Me & White Castle. "What you Crave." Open 24 hours a day, oh yeah.
Friday, December 01, 2006
White Castle
Here I am standing in front of a White Castle location just outside Chicago. I have finally arrived.
B.K. Games Sans-Whopper Value Meal
That's right I got all three games without having to buy a single BK food product. The worker was like, "Oh so you don't want to destroy your innards just get the games?" Yes. Does anyone have an XBox I can play Sneak King on? Oh, yeah and Audrey might wanna tag along.
Me and T.K.
So, we found something on that day in downtown Chicago. However, still no coat. We set forth the next day looking for one this time to a different area. We also had the other goals of acquiring the Burger King Games that had just been released, or rather I did and to go to White Castle since I had seen one nearby and was like OH MY GOSH WHITE CASTLE! First stop Burger King. Here I am with The King aka T.K.. Both got the sunglasses going, oh yeah. The double crossandwhich, meat and cheese, meat and cheese.
No Flask is Holier Than Thou...
Indeed. I believe it would go well with the virgin mary hanging from the rearview mirror of many cars in East. L.A.. They should be sold as a set maybe you get a price break if you order both online through Amazon. That'd be awesome. Anyways, post-thanksgiving Audrey and I and her sister, Jasmine, set out on a quest to find me winter provisions to be properly prepared. I don't have a winter coat, gloves, and the rest. So, we departed and went into downtown Chicago. So, nice during Christmas. We went into the Urban Outfitters and we found this wonderful religious trinket. Oh and apparently American Apparel has pants that are still in the R&D phase for sale. Audrey tried on a pair, really weird, testbed pants, how does that work? I thought that was something for like the Military Industrial Complex and such.
DAD The Movie
Yeah, I almost forgot when Audrey and I went out to get supplies for the apple sauce she needed to get a card for her dad since it's his birthday. This one didn't make the cut but was rather "visually stunning." It definitely led the pack in the special effects category.
Brown Sauce?
Yeah, a lot of us were trying to figure this one out. Is it like gravey is not gravey? Is it just some random generic brown colored sauce? It was good though but I still may never know if it was really gravey or not.
Thanksgiving in the Greater Chicagoland Area
"I'm Teflon, Biatch!"
That's right it's Ronald Grand Master Pimp Reagan. He's arrived and so have new blog updates and pictures. I ran out of bandwidth for the month of November so yeah, but it's December now so it's open season once again.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Pimpidents
Well I had a smashing good time in Chicago with Audrey's family for Thanksgiving. The weather was actually nice (strange but true). More details and pics to come no time right now. I gotta work on my final projects. Working on some motion detection algorithiming for me Phys Comp class. Got my advisement appointment tomorrow with my advisor for classes for next semester so gotta get that together. SOO LITTLE TIME LEFT AGH! Ok back to work. More to come soon hopefully.
Pimpton
This is Pimpton telling you to party down with one of his fine NYU ladies @ the Stuyvesant Community Center.
Pimpush
Pimp Senior Bush wanna say, "Read my lips no mo high rates." Pimp Dubbya wanna say, "Don't hate the President hate the Terrorists. And a shout out to all my peeps in Texas, cause they're like that."
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Green & Black
So, in the meantime I got productive. I started working on my I.C.M. final project. I started working with parsing the names of the soldiers who have been killed by I.E.D.'s in Iraq thus far. I have a preliminary text only visual of it. NamesGRNBLK The green and black a throw back to the computer commandline. I'm not sure what I think of this, but I almost am interested in just the text itself and the names alone without anything else. We shall see where it goes. Now I sleep.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
I Want To Gag On My Dinner, That Means It's Finals Time Johnny...
Actually today I was thinking about why they call I.E.D.s, I.E.D.s. I thought about the fact it feels almost like a new term to describe something that has been around for a rather long time. It's odd how it has been rebranded and brought to the forefront and in turn the fixation that the media seems to have on it. Yes, my thought of the afternoon.
The weather has been better oddly lately, not as cold. I wanna go see the new James Bond, even though Daniel Craig looks like your typical "Baddie" instead of a good guy. The action should be really good since the stunt coordinator for Ong Bak I heard was doing them. Also the guy who started parkour aka free running is apparently a bad guy in the movie and they do a parkour-esque chase scene. Man I've seen videos of that stuff crazy, looks like a lot of fun, I'd love to learn how to do it. Hopefully I'll get to go see the new movie soon, I'm such a Bond junkie.
