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  • Link free rant?! Could it be?!

    Probably not. Give me a minute to find something worth watching. Anywho, this weekend was absolutely crazy. CRAZY. Friday I hung out with Dana and her roomies, as I have done the past couple of weekends, and it was fun, but for some reason I couldn’t get to sleep. I was up all night until SusieQ needed a ride in the morning to work. I drove her to work and just got on with my day from there. Ended up spending some of the day with Brit, having the most fun in gaming I’ve had in a really long time. Seriously, I haven’t laughed and screamed that much since high school. Thank you Brit. (Hate Fei Long)

    Then my friend Heathbar came in town from Arkansas. Well technically Oklahoma. She moved a while back, but I have a hard time accepting that. Anyways, hung out with her all night. Ended up going to Loca Luna for an old high school friend’s surprise birthday, which is a salsa club in Atlanta. First time I’ve been and likely won’t ever go again, not my scene. But I did manage to run into my brother Javid, which was pretty surreal. Well, after we got back, Heathbar and everyone wanted to pull an all-nighter, so coffee was made, etc. but everyone decided to go to bed and I was stuck awake all night. So that’s two nights in a row of no sleep. Drove Heathbar to the airport in the morning and got home and went to bed FINALLY.

    Slept from 8AM to 2PM, woke up to snow, which was again, pretty surreal. Well, I tried to get more sleep and spent the rest of the day in bed, but couldn’t sleep. Even once night came around, couldn’t get back to sleep. So I went to work with about 6 hours of sleep in 72 hours. Suprisingly, I was still pretty good for the day. However, today I’m feeling very sluggish, which is why I probably don’t have awesome random internets to post. Or do I???

    That’s Obama supporting comic books. For realz. Not a photoshop.

    I’ve read a few reviews of Watchmen so far, and the uber-geeks are a little dissappointed, but some are being very down-to-earth about it. If you expect the exact same thing, especially in character development, then you are going to be disappointed. There is no way a movie could translate it that accurately. Give them some leeway. I still believe Watchmen will outdo Dark Knight.

    So something I don’t talk about much on here are religious beliefs, and this is probably coming entirely out of left field. It used to be such a big thing for me, and if someone were to, say, go back to my old Xanga and read half the rants I had, they would definitely know I was extremely passionate about it. It’s something I am getting heavily back into recently. And pretty soon I will start ranting about it again.

    I leave you with a Silent Bat-Man film, rather THE Silent Bat-Man film. Yay for randoms.

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  • Next big rant

    So a few links first. I figure it’s easiest to get these out of the way first.

    Ted Talk about Siftables, some pretty nifty new computer interactions. Think Tomogatchi on crack with real the ability to have real software support. I especially like the quick musical demonstration. Could really open the door to some amazing possiblities with it.

    Next, I somehow couldn’t avoid getting Mac stuff in my weekly flow of information. Many of you know that I am not a Mac fan at all. Now I’m not saying I’m an afficianado of any form of technology, though I do my best to keep up with what interests me, (damn you Intel i7) but both of these managed to make it to my eyes. It’s quite maddening, realy. I need to find a baby to punch.

    Not sure how many have seen this, the exclusive date with Rorschach. Do enjoy, it is quite exhilirating.

    Lastly, a few Kung-fu vids. If you haven’t seen Chocolate yet, no not the french love film, the Korean? kung-fu film brought by the team that does Tony Jaa’s amazing feats of physical exceptional ability. Here is their latest film. It’s called Power Kids, and I swear I had total flashbacks to 3 Ninjas watching it. Except the 3 kids here are far more deadly, and believe every problem can be solved by one strategically placed knee to the face.

    Things have been doing well on my front. Our company just announced they are closing some more plants. Whoopie, I suppose. I’m still employed, so I’m counting my blessings. I’m trying to save up my money, about to file taxes. I’m hoping I get around 1k, with the stimulus package and all. We shall see. I’ve been hanging out with my sister and her crew quite a bit. I find that after everything that has happened with Kelli, I am becoming more and more passionate about embracing emotion. 

