Today Was Nice

Today was a nice day. Not only because of the weather, but I think that I got a good amount of work accomplished.

I woke up at around 9am and went to E.P. to pick up my brother from his friends house. When I dropped him off at home I picked up Alex and we went out to Ashland to help one of my mom's friends move. We got a lot of work done in not that much time at all, and got payed for it. Then after we stopped at the Minute Market for a drink we went home and unloaded groceries that my mom had just picked up. By then it was about lunch time, so we tried to portray the "typical" American family: Made hamburgers, sun tea, sat some chairs out on the front lawn and played football in the street. After lunch I went out back and began to clean out our pool so that we can get the solar cover on and start swimming a little earlier this year. Then after the pool was clean my mom bought some flowers that Alex, Austin, and I then planted.

For Dinner we made chicken tacos and watched 'An Unfinished Life'. It was a pretty good movie, and it had Morgan Freeman in it. What do you think his role was? The Helper. Now I'm here informing you fine readers of the nice day I had.

PS- This weekend I also found my Moleskine that had been lost since January. I'm glad I found it. It had some pretty important stuff in it.

Taking A Stand

I have now added a little something to my template that will not allow IE users to view my site. Firefox is the ultimate browser. I setup and designed HACKERATi for Firefox, so I feel to get the whole effect of the site you need to view it the way it was meant to be viewed: through Firefox. IE makes it look pretty dumpy, I think. If you had to download Firefox because of this, I am sorry for the temporary inconvenience, but that's how gorilla blogging works.

1 month 'till my 21st B-Day!

Here Ya Go

There has been a few requests to see the picture of Andrew with Stormy Daniels. Here ya go, enjoy it, but not too much.

The Stormy Daniels Experience.

Randomness

Olympic gold medalists are classy.

Backflips are fun!

Mustache tattoos make you about "Twenty...Three to twenty four percent cooler." They act as a great disguise as well. I also like their news anchors, a real lively bunch.

Stormy Daniels

While I was looking through the today's paper this evening I saw an ad stating that stormy Daniels was going to be at Castle. I was reading it aloud to Drew and he immediately started getting ready and told me to as well. Unfortunately I couldn't because Austin need a ride to E.P.. So when I go home the house was empty, then 5 minutes later Drew walks in the door with a hard on. He also had a poster of Stormy Daniels, Space Nuts, a T-shirt, some keys chains, and a Polaroid picture with Stormy Daniels. Oh yea, in the picture, he is behind her while holding on to her huge boobies. He said he would of gave the "Oh" face, but he was to distracted by the whole situation and having her ass on his crotch, and also trying to fight off the erection.

"Because I want that fucking bird on my shit."

More info coming soon.

Always Turn On The Lights

Let me preface my experience with this little bit of history. When I used to deliver papers at the Rogue Valley Manor I would have to walk back home, in the dark, on a tiny little path, at around 5 a.m. every morning. For a while there was a bobcat that was hanging around the same area I would walk through. One morning it decided to give me a scare and jump out of the bushes and land right at my feet ( not in a aggressive manner- it was startled by me). I ran all the way home and up an un-lit walkway making sure to look back the entire time.

Well just a few minutes ago I went out to my car to check if the windows were up and the doors were locked. While leaving the house I neglected to turn on the lights, thinking that I would be fine.

Ok, I am almost 21 years old now and not afraid of the dark, but at nights I still walk up the walkway making sure to keep a close eye over my shoulder being certain nothing is following behind me (paranoid?). Sometimes when it's really dark I will run right up the path, then at the door, turn around real fast and check for anything. So as I walked up the darkened walkway I took a couple glances over my shoulder. Just before I got the door I heard what I knew to be a running/galloping sound consistent to that of a bobcat. Louder! Louder! Louder! As I looked back I could see a cat like creature running right at me. My eyes widened, jaw clenched, tightened my fists, and braced for impact. I kind of got in a fighting position hoping to scare off what I thought to be the bobcat. Then it stops at my feet and puts its ears back( I can see that much though it was dark). Quickly I opened the door and turned on the lights. IT'S DAISY! I almost kicked at her, but I knew I wouldn't really follow through with it. I was just scared. Yes, Adam gets scared.

