i actually like that weird hybrid of weather when it's raining semi-lightly, but you see the sun out shining hard; sorta like today around 1:50. it's kinda cool not feeling cold, yet feeling rain droplets on your face and seeing it around you. sorta like a casual water gun fight in the middle of spring heading into summer.

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sweet, go eli manning and the giants.

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albums listened to recently:
candlebox - candlebox
joe satriani - surfing with the alien
led zeppelin - the early and later days(best of)

wow...

giants and chargers doin the impossible...

wished i watched on sunday.

new footage of sf4 courtesy of famitsu:

http://www.famitsu.com/fwtv/?51212893

sick.

LOL...

in the words of one srk'er:

"LOL@ Force Push.

ROUND ONE! FIGHT!
RING OUT!
ROUND TWO! FIGHT!
RING OUT!

Vader: "*heavy breathing*""

and oh yea; how are ppl going to be able to hit yoda? that sounds too broken.

does this mean bob will try to buy and learn how to play soul calibur soon enough? i sense namco is getting desperate with their gimmicks in their soul calibur series.

(i'm still assuming masters of teras kasi was a terrible competitive fighting game, since i can find virtually no advice on playing the game online)

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this will be the theme song ala street fighter 3: 3rd strike style

i have to watch this vid later, since there's no sound at the library

expensive, but really good guitar effects pedals(hopefully i'll get these eventually one of these days):

ibanez ts808 tube screamer - gives good lead tones, makes your guitar sound like joe satriani - ~ $170 (fyi, do a search, and you'll find that this specific effects pedal is indeed one of the most coveted effects pedals)
digitech whammy - like having a whammy bar/tremolo bar w/o screwing up your guitar's tuning - ~ $200

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funny big 3 celtic espn commercials:

hoosiers
nicknames(found a better version of the same video)

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w00t! r@in!

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princess mononoke and spirited away are both great anime movies. just watched both.

oldie but goodie...

ps the book is awesome too.

"A Handicapped parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Chuck Norris and that you will be handicapped if you park there."

"Chuck Norris originally appeared in the "Street Fighter II" video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this "glitch," Norris replied, "That's no glitch.""

"In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself."

"Chuck Norris was the fourth wise man, who gave baby Jesus the gift of beard, which he carried with him until he died. The other three wise men were enraged by the preference that Jesus showed to Chuck's gift, and arranged to have him written out of the bible. All three died soon after of mysterious roundhouse-kick related injuries."

"Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas."

"Chuck Norris once worked as a weatherman for the San Diego evening news. Every night he would make the same forecast: Partly cloudy with a 75% chance of Pain."

"Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding"

think it'll be better if i heed bill's advice and get a new laptop as opposed to just upgrading my laptop's RAM; my laptop's old dot com, so even if i add the memory, it might not work. the downside is that i'll have to wait a while, being without a job, and hope they still sell laptops running on xp(or the xp software). should give me incentive to find a part-time job while i'm doing other stuff. i have to up my guitar playing first anyhow; i've barely touched it. i should be getting the looper pedal in about tommorow anyhow; that'll be fun.

i watched "super size me;" thinking about reading "fast food nation." it was good; basic synopsis is the narrator does his own survey by eating at mcdonalds for 30 days straight, 3 meals a day, to test whether its food really is bad for you(this after the whole lawsuits thing). i lol'd when his gf said his energy was down, even during his sex life, and pointed out that she needs to be on top now(lol). but yeah, after watching that movie, i think maybe it wouldn't hurt too much to go running 2-3 more times each week now.

i hate how these days i really feel like doing nothing.

#$%@!#$!!!!!

my new mbox 2 mini won't install on my laptop, not b/c i'm missing anything, but because i don't have enough RAM. minimum needed is 768 according to the box, but during the install, i got some number like 384. i currently have 256 i think, 1 slot is free, and the max i think i can go with each slot is 512. now, do i get another 256, or get a 512?

*sigh* frustrating.

i'll just have to figure this out tomorrow or monday and buy some generic memory.

honestly, who knew having serious fun with music recording was going to take this much of a hassle(with money)

until celtics can win one against the big teams in the nba(and i might debately say it must be a close game near the end), i can't really say they even are considered an elite team yet; they have the potential to be though. but all of their losses have come from one the elite teams in the nba, and not even from the west; all of them have been against an eastern conference team(woot, go pistons and magic!)

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walk hard: the dewey cox story

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pink power ranger dancing over an electric guitar'd megaman 2 theme

i hate when ppl talk out loud to themselves when they are trying to think. it's annoying. really, really, annoying. why? well, i start wondering if they lack the brain power and mental ability to think only within their head.

