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March 16th, 2004 4 comments

So I guess we’re getting dumped on with a big snowstorm today in New England. All you Cali/Texas/Florida people can bite me. You and your unrepentant good weather. It’s supposed to start soon, and get real heavy at around rush-hour time. Glad I still have the snows on. I know that everyone in their Dreadnaught-class SUVs will be stalking the roads, so I’m hoping to get out a little early or a little late to avoid it. I believe Andrew’s pic is once again relavent:

In other news, my toes itch. They’re in my shoes. I can’t scratch them. That sucks.

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March 15th, 2004 No comments

Got back from Chicago. They told me all about how they were going to pay for the hotel and rental and food and everything, and forgot to leave out the part about no intarweb 😡 . seriously, how was I supposed to live without my intarweb??!? I guess I got through it all right. Monday I fell asleep at like 7-ish. I just didn’t have any way to gauge how long I’m supposed to stay up without the little clock in the bottom right corner of my vision :p.

Chicago was nice. It was like a mini-vacation. not much ACTUAL work to be done. If only I can get them to send me to some place in Florida next time someone needs field service out there…

props to the Mid-West guys from the club for taking care of me. it’s cool to be able to meet up with a bunch of people I’ve never seen before and have them treat me like I’m one of them. It felt just like sitting down and having a few drinks with the New England guys… random car tuning chatter, sarcastic banter, and insightful comments on this and that.

in other news, I just saw Strongbad’s 100th email. clever. they know how geeky their audience is.

-IggDawg

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March 7th, 2004 5 comments

I’m off to Chicago tomorrow morning to visit Sonoscan’s headquarters. Basically 1 week all-expenses-paid vacation. I have to work all week, but it’s not like “sit and crank out data” work. I’ll be helping out at a workshop, meeting some of the people there, etc. my flights, hotel, car, food, etc all gets to go on an expense account so it might as well be a vacation. Some of the guys from the mid-west chapter of the club are planning on taking good care of me while I’m there as well. People ask me why I’m so big into my car club. It’s hard to explian how above and beyond NASIOC is from “just a club/forum”. As pretentious as it sounds, they really are like an extended family or circle of friends. I’m certainly looking forward to meeting the guys out there. also looking forward to a change of pace. I bought a book to keep me company, although I doubt I’ll have much time to read. I get in on monday, and I know that 2 out of the 4 evenings at least I’ll be out with the club guys… friday night I leave.

Anyways… I won;t have internet access for most of the week, so I bid LJ goodbye till I return. I hope everyone on my list has a good week.

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March 4th, 2004 No comments

“Vegas” by Crystal Method is one of the few albums that I’ve had forever that I can still listen to all the way through. They sure had something going, huh? I got the album my freshman year in college.. 6 or 7 years ago. it was one of my first “techno” albums when I was just escaping radio rock (shudder) . Maybe it has something to do with the fact I spent many a night heavily inebriated, playing N2O on the old playstation. I still see my little ship going down the tunnel shooting bugs, all set to crystal method. the sound is so consistant through the album. and it creates such a mood. it’s laid back, and at the same time it sounds like the background music for a cop chase scene in a movie.

“tweekend” was disappointing.

“legion of boom” is pretty good. Except for “born too slow.” I’m pretty sure they just wrote that one for “Need for Speed: Underground” anyways, so it doesn’t really count.

Anyways, that’s my random thought for the day. Such a good album. You all are required to go dust off your copy, toss it in the closest CD player, and listen to it all the way through at least once.

-IggDawg

PS – if you don’t have N2O for the playstation yet, you should really get it. a used copy and a used playstation cost less than a cappuccino at starbucks.

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March 4th, 2004 2 comments

I was talking to Damien on IM earlier….

Making fun of Ed

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Origins…

March 3rd, 2004 2 comments

I’ve found myself explaining the OT tradition of “Misogynist Thursday” a lot to people lately. I figured I’d post up the comic that started it all so I can just link people to my stupid El-Jay. I dunno why it caught on… I guess we just like making up holidays too :p. The women tried making a similar holiday of mondays where they gripe about men. It didn’t catch on though 😀 . we keep it light hearted and basically it’s just a day where everyone gets together and gripes about their relationships and say “WAPCE” a lot. It’s cool to hang around with a group that don’t take themselves seriously, and can pull off this stuff without coming across as a bunch of total dinks. it’s also nice that they found a simple way to confine all the whining to one day. anyways…

WAPCE

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March 3rd, 2004 8 comments

OT (well, all of NASIOC really I suppose…) has been down since 10-ish this morning. I can’t imagine what everyone is doing with themselves. I swear, the collective apathy level of the world will noticably drop because of all the extra work that must be getting done. I’ve gotten many IMs from people all in a panic… “0n n0es!! where is my t3h OT!!1one”

EDIT: just talked to the godfather himself. it’s a power issue. the power company is sending too much voltage so the UPS went on battery. lame.

-IggDawg

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March 2nd, 2004 1 comment

Stolen from LoriAngel

Cowboy Bebop – YOUR bounty by Drusilla
Username
How much are you worth? $826,703
Number of victims 7,574
Your story You hate innocence, you hate pink bunnies and all that colorful crap. You just want to kill…children. O.O! Dun dun duuun
Will you be caught? What does that matter to you? You’re gonna escape anyway, right you mastermind? :3
Created with quill18‘s MemeGen 2.0!

I wouldn;t do the meme thing, except I just finished the series this evening. so the timing was perfect 😀

-IggDawg

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March 2nd, 2004 1 comment

this showed up in OT today:

I found it marginally amusing. props to RaceCarRiot from the club. I think he’s on here too?

-IggDawg

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