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Starting off on the wrong foot

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:02:00 GMT

Ok, I realize that I am about to make myself very vulnerable to the ridicule of everyone, but the story is just so unbelievable it needs to be shared.

Over the past few months I have been doing steady out of town work for one of our clients. Up until now I have flown to all our destinations, however, this month their semenar is in Dallas and driving is the chosen method of transportation. So last week after 2-3 weeks of preperation with the A/V geeks and the presenters, I load up all my gear, borrow the bosses truck, and drive all the way to Dallas. Shortly after arriving, I call my contact to ask him where to unload. I am met with slince, followed by,"are you serious", followed by,"the semenar is NEXT WEEK." WTF! How in the world could I talk with a half dozen people for over 2 weeks, and end up driving 6 hours a week early! Even after having time to contimplate this, I still do not understand how no one noticed. This is my personal Twilight Zone episode.

So, I am currently posting from the beautiful Hilton hotel in Dallas, TX (on the correct week). Feel free to laugh, some how I feel that I deserve it, but I don't know why.

Long Live Our Liberal Future

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:40:27 GMT

OMG mercy on us!

Ok, so the other day I was thinking about the gay rights and abortion issues. I know many people think that it is a person's right to chose what is best for themselves. I obviously do not feel this way and was trying to figure out where you draw the line, or if there even is one, if that is your philosophy. I kinda thought I had figured out where the line was (silly me), and just today had all that ripped apart. Dare I say, it made me even more glad to be a "conservative right wing extremist" if this is where the other side is headed. So here is the link to the article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5187010.stm

Not that everyone didn't already know that Europe is circling the bowl. Especially those freakin Dutch.

Friday, July 07, 2006

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:23:52 GMT

Pains are the punctuations in the sentences of life.

Windows Vista Beta 2

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:41:22 GMT

Ok, for those of you that are interested I am going to post a screenshot from the Vista Beta 2 that I am messing around with and give you my brief thoughts on it. Many Mac lovers will say, "Mac already has that" for just about everything.... but I don't care who had it first, so no comments of that nature please.

First off, I like it. It has a great look (despite the system hog that it is, I'll mention that later). The fogged glass is very nice touch, at least for microsoft. The window animations are clean and brief and the new alt+tab rocks. You get live thumbnails of all your pages, not only with alt+tab but if you mouse over the buttons in the task bar you get the same effect.

The new file browsing made me cry for joy. As you can see in the screen shot you can not only jump to any parent folder, but to any child folder of any parent folder. This is obviously Windows response to Apples column browsing, and I think that it kicks column browsings butt. (I have been using OSX at work for a month now, and the column thing just doesn't do it for me)

Obviously, explorer couldn't put off the public any longer and finally added tab browsing, yeah for them. Also drawing from public demand they have native widgets as you can see in the images right hand side. These are detachable as well.

Over all it has been very stable. No freezes or crashes, which isn't bad for a beta. Also they have a link that you can send suggestions on improvements. (Hopefully they read them) They also have a new "sleep" mode that pretty much shuts your computer down, but only takes 4-6 seconds to start up. Very handy.

The bad news, it eats up your RAM and if you want to have the graphics at max (glass, fog and animation) you have to have a mid level machine. Also I installed the 64 bit version but I haven't been able to do any preformance tests.

There is a lot more than what is here, but I can't type that much. Enjoy the pic and ask questions if you have them.

Why... why... why...

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:52:18 GMT

Its just not fair... I am so FREEEEEEKING nice! So after making my previous post about mercilessly ripping other peoples blogs to shreds, I hasten my way on over to good ol' swoggies site for a little practice. (He is an easy target after all) After making a totally and amazing and unbelievable and wicked slam post (I could go on, but why boast and I think I already overused the word "and"), I felt an immediate rush of guilt. I quickly raced over to Dan-the-Man's page to suppress my feelings with more outrageously perfect hate comments, but was stopped dead at the thought of my little friend crying himself to sleep after reading what would have been the most snappish post ever. Then outa nowhere, I started to feel like female genitalia... I knew immediately that this had to end. I couldn't do it, why... because I am so FREEEEEEKING nice! May it be a compliment to all my friends, that I love you all soooo much that I can't even be mean in jest... except to Tom (he is just to easy). So fear not blog people, I shall not visit your sites with malicious intent but with love and support (except for Tom... oh and Megan, but then she is not my friend so its fair game)

I'm back, and up to no good.

