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03 August 2008 @ 01:25 pm
I didn't actually attend the event called Flugtag, but I've always been curious to check it out. It's the second time I've heard about it being held here in Portland, and surely gathers a lot of zombies... typically called people. We did pass by, well, more like squeezed our way through the people trying to see what was actually going on which I'm sure the larger percentage had no view but the back of hundreds of people heads.
If you're able to see the RV plunging off the edge of the Red Bull platform, then kudos to you.
As you can see, I wasn't able to see much of anything either except for the crowd of people on the bridge and on the waterfront.
What's my opinion on such an event? Positive, the creativity of the... things that are supposed to fly, but don't. Negative, the thought of all those people ending up in that dirty, contaminated, disgusting, disease laden river.
My highlight of the day was purchasing Cormac McCarthy's "The Road".
If you're able to see the RV plunging off the edge of the Red Bull platform, then kudos to you.
As you can see, I wasn't able to see much of anything either except for the crowd of people on the bridge and on the waterfront.
What's my opinion on such an event? Positive, the creativity of the... things that are supposed to fly, but don't. Negative, the thought of all those people ending up in that dirty, contaminated, disgusting, disease laden river.
My highlight of the day was purchasing Cormac McCarthy's "The Road".
09 July 2008 @ 12:23 pm
I'm not really settled in as of yet, but I thought I'd throw up a few pictures which show what little view I have from my new apartment. It's a direct view of the park blocks on Portland State University.
Also, the band playing in one of the photos is some guys called Perfect Zero.
More to come when I'm settled. How fricking long does that take? I don't know.
Also, the band playing in one of the photos is some guys called Perfect Zero.
More to come when I'm settled. How fricking long does that take? I don't know.
24 June 2008 @ 02:30 pm
My in-laws came back to Oregon for a few days, and I gotta say that I was really happy to see them and spend a bit of time with them. Given the language barrier, we definitely don't have the most interesting of conversation, but the fact that there was actually a small amount of family contact in a social group setting felt awesome for the meantime. I think they enjoyed themselves as well, much so that my sister in law got a tattoo to commemorate the occasion.
Why were they here in the first place? My wife graduated with her Masters Degree just recently. All I can really do to describe my feelings on this is say that I've never been so proud of someone in this manner in my life. It's a great feeling to be part of her support team though, so I feel a bit of part in this milestone reaching moment. I don't know what else to say. She..is..awesome! ...for real. Ok.
This Saturday, I'll be moving into another building. Thankfully, it's close-by, and I have 5 days to move all my stuff, so it won't be one of those killer moves I'm used to. What I mean by that is, I am the lone individual who ends up doing ALL the moving. I kind of prefer it that way for some reason.
The definitive question of this generation is among us all once again... Mac or PC? I just might make the switch.
Why were they here in the first place? My wife graduated with her Masters Degree just recently. All I can really do to describe my feelings on this is say that I've never been so proud of someone in this manner in my life. It's a great feeling to be part of her support team though, so I feel a bit of part in this milestone reaching moment. I don't know what else to say. She..is..awesome! ...for real. Ok.
This Saturday, I'll be moving into another building. Thankfully, it's close-by, and I have 5 days to move all my stuff, so it won't be one of those killer moves I'm used to. What I mean by that is, I am the lone individual who ends up doing ALL the moving. I kind of prefer it that way for some reason.
The definitive question of this generation is among us all once again... Mac or PC? I just might make the switch.
01 June 2008 @ 12:48 pm
I've got pictures, but unfortunately I forgot to change the shutter speed on my camera before I got to the picture taking. I was too worried on keeping an eye on my boy since the crowds were a bit overwhelming, although not as overwhelming as usually is each year at these events. This was just the Starlight Run & Parade, which doesn't even come close to getting as packed as the Grand Floral Parade does. Personally, I like the Starlight. Anyhow, the point here is, my pictures came out horrible so I'll only share the ones that actually came out looking like anything at all. Not the image of weird I wanted to bring across, but it's something.
29 May 2008 @ 01:58 pm
Today begins the Rose Festival, so through the next week, I'll try to get pictures of Portland and it's weirdest as I find it (and I'm sure I will). If you didn't already know, Portland is weeeeeeird.
29 May 2008 @ 12:39 pm
I don't think a host subscription is going to happen, at least anytime soon. This is ok, it will certainly kill any thoughts and plans I had, but maybe it's for the best. Always a dreamer. I will still work this site, that's my final decision. Yes, I KNOW that the site is still NOT DONE! Minimal details to add, that's all.
