I Didn't Start the Fire

Wheeeew...what a week.

2006-02-19T00:14:00.000-07:00

Man oh man i'm glad to put this last week behind me. I don't know about anybody else out there, but this was the first *shit* week of the semester...you know...those weeks where I actually pulled two late late late nighters in the same week. Ugh.

Monday I spent most of the day/night doing HW for this damn computer class i'm taking. Man, this project I did was a killer...and I never got it to fully work. So I ended up sacraficing myself and staying up pretty much all night to get it close to something one might call complete. I was really kinda worried about it because the next day I had an interview for my dream on-campus job "IT Network Analyst Senior" ooh la la, my geek-dar just went off. 8.50 an hour and on campus I knew I just had to get this job. Well, I went to my interview somewhat nervous because I looked liked some damn frazzled CSE student who stayed up all night coding. As soon as I walked into the interview it was badass...It was three students interviewing and I just nailed the shit out of it. I have since gotten the job, and a raise to 9 before I have even started. wooohoo. And as for my computer assignment that I thought I bombed the shit out of...perfect score. Damn what a week.

I hope everyone's week went just as well!

Examing differences

2006-01-26T15:46:00.000-07:00

Hope everyone has been well since I posted last. From as far as I can tell, it sounds like everyone is having a good start to the semester. We might still be on break and waiting for HW, but everyone seems to be doing fine and enjoying classes. I know I am really enjoying classes, but there's something particularly odd about this semester. Maybe its that fact that I know that if I was one of those people with their shit together i'd be graduating, or the fact that i've just taken a sheer shitload of hours (I thin i'm around 120), or have taken classes in just about every department, but I just seem to be noticing differences lately.

First a glorious difference: The complete and utter opposites that exist between the business college and the college of liberal arts. Last semester I was in (for a while at least) a 20th century US foreign policy history class. Never have I ever been so pissed at life than when I had to force myself to sit and listen to this hippy indoctrination of complete shit. I got to hear about how Teddy Roosevelt (one of my personal favorite presidents) was really a racist pig, who only talked shit and walked tall because he really felt like he was an inadequate woman (no shit...the fuckers in the class actually gobbled it up) and about how FDR was the savior of modern man. Then fast forward to economics. A subject I am happily familiar with, as it is based on numbers, logic, and rules...as opposed to HST (hippy studies). Everything said has proof and justification. Any time my professor mentions why this policy or that policy is better or why Republican values on a particular economic issue (like oh say price controls, minimum wage, low taxes etc) are the proper way to run things, he busts out data to back it up. To get credit you must SHOW with the fucking ECONOMIC INDICATORS that your plans work. In hippy class, the more liberal and fucking retard you sound (Them: "FDR wasn't racist. He was the best president in history" Me: "Explain Japanese internment camps then you fucking complete jackoff"), the higher your discussion grade (and my blood pressure) goes. So again...pleasant.

Another class I absolutely enjoy is my mathematic methods of genetic analysis class. This class has such a diverse mix of people it makes for interesting times. There are three kinds of people in the class. There's the large majority of the class, which are the MBB (molecular biosciences and biotechnology majors...which is code for bioengineers who couldn't hack it in physics/math/engineering, or bioengineers that wanted to go premed and didn't want to risk what physics/math/engineering would do to their GPA). The MBBs take virtually the same courses as the bio majors so while most of them are awesome and down to earth, I pity those who decided on biology because it had no math, and now find themselves in this class. Next are those like me who are computer science or computer systems engineering and are taking this class because it counts as tech elective. We are the part of the class that yawned when the MBBs shit their pants when the first quote of this class was "I hope you all have experience in implementing and analyzing advanced algorithms because that is the majority of the class". The last part is there are some grad students taking the class as part of the new (and improving i'm told) computational biosciences program. Anyways, its an interesting mix of having our second lecture being all genetics, which had all the bio peeps kicking themselves for showing up and the engineers just reminding themselves why they hated biology in HS, and then the rest of the class which is taught like, well, an upper division math class which leaves most of the aforementioned in the dust. Still interesting though.

The thing that really made me think about differences lately was when my applied linear algebra class met in the computer lab. As part of the class we are supposed to meet and learn how to apply all we learn in matlab (engineers after all), and the lab is located in the old most ghetto section of the engineering building. But it is not occupied by any of the college of engineering folks. The hallways go like this: down the right hand side we have math dept. computer labs, and on the left we have department of womens studies offices. Now I could make some cheap bashes on these brilliant sacks, but I don't even need to. I get the pleasure of feeeeeeling their looks of disgust while we wait outside the lab for class to start. I'm sure it's the fact that of my class of 30 there are two girls (and calling them girls is generous), and they give all of us oppressors that stare. You know the stare. It's the stare you get when we look at the posters on their door with a sort of half-snicker half-I-can't-believe-my-tuition-contributes-to-this and they burn us with the ol' "you men don't deserve that money you will be making and you should do more to encourage women in your profession". There was even one professor who blantantly looked around for the women in our class (one was lately) and just counted all the guys and then shook her head and sighed. So to you crazy bitch professor: You want equality?? Me too. Come take our classes with us. Show women the way...pound through all our evil male dominated classes (which ironically are taught by more women then men...but shhhh...it'll ruin the illusion).

Wow...enough BS for now.

After a long hiatus...

2006-01-19T15:44:00.000-07:00

The blog is back!! Sorry for the lack of updates but technical issues (read: me fucking up my blogger in an attempt to see how easy it would be to move posts) made it take a while to sort all of this shit out. But wheeeeew...back.

Winter break was a very weird break...probably the most odd break i've had since i've started college. Picking my sis up from Austin was way fun (thinking seriously about UT for grad school), but when I got back I got mad sick. Me and my entire family got this super mutant strain of the flu that just would not fucking die. My family and I were literally sick for like ten days, including Christmas, which just made the whole holiday a little off. None of the usual excitment about presents or stress about shopping because everybody pretty much felt like complete shit. But Christmas was still awesome...I got a new digital camera (with pics on facebook from NY's...i'll post them to yahoo eventually) and a ton of books.

After Christmas Heidi came down (yay) and we got a group together and went up to Colorado for New Years...and man oh man it was good times. I love Colorado, love my friends, good times, alcohol...it was really awesome. I fell in love with Boulder (again) and i'm pretty much ready to move there if the opportunity presents itself (I can hear Jon yelling "c'mon you fucker...just do it"). And it was great to hang out with three of the four badasses...Trevor if you can read this: we missed you on New Years buddy!

The rest of my break was pretty much consumed with the Rose Bowl (SO fucking sweet), and a lot of reading and TV watching. I was either doing that or hanging out with Laura, who I miss tons and tons already...damn Laura I wish you were closer to AZ.

Now that i'm back in Arizona, things are going great! We have a new roommate (crrraaazy Ryan) who is badass, and fixed up the front yard. Ryan also has a xBox360 which has been consuming far too much of our time and I have a feeling will only get worse as the semester goes on. So to everyone who's just finishing up with their first week(s) I hope all went well...i'll give a lowdown on the class scene a little bit later for sure.

Oh...and Nicole: I love you, miss you, and I know things will get better soon!

In other news...

2005-12-10T21:51:00.000-07:00

I was thinking about a change of venue for my blog to maybe spice things up a bit, and get my lazy ass to update more. I think i'm going to use the typepress/wordpress thing, so stay tuned for updates on that front about me moving...sorry its not LJ Chen, but LJ is just too goddamn annoying for me...reminds me of too many peoples myspace pages (of which I am unfortunately a member...)

So much to write about...

2005-12-10T21:47:00.000-07:00

And I don't really know where to start. But the semester is over for me (yesterday actually), and it feels great! I can't wait for a month off of family, friends, partying, and snowboarding. The last two weeks have seemed so god damn crazy I don't even know if I want to talk about them...but rest assured life is all good here in Arizona.

So enough of that...the real reason I had to blog was because I found the funniest thing ever. You know you're a nerd, and that your friends are nerdy when they start a blog for their wedding (love you guys!).

Good luck to everyone with your finals!

Heh

2005-11-27T01:26:00.000-07:00

Look what Farah made me do

You scored as atheism. You are... an atheist, though you probably already knew this. Also, you probably have several people praying daily for your soul.

Instead of simply being "nonreligious," atheists strongly believe in the lack of existence of a higher being, or God.

atheism

92%

Satanism

92%

agnosticism

88%

Paganism

54%

Buddhism

38%

Islam

33%

Judaism

25%

Hinduism

17%

Christianity

Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
created with QuizFarm.com

Procrastinating...again

2005-11-14T17:56:00.000-07:00

I promise I'll have a real update soon...plus news about a new project i'm doing. Until then, let the procrastination begin

Hardhat

You are an atheist, a rationalist, a believer in the triumph of science and of reason over libido. You can’t stand mumbo jumbo, ritual, spiritual nonsense of any kind, and you refuse to allow for these longings in others.

Astrologers, Scientologists and new–age crystal ball creeps are no different in your view from priests, rabbis and imams. They’re all just weak–minded pilgrims on the road to easy answers. Nature as revealed by science is awesome enough for you, but it’s a nature that needs curbing and taming by us on our evolutionary journey to perfection.

Your heros are Einstein, Darwin, Marx and — these days — Gould, Blakemore, Watson, Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Could you be hiding a little behind those absolutist views, worried that, if you let in a few doubts and contradictory ideas, the whole edifice might crumble? Loosen up a bit and try to enjoy the amazing variety of human belief systems. Don’t worry — it’s unlikely you’ll end up chanting your days away in some distant mountain cult.

What kind of humanist are you? Click here to find out.

Bored

2005-11-06T17:24:00.000-07:00

You Are Not Scary

Everyone loves you. Isn't that sweet?

How Scary Are You?

big suprise...not

2005-10-28T02:48:00.000-07:00

only 60% reason...damn...I thought I was better than that.

You fit in with:
Atheism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

80% scientific.
60% reason-oriented.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Funny Shiz

2005-10-19T01:35:00.000-07:00

So just as I was about to go to sleep I decide to check college humor and of course there's fucking hilarious shit up. Linked on there is this dudes blog; which is fucking awesome. First off, in todays post he went and saw Waiting (eat it anonymous) and liked it. Second, the thing that is linked from college humor is his rules for being wingman (the unofficial wingman handbook) and I dunno what it is, lack of sleep, too much math, whatever, but this shit made me literally laugh out loud.

Exerpt:
Rule #5
Know the signals. Before you get to the bar or party, you should have some signals or "key phrases" set aside for certain events. Examples of this include but are not limited to:

-"Dude, you ready?" = "GET ME THE F*** OUT OF HERE!"
-"Bro! :makes 'O' face when girl is not looking:" = "This is a very attractive young woman. I would like to get to know her better."
-The Upwards Head-Nod = "I dunno if I want to engage bro. Check the radar for me."
-The Introduction to ladies = "I got radar lock. I'm too close for missiles, switching to guns."
-The Fist Bump (when exiting the bar or party and your buddy is going home with the girl) = "You got this bro, call me in the morning if you need me to come rescue you."

Read the rest here

My week and the extreme ass kicking week it was

2005-10-17T01:54:00.000-07:00

Wow...this last week can only be described as: "Fucking Hardcore"

Last week started with the usual bullshit, and I just rushed through all my HW for the week so I could be done by Wed. night. On Wed night, the one and only Dave aka Face aka Jurjeho graced Arizona with his presence. Once he got settled we went out for pizza and caght up on the usual happenings (random ABQ gossip and bitching about foreign engineering TAs). Then Thursday was just badass. The Party Pirates had our second game, which was a big W and Dave and Heidi were there to watch. Sweet. Then came the celebration.

Now before I get a treeemendous amount of shit from people, let me give a disclaimer. Before last thursday I hadn't bar hopped around town or anything like that. I've bought Alcohol sure, but I haven't "hit the bars" for two reasons. A) my girlfriend isn't 21, and B) I still know a bunch of people that throw fucking awesome parties. That said I was still excited to finally hit the bars with the team and Dave. And man oh man what a night. From what I remember there were three bars, all fucking awesome, lots of beer, dancing, laughing, and general good times. Sooo drunk...I bought some crappy poetry from a hobo for a dollar on the way back to keith's car. So after this badass-ness I went home to pass out.

Friday Dave came with me to my one class (CSE) and then we just kinda bummed around the rest of the day. At night I took Heidi to Houston's (mmmm steak) for the anniversary (6 months, I say god DAMN). We then went our seperate ways, and I caught up with Ricky, Dave, Jeff, and crazy blind Pete to see Waiting again. Yes folks it's that fucking good. If you haven't seen it yet, then damn...I don't know how much I can plug this movie...but it's waaay better than critics/box-office-earnings make it out to be. We then got free donuts from the stoned KK dudes...rock on.

Saturday was pretty sweet as well. Me and Heidi went bowling with our other favorite couple, Jackie and Kurtis where I did decently well. When I got home I found out Ricky had taken Blind Pete and Face back out to the bars...where mad mad drinking ensued. I don't know the details other than them telling me the library dancers were hot and pete had 5 jack a cokes in less than an hour. Damn. Those crazy fucks stayed up all night screaming scotty doesn't know at our roommate.

So basically if your still reading this (sorry for the rambles) let me sum up: I had fun; Dave and Blind Pete kick ass and need to come up more often.

ALSO

It was brought up to my attention that a certain Dan Riley drunk dialed several fellows on Sat Night. Anyone with evidence/stories to contribute should do so, as I still barely believe it.

Weird

2005-10-16T19:04:00.000-07:00

The Republican Loyalty Quiz

Your score is 4 on a scale of 1 to 10. You are a moderate Democrat. You agree with Democrats more often than not, but have misgivings about some of their positions on key social issues, as well as their ability to defend the country. You remain supportive for now, but if Democrats keep moving to the left and taking their cues from people like Michael Moore, you may decide to jump off that crazy train.

The Democratic Loyalty Quiz

Your score is 6 on a scale of 1 to 10. You are a moderate Democrat. You agree with Democrats more often than not, but have misgivings about some of their positions on key social issues, as well as their ability to defend the country. You remain supportive for now, but if Democrats keep moving to the left and taking their cues from people like Michael Moore, you may decide to jump off that crazy train.

I think it was because I said the biggest threat to the country was bible thumpers..hmm...

Things that just made me laugh

2005-10-09T23:16:00.000-07:00

Today is was a nice lazy day to complete a nice lazy weekend. I'm really happy right now because I've just seen some funny stuff, so i'll share some in hopes of spreading the laughter.

First, I laughed my ass off seeing Waiting. If you haven't seen this movie go see it. And then see it again. Trust me.

Second, via Farah, comes this awesome essay about Walt Whitman. From Farah: "First and third paragraphs."

Also, I don't know if anyone watched the game (if you can call it that) of Texas vs. OU. But man oh man Texas beat the holy living shit out of the sooners. But as funny as that is, Laura's post about it (entitled: Did you know bob stoops doesn't have a penis) made me laugh my ass off. Glad you had fun at the game.

That's about it for me...I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Why i'm happy

2005-10-04T19:19:00.000-07:00

I'm tired as hell after this weekend. But i'm happy because of this. Thank God.

Weekend

2005-10-03T02:36:00.000-07:00

Can be summed up as:

Wedding kicked ass
ASU lost agaaain in a heart breaker...dammit
I love California
Wine is good
Oakland won
Did I mention how much I love California?

Seriously...i'm ready to move there...north, south, I just don't care. Just anywhere along the coast and i'll be happy.

Off To Cali

2005-09-30T01:30:00.000-07:00

I'm off to California this weekend for my uncle's wedding.

All I wanted to say was GO DEVILS!

Husband-Mart

2005-09-29T01:13:00.000-07:00

Thanks Lorena for finding this...I thought it was funny...maybe it's just late and i'm tired. Oh well...enjoy.

A store that sells husbands has just opened in Chicago where a woman may go to choose a husband from among many men. The store is composed of 6 floors, and the men increase in positive attributes as the shopper ascends the flights. There is, however, a catch. As you open the door to any floor you may choose a man from that floor, but if you go up a floor, you cannot go back down except to exit the building.

So a woman goes to the shopping center to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads: "Floor 1 - These men have jobs." The woman reads the sign and says to herself, "Well, that's better than my last boyfriend, but I wonder what's further up?" So up she goes.

The second floor sign reads: "Floor 2 - These men have jobs and love kids." The woman remarks to herself, "That's great, but I wonder what's further up?" And up she goes again.

Third floor sign reads: "Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love kids and are extremely good looking." "Hmmm, better" she says. "But I wonder what's upstairs?"

The fourth floor sign reads: "Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking and help with the housework." "Wow!" exclaims the woman, "very tempting. BUT, there must be more further up!" And again she heads up another flight.

The fifth floor sign reads: "Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking, help with the housework and have a strong romantic streak! " "Oh, mercy me! But just think... what must be awaiting me further on?" So up to the sixth floor she goes.

The sixth floor sign reads: "Floor 6 - You are visitor 3,456,789,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping Husband-Mart and have a nice day."

The Bastard Mayor and other retards

2005-09-28T00:55:00.000-07:00

So today's news is kinda slow (again), but I managed to find shit that pisses me off (usually not that hard. I just log on, and poof).

God I hate this man.

The mayor of tempe is a complete fucktard. Before him we had the cool gay dude who used to be president of ASU. This was nice, because things like student input and student issues weren't ignored. Now enter this Hallman fucker. This is the same guy who won election by calling students "transients". What's that? Oh yeah...tempe is fucking bullshit without tempe. I say ASU seceeds from tempe. You don't like students? No fucking money for you. We bring in ALL (YES ALL ALL ALL) of tempe's money. Students support this shithole of a town and if it wasn't for us, the university, football stadium, research centers, gammage, this town would be a fucking cesspool of suburbia like the rest of the metro area. So please...don't be an ass, or i'll have to regulate...and yes renters count as tenets you fucking asshole. Need proof? How come they're protected under law then? Asshole.

Simple: This makes me nervous.

My opinion. Second generation DVDs, unless they standardize (but let's face it...bastard corporation retard business majors run these duelers, not developers...so nothing will work out) will go the way of betamax, laserdisc and any other retard format that doesn't mean shit.

Can I go one day without **AA fucking pissing me off?

Jesus Christ...the courts say this TV flag is bullshit (Read: they want to regulate everything you watch, do, send shit to marketers...basically invade the sanctity of your fucking tv set, and also "prevent privacy"). What do you do when you pander to the FCC, they cave, and courts overturn this obvious bullshit. Oooooh, that's it. You pander to congress, tack it on spending limit bill and do it that way. Burn in hell.

Cute and Stupid

Yeah...I don't think the white house carpooling and turning off their computers will help gas prices go down. You know what will...just *gasp* taking somebody's goddamn oil. Or tap other reserves/drill other places. And when I say take oil, I don't mean iraq. They haven't given us shit for oil, so until they do you damn drum beating blood for oil hippy's need to shut it. If we went to war for oil how come I pay 3 goddamn 30 for gas. Thought so retard.

We will start the ass kissing with you

Everyone who disagreed with me (and some of y'all still do) that Britney is a bigger whore than Christina can start kissing my ass right now. Oh what? Christina dyed her hair black...and dressed as a lil' cholla girl. Oh la la. Fucking Britney whored out HER OWN GODDAMN KID TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. Probably the biggest whore in the world. Ever.

Week 3 damage control

2005-09-27T00:06:00.000-07:00

Well, not really. 9-5. Now the computer is up to 30-16 (0.652) which still when a little down. Oh well...not a good week at all IMO. Bad times to cheer for the Bay Area. Oh well, there's always next week.

More nerdy news

2005-09-26T23:50:00.000-07:00

Since one person told me they actually read my BS (thanks Keith) i'll post some more random news stories that interest me and my five second take.

First, i'm laughing my ass off.

All I have to say is: FUCK. YOU. HA HA HA. That's what you get for pretty much committing extortion against poor families/parents. The same parents who didn't actually download shit. Until these fuckers can prove who downloaded shit these lawsuits are totally fucking bogus IMO. I mean if *somehow* my car is used in vehicular homicide and you can't prove I drove it, do I get sued? Thought not.

The second one makes me sad that America is lame.

When one thinks of the US, I think competition, best quality products for best price, the most powerful market etc etc. Yeah...except in internet service. Here is a company offering FIVE TIMES my fucking cable speeds for more than 25% less...and in the ultimate high tech wired country of Britian (sarcasm for those wondering)

When will this bitch stop?

Now instead of being that ugly hippy that won't shut up because her kid was adult and made his own decisions (which apparently DEMANDS a meeting with Bush), she's even more the ultimate victim. Now i'm pissed about Iraq as much if not more than the next person right now, but seriously lady. You make me wanna puke whenever I see you, and my feet turn black just hearing your name. And now you can throw the word "martyr" in her list of retarded credentials as well. Ugh.

Another assault on world wide nerds as we know it

When oh when will record executives learn not to insult nerds. We have the power to pretty much end your miserable technology dependent life, so seriously. Why insult our OS choice? Mac is looking like the ulimate option as of late, and linux already kicks ass. Oh, it doesn't play DRM. I'm going to go out on limb and guuuuuess there will be a hack out soon. Oh...and the coders won't be based in this country. So you can wipe your ass with all that DMCA bullshit. Remeber the last time someone insulted p2p downloaders? No? Let me refresh your memory (beesiiides the whole napster is evil, let's stop it...and now it spawned 20 million other crazier progs). I seem to remember madonna (yes, the retarded singer) releasing "fake" mp3s of her new singles on napster which contained her screaming about how downloading was evil and we were all thiefs. I'm not quite sure of the time frame, but her website, labels/CD website subsequently, um, "went down" for a little while. God. Just don't insult nerds and most importantly, don't alienate the people who you want to sell shit too. Sheesh.

Rick's news commentary of the day

2005-09-26T01:23:00.000-07:00

So Big Brother is finally here.

Oh good. So now when the police wrongfully arrest me (read: again...for the second time you fucking assholes) my ass (or my genes) will be on record. And by petition for removal they really mean "kiss our fucking ass. Patriot act what WHAAAT!"

On the same front of, goddamn the government is stupid, comes this story.

So basically they get paid to search for porn. This is wrong on so many levels because A) no one should ever get to have a job so cool and B) Why the fuck is deviant porn that big a goddamn deal anyway. Since when is it a federal priority. We're not talking kiddie porn here...i'm all for fucking straight up killing those shitholes. But this legal "Deviant" porn. Sweet christ. This goes along with the same logic of having 2 cops in the city on rape investigation yet 4353453405 officers doing speeding tickets. Arrrrgh.

And now we have further proof that the RIAA is full of complete fucking idiots.

For those that don't know here is the brief synopsis earlier in the week of what happened.

Evil RIAA Bastards: We want more money.
Steve Jobs: Kiss my white ass. I'm not rasing prices at all, because we're trying to discourage piracy and convince people to pay for something they can already get for free.
ERB: We want more money.

Now with the most recent developement the RIAA wants a cut of iPod sales (read: goddamn they're stupid). This article can be summed up by the funny comment of:

Apple: "You guys are greedy."

RIAA goons like Bronfman: "We're not greedy. We just want all that money Apple is making. We don't want to do any extra work or promotion. Just send us more cash."

And this last story I find especially hilarious.

Um...i'm almost speechless. Explain to me again why in the name of zeus fucking asshole i'd ever install software on my computer that the RIAA even got near again?? What's that? It'll be include in the new Windows Vista?? Well then...either A) it will be hacked or B) i'll just remove my dual boot and stick to linux. My shit is my shit. Even if I downloaded it.

leave your name/a comment and:

2005-09-24T14:58:00.000-07:00

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in. (Um, this one's dumb. New #3: I'll tell you what your superpower would be.)
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST. It is written.

Thanks Farah...sounds like fun. And we'll see if anyone actually reads my blog.

Week 3 Predictions

2005-09-22T19:44:00.000-07:00

It comes that time again for week three predictions. Let’s see if the computer can redeem itself from last week.

Atlanta 17.6 Buffalo 21.5 -->Buffalo Wins

Carolina 19.2 Miami 27.3 -->Miami Wins

Cincinnati 19.2 Chicago 12.4 -->Cincinnati Wins

Cleveland 13.5 Indianapolis 16.3 -->Indianapolis Wins

Jacksonville 14.3 NY Jets 13.1 -->Jacksonville Wins

New Orleans 13.0 Minnesota 17.3 -->Minnesota Wins

Oakland 20.4 Philadelphia 37.8 -->Philadelphia Wins

Tampa Bay 16.6 Green Bay 16.7 -->Green Bay Wins

Tennessee 24.1 St. Louis 25.1 -->St. Louis Wins

Arizona 14.1 Seattle 17.8 -->Seattle Wins

Dallas 22.6 San Francisco 19.5 -->Dallas Wins

New England 18.7 Pittsburgh 28.1 -->Pittsburgh Wins

NY Giants 24.2 San Diego 20.2 -->NY Giants Win

Kansas City 28.1 Denver 23.2 -->Kansas City Wins

Arizona Barbie Dolls

2005-09-21T19:22:00.000-07:00

Props to Joey for showing me this...

Mattel recently announced the release of Limited-Edition Barbie dolls For the Arizona market:

Scottsdale Barbie
This princess Barbie is only sold at Scottsdale Fashion Center. She comes with an assortment of Kate Spade handbags, a Lexus SUV, a long-haired foreign lapdog named Honey, and a semi-custom dream house with a saguaro Cactus in front. Available with or without tummy tuck and facelift. Workaholic ex-husband Ken comes with squeeze-me Skipper and a Ferrari.

Chandler Barbie
This modern-day homemaker Barbie is available with Ford Windstar minivan and matching gym suit. She gets lost easily and has no full-time occupation or secondary education. Traffic-jamming cell phone sold separately. Can swear in English or Spanish. Available at Target.

Apache Junction Barbie
This recently paroled Barbie comes with a 9mm handgun, bowie knife, a 78 El Camino with dark tinted windows, and a meth-lab kit. This model is Only available after dark and can only be bought with cash, preferably small bills, unless you are a cop, then we don't know what you are talking about.

Ahwatukee Barbie
This yuppie Barbie comes with your choice of BMW convertible or HummerH2. Included are her own Starbucks cup, credit card set, and country Club membership. Also available are Shallow Ken and Private School Skipper. Ahwatukee Barbie hasn't been affordable since the early 80's.

Mesa Barbie
This pale model comes dressed in her own Wrangler jeans two sizes too small, a classic Metallica shirt, and Tweety Bird tattoo on her shoulder. Wants to major in NASCAR at MCC. She has a six-pack of Coors Light and a Hank Williams, Jr. CD set. She can spit over 5 feet and kick mullet-haired Ken's ass when she is drunk. Purchase her pickup truck separately and get a confederate flag bumper sticker absolutely free. Available at Ross.

El Mirage Barbie
This tobacco chewing, brassy-haired Barbie has a pair of her own high-heeled sandals with one broken heel from the time she chased Beer-Gut Ken out of Mesa Barbie's (discontinued) house. Her ensemble includes low-rise acid-washed jeans, fake fingernails, strawberry
lip-gloss, and a see-through halter-top. Comes with Barbie's dream doublewide trailer. Available at Wal-Mart. Cheap.

Sedona Barbie
This collagen injected, rhinoplastic (nose job) Barbie wears leopard print spandex, and drinks cosmopolitans to new age music with friends at the lodge. She's into crystals. Comes with Percocet prescription and two alimony checks. Also cheap.

Phoenix Barbie
This Barbie now comes with a stroller and infant doll. Optional accessories include a G.E.D. and bus pass. Gangsta Ken and his '79 Caddy Were available, but are now very difficult to find since the addition of the infant.

Flagstaff Barbie
This doll is made of actual tofu. She has long straight brown hair, archless feet, hairy armpits, no makeup, and Birkenstocks with white socks. She prefers that you call her "Willow." She does not want or need a Ken doll, but if you purchase two Flagstaff Barbies and the optional Subaru wagon, you get a rainbow flag sticker for free.

Gilbert Barbie
Is pregnant, drives a new Ford Excursion and is perfect in every way. We don't know who Ken is because he's always away hunting or in Japan on business. Gilbert Barbie aspires to become Scottsdale Barbie. Not cheap, but still very naive.

Tucson Barbie
Into basketball and marijuana. Dropped out of PCC. Does nothing but complain about Phoenix Barbie.

Guadalupe Barbie
This Spanish-speaking-only Barbie comes with a 1984 Toyota with expired temporary plates and three babies in the back, without car seats. This is the only Barbie who is willing to do manual labor. Ken comes in a meat-packer's uniform and is missing three fingers on his left hand. Green cards are not yet available for Guadalupe Barbie or Ken. Available at Food City.

Van Buren Barbie/Ken
This versatile doll can be easily converted from Barbie to Ken by simply adding or subtracting the "snap-on" parts.

Sun City Barbie/Ken
These dolls are going fast! Well, what we mean is they're old and don't have much time left. Both write checks for everything or pay in change, and can provide hours of endless repetitive conversation about "The good ol' days." Drives a golf cart, signals right to turn left. Can be seen in Barbie Grocery Store (sold separately) arguing over prices
Available at the doctor's office.

Glendale/Arrowhead Barbie - owns mini van or SUV bearing vanity plates and the CCV and multiple "my kid is (pick any NUMBER of wonderful adjectives)" stickers, lives in Tuscan or Santa Fe style-home with 2.5 children, one dog, one cat (optional), Ken works as a police officer/firefighter/realtor/construction supervisor. Arrowhead Barbie is fit and fashionable but frugal (she does, after all, help to pay the mortgage), she works outside the home AND in the home, hosts small groups and monthly gatherings of friends and family, does not know how to form the word "no" on her lips and comes with bruise permanently tattooed on forehead from banging head against the wall in frustration because her plate is far too full!

Tempe Barbie: comes in two styles, blonde and platnium blonde with roots showing. donning short shorts with greek letters displayed on tiiiiiiiight ass booty. usually wearing a tank top with lame ass sorority slogan on it. carrying immitation dior purse if from instate, carrying a real dior purse if from out of state. can be seen driving a black jetta while listening to black eyed peas. ken weighs 250 but can bench press 500. his steriod intake more than that of most race horses and athsma patients and his collar is permanently affixed in the "popped" position.

Hardcore Ken: can be seen getting his ass kicked by any other ken on this list for his absurd appearance and demeanor. will be heard talking about how he can "throwdown" but what he really means is that at the last greeley estates show he was thrown down by a seventh grader in an atreyu shirt. if not straightedge, cloves and cocaine are the choice diet. will be standing next to a very confused girl who will eventually realize that this was the worst part of her life.

You may not be everyone's Barbie - but you're someone's Barbie and YOU ARE LOVED

Procrastination

2005-09-20T20:14:00.000-07:00

You are a
Social Liberal
(70% permissive)

and an...
Economic Conservative
(73% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Libertarian

Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating

Week 2 Results

2005-09-20T00:10:00.000-07:00

8-8. Wow...not so good, but then again it was a really crappy week. Overall score is 21-11 (0.656). Maybe next week won't suck so much ass.

Week 2 Predictions

2005-09-16T18:43:00.000-07:00

I decided to name the computer guessing all this stuff Autumn’s Bitch...and after week 1 Autumn has a running total of an amazing 13-3 (0.813). Not bad…not bad at all. Now I know some naysayers will come bitch and say since I ran this simulation after the games were already played that it’s bullshit and blahblahblah. Fine. Here’s week two. Let’s see how Autumn’s Bitch does for week 2.

Predictions:

Baltimore: 18.3 Tennessee: 21.5 ---> Tennessee Wins

Buffalo: 14.8 Tampa Bay: 18.0 ---> Tampa Wins

Detroit: 13.5 Chicago: 13.4 ---> Detroit Wins

Jacksonville: 14.7 Indianapolis: 15.7 ---> Indianapolis Wins

Minnesota: 13.0 Cincinnati: 21.5 ---> Cincinnati Wins

New England: 14.7 Carolina: 23.5 ---> Carolina Wins

NY Giants: 14.3 New Orleans: 22.0 ---> New Orleans Wins

Pittsburgh: 15.1 Houston: 15.7 ---> Houston Wins

San Francisco: 18.1 Philadelphia: 26.1 ---> Philadelphia Wins

Atlanta: 17.2 Seattle: 19.4 ---> Seattle Wins

St. Louis: 16.2 Arizona: 22.1 ---> Arizona Wins

Cleveland: 10.0 Green Bay: 17.3 ---> Green Bay Wins

Miami: 17.5 NY Jets: 16.5 ---> Miami Wins

San Diego: 28.8 Denver: 27.7 ---> SD Wins

Kansas City: 21.0 Oakland: 19.0 ---> KC Wins

Washington: 12.5 Dallas: 13.9 ---> Dallas Wins

NFL Predictions

2005-09-16T17:03:00.000-07:00

So Ricky has included some of his personal NFL predictions on his blog, and I got to thinking...how well does he stack up against the computer crunching numbers. For that matter, how well does the computer even do against itself? I've heard all these rumors for years that the computer's can't predict shit and that you're better off throwing a dart at the stock page or have a monkey fling poo when your favorite team goes out...but we'll see.

Now the computer program I use is kinda cool...it crunches all these numbers and spits out predictions so I imported the stats of all the NFL games from 1983 through last years super bowl and had it run on week 1 (the one that already happened for those of you clueless). Here are the predictions it made:

Oakland: 13.2 New England: 22.6 ---> New England Wins
Chicago: 7.3 Washington: 18.6 ---> Washington Wins
Cincinnati: 15.2 Cleveland: 14.9 ---> Cincinnati Wins
Denver: 16.5 Miami: 22.7 ---> Miami Wins
Houston: 9.7 Buffalo: 18.9 ---> Buffalo Wins
New Orleans: 13.7 Carolina 19.8 ---> Carolina Wins
NY Jets: 13.9 Kansas City: 26.4 ---> KC Wins
Seattle: 9.9 Jacksonville: 20.6 ---> Jacksonville Wins
Tampa Bay: 18.7 Minnesota: 17.0 ---> Tampa Bay Wins
Tennessee: 16.5 Pittsburgh: 27.3 ---> Pittsburgh Wins
Arizona: 17.3 NY Giants: 19.3 ---> NY Giants Win
Dallas: 12.7 San Diego: 17.1 ---> San Diego Wins
Green Day: 18.1 Detroit: 18.4 ---> Detroit Wins
St. Louis: 16.9 San Francisco: 19.7 ---> SF Wins
Indianapolis: 15.7 Baltimore: 21 ---> Baltimore Wins
Philadelphia: 17.4 Atlanta: 18.8 ---> Atlanta Wins

Next entry I will compare results and have next weeks (week 2) predictions

When pigs flew in a frozen hell

2005-09-06T10:32:00.000-07:00

Or when Ricky starts a blog...big shout out to the roomy starting the blog, and beginning down the path of procrastination and destruction. You can find it here.

I look forward to many funny posts in the future.

Still getting used to this sleep thing

2005-08-25T00:25:00.000-07:00

Not to bitch and moan, but that first week back on a school schedule is always a killer. I get tired pretty much as soon as I leave the house in morning, because of the combination of lack of sleep and the crazy fucking heat (only 110 today...woohoo). That kind of set me up for one of those "blah" days. I decided to stick with this history class and just do a lot of work for it...I don't care though cause it's on an awesome topic. I'll post some of my paper/rants about it for sure.

As far as the pursuasive writing goes, i'm still thinking of good topics. My teacher brought up a good point that you shouldn't pick something your super super passionate about because then you can't effectively use discussion to help stregthen your paper. Good thoughts, seeing as I was going to write about the "debate" (read: logic and scientists vs. relgious fuckholes) on intelligent design. I'm so passionate about this issue that i've decided not to write any papers on it for my class, because I think I automatically discredit, as well I should, anyone who believes in ID. This also brings me to my horrible horrible news item of the day.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/politics/90069

McCain believes ID should be taught in schools. Goddamit. McCain and Arnold are the only two politicians I like...and now I can't support McCain anymore. Anyone this misguided to want to allow fucking bible-toting-know-nothings to invade the last bastion of impartial, objective, factual, and TRUTHFUL thought (read: science) can't have my support. This really bums the shit out of me...I mean damn man...you're write on like every other issue...why why why why did you have to say something that incredibly stupid. It's like a part of me is dead...because I have serious doubts about Arnold political future. This means there is NO...not even ONE politican that I like/respect/will-ever-vote for. Hopefully I just haven't found that person yet...but i'm not holding my breath.

Other than that, my audition went ooookay...kind of a fucked-up but eh performance. Hopefully I impressed them anyway.

I will leave us with something that was brought up in my great foreign policy class...it's a quote brought up after the professor read about how many people that it was wrong for Bush to have this "you're either with us or against us" speech and how that rhetoric isn't appropriate and how he is a warmongering asshole...so trivia time.

Who said this:

“ Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

(highlight below for answer)

JFK

Day two down

2005-08-24T01:43:00.000-07:00

So today was a pretty decent day.

I'm over my ranting and raving about liberal arts twats (yeah Dave)...at least until my class tomorrow. I was just going to drop the damn class because I really have no desire to read about how gender politics influenced the spanish american war. I'm going to take my roomy Keith's (scary huh) word for it and stick with the class. It's pretty much either this class or world religious traditions, and I think that would be way more shitty.

But today had me having two awesome classes...my survey of american music class will fucking rock. Any class where you listen and discuss good golly miss molly the first day is a good sign. And my class is going to be pretty interesting as well, so I guess i'm pretty happy with my schedule. Wing night with the dudes was awesome as usual...although i'm really missing jon, cook, and trevor right now. I really hope I get to see trevor before he heads off to London.

Peace out all...and wish me luck on my *last* college music audition tomorrow!

First day...finito

2005-08-23T00:01:00.000-07:00

Well...there goes another first day of school. It was actually quite a weird day for me...it was really like a whole new first day. On my mondays I have 20th century US foreign policy, persuasive writing on public policy, and concepts of computer science. The first two are unlike any class i've ever taken.

Now i've never ever taken any kind of upper division history/liberal arts class...all my classes have been in hard sciences. And so far, I have to say i'm not impressed. The nerds of the class, if you can call them that...history nerds...pssh, are fucking twats. These kids think they're badass, telling me about how much history bullshit I know and how i'm going to be screwed because "it's upper div history, and you've never taken history before." Now i'll admit that i'm kinda worried, but giving me shit...kinda reminds me of the good ol' days of premed. Except with premed I could tell the kids to shove it up their ass...at least the teacher made me feel better by saying that engineers consistently outperform the history/liberal arts majors in his classes because they're lazy twats that don't know how to work. Which I agree with totally. It probably comes from the way these hippy professors run class. Rather than lecture on a topic, in their grand wisdom, these teachers decide just to sit there and ask you questions and have class discussions. What a load of complete bullshit. Teach me material...you don't need to indulge these dillusional liberal arts freaks and let them hear their voice preach on about pre-emptive strikes. I guess what i've really found out is that I love science and engineering. Oh man...would I love for these liberal wussy twats to be in my science/math/engineering classes...it would go something like this.

Professor: So combine X and Y and the result will be Z.

Liberal arts shithead: (raises hand) Excuse me...but that might not always be the case. What if the sky fell, and blah blah.

Professor: First off, don't interrupt...they're no questions in my class, but to answer your question. No. No and your wrong.

LAS: But what if...

Professor: (interupts), if you don't believe this, then maybe you should drop the class right now. This is the way the universe works. Now shut up.

It would be fantastic...oh man...now I wish I had to take some lower div science just so I could sit back and laugh at the dumb shits try and figure out how the fuck things work. Oh lord help them a math class. That would be fantastic. I think they hate math because the tests aren't subjective pieces of crap that you can bullshit through. You either know it or you don't. With this stuff, you can pull shit out of your ass and get a good grade...in my book, they call that worthless.

But other than that my day went well...my persuasive writing class will be fun I think...I might even post some of my lame samples if i'm feeling brave. And of course computer science rocks...other than the 80/5 guy to girl ratio.

Wow...update much you asshole?

2005-08-21T01:17:00.000-07:00

No...I don't apparently. That will change soon...y'all know how summer gets. So let's see what has happened since my last update.

I'm 21 now, quite happy being all legal for alcohol and all that...although I have nothing to look forward to now. Just 25 for reduced car insurance and renting cars. woo.

My summer was absolutely fantastic. I had a blast (nerdy I know) in my summer school programming class, and then my trip to Hawaii was fucking sweet. I'm all tan and i'm ready to move to the beach for sure.

School starts monday and I don't know how exactly I feel about it. I'm excited for classes because I enjoy the routine, but other than that I wouldn't mind enjoying myself for a while longer. Oh well...i'll let y'all know how classes are. Hope everyone had a wonderful summer!!!

Too amazing for words

2005-07-10T16:14:00.000-07:00

Let me see...my 21st birthday party last night. In a nutshell:

Best people in the whole world
Beer Pong
Flip Cup
Being a ref to shaving cream wrestling
Watching shaving cream wrestling
Giving out the heavyweight title belt to the winner of shaving cream wrestling
Of course lots of drinky

Oh, and did I mention that every single person there was near and dear to me, and made it such a good time.

Thanks to everyone that came, saw, wrestled, helpped, pitched, cleaned, partied, and had fun.

Pics are up for those who don't have the link...all 52 glorious pictures

One of the best nights of my life!

More crap...yeah i'm a follower

2005-07-06T00:38:00.000-07:00

A - Age you got your first kiss: Hmm...sixth grade...so that's 12 I think
B - Band listening to right now: Tenacious D (Thanks Laura..SO FUCKING AWESOME)
C - Crush: Heidi...I think she knows
D - Dad's name: Scott
E - Easiest people to talk to: Laura, Ricky, and of course the fearsome four
F - Favorite bands at the moment: My Chemical Romance, Acceptance, Howie Day, Tenacious D, System of a Down
G - Gummy worms or gummy bears?: Worms..for sure
H- Hometown: Las Cruces, NM
I - Instruments: French Horn + all the shit I learned from music ed (all brass and some piano). Soon to be guiiitar
J - Junior High: Eisenhower
K - Kids: None right now...probably someday waaay down the line
L - Longest car ride ever: Albuquerque to New Orleans
M - Mom's name: Mary
N - Nicknames: Rick
O - One wish: Happiness
P - Phobias: Bees...god damn I hate bees
Q - Quotes: "Don't sweat the pussy, make the pussy sweat you"
R - Reason to smile: Cause i'm planning a jello wrestling party...fuck yeah
T - Time you woke up today: 8...fucking summer school
U - Little known fact about you: I haven't had a "real" job for more than training
V - Vegetable you hate: Brocoli
W - Worst habit(s): Biting nails
X - X-rays you've had: wrest, chest, teeth
Y - Yummy food: Anything mexican or greek
Z - Zodiac sign: Cancer...crabs rule

Maybe there is justice in the world after all

2005-06-29T00:02:00.000-07:00

Karma is a bitch...

Which is why I laugh and hope that THIS suceeds.

Apparently, after the nice communist supreme court ruling some people have decided to try and condemn and illegally seize (or just *legally* now) Justice Souter's house and build a hotel.

Surely that hotel will bring in more economic development and revenue to that small New Hampshire town right?

Good...and I hope they win.

Am I the only one thinking that the supreme court...

2005-06-27T11:08:00.000-07:00

is FUCKING UP??

I mean jesus christ, I check the news and pretty much every single decision they've made recently sucks ass.

Ok...let's start here. So, basically we have no property rights anymore. So somehow the court decided in their right mind to allow for government seizure of property. For no reason.

Oh wait...downtown revitalization and economic development...gooooood call. I guess the saying you buy you own it doesn't mean shit anymore (just like with my downloaded iTunes, my DVDs, my software...pretty much anything anymore). Many other governments have done this before...the one that sticks out in my mind starts with U and ends with SSR.

And it doesn't take long for it to get abused either.

Ok Rick, calm down...the goverment can just take your property whenever the fuck it feels like no big deal right?

Apparently the seperation of church and state is bullshit as well. At least they banned the ten commandments in courthouses...but still allowed on government buildings and government land?? They call that theocracy where I come from...

Another eeerily communist-no-competition ruling. Look justices...in case you don't know. Every cable company FUCKING SUCKS. EVERY ONE OF THEM. NO customer service, service is shitty, waaaay too expensive and they're fucking assholes to deal with. So, in a great free-market society competition usually weeds these shitholes out. But oh no...let's keep them and they're monopoly alive. yay.

They just keep coming in. So basically everyone is responsible and should be sued. In fact we need more suing going on. People are getting away with too much shit. I mean, just cause I make a product and people use it AGAINST the licensing agreement I should still be responsible for they're actions. You know what...gun makers are responsible for murders, car makers for car accidents, fuck mcDonalds made me fat, and the public school system failed me cause i'm stupid. We should sue all of them as well. Jesus fucking christ....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Oh, but if cops royally fuck up they get a free ride. Now this is only decision I have a HINT of agreeing with. Cops need to do more to protect people with restraining orders OBVIOUSLY. ESPECIALLY if the fucker is murdering your family. I mean christ, do your guys god damn jobs. But do I think everyone and they're dog should sue them...no...just that cops need to pull they're collective head out of their big whiny ass (boo hoo hoo manpower boo hoo hoo money boo hoo hoo jail space) you know what...I see fifty million fucking cops every day eating donuts and catching speeders. People going like five or ten over. And you tell me you fucking lazy assholes can't stop that and go PROTECT FAMILIES. Man fuck you guys...it really is all about generating revenue isn't it.

God dammit...I need to go lift before my blood pressure goes up anymore.

Ahahaha...not quite

2005-06-26T12:21:00.000-07:00

Hand-Raiser
You are 85% Rational, 71% Extroverted, 14% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant.

You are the Hand-Raiser, that annoying kid in class who always had an
answer for everything. No doubt, as a child you probably sat in the
front of the class, anxiously waving your hand back and forth in the
air while your teacher desperately tried to avoid calling on you
because you were the ONLY fucking kid that answered her questions.
Clearly, the key traits of your personality are your rationality and
your extroversion. You are like a little talkative calculator, in other
words. You also tend to be rather gentle and less arrogant than most
people. So what is your defect, then? Well, you're boring, and when
you're not boring, you are just plain annoying with your ultra-logical
responses and constant need to talk to others. So keep waving that hand
in the air, son. I'm still not calling on you. You are too logical, you
talk too much, and your humility and gentleness only makes me hate you
more, because they make me feel like I almost SHOULDN'T hate you. But I
do. Big time.

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.

2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Brute.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Braggart, the Haughty Intellectual, and the Robot.

If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you
could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42%
Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is
close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well.
Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can
determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored
near fifty percent for certain traits.

The other personality types:

The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 75% on Rationality
You scored higher than 73% on Extroversion
You scored higher than 7% on Brutality
You scored higher than 21% on Arrogance

Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on Ok Cupid

If my life was a movie...

2005-06-17T00:03:00.000-07:00

Here's the deal...you pick the soundtrack to the movie about your life. And yes, i'm bored as hell (should be "studying" for a test tomorrow)...and if your wondering yes i'm job hunting, so fuck off.

IF MY LIFE WAS A MOVIE

Opening credits: Mest - Drawing Board

Waking-up scene: Saves the Day - Shoulder to the Wheel

Average-day scene: Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get Retarded

Enemy scene fight: Planet Asia ft. Kurupt - Gs and Soliders

First-date scene: Death Cab for Cutie - A Movie Script Ending

Spring: Gomez - Silence

Falling-in-love scene: Joseph Arthur - Honey in the Moon

Kissing-your-crush scene: Jimmy Eat World - Hear you me

Sex scene: N.E.R.D. - Lapdance

Summer: The Ataris - San Dimas High School Football Rules

Fight-with-friend scene: Lostprophets - Make a Move

Break up scene: Goldfinger - Mable

Get-back-together scene: Doves - Caught By the River

Fall: Format - Tune Out

Family fight scene: Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade

Heartbreak scene: Metallica - The Unforgiven

Mental-breakdown: My Chemical Romance - Under Pressure

Driving scene: Blur - Song 2

On drugs scene: CKY - Sink Into the Underground

Running away scene: Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Good choice Derek)

Lesson: Jay Z - Moment of Clarity

Deep-thought scene: Styx - Sailing Away

Party scene: Zebrahead - Playmate of the Year

Happy dance scene: 50 Cent - Disco Inferno

Slow dance scene: Dave Matthews Band - Crush

Flashback scene: Dashboard Confessional - Screaming Infidelities

Regret scene: Outkast - Spread

Long-night: Haddaway - What is Love

Chase scene: Drowning Pool - Bodies

Death scene: Aaron Lewis - In Your Eyes

Closing credits: Modest Mouse - The World At Large

God damn i'm bored

2005-06-14T11:47:00.000-07:00

You Are a German Shepherd Puppy

Intelligent, quick witted, and a bit aggressive.
You've got the jaw power to take a bite out of anyone you choose.

What Breed of Puppy Are You?

Internet Crap No. 345879

2005-06-10T17:24:00.000-07:00

My life is rated NC-17.
What is your life rated?

I told you so...

2005-06-09T11:38:00.000-07:00

Oh damn am I good

Nerds Make Better Lovers

Damn right!

I feel like a freak

2005-06-09T01:45:00.000-07:00

Why you ask? How could I possibly be a freak?

Well...something I started doing bugged me. It was my homework. Now normally doing my homework doesn't necessarily bug me, but this time was different. As of right now, I am about 90% done with my second project for my summer school class. Good, right?

Well...it's not assigned yet.

I got the assignment early on the website and pretty much finished it on my own today. And if that wasn't freaky enough...I enjoyed doing it. Damn i'm nerdy. Hopefully i'll get a job sooooooooon.

Oh...and congrats to Erynn!!!!

Short thoughts before bed

2005-06-08T00:41:00.000-07:00

My first thought is to Nicole...Nicole of course everyone cares about you and loves you...you'll get through this. Trust me. Oh...and you're beautiful!

Second is that Law and Order SVU and the Shield kick ass...what can I say...the summer brings me TV to go along with...

Summer school, in my opinion, should have a super increased pace rather than cutting out material...just my thoughts though...if the school wants to dumb down shit that ain't my problem...my inner-nerd will just have me learn the extras on my own I guess

I think i've also solved the question of my summer direction...and it involves lots of creative writing/brainstorming and new ways to get funny stories across to people and lots of collaboration with some great guys (Ricky and Ryan)...looking forward to that.

and now...i'm tired. Hope everyone had a great day!

Internet Crap No. 234235

2005-06-07T12:14:00.000-07:00

Good thing too...it's my favorite

Wine

?? Which Alcoholic Drink Are You ??
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So...i'm a lazy sack of shiiat

2005-06-06T23:00:00.000-07:00

So I was looking over the blog recently and noticed how little actual updating has been done on this bad boy in quite a while...and hooooly crap. Sometimes that online laziness just catches up with you, huh? Well I guess i'll just have to try and bring anyone wondering up to speed on my happenings...

I went back to Albuquerque for a little while and with it always went lots of mixed emotions. The drive back this time actually wasn't all that bad...I drove back with Ricky and we pretty much talked/ranted and listening to some kick ass stand up the whole way back...man i'm stoked to be living with him for another year. It's gonna rock...but anyways, once I got back into town I met up with the four, because we were shockingly all in town. We drank and went crazy (the usual) and we also rockstarred the shit out of Face's liquor stockpile...thanks for the goodies man...but before I even caught my breath I was off to Austin.

Driving to Austin alone with my Mom was...well...interesting, but we got there and stayed at this kick ass hotel (pictures of the view are posted), and I helped move Laura out. Man...Laura accumulated so much shit over her first year...i'm quite impressed...way to go Laura!! After some creative packing we were off for good Austin eats and then hitting the road. I really liked Austin. I tried to think of myself going to grad school and moving there seeing as it's an option on the table. I think I could handle Austin. The rest of Texas I definitely could not handle. Not my cup of tea by any stretch of the imagination.

Once I got back to Albuquerque I caught up with some friends, hung out a lot with the best person in the world, my sis, and generally did jack shit. Sooo little shit. I read Jurassic Park in two days. I even bought a book on Chaos Theory that helped inspire that book…crazy stuff. I also got to see Trevor off. Man I’m gonna miss that kid. Trevor if you can read this:

KEEP IT REAL IN GREECE AND HAVE A FUCKING AWESOME TIME

Everyone else is now just jealous and hates you now. So I stayed bored until Sarah and her boyfriend, Steve, came into town. Man I miss Sarah SO much. After enjoying some good times with them, Heidi came into town and thus a little crew was formed to get through all of our reunion activities. Me and Sarah were playing in an AYS reunion and it was such a good experience for me. I had such a good time catching up with old friends long forgotten. I guess that’s what I have to look forward to in life now, huh…reunions. Made me feel old…but warm inside.

