Nice seeing you Eric! I shoulda come sooner, but that's the way the willie aimes blows! Goodtimes chatting about the 80s with Dennis and Peter and yourself.
I <3 Sci-Fi! I'm watching SUNSHINE (not to be confused with Stardust, which is the movie that Neil Gaiman is connected to and I think Leslie saw recently?) This movie is directed by Danny Boyle (28 Days L8rz, trainsplurting, etc) and written by some dude who he does movies with, WHO coincedently's next movie is the friggen movie version of the game HALO. Weird. But anyways, this movie kicks ass. I love good sci-fi.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
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I's behind the Internets timez
I know I am prolly way late for this humor, but I was laughing pretty hard at first, then it became unreadable, then lost the humor. So enjoy?
Linky
Linky
Ouch Eric, those recent events so hellish! Good luck with the move! Hope everyone's healthy now!
I Djed my friends event last night in Hollywood - it went ok. I had a lot of technical difficulties, but ppl didnt seem to notice or mind. Was a lot of "networkering" going on, and one funny thing I overheard someone say was: "It's like a myspace/youtube for musicians..." Oh gawd.
I Djed my friends event last night in Hollywood - it went ok. I had a lot of technical difficulties, but ppl didnt seem to notice or mind. Was a lot of "networkering" going on, and one funny thing I overheard someone say was: "It's like a myspace/youtube for musicians..." Oh gawd.
Friday, August 10, 2007
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Hey, It's Me!
So the past few weeks has been pretty crappy, culminating in the past few days, and then this weekend. Between the constant cleaning out and organizing of our two storage units (the thought sickens me), to Wylie having a fever for like 3 days and then a rash for 3 days after that, to boxing the crap out of our house, to trying to get our architects to keep a schedule, to getting MINOR food poisoning, to more boxing, to throwing my back out, to more boxing, to Stampy having an surgery to remove an abscess from his throat, to more boxing, to driving up and down to Aptos in a 24 hour period, to more boxing, I am ready to drop.
On the bright side of life, we will be living in Aptos Monday night, and while I will be 'commuting' occasionally to check/manage the progress of the house, I will be a NorCal Jerk soon enough. Or at least a Central Coast Jerk. I am REALLY REALLY looking forward to not being here anymore.
Things that are good about Aptos that I gleaned during my 24 hour stay there:
- We are prolly a 3 minute walk to the ocean, here we are!
- Our house (rental) has a 2 and 1 car garage!
- There is a traditional English Pub a short bike ride away.
- I counted two Benzos while I was there. More in Capitola, but while in Aptos, there were only two! Not two in each driveway like there is here!
- Coffee shop close by.
- I get to shop at Safeway again! Just like old time in MB!
- The produce is RIDICULOUS! It just travels a bit north of all the farmlands to the south and into my mouth!
Hey yeah, did I give someone my copy of War of the Ring? If I did, you are stoked! If someone borrowed it, that is better for me cause I kinda want to play it and then maybe keep it. If I gave it away, I still wanna play it sometime!
Monday Move Day!
On the bright side of life, we will be living in Aptos Monday night, and while I will be 'commuting' occasionally to check/manage the progress of the house, I will be a NorCal Jerk soon enough. Or at least a Central Coast Jerk. I am REALLY REALLY looking forward to not being here anymore.
Things that are good about Aptos that I gleaned during my 24 hour stay there:
- We are prolly a 3 minute walk to the ocean, here we are!
- Our house (rental) has a 2 and 1 car garage!
- There is a traditional English Pub a short bike ride away.
- I counted two Benzos while I was there. More in Capitola, but while in Aptos, there were only two! Not two in each driveway like there is here!
- Coffee shop close by.
- I get to shop at Safeway again! Just like old time in MB!
- The produce is RIDICULOUS! It just travels a bit north of all the farmlands to the south and into my mouth!
Hey yeah, did I give someone my copy of War of the Ring? If I did, you are stoked! If someone borrowed it, that is better for me cause I kinda want to play it and then maybe keep it. If I gave it away, I still wanna play it sometime!
Monday Move Day!
