36 posts from 2007

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 Jason's 30th birthday:

http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery2/v/jasons_30th_bday/

My 31st birthday:

http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery2/v/dans_31st_bday/

Downright @ DiPiazza's 4-14-07:

http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery2/v/downright_show_4-14-07/

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So first things first, if you havent seen this from me, you should take the 20 minutes you'll need out of your day to watch this:

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Matt-Stone-And-Trey-Parker-s-
Universal-Training-Video-3625.html

Next up, fucking hilarious country singer patriotic song, lyrics are NOT safe for work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAChVVVZaM

Did you know that AIDS can save you weight?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7935064058166993925&hl=en

Finally, we have probably the most disturbing gay thing I've ever seen. This video is not safe for work necessarily. Hell, I'm not even sure its safe for anyone. It just really defies all reason and thought. Nothing explicit is shown, its just massive WTF material.

http://www.ehowa.com/youtubemovie.shtml?movie=-k98bRUOb4g

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So its been a full week since my birthday and I've been silent for a variety of reasons! Mostly I was dealing with my taxes, a ton of schoolwork, and catching up on some reading. Now throw in processing the photos from my birthday party, Jason's 30th birthday party, going up to Long Beach to see Aaron perform with the rest of Downright live and trying to go to the gym on campus to workout and its been sort of a busy week.

As I write this right now the photos from the three previous events are being uploaded to my photo gallery website and I will provide links here for all to see once they are done uploading.

I want to thank everyone who made it to my birthday party, it was a total blast and I had a lot of fun! In the future I think I will just tell people to show up at 9PM however since no one was there at 7:30PM, but I more or less expected that to happen. I know some people were not able to make it for various reasons but its all cool, people let me know in advance so there wasn't any big surprises there.  Jason's birthday party at Dave & Buster's the previous night was a blast also and it was good to get to see him again. Not that I dont see him usually but this quarter is just sort of working out that during the weekdays I have very little time in the evenings to do anything not related to school.

In other news I went up to Hollywood last night for my friend Annette's 34th birthday bash at The Cat Club off of Sunset.  I got to meet some of her other friends from LJ and her roommate as well. Everyone was pretty much totally awesome. I almost didn't make the trip up there however since it wasnt supposed to start until 11:30PM, but I told her I'd go and I decided I didn't want to be one of those people who flakes so I made myself go up there even though I knew my money situation was crappy, but better then the last time I talked about it on here.

So after parking ($10, ugh) and getting into the front door ($10, blargh, well at least it wasn't $20) I was confronted with an absolutely PACKED club. As it turns out Glamnation was up on the stage that night playing their final performance. They ROCKED! Did I mention they did a cover of ABBA's "SOS"? It ruled. Later in the evening Jimmy Fallon from SNL got up on the stage and started doing his Jim Morrison impression, singing a Doors song or two. I forget which it was by this point, but he was pretty damn good at it. Afterwards they got Annette up onto the stage with  the band and had her blow out her birthday cheesecake (which was sinfully awesomely delicious I might add). By this point it was not far from closing and everyone said goodbye as it started to rain outside.

Amazingly enough, on the way back to my car as I was walking I found a $50 bill on the ground. Nobody was around so it must have fallen earlier in the night so I grabbed it and counted my lucky stars, every buck helps after all. Of course, awesome karma like that has to be followed up by something not so awesome. As I was driving south on La Cienega to get to the 10 freeway I was stopped at the light at Wilshire and some drunk-ass bitch in a VW Jetta managed to bump into the rear of my car. Luckily I saw her coming and noticed she didnt seem to be slowing down enough so I was able to move forward just enough that all she did was tap the bumper lightly. Annoying, but no harm done. She even waved to me from her car in that kind of "Sorry I'm a drunk jackass" kind of way. I didn't bother to pull over or ask for insurance because I really didnt care and the bump barely registered so no harm no foul in my book.

Anyways, that some of what I have been up to lately. Now I have to go finish my laundry so I can get up to Matt, Trina, and Steve's apartment to hang out for the weekend.

