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J201 Fairchild

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. Life's been good to me so far.

About Me

If I ever catch you listening to Tori Amos, I'll snatch you bald headed!

My Interests

music, electronics,

I'd like to meet:

Like minded individuals.

Music:

Smashing Pumpkins, Shudder to think, Hum, Twothirtyeight, Elvis Costello, The Cars, The beatles, Starflyer 59, Seven Storey Mountain, Abandoned Pools, Dead poetic, At the Drive in, Robert Palmer, Alien Ant Farm, Deftones, Team Sleep, Squeeze, ...

Movies:

Shawshank Redemption, back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Trainspotting, eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...

Television:

A wiser fella then myself once said "Go see if that mannequin has boobs"

Books:

By the waters of Babylon., Forrest M Mims III

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Martin Luther

My Blog

is it principle?

What I am about to write here is ridiculous, but it may resonate with some of you.  I am a nerd.  I am okay with that.  I have been dying to see Spiderman 3, mostly due to the fact that...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Sat, 05 May 2007 07:14:00 PST

That's just, like an extra wire...

So yeah, apparently you can just lop off the center tap, and then the two remaining wires, though 180 out of phase, will serve as your secondary AC lines.  It took me about two months to figure o...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:10:00 PST

Racism Rawks!

I work with a guy named Andy.  He is my supervisor for the most part, but due to mutual respect, and proximity, we are much closer to coworkers.  He uses my building to do his job, and excep...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:29:00 PST

Someone actually bought their CDs...

I heard the theme from one of those crappy Mission Impossible movies recently, it was the Limp Bizkit song where he keeps saying/singing/whining " I know why you wanna hate me" All I really have to sa...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:31:00 PST

Battle front, no hope in sight...

I am stuck in a tiny room, covered in webs and lint.  It is dark and I am fairly certain that there is  a spider in my underpants.  I am at war.  My enemy, my christmas present fro...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:30:00 PST

Safety first... I guess

It's funny, when you're in shop class, you never want to wear safety glasses.  The teacher usually has to hound you to keep them on.  When you are an adult, you start to value the little thi...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:58:00 PST

go brush your teeth... and my shirt and pants...

So I am doing some laundry and generally cleaning whilst Atom is sleeping.  I hear him start to gunt on the monitor, so I go in and check on him.  He is kinda pissed off that he is on his ba...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:22:00 PST

lubricants

So, while I was trying to kill spiders with scrubbing bubbles (tm)  I wondered, If you were to spray crickets with WD40, would it disable thier chirping function?  As it is caused by them ru...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:54:00 PST

Ambidexterity

So last night, as I was returning from a friends house with Atom.  He started to scream, he was hungry.  I happened to have a warm bottle next to me, so I reached around the back of my seat ...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:26:00 PST

Man once looked up at the stars...

Lemme preface this by saying that I am a total nerd, I comfortable with knowing things like Mercury is Hg on the periodic table of elements.  Having said that, space travel, while interesting, is...
Posted by J201 Fairchild on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 05:17:00 PST