Site Update

duplication

30 March, 2005 (03:20) | Site Update

we are going to be switching from 1 server for the database and webfiles to a 2 server system, which should increase performance dramatically. You may experience some small outages in the next week or so, but hopefully all will go smoothly.

Memorable Quotes

how did he get re-elected?

28 March, 2005 (20:38) | Memorable Quotes

“No one died when Clinton lied.”

– A bumper sticker

Dreams

washington DC rednecks

16 March, 2005 (04:40) | Dreams

Had a small dream last night where i was at my dad’s funeral, but it was in washington DC. Afterwards, my step-dad, Chris, and I walked out of the funeral home, and across the river you could see the lincoln memorial, but it had 7 circular rotundas in a semi-circle around it, each one about 25 feet in diameter. Chris said that he knew the name for the display, and they seemed very familiar, as if they were some monument from somewhere else, just relocated for a seasonal event. We just kept on walking down the street, and my cousin adam was riding a bike down the side walk, and he hit a spot of uneven pavement, and flipped over the handlebars and hit his head on the street. I went over to help him up. He was a little shaken, but fine otherwise. It was just me and him then, and we were going to continue walking down the street to meet up with my mom and sisters. We walk to this dead end street, and on the opposite side of the street, 2 teenagers got into a car, and broadsided an empty parked mini-van about 20 feet away from them and then drove off. We just looked at eachother like, “what the crap was that about” then, another 2 kids got into another car, and drove head to head into a bronco looking empty parked car. They backed up and did it again, and we assumed it was the car of the first 2 kids. then, this is where it gets graphic.
they had a deer (looking animal, it was larger like a camel) tied up next to their house, and a duck, that was actually more of a cartoon duck like daffy duck. the duck had arms and had a very animated face. anyway, they took a rope, tied it to the car they were in, threw it around a power line crossing the street, then took it back 40 some feet and attached it to the deer’s collar. then they tie another rope to the bumper, and the other end around the duck’s neck. the duck grabbed the rope with both hands, like begging for his life. Adam and i are just standing across the street on this porch of a house that we think everyone else should be at watching this go on in disgust. so the car starts to drive away, drags both animals for about 30 feet, the deer scraping his stomach on the street, and the duck tumbling around. Since the deer’s rope was tied around the power line, it started to get pulled up vertically, as if being hung. It got pulled up around 5 feet in the air, and from being drug on the street, a whole had torn through its skin on its stomach. intestines and stuff jsut startting falling out through this hole, and it was freaking out. so they cut it the rope above it, and it started to run back to where it was besides their house. At that point, adam and i just walked back the way we came, and a block or two down, we found everyone else.

Memorable Quotes

dreams of men

12 March, 2005 (20:12) | Memorable Quotes

“A man’s dreams die with him.”

– My Uncle Kenny

Ramblings

I don’t trust colors

8 March, 2005 (05:06) | Ramblings

So i already have mentioned on how a color could look like another color to someone else, and we would never really know. but i have just been thinking about all the problems i have with colors recently. first off the difference between pigments and light. the primary colors in light are red, blue, and green, while in pigments, it’s red, blue, and yellow. what the crap is up with that? i thought yellow and blue made green. with light, if you put all the colors together, you get white. with pigments, if you put all the colors together, you get an ugly brown, sometimes black. why are these different? why aren’t colors consistant through medium?

the polar extremes in light is darkness (which is assumed to be the absense of light) and light itself. with pigments, black and white are the polar extremes, and white is assumed as the absense of any other color. that bugs me. white is a color, right? i could argue it both ways. if you want to turn a pair of red socks white, throw in some bleach, and it will take the color out, leaving the the absense of color; namely, white. So perhaps white is not a color at all. That would explain why you can’t buy white dye. you can buy dye of all colors at your local walmart to throw into your laundry machine and dye stuff any array of colors, except white. that would just be too useful to recover mistakes of the misplaced red sock or chapstick in the washer. this argument reminds me of polar bear fur actually being clear, not white. but that really isn’t a problem with colors themselves, just with people misrepresenting the truth over and over without questioning its factuality; another problem altogether.

Ofcourse white is a color though. We have white out, we have snow, we have cocaine. These things are white! not the absense of any other color. there are degrees of white too. Mother of pearl comes to mind.

Which leads me to my other rant on colors. Nomenclature. I don’t trust colors because you never know what color you are talking about. the world was not created with a 12 pack of crayolas. With all the standardization codes out there for everything, you think colors would be something that would be standardized. computer code is the only semblance of order to the multitude of colors. with the hexidecimal representation of colors, 16,777,216 (16x16x16x16x16x16 combination) colors are defined by code, but not by name. Even then, colors can be manipulated and ruined by browsers, monitors, and people’s own eyes. which leads me to believe that color is a matter of personal opinion and biological interpretation. Think about that next time you are at a red light.

Personal Update

Mini break!

2 March, 2005 (12:19) | Personal Update

woohoo!! no work thursday, friday or monday! took some time off to spend with the family. thursday i’ll go pick up keren from Bethany, then go back home for Deirdre’s play, then friday go apartment shopping with becky, maybe go to deirdre’s play again friday, or go over to adam’s to jam, or just stay home and read. saturday will be time to hang out with the sisters. Serah is bringing mike in, and she wants to bring him in to the city, so maybe i will be involved in that, since i live here and all. maybe kick out another recording this weekend. hopefully get some studying done to take my test for my only class this semester. i know this weekend is going to fly, especially since my sisters are going to be home, but i am going to try to get everything done that i need to get done. and the weather doesnt look like she wants to play fair.

i started paying back my school loans since i am only taking one class this semester. one payment was due march 1st, and i sent it out monday….if i get some kind of late fee or something, prepare for a rant on 2 things. 1, effing school system and loans. 2, february and it’s 28 days in a month crap.

looks like jordan owen is interested in moving in with me once emily moves out. em is going to paris for the summer, so i gotta get someone else in here. she also said she doesnt want to be here in the fall either. it sucks, i tried to make everything nice and easy for her. She’s a free person though, and if living some where else is what she wants, i have no role in that. i just hope i am not a sucky roomate.

back to vacation days, i got 2 weeks solid off in july/august to go to yankanuck and stuff, and i still got 2 more weeks to spend somewhere. probably use a few of those around the holidays, but i got enough time to take a good road trip somewhere. i am excited!