Trypd - A Life to be Lived

A quantity of rice mixed with emotions

2009-05-16T23:44:00.004-03:00

I've been reading lately, more than just the usual steampunk or manga. It's still amazes me just how much a piece of literature, when written properly, can influence my state of mind. Which is the only reason I felt it necessary to hop back on this supposedly dead platform (blogging)and to compose something longer than the 140 characters I've since grown accustomed to. Winston Groom's beloved character would have you believe that Life, and yes that is life with a capital L, the portion of life...

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Steampunk if I wanna

2008-10-05T03:24:00.003-03:00

What would you do with a million dollars? Well, I'd start buy buying one of these (via HackNMod and PingMag).

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My last.fm

2008-08-21T00:22:00.001-03:00

What's wrong with me, people? Am I audio contagion? Do I not deserve even one friend on last.fm? Pity Me ;P

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Wondermar.... WTF?

2008-08-20T23:55:00.002-03:00

Wondermark Lite, I can just see you now... Oh man, I couldn't let this one pass by. Three of us at work nearly convulsed with laughter after reading this perfect webcomic today. Thank you Wondermark Lite! Still. I have been twittering this all night long, but I'm on some crazy streak of perfectly chosen songs by using random on itunes. Normally there are good choices, interspersed with great ones, and the occasional meh selection (yes, I still have some stuff I don't care to listen to)....

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Fiddling with Feed Informer

2008-08-20T02:20:00.005-03:00

Burn Rubber, Feed Informer!If you're looking for some good dynamic sidebar content for your... anything... mouse your way over to Feed Informer and play around with their services. I've added a short 5-feed version (in plain HTML) to my sidebar, just above my cheated blogroll (I read feeds in bloglines, but use google reader to manage my blogroll). I'd like to think the result is pretty nice, but I'm just a nerdy nerd with nerd tendencies. If you're super curious, and know a bit of HTML, you...

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LJ ego-stroking

2008-08-18T15:12:00.003-03:00

Sweet-ass! I (and two of the kick-assest coworkers around) were plugged by former Library Journal Editor-In-Chief, John N. Berry III, in his summation of the OLC Reference Conference. -Link- In case you're lost, refer to these 4 previous posts. Yes, I'm shameless. In other news I'm going to be trying to get permissions to use several bands' songs in a documentary I'm working on, and I expect it might take some time to get all of that sorted out. If you're a music artist, and want to let me use...

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Hangin' with my bigfoot out tha' window

2008-08-16T01:59:00.004-03:00

My Faceyourmanga AviDid the media actually just refer to him as 7-up Phelps? That's one of the worst nic-names I've ever heard! I'm waiting for "Faygo" Wirick as my own. (disclaimer: I hate Faygo above all sodas. I hate soda period.) Bigfoot was pretty much figured to be a fake to begin with, but I'm sad anyway to find out this one's faked. It would be amazing to know that something like that actually exists. And have proof! Eh, if you're going to fake it, don't offer to have DNA tests run on...

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Are you voting for the lowest bidder?

2008-08-15T00:14:00.006-03:00

Nader/Gonzalez '08 From enraged to disheartened. It turns out that Obama felt the need to defend his economic situation. I'm sure this has nothing to do with the polls being so close, and with the statistics that taxes feature heavily on the average voter's mind. No nothing at all. I'm not making this bit long, just know a few things; (a) Obama isn't Bill Clinton and our economy isn't even near the upswing it was in when Clinton made a responsible tax increase, (b) Obama has one of the largest...

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...but I'm a riot!

2008-08-12T11:30:00.010-03:00

I picked up a few albums to listen to the other day. I'm always on the look-out to try new bands, listen to new albums by favorite artists, and I was definitely was not disappointed with my selections. The Ting Tings - We Started NothingTake this album for example. What is it about a lady with a light lilting english accent that makes their song-voice just shy of perfect? Katie White uses that light accent and a range of vocal styles to keep each song on the album We Started Nothing fresh and...

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Olympics on the 8/08

2008-08-08T08:25:00.003-03:00

2008 Olympic LogoThe Olympics start tonight. I know this because just today our local paper actually referred to it on their front page. That's almost unheard of for them, running actual news fairly currently. But this year I have heavily mixed feelings over the entire thing. Our house smelled perpetually like popcorn, and our tv rarely was off. More shouts than every came from our house, ranging for excited shouts of "WE DID IT" to angered ravings at our poor abused television blaming it for...

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When is a rant not a rant?

2008-08-04T23:16:00.006-03:00

Now if it only had a mini-fridge...I'm not a ranter. I don't do rants. Erm... What? Most of my blogs are either insane ramblings or rants? You sure about that? Alright, let me take this from the top. I'm a ranter. I rant. That's why I have a blog. I'm a nice guy though, somehow these things I type out don't really make it to my mouth, they take the spinal column freeway straight to my fingers. So if you're one of those people I'm talking about in this blog, please don't take this is as...

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TR2N

2008-07-30T20:15:00.004-03:00

Bridges FTW!AWWWWW SWEET! TRON SEQUEL! Yeah, it's called TR2N, (think SE7EN) and it'll have Jeff Bridges in it! Check out the trailer from ComicCon here [thanks io9!] Just watch out on YouTube, most of the tr2n links there are Rickrolls...

