Blog of Josh Hall

Did you know that Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls is/was the same person? I just found that out today at work. and if you knew that, then go read the top 10 reasons why Sug Knight killed 2pac. http://www.ewsonline.com/2pac/sugekill.html

My flatmate, Jordan, was just telling me how he replaced his headlight on his car today, went home, and then his mom noticed that the other light had burned out. There should be a way to tell how long your lights have left. not just in car head lights, but in household lights as well. He pointed out that it could have been dangerous if they both went out at the same time.

I am not sure of the physics of it though. lights can burn forever if they are never turned off, or so i hear. I think the longest lasting lightbulb is burning in some firehouse in the middle of the country, and has been for the past 100 years or so. but i digress. Since lights burn out from the degradation of the filament connection, you’d have to develop a tiny sensor to measure that connection’s strength, and determine how much longer it had. If such a sensor could be developed, perhaps have the light flash 3 times every few hours to let the person know it’s going out. or a dashboard light turns on in a car.

Just found out that the cardigans reformed, a couple years ago! They didnt stay broken up for long, but apparently nothing they have done has come across the pond, atleast not much. I’m stoked. www.cardigans.com

Nearing the end of august, and i’ve got a lot on my plate. Big surprise there. Majorly back-logged with code work needed in the dragon game. It certainly isn’t a burden though. I find the game extremely rewarding. Having som many interesting people, from all over the world playing, seeing how they all interact, being able to interact with them, as if in my own backyard, it’s just cool. I like being able to give people something they can enjoy. I’ve been playing around with advertising for the game a bit too. ran a week add on fazed.net and now I have been running google adwords for the past week. It’s pretty neat being able to see the statistics of clicks and impressions that are being returned to my site.

apart from the game, I have tons of stuff to sell on ebay and the like. I have to list my dad’s winnebago, his 12 passenger van, and i think we are going to try and sell the big tractor too. My mom has been trying to clean out her basement, and i have a whole bunch of her technical books to throw on half.com, since she is a teacher, these companies send her books to try to get her to use them for her classes, and she gets to keep them even if she doesn’t use them. some of these books have gone for $80 on half. I also have a few monitors and mac crap there that i should throw up on ebay for pick up only.

school also starts this sunday. I have 1 statistics class online until end of october, 1 communication class on tuesday nights starting end of october, and 1 computer class on monday nights running the whole semester. So once that all starts back up, I know i am going to be shoulder high in crap.

Keren and Deirdre came over the other day, apparently Chris is buying them a cheap car since Keren has decided to stay at home and go to Penn State Fayette instead of going down to Maryland for school. When i got back from work, we went and played some tennis. when we got back, they hadn’t seen the house that i’ve been looking at for the past…what…six months now? so we took a walk over there, and there was a piece of paper posted on the garage door. It was from the bank, and had all this legal mumbo jumbo crap like herein in, without, sherrif, notice, hereby, this day, blah blah blah, but it started with “on this 25th day of july” so it’s been there for almost a month, and my impression is that it is some kind of final notice to give them some money. I figure there is probably some set date from the posting of that notice where they start listing the house. I think it could quite easily be 1 month, which just so happens to be today. So i am keeping my eye on the website they are supposed to list the foreclosure on. My lease is up at the end of this month, and i havent done anything about it yet. They are increasing monthly rent too. Last year they did it too though, and I kept paying the lower rate, without signing a lease until sometime november. So i think i have a little bit of some play. It’s $100 extra to do a month to month lease, so i want to stay away from that.

on top of that, Fable, the video game, is coming out for PC september 20th. I’ve played it at Dan’s for xbox, and totally fell in love with it. I fear that it will consume any minute that i can give it, but I also think it will bring me great joy. I don’t consider myself a gamer in the least bit, but when i find a game that i like, i am die-hard about it. So i am looking forward to it, but also not looking forward to the possible damages it could do to my productive life.

as i write this, I am realizing that I really need to do another main site update too. maybe get some more themes in place, make it all a little smoother. that is going to take a lot of time too. Time that i just don’t have. What ever happenned to that 28 hour day movement?

“Did you ever have a job that you hated and worked real hard at? A long, hard day of work. Finally you get to go home, get in bed, close your eyes and immediately you wake up and realize… that the whole day at work had been a dream. It’s bad enough that you sell your waking life for minimum wage, but now they get your dreams for free.”

with last night’s dream of my dad and the reoccurence of such dreams, along with a few recent dreams taking place at work, I’m thinking about what the unleashed and undirtied mind dreams about. Meaning, these are things that are in my life, about things that are happenning right now. I almost grow frustrated that they are replacing the real dreams of fantasy or just plain unexplained nonsense that I think play back-up. If someone had no life altering or stresful things occupying their minds, what do their unbridled dreams hold? Am I wrong to assume that dreams like this are an undesired effect? perhaps bringing the reality of our lives into our dreams has benefits. I’m not sure, but I’ve always wanted to run experiments with new borns, have them isolated, and see what they dream about, see if they have visions of the real world, see what languages develop, I would like to see human beings robbed of their ancestory knowledge and dogma and see what they come up with on their own. I want to see the objective point of view when they get to analyze our societies. I would love to have a conversation with the guy that went into a coma a few months after impregnating his wife, and waking up 30 years later to a whole new world. The shock, horror, surprise, and unknown of it all, I find, truly puzzling.