Archive for January, 2005
Single white male, requires the companionship of a beautiful woman or powerful multimedia portable. Non-smoker / Non-windows preferred. Thin, light, and not prone to overheating a plus for both. Make inquries to Mark@theSchubox.com
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31
I feel almost ill today. Here’s the deal. Someone stole my laptop and my Ipod. Here’s the deal, I wasn’t at the appartment on friday night and someone made off with my laptop bag. Saturday when I got back we called the police and filed a report. I’m keeping my hopes up but this kind of thing dosen’t look good. I’m hoping the total morons that took it leave a paper trail so I can get it back. It’s not like we don’t know who took it. There were only four people at the party that hadn’t been over there a thousand times. The policia will be calling me today to give me an update on the situation. I’ll keep hope alive until Lappy is found.
No commentsI think I just really wanted to use that title. But in the morning at work I am really interested in the cooking and eating of oatmeal. It could be that I’m still a little bit zombified from the early morning and the monotonous drive to work. But anyway the amusement is still genuine. When I put that bowl of water and dried oat flakes into the microwave it’s like watching a tiny volcano. But you mustn’t take your eyes off the bowl… you mustn’t… less you invoke the wrath of the weaponized oatmeal. Which is my idea for “non-lethal” but highly painful military weaponry. If they could just find a way to deliver this in mass quantities… on the glory of seeing foamy globs of molten oats pouring out of buildings full of insurgents. Also I would not recomend leaving a plastic fork in the oatmeal, sometimes the resulting mutilation is hard on the mouth. In closing… I love the smell of oatmeal in the morning.
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26
I was just noticing that my diet pretty much consists of nothing but pre-made food. Not that it’s a bad thing, but I’m just starting to notice it. I think the only complaint I have is the lack of texture in my meals. I have to make a special trip to the deli across the street just to get a sandwich so I can enjoy the solidness of bread. The rest of my food intake comes in the microwavable form. It’s not that i’m complaining, because I have nobody else to blame but myself, I really like soup. Especially Campbell’s Chunky soup, it’s soo good.Also I really need to stop eating so many spicy foods… it’s bad times.
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24
So the weekend has been over for about 9 hours… oh I miss it already. The snow storm happend, or as I like to refer to it as “The over-reaction of aught five” I’m starting to hate living in the “south” during winter. I guess it was cool when I was in school and it was canceled because of flurries, or chance of flurries, or a bad forecast even. But now that I’m out there living in it, it just sucks! The whole town shuts down and panics. On Saturday it was hard to find something to do during my psuedo-date with Faith on Saturday. I say that because we went to dinner and a movie. Weird huh? But now that that is behind me I have work to look forward to, and practice basketball games this week, yaah!
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21
So I probably should have written this when I got home from the ball, or at least yesterday. But I was still recovering. On Wednesday my parents took me to the Illinois State Society Inaugural Ball. Since the dinner at the ball was astronomically expensive we decided to go out to a place that was slightly less expensive, Ruth’s Chris steakhouse. The only thing I have to say about that place is, Oh dear Lord, Beef has never tasted so good. I would say well worth the price. After that we took the metro, In tuxedos, to the Grand Hyatt in DC. The hotel was really cool, and the whole place was decked out. There were lots of people there that I could only immagine were political insiders or something equally interesting. At the very least they were wealthy. So me and the ‘rents mingled about for a little while looking at all the fabulous Illinois stuff, if you can call it that. After a couple hours they settled into one of the upstairs ballrooms and I ventured off on my own. My expensive cash bar drink in one hand and a bit of confidence in the other. After realizing that most of the people there were uncaring asshats, I amused myself by fraternizing with the help. My years of expierence in the food service industry has told me that they would be the most fun to talk to anyway. After a while my parents found me and told me that they were making a night of it and heading back to the car. I told them that I would take the Metro home myself. I made my rounds again, this time heading to that den on iniquity know as the country western saloon. That’s when I spotted a lovely young woman, who was obviously embarassed by something going on out on the dancefloor. I jumped at the chance and struck up a conversation. Now I realize that this post is getting long so I’ll leave out the details. But lets just say that she made the night not boring anymore. and I actually danced to a country song, not that I remember much of anything beyond her beautiful blue eyes. Hopefully I’ll be talking to her again. Although she does live in Michigan. or Arizona. or West Virginia. or all of the above?
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18
I looked at the calendar on the left of the page and it seems that I like to post Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’m going to try to post on other days just to make it look better. I went home for the long weekend to spend time with my parents. It was fun, I played basketball on Sunday night, and of course hurt myself a little bit. My knee was pretty busted up all day Monday and by the end of the day it was hard to walk up the three flights of stairs to our appartment. And today the cold isn’t helping me not feel like an old man. Also not helping is the fact that I ran to the door of the office building so I could be in the same elevator car with a cute girl who works on the 6th floor. In other news I still need to buy an exhaust system for my car in order to get that piece of poop inspected. And of course I stopped by Ikea and donated my usual amount. But now our house is looking more and more respectable. And I don’t care if Cote does make fun of me for it. I have style.
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13
Seriously what in the name of funk is going on here. I drove to work and listened to the Sports Junkies yesterday and then I drive home and HFS has become El Zol playing latin and carribean dance music. I am not lying this really happened. This is not the plot from Airheads….oh wait YES IT IS. Why did no one hold the station hostage and ask for a football helmet full of cottage cheese and naked pictures of Bea Aurther? That’s what should have happened. But instead it went out like a bitch. At 12:01 the station went silent and then came back at 12:05 with nary an english word to be spoken. I can’t believe that there will be no HFStival this year. That was like the official start of Summer. It was a tradition for me and lots of people in the DC area. And I think it will be a big loss, I think DC101 should pick up the slack and fill the void with a giant festival of their own. just to carry on the tradition. I’m not going to get all sappy about it, but it sucks when somethign familiar that you have grown up with is no longer there, and very very suddenly. Rumor has it that the Junkies will be back on the air soon… we can only hope. RIP HFS 12:01 1/12/2005
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10
I’ve been interested in the modding scene for a few years now. It relates to my background in art and interest in computers. But today I have a different question. Is it worth it to begin a mod knowing that someone else has already done the same thing? In Pc modding there is always that next level, that eye-popping design or really creative one. But in Xbox modding there seems to be many more limitations, everyone seems to do variations on the same theme. Having said that, I really like most of them. Check out xbox transformed for some examples. I know that when I was first interest in modding I would get grief from “Miss Perfection” Crystal Schlotter about a painted case never looking as good as a “bought” one. But quality is one of my goals in designing a mod. I guess I look to the hot rod scene for inspiration, they have been doing those ‘32 Ford street rods forever, they must be running low on ideas and yet they still make new ones. I guess the drive to make another one comes from the process rather than the end result. Maybe I’m thinking too much about this, maybe I’m scared to mess up my box and my ego as a modder. I am also worried about durability, I know how fragile my PC mods came out (half of that is cause I never really finished them) and the Xbox needs to be able to be transported. But if i do this i will be going all out, and I will be spending a lot of time in the planning stages. If I come up with anything I’ll post some designs here.
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10
I don’t know what it is, but the fitted long black coat is so hot on a woman. It seems like Arlington is the place they all hang out. On my way home from work I must see ten of them. All looking hot and sophisticated, somewhere to go, something to do. Also you don’t even have to be skinny for this to be a good look, the coat is all about hiding what you’ve got too much of. Unfortunatley Spring will eventually come and ruin all the fun, but maybe I will have picked up one of these mystical creatures by then.
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