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February 28, 2005
this island
You need to go This Island by Le Tigre:
Really...it's very good. Rough, agressive but poppy. There's power behind it all that you can sense, and that's something very refreshing. Now I just need to get their earlier stuff. If you remember, I posted a link to the Decepacon video earlier. I was at Linen's and things earlier this week and I saw a red coffee maker...this one to be exact:
wtf mate? I mean once I started looking around I noticed there's a plot afoot to make every kitchen red. You've got red mixers, red quesadilla makers, red lobster crackers, red spatulas, even a red freakin' toaster. I mean, are you trying to make you kitchen look like it can do warp 5? It's crazy, but somehow I missed a meeting where all the rich people decided that red was the new "rich" color.
Speaking of rich looking things, my legs and arse are sore. Wanna know the connection? Because I built a desk yesterday for my sister. now normally I'm pretty good at these things, so perhaps i'm out of practice or something, but this thing kicked my butt:
It's some type of desk by Christopher Lowell and let me tell you, it's complicated. I mean, not to toot my own horn, but it took me 5 hours to do pretty much. I know it doesn't look like much but trust me, looks can be deceiving. It really is very complicated to put together. Thank god I brought a drill with me.
I'm probably just getting fat and lazy.
Speaking of fat and lazy, here's a pic Jen caught of me and Chloe. The doctors were able to save my leg once he got off, but i'll have a limp from now on, and can't play the piano anymore. ;)
On an interesting note, I ran across an article about the people who created "six apart", which is the company that created Movable Type...the very program I use every day to create my site and express myself for all my stalkers out there. It's pretty interesting actually, how they did it and what it meant in their life really. The "queen" has her own blog of course, which I found ironic that 2 of the books she is reading I've read. I wonder if that has some type of similarity into the type of people who crave global acceptance, or perhaps maybe i'm full of brown stinky stuff :) Is blogging really the y2k version of the diary kept when we were little, or is it simply the result of a generation weened on television hungry for our 15 minutes of fame? How many licks does it take to get to the middle of a tootsie roll pop?
I guess the world may never know...
Really...it's very good. Rough, agressive but poppy. There's power behind it all that you can sense, and that's something very refreshing. Now I just need to get their earlier stuff. If you remember, I posted a link to the Decepacon video earlier. I was at Linen's and things earlier this week and I saw a red coffee maker...this one to be exact:
wtf mate? I mean once I started looking around I noticed there's a plot afoot to make every kitchen red. You've got red mixers, red quesadilla makers, red lobster crackers, red spatulas, even a red freakin' toaster. I mean, are you trying to make you kitchen look like it can do warp 5? It's crazy, but somehow I missed a meeting where all the rich people decided that red was the new "rich" color.
Speaking of rich looking things, my legs and arse are sore. Wanna know the connection? Because I built a desk yesterday for my sister. now normally I'm pretty good at these things, so perhaps i'm out of practice or something, but this thing kicked my butt:
It's some type of desk by Christopher Lowell and let me tell you, it's complicated. I mean, not to toot my own horn, but it took me 5 hours to do pretty much. I know it doesn't look like much but trust me, looks can be deceiving. It really is very complicated to put together. Thank god I brought a drill with me.
I'm probably just getting fat and lazy.
Speaking of fat and lazy, here's a pic Jen caught of me and Chloe. The doctors were able to save my leg once he got off, but i'll have a limp from now on, and can't play the piano anymore. ;)
On an interesting note, I ran across an article about the people who created "six apart", which is the company that created Movable Type...the very program I use every day to create my site and express myself for all my stalkers out there. It's pretty interesting actually, how they did it and what it meant in their life really. The "queen" has her own blog of course, which I found ironic that 2 of the books she is reading I've read. I wonder if that has some type of similarity into the type of people who crave global acceptance, or perhaps maybe i'm full of brown stinky stuff :) Is blogging really the y2k version of the diary kept when we were little, or is it simply the result of a generation weened on television hungry for our 15 minutes of fame? How many licks does it take to get to the middle of a tootsie roll pop?
I guess the world may never know...
February 25, 2005
they call it timing and we call it visability
- All these years that I've spent looking into the toilet to sit down have not been because of paranoia. Fla. Man Finds 6-Foot African Rock Python In Toilet.
