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    Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
    3:15 pm
    Yeah, you like it when I eat that penguin ass!
    An email went out at work from one of the Sports Exercise Science people to me, John, and everyone in Facilities stating that the person had two tickets to next tuesday night's White Sox game.

    Box 137 (third base line, inside the dougout)
    Row 22
    Seat 3 & 4
    $42 each (face value)

    Guess who's taking Kristen to a White Sox Game next week.


    The title is a line from the end of "Good Luck Chuck".
    Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
    11:53 pm
    It's not about dignity
    I haven't done a video to post on youtube in well over a month. I really need to get back to putting stuff up there, even if it isn't the best stuff.

    Problem is I've got no idea what to do. I mean I have a freaking pump machine in the garage (which I do still play very regularly), but haven't thought of anything that hasn't been covered.

    I could try to get video of every sub-section of *Enhe, but that might prove to be more difficult than it's worth based on my recording setup.

    I'll think of somthing.
    Sunday, August 10th, 2008
    11:09 pm
    "Cup the Balls," The F&L IX Report
    Christy earned a new nickname for waking everyone up at 3 fucking 30 in the fucking morning on Friday when she fell over drunk, destroyed her own tarp, then proceeded to emit a laughter like sound that more resembled a dolphin than a human.

    I woke up to it, after taking a quick piss in the bushes nearby I walked up and said, "What the fuck is this? You sound like fucking Flipper. Knock it the fuck off."

    I've been calling her Flipper since.

    And from that point on, the weekend basically turned into "Fear and Loathing of Christy."


    For a prank during the day on saturday, I grabbed her iPod off of a cooler and hid it in her car in a small, open compartment near her steering wheel. I should note that people kept removing her ipod from the stereo dock because nobody liked the music she had on.

    A couple hours later she notices that her music isn't being played. She walks over to the dock, takes the other iPod in it out, then notices that hers isn't where it was left. Instead of doing the sensible thing and taking a quick look around to see if it was nearby (or even asking if anyone had seen it), she blows up and Proclaims the following:

    "NOBODY LISTENS TO ANY MUSIC UNTIL I FIND MY IPOD!"

    She also threatened to pack up and leave... To which several other people muttered that she should.

    Noticing a trend yet?

    Oh, she did eventually find her iPod, right where I put it. And was made fun of relentlessly by everyone else.

    Took a trip into the dells with Amanda and Sibohan not long afterwards. We roamed for a while, then Amanda's car died, and we had to have Jeremy/Emily come jump us. Rest of the night is kinda blurry, but there was a MooseJaw visit, and I took down my high score on the NX there.

    Saturday was lots of Bags and Mt. Olympus. I developed a high arc, hard backspin shot that pretty much sticks to the board for bags. At Mt. Olympus I took the high score on the Exceed 2 in the amusement park by about 4 million points. Did some slides and the tsunami pool, then hit the batting cages and go karts. Managed a nice sun burn too.

    On the way back, I also broke up a horrible, horrible session of high pitched girl talk. You know the kind. When two girly girls get together and get so excited they basically start squealing and make dogs howl. Yeah, I went there.

    Short and sweet from here. More people made fun of Christy, I had an awesome pre-sleep conversation with Sibohan, and then got some padding for my hips to make the night tolerable.

    That's the short of it. Oh, the "cup the balls" line is from a story about Sylvester Stallone taking an extra to his trailer every day during a movie shoot. Someone rigged up some sound recording, and those were the only words that people could hear.

    And Luke is cool.
    Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
    8:49 pm
    Machine update
    Coin door situation resolved to 90%.

    I swapped the 2p coin door over to 1p, and put in the "new" coin door on the right side.

    The coin slot is too far to the right for me to use the electronic comparitor, so I have to use a standard quarter mech. I also blew out a light trying to figure out which of the wires leading into the comparitor I'd need to route to the coin switch.

    Won't take too long to get up and running beyond that.


    Next thing to get fixed: Bars. Need to build 280 for that though...



    ...depending on what's going on with my grandparents.
    Friday, July 25th, 2008
    11:57 pm
    Note to self:
    When you're playing four panel, you HAVE TO ATTACK ANY FREEZE ARROWS!

    Also, there's no center step, and you have menus to change your speed mods.
    12:20 am
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    Thursday, July 24th, 2008
    4:08 pm
    Speaking of that auction I linked in ERECTION MOTOR
    I won it. 10 bucks plus shipping, then a 10% off ebay coupon.

    Ended up being below 21 dollars total. Awesomesauce.

    Oh yeah, I had like 22 in paypal.
    Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
    11:02 pm
    That so pringles, Where yo curleh mustache at?
    I TOTALLY rocked out with some NX2. From like 6:15 to 7:30. It was awesome.

    Finally passed Hi-Step Bi-Mine, but had a lot of fun playing the mission possible mission, *Enhe, [ Pyramid ], and Perplexity 5.

    My stick's at something 97.8% now, and I don't really care to try to pass a couple of the missions left.
    12:56 pm
    ERECTION MOTOR.
    My recent trip down to Brian's house (which was a lot of fun, and the new SX machines are awesome) gave me a couple leads on some stuff.

