Crypto's Journal

I'm on Second Life again.

2008-05-01T23:39:58Z

After a bit of a hiatus, I'm running around on SL again. Got lindens burning a hole in my pocket. If you wanna see me around, my name is as always TheCrypto Doctorow. I should be around again tonight.

We'll leave a light on!

2008-04-11T09:59:03Z

I haven't posted in a while. I've turned 21 and as part of my debauchery I am heading to Yuri's Night this Saturday. Right now, Kes and I are in a Motel 6 in Lost Hills, CA on the way to SF. Our plan is to get up in about 5 hours, shower, caffinate, and then be on the way again. I will post another update when we get to SF.

As a nice way to start the trip, when I picked up the car at the Dollar Rent-A-Car, he looked at my information and said "Ahh, you had a birthday recently, going up to SF, how about a free upgrade to a Mustang?" I took it, a little lower gas mileage but a getting a silver Mustang to drive around SF in is pretty damn nice.

Crypto

About that strike.

2008-03-21T09:39:21Z

If you really want to strike, a single day of not posting anything will do nothing. You end up saving everything you would have posted for the day before and the day after. I am intentionally breaking the strike right now.

Every few months a chain email goes out stating we should all stop filling up our gas tanks for 1 day in order to show those people who our gouging us for fuel. And every time, not a single oil company notices. We all end up filling up our tanks the day before or the day after.

If you really want to leave, there are plenty of doors. There is the Wordpresss door, the many LiveJournal clone sites like InsaneJournal. But no, you all stay here for one major reason, everyone else you know is here and you can friends lock things and everything else.

And also, take this in context of what people are complaining about. That you can no longer make an ad-free LiveJournal without paying for it. The ONLY people who would notice the change are people who have been on this site for a while and wanted to create yet another account. Yes, they might have paid for their main account. But what they should be asking for instead is the ability to manage multiple accounts from a single paid account. That would solve the problem.

I bought a permanent account at the last sale. You know why? Even after all the shit they had pulled before? Because the entire architecture to this site is open. You can go to Danga and download all sorts of tools that are used by more than just this. Memcached is used by practically every major website out there. Hell, you can go to the SixApart Code site and download the entire code of LJ. In fact, sites like InsaneJournal aren't "cloning" LiveJournal. They download the most recent code, edit a few configuration settings, and buy some hosting. That is it.

The ONLY reason I would leave LJ is if they started closing that. Then you know there is no more recourse.

I will admit that I am currently working on a competitor to the Livejournal system that is mainly for people in the furry fandom. I hope that people will migrate there. And I also plan to make it quite easy for you to migrate your friends and everything else from LJ to this system.

My point is simply this, there are plenty of doors if you are fed up with the direction that LJ is taking. if you really are fed up. Take one of them. Don't say that you are just going to stop posting for one day.

Crypto

Blackjack!

2008-03-20T03:24:35Z

In approximately 3.5 hours. I will turn 21 years old. However, I have no idea what to do this weekend. So please. Suggestions are needed. Offer places to go, things to drink, things to do. Anything and everything is accepted.

As a note: This weekend I only have Saturday and Sunday off. I am going to work on next weekend getting Friday off as well so I might be able to do bigger things that weekend.

Crypto

Why Urban Fantasy pwns all

2008-03-16T21:07:10Z

I've found two very interesting articles recently and I have been meaning to blog about them. The first article is Five Reasons Sci-Fi pwns Fantasy. In that article he explains some reasons why a Sci-Fi universe is better than a Fantasy universe. The list can be summarized as:

No elves.

Guns > Swords.

More unique plots.

More hopeful outlook.

The XKCD factor.

I can agree with a number of these. The elves one is a bit of a stretch but he is going for stereotypes here. There was then a response article One Reason Fantasy pwns Sci-Fi. This is a much simpler argument and has only one point.

It's accessible

This is a response to the XKCD factor saying that it isn't fun to have to need to read about nanotech in order to understand the plot of the book you are trying to read. That geeks aren't everyone. That is why Fantasy is still the basis for more MMORPGs than Sci-Fi.

Now, I think that both of these arguments actually work together and push for a third genre which is always sort of pushed off to the side, Urban Fantasy. These work on both levels and create a better list.

No elves if you don't want them. And those elves in urban fantasy are different from those in fantasy.

Guns > Swords. But you can have both gun and sword fights going on, even at the same time and not feel like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

More unique plots. The complaint against the plots in fantasy is you are just pawns. In urban fantasy, you are usually much more than that.