- Man Gets 4 Years In Pizza Parlor Beating. The video of this is scary as hell....nobody moves to help this guy while he's getting beat to pulp. All because this fucker's fat ass girlfriend cut in front of the guy and then got mad at him for not being happy about it. Reminds me of this:
- Blockbuster's "no late fees" marketing is all smoke and mirrors. Gee....didn't see this coming. Bascially....no late fees for a week, then guess what? You just bought the video.
- Two faced? Eyes in the back of her head? Something on her mind? Not quite sure which headline will send me to hell quicker.
- The oops list for airplanes...kinda scary actually. Some real cool pictures though
- Super Mario made out of post-it notes. Pretty cool actually, I can't believe the dick head's in the accounting dept took theirs down the next day. Bastards.
- Man Gets 4 Years In Pizza Parlor Beating. The video of this is scary as hell....nobody moves to help this guy while he's getting beat to pulp. All because this fucker's fat ass girlfriend cut in front of the guy and then got mad at him for not being happy about it. Reminds me of this:
- Blockbuster's "no late fees" marketing is all smoke and mirrors. Gee....didn't see this coming. Bascially....no late fees for a week, then guess what? You just bought the video.- Two faced? Eyes in the back of her head? Something on her mind? Not quite sure which headline will send me to hell quicker.
- The oops list for airplanes...kinda scary actually. Some real cool pictures though
- Super Mario made out of post-it notes. Pretty cool actually, I can't believe the dick head's in the accounting dept took theirs down the next day. Bastards.
February 24, 2005
new kicks
So we've finally pretty much finished the kitchen ceiling. We ended up painting it after I finished the drywall to replace where we removed the drippy can lights :(
On the bright side the drywalling was a pain, but turned out pretty good I think.
Before:
After:
and for your personal reference, here are some tips:
- How not to get your ass kicked by the police.
Before:
After:
and for your personal reference, here are some tips:
- How not to get your ass kicked by the police.
February 23, 2005
dumb like a linoleum floor
Best video EVAR!!!!!
Deceptacon by Le Tigre
Lot's of fun flash games to keep you busy not working:
- Hapland. Good luck figuring this one out....very hard to solve.
- Nanaca Crash. Crash into somebody with your bike and see how far you can get them to go. My record is 2719.78m :) **UPDATE** Record is now 5368.03m....god i need a hobby.
- A Game Involving Balls v6.1. Kind of a new age breakout clone.
Deceptacon by Le Tigre
Lot's of fun flash games to keep you busy not working:
- Hapland. Good luck figuring this one out....very hard to solve.- Nanaca Crash. Crash into somebody with your bike and see how far you can get them to go. My record is 2719.78m :) **UPDATE** Record is now 5368.03m....god i need a hobby.
- A Game Involving Balls v6.1. Kind of a new age breakout clone.
February 22, 2005
cat brain picture
February 20, 2005
Roxio Go Back is the devil
So...as usual, I'm working on a computer for somebody trying to remove some spyware and virus's. Well I have this machine that sits under my desk called "the clean machine". It's only reason for being is to clean other computers. It's not that fast (P3 500, 384mb ram) cause it's basically spare parts but it does the job well. Basically run XP, have antivirus, all updates and patches and every spyware I can install. The best thing about it is if a virus get's on it I don't have to worry. Just wipe and reinstall XP. Also, I have a removable drive tray installed so I can slap hard drives in without removing the case or having to change the jumpers from primary to secondary on the HD.
*sigh*...anyways, so I'm working on this computer (it's a gateway) and for the life of me I can't get the drive to recognize XP. The BIOS sees it....windows device driver sees it...but it doesn't mount and assign a drive letter. So I wiggle under the desk and remove the cover thinking the CD rom on the secondary IDE port might be affecting it...no joy.
So I start undertaking the laborious process of trying to edit the registry on the actual host machine and trying to fix the spyware on the actual machine. Which is never a smart idea....never try to fix a comprimised system using the same OS you think is infected.
Anyways, long story short. After some exstenive googling I figured out why XP couldn't mount it. Roxio Go Back.....I ended up having to disable it (by pressing the space bar, and selecting disable) and sure enough now I can magically access it on my clean machine.
Summary: Windows will not see your secondary hard drive if you have Roxio Go back installed. Sure, it'll be in the BIOS and device manager, but it will not get a letter.
Moral: There's always something new to learn, even on old computers.
February 18, 2005
damn you rfc1918! damn you to hell!!!!
