Monthly Archive for March, 2006

I have no idea.

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I felt like getting some Pixies music, so I did.  I’ve been in a weird mood lately.  There’s been some weird music I’ve been wanting to get.  Like ‘Fernando’ by ABBA and ‘Bad Blood’ by Neil Sedaka.  Yeah, I know that they were both on episodes of “That ’70s Show” but for some reason they just clicked with me.  I have no idea.  The Pixies song ‘Where is My Mind?’ was bugging me for a while as I couldn’t figure for the life of me what movie that was from.  I just found out that it was the end of Fight Club.  Yeah, some of you probably knew that, but I don’t care, I can’t seem to remember a movie a particular song is from most of the time.  Man, I don’t even know why I’m even updating.  I guess I just got the update-my-blog itch.  I guess it’s what I do.  Man, I’m just sitting here watching TV now and then and then typing a little more.

Man… the more I read people’s blogs, the more I get fucking pissed.  I spend the fucking time to read other people’s problems and shit, but how many people read my shit and comment?  Like four on a semi-regular basis.  How many do I read?  Around 12.  Do most of those people comment on my shit?  NOOOO.  Argh, sometimes it makes me mad to see people complain about how they don’t have anyone to talk to.  WTF?!?!  I’m online or near my fancy new phone ALL THE FUCKING TIME!!!  I always like to hear from people and have me give them my opinions on shit.  It’s what I’m good at.  Man, I need a damn job so I can get money and buy shit to start an honest to god filmmaking career.  I’ll actually be a freelance filmmaker then.  It annoys me that I can’t find my copy of Avid Xpress DV, I know it’s somewhere.  Maybe I’ll have to get Lexy to dig through her grandma’s closet and see if she can spot.  Man, I can’t concentrate while listening to this supersweet music and watching TV.  I’ve done my bitching for tonight.  Maybe I’ll continue it later.

Superman…

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on March 28, 2006
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I got this from www.superdickery.com.  So funny… so funny.

A Decent Weekend

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on March 27, 2006
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This weekend was pretty good.  Friday was fairly uneventful, but still fun.  I got into Jeff City with John around 9pm and hit the Steak n’ Shake.  I was meeting an old friend, Dalenna, there and we sat around and had a nice couple hour chat.  It didn’t seem like it’d been two years since we’d last seen each other, but as I thought about it, it seemed right.  Nothing really all that great to speak of, there were some serious conversations and some not-so serious conversations.  It was fun.  Oh, and if Alice reads this, Dalenna says hello.  After Steak n’ Shake, I left there feeling somewhat of less of a friend with Dalenna than when I arrived.  Oh well, sometimes friendships fade and you can’t do anything about it.  John and I then hung out at his dad’s house for a while before sleeping.  The next morning, Saturday, I hung out with John, Nate, their dad, and some guy named Thomas as they played a round of golf.  I drove John’s golf cart, but didn’t play.  Since there were no left-handed clubs available, it’s kinda pointless for me to attempt a round of golf.  So I spent the next six hours ( a REALLY long game of golf) sitting in a golf cart.  It was more fun than it sounds, I swear.  Golf carts are fun.  After golf, John and I hung out at his dad’s house and watched some TV.  We then went to La Bamba at 7pm and got a table immediately.  It was kinda crazy.  We then tried to go play some snooker at Mike’s Corner Pocket, but there is no snooker table in Jeff City anymore.  Mike’s remodeled and got rid of their snooker table and Spectator’s got rid of their a long time ago apparently and now has a dress code I hear.  So, we had to go to Columbia for a snooker table… so that’s what we did.  We hung out, got Steve, and headed to Columbia.  The first place we went to, Booche’s, was really cool.  It reminded me of an English pub that had snooker tables.  They closed at 11pm, but it was worth the experience.  We then wondered around everywhere trying to find Willie’s Pub and Pool until we actually found it.  There we discovered it did not feel like a pub and did have an American size snooker table, while Booche’s had a proper European size.  It was still fun to play as much snooker as we did and John and I decided we were gonna try to find a snooker table in Warrensburg so we can practice.  After the snooker, we went back to JC and hung out at SnS for a while until Steve went home and John and I went to his place to sleep.  Sunday we woke up, got ahold of Steve, and went shooting at a range in Russelville.  It was pretty crowded so we shot on the 100yd range.  I actually shot the best with 8 of 35 shots actually hitting a 8.5″x11″ piece of paper from my Mauser Karabiner 98k.  John’s dad hit thrice with his Italian Carcano, John hit his once with his Garand, and Steve a nil with his M44 Mosin Nagant carbine.  I was pretty pleased even though we all missed a lot.  We then hung out at John’s dad’s house for a while just chillin’.  Eventually Adam came over and he hung out with us until he had to leave.  Steve left fairly shortly thereafter and John and I left for Warrensburg after watching a neat show about secret German WWII weapons.  John and I have some pretty interesting conversations on the drive between Warrensburg and Jeff City.  I really like things like that.  Well, that was my weekend.  I thought it was fun.

