mojo's blog...stardate 23.9, rounded off to the nearest decimal point...

12:50pm: court won't reduce student's music download fine
http://news.yahoo.com/court-wont-reduce-students-music-download-fine-144922490.html


he was fined $675k for downloading 30 songs and redistributing them online.

the RIAA wouldn't have been so pissed if he had clicked "like" on their facebook page

4:24pm: what do they call
a "new iPad" if it's refurbished?

3:00pm: time cover features mom breastfeeding 3 yr old
http://onlineathens.com/national-news/2012-05-10/time-cover-shows-mom-breastfeeding-3-year-old

did anyone bother to check if he was on the no-fly list?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/18-month-old-baby-pulled-flight-parents-interviewed-175521187.html

3:54pm: seamen
i'm pretty sure they evolved from sea monkeys

10:29am: i'm pretty sure
that most of the sweet 'n' low packets on tables at restaurants are the same ones that have been on the tables for, like, the last 30 yrs

i don't think people use those except in an emergency - like they run out of splenda and nutrasweet or something

8:45am: heard on the news yesterday about the tornados in the midwest
they said that they came early this year, because usually they don't come until march.

uh - this is a leap year. march usually would have come yesterday :|

8:14pm: davy jones died today
now i'm a bereaver :(

http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/29/davy-jones-dead-monkees/

4:12pm: you have no idea
how much time i spend planning to be spontaneous

3:21pm: "sort by price: high to low"
who the hell does that? "gee, i'd like to buy an espresso maker. krups makes a good one, but i think i'll just go with the most expensive one." i mean, i can appreciate that the better ones very well *could* be listed at the higher prices, but what if that model is on sale? what if stuff just cost too much? what if you want the best one and not necessarily one that's encrusted in gold?

i probably wouldn't even care so much but for the fact that it's the default search a lot of times. talk about railroading you into something. or it's the first thing you can pick in the drop-down.

i dunno - maybe there are huge tax breaks involved in buying the most expensive stuff. but i would think if that's the case i would have heard about it by now

9:39am: happy groundhog day
i have a dental appt today. what a day to have to live over and over :(

11:31am: it used to be that i could just type into google
and then do a regular search, followed by an image search and then maybe a news search. now when i do the same search and hit the "news" link i have to type it in again. so the image thing still works, but going to news does not.

not the worst thing that's happened to me, but it's curious that they'd want me to have to type it in again. if the original search phrase was complicated then i'd have to reproduce it :/

11:25am: *yawn* happy new year
hola amigos - it's been a while since i rapped at ya...

what a rough start to the new year. dec came and went, and was a series of tragedies. if i have to do that again i may as well just go work for foxconn and breath toxic fumes until my untimely death. maybe make off with some iphone prototypes and act all 007 for a while. eat chinese food. use chop sticks

so yeah, i went to san diego to start the year. thru yet another tragedy, i ended up going without my best girl. it was good to see my family, but it was sad to be without her. talk about "bittersweet." warm weather, no honey. to top it off, i spent much of my time fixing my phone that took a bad flash ROM upgrade.

speaking of which, for anyone that's wondering why clockworkmod ROM manager isn't booting into recovery, the answer is to use an older recovery. nobody tells you this anywhere, but that's it. i found this under "all clockworkmod recoveries." i used version 2.5.0.1 and it worked. all that pain and suffering - i could have fixed my bad flash immediately if i knew this up front. but no, i had to wait until a week after i got back to restore my data. "welcome to 2 weeks ago"

3:09pm: mac the knife
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-07/tech/macbook.air.knife_1_macbook-air-laptop-carrot-juice

11:57am: i just bought an ipad 2 for $20 on bidcactus!
(and it only took me $900 to do it)

8:13pm: is a skin for an iphone 4
an iphone foreskin?