I've pretty much been on conference calls for almost 3 days straight now relating to issues with BGP in chicago :( It's insane the amount of trouble that pops up when you try to do things, or use a ppp default interface that falls in the range of non-routeable interfaces that netopias also assign on their Lan side. I mean com'n, it's non routable...and why the hell are you trying to declair a whole class A block? Unless of course you have more than 16 million PC's on your lan.....
Links? Sure...why not, but I'm more than just a piece of meat..*sniff*:
- Mouse Necrophelia....yes, I know this is a new all time low. If it's any consolation Ralphie(ette) is not happy with me.
- Moskau! Proof that black market Vodka kills braincells.
- Spongebong Hemppants. No wonder our kids are so f'd up.
- Superman is a dick. Dontated by Stacey. I've seen these before but the commentary is pretty funny.
- Drop kick the Faint. Personally I didn't think their last album was that bad...but hey why not.
- Wow....Muppets Overtime. A tribute of sorts to Jim Henson. Pretty strong stuff here.
- Mouse Necrophelia....yes, I know this is a new all time low. If it's any consolation Ralphie(ette) is not happy with me.
- Moskau! Proof that black market Vodka kills braincells.
- Spongebong Hemppants. No wonder our kids are so f'd up.
- Superman is a dick. Dontated by Stacey. I've seen these before but the commentary is pretty funny.
- Drop kick the Faint. Personally I didn't think their last album was that bad...but hey why not.
- Wow....Muppets Overtime. A tribute of sorts to Jim Henson. Pretty strong stuff here.
February 17, 2005
fields full of the blood of spammers
today we added over 100+ urls to the spam filter.....took about 5 minutes.......much less time I'm sure than it did to register and setup them up.
oh yeah, and if you deleted static interfaces to enable inter community string BGP communitcation, make sure your ip routes don't contain references to aforementioned entries. bad things happen.
February 16, 2005
Here's a sample of our beer website
This is what your missing at our beer website, so head on over, do a search and post your comments!
Name: Arrogant Bastard Ale
Brewed In/Type: San Marcos, CA / Ale
Bought at/Price Shipped via friend / unknown
Dennis: Holy wow. This is another of the fine brews shipped to us for review from TX. Now previously we've had the Stone IPA and it was good, but this beer certainly makes an impression. The label lays everything out for you pretty clearly. You are not worthy. This beer smells deep and musty, and comes on with a strong, hoppy bitterness interwoven with a thick sweetness. I don't give a crap how it poured, what it's lacy head looked like, or how it's hoppy effervescence satiated my pallet. Simple point is this is a good beer, and if you ever have the chance you must taste it.
Jen: This is a great beer and I wish we could get it locally. It starts off with a nice sweetness to it that masks the hoppiness at first, however, you end with a taste of citrusy hops. As Dennis just said "This is how beer should be!" Easy to drink with a nice medium body and goes down smooth. It you enjoy a good hoppy beer, definitely give this a go!
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Name: Arrogant Bastard AleBrewed In/Type: San Marcos, CA / Ale
Bought at/Price Shipped via friend / unknown
Dennis: Holy wow. This is another of the fine brews shipped to us for review from TX. Now previously we've had the Stone IPA and it was good, but this beer certainly makes an impression. The label lays everything out for you pretty clearly. You are not worthy. This beer smells deep and musty, and comes on with a strong, hoppy bitterness interwoven with a thick sweetness. I don't give a crap how it poured, what it's lacy head looked like, or how it's hoppy effervescence satiated my pallet. Simple point is this is a good beer, and if you ever have the chance you must taste it.
Jen: This is a great beer and I wish we could get it locally. It starts off with a nice sweetness to it that masks the hoppiness at first, however, you end with a taste of citrusy hops. As Dennis just said "This is how beer should be!" Easy to drink with a nice medium body and goes down smooth. It you enjoy a good hoppy beer, definitely give this a go!
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
February 14, 2005
Happy VD...um..wait, that doesn't sound right.
- The mother load of funny/banned videos. Found by Nick.- Quite the cunning stunt...until the whole "getting hit by a car thing". Obviously faked but brought to you by Stacey.
- If you smile for a mugshot something is probably not right with your life.
- Maddox wishes you a happy Hallmark day. - Anti Valentine day cards you can send via email.
February 13, 2005
Ikea family room entertainment center
Man, let me tell you how long it took to get this post ready. Ton's of pictures...
For a while, like everything else, we've been looking for a new entertainment center for the living room to not only hold all the equipment, but also all our DVD's (my anime collection is pretty large). My old shelves couldn't hold any equipment, and had been discontinued so we couldn't buy more if we wanted to even. We finally settled on something from IKEA's Bonde collection. We originally wanted silver, but now in retrospect we agree that it would have been to much gray for the room. So basically the setup is pretty simple.
