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I found this again out there in the ether, thought I’d repost since I haven’t had anything else to say lately:

Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”…

Damn kids. They’re all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950’s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?

I am a hacker, enter my world…

Mine is a world that begins with school… I’m smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me…

Damn underachiever. They’re all alike.

I’m in junior high or high school. I’ve listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. “No, Ms. Smith, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head…”

Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it’s because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn’t like me… Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I’m a smart ass.. Or doesn’t like teaching and shouldn’t be here…

Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike.

And then it happened… a door opened to a world… rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought… a board is found. “This is it… this is where I belong…” I know everyone here… even if I’ve never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again… I know you all…

Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They’re all alike…

You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak… the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We’ve been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.

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This semester is really starting to wear down on me. I just got through with a week-long “break”, in which I was assigned 3 medium-to-large sized projects. I finished one of them and got a good start on the other two (though one of them I know I’m not going to finish by the deadline). I’m entering my last week of pledging (I hope). For the last month or so, I’ve thought to myself “If I can make it to Thanksgiving, I’ll be okay.” Unfortunately, Thanksgiving break has come and gone and it did almost nothing to help me decompress. Fortunately though, a lot of my workload will be lifted after this week (hopefully). I just can’t wait for this semester to be over, I don’t know how people manage 18+ credit semesters.

A friend of mine hosted a Thanksgiving dinner at her house this year, that Jess and I went to. It was the most traditional Thanksgiving I’ve been a part of since my dad died (I think, I can’t remember what I did for Thanksgiving between that time and when my mom got remarried). I stuffed myself silly, drank a bunch of good wine, and enjoyed the company of friends for the evening. As an added bonus, we put up her Christmas tree as well (another first for up here, for me anyways). It was the best thanksgiving ever!

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For anyone who doesn’t know yet: I’ve been thinking about joining a fraternity. The fraternity in question is one that I’ve been around for several years (H is a brother there and started taking me over there when we started living together). I made my decision a couple weeks ago, and let my intention to pledge be known. As of last week I was given a bid and I have accepted. So its official, I’m joining a fraternity.

It’s an interesting feeling going into this. There is a sense of dread, but theres also a feeling of excitement… almost pride. It’s a feeling I can only relate to changing one’s career or moving. Something involving a big change in one’s life. I suppose this is a big change at some rudimentary level within me, but it doesn’t consciously feel like it. I’ll still be here, I’ll still be doing whatever it is I do. I’ll just be attached to an organization that I want to be invested in. I felt so excited about this since I made the decision and I’ve been looking forward to today since I got my bid last week, I can’t even begin to say.

When I was younger (17-21 age range), I always told people that I’d never join a fraternity. It was the furthest thing from my mind. So far, in fact, that the idea seemed almost repulsive to me. At the end of that time frame is about when I realized that I was already in a fraternity (the Marine Corps) and the fraternal aspect of it wasn’t nearly as bad as I’d always thought. I blame Hollywood. By the time I got to college and around “real” fraternities I already had the mindset of being in a fraternity so to speak. So when people would ask me about joining a fraternity I’d quietly chuckle to myself and jokingly say I was already in “the biggest fraternity in the world”. When you tell people you were in the military, they tend to leave you alone about whatever they were bugging you about. Here it was definitely the case.

After I became a “regular” at the fraternity I am joining, I was complacent to stand on the outside and look in. I was contented by the fact that I had been a Marine and that I shared a deeper camaraderie with my military friends than these guys shared with each other. I was happy with just being “a friend of the house”. I didn’t mind being turned away from closed house functions. Having had what they have at one point in my life contented me.

So what changed? Why have I suddenly flip-flopped my stance on this?

1. I’ve started to feel an honest-to-goodness, vested interest in the house and the people there. I’ve known quite a few of them for several years and I consider them to be good (if not great) friends.
2. I have a place that I can call my own for the rest of my life. Whether it be here, or somewhere else. I know I get that from the Marine Corps, but not really. Trust me, I know how active duty Marines feel about the old guy who was in “way back when” (and I know how I feel about most active duty Marines too).
3. Total Cop-out Reason #1: It looks good on a resume - Being that this is a business fraternity, it looks good on a resume to be able to say I was part of this fraternity (not as good as being a Marine, but the two together is better than either alone).
4. The Reason I Wish I Could Tell Everyone I Was Joining - “I’m so damn tired of drinking out of a plastic cup, I want a ceramic mug!”

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I was reading an article this morning outlining an interesting trend that is starting with musical artists.  Apparently, we (the consumers) are not the only ones fed up with how the music industry works.  The article states that the bands Jamiroquai and Oasis have followed suit of bands like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails in that they have not renewed industry contracts and are no longer associated with any label.  They are all planning on releasing music directly to fans through their websites.  This is BIG!  All four of these bands have been and are still (somewhat) big names in music, and seperating from the music machine as it works right now like they are doing is probably just the spearhead  of things to come.  I’d very much like to see more artists follow suit.

For as long as I’ve been savvy to the way music works, I’ve had problems buying music.  The way it works is like this:  Band makes an album using expensive equipment owned by the label or studio (the band usually has to pay for studio time, otherwise the label takes a bigger “piece of the pie”).  The label promotes the album, gives it out to the radio stations (they used to pay stations to play the music, but now they are trying to make stations pay THEM to play the music).  The band goes on tour to promote the album.  With respect to the album itself, the artist makes (on average) a measly 2-5  cents per album sold.  The rest goes to the studio, the producer, etc. but the majority share goes right back into the labels pocket.  Screwed up right?

This move by these bands, allows them to get more money (maybe) from their albums and allows them to license the music how they choose to.  For instance, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) says that he doesn’t care if people download his music from P2P networks for free because it gets the music out there and if people really like it, they’ll pay in other ways to show their appreciation.

The concept that Radiohead came up with when they went “free agent” was the concept of a “pay what you think its worth” album.  In other words, when you purchase the album (digital download only) from the website you enter your own price whether it be $0 or $20 or $100.  Its completely up to you.  I really like this concept, it allows you to download the album for free to try it out and then go ahead and buy a second copy at a price you feel worthy of the album after having listened to it.  If you are a returning Radiohead fan you can start off buying the album for whatever you want to pay for it.

I’m curious as to what license the album is released under and I can’t find anything out there on the internet about it.  Anybody have any idea?

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I’ve been wanting to post some things lately, but I haven’t had time. So here’s everything I could think of all wrapped into one post.

Spain

Well, here we go. I got back from Spain a few weeks back. The trip was (yet again) a blast. We spent most of the trip at Casa Roja with a few day trips here and there. We went to Benezar again, to the waterfall. We took a trip to a spa (though I don’t recall what the name of the town was, I’ll look it up and post it later). Almost as soon as we got to the spa they started pulling people out because of a pending thunderstorm. About 15 minutes after that they let everyone back in, but by then more than half the people had left. So we had the run of the place, though it was still pretty packed.

We spent our afternoons in Casa Roja working on wiring the upstairs of the house, staining doors, or (in my case) sanding a coat rack (or another way of saying it would be, taking a coat rack down by the pool and reading a book will sticking my feet in the pool). We got quite a bit of work done on the house and it was really cool to see things working later in the trip that weren’t before.

We took a day trip to a city that has a cathedral/fortification up on the top of a hill. Pretty neat, but once you’ve seen an old church, you’ve seen them all.

When we got back to Madrid, we took a day trip to a town called Avila. Avila is a medieval town, which still has a city wall from that period. There were lots of neat things going on that we didn’t get to see, but it was a really neat experience. Just to look up at these daunting walls and turrets and imagine being a part of an invading army trying to breach these defenses. I found it really interesting to note the commingling of old and new. There were a lot of sidewalk cafes and restaurants along several-hundred-year-old-streets that really brought out the dicotomy.

