Yeah yeah… I’ve just not been much of a good blogger lately. I should, but I just don’t feel like blogging much lately. I guess my life isn’t that interesting? Two months and nary a post. I’ve really been slacking lately or something. As it stands, I’ve been working 60+ hours a week every week, making good money…. I don’t hate my job or anything and it doesn’t even bother me to work this many hours. I’ve actually gotten kinda used to it. In any case, we’ve made a few trips in the past few months. Went to Nashville a few weeks ago to see the Deftones…. probably one of the most amazing shows I’ve ever been to. I took some pics and videos, which are posted in the gallery. This weekend we’re going to Atlanta to go to Six Flags over GA and probably to the Ikea store and stuff. Who knows what else we’ll do while we’re there. We won’t have TOO much time to do other stuff since we’re going to Six Flags but we’ll do what we can. I really like going to Atlanta but I wouldn’t ever live there. Nice place to visit, shitty place to live. In August we’re going to go to Cedar Point since my girlfriend has never been and I haven’t been in 7 yrs. That should be a shitload of fun. We’ll probably take a couple more trips in the meantime, but I have no idea where. We’ll cross that bridge when we get there. That’s all for now! I’ll try not to neglect it so much
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I’ve decided to actually update my gallery with some new pics. I’ve neglected it for quite some time but now I’ve moved it over to gallery2 and posted a ton of pics. Check it out!
As I take more pics, I’ll add more but for now that’s the best I have to offer.
I was bored at work and ran across this on boingboing.net tonight. Basically it’s a cyclist’s toolkit in a container shaped like a water bottle. Mind you it’s not actually a water bottle, so in using this you’ll lose the ability to carry one of your water bottles (assuming you have more than one cage) but it’s still handy to have if you can still manage to carry enough water. Here’s the contents according to the description on the site:
Includes: bit screwdriver handle, 6-15mm ball wrench, 6 driver bits (slotted and Phillips), 3 hex key wrenches, 2 tire levers and tire patch kit with glue.
Not too bad and it should get you out of most jams you might encounter while riding. Obviously if you need more tools than what that offers, there’s the option of carrying an under-seat wedge pack or maybe even a backpack. Either way, it’s a nice way to ensure you don’t forget your toolkit even on short rides down to the store or whatever.
I got bored of the old blue-grey stuff so I found a nice new theme that I’ve decided to keep for a bit. Well, at least until I get bored of it and decide to change it again. Instead of my normal 3 column layout, I went with tabs at the top that contain the same info that my previous side columns had. Basically now when you load the page all you get is the blog. Links, categories, archives, etc. are all linked in the above tab bar type thingy. I think it works a little better and makes the main page a bit less busy. The only real problem I had with it was the fact that it was showing the full text of every post on the main page and the fact that the main text was white on the black background, which was kind of painful on the eyes. Changing those two things wasn’t very difficult at all and I think I like this theme quite a bit. I’ll probably do a bit more tweaking here and there to sexify things up a bit. We’ll see how it goes.
Yeah, it’s a Koenigsegg… it’s a supercar made in Sweden and may very well be the sexiest car on earth. Not only that, it does over 245mph and does 0-60 in 3.2 seconds in its fastest form. Absolutely ridiculous. I would fuck that car in the tailpipe, no joke.
I found this list posted on another site… it’s been around the block a few times but it’s quite funny and strangely true about movies. So here goes…
Things I learned from movies (Not me dumbass)
1. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick’s Day parade - at any time of the year.
2. All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a woman but only waist level on the man lying beside her.
3. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.
4. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.
5. The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.
6. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.
7. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.
8. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
9. When paying for a taxi, never look at your wallet as you take out a note - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
10. If you lose a hand, it will cause the stump of your arm to grow by 15cm.
11. Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning, even though the husband and children never have time to eat them.
12. Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.
13. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.
14. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.
15. All single women have a cat.
16. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
17. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.
18. Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.
19. Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings - especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boating accident.
20. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involved martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessor.
21. During a very emotional confrontation, instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind them and talk to their back.
22. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
23. Dogs always know who’s bad and will naturally bark at them.
24. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
25. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers and man eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
26. Having a job of any kind will make all fathers forget their son’s eighth birthday.
27. Many musical instruments - especially wind instruments and accordions - can be played without moving the fingers.
28. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they’re going to go off.
29. It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.
30. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
31. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.
This has to be the coolest USB device ever! Seriously… it’s a USB-powered air cannon of sorts. It holds 3 missiles and you can fire them off via the mouse. I want one! Too bad the place that sells them doesn’t ship to the USA. Still it’d be hella fun to have cubicle wars with your co-workers using these things. Oh man the possibilities. They even have a 3-for-2 special going on. Someone seriously needs to export them to the US so we can buy them. Too bad thinkgeek doesn’t carry them. 