More hopeful outlook. Urban Fantasy can be grim like in World of Darkness, but there is always built in some glimmer of hope that things will be made better soon by you.

It's accessible. Everyone knows the myths that Urban Fantasy stuff is based upon and it makes it much easier to get into that mind set.

So Urban Fantasy pwns all.

Meme time!

2008-03-13T06:51:55Z

You've all seen here. Here goes.

"Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it."

I look forward to seeing what people ask.

Traffic School Sucks

2008-03-11T08:27:29Z

This weekend, because of the speeding ticket I got when driving to Yuma in July. I was unable to defend against the ticket by mail. So I gave up and did traffic school.

I am really pissed off. Out of the 40 questions on the final exam, a little less than half actually had to do with traffic safety. In fact the majority was reciting statistics about public transportation. How is this supposed to help you be a better driver. It just proves to me more that traffic tickets are just a way for the city to make money.

The thing that pissed me off even more is that I hate learning by rote. Rote learning dulls the mind. But that is all that this test was. Just lines of statistics that you had to memorize and commit to memory. One of the question didn't even involve the statistics at all but instead was remembering the set of years in which the statistics were taken over.

More posts coming soon.

Router Suggestions?

2008-03-02T20:18:52Z

I have bought 2 routers for my apartment, and both of them have sucked in some way. I originally bought the Netgear open source router. That died pretty quickly. Then I bought an small home business Linksys router. This one works better than the original, but it still loses connection quite frequently to my computer even though it is no more than 10 feet away from me.

Here are the list of features I am looking for:

Fairly cheap. Hopefully no more than $100 for the router.
Wi-Fi
Not suck
Hackable if I can get it.

Also, a note, on an average weekend day we have 6 devices connected via wireless and 2 or so wired in as well

Crypto

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure!

2008-02-28T07:42:46Z

When I was a kid, my parents bought a computer the same year I was born. They spent $5000 at the time for a top of the line machine. My dad told my mom "We'll never have to buy another computer ever." The computer was a 286 with a 30MB hard drive and 640KB of RAM. Of course we all know computers have surpassed those levels of technology by leaps and bounds.

When I was a kid, I used to play hours of a game Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure. I only had the free shareware version which my parents had on 5.25" floppy disk. I would load that game up quite often. I pretty much had it at the point where I had memorized exactly how to play the game. I would load it up and in a few hours I had beaten the game.

The sad part was that at the time, the game was shareware. The first episode was given away for free in order to entice people to buy the second and the third episodes. When I was a kid, I was never able to convince my parents to but the expansions so I could see the end of the story. And by the time I had my own money, Apogee had been bought out by 3drealms and the license went into limbo. To add atop of all of that, my 286 had long bit the dust to.

A few days ago, I remembered this game from playing Super Mario Galaxy and some various nostalgic discussions. So I went looking around and found that 3drealms had made freely available for download the shareware version.

With a bit more research I found that they are also selling the whole game for only $10 bucks. And there were some suggestions to the ability to use DOSBox to run the game. So a couple of downloads later and an apt-get install. I was running Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure again. On Linux, an OS that hadn't even really been dreamed of when this program was written. On box which was hundreds of thousands of times more powerful than the original box I played it on as well.

Tonight, I finished the game after having played it in a couple of blocks. I do remember the moves almost as well as when I did when I originally played it. I beat the game no problem and without even any glitches from DOSBox. I am currently in the process of ordering the full game so I can finally play through the end and see the whole game.

Now why would I write up all of this? I see a problem where we are losing parts of our culture because we are unable to archive the media that is out there. Had Apogee just folded and the assets had liquidated the game would have just been nostalgia, and maybe a couple of people who had bought the registered version would put it up on some pirate site. Which could still be lost if enough takedown notices are sent to the rest of the site and not enough copies exist.

I know I am preaching to the choir here. But please, feel free to check out Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure. It is a short game, only $10 from 3drealms. And shows what even old computers were powerful of doing.

Crypto

Well, today sucked

2008-02-27T07:14:29Z

Eventually, I'll get back to update on the last two months. Maybe even do a decent con report at some point. But for now I want to explain what happened today.

I was on the way to work. A coworker of mine was with me as we carpool. I get on the offramp for the exit to work. I get up to the stoplight behind one car. The car in front of me goes as the light turns green. I push down on the gas and the car goes nowhere, in fact I feel it rolling backwards. I try going again, car goes nowhere again. I repeat this process a couple of times and eventually my passenger says "Restart the car." I do so and the car doesn't even turn over. So at this point I am stuck in the middle lane of a busy offramp with a car that won't move.

