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An attack of hubris

Sunday, 15. April 2007, 01:22:39

My base of operations is changing once again. I've finally set up my own domain and have my own website. I'll still be hanging about opera.com, and lurking in the forums and such, but I'll be blogging at the new site.

attackofhubris

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When it rains, it pours.

Saturday, 7. April 2007, 19:41:46

The next couple of months will see a lot of big changes in my life.

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Can you see what's wrong with this sign?

Sunday, 12. November 2006, 06:13:51

This is a sign on the front of a convenience store in my hometown.
I never even noticed it until my girlfriend pointed it out.

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Random Stuff

Monday, 16. October 2006, 09:23:06

I still need to figure out some way to post more.

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Back to work.

Monday, 9. October 2006, 08:25:21

It's been a long time since I've posted anything. Last week I was on vacation. It, as usual, went way too fast. I didn't do too much during the week. I spent a lot of time with Andrea. It was good, but I could have used another week or thirty.

I did take a lot of awesome pictures at Ohiopyle on Tuesday. Here's one:

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ugh...

Friday, 22. September 2006, 01:40:59

I have a stye in my right eye. It sucks. It's swollen so bad that I'm not going to work tonight.
I'm going to the doctor tomorrow, so hopefully she'll give me something to take care of it.


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a music survey

Wednesday, 20. September 2006, 03:15:19

What song and/or lyrics will...

1. Remind you of a past relationship?
ALL - Nothing

Love wasn't enough, trust wasn't enough.
I believed what you said was true,
Ever always only you.
Just another broken trust,
Nothing's forever.

I believe what you said was true.
It wasn't enough.
I believe that you meant it too.
It wasn't enough

'Cause your promise means nothin'
Much less than nothing',
'Cause you left me with nothing now.



2. Make you think of your boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse?
ALL - Million Bucks

Everybody says they want a million bucks
But I'd rather have a million days with you
My account doesn't go that high
It doesn't mean you have to say goodbye to me
Can't promise you a million bucks
But I can promise that I'll be good to you
Everybody wants a million bucks
But I'd rather have a million days with you




3. Best describe your feelings about your current life situation?
Descendents - We

I don't care what they say
Those numbers don't mean a thing
We've got it made

This world is just me and you
And we know just what to do
We've got it made

Hey, everything's gonna be okay
(We've got it made together)
Hey, everything's gonna be okay
(We've got it made)

I don't care if we get a job
We've already got a life
We've got it made

I don't know what the future holds
All I know is you're there with me
That's all I need

Hey, everything's gonna be okay
(We've got it made together)
Hey, everything's gonna be okay
(We've got it made)

When I look in your eyes
I know what I want in life

Nothing more, nothing less
Nothing more, nothing less
(Everything's gonna be okay)

Nothing more, nothing less
(Everything's gonna be okay)
Be the key to my success
Nothing more, nothing less



4. Best describe your normal mood?
ALL - Self Righteous

Just because I suck
Don't mean you're off the hook
Just cause you're not drunk
Don't think you're not fucked up
A lot of good people like to have a good time
Even Jesus Christ turned the water into wine

Self-Rrighteous crusader
Fuck me, and the same to you
I'ts my body, I'll get high if I want to
Go dry if I want to
Die if I want to




5. Make you want to get up and dance?
Afghan Whigs - John The Baptist

Hey... Welcome home
I got a little wine
Some Marvin Gaye
Come on and taste me
Come on and take me, I'm yours
Dance, little sister, dance
This is my girl you're talkin' to
There isn't anything I wouldn't do
So take me... Taste me... Erase me
I'm yours... Let's get it on


Anything for a lover
Anything for a friend
I only wanna see you happy
Baby can we pretend
I'd give anything to see you dance
I'd give anything to see you smile
But baby doesn't want just anything
She wants everything


Hey... Welcome home
I got a little wine
I got a little time
So come on and take me
Come on and taste me
Come on and waste me
Come on erase me
I'm yours... Let's get it on


I got the devil in me, girl



6. Remind you of your childhood?
Anything by Weird Al. I used to love that guy.

7. Remind you of a lost loved one?
Anything by The Alkaline Trio reminds me of Juddy.

8. Remind you of your mother and father?
Anything really lame, like Celine Dion or Peter Cetera

9. Cheer you up when you're angry?
The Aquabats - Super Rad

I had a small friend,
Who had a fat friend
Who had a big friend
Who gave birth to many friends
With our flashlights to the sky
We waited for them to land.