No, not because I care a thing in the world about speaking it… but I came across this flash animation done by Microsoft to advertise the release of Visual Studio 2005. It’s unbelievably disturbing and I’d really like to know what in the hell they’re singing and what the text on the screen is. Needless to say, it just goes to show how differently companies advertise in Asian countries than they do here. They apparently have a completely different sense of humor or something. Talk about weird shit. Jeez. Just watch it and you’ll understand.
I’m not too much of a baseball fan until it comes playoff time. I actually took the time to watch game 4 of the Astros - Braves division series and was pleasantly surprised at the awesome game I got to watch. Basically, if the Braves won it went back to Atlanta for game 5 and if the Astros won the Braves’ golf season started a bit earlier than anticipated. I’m not really capable of sitting and watching a full 9-inning game and I actually managed to miss the first few innings because I didn’t know the game was even on. When I tuned in, it was 4-0 braves in the 3rd inning. I watched for a few innings and the Astros seemed completely unable to get anything going off Tim Hudson so I just assumed that the series would be heading back to Atlanta for game 5. I tuned into the Eagles/Cowboys football game on a different channel since I figured it might be a bit more interesting (it was if you were a Cowboys fan; they were laying some serious smackdown on the Eagles). So I’m watching the football game and the baseball game score flashes up… 6-6 in the 10th inning! What the fuck? So I tune back into ESPN hoping that they’ll recap what’s been going on. Well, turns out they did and Houston managed to get one run back, then hit a grand slam in the 8th to make it 6-5 then the game tying home run in the bottom of the 9th with two out. Boy was I pissed that I missed it! At this point, I figure this game is going to be really exciting and stay tuned in. No way in hell was I expecting to see what I saw. Basically both teams trotted out player after player and pitcher after pitcher in the hopes of winning this game. Houston ran out of position players and came down to only one pitcher left on the roster. How fitting the only guy left would be the Rocket? Roger Clemens, a player who came out of retirement last year just so he could try and bring a World Series ring to his hometown club. A guy who’d pitched just two days earlier and gotten his ass handed to him. Had he not lost that game, this series would have been over already. He came in for the 15th - 18th (yes 18th!) innings and pitched some masterful baseball. Only his second relief appearance in his entire career, his first being as a rookie with the Boston Red Sox 21 years ago. He’s 43 fucking years old and pitching on 3 days rest in RELIEF… not only that, mowing batters down left and right, ending each of the three innings with a strikeout. Fucking amazing. Even more amazing was the fact that the game ended on a solo home run in the bottom of the 18th with one out. Chris Burke, who had come in as a pinch runner for Lance Berkman in the 10th hit the one homer he’ll probably never forget the rest of his life. The guy hit .248 all year long and wasn’t even a full-time starter. Crazy game, I’ll tell ya. Yet another one to add to the Rocket’s legendary career. Seriously, he may just be one of the greatest players many of us will ever see in our lifetimes. Hell, the only reason he’s playing is because he wants to win a World Series in his hometown. He’s won it with the Yankees, but Houston has never won it in their history. Roger Clemens may just get what he wants this year. Unfortunately, for the 2nd time in two years they have to beat St. Louis to get to the big dance. Here’s to hoping they get the job done.
Wow… I totally want this new Motorola due out in 2006. It’s called the A910 and it’s just plain badass. It’s going to have bluetooth, wifi, 1.3MP camera, transflash, 240×320 screen, and the kitchen sink… ok, maybe not the kitchen sink but it’s pretty loaded. Too bad it’s going to be a GSM phone. I hate GSM for the most part…. Too bad they get all the cool ass phones. It’s most likely going to cost an arm and a leg, that’s for sure. Considering all the kickass features, I would guess a good $600 pricetag. The only GSM carrier we have around here is Cingular. T-Mobile hasn’t made it up here for some odd reason. I just wish the CDMA carriers around here (Sprint, Verizon, US Cellular, etc) would push for some phones this damn good. I mean, we get PDA phones but they’re just too fucking big to carry around on a daily basis, especially being a cyclist and all. Sprint and Verizon are getting the Samsung A940/A970, but even they can’t quite compare to what this phone offers. Too bad all the truly badass phones seem to either be GSM-only or Japan/Korea-only. I guess they don’t take our market seriously enough or something. Who knows, but it’s annoying as shit for geeks like me! Oh, well.. check this phone out..
Motorola’s Product Preview page
Engadget’s blurb on the phone with a better pic, no less.
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