The Baddest of All Badasses.

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on March 24, 2006
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So, I just realized that really nobody comments on my reviews of stuff.  Yeah, I get a few here and there, but really… I don’t think anybody really reads it or they don’t care.  Maybe I’ll continue to add reviews to it, but really I don’t add shit to it very often so why would you guys read it anyway?  Vicious cycle, it is.  We’ll see what I can come up with to review.  Hell, I might even have something done after I finish this entry… you never know… woooooo.

Well, anyway.

I spent tonight at some awesome places.  I got up at around, oh, 8am and hung around for a while.  The cable guy came by, but due to some confusion, nothing got done.  So we still do not have any cable outlets in our bedrooms.  Steve’s moving out tomorrow so we’ll have an office space for Lexy.  I’m sure she’s quite happy about that.  The thing that kinda gets me is that I can’t get this sinking feeling that Steve’s REAL reason for moving out is me.  I don’t think he can stand to live with me anymore, but has all of these other convienent reasons he’s come up with.  Eh, I’m mostly just gonna ignore it and see if Steve is interested in re-shooting the Equilibrium parody skit we shot a while back, but lost.  It’ll be good to re-shoot because I have some different ideas and I’m planning on building a steadi-cam to test out on that shoot.  We’ll see how it goes.  Anyway, I was talking about tonight.  Well, after the cable guy, I watched some TV and went over to John’s house.  There we hung out, chatted, and worked on some pink foam weapons.  Then Lexy picked me up and we went to KC to see Mike and Mary; well to have dinner with them is more accurate.  We went to an awesome Mongolian grill called Ghengis Khan.  It was very, very good and I look forward to returning to said place in the future.  Then we came back, Lexy dropped me off at my car at John’s house and she went home to bed herself.  At John’s, I reworked some more pink foam weapons and chit-chatted while watching some TV.  After it got to the time when nothing is on local TV, we watched Enter the Dragon and watched Bruce Lee kick the crap out of some dudes and just overall be a bad motherfucker.  He’s my new martial arts hero.  I used to like Jet Li a lot, but Bruce Lee is just too much of a total badass, you can’t put him below #1.  I know that Bruce Lee is dead, but he is so badass, he killed the use of the past tense when referring to his name.  I mean, seriously, look at Bruce Lee, he looks like his skin barely fits over his structure of muscle and sinew.  What a bad dude.

I also might have a job at the local Radio Shack.  I don’t know for sure, but I am fairly certain that I passed the Personality Inventory (or whatever the hell that thing is called) and I don’t think a background or credit check will be a big deal.  I’m fairly certain that I will do quite well as a Radio Shack employee.  I really wish I could work for a TV station, but I gotta go with what I can get right now.  Part of me thinks that changing from a Computer Engineering major was a damn stupid idea, but it’s too late for shoulda-woulda-couldas now.  I’ll get my degree and I’ll find a good job at a television station after I graduate or maybe I’ll got for a grad degree.  Probably a good idea, but a better idea would be to find out if I can even get a grad degree in Broadcast.  I don’t see why not, but you never know.

Well, I’m really tired.  I’ll put up my review of Enter the Dragon tomorrow on my review LJ account.  That’ll give you guys something new to read than what I do on a daily basis. ;)
Anthony

P.S. - Oh, the music at the top, I heard that in London when I went to the Ministry of Sound. It’s pretty cool, check it out.

Rolla: full of drunks, frats, and fun.