Kinda like this twice, with a bridging shelf.
Anyways, here's a pic of everything still in the box:
After unpacking we started building the two shelf unit's, and stood them up so we could mount the bridging shelves:
While I was waiting for Jen I started on the drawer's. If you see one of the pics I always take the hardware out of the bag and sort it. It may seem silly, but I tell you it saves time in the end and makes things easier:
This thing is so tall, it really takes two people and a ladder to get it on right. After that we called it a night and I hooked up the tv real quick so we could recored Medium and call it a night:
The next day we put on the glass doors, with absolutly no help from any of the cats:
After that all we had to do was load up the DVD's....so here are the finished pics:
Now I get to buy more anime....right....honey....honey why aren't you listening to me......
After unpacking we started building the two shelf unit's, and stood them up so we could mount the bridging shelves:
While I was waiting for Jen I started on the drawer's. If you see one of the pics I always take the hardware out of the bag and sort it. It may seem silly, but I tell you it saves time in the end and makes things easier:
This thing is so tall, it really takes two people and a ladder to get it on right. After that we called it a night and I hooked up the tv real quick so we could recored Medium and call it a night:
The next day we put on the glass doors, with absolutly no help from any of the cats:
After that all we had to do was load up the DVD's....so here are the finished pics:
Now I get to buy more anime....right....honey....honey why aren't you listening to me......
February 10, 2005
happy thursday everyone
Working early mornings really does tend to screw with my sense of time, but on the otherhand since everything went fine I can't really complain.
I snapped a pic of Ralphie quickly....I had to because the little bastard is like a fart in a mitten when you walk in the room.
And here we have Moxie after a few months of love and caring. Notice how she is bascially basting in her own lard? Remember when she was skinny?
- Plastic surgery booming in Mexico. Um...no thanks, I would never have it done, but I certainly would never have it done in Mexico's back alley's.
- The Grey Sweatsuit Revolution is upon us.
- Give your valentine the royal treatment....at White Castle?
And here we have Moxie after a few months of love and caring. Notice how she is bascially basting in her own lard? Remember when she was skinny?
- Plastic surgery booming in Mexico. Um...no thanks, I would never have it done, but I certainly would never have it done in Mexico's back alley's.- The Grey Sweatsuit Revolution is upon us.
- Give your valentine the royal treatment....at White Castle?
February 09, 2005
Amazing Race 6 finale
We watched the finale of the Amazing Race season 6 last night and it was pretty cool. I mean we both were hoping either Kris/Jon or Freddy/Kendra would win cause Adam/Rebecca really grated on my nerves. Maybe not even Rebecca so much (although something's wrong with her if she stays in a relationship like that) but really since day one Adam's little devil ponytails really bugged the living shit outta me.
I mean, really I wanted kris/Jon to win because they really played the game the best. Never argued, fought, played dirty, even actually seemed like they were in a functional relationship. But as Jen said last night, they ran into the curse. If your in first place at the last pit stop you always loose the game. The only thing else that bothered me was at the end, when they were zooming out from the entire "cast" of contestants Jonathan had his arm up like he was the winner. God what an asshole.....Freddy and Kendra won jackass. You don't see anyone else with their hands up except them do you? F'ing self centered moron. I mean really...it's not all about you. Last thing...I can't...CAN'T believe Rob and Amber from Survivor are going to be on the next Amazing Race 7. My jaw was seriously open for a good 10 seconds. It could just be a gimmick but still...didn't see it coming. I think I need to stop watching so much tv :)
I mean, really I wanted kris/Jon to win because they really played the game the best. Never argued, fought, played dirty, even actually seemed like they were in a functional relationship. But as Jen said last night, they ran into the curse. If your in first place at the last pit stop you always loose the game. The only thing else that bothered me was at the end, when they were zooming out from the entire "cast" of contestants Jonathan had his arm up like he was the winner. God what an asshole.....Freddy and Kendra won jackass. You don't see anyone else with their hands up except them do you? F'ing self centered moron. I mean really...it's not all about you. Last thing...I can't...CAN'T believe Rob and Amber from Survivor are going to be on the next Amazing Race 7. My jaw was seriously open for a good 10 seconds. It could just be a gimmick but still...didn't see it coming. I think I need to stop watching so much tv :)
February 07, 2005
Olympus m:robe
While watching the Superbowl last night I saw a commercial for a new mp3/camera thing from Olympus called the m:robe 500.
now i already have a camera, but the m100 version looks cool as all freakin' hell:
Looks like they're about $200+. Not to bad...I mean both Jen and I have both been wanting an MP3 player and up till now the Ipod had my vote, but man this thing just seems to cool. Kind of reminds me of those old mattell football games with the red blips.