This cat has been a tormenter since day one. When she was little we used to keep a collar on her that had a little bell. She used to run around the house at night playing. When I would go to bed, I would be able to hear her playing upstairs, bell jingling. Then I could hear her run to the stairs, and start to head down 'em, bell jingling. Louder! Louder! The she would stop for a second at the bottom of the stairway, then dart across the downstairs living room heading right for my room, bell jingling. And the worst part came right when she would jump at my bed and start clawing it producing a ripping sound that would literally make me shit my pants (not really). Then she would run back upstairs with the bell sound fading out.

"Ding a ling a ling a ling a ling a ling a ling a ling a ling! RIIIIP! RIP! CLAW, CLAW CLAW! HISSSSSS! RIP, RIP! CLAW! Ding a ling a ling a ling a ling a ling a ling a ling a ling."

It was torture knowing, and hearing her run down the stairs with my bed being the intended target of attack.

Randomness

Uhhhyaaakk. I don't think that puke is a form of payment for strippers.

The Oozinator! Looks like these kids are getting "the money shot" oozed (get it!) all over them. Definitely the wrong toy to try to advertise.

The pill...For men.

Silent but deadly. Threadless may have a lot more shirts, but I'm diggin' what Busted Tees is throwin' down.

While Coke is busy marketing their new Coke Blak, Pepsi is paying out 20,00 rupees ($445) to a man from Delhi who found a condom a sealed bottle of pop. There might not be any sex in the champagne room, but there is definitely something going down in the Pepsi plant.

The Demise Of The 7200

In this case of electronic defiance, I was Michael Bolton and the printer was the fax machine. It's just lucky I wasn't armed. And the entire time I was showing the 7200 who's the boss I heard this in my head.

For too long now this printer has been giving me trouble, and the result was inevitable. It started off with always fading the ink, even when it was a spankin' new cartridge. Then you had to start pressing down on the lid in order to get it to print, then the paper jams, gosh, and just before it was put to rest it wouldn't even take in paper, it would just "chunk up" and shred paper till there was no more.

More pictures.

Did Someone Say Fire?

Drew decided to have a little fun with his new fireball launcher, which is was intended for magic tricks of different sorts. The inspiration for purchasing the launcher was GOB, from Arrested Development. After he shot me, IN THE FACE, I started laughing so hard, which resulted in me gasping for air, I was mistaken for an autistic child by a few Manor residents.

Watch our video via YouTube!

Oh yea, the last thing that Drew say is, "Now I know I can use it as a weapon."

Abusthed*.

*abused with a lisp.

This is my favorite commercial ever. I couldn't find it online when it was aired, but thnks to You Tube, I found it fast and easy.

If the pictures weren't labeled, you'd think that they were taken in the same city. Medford bares a striking resemblance to Baltimore, through pictures at least.

Whew, thank Flying Spaghetti Monster fot that! Read more.

Medfordist

Donnie completes his interview with Allison Machado, Miss Oregon USA 2006. Check out The Medfordist!

Randomness

Tu-fur skating video*. Dude does the splits then has board smash his face.

Emo's, jeez.

The old flour-in-the-hair-dryer prank. Another good one is to put shaving cream in the hand blower in public bathrooms. Simple and effective.

Brain games aim boost your IQ. "Nintendo has sold nearly five million copies of its three Nintendo DS brain training games since the series launched in Japan a year ago."

Support Antishave 2006! Here is the button that Donnie and I conjured up, inspiration being Josh's "AS '06" logo of course.

*Tu-fur is short for two-for-one, and it sounds cooler too.

Morgan Freeman Is A Helper

Morgan Freeman is a helper.

Doesn't it seem that Morgan Freeman is the actor you would call if you needed someone to play a super smart man to help out the main character in a movie? I cant think of any major motion pictures where he is the main character and isn't helping anyone. Shawshank, Batman Begins, Bruce Almighty; Freeman is the force and inspiration that keeps the main characters on the right path in all these films. There are many more films where he is a helper, but these are thought were recent enough to make you understand what I'm talking about. Maybe in older films, like much older, he was the main character and did his own thing, but it seems that in recent movies Freeman's niche is being the motivation and guiding force that keeps the real main characters heads straight.

If there are films that you know of where Morgan Freeman isn't "the helper," feel free to let me know in the comments. Then we can argue whether he is more or less the helper in the role he is playing, you know, just for kicks.

While In Baltimore...

-Watched Arrested Development for the first time and finished the entire first season. Priceless.

-Realized that if you stick your tongue out just before you sneeze that it is both refreshing and comical. Try it!

-Met some of the hottest girls I have ever seen in my entire life.

-Had my foot ran over but a man speeding around in his wheel chair.