11:00am: german flag, made in china
that's what i need - show your nation's pride. all the pride you can have for $2, shipped

http://www.brilliantstore.com/other-party-supplies-os-yj1020.html

It is a perfect flag for displaying your patriotism and honoring the sacrifices made for your nation.

yeah, we don't talk about that anymore

1:48am: ol' blamer gets in cheap shot about republicans
he promised to veto any attempt by republicans to cut medicare for the elderly without raising taxes as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/tax-rich-obama-says-class-warfare-says-gop-213322999.html

however, this isn't something that the republicans have proposed. but he likes to paint them as ogres

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/03/dcccs-deceptive-drive/

just another wtf moment if you ask me

his constituents seem to be looking for a scapegoat, and hating the rich and blaming the republicans for not caring seem to be working for him momentarily. but when it's based on fallacy, how far can it get? if people pay attention, then not far

8:51pm: casey's cupcake
http://www.caseyscupcake.com

that sounds like a killer cupcake

5:20pm: anonymous threatens to "destroy" facebook in december
www.tomsguide.com/us/Anonymous-Privacy-Destroy-Facebook-Hactivist,news-12126.html

mojo likes this 

11:37am: where does google think i am?
 so yeah, i was shopping for something online and wanted to see where it was locally. google had me placed thru my corporate firewall in basically the wrong place, so i corrrected my zip code.

i looked at the map for "nearby stores" and it just looked wrong. i zoomed in and this is what i saw



this puts me in about the same place that amelia earhart disappeared. i know i seem lost at times. i guess this is a confirmation

9:49am: saw something on amazon today
i saw something on amazon today

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0035WTV1E/






i wonder if that comes in hetero?

10:39am: happy birthday to me
it's snowing this morning. it's my bday. i dislike snow immensely, so of course it would be snowing today. i haven't seen such a thing since i was a kid and lived in michigan.

not that this gets me down. when you have an april first bday you kinda learn a sense of humor. it's that or live in tears. it was always "you were born on april fools' day? you're a fool!" but in a more childish way that's meant to strike you straight into your 5 year old heart and run crying.

of course it's not as bad as, say being born with a third eye or having two dads or something. but it's one of those things nonetheless that you have to live with until you're older. older as in a "big kid." since then it's been more like "oh, you were born on april fools' day? THAT explains a lot." chuckle, snort. and between people just not believing it and people saying the same jokes that i've heard for the last 200 years it can be awkward. but hey, you gotta be born sometime.

so tonight i'll be seeing my christina, and that's always good. until then i'm entertaining myself with wondering what my "mystery order" is from one of those deal sites and things like that. like, should i order that "bag o' crap" from woot? because i was never able to get one. but since they made it so that you can get one, guaranteed rather than it being a crap shoot (no pun intended) kinda makes it different. see, usually during a woot-off they make it so that everyone has to vie for the BOC all at once and the servers slow to a crawl, so good luck getting one. if i can just saunter in and get one, then what fun is that?

another thing about april fools' day is that you get tricked by stuff. like this wonderful item. geez, and i really wanted that. ha, i put it in my shopping cart and "april fool!" it doesn't exist. and angry birds really crack me up every time i see them, so it was that much more trickery. tricky tricksters. so can i get it later? or do i have to resort to buying conventional pork rinds and then adding dye myself? would they taste the same? if i invest that much time into this, would i still think of the angry birds when i'm eating them or would i require the packaging as well? maybe i should check urban outfitters - i've seen angry birds stuff there before.

i already got my traditional amazon gift card from my dad. got it yesterday. still haven't gotten anything in the mail yet, but to be fair i didn't get any mail at all yet today. i did get a bazillion automated emails tho, from denny's and other places that have my intimate details on file somewhere. and i got a few verbals as well. again - "happy birthday. is it really your birthday?" every year we have the same interaction. it's like the movie groundhog day, but a year apart. "NED RYERSON!?"

i ran a bunch of errands during the week to be sure i wouldn't have to do them today. mailed my ebay goods. signed stuff at the credit union. went to the gym because while most people are worried about swim suit season i'm more worried about fitting into my birthday suit. that last one didn't exactly work out.

well, happy birthday to me! have a piece of cake :)

9:08am: "it was only a dream"
i logged into pandora today and i had REM's losing my religion in my head. so i thought that was odd, but nothing really earth-shattering as the REM station is the startup station on my pandora for some reason. so it was just a matter of time.

but then today i came to livejournal and before i logged in i saw this:




i see a pattern here.

plus i been having some weird dreams lately. the ones i wrote about before, and some others. maybe my life is stifling or something and things are coming out in my dreams. maybe i'm afraid of zombies. or i might want to make friends with them. or maybe i think i'm in the matrix and i'm trying to get to the real world. did i take the blue pill?

oh well. i guess that's me in the corner.

