THE WORLD OF BRIAN SMITH
Brian Smith for President
Look its me
...not really
Who created or who is to blame for all of the crappy but catchy tunes that are out there. I mean shit, there are all these songs that suck, but when you hear them, or parts of them you get it stuck in your head. It's really not fair. For example, the past few days I've had the riff, "I never want to feel so complicated", in my head. I don't even know where it came from. There are so many songs out there with these damn hooks in them. These things float around my head forever. It's kind of annoying when you can't push them down or out. If listening to other songs solved the problem I'd do it, but usually that doesn't work. I just have to wait for the next hook to take precedence.
This blogger dude is like my new best friend. Someone I can conspire with in order to initiate my evil plans to take over planet Earth. It's going to happen. It's just a matter of time. You really should start watching out and getting out of my way. Actually this is like my imaginary friend that I tell my deep dark secrets. Well actually I'm not going to tell it any of my secrets so it will just have to deal. Monday! Word
Mega Malta photo shoot added to the adventure gallery -->
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SU is in the Final Four!
its like a public notepad. i will try to get a comment system in place soon.
AND AWAY WE GO!. the other night i was thinking about starting an online code bank. i am pondering that thought, but mostly honestly i wrote it here for myself to remember. I am the audience here not you.
So I am driving back from Beardslee last night at 3 AM and I'm getting tired. I pull over at Dunkin Donuts in Amsterdamn and lay back and fall asleep for a little bit. At one point I remember waking up and putting my feet on the brake, probably dreaming or something that I was actually driving while asleep. Then later I barely remember what happened but some lady talking to me about not being open yet but if they were the cops would come or some bullshit. I was all fucked up from being woken up after what was probably only an hour of sleep and was like mehhh, alright lady i'm leaving. Whatever. I got out of there and got home to go to sleep. I like sleep. Someday I will do it.
Man, It has been so nice outside the past few days it makes it so hard to concentrate on what's going on inside. Tonight i'm going to
Beardslee Castle in Little Falls to see REZI and I'm looking forward to that. It's going to be sweet, here is a picture of the place from their site.
I somehow misplaced my cell phone charger last weekend, no clue, so I broke down yesterday and bought a car charger for it. The damn thing was dead so it hadn't worked for a few days, but now its up and running with 2 out of 3 bars of juice. Tonight I'll be able to juice it all the way with this drive to LF. Looking forward. Will also be watching the Syracuse basketball game. Peace
Well my NCAA brackets are officially done. I lost two more final four teams tonight and only have one remaining. Oh well. Dang.
Yeah. I don't know. I don't want to focus on this war thing all the time but I can't stop. I have to have the information when it happens. I know right now that it is 8 AM in IRAQ because I just saw it on TV. That and I don't remember anything like this when we took over Afghanistan a year ago, but I believe that was a much dirtier war with the Taliban and other such forces of magnitude.
But I will have moments that I can take a moment and get my head away from this war, like tonight when I went "out" with Eden on the town or rather to Bruno's for dinner who didn't exactly meet our reservation needs, meh!, and then later to a production by
Saratoga Stages, our neighbors, called Paul Pry. Paul Pry is a modern interpretation of
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. I don't know who Paul Pry is after going to this thing and it very much mystifys my mind right now. Yes, I don't really know what I just saw but it was cool. There was a face talking on two screens in the top corners of the stage which also told the story for the play at times I thought too much to read right now I want to see whats going on down there, also a problem with subtitles. but. The music was really cool and there was a lot of action in the play. The actors were fairthly good, but many times they were wearing masks. The lead role male actor basically swung from the top of the stage (black box style) eventually spelling out the word "ETERNITY".. The Snow Queen a whole other story, spelled out the word "HOPELESS" in his fortress behind and above the stage. It was creepy and at times sinister. Who Paul Pry is? I don't know, I think there was a million times more to the story than I saw. Oh man. I'm glad I saw this, because it's probably something I'll never see again. Unless I go again. Or unless the writers of Paul Pry put the play on again in the future.
