Life's Too Exciting Not to Be Awesome!
Trolololo!!!!
Mar 5th
So I stumbled across this on digg and it just may be the next new Rick Roll 
Trololololololo!!!! HAHAHAHA. LA
He’s so happy and sooooo lip syncing. or a robot, that thought did cross my mind once or twice. I’m not sure what else to say, just watch the video.
Weekend Update 2/22 – 28th
Mar 4th
Who I Met
George, Luis, Lawrence, Dennis
Accomplishments
Learned a little german
Went to 2 clubs, woot woot!
Monday
Biked in for the first time in a long time! Woot woot! felt great! got a little lost on the new trail but all in all it worked out perfect.
ONe hell of a wind coming back though. ugh.
Crash course in getting the import shit together, this is gonna be rough
Tuesday
Fucking nothing, ugh, maybe I’ll go out and see becker at work and get a drink before lost.
OH I forgot! I got a $10 haircut and it was by far the worst on ever! completely un-even and just aweful haha, I’ll have to get it fixed later.
Wednesday
Went out to the club in Downtown Disney. Pretty fun, and I met some cool people, but I ditched my friends at the appartment who just so happened to need to have a party that same night 
Thursday
Ugh, worked for ever, it seems like these weeks are getting redunculous. Also met up with a new friend from a ridiculous app on the IPHONE. G to the R
Friday
Eggs Eggs eggs!!! We’ve officially gone through 180 eggs! in 3 weeks!
HOly ba-jebus!
Friday I was sooo tired I slept and worked, not too shabby.
Saturday
Went to a club out in Santa Ana, pretty fun, good music but a little seedy. Had good company and danced the night away.
Sunday
Slept in Chillaxed most of the day and then went to a MOVIE
Ok so I’ll link to the movie post when I put it up, but needless to say the movie was The Stoning of Soraya and it was amazing. Moving and inspirational. One of the more prominent movies I’ve seen recently. And the movie screening was awesome too, all the actors and directors and such, more to come in the follow up article.
Search for Colonel
Mar 3rd
So I was searching on the interwebs for Colonel, yes google is my defacto spell checker when I have no idea how to spell a word. Wow that sentence got off track. So yeah, colonel is a fucked up word, like really, who the fuck came up with that spelling. I think that any pronunciation that starts out with a different letter than the actual word that its spelling just means that word is retarded and should be shot. Where the fuck was I? Oh yeah, so I was looking up the word Colonel (where the fuck does the R sound come from?) because some one said “I’m and english Major” and I was trying to make the joke “I’m a British colonel” but it took me 3 minutes to find the right damn spelling of the word and by that time if I told the joke the other person would have thought I was a retard, for being so slow.
ANYWAY, the whole reason for this rambling is to share my google search result page with you, look who comes up in the recent news section for colonel:
That’s right, Admiral Fucking Ackbar, who’s the retard that thought he was a Colonel? pisses me off that’s what that does. But still props to Starwars
Some Times you just feel like Santa Claus
Mar 3rd
This man loves sex, presents, harleys and cut off Tees, and hates water bottles.
If I could live to be as awesome as this man, I would die happy
Zen Meditation Makes you Thick Headed
Feb 24th
ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2010) — People can reduce their sensitivity to pain by thickening their brain, according to a new study published in a special issue of the American Psychological Association journal, Emotion. Researchers from the Université de Montréal made their discovery by comparing the grey matter thickness of Zen meditators and non-meditators. They found evidence that practicing the centuries-old discipline of Zen can reinforce a central brain region (anterior cingulate) that regulates pain.
“Through training, Zen meditators appear to thicken certain areas of their cortex and this appears to be underlie their lower sensitivity to pain,” says lead author Joshua A. Grant, a doctoral student in the Université de Montréal Department of Physiology and Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal. “We found a relationship between cortical thickness and pain sensitivity, which supports our previous study on how Zen meditation regulates pain.”
As part of this study, scientists recruited 17 meditators and 18 non-meditators who in addition had never practiced yoga, experienced chronic pain, neurological or psychological illness. Grant and his team, under the direction of Pierre Rainville of the Université de Montréal and the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, measured thermal pain sensitivity by applying a heated plate to the calf of participants and followed by scanning the brains of subjects with structural magnetic resonance imaging. According to MRI results, central brain regions that regulate emotion and pain were significantly thicker in meditators compared to non-meditators.
“The often painful posture associated with Zen meditation may lead to thicker cortex and lower pain sensitivity,” says Grant, noting that meditative practices could be helpful in general for pain management, for preventing normal age-related grey matter reductions or potentially for any condition where the grey matter is compromised such as stroke.
This study was supported jointly by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Mind and Life Institute Varela Grant.
Weekend Update! 2/15 – 21st
Feb 23rd
Who I Met
Dan (passing through to New Zealand)
Accomplishments
Sent Dan to New Zealand
Had the first relaxing Day in 2 months woot woot!
Best Part
Dan coming in and staying over before his plane departed.
Review
Monday
- sweet cafe
- Dan gets done with work early
- go rock climbing
- make an awesome pasta dinner
Tuesday
- Leave back for work
- actually only takes me 5 minutes (no joke) to get from the airport to work
Wednesday
- Holy moly dan gets in tomorrow
Thursday
- Dan gets in
- go to the house of blues
- this is the night my back gets really fucked up
- in so much pain I can’t bear it.
