Auto Show Pics

NAIAS Pics now up, and other stuff, but mostly just the pics.

I got the pics from the auto show from Jason, he took 152. Other than that not much has happened though. The blog didn’t want to post last time, took some coercing. Went and watched a movie at State with Nick just afterward. But was a real lazy weekend.

So….

I am going to say since a photo is worth a thousand words, I must have just said over 16,000, and thats enough.

Wednesday…

nick

One saggy boob says to another saggy boob:
“We need to get some support around here, or people will think were nuts.”

Weeeeeeeeeee!

English is bad, School, Cleaning, Website, Weird noises, Pepsi/itunes, and Stories.

Hi all. Ever wonder why diner is a place, and dinner is a meal, but dessert is a place and desert is a meal? Thats weird, damn english. Would be different if I did it. None of this “phone”, “of”, or “queen”. No, in MY english, they would be “fone”, “ov” and “cueen”. I see no need for the “ph”, or the “q”. The first is easily replaced with a simple “f”, and the second with “kw” or “cu”. Besides, what good is “q”? It is the only letter dependent on another, “u”. Why not just incorporate that a “u” will follow, and drop it?

School is going fine, only 13 more weeks of it, woohoo! Then it will be nice out and I can bike, double woohoo!

I am still cleaning my room more. Is just clutter I need to move around and sort. Nothing too bad.

I might re-structure the website, and make more additions. If I do, it would screw with links from the blog though, so I would need to go through and correct the broken links. Will see.

Whooh! Three people just signed off at the same time, made a weird sound. Strange.

What else…

Ohh, To answer Scott’s question, No. He posted a comment to the last blog asking if Apple would have a Super Bowl commercial, and they will not. They will however be featured in Pepsi’s, as Pepsi is starting a deal to give away 100,000,000 songs from the itunes music store. I would like to say now that if any of you receive a winning bottle cap and decide you don’t want to download and install itunes for a free song you could just get from kazaa, I will gladly take your caps. The promotion runs from Feb. 1st to to March 31st.

Since nobody ever commented on Bionica, I will be writing a second one anyway. The first one was bad mostly because of all the introduction crap, and I think I can do better on the next one. We will see. I am also going to edit my quick story from a few weeks ago and put it in short stories on the site.

Ok, thats all for tonight, go home.

nick

Life is like a box of chocolates,
Sometimes it’s a wonderful gift,
and sometimes there full of laxatives and turn everything shitty.

Uptime Record Trounced!

Record shattered!, Room is clean!, Extra stuff for sale, and the Super Bowl.

[Nicks-ibook:~] nslyax% uptime
18:17 up 21 days, 1:57, 1 user, load averages: 0.83 0.50 0.23

Thats right, 21 days, 1 hour, and 57 minutes since last reboot, and still going. Granted, I am barely going, but I am none-the-less. Also, I see I have had 1274717 pageouts, 1755052 pageins, and 89396953 “Translation faults”, for those who know what all that means. Essentially, I need more RAM, and to restart more than every 21 days.

Other than that though, I have been spending most of the day cleaning up my room. I am better than half done I would say, so I figured I could take a break to blog. In cleaning my room, I found more stuff that I don’t really need, so if you need something, I seriously might have it. From pin-feed paper to computer chassis and Palms to speakers, I have alot that should be taken care of.

So the Super Bowl is set, Carolina Panthers v. New England Patriots. The Patriots are a favorite, as they were in the Super Bowl just 2 years ago, and won, but I am rooting for the Panthers. What I saw of last nights game was good, and they might be able to do it. Either way, most are saying a low scoring and very even game. I don’t really care, I mostly just watch for commercials.

And other than all that, I have nothing. Hope you all enjoyed your weekends, and remember to tip you waitresses.

nick

Peter Griffin: Brian, there’s a message in my Alpha Bits. It says “OOOOOO”!
Brian Griffin: Peter, those are Cheerios.

Pre Intro to Sp. Ed.

Uptime, Stats, School, and Jim (yeah, small)

Wow, I came a bit too close. It’s like 11:47, and I am just starting this post.