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So I’m back from a weekend at Rolla.  It was a lot of fun hanging out with Tim, Mike, John and Steve.  I didn’t get as drunk as I would have liked.  I was planning on being drunk pretty much the whole weekend, but it didn’t turn out that way.  It’s ok though.  Friday, we met Tim at the hotel room and then travelled to Mike’s dorm room where I decided that Mike’s new roommate is a lemon.  I wanted to destroy his posessions for what he did to my side of the room.  Thankfully, I didn’t meet the new roommate.  Well, Mike took us to a hangout he frequents called The Swamp.  It was just a bunch of guys who live in the same house, but it was still fun.  We sat around chit-chatting and eventually drinking a bit.  I took a shot of Jet Fuel which is half shot of everclear and a half shot of peppermint schnapps.  It’s better than it sounds, I swear.  Then, Mike and I made Steve a drink that consisted of vodka, raspberry schnapps, triple sec, and lemon-lime soda.  It actually tasted pretty good and got Steve wastes after half a cup.  I made a vodka, creme de menthe, Coke, raspberry schnapps, and a dash of Mountain Dew.  It was also pretty darn good.  We hung around for a while and then went to Steak ‘n Shake for some terrible service and some food.  I got kinda sick because I forgot that hard alcohol and grease don’t mix in my stomach.  Saturday, we got up too damn early (10am) while John, Tim, and I waited for Steve to awaken.  We went out for food like three times.  Once to the free continental breakfast that was ok, then to a gas station for John, and McDonald’s for Steve.  I got something small at both of the last two, but I didn’t eat again until around 9 or 10pm that night, so I think that’s ok.  Tim went to hang out with some of his friends pretty much all of Saturday, but that was cool because we hung out with Mike for the entirety of the day.  We played some pool, which apparently Steve is a fucking beast at 9-Ball, and then Lord of the Rings Risk.  The Risk was ok, but I didn’t really care all that much for it as I suck at rolling dice.  We went to Denny’s and ran into Tim while we were there.  After, we went to the hotel room, drank some ameretto sours and pretty much called it a night.  We got up this morning, said our goodbyes to Tim, promised we’d come up to Milwaukee during the summer sometime, and came back to Warrensburg.  There, I met Adam’s new girlfriend, Sarah.  I don’t really think here or there of her, she didn’t really make a noticable impression on me.  All I know is that if I find out that Adam has sex in this apartment with her, he is getting a boot to the ass.  Like literally, I will get a pair of boots and kick him squa’ in the anus.  I put up with that shit from Jason, I won’t put up with it again.  Well, they left, I watched some “Black Books” recorded from BBC America.  It’s an awesome show you should check out sometime.  Then I watched an Eddie Izzard stand-up routine and, of course, found that quite hilarious.  Right now I am watching the new Sci-Fi series “Doctor Who” which of course is a remake of the original show I never watched.  So far, I am fairly amused and impressed with it.  It’s a good show you guys should check out sometime, as well.  Well, it appears the show is getting to a pretty important part, so I’m gonna let you guys go for now.

Some pretty useless advisors.

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on March 16, 2006
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So, I went to see my Advisor today to get some of those classes I was talking about corrected.  Well, it turns out that he is quite possibly the laziest human being to walk (or rather sit in his damn chair and not offer me a seat) the damn planet.  It turns out that according to him that if I need help with anything outside the Communications Dept, that I should talk to the department in question.  This seems to me to be the exact opposite of the purpose of an advisor.  That sentence barely made sense, but deal with it.  Then I decided that I should have him fill out this form KMBC sent me for a faculty advisor to complete.  Well, he wouldn’t even look at it telling me I needed to fill out the Internship Eligibility packet.  Oh great, I thought.  So now I have to a) contact EVERY single department on campus I have a class I need course credit for and convince them I deserve said credit and b) take classes that will teach me what I already know from working in the field.  Sounds like fucking fun, eh?  Yeah…

In other news, my new phone is still a wonder in my eyes, but I have discovered that Microsoft just canNOT write a stable OS.  My new phone has actually locked up a couple of times today.  I chuckled to myself as I was being very annoyed.  Oh, and I did verify that I can access regular non-WAP website connecting through GPRS.  Keep in mind it is slow as hell and would cost damn near a dollar a page, but it’s good alternative if you don’t have Wi-Fi and need to access the ‘Net or check your email RIGHT NOW.  Usually, though you can just drive down to the local Country Kitchen or some other place with free Wi-Fi and connect.  I’ve tried connecting to Warrensburg’s Country Kitchen’s Wi-Fi, but I think I need some kind of info from them I didn’t really care to get at the time.  I know that I have setup the Wi-Fi connection to my apartment’s wireless router correctly because one of my comments on the previous post of mine was posted via my phone (and here’s the awesomely pretentious part) while sitting in front of my computer.  I think this phone is just too damn cool, everyday I’m finding out new things about it.  Here is one thing I have a beef about, there is no File Transfer protocol via Bluetooth.  Yeah, the phone comes with MS’s ActiveSync and a USB cable so I can and have sent files to the phone, but I think it’s a major oversight to exclude File Transfer via Bluetooth.  It uses mini-USB, which is pretty universal and the same cable type Lexy’s mp3 player uses.  Also it’s the same type of plug the RAZR has as a charge port, but you need to download and install third party drivers to even charge your RAZR through a USB port.  I’m sure there is some software out there for the RAZR to transfer files via USB, but really, just invest $15 and get a Bluetooth dongle.  What was I talking about?  I don’t remember.  Oh, yeah.  You can charge this smartphone via a wall plug or through the USB cable.  It’s pretty neat.  Overall, given the pros and cons, I overall enjoy the phone very much.  Problem is, the more I talk about it, the more you guys will probably get one and if that happens then I have to get a better phone.  It’s a vicious cycle that has to stop somewhere guys.  I don’t want to have to spend another $300+ on a new phone, I’d like to have this one for a long while, so I forbid you guys to get this phone.  That is all.  I’m going to bed now.