    I would be fool-hardy to say that I took the whole break-up without too much of  breakdown. I was a wreck for a couple of weeks, and am only now struggling to salvage what’s left of me. But at the same token, I wanted to feel all those things. I’m not the kind of person who wants to run from pain or fear, at least not once they are in my life. I don’t take rejection well, for example, but once I’ve been rejected, I fully embrace that pain. I don’t like trying to hide from those things. I had a friend recently telling me they saw a counselor that told them they are depressed. This person didn’t want to think they were, so they just kept avoiding it. That would bother me to no end. I believe you should embrace it. Everyone is depressed at some point in there life. EVERYONE. But there is a difference between being depressed and suffering from depression.

    I’m not saying I’m any kind of doctor or anything, but I like to think I understand the human psyche pretty well, and I do believe people are afraid of embracing emotions. They are afraid of the emotional backlash it can cause. I don’t like to live this way. I want to embrace the good just as much as the bad. This is the base principle for how I can believe in things like true love, for example, but that’s for another time.

    Brit, sir, I will come see you soon and I will get my butt whooped in some ST4 and possibly whoop some butt in SSBB. Also, have you played Left 4 Dead yet? Amazingly fun game to just waste some time in if you like FPS. I love a good co-op game and that sir is all you can get out of this game. Lastly, I leave you with a little SF meets Jackie Chan.

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  • The internets will never cease to amaze me

    A few cool links today. First off, check your stomach at the door. This one did a number on my appetite. This might be why you are fat. Some of the foods posted there are just flat out ridiculous, even for my stomach of pure fast food torture.

     
    Awesome stop motion video by Rex the Dog.

    Adam Savage, of certain Mythbusters fame, shares his passion for prop making and tells the story of his Doo-Doo bird skeleton and the Maltese Falcon. I post this merely because I love how passionate he is about everything he does. I wish I was that passionate.

    I’ve been getting annoyed with Pandora. I like the Weakerthans, and have a station for them, but over half the songs are Postal Service and Death cab for Cutie, which might as well be the same freaking band, and I am not a fan of either. There has got to be more bands that something in common with the Weakerthans. Ah well, it’s a free service, what are you gonna do?

    My sister managed to break the laptop I gave her, so I am going to have to rebuild that this weekend. Joy. At least I won’t feel guilty about putting XP on it this time. Or maybe i should throw in some Linux. I do believe I still have someone’s install/instructions for a custom linux build. She might only be a little mad, I’m sure. I think it would do her some good getting to know some CL.

    I’ve been hanging with Dana and her crew a bit lately. Anna Breedlove, whom I love and enjoy her company thoroughly, and I have finally been getting back to being friends after two years of awkward tension, due to both of us being entirely too awkward for any such situations to ever resolve themselves in the sense of normalcy. Then there is my sister dear, who can not seem to avoid trouble, especially with the black and blue. We get along quite well now. Greg lives with them still, and Greg and I are getting past most of our (read: MY) awkward tension from living together. I think he hated me, but then again I thought everyone at 1818 hated me for the longest time, and it’s not like I was wrong, but I am extremely paranoid so the point might be null. And then comes SusieQ. SusieQ fascinates me. Not quite in an attracted sense. I’m not looking for any relationships really. But she still amazes me. We have many similar qualities, yet some very differing views on the world and how we go about interactions. I got to hear her sing last night in public and it reminded very much of my friend Heather, whom I suspect hates me now, and I believe this one is more than paranoia. I don’t know if I like that Susie reminds me of her. I don’t think I do. Bad memories.

    All my recent shopping items have made it into my possession. I’ve already watched the Fisher King, and will again this weekend. I haven’t been getting nearly enough sleep lately. I’ve watched 15 movies in the past two weeks. I should probably give it a rest at some point. Maybe one day. My buddy Dave came up last week. We gamed. I felt guilty for how uneventful I was that day, but I think we had some fun. I’ve been a little crazy lately. I suppose that’s OK. To some degree. You know, it’s been two months, and I still haven’t really talked about how I feel about what happened between Kelli and I. I hope to one day be able to put it into writing. Beyond single sentence bull.

    Lastly, some new music. Pedro the Lion, Band of Horses, Maximo Park, Model K, Leroy Bell, Mute Math, and two classics, Decemberists and Tapes ‘n’ Tapes.

