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Joseph

Damn the man! Save the Empire

About Me

I'm pretty boring these days. Just an old married geek pretty much ^_^

My Interests

Pontificating, self-reflection, beating myself up

I'd like to meet:

I've already met you.

Music:

The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, The Comas, nine inch nails, Anja Garbarek, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Iron & wine

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Gattaca, The Princess Bride, The Royal Tenenbaums, Office Space, Evil Dead, Fight Club, High Fidelity, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Any Kevin Smith Movie or Wes Anderson. They are both gods.

Television:

I quit TV years ago. I'm pretty sure that I've gotten smarter since. Still, I must admit I download Heroes and Battlestar Galactica

Books:

LOTR, Anything by Asimov, Fahrenheit 451, Hitchhiker's Guide (all of them), Chronicles of Narnia, A Wrinkle in Time, Catcher in the Rye, Walden, The World without Us

Heroes:

Mark Spencer. He's the M' F'N man. And Meghan Geiss, an incredibly beautiful soul.

My Blog

duality

I've noticed that I post slightly differently here and at my own site. This is probably the more filtered version. If you care/give a damn/are reading this crap/ then you might want to check out my bl...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

a fat roll of cash

adventures in finance.. or how i paid for my practically new ducati ;-) Yes, the long hours on ebay paid dividends and i got my very first motorcycle. a badass bike @ a discount price. Sometimes I ...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

surgery and motorsports

I have little miniture motorcycles zooming around in a circle above my head. I've been ebaying like mad for a bike for a few days now. it's really bizarre how i get obsessed with things like this. it ...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i don't laugh like that anymore

i still laugh. but it's not the same. why do I make these posts that only you understand? perhaps because you're the only one that does.
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

reality bites

it really does. I hate reality. if i could only fix the things that I broke. I would give everything, anything, to do that. It would make things so much simpler. I'd even roll the dice and take the ch...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

should be

i should be asleep. but i don't want to sleep. something's bothering me. but i can't quite identify it. it's like a crawling under my skin. perhaps it's the butterfly trying to get out. or perhaps ...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

downtime

I had a system crash last night. In the business that I'm in, we call that "downtime". I find it interesting that when a person has "downtime" it's a good thing - it means that you're relaxing and tak...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Work work work

Been workin' on my website tonite. I'm probably going to be putting up a new personal site sometime 'soonish'. It's about time, I used to be a web developer and I haven't had a personal site in years....
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

braindump

when a program crashes on a computer, it's called a coredump. so, i guess when my brain crashes, it's a braindump. random thoughts are chasing each other around my head. no order, no reason. thoughts ...
Posted by Joseph on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST