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| Of Terrible Turkeys and Vindictive Venison |
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 I carpooled with my dad and my two brothers to Blacksburg this last weekend to see the highly touted Tech vs. Miami college football match-up. Oh, and also to have my bro who's currently in senior high school see if he liked the campus. There were tons of tailgate parties littered all throughout the Tech parking lots and many people were waaay drunk waaay before the afternoon game. Man, that stadium is huge and it happened to be fully packed and lit up that night. The people surrounding us were crazy enthused about the game and the after-market tickets were selling for up to $600 a piece. Yeah, but unfortunately it looked as if star quarterback Marcus Vick cracked under pressure and so consequently he played an awful game. Well, even though the score was hardly close, and Miami won by a large margin, it was an awesome experience just seeing the massive amount of die hard Tech fans. Especially funny was the drunk fellow behind us who kept yelling out "Miami sucks!! But their cheerleaders are hot!!" and other such favorites along those lines :-P I loved it, fireworks, drums, cannon fire, and the roar of the crowd. I can now understand those Hokies, how could you not get into that?
So anyway, about two weeks ago I get done doing my good deed in helping out my bud Scott with his CS project at GMU for which I know surely the karma gods will take good care of me for later. At this point I'm feel'n nice and tired at 11:00pm plus work tomorrow don't ja know. I drive that undeniably treacherous underbelly of Fox Mill road that is so ominously haunted at night by the likes of evil razor-teethed carnivorous deer. Suddenly out of nowhere I see one of these Frankenbambis dart over a steep downward embankment right toward where my car would be in a split second. I quickly engage the breaks and honk my horn as a deterrent so that I may not harm the impossibly stupid animal and also in hopes that this fiend would perhaps give my car the same courtesy in return. No such courtesy was applied at all! Right where I stopped seems to have left my front passenger fender unguarded to the deranged deer who thought it to be an excellent pillow for it's head when it decided to redirect it's forward momentum into the side of my car. After knocking what little brains this adolescent female had out, she now lay beside me twitching. Sadly this particular situation wasn't quite as pleasant as it sounds. So at first I considered running over the deer several times in a back and forth manner; purely for charity of course, just to be sure and take it out of it's misery. However after seeing only specific car body damage inflicted I decided it best to get my car out of the road lest another vehicle come around the corner to add insult to injury and rear end me. Looking back as I slowly began my way home, and to my utter disappointment... er... delight the devious deer tipsily got up at this point and stumbled off into the night. So I now sit here car-less waiting for the repair shop to finish hopefully soon after the weekend. Insurance was cool though, no rate increase since this was considered an act of God. Still, I don't really worry about the balance of karma; firearms are allowed for deer hunting season in 10 days. And since I voted for a republican yesterday I know two things: I can carry a gun and God is on my side *wink* *wink* (do you really take me seriously?)
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Posted by GunPlay on Wednesday, November 09 @ 18:07:19 PST (1403 reads)
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| Busy enough for a Summer cool down |
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Yeah, I have been extremely active/busy since last I posted and so I've decided that it is easiest for me to post a short list of things that have happened these passed few months. Although I'm sure there is yet more to add to the list that I can't immediately recall...
1. Bought a 802.11g wireless prism54 chipset along with a 1 watt amplifier in order steal all my neighbors' wireless bandwidth with, muhahaha. It has native Linux drivers and one of the few cards that can be used to hack WEP encryption. My build-it-yourself kit was composed of a Xterasys XG-600 miniPCI Wireless LAN Card (for NoteBook PC) from Coolerexpress.com at $57.26, a PCI to miniPCI adapter from ITuner Networks Corp. at $25.91, and a 1 Watt 802.11g Amplifier from Hyperlink Technologies at $200.80
2. Implemented a _ton_ of Linux services. I can now honestly say I am a true Linux expert. My most favorite mammoth accomplishment so far is the Microsoft Active Directory mimicry I compiled by utilizing Linux implementations of DCHP/DNS/LDAP/SASL/Kerberos and Samba. The synchronized implementations are so technically cool it would take too long to describe why in layman terms. Not only that but it will save my company so much money and doesn't ever need a reboot.
3. Figured out that Verizon's voice minutes and data minutes are billed the same. I bought a USB cable for my cell phone... a pleasant surprise, feels like about half cable modem speeds and is free after 9:00pm. My phone even has Linux drivers.
4. Made some sweet money in my Roth IRA with Natural Gas since I first started on April 14th, click the chart on this baby. Oh and the 401K is doing nicely too. Of course now that I say that... *crosses fingers*
5. Went to HFStival. Hell yes, it was awesome. I saw Garbage and the Foo Fighters live to name a few. It's sweetness how the best bands are actually even better live. The entirety of the day literally rocked. This event is a teen-twentysomething's paradise. Pretty girls were everywhere... the ones I didn't notice since I was with Ashley ;-) Since we had to stay on stadium grounds the food throughout the day alone cost more than admission. But who cares, the whole place was one ginormous party. Yeah sure beer, weed, and all that you'd expect (who cares) but the fun vibe was all-encompassing. Ashley and I went crowd surfing into the mosh pit, kick ass :-)
6. Bought a new 2005 Honda Civic Hybrid, light blue, with a manual transmission. I custom installed myself a new CD-player/receiver unit with an AUX input for my MP3 player. BTW, Crutchfield is great for that kind of thing.
7. Went with Ashley as my date to her high school prom. Tux, limo, the whole shebang. I had a spectacular time all because I was with her. She was amazingly beautiful that night. Also, this was the first and only prom I've been to.