Fancy new phone

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I got my new phone today.  It’s a smartphone that runs Windows Mobile.  I’ve been playing around with it for a while and I have determined that I LOVE it.  I can access the internet  through actual Wi-Fi, not the GPRS most other phones access the net with.  I can visit actual websites that people with regular phones can’t access.  Like, if you can visit the site on your computer, I can visit that same site on my phone.  That’s pretty sweet.  It is a pretty huge phone, but I don’t care, it’s still super sweet.  It’s super fancy and super new.  That’s what I’m all about.  Many of you may be like, “Hey, didn’t he just get the Black RAZR?”  My answer would be, “Yes, I did, but too many people have it now.”  I have to be the technological one, I have to have all the new stuff.  Don’t ask me why, it’s just so.  I guess I’m kinda neurotic like that.  Anyway, that’s all that I had to say for now.

MySpace, what are you good for?

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on March 12, 2006
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Yeah, I never thought I’d actually subscribe to MySpace, but I did.  If you want to check it out, the link is in my link list.  Ugh, have you looked at most of the MySpace pages out there?  They’re terrible design-wise, not to mention how ad-infested MySpace is.  Personally, I prefer LJ because of the neat and clean default themes they have available.  I opened a MySpace account because I’m a sucker for peer pressure and I figured it’d be an interesting way for me to get me out there… or something.  I don’t know, it’s just that a lot of other people I know have a MySpace account, I don’t see why I shouldn’t.  If I can get more people to visit here, that’s cool.

You know, if this here LJ gets popular enough (ROFL!!) I may spend the $20 a year for the Paid Account.  After a quick review of the benefits, some of them are pretty sweet.  Oh, and I just changed my userpic, again.  I think it’s rather neato.  It’s a picture I took myself and then fucked around with some filters in Photoshop to come up with that.  Cool, huh?  I know.  I think I’m gonna go make some dinner for me.  I don’t know what it’ll be yet, but it’ll be something.

Another day, another… day

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Not a whole lot to report today.  We went to Jeff City to see Lexy’s mom about something I think you should talk to Lexy about as it’s not really my place.  We hung out with Adam and Steve for a while, Adam went with us to Lexy’s mom’s house for dinner.  There was some pretty good steak.  Overall, it was a pretty good day and I found out that the Boneless Buffalo Wings at Applebees makes a pretty darn good meal.

I got a new headset with mic because my old one I thought was giving me some feedback in TeamSpeak.  It was echoing, but this new headset which is one step above the old one I had and it seems like it’s working pretty darn well.  Too bad this is too late to finish OCS for World War II Online.  The class I was in ends tomorrow so I won’t be a High Command Officer.  Oh well, it’s not that important to me.  It was to John, but I just don’t care that much.  Well, at least I can get on to TeamSpeak and talk now without there being an echo after everything I say.  Well, I’m off to watch some more TV and then go to bed.  Maybe John and I will actually hang out tomorrow.  Check out my review of Saw II.

FlyaKiteOSX

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Just a quick thing that I found very cool.  It’s called FlyaKiteOSX and it turns your Windows XP desktop and environment into a MacOSX/Windows XP amalgamation that is mostly OSX.  It takes a little getting used to, but it’s still neat and I think I’m gonna keep this for a while.  Don’t worry this isn’t like some of those other theme programs that allow you to use it for 30 days and then bugs you every time you start up your machine.  This is a totally free program and is chock full of all the usefulness of OSX.  If you are a Mac fan or are just interested, give it a check out.