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I’ve decided to hold off on the Wii-ing until I beat FF12.

Nick and Tara got married a week and a half ago. I had wanted to make an announcement earlier but it was one of those things that took me slightly longer to digest. It was the first wedding involving a friend from high school and with a friend whose family I had known growing up. […]

While at Best Buy, I looked into getting an FM transmitter for my iPod yesterday but decided against it because of the price. So after some online research, tell me would you rather buy this or this?

My PS2 broke last night, again, except this time I have a Best Buy replacement plan (thanks to my parents) where I thought it would be simple to get a replacement. Unfortunately I had to jump through several hoops and now I’ll have to mail the unit to the replacement center before they can issue […]

It has been close to two months since my last post and while there has been a lot going on life has been about the same. In no particular order here are some of the highlights since the last post:

Jackie and Ian got engaged.
Another birthday weekend in Indiana.
Nick’s bachelor party last weekend with the wedding […]

Sweetness is ______
a) The Yanks sweeping the Sox in 5.
b) Sitting on a couch with Summer Ale and House of Jerky jerky.
c) Driving home and hearing an awesome cover of a song that you used to hate.
d) Having a hot girl smile at you as you hold the door open for her.
e) All of the […]

Well, it looks like I won’t be going to Boston this weekend for reasons out of my control but that doesn’t mean I won’t be able to go some other time. Let’s hope the oysters and Summer Ale will wait for me.

It’s hard to imagine that I was complaining about being bored just a short time ago with how things have picked up recently. Life has gone from being just busy to hectic. I’m normally really helpful to other people at work whether it’s reviewing designs, stepping through a debugger, or helping inexperienced people load code […]

In a recent post I commented on being in a rut because there wasn’t much to look forward to but that has completely changed in the span of a week. In that span I bought tickets for Indiana for another birthday weekend, work has picked up considerably until the end of October, and lastly the […]

One of the main reasons why I wake up early Sunday mornings is to go to the corn guy at the Baltimore Farmers Market. I like to get a dozen MD sweet corn, cook up a couple the Sunday of and save the rest for the remainder of the week. This week I forgot to […]

The Wii is coming out on The Day of Henry!

It has been forever since my last update so I figure it’s time for another one while I’m watching the Yankees @ Texas. Randy has been great so far beyond the HR by Texeria so it looks like the Yanks are on their way to another win.
So since my last real update, Brian and Karen […]

In the tradition of off Friday’s, I dropped my car off this morning for an oil change and to check out the chirping noise that the Celica likes to make on occasion. Unfortunately, the noise came from somewhere in the front of the car which led me to fear that it was an expensive fix […]

I haven’t been posting consistently for the past couple of months despite all that has been happening. It’s not that I’m hiding information because I would like to update the friends who I haven’t had the chance to talk to recently via LD but my years of blogging and monitoring a former coworkers blog has […]

So I was driving to work yesterday morning when I saw a homeless guy walking on the side of 140 wearing a blue cloak (Gandalf style) with a walking stick (that resembled Gandalf’s staff) with a cross on the top. 11 hours later I was on my way to get a haircut and I see […]

I’m back from a weekend in Boston and back into the daily grind with some updates from grad school. I’ve been accepted but still no luck with funding. Still waiting on one school for funding and two more to see if I’m in. Anyway here’s an update of my trip with pictures to in […]

I think I’ll go to Boston, I think I’ll start a new life… actually enough Augustana lyrics. I’m actually going to Boston but only to take a vacation from my life. I won’t be participating in the Shamrock 5K this year but I will be drinking lots of Guinness to celebrate Gillian’s birthday and for […]

Another week of work has started and with no holidays until Memorial Day, I’m pretty much stuck in a rut/grind until the summer. Hopefully I’ll receive good news from some grad schools soon to break me out of it.

After playing a 5 player free-for-all last night, I’ve come to realize/admit that I’m completely hooked. I even went to Walmart after work today in search of the fabled Pirates of the Revolution holiday pack that a certain ninja told me about but after half an hour of hunting I was unable to secure my […]

I’ve been on a pretty crazy spending spree since Thanksgiving. it started with the Powerbook and some Christmas presents and I hope that it has ended with my latest purchase, a Dell 9150 (Pentium D 2.8 GHZ, 1 gig of RAM, ATI x600 video card + the HD’s and DVD drives from my last PC) […]

So I meant to post something right after Christmas to document holiday goodness but I’ve been lazily enjoying my time off. So instead of detailed posts about each event I’ll just have a quick update. Christmas in Jersey was great with the typical family stuff, minus the traditional movie, and hanging out with Jersey friends […]

I’ve been pretty busy with crunching stuff out for work before the break and with friends coming into town for the holidays. Last Friday I went to the work holiday party with Jelila. There was awesome crab cakes and a fondue fountain plus an open bar that I made use of. It’s always amusing to […]

The depleted cool kids lunch table, with 2 new additions, went to see King Kong last night. The movie was awesome and although it was a bit long, I felt like I was watching two movies. I’m starting to think that Peter Jackson can do no wrong but we’ll have to see how he […]

Finally busted it out, now to finish tailoring my personal statement for various grad schools.

I’ve been obsessed with WTMD since Vanessa told me about it a couple months back but it’s the best radio station I’ve ever listened to since WSOU way back before their format change. One of the greatest things about the station is that it has constantly exposed me to new artists. I’ve even started buying […]

Second snow fall of the year has come and I’m enjoying my off Friday by relaxing on the couch and watching Lost before I start running errands. Major news, and what I haven’t mentioned here before is that I’m going to grad school. Well not going going yet but I am applying and I hope […]

I went to Megan’s house warming party tonight which was pretty fun filled with catching up with people that I don’t see nearly enough and checking out their new place. The drive home completely sucked because there was a little snow and everyone in MD decided to forget how to drive and I had a […]

So I’m sitting here surfing the web and looking at some OSX software when I realized that I have regressed. I remember back when I first started using computers and how the open source community hasn’t really been established so I was dependent on shareware for the applications that I need. As I switched from […]

Another work week is over and there’s only 13 days of work left before I get a week off for Christmas break. One of the best parts of my job is that week between Christmas and New Years. January looks like it’ll be another quick month with two three day work weeks and three three […]

So I got the My Wishlist thing from Amex today for the Amazon Wish Certificate (25% off 1 item) and I can’t help but think about the $500 I would have saved if I had only waited a week to order the Powerbook.

So the biggest thing that has happened recently (sad as it may sound) was getting a Powerbook. A life long user of BSD and Dos/Windows I’ve finally succumbed to the dark side and have become one of those people. The good news about this purchase and my whole after work routine is that I’m going […]

The Owings Mills Outback sucks hard, in the year or so since they’ve been here, I’ve tried to get curbside takeout from them 3 times and all 3 times was kept on hold for over 5 minutes before I got pissed off and hung up. At least there’s always Artful Gourmet.

I was driving home from work today listening to the World Cafe and they were playing a top 5 list which prompted me to my my own.

David Gray - This Years Love
Tool - Eulogy
Dave Matthews Band - Crush
Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

I got rid of them, actually just changed permissions on the comments file but yeah no more comments until I have time to implement something more elaborate than a simple filter. Considering I only have about 20 people who post on this site overall and 5 who do it consistently, I can’t put the time/effort […]

Last year, I flew out to Indiana for me and Jackie’s birthday and inadvertently set into motion a weekend that now sits as prominently on my calendar as Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Ian picked me up from the Indianapolis airport Thursday night and we went to Upland (home of an awesome wheat ale) for some dinner. After […]

I need to finish packing and go to work tomorrow but I’ll be flying off to Indiana. I’ll be back Sunday (the official Day of Henry) but unfortunately I’ll be in the air as the Yanks play that day so let’s hope we win the east on Saturday so I’ll only miss a game where […]

I love it when Banana Republic has their crazy fall sales, I picked up 5 shirts for 18.99 each. However I foolishly stopped by the Apple Store and checked out the iBooks and PowerBooks. My life would be much easier if they had just updated the Power Books at the Paris Expo but they didn’t […]

All you can eat crabs and all you can drink beer was so good. Someone find me another one to go to.