FOVEA FLOODS
some are funny some are stupid most are dumb
Hey Homies. I came here because I had a thought. That thought was to post something. Only thing is, I don't actually have anything to say. So check out the top 10 myths about Iraq
here and definately check out
the Onion this week.
From the Onion U.S. Takes Out Key Iraqi Bases In Midnight Raid
Facts and Quotes are back. Quick resolution by my support staff, even though I noticed the problem, I didn't submit til about three hours ago. It's already fixed. Way to go!.
QUOTES |
FACTS
Sweet
74.7 Billion Dollars
$63 billion for defense for the war itself
$8 billion for foreign aid and humanitarian aid
$4.2 billion for homeland security
how much are all you rich guys/gals chippin in?
What up? Not much. What's going on. Not a lot. I'm back. A whole 500 miles later and a short visit to brooklyn, manhattan, and jersey is over, done, and history. In the books. Written. Complete. I had a lot of fun and can't wait to do it again. No jokes. Anyway, I'm going to put some pictures of the trip up right now and have them later.
BOB JONES
o my gosh, its bob jones.
Tomorrow I am off to Oneonta to pick up a friend on my way to New Jersey to meet up with another friend on my way to Brooklyn NYC to meet up with another friend. It should be a grand grand time and I am looking forward to it and not letting anything stop my from going. I think it's pretty weird how there are these live images from this "war" on tv. Yeah, I know it's all propoganda, but it's interesting in that no event like this has ever been televised in such a way like this. It's pretty much shit all together. Man, it is also weird to have an online journal and wonder who might read this crap while I type. It's kinda spooky, like I know I'll read it, but who else is. I need a way for you to post comments.
So I'm sitting here at work listening to a fucking war and flipping to my live camera feed on Baghdad in between every thought? What the fuck ever happened to music? What a load of shit.
So.
I guess that's it. A "Target of Opportunity" has been struck. I'm not going to speculate.
The
Atlanta Falcons have unveiled a new logo. Okay!
I know I've had the message "site rebuilding in progress" on my main site
axanodus.com for about two weeks now with only links to this blog and my forum, but the real truth was, there was no site rebuilding going on. No, T did not have a team of developers standing around a fire redesigning, recoding, and redeveloping my site. That would have been nice. But I didn't go down those roads. This time. What I simply did was wait for a kind answer from my people who made a switch without letter their people know, causing the problem in the beginning, and energy. I implemented css style sheets into all the pages I "fixed". I don't really know too much about them yet, other than I am good at changing examples into what I need, look
here but I am starting to get inside of them. Other than that, whatever.
It is nice outside, but you and I both know that it's going to last that long. I'm thinking two, maybe more, snow storms before we get to summer. I did some work last night on the
rezi site last night. I still don't think the design is quite there yet, but its closer. I like the white background right now better than the black but that could all change. I don't know. I'm keeping it simple. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to share. Spent last saturday transferring over the cafe zacquor show and then splitting the tracks and uploading to the site which is also available for download through that link above. The show was real good and I'm going to write something up on it, it just takes me forever to do things. Other than that, I need to get back to my real-paid-work now so I'll see you on the flip...
I am the slime on the radio
Still stuck in my head from the other night.
Googling to find people
Okay I admit I often type in someone's name in google to see if i can find out anything about them. I once did this with many of the people I graduated high school with and found only one email address. I emailed her and it was the person I thought it was, pretty funny. Cnn just posted an article where they talk about this googling that goes on with people trying to find other people and when I read this part I had to laugh.
