Electronic Tumbleweeds

Computer Problems

Jeremy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:36:44 +0000

My laptop’s power brick died yesterday. I wish the part that had died was the one that plugged into the wall and I had like three copies of in the house…but it’s alright. I was the sucker that bought the extended warranty, and it’s actually managed to work out! Cost of the warranty was less than the power cable so it’s paid for itself, now I just gotta go without my computer till Friday…

Music Discussion

Jeremy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:34:48 +0000

So I was sitting on the bus to go home when I had the idea for this back-and-forth between these two characters, one a prominent right-wing gay-basher type and his friend-of-sorts, who I will call A and B respectively:

B: I’m surprised to find that you like house music, since house – and especially the funky house you listen to – pretty much descends thematically from disco which, despite being co-opted by the mainstream in outings like Saturday Night Fever and the Bee Gees, was primary oriented towards gay nightclubs and patrons.

A: And your point is…?

B: You like music for fags, in your own words.

Sleep-Dep Theatre 2

Jeremy — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:18:31 +0000

I dreamed this Friday morning, but hadn’t gotten around to posting it until now. Anyway:

I had this dream where the volcano in Iceland that erupted was actually some dying god that somehow controlled all the world’s adults. I don’t remember how I found this out but me and a friend decided we had to save this god and save the world. Oh, before I forget – the god was an engine of some sort that had either spun a bearing or had run out of oil or something. Anyway, we were in a mall in Canada when the volcano’s ash cloud started to look like a sinister figure in a cape trying to envelop the planet. Combined with this crazy person telling us how the world was ending, we managed to figure it out and went to help (me and my friend), but for some reason as we were trying to escape from the mall we were being chased by some feds and mall security. Anyway, my friend managed to get out without a hitch and I got caught but managed to escape from the mall into this mega-nasty snowstorm, visibility was less than five feet. I don’t remember how I knew to get to where I needed to go, but I remember it was hell getting there. Anyway, when I got there, I met up with my friend again and some other people who had figured out what was going on and were trying to figure out this puzzle where they had a really ornate screw and on the wall there was this weird arrangement of squares with the letters “TF” combined in the middle. Somehow, we figured out that the screw was really a MacGuffin and you only needed to write in the squares on the wall which you could’ve done with chalk. Anyway, once we figured out one word part of the wall fell away to reveal this giant crossword puzzle that we would have to solve to save the god. There was some rule like “all crossword answers are .com domains”, but that rule was a lie because the last clue was a line from the song “On The Road Again”. Finally we solved it and saved the adults, but somewhere there was this “Congratulations” screen which showed us our time and other stats and I realized that it was all just one big ARG.

Stuck Up

Jeremy — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:11:05 +0000

I’ve been meaning to put this up for some time now, but better late than never I guess.

Words To Live By

Jeremy — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:08:14 +0000

if you cannot pronounce it witout looking like a faggot, you shouldn’t be drinking it.

Thank you Stewart Leask for setting the world straight.

Did You Know…

Jeremy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:40:38 +0000

…that the AJC Auto Show was last week? I didn’t until Thursday, I was wondering when it would happen – there wasn’t any sort of advertising until Friday. Anyway, I went on Saturday. Didn’t see that many cars I would want to buy if I had the money, including the Lexus LF-A. I did, however, see quite a few cars that make me want to join whatever company loads them into the convention center. Back to things I could drive, I tried the Ford Raptor Challenge sim again but Couldn’t do better than 63 seconds; I also drove the Ford Taurus SHO sim, which had the worst physics in any racing game I have ever played – and I’ve played both early Ridge Racers and Sega GT 2002. I managed to set the best time, but only after asking the guy who set the original best time how he did it and him telling me to not break for any corners.

I’m still pissed about not breaking 60 seconds in the Raptor sim, though.

Back to the show – not many interesting cars, cars I would thinking about test driving weren’t out yet, and the Ford robot was nowhere near sarcastic enough. Oh well, maybe next year.

Winter Wonderland

Jeremy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:04:05 +0000

I decided to tag along with some college acquaintances and head off to Agnes Scott College today since my school was closed due to imaginary snow. But as we get there, it starts snowing. 30 minutes pass, and everything’s covered in snow. I gotta tell ya, when I originally thought of college and a college campus, it was basically what I saw today; the whole centuries-old-buildings, everything-coated-in-snow-in-the-winter type look really shouts “academia” to me.

Anyway, despite what my acquaintances said, there weren’t that many “mug hos” at the school.

School’s Closed

Jeremy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:22:56 +0000

Due to the threat of snow, the school’s shut down. Gotta leave to get something to eat and work on my paper. I guess Lenox, I got nothing better to do…besides the paper, of course.

Grammys

Jeremy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:31:52 +0000

I caught the tail end of the Grammys last night, and I kinda wish I hadn’t. I mean, partly because the fact that it only awards popular music instead of good music (and yes, I realize I’m being somewhat of a hypocritical asshole saying that both popular music isn’t good and good music can’t be popular), but mostly because when Taylor Swift won the Album Of The Year Grammy, nobody pulled a Kanye. SERIOUSLY – perfect setup. I was praying for it.