My father is currently messaging me with yet another business idea, one of many that he will not go through with. While selling herbs and spices does sound like a good idea, in fact this was the idea *I* passed on to them a few years back... well, he/they just won't go through with it.
My father is currently messaging me with yet another business idea, one of many that he will not go through with. While selling herbs and spices does sound like a good idea, in fact this was the idea *I* passed on to them a few years back... well, he/they just won't go through with it.
15 May 2008 @ 01:52 pm
I've been looking at host monster a little more then other services to host my blog, and I'm still doubting whether to go through with it or not. Might someone have some input on hosting services or maybe an opinion of actually putting money down on a host?
15 May 2008 @ 01:38 pm
The new Indiana Jones movie is going to be awful, as I've told a few close others since the first trailer was released. I've noticed since then that people have been raving about how amazing the movie will be with Harrison Ford back with his whip and fedora, so it feels like I am completely alone on this feeling, and just that, it's a feeling and vibe I got from the trailers. People are going to have to set themselves up for disappointment in comparison to 'The Phantom Menace' proportions.
If I am wrong, please, feel free to poke your nose in it.
If I am wrong, please, feel free to poke your nose in it.
14 May 2008 @ 10:33 am
Changes are here once again. It's funny how one day you have one thing set in your mind, and the next you have something completely different boiling on the brain. Actually, it's more irritating then it is funny as it only shows that I have a lot instability going on day in and out. I haven't been too satisfied with what feels like routine, and even in that I realize that this composite of routine isn't fruitful or productive. Things are about to change, because I want to be more productive, and I want it to show. It won't transform my life too drastically at all, not as much as I'd like it to at least.
Expect more blogging from me. I am also looking into shopping for a host to import my blog to.
Without saying too much more at this moment, about anything really (and really realizing that I haven't really said ANYTHING at all, but that "change will come"), I'll leave it at this until I'm more clear with my thoughts.
Expect more blogging from me. I am also looking into shopping for a host to import my blog to.
Without saying too much more at this moment, about anything really (and really realizing that I haven't really said ANYTHING at all, but that "change will come"), I'll leave it at this until I'm more clear with my thoughts.
09 May 2008 @ 10:02 am
I hate to say this, but I feel that I may be scrapping this blog page soon. I'm not quite sure I feel the passion that I might have felt about doing this in the beginning. I think, and quite honestly, I'd like to try something new...personal...an endeavor. There is nothing I want more at this point then to make a difference for someone. I have ideas that would take some ballsy measures, but I still have a lot of thinking to do.
I probably will keep this blog up, and even finish it up a bit since it still looks very incomplete, but as for post updates... I just don't know.
I probably will keep this blog up, and even finish it up a bit since it still looks very incomplete, but as for post updates... I just don't know.
23 April 2008 @ 12:10 pm
I enjoy having a blog, I enjoy my Xbox 360/Internet functionality, I enjoy social networking when people actually make a contribution, I like randomly picking out peoples blog to see what is on peoples minds lately and comparing it to my life. Yet, I hate the internet for making all of this so accessible and easy in peoples life (not mentioning the ones that take it all for granted), when there is so much alternative to be had... although this really isn't the point of this late night, I-be-tired post. Come to think of it, I have no idea what I wanted to post here now. Hmmm, was it me asking how do people have the time to do all the things they do on the interwebs with all the damned content available. I used to feel like, wow, all this information at the tips of my fingers, which I believe was back when I used to log into the graphical Netscape browser using a dial-up SLIP/PPP account. Now, all I want to do is check the news. ....
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Ok, I just write a whole bunch of stuff and deleted it because I'm afraid in my tired state, that I'll regret it in the morning. Although I do believe I am becoming desensitized with many things. Maybe I feel nothing is new and interesting anymore, while things that I come across daily are new and interesting.
I don't know.
This may be a lack of community issue.
It's all me.
I may delete this post in the morning.
Then again, no I won't. Although, take it like it would be taken from the most tired person around.
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Ok, I just write a whole bunch of stuff and deleted it because I'm afraid in my tired state, that I'll regret it in the morning. Although I do believe I am becoming desensitized with many things. Maybe I feel nothing is new and interesting anymore, while things that I come across daily are new and interesting.
I don't know.
This may be a lack of community issue.
It's all me.
I may delete this post in the morning.
Then again, no I won't. Although, take it like it would be taken from the most tired person around.