"With more and more personal information flooding the Web daily, only the John Smiths of the world remain relatively immune. Searchers are often foiled by common names. If their long-lost friend is named John Smith, for example, they'd have to wade through 402,000 Google results to find him. To winnow the results, SearchEngineWatch.com's Sullivan suggested including key words like the person's hometown, middle name, or a former job in the search."
news link
Exactly. Okay, I am Brian Smith and I do have a rather good web presence by building pages upon pages that reference me and or my activities in such a manner to help bump my name up in google's search results. It has helped. If you just type my name in, you will get a link to my page in the first page of results. That's great, but if you aren't sure you aren't sure. However the point this article makes is perfect, if you combine my name with either where I'm from, where I went to school, where I live now, etc etc etc, chances are I will be the top site returned in that list. Granted, if you've already made it this far, then well I am stating the obvious. I just think it's funny that this article points out exactly what I've known all along.
Elizabeth Smart
Holy cow! The found her. That's so awesome/amazing and makes me really happy. It's good to have good news and it should definately be mentioned in a time of bad news after another.
news link
Evening
So here we are in the evening. I think sleep is going to be my next order of business. Maybe a little reading. This weekend will be Brian's crash experiment with CSS, I'm looking forward to that. Tomorrow night I'm going to go see Rezi at Cafe Zacquor in Gloversville. It's going to be a great show, but Friday I will be tired at work. I will get a lot done though. I have a major project that needs to be pushed out. It's a real beast. Gotta love it.
Hump Day
So it's hump day and I'm busting my ass on a project. Not only does that sound exciting, it really is.
This weekend I need to bust my ass on redesigning the rezi.org website as well as fixing my site and spec'ing out its direction.
I realize that I don't have the archive piece working at this time, will try to get that fixed tonight...we'll see. Until later.
Blogger.com
I've moved over to blogger dot com and have also moved over all my other posts from my last blog. so here we go. I like this much better and it seems a little easier to work with. Check out this article from cnn.com on blogging and blogger.com
link Pretty cool. I will most likely be playing with the template in the future changing how this all looks, I kinda like this basic look though. Anyway. Hasta.
Okay, this is from my old blog. I am just going to post it up here. It's going to say that it's been posted on March 11, but you and I will know the real deal
Picking up Prescriptions
I just went to the doctors office to pick up a prescription for my girlfriend and they told me ok, but next time she will have to pick it up herself because of the new ocean laws, which I understand completely. I wouldn't want someone to go pick up something for me if they did not have the rights to do so. I was actually thinking that when I walked over there, thinking they would give me a problem. I mean yes they gave it to me but they really shouldn't have. My question is this: Assuming their office is not open on a weekend, how do people with normal jobs (ones they can't leave to go run errands --not mine) pick up things like this? Why would she have to take two hours off from work to drive to Saratoga and pick up a danty piece of paper. It seems so annoying. I don't know much about these ocean laws or whatever they are called, but could she have written a permission slip to grant me the right to pick up these things. Is there a legal permission slip that allows people to act outside their disgression. Like when the UPS guy had to have someone sign for my phish tickets to be dropped off at my apartment, and one is home during the day. Can't I leave a note with my signature authorizing him to do so. I wish, but it didn't work. Anyway, I have work to do. Later on.
Posted at 11:59 am by bsmith
Saturday, March 8th, 2003
It's saturday, thats it.
Posted at 11:24 am by bsmith
Thursday, March 6th, 2003
Happy Birthday Shaq
and George Burns, Ed McMahon, Alan Greenspan, David Gilmour, Rob Reiner, Tom Arnold and me.
Posted at 8:27 pm by bsmith
Wednesday, March 5th, 2003
Seattle
Sara and I just booked our flight to go see our friends in seattle.. gonna be fun.
Posted at 8:52 pm by bsmith
Friday, February 28th, 2003
The Sun Don't Shine
I'm back from my travels a few days past, i feel like crap though. I must of taken a cold/flu with me cause I had it then and I still have it now. I think I'm going to leave work early. I came in and did what I needed to. Soon as some people arrive I will update them and leave. Later.