I call AAA and they call a tow truck and the CHP. After lots of people honking at me and otherwise being rude since my car was broken, the tow truck finally shows up. The CHP never does. I get my car towed. I had called Kes and other people and through some googling on the symptoms it sounded like my on board computer for the car had died. Well this either means a real cheap fix or a you need to buy a new car fix. So it gets to the shop, I'm picked up by some coworkers for lunch and finally get into the office around 1pm. Which sucks.

So for the next couple of hours I'm stressing as I don't know what is going on with my car. Eventually I get a call back and I pretty much scream with joy as are not only fixing the problem with my car, but also fixing other lingering problems that I were having, and the total bill comes out to only $500 for the whole thing. So I will have my car fixed tomorrow and it will run better. This makes me very happy at the end of a pretty crappy long day.

Just because it is cute

2008-02-26T06:37:02Z

I used that dragon generator to generate myself...didn't take me long but for some reason I want to show it off because it is just so darn cute.

Generate your own.

Crypto

Vantage Point: A review.

2008-02-26T06:30:22Z

This weekend, I saw Vantage Point. And I am quite confused as to why it is getting such bad reviews. I might have a theory about it but it involves some spoilers at the end.

This movie is about having 8 different vantage points on the same scene. The basic scene being the president gets shot. For the first part of the movie, the same 20 minutes are played over and over again from different vantage points. Each one of those 8 replays ends with a flash of white before it goes black. A little clock in the corner ticking up till noon.

The first few are a news van parked outside, a secret service agent, a member of the local police, and an average citizen. The first plot twist which was revealed in the trailer was that the president that got shot was actually a decoy and the real president is actually hiding in his hotel room. This is the point where the story begins to turn and change into a very different movie.

At this point, one of the president's advisors says that a threat has been confirmed on him from a terrorist group. He says he needs to call the joint chiefs to staff to launch a strike against the country which was harboring the terrorist group. Since the summit is anti-terrorism, he says he will not do this. At this point he watches on TV as the fake president gets shot, then a bomb blows up outside of his hotel (A boom which we have been hearing throughout the movie before a more visible bomb goes off) and then all of his advisors are taken out by a masked gunman.

After this point the movie turns into a typical action thriller with the obligatory chase scene and everything else up till the end when the secret service agent from the beginning finally saves the president. This also involves him discovering that another agent had gone rouge on him as well. Now here comes the clincher on all this.

The beginning of the movie was a news van editing together segments of what was going on showing the various scenes that were going on. They intentionally cut away from things like protest and try to cut off a reporter who said things that were not exactly the most "patriotic." In the end of the movie, the president had been tossed in an ambulance accident by his captors and so the end of the movie after the various hugs and stuff are given you see a final news report at the end. "And the lone gunman was shot on the scene."

No one has picked up on this at all yet from the reviews I have seen. No the movie is not the most realistic. Having people waving flags and stuff that close to world leaders would never happen. Yes, people are picking up little things happening while film is being rewound on one of the character. But that is all the little bit of suspension of disbelief that you have to have going into any movie.

The real point of the movie and even the point of the gimmick isn't to show that everyone has a different vantage point. The point of the movie is to show that the mass media is lying to you. The first vantage point and the last vantage point in the movie is that of the media, and both times they show the very least amount of information.

The writing could have been better and I admit it could have been as slightly better movie overall. But then again, I think that has a point to. The point of the movie is too look like every other action thriller, even down to the point of looking dumb and super patriotic in points. But the real point of the entire movie is a JFK allegory as well as trying to tell people about the media.

I would suggest seeing this movie and ignoring the reviewers. You will have to suspend your disbelief for a few parts of it, but if you ride it like a movie and don't nitpick till the very end, you'll see a very interesting film that has a very subversive idea hidden inside a very nicely hidden shell.

Happy New Year!

2008-01-03T10:47:16Z

Well, I'm a bit late aren't I.

But I have good reason to be!

I just moved into a new apartment!

It is a bazillion times better than my old place. I actually have space to move around. My own bedroom, yet I am still able to keep a roommate. My whole old apartment including the bathroom and the bedroom was as big as my living room and kitchen are now. This is absolutely wonderful.

I hope to keep you all up to date more now that I am in this place. I will also be sending off some new years resolutions soon.