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  • So I guess I can come back to life

    And with life, a few new things.

    I found a neat website that I think is a very cool social experiment called We Feel Fine. It involves taking blogs from around the world, using some creative programming to pinpoint different characteristics of people, and searches for the phrase “I feel” and begins to categorize these phrases. It’s pretty awesome and something I do find myself truly intrigued by it. It’s a project that, while somewhat invading, is also pretty genuine and honest. The man behind this, Jonathan Harris, has also started another project, a little less intriguing to me as it’s mostly news-based, called Universe.

    Also, I’ve been getting into some new music. The Prids, Myriad, Ratatat, Ghostland Observatory, Cool Hand Luke, MGMT, El Ten Eleven, and Longwave just to name a few. I’ve always been an avid fan of Pandora, but I’ve just now started using it as a musical discovery device.

    I’ve been impulse shopping lately. Lovecraft, A shack of shrubbery, Human Document, the King of Fishers, a country in South America, best romance in a while, and a few apparel related items.

    I’ve determined I’m going to pick up a new hobby as well. I am currently saving up money to buy myself a drum set. I have my dirty jew of a friend Justin helping me pick a set out and at the same time giving me some lessons. Yay for new hobbies.

    I suppose there isn’t much else. I’ve tried to be more social as of late. Brit, sir, I am sorry for my lack of calling/hanging out. I promise you are still on the list of people I hang out with. I’ve just got to get off my bum. I suppose that’s all. For too long I have been self-concious of what I write on this site. I wanted this site to have more of a public appeal to it. However, I have to accept I don’t have anything the general populus wants, so I am going to turn this into my own personal diary, as I have been yearning for a place to vent lately. So expect random tangents and retarded junk abound good people.

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  • How many 5 year olds can you take?

    I might have a real post later, but until then.

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  • Meh.

    I don’t know if I am going to post much after all. I’ve just been down a lot lately. I suppose this is normal. I’m exhausted with everything and apathy has started to set in. It’s been a couple years since I’ve been truly not happy, but I suppose it has to happen at some point. I hope to pick this up again soon, but I don’t know. I do know I am very seriously considering taking a week off work and just driving. I don’t know where. Somewhere. I know I need it. I will soon though. Soon.

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  • Tech Jargon – Ghost distaste

    So we happen to have a ghost server in our office, ver. 7.5 to be exact. Now this was the old version I used back when I worked at DTC, but back then the system didn’t have any issues for us. There was one guy who would make all of the boot discs and CDs for us, so we never really had any issues. Well no one here is actually familiar with Ghost. In fact, I know more than most the people here. So I’ve been doing what I can with what little Ghost knowledge I actually have to get it to work.

    For those of you who don’t know what Ghost is, it’s basically a full size, byte-for-byte backup of your harddrive. This software is primarly used for backups and mass installation of PCs. You can build a machine for a certain model, say the latest Dell laptop, and if you have 10 people who just got this same model in the company, you only have to build one of them, use Ghost to make a copy, and then put that image on the other machines. They suddenly have everything you want installed in about 30 minutes what would normally take 2-3 hours per machine. This can be done via drive-to-drive, which means having two hard drives in a machine and then copying from one to the other, or using what’s called a ghost server. A ghost server is more popular for the mass installation, as you can use it over a network and by merely putting in a session number, can shoot down the image to many PCs at one time, or you can upload the image onto the server from your PC, thus backing it up for later.

    Well this is all fine and dandy, except two model desktops we have here at our office do not get along with Ghost at all. The Gateway 4300 and Gateway 4100 do not like Ghost and will not even load the GUI, even when I try to do a drive-to-drive. Now I’ve tinkered more with the 4300 than the other, but after 3 hours of playing I couldn’t get it to load up the ghost GUI at any point. Not even Google could help a brother out. It was an extremely frustrating situation.

    I say to hell with Ghost. Their support isn’t all that spectacular on issues like this either. Use something more like Bart PE with DriveImage XML. This is a nice free-ware alternative to Ghost. If anyone has any suggestions to getting these model Gateways working I would appreciate it.

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  • Back from hiatus!