The only part of the trip that sucked was coming back to no money. The trip this year occured over exactly one pay period for me so, even though my had a little money left over from the trip, I had no expected income for another 3 weeks which was a bummer.

Anyway, picture albums to follow:

Avila

Madrid

The Running of the Bulls

Caravacas

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Last week (when I started writing this FYI), I came down with my first cold of the season and it was a doozy. I actually forced myself to go to class all week but it wasn’t a worthwhile endeavor. I should have stayed home. I was miserable. The kind of miserable sick where your noses constantly drips, you can’t breathe, and you can’t sleep. The kind of sick where you start craving food and then when you eat it, you can’t taste it. Being Sick Sucks…

 

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Classes started a few weeks ago, and mine are going to be pretty intense. Not only did I opt for a heavier class load this semester, but they’re all senior level computer science classes. I think my brain’s going to explode by 5th week. Algorithms, Software Quality Assurance, Systems Programming, Programming Languages, and Senior Seminar. That should keep my weekdays exciting…

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With regards to the poll I put up on the site, it would seem that (aside from the apathetic majority) people would rather read my thoughts here instead of on my Livejournal. So, from now on I’ll be posting here and not there (its just to much work to post in both places).

And on a final, quick note: Did everybody here that Luciano Pavarotti died? He was one of the more notable figures in opera, and had an amazing voice. Its shame he died and he’ll be missed.

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I have pictures up from my vacation:

I have pictures up from my vacation:

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If you speak to me on a regular basis then you have probably seen the evolution of my opinion on the iPhone. If not, then let me break it down for you.

When it was first announced at MacWorld (oh so many months ago), I was excited. I was looking forward to seeing this phone. I mean hey, if anyone can get the smart phone model right, it’d be Apple. When it comes right down to it, anything Apple does is no different than what their competitors do, its just done better. Unfortunately that also means its more expensive… MUCH more expensive… two-or-three-times-my-budget expensive. Still, I saw it as one of those things that eventually would drop in price and I could save up for. Let them get the kinks out while I slowly set aside cash for it. In the meantime, perhaps it would spark some innovation in the current cellular market so I can get a phone with actual usable features.

As time progressed, I became less and less enamored by the iPhone. Not because the newness or novelty of it wore off (trust me, it hasn’t), but instead it has become the bane of my existence thanks to the Mac Fanboy community (if you don’t know what a mac fanboy is, look it up and pray you never meet one). All I ever hear about on the internet is “iPhone this” and “iPhone that” and the rumors are ENDLESS. The site I get most of my techie news from has more iPhone stories than are necessary. People have started adding “iPhone” into the title of stories they submit just to get read. Now they’ve started in with TV spots (thank God I don’t have cable TV or I’d really be going out of my head), so now I see links bounce around ceaselessly on the internet for video sites hosting the iPhone TV ads.

The iPhone comes out at the end of this month and I can’t wait. Then I get to hear about how great the iPhone actually is or how disappointed everyone is or a mix of both for a month or so. The hype should have faded enough by then that I can relax. Maybe in a year or so my proverbial iWounds will be healed enough that I might actually go out and buy an iPhone to see if all the hoopla was worth it.

If you speak to me on a regular basis then you have probably seen the evolution of my opinion on the iPhone.  If not, then let me break it down for you. 

When it was first announced at MacWorld (oh so many months ago), I was excited.  I was looking forward to seeing this phone.  I mean hey, if anyone can get the smart phone model right, it'd be Apple.  When it comes right down to it, anything Apple does is no different than what their competitors do, its just done better.  Unfortunately that also means its more expensive...  MUCH more expensive...  two-or-three-times-my-budget expensive.  Still, I saw it as one of those things that eventually would drop in price and I could save up for.  Let them get the kinks out while I slowly set aside cash for it.  In the meantime, perhaps it would spark some innovation in the current cellular market so I can get a phone with actual usable features.

