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Any electrical geniuses out there?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:56:49 GMT

I want to plug my DDR machine's pads into a computer. (Thus negating the need for the cabinet.)

I don't know how to use a soldering iron.

Halp plz?

FOUR OF A KIND IS GOOD RIGHT?

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:59:39 GMT

Placed 11th out of 128 players. Except there were 194 rebuys and 54 addons so it was more like 11th out of 376. Not bad considering I fail at PLO.

Strangest poker hand yet.

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:25:52 GMT

aldkjgfaldgkj

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:17:35 GMT

>:O

Shiz.

Thu, 07 May 2009 09:11:17 GMT

I've been off the WoW for several weeks now. It's hard to say I'll never go back -- when it hits your lips, it tastes so good. A part of me will always miss the glory days of my old raiding guild. But I'm happy without it for now.

Some kid near the UO campus jaywalked (jayran?) in front of me today. I think he was either suicidal or had Down's. Nearly tripped and fell in front of the several thousand pound truck I was driving. Definitely belongs in higher ed.

I realized not too long ago that I've never held a job where my direct supervisor liked me. I'm fairly convinced at this point that it must be my problem. But I don't know what that problem is yet.

I used to be pretty torn on the whole nature vs. nurture argument. Perhaps I'm becoming jaded, but I'm thinking more and more that people are not agents of free will, but slaves to their nature. You have your DNA, you have your formative years. Perhaps a few brief, scattered, impressionable moments. After that, the events of your life are a very elaborate set of dominos falling. By the time you're old enough to think for yourself, you're stuck.

The age at which people start making important life choices keeps moving back. Maybe that's a huge mistake.

I've started stomping arrows again. I wasn't going to bring my machine with me to Vegas in a few weeks, but I'm reconsidering in light of my rekindled fondness for the game.

I lost.

My only gripe is that I can't actually play DDR. (I have to play Stepmania.) My machine frequently crashes whenever I switch DDR songs. So unless I feel like whoring MaxX Unlimited or something, it's a waste of time. I thought it was the optical drive, but I've since replaced it. No go. Sad Tyler.

I got my second quad-star tonight since I started playing again. Healing Vision AM of all things. I've been playing lots of DDR Max stuff.

Big fuck you to whichever step chart transcriber decided that So Deep was 139.970 BPM. Really.

I had a LAN party last weekend that was dominated by DOTA. We played a 6v6 map, where 3 of the 12 players were experienced and the other 9 were complete noobs. Dear god, that map needs a handicap mode. Don't even get me started on how inadequately it's designed for new people to have fun playing with veterans.

The following things bother me to an irrational extent:

-People who smoke while riding their bikes.
-People who go through the left hand door at double doors. What the fuck country do you think this is?
-The fact that I don't seem to be losing weight on my diet of fast food and soda

Ohi LJ

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:30:25 GMT

I made 6 posts last year. I'm falling behind this year!

How's things, people? I don't read your LiveJournals. I'm lame like that. But I'll read your comments if you feel like posting them.

It confuses me when people add me as a friend on LiveJournal when I haven't made posts or comments in months.

Cancelled my WoW account. Anyone want to buy it? Super epic Druid omg! :p

More interesting entry to come in a week or so. Promise.

DSR^2 Lost & Found

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:45:04 GMT

I have three items from the tournament:

Black Family Guy hoodie (belongs to little Jason I believe)
Black "All your base.." tshirt (belongs to the dude that came from Seattle?)
Red sleeping bag (no idea)

If you want to claim your item, talk to me. Otherwise it's going to Goodwill.

I miss these two.

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:07:03 GMT

@DSR peeps

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:47:21 GMT

Sad that a bunch of people couldn't come. But huge thanks to everyone that came out to make it a success. It was great to see you all again.

The tourney had 31 participants, I believe only 2 of which were from Eugene. You out of towners pretty much kick ass.

DSR^2 content will be available for download soon.

Email me your address if you want a CD shipped to you. dyaus7 at gmail. If you didn't come to the tournament and your name isn't JJK, you might have to reimburse me. Sexually.

kbye!

(PS Dan I'm sorry I suck.)

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:33:27 GMT

tall grass says hello
my sanity says goodbye
i hate allergies

Dear Old School DDR People

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:03:14 GMT

I miss you guys.

How's things?

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:39:51 GMT

Faceless survey.

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:11:28 GMT

How many people have you kissed?

Anonymous replies only. (Others will be deleted.)

Lost and found.

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:17:19 GMT

Some stuff was left at my house last weekend, including:

Motorola cell phone charger
PS2 composite cable
"HONG KONG" zip up sweatshirt
Creative brand mp3 puch
Eddie Bauer long sleeved thermal shirt

There were also Twinkies and Gatorade but I made short work of those.

If you need any of the above back, comment or email me and we'll figure it out.

Sight Read tournament.

Sun, 21 May 2006 21:42:05 GMT

Dear everyone coming next weekend:

Please bring your own sleeping stuff as well as hygiene stuff (towel if you want to shower).

Also, the house is my dad's, not mine. Please be very nice to it.

