Archive for August, 2006

Snakes on a Blog

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | 17 Comments


Friday – 7:20 – MovieTavern


Consider getting your tickets ahead of time
you know this one is gonna sell out!

Photo Meme

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | 9 Comments

Stolen from frankenroc because I loves to take pictures!

Leave a comment here of anything you want to see in my house, room, etc.; anything you can think of and I’ll take a picture and post them. Be as specific (‘your bookshelf’) or as vague (‘something that has sentimental value to you’) as you like.

Joe WalshTend My Garden

Fill it out in a reply and post it in yours

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | 6 Comments

1. Name:
2. Age/Birthday:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song:
6. Favorite Band/Rapper/Artist:
7. Favorite Book/Comic Book:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Favorite TV Show:
10. Favorite Video Game/Board Game:
11. Do we know each other outside of Livejournal?:
12. Would you give me a kidney?
13. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
14. If you could change anything about your current life, would you?:
15. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?:

AardvarckCome Maddalena

Monday, August 14th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | 2 Comments

Here are the pictures from the Luau, we had everything! Click on any of the photos to go to the complete gallery of 65 photos.


Firebreathing Firebreathing Bellydancing Bellydancing
Tarkas Graduated Tarkas Graduated Pantsless Steve Pantsless Steve


My choice fo sho!

Thursday, August 10th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | 2 Comments

Major Victory
Be a winner, not a wiener.

CloakQuiet Then

thanks to lampetia for the awesome picture of MV!

The Evil Inside

Thursday, August 10th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments

So I’ve been playing Fable again lately… it seemed more simple and had a slower pace than WoW. Plus, I can play in the living room, on the floor, with the dogs, in comfort.

I had played it straight through when I first got it, kind of playing the anti-hero role, a kind of Han Solo/Clint Eastwood, do as you see fit Chaotic Good. There were times that I had horns and other times where my eye glowed with the brilliant light of the gods above (the good ones at least), but in the end, I pretty much just walked the line of cool.

As soon as I finished the game, I came up with some other concepts I wanted to try out. Really, it was the best RPG I’d ever played on a console… you could almost actually roleplay in it. At any rate, I decided I wanted an uber heroic, avatar of a mage, and a dirtier than the devil, criminal archer/thief. I had created the characters, but then had trouble following up after having just finished the game, so I set them aside until just last month.

Since then, I’ve deleted both of them because I was so out of touch with them (and I couldn’t remember which was which) I started them over again, as well as an iron pumping, blade swinging anti-hero (again). But I’ve been playing all three around and around. They all stay around the same point in the plot, but they are totally different. Last night I was in the mood for evil. I decided I’d go to my childhood hometown in the middle of the night, break into homes, and kill the residents. I discovered that if you kill them before they can scream for the guards, you go virtually unnoticed. You magically get a fine of 2000g, but the guards don’t hunt you down. They just wait until you walk past them. So I’m in the progress of taking over the city. Apparently, if I could figure out which girl is the mayor’s daughter and marry her, I’ll get a sizable inheritance when I finally kill him. I WILL own Oakenvale.

Anyway, I got a desk full of laptops that all need service. I’ll try and check back in more often.


Oh, and my mango sorbet may be evolving, cross your fingers and hope for brilliance!

Duran DuranHungry like the wolf

Hey frankenroc!

Thursday, August 10th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | 1 Comment

For Mac or For PC

Blue Man GroupSynaesthetic

Too many quizzes, not enough meat.

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | 2 Comments

So I’ve got this widget for my yahoo widgets engine that I’ve come to rely upon. Its a livejournal friends widget that basically scans your friends rss and shows you the six newest entries on your friends page. I’ve played around with all kinds of other friends alerts, but this has been, by and far, the most successful. It just sits there and shows me the last 6 entries so I don’t have to constantly click refresh on LiveJournal. Its actually increased my productivity by diminishing my distractions.

To be honest, I’ve come to rely on Yahoo widgets quite a bit, far more than the Apple dashboard widgets that come installed on a mac. Those are fuck-all useless. So now I keep my dashboard widgets in the background and I have all the useful yahoo widgets plastered all over my screen. Heather would complain that my desktop is too cluttered, but then again, that’s why I have two monitors.

Summer is coming to a close too damn fast for my tastes. Even though the past few weeks I’ve been bored off of my ass, I have felt like I haven’t done anything personally productive. I sit at home on the weekends and watch way too much TV and porn. Then monday comes and I zombify my way through the week until the weekend comes again. We have been hanging out with people quite a bit more as of this summer, so that’s extra good. I feel like I’ve gotten much closer to a lot of my friends recently.


I have put together my computer for my studio space for the remainder of my graduate career. Its not going to run WoW worth a damn, but I think its going to eat up and spit out photoshop like a big ol pouch of Big League Chew. I’m hoping thats the case anyway. Its running smooth and quiet so far and has almost 600gb of hard drive for all those photos I’ll be generating (500 of that is on a mirrored raid so I have some nice redundancy built in).

I do worry about my dedication to photography. I love it, I really do, but sometimes I don’t feel like I NEED to do it. I read something not long ago that said that an artist is someone who creates because they need to. So it did get me thinking about my desires and dedication. I do suspect that the doldrums of my everyday life get in the way of my “needs” on occasion. For example, there were many times this summer that I thought about grabbing my camera and just going out and photographing the world, but the inspiration quickly faded with the lack of motivation. Its like I NEED deadlines within which to work. So I do question my motivation for art. I love photographing. I love to see the results, and even though I’ve moved to almost exclusively digital, I still really enjoy the whole chemical process of traditional photography. There is something magic there that just cannot be witnessed in digital. The simplicity of digital just makes life easier and that’s really what I need to keep going.


Shit, I guess I don’t have any logical though progression here today. I’m glad to have written something, but I’d have preferred to written something readable and entertaining. Maybe next time. For now I have to go back to trying to beat this driver disk into submission. Its being a little bitch!

Massive AttackMan next door

Too many quizzes… sorry.

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments

You scored as Anything-Goes Goth. You are very open minded. You may or may not be devoted to your “Gothickry,” but you aren’t anal about it either way, and you are willing to explore the various niches of the gothic subculture. Click on my name to take my other tests if you liked this one.

Anything-Goes Goth

71%

Industrial/Rivet-Head

63%

Fantasy Goth

63%

Old-school Goth

50%

Perky Goff

46%

Understanding Outsider

42%

Death Rocker

38%

Ethereal Goth

38%

Confused Outsider

38%

Romantic Goth

33%

Cyber-goth

29%

What subcategory of Goth best fits you?
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05 – Dil Deewana Dhoondta

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