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New area for blog

Because of extreme comment spamming, and the inabillity of Movable Type to keep up with Spammers, I have moved this blog to http://www.86queensgate.com/wp/

See ya'll there.

-W

Don't know what to think of this...

Somewhat sad, funny, poignant, disturbing, revealing... but totally an interesting read.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/roninspoon/109856.html

Cryptic entry #1

Possibly some very good news on the horizon... Stay tuned.

Proof that there are still good people in the world

Good for you Charlie Wies.

Weis Uses Play Called by 10-Year-Old Boy
- By TOM COYNE, AP Sports Writer
Sunday, September 25, 2005

Weis said the meeting was touching.

Continue reading "Proof that there are still good people in the world"

Labor Day Weekend

Why is it that a holiday that commemorates the working man, that almost demands that you take the day off of working and spoil yourself with doing nothing, ends up being one of the home improvement mega-days?

Now that I am a homeowner of over one years time, I figured it was time that I spend some time working on the house (hell, I wasn't going anyplace anyways.)

Kim and I bought a storm door and a new range for the kitchen about a weeke ago with some gift certificates and a rather sizable gift from My Grandmother, both gifts from the wedding. The range was to be delivered on Sunday morning and the storm door was to be installed whenever I got around to it. Sunday was the decided day since I helped my brother move almost all day on Saturday.

What I thought was going to take two hours took four to five. The storm door was supposed to be one size fits all and it was supposed to be adjustable. To some degree it was, but My house is 18 years old and not exactly straight and true anymore. Here are the fruits of my labor (day.)




This looks a hell of a lot better than the old busted version.

Continue reading "Labor Day Weekend"

Amazing... People do stuff like this?

S.F. Man Convicted of Severing Dog's Ear

I hope this guy gets to rot away for a couple of years while he comptemplates what he's done to that poor dog. What some people do to look cool, or be "thug" amazes me. Would it be ironic if this guy got carved up in jail? I wouldn't condone it, but payback is a bitch.

Extra Link

What's the true value of education?

California Fraternity Members Could Face Torture Charge



Thanks Chi Tau, Thanks for making my diploma worth even less. Thanks for allowing people to make fun of Chico State. Thanks for working so hard to show that Chico State isn't for burnouts. Thanks for living up to you Fraternal obligations. See link: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1507594/20050815/index.jhtml?headlines=true
Hey, maybe you guys can aspire to be porn stars like your fellow greek brothers. You're a disgrace to your organizations.

The Precious...

Yup, It's official, I'm getting hitched. No turning back now, I've got the ring.

(just kidding honey, you know I wouldn't back out.)

OMG...

I think I'm gonna cry this is so sad.
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Welcome Neighbor

Found this guy's blog while searching for the phone number of Cherry Pop Parlor in Brentwood.

Welcome to the neighborhood Robert, Brentwood is a bit of a shock at first (I moved here from Walnut Creek) but you get used to the slow pace of it. Looking through your blog, you may have a harder time getting used to all the god fearin' folk though.

Ward

P.S. Cherry Pop Parlor has awesome milkshakes.

Hey, I know that address

Look at my garage door.

I've decided to remove this post, as I was not very nice in it. The gentleman that crashed into my door came over to my house last night to appoligize and offer to pay for the damages.

He seemed like a super nice guy and I wish him a speedy recovery (fractured skull and fractured c6 c7.

Not until the Men's Warehoue is a sponsor

I don't even like the 49er's and this pisses me off. Come on NFL, I know that seeing coaches in team garb is good for business, but why would you want to pevent your coaches from looking like a fine, upstanding citizen?

Ridiculious, I say we make them all dress like Landry.

Clever...

This is F'en brilliant. I hope that if I'm ever unfortunate enought to have my car broken into, that I'm at least clever enough to concoct something like this. Bravo Mr. Kolitz, don't let the man keep you down.

IMDB Meme

STOLEN FROM NEIL @ WWW.NEILTURNER.ME.UK

Here is the deal, this is a list of the top 250 movies on IMDB, I'll list the ones I've seen in bold.