So to make my long rambling bullshit story short (too late) me and Heidi headed back to AZ to the land of the steaming hot sun, and the land where it’s illegal for me to have my satellite radio mounted to my windshield because it violates ARS 28-959.01.B which states I can’t have anything mounted to my windshield. Fucking Sirius…selling me a product which when used as directed is illegal where I live. Ugh. Just another fucking thing I have to sort out. Oh well…excuse to get an in dash unit though I think.

So the rest of my time here has been spent starting summer school, which is fun, and job hunting. Heidi also got strep throat so it’s been especially lonely, and now that I’m better she’s off to Cali. Other than that, I’m really just been doing a little schoolwork, and watching a lot of SVU and The Shield (fucking USA) and been running a lot. Ok, if you read all of my boring BS I’m sorry…but now that I feel like I quasi-caught everyone up myself my normal tirades can commence again…so everyone stay safe, and try to be so bored everyone…cause I’m bored thinking of you being bored.

More craaaaaap

2005-06-04T13:18:00.000-07:00

I swear i'm updating soon...it's just summer.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the 5th sentence
4. Post the sentence in your xanga along with these instructions
5. Don't search for the coolest book; only the one closest to you.

"Since values of type double are stored with only a limited amount of accuracy, you could argue that this is not "exactly" 3.14, but any legislator who is stupid enough to legislate the value of pi is unlikely to be aware of this subtlety."

from Java. An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming by Walter Savitch (yay summer school)

Woohooo...bored quiz time

2005-05-26T12:03:00.000-07:00

You scored as Yoda.

Yoda

69%

Anakin Skywalker

64%

R2-D2

61%

Chewbacca

56%

Clone Trooper

47%

General Grievous

44%

Darth Vader

42%

Obi Wan Kenobi

42%

Padme Amidala

36%

C-3PO

33%

Mace Windu

33%

Emperor Palpatine

28%

Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you?
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If Laura doesn't stop the politic stuff...I won't either

2005-05-08T22:45:00.000-07:00

Real post sooooon

Your Political Profile

Overall: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

Social Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Ethics: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

How Liberal / Conservative Are You?

More random crap

2005-05-02T10:38:00.000-07:00

Interesting...higher than I thought. Probably because I said social security is an abomination that turned us from a free republic into a good-for-nothing welfare state.

I am:
78%
Republican.

"To you, Fox News really is 'Fair and Balanced'."

Are You A Republican?

Internet Crap No. 45645

2005-04-28T17:33:00.000-07:00

Another survey that *I* view as accurate...whhaaaa.

I love all these cities...except portland, i've never been there, but the rest I really enjoy.

American Cities That Best Fit You:

65% Denver

65% Portland

55% Las Vegas

55% San Diego

50% Austin

Which American Cities Best Fit You?

Don't talk the talk...walk the walk

2005-04-28T01:26:00.000-07:00

New look, eh? I kinda like it...my old blog template thing was freakin' ugly, and you know how it goes when you set the blog up, and you say you'll change it once you get rolling, but yeah...life happens.

This blog is dedicated to my most recent pet-peeve...the whole thing of people talking up shit. Let me give an example: people who say stuff like

"I'm trying to be more healthy"
"I'm trying to be a better person"
"I'm trying to work out more"
"I'm going to try study more"
"I'm going to try and not be such an asshole"

This is all bullshit...when I hear this my bullshit detectors starts going nuts and I start to think the person who is talking is a weak loser. Weak people fucking talk up all this talk about how they're thinking about changing or what do I think of this or that...all bullshit. I hate saying normal...so i'll go with people who have a good grasp on life would never say this kind of crap. A person with a good grasp on life would say something like this:

""

Nothing because they wouldn't talk about their little life changes...they would already be eating healthy, beting a better person, are probably at the gym studying on treadmill, and stopped hooking up with people and not calling them back.

I play the horn

2005-04-27T16:19:00.000-07:00

Wooohoo....I should play the...horn. Score one for Rick. Real update coming soon.

You scored as French Horn. French Horn, eh?
go practice. right now.

Bassoon

92%

French Horn

92%

Oboe

75%

trombone

67%

Cello

58%

String Bass

50%

Violin

50%

Clarinet

50%

Flute

42%

Tuba

33%

Viola

33%

Trumpet

25%

Percussion

17%

If you were in an orchestra, what instrument would match your personality?
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Internet Crap No. 345345

2005-04-20T00:54:00.000-07:00

Interesting...because when I met some of Heidi's family this weekend they said I had an "Eastern" accent which scared the crap out of me...East...eeeeew

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English

20% Dixie

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Nice guys finish last

2005-04-12T23:44:00.000-07:00

It seems that far far far too many of my guy friends have been getting royally fucked over recently. I remember one time I was down in the dumps about this and my awesome Sis sent me this rant and made me laugh and feel better. So I am reposting this to all the guys who have caught the shitty strain of spring fever.

Ode to the Nice Guys
This rant was written for the Wharton Undergraduate Journal

This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and bitching about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style.

This is for the guys who escort their drunk, bewildered female friends back from parties and never take advantage once they’re at her door, for the guys who accompany girls to bars as buffers against the rest of the creepy male population, for the guys who know a girl is fishing for compliments but give them out anyway, for the guys who always play by the rules in a game where the rules favor cheaters, for the guys who are accredited as boyfriend material but somehow don’t end up being boyfriends, for all the nice guys who are overlooked, underestimated, and unappreciated, for all the nice guys who are manipulated, misled, and unjustly abandoned, this is for you.

This is for that time she left 40 urgent messages on your cell phone, and when you called her back, she spent three hours painstakingly dissecting two sentences her boyfriend said to her over dinner. And even though you thought her boyfriend was a chump and a jerk, you assured her that it was all ok and she shouldn’t worry about it. This is for that time she interrupted the best killing spree you’d ever orchestrated in GTA3 to rant about a rumor that romantically linked her and the guy she thinks is the most repulsive person in the world. And even though you thought it was immature and you had nothing against the guy, you paused the game for two hours and helped her concoct a counter-rumor to spread around the floor. This is also for that time she didn’t have a date, so after numerous vows that there was nothing “serious” between the two of you, she dragged you to a party where you knew nobody, the beer was awful, and she flirted shamelessly with you, justifying each fit of reckless teasing by announcing to everyone: “oh, but we’re just friends!” And even though you were invited purely as a symbolic warm body for her ego, you went anyways. Because you’re nice like that.

The nice guys don’t often get credit where credit is due. And perhaps more disturbing, the nice guys don’t seem to get laid as often as they should. And I wish I could logically explain this trend, but I can’t. From what I have observed on campus and what I have learned from talking to friends at other schools and in the workplace, the only conclusion I can form is that many girls are just illogical, manipulative bitches. Many of them claim they just want to date a nice guy, but when presented with such a specimen, they say irrational, confusing things such as “oh, he’s too nice to date” or “he would be a good boyfriend but he’s not for me” or “he already puts up with so much from me, I couldn’t possibly ask him out!” or the most frustrating of all: “no, it would ruin our friendship.” Yet, they continue to lament the lack of datable men in the world, and they expect their too-nice-to-date male friends to sympathize and apologize for the men that are jerks. Sorry, guys, girls like that are beyond my ability to fathom. I can’t figure out why the connection breaks down between what they say (I want a nice guy!) and what they do (I’m going to sleep with this complete ass now!). But one thing I can do, is say that the nice-guy-finishes-last phenomenon doesn’t last forever. There are definitely many girls who grow out of that train of thought and realize they should be dating the nice guys, not taking them for granted. The tricky part is finding those girls, and even trickier, finding the ones that are single.

So, until those girls are found, I propose a toast to all the nice guys. You know who you are, and I know you’re sick of hearing yourself described as ubiquitously nice. But the truth of the matter is, the world needs your patience in the department store, your holding open of doors, your party escorting services, your propensity to be a sucker for a pretty smile. For all the crazy, inane, absurd things you tolerate, for all the situations where you are the faceless, nameless hero, my accolades, my acknowledgement, and my gratitude go out to you. You do have credibility in this society, and your well deserved vindication is coming.

Fu-zu Jen, SEAS/WH, 2003

I got this bad boy here.

A second title for the book

2005-04-11T23:49:00.000-07:00

So apparently the book has generated lots of feelings and ideas and Ricky came up with a second possible idea:

He Was Into Yah, Until You Fucked It Up

Any thoughts?

Loooong (and badass) weekend!

2005-04-11T16:55:00.000-07:00

If you don't already know I decided to make the trek out to NM this weekend. I usually don't go on spur of the moment road trips, but around tuesday night I get a call from Jon saying he, Cook, and Trevor are all going to be in town. I believe the quote was "What could you possibly have to do?? Just fucking come!" So I kinda debated it in my mind for a little bit, and asked Heidi for advice and she said I should go and that she wanted to go too. So it was settled...We were off for NM. Along the rushed planning process (consisting of "lets leave saturday and come back sunday") my parents offered to fly us both out for the weekend. But not even my spoiled ass could accept 400 dollar plane tickets just for a day...It was going to be a roooooad trip.

So the only problem was getting through the rest of the week to saturday. I had a microbiology test friday so all my time was consumed memorizing genus and species of soo many worthless bacteria (yay short term memory), but since I had a test that means I couldn't start my computer science simulation lab until about 3 pm on friday. That class has all the lab stuff due by noon every saturday (someone in the Satan bloodline must have made that decision). So it took my until 3 am to finish that fucker (with multiple breaks of course), and in the midst we had lots of drunken episodes at the house which confirmed my grand idea for a book. As me and Ricky were sitting here in the house talking to a *nameless* girl about why rejecting a guy isn't the best way to show you like him my idea dawned into a reality. Some of you may have heard of, read or call this book your bible. So basically its a book giving relationship advice that is so mind-nummingly obvious I want to puke. Like this choice quote "They say that they didn't have even a moment in their insanely busy day to pick up the phone. It was just that crazy. All lies. With the advent of cell phones and speed dialing, it is almost impossible not to call you." Wow...he doesn't call you back and that means he doesn't like you?? Slooooooow down. You're telling me that if he DOES call back he's into me? That can't possibly be true, because you told that guy who did call you back that you want to be "just friends." You only want to get with the asshole who's not into and didn't call you back. Argh! So in because of this situation me and Ricky decided to co-author a book "Why he's not that into you". And i'll give you reason number one...it's cause when he does call you back, you bitch about some other asshole "who's not that into me" isn't that into you.

Soooo...after that little rant, my weekend did go on! We got up early and packed, and had to go turn in my paper and we were off. Except for the fact that the Ironman Triathalon was in Tempe. So, rather than hold this giant event somewhere practical they decided to CLOSE EVERY MAJOR FUCKING ROAD IN TEMPE. Roads...no matter how much you damn bicyclist people want them to be, are for fucking cars. Not your damn little things my car sees as targets. So what happens when literally every major road in Tempe is clogged up with 10,000+ bikers. You run two hours late. Ugh. But eventually we were off. We decided to take this shortcut Ricky told us about bypassing all of I17 and hitting I40 in Holbrook (cut off that boring chunk of the drive wooo), and this short cut was soooo scenic. Trees and snow (in April too), so it was a quite pleasant drive. Then about 30 miles outside of Gallup the second driving omen of the day reared its ugly head. We were driving along at my usual 85-90 MPH and we hear this loud rattling on the lower right door. At first I think the door isn't closed all the way so I have Heidi pull it and nothing happens. I shrug (not thinking obviously) and just turn up the music to drown out that damn sound. Well...soon it was sooooo loud that it was over the music and then all of a sudden the smoothing sailing turned into danger as I see half my tire fly out from my car in my rear view mirror. It happened on a bridge so I had to coast my newly deemed piece of shit onto the shoulder. Now i'm not looking for sympathy, but when I left AZ it was like 80 degrees. I was now on the side of the road in 40 MPH wind blowing fucking snow, changing a damn tire. What a way to introduce Heidi to NM (wearing her flip flops no less...God bless AZ). So after that got changed we found out that one those crappy space saver spare tires you can't go faster than 65, which for me on the highway is pretty much the equivelent of Chinese water torture. So after this little setback we were on our slow way. About ten miles later traffic stops. And I don't mean that bullshit slows-down-when-he-says-stops stop. I mean DEAD HALT. The grand ol' NM state police decided to close I40 due to high winds and dust storms, so we were stuck in traffic while they attempted to divert an entire interstate onto some crummy state highway. After traveling from mile marker 61 to 63 in a brisk two hours we were finally on the state highway. Going 60. Wooooo. The rest of the drive was smooth, yet slow, sailing.

So after leaving AZ at about 9:30am we got to my parents house at about 8pm. Daaaaaamn. Way too long a drive, except that it was with Heidi so it wasn't like it was some boring drive no where. Pretty much as soon as we got home the guys picked us up and we met Trev's parents for dinner at Pisanos. Oh man, I miss Ben and Helen...as soon as we all sat down Helen blurted "bring these boys some beer" to the waitress, who was confused, but did as she was told. We wined (with an awesome red wine) and dined and had great conversation (and funny Jon pics), and bid farwell to Trev's parents and we all hit up some post-dinner coffee at flying star. After dinner we rolled up to Trev's house to show Heidi the awesome Mountain and City views and to have Helen crack open another bottle of wine and have us drink and chit chat in front of the fire. Ahhh...gooooood times!

