03.31.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 04:13 UTC by Richard
The season of 24 picked back up last night, with I believe its fifteenth episode, after a 1 month vacation to make room for reality tv programming. Man was it a good episode, nothing like hemorrhaging noses and mouths to provide great programming. Early episodes left me thinking that this season was a little less exciting that the previous two, but this episode really got things moving. It seemed like every other scene was another “Oh my crap, I can’t believe that just happened” moment, with the one exception where Amador got blown up by that car bomb. Though having the driver be an assassin may have been easier and cleaner, and would’ve prevented the loss of a perfectly decent lackey. Big thumbs up on this weeks episode, I look forward to next week.
-richard out
and remember to take out the trash
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03.30.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 05:27 UTC by Richard
Low carb diets… more like “trying to starve myself diets.” There’s something to be said about these things, but mostly because most of us Americans consume too many sugary foods and drinks. Heck, I have friends who go through a twelve pack of Mountain Dew in a day and a half. I used to go through half a twelver of Pepsi a day myself. Here’s the deal though, a calorie is a calorie, if you can find a way to burn this stuff off, it shouldn’t matter if you’re loading yourself up with starches or protein-rich beans as long as you can actually get off your flabby butt and do some exercises. I think the funniest thing about these diets are these ridiculous commercials I see on late night cable television, whether it be a 30 second spot or a 30 minute infomercial. Usually they have nothing to do with a low-carb diet or even an Atkins diet, often they’re some silly supplement or goofy herb from Asia that promises to improve your metabolism promising to help you lose 15-50 pounds. Obviously these silly products exist because the low carb diet fad actually does work, but it takes a lot of effort and doesn’t work with everyone, so there is this “quick out” that people were hoping for in something as easy as a pill. Anyone remember Fen-phen? Easy outs don’t exist people, just eat correctly and get off your butt and do something physically constructive.
- richard out
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03.29.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 06:44 UTC by Richard
Okay, so NCAA Basketball. I haven’t even mentioned this yet, but the tourney is great fun and if you don’t agree, I hate you. Turns out I picked two teams correctly, Oklahoma State and Duke. My long shot #1 seed was Stanford, though I should have stuck to the smart money and picked UConn. My other miss was Kentucky, the overall #1 seed going into the tournament. Can’t win em all eh? I’d like to give my team a nice hook ‘em for another good season, great job Texas, let’s get back to the final four next year.
-richard out
and remember, Donald Rumsfeld is an evil, evil man
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03.28.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 02:50 UTC by Richard
So I was driving home from work yesterday morning in the middle of a huge thunderstorm. Rain and wind was all over the place causing me to get really super pissed at the silly weather. Anyhow, my driver side wiper literally bent in half on its way up. The lower part kept moving, while the upper half decided it would be lazy and sit still causing the entire thing to bend into a strange L shape. I exit the highway and pull over at a gas station and unbend it, well, that worked okay for about 3 wipes until it bent again. “Well f*ck it,” I say. I continued home with no wiping at all and stop at O’Reilly and picked up new blades. Luckily for me, when I get outside and install the first one, the rain really starts to come down and I get soaked, fun! I decided to wait until later to mess with the passenger side blade since its stupidly wet outside. About 100 ft down the road, the passenger side wiper stops working entirely. &*#! It seems the motor on it gave out, great timing.
Running off on a tangent, before I came into work last night, I sat and watched Vanilla Sky. It’s a movie that came out in 2001 with Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz in it. I’ll quote the plot summary from imdb.org for reference, “A successful publisher finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jaded lover.” Overall I enjoyed it, though it confused me in a few places considering that much of the movie occurred while he was in a dream state. Things don’t always make much sense when one is dreaming.
-richard out
and remember, Donald Rumsfeld is an evil, evil man
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03.24.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 04:43 UTC by Richard
So I wake up around 7pm from a nice afternoon of sleep, see I work nights right now, and I had the worst cramp ever. It was in my left calf and was causing some of the worst pain I’ve ever felt. The damn thing tightened up so bad, I couldn’t relax my leg at all and had to force my foot up to make the muscles stretch. It was the first time I’ve dealt with a cramp like that and it felt horrible. Blah.
In other news, the Israelis hate Palestinians and the Palestinians hate Israelis.
In yet other news, I’ve been pondering the purchase of a different video card for my HTPC. At the moment I have it hooked up to my 51″ Toshiba HDTV via an svideo cable. The quality on that is rather poor and I haven’t figured out how to get the
DVI connection to work with the Radeon 9100 I have in it right now. I’m currently thinking of getting a Geforce FX 5200 since I know I can get it to work properly with linux (my future plans are to run Mythtv), but it could still have problems with the DVI hookup. For now, I will continue pondering…
- richard out
and remember, Donald Rumsfeld is an evil, evil man.
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03.23.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 05:07 UTC by Richard
Much like Norm McDonald’s theory that all Germans love David Hasselhoff, I believe that all people view news and events the way they want to see them. Let’s take George W. Bush (from now on mentioned as Dubya) for example, I see a good ole boy used getting his way by manipulation and intimidation whereas others are seeing that he is a strong leader and a genuine good guy.
Now lets take Super Liberal John Kerry, I think he’s a good guy, and many charge that he is a”waffler” when it comes to his voting record, I see that perhaps in those situations he is changing his view due to a change in the situation. Perhaps the makers of a bill coattails some sludge on it that goes against what he previously liked about the bill. Or perhaps he heard some argument that changed his mind. People on the waterside instead see a guy who cannot make his mind about important issues.
My whole point here is that we see what we want and ignore the rest and get aggravated whenever someone argues against what we perceive as the real truth.
On a completely unrelated topic, I purchased a couple of 160GB hard drives that will hopefully make it easier to not make mistakes with my video editing ventures. I attribute most of those mistakes due to getting a bit rushed sometimes and because I have limited space currently, I will delete the original source before I have validated the completed product. Of course this sucks when I realize that my completed product is flawed and I have to start all over.
- richard out
and remember, Donald Rumsfeld is an evil, evil man.
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