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Oh MSN, why do I still humor you?   
02:41pm 24/04/2009
 
mood: amused
music: hold muzak (thanks keybank!)
Never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message conversation.

Geoff says:
who're you?
Shanna says:
hey, Age/Sex/Location?
Geoff says:
no no and no
I'm a robot
Shanna says:
hey whats up babe, U got a webcam? finally someone adds me, I am soo fuckin horny today for some reason lol
Geoff says:
sorry, I don't have a body
I am a robot
Shanna says:
listen hun, I am just about to start my webcam show with jen, come chat me there in my chat room? We can cyber, I will get naked if u do..lol!
Geoff says:
do you want to have robot sex?
Shanna says:
I can show u how to watch free if u promise not to tell anyone else how to do it???PLEASE
Geoff says:
beep
Shanna says:
well since its free the law that u gotta be 18 (nudity involved), u have to sign up with a credit card for age verification! BUT .. Once you are inside, just clikc on "Webcams" let me know what name you use to sign in with so I know it is you babe! [URL redacted] fill out the bottom of the page then fill out the next page as well and u can see me live for free!
Geoff says:
beep
Shanna says:
Please dont mention anything about that in the chatroom once u get in ok?
Geoff says:
beep beep beep
Shanna says:
OH SHIT.. k I am late to start my show, I gotta get off msn...I will see ya inside my chatroom babe.. remember not to mention that I am upgrading u for free... You can use your msn name to sign in so i know it is you..
Geoff says:
BEEP BEEP BEEP
Shanna says:
AUTO-RESPONSE: hey just in the middle of my free webcam show if you want to watch click the link [URL redacted]
Geoff says:
bzzt.
 
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Does anyone think it's weird...   
11:02am 13/03/2009
 
mood: curious
music: Rocky Horror Picture Show - Sweet Transvestite
...that everyone, everywhere, assumes when dwarves mine the dirt and rock just disappears? It's got to go somewhere. Dwarves can't just stay underground forever any more than moles can.
 
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That one was lame.   
02:30am 02/01/2009
 
mood: disappointed
music: MC Frontalot - Tongue-Clucking Grammarian
Next!
 
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Hello, LJ   
02:12am 02/01/2009
 
mood: amused
music: MIKA - Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)
I have nothing really to say, just updating in the hope that a SalmonBot will IM me and I'll make a new friend (Hi Blair!)
 
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110% of Your Daily Dose of Vitamin Wrench   
07:00pm 14/11/2008
  "That guy's about to get an ass full of pipe wrench!"

Just for Blair.
 
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An open letter to Tim Eyman   
08:24pm 19/10/2008
  Fuck you and everything you do.

(Reminder to Washington people: I-985 is Tim Eyman. Again.)
 
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Un-fucking-believable   
12:17am 30/07/2008
 
mood: bemused, old
music: The Protomen - Unrest in the House of Light
So I turned 21 like 15 minutes ago. I wanted to go to the Kort Haus to get a kangaroo burger, but Mad and Kia were busy, finally Dane agreed to go with me. So I pick him up and get up there - we easily could have walked, but I wanted to drive to avoid temptation - We walk in and the dude cards Dane - who's been 21 for like 3 months - but not I, who've been 21 for all of 5 minutes - then I ask for a kangaroo burger and it turns out the grill closes at the stroke of midnight. Irony, you are a cruel mistress.

PS: Today's my birthday!
 
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Hello, LJ   
01:19am 27/07/2008
 
mood: euphoric
music: Great Big Sea - Captain Wedderburn
Life is good. I am so in love. Just FYI.
 
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Hello LJ, it's been a while.   
07:11am 25/05/2008
 
mood: tired
music: Ink Spots - Whispering Grass
Oh, where to start. Obviously it's 7 AM and I can't sleep and am supremely bored, or I wouldn't be writing in this thing. Is there even anyone who reads these who isn't on Facebook anyway?

I've been feeling very helpless lately, like I've gone with the flow for too long and forgotten how to steer. It's got me down, plain to see. I definitely hit bottom the other day though, and now I'm headed back up again. Most of the stuff that's been weighing heavily on me is actually pretty simple to take care of, so the ball is rolling. Ah what's the point, I'd rather be playing Tetris. Later LJ, you suck.
 
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Brawl.   
12:04pm 13/03/2008
 
mood: content
music: Fire Emblem - Main Theme
Who's got it?

My friend code:
2921-8829-8219
My Wii code:
6421-1462-0848-9425
 
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May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past (2007 recap)   
06:00am 18/12/2007
 
mood: good
music: Daft Punk - Aerodynamic (Slum Village Remix)
So I've done a lot of stuff in 2007... A lot of it pointless, most of it fun, pretty much none of it on LJ. So here's my sappy old guy note for the end of the year.

