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a friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better

Published on October 2, 2009 in Hobbies and Media. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

…Pay no mind to the title, simply a lyric from Placebo’s “Pure Morning” from their debut album “Without You I’m Nothing”. Picked it up last night from iTunes, and I’m enjoying it so far.

A number of times I load my blog and contemplate what to say. A number less I close it with far more work ahead of me. These past few weeks have been exactly that. What with Tricia moving in, fraternal obligations, but mostly class and project obligations… I’m been a busy fish. Working on a sonification project for Interactive Narrative/Fiction, our UI Design project, and just finished our Shakespeare Star Wars mashup, which I’d like to share here.

And opinions are more than welcome, either commented here or on the actual YouTube. :) I’m pleased with the outcome, especially Yoda’s bits and the Viceroy’s bits. :P

So I’m now sitting in UI Design and my weekend plans have been canceled. I’m okay with it – I understand why. I think I’ll end up sleeping when I get back to the apartment, but I’m unsure. I don’t know what else I can do – I’m actually more interested in doing nothing this weekend. :P

And suddenly it smells strongly of cut grass in here. Not the good kind of smell either, though I’ve never been a fan of the scent, but the sweaty gardener cut grass smell, and I’m getting a headache from this crap. I’ve actually been paying attention in this class now, but there’s only 10 minutes left. Maybe my next paragraph will be for the next class, but I feel like wrapping this up sooner than later.

I want, badly, some money. More and more often I find myself pining after something I can’t have, even though I would really like it. Even though I have the money for it, too, I can’t bring myself to buy it… like that Canon T1i. So… an alumnus emailed the fraternity with a job opening for a data entry specialist, and I emailed back my resume. 15 hours a week at $10 an hour? I hope they are okay with me. I’d love some spending money. I would buy that Canon T1i so fast. And… save for lenses. Like a Telephoto Zoom lense… or a tilt-shift lense. I had never seen or heard of tilt-shift before seeing this video last night. I am now fascinated with this, as this video is beautiful and perplexing at the same time.

This is Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Yes. The actual thing. The lense changes perspective so strongly you think you’re looking at a miniature model. I. Want. To. Do. This. x.x Also, the music is so soothing.

Not to mention a plethora of other little doodads I could use, like an external harddrive or a new router. I just ordered a new thumbdrive from Amazon that’s the same size and shape as a key, so it will fit with my keychain a lot easier. Y’know, stuff like that. >.>

Let’s see where things go, right?

i fucked up my password like 6 times

Published on May 29, 2009 in Media. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , .

It’s not like I forgot it, I just can’t type for shit it seems. Making 200+ calls per day is a bit mind-numbing, but I got paid Friday and it kinda makes it worth it. I’ll be getting around $600 every two weeks, but man, I could really use another way to make money on the side, because I have plans for all of this money (needed and a few luxuries, yes), but I’d like to have money to save and invest and… well, start my adult life with. XD

Damn that’s a scary though. o.o

Anyway.

Maybe I drive like a bat-out-of-hell, but I really can’t stand this (what I’ve dubbed) “mosey mentality” of Augusta. It’s ridiculous – if the light is green, you DRIVE, you don’t crawl! If the speed limit is 55, do NOT go 35 and brake every few tens of feet! It irks me.

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A lot of that was written a few days ago. I have this tendency to begin writing something and then have my writing time fail miserably, walk away and say “no, I WON’T BE YOUR FRIEND TODAY” and then I’m left with what Wikipedia would say:

“This article about fish, his life, or his doings is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and him by expanding it.”

And unfortunately, I feel like what I’d write anyway is a stub. Lately, I’ve done little worth noting. I downloaded and beat my favorite Legend of Zelda game ever this past week – Majora’s Mask. What a beautiful game – not in graphics, but in gameplay and writing. The sheer emotion packed into these characters is frightening.

Those two videos really hit it home. And there’s a lot of that in the game. Like I said, it’s beautiful. For some reason I love this haunting song played on the night of the Third Day past midnight in Majora’s Mask. It really signifies that this is the end.

I also bought the music for Braid off of iTunes recently. That’s some powerful Celtic music. Again, I urge anyone who reads this or will read this to play Braid. It’s another fantastic, beautiful game with some fantastic (in every sense of the word, as it IS a fantasy) writing. It’s deep and emotional… Not to mention just a bindmending game. I have beaten this game up and down and even transcribed the entire plot that I could unlock a few pages back on my blog. This is what games should be.