My ibook is still running, barely. OS X is a very stable OS, just not an 18 day uptime OS. Just the same, I am leaving it going for a 21 day record, so will restart on day of next post (Monday).

Yesterday was 15th, and that means I should be at 800 hits, but I was at a mere 650. I am glad that the “i” to “*” swap worked out.

First week of classes went well. Advanced HTML may be a pain, and Network Essentials more so. JavaScript though, will be good. A) It’s in the G4 lab, so I get to use a QS 933-60GB-1GB-SuperDrive, which is nice, and B) The teacher is also the DifEq/Linear Alg prof, so is a freaking genius, though he seams to have a bit of trouble expressing his thoughts, or something.

I went to Pinconning with Scott last night, to see Jim. Jim will be a seaman soon, so we wanted to see him, but he wasn’t working at Sunoco like he should have been.

Ok, thats all the time I have, will aim for more on Monday. Probably wont use computer much till then, since it’s being so slow.

nick

Remember when we were young and nieve, and thought bastard was actually bass-turd, yeah…

Uhm, Yeah

School, NAIAS, Book, iMac, Uptime, No more winter, Weird question and No new macs.

I was wrong, online class isn’t till tomorrow technically, but its online, so it doesn’t really matter. I do have class on campus tomorrow though. Suck, I have to do something. So wrong, oh so wrong.

NAIAS was disappointing. When I went with GM, we went during employee days, so less than half the number of people we encountered. Nothing incredible to see. Jason took 152 pics on digital camera, so I will see if I can get some to post.

I read more today, about half through book. I could finish soon if I tried, but I don’t think I will.

We (Suchyta and I) tried to fix the DVD-ROM in the imac today. We did manage to clean the case up, but status of the drive is unknown.

I broke my uptime record. At 15 days, 7 hours, and 3 minutes as of 11:23. If you count back, that means my last boot was last year, on Dec 29th at 4:19pm. My old record was 12 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes from 8/4 – 8/15.

I can’t wait for summer to come, I hate this weather. I want to ride my bike.

Is “The Gum Disease Known as Gingivitis” contagious? I probably don’t want to know.

BTW, no new Apple stuff today.

Ok, need to take a shower and get to bed for class tomorrow.

TTYL

nick

What would you do for a Klondike Bar?

Wow, 80

Record, Dumb, School, TB, Apple, Break, NAIAS, and Website.

Eighty posts, thats a new record. Blogger record was 79, tied on Wednesday.

I have compiled some reminders for the dumber people:

When in the shower, use the hair dryer to dry your hair while soaping with your other hand, saves time.
Always reduce time, as with fractions, so 10 to 5 would be 2 to 1.
If you’re low on cash, kill yourself, and collect the insurance money.

This is the last post of my vacation. My classes start Wednesday, but the online class technically starts Tuesday, on which I post, so this is it.

I was tested for TB yesterday, as an employee of the Hedge is in the hospital with it. Chances of me having it is very low, as it is only contagious when symptoms are showing, which they weren’t. Just the same, a $10 precaution isn’t bad.

Rumors are that a new G5 will debut on Jan. 20th, along with more on 10.3s least mentioned feature: Pixlet, a loss-less video codec. Pixlet is meant for pro customers, so receives little mention at consumer events, hence its mention only last year at the WWDC, and the coming G5 update.

I have accomplished less than hoped over break. I did manage 3 job apps, and site updates, but book is unfinished as is room cleaning. I did make dents though, and did something else, not sure what…

NAIAS trip is tomorrow. I haven’t been there in three years. Maybe I can convince the guy at GMs private area I am still an employee? Free pop and snacks, WOOHOO!

I played with site and blog last night. I shrank the banner image on site to 600 pixels long, from 800. 800 was too long, and 600 seems short. I presume most of you are using a 1024×768 resolution, so I am aiming for something neutral on that. As for blog, I was playing with the style-sheets that control all the colors, but cant find one I really like. I want to change both blog and website theme to A) match each other, and B) look not so cheesy-beginner-esque. Will do some trials on own, and post for your amusement when I find what I like.