So at this point I was way tired (two nights in a row of little sleep), so me and Heidi crashed out at the 'rents house. We woke up and threw some stuff on for the awesome brunch with the fam at Weck's. God I love NM food. I then took Heidi to see my old HS, which was open for a concert and showed her around. "It's so big. and nice." And man oh man walking through the concourse brought back a flood of memories I had like no idea where to begin even thinking about them. So after that we had good bye coffee with Jon and Cook said bye to my parents and we were on our way home. I decided to avoid the closures and take the 60 home (on my new tires) and we eventually got home, exhausted, at about 10. We then worked together on her insane geology HW (reason I never have and never will take that science), and hit the sack.

That was my weekend...and if you're still reading this...you kick ass!

Internet Crap No. 128234

2005-04-06T23:24:00.000-07:00

No idea what this means...

Your Love Style is Pragma

You believe love is logical - or at least it should be

You've thought a lot about what you want from someone

And to say you have a checklist would be an understatement

You may even have a plan for how you will fall in love

All you've got to do is meet the perfect person!

What's Your Love Style?

But I can live with this one

Your Seduction Style: The Charmer

You're a master at intimate conversation and verbal enticement.
You seduce with words, by getting people to open up to you.
By establishing this deep connection quickly, people feel under your power.
And then you've got them exactly where you want them!

What Is Your Seduction Style?

Oh terrorists...you're so funny!

2005-04-06T23:21:00.000-07:00

Ahahaha...this terrorist organization will strike fear into the hearts of...well...no one.

Ah the bliss of terrorists not knowing American pop culture (or watching American Pie)

Lame survey shit...aka procrastination

2005-04-06T20:50:00.000-07:00

all the cool kids are doing it..

THREE YEARS AGO, I...
1. Was getting "senoritis"
2. Just got into ASU
3. Just got my car

ONE YEAR AGO, I...
1. Premed
2. Just moving into my house here in Tempe
3. Living with Keith, a crazy black dude from Miami, and a Hawaiian

THIS YEAR, I...
1. Finally settled down into a happy, non-premed major
2. Made more good new friends than the last two years combined
3. Rockclimbed

YESTERDAY, I...
1. Stayed up til 5am doing HW, then woke up at 7 to finish
2. Performed
3. Had an awesome free dinner with Heidi and the 'Rents

TODAY, I...
1. Took a spanish test
2. Performed solo for ten horn players and my prof
3. Took a nap

THREE ITEMS I LOVE
1. Computer
2. Cell Phone
3. SIRIUS RADIO

THREE SONGS I KNOW ALL THE WORDS TO ARE...
1. "1985" Bowling for Soup
2. "Sellout" Reel Big Fish
3. "Candy Shop" 50 Cent

TOP THREE LOCATIONS I'D LIKE TO RUN AWAY TO ARE...
1. Hawaii
2. San Diego
3. Australia

Your Life___
they call me: Rick
sex: Male
my first breath of air: July 12, 1984
age: 20
status: Exclusively dating...I don't know what the current label is
music: Right now: Green Day "Holiday"
craving: Coffee
thinking of: why i'm filling out a chick survey
hating: I only hate on HW/Studyin

_____LOVE?_____
love is: if you have to ask you'll never know
first love: not entirely sure
current love: besides coffee?
love or lust?: Both happen...especially in spring time
best love song: "Iris" Goo Goo Dolls
is it possible to be in love w/ more than one person @ the same time?: If your a whore
true or false - all you need is love: True
have you ever been in love?: I don't know for sure
is there such thing as love @ first sight?: That's lust man

______SEX______
turn ons: Smile, eyes, laughter...oh...and those awesome skirts
turn offs: being a fucking bitch, being an ego-filled bitch, and being a dumb bitch, and then being a whore sucks too
the sweetest thing someone can do for you?: hug me just cause

____PICKY PICKY____
dog or cat: DOG...YEAH
short or long hair: longer
sunshine or rain: AZ...land of the sun baby
moon or sun: Moon
basketball or football: As much as I like both, Football has dibs
righty or lefty: Right
hugs or kisses: both! All the time
1 best friend or 10 acquaintances: 1 best friend
bf/gf or best friend: best friend I think...tough one
tv or radio: hmm...my big screen HD or my Sirius...gosh
summer or winter: I love them both...surfing or snowboarding? Probably snowboarding
written letters or e-mails: shit, written. But yeah..Laura's right...that ain't happening
playstation or nintendo: Playstation...GTA!!!
disney or nickelodeon: Nick...duh
car or motorcycle: car
house party or club: House Party...at my house!
sing or dance: I like both
yahoo messenger or aim: AIM
google or ask jeeves?: Google

____MISCELLANEOUS____
what are you scared of?: Bees
what is your greatest accomplishment?: Just my whole life so far??? I dunno.
last doctor visit: A while ago...I don't get sick
last phone call: On the phone to my Mom right now

_____Number_____
of times you've been in love? No se
of boys you have kissed? big fat zero
of times your name has appeared in a newspaper? a few
of scars on your body?: lots...snowboarding and skating
of things in your past you regret? I'm in that whole no regrets phase

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE:
pretty? um...handsome?
hot? I try and work it yeah
friendly? Very
ugly? No
loveable? Yup
caring? Yup
sweet? Just got called sweet on AIM so yeah
dorky? VERY...NERDS RULE!

FAVORITE:
least favorite day: Tuesdays
flower: Sunflowers
jewelry: Lance Armstrong band, or my ring
season: Didn't I just answer this...probably snowboard season

PERSON WHO LAST:
slept in your bed: me and me alone
saw you cry: wow...um...lemme think. Probably my Mom
sent you an email: Let's check, one from engineering TA, one from my band

HAVE YOU EVER:
said i love you and meant it? Yup
went out in public in pjs? Hell yes
kept a secret from everyone? yup
been to new york? no
to california? Of course...Cali ROCKS!!!

WHEN/ WHAT WAS:
last cry: loooong time ago
last book read: The Moral Animal: Why we are the way we are
last phone call: My mom
last tv show: Jeopardy
last thing in your past you regret? Hmmm...maybe staying up so late
showered: This morning
last shoes worn: flip flops
last cd played: CDs...ahahahaha...mp3s or satellite
last thing written: Other than this damn survey...micro lab
last word spoken: now
last IM: While ago...was talking to Carmen, Nicole, and Jon
last sexual fantasy: i'm a guy, so don't I have one like every 6.7 seconds or something
last ice cream eaten: Mint chocolate chip

Cause i'm a nerd

2005-04-04T16:02:00.000-07:00

Yes...its spreading...quiz time.

I made a Quiz for you! Take my Quiz! and then Check out the Scoreboard!

So...it's been a while huh?

2005-04-03T23:58:00.000-07:00

So much stuff has happened to me since I had the last true true update, that i've been kind of putting this off because of the fear that I would miss something. Well, fuck it...i'm just going dig right it starting with spring break.

Spring break to sum it up: AMAZING! I definitely learned a lot of things about people, especially the people I went with, and myself. I figured out that Ricky is one of the most badass people I know. This kid is money and holy crap, what we would have done without each other there I have no idea. It was good to have someone to get my laid back ass steamed and ready to roar when need be, and I think I served him well by calming him down a couple times. Damn that kid rocks.

Also, when you go on a trip with a whole bunch of people you really worry about everyone. You have those thoughts going in about what if there are those two assholes, or if you don't fit in etc etc. I can honestly say that everyone there fucking rocked!! Not only did it turn out way better than I expected, but I never once got sick of anyone there. If anything being there made me long to hang out with everyone more. I miss everyone, and spring break dearly...Spring break also made me realize just how much I like Heidi, but I promised myself I wouldn't ramble on about her on my blog...but to sum up...Spring Break was badass.

That's enough of an update for now...i'll be sure to relay stuff about my most recent major change (waiting for the collective "again" chant to die down) and Cook, Trev, and Stefan being up here as well pretty soon here.

More random surveys

2005-03-27T23:36:00.000-07:00

(x) smoked a cigarette
(x) smoked a cigar
( ) madeout with a member of the same sex
( ) crashed a friend's car
( ) stolen a car
(x) been in love
(x) been dumped
(x) shoplifted
( ) been fired
(x) been in a fist fight
(x) snuck out of my parent's house
(x) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
(x) been arrested
( ) made out with a stranger
(x) gone on a blind date
(x) lied to a friend
(x) had a crush on a teacher
(x) been to Europe
(x) skipped school
( ) slept with a co-worker
(x) seen someone die
( ) been to Canada
(x) been to Mexico
(x) been on a plane
( ) thrown up in a bar
( ) purposely set a part of myself on fire
(x) eaten Sushi
(x) been snowboarding
(x) been moshing at a concert
( ) been in an abusive relationship
(x) taken painkillers.
(x) love someone or miss someone right now
(x) laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
(x) made a snow angel
(x) had a tea party
(x) flown a kite
(x) built a sand castle
(x) gone puddle jumping
( ) played dress up
(x) jumped into a pile of leaves
(x) gone sledding
(x) cheated while playing a game
(x) been lonely
(x) fallen asleep at work/school
( ) used a fake id.
(x) watched the sun set
( ) felt an earthquake
(x) touched a snake
(x) slept beneath the stars
(x) been tickled
(x) been robbed
(x) been misunderstood
( ) petted a reindeer/goat
(x) won a contest
(x) run a red light
( ) been suspended from school
(x) been in a car accident
(x) had braces
(x) felt like an outcast
(x) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) had deja vu
(x) danced in the moonlight
(x) hated the way you look
(x) witnessed a crime
(x) pole danced
(x) questioned your heart
( ) been obsessed with post-it notes
(x) squished barefoot through the mud
(x) been lost
(x) been to the opposite side of the country
(x) swam in the ocean
( ) felt like dying
(x) cried yourself to sleep
(x) played cops and robbers
( ) recently colored with crayons/colored pencils/markers
(x) sung karaoke
( ) paid for a meal with only coins
(x) done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x) made prank phone calls
(x)laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(x) caught a snowflake on your tongue
(x) danced in the rain
(x) written a letter to Santa Claus
(x) been kissed under a mistletoe
( ) watched the sun rise with someone you care about
(x) blown bubbles
( ) made a bonfire on the beach
(x) crashed a party
(x) gone rollerskating
(x) had a wish come true
( ) humped a monkey
( ) worn pearls
( ) jumped off a bridge
(x) screamed penis in class
(x) ate dog/cat food
( ) told a complete stranger you loved them
(x) kissed a mirror
(x) sang in the shower
( ) have a little black dress
(x) had a dream that you married someone
( ) glued your hand to something
( ) got your tongue stuck to a flag pole
( ) kissed a fish
( ) worn the opposite sexes clothes
(x) been a cheerleader
(x) sat on a roof top
(x) screamed at the top of your lungs
(x) done a one-handed cartwheel
(x) talked on the phone for more than 6 hours
(x) stayed up all night
( ) didn’t take a shower for a week
( ) pick and ate an apple right off the tree
(x) climbed a tree
( ) had a tree house
( ) are scared to watch scary movies
( ) believe in ghosts
( ) have more then 30 pairs of shoes
(x) worn a really ugly outfit to school just to see what others say
(x) gone streaking
(x) played ding-dong-ditch
(x) played chicken
(x) pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
(x) been told you're hot by a complete stranger
( ) broken a bone
(x) been easily amused
(x) caught a fish then ate it
(x) caught a butterfly
(x) laughed so hard you cried
(x) cried so hard you laughed
(x) mooned/flashed someone
(x) had someone moon/flash you
(x) cheated on a test
(x) have a Britney Spears CD
(x) forgotten someone’s name
(x) slept naked
( ) French braided someone’s hair
(x) gone skinny dippin in a pool
( ) been threatened to be kicked out of your house
( ) been kicked out of your house

Got lost in the internet

2005-03-27T18:55:00.000-07:00

You scored as Rugrats.

Ren & Stimpy

67%

The Adventures of Pete and Pete

67%

Rugrats

67%

Rocko's Modern Life

67%

Doug

67%

The Secret World of Alex Mack

58%

Double Dare

58%

Clarissa Explains It All

50%

Legends of the Hidden Temple

42%

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

33%

Kablam!

33%

Which Old School Nickelodeon Show Are You?
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Woohoo!!! Summer of '69 baby!!!!

You Belong in 1969

1969

If you scored...

1950 - 1959: You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

1960 - 1969: You are a free spirit with a huge heart. Love, peace, and happiness rule - oh, and drugs too.

1970 - 1979: Bold and brash, you take life by the horns. Whether you're partying or protesting, you give it your all!

1980 - 1989: Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day.

1990 - 1999: With you anything goes! You're grunge one day, ghetto fabulous the next. It's all good!

What Year Do You Belong In?

New Blog!!

2005-03-23T02:12:00.000-07:00

So Kelly has a blog now...be sure to check it out.

Sorry for the sparse updates...I do have lots to tell about how badass spring break was (pics here), but I promise i'll update soon. For now i'm just enjoying Cook and Trevor being in town which rocks!! Hope y'all had a good spring break or are having a good one!

Spring Break is here

2005-03-12T01:29:00.000-07:00

I will be spending the next six days in Mission Bay, ON THE BEACH in San Diego

The badass condo where I will be!!!

And then i'm heading back to NM for the rest of break to chill with the Sis, and fam...and hopefully catch the people still left in town.

Expect pics when I get back!!!

Internet Crap No. 84312374

2005-03-07T02:56:00.000-07:00

Ha...I can hear the jokes from some people right now.

