Posts from January 2007

We have this mice problem in the house. I think part of it is from the church as I see them outside near it when it is warm out. Luckily they are little house mice and not big rats. I want to kill them more than anything. I wish I could just step on them all but it is too complicated. The real issue is they are ruining everything. Last night I had to throw out another drawer full of stuff. They ate the zip lock bags and other plastic items which is weird. Maybe nesting material.

The most important step is removing food from lying around but my roommates seem to have real trouble with that, For a while we had traps and caught a lot of them. But then we had to give the humane traps back. I am at the point where I hate them enough to step on them, so humane traps are not my utmost concern. I feel like they are invading my space now. They are even bold enough to come out during light hours. I would use poison but I am afraid that it will end up somehow killing the squirrels. In fact I am sure about it.

So I guess we will have to try the traps again. I just wish everyone would remember to not leave food out. Last night after talking about this a lot, there were crackers smashed on the floor, I found this because the mouse was trying to run out and drag them under.

Here is all the crap I found around the house the other night when i got home from work at around midnight. And it is like this every freakin' day.


On a sadder note, the baby sugar glider died. The mother is a crack whore with no parenting skills. She pretty much just threw the baby out of the nest onto the floor.

I decided to take advantage of my brithday holiday today to just say no to windows. One of the most important things was that I could natively run IE to test web sites and that the new Flash Player 9 came out for linux the other day.



It was so satisfying to just delete the windows partition. Now my vaio is much more like its running OS X without the apple crap or hardware and it is so much faster than when it was running windows. Windows is usually fast for about the first three days and then it just starts going downhill from there. I wasn't in the mood to do YAWR (Yet Another Windowds Re-install) when I saw the Suse site that compared the features of the new Suse to Windows Vista.

I have to say I really like this Suse Enterprise Linux 10

I figured what the hell, the only thing that was holding me back before was running IE and cinema 4D. I am pretty much done with Cinema 4D and I can get IE to run.

This is probably the 10th time I installed linux on a proprietary laptop and this time it went great with no hitches right out of the proverbial box. This is the first time I ran Gnome desktop with Suse but it is their default window manager now so I decided to give it a try. The last time I had used it was with Fedora back when @ajay helped me install it on this same laptop.

I wish I had something important to say at the end of being a 20-something.

Flashback to January 21st, 1997: I am locked in my dorm room in Flensburg, Germany totally dissatisfied with the thought of turning 20. I somehow thought it was going to be the end of my adventurous life and that everything would change the next day. What really amazes me about the difference between then and now is the omnipresent internet which was nowhere in my life at the time. I had only began to use it the year before in 1996 and in Germany my only access was in a special computer lab once a week.

The night of my twentieth birthday I was not online chatting with my friends in the motherland but rather locked in my room tripping on mushrooms by myself.

Eventually, I ended up wandering out into the park and if I remember correctly, I had a good time.

I don't remember my 21st birthday. Does anyone else remember it. I think I might not have one single friend in my life now that was there then - or maybe I just don't remember it because it was so fun. Actually maybe chris was there. Maybe @hodown but I think she was in New York. Or maybe I was in Arizona? If only I had a journal. I think I was probably in Arizona.



Back to 2007 -
My blood pressure was ridiculous the other day. Although, in fairness I was really angry at the moment.


Last night we celebrated my birthday at my parents house.







My family got me so much candy. In fact @mike wrapped my gift in candy. The gift was a set of these four keychains that attach to stuff you lose. Then when you press a button o the basestation the things make an alert noise so that you can find them. What a great idea. I wrote about it a while ago when I was on the plane to San Francisco to visit @twisted. They had them in the skymall magazine at the time.



@lilho, a big part of the last ten years.


I love this vaio series. At over 4 pounds lighter than the macbook I think I will need one, once the tax returns come.

The mactops are so freakin hot and heavy. That would be much better if I was describing a lapdance instead of a laptop. But the keyboard is pretty nice. Au Revior Pomme.

The jerk chicken sandwich at Betty's on virginia was both priceworthy and delicious. It had pineapple, jerk chicken and banana garlic mayo. Yes, banana garlic maya and it tasted good.

I also drank orange juice. I have been consuming citris like mad as I am very concerned it will be gone after the california icestorms.

