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Yesterday was the first day of a Spanish class I am taking through a local community college. At precisely one minute before 6pm, our start time, the teacher (professora) says "This will be the only time we will ever start late" and I am thinking what the hell have I gotten myself into. Okay, so she turned out not to be too bad and I suppose some of the structure, deadlines, and grading is why I am taking the class. I need that structure to help force me to learn in a timely manner. Anyway, I am only taking the intro course so I should be well ahead of the curve from High School spanish for a while. That will make it easier to get by without too much work required, at least initially. I am taking it with Alex, and it is probably a good place to meet new people outside of the bars. Really I would just like to be fluent in another language which is especially usefull in California.
Boycott the RIAA. Despite recent harrasment of online music users and potentially suing people who filesharing programs (which caused a 22% reduction in online filesharing), cd sales are again DOWN 15%. During the economic slowdown CD sales for the RIAA were down, but not down as much as the entire economy was. This all points to reasons other than online file sharing for why CD sales are down, and yet the RIAA is going to begin suing individual file sharers soon. The RIAA also sued a student at a University who wrote a program to search the University's network for files. The program had nothing specific in it that would promote the illegal copying and sharing of music yet the RIAA sued him and he could not afford the court costs so he settled out of court for several thousand dollars. I think the RIAA is unethical and no longer needed as a means to distribute cds. So until they change their ways or go out of business I am not going to buy music under their labels(which is pretty much all mainstream music). I mean think about it, what service do they provide? The distribution of cds. Current technology has made that service accessible to anyone; anyone can distribute cds. So the RIAA should look toward providing users with something they need or want and stop trying to enforce an antiquated method of distributing music - it is bad for everyone.
Okay, so enough with my rant. I am coming down to Utah from Oct 1st to Oct 5th. The majority of people who occasionally read my website (all 3 of them) will be there :). I am 24, blah blah feel really old, blah blah time moves faster now. So I have my job, finished school, and am working every day. Now what?
Last weekend I went down to SLO (San Luis Obispo) with Robbie Floyd and Robbie's girl Mandie. It was a great little college town with lots of restaurants, shops, and bars. We went out Saturday night and enjoyed some good music and a more diverse crowd than we normally get at Sacramento bars. We also swam at nearby Pismo beach Saturday night and wondered why we had the beach pretty much to ourselves. No one else was in the water. Then we got back to our hotel room and find out that a 17' shark was spotted off the Pismo beach pier the same day we were swimming at Pismo beach. Yeah, so the shark was spotted an hour or two from when we were there about 200 yards from where we were swimming. A girl died at the beach near us (Avilla beach) on the 18th and I believe it was the first death in California from a shark attach in 9 years. Needless to say we didn't do much swimming on Sunday, although I was really looking forward to trying to surf.
'At the end of all our searching we will arrive at the place we began and know it for the first time.'
-Justin
The site is back up, after about a year off. I wrote a couple of logs in my Slashdot account, which you can read here. I am now hosting on geocities, which I initially used long long ago for my first crummy website. It appears to be quite add-free and free now, so I am using it.
I removed a lot of the older crap which used to be on my page. I will look to adding more content eventually but for now there isn't much. Look for more updates soon.
Oh, I almost forgot a little story I wanted to tell. I was at the doctor, I still have to go there a lot from that whole cancer extravaganza, and we are wrapping up our little checkup. They are so uneventful I don't know why I go. The normal procedure is he says "How do you feel" after looking through some papers, and I say "fine." and he says "Okay see you in two months". Anyway, this last time we are shooting the normal proverbial shit when he says "So.. hows the love life? Do you have a girlfriend?" No. "Well, a nice young handsome engineer like yourself should have no problem finding a girl." Oh really? Is that how it works? Maybe you should tell them. It's like I am going to reply "Do you really think so? Well then maybe I should give it a shot. Maybe I could start talking to girls and maybe even date one of them. Thanks for the advice doc, next visit I will be putting in an order for some Viagra!"
Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all.
-Justin
AND NOW A WORD FROM CHESTER!
This website contains adult language and content that may be unsuitable
for children.