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
4. The Godfather: Part II (1974)5. Seven Samurai (1954)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
9. Citizen Kane (1941)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
12. Pulp Fiction (1994)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
14. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
15. Rear Window (1954)
16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
18. The Usual Suspects (1995)
19. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
20. City of God (2002)
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
22. Memento (2000)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
25. North by Northwest (1959)
26. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
27. Amélie (2001)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
30. Sunset Boulevard. (1950)
31. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
32. American Beauty (1999)
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
35. The Matrix (1999)
36. Paths of Glory (1957)
37. Fight Club (1999)
38. Vertigo (1958)
39. The Third Man (1949)
40. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
41. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
42. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
43. Double Indemnity (1944)
44. Das Boot (1981)
45. Taxi Driver (1976)
46. M (1931)
47. The Pianist (2002)
48. Rashômon (1950)
49. Se7en (1995)
50. All About Eve (1950)
51. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
52. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
53. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
54. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
55. Chinatown (1974)
56. Some Like It Hot (1959)
57. L.A. Confidential (1997)
58. Léon (1994)
59. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
60. Alien (1979)
61. American History X (1998)
62. Modern Times (1936)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
65. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
66. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
67. The Sting (1973)
68. On the Waterfront (1954)
69. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
70. Raging Bull (1980)
71. Ran (1985)
72. Amadeus (1984)
73. Life is Beautiful (1997)
74. Touch of Evil (1958)
75. The Great Escape (1963)
76. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
77. City Lights (1931)
78. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
79. The Apartment (1960)
80. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
81. Metropolis (1927)
82. The Shining (1980)
83. High Noon (1952)
84. Jaws (1975)
86 Aliens (1986)
87. Finding Nemo (2003)
88. Annie Hall (1977)
89. Braveheart (1995)
90. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
91. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
92. Fargo (1996)
93. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
94. Oldboy (2003)
95. Yojimbo (1961)
96. The Incredibles (2004)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
98. Strangers on a Train (1951)
99. Donnie Darko (2001)
100. The Sixth Sense (1999)
101. The Princess Bride (1987)
102. The Seventh Seal (1957)
103. The Great Dictator (1940)
104. It Happened One Night (1934)
105. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
106. Forrest Gump (1994)
107. Before Sunset (2004)
108. Cinema Paradiso (1989)
109. The General (1927)
110. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
111. Mononoke-hime (1997)
112. Rebecca (1940)
113. Duck Soup (1933)
114. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
115. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
116. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
117. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
118. The Big Sleep (1946)
119. Notorious (1946)
120. Smultronstället (1957)
121. The Graduate (1967)
122. Hero (2002)
123. Unforgiven (1992)
124. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
125. The Deer Hunter (1978)
126. Patton (1970)
127. Run Lola Run (1998)
128. Toy Story 2 (1999)
129. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
130. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
131. The Gold Rush (1925)
132. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
133. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
134. The Elephant Man (1980)
135. Back to the Future (1985)
136. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
137. Glory (1989)
138. The Green Mile (1999)
139. Ben-Hur (1959)
140. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
141. Grande illusion, La (1937)
142. Manhattan (1979)
143. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
144. Platoon (1986)
145. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
146. Gone with the Wind (1939)
147. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
148. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
149. Shrek (2001)
150. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
151. The African Queen (1951)
152. His Girl Friday (1940)
153. Ikiru (1952)
154. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
155. The Searchers (1956)
156. Mystic River (2003)
157. Die Hard (1988)
158. Amores perros (2000)
159. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
160. Hotaru no haka (1988)
161. A Christmas Story (1983)
162. The Wild Bunch (1969)
163. Life of Brian (1979)
164. Stalag 17 (1953)
165. Big Fish (2003)
166. The Hustler (1961)
167. Charade (1963)
168. Gladiator (2000)
169. Young Frankenstein (1974)
170. Sideways (2004)
171. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
172. The Straight Story (1999)
173. Talk to Her (2002)
174. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
175. The Killing (1956)
176. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
177. A Night at the Opera (1935)
178. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
179. Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La (1928)
180. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
181. Spartacus (1960)
182. Lost in Translation (2003)
183. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
184. Magnolia (1999)
185. Harvey (1950)
186. Strada, La (1954)
187. Ed Wood (1994)
187. Sling Blade (1996)
188. The Terminator (1984)
189. Toy Story (1995)
190. Groundhog Day (1993)
191. Untergang, Der (2004)
192. All the President’s Men (1976)
193. The Lion in Winter (1968)
194. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
195. Roman Holiday (1953)
196. Festen (1998)
197. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
198. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
199. Trainspotting (1996)
200. 8½ (1963)
201. Finding Neverland (2004)
202. Laura (1944)
203. Brazil (1985)
204. The Conversation (1974)
205. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
206. The Insider (1999)
207. Almost Famous (2000)
208. Dogville (2003)
209. The Station Agent (2003)
210. Gandhi (1982)
211. Stand by Me (1986)
212. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
213. Persona (1966)
214. King Kong (1933)
215. Fanny och Alexander (1982)
216. The Exorcist (1973)
217. The 39 Steps (1935)
218. Rain Man (1988)
219. Mulholland Drive (2001)
220. Stagecoach (1939)
221. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
222. Being John Malkovich (1999)
223. The Big Lebowski (1998)
224. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
225. Rio Bravo (1959)
226. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
227. Network (1976)
228. Snatch. (2000)
229. 21 Grams (2003)
230. The Thin Man (1934)
231. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
232. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
233. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
234. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
235. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
236. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
237. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
238. The Right Stuff (1983)
239. Barry Lyndon (1975)
240. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
241. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
242. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
243. Garden State (2004)
244. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
245. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
246. The Untouchables (1987)
247. Heat (1995)
248. The Last Picture Show (1971)
249. Fa yeung nin wa (2000)
250. Kumonosu jô (1957)

Thank god I've only seen 97 of them. I was worried I would be in the triple digits. I'm sure me attending film school affected my results. I'm such a movie geek, and a tech geek for blogging this.

Concert Meme

Here is how it works. Copy this list. Leave in the bands you’ve seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven’t and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. One asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two people who did this before you had that band on their list. You add an asterisk if you have seen the same as me.

1.) Slayer
2.) Devo
3.) Faith No More
4.) Metallica **
5.) The Ramones
6.) The Deftones
7.) Dokken
8.) Def Leopard
9.) Duran Duran
10.) Red Hot Chili Peppers
11.) Save Ferris
12.) Ozzy Osbourne **
13.) Fishbone
14.) Goldfinger
15.) Super Diamond
16.) Marilyn Manson
17.) Nine Inch Nails
18.) Sublime
19.) Spearhead
20.) Blink 182
21.) Mighty Mighty Bosstones
22.) AFI
23.) Good Charlotte
24.) The Vandals
25.) Sick of it all

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