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[30 Jun 2008|10:14pm] |
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so i just thought of something. if i were to fly somewhere, i wonder if i could take one liter bottle of water, and freeze it, pull it out just before leaving for the airport, making sure to keep it in a cooler or something to keep it frozen on the way, if they'd let me bring it in my carry on, because it's a solid rather than a liquid... the rules ONLY state no more than 3.4oz of LIQUID!
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| Lightscribe.... neat! |
[27 Jun 2008|11:27pm] |
So my CD burner recently just crapped out on me, and i had to get a new one. well considering all we have at Best Buy are DVD burners now, i figured i'd take the opportunity to upgrade. i got a brand new Pioneer internal burner with LightScribe for my computer for just under $40 with the employee discount.
lightscribe is pretty cool, i probably wouldn't pay much extra for it, it just happened to be included in the burner that i was buying anyway, (based on price and consumer reviews). i've been playing with it all night and so far i only have two complaints about lightscribe.
1. it takes FOREVER! 20-30min for a disc, and it uses SOOOOO much memory while doing so you might as well go watch some TV till it's done, because unless you have like 4GB of ram, you aren't going to be doing much on the computer very fast.
2. it seems they all use Nero for the software for it, which is not very user friendly at all as far as designing labels go, but it's what you have to use if you want full freedom of putting stuff on there. otherwise you have to use the one by HP which is all template-based. it makes it easy but templates are pretty limited, and nobody seems to be making more right now. also, there is no easy way to create your own templates yet. if HP were to make a program to create your own templates, that would be awesome, but so far you're stuck with what they give you. there are a few good ones though.
anyway, here are a couple i've done so far.
Weezer's Red Album
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace
(because i can't find my old burned copy, probably in Dan's car.)
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| KATamari Damacy |
[27 Jun 2008|12:45am] |
so here's one i made over at CanHaz.
moar funny pictures
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| Dag, yo! |
[25 Jun 2008|12:53am] |
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so i was getting bored with stumbleupon (yes i'm fully aware how sad it is when you are getting bored with the supposed "cure" to internet boredom), and i came across someone with a The Cheat user pic, which reminded me it's been probably over a year since i visited Homestar Runner! i just got all caught up on Teen Girl Squad, and now i'm working on getting caught up on my SB Emails. dear god, how did i forget how awesome this is?!
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| Bo Burnham - New Math |
[24 Jun 2008|01:28am] |
this kid is my new hero.
this is quite possibly the best math/science geek song of all time! some of the most clever puns ever, and some dirty humor that is just great. His humor and music are both spot on, so check out some of his other songs too "My Whole Family Thinks I'm Gay" is another good one.
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| Hey Fellow Fargoans |
[09 Jun 2008|10:12pm] |
so yeah, YES-NO-YES tomorrow.
YES on disallowing three commissioners to reverse decisions made by the public. why should three people get to decide what's right for a whole community?!
NO on an all-out smoking ban. i know this is a touchy subject, and non-smokers piss and whine about "i hate smoke and there are only a few bars that are non smoking", actually 85% of the places in Fargo with a liquor license are non-smoking. if you know a particular bar is smokey, you have the choice, tough it out and go anyway, or go to a different place. nobody is FORCING you to drink in that bar. I'm not even a regular smoker, but i like the occasional cigarette after i've had a few drinks. Preserve our right to CHOOSE!
YES on keeping the law the way it is. i for one am getting really sick of my rights being stripped from me year after year, and what's next? "oh we successfully banned smoking in buildings, but now we have to walk through the crowd of smokers to get into the bar, you need to stand at the end of the block in the middle of the parking lot even in the 20 below weather!" we already voted on this once. that should be enough for a while. to keep bringing this up every year and whine even harder until you annoy everyone into voting your way is unfair and an abuse of the democratic system.
