Hyenas come back in last 40 seconds scoring 2 goals for the tie. Mark's performance = lacking. My friend from 7th grade on (mainly just end of High School) Jenni Jones, is moving to Portland tomorrow. This makes me sad on the inside part of me but I am happy on the outside because Now I can go visit her in Portland, a place that I've always wanted to go. Good luck out there, kiddo. I was asked back for a second interview for the internship at IHS Energy. I'm stoked that in still 'in it to win it' but this can only lead to more freaking out, hoping and hoping and hoping that I will get this. This would be the best thing to happen for me in a long while. I'm disappointed at the lack of comments/answers to the movie quotes. I've decided that they are too hard for you amateurs (muahah) and so they will be easy for a while until you are all fighting to be the first to respond with an answer. Also, I know that some of you don't comment because you feel you don't have anything interesting or funny to say, but I could really care less about you upholding your 'images'. Seriously, comment on anything, I don't care. Tell me what your dog ate for dinner last night, tell me what product you use in your hair, when the last time you showered was, or one of those classic 'nam stories. I don't give a crap, I just like hearing from people. I don't even have those comments to be 'commenting on the post', they're there just for you to abuse: put your crap there. In fact..... -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy" p.s. if comments are down, refresh page and if that doesn't work, come back in 5 mins
The all-time Major League record holder for most career hits, most games played, most singles, and playing in the most winning games, Pete Rose decided to pop in to Best Buy tonight with his buddy who was buying a refrigerator. A Whirlpool fridge. All the employees we kinda uppity and running up to him, having him sign things. I had a different approach. Knowing his past, I bet him 20 bucks that his friend would buy the service plan. I won. No, but seriously, Pete Rose showed up at best buy tonight and it was pretty cool. I got the Insomniac DVD with Dave Attell finally tonight (ordered it 9 days ago from bestbuy.com) and I'm actually a little disappointed. Its just 5 episodes of the show un-bleeped out. Not that the show is bad, I love watching it and am glad I have this DVD, but I thought it would show behind the scenes stuff or have 'special features' which it didn't. Still a good buy tho. Next online purchase? This. Also today, I bought the new Brave Saint Saturn CD. It is really good so far, but I need to listen more and it will be great. For those un familiar with BSS (or the stupid abbreviation I saw, "BS2"), they are a band made up of a few of the members from Five Iron Frenzy from Denver. They are the pioneers of Astro-Rock. You can download a BSS track linked directly here. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- [nick excluded from this one because I've been saying it non-stop for the past 2 days] -"Man, I wish I had a case of beer." -"Quesadilla?" -"What?" -"Quesadilla? Mexican food?"
The Slashing Hyenas triumphed over team Hooka last night in a full out barrage of sweat, blood, and melted snow dripping from the ceiling. Not less that 10 people took serious diggers when skating over, or near the 2 wads of paper towels in front of either bench. Some members of hooka (one member) got so mad as to slap-shot the paper towels across the length of the rink. That was cool. It was a tight game, and in all honesty, we weren't really "on" last night, but we held up. Michael, Jeff C, and Dan were missing, too. It was 4-3 us with a few mins left, and with only 14 seconds, friend Matt Brozovich made a wide angle shot that bounced off someone, and the puck rolled on its side on the goal line, then rolled out. I honestly can't say whether it went in or not, and neither could the ref, but he called it no goal anyway. Now, every team has had calls like this against them and as it turns out, some handle it better than others. I generally insult the ref's intelligence, messing with his mind, making him feel stupid, but a member of Hooka had a better idea. When doing the usual hand shaking after the game, instead of the customary "good game", he decided to be cleaver and say "its the call that wins the game" to everyone. Okay. Despite anything that goes on during the game, once its over, everyone's friends again. I've never seen anyone actually have hard feelings after the game like that or take a loss so bad. There was no reason to be a sore looser like that. His beef was with the call, not the team. This was one of the only games with no penalties in it and there was no negative feelings toward each other the whole game until the end. I guess I am just disappointed in that guy. o well, too bad you lost buddy, you don't need to cry about it. Other than that, nothing is up. School, work (they fired the crappy sales manager) same old same old. Oh, do NOT see Dreamcatcher. Worthless. Lee doesn't even save the horrid cinematic crap that is Dreamcatcher. The movie a) confuses you only for the point of confusion, not revelation b) sucks c) morgan freeman's role is less than .05% necessary to the film as a whole and should have been cut in editing, and finally d) had aliens which sucked. Boo Dreamcatcher. -=RidgewaysBibleJokeoftheDay=- Who in the bible was only a foot tall? -Pontius Pilot: Because he was just a ruler.