(Be sure to watch in HD.) You have no excuse not to play this game. XD It’s $15 on Xbox Live, PC, or Mac. And there are free demos for each, so at least try it. :P

I also picked up, for nostalgia’s sake, “a bug’s life”, “Sleeping Beauty”, and “Pinocchio” all on blu-ray recently. The latter two make me feel really like a kid again. The restoration jobs really do them justice, and it’s phenomenal to see them alive and lush. And the bonus content on each is really amazing – old Disney Silly Symphonies and the sort.

My brother and I have been working with me learning the bass guitar more now that I have the evenings to practice when I’m not at work. I can play a few riffs to songs like “Rock You Like A Hurricane”, “Stand By Me”, “Sunshine of Your Love”, “Dazed and Confused”, and “Seven Nation Army”. My fingertips hurt. But I’m learning. I plan on getting this beautiful deep red Ibanez SR300M bass and a small but loud 25W Fender Rumble amp. I’m looking forward to practicing more and becoming a better bassist.

…As you can tell, I don’t get much human interaction aside from getting yelled at on the phone at work this summer.

It’s not even June and I kinda want it to end. u.u But… I shouldn’t complain. I’m lucky to have a job in this economy. Maybe soon I’ll have something more interesting to say.

Yeah, it’s a stub. Help me expand it.

Get up and drop the Bombshell

Published on April 2, 2009 in Hobbies. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , .

I’m lying here feeling rather detached, like I’m just going through the motions without further intent or designation.

What is all this, I wonder. I have hopes and dreams and no means.

I’m so tired.

I realize I haven’t written in forever. For that I apologise. I’ve been absorbed in the real world, and I fear my attention span has dimmed. I’m rather certain I have ADD by now – I can’t even concentrate on this window and yet it is something I want to do. I miss writing.

I should try to update on where I stand in life. It’s initiation in my fraternity right now, so this week is a particularly busy one. I’m sitting in my CS1050 Constructing Proofs course right now. I’ve never found it particularly interesting. I just can’t concentrate on it. *shrugs*

It began to rain just as I was leaving for class this afternoon, and it’s been pouring and lightning and thunderstorming since. I wish I had some more gadgets, like a video camera and tripod and a better camera. I think time lapse photography is pretty interesting, and I can only imagine what that would look like in the rain…

The biggest thing on my mind is that I need money. I need a job for the summer in Augusta so I can begin saving to furnish an apartment for Cody, Tricia, and myself to live in next fall… I need to afford expensive ring-thing for Tricia down the line so I might as well save now… I want to go to Disneyworld for New Years with Tricia, Patches, and Kiki… I would like a new computer and a new camera, but those come dead last for “things I should save for”. I couldn’t be a waiter in Augusta, though. I can’t remember orders well, and I’d drop everything. I don’t know what else I could be doing in Augusta. Retail? I dunno. I just need a summer job.

SO yeah, if you read between the lines, you see that I’m getting an apartment in Atlanta. Right now the only place Cody and I have looked is the Post Renaissance, but we’re planning to look at more. It’ll be nice and quiet, and moving Trish down here will be an adventure, expensive, but well worth it. Meanwhile, in Augusta, my folks are moving into the home they’re building, and it’s gigantic and beautiful. Everything is going to be different soon… Another “reading between the lines” (not really) was the plan for the four of us (myself, Tricia, Patches, and Kiki) to go to Disneyworld for New Years! I cannot wait – we did the math, and if we stayed at the Walt Disney World Port Orleans – French Quarter resort for a week and each of us had park tickets for a week with Park Hopper passes, it comes up to (split evenly) $660-ish a person. VERY affordable. A bit more if we want to do Cirque Du Soleil’s “La Nouba”, which I want to, but… yeah. :P I’ll be saving money for souvenirs this time. I want the giant beer mug from Epcot’s Germany, among other things. Best of all, we don’t have to do the ridiculous one-night hotel stays before and after the week because Patches has a cousin who we can stay with in Orlando. :)

I bought a book on how to knit when I went to Vanderbilt University one weekend with Nick and Frendahl to visit Lisa, Frendahl’s girlfriend. I hope to find some time over the summer to do that and be good at it. I have both Grandma and Kiki to help me, which is nice. Then I can make gifts instead of buying them, which is ultimately much more heartfelt (to me), not to mention more inexpensive.

I don’t have anything else right now. I’m glad I wrote, but I wish I had more to say. Something more sincere. But I’ll be honest, I’d be very surprised if anyone reads this anymore – especially after the hiatus I accidently took.

Um… yeah. Until next time.