Jaye Waye

12:59 am - I'm back from ten days in San FranCISCO

I'm finally home after having spent several days in San Francisco.
The first five days were spent at Cisco Live where I learned quite a bit. I also party twice as hard as I expected.

It was a crazy trip.
( all of which can be summed up in this picture )

In short here are some points of this trip.

• Very late getting to the airport heading to San Fran. To make things even more hectic, the woman ahead of me in the security line had a printer with her! A big boxy printer. In her suitcase! What the? I thought I was going to miss my flight because of a woman trying to bring her printer with her. It worked out though.


• Parc 55 is a very nice hotel and I had a great room


• The actual conference was crazy, lots to learn and absorb. I learned about Optimized Edge Routing.


• NetQOS throws one hell of a party


• Cisco throws an even more amazing party. I've now seen in concert, Sugar Hill Gang, Howard Jones, Tears for Fears, Devo, the Bangles, and the B-52s


• I was able to see my friends and old co-workers. To include, Al and Sarah, DD and KT, Derek and Nichja, and Kris Overbo.


• Saw Point Break Live


• Google is the best place ever. I also really like Mozilla


• and other random things

02:33 am - Anyone can act as well as Keanu

So today I saw Point Break Live.

The play's unique feature is that audience members volunteer to play Keanu Reeves' character Johnny Utah.

So one of the volunteers is chosen by the audience and then is guided around through the play by the cue card woman. And the rest of the cast is hired actors, who overplay their parts and make everything even more entertaining and crazy. The parody does not stop with the movie; they also parody the actors of the original movie roles. So Busey's character is a little more crazy and a complete drug user and alcoholic.

I guess the show had a great run in Minneapolis years ago, but I’m hoping one day it comes back. It was just too much fun.

In short, the show was great fun. This week in San Fran has been filled with craziness.

12:25 pm - SFD 8

Friends, Family, FANS,

SFD 8: The Reunion Tour

Coming to Minneapolis on July 19th, 2009.


That's right! Spectacular Food Day IS BACK! SFD 8 will be hosted by Elizabeth and Mike Borchert at their home on July 19th. Food will be ready for serving at 4pm.

People are welcome to come early to prepare meals or just mingle.


For those unaware:
SFD is Spectacular Food Day. What is SFD? It's somewhat of a potluck, except people bring meals that they fancy to be Spectacular. No matter what it is, soup, entree, salad, dessert... if you are a wizard at making this meal or you know it to be top quality, then bake it up and bring it in. Whatever it is; if it's amazing, exhilarating, or spectacular, it has a place at SFD.

I generally say it's a good idea for people who have plans to share them so that as much variety is served as possible. So let us know you are coming and let us know what you are making. Eat and be well my friends.

This entry to be duplicated as a facebook event.
Any questions can be posted here, e-mailed directly to me, commented on within facebook.

06:05 pm - 24 Films Great Films Too Painful to Watch Twice

( mostly a reference post, but feel free to add suggestions )

12:51 pm - Heroes the TV show

( there are spoilers contained within about Heroes )

/end rant

03:47 pm - Terminator 4

( in case you think my thoughts will ruin your enjoyment of the movie to come out )

03:58 pm - This is why Gut rates higher than Unicorns

05:47 pm - I should go home

Yes, I should go home.

09:01 am - Why Television is stupid! Or at the very least production companies.

It just occurs to me that Weeds is on it's fourth or fifth season and Carnival didn't make it past two.

Fuck you HBO. And well I guess Showtime as well!

I guess it's minimally OK because Weeds sucked after second season anyhow.

06:48 pm - My Lucky Court Day

Today I went to court for a speeding ticket.

On Dec. 26th I got a ticket for speeding; 74 in a 55.
I called sometime in January and pleaded Not Guilty. Which resulted in today's trial.
I got there today two hours early and sat around reading magazines and browsing the internet from my blackberry.

At about ten to two, I decided the cop wasn't going to show up and I'd probably have the case dismissed.
Five minutes after two I met the County Attorney and had a small meeting with him before getting called into his office to discuss.
He played a little hard at first and then said something to the effect of it won't go on my record and I could just paid the fine. I replied with, or I can go to the trial right now and win because your cop isn't here. Right?
He agreed, we waited a few minutes, saw the judge and he dismissed the case. So yay me. I avoided being "responsible for my actions".

This leave with a few thoughts.