Washington Market Philly Cheese Steak - not that great the cheese was more like nacho cheese from lasertron or puttputt.


Panos Sirloin Salad - Nameless Bitch ordered it first and then everyone else at the table ordered one. I have never eaten anywhere, where each person got the exact same thing.


Everyone got one


Don Pablo's Shrimp Enchilada


We ordered Buffalo Style Calamari at Pano's by accident. It is gross


Today at lunch I could not resist eating this chicken wing as a desert with my mashed potato bar meal.

I can't believe none of them have paid still. It is the isngle most frustrating experience of my life. This Cuban woman loves to maniacally bargain and she will do anything to put herself in a bargaining situation. Originally the rent was $600 and she bargaining down to $550. Woo the hell bargains in America. Maybe I should try it more often. Anyways, I have no interest with meeting with her to discuss it. I want my money now or I want them out. Imagine if when things were really broken I said, well I will meet with you to discuss fixing it next week and then we can bargain.

Anyone know how to evict someone or have any experience with this? This is my first time.

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Paul,
you have the arregement with mandee and cathy!---I don't know what are you talking about???
Tenant

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Tenant,
Mandu no longer lives there. She only had a contract through January and you have known that for months. We have discussed this multiple times that you are responsible for maintaining roommates to pay to additional rent.

We currently have no contract as you and cathy never gave me back a copy of the signed lease.

If you cannot maintain paying the full rent of $550 between you and
whatever roommates you have then you will have to leave. Like I said
please make plans to leave the property in 30 days (feb 14th) if you
cannot comply with paying the entire rent.

I have no interest in bargaining on this issue. I had already reduced the rent to $600 from $550 for you guys. Either pay the full $550 or leave as
I am not renting a three bedroom apartment for $183 or $367.

Paul

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Paul
It would be better to meet each other and discuss about this misunderstanding. This should not be discuss by email. I meet you at the appartment next friday at 10 pm
Tenant

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Tenant
Who do you think you are to dictate when I will meet with you and how we will communicate. I have no interest in meeting with you or discussing the issue any further. There is no misunderstanding and no bargaining. You have totally disrespected me at this point by making me wait so long for the rent and making me come check on it so many times this month.

You are seriously overdue on rent and I am not obligated to pick it up. That apartment costs $550 per month. I don't care how you split it up amoungst your roomates. By law you are able to have two other roomates because it is a 3 bedroom apartment. I explained in the lease that it is $550 for 1 person, $275 each for 2 people, or $183 each for three people.

I am not renting you a 3 bedroom apartment right next to school for $183 per month.

I expect the rent in full tomorrow thats $550 and I don't care how you split that up with other tenant or whoever you have as a third roommate. If you cannot comply I would begin to look for another place of residence immediately.

Paul Visco

I know someone is going to hate me for this, but it seems like the more graphic designers I work with the less respect I have for the profession. I definately do not think that print designers should be allowed to touch the web. Sounds pretty strong I guess but most of them really suck at web design and cannot understand how the graphics are not simply static blobs places on the page but have to include functional parts of the page. I wrote about this last year during the same ride website drama @paul #4123

Mayeb I am just a web snob but it is amazing how much people can get wrong: from color matching, the layout, to design.

I have written about this like 10 times. Web design is no longer cutting up pictures in photoshop and placing them into static tables. Look at this graphic from part of a website that someone wanted me to construct. I am so sick of people building websites in photoshop. It is so 1875 in internet years.



Look at this disaster. Can even the totally untrained eye see that the blues do not match and that the darker blue bar is one or two pixels off from the lighter blue section. This kind of thing is a result of sloppy photoshopping. It makes me crazy.

Had a nice dinner party with chris and his mother. Bekah also stopped by. It was nice to see her. I haven't seen her in a long time. Having a visitor from the mansion down the street made me think that North street is making a comeback, lol.

Took the s7c out to take some nighttime pics of the icestorm. I am posting the original and my crops of each photo.

The holly leaf original


Two crops - you should have seen the whole thing upclose in hires. These were taken at 5MP compressed and the camera can do 7MP raw.

The three buds - the original



The crops - they look like superheros

The frozen stick



The crops

Misc

Frozen dripping penis?
On a side note I went to go see @terry and chris sing kerioki last night and it was fun.