q's page

great eclipse pictures

2009-07-23T01:51:00.001-05:00

The longest solar eclipse of the century - The Big Picture - Boston.com

A very useful Firefox plugin

2009-07-22T04:41:00.001-05:00

KallOut - Search Faster in Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox

great pics of Mercery Messenger mission

2009-06-11T02:09:00.001-05:00

Mercury and MESSENGER - The Big Picture - Boston.com

nokia n810 gps fix

2009-05-21T11:14:00.001-05:00

I've read a lot of negative reviews regarding the inbuilt gps on the n810, and I have to say I agree with most of the criticism. However I found a solution that stabilizes and more importantly, adds a lot of reliability and consistancy to the gps. I installed the program carman, and it comes with it's own control manual entry. Clicking on that brings up the normal gps icon in the tray, as well as a new carman icon. However what I found that was so great about this icon, was it stabilizes the gps, as well as offers it's own gpsd server functionality. So that simplifies matters, a lot. The gpsd app that is in the apt-get tree had a very nifty icon with satalite positions and strength, however it was in no way compatable with the gps inbuilt into the control panel. However, many programs look for gpsd before the native gps service. Basically, you could be running one, but not the other. Needless to say, I spent many minutes standing outside with my unit in my hand waiting for a fix, which was never going to come. But with the carman icon, it offers up fast timely gps information to every single gps app I have going (all of them, right now). Today it was almost completely cloudless, a very beautiful day, and oftentimes inside buildings I was getting a good gps reading, and just stepping outside both gps apps I was using to track instantly got a great fix.

I went ahead and ordered a $45 bluetooth gps dongle that supposedly finds a fix very fast and is better than the inbuilt n810 chip, and I'm looking forward to testing and comparing. However, simply by installing carman I found the n810 built-in gps to be surprisingly functional.

Running 2 gps tracking programs with realtime map information and a last.fm radio player streaming from the dun bluetooth on my cellphone, I had 3 hours of fun laundry/walking around town. Guess if I want to do a 4-5 hour walk I'm going to have to figure out a way to conserve battery life. Can just use sansa for music, only 1 gps app, and like hardly ever use n810, but still having a load of fun with n810 it's a pretty nifty little thingy-bob. 3-4 hours battery life is pretty decent considering. Also you can underclock the cpu to save even more power. In any case, thought I'd do a little write up because I haven't read anywhere about anyone having installed carman and it fixing all their gps woes. To the contrary, mostly seen people discounting the internal gps. I will try to write up a little comparison once my helix bluetooth gps unit arrives.

a windows port of one of my favorite linux utilities

2009-04-06T15:09:00.001-05:00

Use this program all the time under the name kdirstat. I had found other "comparable" windows programs 5 or 6 months ago but it never occured to me to see if my favorite kde utility for this purpose had a windows port. Am glad I checked, it's not only comparable but it adds very usable features and some visual upgrade too. That being said I've been a little out of the linux loop for awhile. But still this was a great surprise today.

One thing I can say which I was surprised was, was it's speed. Other free windows utilities did something similar but very basic. And took waaay longer. Like I found it more worthwild to switch back to other thing I was doing and just forget about it and come back later.

But nope, this program is soo fast. Much Much Much better than anything else I've seen. And is exactly like the program I have preferred on Linux. I guess I really have sold my soul to Microsoft, recommending good ports from Linux to Vista :) Is least of my worries so :)

Ya but this is better. It may be in linux port or not now, I don't know but. In this version you can easily choose any 2 or more local drives, even if 2 of them are smb shares off my "main" computer even after all these months, my old faithful linux with all the diskspace. It lists those drives as local and the way I finally got those shares set up it really is local. But this windows version (and hopefully new linux versions) let you just choose them and it puts them all in it's visual representation. It's better than a pie graph, but it's not a line chart or something. It really is neat, you should try it if you want to see a visual representation of how big your dirs are compared to the whole mass of the diskspace you scanned, especially compared to other things. With nice color coding and some shiny effects. Highly recommend either Linux (kdirstat) or windows (windirstat). Very useful utility!

WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics

great vista tweak

2009-03-11T14:22:00.001-05:00

Well I tried to upgrade to 8 gigs of ram but stuck with 4, unless I get entirely new ram (single channel)...but even with 4 Vista runs pretty smooth! I was playing with NVtweak and in advanced they have an option to put your windows system into memory instead of running off disk.... All I have to say the difference is instantaneous, and seems much much snappier! (I have 4 gigs of dual channel corsair ram 2x2 I need to put on Ebay, btw, if anyone wants any).