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If people were at all thinking of getting me presents or anything like that let me make things simple for you with a list of a few things I could use or would appreciate (besides cold hard cash right now).

IR Remote Control for my Nikon D50

Clear Lightsphere II (Size P1) for my Nikon SB-800 Flash

Netgear WG311T PCI WiFi card (for Aircrack-ng use)

D-Link DWL-G122 Revision B1 USB WiFi adapter (for Aircrack-ng use, ONLY B1 rev)

Babylon 5: Season 5 DVD Box Set

Anyways, just throwing it out there in case anyone was curious or wondering. Back to your regularly scheduled nuttiness.

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Well folks, here is the deal. As of right now I have a ridiculously small amount of money in the bank and the following events coming up ahead that I have to budget for somehow.

Federal Income Tax: $590 (Yes, I've done every deduction I have receipts for. Getting almost 16k worth of 1099-MISC is a bitch even when you're a student. )
Books for Spring 2007 Quarter: $281.75 (And thats if I can get all my books used)
Parking Permit Spring 2007: $138
Discover Card: $75
T-Mobile: $138.15

Seeing as I just sent out an invoice for $220 worth of work, that still leaves me with a hell of a lot of ground to catch up on. That being said, it looks like I need to try and sell the old laptop to make some money. So here is the deal:

12" PowerBook G4 laptop
12" 1024x768 resolution matte LCD screen
32MB Geforce4 420 Go video card
867 Mhz G4 Processor
1,152MB of RAM installed
40GB HD
Superdrive (only reads CD/DVDs, no burning, costs about 100 for a new drive to fix)
802.11b Airport card installed
Bluetooth 1.1
56k v.92 Modem
10/100 Ethernet
2 USB 1.1 ports
1 Firewire 400 port
Has new battery (old one was part of the battery recall)
Bottom of case has some scratches/blemishes
Top lid has two blemishes
Screen latch is broken, this was common on this model of laptop
3rd party AC adapter with taped connector (this is why Apple switched to the new magnetic power connector)

Comes with OS X 10.4 and iLife 06 installed

Asking $350

Basically this is a great laptop for writing, web browsing and classwork in general. The laptop's video card is able to play World of Warcraft if you run it with lower detail settings. I've also done work on it in Pro Apps like DVD Studio Pro and Final Cut Pro and it does a decent job in them. The laptop is lightweight at only 4.6 lbs and will come with a carrying sleeve for it. If you are interested in the laptop or know someone who might be, please have them email me at timelord@gmail.com or call me at 562-331-1603.

Originally published at Daniel Spisak on Technology. You can comment here or there.

Well folks, here is the deal. As of right now I have a ridiculously small amount of money in the bank and the following events coming up ahead that I have to budget for somehow.

Federal Income Tax: $590 (Yes, I've done every deduction I have receipts for. Getting                                                    almost 16k worth of 1099-MISC is a bitch even when                                                            you're a student. )
Books for Spring 2007 Quarter:  $281.75 (And thats if I can get all my books used)
Parking Permit Spring 2007: $138
Discover Card: $75
T-Mobile: $138.15

Seeing as I just sent out an invoice for $220 worth of work, that still leaves me with a hell of a lot of ground to catch up on. That being said, it looks like I need to try and sell the old laptop to make some money. So here is the deal:

12" PowerBook G4 laptop
12" 1024x768 resolution matte LCD screen
32MB Geforce4 420 Go video card
867 Mhz G4 Processor
1,152MB of RAM installed
40GB HD
Superdrive (only reads CD/DVDs, no burning, costs about 100 for a new drive to fix)
802.11b Airport card installed
Bluetooth 1.1
56k v.92 Modem
10/100 Ethernet
2 USB 1.1 ports
1 Firewire 400 port
Has new battery (old one was part of the battery recall)
Bottom of case has some scratches/blemishes
Top lid has two blemishes
Screen latch is broken, this was common on this model of laptop
3rd party AC adapter with taped connector (this is why Apple switched to the new magnetic power connector)

Comes with OS X 10.4 and iLife 06 installed

Asking $350

Basically this is a great laptop for writing, web browsing and classwork in general. The laptop's video card is  able to play World of Warcraft if you run it with lower detail settings. I've also done work on it in Pro Apps like DVD Studio Pro and Final Cut Pro and it does a decent job in them. The laptop is lightweight at only 4.6 lbs and will come with a carrying sleeve for it. If you are interested in the laptop or know someone who might be, please have them email me at timelord@gmail.com or call me at 562-331-1603.

