“We were quite smashed, and though most of us didn’t know each other all that well, by the 4th hour… we were all sleeping on each other in a giant pile like a human puzzle.”
-Rachel Grande

I went to the auction yesterday and it was a lot of fun, even if they didn’t have as much inventory as I thought they would. There were several things that we wanted to buy, but in most cases the bidding was a little too rich for our blood. For example, an older computer we wanted to get to use as a dedicated server sold for $19, a HUGE microwave we wanted sold for a little over $20, and a scanner Lauren wanted went for $15. But we did NOT walk away empty handed, I was determined to get a watch and so I bought two lots of 6 watches. Below are 11 of those watches.

Though I’d wear about 3 of them, my absolute favorite is the Citizen gold watch. Getting a Citizen watch has always been one of those “life goal” kinda things, something I never really thought I would indulge in, but then to have one land in your lap for 1/6 of $5 is unbelievable. One interesting part of this watch is the date, which you can see below IS IN SPANISH! Hoy es miércoles. How cool is that!

Lauren also ended up getting a microwave for $6, since our current one has been on it’s last leg for longer than I care to think about. The button on the bottom doesn’t even open the door anymore, so hopefully this one will be an upgrade. If it works.

Well, I do have more to talk about, but since I should probably do some physics before I go to work, it’s time to say goodbye for now.

The song of the moment is definitely “In The Autumn” by The Special Goodness. I know the lyrics are kinda silly (“The last day above seventy Maybe twenty metrically”), but it really just fits the moment.

I’m excited about my buddy icons, I’ve already had 4 people start to use them, which is really awesome, I wasn’t sure anyone would want them. Also I redid one person’s icon, which I was more than happy to do.

All right, I’m sure I’ll post later, have a good Saturday everyone!

I’ve always thought that when people use aim, that it would be really nice if everyone used a picture of themselves so it would feel more like I was communicating with an actual person. With this in mind I created my own buddy icon, which most of you have probably seen, but that doesn’t help me much because I don’t instant message myself unless I’m very, very lonely. So I took it upon myself to create buddy icons of everyone on my buddy list that I have a digital picture of. The results are below:

Andrew	Brian Wong	Carolyn	Chad	Crystal
Eugene’sFeet	Eugene	Heather	Jesse	Joel
Katie	Kelsey	Lindsey	Melissa	Rachel

For those who feel slighted, I just didn’t have a decent digital picture of you. Send me one and I would be more than happy to make you one. If you feel that I didn’t choose the best picture of you, just send me one you like and again i will be more than happy to make you another buddy icon.

Quick tutorial on how to use these icons:
1) Right click on yours and choose “Save Picture As…”
2) Save it in a place where you can find it.
3) Open AIM
4) Hit F3
5) In the left pane click on “buddy icons”
6) In the right pane find the “browse pc” button and use the file selector that pops up to find the buddy icon where you saved it.
7) Voila, new buddy icon that everyone will cherish.

Enjoy!

I hate the last school day of the week, it’s so hard to concentrate during class. My Physics teacher was going over a new topic and I just_couldn’t_care. He could have been speaking Japanese with a southern accent and I would have absorbed about the same amount of information that I did today.

Alex showed me up today, I tried to show off my amazing sports knowledge and he proved once again that he is the king:

(21:37:17) Me: Did you know Rumsfeld’s nephew is the kicker on the Air Force football team?
(21:37:58) Alex: actually, it’s John Ashcroft’s nephew, and he sucks. he cost Air Force the game against Navy.

I’ll have my tail between my legs for a while after that one.

So this morning, the alarm went off at 4am so Lauren and I could go see The Matrix: Revolutions. We stopped at a Kripsy Kreme (24 hour drive thru, hella) got some sugar and coffee and met the masses who had also gotten up at this obscene hour on a weekday to go see a movie. I’ll say I very much liked the movie, but I won’t go into it any more so I don’t risk spoiling it.

I tried to get a picture of Lauren in front of the clock that read 4:10am, but that didn’t turn out (the flash on my camera made the numbers illegible), I also tried to get a picture of the crowd in front of the theatre at 5am, but that also didn’t work out (the crowd was backlit), so I give you the only picture I took this morning that actually turned out:

We saw this while sitting in traffic on the way home, at around 8:30am.

yeah, tomorrow’s the “zero hour.” That’s right, all around the world “Matrix: Revolutions” is opening WORLD WIDE at the exact same hour, which is kinda cool. Unfortunately, it also means that some places (like Los Angeles for example) are having their opening showing at 6am, which is absolute lunacy.

