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1. Copy and paste this into your journal: <font color=”yourusername“><b>yourusername</b></font>
2. Replace “yourusername” with your user name.
3. See what color you are.

Peloquin3

(be forewarned, your colors may not appear correctly. My name appears as black to me – so goth – but red to other people… maybe its saying something)

Bobby McFerrin/Yo-Yo Ma – Sonata for 2 Cellos (Allegro Presstissimo) – Hush

Stolen from trenthamfamily

If you can say that you’ve got 40 or more items on this list, you’re considered spoiled.

Do you have:

(1) your own cell phone
(2) a television in your bedroom
(3) an iPod
(4) a photo printer
( ) your own phone line
(5) TiVo or a generic digital video recorder
(6) high-speed internet access (i.e., not dialup)
( ) a surround sound system in bedroom
(7) DVD player in bedroom
(8) at least a hundred DVDs
(9) a childfree bathroom (all my bathrooms are child free)
(10) your own in-house office
( )a pool
( ) a guest house
( ) a game room
( ) a queen-size bed or larger
( ) a stocked bar
(11) a working dishwasher
(12) an icemaker
(13) a working washer and dryer
( ) more than 20 pairs of shoes
( ) at least ten things from a designer store
( ) expensive sunglasses
(14) framed original art (not lithographs or prints) (no fair, I’m an artist, we trade work!)
( ) Egyptian cotton sheets or towels
(15) a multi-speed bike
(16) a gym membership (all UNT students are members)
( ) large exercise equipment at home
( ) your own set of golf clubs
( ) a pool table
( ) a tennis court
( ) local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea
( ) your own pair of skis
( ) enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area
( ) a boat
( ) a jet ski
( ) a neighborhood committee membership
( ) a beach house or a vacation house/cabin
( ) wealthy family members
(17) two or more family cars
( ) a walk-in closet or pantry
(18) a yard
(19) a hammock
( ) a personal trainer
( ) good credit
( ) expensive jewelry
( ) a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get
( ) at least $100 cash in your possession right now
(20) more than two credit cards bearing your name (not counting gas cards or debit cards) (but they all have way too high of a balance)
( ) a stock portfolio
( ) a passport
( ) a horse
( ) a trust fund (either for you or created by you)
( ) private medical insurance
(21) a college degree, and no outstanding student loans (I bless my parents every day for this)

Do you:
( ) shop for non-needed items for yourself (like clothes, jewelry, electronics) at least once a week
( ) do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores
( ) pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes (not counting dry-cleaning)
( ) go on weekend mini-vacations
( ) send dinners back with every flaw
( ) wear perfume or cologne (not body spray)
( ) regularly get your hair styled or nails done in a salon
( ) have a job but don’t need the money OR
( ) stay at home with little financial sacrifice
( ) pay someone else to cook your meals
( ) pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs
( ) regularly pay someone else to drive you (i.e.: taxis)
( ) expect a gift after you fight with your partner

Are you:
( ) an only child
( ) married/partnered to a wealthy person
( ) baffled/surprised when you don’t get your way

Have you:
( ) been on a cruise
(22) traveled out of the country
(23) met a celebrity (celebrities in the art world)
( ) been to the Caribbean
( ) been to Europe
( ) been to Hawaii
(24) been to New York (Not the city, and I assume this is what they mean)
( ) eaten at the space needle in Seattle
( ) been to the Mall of America
( ) been on the Eiffel tower in Paris
(25) been on the Statue of Liberty in New York
( ) moved more than three times because you wanted to
( ) dined with local political figures
( ) been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast

Did you:
(26) go to another country for your honeymoon
(27) hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party (but that was a huge mistake)
(28) take riding or swimming lessons as a child
( ) attend private school
( ) have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for you

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28: I guess I’m a little spoiled, I know my parents really worked to make my life and my brother’s happy and well rounded.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Bad in Plaid – More Noise and Other Disturbances

Stolen from nicotinepatches

Go to Wikipedia.org and type in your birth date (but not the year). Copy and paste at least three events, two birthdays, and one death that happened on your birthday.

