Holy crap its been a long time since posting here. A lot has changed (in order of occurence) I don't really hate O&A anymore; new roomate; new band; new girlfriend.

All good.

Yep...

Opie & Anthony suck. Theres no other way about it. Jim Norton is kinda funny. But in general I can only listen to their show for maybe 5 minutes before tearing my eyes out.

First off, you have to wait for a couple minutes for the show to switch back on after comercials (probably because the local commercials ended first and they are waiting for the syndication to come piping back through). So you have to wait through horrible mock-techno music to get to their show. Then the show gets there and its just not funny. Or even fun to listen to for that matter.

Now I don't blame this all on O&A. See I have a theory. I figure how funny can morning radio really be, I mean its news and comedy rolled into one. But these guys don't have the local presence or news or happenings that Shred & Ragan had to pull from. They have to go pure comedy, everyday, and the material just isn't up to snuff.

I miss Shred and Ragan. It actually had to do with our community, the Niagara Falls Police Blotter. The contests. Ah the good ol' days. We'll be talking to our kids one day saying, "I remember a day when disc jockies used to live in the cities they broadcast in". And they'll be all like, "Oh Grandpa your crazy, music and humor has been illegal now for 30 years."

Alright I just wanted to document my desk at work right now:

From the computer (from the top):
Power Cord
Mouse and Keyboard
Monitor#1
USB to External Harddrive
USB to Camera
USB to Wacom Tablet
Ethernet Cable
Monitor#2

In the power strip between cubes:
Monitor#1 and #2
Laptop Power
Harddrive Power
PC Power
Cell Phone Power
Camera Charging Base

Plus theres my land-line phone. I have a lot of sweet toys to have fun with here.

Yep, last night while playing World of Warcraft I heard a pop come from inside my machine, which then turned off immediately. So I laid it down and to look at the inside and noticed the smell of sulfur. So I look at the inside and notice grey smoke coming out of the power supply.

I wait awhile, try turning on the computer again. It works. Then the grey smoke comes back out. I thought it'd be pretty dangerous to run a computer with smoke coming out of it. Damn power supplies.

P.S. I was going to try making an overclocking joke, but it just didn't seem like it'd be worth it.

So I've got a new assignment from work today. Its called UB Buffalos Seen 'Round he World'. Pretty much its a contest to take pictures of this UB squeezie buffalo or shop a buffalo into a picture then put your company name on it. Then they'll be displayed at a recruiting fair at UB and people will vote on the best.

Now I work for TCS, Tata Consultancy Services, which operates around the globe. So the possibilities are pretty limitless. Now I just need an idea.

So if anyone wants to come up with an idea for this and let me know; I will promise to give you a cookie. And if its a good idea that I base the project on, I will give you a whole box of cookies. And the good ones from Wegmans, the soft ones with frosting and sprinkles on top. They fill you up a bit, but they are freaking great. Alright, you have your mission. GO!

This past weekend had a theme. "Do what you love". It was as simple as that. It's a life motto, words of wisdom to live by. We spent the days eating, drinking, singing and being merry. I spent time sitting, relaxing out on a boat; went and saw my friends acting in a local play; even had time to myself for videogames. Overall, the mission to do what we love was successful.

Now, Monday came. I swear the heat rolled in like a blanket of madness. It all started when I was picked up a half hour late for work; not bad, but it set the mood. Next, getting into work I notice my friend Chris isn't there. Turns out she was either fired or left the company. The most plausible rumor is the one stating she was given an ultimatum to move for the company or leave the company; suggesting she chose the later. She was the one I've known the longest in the company too, so it hurt to find out that she was gone.

This brings up a strange fact. She is better than me, in coding and development. My saving grace is my graphic and interface skills. Oh yeah, I might be going to India (Kolkata) for a couple months to hone these skills; working with the design team in India before coming back to Buffalo when R&D is done. That's cool with me though, spend a couple months in India then come back. I can handle that.

