Motherload of Artificial

"McCain-Palin 2008 Campaign Manager Rick Davis: 'This is a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these emails will destroy them. We will have no further comment'..."

When someone does this sort of hacking/eavesdropping/snooping to a government official, it's called "a shocking invasion of...privacy and a violation of law."

When the government does it to you, it's called the "Patriot Act."

This was shamelessly ripped from a genius on Slashdot.

A pirate walks into a bar wearing a paper towel on his head. He sits down at the bar and orders some dirty rum.
The bartender asks, "Why are you wearing a paper towel?"
"Arrrrrrr I've got a bounty on me head!"

While buying gas today I purchased a car wash. The station I usually do this at allows you to make the purchase directly from the pump and the car wash machine code is printed on the reciept. After the pump clicked letting me know my car was full I dutifully waited for the receipt to print and zoned out at the TV atop the pump. I pulled the receipt out and the part where the code appears was cut off. Great.

I walked inside to talk to the clerk about the receipt and there was a line. An old man was talking down to the clerk in a senile manner. Apparently he wasn't happy that the clerk greeted him. I guess he comes to this location because it has a subway in it. He kept going on and on "Don't talk to me unless I'm doing something wrong." the store manager was behind the clerk and was saying something along the lines of "We love you, we're just full of love." this seemed to make the old guy angrier.

He eventually walked off and the clerk helped the guy in front of me and they started joking about it with the old guy still in ear shot and he quickly replied "...oh you think this is funny?!". When it was my turn the clerk asked me if I would get upset if I was told to have a nice day. I said "I think you should go to hell." with a big grin on my face and we both laughed.

Ahhh people.

I finally watched Supersize me this weekend. I always joked that I loved fast food too much and that ignorance is bliss. I still stand by the ignorance being bliss but once your eyes are opened you cant help but think about it.

This weekend (besides having to work both days) involved a long Friday that was spent in Anaheim and Garden Grove. I completely understand why it is referred to as Garbage Grove. There were at least two streets that were normal enough that smelled like you were next to a dumpster on a hot day. I think it topped the baked garbage smell that you're treated to when you're down wind of one of the trash bins at the beach.

I don't really find asians attractive especially Vietnamese women. I just thought they were devoid of attractive people or something. I went to a Vietnamese Cafe (Coffee House?) and it was staffed with absolutely stunning girls working in lingere. I had asked for a beer but they don't serve any alcohol - only juices and coffees. FYI Orange Juice + lots of beer in stomach = not the best mix. Apparently having half naked women with alcohol around is a bad idea... but the plus side is you could gamble and smoke inside and it was roudy.

I had a crazy vivid dream last night. The plus side is we were able to laugh and reflect on the good times. Oh and I watched Casino Royale German dub - seriously the voice actors did a good job.

Meh... 5 more days of work...

So lets see last tuesday I got a girls number who looks crazy wild. She has a tattoo of a heart muscle on her upper arm/shoulder and some dragon on the other. A large tattoo on her lower back and the word 'True' inside her lip. She's actually really pretty and went to Fullerton. I heard this once referred to as 'Marla' hot (from Fight Club) but this girl is bleach blond 5'6" with blue eyes. Trouble!

I installed Windows Vista and I am ashamed to say that I like it. The gadgets are slick and subtle touches like when renaming a file with the extension visible only the file name portion is highlighted by default. I have been using it for about a month and I really enjoy Aero. Besides that I have taken an interest in Motion Graphics (mainly in Cinema 4D) and this is where a lot of my free time has been spent.

One of my first projects was playing with a light source to replicate fire. Another project was to model an icecube. So far I haven't gotten the noise correct.

Work. One of our DNS servers hasn't been replicating correctly. One of the new admins wants to have everything inside of Active Directory - since the servers have been online for awhile some of the zones are in AD and others have been entered another way. My goal has been to export all zones with attributes and read them (so that they replicate).

Random Slashdotter's comments on George Lucas' plans for the next Indiana Jones Movie:

The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea

We're fucked.