If you want my new address for any reason. Just leave a comment.

Crypto!

Thankful Thanksgiving

2007-11-22T10:56:34Z

Since I am planning on staying 99.9% disconnected from the internet during the day given that I have just completed my 16 hour day at work. I would like to make sure that my thanks are out there now so that I don't have to worry about posting them tomorrow.

The biggest thing that I am thankful for is keskitsune. She is the most wonderful person in the world. She has completely turned my life around. She has made my less stressful, more full of wonder, kept me more motivated, and has just been a wonderful partner all around. Thank you Kes. As I have said to you many times before. You Win.

The next group I want to thank are my friends new and old. From kessedrian and waywind from way way back in the Drake Chat days, something which I should reminisce on in written form in the not too distant future. To the newest friends that I have made like bossgoji and krinndnz who have opened my eyes to a whole new community that I have sat on the outskirts of for a while and you finally pulled me inside. To the group in the middle like stevefoxx, tarnac, nicholasdamally, and ferrel, who interestingly enough I will be seeing most of tomorrow. Thank you for pulling me out of my little hole and finally putting me together, as well, introducing me to Kes and helping the two of us along.

Now that the people are out of the way, showing you a bit of how I rate people in this world, onto the more intangible things.

I am thankful for my job. A job which keeps me motivated. A job which doesn't treat me like a cog in a machine. A job where I can be who I am and they don't look down upon me. A job which can keep me there for 16 hours in a single day after a series of 9-12 hour days recently and I don't feel pissed at all about it. I love where I work and I hope that this place works out for the best.

I am thankful for where we are right now. A time where I can share these ideas with just some presses on a keyboard and the click of the mouse and anyone can read what I have discovered or said. A time where I know that if there was ever a problem in my life I would just have to post it on here and someone would come along and pick me up without missing a beat if it came down to it.

Finally, I am thankful for my health. I still worry because of other issues that I am still working on. But for the most part my body works as it should and nothing is chronically wrong with me and I am working on keeping it that way.

Thank you. And I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving,

Crypto

Another update

2007-11-01T11:26:43Z

It is currently the wrong 4:20. That being 4:20 AM. This is a time that I should not be awake and typing this vigorously at a computer. I am blaming this ENTIRELY on that today work had a "happy hour" to celebrate halloween. My company is weird I know. Anyways, since they were mostly offering alcohol and not being of legal age myself I passed on that. But they did offer Red Bull. So without even really thinking I downed 2 in about a 30 minute period about 12 hours ago at this point. 12 hours later I am not even feeling the slightest bit of tiredness. My eyes are wide open and I am typing far to fast. In the past hour, I have also written 872 words for my NaNoWriMo story (View stats here). Thank you to all the people who I have rambled to in this caffine induced haze. I really need to cut caffine out of my system completely. I have it so often that ingesting that amount which for some people is there morning pick me up (Looking at you warren_ellis) that if not having much in the last 3 months since FA:U does this to me. It just isn't worth it.

Another belated weekend update.

2007-11-01T09:59:16Z

The last two weekends updated again, I need to get these in earlier. And I really should be working on NaNoWriMo instead but I need to get this out too.

Two weekends ago, I went to Toorcon. That was very interesting. I'm still processing some of the information that I collected from there. But it was very good and I will probably be linking to some of my favorite talks from there as soon as they put video up. Best thing learned there, you can turn a browser into a VPN using TCP ported to Javascript tunneled through to flash.

Last weekend, I had krinndnz down for a weekend, very fun to be about. We mostly just hung out and talked. Spent a bit of time wandering around Balboa Park but otherwise just enjoyed her company. Much fun was had. Hopefully she will be down with us again for FC at the latest.

Tonight, I went up to Oceanside for a halloween party with some friends that I have up there. We had lots of interesting discussions, some good food, cake, and watched Evil Dead 2 and Fido. Fido is a very interesting movie where the zombies become a slave class through a control collar. I would highly recommend it for funny horror stuff.

Now everyone is up to date on what the hell I am doing.

I hope everyone had a pleasant halloween!

Gutsy Gibbon Geekery

2007-10-09T07:36:32Z

I just got Ubuntu 7.10 installed from the beta. It took me a while to get everything up and running again but now that I do, I am very glad I upgraded. I don't have a single unsupported package installed anymore (Except Opera but that doesn't count because it can't be but that's a whole other issue. As well I need to write about my experiences about switching over to Opera soon.) But anyways, MP3 support can be added automatically. Flash support in Firefox is also automatic. There is no more need for tools like Automatix or EasyUbuntu, everything is handled by tools in the core system. I'm even running an unstable version of Compiz Fusion, there is no access to the config tool by default but it seems to work well.

