Friday, April 28, 2006

New stuff rules


This rules, I finally got a nice speaker system for my computer. Actually, once I move out of here.. and into a house, I'll be hooking this bad boy up to my tv, thats how much it rules. I got the Logitech Z-5500 5.1 dolby digital,thx certified badass mofo setup. It retails for $400 but I got it from Zipzoomfly for $236 with free shipping, and it only took 3 days to get here, it was awesome! It comes with 4 satellites, plus a center sattelite (all of them swivel for wall mounting), and an enormous enclosed 10 inch sub. Plus it has this awesome control center that does everything, and the remote has all the settings on it as well. I wasn't expecting this sub to be so big.. the enclosure is huge and has a flared port on one side.. hell it takes up half the space under my desk!. The only thing that sucks is that I can't even attempt to turn this thing up past a few notches since I live in this apartment. I can't wait to move out of here. I'm going to get an optical line to hook it up with pretty soon, and I'm going to upgrade my soundcard in my pc eventually too so it will really kick ass. Here is a link to the site if anyone gives a shit. Logitech Z-5500

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Cthulhu

Apparently this movie has filming that was just completed partially around Astoria. I was just looking up the game Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth on gamespot and somehow was eventually linked to a main site of the movie which has a trailer showing portions of Astoria, including the bridge. I think someone was telling me about casting calls being done in Astoria again but they weren't sure what movie it was for, so I imagine this is it. I'm a fan of Lovecraft, so I'm hoping this movie doesn't suck.. I mean Tori Spelling is in it, c'mon now. Anyway, if anyone cares, here is a link to the the movie site CTHULHU. Here is some random site I found with a bunch of info, astoriamovies.com

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Wikipedia is the awesomest

I have been obsessed with using wikipedia lately.. I never really checked it out until the last couple months and its ridiculous how long I will sit on it. I'll type in a subject, then as I'm reading through it there are all these links so I will keep clicking and reading and digging myself deeper into wikipedia world.. and then I end up backtracking all the way to where I first started like 3 hours later, its insane! You can look up pretty much anything on it and damn I have learned a lot.. hell whats the point of school when I can read wikipedia! Ok, maybe I wouldn't go that far but man.. its addicting

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Trent Reznor's cousin



So none of you know my roommate, Matt, and Derek is the only one who has met him. Anyway, he grew up in cleveland, ohio and the surrounding areas and moved here about 4 years ago I guess. A long time ago he told me he knew Trent Reznor's cousin seeing as he lived in Cleveland and Trent had also lived there for awhile many years ago as well. I think Matt actually met him when he was living in columbus.. anyway thats irrelevant. Here is a LINK to a wikipedia bio if anyone cares.. besides Derek who I'm sure knows all of it already.

Anyway, the point of me writing this is because Matt was organizing a bunch of stuff and found the business card of Trent's cousin.. his name is Jeff obviously. I blacked the phone numbers in case any crazies stumble on my blog and would actually care enough to call him. I thought the business hours were funny too so I took a picture of the back of the card. Cool eh!?

Sunday, February 12, 2006

I hate roosters

So, I assume most know I live in Beaverton.. pretty close to downtown to be exact so the odds of my neighbor having roosters would be pretty slim one would assume. Unfortunately for me there are two of these little bastards a couple houses down and when I say little I mean little.. I've never seen such small roosters, which makes it even more annoying. If you're going to get roosters, at least get big burly roosters.. hell a cat could own one of these things. So as you know, roosters have some way of knowing when to start being annoying assholes.. which happens to be from about 330 am till I'd say 630.. maybe longer. First of all.. why do you have roosters? A couple of times I've seen them hanging out in the road and I could have ran them down if I really wanted but it was during the day with no chance of escaping without being seen. I called the police lastnight but it was around 5 in the morning and the cops probably took their sweet-ass time getting there I'm sure so of course nothing happened and I fell back asleep luckily. I'm going to have to pursue this in more depth seeing as I think there may be a law stating that you cannot have livestock running around loose in the city.. so I hope to god I come up with something because these stupid ass roosters are annoying enough to wake me up when I'm sleeping, and this blows. Speaking of which, they stopped crowing for a few minutes so I'm going to try to get to sleep before they start again.... oh wait, nevermind, FUCK YOU ROOSTERS!