Speaking of movies I've seen The Dark Knight multiple times and can easily say it was one of the best movies in the series. Heith Ledger didn't play the Joker he was lost in the character. Very gritty dark humor. If you have the option try and catch an IMAX version of the film as there are clips shot specifically for the large format that look incredible.

For several weeks I had wanted to see the film but IMAX required a day or two in advance when purchasing tickets due to the demand. I've seen the movie for the past two weekends. The IMAX theatre at the Irvine Spectrum (click for pictures etc) which seats 600 was sold out daily. Finally I made the plunge to use Fandango. I never used the service because I hate their ads.

How about a magic trick?

An earthquake hit the southern California area today. It registered a 5.8 out in Chino Hills. The earthquake was rolling and smooth on the second floor of our Office building. Coworkers were either under desks or in doorways. The expression on peoples faces was priceless. People looked like rabbits poking out of their holes - looking around wide eyed.

Our CFO was calm and during the rolling went into the conference room and held the wall mounted plasma saying "Relax, it's just an earthquake. Everyone back to work."

At the beginning of the earthquake people were going down the stairs. The stomping of feet down the metal stairs as panic set in and girlish shrieks from male office workers fleeing in terror.

Liz was outside near a grass field that is in the lot next to our building. She had me go into the office to grab her purse and cellphone (since she wanted to go to lunch). One of our designers from Arizona experienced his first earthquake today.

The best quote from lunch is "It's not like Jesus just came back 15 minutes ago."

Has left the building.

A coworker of mine was put into a hard position regarding an email. I'm not exactly sure where I stand on this one. But it's not my call.

Horrible news today...

We have arrived at yet another week. Welcome to reality. A new week full of emails, phone calls, questions, and answers. Every Friday I vainly will to never end. All that I manage to end is my fragile sleep cycle. Well something is better than nothing, right? I must need more practice...

Weekends. Hours of entertainment, rest, and eating when I feel like it. I wonder if retirement is like on long weekend? The thought of doing nothing more than I have to is foreign but I can't help but tune out thinking about it at times. I should make Saturday a religious holiday that must be celibrated with only shorts on with the AC on high.

A dual personality
A strange but true reality
They keep calling me

One of each. Spins are no fun.

The best thing after a night like that is blowing your nose. A quote from yesterday "The week flys by when you get loaded every night."

Buying paint at ACE hardware an older man in his late fifties or early sixties helped us. While looking at the paint swatches I hear a fart behind me. The old man totally ripped one, and then quickly said: "It must've been a mouse on a motorcycle!" I had to move the cart forward so he wouldn't see me laughing like a maniac. He also told us about how he had a place painted all black with the trim red. Wow.

Apparently Andy thought it was me the whole time and shrugged it off. When I told him about it in the car he was completely blown away.

One more room to go... I want sleep.

Dave: "These people are insane. Give me a gun and let me shoot myself. They said they had a few suggestions and that they would itemize them. I get a 3 page document with items A-V and paragraphs mixed in between.

"You've heard of 5 star people? Where they want 5 star everything and still complain? These people are it. They could be fed grapes and have a person fanning them and they still would say 'This isn't what I had in mind.'"

Internet is Serious Business.

Liz was hit with one of the doors in the stair well when we were walking outside on a break. The expression on her face was priceless. I laughed so hard.

I am so evil.

It is always surprising to see how people come and go in one's life. I am so thankful for the friends that I have.

"Doesn't he look cute sleeping" Regarding me Falling asleep on the sofa with glass in hand.

Today was nothing out of the ordinary except that I was restless. I didn't know exactly what I wanted but I needed to get out and I ended up driving around for about an hour. It feels good when you make nearly every light. It was a really nice day while driving around it made me glad to be where I am.

I would like to go up to Yosimite and Sequoia National Parks and really enjoy it this time around. I think I need to go camping or out of town in the mountains.

This weekend was full of vivid dreams. The one that stands out the most was a dream that I knew how my dream would end and I was able to redo it with a different outcome. I have never had a dream that I could control - I seem to always be at the mercy of my thoughts. Do you ever think about why you want some things? I think far too much some times. The things that creep into your mind before drifting off to sleep.

