Posted by sam at July 31st, 2005
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This is grey effect at the show tonight. They were awesome, but the show pretty much sucked over all. There were not enough people there by the time we played, and all of my reservations about the venue were true ten-fold. Man, starry night sucks.
Posted by sam at July 30th, 2005
Saturday July 30 Kickball extravaganza, succulent barbeque, show show show! AKA.... SUPERJOY PARTY! Kickball Power! BBQ Actionator! Rock Canyon Elementary School Provo 2450 n Timpview dr. (by the provo lds temple) Bring your game face, some sweet shoes, and most of all, trash talk. 8pm Rock show spectacularrrrrr -Abilene Paradox -The Powerless -a triumphant guest appearance by Don Juan Triumphant -at least one more sexy band....from another state perhaps?!?!?! Starry Night P-town Kickball is FREE. Show is 5 dolla. Got a talk? Gimmie a holla. -Superman
Posted by sam at July 28th, 2005
I went to the alkaline trio/rise against show tonight. Besides the opening band which sucked, and the drunken idiot who spilled beer all over my back it was EXCELLENT. Ride Against was amazing - they played all the right songs. I was so into it I had lost my voice and all my energy by the time Alkaline Trio came up to play.
I snapped some pictures with my phone and took some video too - but I was disappointed in the video so here is a picture for you (click for larger):
Now I’m going to try to go get the smell of cheap beer off of me…
Posted by sam at July 26th, 2005
I got a new phone today and it is awesome. It’s a treo 650 and it looks like this:
It is the ultimate nerd phone. Yes, I am a nerd. It’s cool though because I freakin hacked my old phone so I can use either one (nerd phone by day, normal phone by night!)
I snapped a pic on the way home from the cingular store. This is Jack and I. Jack is Kurt and Hillary’s son. We gave him a mohawk yesterday.
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Posted by sam at July 21st, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - The word “fail” should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase “deferred success” to avoid demoralizing pupils, a group of teachers has proposed.
Members of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) argue that telling pupils they have failed can put them off learning for life.
A spokesman for the group said it wanted to avoid labeling children. “We recognize that children do not necessarily achieve success first time,” he said.
“But I recognize that we can’t just strike a word from the dictionary,” he said.
The PAT said it would debate the proposal at a conference next week.
Children should grow up in a finely tuned bubble. Nothing negative should ever happen to them. They should not ever be hurt, disappointed, or except responsibility for their own actions. All negative aspects of life should be removed. This is how we create productive adults with realisitc expectations about life.
Posted by sam at July 20th, 2005
Everyone at work found my blog. I’m not sure what their interest is in learning about my interest in robots and pissing people off, but this post is especially for them, my dear readers at work. Come to think of it, I don’t know why any of you freaks read this garbage.
Anywho … we got a new water cooler at work. In the coporate husssle and bussle environment, the water cooler is an integral part to office culture. Besides being the place of inappropriate conversation, gossip mining, and the place to find out about underground office cock fights, it is a place to … uhm … get water if you’re thirsty.
Our old water cooler consisted of not actually any water, except in its frozen form of ice. Yes, our last water cooler was actually an ice chest. The kind with the little shovel to dispense the ice to your cup. You had to get there in the morning or it was all gone. Also, in true Utah fashion, the ice tasted like dirt.
So I guess someone wasn’t happy with the dirt ice and talked the higher-ups into buying a new revolutionary X2000 oversized R2D2 ice fabricating automagical water dispensifier.
The X2000 oversized R2D2 ice fabricating automagical water dispensifier features dual motion sensing dispensifiers for ice an water. Actually, I guess you could say that it just dispenses water. Water and frozen water.
So the idea is that you simply put your cup underneath the water or frozen water dispenser and it will automagically know you’re there and dispense it’s sweet necter. But, like automagical sinks, automagical hand dryers, automagical doors, and Ford’s - the concept is nice but it just doesn’t work.
Instead of dispensing ice when you put your cup up, it sits there and does nothing. So you start wiggling the cup around to try to trip the sensor. As soon as you move your cup away, it starts dispensing forzen water, and continues to do so up until you put your cup underneath it again. So you start moving your cup some more and ice ends up everywhere. A bunch on the floor, and a few pieces in your cup.
Let me tell you about the frozen water. It’s the most technologically advanced non-dense ice I have ever seen. Room temperature water melts the “ice” in less then a few minutes, and doesn’t even cool down the drink.
And it still tastes like dirt.
The awesome thing about the X2000 oversized R2D2 ice fabricating automagical water dispensifier is that it looks like a rocket ship and could probably fly to the moon. Also, I think it has advanced AI and voice recognition so you can carry on about who in the office is sleeping with who, and who is gay, etc. with the ice maker itself, you don’t even need to get the co-workers involved.
You: Hey X2000 oversized R2D2 ice fabricating automagical water dispensifier
x2000: Good day sir, how may I be of service?
You: Did you hear that Susie Q is actually an alien from outer space?
x2000: oh, no she did-int!!
You: Yeah, she ate Bill McGorgins brains last night
x2000: that slut!
You get the idea…
Posted by sam at July 20th, 2005
wow
The video blew my mind - especially the stereo vision and imitation demos. Where can I get one?!
Posted by sam at July 20th, 2005
Well, my previous post got quite a reaction. The death threats have been rolling in pretty steadily, and there is an ominous black car parked outside my house. You know, you try to do people a favor and save them hours of reading …
via heahthuh:
As it appeared:
“PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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gthing. HE IS A JACKASS. HE’LL STALK YOUR DAUGHTER, HARASS YOUR WIFE, AND BEAT UP YOUR CHILDREN. HE SMUGGLES FOOD OUT OF AN ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BUFFET. HE STEALS MONEY FROM HOMELESS PEOPLE. I ALSO HEAR HE SMELLS LIKE ROTTEN FISH. OH, AND HE FUCKING SPOILS THE END OF HARRY POTTER WITHOUT ANY REGARD FOR PEOPLE WHO MIGHT NOT BE FINISHED, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SOMEONE ON HIS FRIENDS LIST PROVIDED CLEAR WARNING ABOUT THAT VERY THING ON THEIR JOURNAL. I HATE HIM, AND YOU SHOULD TOO.”
So ….it’s not okay to take food out of an all you can eat place?
Posted by sam at July 19th, 2005
SNAP KILLS DUMBLEDOR YOU FREAKS!
Posted by sam at July 19th, 2005
My sister called me freaking out that her computer was “fried” again. This was particularly troubling since she had already “fried” her own computer a few months ago and this new computer didn’t belong to her.
Last time it “fried” she took it to a computer shop who said she would have to buy a whole new computer (bullsh!t if I ever heard it), and this time, she said, the exact same thing was happening.
So I asked her what the error message was. She said “It says ERROR and doesn’t work.” DAMNIT - ALL error messages are not created equal? It’s actually important what it says - just making something up doesn’t pacify me.
So I told her I would take a look at it and swung by her house and picked it up. Upon plugging it in and powering it up at my house I was given the error “NON SYSTEM DISK OR DISK ERROR.” Wow! A far cry from her version of the error message.
So anyway, I popped out the FLOPPY DISK that was in the drive and it booted up with no problems. You know - every single person asking me to fix their computers every day is enough - at LEAST read me the error message when I ask because we might just be able to fix it in half a second over the phone.
