Dear Apple
June 17, 2008 9:00 pm [No Comments]
Dear Apple,
Please put a MagSafe style connector on the back of the MacBook Pro that breaks out to power, video, usb, firewire and audio. You don’t have to call it a docking port. You can call it, like, iExtend or something. Just do it. I have to plug in 6 wires when I get home (or to work) each day and it makes my desk a huge mess.
Love,
Jason
Religion
June 10, 2008 2:59 pm [No Comments]
During this interview with Stephen Hawking he said “I’m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the Universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God but God does not intervene to break the laws.”
That’s a much better way of saying what I’ve been trying to say all along.
Brutal
June 4, 2008 2:07 pm [No Comments]
Wow, this old site is still up? Sha… guess I’ll post.
Last night was totally brutal. And metal! Courtney and I showed up at the Showbox SoDo around 6:30pm to wait and wait and wait for… DETHKLOK!
Man, Dethklok completely rocked! Dethklok, for the few who don’t know, are the fictional metal band from the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse. At least, fictional until they released the biggest selling metal record in forever. The creator of the show is a really killer metal guitarist and does all the music for the show and just for fun decided to release an album of all the silly songs from the show. As it turns out, the album was totally brutal and everyone bought the hell out of it. So now they are touring.
Anyway, Dethklok completely rocked. I even got in the pit for a little while. If they are coming to your area and you want some really excellent metal you should go see em.
It’s been a busy few months, aside from the metal. Courtney and I recently saw Minus the Bear and Coheed and Cambria and both of those shows were great. We also did some traveling over Memorial Day. She went to Tulsa for Emily’s wedding and I went to Arizona for my brother’s wedding reception / family gathering.
That was a pretty wild deal. My brother lives in the middle of nowhere. It’s just desert out there. We visited some abandoned mines and saw cactus and everything.
In work news… I’m still working. I work a lot. All worth it though. I am working on a side project that is really fun and exciting and totally secret. Some day I might be able to say what it was.
There’s been a ton of other stuff going on too but I’ve been working so much that every time I decide to come over to my site to write about it I think “Well, I should probably be working” and it gets lost in the ether.
Seattle’s weather is still awful. We had about a week of nice temperatures and now it’s been raining and gross for a week. Everyone is claiming that this never happens but I think that’s just a collective psychosis people believe and tell each other to make it seem better.
Ongoing…
May 6, 2008 9:26 pm [No Comments]
Busyday
May 3, 2008 9:07 pm [1 Comment]
We did fun stuff!
This morning we got up very early (for the weekend) and drove around until our tummies grumbled enough to send us to Chace’s Pancake Corral in Bellevue. Best. Breakfast. Ever! I had sourdough pancakes and they were totally awesome.
After that we went in search of a curvy road. I’d been scouting some out on Google Maps for future motorcycle riding and since we were already across the lake we decided to go check one of them out. We drove and drove and eventually found our target: Brew Road! Unfortunately Brew Road turned out to be a service road that was closed, but it wouldn’t have worked anyway. We did find a great 7 mile drive through the forest though, so that was cool.
Along the drive the road went right under some high tension power lines so I stopped the car so we could hear the buzzing. I had heard the buzzing before and thought it was cool. This time though we heard crackling. Crackling like you see in mad scientist movies when there is so much power that it wants to jump right out of the wires and kill you. I have to admit… it was pretty creepy.
So then later we did some nothing.
And then we decided to go try one of the highest rated Mongolian BBQ places in the city: Changs in Renton. It sucked. Specifically, there were no extras to snack on, lame noodles, boring and very watered down sauces, small beers and unskilled cooks. I won’t go back.
During the meal we decided to make it out mission to try every Mongolian place that Yelp lists until we find one that’s good. So that’s what we’re gonna do. Also, gain 20 pounds.
So, enjoy my Mongolian BBQ page.
And then we went and saw Ironman and it was really good. It was way more funny than I expected and the whole thing was just excellent entertainment. Make sure you stay till the end of the credits.
Tick
April 3, 2008 10:50 am [No Comments]
Once again, and completely on schedule, I have become older.
