Trilobite!
I am a trilobite, not a troglodyte! OK then, random weird thing said so now its time to continue with the rantage. This saturday I will be in Aurora Nebraska at the Hamilton County Fair for Level 1 Media. We have a booth that Jason is manning most of the week. I�m simply taking over for him on saturday when he will be gone. If you are in that part of Nebraska and are bored please stop in and say wassup. Aaron is gonna be printing up a nice big poster for us to have at the booth, and I�m not really sure about any other details at this point. Maybe we should have gotten some pens or something to give out.
It was my birthday yesterday, now I am 20. No longer a teenager and not yet an adult, weird. Becca was, of course, awesome to me on my b-day and brought me out to eat at Hu Hot. Plus she gave me some sweet throwing knives. I am totally psyched to find a place to practice them at. I figure I could just go out into Memorial Park here in the middle of Omaha, but someone might not appreciate my fly cutlery.
Just ran into the Tenth Hour Calling website today, thought I would send that link along to you folks out there who have yet to hear this awesome band. They are from Kearney, but I�m pretty sure they will be going big places. Well, big places in the Christian rock scene, for what that�s worth. 
As long as I am dropping so many links I might as well send along some of the more amusing things I have found lately.
One: This Land - totally freaking hilarious, equally heaps the political satire upon both candidates! You may be hearing about this one in the news before too long if the lawyers keep making a fuss about the song that was used.
Two: Switch - WARNING, probably only funny if you have some remote idea of what linux is any why it�s really this great.
Three: Transformers - seriously if breakdancing Transformers dont tickle your funny bone you can just go sit in the corner and think about what you�ve done!
Four: I�v probably talked about these before but it seems that the lawyers have decided to ruin something else great on the web - the Never Ending Bottle of Beer and the Nutrigrain commercials from Turnpike Films. So here are my copies, luckily grabbed before they killed the fun - Nutrigrain, NEBOB. Whatever you do, don�t tell the lawyers!
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sirtimbly on 07/28/2004 at 07:07 PM
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Ahhh�. refreshing
Just moments ago my aparatment entered a new era of existence. I now have a brand new Air Conditioner up here, it�s a little sucker but it puts out a lot colder air than the last one, which could probably recount stories of the Nixon era if it could speak. Or if it cared about politics. Anyways, suffice it to say that my apartment is now starting to slowly cool off. Apartment life is fun, I�ve never had a land-lord before and I have never had to complain about something to a landlord before. Does ductape count as weather stripping?
I guess I didn�t really need to go to the gym today at work, I worked up more of a sweat sitting here and breathing before installing the AC. I really like the fact that I get 3 hours per week to use at the gym on base, I didn�t utilize that time for the first month I was here, and I�m kicking myself now for that. I know that my trend of twice weekly exercise won�t continue once I reach college this fall. Plus who else but the government pays you to not work so much!
I learned an interesting fact today, apperantly a single stalk of corn can transpirate a gallon of water each day during their peak pollination time (now). So the humidity is completely unbearable in this part of the midwest because there are many millions of gallons of water being pumped out of the ground and into the air right now. This combined with the usual temps of 95 make Iowa, Nebraska, Norther Missouri, a veritable inland sea, just at a much lower density.
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sirtimbly on 07/20/2004 at 07:07 PM
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You never knew
pshawThis image may be disturbing to those of you who still held misconceptions about what the old He-Man cartoon was really about. I�m sorry, i just had to post this.
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sirtimbly on 07/20/2004 at 07:07 PM
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Ennui
So, my apartment falls somewhere within the 8th circle of hell on the temperature scale. The window AC probably hasn�t worked well since the 70�s. Being on the third floor, while keeping me safe from flooding, does have a disadvantage where the laws of thermodynamics come into play. I�m not even really sure where my pants are, but I usually remember to put them on before I leave for work in the morning. Speaking of morning, I now know what it is. I was lucky enough to spend my first two years at college blissfully ignorant of the pain involved with having to be somewhere at 8:00 every morning. I have a regular full time job in an office building that requires me to be there around 8 every morning. This concept would have seemed so foreign to me only a few short months ago. What happened to me? When did I start wanting to go to bed by midnight? When did I start drinking coffee every morning? Why do I feel OLD!?!