Ran into a friend from CalArts today randomly on the way home from class today. My friend Chi Chi, so bizzare, apparently she's out here in New York working. Small world hey. Oh speaking of class today, I had class today, yes on friday when I don't have class. Why? Makeup class because we had holidays and fell behind due to them. My teacher had an awesome t-shirt on, I had to give him props. It was like an aircraft carrier but made out of office supplies. The best part was the fact that it had paper airplanes for jets.
Anyways, I'm going to be get back to work. Four more weeks and I'll be done with a quarter of my graduate degree kinda skary. I'll also be back home in California. Hopefully if I get back in time, I'll be able to go to D1 GRAND PRIX! DRIFTING! Ohhhh Yeah! Laters.
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Doesn't that one Sumo on the top left of the front most cup look like one of the members of KISS? They call me Dr. Sumo.
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Sushi with Audrey. Such nice presentation. They even put some caviar on top of some of them. It was really good.
Friday, November 17, 2006
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Today in Physical Computing we etched our own circuit boards. It was oddly satisfying. Not so much that this is a funcional thing that I've made but rather the aesthetic aspects around this functional object that has been created. It feels like it could potentially more about the design then about the circuit at all possibly. Yes much to ponder on that note. Anyways, so this is the circuit with the template after being heated onto the copper clad. People seemed to like the whole Skull thing. He's growing on me.
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After a rather painful journey home from JFK aka the L train deciding to be stopped and having to take a rather round about route home while being hungry and missing Audrey, I went to Veselka's. I had myself some pancakes with raspberry syrup, bacon, orange juice, and some tea. So, good. Audrey and I had gone there also for dinner one night and had peroiges. Rather good and very filling. We also went to this sushi place near my school, oh my gosh that was good. I don't have the pics yet off my phone I'll post them soon if they came out. But yeah, good foods and good times were had by us.
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I had never been to see J.F.K. International Airport. I still haven't but got to see it from affair from the Air Train terminal.
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Me & Audrey before leaving to take her to JFK so she could flly home. She's wearing her cat hat.
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So Audrey decided to add some items that I should pick up at the market on the white board. Yes, love the whole O.J. Simpson Orange Juice Carton, classic.
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So, Audrey was able to come and visit me this past weekend. So nice to see her. The night she came in we went to my friend Rona's b-day party. She had it her friend's place out near Time Square, my gosh was totally swanky. Even had a view. Really sweet place. It was a nice time. The next day me and Audrey went to go see Borat, my gosh that was hillarious. Yet there were some parts that were like gosh, did it have to be that graphic especially with the fight between him and his producer, yeah, "...that's going be scorched onto my retina."
Lotus Exige on Bio Ethanol, Hells Yeah
I want bio-ethanol but mostly I want a lotus. I'm not picky i'd be fine with either a Elise or an Exige. Love that car, for me it's like today's MR2. Toyota needs to bring that back after the Supra. Please bring them back.
Friday, November 10, 2006
"Because I'm an Army of One."
I stumbled upon this guy by accident earlier this week while procrastinating like what I'm doing right now. "Popes I can't stand them with their pope hats and their pope mobiles." He's so bloody funny. Watch his stuff u'll die laughing.
Big Salty Balls
"Have you ever seen my balls they're big, they're salty?" No prime I haven't, nor have I tasted them.
Holy Shiite Batman
I dunno what needs to be said, it's pretty self-explanatory and awesome. Who woulda known Robin had such a foul mouth, haha, the boy wonder.
I Fought The Law & The Law Won
Yes, Vader, he fought the law and the law won. Cheap shots. They have no honor.
Monday, November 06, 2006
Gnome Myth...
Apparently, I think, Travelocity is doing some sort of campaign involving trying to find or spot or something a rather with gnomes. But yeah, I just thought it was funny because gnomes have been kind of a going on thing lately for me. Audrey sent me this awesome button that says Gnome Chomsky. One of the best buttons ever.
Perrier Ads
Hey Bunny. Like peace and love. You totally gotta try some of this Perrier, it'll blow your mind. It's either that or he's some sort of Falconer Beast Master like animal tamer who uses Perrier.
Glue Sniffer
Well apparently Totoro (my sister's cat) likes sniffing glue now. I asked her if he was turning into a druggy she said no. She was like he's only done it once. I was like what is he running for public office, I tried it once but I didn't inhale? Yeah, sure Totoro.
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So, an all nighter and of course some pictures of the sunrise. It's something I got into when I was at CalArts. My workspace used to be right by the window so I could see the sun coming up and I would go out and take a break around that time and walk around and take pictures. It wasn't that cold at first being out there but then it started to feel real cold, 36 degrees cold.
All Nighter For ICM...