Friday
- Take a half day
- drive around with dan to get a cannon power charger (matt let us borrow the truck)
- finally find a small camera shop and get one
- take dan to the airport
- Good luck in NZ buddy!
- fuck traffic
Saturday
- Go into work, get a lot done
- hahaha, crazy loco, keeps me going
Sunday
- Slept almost all day
- redunculous
- watched howard the duck and day breakers, both just horrible. haha
Weekend Update: 2/1 – 2/7: Snowboarding in Bend with the Rents!
Feb 23rd
Who I Met
Mom and Dad
Review
Went skiing with the parents in Bend Oregon. Watched the Super Bowl.
Best Part
skiing and hanging out with the parents!
What I Learned
How to do some sweet jumps on my snowboard.
Monday
Busy busy with work, Scare with Burr White that we might be fucked out of our deposit, but I’m sure that won’t happen. Finished our move out but its still up in the air. Worked out with Sean and Matt
Tuesday
Thank god for the bike when there’s traffic. I’m slipping on my diet, need to make sure I don’t give up. Need to get snacks for the office. Also woke up late, Need a way to get to the gym before work.
Wednesday
I have no idea
Thursday
Not a clue
Friday
Finally te day is here to go skiing with the parents! And I’m off to bend Oregon from lax. Met a cool girl going to Germany for a trade show. Armada was the nameof her company. Pretty small ( like 5 people) but they do 10k plus sales of skis. Wow sounds like fun.
The van driver was new. Had no idea what he was doing.
I left on my little plane ( pic) at night and got in to find my parents with some friends they had picked up in town (aquaintences from Hawaii) everybody was a bit drunk
The hotel was quite nice. Very large and we looked out over the water. We had a beer from deschutes and retired early in anticipation for the next day.
Saturday
We got up to the mountain at a reasonable time and met Leon there who was our official tour guide. He was very very nice but he loved to talk and obey the rules. As a result we didn’t get any real skiing in until we split ways and mom and I could take on the blacks and double blacks all by our selves!
Oh man did we have fun! Outback and northwest passage were the best! Got some great jumps and runs in despite my bindings being broken.
We met some avalanche dogs and bought their shirt because it was cool.
Dad turned out to go on a sled ride with some dogs and waited up there on the mountain because our tire went flat!
After we drove back he went out to go fix it at sears because he’s awesome.
Went out to deschutes brewery and got a 12 pack sampler! Awesome!
Sunday
Went out skiing again after we picked my board up from the shop. Got on the town bus to get up to the mountain.
An amazing day of skiing! Oh man. The skys were blue and the snow was perfect! The top of the mountain opened up and we got lost on our way Down but it was amazing! Had some great ten plus foot drops and some perfect snow! Very tiring but very worth it.
I totally felt more comfortable today and was taking larger and larger jumps!
Oh I almost forgot! It is superbowl Sunday!!! Go new Orleans! Woot! Awesome comercials. Cool bar at the hotel and good beers.
Went to bed early for my ass early flight in the morning.
Mount an FTP host as a Directory on Ubuntu!
Feb 20th
Let’s go little penguin save me again!
So I have all my music hosted on my home server, but I haven’t mounted that server at work yet! So I followed the instructions on the following page to setup my Ubuntu solution to mount the ftpfs (FTP File System) on a local folder so I can trick my music programs to thinking these files are local.
http://blog.damontimm.com/how-to-mount-a-sftp-folder-ssh-ftp-on-ubuntu-linux-using-sshfs-fuse/
Buzz and online privacy
Feb 17th
Honestly people, what the hell is going on with all these allegations that Google is spreading people’s privacy and they should be repremanded? For the love of god, if you don’t want to be social, don’t fucking join a social networking site! When you load up Gmail, it clearly asks you, plain as day, “do you want to use Google Buzz?” just say no and stop complaining. UGh. There’s even a setting to turn it off right from within Gmail, a one click, delete all button!
This goes double for those facebook users who made them rewrite their entire engine just so they could have the option of who to show their information to. If you don’t like a product (yes, its still a product even though its free and really awesome) then don’t fucking use it.
But chances are, if you don’t want to share your information and are just going to complain about it, then you probably don’t have any friends anyway, so you really don’t have anything to worry about because nobody will care. You could post all day, and still nobody would care about you, not even your own mother, who says she loves you, but really she doesn’t. Because you are annoying.
That was just a note to the complainers, everyone else is cool in my book, except for murderers, they suck too.
Obviously The Onion has a great solution to this
Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village
New Features in Old Apps
Feb 17th
So I was sitting on the can today and I was playing around with some old apps I had on my iPhone and I realized they had under-gone some major improvements! The two in particular were Midomi and Red Laser. First of all it is understandable for Red Laser to improve it’s product because it is exactly that, a product. They build something better to attract more customers. The cool part about the App industry is that you don’t buy upgrades, you just get it when the new version comes out. Unlike classical software, where the scheme is to up-sell on the new version to get users to switch for the new features (ie XP to 7), this industry’s standards have been set by years of solidarity in the markets that we were only able to update our software with some sort of hard good (ie cd or floppy disk) used by the user. This posed a cost to the company selling the product and so as long as we were being charged something, it might as well be an ass ton of money. Now with the advent of digital media and broadband internets companies are able to distribute for no cost at all. Which in turn allows them to prove their self worth in comparison to other companies by offering these upgrades free of charge. I like this new trend, and it is exciting that it is catching on so well.