Chester: and a ferarri
Chester:
and sum coke chick
Chester:
s
Chester:
live in
Chester:
in my mansh ion
Chester:
on mly yaucht
DBEAST7:
yes
Chester:
do you ever feel like to look straight you have
to lean your head
back?
DBEAST7: uhh
yeah
Chester:
cause boy am i leaning back
DBEAST7: oh
yeah?
DBEAST7:
wow
Chester:
so spam
Chester:
is lthils little thing i like to call
frutella
Chester:
and once i saw a girl eat nutella
Chester:
with her finger
Chester:
lappin it up klike a dog
DBEAST7:
cool
DBEAST7: I uhhh
am going to bed
Chester:
and i just stared at this fat girl who said
Chester:
she once
Chester:
deep fried mars bars
Chester:
with her cousin
Chester:
for fun
Chester:
and ate them
Chester:
so this girl llooked
like miss piggy
DBEAST7: messed up nose?
Chester:
and shes eatin this chocalleteee fudge poop
outtta this nasty factory
made cycliccal carbonite compoundish bullcrap
Chester:
lappin it like a dog
Chester:
sickkests thing ive
ever seen
Chester:
but the main point is
Chester:
She ATE DEEP FRIED MARS BARS WITH HER
COUSIN
Chester:
now print this in your next bischoff
update
DBEAST7:
okay
Chester:
form anyonymus user
Chester:
poster
DBEAST7:
okay
Chester:
updater
DBEAST7:
okay
Chester:
anonymous
Chester:
you ass
Chester:
ill sue
DBEAST7:
gotcha
Chester:
i have lawyer already
DBEAST7: Im
really going to sleep now
Chester:
me too
Chester:
im done
Chester is a good buddy of mine whom I have elected to keep anonymous, by
his request of course.
I am doing well in California, for all who care. I got a bed! believe it or
not. So no more sleeping on the floor for me. I also got a bank account
and other stuff, no cell phone yet though. Spending money is a time
consuming and painfull process for me.
My job is about to get REALLY busy, basically I have been barely staying
afloat in the kiddie pool and I am getting tossed in the deep end next week.
Its good though, I work best when I have a lot to do. It keeps me focused
and working hard.
Checkout Gutei's
Finger, if you haven't already. Short update this time.
I can't decide if what you're saying is too profound for me to
comprehend or just insane.
-Justin
So I am by no means a gambling addict, but I have been a few times since
Lake Tahoe is close and I went to Vegas on my road trip over the summer.
So, I was tired of losing money so I looked up all the odds, strategies,
and other things you can do to improve your odds. On my last visit I won a
little, which is always good, and I had fun and drank and ate and it was all
either free or paid for by the casino! I also had poker night in Folsom,
which was fun but nobody had played before. We spent the whole time just
explaning games and getting started. It's only really fun when everybody
knows how to play, then the good bluffs and betting comes out. Anyway I'm
going to Vegas with like 12 people sometime mid October, maybe I will find a
CHEAP place to play poker.
[ Click Here for BlackJack Picture ]
Me and Jeff Kalikstein at Harrahs? in Lake Tahoe playing some black jack.
Those chips are pure profit that you can see sitting by my arm.
So I moved into Folsom (about 30 min east of Sacramento) with 3 other
guys, 2 of whom I new from my previous internships at Intel. It is a really
nice house and I'm glad I got it. California is nice, the weather is
perfect in the summer, not too hot and not cold at all. The winter gets a
little chilly and rainy, but not for too long. It beats a lot of places I
have lived although I could get used to the Arizona weather and tan ;) I am
playing volleyball and all that good stuff.
Work is coming a long. It is ridiculous the amount of stuff I have to
setup, install, get access to, learn, borrow, apply for, take classes on,
and get ready just to do the work everyone in my group is doing on a daily
basis. We get a lot of work done but there is a lot of beauracracy and
complexity in everything that we do. Its cool however that I get many
computers to work on, with different operating systems and software. I also
got my first laptop, it is a P3 1.33Ghz. It beats the piece of junk Im
using at home (shown below). Look how clean my room is Mom!!
