oh man.
here is my new geek reccomendation... for anyone needing misc cables and such.... please please please pay attention
callcct.com
thats it. forget ANY and EVERY other vendor on earth. the shit is dirt cheap, good to descent quality, and has FREE SHIPPING. yes FREE.
for 25 bucks, i ended up with a 25 foot roll of s-video cable that i needed for this weekend.... gold ended, mind you. plus a 10 foot usb printer cable... which i actually need for my scanner since the 3 foot one it has wont reach.... and 2, double ended, clear coated rounded ata cables... fucking nasty shit man. 25 bones. staples, ahem, sells the printer cable alone for 24.99 before tax. the s-video cable [6 foot variety only!!!!] is listed at 39.99, and the rounded cables max out at 19 inches, and still run 20 bucks a piece. ill know more when i plug them in... especially the s-video cable, but from handling them and stripping back some of the housing on the ata's, everything looks good. its not supreme, ultra grade cable... which is what the belkin shit at staples is... but then again... even if doesnt work right after a year... im still money ahead. again. for geekly cable needs: www.callcct.com all i aske for my geekly rec' is that you drop me on their refferal. i get nothing for it. just pride. sounds like its a small time mom and pop business, and i know alot of people that need some misc cables... just drop me on it in the comments area of the cart, and order up!
second, for geekly points. turns out we have a specific epson digital projector at work... thats suuuuupppposed to be a dummy inactive, non-working, empty-shell unit for display only..... being bored, and thinking it weighed a bit more than the empty plastic shell should.. i cracked her apart. circuit boards are all intact. as are fans, pins, lens and cabling to the rear pannel connectors. all its missing... is the bulb, and a power supply! FUCKING JACKPOT BITCHES. a 2 thousand dollar projector could well be mine for the price of parts and the headache of dissassembly and mounting. god damn it was cool to see that. its still at work, hahahaha locked up into cabinets that only i and management have keys to, but its my project now. werd.
non geek points. well today was so nice, i cut out of here early and went fishing before work. no pole was necessary. fish were plentiful. 3 bottles of icy cold water, and a public park full of sunbathing single beauties later, fishing was had. i met two girls that were pretty cute. no numbers. but they said they go there all the time. werd. just werd. fuckin' one step closer from somewhere other than depressing singlesville. werd.
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Thursday, April 29, 2004
Monday, April 26, 2004
Zack Wylde/Black Label Society - Crazy or High
blah. ducks are phunnie how often do you see elephants, or cougars wading through rain puddles in the middle of town? not nearly as often as ducks. funny critters. this one started quacking at me as i was taking his picture. didnt seem like an angry quack, more along the lines of, --- hey what up? ---- quacking. its so nice walking to class and seeing animal life. atleast animals of the non-student variety. they are plentiful in the library late at night, as ive found. lots of them can be found wearing next to nothing, or like the girl tonight did, just flat out wearing pants that cant cover up your underwear. they were some kind of funky stretch pants that :::gasp:::: happened to be about 3 inches shorter than necessary... so instead of pulling them up and going high-water, she pulled them down, and made sure everyone could see her slutty underpants. it would have been enjoyable. had she not been disgusting. heu. vae victis! alas even.
well ive considerably added to my cd collection... last weeks new arrivals included new albums from Zack Wylde, In Flames, Fear Factory, Anti-Flag, and Machine Head. i must say, that the only cd thats really disappointed me was Anti-Flag. i listen to AFI, so i guess im spoiled, it somewhat ruins punk now... especially the overtly political variety. Machine Head's cd isnt as good as i anticipated. its still absolutely KILLER. but it had more potential. several tracks just seem to be produced better than others, as is typical of the band. all in all its worth a buy. its up there with The More Things Change, as far as being up to snuff. Fear Factory's album has very good moments. but it is decidedly missing Dino. several riffs just seem too bland. Dino tended to keep things pretty tricky as far as rythm went. still.... i have several songs in my head from that album. In Flames cd is better in some respects than i thought. its much more pop-metalish. although i liked the direction the last two albums were going in, this one is away from that. much more tamed. more sellable. its quite good. its just different. and.. something very uncharacteristic... several songs sound the same. every In Flames album has had very distinct tracks to my ear... doesnt feel so this time around. last is Zack Wylde/Black Label Society. dont buy this album, if you are expecting anything like his last 3. youll be sorely surprised, and probably only like 2 tracks of the 16. but. for the daring. this is a great cd. veeeeeery musical. zack is actually singing at the piano on acouple tracks. very different from what theyve done. i can tell hes itching to do something more as a musician... and if his work with Ozzy has taught him anything, you cant play with the volume at 11 all the time.