As time progressed, I became less and less enamored by the iPhone.  Not because the newness or novelty of it wore off (trust me, it hasn't), but instead it has become the bane of my existence thanks to the Mac Fanboy community (if you don't know what a mac fanboy is, look it up and pray you never meet one).  All I ever hear about on the internet is "iPhone this" and "iPhone that" and the rumors are ENDLESS.  The site I get most of my techie news from has more iPhone stories than are necessary.  People have started adding "iPhone" into the title of stories they submit just to get read.  Now they've started in with TV spots (thank God I don't have cable TV or I'd really be going out of my head), so now I see links bounce around ceaselessly on the internet for video sites hosting the iPhone TV ads. 

The iPhone comes out at the end of this month and I can't wait.  Then I get to hear about how great the iPhone actually is or how disappointed everyone is or a mix of both for a month or so.  The hype should have faded enough by then that I can relax.  Maybe in a year or so my proverbial iWounds will be healed enough that I might actually go out and buy an iPhone to see if all the hoopla was worth it.

For the last few weeks, I've been getting more and more disgusted with gas prices as they are.  So last week I decided I'd had enough and went out and bought a motorcycle.  I hadn't realized how much fun it would be!  All I want to do now is go riding.  I'll use any excuse I can get to go out for a ride.  Unfortunately, I only have my permit for it, so I can't legally go out on my own.  Which means I have to go out with one of my roommates.  I have good roommates that would be happy to go out riding if I asked.  The bike I bought is a 2005 Kawasaki Vulcan 500 (click here to see the stats, mine is the same color as the one in the picture) and its a joy to ride.  I'll post some pictures when I get a chance.  Which brings me to my next point.

It seems today, I foolishly deleted my ENTIRE webserver with no backups.  *sigh*  I'm hoping I can have a placeholder at the very least up tomorrow and something pretty by the time I leave to go home this weekend.  So much work last semester all down the tubes :(  So I suppose this is me (to borrow a phrase from Wil Wheaton) in Exile.

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I uploaded some of the drawings I did for my class this semester. There were some I wish I could scan in but they are WAY too big. Also, I’ve moved all my photos over to Google’s photo service called Picasa, but I’ll write about that some other time.

I uploaded some of the drawings I did for my class this semester.  There were some I wish I could scan in but they are WAY too big.  Also, I've moved all my photos over to Google's photo service called Picasa, but I'll write about that some other time.

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yesthattom

:

Do we know each other outside of LJ?

What’s your philosophy on life?

Would you have my back in a fight?

What is your favorite memory of us?

Would you give me a kidney?

Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you.

Would you take care of me when I’m sick?

Would you drive across country with me?

Do you think I’m attractive?

If you could change anything about me, would you?

What do you wear to sleep?

If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?

Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

Stolen from yesthattom:

Do we know each other outside of LJ?

What’s your philosophy on life?

Would you have my back in a fight?

What is your favorite memory of us?

Would you give me a kidney?

Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you.

Would you take care of me when I’m sick?

Would you drive across country with me?

Do you think I’m attractive?

If you could change anything about me, would you?

What do you wear to sleep?

If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?

Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

A question just popped in my head and I'm curious to hear what people had to say. If you were given $50,000 to start a collection of some kind, what would you collect? If I had to choose I would have to say wine. So please tell me what you would collect!

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I went to Chicago this weekend with my roommates. J needed to renew his passport at the Consulate General so we all tagged along, figured we’d see Wicked and hang out with Fancy Pants. Plans kind of fell through, but what a weekend!

Friday while J was at the CG doing his thing, the rest of us wandered around downtown Chicago. We hit up some stores but didn’t really buy anything, it was just fun to browse around. After J got done with his stuff we wandered over to the Sears Tower and went to the top. The view was gorgeous, visibility just started to fade at the fringes of the city leaving me with a surreal feeling of isolation. Here I am surrounded by people, looking out over a city, and feeling like I was the only person. Very cool.