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Cake mix rules


So I decided to get creative with my leftover cake mix tonight.. its that valentines red velvet cake mix.. scary huh!? Shit I rule so much

Monday, January 16, 2006

Digital Cameras Rule!

So I finally bought a digital camera and I'm happy as hell with it. I got it on sale but it was still pretty expensive, but I figured hell.. if I'm going to buy a digital camera, then I'm going to get an awesome one. Anyway, here is the one I got, its a Casio Exilim EX-Z750.. and it has everything I need and want, including an all metal case, 7.2 megapixel resolution, a big 2.5 inch screen and a viewfinder. Also, it takes awesome pictures, and one of the best selling points is that it has great video recording quality, plus you can record in mpeg4 so you can have smaller file sizes.. it fucking rules!! Oh and the battery lasts for a very long time as well.. so anyway I'm really excited obviously.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Stuff and Things

Yeah, so last week I was driving along in vancouver for work and I came to a stop at a light. There are two lanes that turn to the right and I was in the left lane, this other lady in a minivan was next to me on the right.. so we start to go.. and she gets distracted by her kid and inevitably sideswipes me.. yay. So she was all set to just stop in the middle of traffic until I told her to pull over to a parking lot and then I proceeded to curse and yell. We get out of our cars and she is asking if I'm ok and she is all nervous and blah blah.. I tell her I'm fine and that I just need to get her information because I'm working and need to get going. She keeps saying.. "I'm so sorry, my baby started crying and I was distracted and I don't know what happened." I was like, well.. you ran into me is what happened. So she didn't have her insurance papers which I wasn't happy about, but I got all her other information and told her I would call her later. So I called her later, got a answering machine, she called back.. and the conversation was basically that she had a clean driving record and wanted to keep it that way.. and she discussed it with her husband and with my approval they would like to pay for the damage. I told her I would think about it and then later on I called her back and we agreed that I would go get a couple estimates and then they would give me a check for the amount it would be. She said she would like if I would get one of the estimates done at a place close to where she lives which is in Camas. I told her that I live in Beaverton, so that was too inconvenient, and that even if they gave a cheaper estimate, I still wouldn't go there, because its my decision to make.. just like it is if you go through insurance. I went and got a few estimates.. one for 900, another for 1050, and another for 1205. I told her I would like to go to the place that was going to charge 1205 because I liked it better and that I would also need to rent a car, so they agreed with everything and cut me a check for 1255. The damage to my car isn't too bad.. she hit the passenger side and dented up my front fender, ripped the mirror off and the passenger door won't open, I'm assuming because the fender is obstructing it somehow. It sucks that I have to fix it because I could sure use that 1255 bucks for stuff. Oh and of course I'm going to the place that quoted me 900 for the repairs.. I figure since I've had to drive around with a fucked up car, and because I'm saving them a good amount of money by not reporting the incident, that I'm entitled to some of that cash.. hell if it was me in her position, I would have just given the person an extra few hundred bucks for the favor. Anyway, my sister is going to let me borrow her car for a few days so I can get around for work, she is so generous lately, how nice.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

funny shit

Ok, if any of you listen to the radio at all, you have heard one of these commercials.. I know there are probably more, but this link seemed to have a lot of them.. I love these budlight commercials

I'm Alive!

