Right now I'm watching MST3K: The Thing That Couldn't Die (ep. 0805). Frankly, I haven't caught most of it. It was rated highly on the MST3K boards, but ... ehh, I've lost interest. Assuredly, most of this has to do with the fact that I'm trying to work while I'm...
Alfa Romeo makes exquisite cars. Most of us Americans will never get to hear about the best of them, though. Much like staid socialism and modern civility, Alfas have been nearly universally relegated to Europe. I've been trying to do a bit of background research on Alfa models, but it's...
Will pointed me to a BBC article about some goofball judge in Florida ordering that a girl not be allowed to have an abortion on the grounds that she's too young. Why do I call him a goofball judge? If you follow the article link at the top, you'll notice...
Today (OK, technically yesterday—it's late right now), I gave Aleph another bath. As you may remember, his first bath went well, but not fantastically. Survey respondants indicated that the bathtub had, "too much water" and that both the rinsing and drying processes were, "inadequate." Felines declined to comment further, giving...
I'm selling my Scirocco. Somebody buy it. Here's the first shot at a flyer....
James and I just got done watching MST3K: Track of the Moon Beast, episode 1007. Overall: a few fantastic jokes, but overall merely "good." Here's a screenshot for those of you with liberal arts degrees (e.g., anthropology, minerology, etc.) Oh, and about the Yan: the MST3Kies make a comment about...
Burrito Lockdown! Oh man. The jokes practically write themselves! ...which is why I'm not going to go through the effort of writing them down. Felicitations....
In order of appearance, Ashley, James, Will, and Laura came over earlier to watch Soylent Green. Overall, it wasn't bad. I suspect I wouldn't have really enjoyed it too much when it first came out. It was tolerable because A) Heston was in full form, and B) I made bad...
******. I make it a point to get sent to the principal's office weekly....
Awesome. Hitting more of the Mitsuoka website brought me across two awesome models: Zero 1 This car looks totally sweet... ...but it's clearly Yet Another Lotus Seven Ripoff. See what I mean? Le-Seyde This car has one of the oddest names of all times. Le-Seyde? That's worse than Integra. It...
I ran across this website for Mitsuoka Motors (光岡自動車 damn you Movable Type! Respect my Japanese!) earlier. Among other things, they make microcars. The reason that this is notable is because the CONVOY 88 (ME-2) is supposedly the world's narrowest car, at 88cm. But the best part is on the...
Airbus just completed the maiden flight of the A380 superjumbo. Sweet. I don't think that the A380 is interesting because it's a full double-decker jumbo jet—this is the sort of thing which pops up from time to time and from a technology standpoint, it's simply not all that unique. In...
In honor of just passing 256 posts, here's a recap of posts whose index is a power of 2. This post is largely copied from Power of 2 roll call (10). The entire static version of this journal is now 28MB. 100000000 (256): d00m3d 010000000 (128): Weird night. 001000000 (64):...
This marks the third pair of pants I've torn a GIANT FUCKING HOLE in this week. I am not amused....
Wow. This is way cooler than anything I've ever managed to do. Yellow stripe on black, my ass....
Slickdeals is one of the many sites in my Firefox bookmark folder titled, The Daily Shnizzle. I used to visit SlickDeals a lot, because they used to have fantastic listings. In fact, I bought my Optio mostly because it was listed on Slickdeals for supercheap. Since around November of last...
Aleph spilled water all over my desk. Unfortunately, this is where I keep important papers. So, I just spent the last hour blowdrying things like my insurance policy out. Fantastic. Sometimes as a cat owner, I'm not entirely amused....
I recently ran across this article at Slate. If the link is dead (or for those of you who are too lazy to operate that left mouse button), the article is titled Americans Pay Off Credit Card Debt! and is subtitled This is not science fiction. It's really happening. Of...
The No Pants Party runs on a platform made exclusively of shorts. Anyway. I've lost two pairs of pants to catastrophic textile failure in the last two days. Yesterday, one of my favorite pairs of jeans got torn when I was rough-housing around with Aleph. I threw these out already....