The start of the year found me back in school, again, and that turned out just how we all know it always turns out. It's ok, I think I've got it out of my system now. I actually managed to hold it together for more than a month this time before I crumbled, but after that I spent a lot of time doing pretty much nothing. Alas, doing nothing sounds better than it actually is. I managed to do some cooking and build about a dozen lego sets from my childhood, but that's about it. Depression sank in and I spent a great deal of time pissing and moaning and generally feeling sorry for myself. I started a proper job hunt around the end of August and it was well into November when I got an email from my erstwhile boss asking for a rush job. 48 hours later, I'd impressed a lot of people and made the thick end of a thousand bucks, and within a week I had my awesome new job. Which brings me to my awesome new job...

Despite spending the vast majority of the year doing nothing, I seem to have managed to advance my career. I'm working at a company called Metafos, which is more or less a financial institute, as Senior Software Developer for the best part of $50k and 4 weeks of vacation a year. Apologies to those who I've gloated to, this is the last time, I promise. I have my choice of fields to enter from here, from professional level design integration to heavy duty this-system-moves-actual-money security. Whatever I do, I'm going to be learning a hell of a lot of new stuff (all of .Net, for those who it's meaningful to) both technically and as a businessman.

I have done some interesting stuff this year... Dyed my hair for the first time, and I strongly suspect that 2007 is the last year I'll ever have boring brown hair. I went to Vancouver a bunch of times, and my soda elitism got even worse as a result. I finally got a new computer, after 4 or 5 years of getting my old one to work. I rearranged my apartment, got the knack of cooking mexican food, spent a hell of a lot of holidays looking after kids, got a bunch of new inside jokes, bought entirely too many threadless shirts, and got into comic books about 15 years late. Lastly, I have to mention my friends - people I've met this year (Jean), people I should obviously have started talking to 10 years ago (Nina), and all the rest who have been great as always - except Camren and Tornath who are making themselves fucking hard to get ahold of. Bastards.

Credit to my uncle Andrew for the title, apparently it's an old irish saying. And now, every inside joke I can think of, so I can try to figure out what I was talking about when I look back 5 years from now:

Dane: I've got tears in my 'fro.
Nik: It's dangerous!
Hester: Abraham Lincoln buying porn.
Angela: w0rd. (yeah, this one counts)
 
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MY EYES! Ze goggles, zey do nothing!   
11:15am 27/09/2007
 
mood: annoyed
music: Jonathan Coulton - Mandelbrot Set
Blinding oneself with shaving cream minutes before an interview? Win.

Ow. At least the interview went well. Now I'm going back to sleep.
 
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What You've Learned   
04:46am 05/09/2007
 
mood: contemplative
music: Garbage - Androgyny
In 2005 Esquire magazine ran a segment called "What you've learned" which was a list of the best advice and words of wisdom from their readers. It was brought up on a site I troll so I stole it because I'm interested, you can find the whole list here but I've reposted some of the best ones under the cut.

The real question to my friends is - what have you learned?

Things people have learned )

Things I've learned:

  • I would infinitely rather wake up and find I had been fucked over than wake up and realize I had fucked over someone else.


  • May our words today be gentle and kind, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.


  • Don't be hasty. (Tolkien)


  • I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. (Aristotle)


  • Fixing your life, or anyone elses - any feat that at first blush is akin to cleaning the aegean stables - is like eating an elephant. The only way to do it is one bite at a time.


The rest are more or less from my dad, who, despite occasionally being an irritant, gives remarkably good advice.
 
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When it rains it pours: Song thing revisited   
05:55pm 29/08/2007
 
mood: okay
music: Jonathan Coulton - Better
It feels good to talk to no one in particular. I'm sure that qualifies me as crazy, but fuck it.

So the song thing I posted months ago.. Answers, and the people who managed to guess some.

1. Cake - Love You Madly [info]saelia

2. Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - One Tin Soldier [info]frumptacularone

3. Pink Martini - Sympathique [info]retrogenesis

4. MC Frontalot - Livin at the Corner of Dude and Catastrophe

5. Edguy - Out of Control

6. Flanders and Swann - The Youth of the Heart

7. Eve 6 - Rescue [info]muffin_kiddo

8. Burt Bacharach - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head [info]the_oxymormon

9. Bloodhound Gang - Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

10. Dr. Dre - Forgot About Dre [info]igorxa

11. Weird Al - Hardware Store

12. Moxy Früvous - My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors (shame on you Sarah)

13. Smash Mouth - Come On Come On [info]frumptacularone

14. Friendly Indians - I Know, You Know [info]tv_dinner

15. Da Vinci's Notebook - Sand Down My Pants [info]tv_dinner

16. Mark Knopfler - Storybook Love [info]saelia

17. Boney M - Rasputin Anon

18. Sublime - Saw Red

19. Tupac - Hit 'em Up

20. Zebrahead - Playmate of the Year (again. huh. weird.)
 
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A PAX upon you!   
10:44am 21/08/2007
 
mood: excited
music: I'VE GOT TEARS IN MY FRO
So, those of you who live in Seattle and don't live under a rock know that PAX is this weekend. You might have no interest whatsoever, and only know about it because I won't shut up, or you may be cool. So if you're cool (going to PAX), we should make plans to wait in line together, or at least run into each other and battle mercilessly for pins. If you've been duped into working and can't get out of it, I feel for you, and you're still cool*. If you've been duped into going to Costa Rica and will only read this retroactively two weeks from now, observe: I am gloating before it's even begun. Still, get tricked into going to equatorial lands while PAX is going on once, shame on your dad, get tricked into going to equatorial lands while PAX is going on twice, shame on you.