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:03:33 GMT

Per Jami's request, I have come back to xanga. Not to share my deep thoughts or personal reflections, but let everyone else know what my evil side thinks about their posts. True, this could get ugly, but what is life without skewed honesty? If I happen to visit your page, please come to mine and tell me what you really think.... more fodder for the cannon.

The future of LOST

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:51:34 GMT

Ok, I just finished watching episode 12 of LOST season 2. The drama is getting a little heavy so I am going to share the things that all the main characters need to do so we can get past it all and onto the cool suspenseful stuff. Ok, here goes...

Jack - Just needs to tell everyone on the island off
Kate - Give up on men... try women
Locke - Well, he just needs to die. Could help with his sweating issue
Charlie - Needs to kick Lockes corpse in the balls
Hurley - Needs to start going around shirtless
Sawyer - Needs some sexual relief (even if its solo)
Anna L. (whatever) - Just needs to admit she is really a man, in this show and in real life
Micheal - He needs to accidentally shoot Walt
Claire - Needs some of Charlies drugs

Maybe some guy from ABC will read this.

How can I live, when my friends want this for me....

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:50:47 GMT

Megan gaves this to me, after I finished finding out that I was behind on my house construction, and that my wife had just gotten ill with a fever. Why... why... why...

Monday, January 30, 2006

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:46:09 GMT

Ok, so after my last post I felt the need to repent from my ramblings and reach down and tap into my creative side that I was trying to crush. Subsiquently, this is what emerged. Not sure why I did this or were it came from but after extensive (5 minute) analysis, I believe this is its hidden meaning:

OMG, my rusty ship outa this h*** hole is leaving without me. Now I am stuck forever in this place with bridges with crappy ornamentation that lead to no where. If I hurry maybe I can catch the the backup escape ship in the distance. Cuz, any ship with funky glowing dome thingies has to be going somewhere better than where I am. Thankfully, if I miss both ships, I can always jump into the smoking incinerator and put an end to my misery.

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Feel free to comment on the picture outside of my personal interpretation. I only spent about 5 hours on it so be gentle.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:59:47 GMT

!! WARNING !!

This blog contains whining and rediculous comments. If you are one of those "suck it up" people.... go away.

I don't know what I am doing here. Typically I hate these kinds of hobbies. I find blogging to be exhausting and pretentious, among other things, and that is exactly why I am doing it. So far I have engaged in all the things that I enjoy in life, resulting in little headway. Its been more like a little kid running in circles at the park yelling nonsensical phrases to the clouds. To him, he is living it up, while the rest of the group is left perplexed and mildly disturbed at his irrational behavior. So I figure that if I start doing the things that I hate, I just might make up for the past few years of floundering in my hopes and dreams. Hopefully, I will start experience the dependable and stress free living that all the other dreamless social robots get handed in life. Cuz following your dreams is certainly not all that people claim it is.

I think those people who write all those inspirational messages about following your dreams, are really middle age washouts who ran themselves in the ground by following their dreams and are now out to punish others by writing these entrapping phrases while curled up in little weeping balls in the attic of their parents house. Maybe not.... but their is a chance.

As far as the "successful dreamers". They are just the vicarious mental orgasm of the social robots. Once they are financially loaded, do to giving up all the fun in life to pay the bills, they have to fabricate their hope in life. In order to do this, they gab up a hopeful loser, fund their "dreams", and vicariously feel as if there is meaning to life beyond their status quo, systematic, bill-paying life.

Yeah, ok, I am done now. I have to get back to following my dreams and denying everything I just wrote. The ambiguity of life rocks!