After Liz’s weeks of packing and my several days of concentrated packing, we were able to get our moving truck all loaded up with the help of 8 or 10 friends. Helping people move is something I’ve done a lot, but you never realize what a big deal it is until people help you.
This afternoon, some of the people from yesterday, and a few other friends, met us at Clancy’s for some bowling. On Sundays you can get a lane for $8/hr. That’s a pretty good deal compared to normal charges per person per game.
Tomorrow we’ll be heading out of town on our way to New Hampshire, so if you don’t hear from us for a few days, that’s probably why. The cable company is scheduled to setup our internet on Wednesday so we should be able to check out email then.
It’s coming, it’s coming!
First however, I must bring your attention to a new Wii game, or should I see wee-ing game. Jeremy assures me this is just an April fools joke, but I wouldn’t put it past our friends in Japan to create something like this.
Now, back to the good stuff. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 premieres tonight at 10pm EST. If you’d like to catch up and you have been watching the marathons on Sci-Fi from 8am to 6pm every day this week along with the season 3 episodes from 1am-3am……you can catch the last two episodes of season 3 at 8pm EST tonight, before the new episode.
I know there has been some grumbling about the past season sucking. I have to totally disagree. It seems like I heard at least one person say every show was going downhill with the writers strike. I’m a big fan of BSG and thoroughly enjoyed every episode. Robby’s coming over tonight to take in all the Battlestar goodness. It’s too bad this will already be the last season, but at least they’re sticking to a plan. The whole point is to find the planet Earth, which was also the original plot in the original series*. They’re going to find Earth by the end of the season so there’s really no point in keeping on once the originally stated goal has been reached and I applaud them for it.
* Yes, this show is a re-make if you weren’t aware. There have even been some guest appearances by actors from the original show.
I just found out that Aaron from The Voiz has a new son! Congratulations to Aaron, Tanya and the whole family!
If you didn’t know there’s a new version of Guitar Hero coming out totally based on one band and that band is Aerosmith. It’s based on the GH3 game and chronicles the life of the band from start to finish. I haven’t seen a song list yet, but I’m assuming they’re all Aerosmith songs. I’d really like to see a Metallica version, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon with the He-Man-Internet-Haters. Here’s an article from USA Today.
Smitty has had an idea for a while to start up a blog to try and pool our collective knowledge about blogging. It’s finally happened. Smitty, Tara, Liz and myself are all contributors to BloggingAmigos.net. We’re going to be mainly talking about self-hosted Wordpress sites to begin with. The plan is to eventually start talking about other blogging tools as well.
Never heard of it? I hadn’t either until Kat started telling me about it the other day. In the past decade I’ve been becoming more increasingly aware of social issues and the environment. Both are things that are important to me.
I would hope that most of you know our source of oil isn’t unending. I would hope most of you also know that a lot of emissions we put into the air are bad for a lot of things. Just look at the rate of lung disease and asthma in large cities like LA.
Some people have been converting their vehicles to run on biodiesel. This is diesel fuel created from plants. Brazil kicked OPEC out a while back and is running everything on ethanol made from soybeans. This sounds good, but to really work in the long run, biodiesel needs to be made from a crop that’s not already a viable source of food or being used for some other purpose. In the US corn and soybeans have been used for this, but we already need corn and soybeans for so many other things. Where else would high fructose corn syrup come from?
This is where Kat comes in. She went to a seminar where a guy was talking about growing algae in abandoned mines to use for biodiesel. One acre of corn or soybeans produces 100 gallons of biodiesel. One acre of this algae can produce 3,500 gallons of biodiesel. It’s not like we’re needing algae for to feed our livestock or anything. Growing it underground also helps utilize abandoned spaces that aren’t being used for anything, probably already have power running to them, and can be regulated for light, water and temperature quite easily. I hope this kind of technology takes off. If you’re interested in reading some about it, here’s an article. You can also just google ‘algae biodiesel’ and see what you find.
I’ve always thought their ad campaigns were ridiculous and apparently some people that really care thought so too. I find it hilarious and am also impressed that some people still care about decency.
Looks like the Echo, student-run newspaper at Taylor University, will be doing a story on our podcast first issue of second semester. They’ll be covering our anniversary episode in January.
I used to live in an apartment building called Briarwood. I loved living there and had a very good relationship with the owners. Fast forward a couple years to when the owners have decided to semi-retire, sell the building and spend more time with their kids…
I couldn’t really stand the new owners or their building manager. As you probably already know, I had many problems and issues. I tried to take care of them in a respectful and professional manner, but things didn’t really work out. Then, due to some negligence in snow removal my apartment flooded. They knew it could happen, but were just crossing their fingers that it wouldn’t. I say this because that’s what the building manager told me. The flooding resulted in our apartment molding over and after being home for about an hour the next day I ended up in the ER and missing a month of work.
I was pretty pissed off about this. That happened at the end of February and it’s now almost September. I’m not back to 100% yet. After even more drama, we finally moved out of there. The owner said we shouldn’t be able to get out of the lease and the lease didn’t apply to me because I had “pre-exising medical conditions.” You may also remember my asthma doctor declaring that “bullshit“. We talked to the county and the health department and this information is what I think “scared” the owner into somewhat compromising with us. I kept saying I was going to type up a big rant and try and discourage everybody from living there and doing business with these people. Sort of like what I did when that tux shop screwed me over. I decided against it and don’t really regret it.
Fast-forward to today when I found out Briarwood has been recently sold. I wasn’t really surprised and I found it kinda funny. Yes, I’m taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune. Am I a bad person? Maybe…but I’m ok with it. I had to immediately text Liz and inform her of this new information that had come to light. Supposedly the new owners, I have no idea who they are, are taking a personal interest in their investment like the owners I had when originally. It’s amazing how people can buy a thriving business, run it into the ground and ruin its reputation so quickly.
If you’re a psuedo-geek like me, I’m sure you’ll be interested in these interviews. The first link is Steve Jobs and Bill Gates conversing and the second is just an interview with Jobs. These can both be found at engadget.com. It’s a pretty cool site. Check it out if you’ve never been there.
Here’s a link to the All Things Digital website.
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