Thursday, August 09, 2007
nah man, that stuffs not boring to me, I was an anthro major before i flunked outta college HARD! So yeah, it's always been interesting to me. Trips me out to have a friend who not only went into Archaelogy, but friggen PHD'd it! That's cool. I'm just curious, because I know the whole Pompeii thing has been around for a long time, and I wonder what new kind of things you guys might find or study. Man, you need to be out diggen up new Pyramids!
Donnie Darko was way sweet. Awesome flick. Kinda checked out wiki's n shit on it after seeing it to get a little better grasp of it. I like that director! And he's like our age! Born 1975 I think. Maybe I can get him to direct the telenovela version of my man-e-mouthesuscript, SPACE ZOO 1999.
You guys ever play Dwarven Fortress? I might join SA for the forums - they seem pretty rad. But on the little bit of the forums they let you preview, ppl were talkin about this game. Its like rogue/nethack but like a HUGE world with all kinds of neat interesting shit in it to do. Haven't actually played it, but got it last night so I'll try this weekend. Last night played a ton of JFK Reloaded. Jesus, thats morbid but pretty fun.
Donnie Darko was way sweet. Awesome flick. Kinda checked out wiki's n shit on it after seeing it to get a little better grasp of it. I like that director! And he's like our age! Born 1975 I think. Maybe I can get him to direct the telenovela version of my man-e-mouthesuscript, SPACE ZOO 1999.
You guys ever play Dwarven Fortress? I might join SA for the forums - they seem pretty rad. But on the little bit of the forums they let you preview, ppl were talkin about this game. Its like rogue/nethack but like a HUGE world with all kinds of neat interesting shit in it to do. Haven't actually played it, but got it last night so I'll try this weekend. Last night played a ton of JFK Reloaded. Jesus, thats morbid but pretty fun.
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Greetings from Kentucky!
Hello All! The Bourbon is great hear (hic!) but you actually can't buy it here! What a strange place. Biscuits and gravy on eggs for dinner is delicious though!
Rude - I'll give you a breakdown when I get back (sorry didn't mean to suggest anything, just trying to spare you the boring details!)
See y'all later!
Rude - I'll give you a breakdown when I get back (sorry didn't mean to suggest anything, just trying to spare you the boring details!)
See y'all later!
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Oh man, that was pretty funny. Damn, pretty foul too! Like it looked SO fuckin real thru those spandex!!!! Oh my god, imagine if you saw that at a restraunt. Nice find!
Started workin on my novel last night... hahaha, sounds all fuckin' bad ass huh? I wrote like 600 words and its some pretty fuckin' random shit. The story so far: it's basically ME (with a different name) and like I'm in some kind of space zoo... fuck, hard to describe. Haven't really figured it out yet, but it's like imagine if some super omnipotent race plucked chunks of land from different times thru out human history (so like, a city from 2007, a city from 100 AD, Roman City, Cave Man Town, Victorian Village) Fuck if I know, but something like that, and then just threw them all together side by side on some new planet or whatever. I think the whole point of that setup is to be able to make some super-group/team/fellowship/whateverthefuckship with like a dude from our times, and roman soldier, a conquistador, a fuckin future dude, I don't fuckin know. Just some random shit, and then they can have hijinks together. The first page is just the main character talking about how he's stoaked to have been plucked from regular earth cuz he had something due in a few days, and now he's off the hook cuz he's in a whole new world. Remember, I'm learning all my writing skillz from a "Idiots Guide to Creative Writing!" - I am living up to the Idiot banner so far.
MOVIES:
Zodiac: Looked really good. David Fincher is a good director as far as makin shit look cool as fuck. And we're talkin about most of this shit set in god awful northern cali, and he makes it look dark and cool. BUT, I'd read the book that this is based on (so this is like the story of the dude gonna write the book, which is just how the book is too) so it was pretty fuckin boring. Kinda neat, but if you read the book, there's NOTHING new or exciting in the flick. Guess what: they never caught Zodiac!!! Oh noes, it's not a spoiler, thats history!!! Muahahaha... and at the end of Passion of the Christ, Jesus dies or something! I actually don't remember the end to that flick, but I mean that's prolly what happened.