20 April 2008 @ 12:19 pm
It's 20 minutes into 4/20, as the cannabis tolerant call it, and I'm already utterly annoyed by the large amount of people mentioning it like it is the most important day or time (4:20) in the existence of mankind. I shall now only bring up the fact that this day also is shared amongst Adolf Hitler's birthday and the Columbine High School massacre. Great choice of days to commemorate the joy of smoking out.
18 April 2008 @ 10:26 am
Timber Jim, the Portland Timbers mascot, has retired after about 12 seasons of revving his chainsaw and banging his drum. He was surely one of the highlights of getting the crowd into character. Between him and the Timbers Army, surely was more then worth the price of the ticket to each game. Hate to see him go.
15 April 2008 @ 03:46 pm
I bought some really nice dress clothes a few weeks ago to replace a lot of the older clothing I've been wearing for the past few years. I felt, and still feel, it's a good time to change. It's time to stop dressing the same as I have been since High School, in which my wardrobe has always looked a bit...I don't know, used. Maybe very used. I think I'll be happy knowing I take some pride in my appearance, while I used to not care what I threw on every day. For example, I had a favorite striped t-shirt around 1994 which I would always wear when I wasn't wearing my Ministry, Fugazi or Cure t-shirts. I loved this shirt. There was a day I was wearing it over to my girlfriend Claudia's place, which she had 3 or 4 large dogs living there. They felt the need to be dogs that day and once of them tugged on my shirt hard enough to make a HUGE rip around the stomach area. So at that point, I could care less about how I looked because I liked the shirt so much and just kept wearing it for the next year or so. I think someone did me the favor of stealing it and throwing it out.
It's still expensive to look nice, but maybe the investment will be worth how I feel about my appearance.
FYI: Still working on website design, I just don't feel like working on it most of the time.
It's still expensive to look nice, but maybe the investment will be worth how I feel about my appearance.
FYI: Still working on website design, I just don't feel like working on it most of the time.
05 April 2008 @ 03:43 pm
Well, that's it, I feel sick again. What's wrong with me? This is the third, maybe fourth, time this year that I've had something wrong with me. It seems the only posts I've made here lately have to do with me having some form of illness. Until this year, this had been so unlike me. This time around, my equilibrium feels very shot. I feel either drunk, or just a bad hangover from a night of alcoholic binging. I don't have a headache, just some form of dizziness. I stood up earlier and basically stumbled into the wall nearest me. Also, I have hearing loss in my right ear. Typing this out makes me want to go lay down. So I will.
03 April 2008 @ 03:31 pm
Tomorrow, it begins, the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica. It will actually be the first of moments I get to experience the series as it airs, since I didn't get to experience this amazing show until later after the third series finished. It took me but 2 weeks to cram in every episode, and I had done so without blinking, or that was the feeling at the end of each episode.
Anyways, I don't have the Sci-Fi channel... boo fracking hoo. I don't think this will be a problem in the least, I mean, this is the interwebs.
For those who are interested in watching the show, haven't, and would like to catch up as soon as possible, here are your cliff notes:
Anyways, I don't have the Sci-Fi channel... boo fracking hoo. I don't think this will be a problem in the least, I mean, this is the interwebs.
For those who are interested in watching the show, haven't, and would like to catch up as soon as possible, here are your cliff notes:
27 March 2008 @ 07:11 am
Oh well, it seems that I'm home again. The crew and I headed out on Monday to the coast, choosing to stay at an oceanside place in Netarts, which was located right where Netarts Bay meets the Pacific Ocean. At first glance, after walking off the Tillamook Bus onto the deck where our hotel was, my jaw dropped and I fell in love with the sights and sounds. I stood and stared over the Bay water at the waves crashing in the distance, wondering if I'd be able to hear the waves when I woke up in the morning (and I did). I saw small groups of people, boating for recreation and business purposes, making me smile because it had reminded me of how great idea it was to bring my inflatable canoe along. So far, the setting was perfect.
My wife was there for academic purposes, as she usually is, which was the only thing that I can think of that was quite unfortunate for the whole trip. Busy with interviews, calls, etc. This kept the trip from being perfect, but at least she was there.
So it was just me and K most of the time. We walked for miles on the coastline towards the Capes that were
My wife was there for academic purposes, as she usually is, which was the only thing that I can think of that was quite unfortunate for the whole trip. Busy with interviews, calls, etc. This kept the trip from being perfect, but at least she was there.