Then again that's $250 I could put towards paying off the mortgage...:)
Looks like they're about $200+. Not to bad...I mean both Jen and I have both been wanting an MP3 player and up till now the Ipod had my vote, but man this thing just seems to cool. Kind of reminds me of those old mattell football games with the red blips.
Then again that's $250 I could put towards paying off the mortgage...:)
February 06, 2005
irony defined - telemarketing post
I actually do a lot of little things to drive traffic to my site, and our beer review website. Meta tags, posting on other boards w/ links and even email signatures. All kind of a narcissistic stupid little things to justify myself to the world :)
That's why I find it deliciously ironic that the single most traffic driving thing I've posted about lately was a telemarketer call from some bank one rep.
If you do a google search for the phone number 858-9823, I'm the #1 result. Almost every search done on my database lately has been that phone # (since google doesn't take you the individual post, just the main index), and a keyword analysis of my site shows it's what most people who come here are looking for. not witty comments, not links or pictures of my cats... Well, might as well give them what they want: (616) 447-2970 is the number for a "charity" called the Dove Foundation, the best part is they left a voice mail saing how this is "not a sales call". They only do that crap because their charity status makes them exempt from following that national no-call registry. There's a whole thread about it here. And for the other two people who read this, here's some links: - Can computer parts be evil? Yes....oh yes indeed. Truly evil pc2700 512mb DDR Ram for sale on ebay.
- Get fit the poodle way. Strange...very strange.
- Disgruntled tattoo artist inks his revenge, and the follow up Asian Tattoo artist inks revenge behind bars. Great parody writing here folks.
If you do a google search for the phone number 858-9823, I'm the #1 result. Almost every search done on my database lately has been that phone # (since google doesn't take you the individual post, just the main index), and a keyword analysis of my site shows it's what most people who come here are looking for. not witty comments, not links or pictures of my cats... Well, might as well give them what they want: (616) 447-2970 is the number for a "charity" called the Dove Foundation, the best part is they left a voice mail saing how this is "not a sales call". They only do that crap because their charity status makes them exempt from following that national no-call registry. There's a whole thread about it here. And for the other two people who read this, here's some links: - Can computer parts be evil? Yes....oh yes indeed. Truly evil pc2700 512mb DDR Ram for sale on ebay.
- Get fit the poodle way. Strange...very strange.
- Disgruntled tattoo artist inks his revenge, and the follow up Asian Tattoo artist inks revenge behind bars. Great parody writing here folks.
February 04, 2005
bgp = big gookie problem
Here's a pic somebody took of us at D&B's last weekend.
I would post something else, but I've got so many projects i'm in charge of right now that it's been crazy. Plus I have to go clean the kitty litter, and we volunteer tomorrow morning.
I would post something else, but I've got so many projects i'm in charge of right now that it's been crazy. Plus I have to go clean the kitty litter, and we volunteer tomorrow morning.
February 03, 2005
Jen's website
Which Website are You? Shhhhh, don't tell Dennis about the rocket car, he would just want to take it apart to figure out how it works!!!
February 01, 2005
What website are you?
Got wood?
So we burned through the wood created from the two branches a while ago and discovered something...we both really like burning fires. So we've been pricing out a face cord of mixed hardwood locally and finally settled on National Tree Service for $75 delivered.
Plus as an added bonus I ran across a real deal while looking for some other stuff for the house. A metal wood holder for only $28 bucks!
Anyways, they dropped off the wood today. They were about 2 1/2 hours late doing it...but they did at least drop it off. And to be honest, it's not like I had to be home for them to drop it off....I just didn't want to leave a check in the front door.
Doesn't look like a lot does it? Didn't to me at first...then I started stacking:
Damn....that's a lot of wood.
Anyways, they dropped off the wood today. They were about 2 1/2 hours late doing it...but they did at least drop it off. And to be honest, it's not like I had to be home for them to drop it off....I just didn't want to leave a check in the front door.
Doesn't look like a lot does it? Didn't to me at first...then I started stacking:
Damn....that's a lot of wood.