I had an ok day today, actually… I got plenty of sleep, which is a big plus. I slept from about 8am til about 4pm. Then we went out to the Chop House and ate. We ended up with my favorite waitress, which was really nice. She’s this really cute chick with kinda short curly blonde hair, an amazing smile and beautiful blue eyes. She seems to be one of those types that’s perpetually in a good mood, but not annoyingly so. She went a little heavy on the perfume today, but it wasn’t unbearable. I think she’d just gotten to work which would explain that. I had my usual Ribeye steak and Phil got a NY Strip. He’d never eaten there before so he was quite impressed at how good the food was. I wasn’t the least bit surprised, since every time I’ve gone, my food has been nothing but good. Not much else came about today… we went to Circuit City and the mall for no apparent reason. In my infinite boredom, I managed to find a new beta of Yahoo messenger that was released pretty recently. I have to say I like it a LOT compared to the old version. It now integrates streaming radio via launchcast and some other random things like being able to hide from just a given set of people without having to go invisible to everyone. No webcam improvements as of yet, which is a mild disappointment. The new version now supports a display picture just like MSN does. They’ve added some new emoticons and this fucking retarded thing called “Audibles” which displays a cartoon character in the IM and it reads off some preset text. Generally useless and pointless. Oh, well.. perhaps they’ll come up with something a little more worthwhile, but overall the new Yahoo is quite a bit better than the old one. It doesn’t really seem that much more buggy than the old one either, which is a definite plus. Click here to check it out. There’s also a new version of MSN Messenger (6.2) available here. MSN is still cleaner and I still prefer its webcam to Yahoo’s. Too bad most of my friends use Yahoo. Unfortunately, I have to work tomorrow. 
My schedule lately after being off this past weekend is weird… 3 on, 1 off, 3 on, 1 off, 4 on, 2 off…. Lame, to say the least. I’m off to bed now that I don’t have anything else of interest to say.
Archive for April, 2004
Just got back from Nashville… I have to say I had a good bit of fun. It was SO NICE being out of Knoxville for awhile. We spent maybe 8 hrs at the LAN party, about 2 of which was playing games, the rest of which was just generally fucking off, eating, talking to people, and downloading tons of stuff off other people’s computers. Amusingly enough, they were giving away free prizes and whatnot…. and in doing so, they ended up getting 2 shoes and a t-shirt stuck in a tree. Someone decided to throw the tree out into the crowd and got it stuck in the tree… then in trying to get it down, 2 shoes got stuck. My friend Sam won a Thermalright SL-700A heatsink for his computer by winning a game of Simon Says. So aside from the LAN party, we visited Best Buy in Brentwood and then ate at Schlotzsky’s there on Saturday afternoon… Brentwood is the rich suburb of Nashville and DAMN could you tell. I don’t think I saw a single car older than a 1991 and EVERYTHING there is nice. Saturday night after the LAN, we ended up eating at the Hard Rock Cafe, which was ok at best. The waitress was pretty nice looking and she was cool as shit. I had probably the worst Long Island Tea I’ve ever had in my life there, though. I swear the fucking thing was 3/4 sweet & sour mix. UGH! Today after we woke up, we went to Opry Mills Mall and checked it out. I’d been before and I warned Sam that it was fucking HUGE. Apparently he didn’t quite grasp my concept of HUGE because it took us a good 20 minutes to cover HALF of it, at which time he said “fuck it, no more walking”. We saw an IMAX film there about NASCAR, which was just plain cool as shit. I hate NASCAR but this movie was just cool as fucking shit. I definitely will make a point to see an IMAX movie whenever possible, no matter what it is. And yeah, there are just a ridiculous amount of hot girls there… on Broadway (the strip), they just seemed to travel in packs of 10-20… it was just fucking nuts. Even at the mall, there were tons of hot girls (most of whom were definitely over age). Even our waitress at Chili’s at the mall was just hot as fuck. So yeah, Nashville rocks nuts. So much better than Knoxville, it’s not even funny. 