I will have been a student at New Mexico Tech for 2067 days. 20 of those are left. That means that I'm 99.03% done. Weird....
To begin, I'd like to say that tonight's post velocity is courtesy of my impending EE midterm which I'm avoiding studying for. Back to the topic at hand: cat toys. In specific, Aleph's favorite toy. It's a grey-and-white wind-up mouse that I bought for him around six weeks ago. Rather,...
I haven't watched any substantial networked TV in years—in my house on Terry Ln. we'd occasionally watch The Simpsons, but really the last time I watched anything significant was probably mid-2002. The end of my TV-watching career (as it really sucked enough hours to be considered so) coincided with the...
My upcoming move is forcing two changes in my online connectivity: 1) temporary disconnection, until I set up permanent internet service at my new apartment, and 2) potentially permanent disconnection from things like AIM. I'm waffling a bit on the second point. AIM is a fantastic service for managing the...
Part of my Corporate Moving Experience™ involves loads of handy flyers and emails detailing what the hell I'm supposed to be doing. For the most part, this is a good thing—I suspect most people (myself included) would simply cruise on autopilot without considering that we needed to address most of...
I've had this damned image in my "to process" directory for too long. Up it goes. The short short version is that I spotted this while buying gas in Los Lunas. OH YEAH REDSKINS RULE WOOOOOOOO. Where's my gun?...
I need to lose weight. Badly. I grew up in an environment where a healthy diet was never really asserted. Every once in a while my sister and I would be privy to a comment about proper nutrition, but for the most part it was TV dinners and food on...
My parents have moved. They essentially did it all in one day, too. That's not bad for moving an entire four-person family. They did hire professional movers, but I'm still impressed. I remember helping out with this process years ago, and it was pretty trivial to blow two or three...
Being relocated by professional movers has been exceedingly complicated. I've been in touch with, at last count, eight different people about various parts of the move. In most cases, it seems like the responsibilities are subcontracted downward three or four levels—it seems somewhat unnecessary to me, but then again, I'm...
I got an email the other day from "milkman." In the past, things in my inbox from "milkman" have invariably been test messages sent to me from me. This time, however, it was from milkman@nlamerica.com. And, attached was a virus. Thanks, me! Poking through the strings output of the zipped...
My very first real post to this journal was in reference to the nuttiness that ensues in my speech class. Since then, I've made at least three other posts discussing the course. One of these is, in my opinion, quite good. Today, I gave my last speech for English 242....
Yay. More Aleph shots. In the gallery there are a few shots of Aleph sleeping next to a fortune I got years ago ... at the Panda Express in Albuquerque. It reads, STOP SEARCHING FOREVER, HAPPINESS IS JUST NEXT TO YOU...
Today is the date of the last speech I have to give in my speech class. I am the first one presenting, and will start at 2pm. This speech is worth 25% of my grade. I have not yet started writing it. In fact, I plan to open the speech...
I don't want to compromise the end of my last post and I really can't find the right place to put this note in the body, so it goes here. Apparantely, yesterday was the 22nd anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, which killed 63 people....
Politicians, like anyone in the business of influencing public opinion, really have a love of words like terrorism. It's a word that's exceedingly misunderstood but which has fantastic power to upset people, make them panic, and drive duct-tape sales through the roof. The reason that terrorism (and I use italics...
Will sent this to me a few days ago. Since he hasn't posted it yet, I will. For comparison, note another picture, also involving Will. This was taken in Paris... ...right after a pigeon crapped in his hair....
Today was one of those days where I worked my ass off, and everything seemed to work out correctly. I'm damned impressed. Four homework assignments, Aleph nutchopping, made four different long-ass phonecalls to different folks, finished the Camry, and most importantly, I didn't skip any classes. Of course, this wasn't...
I'm knee-deep in the relocation process at the moment. So far, I've had four or five ~20 minute discussions with representatives from each of the individual entities laundering the contract to move me, my stuff, and my recently deballed (but still flatulent) cat. As part of this whole mess, I've...