I wonder how I ended up liking sarcasm as a quality? I like people for the strangest reasons. Why am I interested? Oh well, dream time...

I did some last minute Father's day shopping. I figured I would kill two birds with one stone and take out some boxes left over from packages that I have received in the mail. I didn't think twice as I grabbed the boxes and locked the door. After I walked back from the dumpster to my car I realized I didn't have my keys OR my phone on me. Great. I walked to the office and to my delight there was a little clock with the arms pointing to 2:30 when the office people would be back.

I had no idea what time it was and there were no clocks anywhere. I walked back and loitered in the parking area. Well at least I had my cigarettes. No lighter. I had another one but it was in my car. Hmm, well there is a convenience store around the corner, I thought "I can buy a lighter and at least get something to drink" the gates were all locked out of the complex and no cars came or went so I couldn't get in or out.

45 minutes (I have no idea how long it was) later I walked back and waited until the Office people came back.

Ugh. Well at least I got my gift and a card. I was stressing over it earlier. Ian wanted to meet up and introduce me to Sandra and catch a show. I'm over it.

Last night wasn't very exciting. I ended up falling asleep watching a show with some friends and decided to go home and rest. I made it a point to wash my car today - it was really dirty - it had been about a month since I last washed it. It cleans up nice ^_^

Time to relax...

I shared my thoughts with one of my friends over some drinks while trying to be vague. A beer or ten later I think his story was more intertaining. It was a female WOW player from Alaska that continues to make hints that might appeal to his libido. I wonder what will happen?

Hurray for hot potato phones. Food for thought in the afternoon. Speaking of other good things: I tried ketchup on eggs today. It works! I feel as if I should feel dirty but it tastes so good. Fatkins fans rejoice.

More details this evening. Ashley brought up similarities with what I said or things that I found funny. Do I remember what they were? I just remember "annointed". Lots to think about - I got lost a few times writing this. I must be tired... hurry up Friday...

I went to lunch today with Dav. Between discussion on Linux and file systems I asked if he knew Steph since he was from the same stomping grounds. He wasn't too familiar with the name.

Dav: "Wait... the one with curly hair?"
me: "Yeah, but it's straight now."

Dav had some photos in his massive gallery since he is a camera whore. Apparently his partner took the day off and in between talk of the weekend (both of us enjoy doing nothing) he was like "So are are you interested?" I nodded. Dav followed up with "Well she's not really my type - too Type A. I think I outgrew it." but the discussion quickly digressed into the ideal height and how to shoot tapioca balls via straw. Man those things sail. I think we hit a Postal workers vehicle from 25 feet. It even had a satisfying wet pop.

To think he doesn't enjoy sarcasm. I am a friend of sarcasm.

This weekend was exactly what I needed. I did absolutely nothing and it was glorious. My battery is recharged from all of the activities from the last two weeks.

BTW the new Diesel Boy album Substance D is epic. *rocks out*

Thankfully this week is over. I worked nearly two hours beyond my normal work day to wrap up a project. Andy was having a hard time installing a trial version of WOW. Apparently the registration servers are down. Maybe it's a sign?

Yet another late night. Tonight was a rib night - great timing. I managed to get sauce on my shirt =/ plus when I was holding Angelina she had "chewed" on my shirt which I failed to notice until the wet spot cooled.

I'm not sure how Ashley and I got on the subject of my blog. For a short while I had her thinking that I was not happy with her sharing what she did but I couldn't help a smile when she thought I was serious. Ashley loves playing mind games with people so I exploit her whenever I can. Ashley mentioned a few things about Steph when we were eating the ribs like wild animals in the kitchen. I am anxious to find out more.

Random reflection: Planning things can give me anxiety - I like to be spontaneous. I am looking forward to doing absolutely nothing this weekend.

Wurst.

Ashley: "You two should get married and have children." Andy's Dad mentioned something about children last Sunday when I was still half awake sipping at boiling coffee in their back yard. I so don't want them. I am selfish and as lame ast it sounds I wouldn't want to split the attention. I want her to myself. Plus it's freedom - I don't want to surrender it. At least not now. But how fun would it be to say "Take the next week off, we're going somewhere!" and travel. Bill's words were something to the effect of "You say that now, but that will change."