You Are A Romantic

You are more romantic than 80% of the population.

You life your life like a fairy tale... or at least you try to.
Living for magical moments, you believe there's only one true love for you.
Love is the most important thing in your life, and you don't take it for granted.
Your perfect match loves to be in love as much as you do!

Are You Romantic or Realistic?

Internet Crap No. 1290823

2005-03-07T02:54:00.000-07:00

What Famous Leader Are You?
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Movie Review

2005-03-06T00:37:00.000-07:00

Be Cool

Kicks ass...you need to go see it right now. Go see it...unless you don't like laughing.

It's spreading like wildfire

2005-03-03T11:28:00.000-07:00

So Gustavo now has a blog too!!!

Gus is the coolest guy ever so y'all need to check his shit out.

Survey Crap cause i'm bored dammit

2005-03-01T20:36:00.000-07:00

So I read Cook's survey and was like holy shit i'm not doing that long ass thing, until Laura shortened it down...so now that's just the right amount of procrastination. wooohoo.

-----------------DESCRIBE---------------

---
[x] The shoes you wore today: Sketchers...mmm...so comfy
[x] Your eyes: blue
[x] Your fears: waking up when i'm forty and hating my job
-----------------WHAT IS------------------
[x] Your most overused phrase on aim: tie between holy shit, sweeeeeet, and mmmhmm
[x] Your thoughts first waking up: fuck this
[x] The first feature you notice in the opposite sex: face, eyes...then to the usual spots guys look
[x] Your best physical feature: eyes?
[x] Your bedtime: freaking SOME people never get off AIM, so like 3 or 4
[x] Your most missed memory: snowboarding with the four guys in CO
-----------------YOU PREFER------------------
[x] Pepsi or Coke: As long as it's diet I don't care
[x] McDonald's or Burger King: Ew. Carl's Jr...or In and Out if I feel like driving
[x] Single or group dates: definitely singles...although Laura brought up the good point that if they suck, group dilutes the suck factor
[x] Adidas or Nike: Adidas.
[x] Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
[x] Cappuccino or coffee: Cappuccino (anything espresso...mmm)

-----------------DO YOU------------------
[x] Smoke: nope
[x] Curse: fuck yes
[x] Take a shower everyday: at least one...usually two now because of the gym
[x] Have any crushes?: yuppers
[x] Who are they: someone special
[x] Do you think you've been in love? I think I have...so I guess yes
[x] Want to go to college: well...i'm here. Although college would rock without all this class and studying shit
[x] Like high school: It kicked ass
[x] Want to get married: Yes
[x] Type w/ your fingers on the right keys: real fast too
[x] Believe in yourself: usually...unless it's like O chem...then no
[x] Get motion sickness: I get sea sick
[x] Think you're a health freak: try to eat healthy, but I am a frrreeak about the gym...gotta work out everyday
[x] Get along with your parents: my parents rock.
[x] Like thunderstorms: As long as I don't have to deal with crappy Phoenix drivers during them, yes

------------IN THE PAST MONTH DID / HAVE YOU--------------
[x] Gone to the mall: Yup
[x] Eaten sushi: Not since my last bad experience
[x] Been on stage: Of course
[x] Been dumped: nope
[x] Gone skating: yup
[x] Made homemade cookies: I wish
[x] Dyed your hair: No
[x] Stolen anything: No

-----------------HAVE YOU EVER------------------
[x] Flown on a plane: Oh yeah...looove traveling
[x] Missed school just because?: I should've today...but I have
[x] Told a guy/girl that you liked them?: Yes
[x] Cried during a Movie?: Um...no
[x] Ever thought an animated character was hot?: well...i've thought that if they were real they might be hot...that count?
[x] Had an imaginary friend: No
[x] Cut your hair: Yes
[x] Had crush on a teacher?: Yes
[x] Been caught "doing something": yup
[x] Been called a tease: me? a tease? yeah I have been called that
[x] Gotten beaten up?: hell no

-----------------THE FUTURE------------------
[x] Age you hope to be married: before I die
[x] Numbers of Children: just children...go with the flow
[x] Descibe your Dream Wedding: having everyone there and making a ton of good memories
[x] How do you want to die?: happy (good call laura)
[x] What country would you most like to visit?: Australia
-----------------OPPOSITE SEX------------------
[x] Best eye color: bright
[x] Best hair color: brown w/highlights
[x] Short or long hair: girls usually take good care of the hair...so it usually looks great
[x] Best height: um...shorter than me?
[x] Best body size: smaller than me? I dunno...I didn't know there were sizes

ok.. Relationship stuff
do you have a boyfriend?: no
A girlfriend?: no
If yes: how long have you two been together?: n/a
have you ever kissed in a park?: Yup
in a pool?: Yup
on the beach?: nope
in your bedroom?: yup.

FASHION STUFF:
Where do you shop most often: if I have money, AE, Express, Banana, Gap
Do you think your fashion is cool?: yeah, I got a little metro in me
Do you have any piercings?: no
What do you want pierced?: nothing
Do you have a tattoo?: no
What is it or What do you want?: nothing
Do you do drugs?: up with hope...and DOWN with dope
Do you drink?: not really all that much...but yes I do
What kind of shampoo and Conditioner do you use?: neutrogena
If you could go anywhere where would it be?: The beach
Who would u take with you?: a giant posse
What are you listening to right now?: Goldfinger
Who are you talking to right now?: Laura, Anne, and Amanda
What time is it?: 8:56 PM
Do you have your own phone line? Cell is attached to my hip
What shoes do you wear?: I try to do flip flops if at all possible
What clothes do you sleep in?: CK pajama pants

Another one joins the masses

2005-03-01T17:36:00.000-07:00

Kristin and her craziness decided to get a blog.

Be sure to check it out and make fun of her.

Say it ain't so...

2005-03-01T01:13:00.000-07:00

Aw...The Bull's mascot plead guilty to mariujana charges. Nooooo!!!!!

And holy shit...his name is Chester. You can't make up this hilarity.

I mean can you believe this character is a stoner?

pic courtesy Ricky

The swift kick

2005-02-22T01:50:00.000-07:00

I just read Erynn's blog and wow. Wow. All I have to say is I love you Erynn and you're one of the strongest girls I know. I have no idea what the future has in store for you or your family, but I'm hoping and praying for the best for y'all.

Also, I love my Mom more than anything too.

Why AZ is pissing me off

2005-02-18T13:58:00.000-07:00

I know I shouldn't complain, being that all complainers suck and should die...but if there's one redeeming quality of this place it's the weather...

arrgh

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Makes you miss home

2005-02-13T21:02:00.000-07:00

I just came across this earlier today...and made me really miss home. Damn NM can kick ass sometimes. (scroll down...the spacing is all weird)

Found it here

Internet Crap No. 234235

2005-02-13T20:57:00.000-07:00

I am worth $2,424,746.00 on HumanForSale.com

Yes, this blog is about you

2005-02-12T17:22:00.000-07:00

I know something you don't know!!!

Yes...that's right ***i

The storm begins

2005-02-10T01:12:00.000-07:00

The storm of the semester that is.

Man, my semester is in full swing all of a sudden. Don't hate that when everything hits you all at once...and it seems like everyone feels this way this week. Everyone is sick, has fifty million test etc etc...fortunately I only fall into the fifty million tests and a shitload of HW category. Could be far far worse. There's been lots of fun cramming and all that good shit lately and i'm already dreading the rest of the semester.

But for all the crap that I have to do, and for the crappy day I had yesterday it is all relative. Fortunately I have a good friend here to remind of that. My dear friend Katie's friend recently lost her brother (only 21...so sad) and hearing about her strength and what her family is going through really makes studying for an ochem test seem like a trivial thing.

What it does is make one reflective about life and how fragile it is. It is so weird (dare I say fate?) that i've been having all these thoughts, and then it seems like blog-though of the week was great memories, and i've been talking with Cook and Jon about great memories lately and it just makes me so thankful to be me. And i'm thankful for you too.

Sorry for the reflective post...just one of those moods...

Procrastinating...again

2005-02-05T15:42:00.000-07:00

So, I was filling this thing out, and I definitely think it's a chick thing...but I halfway done, so whatever...

Bold the ones that apply to you and then add a new one.

I have a cell phone.
I have friends that use me.
I am an only child.
I am a shopoholic.
I love dangly earrings.
I love cold weather. (snowboarding…hells yah!)
I'm obsessed with the computer. (can’t say no if you’re sitting here typing this)
I have shot a gun before. (last weekend was the first time)
I can't live without music.
I have no tolerance of ignorant people.
I have ridden on a motorcycle before.
I'll be in this town forever.
I've been to 5 other countries.
I get annoyed easily.
I eventually want kids.
I have neat handwriting.
I have more than a few horrible memories.
I am addicted to chocolate.
I am an atheist.
My parents are strict.
I love airplane rides.
I love taking pictures.
I hate people who are fake.
I can be mean when i want to.
My parents care about my grades.
One of my best friends is a guy.
I have way too many purses.
I'm obsessed with lip gloss.
I am easy to talk to. (At least I think so…laid back and mellow?)
I would never eat raw fish. (Although I’ve though about it after my last sushi experience)
I cry easily.
I hate when people are late. (I’m usually late)
I procrastinate. (procrastinating right now)
I love winter. (snoooowboarding)
I have too many clothes for my closet/dresser. (Yeah…I have to shove that thing closed)
I love to sleep. (Duh question)
I wish I were smarter. (then I wouldn’t have to study as much)
I'm afraid of flying.
I hate drama. (I hate drama…but it always comes back)
I bite my nails.
I have been on an 8 hour drive.
I never fight with my parents. (I can’t remember the last time that happened…everyone’s chill)
I love the beach. (another duh question)
I have never had the chicken pox.
I have gone out in public in my pajamas. (Most recently…new years day at starbucks)
I can't control my emotions. (I can…bad and good)
I have a best friend. (who the hell doesn’t have a best friend?)
I have moved more than once. (moved 3 times in az alone)
I truly love my friends. (depends…but there are lots of people I love out there)
I have braces.
I have never broken a bone. (ha…thick bones)
I hate my computer.
I love guys that play the drums.
I state the obvious.
I'm a happy person. (try to be most of the time...usually am)
I love to dance. (serious love dancing)
I love to sing. (also love singing)
I love cleaning my room. (well..I do it a lot…and I’m kinda neat-freakish with it so yeah)
I tend to get jealous very easily.
I love cute underwear.
I love night better than day. (don’t care)
I don't like to study for tests. (definitely don’t like to…but do)
I have been on the phone for over 5 hours. (many times)
I am too forgiving. (my big “flaw” according to the roomies…one of many apparently)
I have horrible sense in direction.
I miss elementary school. (recess baby)
I'm a daddy's girl.
I love kisses on my forehead.
I love the color pink.
I love to sew.
My eye color changes. (all blue all the time)
I should see a therapist.
I played on a guys sports team. (ok…maybe this survey is a chick survey)
I become stressed easily. (not really...takes a lot, and even then)
I hate liars. (no…I love liars)
I like comfy sweatpants. (O chem attire)
I can play the piano. (attempt to)
I love the smell of rain. (for the 5 days a year it rains in AZ, yeah)
I love my family. (most important thing in the world)
I hate needles.
I am a perfectionist.
I always wanted to learn to play the drums. (definitely still want to)
I hate the feeling of failure. (I hate failing…not my style)
I have friends in other countries. (studyin’ abroad)
I know how to cook. (well)
I can be quite selfish.
At times, I still act like a little kid.
I have food allergies.
I love to read. (as long as it’s my pick…I love to read)
I wish I were more motivated for school. (yeah, but then you couldn’t read this)
I love getting stuff in the mail. (who doesn’t)
I have problems with letting go of old feelings.
I hate being alone. (can’t stand it…I could never live without roomies)
I love summer. (loooove it)
I love the weekends. (again…who hates weekends?)
I love black eyeliner.
I think I'm pretty.
I type with one hand.
I live in a one story house. (which kicks ass)
I wear make-up.
I have never rode on an underground subway.
I can't swim.
I have bad memories.
I go to church.
I sing in the shower. (loudly)
I have never been camping.
I hate cheerleaders.
I usually get what i want.
I have been on stage before. (love performing)
I love roller coasters. (the fam plans vacations around them)
No one knows my full story of my life. (not even me)
I am close with my parents. (um…we’re family…so yeah)
I don't have a curfew.
I play guitar. (am attempting to learn)
I should be doing homework.
..and hardcore studying. (that sums it up right there)
I don't know what i want to be when i grow up. (no clue now)
Man…last night was a crazy night. (well, it’s mine pick...so I did)

Size does matter

2005-02-04T01:11:00.000-07:00

Of your TV!!!

So our house FINALLY got the badass ultimate college guy setup it deserves...here is the view from my couch right now

Pretty sick...that has our new 51 inch widescreen HDTV, the bose speakers, sony 5 disc DVD, sony 5 disc CD, my sirius satellite radio, and of course the PS2...perfect college guy setup. SOOO stoked...but it makes doing HW so hard...so. very. hard.

We also finally got the tile complete in our backroom (those that have been to the house know the story), and it looks great!

So i'm very very stoked right now...everything is finally coming together...now I just gotta make it through classes

My so called life...right now

2005-02-01T01:33:00.000-07:00

Isn't it funny how the only time you want to update your blog is when the HW is mounting, your room is a mess and they're like fifty messages you have to return. Such is the life of the blog updates I guess...