Also if you have Race Driver Grid: be sure to download the third party launcher, because it lets you run in a window, as well as has options to use all 4 cpu cores instead of the default 1, and also lets you set it to real time priority. Grid was already by far the best looking game I have, with super fast frame rates, with everything maxed out. So I can't really tell the difference, but I guess psychologically it matters! :) Unreal Tourney 3 also another super fast-frame rate game.

end of civilization

2009-03-11T14:14:00.001-05:00

Young people prefer the sound of highly compressed MP3s to uncompressed audio, study shows.

I apologize

2009-01-17T05:17:00.001-06:00

congratulations, you have won.

you fought off calling me for a

whole year to prove your point.

but i'm tired of shouting out in the night.

my pride is packed away and i

i apologize for being cruel

when i should have been kind.

i'll be right by.

we'll be so happy together tonight.

i apologize for being cruel

when i should have been kind.

i'll be right by.

and we'll be happy together tonight.

you found a garter belt on my nose.

i warned you.

my cyrano similarities

lose touch wehen i drink too much.

bye-bye, i kiss the bottle good-bye, forever.

i know it's made a fool of me,

i'll try to reconcile.

i apologize for being cruel

when i could have been kind.

i'll be right by.

we'll be so happy together tonight.

i apologize!

i apologize for being cruel

when i could have been kind.

i'll be right by.

we'll be so happy together tonight.

i apologize for being cruel

when i could have been kind.

i'll be right by.

and we'll be happy together tonight.

maybe the best book

2009-01-17T04:39:00.000-06:00

Crucial Pop: Forgotten Lore

There's other books I'd recommend as highly as this one. However,
this is really a amazing book and it's sequel offers an ending.

:)

vmware

2008-12-21T18:04:00.002-06:00

I decided that I'd been wasting far too much time playing video games (Disgaea DS is my current addiction), so I figured I'd try vmware workstation. I've downloaded several linux distros, and it's fun firing them up and installing them, and evaluating them while still using Vista. I ordered another 4 gigs of ram, so that will help a lot with this. My first impressions of Kubuntu 8.10 is that it is very incomplete. I need to try Ubuntu, from what I've seen on a friend's computer it is all tied together a lot better. Still, I'm noticing some improvements from 8.04. I don't think I'd recommend Kubuntu to a brand new linux user just yet...I'm still looking for a distro that does a nice job of tying everything together with kde4. I've heard good things about Mandriva... I'll download the dvd tonight while at work. Also the Adept package manager was upgraded to the new version, and in my opinion it's a major downgrade on the interface. It simplifies it to a ridiculous degree. I'm still not used to KDE 4, it's a lot different from KDE 3 not only visually, but also just in the way it handles. However, it does look nice.. I've had a couple months to get used to Vista, and I actually am kindof preferring it right now. I guess it's sortof a big project getting Gentoo installed and getting everything the way I like it (may go back to KDE 3 for the time being, etc.) There are both things I like and dislike about Vista... one thing is for sure, my outlook has changed a lot since getting a new computer and trying out a bunch of operating systems. I used to hate Windows a lot (justifiably) but now I understand it has it's place. Mostly, as a game platform, but also for the large amount of little programs that are only for Windows. I don't mean important programs you can't live without, just a lot of non-essential and random programs. It sortof goes both ways, but I've found that a lot of the linux programs I've been used to for years really are superior for what they are used for, as compared to their window's counterparts. Anyways, it's all out there and it's all available, so this time I may have a hard time getting rid of a Windows hard drive... Guess I was in the mood to type about my computer for a little bit. It's always fun to play around and learn new stuff!

Crack in the sky :)

2008-12-19T03:27:00.001-06:00

YouTube - David Bowie - Oh You Pretty Things

:)

2008-12-12T05:06:00.000-06:00

Rest today, for tomarrow you can't tell
you can't tell

nice stat

2008-12-01T23:27:00.001-06:00

I looked at my last 12 months chart on last.fm, and The Flaming lips are at 1000. I got sortof burned out on them, and haven't listened to them for awhile, so it's funny I just sortof have given them a vacation for awhile after listening to them for exactly 1000 songs :) Is kinda weird how Beck is #4 for the year too with 772 listens, considering I didn't start listening to him until like 3 months ago. I was really into Sea Change, but lately been listening to his other albums, and I like them a lot. I really like how last.fm does real time statistics now and lets you look at exactly your last 7 days to the hour or other time periods, instead of their limited choices before. I appreciate last.fm a lot, it's easy to forget it's even keeping stats, just listen to whatever I feel like. It's fun looking at my friend's stats too, once I finally convince them to get an account :) Tonight I'm really into Agalloch.

my skin

2008-11-24T11:11:00.000-06:00

Designed skin for my n810...here is what it will look like.

the front:

and the back:

have to make sure i get these 2 stickers and the screen protector on just perfect :)

nice phones

2008-11-24T11:09:00.000-06:00

15 of the Hottest Touchscreen Phones for 2008 » The Hottest Gadgets
I won't be able to upgrade for another whole year, but considering this is the best choices from now maybe will be affordable then :)
My n810 should be in today or tomarrow :)

my new toy

2008-11-20T06:26:00.001-06:00

Random Musings of A Useless Geek: N810 With a Full Desktop (Lovely!)

