Great Neptune's Ghost!

:: 2010 28 January :: 10.38am

Big boy job.

:: 2010 28 January :: 2.03am
:: Music: MGMT Remix by Justice

Youve got to be shitting me.
Ok so right off the bat, shamefully I want one. I have no clue why!

NOTHING ON THIS IS NEW OR INNOVATIVE!

iPad
Apple iPad

From a innovation standpoint nothing is new here folks. The only thing you get out of this is a larger piece of glass than your iPod Touch or iPhone.

My best attempt to understand how someone came up with this idea is as follows: Apple employee is walking into work listening to his iPod without paying attention he walks into an low standing object and falls. As he is falling, he drops his brand new eReader. As he lands, the eReader and the Ipod drop to the ground. They fall landing together followed buy the mans head on the pavement. When the man wakes up he rubs his head and looks down to see them together and wonder what would have happened had he only had one object to carry.
Bam.
Box it.
Giant iPod touch will solve this!

Nothing new is here. Lets compare it to a typical netbook you can find at the same cost elsewhere. Something where you don't pay for a badge.
A good solid example of such a product would be this: Asus eee Netbook PC

Looking at a same priced model we can find a much better machine!
1.66Ghz Intel Atom processor
-iPad 1GHz Apple A4
Asus eee runs at 1024x600
-iPad run 1024x768
Asus eee has 160Gb hard drive or higher!
-iPad runs in 16,24, or 32Gb
The Asus has its own 2Gb of memory. The iPad runs off its flash drives!
Both have bluetooth.
Both have microphones.
Both have audio jacks. Asus has both in and out.
Both have Lithium Ion batterys with 6+hrs of life.
iPad does not support a lan line. Asus does.
Both include a wifi with b/g/n support.
The Asus features either a full version of WinXp/Win7 or Linux. iPad comes in a almost full formate of Mac.
Both can use SD memory cards.
Asus offers a webcam, mock it, but its there.

So the end result is, more processing power. More drive space. Full functionality of a tablet. Not a douche feeling. If I ever see someone with one of these I will make sure to slap it out of their hands onto the ground where I will then spit on it.EeeTop PC ET1602C End of Story.

Nothing new. We've seen touch screens before. We've seen the App Store already. We've seen this look slim item look before. We've seen cellphone coverage on netbook/tablets before. What is new? Nothing. Simply a rehash mismatch of the netbook idea and the ever popular iPhone/iPod Touch.

:: 2010 27 January :: 5.44pm

Friends card blows.

5 Little Tykes | Watcha got there?

:: 2010 26 January :: 2.55pm

Shithawks
The stupid discuss persons.
The average discuss things.
The intelligent discuss ideas.

:: 2010 24 January :: 12.36pm

Dem boys got tha blues

:: 2010 22 January :: 1.58am

How do you do it man?
I dont know...I guess I dont think about it.

...When you do think about it, just remember you do it because if you arent doing it, someone else will. That someone else could have a hell of a lot more going for them than you. Dont let them suffer when you have nothing to offer up.

Others cant deal with it, you deal with it because they cant. You do it do they dont get hurt. You do it for them. Its easy.
Out of mind.

:: 2010 21 January :: 7.23pm
:: Music: I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

Green Street Hooligans
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.
They fly so high,
Nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams,
They fade and die.
Fortune's always hiding,
I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.

:: 2010 19 January :: 8.40pm
:: Music: MGMT- Time to Pretend

Yeah it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?/ Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?
I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life
Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars

This is our decision to live fast and die young
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun.
Yeah it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?

Forget about our mothers and our friends
We were fated to pretend

I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone

But there is really nothing, nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models, everything must run its course

We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end
We were fated to pretend

2 Little Tykes | Watcha got there?

:: 2010 19 January :: 8.06pm

Bands/artists I would like to see in concert soon-ish:

Eric Hutchinson (again)
Modest Mouse (again)
MGMT
Ben Kweller (again)
Passion Pit
Vampire Weekend
Beck
Death Cab for Cutie (again)
Regina Spektor
Matt and Kim
Phoenix
Franz Ferdinand
Ben Folds (again)
Mates of State
Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers (again)

:: 2010 16 January :: 7.58pm

I hate when a comedian can say something so very true and memorable.