The only instability in my computer at the moment seems to be from Opera which I think is just a sideeffect of trying to copy some of the databases over from a backup. I just cleared out all of those old databases and hoping that'll fix some of the issues. Otherwise everything is going just great under the new system. It's fast, it has less cruft, and the right versions of all the tools I use.

Edit: Deskbar is awesome, written in Python even it looks like, but seems to be very prone to corrupt it's pickled history database. Hate pickle! Awesome only other instability I've run into. Clearing out history on Opera seemed to fix all the issues there.

The current weekend update

2007-10-08T01:59:41Z

In convenient LJ cuts for each day for your convenience.

Thursday night, I got my first real pair of sunglasses. Oakley's too. The picture of them on me I just too now.

I never knew till just now how much sunglasses can make driving not suck. Driving around especially during the early evenings is so much easier now. Thanks to tarnac for the suggestion. And to cannibalmouth and raspberryroo for helping to pick them out.

Friday night I was allowed to cut early from work. Found out that icywolfy was going up in my direction as well so we went together. I took him to zotcoon/voychael/akhetnu's place and hung out with them for a bit before heading up to Kes' place for a nice dinner, a quick Wal-Mart run for duct tape dummy supplies, and then sleep.

Saturday was the day we planned to do the duct tape dummy. Kes wanted to go pick up an iPod touch first, so we drove to the Brea mall. She bought one, we brought it home and found out it was a brick. We also found out that the sweatshirt that we bought was too large. We looked everywhere for a tighter sweatshirt withing walking distance. We couldn't so we decided to kill two birds with one stone, we went back to the Brea mall for a replacement. Turned out they were sold out and had to wait forever for one of the support people to come help us. Once that was handled we went to Walmart again, still couldn't find what we wanted, came home, and just collapsed figuring that our luck was doing horribly we decided against making the duct tape dummy. We ordered Chinese food and then collapsed for sleep.

This day has just finished so I'm writing about it now. We got up this morning, got a quick breakfast and then came back and did the dummy. It as a good 2 hour grueling activity. I did it a bit too tight in some spots and ended up cutting off circulation to Kes' arms for a bit but fixed that quickly. We did everything pretty quickly getting all done in about 2 hours. Used about 4 full rolls of duct tape. We were going to take more pictures but we needed to rush a bit. Here is Kes part way done.

Anyways, Kes crashed for a nap shortly afterwards and I started spamming LJ. I forgot to mention I also bought a wireless keyboard and mouse for my laptop. Makes doing this stuff feel so much better on my fingers.

Anyways, that's this weekend. You'll be hearing from me more soon I hope :)

The huge update post

2007-10-08T01:40:15Z

Well, I haven't updated since I drove to Yuma and back really. So here is a set of updates on things that have happened since then in little digestiable chunks.

On the drive back to Yuma nothing else happened. We got back home and crashed. For information on the traffic ticket, I have just got everything back from the Imperial courts and have till November 1 to fill out everything and send in my trial by mail form. Other than that it was a fun adventure. Might have to head to Arizona again in the future for more than an hour :P

Comic Con was very fun. The highlight of everything was seeing warren_ellis talk for 2 hours on Saturday night. I proceeded to go back Sunday morning and bought everything from him that had just been published. Spent about $400 total at Comic-Con this year, not that bad. However this was the beginning of the fuck up of my finances that is still continuing more in the next section.

So we fly out Thursday, no problems getting out there, flight was fine. We get there, crash for a few hours and then woken up by a number of Kes' friends. We were then dragged over 3 diffferent transit systems into NYC entering around the "Fall Clearance Sale." (This would be really offensive if I posted it so ask me for details.) We all went to the Inari shrine in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, went back to Queens for some good chinese food. Trained back to the hotel and then collapsed.

Saturday we did FA:U, it was fun, got the art from the people who don't go to west coast cons that I had been meaning to. Then at night the concert started and that was just an absolute blast, best concert I had ever seen at a furry con, mostly because it wasn't a furry band I think. (Only good furry musician is verix :P). You can see the result of that insanity here.

