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Katt Williams was arrested for burglary? What the hell?

Anyways, my old phone is but a memory and a hunk of plastic sitting next to me on my desk. Hint for those looking into SmartPhones: Avoid Windows Mobile like it’s Windows ME.

I get why people like touch screens now…They are easy to love when yours isn’t cheap an ineffective. No real complaints so far. Here’s some photos I took with it out and about around Madison this past weekend when the weather was INCREDIBLE. It was in the 70s this weekend and I was in heaven. I haven’t worn a sweater in days.
*Be warned, they’re small as I uploaded them to Twitter….

Downtown Madison from Olin Park:

Awesomely still Halloweeny house way out on the east side:

Awesome record store:

So yeah, varied results. but that first one is damn good with a Camera phone. The second I took while driving…thus moving. Weird. Anyways. That record store is home to MANY awesome used records. My record player should be coming soon, which is great, because I already know I’m going back for even more… yeah, I bought some things. Most notably U2’s Boy. Great album. And the prices are insane. Lots of awesome records for $6.50.

I also saw ‘the Men Who Stare At Goats’ this weekend and while reviews are saying it’s not so hot, I really enjoyed it. It was really entertaining and kept me hooked in throughout. And there were a few REALLY good looking trailers beforehand. Notably Brothers and the new Mel Gibson as an actor flick. I know Mel’s kinda’ gross these days, but I’m hoping he’ll be able to shake the image and get back to making awesome movies I want to see. Not Jesus pictures and weird movies.

Also peeped out Taken on DVD this weekend. Solid movie, well told, well acted, and another one that had its hooks in me throughout. great rent, definitely worthy of a quick Netflixing.

So I’m at target this weekend, perusing, deciding what groceries to buy when I see the Vegan section. Fucking vegans, right? I’ve never been fond of this garden burger, soy burger nonsense and am rarely quiet about it. I’m rarely quiet about anything. Unfortunately for me, though, I’ve never actually tried any of that stuff. I am a red meat consumer. What the fuck am I going to do with soy? But I figured I might as well bite the bullet and at least try it so it’s an informed opinion.

I picked up a four pack of Boca Burgers and declared (internally) this this was FOR SCIENCE. I also picked up some whole wheat ’sandwich thins’ which are like really think hamburger buns. Might as well commit. Tonight was the night. I read around online and found that grilling Boca burgers often leaves them dry tasting, which I don’t want. Everyone suggested microwaving them, which…Really? All this concern about health then nuking the thing? I instead put the smallest amount of olive oil in a frying pan, put it on medium heat and cooked them for about 10 minutes until they looked ‘done.’

Damnit were they good. Tasted like a burger. I’m sure this was because I got the ‘flame grilled’ seasoned ones, but I absolutely plan on continuing to purchase these. All the goodness, none of the fat. Win. And since there’s a Kraft company store here in Madison, I might have to go down there and see what kinda’ deal I can get.

Now I did throw some condiments on mine. A little spicy brown mustard, and a tiny bit of BBQ sauce. That’s how I tend to dress my burger. I wanted to toss some veggies on but I didn’t have anything burger-worthy in the fridge and didn’t stop at the store on the way home. Dress this up with some lettuce and some chopped onion and damnit…Success.

It’s 11…When did that happen? I need to get to getting to bed here pretty soon. I’ve been slowly trying to make a habit of getting to work early…Because that means I leave early and I’m trying to get into that habit by the time snow star starts to fall cause I know it’s going to take quite a bit longer to get there.

As was seen in my last post I can update from my phone, which is kind of a nice touch. Being run on a Google OS I’m also tied into Youtube, so I’ll be able to upload direct to YouTube from the little bastard. Hopefully this’ll lead to more video posts soon. And eventually the videos from moving. Jesus have I ever dropped the ball on that. It’s alright, it’s what I’m good at. AND this has been a pretty substantial update, no?

Moving forward… goodnight.

**Edited to add:
Within five minutes of posting this I got THREE gay sex spam comments I had to delete.

I wonder which part of the post attracted them to my site. Vegetarians or cell phones.

or a George Clooney movie.

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So I am trying something new…posting from my phone. Should this work posting photos from wherever should get a whole lot easier. Full on update coming tonight or tomorrow morning before work. Fun weekend was had.

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You know what’s wonderful, dear world? When a cell phone you hate. HATE. Decides to stop working even further. Some of you know the divine war I have been at with my cell phone for a year and a half. It’s a piece of fried hell and I will never buy an HTC product again. Starting sometime today it decided it would rather lock up than do, well, ANYTHING. I’ve managed to eek out a call or two and some web browsing but none of that lasts forever and I can’t text or check email at all. It just locks. I went into Verizon at lunch and they said they could send out a replacement…But I said no. You see, that will be my FOURTH one of these. The first three were shit, so sue me if I don’t trust a fourth. However one of the clerks had an advanced Motorola Droid, which streets Friday, and let me fiddle with it a bit. I think I’m in love. The OS is a Google Product and I’ve never been let down by a Google product. Right GMail, GoogleMaps, GoogleEarth, and whatever else I do that is Googled?

So I think I’m going to pick it up Friday. I’d rather have a phone I like that works than another one of these… So I have that to look forward to. In the meantime Texting and Email has become a real problem.

This is it:

Sexy, right?

So through Kevin Smith’s twitter (@ThatKevinSmith) I found a new blog that I’ve found awesomely well-written and quite entertaining. And an insight to the mind of a single female as well. Anyways, Dating Is Miserable is it and you should check it out. Thoroughly entertaining blog.

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I am baffled.

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Hey All-
Alright, day 2 is in the books. I’m currently in Rawlins, WY. this is where the Wyoming Frontier Prison Museum is. I’ll be checking that out in the AM, then hitting a couple other things on the way to Denver, where I’ll go to Casa Bonita for dinner tomorrow night. At this right I MAY very well be in Madison by Friday night or Saturday morning. but I don’t know. We will see… I’m behind, to be honest, but it’s still going faster than I planned. I think I planned too little time for the first half, and too MUCH time for the second half. Today I saw the White King, the world’s largest Polar Bear as well as the great Salt lake…Which was kinda fucked up. It’s so salty.

Yes I tasted the salt.

On the side of the road. :S

So I’m about to jump into some video editing so you can see what I saw, but here’s a little preview to wet your beaks with. THE WHITE KING! (That’s not a racist thing…)

-Chris

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Edited to add:
So the netbook won’t process my videos right. It only reads them as audio. I’ve looked for solutions but it doesn’t seem to be working. So for now it looks like you’ll have to live with photos. That really bums me out, but it’s out of my hands at this point.

So I’m going to upload a bunch of pics taken so far, from my camera phone…One of you has seen many of these. the rest of you haven’t. tomorrow AM I’ll stop at the drug store and get some GOOD AA batteries fort my digital camera. I will take photos to share with you all and continue to shoot video to edit together once I’m back on my desktop.

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So my journey begins tomorrow morning and I’m still unsure of the route! I have a netbook and my video camera and will be blogging, tweeting, and posting pictures and videos from along my route over the next week. So please, stay tuned and comment your little hearts out. Fool me into thinking I’m doing this for SOMETHING. I’m pretty sure I’ll be arriving NEXT Monday, though who knows?

So how about a rundown of the places I’ll be going, seeing?

First up, Reno, NV. I hope to play a little poker here.

After Reno I jump on the road to Elko, NV. Elko is home to the WORLD’S LARGEST POLAR BEAR!

Following Elko I will hightail it all the way to Salt Lake City, UT! While in Salt Lake I plan to check out the Mormon Temple as well as the Gilgal Garden!

From Salt Lake it’s off to Rawlins, Wyoming where I want to check out the Wyoming Frontier Prison Museum. Then a quick shot over to Laramie, WY to see the giant head of Abe Lincoln! My last stop in the great state of Wyoming will be Buford, WY. Buford is home to the Ames Brother’s Pyramid. It’s just a giant pyramid. In Wyoming.

then begins the little bit of relaxation as I am going to spend a day in Denver, CO. in a nice hotel room and take in the city a bit. While there I plan to have a meal at Casa Bonita, the Mexican Restaurant made moderately famous by an episode of South Park!

Then the voyage continues… I move on into Oakley, Kansas to get a look at Prairie Dog Town, home of a six legged cow for one reason or another. Once I calm my stomach from what will surely be disturbing, I’ll move on into Cawker City, KS…AKA home of the WORLD’S LARGEST BALL OF TWINE! I’m actually REALLY excited about this one. Because I’m lame.

Once I’m done in Kansas, I head into Nebraska. Specifically Hastings, NE where I will visit the birth place of Kool Aid. They even have their own Kool Aid museum! I hope to have cherry or grape. Then it’s east to Ashland, NE where I will visit the Strategic Air and Space Museum to check out rockets and what not! How cool is this all going to be?! My final stop in Nebraska is going to be Omaha, NE where I am going to partake in a fine Omaha steak and if I have time, check out the world’s largest Ball of Stamps.

I then head into Iowa to check out the Ax Murder House in Villisca, Iowa. That should be sufficiently creepy. Then to make things creepier I will be heading to West bend, IA to check out the Grotto of the Redemption…Which looks fucking spooky. As my trip wraps up I make my way into Riverside, IA…Otherwise known as the Future Birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. This town LOVES themselves some Star Trek.

After that it looks like I’m headed right into Madison, WI to start living.

Remember to keep your eyes peeled for updates from the road as I go. This is going to be exciting!

That’s all for now!

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Dear Diary,
Well, what a long, strange trip it’s been! I haven’t updated since pre-Transformers 2. Boy was that ever a different time! Back when I had hope for that movie. I’m moved now…For now…I’m in Stockton until beginning of August, and then I’m off to the land of cheese and beer and Packer fans. I’m stoked for two of those things. Can you figure out the third, diary?

I’ve been doing a lot to keep busy of late. I’ve been making videos, as you’ve seen, I’ve also been going out into the world…Which is pretty fun! I went to a museum yesterday. I hadn’t been there since I was a kid. it felt a lot smaller, but the mummy was still there! It was awesome.

Isn’t that crazy? You’re right, diary, it IS crazy. I’m having quite a bit of fun here but I have to say I’m getting really anxious to skeedaddle. I’m ready to just get on with it. This month of waiting feels like I’m spinning my wheels, but I know that it’s a necessary evil in an effort to get the money situated that’s needed for the big move. Especially since I’m taking my sweet ass time to get to Wisconsin. What with all the stops I’m making, it’s adding almost a thousand miles onto the trip. it’s going to be incredible and I’d just like to do it. Now. First, though, I need to sell off most of the stuff I own. If it doesn’t fit in the car, it’s not making the trip. Unless I decide to ship a few smaller things.

I have to say I’m also pretty stoked to have some new land to explore. I explore and adventure, it’s what I like to do…And I’ve more or less done all the adventuring and exploring I can do in this area…Save for the Winchester Mystery House, which I’m planning to go to before I leave.

I’m just rambling now, but really, that’s what this is for, isn’t it?

I must say I find editing video oddly comforting. I think it’s along the same lines as when I get really into writing web code. It’s something I can just dig into and turn off the outside world. Just turn music on and leave me with a computer and I can get lost for hours at a time. And there’s an end product when I’m done! And it’s not going to always be an entertaining end product, but I’m trying to build up some manner of skill and I have a fun time doing it.

Oh yeah, and Michael Jackson died. There’s revolt in Iran…but you won’t hear about that. And I love Michael Jackson, I really do…but people…the world is not in great shape. Let’s focus on things we can actually try to FIX, shall we?

Alright diary…I think that’s all for now. I’ll check back in soon.
xoxo
Chris

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What’s insane is how much I was looking forward to this movie. Johnny Depp IS John Dillinger? It’s a brilliant plan! And Michael Mann makes good movies, doesn’t he? And the supporting cast is BADASS. Okay, so I just wiki’d Michael Mann and boy was I wrong. He made the AWFUL Miami Vice remake.

Anyways…I have good news and I have bad news.

The good news is first…And there’s a lot of it. This is an excellent movie. It’s just great. The acting is awesome. Everyone is really good. the story is great (Based on a really good book), and to that end the movie is a big winner.

The bad news… Well, the bad news is the movie looks like shit. the camera work is awful, Michael Mann’s use of digital instead of film is really just not good… He’s got to figure out when and when not to go to a close up… Close ups on extreme movement are revolting. the camera angles were poorly chosen and really were to the detriment of the movie. Had there been a cinematographer who could make this movie LOOK good, I would have adored this movie. because everything abotu it is well made…Except for the camera work.

And PLEASE, for the love of god…Can we stop shooting these big budget fuckers on digital? it cheapens it. Make your super huge epic space pictures on digitsal, fine. but this movie is about John Dillinger, the last of the great bank robbers from the 30s and 40s. Digital? Are you high?

5/10

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Haynerfide TV: Stockton is an idiot.

So in an effort to prove how foolish the city I’m moving away from, Stockton, CA is…I present you with a clip from the local news. About how Michael Jackson is haunting a tree and more loved than Jesus. must you make me look like a putz on the way out, California?

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So I’m laying in bed trying to sleep but my mind is racing. You see, I’m about to up and drive halfway across the country and recently everyone has been telling me how they are convinced my car won’t make it. And them saying that is starting to influence me. Then suddenly an opportunity arose where I can buy a car in excellent running condition rather cheap before I make my voyage. And I was going to do it. I had it figured out where I would be able to pay the car off over a period of three months and still have money to live. But as I sit here I’m thinking back to the very first thing I told myself after I was laid off, I want to get out from under my small mound of debt. It’s rather daunting to have that hanging over your head. And with my severance package and unemployment checks, I had it all worked out where I WOULD be able to get out from under debt. However if I go ahead with this car purchase…That suddenly won’t happen.

So I think I’ve decided not to. Now how do I explain to someone as close to me as family that I’ve changed my mind? I really hope she understands, after all she is the one I talk to about how I wish to rid myself of credit card debt.

Fuck… i really need some sleep. Hopefully now that I have all of this down it will remove itself from my mind. but man oh man getting my car over the Colorado Rockies is going to be a pill.

We’ll see how tomorrow goes…

Alright, back to bed. I’m going to try to get a Public Enemies review up tomorrow, as I saw it this evening.

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Haynerfide TV: Moving!

So I’m packing up my apartment. Just about done, even! More documenting my life on the move!

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Scruffy the Dog!

This is my cousin’s dog Scruffy. He’s seriously one of the best dogs I’ve ever met.

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Haynerfide TV 1 - The Start of Something Grand

Let’s get it on.

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What can be said…I’m going to skip the normal formalities. Everyone knows about this movie. Everyone knows about the last one. It made 13 billion dollars. Or something like that…But would the second one live up to the hype?

Well, as we start the movie Shia Lebouf is going to college because he, evidently, received brain damage in the last movie. Why? He’s moving far away from his girlfriend. Who is his girlfriend, you might as yourself…

I love you, darling.

Alright, so something burns Shia’s eyes, hilarity ensues, robots change into things that aren’t robots.

Allow me to just get to the meat of this: This movie is NOT as good as the first. Is it a decent movie in its own right? Yes, yes it is. It’s entertaining…There are some things that really just needed to be cut, however, dragged the movie down. There was a subplot that made use of a ‘presidential liaison’ that was an immense waste of time in a two and a half hour movie. Had that useless subplot been cut out, or at least TRIMMED DOWN, the movie would’ve been far more acceptable.

There were also a couple bots that were kind of odd and JarJar Binks-esque and not as funny as I think Michael Bay thought they were. they had a few clever quips and were entertaining in the big final fight, but beyond that they were just not good.

Furthermore there was one shot of a Decepticon, I believe, that showed two wrecking balls hanging from his crotch. Yes. Robot Testicles. Shit like that isn’t needed in this kind of movie.

There was a fight towards the middle of the movie, taking place in a forest, that I loved. It really outdid the final fight which seemed to be over crazy quick.

The acting, overall, was rather good. Shia was awesome, Megan Fox was awesome, John Turturro was excellent. The army guys didn’t really do much for me. the kid who played Shia’s college roommate was a nice comedic foil for Turturro.

Again, I love Megan Fox in ways none of you could understand.

5/10

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Dear Diary-
It’s been a while. I’m sorry, but I’ve been really busy. Remember how I’m moving? Well I have to be out of my apartment THIS WEEK! So soon, right? It’s been kind of a roller coaster couple of weeks and I’m here to say it’s about to pick up. I’m trying to figure out how to keep updates going while I’m on the road from California to Wisconsin. I’m working on fixing my laptop. I’m hoping to post video, picture, AND diary updates from the road. I’m testing out video on my phone to see if it’s worth trying. If so this should all work wonderfully.

Well, I just tested it out and nada. The quality is for shit. Maybe I can find a flip on the cheap? I just want to get video onto the site here throughout the trip.

Transformers 2 is this week! I’m SO excited, Diary! I’m going late tomorrow night!

I’m moving into a guest room at a friend’s house for the month of July to prep for the big trip. Exciting, no?

Well Diary, I really should get back to the mess around here. More soon!

xoxo
Chris.

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