Posted at 8:49 am by bsmith
Friday, February 21st, 2003
Friday Afternoon in the Universe
this one is draggin real low... i mean shit a 5 day weekend coming up, i get to see phish 2wice. was up til 3 am last night coming back from MASS.. beat tired, complicated work going on in front of my eyes and all i want to do is go home and take a nap... does anyone have any ideas on how i can make this afternoon fly by,.. and dont say, focus on your craft, ignore the clock, listen to music, or drink water.... there probably isnt a solution but i like to vent..
Posted at 2:11 pm by bsmith
Friday, February 14th, 2003
St. Valentine
So here I am, twiddling my thumbs, well not really. Doing what I do, how i do it, when i do it. It's Friday. It's Valentines day. (I still haven't made a card or got anything for my honey, and I feel bad about that) I have no excuse but lazyness which there is no excuse for. Anyway.
Posted at 11:00 am by bsmith
Shit
It's late. How am I still awake still. You see. I don't follow a specific pattern or set of rules when writing. I just do it. Thats about it.
Posted at 12:27 am by bsmith
Thursday, February 13th, 2003
This design
well, hey I'll be the first to point this out. I don't like the design of this page at all. It's total junk. Once I figure out how to use this thing I'll fix that up. Until then, bare with me and bare witness. But dont bare your ass.
Posted at 5:26 pm by bsmith
Comments
soon i will add the comments thing. maybe if someone has a comment, feel free to
Posted at 5:08 pm by bsmith
I am home
pssst. I realize that I am not linking this to anything yet... pssst. my other page doesnt know. Well the yabb board does, but nothing else. there are no links to this domain yet at all from that site... hee hee hee..
Posted at 5:07 pm by bsmith
My Arms.
I just noticed my arms have like doubled in size. How did that happen? I mean i've been going to the Y for the past month (minus 1 week).. but damn G
Posted at 2:24 pm by bsmith
Concentration
I can't concentrate very well with coffee brain. Is it lunch time yet? So many noises in the background, moe new years even in the foreground of my mind. Umm, I hear costa my boss talking to someone in another language, French i believe, i think its funny to hear foreign communication interspersed with english words like "Notes" "Open" "Main" "Navigator" "Browser"
Posted at 11:24 am by bsmith
Until The Morning Comes...
"Soon we'll be away from here, step on the gas and turn that tear away"
Not much beats coming into work at 5:30 in the AM and fixing up some bugs in time for Q/A testers to come in at 8:30 and verify that they are all of course, correct. Listening to a little random right now on the computer speakers. Doing the thing. No spam emails have come in for 10 minutes, things must be doing good. I need to build this website, and the new rezi one. I'm lazy. The free time I have is used up too quickly. I joined the Y about a month ago, and now look forward to that 30 minutes I spend on the bike each day so I can get my reading in for the day. Right now I'm reading Catch Me If You Can. It's a really interesting story. Frank Abagale you sun of a gun. Good book though. Anyway, back to the grind. Gotta another issue list to bust through and return to that Q/A tester. Adios.
Posted at 8:13 am by bsmith
Hey There Sleeping Still
I know your sleeping. I'm not. Now it's off to the thing.
Posted at 4:14 am by bsmith
Wednesday, February 12th, 2003
Am I Sure
I'm not so sure I like this tool.I may try a few others to see what other sort of options there are. This is nice
and easy though.
Posted at 3:43 pm by bsmith
Work
And away we go, time to do some work
Posted at 8:17 am by bsmith
Look
Look im tired, im cranky and i want to go to sleep. You have a problem with that? The
cat even wants me to go to sleep, she is waiting. I'm out.
Posted at 12:45 am by bsmith
Working
My head is asleep while I sit at my desk at work past midnight pushing buttons
and poking holes.
Posted at 1:54 am by bsmith
The Beginning
this is it, the beginning, the first post. im trying this thing out, see if its any good. we'll see. it's pretty easy to use. just have to type i suppose.
Posted at 9:00 pm by bsmith
Welcome to Brian's new blog. What is it? What is it for? It's basically just going to try to collect my thoughts at any particular junction in time. Peace. Enjoy.