My feeling of agedness might be related to the impeding birthday. That day in which we celebrate� um� still existing I guess. Not that I am actually old, it�s just that I will be turning 20, and will no longer be a teenager. They say that youth is wasted on the young, I say that expendable income is wasted on the old. Speaking of expendable income, apperantly apple is releasing the rev 4 iPod tomorrow. Those jerks, they dropped the prices of each level $100. But they didn�t keep the lowest level and drop that $100 too did they! No, they completely removed the 15gig iPod from the product lineup instead of offering it at the sweet price spot of $200.
All these dollar signs are confusing me. Why do you put the dollar sign in front of the numbers, but say the word �dollars� after the numbers. It makes no sense!
At work I have been putting a lot of effort into the Space Weather CBT. I now know more about space weather and it�s impact on DOD systems than I ever will need to know. All in all I have learned a ton about flash development this summer and hope that I can really leverage my new skills to benefit Level 1 Media.
One more point I wish to make. I saw I, Robot the movie this weekend. I was truly impressed. It was a completely likable movie. It didn�t follow any plot of Asimov�s too closely, and it certainly violated the spirit of what he originally intended in his robot stories. Yet, somehow I felt appeased by the number of elements from his Robot short stories that were included as ideas in this awesome mix of action/mystery/scifi. Sure, I had trouble visualizing Dr. Susan Calvin as young as the person cast for her part here, Bridget Moynahan. Will Smith is, as always, funny enough to keep audiences interested in the unrelentingly sci-fi themes that pervade this movie. The problem with sci-fi is that it can make people think, people don�t like to have to think about their movies. Sure, Issac Asimov told much more fundamentaly interesting stories, but none of them had the action or excitement that the movie I, Robot delivers so easily.
I have a fun idea, lets go over Timbly�s to-do list this week.
* Call UNK, register for Radio Workshop.
* Go to the bank, get new ATM card, open savings account.(what�s a savings account?)
* Do Laundry!
* Find some sort of tutorial or book or something on SQL queries
* Start writing my paper about my internship
There�s probably some stuff I have forgotten. But hey, it�s the unexpected things that make life interesting.
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sirtimbly on 07/18/2004 at 09:07 PM
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(almost) food network!
Recipe of the day/week/whatever: Toasteroni Deluxe!
Step 1 - Grab that 90 count bag of Pizza rolls that you left out too long and then decided to re-freeze thinking you might recussitate them. Pop a dozen or so pizza rolls in the microwave. Depending on the age of the microwave it may be necessary to nuke those puppies for anywhere from 1 minute to 2 and a half minutes.
Step 2 - Toast some pieces of bread. Remember that if your apartment is 80 years old then you should not toast the bread at the same time as nuking the pizza rolls, this will simply result in some breakers or fuses or something going out and your computer shutting down, losing your game of Commander Keen.
Step 3 - Place one slice of cheeze (yes I know that�s not the right way to spell cheese, but you don�t have any real cheese anyways, do you?! All you really have is those cheap little single slices that were mass produced last century) on a slice of toast, then place as many pizza rolls on that as you can fit (usually 4).
Step 4 - Apply Peanut Butter(creamy and chunky are both fine, though this human prefers chunky) to one side of the other piece of toast.
Step 5 - Place the peanut butter�d piece of toast on the pizza roll�d piece of toast. Consume immediately. If you wait any amount of time before eating this your mind might kick in and try to stop you. Don�t worry, food poisoning only kills one in 20.
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sirtimbly on 07/07/2004 at 08:07 PM
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