Had my interview at IHS Energy today for the internship. I was so excited to fond out that they're working on stuff that I have wanted to do for a living. Its heavily web based 'applications' that are fully interactive and access databases and servers. Okay, I don't completely understand it all yet, but it is programing that has a web based interface for clients. Anyhow, I think it went well and I want to get this internship so bad. Its the exact stuff I want to do. My parents get back from Ireland tomorrow, which is cool. Nick has now downloaded all of the Scrubs episodes that exist and I have to agree that it is by far, one of the best shows running today. Hope 'all you all' spring breaks are fruitful and good.
snow pics are up
What a wonderful couples of days. War + St. Patrick's Day + Snow = constant fun. I liked hearing bush say how we're going to help the Iraq people rebuild their government and countries after we bomb the crap out of it. I'm sure at that point, the people will welcome us with open arms. Anyhow, I've heard talks that the tentative title for the new Iraq will be "2 America, 2 USA", but it wont star George Bush which is kinda weird. You'd figure the sequel to a country would star the guy with the highest billing from the original. St. patrick's day was awesome. I went to school, worked, and drove home to do homework till 4am, which was pointless because we didn't have school. Now, it seems good, no school and all, but it really didn't feel like that much of an excitement. I ended up waking up, getting ready for school, finding out there wasn't school, then sleeping for another 5 hours and staying outside for the next 6. Once I woke up, Nick and I walked to KFC for some boneless honey bbq wings (3.5/5 stars) and when we got home, our landlords were making a snowman with their kids and asked us if we wanted to join. Normally this would trigger a polite no, but then again, there was 2 feet of snow and we were sick of helping people out from being stuck (2 on the way home from KFC). The snowman was actually pretty much done when we got to our backyard, but Christian wanted to make a big snow slide/ramp out of ...snow.... for the kids. For the 'kids'. We ended up building about a 5 foot tall toboggan chute that went down an eventual 10 feet in altitude. Gabe (the landlord's 4 year old) was our test pilot all day. He'd go down, and when he'd go off the side and fall 4 feet, we'd build up the side so that when we went down it, that wouldn't happen to us. Aside from the close 'assumed power lines' (we bumped into them a few times but to no electrocution) and the wetness of it all, it was a good time. even the dog went down the slide a couple times. After that, we went in and dried off and them I went back out to shovel the sidewalks. After about a half hour, nick came out and we shoveled our cars off and helped another person get un-stuck. Shoveling the sidewalks and cars alone lasted 3 hours. It ended up being pretty fun and not all that cold since we were active all day. I have already seen that Regis is closed tomorrow, So I'm gonna go ahead and not do my homework. Pictures of the ramp and snow (for our out of state friends) should be up tomorrow. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "Why are these ceilings so low?"
Hoping to get an internship with IHS Energy here soon. Shawn Bailey told me about the position and Today I emailed my resume to the head of the company. I am using this site, and my GZ site as working examples in my 'portfolio' as the job would be Java programming with an emphasis in website implementation. It sounds like a rockin' internship and I hope I can get it. My hockey team, the Slashing Hyenas actually won tonight! We beat this team 4-3. They turned out to be a bunch of un-cool guys who would play uber rough and then cry to the officials endlessly when they got a penalty called on them. It was pathetic. While I didn't score any goals, I thought I did better than last week and can only hope to improve. Thats the news for now. This should be an easy week, so give me a call, especially if your Tom (who is on spring break).
So heres my post for the weekend assuming nothing interesting happens (which it rarely does) Thursday night, my poor little sister (and by little, I refer to her sad situation as opposed to her age) got stuck in the elevator of her apartment for 2 hours. Some girls from her work were going out and swung by to pick her up. Since she hasn't gone out in a while, she decided to get all decked out. The called her from outside and told her they were there to pick her up. Just before the lobby, the elevator got stuck. Porbre, porbre Julia. She decided to yell and hope that someone would hear her. After about 15 mins of yelling, she decided to panic asking such questions to herself like, "am I going to die in here?" and "did I turn my stove off?". Her cell phone didn' work because...she was in an elevator. And the emergency phone was broken. So after 20 mins of yelling, a girl that lives in the apartments heard her yelling and came out to figure things out in her pajamas. She called the someone and got hold of the elevator company. They'd be there in a swift 45 mins. During the next hour and a half of waiting, some other guy who lived there decided to stay and talk with the 3 of them...through the crack of the bottom of the elevator that carried sound out to the lobby. When the elevator people finally came to rescue her, she had to crawl out the opening in the bottom of the elevator. Julie had quite a scare that horrid night, but ended up making a couple friends and a quarter along the way (she found 25 cents on the floor). I don't know if this will be funny as spoken in text or not, but last night, Nick got bored and so he decided to piss me off any way he could. He started by treating me like his illegitimate child bound to him by no fault of his own and so he yelled at me and hit me. I was trying to write a paper. He then proceeded to force me to write my paper while pouring water over my head and lap, the best of it seeping down the seat onto my central butt area. I got upset, but carried on. His usual attention span is only for a few minutes and so I thought he might go away soon, but no. He started poking at me and throwing things at me and eventually went to the kitchen to get a big rubber band. He emerged through the doorway, rubber-band in a stretched position between his Left hands finger and right hands finger. He spoke: "Do you know how much it hurts to take a shot from one of these in the testicles? Do ya?!?" His hands separated, brandishing the fully stretched band that would become the agony of my night and as he motioned to let go, inevitably cracking at my pants in my special area, the rubber-band slipped off of his near hand and proceeded to pierce his right nipple. His nipple was still sore from unsaid activities two weeks earlier and he dropped to the floor in immense pain. I had quite a scare that horrid night, but ended up making a couple jokes and a peanut-butter sandwich along the way (The sandwich also had some enriched raspberry preserve spread on it which was comforting). -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "Paul Power... Paul for President... Paul... Promise... Progress... Peanut..."
