UK.[3] ... Curiously, whether by accident or design, the location of the WGS84 0° meridian is marked in Greenwich by the presence of a waste basket on the path leading more or less due east from the observatory containing the transit telescope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Meridian (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
2:05 am	This thing keeps getting updated less and less frequently. i guess it's an online journal for my busy life... updated as the need arises. today was a day of reflection. i guess i shoul dstart at the beginning. ntxpa we decided to have a birthday weekend for me this fri/sat/sun, with booze cigars and video games. i found out the tuesday before that my mom had decided to sell the house for sure and that she had already packed most everything in to boxes. barely two weeks before we had talked about her selling the house and she thought it was a good idea. we discussed moving in to a town home. tuesday night i came home from work to see the entire house packed up in boxes. this was pretty stressful; quite litterally all but two styrafoam cups were packed, and i ate a pizza my grrandfather bought me in a miscelanious glass dish. the next night was a rather somber birthday - reminding me of my birthday six years before which was held at the hospice my dad was to die at seven days later - the mood of impending moving was hanging in the air like a dark cloud above our heads. the food was good but nobody had much of an appetite. italian food at pasano's - where debra and i went for homecomming so many years ago. friday night my uncle and cousin came in to town to help with the packing. it was depressing, and i met my mother's new roommate. stressful. to say the least. i cam home and had a snippy comment about the TV colume; ten minutes later my landlord/roommate gave me my 30 day notice... the joy of a month to month lease. two days before joey decided (at krysten's suggestion) to move out.... now in a few days we'll be looking at moving in together with another guy from his work. saturday was spent moving. i showed up an hour late, and at one point completely dissapeared when people started talking about how they'd get rid of the things in the garage. rather than completely break down i decided to leave and go to the texaco station and pick up some gatorade - anything to get me out o f the house. nobody noticed me missing until 45 min later. had dinner with joey and krysten, and krysten's roommate from spain. it was good to get out amongst people but damnit i wasn't in the mood. got my mind off of things for a bit and i am happy about that in retrospect. i've been writing debra a letter. i haven't spoken to her in weeks and it's tearing me apart. things have gotten rough over here and as always, my thoughts keep drifting to her. quite litterally i can't have a conversation with a stranger without her coming up in conversation. it's depressing, but I love her and durring these tough times my mind drifts towards her. so there's a very real possibility i'll be moving in with joey... and possibly his coworker. it's closer to work, and cheaper than where i'm living currently. i won't be living here past dec 1 for sure. (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
1:01 am	# Post an Entry Last updated 14 weeks ago hmm... social networks are increasing in trend speed. livejournal was king for like... 5 years until myspace came along where the xanga asians and lj everyone else were able to socialize peacably. now it's facebook, who knows what's next. 14 weeks ago... not much was happening. looking back a little further, 6 months ago to the day was when i decided to take up the guitar. it wasn't another month and a half before I finally bought one (deciding electric guitar strings on a cigar box guitar just weren't gonna cut it). strange to think just five months ago i'd given up on barre chords and made up my mind that i was just going to have to pick out songs without barre chords, and now they're not even a second thought - though muddy sounding. i'm playing easy chord songs the first time through at roughly 1/4 speed without any issues... not bad, i suppose. for "self taught". watching and playing with others helps tremendously. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 25th, 2007
12:10 am	My life, in a nutshell: (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 14th, 2007
1:09 pm	1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Uddin saw the captain and first mate rushing about the bridge, anxiously monioting the struggle below. Eventually the starboard lifeboat was freed, but then it began to drift foward along the broken hull toward the breach - a rage of breaking seas that would surely kill the men if they were swept in. Uddin and the others in the port lifeboat watched in frustration, unable to intervine. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
4:03 am	a small, crowd of unfocused energy huddles around the campfire of the party A small unsuspecting figure rises from the crowd, and dons a sky blue guitar, seemingly dangling from under a hoodie. the beat carries him, and soon, for three minutes, eyes pushed tightly shut, he is a tiny god in his own right. attention snaps to focus on a crystal clear image, his inhibition melts away and pure energy exudes from his arms and through the speakers. a quiet peace settles over the crowd; almost from the corner of your eye you could swear for just a second he was glowing a dim light -they realize they're experiencing something briefly special before it shrinks away. then it's over. and like a gentle monk, he carefully repositions his hood, and quietly fades away in to the background of the noise of the party, the memory already distant, and soon forgotten. (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 11th, 2007
12:43 am	the heater in my house sounds like a freight train can i handle living here for 20 more days? stay tuned to find out! (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 28th, 2006