I got two tall friends
Who know my small friend
Who seem to have a problem with you
They got roman candles
Bottle rockets for the vandals
Who covered our lockers in glue.

(Bridge)
We're on our way here we go
We're gonna take over
Set it off one last time
Here we come again.

We were strangers
And we were pilgrims
Role models of the family man
Pioneers and patriarchs
Patriots and matriarchs
Staking out the promised land

Our little army
We were commandos
Gorillas with decoder rings
We felt some opposition
From some villains
Who were wishin'
They could be cadets and kings.

(Bridge)

(Chorus)
All systems go!
Soon the world will know
The fury of attack
Feel the wrath of
The super rad
The super rad
Super rad!

And if we die
before the battle's through
tell our mom's, tell our dads
That we were super rad!

(Bridge)

(chorus x2)

All systems go
As we step into the Octagon
Feel the wrath of mission code name:
applesauce applesauce applesauce

Super Rad!



10. Would you play at your wedding?
Harry Connick Jr. - I Only Have Eyes For You (yes, I know that's a cover)

My love must be a kind of blind love
I can't see anyone but you.
Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright.
I only have eyes for you, Dear.

The moon maybe high,
but I can't see a thing in the sky,
'Cause I only have eyes for you.

I don't know if we're in a garden,
or on a crowded avenue.
You are here. So am I.
Maybe millions of people go by,
but they all disappear from view.
And I only have eyes for you.



11. Remind you of your best friend?
Misfits - I Turned Into A Martian

Possession of the mind is a terrible thing, it's a Transformation with an urge to kill
Not the body of a man from Earth
Not the face of the one you love, 'cause

Well, I turned into a martian woah oh oh
I can't even recall my name woah oh oh
Times I never hardly sleep at night woah oh oh
Well I turned into a martian today

I walk down city streets
On an unsuspecting human world
Inhuman in your midst
This world is mine to own, 'cause

Well, I turned into a martian woah oh oh
I can't even recall my name woah oh oh
Times I never hardly sleep at night woah oh oh
Well I turned into a martian today

Well, I turned into a martian woah oh oh
I can't even recall my name woah oh oh
Times I never hardly sleep at night woah oh oh
I turned into a martian
I can't even recall my name woah oh oh
Won't you tell what the fuck is my name?, Woah oh oh Martian Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh



12. Make you think of your job?
Buzzcocks - Boredom

Well I say what I mean
I say what comes to mind
I never get round to things
I'm living a straight, straight line

You know me--I'm acting dumb
You know the scene--very humdrum
Boredom--boredom--boredom

Now I'm living in a movie
Which doesn't move me
I'm the one waiting for the phone to ring
Ring-a-ring-a-fucking-ding

You know me--I'm acting dumb
You know the scene--very humdrum
Boredom--boredom--boredom

Now there's nothing behind me
And I'm already a has-been
My future ain't what it was
I think I know the words that I mean

You know me--I'm acting dumb
You know the scene--very humdrum
Boredom--boredom--b'dum, b'dum


I've taken this extravagent journey
So it seems to me
To arrive from nowhere
And to go straight back there

You know me--I'm acting dumb
You know the scene--very humdrum
Boredom--boredom--boredom



13. Put you right to sleep?
Anything by Enya
14. Wake you up in the morning?
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin’ to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can’t control my fingers I can’t control my brain
Oh no no no no no


15. Would you want played at your funeral?
All - All in All

All in all we had a good time
I remember the first time I saw you smile

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A political blog

Monday, 18. September 2006, 09:23:23

I'm really not looking forward to the election in November. I'm fascinated with politics, but at the same time I so dislike both major parties that I can't help but be a little dismayed with people just go out and vote for the shitty status quo again. People bitch about how much things suck, but yet they keep going into the polls and voting in the same two parties again and again. Neither is better than the other. Both are concerned only with keeping themselves in power, and in doing so limit our personal freedoms.