7:55pm: zombies
i <3 zombie movies. and i heart zombie video games, too. lately i been having zombie dreams. i'm not sure what's up with this or what it all means. maybe someone can tell me. i haven't had one in weeks because i have other dreams in their place that don't make a lot of sense, but i still think about them.

the first one was a few months back. it was short and sweet, and rather to the point. it started off like just about any other day that you're running for your life and have to pick up provisions from the store. now, i would think that most necessities you need at the store are at stores that you can get just at a supermarket or other store that's accessible from the street. but in this case for some reason i was driving in a parking garage, so i guess that means "the mall." i didn't even know it was a zombie dream at first, but all of a sudden i pulled up to an elevator and when it opened christina jumped out of the car and ran for the door. i told her i'd cover her. meanwhile, normal people were all in the elevator looking frantically around.

i wouldn't send christina off to a certain death, so it must have been safe inside the mall. that was actually the feeling i had in letting her out there. but if it was safe inside, then why the heck did i stay outside? i must have been wearing "zombie-off" or something.

but yeah, end of dream. like i said, short and sweet.

the next one i had was a couple weeks later. this one was longer in duration, but not really so much in content. i was taking christina to a dr appt in LA. we must have been living in san diego at the time, because it felt like there was some sort of commute. curiously tho we took both of our cars. i realized this part as we were making a u-turn and she looked at me as she rounded the corner as if to indicate that we were at our destination. another parking garage.

so we got out of our cars, and it was safe in the garage. the zombies must have been very loud because i wasn't worried about them at that time, altho this wasn't a security garage or anything. we walked to the stairwell and her dr was there waiting for us. he looked down at us and motioned for us to come up.

we went up to his office and she went in with him. i left the immediate area in order to give her some privacy with her dr. in the office building itself it was important to keep an eye out for zombies. i went into the bathroom all strategic-like and was only busy doing my thing for what seemed to be a minute when christina appeared. she was done. i must have been on zombie time or something, because apparently it took me a lot longer than i expected as this wasn't a short visit. good thing it was her, because she didn't knock. but i guess zombies do knock, because they can't use doorknobs. and then they try to tear the door down. either way, mission accomplished because we survived. and again this was something i felt relieved about. end of dream.

altho i didn't see a zombie in either of these dreams, just knew that there were mother effing zombies in my mother effing dreams. impending doom, danger, etc. heart racing, adrenaline, etc, etc. but i must not have minded because i still awoke refreshed.

i wonder what it all means tho. somehow i doubt that dream interpretation books have entries regarding zombies.

12:57pm: has it been that long?
well, of course it has. and so much has happened since then.

i actually remember that the last post was supposed to be something that i did to just start a post and i intended to go back to writing to paint a better picture of what's been going on lately. but that didn't happen.

life happens and there's always so much to say. so much going on. there are so many thoughts, expressions, and emotions that fill each day that i can't really begin to touch on them all. and of course when i try, i leave out most of what was meant.

since my last post, i've moved and gotten a promotion at work. not in that order tho.

right now the car is in the shop, and i am waiting to get it out before our trip to NY to see a yankee game. i've seen the padres, the phillies...and now the yankees. sweet :D

lately i dunno what's going on with me. i feel like i'm constantly lost. i always have 100 things on my mind. and no real outlet for it. maybe i can find a way to put some of it here.

i guess i've said some things that i've been interested in with my gmail buzz thing. but that's usually a link to some story, so it's more of a "here's something interesting" than actually what i'm thinking.

i guess i have to figure out what it is that i'm thinking before i can really say.