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Owwwww

Work, Ouch, Biking, School, IC America, and Website.

Well, after working yesterday and today, I am rather sore and tired. Though, I guess I am lucky. Suchyta was going to work with us yesterday, and about 30 minutes in he crushed his finger between the dump box we were putting on the truck and the hoist we were lifting it with. He broke it open and fractured the bone, needing 5 stitches. I’m sure it hurts like hell too.

I didn’t manage to get a bike ride in this week due to either poor weather, being at work, or lack of motivation. Next week I guess.

Down to the last week of class now. I have homework for my 2 f2f classes, and a test for my inet class. So very close, I am glad.

Iron Chef America started last night. The first episode was an intro, and the second was Flay v. Sakai in the trout battle. Amazingly, Flay(now 2 and 1) won, bringing Sakai’s(70-16-1) first even loss in a fish battle. That battle just replayed, and on now is Batali(0-0) v. Morimoto(16-7-1) in the Spiny Lobster battle. Tomorrow will be a repeat of the 3 past battles, followed by Morimoto v. Puck, then the 2 on 2 finale. From what I’ve seen, other secret ingredients may include sea urchins, tuna, and scallops. Also, Alton Brown’s role seems to be as the commentator, and the new chairman is none other than the nephew of Kaga himself.

Still no work on the site. I hope to move all my school projects from Delta’s server to my own site after school is over, and finally recompile my Java Applets.

Ok, I guess that’s it.
See you Tuesday.

nick

Cheating just proves how much you care about winning.
– Red Green

Ehhhhhhhh!

Evil JavaScript, Magic moment, Tired, and Weather.

I should be doing my JavaScript homework, but I can’t. I tried at it for several hours this afternoon, and again for the last hour or so tonight, but I can’t do it. The assignments were so easy for the last 13 weeks, but now, now they are not. I can’t even get a part to work, it’s just being ugly.

Yesterday, the magic moment occurred. I should explain I guess. You all know military time, right? It goes from 0:00:00 to 23:59:59. Ok, and then there is the european date format. So where we would say April 21, 2004, they would say 21 April, 2004. So, 4/21/2004 would be 21/04/2004. So with all that, yesterday, around 8:04pm, was 20/04/2004 20:04:20.04 (thats April 20th, 2004 at 8:04pm, and 20.04 seconds). Cool, huh? I noticed it last year, maybe year before. Next will be on May 20th 2005 at 8:05pm. The last one we will see is December 20th 2012 at 8:12pm. After that, they wont occur again until January 21st, 2101, at 9:01pm. By then I would be 118ish, and doubt I will be alive, or will any of you (you never know though).

Hmm, what else.

Two more votes on the poll I see. I have no idea who made them though. I don’t recognize the IPs. New poll next time.

I am very tired, which is odd because I slept from 9:30 last night til 10:30 this morning, with the exception of about an hour around 7am. Thats still 12 hours, and I have no right being tired.

Just over a week of school left, woohoo!

It has been pretty nice out, except the wind. I thought it was april showers, not april 40mph gusts? Its so warm out, I want to go ride my bike, but is hard with steady 20mph winds. It needs to get nice out, please.

Ok, I should go attempt more JS, just because.

bye
nick

If you grab one arm with the other, and pull really hard, could you ever pick yourself up?
That would be cool.

Untitled, Because I Can't Think of One Right Now

Gaming, Poll, Biking, Website, School and Weather, Stacey person, and Apple.

Hi!

I was really looking forward to this blog, but now I am really tired, so I am not any more.

I downloaded Civilization III, and have been playing it a little too much, so haven’t slept as well as I should be. Last night I saw Gods and Generals at the State, so that had me up late too. Tomorrow I am supposed to work with my mom, so not sleeping in at all. I will deal though, what choice do I have?

New poll up, PLEASE VOTE. Sakai and Morimoto tied the last one. Will see who was right in a week or so.

I went for a bike ride today. Did the whole rail-trail loop for 9.5ish miles. I think that may be adding to the tired. Sadly, I went alone because nobody will ride with me right now. Oh well, solo rides give me a chance to think and such, so not all bad, just kinda lonely.