-Learned that, in Baltimore, if someone asks you where you are headin', you probably shouldn't answer. You will often be followed for blocks and hounded for money.

-Bought some new sunglasses. My first pair of sunglasses that aren't Oakleys.

-Took a lot of pictures.

-Didn't drink any coffee.


The list will continue, I just have to decipher it all out of my Moleskine.

We're Back!

I have a lot more pictures, but because they were taken with an 8 megapixel they take a long ass time uploading. I got pictures while in Baltimore and in D.C.. I didn't get any photos while at the pageant [because I thought that there was no flash photography allowed]. I will get them up aye sap.

Happy Birthday Allison!

Big Day Tomorrow

Having a great time in Baltimore. Taken a lot of pictures and seen some really cool places. Tune in tomorrow, Friday the 21st, at 9 'o clock on NBC for the Miss USA pageant.

Off To Mary Land

We're all set and ready to go. Tomorrow morning, eh, more like around brunch time we will make our way to the Portland International Airport. We don't fly out 'till Monday morning, so we'll be staying the night at the Marriott across the way. Hopefully we get some downtown time before we have to get to bed. Then on Monday morning we will fly to Minnesota I believe, switch aircrafts, then meet our mom, and hopefully our sister, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Allison had preliminaries for the Miss USA pageant on Friday. My mom left a few days before us so that she could go watch, but we haven't heard yet on how she(my mom) thinks she(Allison) did. None of the girls find out final results, at least for the top 15, until April 21st when the pageant will air live on NBC. That means that after the preliminaries the girls have to stir about and wait a full week to find out if they made it as one of the top 15 finalists, or one of the other 36 girls that will be watching the finals from back stage[not competing].

We will arrive Monday in Baltimore, probably late, so maybe we'll get to walk around a bit. Last time I talked to my mom she said that the weather was perfect shorts weather. The from Tuesday thru Thursday we get to go around site seeing and visit some pretty cool places. We have a White House visit all setup; we also plan on going to the Library of Congress. There are some other places we have worked into our schedule, but my mom has all that information so I cant tell you all right off the top of my noggin. Then Friday is the big night. Allison and the other 50 delegates will be on national television competing for the title of Miss USA 2006.

Allison has expressed that no matter what the outcome is she will still turn 24 years on, meaning that the pageant's final date is also the date of her birthday. She couldn't be any happier-She'll be in Baltimore, Maryland with her family celebrating her 24th birthday either as Miss Oregon 2006 or as Miss USA 2006 , hopefully the latter of the two. If she wins she'll be moved to New York where she'll live for a year doing all sorts of promotional stuff; or she'll come back to Medford as Allison Machado, Miss Oregon USA 2006 and go right back to life she had before she started all this pageant stuff. But I have a good feeling about her and what she'll at the pageant, so I guess you'll just have to tune in and see for yourselves. Wish her luck. Be back next weekend.

April 21st on NBC

Randomness

The Easter Bunny: Kickin' ass 364 days out of the year.

Girls are stupid[1].

Watch this once, just once, then shoot yourself.

Fuckin' Chuck Norris. Anfter the the jump you'll be able to enjoy 'The Legends of Chuck Norris'. There ya go Eric.

[1]Girls really aren't stupid, just that girl.

When ever I think about how the SOU's football season might be I always come back to this video. It's a video of the 2-time National Champions-Linfield's College. SOU is the red and black team in the video and we just get worked, to say the least.

'True Video iPod'

I would much rather watch movies on my 8' screen portable DVD player than the screen the screen of the proposed 'True video iPod'. Why did I get the iPod Video then? Because I needed a new audio player, since the death of my MiniDisc, and it would be kind of cool to watch videos and TV shows if I wanted to. But unless the screen on the True Video iPod is like 7' or more, the picture is just too small to focus on. That's what I think.

Randomness

Get Firefox...Everything else if fucking retarded!

Uhhhh, This is pretty retarded as well. Scott, can I jump on you head smashing a bunch of thumb tacks into your skull? I think that you have potential to make a funnier comment then this guy did.

Epcot Center rides kill people.

Catapult and Trebuchet kits. God, I remember making these things (trebuchets) in Tech class at Talent Middle School. Geeze, they are so much fun.

Apocalyptica

I've never really mentioned, on my blog, albums or artists I think people should give to listen to, but that all ends tonight. Gunther and the Sunshine Band[1]: Ding Ding Dong Song. Period. Limewire it! Music video or just the song, it doesn't matter because you are in for a treat. But the video does add to the effect, ten fold.