I can't wait to play with this thing :)

ruh oh

2008-11-13T13:22:00.000-06:00

How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You

hello

2008-11-11T10:55:00.000-06:00

Hey!!!! Just thought I'd say hi :)

woww microsoft is impressive

2008-10-25T08:26:00.000-05:00

yay vista

2008-10-20T17:27:00.000-05:00

Got almost everything set up in Vista for now. Don't know if I'm too lazy to stick that 80 gig hd in here to put some linux on, or if I want to try the super easy distro install thingy in vmware first!

35000 scrobbles

2008-10-20T12:11:00.001-05:00

Looks like it was Steve Vai's Lotus Feet :)

cool cats :)

2008-09-27T02:59:00.001-05:00

YouTube - Pallas Cats at the Prospect Park Zoo

:D

2008-09-26T08:18:00.001-05:00

:(

2008-09-25T04:31:00.001-05:00

The $700 billion figure? "It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

Dodd proposed his own counter-proposal to Paulson's plan earlier this week. Among other things, it calls for limits on executive compensation at troubled firms and for the Treasury to take a contingent equity stake in those firms. On Tuesday, Paulson rebuffed both ideas, as it might discourage firms from participating in the bailout program.

extensive personality test

2008-09-20T04:13:00.001-05:00

http://www.trans4mind.com/personality/

Your Questionnaire Results:
Trait: Score: Scale (Min/Norm/Max):
Introversion/Extraversion
Activity 18 (Inactivity)0/16-17/31(Activity)
Sociability 9 (Unsociability)0/16-17/31(Sociability)
Risk-Taking 13.5 (Carefulness)0/15-16/31(Risk-Taking)
Impulsiveness 20.5 (Control)0/17-18/31(Impulsiveness)
Expressiveness 14.5 (Inhibition)0/11-12/31(Expressiveness)
Reflectiveness 27.5 (Practicality)0/17-18/31(Reflectiveness)
Responsibility 10.5 (Irresponsibility)0/14-15/31(Responsibility)
Emotional Stability
Self-Esteem 17.5 (Inferiority)0/18-19/31(Self-Esteem)
Happiness 9 (Despressed)0/18-19/31(Happy)
Anxiety 19 (Calm)0/15-16/31(Anxiety)
Obsessiveness 12 (Casual)0/10-11/31(Obsessive)
Independence 17.5 (Dependency)0/15-16/31(Independance)
Hypochondria 8 (Sense of Health)0/9-10/25(Hypochondria)
Guilt 17.5 (Freedom from Guilt)0/12-13/31(Guilt)
Mastery/Sympathy
Aggressiveness 17 (Peacefulness)0/12-13/31(Aggressiveness)
Assertiveness 17.5 (Submissiveness)0/15-16/31(Assertiveness)
Ambition 16 (Unambitiousness)0/14-15/31(Ambitiousness)
Manipulation 8.5 (Empathy)0/12-13/31(Manipulation)
Sensation-Seeking 21.5 (Unadventurous)0/15-16/31(Sensation-Seeking)
Dogmatism 16.5 (Flexibility)0/15-16/31(Dogmatism)
Masculinity/Femininity 12 (Femininity)0/13-14/31(Masculinity)
Sexuality
Sexual Libido 34 (Low libido)0/27-28/42(High libido) - (Female normal is 21-22)
Sexual Satisfaction 19.5 (Dissatisfaction)0/21-22/35(Satisfaction)
Sexual Permissiveness 25 (Restrictive)0/16-17/35(Permissive)
Sexual Stereotype 20 (Feminine attitude)0/24-25/35(Masculine attitude) - (Female normal is from 16-17))
Political Attitudes
Social Permissiveness 23.5 (Restrictive)0/15-16/32(Permissive)
Racism 1 (Non-discriminating)0/11-12/26(Racist)
Belief 11 (Non-believer)0/15-16/26(Believer)
Socialism/Capitalism 33 (Capitalist)0/23-24/50(Socialist)
Libertarianism 19 (Regimentation)0/11-12/27(Libertarianism)
Reactionism 7 (Progressive)0/16-17/27(Reactionary)
Pacifism 13.5 (Militarism)0/10-11/25(Pacifism)

Opeth ticket

2008-09-18T16:49:00.001-05:00

Opeth ticket
Originally uploaded by Qdeeds

Opeth on tour :D

2008-09-17T14:54:00.001-05:00

Reviews of Opeth at Town Ballroom – Last.fm

new shoes

2008-09-12T15:16:00.001-05:00

Amazon.com: New Balance Men's MW926 Walking Shoe: Shoes
Pressure Relief Style: IPR3010 - Insoles

Got me some walking shoes today!!!