Being that I have a finance geek and an econ geek for roommates we inevitably ended up at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Federal Reserve Bank. Those wouldn’t have been my first choices of a place to visit while in town (I didn’t even know you could tour places like that), but was interesting. The Federal Reserve Bank gives away little bags of shredded money as souvenirs (woo hoo!). They even had a little game to show you how the Federal Reserve Bank sets interest rates and such. It was pretty cool, unexpected but cool.

We ended up meeting up with a mutual friend that went to school up at Tech (vbblade88 for you lj users) for dinner. Nothing noteworthy from that except that it was nice to see her again.</lj>

On Saturday we hit up “the ‘ariums” in Chicago: the Adler Planetarium and the Shedd Aquarium. I haven’t been to the planetarium since I was little, so it was quite the trip down memory lane for me. We saw the constellation show, which I definitely recommend. Its informative and really cool to watch. Of course, me being me, I HAD to buy some astronaut ice cream I wasn’t particularly fond of the aquarium. I liked the oceanarium but that was about it. You can’t help but like the dolphins and sea lions and the penguins.

After a rousing day of wandering, we went to a little irish pub at one end of the “Magnificent Mile” for dinner. The place is called Dublins and it… was… awesome! I got a huge bowl of beef stew for $10 and Guiness at $4 a pint. We had a nice waitress who was fairly on the spot and the atmosphere was great. After dinner we met up with some other friends in the Chicagoland area for drinks. Bill and Libby are always tons of fun to hang out with and I’m really glad we got to see them.

On Sunday we went to the Museum of Science and Industry. It was decent. Lots of little interactive toys to play with, which makes it fun. But we were kind of rushed, since we showed up only a couple hours before closing. We eventually went to dinner at a Mexican restaurant in LaGrange (Ah! LaGrange) called Casa Margarita, which has awesome food (Fancy Pants Tony and I went there for dinner last Cinco de Mayo and it was awesome then too).

On the way back on Monday we stopped at a used bookstore in Milwaukee (I forget the name). It was massive! They claim to be the largest used bookstore in the Midwest. Four floors of used book goodness. I finally got my hands on a decent bar book (the kind with pictures and bar history as well as the drink recipes), and a computer book.

This weekend really made me realize how much I enjoy city life. Granted, I understand that city life has its downside that I didn’t experience being that it was a vacation (higher cost of living, high crime, etc) but I find the benefits to far outweigh the drawbacks. The ability to see a decent play on a whim, having a variety of restaurants serving a variety of foods available to me, city wide internet, I mean seriously the list goes on and on for me. Yet somhow, I’m contented to stay right where I’m at for now.

Regardless, I’m done here. I took some pictures while I was there so I will be uploading those at some point soon.

I went to Chicago this weekend with my roommates. J needed to renew his passport at the Consulate General so we all tagged along, figured we’d see Wicked and hang out with Fancy Pants. Plans kind of fell through, but what a weekend!

Friday while J was at the CG doing his thing, the rest of us wandered around downtown Chicago. We hit up some stores but didn’t really buy anything, it was just fun to browse around. After J got done with his stuff we wandered over to the Sears Tower and went to the top. The view was gorgeous, visibility just started to fade at the fringes of the city leaving me with a surreal feeling of isolation. Here I am surrounded by people, looking out over a city, and feeling like I was the only person. Very cool.

Being that I have a finance geek and an econ geek for roommates we inevitably ended up at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Federal Reserve Bank. Those wouldn’t have been my first choices of a place to visit while in town (I didn’t even know you could tour places like that), but was interesting. The Federal Reserve Bank gives away little bags of shredded money as souvenirs (woo hoo!). They even had a little game to show you how the Federal Reserve Bank sets interest rates and such. It was pretty cool, unexpected but cool.