So I’m in the middle of a awesome 4 day weekend but all I can think about is what will happen in two weeks. On September 17th, the PA guys will be in town for the Baltimore Comic Con so I’ll be hitting that up followed by the Baltimore Crab Fest down in Fells Point. […]

So I went to DC last Friday to check out some museums. It was probably one of the most relaxing activities I have ever done just going down there by myself and taking the time to check out all the exhibits that interested me while skipping all the boring stuff that I would normally be […]

Why Sam Adams? What have I done to incur the wrath of the beer gods? I stopped by Corridor today to stock up before the long winter only to find in place of my sweet grains of paradise was a stock of October Fest. I stood around in bewilderment trying to figure out what sins […]

Engineer Goggles - What happens to engineers after they work in the industry for a significant amount of time. (see beer goggles)

So I talked about going to DC last Saturday but that didn’t happen due to my extreme laziness, sleeping until 11:30, but I do plan on going this Saturday. Sunday on the other hand was really productive with me getting up way too early and heading out to the farmers market in Baltimore with Vanessa. […]

Things people that brings a smile to my face after an all around shitty day

ttyl…i promise ill devote more time to your mid-mid-life crisis

It seems as if I have been too successful in my mission to spread the gospel of Summer Ale. I stopped by the liquor store after work today to find that they only had one case of the grains of paradise in stock. I don’t know who it is but someone is going into Rite […]

So I’m listing to some music (Norah Jones, New York City album) and it got me thinking that I actually listen to Norah Jones quite a bit so I decided to see just how much by checking Audioscrobbler. Unfortunately the site was down but if I had to guess, I would say that it is […]

I went back home this past weekend for the first time in a while. I spent a good amount of time with the family and some time with Nick and Tara. The most exciting things to come out of this weekend was getting pulled over at the intersection of Fresh Ponds and Davidson Mills (managed […]

I picked up my new camera from the leasing office. Most of you might be wondering what the hell happened to the real Henry because the camera actually got to the leasing office yesterday but I actually have good excuses for not picking it up right away. I ended up staying at work later than […]

So I’ve all but stopped running recently in an attempt to let my left ankle heal but I was a dumbass and had to play football yesterday and managed to hurt my back while being tackled.
Friday the cool lunch table kids said goodbye to one of our members by playing a round of miniature golf […]

I really don’t like to get too political here since I try to keep LD away from global issues and events that do not occur in the land of Henry but sometimes I see shit and I can’t control myself. I’m ashamed to admit that I voted for Bush the first time around but I […]

The roommate has finally started living here and I need to readjust to living with another person again but it’ll definitely be nice to have the extra money. Beyond that it was actually a pretty busy weekend with me leaving the house each day. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was awesome despite my initial […]

I went to happy hour with some work people, beyond the normal cool lunch table kids, at the Full Moon out in the border between Reisterstown and Westminster. The place itself didn’t look like it would provide too much promise from the outside but it got better once I went in. They had a pretty […]

For once I want to update but really don’t have much to say. Actually that’s a lie there is a lot I want to say but this isn’t the proper venue to vent. Some days I start thinking of implementing password protected posts or just publish another blog anonymously but neither option is particually appealing. […]

Nothing like getting a group of friends together with some Summer Ale and fresh crabs. Captain Harvey’s had some difficulty in providing us with the much needed crabs so we had to seek an alternate vendor. CJ’s wasn’t as good as Captain Harveys but crabs are crabs and I’ll eat them as long as there’s […]

So today I bumped into Mandy Moore and she remembered me from our chance meeting 5 years ago… or not. Actually I was killing some time before I went to watch Fantastic Four, which was only medicore, when there was a knock on my door. I went to answer it and there was the Fedex […]

I only had three days of work this week but somehow it managed to feel like a full week with some overtime thrown in there. but it’s the weekend now and time for me to relax. I just need to wait around the loft for a little while for Fedex to drop off my package […]

I finally had my much needed weekend of R&R after a month straight of being being busy. I shouldn’t complain too much because two of those weekends were during my vacation but although I had a lot of fun during that time I didn’t have much time to relax. It’s always nice when I can […]

Goodbye my favorite Subway bread, you will be missed.

So here I am sitting nice and relaxed at home enjoying my freedom when there’s a knock on my door. I answer it to find 2 girls who are selling magazines. Being a former victim of the fundraising practice I decided to help them out by getting a magazine. I start looking the list of […]

I stopped by the liquor store to restock on Summer Ale today and there was a Sam Adams representative there promoting their beer. I skipped the Sam Adams table and went straight to the back to pick up 2 cases of the grains of paradise and went to the checkout. I was waiting in line […]

It’s hot as balls today and the Celica has leather seats which cause my ass gets pretty sweaty even if it’s just a 30 second ride from the bank to Barnes and Nobles. Actually it gets sweaty especially if it’s only a 30 second drive because I’m forced to rely on windows and sunroof until […]

I’m back and alive, now I have to get ready for work tomorrow.

All the cool kids have iPods. After spending $230 this past week I am now a cool kid too. I hate to say this but having an iPod, or any other mp3 player that has an obscene amount of storage, really does change the way one listens to music. In addition to my cell phone, […]

I tried something new today when I left work. Instead of rushing home to get gas, I actually did all the things that I knew needed to be done. I went to the liquor store to pick up some more Summer Ale, Target to get a paper shredder and some chapstick, Captain Harvey’s to pick […]

It’s now Monday night and I dread going back to work tomorrow morning. Chris, Caitlin and I went to Artful Gourmet for dinner last night for the first time since they moved. The food was good and the atmosphere in the new place is definitely an improvement but things could have been better if the […]

I know it’s only Saturday night but I need another long weekend to recover from my current one. Stayed up way too late playing WoW on Thursday night, helped Ian move out of here and into his new place on Friday followed by the Yankees game, and today I helped Ian move out more of […]

I went to get my haircut last night and as usual Deana was backed up with a 30 minute wait. I usually wait for her because I would prefer a hairdresser that takes their time to get things done right rather than rush and mess up. When she told me that she was running late, […]

Back when I was in school there was constant change in my life. There were new classes every five months, 3 major vacations, plus me relocating at least once a year. Now that I’ve been working for almost a full year I’m starting to feel the need for change. I already renewed the lease to […]

It has been one of those really stressful weeks. One of my bosses took the week off from work because his wife was about to pop out a baby and I’ve been trying to hold down the fort in his absence. Besides work the week started off really well with an unexpected phone call that […]

Just saying I gotta do it. Lots of things to say some of them significant but I can’t find the words nor the time right now.

I’ve been to weddings of family before and I’ve been to the weddings of friends but I’ve never been to a wedding of a friend who is so near and dear to me that she has become family over the years. I had the privilege of attending Laura and Zach’s marriage. It’s amazing how far […]

Another uneventful weekend but I went out to dinner on Saturday for Megan’s birthday and saw Kevin and Rachel, all people who I haven’t seen in a really long time. The place had pretty good crab cakes, not as good as Phillips, but it was still a pretty fun night.
My fantasy baseball team let me […]

I had a pretty bad day at work today so I stopped by the liquor store to pickup a case of Summer Ale on the way home. I got pulled over as I was leaving the liquor store and here I’m thinking shit… this day can’t get much worse. Luckily I only got pulled over […]

I got new earphones for work recently because the old ones stopped working and it presents me with an interesting dilemma. As with all earphones, they come with those earpieces that go above the headphones for a tighter fit. Normally I hate those things because of how they feel but for some reason I decided […]

It’s always pretty kickass when the Yankees are in town but it’s a shame to see them lose twice especially when I’m there at two of the games. At least my fantasy team has been doing pretty well despite my no Red Sox and no player on any team the Yankees are playing policy. It’s […]

I woke up yesterday morning and saw that it was April 14th and it made me think that there was some significance to the date. But since it was before my first cup of coffee my brain wasn’t fully functional yet. Instead of pondering what was so special about this day, I jumped in the […]

I fell asleep last night with my window open for the first time this year. I don’t like to do this normally because I’ll wake up shivering in the morning but the weather has been perfect for sleeping with the window open and driving with the windows down. I got to wake up this morning […]

I have two things to get off my chest about work. First is that I think I’ve been too nice the whole time I’ve been there. No one has seen the asshole side and because of that people don’t fear me. I’m not saying I’m god and all shall worship me or feel the lightning […]

I signed up for the MLB Audio package so I can listen to the Yanks game while I’m at work but there’s a huge downside to that. Bottom of the 9th, tie game and Jeter hits a leadoff homerun. Picture me screaming “YES! Fuck Boston!” as I jump out of my chair… good thing I […]

I was supposed to catch Sin City last night but at around 9 I got crazy tired so I just went to bed instead. I know I’m a dick for ditching people again but it’s so nice to get 11 hours of sleep.

I had a pretty crazy dream last night where I was out to dinner, at the Texas Roadhouse, with a bunch of my friends we were all getting ready to order. The waitress starts off by giving us all the specials and I started off my order with a Sam Adams. The waitress asked me […]

I want to post everyday, I wouldn’t even mind posting multiple times a day but between not working on the website when I’m at work and not being able to write while I’m driving, for obvious reasons, it leaves me with precious little time I can dedicate to my personal soapbox.
I’ve been pretty busy these […]

When I got moved to the “new” building at work, one of the perks was that it was on the other side of 97 so I didn’t have to deal with the light from hell. There used to be a nice series of connections between 4 parking lots that let me get to my […]

I haven’t been to a concert in forever and I feel the need to start going again. I spent sometime checking the local venues and here are a list of ones I want to go to so if anyone is interested, let me know.

Jump Little Children @ The Funk Box on April 1st
Catch 22, Spitalfield, […]

I got the case for my new computer on Monday and the beast has been up and running since late Monday night. The only problem is that Creative hasn’t released Windows x64 drivers for the live 24 bit chipset yet so I can’t get sound on that computer yet but I’ll live. Been a pretty […]

Well I had probably 75% of a post down before my computer decided to randomlly crash, apparently it can’t handle buring a dvd, ripping a dvd to my hard drive, listening to mp3’s, chatting on aim, and WoW at the same time. Now I’m going to try to reconstruct the last post…
So most of the […]

I was going to go to the Fedex office to pick up all the parts of my computer, except for the case which is being shipped by UPS, but I realized that I forgot to bring the door tag with me. Instead I stopped by the liquor store to pick up some beer and discovered […]

You would figure that a computer engineer would have a good computer but nope, I haven’t upgraded, beyond hard drives, since freshmen year. I had planned on spending my tax return on the upgrade but I decided not to go too crazy with it. Instead I got parts for a good system that can help […]

For those of you who didn’t find the previous post funny, I like to apologize right now and blame it on my 75 minute commute home from work today.

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away there was a pirate. Actually there were pirates, many, many of them. But the Republic with their intolerance of all things that go “Arg!” decided to send their Jedi after the pirate race. A long war was fought and the pirates were almost exterminated. Utilizing the Underwater […]

One of my favorite hobbies is to stalk random people through blogs. There is no rhythm or reason behind which blogs catch my eye or which ones I ignore. Out of some of the more interesting blogs I’ve noticed a trend among the art students. The majority of them like to complain about not having […]

I’ve been wanting to have another party since January but I’ve been putting it off for various reasons but I’m setting a date here and now for the 19th of March, look for Evites in about 2 weeks because I’m a lazy bastard.
EDIT: I fixed the date of the party, it’s actually on the […]

Every once in a while you get news that make you think. Thank god I have enough commen sense not to act upon any of my thoughts. It was a pretty good weekend where I went out to the Brewers Art on Friday with a couple of work friends and spent Saturday fixing my computer. […]

Everything is peachy once again and lets hope the next time I talk about computers will be about my new upgrade coming as soon as my tax refund comes through.

So I ordered a couple new fans to fix my current heating problem with a brand new contraption that I plan on making once the fans arrive. I got free 2nd day shipping so they should be here by Thursday/Friday in time for some crazy WoW goodness if I can fix the problems with […]

The fucking solder didn’t fix everything, the fan worked fine for a while before it started making the fucked up sound again. But it did work long enough for me to download and apply the new WoW patch only to have it corrupt the files again. God mother fucking damnit Blizzard. I sent you guys […]

My PC was making a werid noise when I got home from work today. At first I thought it was one of the hard drives telling me that it was about to die so I opened the case up ready to test each of the hard drives. After the first test, I noticed that the […]

The Penny Arcade Expo for 2005 has been announced and I’m really tempted to go. It’s around $240 for airline tickets, $30 for expo tickets, and another $154 for the hotel so I figure around 500 for the entire weekend if I can find someone to split the hotel bill with me. Problem is I’m […]

I was in Westminster yesterday with some time to kill so I decided to check out The Pour House. I walked in and got a cappuccino, chatted with the cute girl behind the counter, gave Andy a call and decided to explore Main Street. I walked around for 2 blocks and realized that there was […]

I’m getting my official review for work sometime soon because the lead of my main IPT lead told me that my mentor asked him if he had some time to talk about my performance this past year. I’m not really sure what to expect, this being my first real review, but I feel pretty good […]

Every once in a while I think I should purge my music collection. Delete all the mp3’s off my HD, trash all my CD’s, and reset the radio stations on my car. Go a significant amount of time without music before I start off on a clean slate, listening to a new set of music […]

I’m a glutton for pain…

I love Martin Luther King! Now before you guys start yelling at me for turning into a bleeding heart liberal I’m going to describe what Martin Luther King Day has given me this year. A 3 day weekend followed by a 3 day work week which is followed by another 3 day weekend. I’m pretty […]

Gillian and Peter are in town checking out law schools but yesterday we met up with Chris, Alex, and Andy to go to the Brewers Art. It was an awesome night due to the food, beer, and people but the highlights would have to be Chris’s reaction when our waiter went to ask the hostess […]

Well I’m a day late but I was too lazy to post yesterday due to an WoW marathon. But the New Years party was fun with a good mixture of old and new people. The week off has been great and I actually accomplished most of the goals I set out for myself to do […]

So I was in Hot Topic yesterday trying to finish up my Christmas shopping and I saw the perfect t-shirt to get someone. Only problem was they only had small and extra-small so I asked one of the Hot Topic Chicks to see if they had more sizes in the back. She came back to […]

So Gillian and I were having our usual discussion and I think I just gave my best quote ever:
Gillain: you ought to be jewish or catholic
Me: why not just tell me to get a lobotomy?

Mischa Barton from The O.C. is one of the hottest teen stars which means she’s responsible for setting fashion examples for the current generation of teeny boopers. Sadly she has failed in this task when she decided to wear snow boots and a robe in one of the episodes of the show. Today I finally […]

Today was one of those typical errand days where I set out like 20 things that I need to do but only end up doing 5 of them. But I did manage to go to Ikea to get a new bookshelf and DVD tower which was the most important thing on my list. I shifted […]

No work until the 3rd so lemme know if you want to hang out this week.

I met up with the Mexician today in New York to try to get her a job at Soup Kitchen International but the bastards were closed. We walked about 25 blocks Penn Station all the way to pay homage to the God of Soups only to be slapped with a blaring “No Soup For You!” […]

Is for World of Warcraft to work. Someone at Blizzard really needs to be slapped with the shitty code card.

Everytime I start to feel that all music sucks, I start listening to a crazy amount of NPR until music somehow redeems itself. In the middle of my NPR binge last month, they had an interview with this classical artist, Gurdijieff Tsabropolos and played some clips of his CD Chants, Hymns, and Dances. So when […]

I had this really cool story to tell until I realized that by telling the story I would be giving away someones Christmas gift so I guess the story will have to wait until after Christmas if I still remember it by then. I’ve been pretty busy with Christmas shopping and towards the end […]

Well I’m thinking about joining a rock climbing gym, no Jackie it’s not from ER, but it’s going to cost $85 a month and I can’t decide if it’s worth it. On one hand I know it’ll be good exercise and I can afford it but it’s money that I really should be saving. Knowing […]

Things I’ve Been Up To Since Thanksgiving and will continue to do until Christmas

Play World of Warcraft
Watch Dawsons Creek seasons 1-4
Watch Buffy season 7
Werk
Play World of Warcraft

Happy Turkey Day everyone, except there will be no turkey this year because my mom doesn’t want to make one due to the fact that no one really eats it. So instead I’ll be feasting on other food goodness and enjoy the comforts of not having to cook my own meals for the next couple […]

And the state of the servers are even worse today in the land of World of Warcraft. So now I don’t have much to do until I head home to Jersey at midnight. If you’re wondering why I’m waiting until midnight all you have to do is leave around 6PM and I think there’s […]

I went to the State Farm office right by work to sign up for cheaper insurance in MD. I love the fact that I can still qualify for a good student discount even though I already graduated. So now instead of over $2.3k/year I pay 1.8k/year. The State Farm girl was actually pretty cute and […]

Stupid Comcast went down sometime during the day on Friday and I didn’t get it back until today. So what did I do with my long weekend without the Internet? I basicly hung out with a bunch of people that I havne’t seen recently, cleaned the shit out of my bathroom, caught up on some […]

My off Friday’s are always spent running errands and this one was no different. Except instead of the standard trips to the grocery store, bank, etc… I went to the MVA to register and title the Celica in MD. I figured that if I got there right when they open at 8:30 I could […]

Because Ling still has the DVD and I’ve read the book 4 times in the past couple of months, I decided to bust out the High Fidelity soundtrack and one of the all time classic classics that you can’t even use as a hook up song anymore came on. I just have to say that […]

I spent close to $800 on the Celica today to get the chirping/squeaking problem fixed, replace the breaks, and to get it to pass an MD inspection. So this means I’ll be sacrificing this off Friday by going to the MVA to get it registered in MD. There goes the computer upgrade fund.

Well I tried to see The Grudge twice this weekend but it was sold out both times. I’m starting to think that Buffy doesn’t want me to see her anymore but no matter what she does, I’ll still have season 1-6. Desipte not seeing my girl in action, I was able to catch I […]

I went down to Hoosier country to visit the Mexician and the Hick for the weekend. The flight there was pretty bad because of this crazy religious couple next to me who insisted on reading various pages of the Bible to each other and commenting on how each of the passages have touched their lives. […]

I had a pretty busy weekend filled with running all the errands I’ve been avoiding. Got Jackie and Alexa their birthday gifts, some luggage for my trip this weekend, and finally went grocery shopping so I won’t have to eat microwave crap for the rest of the week. Went to Brian and Karen’s party on […]

The party rocked but I’m never going to drink again. Way too much beer pong/fuck the dealer/random beer goodness. I actually wanted to take pictures of this party but I forgot about it once people started showing up and the mayhem started. Tara rocks for cleaning the place up this morning while I was still […]

Ian moved in today so after 2 months of living by myself in the loft, the space will now be more fully utilized. As I was typing that last sentence, I just thought how funny it would be if this one ends up with a girl named Jackie who has a hot younger sister…
I’m just […]

After working 66 hours from Monday to Thursday, I finally have time to relax. So here’s a puesdo update because I dont’ have much to say beyond working so much sucks and the evites have been sent. I know I left out some people so just let me know and I’ll send you one too.

Don’t worry, I’m still alive but werk has stole my soul…

I met a group of people who I haven’t seen in a really long time at Bertuccis for dinner tonight. I had the bacon and scallop pizza which was kind of bad but it was nice hanging out with old friends. It’s weird how often I used to see some of these people all the […]

Well I’m about to start another work week. I know I said that the party was probably going to be on the 13th or 14th but I also have a project due for work the next Monday so I’m not sure what to do. I need to go in and talk to a couple people […]

I really think I need to stop approaching girls in Barnes and Nobles. Most of you know the story of B&N girl from the Reisterstown location that happened eariler this year. Since that occured I’ve stopped going there and have been driving to Towson or Elicott City to browse. So today I went to Ikea […]

Went to “The Gap” to test out some of the robots that they have at work today. It was amusing watching them tear through the piles of khakis and teeny boopers. Bah if only we went to that Gap to test the robots, the blood and carnage would have been great. Despite the lack of […]

Well ever since I went jogging wtih Pete last week, I’ve been training like crazy so I could try to keep up with him but I started getting signs today that I’ve been training too hard. Instead of just being sore, I could barely walk this morning when I woke up. After stretching out for […]

I’ve really been slacking with the updates since work has started. The problem is I’m starting to get into a rut and I’m too tired to do anything productive after work. I’ll need to find something to do to break this daily grind before I lose my mind. In the mean time here’s another quick […]

I’ve been pretty busy with stuff so here’s a list of stuff I’ve accomplished recently

Switched my license from Jersey to MD
Looked into registering my car in MD until I saw that I had to pay a 5% sales tax
Picked up my Diploma from UMBC
Jogged/jogging like crazy so I can go jogging wtih one of the […]

Laura and Zach just stopped by for a quick visit and to check out the loft. Besides the mess, they were pretty impressed which just means I need to have a party here soon. I just need to get a new TV and entertainment center first.
Also 401K is just one big confusing mess that they […]

It has been a while since I last updated so here goes. They’ve been keeping me pretty busy at work doing all sorts of neat stuff. Had my first lunch meeting yesterday which was pretty interesting. The food sucked since we went to a dinky diner down the street but it was just amusing to […]

I think the USPS is going to leap past the MVA, or DMV for the Jersey folks, as the worst government service agency to be. I moved into the new loft on Friday and have not received anything in the mail yet. Naturally this pisses me off because Netflix has already sent me two DVD’s […]

On Sunday I met Ian and Don at the old apartment and we proceeded to clean the entire apartment and move the rest of my odds and ends out of the place. Yesterday Ian checked out of the place and the guy who inspected it said there were no damages so we’ll get getting all […]

I finally setup my desk and a portion of the computer today after the Comcast guy came to setup cable and internet. Beyond that the new place is a disaster area with boxes filled with random crap everywhere. I really should be unpacking right now but I can’t work up the motivation after spending the […]

The roommates are gone, moved out on Monday, so I have the apartment to myself until Friday when I move into the loft. It’s weird to be in this apartment without them or their stuff. I’m starting to lean towards getting a roommate for the loft because it feels weird knowing that I’ll be living […]

I’m sitting here listening to the Lion King soundtrack and the sound of Ian and Jackie packing. They’re loading up the U-haul today if the bastards ever call them back and are off to Indiana tomorrow. I’ll be moving into my new place on Friday so I’ll be taking donations in terms of boxes and […]

Just saw today’s comic on Penny Arcade and the one from Monday. I’m expecting to see a comic on Teresa on Friday.

I called up the place I’ll be working today to let them know that I was still alive. Turns out that they had no idea who I was because they lost my file and I don’t have a job to start on the 28th… Either that or everything is fine and I’ll be starting work […]

I hung out with Laura today for the first time in god knows how long. We finally made the trip to Soft Stuff that has been delayed since freshmen year and we also went furniture shopping. I saw an amazing sofa at the Storehouse but it was $1,650 so I decided against it. Instead I’m […]

I’m back in Jersey for the next couple of days. The drive has really been sucking recently because of all the construction that is gonig on on the turnpike. I had a pretty productive day after getting home though, took my car to get inspected and also spent a good amout of time washing it. […]

Grades for the spring semester came out earlier this week and graduation is now official. The only grade that I was surprised with was the C that Bourner gave me in 416L. I had known about this grade since he posted it on blackboard but I kept hoping that he would find some sanity while […]

Well I’ve been extremely lazy/busy these past couple of days so I really haven’t had a chance to update. I know the theme needs work so I got rid of the theme I was working on and reverted back to the default WP one. Going home tomorrow to see Shelley a day after her […]

I finally saw Kevin again but this time it was at his house in Bethlehem. It sucks that I had a 3 hour drive back to Owings Mills ahead of me but it the party was definitely worth it. On the way back I managed to kill 17 more cicadas’s so I’m up to 31 […]

One of the best things about Jersey is the little piece of heaven known as Princeton. Four of my favorite places in the world are all within walking distance of each other. Despite my 4 years in Maryland I still feel that Halo Pub has the best root beer floats, Hoagie Haven the best pepper […]

I’m home for the next couple of days so hit up the cell.
Cicada Kill Count
Celica: 14
Me: 1

I was driving on 695 heading over to Ikea today when the Celica killed it’s first cicada. A couple minutes later another one flew into the windsheild and was taken down by the power of the Celica. After that the cicadas started avoiding the Celica and one decided to fly directly into the car to […]

Graduation is over and I’m officially done with college. Funny thing is I’ve been pretty busy these past couple of days even though there wasn’t any school work to do. The family came down to MD for graduation which was pretty nice since I haven’t seen them in a while. The actual commencement ceremony pissed […]

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I should be reading more Plutarch but I realized that I haven’t updated in a while so enjoy this condensed version of what’s been going on these past couple of days. Ian had his graduation/birthday party on Friday with the typical Hanson lab people plus Karyn and Adam. Jackie had Karyn spend the night on […]

Apparently Jenna Jameson is among the devoted fans of Lobsterdog. Hell she even thinks enough of my site to post on it to tell me that it’s nice. It brings a warm feeling to my tummy to know that my humble little website has drawn one of the biggest porn stars in the world.
I had […]

Today was the last day of classes which is just absolute greatness. Of course the last day of classes is conditional on whether of not I end up on graduate school which I probably will. But before class I went to Soft Stuff for some ice cream just because I was in the mood and […]

I’ve been obsessed with Dashboard Confessional for the past couple of days. I know they’re an RIAA band but being a part of the evil empire doesn’t mean that their music is shit. Rather I would like to praise the band for releasing one of the few RIAA albums that is worth listening to. I’ve […]

I’m working on the last part of the project for VLSI 2 and basicly it involes me doing a binary search with timing values until I can get the DFFNSR to have a setup/hold time violation of 10%. It wouldn’t be that bad if each simulation didn’t take 5 minutes each. At least I have […]

If I take it to heart that none of the professors to my real classes will fail me, I only have 1 final until I graduate….

I would like to thank Andy for posting this in the comments section. I feel so proud that such an outstanding person would consider me one of her friends. This is to you Jessie because everyone loves you.
“Posters that you made to highlight the work you engaged on CMPE’s Capstone Course are now in place […]

Ray is really starting to piss me off but I’ve been too busy with school and stuff to do anything about it beyond deleting the comment and banning the IP. I should be able to come up with a solution to the comment spam problem after graduation.
15 days, 2 projects, 1 project demo, 2 papers, […]

The student evaluations have come around again and I’m kind of sad this is the last time I’m filling them out. Although I normally skip the blue sheets unless I loath the professor, I made an exception this year and will actually write something for every professor I have this semester. Stupid things I do […]

I was criticized earlier today for my decision of working for a huge defense contractor over other job offers that could have offered me more money and better benefits. Since it wasn’t the first time that it has happened I’ll go through the logic that brought me to my decision and leave it at that. […]

Baynesville is closed on Sundays so I ended up going back to RadioShack to get the wires. At least they managed to label the new ones I got correctly.

21 days, 2 projects, a paper, and a final exam until graduation.

Congratulations Brian and Karen, stupid kids actually had me worried for a bit but Karen just wanted to mess with me for a bit. If only Buffy and I could be this happy one day…

Free cone day at Baskin-Robbins from 6-10 today.

Yay for free cone day at B&J and Summer Ale.

I went to my final Quadmania yesterday which was pretty fun but since I was the DD, I had to stay relatively sober for the majority of the day. The only things I got to drink all day was my 6-pack of Summer Ale and some shooter that Josh made. Despite the lack of drunkenness […]

Thanks to Chris for telling me that Summer Ale came out a week early this year. I picked some up at Little Abners. I’ll talk more about Quadmania later.

Laura and I were talking about her new job at Ken Cole when she asked me if I’ll need a hookup for dress clothes when I start working. I almost started telling her yeah I’m going to need a new suit when I realized the beauty of work. I can wear T-shirts and jeans, well […]

Does anyone know what bands are going to be at Tigerfest this year?

I’m supposed to be at school right now working on some 416L stuff but I left all my parts in Jessies car. So instead I’ll talk about some other random stuff. I’ve officially told the compnay that I’m going to work there starting on June 28th. I still wish there was a signing bonus or […]

I finally made up my mind.

Can’t belive I forgot to mention this last night but Utopia is badass and worth every penny.

I got a little carried away in my rant about the job situation that I forgot to mention some of the more positive things that have been going on. I finally got a chance to see In 2 the Fold in Brians finale show and hung out with him, Karen, and Sarah for a little […]

Here’s another long account of what’s been going on in the life of Henry since the last update. On Thursday I went down to another company and I was really impressed with the projects they were working on and the people in general. This really complicated the whole job situation because until I visited this […]

A lot of crazy stuff has been happening this week so I’ll just give a quick summary before I go to bed. Monday I went to see Kill Bill 2 and it’s totally badass so everyone should go see it. Tuesday I had to go do the Fedex distribution center to get my stuff from […]

Look for a real update later… maybe

Easter is one of those holidays that I will never understand. I know that it’s the rebirth of Christ and everything but how does the bunny factor into it? Also why are the stores closed for a holiday that isn’t that big of a deal. I’m just bitter because every Easter I set out to […]

I got the job, now I just have to wait until Monday for me to get the info packet they’re sending me before I decide if I’m going to take it or not.

Yesterday I got an email from HPTi notifying me that I have passed another round of selections and that I’ll either get a job offer or the boot by the end of next week. All these eliminations make me feel like I’m on the Apprentice. But at around 5ish I got another email telling me […]

We saw Teri today for the first time since shes back from Germany and she seemed really happy about the project. She had pictures and stuff from Germany but didn’t show us yet becuase we had another Fine Arts teacher that Zary has assigned Sonic World 1 to work with. I really wonder how this […]

MONEY, DRINK_DRINK_DRINK!!!!1111
In response to the VLSI DFF timing reports not being due tomorrow.

I was supposed to have exam 3 in my Ancient Greeks class today but I showed up to class only to find that there was no one there. 15 minutes later and I was still the only person sitting in the room so I just got up and left. After talking to Ian I found […]

fresh sushi (2:24:32 PM): i got an interview with banana
Laura’s going to hook me up with discounts when I have to get more dress clothes for work.

I finally saw B&N girl again today when I stopped by there to pickup a magazine. Unfortunately she was getting out of a car after kissing the guy who dropped her off. But she’s every bit as hot as I remembered.

It’s amazing how it takes me slightly over 2 hours to get to Reston Virginia which is only 65 miles away. Besides the shitty traffic that was on both the beltways, I also had to deal with the rain which slowed everyone down to about 25mph on major roads. I was pretty impressed with Reston […]

I’ve decided that I’m going to start taking my shirts to get dry cleaned. Too much of a pain in the ass to iron them every time.

Went to the mall today to pickup some new clothes and shoes but I also got a new Oakley case for my sunglasses for free! Despite the lack of some quality stores, Owings Mills mall has 2 Sunglass Huts and even though one of them said the $20 gift certificate they sent me doesnt’ apply […]

So I was watching Office Space and talking to Melissa when I realized I’m never going to have spring break again…..

My final spring break is almost over. It’s so nice to be able to sit around and enjoy life but school starts again tomorrow. As for the list I made of things I wanted to accomplish; only part of item 2 was accomplished.

So I’ve basically spent the past two days drinking too much and watching college basketball. I actually plan on starting to get some work done starting tomorrow so all the extra time I’ve gained with this week off won’t be wasted. Here’s a list of things I want to get done in no particular order.

Add […]

I’ve been meaning to do a real update for a while now but I haven’t had a chance to until now. Let’s see what happened this week, on Tuesday Jessie and I went to DuClaw and to see Dawn of the Dead. The beer was good but the movie was just your typical horror flick […]

I guess we’ll all be smelly today

Spring Break is a week away but I have a shitload of stuff to get done before it starts. 2 job interviews and a midterm tomrrow plus a project to complete for 491H before I can start celebrating spring break.

I forgot to mention that on my way home from Bowie, I made a stop at Corridor for a quick liquor run. To my surprise they had some Sam Adams Chocolate Bock left over from Valentines Day and I snatched up 2 bottles. It’s amazing how I wasted 3 weeks trying to get it at […]

I went to the National Aquarium in Baltimore for the first time since I’ve been living down here in MD. Melissa and I had a pretty good time despite the hoard of kids that invaded the place. I guess it’s to be expected when the tickets are only $5 each. The first hour or so […]

I got accepted for another interview through the career center for next week. Let’s hope that this one actually goes somewhere as opposed to all the other places that say they’ll be in touch but never get back to me. At least I’m supposed to hear some news from Northup Grumman sometime this week. I’m […]

Last nights party was definitely the best one that I�ve thrown at this apartment. Here are just some random highlights

Andy passed out on the couch
DDR with one person using 2 dance pads
Use a glass dildo, fuck me hard
Jessie finally drinking good beer
Laura grabbing her boobs all night

I called Pioneer tech support today and told them about the problems I’m having with the drive, the DVR-105. Their first response after I told them everything was to just send the drive in with a $40 money order and they’ll inspect the drive and let me know how much it would cost to fix […]

I got up way too early today to go to Villa Julie with Karen. After spending some time in Earth Science and Accounting, I realized that I had picked the wrong major and the wrong college. In the few hours that I spent there, I saw more hot girls then I have my entire career […]

So I think my Pioneer A05 died. It’s been a process in the making as it started refusing to take some Ritek media over winter break. It started taking less and less over time until yesterday when I was able to go through almost 20 DVD’s all with the dreaded “Power Calibration Error.” So now […]

Stupid extra day just means that I’m going to have to wait an extra day before graduation.

The weather has been absolutely awesome this weekend but it’s a shame that I have to stay in to do school work. I really need to start reading for my Ancient Greeks class ahead of time so that I won’t have to read several weeks worth of material in a weekend. I sent out another […]

The evites have been sent. Everyone ignore mapquest and follow the directions I typed up because mapquest will get you lost. That’s all for now cause I want to watch Identity.

There’s going to be a party here March 6th. The date shouldn’t be changed again and look for an evite like thing to come out when I’m feeling more ambitious.

Since my digital camera is out of batteries there won’t be any pictures of the job fair goodies until I get off my ass and go to the store. It was a pretty intresting weekend with Alexa here visiting Jackie. I still can’t get over how she would just sit there and do nothing. By […]

I measure success in a job fair by how full the bag they give me is when I walk out the door. Today I managed to have to carry out a few of the items in my hand because they couldn’t fit in the bag. I know people usually go to job fairs to drop […]

Today will be dubbed the official day of updates because I don’t think I’ve ever updated Lobsterdog this many times in one day. But I ordered these speakers from Newegg today. It’s going to be badass when I finally get a 5.1 system for my computer.

I woke up early this morning to get to school and work on the VLSI 2 project. But when I got here I realized that we don’t really have a way to verify them unless Chintan wants us to write the Verilog code and make schematics.
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Normally when I’m craving caffeine I would love to make my way to Starbucks to get a cappuccino with three shots of espresso in it to jolt my system. However paying $10 for just a cup of coffee isn’t really something a college student can do. Now there is a more economic way to get […]

So everyone has been posting up the results of this quiz in their away messages and I decided to give it a shot. Check the extended entry to see my results.

Dork/Geek:
Profile: You have passwords for everything, your calculator, your computer, your PDA, and anything else you can imagine. For the most part, your […]

The semester started picking up on me this week with a job fair, 2 presentations and an exam. At least the week is finally over and I’m looking forward to tomorrow despite the fact that it means I’ll be one day closer to the weekend. I hate going home to Jersey when the only reason […]

Today was a historic day in terms of the UMBC Capstone Lab course. Instead of crowding a bunch of computer engineers into a class room to learn leadership and group work, we actually had to demonstrate them on an obstacle course. Well there were two different types of obstacle courses, one that was really easy […]

Today started out a typical day with some homework and video games. I cracked into Fire Emblem last night and so far I really like it but the permanent death system for story non-essential characters is driving me crazy. After some fumbling around the apartment, I went to Giant to go sale shopping. I figured […]

Borders has a 20% discount for all college students so I decided to make a trip down to the one in Towson. First I had to chip my car out of the ice in the pouring rain. After I managed to get to the store, they didn�t have any copies left of the book I […]

I went to Jiffy Lube again today to get an oil change and again there was an obscene amount of cars there ahead of me in line. Who would have thought that 10AM on a Monday would be the time everyone wants to get an oil change. I gave up on that idea and came […]

Well I wanted to get an oil changed today but when I pulled up into Jiffy Lube they had a line of 7 cars waiting outside the garage so I decided that the oil change could wait. Instead I went to Target where I spent too much money on cleaning supplies and I noticed these […]

I went to UMBC today to sell back my political science book from last semester only to find out that the bastards won’t buy it. After being denied on getting some of my money back from the bookstore, I went to the cashiers office to pay the $100 graduation fee, aka dildo removal fee. Of […]

Well I’m sitting here sipping some cherry wheat as the Mexican walks into my room with Charlie Brown Christmas book. I’ve seen the movie a few hundred times but didn’t even know that the book existed. Today was unfortunately a full day of classes and I’ve been to all the classes I plan on taking […]

Today was the last first day of the semester left for me as an undergrad. Being the last day of this chapter of my life of course it had to be a rollercoaster day. I woke up this morning at around 5 and checked the UMBC website which said that school was cancelled. Of course […]

Lots of snow, lets hope the first week of school gets cancelled so I can extend my Diablo and Buffy winter break.

I caught a ride in the Mexician Bus today and took it all the way to Jersey. I jumped off at the stop for my house only to find that my parents had changed the locks and there was no way for me to get in. A phone call and 20 minutes in the cold […]

As I’m sitting here sipping my Jack and Coke I realized that out of the list of things I wanted to accomplish this winter break, I realized that nothing on the list has been checked off. I rule! Off I go to watch Maryland spank Duke.

Now that I’ve started to get sick of Diablo 2 again, I’ve fired up Prince of Persia for the X-Box. I was a big fan of the original on the PC and was greatly disappointed by P.O.P. 3D so I was skeptical of the latest incarnation despite the glowing reviews I’ve seen. I can’t give […]

I went out to lunch and to Columbia mall with Melissa, who I haven’t seen in a really long time, yesterday. After walking around the mall for a bit, we stumbled into the pet store and saw this awesome dog. We got to play with him for a bit and it made me realize how […]

Went to the Gin Mill last night to meet Jessie and her friends there. It’s weird to see someone you haven’t seen in almost a month after seeing them everyday for half a year. It was nice watching MD beat UNC there but I could have used a few more drinks. The only downside to […]

I finished reading New Spring this morning. For those of you who don’t know what it is, New Spring is the prequal to the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. My first impression after getting the book was that it was short. At 334 pages, it’s probably half the length of the next shortest WOT […]

I went to see Chasing Liberty today with Jackie at the new movie theater they built next to Columbia Mall. The movie theater is pretty badass; they had real seats instead of the fold-up kind. I still haven’t made up my mind as to whether or not it beats Muvico.
Chasing Liberty was mostly what […]

Bullshit
Although I do like the way the article ends. “The problem is not a lack of highly educated workers,” said Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America. “The problem is a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are […]

Well I think I lost my Frozen Throne CD somewhere in my mess of CD’s and DVD’s. I had originally thought I brought it home with me since I wanted to put a new version of Tower Defense up but it turns out I only brought the case home with me. When I got back […]

I got the 2004 Buffy calendar! It actually took some effort this year because Karen didn’t call me up and ask me if I wanted one. I ended up going to several book stores but I couldn’t find it anywhere. So instead I went to the mall and picked it up from one of those […]

Happy New Year everyone. The forum has all but died so I’m going to try to start things up with this thread. Now everyone go post some resolutions that you know you can’t keep.

Well my mom got in a car accident last night, she’s fine but the cars not, so I’ll be sticking around in Jersey for a few more days. Gonna stay home tonight just to make sure she’s alright. Beyond that I got a haircut and finally got Shelley her Christmas gift, Sex in the City […]

Let’s just start this update out with saying that sometimes I should not be allowed to touch computers. On Saturday I managed to break both my main desktop, Thor, and my laptop. So instead of studying for finals and working on the 415 project I spent most of the time fixing the two of them. […]

I started a thread on what people are bringing to the party.

I sent out the e-vites for the party the other day and there appears to be a problem with people not getting them. So if you feel that you should have got one but didn’t, it was probably lost, I don’t have your email address, or you’ve just over estimated how much I like you. […]

Well I said I was going to bitch about the snow storm the other day but I never got around to it. Instead I sat around all day Friday doing absolutely nothing and it was great. I was pissed off that we didn’t have VLSI lab because we didn’t get the I/O pad until today. […]

Stupid stupid school and VLSI. I think Brian had it right when he said there should be a 2 week extension in the semester. Anyway, 415 beckons…

Tonight is the last night of freedom before I buckle down for the semester and start 2.5 weeks of hell. I got a decent amout of work done durning the day so I’ve decided to sit back, drink some beer, and rant about nothing.
The drive back to MD wasn’t that bad for the Sunday […]

So I’ve been trying to do work the entire time I’ve been home but with the exception of a couple pages of notes and a couple lines of code, I haven’t accomplished much. There’s about 1.5 weeks of classes and 2.5 weeks before the end of finals. In that short span of time I have […]

Black Friday and I didn’t buy a thing. Although I would like to attribute this miracle to my indomitable will, alas I was just lazy. When my alarm went off at 5, I just turned it off and went back to bed. By the time I finally got up and made it out to the […]

Happy Turkey Day! In honor of the 2 days off from school, I’ve decided to start a thread on what everyone is thankful for. I went first so the rest of you bastards better post!

Stupid stupid people who are either too stupid or ignorant to realize that the EZ-Pass lane is actually intended for people who actually have a EZ-Pass. I swear every other time I drive from MD to NJ, or NJ back to MD, I run into some stupid fucker who just gets out of his car […]

I finally had some free time today and I watched the extended version of The Two Towers while studying some good old VLSI. As with Fellowship of the Ring, the extended version adds so much more to the film and fills in some holes for those who may not have read the books. I still […]

I registered for the last time as a undergrad eariler today. Good old UMBC won’t let me register for Digital Systems even though I have permission to do it so I’ll have to go and bitch about that tomorrow. Kinda weird how I’m going to be taking 15 credits, 12 of which are Comp E […]

Happy Birthday Laura and Melisssa!

Here is a picture of my ugly snowman. I know it’s not the picture we’re supposed to have but it’s close enough for a class I’m only taking pass/fail… Fuck, well looks like I don’t have a picture of the snowman on my HD anymore and I’m too lazy to get onto AFS to grab […]

Jessie has finally turned 21 and on a weekend where there isn’t that much work to be done for VLSI. So in the grand tradition of turning 21, she’s going out to get wasted. At Baja…. yeah I know… and we’ll leave it at that because I know she’ll read this. Jessie this is for […]

Part 1 of the VLSI project is now done and part 2 is about 75% finished. It’s a shame I can’t find the bug that’s in my graphics project otherwise it would be a good end of the week with a relaxing weekend.
I went to the registrar’s office today to pickup my pre-graduation review sheet […]

There’s way too much of it. With the first part of the VLSI project and the graphics project due on Friday, I won’t be getting much sleep until I get both those bitches out the way. There hasn’t been a day since project 3 for graphics came out where I haven’t wished I dropped it. […]

When the teacher gives you permission to use code off the web, you should just copy and paste it and turn it in right? Too bad I’ve been sitting here for the past 2 hours working on this stupid IEEE single percision point adder and have been unable to get it to work. At least […]

Matrix Revolutions comes out tomorrow and I�m going to the first showing at Muvico! Instead of waking up much too early and getting to school, I’ll be among some of the first people to see what most of us suspect, that Neo is gay, Trinity is a man, and Agent Smith is Neos father. I […]

She may be a spaz and the biggest attention freak in the world but the apartment is empty without her running around begging for attention. For those of you who don’t know, she had a seizure last night and once today so Jackie took her to the vet and she�s staying there overnight so they […]

Why Trick or Treating is better than sex:

You can do the whole neighborhood
Less guilt the morning after
It doesn’t matter if the kids hear you moan and groan
If you don’t like what you get, you can always go next door
Forty years from now, you’ll still enjoy candy
It’s OK if the person you’re with fantasizes that you […]

The Lockheed interview was today and I totally rocked it. But there’s nothing I can do now except wait to get a call back. Besides waiting for the phone call from Lockheed, I’m suffering through Leno waiting for Mandy Moore to come on.
I finally “finished” this stupid graphics project but I missed Pearl’s […]

Graphics is way too much work. Stupid project 3 even after I took the free late I might not be able to finish. Though it kind of is my fault because I thought the movement would be easy to implement but right now I touch the mouse and the damn camera does a werid rotation/translation/teleportation […]

If you needed anymore evidence that Butters is gay
LifeLeech (7:09:54 PM): you know what i’m thinking….
MPjunior36 (7:10:03 PM): gay sex extravaganza?

When it rains, it pours. But I have a nice umbrella in the form of beer and X-box. Nothing like a hour of Crimson Skies to take off the frustrations of dealing with stupid comp e professors. Cadence is still having problems so this is basicly a free week from 413 and 415 until Friday […]

I finally had a chance to stop by Barnes and Nobles again eariler today but I didn’t see the hot girl from 3 weeks ago. It’s a shame that she’s either not working there anymore or doesn’t work Sundays.

If you want to be cool and go see Matrix post here or just let me know. I’ll probably be getting tickets at the end of next week.

Nothing like waiting for a new version and having nothing to do at work. 7 hours and 40 minutes until I’m free from doing any productive whatsoever until Monday morning when I start studying for the next VLSI exam that’s in 1.5 weeks. Chintan is climbing higher and higher on my list of professors I […]

Some of you thought it couldn’t be done. Hell I didn’t think I could do it myself but it’s an hour away from midnight and I haven’t made fun of Jessie all day. Just one more hour to go and I can say that I’ve been nice to her for an entire day. Yes take […]

I was informed today that my resume checked out ok and I’ll have an interview with Lockheed next week. Hopefully it’ll work out for a post-graduation job. Beyond that I actually finished this weeks VLSI lab on a TUESDAY and and PLD homework is almost done. I have a midterm for 451 tomorrow but I’m […]

The Cadence server is down again for the 5th time since Saturday. So here I am sitting around in ITE 375 waiting for them to come back up so I can test the programs that are due Thursday and Friday.

It was a dark and lonely night, in the summer of 03 when I was informed that AQ would no longer be requiring my services. After being laid off from the glorious job of Quality Assurance, I needed something new to occupy my time as I searched for a new job and waited for the […]

Well I got most of the VLSI lab done today and I only have to find some error that’s in my last schematic before I’m finished. Class was great today as Chintan ranted for about 45 minutes about the stupidity of the dumber people in class and about the Comp Sci’s. Highlights of the rant […]

2 days and 2 comp e exams that I think I aced, hopefully. I think it’s time for some well deserved R&R tonight. R&R and some Michelob.

So I’m sitting here in ITE 375, I check the website and realized that when the servers crashed last night, they lost my fucking update.

combined are the deadliest killer of good pants. Or so I’ve been told by someone dear to me. Well either beer and pride or the Galaxies servers being down. I finished up the VLSI lab today and decided to relax some by playing Galaxies during the Yanks game but the server decided to be down […]

We all know what’s going on in Pdmnaba’s, purposely spelled wrong so the search engines won’t link this site to his name, head as he thinks about Verilog and programmable logic devices. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about but would like to know click here and look at page 4. […]

I took this picture last week and wanted to post it but I kinda forgot until Gavin asked me just how many campus packs I got…

I realize that it’s a shitty picture but I didn’t look at it until after I put the stuff away.

Today’s title is in honor of SNL starting up again yesterday with Jack Black as the host. John Mayer wasn’t really that good as the musical guest but Jack Black was Jack Black which meant that the episode kicked ass. Friday was probably the last Henry and Jackie joint birthday celebration dinner which was followed […]

It’s Day of Henry, the only official one that comes but once a year. But this one is all the more special; after all you only get to turn 21 once in a lifetime. Well actually X times for me, X = Age at death - 21, because I realized that last year was the […]

1 day until my non-existant birthday. I just finished the VLSI lab so all I have left to do in this week of hell is to do the writeup for the lab and to finish up the graphics project . Sleep does seem like a remote possibility on Thursday night.

Too busy with skoo werk to do anything else… Watch out folks shes now legal to drink but not to live in the country. Gotta love the paradox of life.

For those of you who haven’t been checking the forums, you should because thanks to NinjaPanda there are actually people posting in it daily. Besides that I’m thinking about adding a FAQ to the site but that won’t be done today. And because Karen requested it, all of the links that take you away from […]

Today was another typical Tuesday with 415 and the stupid kids who like to ask dumb questions. The question of the day had to have been what is a decoder? Instead of drawing the circuit and explaining how one works like Padmanaban, I like Samsons response better, go back to 312. It’s one thing to […]

I’m sitting around waiting for the next hurricane to come and we’ve got quite a few letters to go before we reach Roberta. I’ve “heard” she’s one crazy bitch who can tear some shit up. But I got my first grade of the semester back today and it was a 100, too bad it was […]

The four day weekend is coming to a end. I’ll miss Isabel and her contribution to my video game time. But I actually spent the majority of today working on the graphics project. It was painful at first getting used to writing C++ and the new g++ compiler that they installed on GL but after […]

The four-day weekend was interrupted for some gaming action at good old AQ. Of course I didn’t remember to pickup my paycheck until after I left so I think that makes 3 paychecks that I haven’t picked up. Of course I’m only working 6 hours a week so the money won’t be that great but […]

So Isabel has moved on but shes not gone from out hearts. After all we have to thank her for this awesome 4-day weekend where can all sit around, drink beer, and play video games. I’ve started playing Dynasty Warriors 4 yesterday and continued playing it for about 2 hours. This makes it the third […]

So there’s a rumor going around that Isabael is a pretty tough chick, so tough that classes have been cancelled tomorrow for the chance that she might strike. Well for no classes tomorrow I’m willing to let Isabael run wild for a bit and destroy the ITE building but nothing much beyond that. Lets all […]

VLSI has officially taken over my life. For the past two days I’ve been getting on campus crazy early so that I can spend time in the lab designing layouts and making the layouts smaller. The one thing I never thought would be required for a cmpe is now something I can’t do without, the […]

So I’m sitting down at my computer about to do the reading for Public Admin when I pop open a Magic Hat #9 and get the message:
“Tonight can be Thrilling if you’re Willing”
Yeah right, me and the 4 websites I’m supposed to read.

Well today was the typical Saturday where I spent a good 6 hours at AQ. Went to check out Jason’s place at the Colony in Towson, where all the Villa Julie people live. Nice place for on campus housing except for the lack of singles. After that I spent a couple hours working on VLSI […]

I completely finished the first VLSI lab and I’m pretty sure I won’t touch the graphics project anymore so I’m done with all the work that’s due until next week. It sucks that submit hasn’t been implemented yet so I can’t really turn in my graphics project but I’ll send an email to Rheingans to […]

After being cured of it for the most of summer, my insomnia has somehow caught up to me. Of course it had to happen on the same day I was finally able to readjust myself for school mode. I think there’s a connection between the two. I always knew school was bad for me and […]

So I was sitting in 451 watching some quality Naruto when I realized that I haven’t updated this site in a while. So in order for me to justify spending $4/month…
I take back all the bitching I ever did about parking while I lived on campus. It took me 75 minutes to leave the apartment […]

Anime Otaku has once again decided to start releasing episodes of Prince of Tennis. Good times ahead for those who appreciate good anime. Speaking of anime, I found something to do while I’m sitting there bored in Automata Theory, watch Naruto while Yesha spends 75 minutes defining 5 symbols. And here I thought Squire oversimplified […]

We’ve named the cat after the mythical creature Puma. For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about just watch the second episode of Red vs Blue.

Labor Day weekend has come and gone. So now that summer is officially over I have to get back into school mode for the second to last time. Today was the first real day of school where the professors did more then just pass out a syllabus. The still unnamed kitty seems to be enjoying […]

Yay for Labor Day weekend and getting paid DOUBLE to play video games. Besides that, Jackie and Ian went out and got us a cat. So here’s a pic of the one that didn’t get away. As you can see, we’re having trouble coming up with a name so I’ll give a cookie to the […]

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it long after I graduate, school sucks. At least I only have a year left. We finally found out who STAFF was for Programmable Logic Devices. The professor doesn’t seem that bad except for the fact that he wants us to get a textbook that seems to […]

As of the last post Firebird was working again but I still have no idea why it decided to stop working.

Yesterday was the first day of classes and it sucked big time. We got out of Computer Graphics a little bit early and Chintin didn’t even bother showing up to VLSI but fucking Yesha decided to hold us for the entire class. At least there’s wireless in the ITE building, or there seems to be […]

First off, Squaresoft needs to release a patch for FF7 to run on Win XP cause I’m sick of having my computer crash in the middle of the game. Besides that tomorrow is the first day of classes… yup one year left until I graduate. Of course I’m only going to be taking a year […]

1) Whittle a stick for the flogging

I with grocery shopping at the asian mart with mom today and if you think kids are bad at the toy store, wait till you see them at the asian mart. Randomlly running around screaming and grabbing candy for their mom to buy them. I swear this one little girls neck was the perfect size […]

Too damn tired to go out so I’m just gonna stay in and catch up on my sleep before I start losing it again. I’ll be in Jersey till Tuesday then back to MD to get ready for classes and stuff. Gotta love being the love troll again.

Anyone want to go to Clydz tonight?

So we didn’t get Sebastian because the pet shelter is gay and think that somehow because the other applicants had a kid, they would make a better home for him. Tomorrow will be the last weekday that I’ll spend at AQ but I’ll still be spending 6 hours there every Saturday. I’ll be back in […]

So I’m sitting here bored out of my mind. It’s a shame I can’t be home playign Galaxies and watching Buffy. I’m almost done watching the second season, only the last 2 episodes are left. They’re probably some of my favorite ones with Angel on the darkside then turning good again at the last second […]

So we might be getting a kitten. Jackie and I went to the animal shelter yesterday and picked one out but we won’t know for sure until Wednesday. Something about a background check and them wanting to make sure that I don’t like to have sex with sheep or dead cows or the fact that […]

So I’ve recently discovered that since the big patch in Galaxies, droids are now perma death. For those of you who don’t know what that means, instead of respawning droids now die for good when they get killed. So now I’m going to have to get droids like I get hookers; either two at a […]

Yesterday was just one of those crazy days. First I get in to work and it’s just one of those days that seemed like it would never end. Every second was a struggle to keep my eyes open. But a few hours later the power goes out and I get sent home. Can’t exactly play […]

One of these days I’ll take the time to think of real titles for my updates and real categories to put them in but in the mean time “The OC” and “Random” is the best I can do. Speaking of The OC, the show’s starting to grow on me. There are plenty of things wrong […]

Today has been one of those days that start off with so much potential but then just slowly turned into one of those unproductive days filled with nothingness. I wanted to get some groceries and go to Staples to get a bag for my laptop but decided that I might as well wait until tomorrow […]

If I could only do this with some of the games I’ve tested/am testing.

Ok I promise that this is the last time I’ll have Establish Dominance as the title, at least until the movie comes out. I saw the trailer for it when I went to see American Wedding last night with the old couple. Not as good as the first two but still worth watching.
I get […]

Just got back from dinner at Megan and Maria’s. We got a chance to catch The O.C. and all I gotta say is gay love. I said the kids were gay right when the show started but it was confirmed when they showed the preview for next week, 2 guys running away together with one […]

Yup, that’s the name of an actual liquor store. In fact it’s right next to crackpot resturant. It’s amazing what sort of things you see when you go to northern Maryland to visit your friends. Well friend since it was officially established that I didn’t drive all the way up to Essex to see Brian […]

First day back at AQ, waking up at the buttcrack of dawn… I’m exhausted.

The APC concert was badass. Pygmy Love Circus were pretty good. A bit too heavy for my taste but if I had heard them back in high school, I probably would have went and picked up their cd.
APC came on the stage a little after 11:30. They had a nice mix of old stuff along […]

Besides being Alexa’s birthday, today’s also APC day so yeah good stuff. I finally found a real job again or should I say a real job found me. I got a call last night and it looks like I’ll be working at AQ for the rest of summer.

The old couple went to visit Alexa for her birthday so I had to fend for myself. I managed to cook dinner without burning down the building but i managed to dump half a bowl of pasta on the carpet. An emergancy trip to Giant and a layer of skin later, I’m proud to say […]

I went to Shadowlands last night to play some kickass laser tag. Of course I’m sore as hell from running around for two hours and then sitting still right afterwards for an hour and a half. Jackie and Ian had a nice laugh as I fell to the ground when I tried to walk right […]

APC at the 930 Club in 3 days. Everyone reading this msg Orange Intergral and tell him to stop being a pussy.

The party had a pretty good turnout despite the fact that no one from Jersey made it. I’m pretty sure Laura and Andrew took some pics so I’ll be putting them up as soon as I get them.

I’ve started applying to places for summer jobs again, well one place doesn’t really count as places but Big Huge is looking for testers so I had the need to give them my resume. It’ll be pretty badass to be playing games for money again. The party is tomorrow but I still don’t have a […]

I just finished the last one =(

Imagine walking into a liquor store and finding out that they don’t stock Sam Adams of any variety, Michelob, Magic Hat, Guinness, or Yuenging. Yeah guess what I did.

I’ve been playing Galaxies pretty much non-stop for the past couple of days. Quality game despite all the bugs. I got up to Bio-Engineer but found out that the class sucks since I can make creatures but I can’t control them. Not to mention Creature Handlers can tame creatures much stronger then the Bio-Engineered ones. […]

The old couple have gone off to the city so I’ll have the apartment to myself for the next couple of days =). I finally watched Spirited Away after having it sit on my hard-drive for close to a year. I have to say that I’m dissapointed. After all the hype and reviews, it’s only […]

I stopped at Best Buy today and got The Thomas Crown Affair, Grease, and Hercules on the 3 for 30 deal. I also got new head phones for jogging cause I’m sick of the ones that came with the MP3 player. Damn ear pieces of the things kept falling out of place while the back […]

I went to the bookstore today expecting to be able to lookup the ISBN numbers for the textbooks I’ll need next semester but the bastards didn’t have any of them on the shelves yet. Besides that I had a really productive day including waking up early to jog and doing some grocery shopping at Sams. […]

Gillian came down to MD this weekend and I got to show her around Fells Point and Inner Harbor. Finally had a chance to check out Sound Garden and all I gotta say is that it doesn’t even compare to Princeton Record Exchange.

It’s here!

So I went to BestBuy this morning to pickup a copy of Frozen Throne and behind me was a kid with his mom. The kid is clutching onto the game like his life depended on it and said “I can’t believe I’m actually holding the box.” I swear if my kid ever says that when […]

I finally bought an mp3 player today, hopefully it’ll get here soon so I won’t have to jog without music for much longer. I figure spending $72 on something should motivate me to jog more so I won’t stop after a couple of weeks like I usually do. Frozen Throne officially comes out on Tuesday, […]

I finally finished the Tigger puzzle today. Damn photomosaic puzzle, took me forever. Beyond that I was supposed to see Laura and Peggy today but that fell through somehow so I’m starting to think I’m never going to see Laura this summer. I’ve also decided to hold off on my computer upgrade for now due […]

Well I’m back in Jersey probably until tomorrow because the grandparents are here from Taiwan. It’s been 2 days since I’ve had contact with them and no symptons of SARS yet. Things are pretty uneventful as usual though I’m planning on making a new computer to replace Thor. I’ll be gutting the hard-drives, one of […]

Well it’s about time I update my website again. I’m not paying a monthly fee to host LobsterDog to let it sit around and accumulate dust. Nothing really important going on here. The typical cycle of search for a job, find a job, get the job but its too far away, rinse and repeat. I’ve […]

For those of you I’ve forgotten to tell, there’s going to be a house warming party here July 26th, the last Saturday of July. I’ll be sending out emails with more information about it soon. Those of you from Jersey or the people who just want to get really drunk are welcome to spend the […]

I just finished watching the second season of Buffy. Such a kickass show. I even cried like a little girl when Buffy was forced to kill Angel to close the portal to Hell. Bah I’m gonna miss seeing new episodes of that show but at least I still have season 3 and 4 to go.

Well for the second time this summer, Laura and I made plans to hang out and they ended up not happening agian. So here I am sitting on my ass for yet another day. I went to Best Buy yesterday and got Buffy seasons 2-4 so at least I’ll have that much to do.
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God I need to find a job or a new hobby. Been sitting here for about 2 weeks with almost nothing to do. At least I’ve been teaching myself various things and I’m currently messing around with phpBB. I wrote a neat little python script last night that would take the content from my old […]