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The night plods forth... a lone programmer in an empty apartment hunches over an aged keyboard scripting, comparing, and logging the differences between Thursday night's backup and the current set of tables and procedures.

Phase three is almost complete.

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It looks like the House opted against the bail out. Hi -500 points in the market. I am now putting wagers on the likelihood of us breaking the 10k market in the downward spiral...

Must... not... pull.. 401k

Rear brakes are changed! It was not as totally annoying as I was guessing, but still annoying. Though you can't argue 20 bucks and some time versus 300 bones...

My buddy's dad is truly a fount of car knowledge. Ha!

I am somewhat lost on the time frame Jefe is giving us. By my vantage point it looks like we will hit the mid-November deadline, but she mentioned earlier in this morning's standup meeting that it was August. Just August. Not as in "August is when the last jobsite will be on line" or "August is when the first project goes online"... just August. WTF is that all about? Unfortuantly there wasn't a place for me to ask questions. Go figure.

I have also decided that I want to the WowWee Rovio robot to start building my flock of artificially intelligent machine gang. Yes, the terminators do not spawn from Skynet - nay they spawn from an abode in the middle of the USA.

In other news this weekend my buddy and I are going to replace my rear drum brakes on my car. I was always under the impression that drum brakes are "complicated and scarey". Nope... it turns out there is a bit more involved than the front disc brakes but not by much. This should be a fun experiment!

I came across this site:
http://www.thecherrybox.com/html/plushies.html

I am profoundly disturbed. Essentially They are 12" plushie wall hanger..

I could probably make one.. and the $80 price tag is a big hefty..

Lots of beer.. lots of log sawing... lots of dancing.. stellar time by all!

Let's see how many myspacers made it here... I am going to guess.. four.

Comments are open to the public... so use'm because you can't lose'm...

wooot woooooooooooooooooooo!

Help! My 401k is being brutally raped by the market!

I finally was annoyed by the default "Day/Month" style of time I read through the help files and now have it worked to a more civilized "year.month.day hour:minute" format.

Day/Month - ha! Savages!

A few things to start the morning off!

1. I was in my local gas station this morning looking for something to drink. I am shying away from my usual breakfast of champions of Mountain Dew, and my fall back of 'Vitamin Water' was looking too picked over. Bee-bop'n around I came across something that looks suspiciously simliar to Vitamin Water, but was called "24c Jones". I shrugged to myself and said 'what the hell'. I grabbed a bottle of their "tropical citrus" and went on my way. Wow... Where the same colored water from Vitamin Water was tasty but way too watered down this stuff was all good flavor. I shall now have to sample their other wares.

2. I won an online give away! A favored website of mine, www.thebachelorguy.com had a drawing for a case of something called Hint Water. I was stoaked to try some out and now I get a case of it. Of their flavors (Strawberry Kiwi, Cucumber, Tropical Punch, Pear, Peppermint, Raspberry-Lime, Lime, Pomegranate-Tangerine, Mango-Grapefruit, Blackberry, Honeydew Hibiscus, Watermelon, or Hibiscus Vanilla) I opted to go with Tropical Punch. I know, I know.. the cucumber or honeydew hibiscus ooze flavor but no thank you. My alternates (in order of favor) was be either Mango-Grapefruit or Pomegranate-Tangerine. Sad.

Regardless I'll drop a review on here when I get some. Depending on the size of the case I shall distribute as needed to friends.

Also, go hit up www.thebachelorguy.com - it's a great site. Stellar articles on manly-man things for this day and age.

Gotta love listening to coast to coast am at work in the place of music... Paranoia - my old friend - welcome home.

Yup.. got it added..

Also in the middle of a nice project.. will tell later.

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and there's the rss feed icons! nice!

I haven't gotten around to splicing in the code for an easy RSS feed button, but here's the link if you care:

http://www.wangnet.org/blog/xml-rss2.php

I have been tracking quite a bit of activity from these three places... if you find yourself a reader and from one of those places (or a New York/Miami resident) drop a comment. I would love to chat with ya!

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/gonzo?q=gonzo

Seeing me some Gonzo tonight at the local hipster theater! w00t! (please note that the happiness is not for getting to go to the hipster theater, but for the movie).

Oh, hipster movie joint: Film Streams

I got my STP* tickets... my buddy Anna Montana is riding shotgun on this prehalloween trip!

*stone temple pilot

Last night's VMAs* were interesting in a sad and tragic sort of way. It's like seeing an old friend panhandling on the streets for change when no more than a few years ago he was zipping around town in a pimped out ferrari.

Let me start out with some of the most obvious issues. The host... Who the fuck is Russell Brand? I saw some of the commercials and they were poking fun at the fact no one would know him - is that really a good thing? At least he could have indicated what he was famous for up front.. that would have been nice. His act was amusing, and if Jordan Sparks would have gone fist-a-cuffs with him I would have been totally swayed, but alas no.

The next big issue I saw was the lack of a crowd (okay so "didn't see" for the pun). Once upon a time the VMAs pulled a massive crowd on par with that of the movie awards. This year it looked like it took place in a casino ballroom, with fold out chairs. I was shocked. There was an 1/8th the size there usually is. Were the fans not invited? A celeb only event?

Moving on to some of the performances - Lil' Wayne was a joke. Sagging pants are one thing, but he must have tapped those bastards to his drawers for this event.. wow... not to mention whatever bomb he dropped caught the cello player off guard with a super surprised look (right before Wayne was getting off the spiral stair case). The rest of the performances were interesting - Katie Perry singing 'Like a virgin', some act playing from the Whiskey Roadhouse, and stuff out in the Paramount back lot. It was odd to see them ship in footage to the VMA - who would have turned down that gig unless it wasn't worth it anymore?

Oh, and Christina Aguilera - yeah.. still totally hot mom..

Minor annoyances - Phelps - there is zero reason to say (unless it's truck loads of money) that while your eight gold medals are nice they are not as nice as a fifteen million records sold in one week for Lil Wayne. Those two things are not in the same ballpark.

Over all - not a horrible production but a serious cut back from past years...



*VMA = video music awards on MTV

"You think your schedule is busy, try being director Guillermo del Toro. Variety reports that the "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy" helmer has such a full schedule that he's got films booked for the next ten years.

First up of course is "The Hobbit" which he is committed to for the next five years. He has begun co-writing the project and is making trips to New Zealand every three weeks to meet with Peter Jackson and co. on the project.
[...]
There's also remakes of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" which in the latter two cases he wants to stick closer to the original work than previous adaptations have done."
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/080904j.php

Stone Temple Pilots
October 28 @ 7:30
Pershing Center

Ticket prices are $39.50, $49.50, and a limited number of Gold Circle seats at $65.00 All Seats Reserved (subject to additional fees)

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/06004115F0A4937E?artistid=752624&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60