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Busy day today...work followed by happy hour, volleyball and my usual evening time-wasting activities. I dont know what I did to my shoulder @ vball but it hurts like crazy when I raise OR lower it :(

What is it about online relationships that makes people think they can treat others like crap? I'm sure my experieces are not among the worst out there, but sometimes you just gotta wonder whats going through a person's head. Like the great prophet Chapelle says, keep it real folks...

free the sunday

Just in time for superbowl sunday, I am finally finished with my last Sunday night volleyball league match. It was a sad way to end the season going down in flames in the first round of the playoffs, but all is not lost! I now have time to make the most of my Sundays without fear of interruption. I was tired of skipping dinner plans and cutting short afternoon activities for something I could do any other day of the week. Now, I can do more than just french toast at Forest Diner and Starbucks at B&N...yippie skippy.

Unfortunately, I just found out today that I do have a match on valentines day...WTF? I think I might have to miss that one...assuming I can find something better to do :P

laziness

Apparently in the past few weeks I have gotten more lazy with respect to posting entries here. I'm not exactly sure why that is...but I would like to propose a few reasons:

1. My fingers have a severe form of arthritis and I cant type fast anymore
2. I have been too busy playing World of Warcraft to make time for living my life
3. My dog ate my computer
4. I forgot my password
5. Nothing interesting has happened to me in the past week
6. I have been too busy saving the world from a secret alien power beyond your comprehension
7. My ninja training kept me "tied up"
8. My extra curricular activities kept me "tied up"
9. I had bird flu
10. I really did write interesting and thoughtful posts, but MySpace lost them somehow

I submit that one of the above is the true reason...see if you can guess which one!

Come to my superbowl party...the power of Christ compells you!

more mindless banter

Just once simple observation today...

It seems to me that the more time you spend thinking about something, the more likely it is that something else will come along to distract you or the world around you in such a way that all that mental energy becomes just another waste of time...entropy in the void to keep the universe happy and balanced.

Of course, as the odds decrease the potential winnings increase so whose in for another round?

Snow Day?

Thank you BGE for screwing up big time. I am off work today because of their incompetence. Apparently, the entire lab lacks electricity and it will not be back on until tomorrow at least. Since all I do is sit in front of a computer all day, I guess I can't do any work?

In the mean time, I be playing with some customization of my space. Apparently, you can add any HTML/CSS stuff you want into a particular information area. This is very useful for people who want a slick/slippery background or who knows what. Been a long time since I played with this stuff, so I have some catching up to do fur sure.

TV B Gone

So, I'm browsing my regular list of news sites today and I come across this one: Story

Apparently, some Italian researcher has found that people who have a TV in their bedroom have half as much sex as those that don't. If this isn't a good reason to stop watching TV so much, I don't know what is. I currently DO have a TV in my bedroom. Maybe its time to put it back in the computer room?

You might be expecting my own personal commentary on my experiences with this issue, but I'll defer that to another day :P

Return to Sender

Well, so far feedback on this blog is "your blog is really boring". Doh...I guess that is telling since this is supposed to be about the most interesting stuff that happens to me during the day...at least that I can write about in a public forum. Anyways...I know im boring and I thats OK :P

So, a few days after I came back from my week long trip home for the holidays, my wonderful mommy decides to mail me my Christmas gifts...the ones that I couldnt fit in my carry on bag for the flight. OK...I should get these packages a few days later, right? Well one arrives 3 days later...the other has not arrived yet...more than 2 weeks after it was sent. Apparently the Postal Service will just decide to keep your packages at their facility without telling you. They deliver my mail every day. Would it be so hard for them to give me a little piece of paper saying they have it? Why do they even have it? They delivered the other package...we paid them to deliver this package...what is their motivation to keep it in storage? Last I checked, storage space costs alot of money. Your tax dollars at work for me!