We ended up meeting up with a mutual friend that went to school up at Tech (vbblade88 for you lj users) for dinner. Nothing noteworthy from that except that it was nice to see her again.

On Saturday we hit up “the ‘ariums” in Chicago: the Adler Planetarium and the Shedd Aquarium. I haven’t been to the planetarium since I was little, so it was quite the trip down memory lane for me. We saw the constellation show, which I definitely recommend. Its informative and really cool to watch. Of course, me being me, I HAD to buy some astronaut ice cream :P I wasn’t particularly fond of the aquarium. I liked the oceanarium but that was about it. You can’t help but like the dolphins and sea lions and the penguins.

After a rousing day of wandering, we went to a little irish pub at one end of the “Magnificent Mile” for dinner. The place is called Dublins and it… was… awesome! I got a huge bowl of beef stew for $10 and Guiness at $4 a pint. We had a nice waitress who was fairly on the spot and the atmosphere was great. After dinner we met up with some other friends in the Chicagoland area for drinks. Bill and Libby are always tons of fun to hang out with and I’m really glad we got to see them.

On Sunday we went to the Museum of Science and Industry. It was decent. Lots of little interactive toys to play with, which makes it fun. But we were kind of rushed, since we showed up only a couple hours before closing. We eventually went to dinner at a Mexican restaurant in LaGrange (Ah! LaGrange) called Casa Margarita, which has awesome food (Fancy Pants Tony and I went there for dinner last Cinco de Mayo and it was awesome then too).

On the way back on Monday we stopped at a used bookstore in Milwaukee (I forget the name). It was massive! They claim to be the largest used bookstore in the Midwest. Four floors of used book goodness. I finally got my hands on a decent bar book (the kind with pictures and bar history as well as the drink recipes), and a computer book.

This weekend really made me realize how much I enjoy city life. Granted, I understand that city life has its downside that I didn’t experience being that it was a vacation (higher cost of living, high crime, etc) but I find the benefits to far outweigh the drawbacks. The ability to see a decent play on a whim, having a variety of restaurants serving a variety of foods available to me, city wide internet, I mean seriously the list goes on and on for me. Yet somhow, I’m contented to stay right where I’m at for now.

Regardless, I'm done here. I took some pictures while I was there so I will be uploading those at some point soon.

I just watched a movie tonight called "10 Items or Less" and it is one of the best movies I've seen in quite a while. I seem to be more inclined as of late to enjoy simpler movies than the flashy blockbusters...

Actually now that I think about it, I've always been drawn to the smaller, more dialog driven movies. The Breakfast Club has been a long time favorite of mine and there isn't much to it other than the dialog. In recent memory, the movie that stands out to me is Collateral with Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise. Both are very simple, dialog-driven movies with very little flash.

This movie was like that. The premise is simple, its about an actor who goes to a little supermarket in the middle of nowhere for research into a role he may be taking. He meets a girl that works there who he ends up befriending and helping after she decides to give him a ride home. But like many things, its not about the destination, its about the journey. I don't want to give anything away about this movie, but I can't stop thinking about it.

At one point in the movie, the main characters are talking to each other and end up asking each other what things they can't live without or are most proud of in their lives in "10 items or less". I thought it was an interesting exercise so I thought I'd give it a shot. So, 10 items or less I would keep (in no particular order):

1. my family


2. my friends


3. my pride


4. green tea on a lazy Saturday


5. the smell of fresh cut grass


6. thunderstorms


7. the feeling after a really good workout


8. waking up without an alarm

What about everyone else? What are your "keepers"? I'm interested to know?

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Its even worse today than yesterday! What the crap!

* Just a note on this picture, it will load a current image, so if you look at this after this post date don’t expect to see what I’m talking about.

Its even worse today than yesterday! What the crap!


* Just a note on this picture, it will load a current image, so if you look at this after this post date don't expect to see what I'm talking about.