Apocalyptica is pretty sweet as well[2]. They started out redoing Metallica hits, and since have moved on to writing their own stuff. They are a Finnish band consisting of four (now apparently three) classically trained cellists, so the songs end up being pretty darned awesome to listen to if you like Metallica but don't fell like blowing your ear drums.

[1] Gunther and the Sunshine Band aren't really good at all, it is just a funny music video worth seeing.

[2]Apocalyptica truly is BA.

Antishave 2006

Here is a YouTube showing the progression that has Josh made on his beard so far. Nearly 4 and a half months and still going strong. Yes, this was a joke, he's is in fact still growing his beard and will be doing so for 263 more days.

I didn't play Warcraft once today, and its my day off. I only haven't done any homework either :S

Never mind, I wasn't the first one to come up with 'blog' hand symbol idea first. Tuff luck for him, shoulda sent it into Threadless.

Clean Scott Clean!

Heavy Door 1, Adam 0

I for the most part try to be as courteous and polite as possible. I will let people ahead of me of they have been waiting at a stop sigh for a while; I will open doors for people, 'please', 'thank you', 'hello', and 'have a nice day' are also pretty common.

Today while I was leaving the bank I could see a woman getting ready to open the doors, so I went on ahead and started to open it for her. Unfortunately I am not the strongest person and that door was effing heavy. I tried to do the thing where you stay inside but push and hold the door open with the back of your arm(if that makes any sense). Well as I went to do so, she noticed and let me try to be the gentleman that I am. Like I said, this door was flippin' heavy; I pushed the door open fine but as I went to hold it, it slammed back partially and I ended up having to walk through then pull it open. She saw that I was having troubles, kinda snickered like "Awe, that's sweet. Nice try though." I didn't take it personally, I know that I have virtually no triceps and if I had she would be totally impressed with my door opening/holding etiquette that my mom has made me practice for so many years.

This has happened a few times, me not being able to hold the door open, and other times it works out great. There have been some doors that I could open with a pinky, and there are others that I have to do that thing where you lower your shoulder and kinda run then twist into the door, where you end up actually pushing through with your back. They should start some testing to see and make sure that even kids could open the doors, because that is where my strength level is about at right now.

Amanda and Donnie both know that I(maybe we all did) came up with this idea first just under 2 months ago, and of course we didn't get it on camera. Hell, Scott was there too. Now I'm gonna come up with a super sweet design and not let anyone know except for super trustworthy people that can help with its manifestation.

This Is A Post

Again, I have been lacking on my postage. I remember that last year while on campus I had a lot of free time and would update in the computer lab. This year I have virtually no free campus time and therefore not able to update from school. I could update from home, but Mondays and Wednesdays are my big homework days for classes on Tuesday's and Thursday's(from 10am-5pm), so that is tough to get anything in. The weekend, Friday through Saturday, is my best bet to get any sort of update in, be it a weekly update or interesting news I've come across. Of course I am usually up late and could update on any day of the week if I felt like a 1am or 2am update was necessary, but that usually not the case.

I brought this up again, my lacking blog, because recently I made a comment to Scott(no clickable archives = no post linkage, sorry) that a lot of the blogs in the SOB were lacking on postage. When in reality I was also lacking, on posting in general and on what I post on(hypocritical, I know). I usually don't like retyping a story that I find interesting. Usually I will link 'em then write something I really care about. When I have to resort to retyping articles, well, people notice, as well as myself.

I could be posting on how getting ready for Baltimore is kind of stressful for school, at home, financially, and stuff I have to gather in preparation for leaving. But that would be the bulk of my postage, and I feel that that would get kind of annoying, for both me and you. So I guess that I will try to do better about posting, even if it means a post every couple of days, so that you guys, and gals, don't have to see the same post over and over when you check-up on the HACKERATi. I think I'll start recording memorable events that happen at school to post on, it's worked in the past and I hope it works now.

Crash For Life

"NASA plans to crash a space probe into the moon in 2009 — a collision so violent it will be visible on Earth through a telescope."

I guess that this is something to look forward to. The probe should excavate a whole a third the size of a football field. After, the "mothership" will fly through the plume of debris from the collision and search for traces of ice and vapor. This mission in its entirety will cost about $600 million.

