HP is HP is HP IS HP everywhere.

went to a event sponsored by HP personal computing division. All the lingo, terminology and presentations used were the same from when I used to sell their comps in the US. Talk about a bunch of trained up monkeys.

I found rudys picture on friendster! ;) ie search "rudy mangual" "california"
Anyone else have friendster still? or any more active accounts... It's a real underground culture. People here love adding random strangers. I always get random "adds" to my skype, yahoo, mns. anyhoo.

just wanted to drop a quick line. Happy Chinese New Years ... mooncakes..

lotro = pretty darn poopy. not the worst game, but very much not fun to play. OH to the WELL!

Rude: You know that directory called "Windows"? Delete that. that aught to get you a nice 1.5 to 2 gigs of free space. Seriously though. I really like NY. I have not been back since 2000. Gotta go again. The W is pretty nice in the common areas at least. I have never been up in the rooms though. The couple that I have visited have had pretty hip bar/lounge areas. If your Shuffle does eat it, the new shuffles are only $79 now.

O Rugs: I personally like the self applied permanent marker tats. Especially anchors. At least she didn't paint the place up real nice for you. That is always great.

D>M>

Oh it's on. This weekend FRONDO BLAURGANS will live! There's a public stress-test beta thing for Lord of the Rings Online this weekend. Gotta sign up here at Gamespot: cliCky!

I think the link I told you about online today Eric might be a hit or miss thing, but it looks like theyre takin everyone for this weekend off this link, so let's do it! All yous guys!

Edit: Or not! I don't think I can even free up the HD space needed to play it! :( The dl is 3.7gigs and the it expands to myaybe 7gigs. I have like 2gigs of free space and cant figure out whatelse to delete. BOO!

Sweet Ninja Action!

Hey, if you fellas haven't caught this series yet of short films, they're an absolute must. Chad Vader, Day Manager:

LINKY DINKITY DOO


Also, tonight.. Haylee risked her life to get her hands on a preccciiouusss candy cane.. and several permanent markers... by way of dragging her step-stool (brushing teeth, washing hands) up the first half-flight of stairs to the landing. My computer desk is butted up against that landing, and I had a mug on the top of my bookcase with a candy cane in it that I've been breaking off in small bits and giving to her as a treat now and then.. and it also had red and black permanent markers in it. (cue forboding music) .. so while I'm cooking dinner and everyone else in the house is busy not watching my daughter, she dangles herself half way over the railing, Mission: Impossible style to grab the cup with the candy cane and markers.. somehow manages to do so without killing herself .. and then quietly retires to the stairs to chomp on her candy cane and completely 'tat up her arm with permanent marker which still hasn't completely come off after 3 washings tonight... (UGH)

The trip was frackin awesome!














Here's me in Central Park! It was all ice. I mean that's me on Hoth fighting um.. bad star wars guys!















And here's a view from my hotel in Union Square. My friend works for a mega-fancy chain (The "W") and hooked me up with a room for part of the time. The rooms themselves were really not much better than convetion rooms we get, but the $400 dollar a night price tag made it seem oh so much better (i didnt pay that, wewt.)

The rest of the time I stayed with my buddy Dorian and his girlfriend. He's doing grad-school at Columbia for journalism, so I stayed like a block from campus in Morningside Heights (think it was called.) Cool area.

New York is WAY rad. Awesome food, awesome people watching, and I was drinking in bars till like 4am! If I was rich and a socialite I'd totally just live there and piss my life away. Too much fun.

How was NY? Got any pictures?

My Shuffle crapped out in the same way. It would just blink when you tried to press play, right? But yeah I restored it in the same way. And that's the end of my fantastic story.

Well my Ipod Shuffle (the OG version) had finally died the other day and I had resigned myself to having to buy a new one. ALMOST went today but couldnt motivate myself to go drop $150 bucks on a new one just yet. SO i googled my problems with it and saw that its a common problem. Did some research and got a restore tool and looks like its back to life. Hope it lasts! YAY!

Hahaha. Man the things you find on YouTube. I don't know about you guys but I thought I detected a homosexual subtext in that video. Maybe I'm just imagining it? The D&D one was good too. The fat guy reminded me of the dude from Shaun of the Dead.

Yeah that True Dungeon experience was bunk. After we went through it we all meant to write in and complain but in true Action Team style didn't follow through. So it was good to finally get that off my chest.

Happy Chinese New Year y'all! Year of the Pig! Go see Charlotte's Web!