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02/09/2008 21:15 #43262

Some pictures - old and new
Category: photos
I am getting ready to go out tonight with estrip gang (e:fellyconnelly,43239). I can't go to the pre-party because of the cats ;( That is my life.

I decided to wear a tie.
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We were cleaning up our den today in order to move a much bigger desk for me into it when someone found this old CD of data from my old blueberry ibook abck in 1999. On it were a lot of pictures I cannot post but these ones, I can post.

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Here is one of (e:terry) from our bedroom in Germany. He looks crazy. The photo was named crazy man, in german.
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Oh, I miss the endless skies and warmth of arizona ;(
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How super apple fanboy gay is this. I am almost embarassed. We took this with our webcam back in 2000.

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One time we needed a place to live because we had just moved to Germany and didn't know anyone, so we put up these signs everywhere with our name/email. Notice the lack of much information. It led to us finding somewhere though.
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Here are some picture of (e:terry) and Ronnie Deleski - she was one of our really good friends from Arizona who then also went to school in Germany and visited us there.

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Okay, this one is insane - I don't really remember the details but I am pretty sure Ronnie and (e:terry) were very drunk and silly youths at the time.

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(e:terry) and I in our room
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(e:terry) looking young and cute back in 1999 when our apartment was 15x9 with three of us living there. We had to roll up our futon bed in order to use the oven. It did have a walk in tiled shower though.
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(e:terry) looking strong
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metalpeter - 02/10/08 14:08
I can't imagine the pictures that you can't post. That one of terry where you can see everything but also see nothing looks very art like as if it was done like that on purpose, that is good photogroghpy. In terms of Ronnie she is she is cute. She has that the look like you know her even when you have never met her. Also in that smoking picture it looks like they really arn't smoking.
james - 02/10/08 13:57
Hey now, Terry is still a sexy betch.
lilho - 02/10/08 00:35
wow, terry you were/are such a sexy betch. how did paul get so lucky. i wish i was so lucky. i am not that lucky. it is the new chinese year, so maybe this year is my year, eh?

02/08/2008 22:50 #43253

New TV, old roomate, boston market
Category: stuff
So the new HD TV came today. So seeing as we don't have cable, we got one of those HD antennas. Did you know there are three, yes three, PBS stations over the air with HD.

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HD moveis are redic expensive. Like $40 and the BBC Earth movie (e:matthew) wanted was like $100 in HD. Unfortunately/fortunately, we don't have an HD or bluray player because we went with the Xbox instead of the playstation 3. What a stupid mistake that was. Playstation has built in wifi, built in power brick and blueray player. I think we are going to sell the Xbox and get one. A blueray player is $399, a playstation 3 is $399. Who buys just the bluray player? I also hear dthe playstation was silent compared with the really load xbox.

Now the room is covered in visually animated surface areas. This is the view from my computer station.

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So the TV has already caused major drama as (e:matthew) wanted to watch a movie and our roommate was watching the new TV and has a cold in our den - which sent (e:matthew) over the edge because he wantedt o play with his new toy and me over the edge because you know how I am about sick people in my spaces. Well at least some of you do.

Most of all, I hate it when (e:matthew) is angry, it makes me angry. Eventually, the doorbell rang and I didn't want to get it because I thought it was the beginning of a full evening of interpersonal drama that would have made him angrier.

(e:matthew) said don't answer it, roomie answered it. Roommate yells he doesn't want to hear the doorbell ring, I yelled then move out. Then he answers the door, (e:matthew) goes ballistic - roommate gets 30 day notice. At now maybe we can just live in peace. I feel bad in a way because he was not a bad roommate but we just don't want one anymore. I am over the whole feeling guilty with too much space thing and I want to take over that bathroom again. It will be so nice to have two showers again and an extra bathroom for guests. Like this morning (e:matthew) and I had to be at work at the same time.

So I am done teaching the PHP class for the week. I think it went pretty awesome. I hope that the people in the class enjoyed it as well.

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I really wanted a projector more than a TV. I guess TV first projector later. Projectors rocks. Imagine projecting outside for fun. Are their laws against it. You could have guerilla projecting campaigns.

Okay, food - does anyone else like Boston Market. I love it but I really kind of hate all the plastic so we barely ever go there.

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I bought more of those yummy gummi bears (e:paul,43051)

Day Time view
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The way I see it
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paul - 02/10/08 12:22
Its too late. We have xbox live but, I don't want to pay $4/movie - when we can get them with our netflix account. By the time we add the wireless module and the eventual bluray adaptor to the xbox, we might as well just buy the playstation. Same with if we pay $4/movie.

