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jeff

holding on for dear life and one more beer

About Me

I'm in grad school trying to finish up my PhD.

I’m a bit of a coffee addict, but I figure that as far as addictions go, that isn’t such a terrible one to have.

My Interests

hanging with my friends, travel, messing with texas, cooking overly complicated meals, women, soccer, beer, homebrewing, hold'em, music, caffeine, happy hour, raising with the hammer, painters of the amish renaissance, jedi mind tricks, route 18, fireworks, new castle crime, cures for insomnia, manning the grill, your mom, detroit gangs with western pa branch offices, wandering around philly

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who makes me want to ask questions.

Music:

Weezer, The Fratellis, The Raconteurs, OK Go, My Chemical Romance, The Rentals, All American Rejects, Fountains of Wayne, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, The Killers, Rage Against the Machine, Nerf Herder, Lovage, Something Corporate, My Chemical Romance, Lucy, New Found Glory, Northern State, Beck, Gorillaz, Archers of Loaf, MC Chris, Eminem, Q-Unit, Shitake Monkey, The Honorary Title, Closet Whores.

"Word 2 Your Mutha"

Movies:

Fight Club, Office Space, Swingers, Made, Go, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Spaceballs, Heathers, Tron, Secretary, Star Wars, Beerfest, The Departed, Boondock Saints, Reservoir Dogs, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Super Troopers

Television:

Dexter, Chuck, Simpsons, The Daily Show, Buffy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Lost, Home Movies, The Joy of Painting, Iron Chef

Books:

Dharma Bums, Your Diary, The Beach, Freakonomics, C++ How to Program, any good cookbook, American Psycho, Harrington on Hold'em, The Game, Pretty much anything by: Douglas Coupland, Chuck Palahniuk, Chuck Klosterman

Heroes:


"Women are an interesting bunch. I'll make an analogy here, they're like grapes. Thats all I've got, really. You see, I said bunch, so I thought of grapes. If I had said women are an interesting group..I would've thought of grapes as well."
~ Jon McGuirk ~

"Send it long!"
~ Dirty ~

My Blog

Movie filming

There were lots of trucks and people outside of my apt building last night. It turns out that they are filming some movie scenes in my building. Very strange. I'm pretty sure that the the movie is Bud...
Posted by jeff on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:41:00 PST

cartoon


Posted by jeff on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:59:00 PST

Running

So in trainng for a half-marathon I need to do lots of runs of varying but specific lengths. Google maps has come in handy for this. Myspace is retarded and won't let me embed the map so here's a link...
Posted by jeff on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:38:00 PST

Double popped collars and more

I have discovered the reason that Al Gore invented the internet: http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/
Posted by jeff on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:14:00 PST

It’s not a bug

If you also think that this if funny, then you are just as lame as me....
Posted by jeff on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:53:00 PST

Crazy hour

Saw this on a menu in Berlin, this concept needs to catch on in the US....
Posted by jeff on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:40:00 PST

Timmy

After surgery and a few nights at the cat hospital, Timmy has returned home and is hopefully all better now. Here is a picture of him that I took when I went to visit him the morning after his surgery...
Posted by jeff on Sat, 19 May 2007 11:36:00 PST

Pulp Typography

During my usual morning ritual of coffee-drinking, web-surfing and general brain-awakening I came across this and found it to be pretty entertaining. You may not, but that isn't really my concern....
Posted by jeff on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:29:00 PST

I'm glad that February is a short month

Last week, the hard drive on my laptop died.  I was going to buy a new one, but my car wouldn't start so I ordered it online (from lab).  Last night, there was a fire in my apartment buildin...
Posted by jeff on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:15:00 PST

Prepare for a moon spanking

24 + ATHF = http://wesmokewhileweflipthebird.ytmnd.com/
Posted by jeff on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:44:00 PST