Romanticide?

I just posted this comment on Jana's blog in response to her post about the Mario Kart song.

"That was a hideous Video.
I hated it and couldn't even finish it.
He was so creepy!
You women are so starved for romantics that you cling to even the worst of the vaguely tender emotionality shown by a male of your species.
Then again, you may swoon at a badger singing that song.... curly mustache or not."

I'm sad. Not because of the song itself, but the response of the women to it. Honestly it seems to me as though if a guy shows any sort of consideration to a woman then he is praised for it by her peers. Like that awful "He went to Jared!" commercial. Why are Women praising Men for simply showing a feeling? It should be common place. It should be so normal that when we guys do something nice that its not a big deal. I don't mind getting a little notice when I do something over-the-top insane, but other than that.....

Look, my point is not that the Ladies who posted a love note to the curly-'stached Kartman are nutso, but that it should take a whole lot more to impress you.

Take me, for example. Some friends of hers didn't believe what a typical Tuesday afternoon was like at the Rowley home, so we took a few pictures of my day.







Guys, take care of your Sweetie.

"Stuff I'm doing" update

So, obviously I haven't built my Yana computer. I would have taken a million pictures and posted them everywhere.
So, I got the Computer from Jana, and tested it out when it got here.
Didn't work at all.
When she shipped it, she didn't know that there was a loose hard drive in the tower that was rattling around. So when I got it, there were micro resistors, diodes and EPROM chips loose in the case. It's okay Jana, I forgive you for being the devil.
I ordered a bunch of stuff and spent like over $100 and still have had no luck for various reasons.
So the project has fallen aside while i work on other projects.

"What projects?!" I hear you all yelling at top volume. Well ill tell you if you would just shut up!

Seriously, quiet down you in the red shirt...
No not you! Your shirt is more of a burnt umber, pay attention!
Your shirt is an RGB of (138, 51, 36)
I was talking to RGB (150, 0, 24)
I guess that's more like a Carmine red... but still...

RED SHIRT! shush!

Thanks.

What were we talking about? Stupid burnt umber shirt lady.....

So, I bought an 86' (is that right? 86'? or is it '86? it must be '86 because if it was 86' then it would be 86 feet! haha! I'm so smart!) '86 CRX (wait, if you follow that correctly though, it actually says that I bought an eighty six foot 1986 CRX! Awesome! Long car.) off of craigslist for my friend Brandon who desperately needs a good car to get him to work. And I've been working on it for weeks and weeks now. Its a pain in the neck. I fix one problem and another comes up. That's what I get for attempting to fix a really old engine that I know nothing about.

I eventually plan to buy a '90-'92 (got it right! Rock on.) CRX and do an engine swap. Ive learned a LOT about Honda engines recently and I love the idea of having a tiny car that can beat a mustang off the line. If I swap in a B16* engine from an Acura, it'll be crazy fast and fun.


I'm working with Jason W (a good friend of mine who is close to as odd as I am (not close, close but close like a rhino is close to a hippo genetically speaking(or at least closer to a hippo than it is to a lemur))) (that was funny)on a prototype for a new style of snowboard binding.

When we are done with this, and it hits the market, no one will use the current style of binding. Its an incredible idea that we plan to have completed by mid January in time for our annual Colorado ski trip (now why would we call it a ski trip if the only people who go are snowboarding? Odd that.) where we (or rather I (Jas, you wuss)) plan to test its functionality and usability.

This is the most exciting thing I've worked on in years, and I have the greatest partner to work on it with. Its going to change the snowboarding world....

Wo0t.

Storytime!

Got a call from my Dad the other day, just to tell me this story;

While at a Newspaper-ish meeting my dad was talking to a lady who said to him,
"I have a confession to make, years ago, I was a substitute teacher at Flagstaff High school, and your son was in my class. I had to send him to the principals office because he was shining a laser in my eye."
My dad kinda laughed because of course he remembered me getting suspended for that, and subsequently starting a new school.
then she asked my dad what I was doing now....

"Well..... He shines lasers in peoples eyes for a living."