[ Lake Tahoe Picture ]
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
-Justin
So much has happened in such a short time. Right now I am
sitting in Phoenix Arizona awaiting my trip to California to start working.
I just heard that Intel is laying of 4000 people so I am not even sure if I
still have a job.
Howevever I do have a lease so I am moving to California regardless of what
Intel does.
I just finished my trip to Europe with Garrett and I also had a nice road
trip across the Western United States with Kurt. All in all I spent a ton of
money and completely satiated my travelling desire (for now). I will try to
get some pictures up on the web along with a brief description of our trip,
but I don't know when that will happen. Here is a quick picture of the
girls we met in Munich. This is after our night at the Haufbrau House in
downtown Munich, where liter beers are ~4 euros.
The Drunk Europe Gang[ Click Here for
Image ]
My cancer treatment went well, and as of 1 month after chemo-therapy there
is no sign of cancer. However the type of cancer I had has been known to
resurface so I must get monthly blood tests. Which presents a host of
problems since I am moving and changing health care providers. I am lucky
though that Intel has such a great medical plan. It should be fairly easy
for me to get the treatment I need.
I am glad that I did all sorts of travelling this summer. I enjoyed seeing
what Europe was like, and how people live over there. I am leaving a lot of
friends in Chicago, which is upsetting, along with MB which is also very
upsetting. Anyway I refuse to get down about moving off by myself. Being
happy or sad isn't really dependant on your surroundings, only with how you
treat the situation. It still hasn't really sunk in that I could have died
from cancer (or still possibly could), nor has it really sunk in that I had
cancer. It feels like an accident, it wasn't supposed to happen to me.
But, it is good that it did. I think I matured a lot. I also think I have
a healthier respect for life and the fact that it could all end soon,
tomorrow, or even today. Once you realize that you don't know what will
happen in the future and you don't know if you will live a long life then it
becomes much easier and important to have fun in the now. To make an impact
in the now. I don't know what I want to do with my life in the long run,
but I do want two things. 1) I want to have a good time (which I think is
completely determined by ones self) and 2) I want to have an impact in other
people's lives. Basically I want it to matter that I was here.
"The pessimists may be proven right in the long run, but the
optimists have more fun along the way."
-Justin
Left Radical Orchiectomy
I think doctors like using weird terminology because it makes them feel
special or something, I see no reason why they can't call it by something a
little more accurate. For example left testicular cutoffitude or nutum
leftum removeum maybe even chopage a la leftball. Anyway that is what I
have been going through recently and I am kinda embarrassed to talk about it
on my webpage but everyone who reads this probably knows already anyway.
So I am playing catch-up at school now, after having missed about a
weeks worth of classes. Its not so much fun. I think I want a job
reviewing video games or something so that I can do that for a living.
Two things I am really excited about, though, are going to europe this
summer for about a month and working in California again. I will enjoy
seeing all my CA buddies again and being around mountains. Europe will be
especially fun because I get to hang out with my old High School chum
Garrett. Although I am not enthused about being around people who don't
speak english for 24 hours a day. Really we will all be speaking english
eventually (a presumptuous assumption but in my mind its fairly accurate) so
can't the rest of the world get on it now? Australia is good, England
America and Canada are also on the right track. Everyone who speaks two
languages in Europe or Mexico speaks english now isn't that enough of the
world?
Faber est suae quisque fortunae.
-Justin
Small changes to the webpage again. Looks a little better to
me. Been busy lately, some sort of 1/4 way point where all my classes
decide to make things due at the same time.
I'm thinking about buying a computer, but my current one is pretty much
enough for me, unless I want to game. I am thinking that when I get to work
I won't want to do much from home, after being on the computer all day. I
also want to get a sweet computer if I do get one, and it will cost me an
arm and a leg. I keep seeing what the next generation of processors will
have and I want to have the ones that aren't out yet. I was waiting for the
.13u P4's which are now out at 2.0 and 2.2Ghz, which
offers a significant performance increase over .18u. The 2.4Ghz and
2.6Ghz (which aren't out yet) will have a 533Mhz front side bus which will again be a significant performance increase
over current proccessors. So, I'm caught in the loop of always waiting for
the next better processor.