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| PARTY TIME! EXCELLENT!! |
[02 Jun 2008|01:10am] |
So anyone who knows me, knows that my favorite comedy movies of all time are the two Wayne's World movies. I guess earlier tonight on the MTV Movie awards Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey made a special guest appearance on the show to a Wayne's Top Ten list of porno names based off 2007/2008 movies.
Now I didn't see it for 3 very good reasons.
1. I haven't voluntarily watched MTV since Celebrity Deathmatch was still playing new episodes.
2. I don't have cable
3. I worked from 11 this morning till about 12:30 tonight.
Somebody did however post a video on Youtube which i will post below in a moment, sadly it cuts off partway through for some reason, but i have found a picture that displays the rest of the list.
NOW HERE'S WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING!
I guess it got a HUGE standing ovation which was enough to impress certain producers in the audience enough to create a buzz around the green room and after party about the possibility of bringing Wayne's World back for a THIRD MOVIE!!!
this is the best news since i realized that the new Futurama movie "The Beast with a Billion Backs" is less than a month away!
In slightly less excellent personal news, i have had this condition for like 5 years now called Costochondritis which means my cartilage sort of expands and contracts occasionally causing an assload of pain that actually feels a lot like a heart attack for a couple hours till it goes away, and it's acting up REALLY bad right now... i'm in a great deal of pain.
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| Pork and Beans |
[23 May 2008|01:07pm] |
The new Weezer video should be freaking awesome to anyone who spends more than an hour a day on the internet. More familiar faces than that southpark episode. i like how they gave afro ninja guy the chance to show he really can kick some ass! :P
=W= The Red Album - June 3rd! =W=
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| Moving day for Lemmywinks! |
[22 May 2008|03:07pm] |
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so i have this gerbil named Lemmywinks, and she used to have a nice little plastic cage until she found its one weak point and gnawed her way through it. so i had to take and put it in an empty storage bin. so until recently this was her home.
then yesterday i was at The Dakota Boy's Ranch (charitable thrift store, not a pedophile day camp) looking for a cheap used bike, when i came across an aquarium for $15. i've been looking for a cheap one for a while so Lemmywinks can have a nicer cage. This one was a GREAT deal because it also came with the stand (which has a cabinet for food and supplies storage), the pump, filter, light hood, and heater, along with the tank decorations and everything. now i don't have a fish nor do i plan to have one soon, i just wanted the tank and stand, but i suppose it's cool to have it if i ever want to get fish later.
so anyway, this is her NEW home! :D
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| Indy!! :D |
[22 May 2008|02:38am] |
So I just got home from seeing Indiana Jones. it was good... REAL GOOD!
now i have to admit that i was a bit underwhelmed when it started getting closer to the climax and becoming about... well, i don't want to ruin it for anyone, so I'll just say "what it was about". at one point i believe i muttered "oh no" thinking it was going to be totally ruined. in the end though, the movie definitely did turn out to be pretty goddamn awesome! Well written, well acted, the action was done in a very decidedly Indy style, and the humor was there in spades. in fact there were many parts that had me laughing pretty damn hard. most of it was humor that only an Indy fan would get, but seeing as pretty much everyone at the midnight sneak preview showing were Indy fans (there was a handful of girls who you could tell had been dragged their by their geeky boyfriends), the film got a pretty decent response from the crowd. Lots of fanservice as far as references to the previous three.
Overall, i have to say it's not the best Indy film of the bunch, but it's fucking Indiana Jones, and that's good enough for me! :D
[also, i was amazed that about 10% of the crowd showed up in leather jackets and Indy style fedoras. i was also, amazed when i noticed i knew like 50% of the ppl in the theater.]
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[20 May 2008|03:12pm] |
Dear weird-looking chick on the bus,
Please stop staring at me, you creep me out.