I just fucking woke up… I don’t wanna go to work, but it’s not like I have a choice in the matter… We’ve been ridiculously busy this week, which has sucked. Oh, well… I’m going to Nashville this weekend for a LAN party with my friend Sam, which should kick ass. We got a room at an Amerisuites for like $75 about 2 miles from the place. The only thing that’ll suck about the LAN party is that I can almost guarantee I’ll be able to count the number of girls on one hand with 3 of the fingers missing. Yeah, unfortunately, most chicks don’t dig games. Needless to say, we’ll still have fun. It’ll be nice to get the fuck outta Knoxville for a couple of days, for sure. Oh, and something rather amusing & fucked up happened pertaining to that chick Hope that I was going on and on about. Her best friend Charity was over at one of my female friends’ houses and just happened to be looking through my site and saw the blog post about Hope. Well, wouldn’t ya know that Hope CALLS Charity while she’s reading it, so Charity decides to tell Hope everything I said… Yeah, that’s just great. Now she’s gonna be like “wonderful, dorkboy has a crush”. According to my friend, Hope didn’t say anything bad, she just kinda giggled and thought it was cute, but still. I can’t say that I’m not gonna feel a bit awkward around her the next time I see her knowing that she knows how I went on and on about her being beautiful. Don’t get me wrong, she IS beautiful and has the absolute most amazing eyes, but it’s not like I’m gonna actually tell her that in person unless I’m wicked drunk. Amusingly enough, the first time I ever saw her, I was drunk and the first thing outta my mouth was “My god you have beautiful eyes”. I don’t honestly expect much of anything from her, but she’s still really cute and seems to have a good personality, so it can’t hurt anything to be nice to her. Hell, maybe she’s not like 99% of the other girls out there who are so hung up on looks that they miss everything else. I won’t hold my breath, though. Oh yeah… and just for the record, the girl in chainlink underwear I was going on about a week or so ago… Sam finally uploaded the pic… here it is.
I just found this really amusing video on a forum I frequent. Fun with a Fiat. Check it out. It’s 14MB, so I wouldn’t bother unless you’re on DSL/cable or some other broadband connection. Aside from that, today has been rather uneventful, to be honest. I worked as usual and we were slammed as usual on a Monday. One of my friends at work got a new phone today, the Motorola V400… I was pretty impressed, to be honest. It’s backwards from what I’m used to (send on the right, end on the left, unlike most phones), but has a VERY nice screen and size-wise, it’s a good size. It’s a little bit heavy, but it’s kinda nice because it doesn’t feel as though you’re going to break it. My one complaint is that it has the four arrow keys top center like most phones, but the OK button is in the center and is fucking TINY. I had to hit it with my damn fingernail, which was a real pain in the ass. It does have a camera, but unlike the V600, it has no flash, so night time and low-light photography is out of the question. I didn’t test out the camera itself, so I have no idea how good the pics are that it takes, but I’m sure it’s not much better than the other camera phones I’ve come across (eg the Sanyo VM4500, 5150, 5300, and 8100). I’ll check it out when I see her on Wednesday. It DOES have speakerphone, which is really nice and supposedly does mp3 ringtones, neither of which I got to test out because I was at work. Motorola still uses their idiotic iTap instead of T9 like most normal manufacturers use. In all honesty, I’ve never been a huge fan of Cingular’s voice quality and I do think that Sprint has better quality overall. Both have really nice phones out now, but Cingular does have the coverage advantage, plus the ability to roam with your phone worldwide. Oh, well.. enough blubbering.. I’m out for now
Ok, so there’s this chick who’s a friend of a friend… she’s wicked cute, hot, beautiful… whatever… Ugh, ok, fuck it… Her name is Hope, and she’s friends with a chick I know named Charity. I normally make a point of keeping names out of my blog, but this girl really deserves to have her name mentioned. She’s just… wow… I can’t even quite come up with any other way to describe her other than that… well, besides “out of my league”, but still. The girl has the most amazing fucking eyes I’ve ever seen in my entire life and I swear to god everytime I see her, I damn near have a coronary. Tonight was the first time I’ve ever really touched her and not only is she gorgeous with a brain, but she has this amazingly