    Hello fellow people who probably don’t read this anymore. I am going to have to start spamming this out to people again. Anyways, I am finally back to update after a 3 month hiatus. Life was all sorts of crazy in the past months. I’ll try to go over as much as I can before I forget it all.

    First, the big news. I am dis-engaged. Kelli and I decided that there might be more in life for us each other. It was a mutual thing and we are staying friends and talking, but not getting back together any time soon. This happened about 3 weeks ago, so I’m doing allright now. Let’s just say I bought lots of video games and I have already plowed through half of them. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, yeah life goes on.

    I did get some new electronics as well. I got myself a new 42″ HDTV that supposedly supports 1080p. A new Acer Desktop. Quad Core Processor at 2.5, 8 gigs of RAM, 1280 gigs of HDD, an nVidia 9800GT card that supports DX10. Mmmm. And all that for $1500. And the cream of the crop was Kelli ended getting me a Christmas present too. A PS3! My electronic paradise is at fruition. I already went out and bought some new games too.
    Games:
    Prince of Persia (Xbox)
    Gears of War 2 (Xbox)
    Fable 2 (Xbox)
    Last Remnant (Xbox)
    Infinite Undiscovery (Xbox)
    Little Big Planet (PS3)
    Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (PS3)
    Rachet and Clank: Up your arsenal (PS3)
    Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3)
    And not a single Wii game!

    I’ve already beaten: Uncharted, Rachet and Clank, Prince of Persia, Gears 2, and Fable 2. Mmm. Happy. I actually beat most of those over the past 4 days. Lots of fun, lots of good stories. All in all very enjoyable week considering recent events. The TV looks great with all the equipment too. My room has changed quite a bit. I will get pictures up soon I hope.

    I’ve not been getting anywhere with my modeling. I did go out and buy a book on 3DS and it goes over the basics of character animation. So I’m trying to get through this right now. (I haven’t even made it past the modeling section. I still need to do the rigging and skinning before I get to the animating.) I came to a realization while doing this book though. I can’t do the modeling aspect of this. All my models will be cartoony and dispoportioned because I don’t have that eye for detail to make them look realistic enough. So I’m hoping I get to do the animation parts then.

    I got to see Alexa last night. That was good. Although she put video games in front of me and I became mildly distracted. She is definitely one of the most fascinating people I’ve ever met. I always find myself intrigued by everything she says. Is that weird? Maybe. But I’m strangely comfortable with that.

    I haven’t seen too many friends lately, and it’s been terribly hard to adjust to not being able to call someone 24/7 with the reassurance of that person always answering and not avoiding my calls. Meh. I’m needy. Which is why I am probably back on the internets now. Seriously, if anyone wants to game at all, hit me up for it.
    Xbox account: Chaotic Buthead
    PS3: chaoticbutthead
    Steam: sljesa@hotmail.com
    I also have Brawl codes if someone wants to share. I like playing with people so join me! That sounds gross. Anywho. That’s all I’ve got. I’ll try to get more stuff up one day.

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  • Why do I believe in total genocide?

    Because of things like this. My prayers go out to those families. This ruined my day.

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  • Total Productivity for Weekend: -10%

    Well, I managed to get nothing worth while done, other than going up and checking out where my wedding is going to be. Heh. I still find myself a little taken aback by it all. It’s all good though. I have a few reviews to post still. Movies: Traitor and Lakeview Terrace. Games: Too Human and Metal Gear Solid (THE FIRST).

    The reason I’m doing such an old review is because I played it last night… and beat it again last night. In tribute to my love of all things Hideo Kojima, I am going to play through all the MGS. I debated whether to do it in game order, or chronological order. I ended up going in game order, and managed to knock the first one out in one sitting. Strangely enough, the game still held a high rank to me, despite being a PS1. I find it strange. Other than graphics and missing a few gameplay features, it holds up to par with today’s games. Bah, I will review it properly later.

    Also, I was very sad to have missed SUPER ART FIGHT: ROUND 1 this past weekend. I hope to attend the next one. And maybe some linux nerd I happen to know won’t be all “d00d, l1n|_|x 1$ t3|-| $|-|!t” and come be a different kind of nerd for once. Heh. Hugs and kisses. 🙂

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