I had a really laid back but excellent birthday. Lots of happy birthday wishes from everyone and Courtney hooked me up with all kinds of awesome loot. The best of the batch is that she got me a really nice blender which I’ve wanted for quite a while. Now I can make my own smoothies instead of paying $47 each at the place down the street. Mmmmm….
I also got a new Fruit Fucker shirt, a variety of excellent snacks and tickets to see Ladytron! Woot! She knows me. She does.
Aside from that, the festivities were light. I am working on a new side project and it’s taking all my night time so I didn’t really have time to go out and party or anything.
Except a bit… My friend Tony was in town for a few days for a conference, so we hung out with him a bit at the Owl and Thistle which is a nice dive type of Irish pub downtown. We kept it pretty tame though.
And that’s about it! Now I’m 31. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Goings On
March 18, 2008 9:21 am [No Comments]
I think I’ve used that title before.
So, I’ve a few things to report!
I’ve switched to WordPress and I really like it a lot so far. I made my own theme that looks pretty much like my old site which is pretty cool. The theme is widget aware and all that bullshit so yea.
Also, we’ve started using EchoVNC at work which is a relay server enabled suite of VNC programs. The relay server makes it so you don’t have to punch firewall holes and forward ports and all that shit. You run the relay server out on the Internets somewhere and both clients and servers attach to it to set up connections. It’s a great idea, and a great, free, open alternative to LogMeIn. Free for 4 users, that is. After that it’s $300 but well worth it! Check it out at Echogent.
Also! When we moved to Seattle we slowly started to notice that all our towels stunk. Hand towels used in the kitchen especially. After a day or two and having gotten wet they stunk awfully. It finally got to be unbearable so I did a bunch of research a few weeks ago and eventually bought a tub of powder from Smelly Washer and it’s totally awesome. Everything smells good again! Kind of mundane, I know, but when your towels smell so bad that you end up using paper towels when you get out of the shower then something’s gotta be done.
Okay, now for actual non-advertisement stuff!
Last weekend Courtney and I drove up to Bellingham to meet some Fazers and it was a great time. Midge, a Fazer from Glasgow was in Vancouver visiting family and wanted to get together with some people and it turned into a little gathering. We met up with him and 3 other Fazers at Boundary Bay and had a blast.
Let’s see… Oh, we went and saw Serj Tankian at The Showbox Sodo and that rocked. He put on a hell of a show. Highly recommended. That was also our first time to the Sodo location and I liked it a lot. Really big and open, but easy to get around. I just got tickets to see Coheed and Cambria there yesterday too. Woo!
What else? We’ve got tickets and reservations and all that to go to Tulsa in April for Ryan and Megan’s wedding, and then I’m gonna fly up to KC for a few days to hang out with the peeps I still know there. Seems like almost everyone moved away!
Oh yea, and we had Courtney’s birthday at The Garage with a ton of her friends from work and that was cool too. The Garage is a cool bar/bowling alley/pool hall in Capitol Hill. Kinda crowded but nice. It still blows me away a little every time I wander through a bar and see lots of people drinking and partying and not a single cigarette. It’s so awesome.
I think that’s all for now.
New Theme
March 17, 2008 1:42 am [No Comments]
I decided to go whole hog and attempt to write a WordPress theme that emulated my old site. You see before you the results. Do me a favor and let me know if you notice anything seriously broken.
Welcome to The Social
March 15, 2008 1:54 am [No Comments]
Welcome to my new and improved site! I got sick of maintaining my own (not very good) blog software so I decided to convert to WordPress. I have many years of junk piled up and I’ve been getting it all moved over, so if you notice a broken link please feel free to let me know.
I already know that any links to old pictures (before I used Flickr) are broken. I’m working on trying to fix those.
The Void
March 11, 2008 12:00 am [No Comments]
My site! She is empty!
So, my car got broken in to Friday. They stole my Valentine 1 and my Nuvi 350. That sucked.
And we had a lot of fun at The Garage for Courtney’s birthday festivities on Saturday night!
Woo!