Plus (e:terry) really wanted that game with the woman who has the red flowing hair. None of us play sports games or first person shooters. Not to mention the xbox is so loud. I can't stand the sound of it.
shawnr - 02/10/08 08:08
Ack -- Don't trade your awesome Xbox for a pitiful PS3! Blu-ray be damned! Get your Xbox hooked up to Xbox Live and just download/stream HD movies for $4 each. And my spidey sense says that within a year we'll hear about a blu-ray add-on for Xbox. Now that everyone has left HD-DVD I'm sure MS will release a blu-ray player for Xbox. They have been hinting at it. I expect something to come out this summer about the details.

Plus, either way, discs are so Y2K...
paul - 02/09/08 17:26
Ya, we don't hang ours. It is just on a stand.
metalpeter - 02/09/08 15:04
First of all it seems to me that when the door bell rings you do one of two things (just ignoring it never works and you never know when someone will drop by unexpectdly) You either go to answer it or go to (most homes have a place you just have to find it) where you can see who is at the door with out getting it and then from there decide if you want to open it.

My speak on Gadgets. If I where to have bought a game System I would have gone with x box or maybe not. For me it would have to have some good wrestling games and Madden and Hockey and I think all the systems are the same with those. The thing that I thought was cool about PS2 is that they made it so it would play old playstation games and the new ones. The thing that I think is silly is that they now have out a PS3. when the two came out they made games for both PS2 and the original playstation and that was a pretty cool idea. Now PS3 uses blue ray and plays blue ray discs. But what if you go out and buy one then 1 year later they come out with a 4 then you allready have an old system. They now have new blue ray discs and players that they claim are High Def but not sure they really are or not. I don't know if the PS3 can play the new HD Blue ray discs and I also don't know if you need a speical remote or how well the discs play on it, before getting one I would get all the details on that.

That TV does look pretty nice, I wish I could afforid one. But even if I could my one wall isn't big enough to hold one safely and my storage room is a mess cause it is a storage room, I really need to fix that sports/storage room up.
jim - 02/09/08 11:54
Do you guys love the new TV?
jbeatty - 02/09/08 11:16
I am jealous of your 3 PBS channels. I seriously bought basic cable just so PBS would come in clear.
imk2 - 02/09/08 11:11
wow, that was a whole lot of drama!
mike - 02/08/08 23:58
i love their mac and cheese! i think you are not a people meant to live with other people over which you are their master so it is prolly better to have no roomates.

02/06/2008 22:49 #43220

Crazy Apple
Category: food
No not the computer kind, but the organic kind. This is the most oddly shaped apple I have even seen. It looks like it got blown in the wind?

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fellyconnelly - 02/07/08 07:15
conehead apple!

02/07/2008 20:31 #43237

Globat.com is a ripoff - beware
Category: web
Dear globat.com
You suck. Your hosting company sucks. Stop pretending that people like the woman on the front of your website really work their in your customer service dept when it is really all non-native english speakers.

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You basically have fucked my stuff up so many times. I hope your company goes out of business.

It makes me so angry that you pretended to put me in collections and then offered to get my account out of fake collections with the promise I pay now and get my files. Then you go ahead and delete my files. Th e only reason I was in collections for so much is because you autorenewed me for a service I never even signed up for.

You guys have no idea how much trouble I have had with them (e:paul,32201)

I spent hundred of hours on the phone with what I thought was india but now I am thinking is stupid eskimos when I used to host estrip at globat. I hate you globat, I hope your data center blows up and all your customers sue you.

That is exactly what happend to me

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mrdeadlier - 02/07/08 21:31
James: bahahahahaha
james - 02/07/08 21:20
This journal will soon by the number 3 search result for Globat

02/06/2008 22:51 #43221

New Monitor
Category: computers
I also got my new monitor, not sure if I like it yet. It is really big and lets me see a ton of text but - it is only 60hz refresh while the macbook pros display is 75hz. I think this might make my eyes crazy. I might return it and get a smaller one with a higher refresh rate.

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Secondlife is really quite amazing at 1900 pixels tall

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Same with zend studio
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The more I think about it, the more I think we should have these at work. Even cheap large secondary monitors. Being able to see this much code makes it so much easier to program. Considering, that monitors that big cost < $500 it would take such a small amount of time to make up that cost in saved man hours. I mean they pay me a lo to scroll up and down and flip between tabs all day when you think about it.