Also, my trip to Austin went well, although they haven't gotten back to
me yet... I also got kicked off my flight on the way back because they over
booked their plane. That is freaking annoying, especially when they
overbook every flight for a given day. Austin is a pretty cool city. I was
down there for Mardi Gras, which was probably the best time to go. It was a
giant party downtown. The city is small like Sacramento, but cooler. I
think the people down there just have more pride in their city.
If
at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
-Justin
School, my last semester and possibly forever, although I do
hold some aspirations of graduate school, either MBA or technical. I'm at
one of those points in my life where decisions that could potentially be
completely arbitrary will greatly affect how the rest of my life turns
out.
I think my problem is that I want to do everything a little bit and
very few things a lot. I mean everything is interesting. If I had to
decide the rest of my life now, and I could get whatever job I wanted, I
would probably work for like 2 years at Intel, then maybe join the military
and become some sort of pilot, then law school and eventual be some kind of
judge or supreme court justice. I think that they (the Supreme Court)
pretty much have the most influence on America and our lives out of
everyone. At some point I would like to get a Ph.D and own a Bakery/Deli.
I am, however afraid that I might end up working in essentially the same job
for 50 years, and never do anything interesting. Maybe that is an immature
point of view but then again maybe it is justified.
I finally got a research position with a professor, I have pretty much
been trying now for like 3 semesters, and it really doesn't take a lot of
effort on behalf of a Professor, they just have to give you a chance. I
will be writting a part of a compiler for a professor and experimenting with
new optimization techniques to make it run faster. I think one of the big
reasons that I am doing this is to try and keep my options open for graduate
school. I really dislike and get frustrated by the idea that certain
choices or paths for my life are closed. I think I felt like I could do
anything I wanted when I was in High School, and before I had decided I got
shoved into the real world.
Classes are going good, I will elaborate briefly on them in case your
interested, but since nobody reads this crap I guess it's for my own
benefit. I am taking 5 classes, Latin - which is interesting and fairly
easy, Teen Slasher Movies - which is a film studies course. I am suprised
by the amount of content in this class and how you can make associations
with society through something as obscure as slasher movies. I haven't,
until now, taken a course that analyzes society, other than maybe
philosophy, and I am glad I took this course and find the material
interesting. My technical courses are Operating Systems and Parallel
Programming, they are both interesting to me, neither required nor
exceptionally difficult. My professor in Parallel Programming, Ph.D David
Padua, is the one who arranged my research, it should be a very good
experience. Lastly I am taking Executives in Engineering, where VP's and
other higher ups of certain companies come and give short lectures on
whatever they like. There is some interesting stuff and the course is 1
hour and won't require much work. If I ever don't want to do the work
however I suppose I could just drop it and show up to the lectures anyway.
I still hope to drink a lot and play lots of video games to make up
for my busy semesters earlier, however with the research project, who knows
I might actually be busy.
Mali liberos
culpant.
-Justin
Skiing, I love skiing, and it is where I will be in two
short days. Skiing is such a
great sport, it mixes heavy physical activity, with skill, with the gorgeous
scenery breaks of the liftline, plus you get to be in the great outdoors.
Nothing really compares. When your hammering
down the rough terrain of some steep slope and adrenalin is kicking in, you
forget about the cares of
day to day activities and truly live in the moment.
I finished another semester at UIUC, and it was a fair amount rougher than I
had planned. The good news is that now I have pretty much an easy semester
ahead of me and it looks like I might get a research position with a former
professor. My grades were decent but not quite the stellar outcome I had
hoped for. Im really not certain why my grades didn't come out all A's. I
guess I just need to put more time into my classes, that is the only real
problem. A's used to come easy, but now they just take a little more time.
Wait, scratch that, they take a lot more time.
So, one more semester to go, and then Im in Sacramento. Im writing this
right now from Arizona, where my parents live, its a balmy 70 degrees or so
mid december. I could get used to this. Although by Sunday I will be in
Utah, freezing my butt off. Although its all worth it for the skiing!