soft skin. I swear I could touch her all damn night long and not even be the least bit upset about it. Suffice it to say, the girl just fucking kills me. Not only all this, but I find out tonight that she’s a nursing student or some such good stuff… Ok, take a minute to think about this here…. Idiots don’t go into nursing, so I can guarantee that she’s not a fucking moron. Yet another plus. Oh yeah, she likes alcohol too… so yeah, there’s a plus! But yeah, I’m some random scrawny dorkboy, in whom she’d have no interest, so why should I even bother busting my balls over her? I see her maybe one a month tops, after all. Oh, well… Needless to say I went to CEJ tonight and had quite a bit of fun… I had intended to spend only $20 on drinks, but ended up spending about $27 or so… I’m not even sure and I’m afraid to check my wallet to find out. I got pretty drunk and had a good time, so I can’t really complain. For those of you not in the know (Yeah, like anyone that I don’t know actually reads my blog)… CEJ = Cotton Eyed Joe… a horribly lame country western club that plays various country & r&b songs and manages to find a way to line dance to ALL of it… go figure. I go on sporadic occasions because there are plenty of incredibly beautiful women to look at (example listed above), so it’s usually worth my time to an extent and it’s free, so might as well. Oh well… bunch of beautiful women I have no chance in hell with… still nice to look at… Needless to say, I’m kinda drunk, so I should hit the hay. I’m out for now.
Today’s word is “belated”. A relatively simple word that most everyone should know simply because I’m sure we’ve all heard “happy belated birthday”. Well, amusingly enough, right before I got off work, one of my female friends called me and asked me what the word meant. I was actually almost dumbfounded that anyone could NOT know the meaning of the word! She’d had someone tell her happy belated birthday and had no idea what he meant. So she decided to call me and ask me what it meant. This very same person also asked me previously what the word vegetate meant. Amusingly enough, she took it literally and thought that the person meant that they were going to eat a whole bunch of vegetables! *sigh* stupid people make my head hurt. I hope to god she doesn’t ever breed. I don’t deal with stupidity very well, to be perfectly honest. I’m a horrible smartass and I have a really hard time being anything but a complete fucking prick when someone asks me a question that I see as stupid or asinine. Yes, I’ll admit, that’s not the right way to come off to such people, but I just can’t help it. I’d make the worst teacher ever, I swear. I just have this thing where if I think you’re stupid, I’ll make damn sure you feel like a complete idiot. I don’t even try, it just comes completely naturally. I guess I’m somewhat of an elitist… I don’t much care to associate with people who I perceive to have a lower intelligence than myself. I don’t like to talk down to people, and I’m honestly not very good at it in the few instances in which I have to do it. People who speak horribly improper grammar really chap my ass, for example. I hate the phrase “fixin’ to”, as I’ve stated before, as well as I generally hate any sentence ending in the word “to”. Dangling prepositions are like fingernails on a chalkboard to me… absolutely makes me want to rip the person’s throat out when they can’t seem to form a proper sentence. Hell, it even bothers me when I slip up and use a dangling preposition (at times, I have to, lest the sentence sound convoluted and just plain awkward). In case you’re wondering, yes, I analyze every single sentence I speak and make sure that it comes out properly, and I will go so far as to correct myself if I don’t like the way I said something. In most cases, I won’t go so far as to correct myself instantly; I will actually just make sure that the next time I say a certain sentence, I say it in a more grammatically correct way. Ask any of my friends, they’ll vouch for the fact that I correct their grammar pretty regularly unless I just don’t feel like doing it at that particular time. However, I always notice it. Sometimes, I just opt to let it slide for the time being. So now that I’ve gone completley off on a random tangent, here’s today’s wrap-up. I worked 2:30-11:00pm, then after work I went to Bailey’s and had a few drinks with my roommate and a friend from work. We had some rather interesting conversations and I ended up getting just slightly less than drunk. I spent about $26 and came home feeling pretty good… Now I’m here posting more random bullshit and about to go to bed so I can get up for work tomorrow. Fun fun, eh?