11:34 am	Crazy. I haven't posted anything in almost two months. I'm active in various lj communities, but I guess LJ has just fallen out of favor for me, like it has for most of my other friends. Daniel is the only person I know who still posts semi-regularly. The last post of any significant interest is probably Aug 26 or Sept 1. I think most all contact with my friends has moved to a private mailing list. Recap from the last two months: Promotion/new job at the Dallas Angelika (kinda sorta head projectionist). Destroying what remains of my credit card debt, nearly have my car paid off. Moving to Dallas in January. Going to Dallas comm. college in the spring. Christmas was uneventful. I had to work that day, and every evening before and after that, so I missed out on hanging out with many of my friends over this break. In fact, the only two of my friends I've seen this entire month have been Krysten and Terah. I don't even know what my plans are for New Years yet. I think my apartment in Dallas will lack an internet connection. I predict I'll get a shitload more done in my spare time, and get out a lot more as a result. Plus I'll save a mininum of $60 a month. My productivity has dropped significantly since we got the internet working there. I started writing a book (again). This time it's a western where the crooks are chased to colorado and end up trying to elude the bounty hunter in the middle an epic blizzard. Stolen money, revolvers, two bad guys, and a bounty hunter. Formulaic? Hell yes - it's the only way to write something more than a few pages long. I had an epiphany of sorts while starting to write it, and on the drive to work the next day, about plot development, character development, and all sorts of things that had not been apparent before that day. I also decided that actual literary analasys isn't something that can be force-fed. I did all the AP english bullshit and got nothing out of it. Actually turned me off of reading (novels) for almost four years. Anyways, I think lit. analyasis is something that evolves on it's own outside of acadamia when discussing books read for pleasure - not forced-discussion of books that were the broke back mountain of their era over 100 years ago (yes, i'm looking at you, scarlet letter). Also: trying to map out pacing of the book, and how the fuck to introduce some sort of character development to a western that's essentially a drawn out chase scene, or if it's even really worth it... I mean, how much character development did we see in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly? I mean, blondie blows up that bridge for the civil war captian on his deathbed, and we learn about Tuco's family problems from his brother at the abbey, but that's about it. Of course I don't think I have the skill to write a plot like The G/B/U that requires so little character development. The book is interesting, it sorta sprung out of my mind on to the paper - ten pages of it before I litterally knew it. I found out about lulu.com, which will print a single hardbound copy of your book for $23. Bulk discounts (about $2/book) apply after 5 books. This is pretty awesome, as I'd looked in to binding my own books, but it's damn near impossible/extremely time consuming for anything remotely professional looking/more than 100 pages. I'd like to print a couple of copies just to "sell" to half price books at a significant loss to get it out there. If Stephen King could do it at 19 (and his first Dark Tower book wasn't exactly phenomenal), I can do 1/4 as good at 23, right? Still looking at buying a house. We're in the 40% probability range at this point, but it's still a possibility. Probably not until 2008 unfortunately. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
10:19 pm	fuck linux, and it's inability to run a basic FTP server out of the box. Would it really be so hard to copy OS X's implementation? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
9:10 pm	What an awesome birthday present An anonymous reader writes to point us to an article on the meaning of a new law that President Bush signed on Oct. 17. It seems to allow the President to impose martial law on any state or territory, using federal troops and/or the state's own, or other states', National Guard troops. From the article: "In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law. It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions." Here is a link to the bill in question. The relevant part is Sec. 1076 about 3/4 of the way down the page. So yeah. We're not having elections for the 2008 presidency, in other words. Zakk, you lucky fuck - you got out while you could. Anyone hear any rumors about the Republicans cutting funding to the Passport offices? (Comment on this)
Friday, October 27th, 2006
11:55 am	Hooray Physics! I'm using the Bernoulli effect to ventilate my room! Huzzah for previously useless physics knowledge. Living in an apartment on the corner of a building is infinitely interesting and amusing. Also: I'm learning more about Photoshop than I ever thought possible. And: Track 4 on Daft Punk's Discovery Album rocks my world. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
11:22 am	opera DS man this thing has paid for itself already! lm at the dentist and l found 2 unsecured wifi points, heh Current Music: e\evator/waiting room muzak (Comment on this)
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
11:46 pm	Two very important facts 1) You can type "wiki Shiner" or "wiki Horse" or whatever in to the address bar (the "http://www." part) and Firefox will auto-pull up the most relevant wikipedia entry automatically. Genius. 2) Microwave burritos can be used to move the mouse on your laptop's touch pad, even through a ceramic plate! Since touchpads work on a conductive potential principal, that means that burritos are significantly more conductive than burritos. Moral of the story: Never put a microwave burrito in an electrical outlet. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 9th, 2006
2:25 am	I love how sinfest plays devil's advocate - or in this case, god's advocate. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
6:05 am	house md drinking game take a drink if they intibate take a drink if the patient goes in to cardiac arrest take a drink if they suggest it might be lupis take a drink if they break in to someone's house take a drink if house makes a comment about cuttie's chest take a drink if the red and grey ball is in the shot take a drink if house is eating a ruben sandwhich take a drink if they cut to an aerial pan shot of the hospital i'll think of more later. thank god i don't follow this, else I'd be broke and have no liver (Comment on this)
Monday, October 2nd, 2006
3:33 am	I'm fucking brilliant I can't wait to get this stenciled on to a T-shirt. I have another stencil design of a knight on a prancing horse holding a gas pump handle with two drops of gas comming out the end. Drops will be red. I want big 4" tall letters on the back of the shirt over the shoulders that says "2KCRUSADE" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 29th, 2006
2:50 pm	also check out this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3CzHo-1SFdw (Comment on this)