Events

• 1057 – King MacBeth of Scotland is killed during the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of King Malcolm III.
  “I will not be afraid of death and bane,
  Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.”
• 1877 – Thomas Edison makes the first-ever recording – “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
  though I’d stick with a literary theme here
• 1947 – India gains independence from the United Kingdom. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first Prime Minister of India
  okay, I’ve just been extra interested India lately.

Births

• 1717 – Blind Jack, English roadbuilder
  My guess is his roads weren’t very straight
• 1945 – Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, Indian guru
  why isn’t my name that cool
• 1972 – Ben Affleck, American actor
  of this, I am not proud.

Deaths

• 1959 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer
  My guess is his songs weren’t very straight

Holidays

• Tuva – Tuva Republic Day
  I am so gonna get my Kargyraa on!

Mike Oldfield – Clear Light – Tubular Bells II

oh yeah, and movie night this week, we be kickin’ it old skool and watching Ferris Buellers’s Day Off.

7:45 gather
8:00 showtime
Indoors on the TV, sorry folks, can’t do outdoor theatre every time.

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Next time, however, on April 28, we’ll be outdoors again with another Bollywood movie: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.

Tell your friends, lets see how many people we can get there for that one.

Depeche Mode – Behind the Wheel [Remix] – Behind the Wheel/Route 66

Curse you RAID, you tease me with your simplicity, but your simplicity is not so achievable. Let me ‘splain. No, there’s not enough time, let me sum up:

I decided with all the pictures I’m taking for my MFA, that carrying them all around on an 80gb portable hard drive was maybe not the best and most secure option. One unfortunate incident and I’d loose my entire graduate career. I decided that even through our poorness, I should probably invest in some additional and redundant storage. I bought two 250 GB drives and a RAID card to create a mirrored environment. (lets not get into the fact that I could/should have bought SATA drives instead of Ultra IDE, I’ve already dealt with that blunder).

So anyway, Friday night I spent a good 6-7 hours installing the drives and removing an old 30GB drive from the system. In the process, I decided to reinstall windows onto one of the two 80GB drives so the result should have been two twin 80GB drives and on RAIDed pair of 250GB drives, mirroring as one. What I ended up with, was an 80GB drive that was ghosted from the 30GB but wouldn’t boot, the 30GB still installed but sitting outside the case, two 250GB drives in the case, but not connected because windows kept crashing when they were connected, and an 80GB drive with old user data just sitting in there working perfectly. At 4am, I decided it weren’t gonna work and went to bed.

Saturday I got up and got the 80GB OS drive sorted out and was finally able to remove the 30GB semi-permenantly (it still has all the old apps on it, so I’m going to save it as an archive temporarily. I got the system to recognize the to 250s independently, but not as a RAID. I started researching software RAID options. I learned that Windows XP has the capability to do RAID 0 (combining two drives into one drive twice the size and twice the write speed) but not the ability to RAID 1 (combining two identical drives into one drive the size of each individual drive, but mirroring all data onto both drives simultaneously as to protect all data from drive failure). After further investigation I found that Windows Server 2003 had the capability to do both (and some other RAID configurations) and that functionality was actually still present in the stripped down Windows XP, but it was disabled. I subsequently found the instructions to enable that feature.

So now, after almost 14 hours of work, I have a modified version of Windows running two 250GB drives RAIDed together to work as one 250GB drive that is constantly mirrored and two 80GB drive working independently as an OS drive and a spare data drive. I’m considering RAIDing the two 80’s together, but I can’t seem to decide in what manner to do so. If I Stripe them (RAID 0), then I get one 160 GB drive with twice the write speed but no data protection. It would increase productivity in both photoshop and gaming, both of which this computer is primarily used for. If I Mirror them (RAID 1), I never have to worry about HD failure in the system at all as they’ll all be redundant (which might be good since I don’t know what will happen to the two RAIDed 250’s if I have to reinstall Windows).

Anyone understand what I’m saying and have a suggestion of what to do with the two 80GB drives?

R.E.M. – Finest Worksong – Document

this one’s for starburstlvr

Best Survey EVER, cause it contains NO boring questions like “What’s
your favorite color?” No one gives a flying fuck what your favorite
color is, jerk…. unless your favorite color is “death”, cause that’s
weird enough to make me care a little I guess. But if your favorite
color is death that’s weird enough that you probably shouldn’t be
admitting it in a survey.