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Tuesday May 14, 2002 |
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Weezer's new album Maladroit came out today. The first 500,000 copies of it are individually numbered. I picked up # 030010. Which is pretty sweet. All the other copies there were in the 400K range, so I lucked out.
I spent that $10 gift certificate I got in high school on it. yeah. a 4 year old gift certificate. I finally spent it on an $11.99 Weezer CD. Awesome.
Anyway, I took the CD for a test drive at work and let my boss listen in. She seemed unphased by any of the songs (bleh) until Slob came on. "Don't you be a slob!" my boss laughed out loud when the chorus came up. oh man.
That's when I realized just what exactly I was listening to. Since I usally have all the mp3s playing randomlly on my winamp along with other songs, I never got the full effect of maladroit. it's more teenage angst. haha. Not that i'm complaining, but man, that must have made me look like a 14 year old to my boss (not that I don't already look like a freakishly tall 14 year old)
I'm jammin to it right now out of my cdplayer. My computer is giving out crap from the right speaker. Dunno why, just is. I plug the headphones directly into the cdplayer, and I don't get it. I plug it in to the soundcard and the subwoofer, and I get corruption on the right side. Not cool. Dunno what's wrong. DOn't really care right now...
because
I
got
WEEZER!
Heh. What's cool is that there are actually 2 songs on here that have a little extra that weren't on the mp3s i got. Otherwise, I could've burnt this 32 minute mother myself (except for the enhanced cd part and the new cd smell, but who cares about that?)
And my Kings that I've followed for longer than I can remember are in the Western COnference Finals vs. the dreaded hated Lakers. It really is amazing isn't it?
1 more month of school before I graduate! (unless I fail classics that is. f that class)
update @ 9:24pm
I went out to play some hoops at 6:30. This isn't a normal thing I do. But I just felt like it. So I went over to the park and killed my lungs throwing up fancy shots. I forgot my watch, so I'm going to guess I played for about 30 minutes.
And then 2 people came up to me. And challenged me to a game. 2 on 1. Them vs me. And I accepted
Blow out city? yeah. for me that is. They were both 8. James and Logan were there names. James was hyper and Logan could either miss 3s really badly or stroke them. Considering they were about 4 1/2 feet tall each, they put up quite a challenge. haha.
but seriously, I let them have every shot they wanted. Every time I went to basket, I did something fancy (behind the back, under the legs, spinning, reverse, you name it) or i rocked 3s just to have fun with them. James had a huge smile on his face and that made me feel good.
We made some rules along the way. 5 points from half court. Logan hit one. So I took the ball and matched him. Then James wanted 3 points if he shot it backwards. Sure, why not. And then 5 points if he shot it backwards from the 3. Ok, sounds good. What about backwards from half court? 7? nah. 200 I say. So we sit there for 10 minutes throwing up the ugliest bricks you can imagine. Both of them seemed amazed by the fact that they could get 200 points for only hitting a backward half courter, so I let them go at it. Of course I had to try. I aired it a lot, but 1 shot grazed the side of the iron.
one of their other friends came, and we played some 2 on 2. All i did was pass him the ball. So that got boring quick
So of course, 3 on 1. back to the fanciness. New dude leaves, and 2 other kid show up. This is where the story gets fun.
Chris 8, and Charlie who was probably 6. So now it's a 4 on 1. This new kid Chris is a complete Punkass. I mean it. Everytime down the floor (we were going full now), he'd scream for the ball and call James or Charlie ball hogs.
Charlie wanted to try a 3, but Chris kept screaming at him to pass it. I told charlie to shoot it. So he does. He misses, I rebound, I pass it back and give him another try. They scream at him again. I tell him to shoot it. Swish. Money.
It happens again. Charlie has the ball and is about to attempt a 3. This chris guy won't shut up. Charlie shoots it, and it's money again. Chris still won't shut up.
So I did what any 21 year old should do in a situation like this. I balled him up. Yep. Me vs an 8 year old. I dribbled over him, around him, anything to make him feel like the loser he is.
Chris started complaining that he was the only guy defending me. Haha. So i spun circles around him a couple times. If he was tall enough, I would've gone between his legs.
I ask Charlie if he wants to be on my team. And he gives an enthusiastic yes. So the game changes. 3 on 2. I got 6 year old charlie on my team. In other words, i got to work on my knee high soft bounce passes. Everytime I passed it I was scared I was going to knock his teeth out or something. but Charlie was cool. he got a bucket or 2 after I kept feeding him in the paint.
Soon enough, a 6 year old girl comes running up and wants to join in on the fun. Who am I to deny the love for the game? So now it's 3 on 3. Megan is her name and she could barely shoot the ball high enough to get to the rim let alone in to the basket.
So yeah, of course I start feeding her passes all over the place. She doesn't score though. The 8 year olds swarm her like bees and honey. eh.