When the County Attorney gave me the option to not have it go on my record, I almost took it. Not because I was worried about losing the trial, but because I felt a sense of responsibility. I choose not to because I don't really have the money to pay and I didn't really want to pay for something I'm generally pretty good about. I saw a clean way out and I took it. I feel maybe a little guilt over this I guess, but mostly I feel pretty good about it all.

Also I started to wonder about the cop. Why the hell would he show up? Does he get paid to show up? If not, why waste your off-hours? I remember asking him after getting the ticket if he'd be at the trial, he gave some pretty unexciting answer that didn't convinence if he would or would not be there.

This system is rather interesting. On one hand I think they just expect people to pay their fines and move on. But they have a system in place that is important for many reasons, though I'm guessing not to fight speeding tickets. So I wonder what the world would be like if every speeding ticket was contested. That's a lot of hours cops would be stuck in trials. I think the balance is really interesting.

On the way home I stopped by Trader Joe's and got exactly $54.00 in food. Because it was exactly $54, I one a chance to spin the "wheel of fortune". I won a free reusable bag! I already have around ten, but one extra never hurts. I think someone could say today was my lucky day.

Oh that and D got me Wii Fit for my birthday (which is about a month a way). I believe the timing has something to do with often guessing what gifts she got me before getting them in my hands. So she wanted to surprise me. And I was! (I spent about three minutes wondering what I recently order from Amazon.) Though now that I think about it her question about whether or not I would be at work today was sort of telling.

11:33 am - Bad Movie Brunch

It has been a plan of mine for a while now to continue the tradition of bad movie brunches that Al used to host. However, having less than a iron stomach than Al, I will be adding some personal touches.

Starting this Sunday I will be hosting high-adventure myth and monsters movie brunches. Beginning this week with Krull. People can start showing up at 11am and the movie will begin at noon. Bring whatever foods you wish to eat or share.

Here is a preview of the movies to come:
Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (the better sequel)
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Dragonslayer
Eragon
Ladyhawke
The Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure (this is an interactive movie! well see about it)
Deathstalker
Willow

Who of you are brave enough to make such a voyage?

01:05 pm - here is a list of movies I've seen

( meme thing )

02:37 pm - Why don't I own this shirt?

01:13 am - Thumbs Up America

Yay America, yay President Obama.

09:31 am - School Board

After some research, there are some crazies running for school board. Wow.

It's vote day, I will vote right after my foot wakes up.

01:46 pm - Rock Band 2, more news

So Rock Band 2 now exclusively have the Beatles.
As well as AC/DC, which comes out on the November 2nd.


And just because this entry has space-
What I'd like to see:
Buffy the Musical Episode Soundtrack
Tool
Pink Floyd
Little Mermaid Soundtrack
Live
Weird Al
Stabbing Westward

03:35 pm - Free Music!

Rock Band has announced their free 20 song pack today. You can find a quick link to the youtube and myspace page of each of these songs here.

So far I don't recognize any of the music or bands. I like, maybe, a good third of the songs I've heard so far and none of it is offensive to my ears.

All worth the price of free though.

List here:

The 88 - "Sons and Daughters"
Authority Zero - "No Regrets"
Between the Buried and Me - "Prequel To The Sequel"
The Cab - "Bounce"
The Chevelles - "Get It On"
The Cocktail Slippers - "Give It To Me"
Dealership - "Database Corrupted"
Endeverafter - "I Wanna Be Your Man"
The Ghost Hounds - "Ashes To Fire"
Hollywood Undead - "Young" My favorite so far, kind of reminds me of Eminem song (though it gets a little too busy at parts)
Kutless - "The Feeling"
The Len Price 3 - "If I Ain't Got You" (Is this song actually only 32 seconds long?)
Lesley Roy - "I'm Gone, I'm Going"
Opiate for the Masses - "Burn You Down"
Semi-Precious Weapons - "Magnetic Baby"
Shaimus - "Like a Fool"
Thenewno2" - Crazy Tuesday"
Tickle Me Pink - "The Time Is Wrong"
Underoath - "Desperate Times, Desperate Measures"
X Japan - "I.V."

02:07 pm - Running Update

This week has been full of suckness. I've been sick since basically Monday. I even had to take Tuesday off of work. So I haven't been able to do my weekly runs.

So now I'm sort of worried about next week. How much edge will I have lost?
We'll see.

