Archive for April, 2007

  • Radar Love

    Date: 2007.04.16 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

    I was driving into work this morning and a thought popped into my head.

    I’d enjoy being in a long distance relationship again just so I could listen to “Radar Love” on the way to see my girl.

    Such a damn good driving song.

    ——
    When I get lonely, and I’m sure I’ve had enough
    She sends her comfort, comin’ in from above
    Don’t need no radio at all
    We’ve got a thing that’s called radar love
    We’ve got a line in the sky, radar love

    No more speed, I’m almost there
    Gotta keep cool now, gotta take care
    Last car to pass, here I go
    And the line of cars drove down real slow

    And the radio played that forgotten song
    Brenda Lee’s “Coming on Strong”
    And the newsman sang his same song
    One more radar lover’s gone
    ——

    Man I love driving.

  • Easter Pics as Promised

    Date: 2007.04.09 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

    Yesterday was Easter. To celebrate we had a feast of glorious proportions.

    On Paper Plates:

    I drove over with Matt, Jesse, and Heather. Not sure why Matt was celebrating Easter. We thought he should be doing more productive things like shooting RPGs at Egypt. Long story.

    Candra made enough Potatoes to feed an entire army:

    I had to take a picture of Matt and Lauren just because I felt like it. I was taking pictures of everything. They were there:

    The site needed more pics of girls anyway.

    Speaking of girls, Heather was there and enjoying some fruit thanks to Lauren:

    People played Set! Amy was there for that awesomeness:

    And after that we pointed Wii remotes into nothingness:

    The Wii was all sorts of fun as usual. I alternated between kicking ass and getting my ass kicked in doubles tennis. There was some Monkey Ball goin on but I just watched that.

    Overall it was a great Easter. New people showed up and good food and good times were had by all. We need holidays more often.

    Huge thanks to Candra and Lauren for all the food. I have you two to thank for my GINORMOUS stomach. Mmmmm belly.

  • Gallery Upgrade

    Date: 2007.04.08 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

    Just upgraded my Gallery to 2.2.

    The feature I’ve been looking forward to in this version is autorotation of images based on EXIF orientation data.

    When I tilt the camera to take a vertical pic the camera knows and writes this to the .jpg file. Gallery then auto rotates the file when I upload it. Friggin awesome. Can’t wait to upload some pics to find out how it works.

    Plan to upload Easter pics tomorrow sometime. W00t.

  • Social Interaction

    Date: 2007.04.08 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

    I was hanging out at East Village the other night and I was referred to as “Talky McTalkerson”.

    If you know me at all (which I assume you do since you’re here), you’ll immediately see the sarcasm.

    I started thinking about this. I’m usually really quiet when we go out. Some nights I’m more talkative than others, but in general I’m very withdrawn in most social settings. Not to say that I’m not paying attention, just that I don’t usually have too much input on things. I like to think about them for… lets say.. 3 days.. and then I’ll have something to say.

    Maybe my brain is just slower. Maybe I just like to let things stew. I’d say I don’t have much access to the inner workings of my head.

    It’s like a black box.

    I throw in random data, and several days later fully formed and well thought out ideas just magically appear out of freaking nowhere. The days in the interim period can involve drinking, video games, working, but I have no recollection of thinking about the input until random ideas spawn out of nowhere.

    It’s interesting.

    Back to the talkative part. I wonder if my life would be better / different if I were a little more talkative and a little more outgoing. I think definitely different. Better is so subjective though. I sort of like the process of slowly getting to know people or letting them get to know me. And sometimes I just have to wonder what it would be like to be really social and meet new friends every weekend.

    I hate the friends I already have though ;) (j/k) I don’t know if I could deal with any more. But seriously, having fewer friends is a nice strategy, because that means your relationship to each individual has that much more meaning.

    Time for Easter dinner at Brendan’s place. I’ll let you know how that goes.