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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
I know I said I wouldn't post here anymore but I just had to.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/30/naked.guy.ap/index.html
That's my hometown baby (Westerville is a suburb of Columbus and it's easier to say I'm from Columbus that explain where Westerville is).
This is exactly what happens when you have a bunch of preppy bastards with too much time on their hands.
Monday, November 6, 2006
if you have noticed, i don't post here much anymore.
i can't say that i find much reason anymore but i will keep this around to check out other people's posts and such (especially those involving meat).
i do however have my own blog which you can find here.
feel free to check it out and correct my spelliing and/or word usages.
Monday, September 25, 2006
or at least those who critized my 401k.
my current year to date change is now 6.1% (up from around 4% last monthish). i know i don't really have that much control over it, but i have enough to make myself feel good when it does well.
it's odd though. if my calculations are correct, if i retire at 65, i'll have about 2M$. what the hell am i going to do with that? sure, live comfortably but i can't see myself going out and buying a 1M$ house. or flying all over the world. i'm going to be old by then, probably cranky (or at least more cranky) and i won't want to fly all over the world. i think i'd probably sit out on my lawn and yell at the neighbor kids. or be a greeter at walmart. not cause i had to but i've never had a job i could just say, "boss, you're an idiot. don't care, i'm going home. send me my last paycheck." and i think that kind of freedom would be good in a job. keep it fun as in, i'm here because i want to be not because i need the money to pay for my food and if you mistreat me, i got just one finger for you.
then again, i may just quit my job tomorrow, take em and head for the caribbean. then i wouldn't have to worry about all those retirement questions.
Saturday, September 9, 2006
but you know the most impressive thing to me? troy smith's interview at the end of the game. it just oozed class.
Thursday, September 7, 2006
i just had a funny thought and i wanted to share.
during crank, turkish starts headbanging to achy breaky heart. and it's funny. it's absolutely hillarious. and i just had the scene play through my head.
ha.
Friday, September 1, 2006
so, rotten tomatoes sucks. it's one of the few places i can check at work, but it still sucks.
for instance, crank. while i want to see it, i don't think it deserves 100% fresh (100% good reviews). so, there's a lack of reviews and this:
"Very noisy, severe on the eyes and ludicrous, but a decent examle of mindless entertainment."
counts as a good review.
cause that's what i think of when i think of good.
i should just stop going there, they're an awful site.
ps - it looks like we're going monday. let me know if you're interested.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
since no one seemed up for soap, i'm asking before the day the movie comes out.
who's up for crank this weekend?
i think you'll be in town snyder.
we could even make a night of it - do i little meth before the movie*. so come on, who's up for it.
*this post does not advocate the use of meth in any way; it was a joke based on the plot of the movie
with the stock market sucking this year, my 401k was taking a beating. i think a month ago my year to date return was like 1.2%. i was unhappy about this to say the least. so i did some research and switched my lowest performer for something that had been performing consistanly over the year. and i know just something did well for the past six months doesn't mean it's going to do well for the next six months but the one i was switching from actually had like a 2% loss for the year. anything is better than that.
and it would appear that my switch has paid off because today i'm sitting at 4.8% for the year. hopefully it keeps perking up so i can get to a respectable 6% instead of just beating inflation. damn stock money, attempting to make me work more.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
i hate microsoft.
i spent about six hours over the last two days trying to add security to a database i wrote in access. the wizard doesn't make much sense to me so i start trying to do it by hand. long story short, the wizard works, but it doesn't tell you what it's doing. and then your database is locked, the only way in being a shortcut on your desktop. but it didn't tell me about the shortcut. it didn't tell me where it was going to put it. i created full security by hand because it didn't tell me where it was going to put the fucking thing. fucking, stupid, piece of shit microsoft.
gah
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i hate you bill gates.
Friday, August 18, 2006
first, soap today. who's game?
second:
KEVIN
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Irish
Pronounced: KEV-in [key]
Anglicized form of the Irish name Caoimhín, derived from the older Irish Coemgen, composed of the Old Irish elements coem "kind, gentle, handsome" and gein "birth". Saint Caoimhin established a monastery in Ireland and is the patron saint of Dublin
ha, my name says i'm kinda and gentle. where the hell did that go?
BRANDON
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRAN-dun [key]
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "hill covered with broom" in Old English. It is sometimes also used as a variant of BRENDAN.
it seems odd that someone would call their child "hill"
BLAINE
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
From a surname meaning "servant of Blaan". Blaan was a Scottish saint.
no idea
JEDIDIAH
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: יְדִידְיָה (Hebrew)
Pronounced: je-di-DIE-a [key]
Means "beloved of YAHWEH" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is a name given to Solomon by Nathan.
jed is a variation of the above. appearently, yahew means god in hebrew.
ALAN
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Scottish
Pronounced: AL-an [key]
The meaning of this name is not known for certain, though it possibly means either "little rock" or "handsome" in Breton. It was introduced to England by Bretons after the Norman invasion. Famous modern bearers include Alan Shepard, the first American in space and the fifth man to walk on the moon, and Alan Turing, a British mathematician and computer scientist.
handsome my foot.
and last but not least.
