09-04-03

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

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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