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going to be fooling around with the mbox for most of tomorrow. i haven't bought the condenser mic stuff, and the looper pedal hasn't arrived yet, so it'll just be a lot of fooling around with the guitar and pro tools software; gonna try installing it on my cpu today and see how it works. i need to level up my guitar skills a lot before i consider writing anything(need to learn how to do sweeps, tapping, eh, there's probably a lot more, but those two stick out on my head). or at least, before anything i churn out can really be considered good on my part.

i've got a lot to think about and do even before i can start taking classes again(next main step to going to pharmacy school i think), but hopefully i'll get a part-time job and volunteer at some hospital while studying for gre's in the meantime(and cross my fingers that some nearby college will let me do a post-bachelor's type thing in order to take the classes i didn't take). the part-time job might be good both for beefing up the resume, and getting some other guitar pedals i'd like, but don't have cash for(ls-2 boss pedal and ge-7 boss pedal would both be great).

i still can't believe registering for the general gres took 140 out of my checking account. yipes. (but then again, when you don't have a job, you start becoming stingy about any large purchase). but it was good to finally do it, b/c then i would've procrastinated my studying even further. now i kinda have forced myself to have to do it(even if i cancel, i only get 50% back, so it's only worthwhile to take it once and do well).

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i've been sincerely meaning to ask, why is it that most of the friends i know of only seem to want to play and talk about basketball when there's free time? are they that single-minded? or maybe i'm just unique in that regard?

gatorade - dwyane wade: good/bad

DO IT AGAIN! DO IT AGAIN!

tony romo's newest girlfriend is jessica simpson(previous one was supposedly carrie underwood).

-i sense newlyweds 2 occurring.

lions just falling apart. although it mightve had something to do with roy williams.

jessica alba is pregnant apparently; you know you're from the bay area and keep up with hoops when the 1st response outta your mind hearing that is "way to go boom dizzle!"

my attitude with the spurs is... strange. they border on the list of teams that i like in the nba, but don't crack the list. there's both times that i really like them, admire them(i still really like tim duncan, and tony parker), admire their coach, their discipline, etc. but there's a number of things keeping me from fully embracing them, including how spurs fans magically turn a blind eye to bruce bowen's dirty play; look, i'm not trying to say he always plays dirty, or that he's a useless defensive player if he doesn't use his tricks(similar to my attitude with karl malone; malone w/o tricks = still good player; malone w/tricks = deluded HOF player). but he has a track record; like that jump kick against wally; how do you explain that one in the realm of just physical, hard defense? ginobili should not be flopping that much. i'm sure i could go on and on. but then, i see or read somebody comment on the internet about how boring the spurs are, etc, and all i want to do is deride them, asking what they consider winning basketball to be, and that if they had the exact same personal as the spurs on their team, they wouldn't be complaining; i don't buy the fact that certain teams need certain markets(although kobe in la and the vaunted 4 in detroit seems to sometimes support this). most nba franchises would KILL to have the spurs' lineup. it's similar to how people say all this about the patriots, but you know all that talk would've died if the exact same lineup was in the sf niners.

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got an email today, and good thing i am able to return the mbox 2 mini and get a new one(they're even giving me the labels and stuff to ship at back too, making it free shipping). too bad they won't let me return it for a refund though. but they will get me a replacement, so a completely new mbox as opposed to a refurbished one, while still saving about 35 dollars sounds pretty good. i'll still have to buy all the other gear though; condenser mic, stand, cable, pop filter, etc. it's just that that other bundle offered on musician's friend sounded a lot nicer; i essentially would've been getting 2 monitors on top of the mbox and condenser mic and stand and cable, for just throwing in around 40 dollars more.

point is, i would've avoided this and gotten the bundle in the 1st place if 1)i just looked around a bit more instead of instinctively buying the mbox immediately and 2)looked carefully at the package after opening it instead of opening the factory sealed package, and then realizing the cd wasn't there. i basically need to learn how to evaluate stuff after buying it a lot better.

why is it that everytime i try to buy something expensive over the internet, something complicates the process and i have to consider returning it? such a hassle; first it was the dvd burner, now i just realized the mbox 2 mini i received came with no pro tools software. @#$%^%@!!@#@#!$#%^$^ that also means i have to call musician's friend tomorrow and tell them to cancel the other order i had. such a pain!

anyways, hoping to return it and get this instead.

lol... what is love?

no doubt - oi to the world

(i remember hearing this song a few years back during christmas time. had no idea it was no doubt that performed it. [they sounded too punk in the song for me to consider that no doubt did it])

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i wonder who's more wooden; al gore, or hilary clinton.

speaking of which, remember when the simpsons poked fun at al gore in one of their episodes?

"mr. gore, somebody just bought one of your books!"

"this calls for a celebration"

(puts record on phonograph)

(melody)...ce-le-brate good times, c'mon!

"i will"

Golden state warriors play like guys out of NBA JAM.

I find this humorous, because I stand by one belief: “NBA JAM ruined my concept of how basketball was supposed to be played as I was growing up; Sega Sports’ NBA 2K for the Dreamcast retaught me how basketball was supposed to be played.” For most of my youth up til the end of high school, I didn’t get basketball. Because I played and still play and watch a lot of video games(consoles, cpus, arcade), NBA JAM gave me a really messed up idea of how basketball was supposed to be; yes I knew that you weren’t allowed to shove people, but I assumed defense didn’t really matter much(although I still justified Michael Jordan as being the best because he was great on defense; good arguments from a kid; go figure), and that to matter to a team, you had to be able to both shoot 3 pointers and dunk(and have good speed). Again, despite the fact that MJ was not known for creating his own 3 pt shot.