There was some fool in Donnie and I's environmental studies class that basically told the professor, who was telling a story of a personal friend, that space exploration and moon landings were, and are, a waste of money, including the missions the professor's friend was in. For some reason he thought that the billions invested could have gone towards better things. But what he didn't realize was the incredible amount of knowledge we have gotten, even from just one mission to the moon. He was pretty ignorant to anybody else's, including the professors, reasons, insight, and benefits of space exploration. He would probably go off on the fact that in addition to "wasting" money millions upon millions to make a shuttle and probes, now we are going to completely destroy the craft itself by crashing it into the moon, then probably go on about how we are destroying our neighboring planets.

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Ending On A High Note

I think that this was one of the best beginnings to a weekend I have had in a long while. I only have class 2 days a week, Tuesday and Thursday, taking 12 credits. I have all three classes both days, so it leaves me with some nice breaks during the week and a pretty nice little weekend. This first week of school ended on a high note.

After my last class, which is out at the Rogue Valley Mall, I picked an extra sloppy 12 inch Chicken Parmesan sub from Subway. The weather was pretty nice, so I went ahead and rolled down my windows and turned on some music. Then, feeling good about the week, I took out my foot long sub and started eating it while driving through town heading to pick up my little brother. The sloppiness had nothing on my current euphoric condition. I successfully maneuvered my way through Medford, to Phoenix, without spilling any marinara sauce on me and not getting anything on my hands. I just sat back and enjoyed my food. Oh yea, I only used one hand and my mouth to open, unwrap, and eat my foot, making sure to keep one hand on the wheel and both eyes on the he road until I was finished. I was feeling pretty darn nice.

News: Miss Oregon USA

My sister is having a great time in Baltimore after being there just a few days. I guess that this evening she, and the rest of the contestants, went to an Orioles baseball game. She loves it[the experience] because whenever all the contestants go out and are chartered around they have major police escorts. There are cops behind their bus, on either side, and in front-Even on the freeway. They have traffic stopped for just for them. She has gotten free Under Armor stuff, clothes (I guess that they get one free pair of Lucky Jeans), and being treated for what they are, Princess'. Here is an interview just a little bit after she arrived in Baltimore.

I'll try to keep you guys posted on how she is doing up until I have to leave for Maryland myself(April 17, 2006). I also have to give you some important information that is for you to use one week prior and up until the day of the pageant, so be ready.

Me Like.

Something Like A Phenomenon ::repeat::

"This message should be posted soon after 01:02:03 4-5-6, a date we won't see for another thousand years." (kottke.org)

Good one. I never integrated the time though, but I specifically remember in 6th grade at Talent Middle School noticing that the date was 11-10-98. If I had payed more attention I bet that I could have waited then announced to the class that it was 4:13:12 11-10-98, but I was more than likely in E-lab trying to beat Pokémon Yellow[1]. I beat all three Pokémon's that were out at the time, which were Red, Blue and Yellow .

[1] Scratch that, at 4:13 I would be out of school, so I wouldn't be able to announce it via P.A. system.

"Hairy Larry"

You haven't lived till you have a math teacher named "Hairy Larry," a.k.a Larry Shrewsbury. He looks like he should be in some cave beating on rocks with a stick and writing on the inside walls. On the other hand he could easily be some looney cartoon character. Imagine professor John Frink, with that exact same voice, without the glasses and hair down to his mid bicep, and you have "Hairy Larry." He made a disc with tutorials and stuff on it and interactive games with instructions using his voice as the helper. Then he made us get in front of his camera and say our names so that he could learn how to pronounce each student's name faster. He had a the creepiest grin on his face while we where saying our names, and it creeps me out to think that he will just watch these each night with that same grin.

Simpsons Film Confirmed For 2007

"A 25-second trailer for the film has been shown to US audiences at screenings of Ice Age: The Meltdown, promising to introduce "the greatest hero in American history".

It then cut to Homer Simpson, wearing only his underwear, who admitted: "I forgot what I was supposed to say."

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DST

Don't forget to set your clocks forward one (1) hour before you "hit the hay" tonight.

Anti Shave 2006 is no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! N000000000! ;)

Good luck Allison!

Allison left this evening for Baltimore, Maryland headed for the Miss USA Pageant 2006. We held a good luck/fair well reception for her at the Medford Medical Clinic. It was a real good turn out of friends and family. After the reception she head straight for the airport to leave. I was sad to see her leave, she'll be gone for three weeks, but I was also so proud and excited for her. She has worked really hard and I think that she will really get some peoples attention-she'll do great. Here are a couple more pictures of the reception.