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Jake

Just keep doing your thing man...

About Me

I grew up in california. Now I'm in North Carolina of all places. There's some background info involved but it's not too important.

My Interests

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computers, guitar, music of all genres, cooking. I live the life of a rockstar minus the fat bank roll, cool cars, and exotic women (for the most part).

I'd like to meet:

anyone who has a passion for life.

Music:

The Transplants, No Use for a Name, Social D, NoFx, Green Day, Flogging Molly, Unwritten Law, Rise Against, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Flock of Seagulls, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Strung Out, Jimi Hendrix, Lynard Skynard, Fugees, Saul Williams, Pennywise, Chemical Brothers, Unwritten Law, Sublime, Bad Religion, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Orbital, RobD, Aphex Twin, Propellerheads, Outkast, Del, Tupac, Pixies, Black Eyed Peas, Beenie Man, Jay-Z, Jurrassic 5, Maroon 5, Michael Jackson, Mos Def, the beat goes on

Movies:

Snatch, Pulp Fiction, Pirates of the Carribean, Boondock Saints, Vanilla Sky, 5th Element, Cube, Pi, The Bicycle, Basically anything that I can cop a one liner from and only a select few will know, while the rest just think I'm witty and intelligent.

Television:

Aqua Teen, Sealab 2021, Futurama, Family Guy, Mr. Show, Iron Chef, Soprano's

Books:

Anything by Arthur C. Clarke, the Davinci Code, scifi pulps, Hunter S. Thompson. The Rouge Warrior series (we all have our vices). Kurt Vonnegut. Technical Manuals. The Lord of the Ring series. The Amber series. John Weisman... etc

Heroes:

As sad as it sounds, I don't know that I have a hero... I have icons I guess, but none of them have quite attained hero status. I'll get back to you on that

My Blog

cali trip

First and foremost... yessssss for coming back to cali for a week to party w/ everyone. Here's the trip layout; June 9th - Fly into SFO and stay the night in the bay area June 10th - drive up thr...
Posted by Jake on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:36:00 PST

why can't I just digitize my brain

ok. I'm writing this from an Apache 6700 PDA. This puppy is bad, and I want one, but here's why; (edit; ok it doesn't have the brackets Ineed to put in html... that's kind of annoying, i'll add...
Posted by Jake on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:10:00 PST

No Man is an Island

No Man is an Island There is a quote I had in Ash's quotebook from way back where I said "Everyone is thier own little country, forming temporary alliances but not letting them get too deep. So tha...
Posted by Jake on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 07:22:00 PST

Drinking Toasts!

St. Patties day (aka Irish christmas, when Santa paints himself green, and gets liqoured up on the town) is just around the corner, so here are some drinking toasts for you to use at the bar when it's...
Posted by Jake on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:49:00 PST

French wine intimidations

I had a few days off this weekend and have been reading a book about wine. Well put free time and budding knowledge together and presto! Actually nothing came of the presto... but I did learn abou...
Posted by Jake on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:34:00 PST

The makings of an uber rig...

I finally got sick of my ATI 9600XT. It was a decent card, but I got fed up with tweaking graphic settings at the command line just for a few extra fps. So I decided at first to get a new card. How...
Posted by Jake on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:40:00 PST

Ice storm, part tres

Ok, for the third time lets post this, and hope I remember to publish it. So last week we had an ice storm. I thought it would be similar to one of the many snow storms I went through in Cali... ...
Posted by Jake on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:27:00 PST

ice storm

yea, I had a really good blog on here about the ice storm and all that, but when I went to post it I forgot to hit publish and close the window.I actually did that twice, once earlier and again just ...
Posted by Jake on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:59:00 PST

Allison Krauss and Union Station

Rocked. I saw them tonight in Greenville. Older crown, and a blue grass band, but they were freakin awesome. Incredible props go out to Jerry Douglas, who plays the Dobra for the band. It's basica...
Posted by Jake on Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:06:00 PST

assasination christmas

My christmas spirit got ambushed this year. Before any tides of holiday cheer were able to seep in, before any reflections on any true meaning attained, my christmas spirit was caught in an enfilade ...
Posted by Jake on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 05:05:00 PST