Today is Friday. I am not at work right now, I had a kinda sick feeling that was worse yesterday when I actually went. So I'm not totally playing hooky... Maybe just a little.
Jeremy Piven of Entourage fame (Ari Gold) was on Conan and Jimmy Fallon a few days ago. If you are a fan like I am, check it out on hulu. On Fallon he plays the drums! Pretty well too! Was pretty cool. Speaking of Fallon's show, it is slowly creeping up from "bad" to "almost ok" status. The monologue last night wasn't too bad actually, and the rest of the show is getting a bit funnier too. Don't get me wrong, its not a full transformation, but you can see that he is getting more comfortable up there. I guess it was only a matter of time. Conan started out the same way, although many people don't remember or were witness to that.
There are some movies out there I want to see. I heard Funny People was pretty good. Maybe I will catch that this weekend. I dunno.
I think it has been 8 weeks, and I promised pictures of my progress working out... Well I have been working out, but there were 2 weeks in there I wasn't doing it consistently. So, maybe you'll get pictures. Probably not though since no one reads this. I bet there is like 2 creepy people out there that constantly read this, even re-read posts something like 20 times a day or something ridiculous like that.
I go back to school in... 3 weeks? However long it is from now till the 24th, that is how long... Its alright, its only a semester. Will be nice to not have work for a few months, and then once I graduate the giant doors open. The doors out of the ominous and expansive labyrinth that is an education career from 1st grade until graduating from college. I don't want to think about the fact that I will possibly be re-entering a different section of the labyrinth, that graduate school side, but that is still an option. Greatest thing about graduating... It is like you are truly free. You have options. What an idea, what a country.
God bless America.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Ever So Interesting
You know what is amazing? Science. I have taken a strong liking to the Science and Discovery channel for the documentaries they often show. I was watching some thing on the human body and its perception of time last night, and now I'm watching some thing about dinosaurs. Great stuff. I don't know how I didn't think this stuff was cooler when I was a kid. It's all really fascinating. Maybe it has something to do with not being tied down to some artificial requirements like those made by the education system. That evil never seems to have an end to its retched madness...
But ya, it is interesting stuff.
Unlike my blog.
I don't have anything to write about.
There has been a tragedy in Pittsburgh. Several people were shot at a gym just south west of pittsburgh. This was att 8:15 our time, just a few hours earlier from me writing this... So random. The world is a scary place indeed, and it is stuff like that that reminds you how crazy and scary it can be. That is probably the last place you would ever think a shooting would happen. Poor people and their families. The guy apparently shot himself after going on the shooting spree...
Well I'm going to go watch some TV and try to not think about this sad stuff. Tomorrow is Kennywood day for the company I work for. If you aren't a Pittsburgh or Pennsylvania native, go google it. There is a lot of history to be learned when Kennywood is involved.
Till next time...
But ya, it is interesting stuff.
Unlike my blog.
I don't have anything to write about.
There has been a tragedy in Pittsburgh. Several people were shot at a gym just south west of pittsburgh. This was att 8:15 our time, just a few hours earlier from me writing this... So random. The world is a scary place indeed, and it is stuff like that that reminds you how crazy and scary it can be. That is probably the last place you would ever think a shooting would happen. Poor people and their families. The guy apparently shot himself after going on the shooting spree...
Well I'm going to go watch some TV and try to not think about this sad stuff. Tomorrow is Kennywood day for the company I work for. If you aren't a Pittsburgh or Pennsylvania native, go google it. There is a lot of history to be learned when Kennywood is involved.
Till next time...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Let There Be Music
Today is a significantly rainy day. It is so rainy I will make no attempts to go outside. This means one thing: music. I plan on playing no less then 3 hours of guitar. Either the 3 hours will come or my hand will feel like it's going to fall off at some point and I will stop. Either way it will be nice since I've only played like half an hour of guitar in the past 4 days. Unacceptable.
I went to the range yesterday. After hitting 100 some balls, I realized that I used to be good at golf. But that wasn't until after I got my swing back. Now I just need to go hit a 100 balls before each round and I should be A-OK.
Today is going fast and it is AMAZING. It is already 3 o'clock. and it is a Wednesday! The week is already pretty much over. This is probably one of my happier posts on here in quite awhile.
And now, I present to you... The AG poetry moment:
There is a light
A spectrum of colored contents
gleaming under a recessive darkness
I strum against the constant
the world has weight to bear
feeding into this ancient notion
I take time to listen
there is a wave of tranquility in the ocean
there is wisdom in the brush of pine needles
swiftly painting across one another
in the empowering force of the evening breeze
although they try as they must for you to forget
to join their ranks as devoted ones
you remember what it is like
to walk in the ocean as a sleepy sun
bows down to an uprising of diamonds
Untitled, by me.
See you next time
I went to the range yesterday. After hitting 100 some balls, I realized that I used to be good at golf. But that wasn't until after I got my swing back. Now I just need to go hit a 100 balls before each round and I should be A-OK.
Today is going fast and it is AMAZING. It is already 3 o'clock. and it is a Wednesday! The week is already pretty much over. This is probably one of my happier posts on here in quite awhile.
And now, I present to you... The AG poetry moment:
There is a light
A spectrum of colored contents
gleaming under a recessive darkness
I strum against the constant
the world has weight to bear
feeding into this ancient notion
I take time to listen
there is a wave of tranquility in the ocean
there is wisdom in the brush of pine needles
swiftly painting across one another
in the empowering force of the evening breeze
although they try as they must for you to forget
to join their ranks as devoted ones
you remember what it is like
to walk in the ocean as a sleepy sun
bows down to an uprising of diamonds
Untitled, by me.
See you next time
Monday, July 27, 2009
Wow
This is just really funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOHriDR8F8o
I know, please don't judge me for my sense of humor. I had no idea turtles even made noises.
This lady on Jimmy Fallon has this like nasty vein sticking out of her arm... It is disturbing and looks unnatural. I dunno who she is, I think she is from some pointless cop TV show. They are all the same, like I mentioned in a previous post.
Including this week, I have 3 weeks of work left. It's only temporary, since I go back to school in August then back to working, but you never know what will happen once I'm graadduuuaaaaaaaaaaatttedddd.
Still banking on the lottery win. That would just make things a lot easier, that is for sure.
I am going to go eat a poptart and drink some water. I am really thirsty.
I played golf today and did terribly, but it was fun because I was with my 2 great friends whilst playing in this game of GALFIN.
Bye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOHriDR8F8o
I know, please don't judge me for my sense of humor. I had no idea turtles even made noises.
This lady on Jimmy Fallon has this like nasty vein sticking out of her arm... It is disturbing and looks unnatural. I dunno who she is, I think she is from some pointless cop TV show. They are all the same, like I mentioned in a previous post.
Including this week, I have 3 weeks of work left. It's only temporary, since I go back to school in August then back to working, but you never know what will happen once I'm graadduuuaaaaaaaaaaatttedddd.
Still banking on the lottery win. That would just make things a lot easier, that is for sure.
I am going to go eat a poptart and drink some water. I am really thirsty.
I played golf today and did terribly, but it was fun because I was with my 2 great friends whilst playing in this game of GALFIN.
Bye
Saturday, July 25, 2009
No comment
Ho hum ho hum
It is saturday. I don't have anything for you. Watch this instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CKjNcSUNt8&feature=player_embedded
It is saturday. I don't have anything for you. Watch this instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CKjNcSUNt8&feature=player_embedded
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
7 days...
It has been 7 days... I'M SORRY! I know you were all giddy with anticipation for my next post, just refreshing this page every 10 minutes for the past 7 days... Or so I wish.
I didn't really have anything to blog about. Work consumes like 3/4ths of my day, and no one really wants to hear about that. If I don't think it is exciting no one else will either I guarantee it.
I don't know if Internet Explorer (which is garbage) or other browsers do this, but I love how in Firefox it has a spell check built in for everything you type. So if I type in something wrong, a little red dotted line will show up under my feeble attempt, and then I can right click on the word for spelling suggestions. Awesome. Much more effective than having to hit the spell check thing that is built in to blogger.
I came home from work this evening and as I was coming back, I saw that there was about 10 emergency vehicles blocking off the road. I was very curious, as I also noticed 3 news helicopters hovering above the scene as well. After taking a detour that I knew to get home, I learned upon booting up the computer that there was a fie in an apartment building complex that lead to 40 people getting evacuated. This was at 4:15 PM, and as of 6:00 the news said they were still fighting the fire. Crazy stuff, hope all is well and people are safe.
Sometimes disaster and big events like that, you sort of forget about them, or their severity, until you see something like 10 vehicles with lights flashing or look at the TV and you know exactly where it is where they are showing something. I guess what I mean to say, is it doesn't seem so serious until it "hits home" in a way. Makes sense, I guess. You probably wouldn't care as much if a meteor crashed into some village in China. But I'm sure you would be distraught if a meteor had just crashed into your neighborhood, almost demolishing your house... It is only natural I suppose. We tend to consider ourselves first before we consider others.
I'm done posting for today. Thanks for coming back... That means me and the 1 reader I know I have.
I didn't really have anything to blog about. Work consumes like 3/4ths of my day, and no one really wants to hear about that. If I don't think it is exciting no one else will either I guarantee it.