Crazy like a fox.
-Justin
Im graduating this year, along with many of the people I
started college with, about four years ago. Many of us have been slightly
concerned about the current job market situation and many
companies are not hiring at all. Fortunetly I got a job offer, which I soon
accepted from Intel in Sacramento. So it looks like
Sacramento is where I will be living for the next couple of years.
Kurt Triebe and I went up to Chicago last Saturday. We drank very expensive
drinks in the 95th floor of the Hancock tower and then went
to a club called the White Lounge or White Star or something like that. We
went with three girls, one of which (Shanna) Kurt new from over the summer
and the other two were friends of Shanna's. It was a really expensive
night, but it was also a lot of fun. Lets just say Kurt and one of the
girls we
met got along really well. We might go up to Chicago a couple more times
before the year is up, it is a lot of fun down there.
I would really enjoy living in a big city such as Chicago, maybe I should
look into that.
School is wrapping up quickly. I should be able to pull off a really good
GPA as long as I ace my next two Statistics tests. Stats is really
a bitch. I did not expect it to be difficult at all, which was probably
part of the problem to start. My ECE312 (Computer Architecture) class
is going really well. I am finishing up designing my pipelined
microprocessor and it is starting to work, which is really good. This
project
has taken up a ridiculous amount of time, but it is good stuff to know. I
might get a research position next semester with my current
professor. He is working on compiler technology, especially with Intel's
new Itanium processor, which is very interesting to me.
Some Random Quote
-Justin
Im 22 now, there aren't any more world trade centers, and school is still
rough despite the
fact that Im only taking 4 classes. I am taking my ECE312 class which is
microprocessor design, which is
really interesting and making me think about graduate school.
I am graduating this may and going to Europe over the summer, which will be
awesome. Pretty much
everyone I talk to says they want to go to Europe after college so maybe I
will go with a bunch of people I know,
or see some people while I am there. As far as jobs go I don't really know
what I want to do, but that
hasn't stopped me from trying to get lots of job offers. I know that I want
to work in the Computer
industry, but my hardware/software preference is questionable. So far I
have interviewed with
Sun Microsystems, IBM,
Microsoft,
Lockheed & Martin, and I am interviewing with NVisia
and E-trade next week. I haven't gotten
any offers yet,
or any free tickets to be flown somewhere for a more in-depth interview, but
I am still optomistic.
Thats all I'm writting for now, oh but did you hear what Osama Bin Laden is
going to be for
Halloween? --Dead. Whats the difference between Osama and Christmas?
Christmas will be here
in December.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet
engines.
-Justin
I moved from California to Illinois in the past month, and my family is
going to Arizona because of my father's well deserved promotion. I am
making several changes to the website, slowly, so if it is broken or doesn't
look right that may be why.
My update is going to be short because I have other stuff to do, but I am
taking a fairly easy set of classes this semester with only 4, however one
of them is UIUC's tough microprocessor course ECE 312. This will leave me
with a strikingly easy semester for my last semester here, thank you AP
credit.
Intel recently released a new P4 processor at 2Ghz. I am thinking about
writing an article about how to judge processor performance, especially in
the realm of P4 vs. Athlon, but many people will assume I am biased because
I worked for Intel.
I am reading a couple of interesting books, on called Ishmael by Daniel
Quinn was recommended by my brother Nic, a religious book I should have soon
from Richard Woo, and the Dune series.
Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is,
never try.
-Justin
Big Brother is Watching You! TeraGrid Computing System
at UIUC
Well, I have had some time lately, but I have been using it up watching
movies and surfing "the web". I
watched Taxi Driver for the
first time recently. My roomate didn't like it because it wasn't all
action, but I thought it was good. It has the famous Robert DeNiro lines
"Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me? I don't see anyone else
around." (that's not an exact quote, but you get the idea). I also watched
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" again, that movie just rules. I saw some
really, really bad movie called "Monkey Bone". It has Brendan Frasier and
Chris Catan (saturday night live) and its partly animated. The last one I'm
going to mention is Planet of the Apes. I hated it. Okay the monkeys
looked cool, but the rest of the movie sucked. Here is a brief listing of
the things I didn't like about it: One ape was constantly mad, they changed
the plot a lot, the main character (frickin Marky Mark) didn't inspire at
all, there was some messed up love thing happening between Marky Mark and
some ape chick yet he ends up kissing the hot human, **Warning, plot
revealed**; and the ending with earth inhabited by apes, that made ZERO
SENSE.