Yeah I haven't posted in a very long time, whatever, no one cares except Nathan. Let me tell you about everything shitty going on, because there is plenty. You know the old expression, "when it rains, it pours"? Yeah, well its a shitstorm with me. So at the end of June, I had to leave intel, and it was in no way job related. Back in 2000 when I worked at safeway in Bend, I ended up getting caught for taking a couple things, so I had to go to court and got a shoplifting charge on my record. Now, Intel is very strict about background checks obviously, and decided they had to restrict my access and terminate my employment because of this charge. Since I was hired on through a staffing company, they also had to terminate me because of this charge. Isn't it great how they tell me everything is fine and they hire me, allow me to quit my other job, then do the background check a month later and fire me? Yeah, its fucking awesome. Also, I don't care what anyone says.. most people have shoplifted before, they just didn't get caught, so if anyone gave me shit for it, they're an idiot. Alright, so basically I was getting on track with paying everything I owed on since I was making more money working at intel, so needless to say I was fucked because I didn't get another job for a couple weeks. Its amazing how far behind you can get in what seems like such a short time. Now I work for a delivery company called Senvoy. I'm an on-demand driver and basically I just drive around all day picking up things and dropping them off. I drive my own car but they reimburse you for fuel and slight wear and tear on the vehicle, etc. Most of the work I do is just delivering shit for title and mortgage companies, etc, but I've delivered other types of stuff too. We drive all over the area too.. like the other day I went and picked up 3 orders from Sysco foods in wilsonville, and it was close to 300 lbs.. I dropped part of it downtown portland, then had to drive out to the casinos in La Center to drop the other stuff, and yeah I get paid more for long distances and things that weigh more like that. So anyway, the job is pretty cool.. nothing that I imagine doing for THAT long, because the plan is to go back to intel.. and how? you may ask. Well I had no idea of expungement of a record until the background dept. at intel told me about it.. so when I looked into it and did some research, it turns out I can more than likely have the record expunged and taken off my record and legally say it didn't happen.. and including everything I need to do, it should only cost a little over 100 dollars. Now, if I would have known about this earlier I wouldn't have the problem I have now, so yeah, that sucks ass because I could have been working there still, but after I have it expunged I'll reapply. Yeah, so since I started my new job on the 11th of July, it was 4 days from the end of the pay period.. so I only got 4 days of pay, then had to wait two weeks till the 1st of august to get 300 bucks.. yay. So my rents, and my sister had to pay for my bills and now my car decided that the radiator and the water pump need to be replaced, so we need to order those and my dad and I are going to put them in.. they wanted to charge over 600 bucks at the shop.. but we can do it for about 225. Obviously I'm not comfortable with paying everything yet, but I get a 500 dollar sign up bonus next thursday, and I get a full paycheck a few days later so I should be on top of it soon, but it has been a goddamn pain in the ass to say the least. Anyway, I'll post sometime a little later to talk about cool stuff, opposed to this shitty stuff.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Revenge of the Sith

Alright, I decided to express my opinion about star wars real briefly since I saw colin's post. So I'm not the type of guy who says people are morons because they don't like the same movies as me, I'm not an idiot.. however, people who go and see movies they already aren't looking forward to, and don't necessarily like, then write a shitty review about how it sucked ass piss me off. I just think they like to be the one on the opposite side of the fence so they can get more attention.. well I tell you what, I'd like to bean you in the head with a baseball for being such a douchebag. Here's the thing, I've always liked Star Wars.. I've read the history of Star Wars and also have read all the episodes including 7,8, and 9. Now, the big thing people are bitching about regarding episode 3 is that the dialogue isn't that great.. ok, NO SHIT.. since when is this a huge change.. its always been like that, go watch 1,2,4,5, and 6 and tell me I'm wrong. I would like to point out that #1. Lucas has never been that great at writing dialogue for these movies, and #2. Its supposed to be this way with Star Wars because its always been like that.. I'm starting to sound redundant, but so are the FEW bad reviews bitching about bad dialogue, you wine cooler sippin..gerbil molesting..retard ballerinas. Ok, so heres the deal.. if you like Star Wars, and don't bitch about episodes one and two being shitty, then you will thouroughly enjoy episode 3 because in my opinion its the best one so far and kicks major fuckin ass! I went and saw it at midnight when it came out, then again the next day it ruled so much. If you don't like Star Wars, DON'T SEE IT, and spare me the lame ass comments about how it sucks.. because in actuality, you're the ones who suck, douchebags.. go review a movie you at least have some interest in.

Saturday, May 21, 2005

weird

I was bored and decided to google my name, I came up with this: my moms and my name were put on this list wow! they should pay me or something. stardust microchip