>I went to go see Scooby Doo 2 with Rachel this eve. Full of fart jokes, drug references of various types (smoke, whippits, etc), peeks down the girls shirts and up their skirts, and quite a few jokes that would certainly go over the young ones heads. I was entertained, the effects were good, the story was as good as it needed to be, and there were even some positive messages for the young ones (Be Yourself). I’d give it a good 3 1/2 stars, an extra 1/2 star for content and effort. 😉
>Just got back from a bit o dancin. I was hoping for a night of release, some physical exercise, and maybe a little bit of flirting fun. Not so — I tried, but felt bad the whole time. Whether I actually was or not, I felt like I was getting glares from all over – from the people I knew, from guys who I thought might be attached to the girl who was dancing near me, from the girl who looked like she wanted to dance but who I passed up because I’d already started dancing with someone else… I’ve…
>Endless string of dreams last night — – futuristic video game show hosted by my JHS gym teacher: Ms. Dodge * ankle crushers * contestents 1 & 2 were androids * very tron – party at my dads * supposed to be gone for the weekend * limo with a baby seat in the back * loitering on the front porch – etc * * * – etc * * off to my birthday-day @ Dad’s.
>When we left the theater, Laura & I were recalling various memories of our own. High School, childhood, and then that lead into her showing me her HS photos, the little book she’d just found in her car. She could see my face drop when she showed me a picture of her ex, and Holly’s current (changed as of typing this – April 30th) boyfriend. “I could beat that spud.” is all that crossed my min. She went into a story about how whacked Holly was, maybe to make me feel better. A story from when they were little. She…
>Parasites — fix up houses just enough, do repairs required by building inspectors poorly. Ventilation from shower into eves. Putting a pipe down, to send moisture out, even out the bottom of the eve would be better then simply filling it with moisture. “They’ve always passed building inspection before when my friend’s done it.” Buy, invest, fix up, sell. Sell at full price with repairs done hastily with shortcuts taken, and cheap materials. Everyone has to save $ but at least do it right. No shortcuts, you owe it to the people who will own it next. No wonder Springfield…
>God damn it. I forgot about this: They’re always pushing for oil drilling in Alaska — they were just trying to come up with a good excuse. People are more apt to say yes to drilling if they think there’s no other choice. What happened to the initial agreement of our handling of Iraq oil, huh? Didn’t we agree that in order to “maintain current market prices” we’d put any overflow, or “our cut” in other words, into a “federal oil reserve”? They have influence over these prices, too – over Opec. One of the selling points of the Bush…
>I went to go see “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” on Monday night. It was fantabulous! I was extremely impressed with the actors abilities. Charley Kaufman has again written a fine piece of cinema. If you’ve seen Adaptation and enjoyed it, you probably know what I mean when I say it follows the same dynamic, circular (read: non-linear) story telling style as Adaptation, and some of the same thought-provoking mind-fucks as both Adaptation and Being John Malkovitch. You don’t necessarily need to bring your brain with you (but it couldn’t hurt), just a few emotions, and maybe even that…
>Rachel took me out on Saturday — a bit of a pre-birthday celebration, we went out to Wayland MA for a play. It was a community theater, but in name only. The name of the play was: Picasso – Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein meet in a bar in France, 1903. Written by Steve Martin, and being of the absurdist genre… it was marvelous, and wonderfully apt for a person such as myself. I was enjoying the show, the random happenings, the silly conversations, and the intricate descriptions of man/woman relations when the words hit me like a slap. I…
>Gaming Find
>After an agonizing evening scrawling countless different gaming files sites, I am very excited to share this information: The All Seeing Eye – a multiplayer gaming tool better then gamespy, and geared towards MODs. FileShack – multiplayer gaming files, MODs, etc with no waiting, and wide open servers. Thanks to Justin for that tidbit. 😉 I stopped at my Mom’s today for a birthday dinner of sorts. She cooked one of my favorites: Salmon Wiggle. Sounds funny, but it’s some VT thing. She also got me something to open: Mr Clean carwash. I had already gotten it for my bithday,…
