DoYouHaveSwineFlu?!

Well....do you? I don't want you coming to my blog and infecting millions across the interwebs....Okay well, I don't think anyone actually reads this, but it'd be nice to think so. But on a more serious note...nah, just kidding, what the f**k is up with this swine flu crap? One death in the U.S. so far (as of me writing this and the fact that I didn't actually read any news this morning) and it was an infant. Of course they're gonna die:

A) they were younger than 10 years of age
B) they were from Mexico

They were obviously chosen out of some....I'll call it "Survival of the Fittest" way of choosing who lives and who dies. Wouldn't it be great if there was actually some way that nature could choose who lives and who dies depending on their ability to feed themselves, defend themselves, care for themselves, and in worst case scenarios, die of a horrible infectious disease created by mother earth to get you the f**k off her? I'm a dreamer, I know, but what doesn't kill us is probably not a real threat and made worse through media hype. Right?

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Have a happy Thursday.

My Cousin's wedding in Ny. Pictures and my thoughts.

So as I twittered while I was there, two things I came to the conclusion about.

One was the fact that I could never get married, and not cause I'm incapable of love, but because marriage is a very religious experience and past-time, and I am, for the most part, athiest. Now, I guess I'm not really, truly athiest in the 'I don't believe in anything' way. I do believe in a being or force (yes...I said force, I hold by some of the ideas that spawned due to George Lucas) that surrounds us and watches over us, or even, that created us. However, I think that organized religion, and the obsession with the bible, and the 'good word' and this crazy Jesus character is just ridiculousness. All (well, most) the fighting that has been done in the name of religion has been not over the fact that there is 'A' god, but what he is called, and how he has passed down his laws, rules, and way of life, etc.

I'm not gonna go on a religious rant, because frankly, they bore me, and it makes my head hurt continuing writing in that fashion, so, onward!

Two: I wrote "At the weddings conclusion, one thing remains in my mind...how desperately I want a girlfriend at this moment"

Then posted this pic...which probably didn't help:


For a while I thought I could live happily w/o involving a significant other in the train wreck I call my life, but I had doubts, and I thought I'd like more, but either doubted I'd find someone, or just said that I'd be miserable, or make them miserable.

However, this wedding seems to have sparked something hiding inside me. I want a girlfriend, I want it to be serious, and I want to get married, have kids, and live that life of happiness with someone. All super sappy and ridiculous I know, but hey...sometime I can be a romantic too, or just a creepy obsessed guy. Either way you look at it, I'm just rambling at this point. I'm listening to 'Hyperballad' by Björk and feeling even more...well, I dunno what, but this song's awesome and I need food.

Lemme sum up the happiness I witnessed last night with one word:
Hug.


Edit: I also found out that John (the dude my cousin married) is from Australia, and I got to chat with him and a bunch of his friends that came with him to the US for the wedding about Australia, about our tour there and what-not. Extremely fun. I also heard that they may move there and live there instead of in the US, which would be fun, cause then It would give me more incentive to move down under myself, seeing as how I'll have more people to be in contact with. Aussie's...watch out, I may be back sooner than you think!

Sacha Baron Cohen Saved Because "Ali G character is absurd"

Seems a woman who once knew the comedian claimed that Cohen libeled her by name during a spoof interview with historian Gore Vidal by claiming to have had sex with her. “No reasonable person could consider the statements made by Ali G on the program to be factual.To the contrary, it is obvious that the Ali G character is absurd..."

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The epic death of my iPhone, and how I will get a new one.

...long story short, my iPhone died and I'm going to either get it fixed, or get a new one tomorrow afternoon.

...long story long...

I only got the my iPhone a month or so ago, and I was stoked. I now had my email, twitter, my blog, some cool games, linked in, and even had access to google calendar (which I need so badly cause I used to be so horrible with scheduling and such).

Yesterday (Monday, April 20th, 2009) it was working quite perfectly. I checked my mail, updated my twitter, surfed teh intarwebs, and even played a couple games and took photos. I plugged in my iPhone to my home stereo positioned near my bed for some nightly tunes. I let it play the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' trilogy soundtrack all through the night. I have to say, I had some pretty interesting dreams that night too. Anyway, when I awoke the next morning, I got up, stopped my iPhone playing the music, went to the home screen to check mail, twitter, etc. and all applications would display the start/loading screen, and then crash. I did it a couple times, and the only application that would work was the built-in safari browser. I restarted it two times (using the 2-button, wait-five-seconds-and-reboot thing) and nothing changed.

Then I think to myself "well, maybe a restore from iTunes would fix this problem, even though it'll wipe my iPhone's memory, it'll be nice to at least have it working again, then I'll just load the apps on again." silly me, that didn't work either. That just gives me error messages and tells me that my iPhone is corrupted and cannot be restored.



This made me sad.

So I went through the day at work sans-iPhone and hopefully I'll be able to stop by the apple store tomorrow after work and have them fix it, or just give me a new one.

/sigh...oh woe is me. I get attached to it, and that's when it fails me. Ah, technology.

Edit: turns out the reason my iPhone went brokity-broke was I had to update drivers on my motherboard for the rear usb ports I connected my iPhone to. Problem solved once they reset my iPhone at the Apple store and then downloaded updated drivers. Still doesn't explain why my iPhone errored in the first place by crashing all the applications. Who knows.

Video Music Project: Code named "Project Awesome"

anyway...It took FOREVER to render, and then upload to youtube, but it's finally up. I recorded myself playing drums on my video camera and then wrote guitar and bass to it. It turned out awesomely, but I'll let you be the judge. Good or not, I still had fun making it, and it's fun (at least for me) to watch.