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This would take one LARGE needle to clear up

2008-07-30T16:24:00.005-03:00

Walmart, you're *such* a diseaseHonestly I'm taking this post almost straight from BoingBoing. I hate Walmart, so much that I don't even refer to them as Walmart, ever, except those two times right there. "WalTart" is usually the name I speak, when it's obligated of me to say something about them, but I'd prefer to never have to speak, think, hear or see them ever. So BoingBoing's post made me feel both fascinated and repulsed. It's a pretty cool animation (one I'm thinking about replicating...

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Good for a laugh

2008-07-26T09:20:00.004-03:00

A network, I felt this post needed some pizzaz!Sometimes I wonder how some journalists get their jobs, and if there's really enough news out there for all of them. I was reading the latest WIRED this morning, and there was an article about real-life networks compared to online networks. The author made the brilliant conclusion early on in the article that online networks and real-life networks function completely different! Sorry, when I read that, I had to chuckle, which creeped out my wife...

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Wrap-it-up

2008-07-26T01:44:00.003-03:00

It was april when I begged for an invite to the soon-to-be online presentation program called SlideRocket. As you know, I got one just because the people working there are awesome and can feel the pain of the little people. Or they just know that good service gets great participation. A lot of companies could learn from that alone. I used it, in cooperation with two coworkers, to put together a presentation that seemed to go over fairly well at the OLC's 2008 Reference and Adult Services...

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In advance

2008-07-23T01:33:00.001-03:00

Today I realized it was 3 weeks, to the day, until my next birthday. I could have sworn it was only spring still. I'm gettin' old, slowly but surely.

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Put out the fire, boys

2008-07-20T00:47:00.003-03:00

Why do I take such comfort in music? Is it something to do with musical resonation within my psyche, or is it simpler than that? Today I spent at work supervising another gaming day. I felt terrible the whole time as I had to practically abandon the other person I was working with, leaving them to take in and work the rest of the library. Doesn't sound bad until you've had a chance to work customer service while loading up a delivery, and unloading the one that comes in. I even felt...

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Piggyback rider

2008-07-15T02:03:00.005-03:00

This is just a piggyback on my previous post Well I Was Going To Blog About Banksy Now Obama's saying he wants to add more troops to the war we're waging in Afghanistan. Increasing the number from 36,000 to 45,000 troops in Afghanistan. He's doing this to theoretically end the war. To me it just sounds like he's planning on continuing the war. I hang my head in shame for my fellow Americans.

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Well, I was going to blog about Banksy, but...

2008-07-14T00:03:00.008-03:00

A Banksy on the Palestine/Israeli wallHere's a bit of Banksy for you. Why don't we have something this wonderful going for us over here in the states? Oh yea, that's right... It's because we're inhabited by twits who will believe whatever they're being fed. Right, so this is why my post has gotten derailed from a nice, decent sized post about Banksy. The government is full of fucking idiots, and all of the voters not voting for McCain (because he's a fucktard) have been derailed into voting...

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Rattling can?

2008-07-11T00:18:00.003-03:00

I'm terrified of speaking in public. In high school when I had to make a presentation to the class, more often than not my sweaty palms and flushed face would bely the fact that my blood was thundering in my ears and that my throat managed to turn into something akin to a cement filled elevator shaft. When I say I was terrified, I mean that I would have rather taken the Uniform CPA Examination on penalty of grievous injury than given a two minute oral presentation. I'm a wuss like...

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Devil May Care

2008-07-08T20:40:00.003-03:00

Faulks, Sebastian FaulksI just finished my copy of the new James Bond novel, Devil May Care. I wouldn't have been too interested in reading someone else's attempt at writting like Ian Fleming, but for one fact that I heard about when it was first released that it was going to be published. Apparently Faulks was approched by Ian Fleming Publications to write the book for the Ian Fleming centenary. This intrigued me, and raised my hopes of there being another well written James Bond novel....

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Show me your tats

2008-07-05T17:27:00.004-03:00

Bizarremag via BoingBoingI've been thinking about getting a tattoo for a long time. My problem is I get hung up on what to get. I have ideas, oooh do I have ideas, what I need is some serious muster to just say "it's this one!" and go get it done. That and I could stand to tone up a bit before I get inked on my saggy parts. This guy is amazing though. His desire for tattooing and love of zombie movies makes for one amazing tattoo. Even more remarkable is the detail that went into the tattoo....

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Local Popcorn

2008-07-05T14:14:00.003-03:00

Our local farmer's market is pretty nice. I like it anyway. My wife and I went there for lunch today, to get me out from work for a bit, and to just have a nice lunch together. We're sweet on each other like that. As we drove down there we noticed that the market was bustling pretty nicely. In fact the lat was pretty full, and the walkways looked decently full of people browsing through the wares being offered at the booths. Seeing how busy it was, my wife exclaimed to me "I don't like the...

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Random thoughts

2008-07-01T20:10:00.006-03:00

These past few days have been odd for me. My daughter has been spending the past few nights over at my parent's house. Her cousins came in town from out of state so my parents have had a perpetual slumber party for the kids, leaving me and my wife and youngest a chance to have some time together. I definitely miss my daughter, but it's been sort of like a honeymoon for me and my wife. I'm coming down with a migraine, I know it's happening, I just hope I've caught it in enough time to beat it...

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Site update

2008-06-26T02:34:00.002-03:00

Another place online I've been playing with is Retaggr. It's a pretty handy site if you're sprawled all over the internet. Like me, for instance. I'm on Flickr, Facebook, MySpace (only begrudgingly), Last.fm, etc... It's a bit of work to keep these sites fresh, so having the retaggr business card to keep track of them all is handy. And I can just refer someone to my card (in the nav area at the top, or here) and they can catch me on any of those sites. Oh yeah, in the name of posterity...

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