Then last night one of my best friends calls, "Hey man, guess what. Zach, Chris, Robby and I are all getting evicted". Now mind you these guys throw benders every weekend, and I can understand them getting a complaint or two. But guess what, it's not even the reason. A company bought out there house and apartment building and they don't want people renting out the front house.

Then another one of my best friend's lease is up on his studio apartment soon. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to be staying in a studio again.

Now what does their troubles have to do with me? I find out my current roommate is moving out. (Who also happens to be the guitarist from my now ex-band). I'm too social for him, he needs total quite for studying. I understand that, I've just already put in my college time, and am now reaping the benefits.

So all this happened within 36 hours. We may add a third room onto my house. I'm thinking buy a 6 man house and we all live there. I don't know; it's a pretty crazy time right now.

I just don't understand it (like most things in this world), and I've relinquished to the fact that I'll never understand it. We Buffalonians are an interesting group; and this fact in no way diminishes when it comes to our driving skills. In most places, take Texas for example, if it snows all highways to close, people stay indoors, communication is cut off, and supplies have to be air freighted in. Now take our multinational North East City; it seems we can only drive well if it's pouring rain or at least 10 inches of snow.

This is all stemming from the fact that I'm a rush hour driver. Honestly everyday on the road there is an accident from some asshole that was tailgating because he only had 4 hours left in the day to get drunk, and he'll be damned if he's going to let those hours go to waste. So there I am, waiting in the line to see a crumpled hood on the side of the road before resuming the speed limit.

The thing is I almost never see this in the winter, I believe we are better in dangerous conditions. We're bread that way; we'll play in the green muck pumping up from our ground and eat the ones who can't handle it. Sure in the winter there's still accidents, but the people who are in them usually manage to careen off the side of the road and flip their car into the forest (out of site, out of mind). In the same way that people drive better in the rain. Take this morning for example; the creek was about a foot higher, which was roughly the same distance I could see in front of the car when the wind shield wipers happen to give me a glimpse to the outside. But the thruway was moving at 60, there were no accidents and I got to work in less than 20 minutes. Now let's hope the rain keeps up around 5 o'clock so I can get home in the same time frame.

I was going to write a lengthy article on processors this morning, but I just couldn't bring myself to it. Instead I just want to make sure you all have the major facts:

Intel announces the new Conroe chip (set to release July 27)

Conroe chip benchmarks blows away any chip on the market

AMD cuts there chip prices by 50%

AMD looks to buy ATI for 5.4 BILLION!!!!!

That is all. Your mind should be blown.

This past Saturday I finally had a free day, was up early and had some energy; a combination that doesn't happen all too often. So I figured, if I'm up this early, I may as well get some things done, like cutting the lawn for the first time in three weeks.

Go outside, take out the riding mower, drive onto the lawn singing "chitty chitty bang bang" and start cutting. I look behind me and notice the lawn is cutting seared low on side while the other is barely cut at all. Disengage the blade, drive back to the garage, pull out the push mower. I notice the push mower is a bit heavy and clunky, but I'm determined to get the job done.

Now my lawn has trees surrounding the entire perimeter; but they're small. So I had to maneuver this clunky mower around 15 or so arborvitaes (bushes). The icing on the cake was my front lawn, which has both trees and hills. So I pushed this heavy mower up the hills and around the trees. By the end of the job I was covered in sweat, exhausted, but proud of myself.

My dad stopped by right about when I had finished and packed everything away (oddly enough to cut the lawn).

"What are you doing son?"
"Oh, just got done cutting the lawn, did you know the riding mower is broken?"
"Haha, I just came here to do that. So, which mower did you use?"
"I just used the heaviest lawn mower ever, the big clunky one over there"
"Oh, did you use the self propel function on it?"

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At this point I stopped, took a deep breath, and sat down for a minute. Contemplated what I had done that day and sighed. I justified it to myself by determining it was the best work out ever. So if you're looking for that total body work out to sculpt and tone those abs, while providing a full cardio workout; just stop by my house, I'll set you up with the self propelled mower and you can cut my lawn, but you can't use the actual self propel function. I'll only charge you for renting the equipment and gas; it's the deal of a lifetime.