Indoor skydiving: All the fun, none of the risk...well...maybe.

This is just a video I found. It's a skydiving instructor playing around in an indoor wind tunnel used for training skydivers. He's doing some crazy tricks that if I tried, I'd probably fail miserably at, but he makes it look so easy. Guess it comes from years and years of jumping out of airplanes to possible doom. It makes you awesome.

vlog?!

The creation of teh int4rw3bs has brought about some unusual spelling, abbreviations, and words. blog, vlog, weblog, etc. whatever. I've been interested in these things for a while, but never really....cared. I'm now getting really into this twitter thing, along with breaking down and posting videos to youtube, as well as, writing this journal thingy. I've seen a lot of people have vlogs now too though (video logs for those not in the 'know'). I thought at first, "why would I need a vlog, cause I don't really have anything interesting to say, teach, or do." but then as I started watching some peoples video logs (cause I honestly think the word 'vlog' is really really stupid), they don't have anything interesting to say, teach, or do for the most part anyway.

I guess I could talk about current things in my life, like Rosetta updates, tour stuff, my recording studio, or film stuff I'm working on. Who knows, maybe I'll just sit there and stare at a camera listening to music for five minutes, that'd be fun right? Maybe tutorials on how to edit in Pro Tools, or Samplitude? or...just scrap the idea all together, and just stick to writing here.

So, I put up new (well, old, but new to you I would guess) videos on youtube and hope to have some new songs (from solo projects) up soon. So far I just have two songs up on my studios' (Jane-Doll Studios) website here. I could get really unoriginal and just record myself practicing drums, or playing drums to stupid songs. I'll figure something out.

In the meantime, check out this site and enjoy a happy zombie jesus day

Massive amounts of caffeine + youtube = new uploaded videos!

So we played a show in Harrisburg tonight, and to get us home safely without me driving off the road and killing us all, I loaded up on massive amounts of caffeine to make the drive. So I was (and still am as I type this) a little wired when I finally stepped in my front door at quarter after 5am.

On the drive home I was thinking of things to do while I was still awake waiting for the caffeine high to subside and my eventual crash (hopefully while standing next to my comfy bed). I remembered that I never uploaded a couple videos of mine that I had done a long while ago. So I give you UPLOADS! yay! I put up 3 new videos on youtube.

The 1st was a project I did in college with my friends Michaelangelo, and Nate. We had to come up with an idea for a video for our net broadcasting class, and since our other plans had either failed or we just lost sunlight to actually do them (as the video was due the next day, yay procrastination!), we jotted down some ideas that we called a "script" and then just went at it. What came out of it was a hilarious short that made no sense what-so-ever but got us an 'A' for the projects. We've had talks we would like to re-do this video sometime in the future, I really hope we do.


The 2nd is a machinima I did with Nate using the video game 'Jedi Knight II' and the video capture program 'Fraps'. It's short, stupid, and completely pointless...SUCCESS! It's a mock pretentious student film about a thing (the in-game character name was 'Reelo') that wanders around this city (the map used was 'Nar-shaada streets') and finally finds this odd green glowy thing that he falls in love with (I forget what the hell it was called, but it was the most pointless thing in the whole game) and then falls to his doom...the end. Enjoy.


And last but not least, my lightsaber special effects video. All star wars nerds that have access to video cameras and editing programs should have one of these. We shot it in a matter of an hour or so in my backyard. We choreographed it pretty simplistically and then shot a couple angles of it, edited it, and then added MAGIC, that then became lightsaber awesomeness. I get killed in the end, so weep for me.


Anyway, enjoy the videos, hopefully I'll have more soon, either other old ones I find, or new ones.

Amatuer hour in Turkey. "Turkey foils plot to assassinate Obama"

Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian descent who was planning to assassinate US President Barack Obama during his current trip to Turkey, the Saudi daily Al Watan reported Monday. According to the report, the man, who was arrested on Friday, was carrying a press card identifying him as an employee of Al Jazeera.

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"Flutter: The New Twitter" A hilarious mockumentary

Having been posted a few days after April 1st of this year, and not having read the comments on youtube yet, I started watching this video thinking it was completely serious...but in fact, it is not. The funniest part is that it could be real. I'm sure someone watched this and immediately started their brain rolling on ideas for advancing microbloggins/nanoblogging/bathroomblogging technology. My favorite part was the iPhone application. "Kim get coffee" "kim in bathroom", and of course, the idea about completely elimination vowels from everything to shorten their posts even more. Enjoy.

Robot Scientist Makes Discoveries With No Human Help (Video)

A robot scientist that can generate its own hypotheses and run experiments to test them has made its first real scientific discoveries. Dubbed Adam, the robot is the handiwork of researchers at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge in the UK. All by itself it discovered new functions for a number of genes in Saccharomyces...

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12 Weird and Pointless Phone Concepts

These Concept Phone designs are no matter unique, but I bet no Normal Person will ever want to take these types of Phones with them in front of Public. Here are 12 Weird, Foolish and pointless Phone Concept design that no company will ever want to manufacture.

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Expedia offering flights to Mars. Only $99!!!

"We are proud to announce a once in a lifetime offer, trips to Mars."I love April Fools

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The Worst Homemade Star Wars Costumes

"Some people really love Star Wars. So, to show their love, they will go to great lengths to dress up as their favorite characters for nerd conventions, nerd parties and any other nerd-based gatherings. Here are some of the worst."My favorite one is the homosexual Darth Maul outfit.

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