I got bored again so I made some more ASCII pictures. Thundercats I | Thundercats II New mp3otw up thx to michael. Stupid Regis wont let me recieve .mp3 files, so if you ever want to send me an mp3 from now on, rename it to "whatever.mark" and then when I get it I'll rename it back to .mp3. This way we can beat the crap out of the system. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- -"Now, that is a big trunk. It holds a tuba, a suitcase, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." -"That's just what they used to say in the ads."
Ok. I just got the coolest program....ever. It converts bmp pictures into colored text. I can't explain it better, but ill just let you know that I have been looking for a program like this for about 3 years and have many-a-time considered just writing it myself. If you want the program, just ask and Ill find the link. Here is what the program can do: Kirsten1 | Kirsten2 | Rebeca [please take the time to see that these are made of text, so you can highlight them and stuff. its really cool, but they might take a min to load] Here is a message I received in the comments from my SF trip: "I think some character development on this Gigi person is in order. Does this person have any unique abilities? Why is this mysterious "friend of Julie's" not named? Precisely where did this enigmatic Gigi bartend? You have whetted our appetite; information is now in order." -Joey Tipton O'Hara To answer you Mr. O'Hera: Glen, or 'Gigi' was probably the coolest person I met in SF. He is quite a boisterous young chap with a flare for life. He commented on each song that came on the radio while we were there and his short, sassy remarks were well appreciated. He also helped us determine a 'cool' bar to goto the next night [the Caf� one..] and was quick to tell us how much he didn't like living in SF. 2) Yes, in fact Gigi has a very unique ability. While there was no demonstration, we were informed that he has the ability to put his leg behind his head. I can only assume that this is from the standing position (maybe) because of the gesture ge made with left leg and arm while saying, "He'll remember me if you say he was the one who could [kicks up and raises arm] put their leg behind their head. No one forgets that." 3) The reason this mysterious "friend of Julie's" was not named was for 2 reasons. One: to protect identity. In fact, I first considered not saying that at all to protect the person in question, and. TWO: Because unfortunately, the readers of /mark do not know this mysterious "friend of Julie's" and often I confuse my readers by writing about people who they don't know. I assure you, in the past, mixing 2 people with two of the same names have resulted in some awkward blunders. 4) The 'enigmatic Gigi' bartended at the Grand (?) in Denver which now, sadly, is gone. I hope I have cleared up some things for you Mr. O'Hara and I can only hope that I have painted a fuller, more robust picture for you and all of the others who wanted to know more about the outrageous, outspoken, but never out-classed "Gigi". -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "Just cleaning out the old locker, she stinks like ass but I'll sure miss her.. I guess you could say that about all my girls."
First order of business. An apology. I found out tonight that a first time viewer of /mark was a little hurt when I didn't mention him by name. When posting the San Francisco story I said, "That night we went to Martuni's, this martini bar and met our bartender, glen. He ended up knowing one of Julies friends because he used to bartend in Denver under the name 'gigi'." That friend of my sisters is named Joey and my sincere apologies go out to you, oh shark haired one. I'm glad you came to this site and hope you come back again. Joey is the coolest of my sisters guy friends who is always up-beat, ready to insult others, and for that, I respect him. Today was no good because it was the first day back at school after spring break. I have also decided to post all of the jokes that my New Testament Themes teacher, Fr. Ridgeway tells in class. Let me catch you up first. (Most of these he makes up) Did you know there is baseball in the bible? Ya, First chapter, first verse: "In the big inning..." Why was Moses the biggest sinner? He broke all 10 Commandments at once. What animal on the ark had the highest intelligence? The giraffe. What kind of lights did Noah use on the arc during the great flood? First he used flood lights. When those went out, he used arc lights. For the last stretch of the voyage, he had to use israelites. and the classic joke from today: How did Noah count the cows on the arc? He used a cow-culator. ya. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "We're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but just for tonight, we are Barry Jive and his Uptown Five."