Hmmm…

We did XML in my website class, and its really cool. I wish I could do my site in XML, but most browsers have lousy support for it. Speaking of the site, I haven’t done anything with it in a while. Either busy or not up to it. I will have another fairly big update soon though, maybe after school lets out?

Ahh, school. Just 2 more weeks, so nice. And it’s been nice out lately too. Was mid 60s today. Supposedly might brake 70 tomorrow, but chance of rain, And not even a thunderstorm, just rain. Too bad.

What else is new…?

I was right about the Stacey thing, was a friend of Suchyta’s that thought was his blog. She tried to delete the posts but couldn’t. Funny, because if I had known, I can delete comments, but didn’t so made a big deal out of it. Haha!

Apple released a new eMac on Tuesday. It seemed like just a speed bump, until today when i realized it has an 8x DVD-R drive. Now, eMacs are $999 and have an 8x drive, but the $2999 G5 only has a 4x. All the rumor sites are wondering if new G5s are coming soon, and this answers it to me. If Apple was just going to switch to an 8x SuperDrive, they would have done so before the eMac got it. That they didn’t though, means they must be waiting to release something more. And with the NAB conference next week, it seems like a good time for it. Probably an update to iMacs too, as they are a higher end unit than the eMac is. Could they be going G5 soon? We will need to wait and see.

Ok, I think thats enough. I guess will see you all back here Sunday.

adios,
nick

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up…what did he go back to?

Huh?

The hell? Second blog today, Headache, Poll, and other stuff.

Ok, so I have to start out with these recent comments:

You know you’ve hit a new level of low when you start putting names into dogpile.

Add Chen to that poll!
Stacey | 04.12.04 – 10:48 pm |

and

What’s even better is when you realize it’s not a friends blog but a foaf
Stacey | 04.12.04 – 10:52 pm |

Ok, what?

Well, I guess I can answer part of this.

1) It seems whoever this is, they were referred in via a dogpile search for “nick+suchyta”, so thet would answer the dogpile think and maybe Suchyta will know who they are.

2) No Chen. He is not in the Tournament of Masters (sadly, I think he should be too) because he was last on IC like 5 years ago, and was pretty old then. The poll pertains only to those chefs in the Tournament of Masters, which will be on Food Network on the 27th-ish.

3) foaf? thats friend of a friend, right? Yeah, OK, so Stacy is Suchyta’s friend. Ok, problem solved then.

I guess if Stacy comes back, or maybe Suchyta can, a comment verifying this would be appreciated.

Anyway…

I wrote a big blog at like 2:13 this morning (not afternoon, morning) but erased it because it was all funky. So, I need to write another one, but the mysterious “Stacy” helped me with a good chunk of stuff.

I have another nasty wisdom tooth headache right now, and i am having trouble seeing straight. This is one of the fun ones that makes my eyes hurt. This is not very nice of my teeth. I try giving them somewhere to live, and they go and trash the place. One day though, one day I will kick their asses out.

Yeah, anyway…

So, I think I am going to end up sticking with 3 blogs per poll. I have anyway, so why not. I picked up 3 new votes today, so I see no reason to pull it. I believe it is a tie between Morimoto and Sakai with 2 each right now, so if you feel it should be otherwise, THEN VOTE. Maybe when we know who wins in 2 weeks, I will be nice and reward whoever’s vote was correct? Probably not, but who knows, I have done stranger things.

Uhm…

I have had a bunch of stuff on my mind lately, and that’s actually what the first blog early this morning was all about. I think it should stay in my head for now though, until lI get it sorted out a bit more.

And finally…
I asked you all a little bit ago if you would comment more, so you did, and I appreciate it. BUT you stopped then. You only commented the once. Really people, you need to keep it up, I like reading comments, even when it’s from people that I have no clue who are.

I guess thats it. I want to go to bed, because my head hurts, so you all have to go away now. New poll and blog on Thursday (maybe, I don’t want to say right now). Also, supposed to be getting pretty warm toward this weekend, so I will probably be trying to get some bike riding in. If anyone else wants to, you should let me know (hint hint).

Bye,
nick

Avoid cliches like the plague.