Thanks,
[name withheld to prevent stalking]
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[19 May 2008|10:14pm] |
OMG i am so frigging excited! only TWO MORE DAYS (and like 2 hours) until the new Indy movie!
i guess it got like a 3.5 minute standing ovation at its premiere the other night, and the reviewers pretty much all seem to love it, so thank god for that. we'll see if it can out-sell Iron Man. it probably will. It's probably going to be between Iron Man, Indy IV, The Dark Knight for the top blockbuster of the summer. that's assuming Beverly Hills Chihuahua doesn't outsell all of them combined. *gag*
anyway i got my ticket for the sneak preview midnight showing for Wednesday night!
god damnit, why can't it be Wednesday night already?!
also, i bought some new socks today, and the bag had like a ziplock thing on it, which i would normally go, ok what's the point in that, and move on, but then upon further inspection of the back side of the bag, it actually brags about being "resealable."
i mean, really. is that necessary? when the hell would i need to reseal my socks? do i need to preserve their freshness? should i stick them in the fridge if i'm not going to use them all tonight? will they go bad if i leave them out overnight? should i freeze some of them to save for next week?! WTF?!
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| being assertive really works! |
[16 May 2008|01:56pm] |
so with it being over $200 a month to heat this place in the winter i had been on a $100/mo payment plan from Excel NRG. until it all got payed off later this summer, well i guess that wasn't good enough for them because i got a disconnection notice in the mail the other day saying if i didn't pay off the rest of what i owe they'd shut off my power. I called them and apparently "nobody there is authorized to set up a payment plan like that, so whoever told you that was wrong." after talking to them and TRYING to work something out with them i was basically told that the ONLY way to stop my power from getting shut off was to pay the rest of what i owe. so i made sure (two days ago) "so long as i pay this bill TODAY my power will not be shut off tomorrow" they confirmed it. so i had to spend my entire tax return on paying off the rest of my electricity bill to stop my power from getting turned off, but i payed it later that day.
the next day MY FUCKING POWER WAS TURNED OFF!
apparently nobody bothered to tell me that i had to CALL THEM after paying the bill and confirm that i had posted payment. so the next day (yesterday) shortly after i left for work my power was turned off. Krystle called me and told me what happened so i had to waste my entire lunch break arguing with them. the bitch i talked to told me i was going to have to pay a reconnection fee even though it wasn't my fucking fault. so i told her it was fucking bullshit and she got pissy for me swearing and hung up. by the time i got home my cell was dead so i couldn't even charge it to call them. i had to walk to the fucking gas station on the corner and argue with them on a damn public payphone. instead of asking questions and getting pissed at the answers i just stopped her from talking told her what happened told her nobody had even informed me that i had to call them (even accusing the company of purposefully neglecting this in order to collect more money from me). then i told her this is what is GOING to happen. Somebody is going to come out and turn my power on TODAY and i WILL NOT pay a reconnection fee, as it wasn't my mistake. i did everything that was asked of me, and it still got shut off. it's BS and it needs to be rectified NOW. well at that point all the field guys were done for the day i guess and there is NOBODY out there who can come and unlock the box and flip a damn switch. so i had to deal all last night with no power. lucky for me there is an outlet in the hall right next to my front door so i was able to run an extension cord into my living room and at least plug in a lamp, my TV, and my XBOX so i can play some GTA:IV and watch a movie (Jackie Chan's The Myth, awesome flick BTW). i had to drag my microwave into the living room in order to make some semblance of dinner though. and i had to use a flashlight just to go take a piss, but at least they came out here first thing in the morning today and i won't be charged for the reconnection.
(also i found out that they are doing this type of BS to a lot of ppl right now, in order to milk ppl for as much of their Stimulus Check as they can, which the stimulus check was not intended to pay bills, it was intended to BUY things to help the economy. EXCEL ENERGY HATES AMERICA! IT'S TRYING TO RUIN OUR ECONOMY! lol.)
anyway, at least i found out asserting yourself without flipping out works REALLY WELL! (also, saying your brother is an attorney never hurts either.)