HOLY CRAP!!!

2008-09-12T11:45:00.001-05:00

Troops battle 10-foot marijuana plants - Weird news- msnbc.com

common themes in modern science fiction

2008-09-09T19:31:00.001-05:00

Ten Issues for Hard Science Fiction | Mike Brotherton: SF Writer

:D

2008-09-09T18:43:00.001-05:00

Guidespot.com: The 28 Weirdest But Most Enticing Album Covers of All Time

Dreaming about Tetris, Quake, Mud, football and Chess :)

2008-09-08T08:41:00.001-05:00

Tetris Dreams: Scientific American

black holes

2008-08-12T05:40:00.000-05:00

If I had a black hole, I would bring it home. I would let Gump eat it, if he wanted to.

2008-08-09T05:22:00.001-05:00

This failure has made the creator
so won't you tell him
what to do?

bout time!

2008-08-08T23:50:00.001-05:00

Mad Physics: First Particle Beam to Shoot Through the Large Hadron Collider Tomorrow

15 reasons Mr. Rogers was the best neighbor ever

2008-07-30T12:43:00.001-05:00

15 reasons Mr. Rogers was best neighbor ever - CNN.com

2008-07-25T09:56:00.001-05:00

hey

can we stop?

me, I'm not.

:D

zwrack hit by lightning :)

2008-07-13T06:28:00.001-05:00

turning a sphere inside out

2008-07-09T04:52:00.001-05:00

Outside In

!!!

2008-07-04T07:16:00.001-05:00

Right Where It Belongs
Nine Inch Nails
See the animal in his cage that you built,
Are you sure what side you're on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye,
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's all, right where it belongs

What if everything around you,
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is that all you want to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks,
Would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?

What if all the worlds inside of your head,
Just creations of your own?
Your devils and your Gods, all the living and the dead
And you're really all alone?
You could live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the woods
While you're hiding in the trees

What if everything around you,
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you used to know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is that all you want to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks,
Would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?

Snoop's country now!

2008-07-04T03:16:00.001-05:00

YouTube - Snoop Dogg - My Medicine: MTV Version

crazy chess set and table!

2008-07-04T02:28:00.001-05:00

Yasmin Sethi - Product Design - Alice Chess Set

:)

2008-06-30T23:21:00.001-05:00

The Spider
Weezer
There's a spider in the drain and he's feeling pain
and he doesn't want to die any more than you or I
He's struggling to live, but he doesn't have much time
Any more than you or I
You or I
We've got to die, we've got to live
We've got to take what we can get
We sell ourselves for petty change
And when we die we rearrange
It's time to take it back again
It's time to take it back again
I want you to love me like I love you

There's nothing more for me to say
I spoke my piece, I go on my way
And fare thee well, where you go
You might need help, but I won't know
'Cause I'm up here in my own cell
It could be heaven, it could be hell
We'll never know just who we are
'Cause when we die we become a star
And stars can't talk
Because they have no mouth to speak about their past
They simply shine up in the sky
And give their light to you and I

And where would we be without their light
We call out names and then start a fight
But then again that's what we do
I hate me and hate you too
'Cause I'm in pain, just like the spider in the drain
I am a fighter, but I can't win, I've got to lose
Give me strength to see me through
And ease the pain that I must feel
As my bones break and I taste the steel
As i go down the drain

I'm insane

really did LOL

2008-06-30T23:00:00.001-05:00

tried to eat kermit the frog once tag – Music at Last.fm

look at the artist pictures :)

great page on firefox

2008-06-25T02:24:00.001-05:00

I broke down and installed firefox 3 today. I usually (last few years) wait until a few point releases come out, but I liked some of the new functionality (awesome bar is awesome!!!!) and the memory usage seemed to be a lot less. I asked a friend who just switched (after having her ubuntu computer lock up a ton before firefox did somthing about that huge bug) if it was working ok, then took the plunge. Good stuff :) Didn't really make my day off, but wow what a great update :)

Was posdef worth it. Not only do pages load faster, but yes memory usage is way down. Everything is more responsive, even within the scope of like scrolling down and refreshing. I have to say Firefox 3 is full of freaking win.

