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11:50 pm - Blog and Feed

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11:09 pm - Please Refer To

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04:21 pm

Some things aren't worth saving.

05:54 pm - SWM seeks NJG for Long Walks at Mall

Originally posted at wlh&WPI.

There are now only 3 days left until I return to WPI. To avoid what happened last year when I moved in (being Internetless for several days), I have already configured the drop in my room, SB304, to recognize my iBook. Also, I used /+iprequest to have my iBook's Airport recognized, so if the room pans out, I can log on from the Wedge. As it turns out, when you register your wireless with WPI, there are several steps that are processed on the back end, and then you get an e-mail from AEJ. The e-mail says "Ok"... and nothing else.

How do you know that the end of summer draws nearer? Well, if you're an RA, you get an e-mail from people like tcree and nbarnes telling you that you've been added to an e-mail alias and that this is just a test.

Some people, who aren't SHD's, got to move in early. Slightly jealous, but I'll survive for three more days.

This Friday, I'm driving my mom to work and then have some hours to kill. I think I'm going to go on a ride around Long Island. This "ride" as we'll refer to it, would mean for me going east in so much as to hit the Sagtikos Parkway and then crossing the Robert Moses Causeway, and taking the Ocean all the way back in to the Meadowbrook. Just because I really really will miss driving around Long Island. Specifially my favorite road, the Meadowbrook Parkway.

And whatever this hub-bub is over some virus... screw that, I'm on a Mac.

03:48 pm - Too Weak for One Week More

Originally posted at wlh&WPI.

As has been tradition over the past two years, my impending return to WPI is met with boundless excitement and anxiousness on my part. As I head back to WPI with alacrity in one weeks time I've been thinking about how this year is different from two years past.

No Surprises
The first year, I was a freshman... the second year I was a new RA. There's no adjusting to a dramatic shift in living conditions since I'm back in Stoddard. And hopefully, this year can get off on a good note, considering that A'01 was 9/11, and A'02 was just sucky for some reason.

Major Classes
The classes I'm taking this year are in my major (and my IQP). This is different from the crappy PH, CS, and MA classes I've taken, and retaken, in the past. Also, this A'03, I have no classes on Friday. I don't know if that's a good thing yet. If it's not, my B-Term schedule of class from 8-11 on MTRF whould take care of it.

This weekend is shaping to look like goodness with massive amounts of shopping at malls, IKEA's, and other stores. The following week, my last one on Long Island for perhaps 4 months, will be marked with packing, doctors appointments, and visits to some old friends.

Tonights TV includes an all new episode of Monk and Stargate SG-1 Also... new page on my website. AIM Buddy Icons... to quote Z100, "Check it out!"

05:29 pm - Gigantic Ass

Originally posted at wlh&WPI

Bush is a gigantic ass. There really is no other way to put it. The best part of his most recent statements concerning homosexual marriages is that in 2004, the GOP National Convention is in New York City. Hahahaha! "I don't believe in gay marriage, let's go to New York." (The same would have applied to Los Angeles or Miami) I was a little bit worried that he might pull a quick one and quite possibly win NY State in the 04 election, but without approval of gay marriage (in fact, being against it specfically)

He said he can't be forced to compromise his values. Was anybody asking him to marry a guy? Did I miss the part where he divorced his wife and met some tall dark handsome man? At any rate, what a big dumb asshole.

If gay marriage is expressly outlawed, I don't think I could blame people from emigrating from the United States. I would stay, because eventually we'll get it right.

11:39 pm - Unsung Heroes

Originally posted at wlh&WPI.

Today at work, out porta potty was cleaned. What steps are taken?