Bill also mentioned how someone has had a hard time with a college math course. I am in the exact same boat. Same amount of times! How funny is that?

This week I had two dreams that stand out. I had another tooth dream on Monday (Sunday night? meh it's fuzzy now). As I look back it was probably anxiety about the work week. I have several large projects started that need to be completed. To top it off Karen asked me to help her move in two weeks. Moving things sucks, especially when it's not your own stuff. I was suckered into doing it last week (or the week before?) "It's just a TV and a sofa. It'll take about an hour." and it turned out to be a whole fucking truck load. Stairs are evil. However the day Karen wants to do it is on Father's day. I've asked to help on Saturday. I should be a willing worker...

Last night's dream involved me putting a video of myself masturbating on my website where Andy found it and promptly showed it to everyone. It was a dream in 3rd person like a reality show. The strange thing was I didn't find out indirectly from other people but directly as I walked through the neighborhood in Seattle where I grew up. Think of American Pie but with Reality film crew. Weird.

I haven't checked my snail mail in a long time and good thing I did. It was packed. I check it infrequently because all that comes is junk mail. All of the important things are paid online. The good news is that I got a letter all the way from Deutschland. It made my day.

My bed awaits. Happy Friday!

I saved myself by not writing about someone in an unsatisfactory way. The responsible parties were drowning their sorrows in Champaign, their guilt crushed under the weight of party hats and women of ill repute.

I found a way to work ill repute into a sentence. Just say it, it's great! Ill repute.

I suddenly have a lot on my mind. It makes the day scream by even though today was brutal from the previous evening’s activities. It's a fact: the cool ones are always far away. I was so over working at the end of the day I printed several crossword puzzles (to help with German) and managed to complete one with only having to look up three words. Yay.

Die gedanken sind frei. Tell me yours...

Valencia and Santa Clarita are two smaller towns that are incredibly fun to visit. I made a mistake when taking the 5 north on my journey up. I mistakenly got onto the 101 instead of staying on the 5 and in a panic I exited the first street I could which happened to be 4th street. I saw a homeless man when at a stop light who was out of sight behind a fence near the over pass. There were families at a park. The apartments and homes near the park brought two questions to mind: How much is it to rent? Why would I ever consider it?

Once in Valencia finding Ashley's home was a bit of work. Getting lost in suburbia is always a joy. A few phone calls later and I was no longer lost. The rounds of introductions were rampant with names and faces a blur. The theme was white and black. I chose black. At Ashley's birthday party there were pieces of paper cut in the shape of flowers or leaves with a green stick attached. All guests were invited to write a message. The night began with a beer and champaign. Of all of Ashley's friends I like Stephanie the best. Funny girl. Even though Leslie has been down before (and we happen to share the same last name) she reminds me of a girl from the other side of town.

Meme of the night is Steph: "Really now? Don't ya know?"

Saturday night involved a late night pizza delivery (12:30?) at the after party. A bottle of Vodka was smashed by Steph accidently. While at Ashley's house Steph got on the subject of personalities and if I was Jealous. Right then we had to relocate and she brought it up again later but we never finished the thought. I was made to promise to visit her when she is in town next since she had heard so much about me. It is a two way street. I am looking forward to it.

I remember some annoying bird in a tree outside which Andy threw rocks at. I referred to it as a Native American car alarm. I ended up sleeping with my shoes on for part of the night. My lower back is still sore from the bed I slept on. Driving around town with the windows down made my hair fluffy. I felt like I was in another country - the way the hills looked with the sand and the trees. Definately memorable.

The drive home wasn't nearly as bad as the trip up. On the way up I was stuck in traffic that was stop and go for nearly half of the trip. My car gets much better milage on the highway - I am used to driving streets to and from work and getting half the MPG.

There is so much more but it's time to relax a bit before this next work week.

Happy Birthday!

Huntington Beach is an American TJ. Ugh work in a few hours...

I have yet to find myself. Where have I gone?

"Is it true what they say? Passionate, jealous, and affectionate?"

Why are you reading this?