thank god class shit has finally slowed down for me. all i have to worry about now is latin's day to day stuff, and finals. the group project tonight didnt go quite as expected. the class of 35 turned into a dozen that stayed for it. prolly 5 read the book. 3 had opinions on it. the hour slid by remarkably fast however. i didnt cover all the material on my sheet. let alone hit my rant notes. its so hard not to feel preachy on some of this stuff. but i had to let the kids talk about it. too bad they missed about every interesting point there was about the chapter selections given to us. when i mention a few that i caught, the professor was nodding vigorously and taking copious notes. when the kids and my partners talked, his pen went back into his pocket. prof. mueller even congradulated me on a good job after class. i think only prof santorro has ever done that. maybe thats good. i got an A in santorro's class.... maybe here too.
this weekend appears to be my last one off for quite some time. so it has been decided. the 1st Annual Bad Beer, Bad Movie Marathon is going to commence on saturday afternoon, sometime slightly after lunch. invitations are going to be shot out fairly quickly. seating is limited, those that just show up will have no place to sit, and no beer to drink. but all the bad movies are worth watching. matt and i need to work out the beer list, but the movies have a nice pool to draw from.... expect such endearing works as...
Black Gestapo. Commando. Shaft Out Of Africa. Universal Soldier. Chino [with Charles Bronson] among others. should be a good time. like i said... look for invites to come out. no camping grounds are going to be available... so plan on crashing out at otherpeople's houses. parking is going to be a nightmare. so for now park a block down at the city park. but the fun should start sometime at my place after 1ish. drooooool with anticipation.
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blah. ducks are phunnie how often do you see elephants, or cougars wading through rain puddles in the middle of town? not nearly as often as ducks. funny critters. this one started quacking at me as i was taking his picture. didnt seem like an angry quack, more along the lines of, --- hey what up? ---- quacking. its so nice walking to class and seeing animal life. atleast animals of the non-student variety. they are plentiful in the library late at night, as ive found. lots of them can be found wearing next to nothing, or like the girl tonight did, just flat out wearing pants that cant cover up your underwear. they were some kind of funky stretch pants that :::gasp:::: happened to be about 3 inches shorter than necessary... so instead of pulling them up and going high-water, she pulled them down, and made sure everyone could see her slutty underpants. it would have been enjoyable. had she not been disgusting. heu. vae victis! alas even.
well ive considerably added to my cd collection... last weeks new arrivals included new albums from Zack Wylde, In Flames, Fear Factory, Anti-Flag, and Machine Head. i must say, that the only cd thats really disappointed me was Anti-Flag. i listen to AFI, so i guess im spoiled, it somewhat ruins punk now... especially the overtly political variety. Machine Head's cd isnt as good as i anticipated. its still absolutely KILLER. but it had more potential. several tracks just seem to be produced better than others, as is typical of the band. all in all its worth a buy. its up there with The More Things Change, as far as being up to snuff. Fear Factory's album has very good moments. but it is decidedly missing Dino. several riffs just seem too bland. Dino tended to keep things pretty tricky as far as rythm went. still.... i have several songs in my head from that album. In Flames cd is better in some respects than i thought. its much more pop-metalish. although i liked the direction the last two albums were going in, this one is away from that. much more tamed. more sellable. its quite good. its just different. and.. something very uncharacteristic... several songs sound the same. every In Flames album has had very distinct tracks to my ear... doesnt feel so this time around. last is Zack Wylde/Black Label Society. dont buy this album, if you are expecting anything like his last 3. youll be sorely surprised, and probably only like 2 tracks of the 16. but. for the daring. this is a great cd. veeeeeery musical. zack is actually singing at the piano on acouple tracks. very different from what theyve done. i can tell hes itching to do something more as a musician... and if his work with Ozzy has taught him anything, you cant play with the volume at 11 all the time.
thank god class shit has finally slowed down for me. all i have to worry about now is latin's day to day stuff, and finals. the group project tonight didnt go quite as expected. the class of 35 turned into a dozen that stayed for it. prolly 5 read the book. 3 had opinions on it. the hour slid by remarkably fast however. i didnt cover all the material on my sheet. let alone hit my rant notes. its so hard not to feel preachy on some of this stuff. but i had to let the kids talk about it. too bad they missed about every interesting point there was about the chapter selections given to us. when i mention a few that i caught, the professor was nodding vigorously and taking copious notes. when the kids and my partners talked, his pen went back into his pocket. prof. mueller even congradulated me on a good job after class. i think only prof santorro has ever done that. maybe thats good. i got an A in santorro's class.... maybe here too.
this weekend appears to be my last one off for quite some time. so it has been decided. the 1st Annual Bad Beer, Bad Movie Marathon is going to commence on saturday afternoon, sometime slightly after lunch. invitations are going to be shot out fairly quickly. seating is limited, those that just show up will have no place to sit, and no beer to drink. but all the bad movies are worth watching. matt and i need to work out the beer list, but the movies have a nice pool to draw from.... expect such endearing works as...
Black Gestapo. Commando. Shaft Out Of Africa. Universal Soldier. Chino [with Charles Bronson] among others. should be a good time. like i said... look for invites to come out. no camping grounds are going to be available... so plan on crashing out at otherpeople's houses. parking is going to be a nightmare. so for now park a block down at the city park. but the fun should start sometime at my place after 1ish. drooooool with anticipation.
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