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 I am turning 31 years old on April 12th! But parties on weekdays suck so we're doing it on Friday the 13th!

What can I say? I'm a year older and perhaps wiser too! If you can see this, it means your invited. You don't have to bring presents unless you want to! Seeing as we demolished Aaron's stock of booze last party please try to BYOB or something to add to the party in general. So if you show up, try to be adults and have fun and save the stabbing of people until after the party. Thanks! I hope to see you all there.

When: Friday Apr 13, 2007 at 7:30 PM

Where: 10626 La Rosa Ln.
Fountain Valley, CA 92708

If you get lost of need directions, call me on my cellphone 562-331-1603.

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Hey everyone just wanted to let everyone know that my photos from Aaron's party this last Saturday are now up at:

http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery2/v/aarons_party_032407/

Below is a sample of what you people missed out on. Basically a ton of fun plus Downright did some songs and generally kicked ass so hard we got a visit from the cops.

Downright doing their thing, go A-Train!

A-Train will have no part of the hot lesbo action. For shame!

Hope everyone had as fun a time there as I did. Lord knows you missed out on some funny shit, including me doing a sommersault. Damn that was hilarious.

UPDATE: Fixed the bands name, sorry guys! Thats what I get for writing at early AM with little sleep. Also, the guys will be playing on April 14th at 8:30PM at Di Piazza's
5205 E. Pacific Coast Highway
Long Beach, CA 90804

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Over in the UK there is a television show called Top Gear that concerns itself with cars primarily. Of course that would be an understatement when you realize the three men who make up the show review cars the likes of which start at merely high prices all the way up to insanely expensive supercars and hypercars. The shows format tends to be a review of one to three high end luxury cars followed by them getting some famous actor behind the wheel of a decently priced sedan to see which actor has the best lap time on the track. They also have a tendency to ="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson">say a $500,000 car is "rubbish" and will speak their mind without fear of the repercussions.

Most importantly however these three guys know how to have a good fun laugh and will do segments in the show that are totally ridiculous or just plain nutters. Below are three video clips from different episodes during the ninth season of the as shown on BBC 4(I could be wrong on this).

Driving a Bugatti Veryon up to 253 mph

H.264 MPEG-4 Video 26MB

Turning a Reliant Robin into a reusable space shuttle

H.264 MPEG-4 Video 23MB

 

Giant Farm Tractor "Drag" Racing

H.264 MPEG-4 Video 7MB

 

You will need Quicktime 7.X or VLC to playback these videos. They are well worth the time to download and watch. Great stuff, and some more to come later today.

Originally published at Daniel Spisak on Technology. You can comment here or there.

Over in the UK there is a television show called Top Gear that concerns itself with cars primarily. Of course that would be an understatement when you realize the three men who make up the show review cars the likes of which start at merely high prices all the way up to insanely expensive supercars and hypercars. The shows format tends to be a review of one to three high end luxury cars followed by them getting some famous actor behind the wheel of a decently priced sedan to see which actor has the best lap time on the track. They also have a tendency to say a $500,000 car is "rubbish" and will speak their mind without fear of the repercussions.

Most importantly however these three guys know how to have a good fun laugh and will do segments in the show that are totally ridiculous or just plain nutters. Below are three video clips from different episodes during the ninth season of the as shown on BBC 4(I could be wrong on this).

Driving a Bugatti Veryon up to 253 mph
H.264 MPEG-4 Video 26MB

Turning a Reliant Robin into a reusable space shuttle
H.264 MPEG-4 Video 23MB

Giant Farm Tractor "Drag" Racing

H.264 MPEG-4 Video 7MB

You will need Quicktime 7.X or VLC to playback these videos. They are well worth the time to download and watch. Great stuff, and some more to come later today.