Blogger

I was signing onto blogger, and when I signed on, I saw the little box on the side with some "blogs of note". I found most of the blogs to be interesting, but I think the "dashboard" for blogger should be set up a little differently. When you log in, it goes straight to the dashboard and it shows links to the blogs that you are registered for. There aren't really any ways of searching for something that you're interested in. On the dashboard, I think they should have a big box that is easily found that u can use to search for posts that might be interesting to you. For example, if I wanted to look at a blog about dogs, there should be a spot where i can type "dogs" and it would show a bunch of different blogs about "dogs". They might already have that, but I couldn't find one. If they do already have it, then they need to make it more easy to find. That's just my opinion.

Have u ever blogged in arabic? or chinese? I thought it was cool that they have blogs in other languages. I wonder what they say...

Shabbas

Hey Walter, Why don't you roll on Saturday?
I'm Shomer Shabbas.
What's that?
Saturday, Donny, is shabbas, the Jewish day of rest, which means I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I don't handle money, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don't fucking roll! ... Shomer Shabbas!

I've watched the Big Lebowski like 3 times in the last four days i can't get enough! The more you watch it the funnier it gets, so we should definitely make it a class requirement for next year.

back to blogging

oh blogger,
it's been a while since i last visited. I think i'm losing interest in you. JUST KIDDING! anyways, i haven't been blogging lately because spring break just came around and blogging was pretty much at the bottom of my priority list. before spring break it felt like all my classes were going so slow but now i'm gettin slammed with all this homework at once. It seems like now every single class has a test or quiz or midterm or paper or project or something due every week, and with 6 classes it kind of gets overwhelming. however, i'm not that overwhelmed because i'm still finding time to blog, right. it's 2am friday night (sat. morning) and i'm sittin on this computer blogging because i just got jim's email about it. i have to work at 9am tomorrow, and i get sunday off. hopefully, but doubtfully, i'll catch up on all this b/s so i dont have to semi stress-out. the good news is that in about 4 weeks all this will be over and I won't be required to do anything except sit by the pool and drink margaritas all day (and work at night). the even better news is that there's about 10 days till i get tattooed again, which is a break from doing my same old routine crap that i do every day.

if anyone has hbo on demand and hasn't seen 'sometimes in april' i'd definately say that's a must-see. it's similar to 'hotel rwanda' (there are a lot of cross-references), but it's a little more informative about the whole genocide in rwanda, which i might add, was f^%#$^ bullshit. i love how the united states just steps into a country if there's $ in it for us. anyways, now's not the time to talk politics, but just watch those two movies. and if you haven't seen 'we were soldiers' which is like 1000000 years old, you should watch it, it's a good one. i just started playing the video game brothers in arms: road to hill 30, which is a good one. it's all good. enough recommendations, i'm out.

NGen vs. The Old School

Both of my parents have grown up in the United States, and neither of them are too competent in using the computer. Whenever I try to teach my dad how to do something he always growls at me about moving too fast because I probably read three times faster than him. He can't see that well, so he's always using his 'cheaters' to skim through web pages. We have AOL at my house, so it makes it pretty easy for my dad to check his email or sometimes even kick it up a notch to instant messaging. When I'm talking to my dad online, you can totally tell that you're talking to someone that doesn't chat much online. he writes "Proper, Like This Using Capitals When Needed". It doesn't help that he's an extremely slow typist, so by the time he's put his thoughts into an instant message, i'm already three miles ahead of him. My dad has just discovered eBay, which he loves because he's always having to buy clients these gifts (bribes) so that he can continue doing business with them.

My mom, on the other hand, isn't as quick with technology. She hates her new cell phone. It's a "piece of shit" because the numbers are too small on the keypad and the screen is hard to see. She just barely asked me what my "email" was, because she'd just set up an account on Yahoo! My mom doesn't work, so I think she's less prone to having to learn new things than my dad. Both of them are still incompetent, in my eyes, when it comes to technology, but society is slowly but surely dragging them into being like everyone else.

This weekend

This weekend started out crappy, but ended with a bang. I pulled some strings at work and got the weekend off to get tattooed. On friday night after work, I drove up to UCSD and drove some friends home to Rancho Cucamonga ( my home town ). Then (2am) I went to visit my girlfriend for a couple hours, because I haven't seen her in over a week. I spent the night at my best friend Brenton's house, and we went to NASCAR (redneck tour 2005) at the California Speedway, which is in Ontario, about 10 miles from my house. My tattoo appointment was at 630, so I wanted to leave the race track by 4 to be safe. We got there at 9 to watch the qualifiers, and that was pretty cool. Then, the announcer said the race was going to start at 3, which was different than what Brenton told me. SO, i didn't get to see the race, but i didn't mind because I was getting tattooed, and that's better than NASCAR any day. At 630, i went to Classic Tattoo in Upland to get my half-sleeve started, but the guy who does my tattoos cancelled on me (For the 2nd time!) because he had an 8 hr bike racing practice. That sucked salty nuts, so I left the shop at around 8 to go see my sister's new house. At 10, my girlfriend and I decided to go visit our friends up in Santa Barbara, which was a blast! the drive up there wasn't too bad (2 hrs from rancho), and it was nice to see old friends from high school. We got there at 12, and drank till 5am. [sidenote: if you are ever in Santa Barbara and want the best mexican food ever]. We woke up at 11 on sunday morning, and I broke up my drive by stopping at my mom's house in Alhambra, Near LA, on the way back from Santa Barbara. I dropped my girlfriend off in Rancho, picked my UCSD friends up, and then I drove back to San Diego. I drove about 600 miles this weekend, but it was all worth it. I guess there are other weekends to get tattooed.

good day

Problem Analysis: How can we get out of Iraq? (kind of a joke, so all u conservatives can stop crying)

Problem: We're at war with Iraq for no reason

1. Paraphrase problem: George Bush & his lovely administration has thrown us into a war with Iraq thanks to his addiction to Oil.

2. 180 degrees: How can we continue to bomb Iraq and force democracy upon a country that hates us?

3. Broaden the focus: How can we shift Dubbya's addiction from Oil to something else?

4. Redirect focus: How can we get George W. Bush back on cocaine so that he will be addicted to cocaine rather than Oil?

5. Ask "why"?
#1 How can we get out of Iraq?
Why? Because we're forcing a country to be a "democracy" for no reason, and we attacked them based on false claims, and GWB is only doing it because he is addicted to OIL.

#2 How can we get George bush addicted to something else?
Why? Because if we got him addicted to something else other than oil, He'll want to leave Iraq.

#3 If we get him addicted to cocaine, what will he do?
Why? He obviously has an addiction problem, so once he's addicted to cocaine he will need plenty of money.

#4 How will George Bush formulate a tax cut for coke-heads and all of his white collared corporate buddies?
Why? He's famous for giving rich people tax cuts, and once all of his friends are addicted to coke, they're gonna need the cash for their new addiction.

A principle problem has emerged: George Bush has an addiction problem, and the only way we can get him to get out of Iraq is by aiding his oil addiction with some of that good old Texas sugar.

February 2nd In A Nutshell

Today, I learned that class doesn't always have to be boring. We copied 0 (zero) notes off the board, which was a major plus , and we used inspiration (version 7.5) to create the one and only sweetest plan making mechanism on earth. This planning mechanism will be useful in the future when I am having trouble solving a problem or trying to plan a mechanism out. There wasn't much that was unclear about this last class session. It was good.

This is the dorkiest blog ever. Sorry JimBo deezy for sheezy!