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| i bet i can still finish them all. |
[11 May 2008|02:44am] |
so while i don't get free meals at Hooters, the one good thing is anything that's going to be thrown away, i can take home. well usually this isn't big, it's like a cups worth of chili at the end of the night (since we can't hold it overnight) or something. but tonight the last order we got was 70 wings. well, the guy who dropped them was dumb and for somehow got "breaded" out of "naked" and dropped 70 breaded wings. not one to let them just get thrown i threw them in a big bucket with some BBQ sauce.
as you can see, the bucket is quite large. that's a LOT of wings! :P
so now i have like 70 wings. at least i have a couple days off to finish them. wings and GTA4 (maybe some MarioKart Wii also), that's my next few days. anyone care to join me? plenty of both to go around! i just have to keep plenty of wipes handy to wipe off the controllers when i'm done playing.
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[10 May 2008|01:31pm] |
ok this is not fucking right! it's snowing AGAIN!!!
granted it's very light and it probably won't stick to anything it's all melting as it hits the ground but still!!! It's the fucking principal of the thing.
IT'S FUCKING MAY!!!!
fuck you North Dakota. the second i get my finances in order again, i'm fucking leaving!
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| Cinco De Mayo drunk post!! :D |
[05 May 2008|04:51am] |
so i guess i never posted about it but after being fired from Take 2 Video, i got a new job cooking at Hooters. i love to cook and they were hiring, so i figured why not. plus it's all the hours i want at over $2 more per hr than i was making at Take 2. it's an okay job, but i'm getting a little sick of all the cleaning that goes into that place. all my other cooking jobs never had THIS much cleaning. i don't mind a little bit of cleaning, but when you're tearing down the kitchen and washing dishes for FOUR FUCKING HOURS after closing, it gets a little ridiculous! like tonight, the kitchen shuts down at 10pm. we were there till 2:30 in the fucking morning cleaning because we had to deep-clean the fryers and grill (you do that EVERY Sunday night).
also, i might be moving to West Fargo (yes, Fargo and West Fargo are two completely different towns sammiched together) soon. Krystle found her own place she plans to move to when our lease is up, and i'm looking at a couple places. there is one in West Fargo that sounds really nice. it's like $360/mo total + heat, but since i like my place cool, heat doesn't cost too much for me. what's nice about West Fargo is they have Midcontinent Communications there instead of those bullshit fuck-face bastards Cable One. not having to put up with Cable One's bullshit is the whole reason i don't have cable at my place right now, because the only other option is satellite. Midcontinent charges less for WAAAAYYYY more channels, has MUCH better customer service, their internet is faster, and their rates don't skyrocket after 6 months like Cable One's do.you can get internet and cable through Midcontinent for like $80/mo and that's ALL THE TIME. Cable One charges like 99 or 109 for the same thing with a slower connection and less channels, and that's only for the first 6 months. really, though the ideal situation would be to find someone in WF looking for a roommate, and everything would cost WAAAYYYY less than what i'm looking at right now. but really, with how inefficient this building is for heat, we're looking at only about $50 more per month for this place in West Fargo.
The Dallas Stars (hockey) won an INCREDIBLE game (seriously CLICK THINS LINK... amazing highlights from an AMAZING game) tonight Game 6 in the Western Conference Semi-Finals, Stars lead the series 3 games to 2 going into tonight's game. if they win they move on to face the Red Wings for the Western Conference Championship, then from there it's the Stanley Cup Final vs. either the Penguins or the Flyers (whoever wins the Eastern Conference). looking for that 4th win the Stars were looking to end the series tonight, knowing if they lose tonight, all it would take is one unlucky break tomorrow to send them home for the season. halfway into the 4TH OVERTIME (that means over 130min of just playing time. that's not counting time between whistles for face-offs and whatnot) The Stars finally were able to put one in in a play that can only be described as "beautifully executed". seriously, it's games like this that really show you what hockey is all about. when the game can start off with a guy getting checked THROUGH THE FUCKING GLASS and finish in QUADRUPLE OVERTIME with the same rivals shaking hands and hugging, congratulating each other on a game well played, it really shows you how great a port it is. So here's to hoping the Stars kick ass against the Red Wings!! *finishes beer* :D
Also, Free Comic Book Day was Saturday, and it was OMFG RIDICULOUS! seriously i got there like a half hour before the store opened (i was on my way to work, i'm not THAT crazy hardcore of a fanboy) and was like 10th in line, but by the time it hit about 10-15 minutes before opening the line had stretched all the way around the block! they were like, "this is a WAAAAAY bigger turnout than we expected, so we are going to have to implement a 10 item per person rule!" i got the comics i really wanted and my Iron Man and Clone Trooper mini-figurines anyway so i'm cool with that. also they had a nice sale going on so i picked up a couple graphic novels.