Random thoughts

Do you ever get that weird feeling that you have something to say, but you don't have any idea what that might be? Well, thats how I feel right now. That probably means this will be one long paragraph of random gibberish, but who knows. Extra free time gives you an excuse to evaluate things...yourself, others and the world you have created for yourself. Of course, there seems to be a natural tendency to repel this free time, as if it is a curse or disease. The random bits of enlightenment uncovered by thorough evaluation can be unpleasant. Who wants to figure out that they hate their closest friends, themselves, or something worse? What scraps of the past are creeping in the shadows of an unfettered mind? Best not put in the effort to make such discoveries. I'm off to find something to keep me occupied :P

A Cat

There is a stray cat living in the parking lot. Every day that I take Peanut for a walk, we see it lurking in dark places. Of course, curiousity is one of Peanut's strong points, so she is always interested in helping the cat out of its temporary hard times with a little "friendly" play. Of course I can never let Peanut near the cat because it will certainly tear her to pieces, being her equal in size and certainly possessing the lions share of "street smarts". The cat meanwhile is perched, vulnerable, waiting for the right moment. Sometimes on the hood of a freshly driven car, absorbing the engines warmth. Other times on the edge of the storm drain, prepared to disappear into its underground comfort at any moment. What is the point of all of this you say? I don't really know. I can't decide whether I should be inspired by or feel sorry for the cat.

By the way, LastFM is freakin awesome. Web2.0 will change the world.

hmm

Well, today was a boring day. Traffic was really shitty too! I did find one interesting thing to read about though (thank you Wikipedia selected article of the day). Its called the omnipotence paradox. Basically, the question is how can an omipotent god exist and how can he be omnipotent yet still fit into the logical framework of the universe. God might just decide one day to make a bowl of icecream so big that he can't eat all of it...but that would mean he's not omnipotent...but if he can't make one that big, that would also mean he's not omnipotent. Therefore, he cannot exist. I guess this is just fun play with words, but it has some interesting implications.

First, any omnipotent being can only exist outside of a logical framework to avoid paradoxical situations. Second, this being has no way of explaining its own existence. Third, understanding this inherently illogical being would be very difficult, if not impossible. Oh well, such is life.

Congratulations! You've Been Selected! Free 42" Plasma TV

Nothing makes me more upset than when people shrug off their own bad habbits, blaming fate or inevitability for the future consequences of their actions. My mom thinks that this behavior is somehow associated with peoples religious beliefs. I cant believe that either because I know that these people are, or at least claim to be christians. Christianity teaches that people ARE responsible for their actions, otherwise, there wouuld be no point in appealing to a god. Do these people even pay attention when they go to their church? In fact, I know of no religion that teaches complete apathy...how can someone function in complete denial?

Im worried about a friend...he feels responsible for a bad accident and he just cant seem to deal. His girlfriend of 14 years just left him and hes turned to the bottle...dunno what to do :(

what to do

Well, I'm trying to find an online music store that meets my unusual personal needs. First of all, I want to be able to download music that plays in Linux and isnt "protected" by horrible Digital Rights Management. Second, I dont want to pay to much for the service because I probably wont be using it THAT much. Third, I want to be able to get files that I own, not ones that disappear when I stop using the service. It seems that most of the services out there use either Apples AAC encoding or Micro$oft's DRM protected WMP format. Its well known that the free format Ogg Vorbis kicks the other encodings butts, but its hard to find a player that supports the format, and you cant buy files encoded that way anywhere :(

I did find a russian site Allofmp3 that lets you download mp3's for just $0.02 per MB (thats about $0.10 per song!). I have heard good things about the service. The only question is, is it REALLY legal and do they pay the artists like they are supposed to? For now, all attempts by the music industry to shut it down have failed. Perhaps this is my best alternative?

Go Fetch

People say dogs live good lives...at least the ones that are treated properly. But I think they have earned that honor because they give as much or more than they get in other ways. So before you wish you had your dogs life, remember how much effort it would take for you to be happy and cheerful all day every day.

A day like any other...

What is going on with my peeps at work? Everyone seems to be dropping like flies. I hope things improve soon...I'm not a big fan of unpaid overtime!

Been having some discussions with a friend about an interesting sleep schedule...basically you sleep for about 30 minutes every 4 hours. Your body aclimates to it eventually so that you reach REM sleep almost immediately. Using this sleep pattern, you can sleep ~3 hours per day and be very well rested...the only question is, how do you get away with this at work, and what do you do with all of your free time. I dont think I'm in a position to try it at this time, but its interesting to think about.

Many more interesting life optimization ideas at Lifehack

Happy New Year!

So, my belated new years resolution is to read a few books this year. This follows a complete failure to do so last year. Reading the first 50 pages of 10 books doesnt count. Started an online calendar because I keep forgetting stuff like birthdays. Maybe I can become a more considerate person? And wheres my freakin snow? Ugh.