That being said Opera 9.5 is pretty damn awesome and if Opera and Mozilla Firefox weren't so awesome I'd love to use Konqueror as my browser.

Anyways, I found this article on some easy ways to change your firefox, and it contains like 3-4 changes I implemented and already like a lot. I have had that stylish extention installed for awhile, so this page full of no brainers, and some things that I feel aren't neccessary. The comments are full of good stuff too. (bottom of post)

My switch to firefox 3 was pretty smooth. I had backed up my entire .mozilla dir beforehand, but it was just a matter of firing up firefox 3, letting it sort out extention incompatabilities (like 25) and trying to fix some (like 4) (but the other 21 are stuff that aren't a big deal). Then it loaded up, and I had to check the help/about box to make sure I was running firefox 3...looked exactly the same. Pretty damn solid. I'll delete my backup in a couple of days, I'm pretty sure. The utter improvements in interface speed are going to make it hard to go back to firefox 2, not to mention the sheer speed increases in page loading...and memory usage seems to be way down.

Firefox: Functional Firefox User Styles

holy moly!!!!!!

2008-06-17T12:11:00.001-05:00

A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

satelite used for astronomy :)

2008-06-14T01:53:00.001-05:00

Cosmic Grim Reaper Seen For First Time

So many galaxies visable, and from those millions you gotta hope you get a chance to watch an event like this during our short lifetimes :) I guess the jist is a red giant that has swelled to many many times the size of our star finally ran out of nuclear fuel, and they caught all the data as it went to supernova. :)

:)

2008-06-14T01:03:00.001-05:00

My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
Flaming Lips
They tell us autumn's a-comin'
Soon everything around us will die
Only a fool believes that he is
Different from the birds in the sky

All those birds go chasin'
Some better, sunny days
You can't hear them singing
Cause they've all gone away

But this one bird didn't leave you
It stayed through the wintertime
You can't hear it sing
But you can hear it as it flies

So don't you believe them
They'll destroy you with their lies
They only see the obvious
They see the sun go down but they don't see it rise

This one bird didn't leave you
You can hear it as it flies
It's not very loud
But you can hear it if you try

So don't you believe them
Yes, it's true, someday everything dies
We won't let that defeat us
We can't hear him sing but we can hear it as it flies

April Fools

2008-06-09T11:51:00.002-05:00

Love this song by Rufus Wainwright, always grows on me!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y5InMvddwyk

I'll try to recollect my memories of The Flaming Lips enough to make a worthy recollection of their show last Friday evening :) W.A.N.D. was pretty much one of the best songs I've ever seen!!!

Flaming Lips and Cake tomarrow!!!

2008-06-05T05:30:00.002-05:00

Looks like Cake plays 7:45-9:15 and The Flaming Lips next from 10-12! I can't wait! :)

weird weird clip

2008-06-04T05:56:00.001-05:00

The Creepy Pencil
Don't think this has a moral, probably just meant to be creepy!

OMG It's alive!!!

2008-06-03T02:57:00.001-05:00

OMG It's alive!!!
Originally uploaded by Qdeeds

6 hotspots where US-made weapons are still vs. Russia-made weapons

2008-06-02T16:31:00.001-05:00

Maps of Russian New Military Weapons – Future Weapons in Russia Map - Popular Mechanics

wow.

2008-06-01T05:21:00.001-05:00

LiveLeak.com - Unidentified creature showing up in Russian ponds and ditches

crazy "motorcycle" design

2008-05-31T23:27:00.001-05:00

Art Center College of Design shows Yamaha-branded wearable motorcycle concept - Hell For Leather

pictures of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows

2008-05-29T23:28:00.001-05:00

Looks like they got really freaked out and completely put on red body paint, and when the helicopter showed back up they attacked! I really wish we could leave isolated people like this alone, but will probably be impossible. Is crazy there are still cultures not in some way assimulated with modern society, at all.

Incredible pictures of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows | Mail Online

neurochemicals

2008-05-29T23:14:00.001-05:00

Kuro5shin is a questionable source, at best, but sometimes they do have a interesting article.

This one is fun as it goes into the effects of dopamine and serotonin and others, as well as how certain substances and circumstances can affect brain chemistry. Sortof short. I'm still looking for that chart with dozens of drugs and the related neurotransmitters they effect.

The Geek's Guide to Practical Brain Chemistry || kuro5hin.org

The 50 Hottest Female Athletes Of All Time

2008-05-29T23:03:00.001-05:00

This list is completely superficial and entirely the opinion of the author's :)

The 50 Hottest Female Athletes Of All Time | Sports Crunch

Digital Pot Lets Plants Tell You Their Demands

2008-05-29T22:10:00.001-05:00

Pot: Digital Pot Lets Plants Tell You Their Demands

:)

2008-05-29T01:45:00.001-05:00

Satan is My Motor

2008-05-28T12:58:00.001-05:00

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ksd_PKe-ex0

Get to finally see CAKE too!!!!

Oh baby
I was bound for Mexico
Oh baby
I was bound to let you go
oooo ooo oooo

I had a match
but she had a lighter
I had a flame
but she had a fire
I was bright
but she was much brighter
I was high
but she was the sky!!!!!!

LOL

2008-05-28T10:48:00.001-05:00

The Fake Narrow Stairs Album : How It Happened | Facebook

good digg rss feed

2008-05-28T09:22:00.001-05:00

Digg RSS Feeds with direct links to original articles

Very useful...got spoiled by having a reddit rss feed coming to my phone and being able to go right to web page, but having to go to digg webpage and find entry to do the same!

ok list :)

2008-05-28T08:12:00.001-05:00

Top 100 Pink Floyd Songs - Rate Your Music

a Priest Driven Ambulance

2008-05-24T02:33:00.001-05:00

Is a great album! Their earlier album from that year, I know I haven't given it enough time yet,
but this one is really good. I don't know anything about this album, other than it's really good :) Shine on :)

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: In a Priest Driven Ambulance

tickets in :)

2008-05-24T00:08:00.001-05:00

Got my tickets for the June 6 show in Lawrence, today. Will be fun to do something fun with my brother, for about the first time :) I can't wait to see the Flaming Lips!!!!!! And have always wanted to see Cake! There's lots of other bands playing, I bet it will be a really good time!

everything but the girl :) great band!

2008-05-22T07:41:00.001-05:00

Low tide of the night
Everything but the girl

London in the low tide of the night
And not a taxi cab in sight.
Anesthetized I start the journey home.
I've been living months alone.
I've been avoiding things -
the phone rings,
I use the answerphone.
Inside out in the daytime,
Outside in in the night time.
Inside out in the daytime,
Outside in in the night time.
When you're down and troubled
You don't tell your friends,
You don't tell your family.
I won't let them talk about me.
I'm gonna let nobody down.
Soho in the high tide of the day
And for a while I'm swept away -
I just forget it.
I use my walkman when I walk,
And I don't talk,
But later on the moment's gone and I don't get it.
Inside out in the daytime,
Outside in in the night time.
Inside out in the daytime,
Wrong at the right time.
When you're down and troubled
You don't tell your friends,
You don't tell your family.
I won't let them talk about me.
I'm gonna let nobody down.
Who shall I be tonight?
Who's gonna see tonight?
Who shall I be tonight?
Inside out in the daytime,
Wrong at the right time.
I wanna know I'm good for you.
Outside in in the night time,
Right at the wrong time.
I wanna know I'm good to you.
When you're down and troubled
You don't tell your friends,
You don't tell your family.
I won't let them talk about me.
I'm gonna let nobody down.
No, no, no, no
I won't let them talk about me.
I'm gonna let nobody down down down down.

:)

2008-05-22T06:07:00.001-05:00

Nettie
Type o negative

Nettie, no need to cry
Let me wipe those teardrops from your eyes

In the dark bathed in Cathode ray blue
Miss Red Hook of 1922
Weeping silently for the pain of others
Every night a tearful rosary
A victim of the curse of empathy
Her reward for compassion is to suffer

Nettie, no need to cry
Let me wipe those teardrops from your eyes

My shortcomings I know caused her grief
Still she loves me. This i can’t believe!
Responding not with anger but a prayer
Heaven’s just Southwest of Cobble Hill
True, I am the son of an Angel
Maternally, not one woman compares

Nettie, no need to cry
Let me wipe those teardrops from your eyes

If you fall, I will catch you
When you’re lost, I’ll be there soon
Far away, but of course near
When you’re sad, I’m always here

Thank you for saving me from my self
Your compassion became its own hell
Unequally beautiful inside and out
Without a doubt

Nettie, no need to cry
Let Me wipe those teardrops from your eyes

hale-bopp!