I have been logging my dreams sporadically to try and get lucid dreams,
but no luck yet, no really interesting dreams.
Friday is my last day at Intel, I am happy to be going back to school but
I wish I would have had a longer internship so that I could have gotten more
done. I had my final presentation today and everything went good.
Hopefully my manager will give me a good review, but I'm not sure.
Age Quod Agis
-Justin
San Francisco is a great city. I mean sure you have all the bisexuality
thing, which can bug you out, but ignoring that the city pretty much rocks.
I was down there all weekend, chilling in Santa Clara (aka. Silicon Valley)
and driving up to San Francisco at night. We stayed out till about 5am
Friday night at this cool bar and a club afterwards. Saturday night we went
to a small bar in San Jose where there was some Reggea music playing.
I read some stuff about the French philosopher Sartre, whom pretty much
started the area of philosophy known as existentialism. Its nice to read
stuff like that right after I took my intro to philosophy course. Just from
the little book I read it looks like the Sartre stuff gets way more deep and
complicated than the stuff we went over. On a seperate note, I have been
trying to have lucid dreams. Leroy, my roomate, had this little pamphlet
off the net on how to have lucid dreams. It seems intruiging so I am going
to try it. One of the things you have to do is keep a dream log, so maybe I
will put some of my more messed up dreams on my webpage. I do remember this
one dream I had about a year ago which you can read about here.
I added a little article I wrote to the
paintball area, top ten rookie mistakes. A new
paintball player would probably learn a lot from it, and it might make their
experience a lot more fun. I might add more stuff later in regards to
paintball and similar stuff, If I do I will note it here.
You probably noticed the little banner ads at the top of the page. If
you dismissed them qiuckly like most people do, you might have missed that
they are supposed to be humorous. Anyway I will probably get rid of them
soon, because they are kind of annoying.
If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now
quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
-Justin
So California rules, there is a ton to do and I don't do any of it. Last
time I was here we were traveling everywhere, skiing, hiking, but this time
I have been sitting at home a lot. Hopefully we will go to Santa
Barbara to surf this weekend, but it could very well not happen. I
didn't do much of anything last weekend or the one before that, however I
bowled a nice game on Tuesday. I like bowling, and I'm better at it drunk.
My new online addiction is this site called everything2. I'm not going to
link to it because you probably won't understand it, and if your really
curious you could find it easily. I have decided that drinking profusely is
a good thing, and that growing up and working for the rest of your life is
not. I am currently hoarding all the money that I can for my Grand
Scheme (laughs maniacally). My only problem is that I'm not sure what
this scheme is exactly. I am fairly sure it involves me not working and it
involves Europe.
I have complained before about the cable company, but lets just say that
they couldn't find their asses with an electrified ass finding machine and a
mirror. They messed up our cable connection at home, didn't give us the
channels we ordered and in general think that I enjoy spending most of my
life on the phone searching through automated menus. I would like to meet
and greet the maker of the automatic phone menu so that I could introduce
him to a swift boot in the behind. In case you hadn't noticed, this is my
bitter rampage update. If you create your own web page your allowed to go
on bitter rampages, its in the constitution or something.
Women, like beer, are the cause of and solution to all of men's
problems (except they only solve one problem). I'm not talking about your
female relatives, I'm talking about those other women. I think the problem
is that women are much more 'relationship intelligent' than men, which
enables them to manipulate us in bad ways, so you have to stand by your
ignorance and not take any of heir crap. Otherwise they will always be
telling you to put the to
ilet seat down or something. Okay so I'm not really that bitter, but
its fun to act like it. As far as the internet goes, I feel obligated to
show you fools around since you don't know what your doing :) What are you
favorite 80's Movies?