"Life is about choice. We are the sum of our choices. And most of them are made for us. You can't choose when you're born. You can't choose where you are born. You can't choose your family. You can't even choose who you love. But you can choose how you love."

:: 2010 15 January :: 7.55pm
:: Music: Atticus Ross- "Panoramic"

Ramblings.
I see the world around me and I feel broken.
I ask myself what may come of this world, I cannot answer. Only the wind knows.
I pray what I see of the world around, that the things I see might aid me in the years to come.
If I feel broken, then should not the world around me break? Should it not crumble?

Convenience led us here to sloth. Hope only that you may be blessed to float.

:: 2010 15 January :: 11.13am

Chuck Yeager, that was a damn good man right there.

3 Little Tykes | Watcha got there?

:: 2010 14 January :: 12.07am

shadow government

:: 2010 13 January :: 4.23pm
:: Music: Empire of the Sun

Walking on a Dream!
We are always running for the thrill of it thrill of it
Always pushing up the hill searching for the thrill of it
On and on and on we are calling out and out again
Never looking down I'm just in awe of what's in front of me

:: 2010 11 January :: 1.09am

Seriously I am a glutton for punishment. I make my own damn head hurt from this shit spinning round my brain.

EDIT: Who's amazing at beating himself up mentally? *point at self with both thumbs* This guy!

Its a damn good thing I detest alcohol.

:: 2010 11 January :: 1.08am
:: Music: Dirty Vegas / Days Go By (Steve Osbourne Acoustic Mix)

I am a lumocks
You
You

You are still a whisper on my lips
A feeling at my fingertips
That's pulling at my skin

You leave me when I'm at my worst
Feeling as if I've been cursed
Bitter cold within

Days go by and still I think of you
Days when I couldn't live my life without you
Days go by and still I think of you
Days when I couldn't live my life without you
Without you
Without you

You are still a whisper on my lips
A feeling at my fingertips
That's pulling at my skin

You leave me when I'm at my worst
Feeling as if I've been cursed
Bitter cold within

Days go by and still I think of you
Days when I couldn't live my life without you
Without you
Without you

Days go by and still I think of you
Days when I couldn't live my life without you
Days go by and still I think of you
Days when I couldn't live my life without you
Without you
Without you

4 Little Tykes | Watcha got there?

:: 2010 10 January :: 7.42pm

Ok, is there a website like this?

I want a site where I can enter the names of bands that I like, and it will provide me with something like Google Reader where I can check ONE PLACE to see all of their upcoming shows, albums, etc.

I mean, I could just like, put parts of their websites in Google Reader but it seems so ineffective to sort through all the stuff I don't care about just to get a quick list of places/dates.

Ya'all are hooked up... any thoughts?

:: 2010 10 January :: 6.44pm
:: Music: Barenaked Ladies- What a Good Boy

I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever going to change...
When I was born they looked at me and said
What a good boy, what a smart boy, what a strong boy
And when you were born they looked at you and said
What a good girl, what a smart girl, what a pretty girl

We've got these chains that hang around our necks
People want to strangle us with them before we take our first breath
Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same
When temptation calls we just look away

This name is the hairshirt I wear
And this hairshirt is woven from your brown hair
This song is the cross that I bear
Bear it with me, bear with me, bear with me
Be with me tonight
I know that it isn't right
But be with me tonight

I go to school, I write exams
If I pass, if I fail, if I drop out, does anyone give a damn?
And if they do, they'll soon forget
'Cause it won't take much for me to show that my life ain't over yet

I wake up scared, I wake up strange
I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever going to change
I wake up scared, I wake up strange
And everything around me stays the same

I couldn't tell you that I was wrong
Chickened out, grabbed a pen and paper, sat down and I wrote this song
I couldn't tell you that you were right
So instead I looked in the mirror watched tv laid awake all night

We've got these chains that hang around our necks
People want to strangle us with them before we take our first breath
Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same
When temptation calls....