Ashley left me last Wednesday to go off to college in Florida since she's starting on a summer semester... if I had mentioned that in an itemized list it would have severely downplayed how much this deeply affects me. There is simply no way to describe the ten months of heaven on earth I have experienced with her. I'm am so incredibly happy for her graduating high school and going on to attend her first choice university. I miss her very much and I have felt awkward and empty these passed few days...
Anyway, here are some links that are guaranteed to give you a laugh:
Random Star Wars Lego Symphony
What happens when you turn to the dark side :-P
Click this, you will
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| 'Who the fsck cares?' or 'Disclaimer' |
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Ok, in light of the forced domain move I believe I should make clear to _some_ readers a few pointers about this website and how it should be "parsed", if you will. Firstly, understand that some of my posts are thoughtful and intelligent while others are inside jokes and parodies. I wouldn't ask the average person on the net to read and understand either one. Thus in such cases that average person cannot and should not attempt any intelligible inferences from such posts. Second, contrary to crazy kook misconceptions I do not publish all my feelings on personal matters in totality to my website. Trust me, there is plenty that goes on around me that I am aware of and that I don't necessarily feel a need to make privy to the whole of the net.
Furthermore, at any given point in time I carry within my mind matters that I deem self-righteously important and that I would love to vent about (and have more than good reason to do so). Still, so does everyone else on this green earth. Anyone with half a brain knows that those who talk about all of their sensitive personal issues are stupidly opening themselves up to social vulnerabilities. Even discounting that if I were to be utterly and totally candid on this web site, not only would it give others the power of information over me but also the very point of any such discussions would be missed by 99% of the population. And that would skim another 0.000042% off my current readership :-P
A note about website forums: The forums are lightly moderated because otherwise they would not be open and fun for users. Also, it is good to note that misquoting other users in the forums is easily accomplished and would be equivalent to a liable in print media. If you are not familiar with the how and why of unmoderated website forums then don't even think of clicking the forums link because you just wouldn't understand.
In conclusion, all I have so far published and will continue to publish on this website is all that I would be more than willing to tell the average Joe Blow whom I just met at the local watering hole. And since I'm a geek and I don't go to bars (that would require going outside) I have this website instead. Well what can I say, I am naturally a very open introvert.
Yeah, and now thanks to the lack of Surbey.com webpages querying for "Surbey" on Google is akin to searching for Einstein and having the first result yield a link to tele-tubbies. *rolles eyes* Surely this is progress.
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| Less Trial and Tribulations, more Peace and Freedom |
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Well a whole lot has happened since I last posted. For one thing right now the only way to view this post is by knowing how to bypass the surbey.com redirect page that takes you straight to google. The reason behind all this is all too obvious to me and I have been expecting this to happen for quite some time; I have to eventually move the site to a different domain when I get a chance. I have always had this website backed up and it is very possible to move the site but it would be a really big hassle. Not only that but I rather enjoy me having my persona imprinted over a domain that shares my last name... others apparently do not. I have had many, many positive complements on my site from colleagues and thus far one can guess where the only negative comments have come from...
Anyway, I have happily moved into the apartment over the garage next door to my parent's house. The small abode had been rented out to several different people before and wasn't attended to much these last few years. I took it upon myself to paint the inside of the whole thing with two coats of shinning bight white paint over the cracked dull yellowish hue of the old walls. I placed new wall/light switch face plates with the more modern looking ones and attempted a thorough cleaning of the floors and every corner I came upon. I have to say after all that the place looks close enough to being brand new and more than becoming of what I consider to be the first place that I can really call my own. There's a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living room but the average floor space for each is about 10'x10'. I'm still hooked up to house internet via the cable modem through a long ethernet cord and I patched into the underground phone cabling :-) My first night was great and every night afterwords has been just as wonderful and peaceful as the first. A whole lot has happened since I last posted but when things finally settle I'll get back to attending to the site a little more regularly.
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Posted by GunPlay on Wednesday, December 01 @ 07:18:06 PST (2458 reads)
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| Today is random post day, and I like Macha |
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Well ever since my parents now read the site I don't really feel comfortable posting anything really, really immature. Not that there isn't already a good amount of proof of me enigmatically using maturity through immaturity, ask those that really know me... Then an idea sprung to me from the unrealistic yet cheesy and thus vastly entertaining movie that is "The Net". It gave me inspiration for hidden links that only "hackers" can decipher :-P Do a careful looking around the first sentence and you might get the inside joke.
My darling Ashley recently enlightened me into the detailed heuristics behind tamagotchi sex, or tama-sex for short. This involves waiting for your tamagotchi to become the proper mating age of about 7 days and then introducing your tamagotchi to one of your friend's via an inferred connection and then letting them get it on (fireworks), and then after a while a little happy bubbly baby blob pops onto the screen :-) I searched online scouring for some website with details on tama-sex and thought for sure that since this is the internet after all that I would find a site dedicated to the subject quite effortlessly (and with pictures), but much to my chagrin google did not find many a reference to tamagotchi sex, nor pictures ;-) Maybe if I typed in Japanese... Well anyway hopefully the google bot will figure out how to properly spider my site one of these days and the next search will reveal this somewhat more pertinent reference. However, after searching for some random weird fetish relating to the digital era and then finding that internet was void on the topic I now feel let down and somehow cheated. After all I think the internet has served all the other abstruse matters in much need of a thorough explanation. Anyhow, who knew that a cute little digital pet could be so fun! :-)
Humm... I took a Jung-Myers-Briggs personality test the other day and apparently I'm a Fieldmarshal type (eNTj)... whatever that's supposed to mean.
In other news you have a 1/5 chance of being crazy and if you are visiting this site that number doubles every second, and taking the limit of that approaches... random deviations in sentence continuity, yippie I like Pascal's Triangle.
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Posted by GunPlay on Thursday, September 30 @ 09:44:08 PDT (33211 reads)
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