There is also this computer
program you can talk to. There are also the 2001
web award winners if your interested. There is a new good place to buy
guy/kid stuff. And there is a weird online mural
that I haven't really looked at. Finally there is this site of great Simpson's quotes. Stick Death!
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'sir' without adding,
'you're making a scene.'
-Justin
So work has slowed down a lot, because I have finished a big part of my
project, and now a lot of my work depends on other people. I really
want to get more done, and start being really productive, but its hard.
Especially with so many distractions.As far as my weekends go, last
weekend I didn't do much of anything, although I almost bought this APB arcade game. I decided at
the last minute that I didn't really want to put as much money as it was
going to cost me into it. Anyway over the fourth I went to some guy's house
and barbecued and watched fireworks, woohoo! The weekend before that was my
trip with the fam to Lake Shasta. We spent three days on a house boat,
coasting along getting toasty on america's favorite drug and driving
jetskis. It was a lot of fun, and I got some sun, so I am happy about it.
I still haven't been playing paintball much down here in CA, but I hope to
go out at least once. I don't really feel like doing much of anything
lately, so I don't think I will be renovating my website, even though it
needs it. I will officially be able to add scripting and other cool stuff
when I move it over to my friend's server. I did read the book DUNE, just
because of the miniseries, and the sequel that they are going to make. I
also downloaded this moderately interesting book by Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. The book will
provoke some thought, it has a lot of scientific, religious, and
philosophical topics. If you are extremely savvy in science, or well
knowledgeable about philosophy or a religious fanatic, you probably wont
like it. The rest of us think its pretty good. That's about all that has
been going on for me.
I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.
-03q1sT
I thought of a good idea, well I stole it from someone
else. Basically I am going to keep track of my weekends and all the fun
stuff I do on my website here. That way when I go back and read through
it, it will evoke all these fun memories. I was reading about surfing on
this website and a person suggested to mark your calander with a brief
explanation of what the surfing was like, and I was wishing I had done
that with skiing. Anyway last weekend (yesterday) we went to this bar in
Sacramento called Harlows and saw a pretty bad band. The bar was a little
more highclass than we were, but it was a moderately good time. Then we
argued a lot and finally decided to go to Lake Tahoe. Our main problem is
that we have no luck in planning things, either apathy or indecisiveness
prevents us from doing cool things. At Tahoe, we just chilled on a beach
for a while, then roamed the Casinos and went to the club in Ceaser's
called Club Nero. We danced at Club Nero for a while and then I gambled
some before passing out in our motel room. The weekend before the one
that just passed we did the usual
local club called Polly Esthers and went to Davis (I think). Anyway, Im
done with this update.
I did nothing, and it was everything that I thought it could
be.
-Justin
I swear that the weeks go by faster now than they did last year. Anyway
Im not driving down to Santa Barbara this weekend because the weather isn't
so great there, which is odd considering its like 100degrees and sunny here
everyday. I guess being on the coast is cooler than inland like Sacramento.
We will probably be going somewhere though, like Tahoe on Sat. Next weekend
I am going to Lake Shasta to chill on a big boat with some friends and
family. It should be a blast. I haven't been doing as much web surfing
because I have been busier, but I did get cable at home (including cable
internet service) and its blazingly fast, by far the fastest connection I
have ever had. I dont know how it will affect my free time. I did find a
couple things, like this
article on an artificial intelligence machine called "Cyc". Well time
to run, short update today.
quod me nutrit, me destruit
-Justin
Link-O-rama
Well I guess we can start with some cool Stick Figure Kung
Foo, and if your looking to be amused there are always those people who
aren't clever enough to live.
They will be bringing The Holy Grail
back to theatres. If your not down with the h@x0r talk then you can use a
translator. If your
looking for hardware info, or some material on the
Pentium 4 you can try Tom's
Hardware Guide. Of course there is always the extremely funny Onion. And lastly if you want to browse
your local network (NOT the internet) for MP3's (like at school), you could
try the neato mp3 finder here.
-Justin
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