EMIL
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Scandinavian, Czech, Polish, Slovene, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Емил (Bulgarian, Serbian)
From the Roman family name Aemilius, which was derived from Latin aemulus meaning "rival".
emily is a feminine version of it. between naming a kid "hill" and naming a kid "rival", i think i would go for hill. good thing in our americanization, the meanings of names doesn't matter.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_%28film%29
appearently bungie is going to keep creative control over the movie. and that pissed off some of hollywood's movie films to which microsoft replied, "shut the fuck up, we're microsoft."
normally i would be against microsoft but because the movie industry is probably as evil as them, i can stay neutral on the whole thing.
Monday, August 14, 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006
so i got to play my game again last night. this time, i betrayed everyone else and it was great. i became the mad bomber (that bombs at midnight) and proceded to bring about the doom of all. mwahahaha.
i had appearently set bombs up on everyone else and was working on the "big bomb". the others had to come find me and put me down. but they failed.
blaine: first to die - tried to defuse the bomb on himself and blew up in the effort
hardy: came looking for a fight and i beat him down with my bear hands
scott: after hardy came attacking, i was able to set up my proximity mines and scott charged right into the range - boom
emily: remote detonated her bomb while she was in the library trying to read up to defuse the bomb on her
katy: sitting next to emily when she went boom
the scenario was kinda weak (the hell bats were more fun) but i still enjoyed it. the other team could have won pretty easily but i think they got disheartened when blaine blew himself up.
i want to play again; i know there are zombies in the game but i haven't seen them yet. i want zombies damn it.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/10/washington.terror.plot/index.html
why does everyone use that word wrong?
fas·cism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fshzm)
n.
often Fascism
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
Oppressive, dictatorial control.
so, islam is now a system of government? i know bush doens't have a good grasp of the english langue but you would at least think his advisor's would. or maybe it's because the general populace doesn't understand the word and the advisor's are playing on people's stupidity. for a nation so concerned about educating the young, there sure a lot of very, very stupid people in this country.
and by the way, spelling words in english is by no means a test of intellegence. there are so many expections to rules that more often than not, english is totally illogical and a huge number of very intellegent people have trouble with spelling.
for ruining my idea of cheap chinese food. i had some for lunch today. pretty good. but then i wanted a crab rangoo. man, i was craving it something fierce. and crab rangoo is usually extra, not part of the meal. those bastards as first wok, giving me free addictive food. then blaine offered me one. everythings good, right? no, the crab rangoo didn't satisfy; it was awfully compared to the idea of what i think crab rangoo should be. and what do i think crab rangoo should be? first wok.
so first wok, i curse you for defining what cheap chinese food should be and then not being close enough for me to eat your delicious grease. curse you to hell.
Monday, August 7, 2006
this weekend was pretty good. didn't get much done, but it was still pretty good.
sat - bummed around
sun - headed up to see my brother and the new baby. i bes an unckles now. she's cute, for, a baby. i've just never really thought babies were cute. maybe i'm weird but that's how i feel. now kitties, those are cute. funny side note: i was miffed with kyle about not calling me when she was born or really since. turns out, they did call me and had tried calling me before but i never got the voicemails. fuck you verizon. anyways, she's cute (for a baby). kyle then insisted on getting me a belated birthday gift so i got a new board game. i likes it a lot. pretty simple, go explore this creepy old house until one of you betrays the others in some bizarre way. the first time we played, emily betrayed kyle and i and became a crazy (demon) bat lady. kyle and i we able to exercise the demons and claim victory. the second time, kyle thought he was julius cesar and proceed to kill emily, nat and myself in horrific bloodshed.
and that's about that. all in all, good weekend.
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
so i've noticed - or more accurately, emily noticed and informed me - that pretty much everyone on my friends list has a myspace. it's like lj is the bastard child of the internet now. my personal thoughts are that anyone who wants a real blog should just cough up the couple bucks a month for a website and do it the real way but whatever. moving on, my friends page is looking more and more barren. long past are the days that jed complained routinely of work and allen left cryptic messages about girls and fish tanks. this is not a complaint, more an observation. change is enevitable and fighting that change is as futile as trying to understand the female mind. but i will stand on my ship and watch as she sinks. not because of loyalty or because i feel i owe her but because myspace is the fucking devil.
i recently rediscovered the will to live. not that i wanted to die, but the will to live in the real world. i got into a mmorpg and, well, i spent most of my free time playing. not doing my projects, playing that stupid game. and not because it was any good but mainly because it took so long to do anything and there was always one last thing that you wanted to do. today i spent my time driving to work thinking about projects i've wanted to get done forever. i came up with some plans on how to do them and then i should be off. woot. maybe i'll finally get some fish in my fish tank.
fishy fishy.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/11/congress.guantanamo.ap/index.html
so, i remember a couple years ago when bush was running for re-election that they called his oppenent something to signify that he changed his oppinions a lot. and a lot of people didn't like his oppenent because bush called him that. good thing we didn't elect one of those types to office. that's just be stupid and short sighted.
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