Teh Fountain : Aronofsky, the dude who did Pi. Some of my friends saw this and absolutely HATED it, so of course I went in expecting to love it... I thought it was ok. Once again, another good looking movie. Kinda neat what he tried to do with havin the 3 different time periods mixing around (conquistador, modern, and weird future...) The actors were all the cat's pajammers, I think the weakest thing was just that its not the CLEAREST story. But I also didn't find it so artsy you couldn't enjoy it. It was fine.
ON DECK: Vacancy, and then from the library I checked out 3 flicks: The Wild Bunch, Beverly Hills Cop 1, and Donnie Darko. Gonna watch this Donnie movie now, heard good stuff.
Started workin on my novel last night... hahaha, sounds all fuckin' bad ass huh? I wrote like 600 words and its some pretty fuckin' random shit. The story so far: it's basically ME (with a different name) and like I'm in some kind of space zoo... fuck, hard to describe. Haven't really figured it out yet, but it's like imagine if some super omnipotent race plucked chunks of land from different times thru out human history (so like, a city from 2007, a city from 100 AD, Roman City, Cave Man Town, Victorian Village) Fuck if I know, but something like that, and then just threw them all together side by side on some new planet or whatever. I think the whole point of that setup is to be able to make some super-group/team/fellowship/whateverthefuckship with like a dude from our times, and roman soldier, a conquistador, a fuckin future dude, I don't fuckin know. Just some random shit, and then they can have hijinks together. The first page is just the main character talking about how he's stoaked to have been plucked from regular earth cuz he had something due in a few days, and now he's off the hook cuz he's in a whole new world. Remember, I'm learning all my writing skillz from a "Idiots Guide to Creative Writing!" - I am living up to the Idiot banner so far.
MOVIES:
Zodiac: Looked really good. David Fincher is a good director as far as makin shit look cool as fuck. And we're talkin about most of this shit set in god awful northern cali, and he makes it look dark and cool. BUT, I'd read the book that this is based on (so this is like the story of the dude gonna write the book, which is just how the book is too) so it was pretty fuckin boring. Kinda neat, but if you read the book, there's NOTHING new or exciting in the flick. Guess what: they never caught Zodiac!!! Oh noes, it's not a spoiler, thats history!!! Muahahaha... and at the end of Passion of the Christ, Jesus dies or something! I actually don't remember the end to that flick, but I mean that's prolly what happened.
Teh Fountain : Aronofsky, the dude who did Pi. Some of my friends saw this and absolutely HATED it, so of course I went in expecting to love it... I thought it was ok. Once again, another good looking movie. Kinda neat what he tried to do with havin the 3 different time periods mixing around (conquistador, modern, and weird future...) The actors were all the cat's pajammers, I think the weakest thing was just that its not the CLEAREST story. But I also didn't find it so artsy you couldn't enjoy it. It was fine.
ON DECK: Vacancy, and then from the library I checked out 3 flicks: The Wild Bunch, Beverly Hills Cop 1, and Donnie Darko. Gonna watch this Donnie movie now, heard good stuff.
LOL... this is pretty good. Not entirely safe for work, no. Just some dude walking around in spandex with a fake cawk in his shorts, asking women questions. Very, very funny.
Does Size Matter?
Does Size Matter?
Monday, August 06, 2007
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Salutations!
Welcome back Dr. M.A., PHD! I might not be interested in the statistical reports concerning your expedition, but comeon, I'd love a layman's breakdown! What do you guys dig for there? What kinda stuff do you find? Don't wanna sound like too much of a rube, but has that place been in a state of constant archaelogical dig-ness since like it was discovered?
Semi Off-Topic: Story idear, Jon. Mike and his crew of native workers (we'll make them Arabs, rags-on-heads, kids in loincloths feeding Mike grapes, etc) discover an ancient AIR-BUBBLE and a whole colony of pomp'aaay survivors living in like a little room or underground city. It'll be like, "what stangeth worldeth doth we haveth stumbled on to ith!?" And it can be like I dunno, them trying to fit into modern day society, and then maybe at the end they decide to stay in their tiny air-bubble world and maybe Mike will join them cuz he falls for some greek broad. (Why do Greeks bury their dead with their asses sticking out of the ground? So they have a place to park their bikes! - Never quite got that joke...) Not sure what angle to take, comedy or drama... if only there were some kind of middle ground!
