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#Personal, #Site Update

I started this website for a couple of reasons: the first reason was to get better at web design. I wanted to make a site that was professional and cool and looked great. I don't think I really hit any of those marks, but I learned a LOT along the way.

#Personal, #Ubuntu, #Operating Systems, #OS, #Microsoft, #Linux, #FOSS, #Open Source

Can a lifetime Windows user make sense of the daunting command-line and the cute little penguin?

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#Future Endevours, #To Do List, #Job, #Work, #Personal

It seems like I never buy the things I need (or rather, really, really want) when I have the chance. Hopefully when I get a new job, I can change that.

#Movies, #Blu-Ray, #Update, #Personal, #Video Games, #C#, #Programming, #XNA Framework

So, things have gotten a little better. Of course they aren't great, but I'm working on that.

#Bored, #Work, #Personal

So here I am, working but not working. I am sitting at my desk in this call center, waiting for a call, hoping one doesn't come, but at the same time so bored out of my mind I really wouldn't mind the interruption. I hate this. Why does life take these bad turns? I've never known it not to. Is it just me? Or is this life for everyone?

#Blog, #Personal, #Work, #Bored, #Update

So, a friend of mine recently told me that I am the crankiest person he knows. The CRANKIEST. That to me is like angry+old. When you don't have the energy to do stuff about the things you complain about, so you just complain louder. Definition from wiktionary:

Hmm. Well, I can see that I guess. But I haven't seen this friend in a long time, and I'd like to think I've become at least less cranky. I'm working on getting rid of the crank altogether. But I know that I can sometimes get easily upset, etc.
Moving on. Life has been really good lately. I just had my 90 day review and did pretty well; no major problems to speak of. I still love my job and my coworkers. I don't really like it when it's this slow at work, because then I do stuff like this blog and feel like I'm wasting time. But there's just not much to do right now.
I also finally officially moved to Chico. My g/f and friend all got a really sweet house. I'm having a blast setting up my room. But I need a tv stand, or to mount my tv on the wall...
I think I'll go bother phil. This is even boring.

#Personal, #Site Update

Well, this has become less of a blog of 'everything interesting on the internet' and more of a personal blog, but oh well.
Fixed a few things with the site today; nothing major, but cleaned up some code; really just wanted an excuse to mess with stuff. You won't see any difference.
Looking for a place for my own to live; would be really cool to live on my own...
why am I blogging? It's 3 AM. I'll finish this up tomorrow...

#Music, #Anime, #Personal

So I've been watching some cool anime lately. One of my favorites is Mushi-Shi. Mushi are supposed to be little creatures that are the closest to pure life as one can get, although they are invisible to most and come in all forms; water-like, animal and person like, even raindbow like. These mushi sometimes cause strange phenomena (and trouble for normal humans) by simply existing and doing what they normally do. It mainly follows a mushi master (mushi-shi) named Ginko that checks out the weird stuff mushi cause. It's really slow-paced and beautiful. If nothing else check out the awesome theme song, [url=http://somethingchewie.co.uk/ally-kerr-the-sore-feet-song/]"The Sore Feet Song" by Ally Kerr[url]. (Mushishi intro with song after the break).

#Personal, #Job, #Music, #News

Let me begin by saying that Kid Rock should be dead. Flat out dead. I don't care how, but by now it should have happened. John Lennon gets assassinated and Kid Rock gets to make a new song (something about summer and rhyming things with things and sampling good songs). Why is he alive.
My job has Sirius satellite radio, which might be cool except it's the same inane crap that's annoyed me about conventional radio since high school. We hear 5 stations, a different genre/era each day.
Monday is Classic Rock (pop style), Tuesday is 90's to Today, Wed is 80's Pop, Thur is Classic Rock (Rock Style), Fri is Country. Thursday is the best, since there is just a lot of great music from the the classic rock time frame. We always get Zepplin and Creedance and all the great stuff, most of which I like. Tuesday is ok when good 90's alternative gets in (like today, we started with Pumpkins, Counting Crows, a few others I can't remember), but it always gets around to the crappy Kid Rock song and some other song about a girl wanting to start a fight (VERY ANNOYING SONG).
I don't know if there is good music on this Sirius thing, but I've decided that it would probably still annoy the hell out of me, because it comes with most of the inherit flaws of traditional radio (from what I've heard).
1) Repetitiveness
I don't know how often new songs are mixed in, but every day we hear pretty much the same songs, and most times, two or three times, and it's usually the really annoying songs that get the most playtime. Kid Rock and the Girl Fighting song with the Na Nahs comes on at least once an hour it seems to me. A good playlist should have great songs, everytime, and not repeat them. Hardly at all they should be repeated. Because, if you are doing it right, there is a LOT of good music to listen to. Radio is not doing it right.
2)Breaks for Talking
There aren't any commercials since Sirius is paid radio, but there are still DJ's annoyingly talking about whatever thing their being told to say, and little sounds and clips and crap that tells you what you are listening to, in case "music" isn't a good enough definition. And then some girl comes on and sings the Simpsons theme song in such a way that sullies Elfman's tune forever.
On Friday, hicks get to call in and request country songs by SINGING THEM.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.

3) There really ought to be three things but I think two will do it.

So there you have it. Kid Rock needs to die and I need to be able to listen to Pandora at work. Or throw an indie station in on Mon. We don't need another classic rock day, and one that isn't that great to begin with.

#Job, #Work, #Personal, #Broke

Or at least for me. I've been out of work for about 2 months, and finally got a job, and it's a great one to boot! Data Entry, $9/hr, full-time, benefits after 90 days. Start Friday morning. Off to watch Chobits.