i took this video a couple weeks ago when i was invited to watch a building get dropped like a sack of potatoes. it was the last of hl&p. while there are anecdotal pictures up on flickr of the outing, this is the whole monkey. from start to finish witness some raw boomage. href=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=jXfqo0h_tyk
i have noticed lately that the web is starting to become some peoples dirty secret. so a lot of people will pull back and not use a computer or the web or blogs or email to sort of diminish their online presence as a knee jerk solution to something. in fact i read somewhere that a large percentage of the blogs to date will be nixed in the coming year as people realize they dont really give a shit about posting things online and probably also due to the fact that they were losers to begin with and blogging about their loserdom was too depressing. i think its interesting. mainly because although i sometimes am not social on the internet i am constantly utilizing it and my v persona is usually intact. in other words i have never seen it as a bad thing to immediately consult wikipedia google elsevier medline or anything else for that matter that gets me information i need. that includes people i know. it also means i doubt i will stop blogging or flicking or emailing simply because people stop replying. it only makes sense. i may change the mode but the impetus will still be intact. when i see other people who are online quite a bit as well who all but kill their online persona off briefly i wonder what prompts them to do that. i have recently noted that given the nearly infinite photo storage on flickr that my memory has become strongly associative with events that i post online, including the accompanying meta data. so if i was to simply eliminate that i guess my brain would adapt but it would be like working out a lot and feeling good about it and then deciding time to go back to eating a shitload of fast food and pork all the time. not really a move forward. i dont really know what prompted this. could be plastikman in the background.
well i am pretty sure there are many of you (galibea, sanka) who are in the position to tell me i told you so but i have to say, damn. im now running ubuntu using the gnome environment, with the beryl window manager. everything is awesome. i should say though that i tried to get compiz running and i couldnt get it to work. well it worked partially. but something went kaplerky at some point and so the fancy cube fx and menu shading was nonexistant. beryl however was an apt-get and a script someone wrote to do the rest for me. it took about 30 seconds and a restart of the window environment. i am going to offer up a more comprehensive pros and cons list of my experience so far. i am doing this in an effort to bore the living shit out of my readership. all -3 of you. this being the absolute first time anyone has ever seen linux and beryl and ubuntu ever, i guess it will be groundbreaking. insert snarky i told you so and you are good. in other worthless news i bought a file cabinet and i “borrowed” aarons ds9 season 4. in other even more worthless news i hate the fact that i have a 930am class on tuesdays and thursdays. in relatively important news this is me going to sleep 4 hours before i usually end up calling it quits. heres to zzzzzzz!
i saw it coming i just thought that you should know im feeling better every day im only waiting if you stay so dont feel bad faith was an illusion and youre as loyal as your faith will let you be your expectation its not hard to live without im feeling better every day and emptiness still leaves a space so dont feel bad here lies all your emotion and may you find all your relations will keep you free a careless word is complicated and emptiness still leaves a space –au revoir simone
i was a little angry last night and the hatred for inconsiderate drivers overwhelmed me. i guess instead of road rage i got some blog rage. anyhow it was pretty hostile and it has been quelled. if you are a shitty driver then be that way. at least its easier to identify assholes if they blatantly drive like crap. back to austin life!
Monthly Archives: January 2007