>The party was a hit. I had a blast — went downtown, played some pool and started the night with some cheap beers @ Fat Cat’s. It wasn’t all that great of a pool table, but it’s sort of a loft, away from the usual bar bustle. I think they even had a band, but we never went in to see them. That’s how Fat Cat’s usually is, everyone’s aware of the band but no one cares. After that we went to Alumni’s. I did my usual kareoke song: Black Crowes – Hard to Handle, and we did a little…
>Quite the uneventful birthday. I did work on the website a bit more… and get this — I’ve released it for beta. I know it’s not done, but it has continuity but I couldn’t wait to get it up and out there. I just need to add some meta tags and it’s ready to be Googled. From there it should take about a month or two, but for all those web-traversing robots: please go here. Finish Line GFX – my baby, one of many. Give it a shot, let me know how it works… this is probably the most javascript…
>So it did rain, no snowboarding for me — oh well, a day at home shall serve me swell. I mentioned “this whole thing with the planets” to someone the other day. They didn’t know what I was talking about, I still haven’t looked for it, but at least I knew it was happening. I mean: “C’mon. — Yeah, come on.” if this was 1000AD we’d all be sacrificing virgins to the sky. That’s something I’d like to see this evening if the weather clears up by nightfall. A Woman in Winnipeg A Cop in Des Moins, Iowa (Another?) Outlandish…
>Snowboarding
>Well — weather permitting tmw in VT, I will hopefully get one more day of snowboarding in. I’m going up with some friends, am trying out a new board… might buy it if it treats me well. It’s nice and all, a tad pricey for what I was looking for — especially with the lack of steady employment and all. Another website, system, or ebay sale and I should be all set… but there’s so much else I could do with that money. I’m not well… financially. Lack of work, continued rent and bills… it doesn’t look good. I worry…
>Friday’s the big day — celebration time. I put things together myself this time. I normally just pretend I don’t want to do anything, and secretly hope someone will do something. That’s so high school mopey man. I just want to be around friends, people who make me feel good. I’ve invited many, will be expecting few, but that’s alright. The ones who show are the truer of the few. I washed my car for the first time this season with a little help from Mr Clean. I’ve watched the commercials for months now, it finally made it to stores,…
>As I’m packing up my summer tires to be put on tomorrow, I realized something: Someone stole my hub key, the little special-shaped socket on my rims to prevent someone from yoinking them! My car was unlocked for an hour the other day, unarmed as well — I went to go to work and found my door slightly ajar, a few items out of place and the glove-box left open. Nothing had been touched other then the glove-box rifled through. My CDs (all CDRs) were intact, sunglasses still there, nothing missing all-in-all. I didn’t even notice the key was gone,…
>Here’s an excellent video. (300k) “You’re no good for me… but you’re the only one I see.” …and a video from Chemical Brothers, lots of marshal arts and well-placed records, boomboxes, and turntables. Movies I want to see over the course of my birthday weekend: (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) Scooby Doo 2 Jersey Girl Ladykillers Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Whole Ten Yards Music: Sarah McLachlan – Afterglow Tori Amos – Tales of a Librarian Unfortunately there don’t seem to be any books that would interest me that I don’t already have in my possession. If that changes,…
>America’s Funniest Senators – jokes from some of the most attentive of our nations senate. Could you picture your dear old grandma doing this? There was supposed to be a big snow storm today, dammit. Oh well — at least I got some reading done. Subnetting is my mission, I shall overcome. Acronymns, commands, and routing protocols? Unknown are none! If I had a router, I’d name it Timmy: Router> enable Router# config t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. Router(config)# hostname Timmy Timmy(config)# ^Z Timmy# This random rambling brought to you by redbull.
>Displaced By a Bull
>No one could believe there eyes when they got there. We’d been displaced by a mechanical bull. A local industrial night has been going on in Springfield for a month or two now. I’ve only been once before, but last night there was something different. It was already somewhat of a buzzkill walking into “The Salty Dog” for Construct. A local bar with chairs made of roughly hewn 2x4s, barrels on their ends as tables, metal nostalgia signs on the walls, a big safe, some old clawed chairs, and countless other nick-knacks adorning the walls – it’s not exactly the…