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Grant

I'm living in cloud cukoo land

About Me

just ask

"9/11 wasn't a triumph of the human spirit. It was a fuck-up by a guy on vacation." -Bill Maher

My Interests

live music, gaming, computers, acoustics, mathematics, anything fun

Movies:

The Life Aquatic, The Fisher King, Pi, LOTR, Akira, Fight Club, Usual Suspects, Mulholland Drive, Event Horizon, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Quadrophenia, The Big Lebowski, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bowling for Columbine, 25th Hour, Tao of Steve, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Real Genius, War Games, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket

Television:

Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, History Channel.

Books:

The African Safari Papers, Illuminauts Trillogy, Fahrenheit 451 (and pretty much anything else by Ray Bradbury), Fear and Loathing (las vegas, campaign trail, etc.), The Rum Diary, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Heroes:

Hunter S. Thompson

My Blog

Survivalism

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Posted by Grant on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:30:00 PST

faaaaaaast

damn this new bike is fast. 22 miles in 1 hour 20 mins... ~16.5 mph averageI'll post photos of it this weekend.
Posted by Grant on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:20:00 PST

Master P's Theater

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Posted by Grant on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:51:00 PST

All these election signs in my neighborhood

There are quite a few for "Kang & Gaido." I want to go change them all to "Kang & Kodo"
Posted by Grant on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:01:00 PST

It Usually Starts with John Ashcroft

From www.reason.comIt Usually Starts with John AshcroftThe pre-9/11 timeline has never made less senseJeff A. Taylor As the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui conclusively proved, amazing things happen when ...
Posted by Grant on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:08:00 PST

They must like me here in corporate america

A week from tomorrow marks the end of my first year working at URS. Every quarter there's a little award ceremony for the orange county, el segundo, rancho cucamonga offices with about 450-500 people...
Posted by Grant on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:55:00 PST

Fark.com headline of the day

Hastert urged in 2000 to throw book at Foley, instead he just tossed him a few pages   Da-dum. *crash*
Posted by Grant on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:29:00 PST

The Secret Letter from Iraq

This was posted on Time yesterday. Everyone needs to read this.http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658-1 ,00.htmlThe Secret Letter From IraqA Marine's letter home, with its frank descrip...
Posted by Grant on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:18:00 PST

We *FINALLY* hired someone new!!

So we've been looking for a new senior noise guy for my office for almost a year now. Well today our new guy finally started. He wasn't exactly what we were looking for, but I think it'll work out we...
Posted by Grant on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:46:00 PST

Drunk Texans at 3 AM

So this happened back in April, but it popped into my head again for some reason.I was about 50 miles west of San Antonio for a week working on a railroad noise & vibration project. Part of doing an ...
Posted by Grant on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:34:00 PST