Ok, I am tired, so heading to bed.

Till Tuesday,
nick

Being an assisted suicide physician is a nice job, because even if the customer really doesn’t like your work, they still can’t complain.

And on the Seventh Day, He Blogged…

MacWorld releases, NAIAS, ODRAM, Visits are down, and Website updates.

Well, MacWorld was kinda sucky, but it could turn out ok. Last year, Apple released a new or updated product every Tuesday for over a month after MacWorld, so there could be plenty more coming. Anyway, we got the new mini ipods that suck, because although a good amount smaller than standard ipods (which are already tiny) they are $249 for a 4 gig. Hell, spend the extra $50 and buy a full 15 gig thats only a tad bigger, and holds over 3x more.

Also released were FINALLY the G5 XServes, which took so long due to cooling issues. Also, their companions, the XServe RAID, now at 3.5 TeraBytes (3,500 Gigs). New versions of the ilife apps came along as well. iMovie went from 3.0.3 to 4.0, iTunes and iDVD moved up, and oddly, iPhoto went from 2.0 to 4.0, which is needless to say odd. But the big news, and clearly highlight of the expo keynote, is GarageBand. This new iApp is the consumer version of Soundtrack, as iMovie is of FinalCutPro. Garage Band allows you to use your electric guitar, midi keyboard, and/or pre recorded loops to compose music. It features over 1000 loops, 50 midi instruments, and 7 guitar amps, and is only $49 ($29 edu) compared to $299 for Soundtrack.

So, we will see what the coming weeks bring. I am going to NAIAS Sunday, so my Tuesday update will include that, and any new releases from Apple Tuesday as well.

I was looking online for bike trails, and found a tour in September that runs from Muskegon to Bay City State Park. Thats over 150 miles, in 1 day. I said “Those people are freaking crazy.” After some thinking though, so am I. I am not saying I am going to do it, but I am going to see what I can do. If I do some training over the summer, and get some endurance built up, who knows. Start small, and work up, its not until September 6th anyway, right? BTW, anyone else crazy? (hint hint…)

What else…

Not many people reading the blog lately. Not just you people on vacation, but in general. From June 6 to October 12, I had 200 visitors. Shortly after I was put on google, and by November 15th I had 400, and 600 by December 16. So, with January 15th approaching, so should be 800 visits? Well, it seems my s*m c*ty ser*al trick worked, and I’m not even at 650 yet.

The Library is now up, and I added links to the bottom of most pages to allow you easy access back to where you came, be it to the home, previous directory, or just the top of the page. More work will be done over time, but as school is creeping up, they may slow down. Though, with advanced HTML and JavaScript coming, there should be some good stuff coming.

Well, I guess thats it for tonight, see you all Saturday.

nick

Were number drunk!

Almost Over

Break ends soon, MacWorld Expo, Library, NAIAS, and Cleaned up HD.

Yup, only one more week off, then I will be dragged back to school. Oy, I am not particularly excited, but it was my choice, right?

Also, MacWorld Expo San Francisco begins Tuesday, with the keynote at noon. I expect some cool stuff, and will let you know all about it Wednesday in next post. Maybe some cool new dual 2.5GHz XServes, and new versions of all the iLife software? Mini 2gb ipods?

I have entered all my CDs and DVDs on an Excel spreadsheet, and am almost done with books. Should be able to finally get the library page up by the end of this week.

I talked to Jason, and I will be going to the North American International Auto Show next Sunday. I haven’t been to one in 2 years, since I was working at GM. They are cool, and just $12.

I have cleaned computer up more, the HD is finally organized. Instead of a dozen folders of random stuff, there are just 3 disk images I need to burn, very nice.

Well, I can’t think of much else, so I will let you all go till Wednesday, should have plenty to say then, either praising or bashing Apple. Ahh, just like old times.

bye bye,
nick

“And now, a man who needs no introduction…”

Happy New Year!

Space.com, Celebration, Website, and more boring shit.

Happy New Year all.

First, a little quote:

“On Mars, as far as we know, there are no metropolitan areas.”