Of course today is also election day, me I'm an absentee so no going to someone's garage or some elementary school to vote. There is a pretty cool project Audrey told me about and I'll pass it on to you so take a picture when your out voting. pollingplacephotoproject.org. Also, regarding the election one of the most devious computer based phone banking thing I've ever heard of turned up, being used by of course that Grand Ole' Party. Robo Call Barage. The blasted thing calls you repeatedly if you hang up, and it acts like it's the Dem's calling you. If you listen to the whole message it teabags the Dem. Canidate. Bloody devious and mallicious. Oh yeah and bloody go out and vote.
More on Iraq. There was an article in the NY Times about Sniper's in Iraq taking it's toll on coalition forces. It's a fairly straight forward article but what got me was the front image. It's very graphic, way out of the norm, especially in such a large and mainstream newspaper. I'd read it. Sniper Attacks Adding to Peril of U.S. Troops
The N.Y.C. Marathon was run yesterday. The Kenyans did not when, shocking. A brazillian won, I hadn't really heard much about him. The American's didn't do as well as hoped, especially for the women's race. The women's race wasn't much of a race in fact, the leader got away from the pack early, everyone ran way to timidly. There's more, Lance Armstrong, I guess figured he'd try his hand at the marathon. Of course, why not? Well, apparently he lacked respect for the race, the distance, and to me the sport of distance running. "I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier," said Armstrong. His longest run was 16 miles aka improper training. He did make his time, sub 3 hours, which is pretty good considering. However, halfway through he started getting shin splints. He hit the wall. Basically he ended up hobbeling in. "For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done," said Armstrong. He probably won't be able to walk right for a week or two. That's what it'll do to you. You can read about the rest.SI.com: Different Wheels
Welll that's it for now, I'm gonna go outside and take some pics hopefully of the sunrise. I've done some all nighters already but I hadn't had a chance to go out and take pics, I like to do that typically. I have pictures for most of the all nighters I pulled at Cal Arts. It's something that started then. Well off I go into the cold, weather.com says it feels like 36 degrees, agh!
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Pro-Cat Regime
This is a Pro-Cat Regime, hence the video. Yeah, poor kitty looks like something my sis' cats might do.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Splinter King...
Ok so I slept in this morning. Reading some tech news and stuff and what do I see. Burger King Xbox 360 games just released. I'm like what? I have to see this. So I see it and I'm like agh. Ok the racing one is whatever, glad they put in the Subservient Chicken but not anything to trade in your breadbox for. However, Sneak King, now that is some creepy freaky stuff. If the King weren't creepy enough now you get to play him running around and sneaking up on people. It feels so wrong. Matt pointed out why is he all moving around like all Splinter Cell, Solid Snake and stuff? He's waiting though for the sequel when they'll put in nightvision and shadows and stuff. So bizzare, I just had to post about it.
Happy (Belated) Halloween...I'm Burnt, Real Krispy Like, 12 Spices
You can check out the site for the project as well there's some video up there and stuff and more pics. Project Ghost
In other news. I also completed my first real project using live video processing, using C. I changed RGB into CMYK. A play between the ideas and conventions of the two color spaces and the content that is particularly associated with them. I would like to continue with the idea, I really like it. I don't have any pictures or documentation of it yet though, hopefully soon.
I handed in an animated short for my Applications class, based off of that M5 bust trip I took awhile back. I kinda like it. It's silent right now, not sure if i'll leave it that way or not.
I'm planning to continue working on making graphical/visual representations with data from the war in Iraq, for my programming class. The midterm is due monday but it's more liken to a regular assignment which is nice.
Oh I got a vacuum cleaner! A lil red dirt devil, it's got a lot of oomph. Quite nice and decently priced. I need to get a small point and shoot digital camera for documentation purposes, because I can't really lug my SLR everywhere sadly. I need to start looking for something decent and cheap.
Audrey is coming out to see me this coming week which is going to be so nice and great. I'm really happy about that. My G5 tower is acting up a freakin-gain and I'm pissed. I told them to replace the damn processors! Another thing I'm furious about, my bloody car got towed. Freakin' ridiculous I'm pissed and just hope I can get it back, I'm really sad about that, discouraged, and angry about it all.
What's up with all the (RED) all of a sudden? It's everywhere now. However, I'm totally down with the (RED) iPod Nano, freakin' sweet color, it's very tempting but I don't have the money and I'd rather get a Gameboy DS Lite. Hey the Gameboy I could even use for school, so it could be justifiable. Oh yeah also some other random pictures I had forgotten to post from Chicago and New York.