Archive for August, 2005
IM Contact
Was bored and made up a little graphic with screen names for the 5 IM services I use (through Gaim) to add to the sidebar. I can be contacted through:
-AIM
-MSN Messenger
-ICQ
-Yahoo! Messenger
-Google Talk
I decided making it a graphic, rather than live links, would help to keep spam bots from getting ahold of my Gmail and [...]
Redeeming Myself
So even though the high ollie contest completely killed my spirit, I only took one day off of skateboarding (mostly because it was physically impossible to), and yesterday I headed up to the skatepark with Shawn, and pulled off my first triple kickflip in front of many of the same kids that saw me fail [...]
Fuck Skate Contests
Well, I choked.
Competition got pretty thin after about 24 inches, and about 6 guys were competing past that. I knew I could place, I was positive, but I can’t skate under pressure; my legs were shaking. You don’t really think about it until they set the bar up and you hear your name called, and [...]
Ugh
Tonight was Monica’s birthday. I didn’t drink THAT much, but it was enough for me to kill myself on my skateboard on the way home. Tore open my existing road rash, AND tore one of my last good pairs of pants.
…really excited about it…
Ubuntu Linux
Well, I’ve decided to ditch Windows completely on my laptop, and formatted last night. At first I wanted a “middle-road” distro to help ease the transition, which I found in Xandros. Xandros is a great distribution, with an absolutely painless installation and configuration (all hardware worked out of the box), but something didn’t feel right. [...]
Computers 4 Kids
An email chain:
From: Me To: Jesse
Hello, we met briefly at Old Chicago a couple months ago. Well, I guess it wasn’t “brief”; I was there with a bunch of friends (including a former student of yours) and you and a friend joined our table and had dinner and drinks. You were pretty sloshed, so I [...]
Coolest Bank Robbery Ever?
This is old news, but I’m surprised to see that over 2 weeks later, no arrests have been made (at least not that I’ve seen so far).
Thieves spent three months tunneling under a busy city avenue in northeastern Brazil to break into a Central Bank vault and pull off one of the world’s biggest heists.
The [...]
Skate News
So the second annual Casper Skate Competition is this Saturday. I’m…not very fond of contests, to put it lightly. This will be my 4th competition experience, though only the 2nd official contest I will be entering in some capacity.
The first competition I entered was about 7 years ago or so. It was really unofficial; several [...]
Arrested Development
I don’t watch TV, so in the rare event something worthwhile is on, it takes word of mouth to reach me before I can experience it. This happened with Penn & Teller’s Bullshit, Stella, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Kenny vs Spenny, and…well yeah. I’m sure there are more worthwhile shows on TV, I just can’t [...]
Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV Vol. 1
Coheed and Cambria’s new album, *deep breath* Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness, hits stores one month from today, but the album’s first single has been floating around online for a while now. Today, I was able to track down two more and I have to [...]
