Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in college, gaming, life in general, photography, travel on Jan 13th, 2010
A bandwidth-intense peek at the last few days.
Though not pictured, the weekend got off to a nice start at a happy hour organized by a coworker. You simply can’t go wrong with a margarita on the rocks, a plate of fried pickles, and reuniting with some folks you haven’t seen in a while (and meeting [...]
Posted in life in general on Jan 8th, 2010
I’m not prone to losing things but recent events have gotten me thinking about other objects that have gone missing.
Evil Empire, an album by Rage Against the Machine. I miss the hard riffs, slapping bass, and electric guitar effects. I think it was lifted from my CD wallet by a student while working at Severna [...]
Posted in life in general, television on Jan 5th, 2010
I had no idea that Travis Pastrana intended to set a new record on New Year’s Eve by driving his Subaru off the Long Beach pier, so we didn’t tune in to ESPN to watch him. But he did it. He’s got a television show on MTV called Nitro Circus. Produced by Johnny Knoxville, it’s [...]
Posted in life in general on Dec 31st, 2009
When people try to come up with a New Year’s resolution, they look back at the past year. Sometimes it’s easy to pick out areas where we weren’t our best, coming up with resolutions to improve those areas. Sometimes it isn’t so easy. Instead of looking back over the last year, I figured I’d look [...]
Posted in life in general on Dec 27th, 2009
I’ve been thinking about my career path. Although I have recently changed courses (from a system/network administration/engineering track to the software engineering track), I’m still on the same path. I still solve unique problems using a varied set of skills. Despite that it’s a stable and visible path, sometimes I feel like I’m missing out.
Reading [...]
Posted in life in general on Dec 5th, 2009
I have this idea that to be a true White Christmas, it needs to be clear the night before and then on December 25th you wake up to snow on the ground. In a perfect world, it would be the first snowfall of the season. Whether the snow is still falling is completely optional. It’s [...]
Posted in life in general, travel on Nov 29th, 2009
After a night of zombie movies up in Wilmington, I crashed in the guest bedroom. There’s something about sleeping in your own bed that’s comforting. But there’s something to be said for leaving all your cares, troubles and responsibilities at home, too. I had the best night’s sleep I’ve had in a week, maybe two.
On [...]
Posted in life in general, money on Nov 21st, 2009
I just received a call on my cell from 269-768-2213. An automated call, wherein the recorded voice — belonging to someone named Rachel, supposedly — informed me that there are no problems with my credit card but that I’m eligible for a lower rate of 6 point something percent. My eligibility will expire soon, so [...]
Posted in life in general, outside on Nov 8th, 2009
On a chilly Sunday morning, a small carload of folks drove out to Bridgeville, Delaware, for the 24th Annual World Championship Punkin Chunkin. Soon after we arrived, the morning gave way to an uncharacteristically warm November afternoon. We soon discovered firsthand some true marvels of engineering; air cannons, trebuchets, catapults, and centrifuges, all designed and [...]
Posted in film, life in general, reviews on Nov 2nd, 2009
It just occurred to me that I’ve seen a lot of movies lately.
I really enjoyed Zombieland. Funny, violent, and quirky, with a spectacular cameo. It was just as someone described it to me: “It’s definitely a zombie movie, but different than anything I could have expected.” I almost went to see it again this past [...]
Posted in life in general, money on Nov 1st, 2009
I just got an “important notice” in the mail from Verizon.
We will be upgrading your FiOS Internet speed to up to 10/2 Mbps in the next few months.
Emphasis theirs, it’s strange the way that the sentence is phrased. Maybe it’s boilerplate in that they can’t say that they’ll give you exactly 10/2 but that it’ll [...]
Posted in life in general on Oct 18th, 2009
There are five distinct steps to be taken after hosting a party.
Hydrate
Send out thank you notes and emails
Clean up kitchen
Rinse and discard empties
Patch server
The first step is obvious.
The second step isn’t required, but it’s something I like to do. Especially for the folks that left early or I didn’t get a chance to talk to [...]
Posted in life in general, youth on Oct 12th, 2009
Cleaning out the basement in preparation for a party, I found a shoe box full of mementos. Inside were baseball cards, crisply folded notes on aging notebook paper from classmates and girlfriends, birthday cards from family and friends, ticket stubs from concerts and socials, yearbook photos with notes written on the back. There were a [...]
Posted in housing, life in general on Oct 10th, 2009
After eleven hours, I managed to replace my garage door opener. At last, the old Craftsman chain drive — which was having fundamental problems staying powered during such routine actions such as opening and closing, as well as non-correctable problems closing evenly — has been replaced by a new Genie PowerLift H4000 screw drive [...]
Posted in food, gadgets, life in general, money on Oct 5th, 2009
Despite my penchant for helping out the little guy, I feel like most of my shopping is done online these days. Today however, was an exception. I found myself quite the consumer all afternoon and into the evening.
Chili
Area Rug
Gasoline
Phone
Cereal
Aluminum Foil
Bread
Steam Trays
Ginger Ale
Jeans
Garage Door Opener
Gyro
My poor credit card, it’s only reprieve was the chili and the [...]
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