Last time I ran though, which was a Saturday, I accomplished two things.
1. I was able to maintain a pace, which I've found to be mildly difficult. Sometimes I just want to jog faster and sometimes slower, so I've been trying to keep going at one solid pace.
2. I was able to run further than what was required of me, that was nice. I could have probably ran even longer but I got to the end of my run and had appointments to keep.


Also I ran without my shirt on, does that mean I went up a level?

02:13 pm - PSA

Are you tired of media controlled images of beauty?

Have you been told to wear a bag or go back to the right decade?
Maybe you know the pain of being just a little different.

Are you spending your hard earned money on hair layers and coloring; wearing those awkward Paris nap-sack dresses just to fit in?

Do you still feel alone?

( Well no longer, you have a friend now to lead the fight against those oppressive standards of beauty )

08:22 pm - Couch to 5k update #2

I just finished my tenth jog of this program.
Update, I feel like I'm about to pass out.
Ouch, so tired.

But I completed it. Even missed my turn cause I was so out of it. Had to jog in a half-circle to get back on track.

Better update later, maybe.

06:57 pm - Day 1-3 and today Day 4

I've started jogging, the couch to 5k program.

Here is a summary so far:
Day 1 - This Sucks
Day 2 - This Sucks
Day 3 - This Sucks, but maybe I'm getting better
Day 4 - Burning Pain (this is a milestone, 90 second jog intervals vs. 60 seconds)

02:14 pm - Entry

Yeah, I have nothing.
I was just sent this ridiculous new user pic and had to share.

08:01 pm - Rock Band 2

Someone you know just pre-ordered Rock Band 2, new drums, and a new guitar.

If you haven't figure it out yet, it was me.


:)

03:39 pm - Internet Wizard

I'm a Cisco Certified Network Administrator now.

I passed my CCNA, at 933 out of 1000 (passing score is 825).

It's something I should have probably gotten a year ago, but I've not been able to focus on it for various reasons. But I've spent several hours after work, on and off for the last 2 months reading up on the material.

Today was my second attempt of the 640-802, I also took it last Thursday.

( a little more about it )

I'm excited to go to Disney World South Dakota.

05:03 pm - When was I in Nascar?

( Read more... )

02:43 pm - Sleeping with the fishes

This seems like fun.

I might have to become SCUBA certified now.

02:40 pm - The Dark Knight

Geez, like you people haven't seen a good movie before.

10:51 pm - I need a waterbottle that doesn't make water taste like plastic

Today I biked to work for the second time this summer.
It was harder than the first. When I began my bike ride this morning the sun had already been out for a couple of hours. So it was pretty hot all the way to work. Secondly, there was an extreme wind to pushing along me the entire way. I made it though, about 25 minutes later than I expected. And I felt sort of ill when I got there.

The ride back was pretty awesome. It was already dark and I guess I didn't realize the Greenway didn't have lights. That little bit of secluded forestry path can be kind of scary in the darkness. I survived it though and maybe in record breaking time -- 45 minutes?



Poll #1220185 Road Trip
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Where should some friends and I take a road trip to?

03:53 pm - Rock Band and Rock Band 2

I'm pretty excited about Rock Band this week.

Tomorrow I get these four songs:

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby

Rush - Closer to the Heart

Rush - Working Man (Vault Edition) alternate-take master

Not my favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers songs, but I likes.

Also, the Tuesday after next I get the following from the Who pack:
“Amazing Journey”
“Baba O'Riley”
“Behind Blue Eyes”
“Eminence Front”
“Going Mobile”
“Leaving Here”
“My Generation” (Live at Leeds)
“Real Good Looking Boy”
“Sea & Sand”
“Summertime Blues” (Live at Leeds)
“Who Are You”
“Young Man Blues” (Live at Leeds)

That's right! Behind Blue Eyes! I'm so excited.

In adddtion they also annoucned Rock Band 2, which I'm guessing will be awesome. I can only assume they'll fix the minor issues with the UI. They've already promised to release some newer updated instruments. Also I read somewhere they might be expanding the variety of instruments, so maybe we'll see a Keyboard?

AND! AND they will have back-wards compatibility with rock band downloaded music. Most excellent.

01:26 pm - Upgrade!

I had to pay my tab renewal fee today, per the State's request.
You know for my car.
So I decided to get those fancy Loon plates.

It feels sort of like leveling up.
Except there wasn't any fancy ding.
That's probably why I did it.