And I plan to be there.

So I need to go to sleep right about now.

Hopefully we’ll remember to bring the digital camera to prove to everyone that we were there. G’night everyone.

Eugene’s getting a new bike, and he’s pretty excited about it:

(00:04:17) Eugene: i will name my bike, “kit”
(00:04:47) Eugene: and i will mod it so that it comes to pick me up after physics class

“Collision Type #2: The Door Prize

A driver opens his door right in front of you. You run right into it if you can’t stop in time. If you’re lucky, the motorist will exit the car before you hit the door, so you’ll at least have the pleasure of smashing them too when you crash, and their soft flesh will cushion your impact.”

-Taken from How not to get hit by a car

“I stay stuff CONSTANTLY that I don’t understand.”
-Rachel, talking about living in Costa Rica

Next Saturday I’m going to go to my very first Police Auction. Auctions are exciting stuff, the car auction at hot august nights has always been one of my favorite car events. Also I’ve been to an estate sale before, which was tons of fun. I suspect that this will be crowded and getting the best deals will be hard, but….

Maybe, just maybe I can get a car for $20 that was previously owned by Carlos the diamond smuggler…

“That quarterback couldn’t hit his own butt with his hands.”
-My Dad, talking about Oregon State’s quarterback.

Below is Carolyn’s Jack-o-Lantern. I thought everyone would appreciate it. Have an excellent Halloween!

Last night when I got home from work Lauren told me that there was a free concert featuring Reel Big Fish on USC’s campus. So we went…

We knew there was going to be an opening band, but I was more than surprised to discover Yellowcard rocking out to “War Away” as we were walking up. They put on an impressive show, and I was seriously wondering who the hell decided that Reel Big Fish, who hadn’t had a hit in about 6-7 years, should be headlining while Yellowcard was the opener? I wasn’t too surprised to see about a third of the crowd leaving after Yellowcard’s set.

Then Reel Big Fish came on. Absolutely, without a doubt, bar-none, the best live show I have EVER seen. Every song was spot on, the old songs cranked, and I even loved the newer ones, even though I’d really never heard them before. Plus they were absolutely hilarious. The trumpet player would point at people then put his hands together like he was going to catch a football. This resulted in a beer in his hands no less than 3 times. He didn’t drop a single one. Plus he was a black guy sporting a hat with the confederate flag on it, which was interesting.

*sigh* Whatever happened to Ska on the radio? Did Save Ferris ever release another album? Mighty Mighty Bosstones? Buck-o-nine? These are things I’m going to have to check into.

Cool idea for two people hanging out on halloween: One of you dress as a giant rock or boulder while the other one is Indiana Jones. Proceed to have the individual dressed as the rock to chase Indiana down the street or through a party.

Woody Allen is one of the deepest wells of good one liners still alive today. With that in mind, I give you the first of many Woody Allen quotes of the moment.

“…if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he’s an underachiever.”
-From “Love and Death”

Here’s a wonderful picture that my friend from work made.

Isn’t it awesome?
–Lauren

Yesterday after working out I went home to study and then fell asleep upon passing through the door. So when it came time to actually go to sleep, sleep was a rather elusive prey. After two hours I gave up on the whole unconciousness thing and got up to watch some tv.

2am weekday tv is an interesting phenomena. On NBC the metal band Anthrax was doing an acoustic set and Christina Ricci was tap dancing in a bowling alley in some very odd movie on Cinemax. Fortunately at 2:30 am I was saved by a futurama episode on the cartoon network which gave me some safe mindless entertainment until I went to sleep at 3.

I hate bogus claims on the front of magazines. This months Reader’s digest cover has in big letters “The New Pill That Can End Aging.” On first glance, this sent the bull-o-meter spinning, but then I realized this is old news, cyanide’s been around for decades.

In 1974, relative unknowns Henry Winkler and Sylvester Stallone appeared together in a film written by Stallone called The Lords of the Flatbush. Here’s a picture of the stars:

The interesting thing is that right after “Lords,” Winkler tried out for “Happy Days,” where in his audition he was basically doing an impression of Stallone’s character in “Lords.” Thus, Fonzie’s accent. Ever since I found this out, I can’t stop thinking about how much Fonzie’s “aaayyyyy” sounds like Stallone.