Boredom Sucks

Bored, 1000th, Erica’s bike (finally), Post count, School, Poll, Bike and Job, and GM and GE.

I am really bored right now. Everyone is going off to do fun stuff for Friday night, and I have nothing. Oh well. One day, I will make you regret it. I will be the awesomeist of all, and you will regret not doing stuff with me before, when you could. Yes, I will show you, I will show you all. Bwahahahahaha!

Anyway…

Well, I was way off. I said I should have the 1000th hit by Friday, and, well, I did. Heck, I had it by Wednesday night. Somehow, I managed over 50 visitors in 6 days. I did really well at not letting anyone know who it was too. Even now, only the person and I actually know. It was almost some crazy googler looking for u^^pa lu^^pas too. In fact, both the 999th and the 1001st were. So, in desperation, I asked the only one of you people who were nice enough to be semi-available to run to the site to pick up the 1000th, and you did. So, without further a due, my 1000th visitor was…

Apr 7, 2004 06:15:33 PM
66.227.198.#
Windows XP (NT 5.1)
Internet Explorer 6.0

(thats Erica, for those of you who don’t have all my visitors IP addresses memorized yet.)

Congratulations, and thank you for keeping the title from the evil google monkeys. Also, congratulations on finally getting your bike. And by the way, I am up to 1022 visitors as of right now.

What else…

This is my 110th blog, wow. In theory, I will have 122 on the anniversary, but I think the 2 test entries will put me at 124. I’m not sure.

Only 3 weeks of school now. I seem to have been a week ahead for a while, telling people 4 left when there were 5. Like I said a few days ago, I am excited for the warmer weather more than for the no more school. I mean, i have 6 credits and 2 are online, and HTML is barely a class. Anyway, 3 weeks.

Only 2 people have voted in the poll. I think maybe a few more of you should vote. I mean, it’s Iron Chef, everybody likes Iron Chef, or at least did at some point.

I still haven’t gotten my bike to Ray’s in Midland. Not that I can afford it anyway. My mom is right, I need to get a job. Stupid GM. They better call before fall, or else. “Or else what?” you ask? Well come on, like I can actually do anything to a Fortune 5 multi-$billion international corporation. For pete’s sake, GM owns like half of everything in the US, basically everything GE doesn’t.

They really should merge, it would be cool. i mean, come on, 1 corporation that owns as much as those two. GM has Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, GMC, Cadilac, Hummer, Pontiac, Saab, Vauxhall, Fridgedare, Hughes, GMAC, DirectTV, Powertrain, OnStar, Fiat, Subaru, Saturn, Holden, Opel, Isuzu, Suzuki, and more. Then GE owns NBC, Geico, and owns patents on or manufactures everything form light bulbs to appliances, lexan plexiglass to jet engines, batteries to fiber-optic cable, and nuclear reactors to medical imaging equipment like CT and MRI scanners. Both have huge investment, insurance, and financing divisions. I mean, come on, it would be great. Throw in Xerox, SBC, and Exxon/Mobil and you could take over the world, literally.

Yeah, definitely bored.

Well, I have to take a test online for my CST-161 class, so I guess I will go do that now, and see you all later. Enjoy your weekend, Happy Easter, and I shall return on Monday.

later,
nick

People do crazy stuff on TV, like eat at Arby’s
(I don’t remember if that was Lois Griffin, or Marge Simpson.)

Number 109

Poll, Weekend, Erica, School, Comics, Blogs, and Count.

Well, to begin with I would like to point out the new poll. I was supposed to change it last time, but no, I was lazy. For more info on this poll, see FoodTVs Iron Chef America page.

Since the last update was so tiny, here are some details that were skipped from the weekend. Uhm, I didn’t really do anything last weekend. Oh, I went to Todd’s bon fire Saturday night? I think so. Yeah, my brother and I went, then drove around for a bit. The Beatles sound weird with a loud system. Also, last night I installed our new dishwasher and tonight or tomorrow our new over-the-range microwave.

Erica still has no bike, and is sick now. When she agreed to go riding with me I got all excited not realizing that the weather would still be crummy for another 2 months afterward. So now, I am being tortured by evil mother nature and her lack of cargo area.

