Archive for November, 2008

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

what really matters

I seem to be a swath of negativity lately. At least that is at first appearances. So many terrible things have happened to me over the past few months that it has been difficult to see the forest through the trees. This weekend was significant for me. Having a slightly scary car incident, having to [...]

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Sunday, November 30th, 2008

tukeycanus delicious

Over this weekend, I had a 9 hour-long smoked turkey, got a flat and nearly died in the process, then actually died when I saw the bill for 2 x 275/35/18 michelin pilot ps2’s procured from the only tire shop in town that sold those sized tires on Thanksgiving weekend.
Then, after it all I discovered…

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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Ivory Towers

I work at an odd place. You see, a large number of people I work with are immigrants from eastern europe. ESL Engineers. This is great, they are smart, and good at being an engineer - and I presume inexpensive compared to engineers who can effectively communicate in English. 
Now to a classic example of the problem with [...]

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Monday, November 17th, 2008

The new Star Trek Movie (trailer)

So the new Star Trek Trailer is out. The trailer itself is surprisingly epic. It seems that there has been a resurgance of usual horrible seriesed movies that have made extrodinary comebacks as good movies. Case and point: Batman (begins and dark night). 007 (Casio Royale, Solace), and now Star Trek.

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Friday, November 14th, 2008

BMW Club San Diego Autocross Oct 26th at Qualcomm Stadium

As a result from the encouragement from a friend of mine, who also got a new BMW (a 335i sedan, 6spd - on the same exact day I got mine, no less). I signed up for the BMW of San Diego’s Autocross event that occurs in the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot.

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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Losing all hope is freedom (#2)

Humans are functioning robots, some are broken, some are in need of repair and some have the gears turning perfectly as-is. All of them, working or not want the same thing: Money, Sex, and maybe a random assortment of closely following third placers. They will stomp over any other robots in order to get that. [...]

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Why I will always lose

When I really want something - I typically get it. I don’t tend to lose, especially when I really put my mind to it. My forte is (seriously) gathering resources and information to make the best possible decisions at hand to make sure that I will get what I want / need. I also don’t [...]

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Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Wiiiiiiiii!

I just finished up some contract work and I decided to reward myself in the form of some retail therapy. Today I picked myself up a Wii, Wii Fit, Mario Kart (and wheels), Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports, and Wii Games. Let me just say that playing MarioKart made me LOL (alone, embaressing?) like 5 or [...]

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