i’m back in the 21st century now

11Jun09

we got facespaces!!!

sarah and i hopped onboard and got social.  (although, i gotta say,  it’s only fake social.  we don’t want to actually be social with people).

here’s the deal, though…  i’m being picky about my friends.

i stick to two pretty simple rules about friending people

1.  i haven’t friended any females that i am not related to.  it’s just a hedge that sarah and i agreed to before we signed up.

i should point out…  this doesn’t mean that i won’t be friends with female on facebook…  i just won’t initiate the friending.  it feels weird to be searching for girls anyway when i got an awesome one at home.

2.  if i haven’t been to your house or have your phone number, i probably won’t be friending you.  no offense…  i just don’t want to be one of those people with 500 friends that he never talks to.

so, on that note, enjoy this perfect example of crazy.

 

i think i’m going to add her and then immediately unfriend her.

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lamentations of the father

26May09

i instantly want to read this book by this author after reading this review on this blog that i read via this rss reader.

i especially wanted to read the book after reading this excerpt:

I would like it known that I am not an ‘idiot.’ I am a person who suffers from idiocy. Nobody knows what it is like to deal with crippling bouts of idiocy while trying to lead a normal life. The last thing I need is for somebody to make it harder by pointing out what an ‘idiot’ I am.

sarah, i’ve already added it to my amazon wish list and prioritized it.

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Tags: ian frazier, lamentations of the father, outside magazine

proof: girls are afraid of balls

20May09

pjstar.com…  they got all the action shots right here.

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that’s quotable

19May09

“‘Follow your passion’ is the worst advice you can give someone,” Rowe says. “Had I ever even bothered to define what that was, this never would have worked out.”

that’s the discovery channel’s host of “dirty jobs,” mike rowe.

via outside

may 2009

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suck trek

12May09

if you must see star trek, do yourself a favor and catch a matinee.  at least then you’ll only feel 70% ripped off.

to preface this review, i’m a sci-fi fan.  but i haven’t seen every star trek movie.

but that’s like saying, “i’m a music fan.  but i haven’t heard every song.”

as far as the star trek franchise goes, i’ve enjoyed most of them in the past.  yes, even the pc version of st.

so i’m not a die hard who’s hell-bent on keeping it pure.  not by a long shot.

but to put van wylder at the helm of the u.s.s. enterprise…  c’mon!

chris pine may be an up and coming leading man, but he’s no shatner.

i mean seriously, how many fights can one guy get into in an hour?

and left dangling for dear life on some ledge of perilously high proportions at that!

no, for all it’s glitz and technological wizardry, star trek zero lives up to its name but not its namesake.

my review may not be hollywood worthy.  i didn’t go to film school.  i’m just a blogger.  but when a dude at work tells you a flick is “awesome as fuck,” you don’t expect to discover a turd in the punchbowl.  (and yes, those are his words in quotations.  this guy’s a rocker, through and through)

a question for j.j. abrhams (cuz he reads this) – WHY ARE ALL YOUR PROJECTS KEPT UNDER LOCK AND KEY WHEN THEY’RE ALL ABOUT THE SAME THING???

it seems to me that you would keep a secret in your lock box, not a tupperware container of your own regurgitated story lines.

i’m theorizing that his next work will be about someone with a troubled past but who can time travel and fights monsters and aliens from another world.  …and probably a girl in a wig but not necessarily.

in short, this movie was not awesome as fuck, but it wasn’t the let down of last year – cloverfield.  i at least thought my $5 matinee ticket was almost worth it.

erichapman out.

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riddle me this

25Apr09

how come i take a picture with a circular lens, but all my pictures come out square?

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really google reader? really?

13Apr09

whyyyyyyyyyy?

my google reader just randomly changed to list view while i was reading it a minute ago.

and when i switched back to expanded view…  “ALL ITEMS HAVE BEEN MARKED AS READ.”

what??????????????????  i didn’t say to do that!

good thing everything is in beta.  this needs work!

this reminds me of a movie quote:

I felt that it was better not to commit to anything than risk being hurt again.

is that what you’re doing, google?  just call it beta so when something goes wrong you can have an excuse?

fix this already!  it’s happened before and i didn’t complain.  now that it’s happened twice, it’s a reoccurance.

i mean…  how else am i supposed to find out about parahawkingif my google reader isn’t working???

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google reader… does it suck for you, too?

10Apr09

is it just me, or did everything in google get way tiny a few months ago?

i adjust my preferences so everything in google reader/gmail is normal sized font, but then everything else looks like it’s for the visually impaired.

is anyone else experiencing this, or is it just time for new contacts?

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nu-uh

10Apr09

is that a karman gia at the end?

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Tags: karman gia, worst music video ever

lent update

07Apr09

real quick, i’ve learned two things about lent this year.

1.  it needs to be prepared for.  it deserves to be prepared for.

2.  i shoulda given up steep and cheap instead of the snooze.

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