School is still going, and going, and going, and never ends. What is this, week 11 now? 12, this is 12 we started yesterday, only 3 more then. Yeay!

I have been reading the Devil’s Panties and Something Positive , as recommended by Erica. I started from the beginning and am working forward. I have the Devil’s Panties done, and am in like August 2003 of Something Positive.

Blogging is hard, because sometimes I want to say something, thinking this is a journal or such, but then remember other people read. It’s hard to remember who reads this and that in theory, anybody could. Too many people forget that if it goes online, anybody could read it, and to watch what you say. I have been pretty good though, and have only had 2 embarrassing moments where I talked about someone and they later read it.

I am at 989 visitors right now, we will see who becomes lucky 1000. Granted thats not really 1000, since people like Scott and Suchyta and Jason probably have 200+ each, but still. Heck, even the 2 months between me starting the blog and getting a counter. Anyway, I figure 1000 by Friday.

So, I think that’s it.

See you all on Friday, hopefully with the name of my 1000th (better not be some googler).

nick

You, cut my water!
I can’t sir, it’s liquid.
Well then go freeze it, cut it up, and bring it back to me cut, damn it!

Hmmmmm…..

Cassie, Sarah, Job, School, Moods, and thats about it.

I haven’t seen Cassie in a week, because she has been sick. She is mostly better now though, so I get to go to a movie with her tomorrow.

I would like to apologize again to Sarah, for saying she was upset when she wasn’t. Hopefully she wasn’t upset by it, but I won’t say if she was or not, as that may upset her, so uhm, I am going to leave it at that. (Hah, I just proof read through and realized I didn’t capitalize her name. That would have made me look dumb.)

I still have no job, and I don’t like it. I need $$, and the one thing jobs are good for is getting $$.

School is, uhm, going. I have an A in all 3 classes, and just 5 more weeks.

What else…

Uhm, this was interesting:

No, wait, I will save that as my quote, since I have nothing else.

La la la.

I am in a very “fast” mood right now. I am IMing Cassie and I think I am scarring her. I just keep typing stuff and it doesnt even all make sense. And, I will type like “keep” but I am so into it, I will type “keeping” because I want to keep going or something, I don’t know.

Anyway, I could write a story here, since I have the energy. I think I will say good bye first though, and come back up if I still want to.

Ok, yes, I will try.

hmm, story…

Uhm, I decided no actually, I was typing it and ran out of energy, so I deleted it. it was kinda screwy anyway. Oh well, another time.

Good bye,
nick

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux Kernel, was visiting his friend Andrew Tridgell, the creator of the Samba suite. They were walking through the Zoo in Canberra when, without warning, a huge flock of vampire attack penguins dove out of the sky and tried to carry Linus away. Fortunately, Andrew had an umbrella. Still, one of the birds was able to nip Linus’ hand with its fanged beak. Rumor has it that on moonlit nights Linus still runs out into the darkness and jumps, stark naked, into icy water. Of course, he’s Finnish and may always have done this. In any case, this is why the Penguin is the Linux Mascot.

Number 104

Counter, Cross eyed, Cassie, Sarah, BIke, and Cruise.

Hmmm, what has happened…

I have a new counter and a poll now. I got pissed at sitemeter and switched, but I might switch again, I dont know. Will see.

I learned last night that if you are very tired and you try to read a EULA, it will make you cross eyed. Not fun. I suggest you avoid it.

I haven’t seen Cassie since Thursday night. She has been sick, so slept alot of the weekend.

I was informed that someone was upset by the fact I accidentally did not capitalize their name. I am sorry. Capitalization is one thing I do try and do, even if I accidentally spell the word wrong. I wont let it happen again.

It has been trying to get warm out. Hopefully I can get a bike ride in soon, I need to get my bike over to in for a spring tune/clean up though. Yeah, it costs a few $$, but they fill do a better job that I will, and have the right tools to do it too. Not sure if I will take it to Bicycle Village where i bought it or somewhere in town though. Will need to call around for prices tomorrow I guess.

What else…

Blogs have been kinda short. I don’t know why exactly. Well, I do, it’s because I don’t want to type a lot and generally can’t think if a lot to type, but the reason for that is what I don’t know.