    First, I didn't realize coin doors went for so freaking cheap on Ebay. Example:
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270256288799&ssPageName=STRK:MEBI:IT&ih=017

    If I win that, I'll have to contemplate picking up a stackerless bill validator. That's only if I can get one for cheap. And if adding the bill acceptance ability to the machine is fairly easy. That's bottom barrel priority though.

    The second lead is that Brandon was saying he'd like an NX kit. I have NX2, and don't have much need of NX at this point (aside from keeping it in at Lewis). I'll probably PM him on IndyDDR and see how serious he is at like $220 (with marquee even).

    Big props to Wolfen for getting a job that pays better per hour than mine (my benefits are probably far beyond his though). Also, Kristen appears to have gotten a job in Romeoville.

    Weather's been awesome lately, so I'll get plenty of Pump in today.
    Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
    9:30 pm
    THE RACE!
    Yeehaw 1, WinDEU 0.

    166 misses, B.
    Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
    7:36 pm
    THE RACE IS ON!
    windeu18: ok, so here's a plan
    windeu18: what do you have on LIADZ2 full NM?
    Shane Muir: best
    Shane Muir: 183 misses
    windeu18: C, D?
    Shane Muir: C
    windeu18: ah
    Shane Muir: which I'm completely astounded by.
    windeu18: lol
    Shane Muir: on video too
    Shane Muir: youtubed.
    windeu18: oh yeah, i remember that now
    windeu18: well, i propose a race
    windeu18: because i currently have a C on Bemera CZ
    Shane Muir: that's pretty damned good
    windeu18: race to see who B's their respective song first? *shrug*
    windeu18: haha, thanks
    windeu18: seems like a low C though, 199 misses =\
    Shane Muir: ok, I'm down for a pump race
    windeu18: yay =D

    I NEED TO GET MY ASS OUT TO THE MACHINE... after my food settles.

    I probably should have told him I just finished eating.
    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
    8:32 am
    Women with long nails speak out against iPhone design
    copy/paste, link at bottom.

    "Most people either love or hate the iPhone's touch screen, and based on a report on the LA Times, women with long fingernails are among the haters. Why? Well, since the iPhone's touchscreen only responds to electrical charges emitted by your bare fingertips, women with long nails are left out in the cold. A woman interviewed for the article went so far as to suggest Apple was being misogynistic because it did not include a stylus for women and didn't consider womens' fingers and nails when designing the phone.

    Honestly, though, this same argument has come up against keyboards, touch screen monitors, and anything else that involves the use of your fingers, so should every gadget maker change the design of its products to accommodate users with long nails, or should people with long nails learn to work around this problem like they have in the past? I'd love to hear what Apple has to say about all this, but I doubt they'll ever address this particular design flaw.

    Personally, I'd rather have them focus on the real issues of the iPhone, like the lack of a video camera, extra storage, and better camera, but that's just me. Besides, there are styli out there that work with the iPhone just fine and are pretty affordable.

    This all reminded me of an iPhone reviewer who had a hard time using the iPhone due to her long nails, and in her frustration she said, "I guess people who use Apple products are too cool for fingernails." But are we? What do you think?"

    http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/29052

    The fuck?

    Hey idiots. If you want an iPhone so bad, then cut your nails, or use your knuckles. If your fingernails are long enough to impede your ability to eseentialy push a button, you've got a problem.
    Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
    8:37 am
    a bit better
    Managed to get the majority of an itallian beef and fries down last night. Things look like they're starting to heal at a decent pace now.

    And the pain is down.
    Monday, June 16th, 2008
    12:42 pm
    Results:
    Benign. At least I think that's how you spell it. James?

    I asked about how long it's going to take for this to heal up when they called with the results. They said it's hard to tell, and to focus on drinking liquids more than eating.

    So it's a catch-22. If I eat I won't heal up right, but if I try to heal up right, I can't eat.

    So yeah, I'll be kind of pissy for a while.

    Current Mood: angry
    Sunday, June 15th, 2008
    8:29 pm
    Throat still hurts. I want some popcorn but it'd be too painful.
    Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
    12:27 pm
    ow
    I had appointments with two doctors today. An Ears/Nose/throat at 830, and my dentist at noon.

    The ENT was pretty cool, appointment didn't take long, but he did a fucking biopsy to get a modulus out of my throat (technically right above my uvula).

    God damn swallowing/burping/hiccuping hurts like fuck now. I tried doing some soft tacos and could only get two down.

    I went over to the dentists office for the scheduled fillings and told them what was up. The dentist took a look and said, "We're not doing anything today. We'll need to give you two weeks to heal up."

    Ow.
    Monday, June 2nd, 2008
    2:29 pm
    son of a bitch
    I just checked my phone usage for this month.

    150 minutes over.

    On top of that is the nearly 50 text messages.

    I won't be answering my phone until Thursday.
    Friday, May 30th, 2008
    11:47 pm
    I wanted to post this because it's a good read
    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx

    Basically the reasoning as to why people don't stay at jobs like they used to. Give it a look.
    Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
    12:47 pm
    I'm hungry, and my mouth is numb because I just got two fillings done.

    I just want some food.
    Friday, May 23rd, 2008
    1:26 am
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