• A hose sucks out all the waste


• Add new water to the toilet with disinfectant


• Spray down inside with disinfectant


• Mark calendar inside with date


• Place toilet paper inside

08:23 pm - There's A Lot Of TiVo

Originally posted at wlh&WPI

There's a lot of television to go around, which means my TiVo is busy whirring away with activity. Currently in the queue is Nip/Tuck, MI-5 as well as doubles of Monk, Stargate, and Dead Zone. Oh, and an all new Queer Eye

Next weeks TV Guide features Michael Shanks and Richard Dean Anderson of Stargate on the cover. The article inside is overflowing with comments and praise for the show. Among other things, it compares the shows non-tech heavy irreverent attitude with both Enterprise and Andromeda. Both of the shows have suffered declines in ratings. At any rate, this season looks incredible, and there is an 8th season as well as a confirmed spin-off.

I don't have anything else to say... I guess I'm all about the TiVo tonight.

11:30 pm - Taking A Chance

Originally posted at wlh&WPI

After seeing the success of such cable shows as Monk and The Dead Zone (and the fact that The Shield, The Sopranos and Sex and the City continually recieve high praise), it is with almost zero doubts that tomorrow night I will set aside 2.5 hours of TiVo time for "Nip/Tuck" and "MI-5"

Nip/Tuck
This FX show is about two plastic-suregons. One is a drug addict and the other is so devoted to his work that his family life is deteriorating before his eyes and doesn't even realize it. Almost everything I have read about this has said it is graphically accurate, so it should be good.

MI-5
This show from across The Pond will premiere on A&E. Matt Roush, my preferred TV Critic said, "Are you upset The Agency was cancelled? Then watch MI-5." So I am. I love Matt Roush. It wil either be right up my alley, or not at all. We shall see.

10:28 pm - It Was Rated Aarrgh

Originally posted at wlh&WPI

So, I've been putting off my review of Pirates of the Carribean for almost three days now. Wow. This movie was a lot of fun to watch. Johnny Depp... seriously, they could not have played someone more perfect to play Captain Jack Sparrow. He was the classic underdog hero, who always in the face of danger, finds time to make a wise ass remark. I love it!

Too bad people don't find me as attractive as Orlando Bloom, although I think he looks better without the facial hair and he definitely needs the pointy ears. The movie did start to get a little bit on the long side, but I didn't really notice until I thought about it after the movie. But I appreciate the fact that movies are getting longer, after all, if you're paying $10/movie, why not get 150 minutes instead of 90 minutes?

Work all this week was a joke. The contractors did NO work at all. So I did about two real hours of work the entire week. Wednesday thru Friday was spent in the Bellmore field office, which is diagnally across the street from the Bellmore Post Office on Merrick Road (CR-27A). I managed to read Newsday for 4 hours on Friday, but I don't think I'll be able to reproduce that again, not without reading the sports section. Work should start again in Merrick around Monterey Drive again on Wednesday... concurrent with the resurfacing of Levittown Parkway at Newbridge Road (NY106). It will be kind of interesting to do a Concrete Valley Gutter across the intersection of a state road (not even the county!). The job site is right on the border of the Town of Oyster Bay, which is kind of interesting... since I work for the Town of Hempstead, OK, maybe it's interesting only to me, but interesting none the less.

I spent my weekend in Orient. I've decided I want to buy a house out here, because if you're going to do something, you have to do it all the way. That's why it makes sense. I'm next door to the largest city in the country, I'm in the country's largest town, and if you're going to buy a second home out east, it better be either Montauk or Orient, or don't even bother calling it out east.

Actually, anything east of Riverhead is acceptable. Although I think Mattituck is too commercial... I mean it has a Waldbaums, a five screen movie theater and a McDonalds, far too ritzy. That's living in comfort compared to the sticks of Orient, where the Post Office is attached to an ice cream parlor.

I almost want to get a subscription to The Suffolk Times, the North Forks premiere local Newspaper. The Suffolk Times covers the North Fork, which covers the Town Of Riverhead, The Town of Southold and The Village of Greenport. I'll have to think about it.

This reminds me that I have to renew my subscription to the Oceanside/Island Park Hearld. If I had uber amounts of money I would definitely get a subscription to Newsday, but I'll just have to settle for what's online.

Next up after this Caufield-esque party... Vonda! :)