2008-05-22T00:05:00.001-05:00

hale-bopp - Google Image Search

you'd think people would remember a comet you could watch set during the day, and a few hours later would rise, still during daytime :)

wicked picture

2008-05-21T02:34:00.001-05:00

NASA - Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare

:)

2008-05-20T10:53:00.001-05:00

The Flaming Lips
excerpt from The Spiderbite Song :)

When you fell in love, it was so sweet
So devoted, completely swept off your feet
Love is the greatest thing a heart can know
But the hole that it leaves in its absence can make you feel so low

And I was glad that it didn’t destroy you
How sad that would be
Cause if it destroyed you
It would destroy me

:)

2008-05-17T06:07:00.003-05:00

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As logic stands you couldn't meet a man
Who's from the future
But logic broke as he appeared he spoke
About the Future
"We're not gonna make it" He explained how
the end will come - you and me were never meant
to be part of the future -
All we have is now -
All we've ever had was now
All we have is now
All we'll ever have is now

I noticed that he had a watch and hat
That looked familiar
He was me - from a dimension torn free
Of the future
"We're not gonna make it" He explained how
the end will come - You and me were never meant
to be part of the future -
All we have is now -
All we've ever had was now
All we have is now
All we'll ever have is now -

All we have is now -

Wicked Volcano in Chile

2008-05-08T12:22:00.001-05:00

Wow!!!

the gash

2008-05-06T12:42:00.000-05:00

Love this song :)

Male wasps make love to orchids

2008-05-04T16:27:00.002-05:00

I've had a couple of wasps in here this year. The first one was just a black wasp minding his own business, and I tried to kill it but it flew off behind the couch to regenerate it's HP for a while, and I let it be. Then the next day I'd only been home for like 10 minutes and I felt something on my arm. Look down, and yes it's him. So I start unmercifully trying to smash it with my fly swatter :( I hit it like 50 times, and it just wouldn't give up :( I had to roll it with my shoe. Jeez made me feel like a murderer.

The next wasp was a yellow jacket. He was smart, he flew over to the window and just hung out there. I opened the window, he flew out. No reason for unneccessary bloodshed :)

This article is interesting as it shows wasps are really good lovers, and have a deep admiration for the innate beauty of nature.

flaming lips

2008-05-04T15:31:00.002-05:00

Having a Flaming Lips week for sure!!! Started in with The Soft Bulletin, then been listening to all their other albums hadn't gotten to yet...these guys are awesome :)

The Flaming Lips - There You Are - Jesus Song No. 7

There you are
And you stand in the rain
And the rain fills your brain
And it makes you think that god
Was fucked up when he made this town

There you stand
With your bleedin' hands
And you don't understand
Why you work so goddamn hard
To be anything at all

There you are
And you drive in your car
And you wish for the stars
And you end up face down in the road
Dead as fuck

Expo 86

2008-04-29T05:12:00.002-05:00

Is my favorite Death Cab song :)

I am waiting for that sense of relief
I am waiting for you to flee the scene
As you held in your hand the smoking gun
and on the floor lay the one you said you loved

and it's strange they're all basically the same
so I don't ask names anymore

(I wish) :)

miss misery

2008-04-23T05:32:00.001-05:00

love this song so much

ballad of big nothing

2008-04-23T05:24:00.001-05:00

another great song.

I can't just put up embedded youtube vids here for every song cause I don't want to slow down your computer. Go to this song here :) The whole album is it from is awesome.

2008-04-23T04:37:00.000-05:00

i came for the house and the children...i let it all slip through my hands...i feel like a weight has been lifted and nothing can matter to this man
i came for the car and the vacuum. spinning my wheels into the void
i see now my ship it has come in
but it was a joke there is nothing aboard
i came for the love and the action
there I go slipping off of the sword
i feel like a chain reaction
and is it me, or is it the world?

PRICK

2008-04-23T04:03:00.001-05:00

accidents won't happen
if you never leave your home.
keep that soul like a thoroughbred,
the first one will let it roam.
your mind will snap, it can't be held back.
imagination's a mother.
time is flowing red.
what's it like?
riverhead.

Top 10 Doom Clones

2008-04-22T22:34:00.002-05:00

With the obvious omission of Hexen, a good list. Rise of the Triad was a great game, and of course Duke3D :) I'm eager to try the port of Doom to Rockbox when my Sandisk e250 comes in the mail, in a few days :)

awesome transformer owl

2008-04-21T06:41:00.001-05:00

Here is a youtube video of an amazing species of owl from Africa...so cute..but then :) 3 modes!!

new Death Cab :)

2008-04-21T01:27:00.000-05:00

I like it, is very jazzy :) New album next month even!