The Republicans claim to be for smaller government, but yet under their power in the last years, it's gotten bigger and bigger. I'm all for tax cuts like they did, but you have to match tax cuts with a reduction in spending, and they don't seem to understand that. According to the Laffer Curve the government should get more money into the coffers with a lower tax rate, due to the cost of engaging in financial activity being cheaper, like a sale at Wal-Mart moves more TV's. This however doesn't take into account when our government is bleeding money through a bullet hole caused by redundant and unnecessary programs, a ludicrous amount of Pork, and a inefficiently managed war.

Another problem with the Republicans, is the religious aspect of their decision making. I have no problem with elected officials being religious, but they have to realize that the government, as intended by the constitution, is to be secular. The end result is the government limiting our personal freedoms based on dogma that certain groups don't believe in. Granted there are exceptions to these observations, such as
Ron Paul.

The Democrats are more focused on limiting our financial freedoms, and are keen on pushing the idea that they are all for diversity, but fail to push the only diversity that actually matters, which is diversity of thought. There are definite shades of Marxist groupism in their ideology, and if you stray from your designated group, you are called a traitor or worse, an example being a black republican. They claim the right is racist, but aren't preconceived grouping notions such as this tantamount to racism?

The left also favor wealth distribution, affirmative action (which is also inherently racist), hate crime legislation (which is essentially making thought a crime, and that's a very slippery slope), big overarching bureaucratic government, limits on free speach (the right is also guilty of this), and a top-down command economy.

Like they said on South Park, it's like trying to choose between a shit sandwich and a bag of douche.

This is, of course, just a very simple overview of a very complicated situation. I continually vote third party, and I always will, but I don't think third parties have a chance unless the corrupt elections laws, that were put in place to keep the two headed monster in power, by the two headed monster, are reformed.

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javaman's freeware list of doom...

Saturday, 16. September 2006, 13:57:11

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I've decided to post a list of freeware here. I'm always trying to remember where I downloaded a certain program, to tell other people or something, and I can never remember, so this will be my list.

PDF Reader - Foxit - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm
Much, much faster than Adobe, and works just as well.

CD Burning Software - CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Has a lot of the same features as Nero, but is completely free.

Web Browser, Email Client, IRC Client, RSS Reader - Opera - http://www.opera.com
I wouldn't be using this site, if I didn't love Opera. Better than Firefox by leaps and bounds.

Instant Messaging - Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Will work with all major IM networks, and has a superior interface to all of them. All of the features of particular networks may not be implemented, but if you're like me, all you want to do is talk.

FTP Client - Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Great FTP client. Has all the features of other clients.

IRC Client - XChat - http://www.xchat.org/
If you want a seperate client, xchat is the way to go.

Bittorrent Client - Utorrent - http://www.utorrent.com/
The only bittorrent client you'll ever need.

Photo Editing - The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Almost as good, if not better than , Photoshop.

Video Player - VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Playes pretty much any video you throw at it. Will also play music.

Music Player, Jukebox style - MusikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
My preferred music player. Great if you have massive amounts of music like I do.

Music Player, others:
QMP - http://quinnware.com/
The Beta version of the new QMP is pretty slick.
Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
Pretty much the audofiles music player

Audio recorder and editor - Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Video Editor - Jahshaka - http://www.jahshaka.org/

.cbr Comic Reader - http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay

Photo Organizer - Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/

Antivirus - AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Firewall - ZoneAlarm Free - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

Spyware - Adaware - http://www.download.com/3405-8022-5153545.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5
Spybot S&D - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Office Suite - OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/

Word Processor - Abiword - http://www.abisource.com/
If you just need a lightweight word processor, and not a full office suite like OO.org, you can't beat abiword.