Charlie strokes a 3, followed in celebration by giving me a jumping high five.
and then they all leave. wtf. that story sucked.
Man, I was running this story through my heads on the way back, and it was going to be freaking awesome. And uh, it turned in to this. Sorry. I should let it sit a day in my head before I write. Just think of the above as "notes." a good story will come later. Or never.
The moral is :: Don't act arrogant around a tall asian guy or he will make you his bitch in basketball. Or Don't play basketball with people a foot taller than you. Man, I don't know. I swear this story was so much better in my head.
LONGEST. POST. EVER.
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Friday April 26, 2002 |
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Oh no. April is almost over. ahhhh. Quickie for the month
ECS178 Geometric Modeling is taught by a cool German guy. Lecture's aren't extremely boring since most days we get to do example calculations. Which is really something I haven't done in forever. It feels right when we do the examples. I rarely know what I'm doing when we start, but by the end of the session I feel like a genius. He forces people to board, yet you don't feel threatened if you have no idea what you're doing. Maybe it has something to do with the class being a mere 20 or less students.
Or maybe it's because the reward for knowing the math and doing the programs is a visual feast. You get an algorithm to work in another CS class, and a bunch of numbers show up on your screen. YIPPEE. You get your algorithm for Bezier curves to work, you get a curve that you can dynamically change by Clicking and dragging control points around. In color too.
Anyway, there's the pussy story for the day. I've got homework to do.
kthxggbye.
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Monday March 18, 2002 |
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March is 1/2 way through. Time for me to write something.
I've gotten addicted to Shenmue 2. Read over at datafox for my review on it. It's a really good game.
EEC172 :: that class has got to have some kind of magix jynx on it. Last quarter, youtea took the class and magically got a 28 on not only his 1st midterm, but his 2nd one too. I'm taking it this quarter. I get my 1st midterm back and I get a 28 also. I get a nice laugh out of it. youtea too. Then my 2nd midterm comes back. 28. I could not f'ing believe it. What are the chances? I honestly should have got better. I only got 4/15 on the true/false/short response questions, which really f'ed me over. Please don't fail me. pleaseee
Things I should remember to get after spring break::
- Soap
- New computer
- Toothpaste
Web pages you should read instead of this one::
See ya next month
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Tuesday February 12, 2002 |
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I guess it's about time I put some stuff here. er. hold up. need a minute. my stomach is feeling quesy.
better
alright. it's 2am. I've got some OJ, a sandwich, some vanilla wafers, some crackers, and a bannana. For some reason, this just doesn't seem right. It's like lunch. But at 2am.
Privacy Issures :: I'm thinking I'm going to need to lock my box with a screensaver set to 0.5 minutes + password, and a bios boot pass.
I got my Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American CD on Monday, Feb 4th. I've been listening to it ever since. It's really really good. The only tracks that I don't really really like are 9 and 11 (9's not even that bad and 11 is just too long for my attention span)
I wonder how rare this CD is. They had to rename the CD to a self-titled album after 9/11, so my copy is the 1st release (i guess). so uh, 1 in 500,000?
I'm going to start pulling down all the tracks for Jimmy Eat World - Clarity. I listened to some clips, and they were sweet.
**** I HAVE EATEN THE BANNANA ****
Life ::
My boss got really mad at me for slacking a week or so ago. I don't think she would fire me if I continued to slack (seriously, I code like a monster. Last friday I got a project that she wanted finished by next (this) thursday. I finished it on friday. in 1/2 an hour. firing me would mean they'd have to hire 5 people to take my place. [EXAMPLE. THE LAST SENTENCE DISPLAYS HOW NOT TO TALK. ARROGANCE IS FOR WEBPAGES THAT NO ONE READS.]) So i've been on a roll the last week. Doing everything she asks, questioning her (yep. talking back rules. I think I've caused her to take an extreme amount of smoke breaks), and just being absolute ownage.
Of Course, last friday, right after I finished that thing I mentioned before, my speed drops me in the bad book. Because I was finished (it was like 4:48), and I had class at 5, I said f it, I'll just sit around and check out some webpages then take off for class.
bam. 1 minute after I start checking out sites (I remember clearly I was looking at geeknews) the boss of the boss (Note : if you are a fat lady, do not get a buzz cut) comes by. I forget what she said, but there was a slight hint of Oh my god he's slacking like a loser. fuck her. I hope she trys to rat me out to my boss, so my boss can read to her my f'in email that says I FINISHED all my freaking work and wasn't slacking.
dude ! whatever !
I grabbed Risk II warez. It is awesome. I played 2 tourneys. the first one was easy. I started with australia, then grabbed North america and south. Game over. The 2nd one was a little more difficult. There was random placement, so i didn't really have control of 1 spot. I tried to take SA, but both the other opponents were ganging up on me there. So I ended up slowly fortifying NA, then rocking SA. I creeped through north east asia, nortwest europe, and northwest africa. game over.
