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August 30, 2005
I started a new blog
Now don't think that this blog isn't going to be maintained. By all means, akijikan is alive and well. That's right, I'll have two blogs! Akijikan, my personal blog, and I Know College Football, my college football opinion and analysis blog. Check it out now!
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August 27, 2005
Job Searching and a prize
So priority number one for me today was finding a job, and while I didn't get a job today I did find several oppertunities.
I got applications from the following:
Firehouse Subs
Hibachi Factory
Panera Bread
Subway
Domino's
Jimmy John's
McAlister's Deli
I also got a phone number to call Monday for a starbucks that isn't completed yet. And I left my phone number with Gus' Good Times Deli.
Hindrances to my search:
the enterance/exit to the garage in which I was parked
Why would they close the garage? How is anyone in there supposed to access their vehicle and use it for anything? What if I had an emergency? I hope this isn't something they do on the weekends. Rediculous.
Finds:
I stoped at a store called "Cartridge World" to buy a black ink cartridge. I bought one for 18 bucks - 1 dollar student discount which I thought was reasonable. I also found out that next time if I bring my empty ink cartridge then they will refill it for half the price of the new one. Awesome! They also gave me a "Campus Trial Pack".
It promotes the Upcoming Direct-to-DVD Family Guy movie, Stewie Griffin, the Untold Story.
I think Brian is my favorite character from Family Gu.y
There were some useful things in the pack.
I've been wanting to try out the Schick Quattro razor.
The rest were advertisements
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August 26, 2005
Aloe Vera Drink
I found an asian food market in Knoxville, and I while I was there I spied a curious looking drink.
I've never heard of aloe vera for internal use, let alone to satisfy thirst
Incase you're wondering its okay maybe even good. It's peach flavored so I didn't really get to try the aloe vera taste alone, and the can said it contains pulp, but its not like orange juice pulp. Thier idea of pulp is actual chunks of what I assume are aloe vera plant in the drink. Which texturally could gross some people out.
Next time I'll have to see if I can find some unflavored aloe vera drinks.
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August 23, 2005
Bob Hope: Best Movie Line Ever
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August 21, 2005
Moved into Dorm
Well I've finally moved in and set up my dorm. It was a headache. A couple of stress-filled days only so I can sit in this cell and roast? You wouldn't believe how hot one dorm room can get without air conditioning. Well maybe you would. Here's some picture for you all. Sorry for the quality, I don't have a real digital camera. Just my cell phone cam.
Yes it's even smaller than it looks
That's my rig. An AMD 64 3400, Half gig of ram, 80 gig harddrive, and ati Radeon 9600 Mobility.
The desk is attached to the wall so I can't hide the wires underneath.
The mess never ends.
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August 18, 2005
Cindy Sheehan's Camp Casey Campers: Gone Rabid?
As a caller into the Rush Limbaugh Show recounted from a visit to Cindy Sheehan's Crawford Camp:
"I saw them go over and just about attack a young girl who was very distraught because her brother had died in Iraq, and they had all those crosses up, and his name was on the cross. So the mother and the sister came out to remove that. They didn't want him to be a part of that, and so they encircled her, tried to stop her from being able to get the cross, she finally did. They were just about at the point of attacking her, told her that her brother was a murderer, that he had killed innocent people, and that he died for nothing."
That is sick! She's got a bunch of politically motivated wolves behind her. She may or may not be aware of their motivations (I'd bet she is), and she may or may not be motivated by her loss (I'd bet she's not), but I can't believe she had these people there with her! At least she's left, but as I understand it, she left the vigil to her obviously rabid protest-mates.
American Soldiers in Iraq are not victims, they are heros. A soldier does not kill innocent people. Those in a Iraq are giving their lives to protect innocent Iraqis. Gunner Palace anyone?
Sheehan's outrageous quotes of calling George Bush the biggest Terrorist are unfathomably without thought, reason, or logic. What that George Bush has done makes him a terrorist? He killed innocent Iraqis? I'm sorry but that's a reality of war, there is always collateral damage. He's killed American sons and daughters? I'm sorry but these soldiers signed up to be in the military and being in the military one would reasonably expect to go to war. Soldiers die in war. It's a inexcapable truth. So to protest when a son or daughter dies is extrordinary! 1862 Soldiers dead. Does anyone realize that is a spectacularly low number of deaths in a foriegn war? Look at how much has been accomplished for Iraq and its people. How can you call these lives wasted? How can you so dishonor their sacrafice with your politics of Bush hating?
You Cindy Sheehan, disgust me!
You at Cindy's Vigil disgust me!
You undermining the efforts in Iraq with your demoralization through emphasis of the negative disgust me!
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August 16, 2005
Miami Ink
I'm watching the newest episode of Miami Ink. I love this series. I guess that's mostly because I would love to get a tattoo.
The only thing that really keeps me from getting a tattoo is my desire to live in Japan. Tattoos in japan are still fairly taboo from what I've read or heard. Many public baths have a policy to not allow people with tattoos. All of this is because tattoos are associated with Yakuza.
Watching Yoji, the apprentice to Ani, makes me think "Wow, I could do that." But I seriously doubt it. I can't draw a thing. Ahaha. Watching people do anything on TV makes me think I could do it.
Wow, now Family Guy is on and it must be a realy really early in the series because the animation, voices, and even the comedic timing is off.
Good night.
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August 15, 2005
AC Adapter Repair
My AC adapter for my laptop had died, but having an electrical engineer for a dad, I wasn't about to blow 50 bucks on a new one with seeing what could be done to repair this one.
The first thing we did was cut it open, and we made a startling discovery.
They just modified a universal AC adapter with thier plug and put some plastic around it to conceal this cheap design. It's also why it broke so easily. Those pins were soldered where the cord took a lot of lateral force and solder isn't made to take direct force and is very weak so it broke.
So we decided to resolder the joints and see how long that lasted. Make sure you know which pin you solder to the tip point because you have to make it tip positive (which the pin-holes are marked pos and neg).
There's our repaired AC plug which we just inserted into the pin holes.
But it broke too. So we went to radio shack and discovered a C-sized AC plug would find the laptop and plug into the existing adapter.
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August 14, 2005
Personal Wikis?
I find the idea of personal wikis very cool, but I'd have to learn more about them before I started one.
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August 12, 2005
Bugaboo Creek Steak House
So for my mom's birthday we went to Atlanta. We went to Ikea and the Bugaboo Creek Steak House. This place is amazing. I had the New York Strip.
That's a 12-Ouncer, cooked to medium-rare perfection
I haven't been to a place with a strip like that in a long time. Since it was my mom's birthday we had them sing and do their thing. At the end of their song they all shout "Kiss The Moose" and a giant hand puppet of a moose is offered to the face of the birthday-person. My mom went for it. Bigtime.
Wow...
The food was terrific and I would recommend this place to anyone.
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NARAL ad Misconstrued?!
We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record
Wow. Misconstrued? They wish.
Anyone who knows anything has already seen factcheck.org's denouncement of this ad's assertion, and reading their transcript shows what NARAL was trying to do was not misconstrued.
Showing a bombed clinic on the screen and giving a quote from the victim, then saying that John Roberts filed briefs supporting violent fringe groups is insinuating that John Roberts supports violence against clinics. Seems that any explination of the ad other than the above would actually be misconstruing it.
Their press release is just another way to minimize their intention and make it everyone else's fault. Rediculous.
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