<3

-Tyler

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:08:08 GMT

Last weekend, I:

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:28:44 GMT

Went to Seattle for a tournament for the first time in over a year.

Won myself a hotel room in Vegas which is sweet.

Didn't play poker. O_O

Flirted excessively. (Not with girls, though.)

Ate the largest meal I've ever had in my life (2 pieces of toast, 3 pancakes, 5 egg omelette).

I'm kind of annoyed at the rules for nationals. Time to whore 12-13 footers for 2 months. Yay!~~

Looking forward to seeing/meeting people in Vegas.

This weekend vs. next weekend.

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 07:22:24 GMT

A simple, stupid miscommunication, really. I'm sure everyone has faced it plenty of times.

I tend to say "next weekend" and often people will try to "correct" me. They'll say "no no, it's this weekend. 'Next weekend' is the weekend after this weekend."

To that, I say fuck you.

There's never any confusion when talking about months, right? "Next month" is always the month after the current one. "This month" is obviously the current one. So why do people get out of sorts when talking about weekends?

The confusion, of course, arises because there are these bewildering periods between weekends that throw a wrench in the works. If you use the term "this weekend" during a weekend, I think it's obvious. But if, during the week, you say "next weekend," it should be crystal clear that you mean the nearest weekend. The term "this weekend" doesn't even really make any fucking sense (gramatically speaking) when used during the week. "This week's end" would be more appropriate.

This unnecessarily angry entry brought to you by the number 2.

Video capture.

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:26:13 GMT

Anyone know stuff about video capture? I'm trying to get my dad set up so he can convert all of his VHS tapes into DVDs. Should I get something like this? Will my crappy 500Mhz PIII work?

Query.

Sun, 11 Sep 2005 06:01:13 GMT

Are confidence and curiosity mutually exclusive?

Huh.

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:36:02 GMT

I've made $297 playing poker in the past week. $150 of that was a one time only deposit bonus, but still, that's almost the size of my paycheck. Maybe I just, you know, won't try to find employment when I move back to Eugene.

Poker and timing.

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:58:31 GMT

Last night I was playing a game of hold em with Jeff and Stephen. It was just for fun, no actual money involved, but all three of us were pretending that it was real money so the game lasted a while. Jeff went out mostly because he got screwed with good cards, so just Stephen and I were left.

We played heads up a while and nothing major happened, mostly bought blinds from eachother. Then I decided I wanted to end the game quickly so that all three of us could play something together, so I started going either all in or folding depending on my hole cards. I kept getting really lucky with cards, so I went all in about 7 times in a row, during which time my worst hole cards were Q10 suited or something.

Stephen was being patient, folding every time and just waiting for his opportunity to double up. I knew he was doing this, so I was afraid he'd have amazing cards whenever he called me. Then, on his small blind, he gets pocket 2s and goes all in, expecting to buy my big blind.

I call and turn over my pocket aces.

Good game.

Academic bullshit.

Thu, 12 May 2005 08:15:54 GMT

So I'm reading a sociology paper about disability and masculinity in the United States. It discusses how our cultural ideas of masculinity (independence, control, sexuality, what have you) are impossible to achieve for men with disabilities, and the oppression they experience.

In the paper, they refer to those without disabilities as the "temporarily-able-bodied."

Are you fucking joking?

The idea is that although they may be able-bodied now, everyone is likely to experience a disability at some point in their life. This has got to be one of the most ignorant things I've ever seen in an academic paper. Any state, except death, is temporary. Are you going to start referring to people as temporarily-attractive? Temporarily-intelligent? Temporarily-alive? It's as though the term was coined out of frustration in dealing with negative implications of disability descriptions, so instead of trying to alleviate that negativity (by instead saying "differently abled" or whatever else) they decided to attach negativity describing everyone else. It tries to make disability the "natural" state of being. You might as well use the phrase "the-people-less-cool-than-us-because-they-lack-disabilities."

Us, them.

This, that.

Black, white.

Wrong, right.

Democrat, republican.

The world is not that simple.

Watch this right now.

Sat, 07 May 2005 10:01:21 GMT

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/765/

Seriously.

I wish my goat did that.

Subjects are stupid.

Wed, 04 May 2005 23:39:32 GMT

If I was 21 already, I'd be in San Francisco right now. Stupid United States having the highest drinking age in the world. *shakes fist* I say if you're old enough to be drafted and die for your country, you're old enough to drink alcohol. It's just like sex -- get over the fucking taboo already and teach people how to drink/fuck safely, cause they're going to do it anyway. That's not to say it should be encouraged. But the way our country vilifies these things only makes the situation worse. People committed to remaining virgins until marriage are more at risk to get STDs because they'll go have irresponsible oral/anal sex. Policy makers' hearts are in the right place... but they're too naive.

Why do people say "for god's sakes?" Does god have more than one sake? What the fuck is a sake?

And what about the phrase "I could care less?" That implies that they care some... which is not what's meant by that.

I'm listening to the new Weezer album that comes out in 6 days. How do people get their hands on this stuff?

I think it's intentional. Just a scam for free publicity.

Why do I write silly musings on LiveJournal when I should be working on my homework?