I don't know if Internet Explorer (which is garbage) or other browsers do this, but I love how in Firefox it has a spell check built in for everything you type. So if I type in something wrong, a little red dotted line will show up under my feeble attempt, and then I can right click on the word for spelling suggestions. Awesome. Much more effective than having to hit the spell check thing that is built in to blogger.
I came home from work this evening and as I was coming back, I saw that there was about 10 emergency vehicles blocking off the road. I was very curious, as I also noticed 3 news helicopters hovering above the scene as well. After taking a detour that I knew to get home, I learned upon booting up the computer that there was a fie in an apartment building complex that lead to 40 people getting evacuated. This was at 4:15 PM, and as of 6:00 the news said they were still fighting the fire. Crazy stuff, hope all is well and people are safe.
Sometimes disaster and big events like that, you sort of forget about them, or their severity, until you see something like 10 vehicles with lights flashing or look at the TV and you know exactly where it is where they are showing something. I guess what I mean to say, is it doesn't seem so serious until it "hits home" in a way. Makes sense, I guess. You probably wouldn't care as much if a meteor crashed into some village in China. But I'm sure you would be distraught if a meteor had just crashed into your neighborhood, almost demolishing your house... It is only natural I suppose. We tend to consider ourselves first before we consider others.
I'm done posting for today. Thanks for coming back... That means me and the 1 reader I know I have.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Geez
not sure if anyone just saw that, but I tried making a post from my mobile blog i have setup, and it failed terribly. It made like 10 posts and they were all fragmented parts of the post, pretty much unreadable. It was actually a decent post too. It had to do with my possible career path of being a game designer one day in the future.
Maybe it is a sign I shouldn't do that... Could be. I've never really been superstitious or believed in signs...
That last part made me think of the movie Signs... "Do you believe in signs?"
Top 3 of my dream jobs, probably similar for most 23 year old males. These aren't in any order cause any of them would result in me waking up loving the fact that i get to do one of these things
1. Game Designer
2. Movies or/and broadway (a lot involved in the former do the ladder as well)
3. Musical touring artist
All of them require breaks. Breaks are the key word to the entertainment industry. In the games industry you need to get lucky/get a break to get into the position of a game designer. Most game designers come from working as a level designer or a programmer for long enough that you get a sense of how to run the whole process from all contributing factors. Most actors and broadway people have been good for years but get put down first until they get that lucky break when an agent or a studio exec happens to see something you did and likes it. Or, that studio exec likes your "look" and thinks it would be great for their next movie, and even though your role in said movie might be practically meaningless, you have a chance at making your way now that you've gotten "in". the musical touring artist works very similar to the movie actor, just replace studio exec with recording studio exec.
It doesn't matter how, but once you get in and play your cards right, you could shoot off to stardom. Even if you don't, and you become washed up like many have in the entertainment industry, at least you had your one hit wonder or that one movie you were in! Better then most people.
If I ever really committed to trying to get discovered and pursuing all this, all roads point to California. I was reading on video game company websites about their hiring, and they only take people that live in southern california. So I think that is is safe to say your best chance (for any of those 3 professions) is to live in the area.
We will see. First I must complete my "back up", which is getting my Information Systems degree and probably grad school after.
/end post
Maybe it is a sign I shouldn't do that... Could be. I've never really been superstitious or believed in signs...
That last part made me think of the movie Signs... "Do you believe in signs?"
Top 3 of my dream jobs, probably similar for most 23 year old males. These aren't in any order cause any of them would result in me waking up loving the fact that i get to do one of these things
1. Game Designer
2. Movies or/and broadway (a lot involved in the former do the ladder as well)
3. Musical touring artist
All of them require breaks. Breaks are the key word to the entertainment industry. In the games industry you need to get lucky/get a break to get into the position of a game designer. Most game designers come from working as a level designer or a programmer for long enough that you get a sense of how to run the whole process from all contributing factors. Most actors and broadway people have been good for years but get put down first until they get that lucky break when an agent or a studio exec happens to see something you did and likes it. Or, that studio exec likes your "look" and thinks it would be great for their next movie, and even though your role in said movie might be practically meaningless, you have a chance at making your way now that you've gotten "in". the musical touring artist works very similar to the movie actor, just replace studio exec with recording studio exec.
It doesn't matter how, but once you get in and play your cards right, you could shoot off to stardom. Even if you don't, and you become washed up like many have in the entertainment industry, at least you had your one hit wonder or that one movie you were in! Better then most people.
If I ever really committed to trying to get discovered and pursuing all this, all roads point to California. I was reading on video game company websites about their hiring, and they only take people that live in southern california. So I think that is is safe to say your best chance (for any of those 3 professions) is to live in the area.
We will see. First I must complete my "back up", which is getting my Information Systems degree and probably grad school after.
/end post
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