Semi Off-Topic: Story idear, Jon. Mike and his crew of native workers (we'll make them Arabs, rags-on-heads, kids in loincloths feeding Mike grapes, etc) discover an ancient AIR-BUBBLE and a whole colony of pomp'aaay survivors living in like a little room or underground city. It'll be like, "what stangeth worldeth doth we haveth stumbled on to ith!?" And it can be like I dunno, them trying to fit into modern day society, and then maybe at the end they decide to stay in their tiny air-bubble world and maybe Mike will join them cuz he falls for some greek broad. (Why do Greeks bury their dead with their asses sticking out of the ground? So they have a place to park their bikes! - Never quite got that joke...) Not sure what angle to take, comedy or drama... if only there were some kind of middle ground!
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Greetings from Earth!
Hello everyone. I hope that you have all had a great summer. The project in Pompeii was quite successful this summer and we got a lot of useful work done. (I could quote the stats but it won't mean anything to anyone but me.) At the moment I'm not quite back to SF yet, but will be soon. Sorry I didn't get time to get on the Internet whilst I was away - it was a very busy time. Now I'm getting ready to drive across the country and will be back in about a week's time.
Recent highlight of my recent travel experiences was in Heathrow where I was 'randomly selected' for a special type of screening at security. This was a side scanning X-ray which involved me standing in front of a box striking three very strange poses while X-rays were shot through me. Before agreeing to this, I was given the option of a pat-down search instead. Wanting to see the new technology, I said I was happy to do the X-ray thingy. Afterwards, I was guided to the regular scan, where, even though I did not set off the device, and had already had this extra scan, I was patted down by the roughest officer ever. He even slapped his hand across by genitals! WTF?
More reports as events merit.
Recent highlight of my recent travel experiences was in Heathrow where I was 'randomly selected' for a special type of screening at security. This was a side scanning X-ray which involved me standing in front of a box striking three very strange poses while X-rays were shot through me. Before agreeing to this, I was given the option of a pat-down search instead. Wanting to see the new technology, I said I was happy to do the X-ray thingy. Afterwards, I was guided to the regular scan, where, even though I did not set off the device, and had already had this extra scan, I was patted down by the roughest officer ever. He even slapped his hand across by genitals! WTF?
More reports as events merit.
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Oh man, if you never played through HL2, DO IT. Also, Oblivion is still one of the best games ever created, as long as you mod it up a little. Keep in mind that if your computer is for shit, you can get mods to reduce the graphic quality down significantly so it plays smooth.
Also, it's kind of fun as hell to play the game with a low visible distance. The fog effect is kick ass! I highly recommend it. Also, take the grass slider down to zero, that will net you a solid 5-10 FPS alone.
Also, it's kind of fun as hell to play the game with a low visible distance. The fog effect is kick ass! I highly recommend it. Also, take the grass slider down to zero, that will net you a solid 5-10 FPS alone.
Just got Deus Ex cuz I'm really craving some good old-school (or new!) solo gamin action. Any other suggestions!? I was thinking of pickin up Starcraft 1 maybe... Um, I never even got half-life 2... I DUNNO! Oblivion ( i know art loves that one - still might not run so hot on my machine, not sure...)
I am teh bored
I am teh bored
Yay, finals week and then only two classes to go this fall for graduation! Weee!
It'll be nice to have these 3-ish weeks off from school. The fam and I are going to head up to Seattle for a little vay-cay, and I'm going to hit up the XNA conference too.
Oh noes, 2012 = the end!!!1!11!!!eleventy!!
planetxforecast
It'll be nice to have these 3-ish weeks off from school. The fam and I are going to head up to Seattle for a little vay-cay, and I'm going to hit up the XNA conference too.
Oh noes, 2012 = the end!!!1!11!!!eleventy!!
planetxforecast
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