August 2004

Proof positive that some people are idiots

When I first arrived in Austin about two years ago, I was told by some locals that the city was just like San Fran, but smaller and therefore cooler. I hadn’t been back to San Fran in about 3 years at that point, so I said, hrmm, its possible they might be right. I was pretty sure they weren’t but I gave them the benefit of the doubt.Got into San Fran yesterday. Suitcase was partially open, fortunately, I had a strap around the whole thing to hold it together. I’ll have to score a new one when I get the chance in Austin. Its not a big deal, definitely nothing to worry about for this trip. Got to my friend Matt’s place, in the middle of a jazz festival right outside his place. Now thats quality. Went and got some pretty respectable Thai food down the street, and for a very reasonable price. Didn’t have to get in a car or anything like that. Thats what a city should be.Just got back from a crazy groceries run. We’ll still have to pick up more things at Costco tomorrow on the way out to the Burning Man, but it shouldn’t be bad at all. Mostly snacks and water at this point.Here’s to the wireless internet being set up at the Burning Man when we get there. Otherwise, with no cell phone AND no internet, I may very well go crazy. Or more likely than not I’ll just go wandering and check out shit like this:http://www.oz.net/~geoffsi/bm2002-days/bm2002-TOJ.htm

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Gone off to Burning Man

Yes yes, I haven’t posted much lately. Work has been busy, studying for the LSAT takes time, and getting ready for Burning Man takes a few too.http://www.burningman.comLeaving on my flight out to San Fran to meet up with some friends from school in about 3 hours. After that, we’ll score the RV (yes, we’re going in style, no tents for us) and we’ll be out there sometime on Sunday. It should be a blast, or so I’m told. Supposedly there’ll be Internet access, so I may post entries/pics. Depends how hot it is during the day =)

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Ads are cool

http://browsehappy.com/Patterned after the Apple Switch ads, these ads tell the stories of people who switched off the IE crack =P

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Hanging out and shit

Haven’t been up to a whole lot. Mostly just doing work and hanging out on weekends, as usual.Went to a house party with some folks last weekend. Lots of random drinks available, but wasn’t all that cool since everyone’s from work and well, they’re not particularly my kind of people. Getting stupidly drunk isn’t something I do as often after college, haha =PPlayed some Doom 3 lately. It makes my 9700Pro work its ass off, but its fucking beautiful. Too bad Far Cry is a better game overall, and I’d expect that Half-Life 2 will also be a better game. Regardless of the quality of the original game, the games of the next two years are going to be based on the Doom 3 engine, or the Far Cry engine. It’ll be time to upgrade video cards soon at this rate….Last Friday, work had an off site at a kid’s water park. Nothing much fun at all, hung out for lunch and then bailed =) My friend from Houston came back into town and we hung out all weekend, mostly just drinking and relaxing yesterday, and today we joined up with another friend to head out to the lake. Ran into some trouble with his boat, so ultimately we just ended up going swimming instead of cruising around the lake. Maybe next week it’ll be setup and we can hit the water next week. I’ll be sure to avoid the rocks =P

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Whoa, this is a cool extension

Here’s a really cool extension for Firefoxhttp://weatherfox.mozdev.org/Get the weather in your zip code in Firefox

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Way too funny

http://downloads.rewq.org/media/rvb_internet.mov

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He’s back!

Dave Chappelle just signed on with Comedy Central for two more seasons!Kick ass!http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=5814

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Slacking at posting is the “cool” thing

So yea, haven’t posted in a while. Thats ok, because um, well, it just is. Besides, most people just simply don’t update that much =)Haven’t been up to much lately. Been mostly studying and working during the week, and relaxing and doing nothing on the weekends =P Its not the most exciting thing, but its sufficient I suppose. Gives me time to work through my Simpsons Season 3 set too. Down to the last season of Babylon 5 now. Its a really good series honestly, better than TNG or DS9 even. You can’t beat a well written story, its that simple.So Oddpost was recently bought out by Yahoo! (http://www.oddpost.com/yahoo.html). Thats actually a really bad thing from my view. I signed up for Oddpost so that I could stay away from the bigger webmail providers, and get a better feature set than is available anywhere else. The main thing is IMAP access, along with the spiffy web UI. At least I’ll have some time on the new Yahoo! webmail for free with my subscription. If it turns into what Oddpost is today, I suppose I can deal with paying for it. Gmail is kinda nice though, and free =)The Democratic Convention was last week. If you missed some of the speeches, I’ve got mp3’s of them here: http://downloads.rewq.org/dem_convention2004/. A bunch of great speeches from who are hopefully going to be the next party in power.Doom 3 came out a bit early. Even though it isn’t due out until 8/3, its out everywhere already =P Haven’t installed it yet, but it should be super awesome. The gameplay will probably not match up with Far Cry, but I’d love to be surprised. At very least it’ll look decently nice on my 9700 Pro. Went to the nice sushi place in town. Wasn’t too bad at all, but was kind of expensive. Worth the price though, in all honesty. The sashimi was really fresh and tasty. The sake was ok too, haha. Spent some time last afternoon trying to find something to watch at a friend’s place. He’s got full cable tv, (no premium channels) but we still couldn’t find anything interesting to waste our time on. Its a sad state when you have to pay for shit you don’t want to watch.For all you movie buffs out there, ffdshow has updated for a newer version, first time in ages. Get it here: http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.phpIts all you need to decode virtually every single video format you might encounter. Media Player Classic is a great compliment to ffdshow, as it does a bunch of audio decoding, along with subtitles, automatically. Even plays DVDs, who needs PowerDVD or WinDVD anymore. Free stuff rocks.Just got a copy of the movie Super Size Me (http://www.supersizeme.com/). It should be an interesting movie….a documentary of one person’s change in diet, in this case to McDonald’s exclusively. Didn’t do wonders for his health. Why am I not surprised?Watched some Last Comic Standing. My favorite one on there, Jay London, managed to get himself back on the show via the wildcard show. He does one liners exclusively, and by consequence has some hits and misses. When he does nail it though, its fucking hilarious. It helps that he looks like a caveman that has escaped from a museum too =)Sadly, right now thats the best show currently on right now. The Casino show on Fox is starting to get kinda stale, and the American Casino show on Discovery is just sad right now. Method and Red is sometimes amusing, but more often than not it isn’t really hilarious.Just about three and a half weeks until vacation. Should be good times, hehe.

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