Is there any game more boring to describe then risk? maybe monopoly?
See ya some other day. i've got a quiz to study for and food just sitting here
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Wednesday January 16, 2002 |
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no one else.
11:30 to about 1am wednesday = below average time.
#3 = Gerald Wallace, Steve Francis, Allen Iverson, Stephan Marbury, Abdur-Rahim, Q Richardson
#3 = Tyson Chandler
#22 = Lionel Simmons
ALL OUT. HEART ON MY SLEEVE. GET READY TO PLAY.
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Wednesday January 9, 2002 |
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1/8 - 1/9. from like 11pm to 2am was happy time for me.
hex @ datafox is my newest creation. I think it's really neat looking. I just need to fix up the news boxes so they look cooler and not just boxes. I'm thinking something with HEXAGONS. you think that would work? haha.
Toothbrush. !!!
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Sunday January 6, 2002 |
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2002! Who would've thought. The Instant Lunch World still lives. Sort of. The news page lives. and that's like it.
And because it's a new year, I've been doing a lot of weird things. For one thing, I haven't started up ICQ on this computer at all. Actually, I started it up once, but it crashed (during the email check. like it always does). All Miranda icq and trillian.cc for me. Miranda actually has a pop3 plugin THAT WORKS and doesn't crash (but it only checks on startup. boo)
I've also been using K-meleon A whole lot. It's just no fun using ie when it crashes all the time. er. not just crashes, but takes down my whole box. THat is annoying.
I also cleaned out my mp3 playlist. That is something that has desperately needed cleaning for sometime now. I deleted everything, and started over. I moved all mp3s over to my c drive and renamed them all to the correct (read : my) format (name - title.mp3 you bastards).
and uh. this is last year, but I didn't mention it, so let's all pretend it happened this year. I shaved my mustache. er. that thing some people call a mustache, and other people call fuzziness under my nose. An Amazing 1 person noticed (thanks datafox), and everybody else couldn't tell unless it was pointed out. haha. I left the fuzz growing under my lip and my chin there. It's starting to almost be noticable. Almost is the key word there. I've got a month of no shaving there, and it's still less than what peja or vlade grow in a night.
I downloaded dreamweaver 4 again. I always get the weird idea that if I download Dreamweaver and use dreamweaver It will magically allow me to make really really l33t looking websites. This is like the 5th time i've got this idea. So I installed it, clicked around, smacked myself in the head, and uninstalled it. The only thing that dreamweaver really does for me is make really good style sheets. That's it.
Later tonight, xppcentral. yes, I am crazy.
mown : Somebody tell me if skaggy.com ever goes live. f2s is gone. cfm-resources is cool, but then I'd have to write my own news script. blah to that.
weezer : I've got to stop downloading the weezer demos from their site. They freaking update each song like once every 2 days. Slow down guys. give some of us some time to TRY AND FIGURE OUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEMO #1 and THE NEWER DEMO.
icq : lesson from me to you. Random people on icq = crazy. all of them.
eh. anybody got any new games for a bored bastard to play?
hey, "smarterchild" is online on my AIM list! I Think I'll go talk to him! Yeah! Later amigos! happy 2k2!
for archiving purposes, here is my icq about that I'm finally going to change.
There's no such thing as bad crack, just people who don't like new flavors.
beware my sarcasm.
> > > m a d o w n a g e < < <
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Thursday December 27, 2001 |
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Happy Christmas everybody
I'm on the search for some new years resolutions, since i could swear I wrote some once in my life. But I can't find anything. nothing in the madownage archives. nothing here. nothing at datafox's page. So in the same tradition i've had the past 4 years, i won't make any. hahah. F U.
Merry Kwanzaa.
School is going to be a pain in the ass next quarter. An upper division ARE class (econ), software engineering, eec172(hard. forget what it's title is, but it's hard), and Computer Security. oh yeah, and my job too. It's only 15 units, but it's a lot of out of class work. and blah blah blah...
let this be a lesson to all aspiring web page owners out there. DO NOT WRITE ON A WEB PAGE IF YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT. take this post for example. I just wrote a paragraph about my classes next quarter. If you have a brain, you probably do not give a fuck about that paragraph and have probably skipped it for this one. Please, spare my bandwidth and just do not bother writing. thank you.
I have nothing to write about. I have stuff I can write about, but nothing I want to write about. ya dig?
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Wednesday December 12, 2001 |
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Tuesday Decemeber 11th. Awesome.
I'm smiling like a dumb fuck. Even though I've got a final trend report due tommorrow, and 2 finals. Nothing can wipe this smile from my face.
:)
eh. this might be the full decemeber update. I just haven't had time for long stories. boo. If anything happens in the next 3 days, it'll be here. Maybe.
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