Ooh, I could put up stuff about the cruise I guess. Ok, here some cruise stuff:

Sunday, March 17, 2001
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Depart: 11 PM

Monday, March 18, 2001
Frederiksted, St. Croix
Arrive: 8 AM
Depart: 4 PM

Tuesday, March 19, 2001
Castries, St. Lucia
Arrive: 8:30 AM
Depart: 5:30 PM

Wednesday, March 20th, 2001
Bridgetown, Barbados
Arrive: 8:00 AM
Depart: 6:00 PM

Thursday, March 21st, 2001
At Sea
Arrive: NA
Depart: NA

Friday, March 22nd, 2001
St. Johns, Antigua
Arrive: 8:00 AM
Depart: 5:00 PM

Saturday, March 23rd, 2001
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
Arrive: 8:00 AM
Depart: 6:00 PM

Sunday, March 24th, 2001
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Arrive: 7:00 AM

Total distance: 1,067 miles by sea + 1,908 (x2) miles by air = 4,883 miles in 1 week

So there you go, our cruise. That means 1096 days ago right now (3 years ago) I was on a ship somewhere between Antigua and St. Thomas. Also, note that those times are AST, not EST, so are 1 hour later (9 EST is 10 AST).

Would I do it again? Yes
Would I have done that one differently? No
Granted, you could argue maybe I “wasted” some tome doing stuff I didn’t like, but if I had not done it, I wouldn’t know I don’t like it, and might waste more time next time just to find out. I don’t know. It was fun though.
Most memorable activity?
Exploring EVERYTHING in the first hour with brother. It took us 3 days to figure out how to get to the last pool. It was staff only, and we couldn’t actually go to it. Bastards.

Ok, it took me like 30 minutes to get all that info, so I am done for now.

Til Thursday,

nick

“The new phone books are here, the new phone books are here! I’m somebody now!”

Stupid Counter

Counter, Cassie, School, itunes, and Genji.

My visitor counter is being gay. For some reason it decided not to count last week. I mean, it did count during last week, it just went back again at the end of the week. Also, I noticed it hadn’t been counting a few weeks ago either. By my best estimate, I am 25 down right now. I will get them back next week if it doesn’t fix on own. And if it does it again, I am switching to one that works.

Cassie was over last night, we watched a re-run of er, I made her some scrambled eggs, and then we watched more TV. It was a lot more fun than it sounds though.

I had to go to school today, because school is an evil life sucking doodoo head. My networking class meets twice over the semester, and yesterday was the first. I got to install DOS, install NetWare 5.5 Server, then on a different computer install Windows XP and NetWare Client. Wow, so freaking difficult. It took 2 hours because installing is gay. I definitely could have done without it.

I finally won a free song. That means the actual odds of me winning are 1 in 17. Of course the advertised odds are 1 in 3, but thats just not true. If you remember your statistics, you really shouldn’t reduce odds, so the official odds are 100,000,000 in 300,000,000. So I guess I lucked out.

What else…

I know where Genji is now. Is on Bay, just past some other street (the second one after Titti, is Shust, then the one I dont remember, and thats it), on left (if coming from Bay City). They finally show up on MapQuest now, I didn’t go looking around bay and Tittabawassee or anything.

OK, I think I am done now, since I can’t think of anything else to write about.

See you Monday.

nick

“Computers crash and they all fall down…”
– megadeth

Dohh!

100th, Website, and Movie

I can’t freaking believe I missed the 100th post. I only mentioned it once a week for the last 3 months. I am a moron or something, I don’t know. I will not miss my 1 year though, or the 100th visitor, I promise that.

I have removed the old website, and now the V3B4 is up as main. There is a little more work to do, but is almost where I want it. Again, if you have any suggestions or additions, please let me know.

I watched “The Breakfast Club” at the State Theater sunday night. You may have seen Suchyta’s pic in the Bay City Times today about it. Was for a guy that was proposing to GF and was her favorite movie.

Ok, sorry to leave it short but I have homework, so I will see you all on Friday.

nick

It’s like they say, “When in Rome, do as the romans do.”
Actually, they used to say that, they got lazy though and only say “When in Rome” now.
Stupid they.