When I was born they looked at me and said
What a good boy, what a smart boy, what a strong boy
And when you were born they looked at you and said
What a good girl, what a smart girl, what a pretty girl, hey

2 Little Tykes | Watcha got there?

:: 2010 7 January :: 10.55pm

Dickbutt

:: 2010 7 January :: 12.28am

Trying to not give in to old habits...reoccurring ones.

I want to do something everyone would probably think is really stupid to do. The timing seems like it could be right though. Ugh. I hate it. My stomach turns just thinking about it, and my heart says just freaking do it. My brain says no. My feet dont go. So...what to do. Sheesh.

FUCKSALT

Love, Forgiveness, Chocolate?

m&ms487

:: 2010 5 January :: 9.07am
:: Mood: awake

I love the sound of your breathing as you lay next to me dreaming.

I went and purchased my books for the start of my second-to-last semester here as an undergraduate (I'm not counting the two classes I'm taking this summer).

It really wasn't bad as far as cost goes, but Ancient Literature has 11 books.

This semester I'm taking:

FRN 202: Intermediate French II
ENG 261: Ancient Literature
PSC 375: Socialism, Liberalism, and Fascism
PSC 321: The American Chief Executive

I'm pretty excited. It's the first semester that I've only taken 12 credits. I'm trying to go light after last semester's 17. I figure French will take up its fair share of time, and although the other three classes are two and three hundred levels, I feel like I might get a lot out of them without doing much homework other than reading. We'll see.

After this semester I will have 112 credits. I need 124 to graduate, but I'm going to end up with something like 128. This summer will be my two biology classes to finish up my area requirements for my Bachelor of Arts degree which will take me to 118, and then I'm looking into taking nine credits next fall with one graduate level class that will count as graduate credit as to make me a full-time student.

A year from now I will be starting graduate school, and then hopefully getting a post in Teach for America. By the end of all this the plan is to have a Master of Arts in English and one in Education.

Or, I could just give up, get pregnant, work at Meijer for my entire life, and waste away as an intellectual person. I think I'll choose the first.

:: 2010 1 January :: 11.29pm

The things we learn...sheesh.

joslyn_julia

:: 2009 31 December :: 2.49am

this is me being pissed.

grrr....

somedays i just don't understand why he even bothers, especially when i seem to just be a nuisance...

:: 2009 26 December :: 11.31pm

Here I am, there you are.
How did we ever let things get this far.
I have no money, I have no car.

I like you but the distance is too far.
You may sulk, you may soar, you think like before.

A time gone past, those ways don't last.
Cherish the moment.
Just try to make them last.
We definitely need atonement.

-------

In other news I fucking love this song, I dont know why!
Empire of the Sun- Walking on a Dream

4 Little Tykes | Watcha got there?

outsyder18

:: 2009 25 December :: 12.00am

Merry Christmas Bitches!

:: 2009 24 December :: 11.42pm
:: Music: "I See You" by Leona Lewis

Haunted
I see you.

:: 2009 23 December :: 10.58pm

Jade is my color.
I try to not look at times past. I try so hard. I hate myself when I do think of them.

I try to live by the moment. For the now.

I forgive. I forget....too much.

I am flawed. I am broken. I am human.

To those who fell away. May my deeds be forgiven.
To those who are around, thank you.
For those who would give up on me. So be it, your choice. I cannot stop you.

m&ms487

:: 2009 23 December :: 7.45pm

"I have a life that did not become,
that turned aside and stopped,
astonished:
I hold it in me like a pregnancy or
as on my lap a child
not to grow old but dwell on

it is to his grave I most
frequently return and return
to ask what is wrong, what was
wrong, to see it all by
the light of a different necessity
but the grave will not heal
and the child,
stirring, must share my grave
with me, an old man having
gotten by on what was left"

-A.R. Ammons, "Easter Morning"

:: 2009 21 December :: 11.23am

Where'd all the good people go?!

Be content. FFS...

m&ms487

:: 2009 20 December :: 5.54am

I think I might regret going to work today. Two people have not been showing up and we have Santa bucks today. I think I'm going to be alone at the Service Desk all morning. FML.