:)

2008-04-20T22:07:00.000-05:00

another plug

2008-04-19T02:56:00.004-05:00

HINOIチーム

This band is awesome. Talk about a band to get your dopamine flowing, it's just so awesome. I know they aren't for everyone. In fact my fav song by them isn't on youtube at all, have to think about a way to put it up. :) But then I just listen to another great song by them and wonder why it isn't there too. Anyways, you have to kudos to the producers on this one, they have done a above par #1 super great job on this band.

ルルティア

2008-04-19T02:26:00.003-05:00

Rurutia

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bgi6-nJ3zeM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc2NuYZXM0Q&NR=1
I dunno, she always catches me by surprise. I dunno how to describe her songs, just very joyful, very intense, yet very emotional. I guess closest other band would be Portishead, yet in a very old, completely alive garden. Very triphop, yet very mysterious, and real. I enjoy her, I'll fix her songs one of these days. My Japanese songs take extra time. I make the file name romanized Japanese, but I want as close to the offical names with correct letters in my tags. There is never enough time, I always want to listen to and enjoy! you know

meshuggah like

2008-04-19T01:41:00.002-05:00

The Dillinger Escape Plan

These guys are very solid. They are the band closest in sound to Meshuggah I've found yet, and I did set out for a few days looking for some bands to compare Meshuggah to. I ended up deciding it was impossible. Meshuggah really do stand out. Straight hardcore math metal? But very brutal? I highly highly recommend Meshuggah's new album, obZen. For me, only took a couple listens to get to where you are listening to a different song every time you come back, ah on a week to week basis. I think it's my favorite Meshuggah album, to be honest. But give Dillinger Escape Plan a chance, they stand on their own, definitely are not Meshuggah.. very good too! Heard a song by a somewhere local little band that was just utterly awesome, so fast an intricated and live, in vein of math metal....it was on youtube but I have no idea how to find them again. This kind of music can be the most relaxing music ever :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I_kTgNg32_w

talk about getting peed on

2008-04-19T00:55:00.002-05:00

Here is a great interview with the author of the game of solitaire that has been packaged with how many billion overpriced versions of ~~malware~~ the great operating system, windows, since forever. You know what is awesome? He never got any royalties at all :) This is a great read!

master's apprentices

2008-04-19T00:36:00.001-05:00

I'm getting to where I am enjoying Opeth's live versions immensely. This song is just bliss.

x japan

2008-04-19T00:33:00.000-05:00

'Til the loneliness shadows the sky
I'll be sailing down and I will know
I know I can clear clouds away
Oh Is it a crime to love

Swing the heartache
Feel it inside out
When the wind cries
I'll say goodbye
Tried to learn Tried to find
To reach out for eternity
Where's the answer
Is this forever

Life Sword Armory

2008-04-19T00:30:00.001-05:00

My good friend Seth recently started a new webpage, just look at it, he's kicked ass. Lots of great reading in here.

best song

2008-04-19T00:08:00.001-05:00

There is no forgiveness in these eyes
For any of you but one
Dispel the mist for now
Melinda is the reason why I've come

live in Ft. Lauderdale, FL

2008-04-13T05:36:00.000-05:00

hippy power

2008-04-13T05:33:00.001-05:00

This guy kicked ass.

Checkers

2008-04-12T23:52:00.002-05:00

Been playing a lot of checkers, mostly against an A.I. I hadn't played for years and years and years...used to play some chess, hadn't realized just how easy it is to get smoked in checkers. I was playing some guy earlier and somehow after all my plotting he jumped 3 of my dudes to get a King. Anyways, anyone is welcome to challenge me to a game anytime, or even chess (although even way more rusty in that...I used to be decent). Found this website after deciding I needed some hints and tips.

star wars WW2 action figures

2008-04-12T23:26:00.000-05:00

http://badcontrol.com/?p=412

dastardly mug shot

2008-04-12T23:24:00.000-05:00

http://mugshotdujour.com/misc/matthew-gibeault-possession-of-drug-paraphernalia-462008

:D

2008-04-08T05:49:00.000-05:00

The Seatbelts

2008-04-08T03:21:00.002-05:00

These guys put together like 8 albums of music, for the anime Cowboy Bebop. The anime really rocked, not going to get into that here, but here's a few links of their music for you. "Is it real?" has literally tripped me out a few times, like I was completely sober yet felt like...I dunno can't really describe.

call me, call me, live..perfect :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EaTfjBqw9JY

the real folk blues, live. Great song, didn't see it being great soundtrack to a firefight :) I'm that dude playin his trombone.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mD83P-vn5JI

is it real? warning this vid has SPOILERS to series. Big ones. But has the song in it's entirety. I don't know what it was, but like I remember clearly just after I moved in here and was walking up the stairs, and this song stopped me dead in my tracks, like a trance.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dJKDEPzmSLk