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| Punk Rawk Show! |
[01 May 2008|02:02am] |
So last night i went to the Bouncing Souls and MxPx concert. It was pretty goddamn awesome! we went to a friend's house and got drunk before hand and then hit up the show sneaking in some whiskey cokes. The Concert turned out to be great the bands both put on a great show! my camera died between the Bouncing Souls and MxPx so i only got pics of The Bouncing Souls.
Click the picture to go to the album.
after the show we wound up going to Dempsey's for karaoke night. i got hammered on Guinness and did what i'm told was a pretty damn good rendition (considering how drunk i was at that point) of Feelin' Alright by Joe Cocker. then for my next song i decided to RickRoll the place. :D
all in all it turned out to be a GREAT night! :D
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| NO! I didn't order any condoms! |
[27 Apr 2008|02:09am] |
So i don't know what kind of mailing list my name got on somehow... but today i went to go check the mail and there was a manila envelope addressed to me. so i open it, and dump out the contents on the table and out falls a condom. a condom and a letter saying "Thank you for your request for a free sample of NaturaLamb the newest in all-natural lambskin condoms designed for monogamous couples who desire heightened sensitivity, from the makers of Trojan...."
uuuummmmm.... i don't recall asking for a free condom sample but i guess it couldn't hurt to keep it on the off-chance i get laid eventually. it's been a long time since i've bought condoms so the ones i have left over probably aren't any good anymore. or perhaps this is a sign that i will soon be in a monogamous relationship. i mean, fate could have delivered unto me a regular latex Trojan, but instead i get a "NaturaLamb". now i'm no idiot, i know lambskin doesn't protect you from STDs so obviously i'm not going to use this unless i'm in a relationship with a girl. what do you think? is this a sign or just me randomly receiving a free condom i never asked for.
i'm thinking it's the latter. oh well, i'm keepin' it anyway. i mean, c'mon... free condom!
oh! also, I saw The Forbidden Kingdom today, and it's AWESOME! the action was good, the humor was good, the characters were pretty decent. the only two weak parts really were the girl who played Sparrow seemed to have trouble emoting properly in English, and the story, while an interesting take on what seems like an untold chapter of the classic ancient Asian tome Journey to the West, could have been better told. Certain parts were REALLY well told and others just seemed to be filler until the next action sequence. but overall a GREAT movie for anyone who likes Jackie Chan, Jet Lei, or Kung-Fu films in general, or anyone who is interested in ancient Chinese culture, as this really is like a combination of Journey to the West and Wizard of OZ. also the kid who plays Jason (the kid who comes from the future to return the staff to the imprisoned Monkey King) is really good for a relative unknown!
PS: I totally stole the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull poster off the wall at the theater... don't tell anyone... :P
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| WTF mother nature!? you bitch! |
[25 Apr 2008|06:47pm] |
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ok so i guess i was misinformed when i heard it was supposed to be spring now, because it's fucking SNOWING outside right now! and not just snowing, but damn near blizzarding! did i sleep right through summer or what because when i was outside earlier not only did it feel like late fall it even had that "day before the first snow of winter" smell in the air. global warming my ass!
fuck you nature. stop it. for the past 2 months now you melt all the snow then drop a shitload on us again just when we think it's safe to break out the shorts. at this rate we'll never really experience summer! it's less than a week away from being fucking MAY for chrissakes! so just fucking stop it!
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