I found this very interesting, to say the least. Most games today (especially first person shooters) are getting just plain HUGE. I mean, completely out of control. Unreal Tournament 2004 comes on 6 CD’s or 1 DVD and installs to well over 5GB. I remember when my entire HARD DRIVE was barely 5gb, and now games are taking that much a piece. Absolute craziness. Never mind that it takes a 2ghz machine with 1gb of RAM & a 128MB kickass video card to even make them playable. So anyway, I find this game called “.kkrieger” and it takes up a whopping 96KB. Yeah, no shit… 96KB! Ok, so it’s not exactly complex.. It has a whopping 1 game mode and no user-configurable options, but it’s an early beta and it’s just neat as fuck to see someone put THAT much into 96k. Download it here and see what I mean. Just for shits & giggles, I’m gonna throw in a screenshot of it just so you can see how impressive 96k can be. 
and here’s a couple shots of Far Cry, which looks to be one of the most amazing first person shooters I’ve ever seen… just WOW is all I can say.
Well, now… This is pretty cool if you have a decent cellphone and actually care to read/comment while you’re not at your computer… or if you’re out with friends and saw something amusing you want to show a friend. Just put in http://cryogenic.doesntexist.org/wp-wap.php in your mobile phone and you’ll get a neat stripped-down version of the blog to read. I tried it out on my Sanyo RL2500 on SprintPCS and it works perfectly. I can’t actually make a post from my phone, but you can leave comments from your phone. Pretty neat, to say the least. I haven’t posted the last few days because nothing worthy of noting has happened, so of course, no reason to post. I did happen to download a really neat new CD that was basically comprised of jungle remixes of semi-popular R&B and rap songs. I hate both R&B and rap, but when paired with a decent drum n bass beat, it’s certainly listenable. As of right now, I’m really into this “Beyonce vs Unknown - Me Myself & I (remix)”. No clue who it’s remixed by or anything, but it’s really damn good. It can be had on Soulseek if you look hard enough, or if I’m in a good mood, you can ask me for it and I might send it your way. Oh, well… I have a fucking headache… off to eat a few ibuprofen and possibly go to sleep.
I had the best fucking night tonight… I can’t even begin to describe how much fun I had. First off, I rolled for the first time in like a year and a half or more, so I was feeling absolutely wonderful all night… We went to Cotton Eyed Joes and there were so many fucking beautiful women there. The coolest part was the simple fact that I was going up to them and actually talked to them. That’s something I NEVER do when I’m there, but tonight I didn’t give a shit. I wasn’t trying to score any pussy or anything; hell, I never even asked for a number or anything. I was just enjoying NOT being a chickenshit for once and actually talking to attractive females. If I could do that on a regular basis whether I’m rolling or not, it would be fucking great. I think I just need to get over the whole “Kevin’s a loser that no hot chick would want to talk to” thing and just be myself and have fun. It’s not really hard to just go up to girls and talk to them… nowhere near as hard as I made it out to be originally. That’s not to say that I’m going to make a habit of this (rolling OR talking to beautiful women), but I’d sure like to be able to. I don’t even get that brave when I’m DRUNK. I’m actually still a major chickenshit when I’m drunk. Oh, well… I have nothing else more to note here. I had fun, enjoyed myself like never before and I’m happy. What more could I say?
I have no clue what that last post had to do with anything, but it’s ok… I think it had something to do with girl at club with chain link underwear who was ridiculously hot.. girl A from New Orleans who I really like.. girl B who I actually really like but am too chickenshit to admit… and not much else… I guess I wait for Girl A to be fake/phony and end up dating girl B… or girl A ends up being real (which I’m kinda leaning towards) and I end up with her… either way, all is well.. whatever, that last post was so random and stupid… blah.. I’m going to bed….night all you fucksticks.
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