PS I’m listening to Slimm Calhoun right now, you can’t say I only like good music.

Hardly Working

Jeremy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:50:51 +0000

I’ll just summarize the past couple days since I’ve got to be getting on to class: I’m getting in to rock climbing, and got belay certified on Monday. I entered a poker tournament that got held last night and got eighth out of 40, as high as I got when I played at Mudd. However, most importantly I managed to fall into a position working IT for the Finance Society here. I say it’s most important because I was led to believe that it would be paid, and I could really use some spending money since I haven’t heard back about a gig laying Cat5. Anyway, time to go to class.

Interesting Week

Jeremy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:25:49 +0000

So I’ve been exploring the school since I’m going to be here for five or so more months, and I’m finding it…somewhat enjoyable. I mean, I still wish I was at Mudd, but that’s only because I am apparently a masochist. Still, I’ve managed to involve myself in various activities, mostly the rock-climbing wall. I swear, I’m gonna run two routes on it every day and by the end of the semester I’m gonna be ripped. Just you wait.

Oh, and I checked out Scratch at the cinema. I had it on my computer, but I wanted to see it on a big screen.

Teh Pig Herpes

Jeremy — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:41:34 +0000

I don’t know where I picked it up, but for the past couple day’s I’ve been dealing with a head cold that’s had me feeling like shit. Especially this irritated throat. I doubt it’s Swine Flu, but it’s possible. Oh well, it’s totally made up for by finally getting an invite to the site I’ve been wanting to get access to. Want an invite? Move along…

School Daze, Part 2

Jeremy — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:44:09 +0000

So in order to get back into Mudd I’m taking some classes at Georgia State. Now if you know anything about Georgia State, you would know it is big. 30000 students big. And it’s sitting on what must be about half a square mile of real estate. So with that many students here over that much ground, not to mention the fact that the buildings are more than one story as well, the odds of me meeting anyone I know are pretty slim, right? I thought so – until I met someone I knew in my first class. Seriously. The odds? Mind boggling. Not to mention that I met someone from high school walking into the student center today.

Sparkfun Free Day

Jeremy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:48:33 +0000

I had planned on doing it for about three weeks since they announced. Unfortunately, so did the rest of the internet. I admit I went in unprepared – not having the cart set up last night, not creating an account prior, thinking that not that many people would know – but I don’t think I could have been prepared for what was essentially a voluntary DDoS. I wish I could’ve picked up an Arduino and multimeter, but whattayagonnado, right? Oh well, there’s always next time.

Last Night Was Weird

Jeremy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:21:08 +0000

Okay, so first off I had to clean out the garage to go hang out with my friend who was apparently some sort of anthropomorphic frog who couldn’t talk, and while doing so I find my actual bike in pieces. I also find what looks to be an old sit-down scooter, so I try to ride it but find I cant stop as it has no brakes and my sneakers are worn down to essentially nothing.

I guess I finished with cleaning out the garage and forgot about hanging out with my frog friend because I go to what is apparenty the backyard of my house to find my mom working on some sort of large outdoor pond. For some reason I get into the old Range Rover we have in the backyard and it’s running. My mom then gets in as well and reverses through our backyard gate and into the woods behind our house.

I wish I knew what any of this meant (except for the Range Rover, that just means TG is awesome)

There Will Be Brawl

Jeremy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:45:41 +0000

After seeing the entire series at one time from beginning to end, all I have to say is “wow”. The fact that a group of fans could put together such an interesting storyline, while including so many popular Nintendo characters and quite a few less-known ones is a feat that should be applauded. While I do have my criticisms, usually the fact that you can see whatever human body part they tried to cover up or the fact that sometimes the make-up doesn’t go as far as it needs to, these issues are insignificant when compared to what a group of broke fans managed to do.

To all you 0 readers, I highly suggest you check out There Will Be Brawl. You should not be disappointed.

Four Days Late, Three Days Early

Jeremy — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:38:37 +0000

For some reason I cannot shake the feeling that today is a Monday. I guess it’s just the New Year throwing me off.

And the last episode of There Will Be Brawl came out today. I plan on marathonning them and posting a review tomorrow.

Happy Fucking New Year, Internet.

Jeremy — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:05:50 +0000

May this new decade not suck as hard as the last.

New Year’s Resolutions 2009

Jeremy — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:59:31 +0000

Okay, it’s five more minutes before the ball drops and ends this decade forever, and as I check my resolutions last year, I realize what a lazy, unmotivated bastard I’ve become. This decade, I will not let that happen. Now, before this new decade comes in, I’m going to list my new resolutions:

Work out more
Be more responsible with my money
Get my mind right on school, again
Blog more often.

Well, it’s time to post this in the last decade. Happy New Year’s, all you 0 readers.

Winter Cleaning

Jeremy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:01:21 +0000

For some reason, I decided to get off my ass at around 1:45 AM and organize my magazines like I’ve been wanting to do for a couple weeks now. I dunno, cocaine’s a helluva drug. High off the excitement of finding my flash drive that I thought I lost months ago, I decided to wash the dishes for the second time today. And collect all the trash around the house and put it in the trash bin.

…Fun?

I dunno, cocaine’s a helluva drug.

But I found my flash drive! So happy. :squee: