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I just saw The Life Aquatic with Jackie and her boyfriend, Jeremy (Who, by the way, is an awesome guy-- good job, Jackie!). It was hilarious. Whilst Jackie took a little nap, the two of us were laughing hysterically through the whole thing. Imagine the random funniness of Napoleon Dynamite with the awesome powers of Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, William Dafoe, and some random dude named Pele who sings David Bowie songs on his acoustic guitar. On my way home I called Robert, who was a huge fan of Lost in Translation (another movie with Bill Murray that is pretty random, but not as funny in my opinion). I think I woke him up, then I told him he should see it, that it is hilarious, and that was it, see ya later Rob. Best part of the movie, they get their ship taken over, everyone is all tied up and what not, then Bill Murray's like "I can't take this any more" then gnaws through the ropes on his hands, busts out his glock, and shoots about 100 rounds at all the pirates (without reloading, of course), hits one of them, and the rest of them (who carry mp5's and ak-47's) proceed to jump back on their boat and drive off, but forget to take their three-legged dog, who Murray then names Cody. Also Jeff Goldblum plays a half-gay guy.

Anyway, I should try to get to sleep now- Jen is moving to SLO tomorrow and I'm super-excited! =D According to Mapquest, I'll only live 2.41 miles away from her (although it's 2.29 to drive from her house to mine). I can't wait to see her and to help her move in and help her with things she needs, and come over to her house and hang out. It's like the night before Christmas, only it's the night after Christmas, and I can't stop smiling =D

Best Quote That I Can Remember Right Now: "You're on the A Team."
Link of the Day: The packaging at In-N-Out Burger has references to the Bible on it
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Go Christmas!

Well, here it is, the day after Christmas. Yesterday was pretty fun, except for my brother waking me up early. He snuck in on Christmas Eve while I was in the bathroom and set my clock ahead two hours. The next morning he comes in and is like "Hey, time to get up, I let you sleep in until 9:45, let's go." I think, "OK, fine, I guess if I've really been sleeping that long..." so I get up and go into my mom's room and she's like "I'm surprised you're up this early." "It's not that early, it's 9:45..." Then I look at her clock and see that it says 7:45. That little bum. So I went and crawled back into bed for a bit in protest. Eventually I got up and we started opening presents. I got lots of games and DVD's, as well as some bad ass knives and a sweet cutting board. (Is it scary that I'm excited about that?) My mom and I went to Ikea on Thursday so I could look at a desk I had seen when I was at the one in LA with Jen's family. She ended up buying it for me since apparantely Bryan's presents had been pretty expensive compared to mine this year. Sweet!

It's really weird that I'm at home and Karl isn't here. I actually thought he was going to be at his grandma's house, but it turns out that he was just stopping there for the night beforehe flew to Washington. So yeah, things are weird without him here. I went out to get some coffee with Vaughn a couple nights ago. It was really good to catch up with him and spend some time hanging out. He is going to come down for our New Years party with his girlfriend and a couple friends, but it was nice to have a little time for just the two of us to hang out. Jackie and I are going to hang out tonight sometime - I just found out when I called her on Wednesday that she has a boyfriend, so hopefully I'll get a chance to meet him. I imagine he must be a pretty cool guy. =) Heading back to SLO tomorrow to help Jen move her stuff in

Current Music: Death Cab for Cutie
Link of the Day: Apparantely there are a lot of people out there with my new desk

At leat it is on my blog.

The best thing I've ever taken away from Palomar.

Current Music: The Postal Service - This Place is a Prison
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can go to hell.

That is all

Current Music: NIN - Where is Everybody (Lohner and Telefon Mix)
Link of the Day: Why it's always good to comunicate your feelings on Ebay. - Thanks, CollegeHumor

He tried to eat the cat the other night.
...and since he is too lazy to make his own blog, I put it here.
The scary thing was is that I think he almost got the head all the way into his mouth.

By the way he was drunk.

Also, I found out what the switch in my closet does. You would think it's the closet light switch, but no, that switch is outside the closet. The one in the closet, I have found, is the Christmas light switch!!!

The story: I tried to plug in the christmas lights and they weren't working... so I was thinking where is there a switch that doesn't do anything... (Then the proverbial lightbulb went on) hey, what about that one in the closet? Booyah.

Current Music: Aphex Twin - on our BAD ASS SOUND SYSTEM WITH 3 SUBS
Link of the Day: Secret Celeb EXPOSED!!!
Quote of the Day:
"I think when most guys say lesbian, what they really mean bisexual." -CK
"No, what they really mean is drunk chicks." -Chris
Crappy Quote of the Day: At some point you must stop being able to say "I'm too young to die." ... I dunno, it's Matt's. He is mad now because Chris totally replaced his quote.
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Zim looks at the flaming wreckage of the voot runner.
Zim: Surely that was no human bee! Once I take care of the humans I will began my war against... the bees!

SO. Matt and I went to Costco today after I slept until noon. We also ate some in-n-out burgers, which were tasty. We then came home and Kevin helped me put up some Christmas lights, which turned out pretty sweet. The guy across the street from us, who has never talked to any of us before, said "Hey, I like your lights!" to Kevin when he was putting some mail in the mailbox. We rule.

While I had the ladder out, i figured I would try running a network cable down a conduit where our tv cable comes into our house. It seemed like it shouldn't be that bad, but I started pushing the network cable in and it got stuck on something. Then I heard this buzzing. I thought there was an electricity problem in the conduit or something. I pulled the wire out and a giant bee crawled out! OK, maybe not that giant, but it got you to read this paragraph.

Weird, I thought. I used a broom and pushed the larger than average bee away from the conduit. Maybe he had been trapped in there or something. I started pushing the cable in again... more buzzing... I pulled the cable back out and several more bees came out and started flying around.

It scared me so much I climbed down so fast that I'm surprised I didn't fall. Kevin had been holding the ladder and saw me climb/fall down and run into the house. He followed my lead, and once we were inside, he asked "What the hell was that" "The bees," I responded, "The bees."Maybe tomorrow I will take the ladder down and put things away out there. Curse you, bees.

Current Music: Jay-Z and Linkin Park - Dirt off your shoulder/Lying from you. Interesting stuff. Takes a little getting used to, but cool that they made 6 songs like this.

Links of the Day:

• If you have gmail, you damned well better have the gmail notifier.
• If you have an ipod, you damned well better have the winamp media library plugin.

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You'll thank me later. Or you can thank me now

...at least until finals.

So we had an assignment for CPE 317 that was due today. Make a command shell. If you don't use Linux or Unix, imagine that little black box you get when you run "cmd" from the start menu. It gives you the cool little "C:\ >" prompt, and you type in a command and it runs that command. Yeah, that's what I had to do basically.

I woke up at 10:30 today and started programming. Except for a lunch break, I pretty much worked straight until 9pm. But I did do my entire last program, down to the tinyest little bug. That tiny bug happened to be something weird that only showed up in Linux, not on the server (Solaris), if I tried to change directories to something that wasn't there, then the second command I typed after that would have some weird error. Don't ask me why, that's just what happened. So after trying to fix it for a couple hours, I decided that everything else worked, and if it didn't show up on the server, that it probably wasn't worth spending hours on for something I might not even lose points on. So I was done! Sweet.

Now I have three days until my first final. Awesome. Tomorrow I think I will hang up some Christmas lights and maybe run that network cable I keep meaning to do, since our landlord's husband came by to do some painting on the roof and (intentionally or not, I don't know) left a ladder here capable of reaching the second story.

Current Music: Carl Cox - Live@Honolulu 01/01/2000
Link of the Day: My profile! - This can also be accessed by clicking the little tiger in the upper-left.
Quote of the Day: Peacocks are basically just exotic turkeys
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Just look at my previous entries.

Looking through the titles of my blog entries, it seems like every week has been the proverbial "week from hell", so I suppose it's only fitting that this be the quarter from hell. As is to be expected from a quarter from hell, this week was another week from hell. I had a lab due monday, a hard-ass program due tuesday, a hard-ass lab due wednesday, then a homework assignment and another lab due friday, and I still have one last program due on Saturday night. Tuesday night I stayed up until 6am then woke up at 9am for school. You really can't call it a week from hell if you don't stay up almost the whole night doing a program.

This week is probably the worst of them all for four reasons.

1. Jen and I have been together for like the last month, and now she's at home.
2. It's the week after Thanksgiving break, so I've tasted the forbidden fuits of vacation.
3. It's the week before finals, so I'm scared about doing well in the classes already.
4. It's the last week of classes, so I'm ready to get the hell out of here.

However, I've been able to keep myself sane by getting some cool new stuff

1. I got the Nintendo DS. I know I said I wouldn't, but it is awesome and well worth the money and it keeps me from going crazy when I need a break.
2. I got a Blackberry for works. The thing is awesome. It has internet and email anywhere that I get cell phone service. Think about. You have Google anywhere you go.
3. I got a Roomba. It was on sale at Kohl's, and Jen's mom was telling me that she had heard good things about them. I got it to try it out and see if it really worked, expecting I'd probably be returning it the next day. Amazingly, it works. It adjusts to whether it's on carpet or hard floors, it learns the room it's in, it sees edges so it doesn't fall down the stairs. It is awesome. Go Roomba, go. Ella plays with it, she likes to chase it around, but then gets scared when it turns toward her. I'll post a picture of her riding it sometime.

While I was getting ready to leave Temecula, of course in the evening, because it was the Sunday after Thanksgiving and I didn't want to hit insane traffic. Then guess what happens? My car won't start! I had to drive Jen's Volvo home, and she took it to get fixed and will bring it back up with her when she comes to my company Christmas party. Apparantely my fuel pump was messed up or something. $350 later, it seems to run fine.

Current Music: Linkin Park - Session.... which reminds me, Linkin Park and Jay-Z did a CD together. I think I need to check that out.
Link of the Day: Target sells EVERYTHING - Wow, only $10.
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