So, I guess I should start off with this last weekend. No, we did not drink all the corona, but we're saving it for an even better occasion (or maybe actually AN occasion)...i've decided to save it and blow it all on Ricky's B Day. Ricky told me he hasn't had a party/celebrated his B Day in like 8 years or something...not cool man, so we're gonna try and get something off the ground here for him. I mean 21, you gotta go crazy. But pretty much all weekend was spent being a lazy sack of crap...the only HW I would do would have been O chem but since I took a quiz on Fri (and got a B I found out today...go me) I decided just to kick it.

One thing of interest did happen Friday though. Most of y'all who know me, know me as a sort of pacifist anti-gun guy. Well, on Friday Keith and Ricky took me out to the desert to go shooting...and I have to say that it fucking kicked ass. This whole gun thing in my house has been kinda bugging me for a while (yeah, having two loaded .45s, an AK47 and a WWII British Enfield loaded in the next room is a little nerve racking) but some recent events kinda changed that. First off, a really frightening thing happened to one of my friends I met last semester. What's scary about this story is that it isn't a friend of a friend of any of that BS, it HAPPENED TO HIM. Well, there him and his two roomies were at home, weekday, around noon, two assleep (lazy I know) and he was doing homework. You think you can guess what happens until he tells me three dudes armed with AK47s break into their house, duct tape them up, beat the shit out of the them, throw them in the closets and steal all their stuff. Now this happened only a couple of miles from my house (in a neighborhood that we almost moved into), so this fucking freaked the shit out of me. But knowing my psycho roommate has a miniarmory next door kind of makes me feel better...but know that I at least know how the fuck to shoot the damn things I feel better. We've already had an APB for a suspect in our neighborhood (our street actually) since we've been in this house so i'm not taking any chances. That was my real motivation that made me think about this whole gun thing...and then I shot the damn things and wow...way fun! I can now say I shot a Ruger .45, AK47 (SOOO FUN), and I shot off a few rounds on the Enfield...I don't know if i'm ready to jump up and get a gun and I definitely still fucking hate the NRA, but that whole issue is being rethought in my head currently.

Well, I promised I'd allude to some future plans a couple of posts ago, and I'll hold true to my word. I've been thinking a lot lately of dropping premed, and just getting two degrees. Since i've freakin' finished like half of everything around here, I could get a BS in Biology and a BS in Computer Science in a relatively decent amount of time. This whole premed thing has taken a toll on me, and after talking to a few doctors, and reading about countless others i've come to find out that it will not let up...it will in fact get worse. If I go premed, just a short list of what I have to look forward to:
-MCAT
-Stressing my ass off about every little A minus
-Loans out the ass for med school
-not being out of school for another 6 six years
-then once I get out of school, making jack shit for another five years
-being bankruptted by malpractice insurance
-having to devote my entire life to medicine, aka have no family or have a family that hates me

That last point is the one that gets me...cause if you're a doctor you can devote every waking hour of every day to your knowledge and skill as a doctor, and you'd be like an average doc...so if you even have a remotely chill family life, i'm afraid that i'd slack off and not be as good a doc.

This is the crazy stuff that runs through my head when it's not in its usual happy state...but that's what i've been thinking on that front lately.

This week is going to be a big one in the house...we get new tile in our back room FINALLY..and there is a distinct possibility that I might get this fucking awesome TV. If/when either happens i'll be sure to post pics in my future state of giddy-ness.

Enough rambling...have an awesome week everyone!!!!!

Internet Crap No. 2359834

2005-02-01T01:09:00.000-07:00

This is great...I thought I was immature, but the internet says i'm not.

Sooo na na na na na na na...ha ha ha ha ha ha!

You Are 27 Years Old

27

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.

13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!

40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Why this weekend/week will kick ass

2005-01-29T21:30:00.000-07:00

That's our fridge...full of the best beer ever, like 8 rows deep...mmm. It might be tonight, it might be this next weekend, hell it might be the superbowl, but it is going to kick ass real soon!

The all nighters begin...

2005-01-28T02:55:00.000-07:00

Wow...barely a week into school and i'm already pullin an O chem all nighter (which i'm taking a break from right now, about to start my second rockstar energy drink)...now I remember those thoughts I had over break of how I miss school, and how stupid those thoughts were. I'm strangely relaxed and have confidence in myself and my short term memory for the quiz so I should be fine.

I've also had several revelations about my future this...i'll probably write a big ass post about it this weekend, but let's just say that I don't think I want to be premed anymore...we'll see how it all goes.

Just when you thought you've seen it all

2005-01-27T02:34:00.000-07:00

An energy beer?

If you get bored...

2005-01-27T01:39:00.000-07:00

Something to make the blood boil a bit:

Here we have a documentary about the extremely rampant liberal bias at US colleges. I knew there was always an inherent bias, because let's face it, like 99% of professors are liberals. Now you can argue all you want over whether that makes them smart and conservative professors don't want or can't handle (or would rather make money?) but that is rather here no there. This is about inherent bias within the administration, and the removal of due process and restriction of free speech for conservative students. I especially cringed at the part where the dean called the cops on a conservative club collecting signatures at a table oustide their union, but REFUSED TO DO ANYTHING when a minority student (happened to be a conservative columnist for the school paper) had his life threatened by another student. I believe the quote (not mine, WARNING RACIAL) was "Next time you see one of those ragheads, just fucking shoot him in the face." Scary coming from the tolerant college liberal students....

This one is just plain funny to me. Kinda self explanatory about these people so freakin' out of touch with reality. My super favorite is hearing liberal peace protesters say how they want to start a revolution and have blood in the streets. Um...you guys banned guns where y'all lived...so um...any revolution will be quashed by some redneck redstaters real fast. My other favorite is the peace protesters saying how socialism and communism is the answer...

For all the nerds in the hizzie

2005-01-26T21:32:00.000-07:00

Lightsabers are coming!!!

I plan on having a badass lightsaber collection when I retire...they better their asses together with this technology.

Over this week's hump

2005-01-26T21:20:00.000-07:00

Wow...the week is already half over...crazy!

Today was by far the crappiest day i've had in a while, but i'm strangely unaffected by it and in a really good mood.

It started out with getting up ass early for O chem which pissed me off until I got home to take my post chem lecture nap. Then, I didn't wake up to my alarm, but woke up ten minutes before my next class started because my cell phone battery broke. Then it was raining all day. And I know what you're thinking, but rain in AZ is pretty nuts since there's no drainage, so you basically just have a shitload of standing water and a bunch of desert-natives who can't drive when the roads are dry...

But, feeling naked from lack of cell phonage, I trudged off to microbio which was boring as all hell. I looked at the syallbus for that class and i'm not going to learn anything new until about halfway into the semster...boo. Then spanish was easy and fun as usual (in my great whiteness I have the best accent in the classs...sad).

My computer class actually kicked some serious ass...I fucking rocked those dumb EE and ocm sci kids...maybe I can pull off com sci after all.

So after all that, I went to sit through some stupid BS music crap and I was in a pretty good mood when it was over....until I had to walk back to my car. My parking structure is a little more than a mile away from Gammage and just as I left it downpoured like crazy and I was so soaked by the time I got home that even my boxers were fucking soaked....damn.

At home I was glad I decided not to wait out the storm, because it downpoured for like another hour after I got home...so once I got home, my afternoon of being bailed on by friends didn't get any better, so I decided to take krazy keith and go to the mall and get my phone fixed...the mall kicked ass and I got a shitload of stuff from the gap on their 30% off sale...now i'm in a great mood, have food in my stomach (I didn't eat until dinner...gosh...got up at 7a didn't eat til 7p...NO BUENO), and tonight i'm just gonna study some O chem, work out like a mofo and get some sleep.

There was my ramblings...a day in the life of me...today...

The most messed up thing i've read in a long time

2005-01-26T21:01:00.000-07:00

From the blog of med student...currently in his OB/GYN rotation

Sickest shit i've heard in a long time...just sad

Worst idea ever

2005-01-26T20:38:00.000-07:00

Now we all know there is a horrible AIDS epidemic going on currently throughout the world and steps should be taken to stop it.

That being said THIS is not the way to do it...in fact history has shown (*cough Mugabe refusing US food aid because it was "genetically altered"...yeah, trying to feed and vaccinate your people is stupid huh *cough) that giving money to any portion of Africa in its current corrupt state is just a freakin' money pit.

I was discussing this with my crazy roommate and he directed me to a site (crazy keith, so forgive the crazy gun/attitude) where the guy is from South Africa and has some good points and harsh words for Africa...basically...its fucked.

If you watch Monday Night Football then you'll know what i'm talking about

2005-01-25T23:16:00.000-07:00

So how many of you guys remember the MNF where Philli played? Of course you do, and of course you remember that skit where that chick from desperate housewives jumped naked into TO's arms...

Well according to this, instead of big T Owens (*cough phili is gonna get their ass kicked in the superbowl *cough) John MADDEN, (yes, the fat guy) was supposed to be the guy who got the lucky new horny wife.

All I gotta say is as much as I hate TO (especially after leaving my Niners) i'm glad it was him and not a fat old madden...

oh...and EEEEEEWWWWW!

Good times in PHX

2005-01-25T20:11:00.000-07:00

Ahhh...only in AZ would too much rain be a problem for the water supply.

Read why I should be boiling my water...

For all the Napoleon Dynamite fans...

2005-01-25T01:57:00.000-07:00

Enjoy this!!!!

So funny!!!!!

Makes you rethink medicine

2005-01-23T23:07:00.000-07:00

I recently found this blog and his war stories about his various rotations (especially the recent OB/GYN) he has to do in med school really makes me rethink exactly what I expect out of my future...

NM is the new illegal immigrant hangout

2005-01-23T23:04:00.000-07:00

Well, kinda funny that the same weekend our tile men got busted, this story came out.

It seems AZ is too hardcore for all the Mexican illegals/smugglers

NM better get hardcore fast or else our good ol' state will end up an even bigger shithole than it already is...

A nice lazy AZ weekend

2005-01-23T22:50:00.000-07:00

For the sheer laziness of my weekend stuff actually did happen...

So me and the roomies were kinda looking forward to this weekend, because this was the weekend where the people were supposed to come install the tile in our back room (finally). Well, they were supposed to show up at 7:30a and put in the tile...but when they didn't show by like 8a Ricky had to leave to coach his B Ball team at the boys and girls club so he had to ask Keith to get up and wait for the tile peeps. Now i'm sure you can understand that asking one of us to wake up that early is just about as close as asking for a death wish, so now the whole house is pissed off. So they don't show up, Ricky's calling them like every half hour and no one is picking up. Finally at like noon I go pick up everyone some bagels and Ricky makes it back and we get the cell phone of the crew who were supposed to be installing our tile. After making some BS excuses about why they were late (like complaining that they had to pick up supplies in tempe...oh man...so far away...oh wait, we live in tempe shitheads) it finally came out that they were in a car accident like five blocks from our house. Now here comes the good part...we're pretty sure they were illegal aliens, and if you get into ANY trouble in AZ and your illegal your ass is gone. The voters here (might just be our county, but it could be statewide) passed this thing called Prop 200 where if your caught and your illegal, you don't pass go, don't get shit, probably don't even get a hearing, your fucking ass goes straight to mexico. There's also crazy shit, like requiring cops/fireman/EMS to check for citizenship before offering help, and reporting it if they are illegal so it's a pretty hardcore act. So enough rambling, our damn tile crew is in jail right now and is probably on their way back to mexico...damn.

Sat night was also special because I got to hang out and here some good/exciting news from someone really close to me and i'm so happy for how her life is going. That being said she also gave a lot for me to think about in my own life regarding girls, life, and religion. What would I do
without you Jenni??

The rest of the weekend was spent hangin' out with the guys and workin' out...and watching some serious football today...the way man was intended to spend Sundays. In front of the TV watching football and drinking beer.

Makes you sad

2005-01-21T01:23:00.000-07:00

So pretty much everyone is talking about relief efforts lately, and with all the grand involvment you just have to hope that the aid doesn't get fucked up (like has been known to happen in just about every other tragedy). Apparently it already has, and the *evil* US military (at least Indonesia allowed our military...they denied aid from Israel because they didn't want any Jew military on their soil...so maybe their gov't doesn't have its peoples best interests in line anyway) are the only ones willing to stick around and actually do some of the rebuilding instead of this "surveying" shit.

This is what it's like

2005-01-21T01:11:00.000-07:00

Oh man...today was a great day.

I didn't have class until 12:40, so now I know how badass it feels to be like every other lazy ass at this school...only they have that nice a schedule everyday as opposed to the once a week kick-ass-ness of mine. And the one class I had rocked! It was my microbiology lab, which was 18 people and only one other guy...you do that wonderful math. And since the micro labs are combined with micro for majors and the nonmajors my whole class is nursing majors...which is just fantastic. I met some really cool people in there and am really looking forward to that class. Then I just had a relaxing day of band, and watched the O.C. (which is getting crazy) and worked out.

Thursdays kick ass indeed...so do fridays, no comp sci tomorrow so I get out at 1:30, niiiice!

Say it ain't so...

2005-01-20T10:33:00.000-07:00

It seems Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in an airport (full store here). Yes, I know what you're saying...the same Moore who made an entire movie about how Americans are obsessed with guns and live in a culture of fear.

Eh, no one is perfect huh.