Spell Checker- Aspell - http://aspell.sourceforge.net/
Works with many different programs, including Gaim, Abiword and Opera.

Remote Access - UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
The best of the VNC bunch

Archive Manager - 7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
Can handle just about any file you throw at it.

DVD Ripper - DVDFabDecrypter - http://www.dvdidle.com/free.htm

ccleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/download/
Good for cleaning up various unneeded crap from your computer.

MP3Gain - http://mobileblackbox.com/content/view/15/26/
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts MP3 files so that they have the same volume.

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I just realized...

Friday, 15. September 2006, 10:18:18

that it's been over two weeks since I've blogged here. Nothing's really changed, as usual.

As of this past Thursday, Andrea and I have been together for a year. In some ways it feels like we've been together forever, and in other ways, that feels like it was just last week.

I'm taking my vacation the first week of October. I plan on doing pretty much nothing all week long.
I need the break.

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Frank Zappa on Crossfire

Wednesday, 30. August 2006, 08:26:13

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ALL - Simple Things

Monday, 28. August 2006, 23:27:53

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This is a video that I'd been looking for for a while. I'd heard that it existed, but this is the first that I've seen it.

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Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Wednesday, 23. August 2006, 08:30:16

We'll do it all, everything, on our own.
We don't need anything, or anyone.

If I lay here, if I just lay here
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.

I don't quite know how to say how I feel
Those three words, are said too much, they're not enough.

If I lay here, if I just lay here
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
Forget what we're told, before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life.

Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads.
I need your grace to remind me, to find my own.

If I lay here, if I just lay here
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
Forget what we're told, before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life.

All that I am, all that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where, confused about how as well
just know that these things will never change for us at all.

If I lay here, if I just lay here
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.

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The interwebs is serious business...

Wednesday, 23. August 2006, 08:21:10

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Warning: This blog contains actual text content

Thursday, 17. August 2006, 10:01:52

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It's been forever since I've actually written a real blog. I went on a cool video posting spree for a while. The Penn and Teller videos are awesome. I recommend that anyone who hasn't seen them yet watch them.

Andrea is away on vacation with her family this week, so it's been a little weird. She gets back Friday, then I'm going up to pick her up, because we're going to Cedar Point on Saturday with my family. All six of us (Mom, Dad, Ryan, Heather, Andrea and I) are piling is Ryan's Durango and driving out. It should be interesting, and fun. I absolutely love Cedar Point, and it's been years since I've been there. I just hope Andrea isn't too sunburnt from the beach.

Andrea and I, along with Tim, Emily, and Melissa went to see Gasoline Dion and Sing The Evens, Play The Odds at Gooski's in Pittsburgh on Saturday Night. As always, I had a great time. I believe everyone else did too.

L-R: Ross from STEPTO, Tim, Me, Eric from Gasoline Dion.

My good friend Mike is going to be in for the weekend, so a bunch of us are going out Friday night. I haven't really been out, besides the show Saturday, in a long time.

I finally got World Of Warcraft to run on Linux (Xubuntu specifically), which is awesome because now I hardly ever have to boot into windows, and that makes me happy. My goal is to never use another Microsoft OS after XP. I have no intention of ever using Vista, and this makes it that much easier. The fact that I only play one game now, makes that easier too. I haven't been buying nearly as many games as I used to since I started playing WoW, and that and Guild Wars are really all I ever play, on pc anyways, anymore. I have WoW running using wine, and Guild Wars running using Cedega.

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Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Exercise vs. Genetics

Thursday, 10. August 2006, 07:09:44

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Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Alien Abductions

Thursday, 10. August 2006, 05:15:48

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Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Gun Control

Thursday, 10. August 2006, 05:11:42

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Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Holier Than Thou

Thursday, 10. August 2006, 05:11:01

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Penn and Teller: Bullshit! The Bible

Thursday, 10. August 2006, 05:10:10

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