Really? No metropolitan areas on Mars? Man, those space.com guys sure are smart.

So anyway… Nothing big for New Years, just sat here with family and said “woohoo” (notice no exclamation mark). Thats about it. We did get some Hooters wings though, as is tradition.

I made some additions and changes to links page, namely info on the dogcow. Expect a page devoted to the topic in the coming week or so.

Wow, starting new year off kinda lousy on blog, huh.

Ohh, I finally finished encoding all my MP3s. Yeah, thats boring too.

Ok, I will quit then, since this sucks so bad.

See you on Sunday,
nick

You can’t be anal retentive if you don’t have an anus.

The End of 2003

End of ’03, Resolutions, Break, My dog’s BDay, Idea’s are just that, Broken special, jobs, and a boredom ranting extravaganza.

Whaaa! It’s the last one of the year!, Boohoohoo!

Ok, anyway, yeah, this is my last post for the year. Thursday will be 2004, and I don’t update till Thursday night, so…

I could do a “Year in Review” Special, but I think there are enough of those around.

I don’t know, it’s been a long year, I’ve made new friends, regained lost ones, and did some new things. I never did get a job though. I mean, I have a job, but it’s screwy, and I don’t consider it real, so. But thats my New Years Resolution, to get a real job, and get beefy. Yeah, beefy. The way I see it, if I at least ride my bike more, it will do something. I’m not going to go get a gym membership or anything, just take dog for a run more often, and ride bike more, yeah. Of course, not till its warmer out though. Ooh, and clean my room.

Christmas break isn’t even half over yet. I don’t have class until Wednesday the 14th. Hah, thats like 3 more weeks. I love college.

Ooh, ooh, Today is Molly’s Birthday, or so we decided. The vet figured around the end of ’02 she was born, and my aunt died on the 29th of cancer, so we decided molly was born same day (but a few years later). So my baby it 1 today, woohoo!

I was told that some of the ideas I put in blog wouldn’t work, like my child bearing license. Well no shit. I just write stuff that comes to mind, I don’t actually think about it or anything. I’m sure with some work they could be made to work, but I’m lazy, so screw that. Just wanted to point that out.

So that special thing I mentioned, it kinda sucked. It sounded really good in my head, but my mind is kinda warped, and the brain-to-hand travel seemed to have degraded it. Anyway, it’s on the stories page. I’m not even going to link to it, go find it yourself. Link to homepage is in top right of page, go from there. If you convince me it sounds interesting, I will work on more, otherwise, it might just go away.

Hmm, Uhh, well, yeah.

I just applied for home depot online. Including my Staples application, thats 2, plus IBEW, so 4 job apps this year. Wow.

Ok, my brain is going off, and I don’t feel like typing through a ramble, or do I?

hmm

spelling will probably be bad..

but could be funny…

ok, I’ll do it.

Ok, so this guy is running through the woods, and he hears this noise, and hes like “Whos there”, but nobody answers, so he ceeps running, and running, and theres more noises, and he runs faster, and there coming nearer, AHHHHHHHHHHH.

So he trips, right? And the thing comes up to him, and suddenly all the trees are gone, and theres this big clearing, and hes bleeding and shit, and all scraped up from the banches, and can barely make out his persuer, and then he realizes its a snake! Not just any snake, but a big cobra, then BOOM! Theres GI Joe, and they kill the evil cobra, and the guys all like “Yeah, woohoo!”, and then GI Joe’s like “no problem”, and the dudes like “I dodnt know you guys were even real, I must be dreaming, your really here?” and GI Joes are like, “Well now you know, and knowing is half the battle”, and so the guys like “Hah, you always say that, can’t you come up with something new?” and GI Joe is like, “Hey, we could just leave you here, to die or something”, and so the dude appologizes, and gets a ride home in this wicked helicopter

the end

Woo, that was fun. Ok. I am leaving it how I wrote it. Thats how I wrote the Sock, by the way. Except on paper, so was illegible, AND had poor spelling and grammar.

Ok, til next year,
don’t die,
nick

“It’s ok, I’m cool.”
“No your not.”