Thursday, January 13, 2005

Mark and I redid the uni trials course and made it a bit harder/more dangerous in the process. I decided to post a short compilation video of our new attempts. Unfortunately, for annoying reasons the second we turn on the camera we get shitty and nervous, so this isn't the best riding we can do on the thing. We have a lot more pogo style hopping to regain balance and shitty landings and such on video than in real life. No, really. We don't suck. Really. Please believe me. I'm lame.

Anyway, the camera also stops recording automatically after 30 seconds, so you'll see some of my stuff stop abruptly, one time mid jump and another time riding the "stupid skinny" from the 5 pallet stack to the 4 pallet stack. I actually landed both moves... stupid camera. Oh well. This is the first video I have of myself riding online. Previously it was just Mark. YOU CAN SEE MY NEW HELMET! WEEE SAFETY! (and yes, I do have leg armor under my pants):

1/13/05 trials riding (DIVX, 16megs, 2:30, some audio not suitable for children)

And now, for your additional viewing pleasure, I present to you:
Andrew Carter's 8 minute movie (DIVX, 50megs) This video is some of the best unicycle riding you'll ever see. He lives in New Zealand and will blow your mind. DEFINITELY worth the download time. (He uses an actual 20 inch trials cycle for his trials riding and a 24 inch Muni for the trail riding. Mark and I are using 24 inch Muni's which aren't designed for trials, but we're poor)

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

A little over a year ago I described how I stay entertained at work (then at AATI): (link)

As usual I get through the day by making stupid not funny jokes in my head that amuse me to no end, and often imagine fun scenarios involving me jamming pipettes into the eyes of the employees of the other companies that share this building with us. I don't really have a reason. Sometimes they hog the autoclave, I guess. That's a reason...

I accompanied it with a wondeful picture.

These urges have, in a very disturbing but entertaining way, always been there and most always will be. I have a new urge that I have to fight every day. Thankfully it doesn't involve stabbing anyone. Not that those urges aren't there, but they aren't nearly as strong as this one.

About every day I cut a case of chicken. For those of you who are lucky enough to have no idea how big that is should simply replace the word "case" with "several metric ass-tons" and you'll get the general idea. This chicken is frozen and thus gets cut into neat little cubes. I REALLY WANT TO FILL OUR ICE MACHINE WITH THESE CUBES!" Do you know how funny and awesome it would be to watch someone fill their drink with chicken bits? Hot damn. The faces they would make, IF they even figured it out. The possibilities for funny are endless! HOW CAN I LIVE WITH THIS TEMPTATION?!?!

This is why I don't go to work drunk (well, one of the many reasons). I need that little voice in my head that goes "BAD SEAGER! BAD!" then more than any other time. (with the possible exception of when I'm playing with my pellet gun)

One of these days...

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Monday, January 10, 2005

The other day at work I almost said, jokingly, "Well, I didn't go to college for nothing!"

I decided against it.

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Saturday, January 8, 2005

Mark and I have this game where we hit each other in the balls. If you're touching the Dog you're safe, though, because the Dog is base. We need to play this game less, it hurts.

Speaking of the doggy dog dog, she has earned a new nickname: Shovel Dog. As many of you know, Georgia Clinton Esquire was very abused prior to being rescued by us. She has BBs inbedded in her skin, and had been beaten rather badly. Well, Mark discovered a flat spot on her back the exact shape of a shovel. We had all noticed the she had interesting posture, but now that this has been discovered it's unmistakable. I already had discovered her phobia of shovels, and now this explains it.

Needless to say this discovery has had a great impact on us. We really don't dig it. I mean, it's a pretty dirty thing to do to a dog. They were pretty neglectful though, they didn't even have her spayed.

It may just like I'm trying to dig myself out of a hole by saying this, but if you don't laugh at shit like this it can really bury you.

Every pun I make further confirms my reservation in hell.

In order to stop this post from going down hill I should say some stuff about the barker ski trip. (preemptive pun ++). I met a bunch of the new Barkerites, and it was bitchin fun. They're a good group of people I made pretty good friends with a few of them. It was real nice to see the old group too, although LISA SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE. I beat the shit out of myself trying to get better at snowboarding. Learning how to turn while going faster results in a lot of painful falls. I think I'm getting old too, because it was really damn hard to get up from some of those.

Ooh, and I bought a boomerang! I was exposed to them at the Mondo Jugglingfest last year and they are more fun that a barrel full of boobies!

Ooh, and in techy nerdy news, for those of you that wisely switched to Firefox, there is a spellcheck available as an extension that's not listed on Firefox's page yet. It's really good, and very useful for blogs and forum posting. Be the first nerd on your block to get this bitch.

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Monday, January 3, 2005

A lot has happened since I last wrote (this is nothing new). My Dad, Sister, Bother in Law, and their 3 kids visited for an extended christmas stay (awesome), as that was ending I got very sick (13 hours on the bathroom floor) followed by Qehn being just as sick the next day. Well, sicker, actually, because she tends to get sicker than me. We blame the Norwalk Virus. It was brutal. It also caused to us have to cut short/skip Ben's visit. Bleck.

I also built up Qehn's new computer using Mark's old parts and my old ram. A 1.1g athalon. (beats her old imac) And, I leave to go snowboaring tomorrow on the annual Barker Ski Trip. WEEE!!

Yesterday Mark and I finished making a cat tree. We spent about 20+ hours on it over the last few weeks, and made it entirely out of dumpstered wood (old lofts, etc) and dumpstered carpet. The only money spent was on staples for my staple gun. Something like this costs between $200-$400 in a store, so we're pretty proud. Parts of it are a little ricketty, but considering we only had a handsaw and scrap wood, you can't complain. I've included some pictures for your kitty viewing pleasure and... (of course) some video of the cats playing on it, simply because I can.

Catless | Both Cats | Both again
Michi | Michi Again | Michi three!
C'Mere (yes, I know it's only one picture, sorry)

Cats Playing Video / Tree Tour
(12.5meg, DIVX, 1:50, compressed down from 90megs, viewable fullscreen)

Y'know there is something wrong with me when I start putting videos of our cats on this thing.

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