And really this time. Very null. Today, I had Aleph neutered. For those of you who don't know what this involves, I've prepared a helpful illustration. Honestly, I have some ethical issues with chopping an animal's nuts off. There's something about imposing my arbitrary will on the cat for the...
I finally figured out my rear-speaker bracket problem. First, some background. The hailstorm ended up completely holing one of my rear deck speakers, so I pulled them out and bought replacements. Upon recommendation from Jason, I picked up some CDT 6.5" speakers for something like $50 for the pair. Apparantely...
I'm finally done painting the Camry. I hope. Today, I painted the last spot on the trunk and the entire hood. Unfortunately, the spray paint borked on the second coat of the trunk paint and shot little paint pellets all over the place. I had to let it dry, sand...
I've got a bunch of scripts on my fileserver to help me manage all the tedium of maintaining my filing scheme. A few of these are related specifically to my image gallery—in specific, there's one that I run which A) copies original high-res images to a high-res directory, B) resizes...
Earlier today we held the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Underclassmen Programming Competition. Generally, ACM competitions are held between teams of 1–3 mostly undergraduate students of varying skillset. The event itself lasts around 3 or 4 hours and the assignment conists of around a half-dozen problems of varying difficulty. Because...
Aleph did two things today. First, he continued the attack on my spider plant. The funny part is that he sat there long enough for me to take four pictures. Yes, the one you're looking at is the most incriminating. Secondly, he fell asleep on my paperwork. He also fell...
I get the impression that my involvement with a "[deleted] day" event would be frowned upon by my soon-to-be superiors. In order to stay out of trouble, I'm going to call it BSD Day, because everyone knows BSD is dead. In reality, I and another soon-to-be Microserf headed over to...
I spell it, I spell it, DMV. Anyone who's been there knows precisely what I mean Stood there and I've waited, and choked back the urge to scream And if I had my druthers I'd screw a chimpanzee call it, pointless This morning, I had to head to the DMV...
Today marks the 30-day point to graduation. And, I'm still not excited. I suspect I will be, at some point—but not yet. In other news, my relocation work has begun. I'm having a very difficult time organizing my schedule between graduation and my first day of work (which was agreed...
The Toyota MR2 page at the Wikipedia has been lacking known-free images for a long time. The old images were fantastic but the uploader didn't put source information on them. Since the Wikipedia purports to be "free," they needed to be replaced. I asked Peter about this a week or...
My last post reminded my why I don't, in general, really ever post what-I-did-over-my-summer-vacation style posts. Frankly, I have a difficult time A) paying attention to, and B) caring about all the disparate boring things I did over the last few days. I find that sticking to a single topic...
Due to a critical miscalculation on my part, I ended up being thoroughly screwed last night when it came to getting things done. As of noon yesterday (Sunday), I realized that I needed to A) finish (OK, start) my political science midterm, B) finish (OK, start) my English speech, and...
See Regurgitation (pt. 3). Another midterm. I'm just doing this for posterity's sake. Due to a catastrophic professorial summation failure, this test was out of 90 points instead of 100. I managed an 82, which is a 91.1%—significantly lower than the 96% I managed on the last test. Additionally, there...
If I were a religious man, I'd say the water in my house was elemental. Once every few months it turns into a sortof purple-grey murk—which, if it weren't for the amazing philosophical strides made by Bacon, Scotus, and of Ockham—I'd think it some sort of profound channeling. As if....
I ran across this image in my big pile of unsorted photos. It didn't seem right, so I fixed it. Hopefully the gentleman in charge will be happier, because his day doesn't seem to be going as poorly anymore. Click for the original....
Just got done watching The Incredibles. Fantastic film. For a largely kid-targeted animation, it was almost completely free of forced and uncomfortable kids-only moments....
...and I can't pay my bills. I understand that everyone wants to pay their respects to some dead crusty catholic—but who said the county utility office could close? I've always been irked by the stance that the Catholic church has taken in the southwest US. Since the early 16th century—when...
One of my computer science professors made a comment directly before returning our midterms a few weeks ago. To paraphrase, When I was grading your midterms, I realized that for the first time in the last ten or fifteen years, I don't know some of you by your face. Usually...
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