Enter senior year in high school when I only took 5 classes, was able to leave school at noon(I still have fond memories of senior year in high school because of how much freedom I had, despite not really doing anything) actually had time to watch games and etc, etc, etc(1st game i watched was knicks vs bucks; went to overtime; shooting match between sprewell and ray allen; good overall game, and really glad i watched; favorite eastern conference playoff game i watched, and still one of my faves was nets at celtics, when celtics pulled that come-from-behind victory, because in the 4th, they stopped shooting 3s and started just taking it to the hole). I was starting to understand and appreciate how this game was played.

Then of course there was the transition period during college, when I really began to appreciate team play, defense(without stuffing the stats), and rebounding. Oh yeah, also to appreciate how a person can contribute to a team despite not adding anything to the stats(Tayshaun Prince made me start to realize this more than anybody else).

So the end-all is that I come out of undergrad college, having actually gained knowledge of what makes a good basketball team and team play, can appreciate all sorts of basketball team styles, etc, etc, etc. And then the Warriors have to enter the playoffs, breaking their drought, oust the Mavs, become the most fun-oriented basketball team in the league, and do it all by playing... like characters in NBA JAM. Y’kno; once you cross the half-court line, just run to the 3-pt line and chuck it(and who cares about big man play; who cares about shot blocking and rebounding). in other words, if i were just rooting for the hometown team, the past 7-8 years i spent learning about the game went to waste. (sigh)

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Hopefully I’ll get all the musical gear I ordered before this year ends and are able to start flexing my artistic musical creativity again. It has been a while; I think a wrote a lot of songs before, but forgot how they played, what they sounded like, etc. I only recorded one song, and sound-wise it was like crap(I passed the mp3 on to a couple of people, i think Bob was one of the few that got it). Well, shouldn’t be a problem this time around(I think). It won’t be like a studio, but I’m at least hoping there’s no weird stuff, like having to adjust for those popping noises when i sing too strongly, or the stupid humming sound that occurs when you record from a sound card. Writing a song = good(but everybody with a guitar does that). Writing + recording a song = better.

But yeah, if I had no restraint, I'd probably spend money like it grew on trees. There's tons of stuff I would like to get(not just musical stuff), but can't right now; I just have to limit it to these musical tools I would like to get, and then wait for a job or something else. Basically, I have this long list of things on my laptop at home that I would (key words)eventually like to own. I'm just hoping the stuff i would like to get is still on the market maybe 5-6 years down the road, when i actually earn a decent amount of money.

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I wonder if anybody from church is celebrating Festivus.

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My fingers ish numb. I wonder if sleeveless leather gloves help this case at all.

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I managed to reserve and get both animated Marvel films from the library: Iron Man, and Dr. Strange. Ooo! They should do an animated Marvel film on War Machine.

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christian conspiracies can be pretty fun to look at. there's a ton of them. whether or not they are true(of course, only useful looking at them to see whether they are valid, have valid arguments, and hence can deduce whether the world has pulled another blindfold over our eyes). here's one to contemplate; christmas in its origins was not a christian holiday. i'm not saying that the birth of christ never existed. i'm saying that christmas started out as a pagan holiday, and somehow the day of christ's birth somehow got attached to it(which could explain the trees(trees were a sign of fertility i think?)). i don't have the e-book that i got this from in front of me at the moment, but it's something to think about. then there's the arguments some make that santa claus is really satan(not in the sense that santa is satan incarnate, but is sorta an antichrist in masquerading as christ), like how santa is an anagram for satan, the songs sung about him are really stealing praises from god(ie, the kjv has the Lord saying "Ho ho" in one of the prophets, that he comes from the north, etc), etc. well, not like you should believe everything the popular media tells you anyways.

i find it strange how many people hold their phones in their left hand, despite them not being left-handed.

time crisis 4 for ps3 + guncon is $50 on amazon gold.

harold and kumar 2 trailer

(it's an r-rated trailer btw)

i lol'd too HORD when i saw the trailer. i saw the 1st movie btw, and thought it was awesome. 2nd one looks even better.

especially when kumar dressed up with a turban and uncut beard.

roflmao...

china's total disregard for copyrights FTW...

i think i LOL'd too HORD when it was opened...

(there's other vg ripoffs on page 2 of the forum posted by fatherbrain)

man, i wanted warriors to win, but i am just so amazed at dwight howard this nba season, that i don't feel as bad about it. rediculous. 20+ boards, 7 blocks? dude seems to abuse small ball lineups for breakfast. i'm just surprised he didn't do it to the lakers.

(you wouldn't happen to know any good orlando magic fansites, do you? i've peeped frequently "golden state of mind" for the warriors, "need for sheed" for the pistons, but i should really link on a magic site; dwight's not going anywhere soon.)

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patriots still unbeaten. abeit, very closely.

i actually really wished the redskins could've won on sunday. would've done their deceased player a lot of honor.

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am always fascinated by the voice actors in anime/cartoons, for the sole reason that they tend to never sound like themselves in real life. that's not so much the case in non-animated movies etc.