Well. this is usually where I cry about losing hockey, but this time I wont cry. We tied. we scored in the last 35 seconds giving us a one point advantage and then they scored in the last 20 seconds or so. O well. We're getting better, but Weston and myself were both disappointed in our performances respectively. Boat Trip. Staring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Haratio Sans. Holy crap. This is gonna be amazing. "To escape their troubles and find women, they book a trip on board a cruise-liner, unaware the travel agent has just played a horrid trick on them ...[booking them on a] gay cruise-liner for gay men to make out. And slowly but surely, the dim-witted duo begin to realize this." A Gay Boat Trip! Flying Crap Thats Gotta Be Funny! Just imagine. Two hetero sexual males, tricked onto a cruise with only HOMOSEXUAL men! The hilarity will inevitably ensue! Im guessing there will be gay jokes, penis jokes, homosexual jokes, and all the other kinds of jokes that make comedy's great. This is the one movie that I cannot wait to see, and I encourage, nay, demand you all see it as well and let me know when you do so. I will then....remenise with you about the un-containabe laughter we have just fell victim to. I will do these from time to time. Guess who said them and what movie. Post answer in comments. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "Anyone want to get some cheeseburgers and hit the cemetery?"
How I spent my spring break.... by mark The first night we got to SanFrancisco, Weston, my sister Julie, and I went to the bar below her apartment, then headed to Lucky 13 (another bar) in the lower Haight area. The next morning we went to the Baghdad Caf� in the Castro area. Castro is the "gayest" part of SF and surprisingly, it only took me about 5 mins to get used to it. After that i didn't even notice it. Nor did I notice the guys walking by pinching my butt (yea...im kidding). We headed down to Haight Ashbury which is where all the hippies used to hang out. It is kinda like pearl street mall but with no 'nice' stores (well, there was one, the gap, which literally did not have a single customer in it) and all of the stores are crazy and eccentric. We went to a store called Amoeba Music which is now my favorite CD store ever. Their used CD's numbered in the 10's of thousands and their new stuff was not limited to major labels. Next we walked through Golden Gate Park which is about as big as Central Park, so really we only walked about 1/3 of the way before we turned around. We encountered a hippie drum off where there was about 50 guys and gals playing any kind of drum they brought and about another 200 people dancing around and watching. It was nuts. Then we spent 45 mins walking to a CheeseSteak place that was closed. That night we decided to stay cheap and drink at home. The next day we went to Muir Woods and saw all of the redwood trees. They were neat. We decided to take a path that looked like it would be less tourist infested and we started walking up it. After an hour and a half, we were still going up and the park was only open for another hour. Luckily just then, the path curved back and started going down finally. We decided to run down the mountain. What took us 1.5 hours to get up, we ran down in 45 mins. We were proud of ourselves. That night we went to the 'beach' which was already dark, so we got some food at Cha Cha Cha's where they had really good tapas. That night we went to Martuni's, this martini bar and met our bartender, glen. He ended up knowing one of Julies friends because he used to bartend in Denver under the name "gigi". Yea. He was hysterical tho and it was a good time. The last full day we did the tourist thing. We went on the cable car to Fisherman's Wharf and ate some In'n'Out Burger and booked it to the ferry for Alcatraz. Alcatraz was actually a lot cooler than I thought it was gonna be. The audio tour we did had all kinds of sound effects and cool stories. We went back to the wharf and headed to Ghirardelli Square, stopping on the way for some more In'n'Out Burger. We had ice cream at Ghirardelli Square, well worth the 7 bucks a piece. On the way back to Fisherman's wharf and pier 39, we had In'n'Out Burger...again. Pier 39 was cool, but pretty much just the same as I had remembered it. That night, we played some pool, watched "The Rules of Attraction" and went to The Caf� (bar). On wed, before we left, we went to Castro again and went in some of the shops they had. We ate some Thai food that was really good and then came home. It was an awesome trip and I'm so glad I have a sister who is cool enough to let her dorky brother and friend stay at her place and annoy her for 4 days. =) Here are the pictures. They are in the pics/personal section of my website from now on. (theres also a couple of short videos in there).
Off to San Fransisco! See you next week! 
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