Sunday was just wind down day as we had to get to a plane in the afternoon. Things took a turn for the worse here as our plane got delayed and ended up being so delayed we missed our connection in DFW, had to spend the night in Dallas which consisted of us going to IHOP and then collapsing back at the hotel. We got the first flight out and barely made it back to work the next morning. Much fun and hope to get out there again this year

tarnac forgive me if I got the title wrong. Anyways, another SeaWorld trip with a very nice group of people. It was a very fun trip for most of us, got to see all the good shows and Dine with Shamu was just amazing to do. I loved it and Kes enjoyed it very much as well. Many smiles all around. Got dragged to the Oakley store afterwards and found a pair of sunglasses that didn't suck on me which I just now bought. More details in the next upcoming post.

And after this will be a post about the current weekend. Trying to get back in this habit so spamming everyone for a short while just to bring everything up to date.

Crypto

No update yet...but needed to ask a question.

2007-09-21T08:22:40Z

Maybe starting to write a little here and there again will spark me into gear about actually writing an update post.

Anyways, I got into a bit of an argument that I'd like the people who watch me to look into.

I'm currently working on the Ferrox project as the lead. I am making all the technology decisions. A number of which are already being looked badly upon because some people wished me to make other choices. I mentioned tonight that one of the things that weighs heavily on my decision is the quality of the leaders and community around that software project.

A couple really good examples (Also probably a better explanation for an argument I got into with two_pi_r the other day) are the Lisp and Ruby communities.

The Lisp community is the typical example of a horrible development community. The typical example to show this off is this comp.lang.lisp thread. A person asks a fairly simple question. Though the fourth reply will delete everything below the current working directory as soon as it's run. This is just bad behavior on the part of the community. As much as I love the ideas behind Lisp. Macros, good idea. DSLs, good idea. Language is just an AST, good idea. Everything in Lisp is great. But I would never make a project in Lisp because I could never deal with the kind of people who are in the Lisp community.

Ruby has the same problem to me. As much as the ideas behind Ruby are good and they did some very nice things with the language, the community of people who support it, especially the closer you get to Ruby on Rails, the worse it gets. As much as I like the ideas behind Ruby I would never use it in a project for exactly the same reasons as I would never use Lisp, I couldn't stand being a part of that community and dealing with the people in it.

Does anyone else make the same sort of judgments when it comes to technology? Where the quality of the community will weight higher than the technical ability?

Sitting in a Denny's in Yuma AZ

2007-07-21T04:58:58Z

Well, we made it. In mostly one piece.

A nice list of firsts for the night.

1) Had my first Slim Jim. Bad beef jerky on a stick
2) First Traffic Ticket. Doing 89 in a 70.
3) First trip to Arizona. Have only been to NY and NJ before. And that was years ago.

Still have to make my way back after a nice meal at Denny's. Wish me luck!

cryptodragon @ 2007-07-20T19:48:00

2007-07-21T02:48:06Z

Currently in the one place to stop in pine valley. Still on the way to Yuma. More updates as I continue on this insane trip.

ROAD TRIP!

2007-07-21T01:28:06Z

Well, given that I have only left the state of California once for a week to be in New York and New Jersey. And even though I'm headed out again for FA:U to be in New York and New Jersey. I have never been in any state but California. keskitsune and I were discussing this the other day and we decided that I needed to get out. So tonight I'm driving to Yuma.

Back shortly and hope to have interesting thoughts from the road.

Crypto

The Onion tells The Truth

2007-07-11T17:48:15Z

Everyone should read this article from The Onion. Complete SFW.

It's an explanation of how people really should live their life. You shouldn't be working 80 hours a week and living their life at work. You should be enjoying you life as much as possible and really experience the world. A number of my posts recently have been in this vein mostly because I know I haven't done nearly the amount of stuff I wanted to have done by the time I just 20.

Now most people don't consider 20 something special and figure life starts there. Well, I've already taken care of a number of the "requirements" for starting life. I've got a good portion of my education out of the way and I should be at least a bit further advanced in getting out there.

I have the sideprojects, I just need to add in some of the travel now as well. I'd like to spend some time just wandering Europe. Have no real plans, just wander for a few months.

As the article says:
"They wanted to go for the brass ring and really live the good life," Braxton said. "What they don't seem to get is that the key to living the good life is to avoid that brass ring like the fucking plague."

Here on Avenue Q!

2007-07-10T23:02:58Z

In other news, I just got tickets to go see Avenue Q on the Thursday night of Comic Con, July 26th. I'm sure it'll be fun :)

Crypto