So it was just me and K most of the time. We walked for miles on the coastline towards the Capes that were
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Oh well, it seems that I'm home again. The crew and I headed out on Monday to the coast, choosing to stay at an oceanside place in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netarts,_Oregon">Netarts</a>, which was located right where <a href="http://www.netartsbaytoday.org/">Netarts Bay</a> meets the Pacific Ocean. At first glance, after walking off the Tillamook Bus onto the deck where our hotel was, my jaw dropped and I fell in love with the sights and sounds. I stood and stared over the Bay water at the waves crashing in the distance, wondering if I'd be able to hear the waves when I woke up in the morning (and I did). I saw small groups of people, boating for recreation and business purposes, making me smile because it had reminded me of how great idea it was to bring my inflatable canoe along. So far, the setting was perfect.
My wife was there for academic purposes, as she usually is, which was the only thing that I can think of that was quite unfortunate for the whole trip. Busy with interviews, calls, etc. This kept the trip from being perfect, but at least she was there.
So it was just me and K most of the time. We walked for miles on the coastline towards the Capes that were <a href"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Meares">North</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Lookout_%28Oregon%29">South</a> of Netarts. K picked up about 15 unbroken sand dollars, which was cool for his take-home stash. One of the days we got to breaking out the canoe and heading into the bay, and due to the wind, choppy water and occasional rains, it's quite obvious that getting across the bay was going to be no easy task, but we made it. We... well, I, being the one who did the paddling, sat and rested for about half an hour before getting ready to head back out. On our way back, I was looking around at some of the clam/fish traps that were set around the area, and one of which I thought was a trap suddenly just went down into the water. "What the hell?", I said. Suddenly, about 10 feet from our canoe, a harbor seals head popped up, then back down. Aweeeeeessome! We couldn't help but show our excitement, although I must admit I was a bit freaked out since I've never had a seal encounter before. I wasn't sure if it was just the one, or many, because the head/heads kept popping up in various areas, although one at a time. My only regret was forgetting to take a picture. Idiot.
The hardest part of the day was packing away the canoe.
Anyhow, little to tell, but so much happiness packed into a few days. I thank my wife for knowing we would like it, then touring us out there. I only hope to go back...soon.
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My wife was there for academic purposes, as she usually is, which was the only thing that I can think of that was quite unfortunate for the whole trip. Busy with interviews, calls, etc. This kept the trip from being perfect, but at least she was there.
So it was just me and K most of the time. We walked for miles on the coastline towards the Capes that were <a href"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Meares">North</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Lookout_%28Oregon%29">South</a> of Netarts. K picked up about 15 unbroken sand dollars, which was cool for his take-home stash. One of the days we got to breaking out the canoe and heading into the bay, and due to the wind, choppy water and occasional rains, it's quite obvious that getting across the bay was going to be no easy task, but we made it. We... well, I, being the one who did the paddling, sat and rested for about half an hour before getting ready to head back out. On our way back, I was looking around at some of the clam/fish traps that were set around the area, and one of which I thought was a trap suddenly just went down into the water. "What the hell?", I said. Suddenly, about 10 feet from our canoe, a harbor seals head popped up, then back down. Aweeeeeessome! We couldn't help but show our excitement, although I must admit I was a bit freaked out since I've never had a seal encounter before. I wasn't sure if it was just the one, or many, because the head/heads kept popping up in various areas, although one at a time. My only regret was forgetting to take a picture. Idiot.
The hardest part of the day was packing away the canoe.
Anyhow, little to tell, but so much happiness packed into a few days. I thank my wife for knowing we would like it, then touring us out there. I only hope to go back...soon.
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24 March 2008 @ 09:16 am
The best friend I had when I was a kid has been successfully found via google-fu, by me, and after many attempts in the past to do so. I'm overjoyed! While I wish ties we're never broken in the past, It's good that there are still opportunities to mend those broken ties and say that I'm still associated with one of the people I knew when I was 7 years old.
I'm headed back to the coast today, and will be gone for the week. I'm hoping to get some canoeing in, although it's the whale migration period, and this is the main reason I'm going so I've got my binoculars packed.
I'm headed back to the coast today, and will be gone for the week. I'm hoping to get some canoeing in, although it's the whale migration period, and this is the main reason I'm going so I've got my binoculars packed.
19 March 2008 @ 02:34 pm
the older version of AOL Instant Messenger is still the best around in my opinion, distinctly 4.7 or 4.9. Simply because what it did, it did well. Sure, it lacks much of the technology you see in common messengers around today, and pretty closed to doing what you want to do with it (ala Pidgin). It does have the best file transfer/server system, and handles chat and buddy list management wonderfully. Therefore, I will stick with AIM 4.9 until it is simply not supported, anywhere, any longer.
Find the ad-less version for Windows here.
Yet another random post.
Find the ad-less version for Windows here.
Yet another random post.