One other thing: If you're a hermit living in Vancouver, I am plotting to kidnap you. You have been warned. Lastly, for those of you not living under a rock, but also not living anywhere near Seattle, I won't say I'll take pictures (because that would probably make me a liar later on) but I shall endeavour not to forget my camera.

Now I take my leave, to go bother someone else in my sleep-deprived fashion.

*but also a jive sucka


Addendum: Anyone who wants to pick apart my resumé (or distribute it to peoples desperately in need of a programmer/sysadmin/technical minion) feel free to do so. But I'm not posting it here because it has everything you need to stalk me on it. Comment.
 
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Song thing   
12:34am 18/08/2007
 
mood: improving
music: UC Men's Octet - Under Pressure
I have been assigned P by Rachel. Comment for a letter of your own.

1. Green Day - Poprocks and Coke
2. Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
3. Optimus Rhyme - Ping Pong Song
4. Terry S. Taylor - Pulling Of The Pin
5. Cake - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
6. Weird Al - Phony Calls
7. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Pickin' Peppers
8. Zebrahead - Playmate Of The Year
9. Deltron 3030 - Positive Contact
10. Tom Lehrer- Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
 
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Turned 20   
03:58pm 30/07/2007
 
mood: pensive
music: Supergrass - Sofa (of my Lethargy)
A few minutes aqo. It's sort of anti-climactic. Now I've gotta spend another month remembering not to say "19".
 
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Addendum   
09:48pm 04/06/2007
 
mood: excited
music: DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
I have acclimated to the controls. You're all going down, bitches.

Oh, and my friend code is 5326-7757-2329
 
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Warning: Be Prepared To Throw Down   
08:55pm 04/06/2007
 
mood: cheerful
music: Jay-Z - 99 Problems
Puzzle League DS has arrived. I haven't quite acclimated to the new controls yet, but I'm getting there quick.
 
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I'm bored   
02:33am 22/05/2007
 
mood: alright
music: sore wa himitsu desu
Guess the song.

Songs )

Shamelessly stolen from Tara and Toasty. Oh, and I'll post MP3s as people guess them.
 
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The hits just keep on coming...   
02:07pm 19/05/2007
 
mood: excited
music: NESkimos - Bionic Commando Final Movement
STARCRAFT II was just announced today. Link to article (and trailer) here.

Also,
http://www.starcraft2.com/
:O
 
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OUENDAAAAAAAAN   
07:45pm 18/05/2007
 
mood: excellent
music: MC Frontalot - I Hate Your Blog
Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii (Ouendan 2) is amazing. This game is so absurdly fun, I'm afraid to bring it within arm's length of Jump lest the two games form some sort of awesomeness vortex that leads to my bloody death.

Also:

  • I picked up a copy of Wii Play while I was at Pink Godzilla, so I'm finally up to 4 Wiimotes.

  • Front's new CD came in the mail the other day and it is excellent

  • Pink Martini's new CD came out a few days ago, it is also excellent

  • I'm downloading the Goof Troop movie. Don't ask me why, I'm not entirely sure myself.

  • Spaced is an extremely odd show.

 
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I found another really weird thing.   
09:38pm 02/05/2007
 
mood: amazed
music: that dude
Raise your hand if you know what a manualist is. Anyone? It's someone who plays music using nothing but their two hands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOyEw9bT8yQ

Apparently this dude's been practicing for 37 years. Simply astonishing.
 
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For [info]fel_fellis (since she disabled comments)   
05:49am 14/04/2007
 
mood: okay
music: Soul Decision - Faded
You have more than one friend =P AND YOU ARE PRETTY! I know you're pretty and I'll convince you if I have to tell you every day for a year =P

Click here to help a fella out )
 
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what. the. hell.   
06:35am 11/04/2007
 
mood: bewildered
music: Dragonforce - My Spirit Will Go On
I just found the weirdest fucking site I've ever seen on the internet, and that's saying something.

http://www.carstuckgirls.com/ (maybeNSFW)

I was bored so I was browsing around IndexOfs, and I found a partial mirror for this site. I just... don't get it. At all. Is it porn? Why are they selling DVDs of girls getting their cars stuck?


I dunno, that's really fucking weird, even by internet standards.
 
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