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so its been over almost exactly a year now since i made this 'hiho podcast', but after having trouble getting it to work as a legitimate podcast... i've decided to just go ahead and release it as my first hihocast. in the early minutes of the podcast you will here a blur of songs that have randomly been chose to represent the music on my computer last year. this .mp3 was created using an itunes signature maker. so.... some of this music may be a bit out of date, but its a pretty good representation of what i was listening to and enjoying at the beginning of 2006... a year of which i spent entirely immersed in the world of warcraft. i will have you all know that as of January 22nd, i am no longer a gamer. all my characters have been deleted, and any trace of warcraft has been removed from my computer. /cheer
so. without much further ado. here it is... careful, its a whopper of a file. any suggestions as to how to condense it a bit would be greatly appreciated.
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so sarah and i have been working on this puzzle for what seems like forever. at first it wasn't so bad, a corner piece here, section of the house there, the ewe's eyeball overhere... piece of cake. but man, tackling those wool pieces has proven to be a real chore. basically it has come down to systematically trying every single piece on every single other piece, until we've made a match. either way, i've really been enjoying it. the charles wysocki collection is really nice, and i can find a number of his puzzles on ebay for a fair price. also, my mother sent me a really nice holiday number that we can work on once the sheep is done.
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hello hello. as you may have noticed, pepper is finally up and running. hopefully both sarah and i can encourage each other to blog more often. things are finally starting to move in some sort of pattern... life is evening out. we are now subleasing at a co-workers home near songshan train station, on the tenth floor of a building over looking raohe night market and ciyou temple; the only temple in taiwan that worships a black-faced goddess. i haven't been inside yet, but i promise to take plenty of pictures.
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did anyone see the crazy new hairy crustacean they've discovered???
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so... i was chatting with ben, and he mentioned that our friend peter brandt of ben & bruno has been podcasting... something i was totally unaware of. this is exactly why his site should be syndicated on g-rad. ha. anyhow. i love his music, and if you remember, i used his tunes in my short documentary for school. so, i totally recommend subscribing. ITS FREE!!! how great is that. i've been meaning to do podcasts for awhile... but this is the first time i've seen this neat itunes subscription service. I am very impressed by it. especially since its free. so... stay tuned for a stationary podcast subscription thingie... peter, i will be asking you about that soon. also, i really appreciate your field recordings of fountains in granada. totally cool... i love them.
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i just haven't been able to get back into blogging. im sure it will come back soon. just have to break through this funk. anyhow... im still posting photos on flickr. also, im totally into this ground kontrol arcade place. i think i will go tonight and try to set a highscore somewhere. that might temporarly boost my ego long enough to do something productive. maybe.
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So... this weeks see's the start of the second season of ultimate blogger 1. i am super stoked. however, this also brings to light a very embarrasing situation. i haven't blogged in FOREVER! so while we have been getting press from newspapers, websites, and radio stations, i have to repeatedly explain to people that i haven't been in 'the right place' to blog for a few months now. the truth is, i have been. i've sit around the house on my laptop nearly 8 hours a day. so why don't i blog? i have no idea. part of it, i believe, is a state of mind. i've kind of witnessed a dip in my mood lately, since returning from taiwan. the kind of dip that you are afraid to share on a website. an overall gloominess i've wanted to hide from people. so, i guess i've been a bit depressed. since moving to portland, there have been so many awesome oppurtunities to shake this depression, and i sort of had. but in the meanwhile, i have totally been exposed to so many awesome things to blog about. shows, art, people, movies, trips to the mountain... i have huge folders on my computer filled with prepared mp4's, mp3's, jpg's and text files to fill a years worth of blog entries... but still i don't blog. its all become too much, it would take all week to cover everything i want to cover. so, i need to just start with a clean plate. start with TODAY. only cover things i have done in the last few days. hopefully this will get me back on track, and i can start living up to the title... 'ultimate blogger' again.
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oh, seattle was so nice! it always is. i wish i could have stayed longer than two days! but i guess thats the way the cookie crumbles, i should have planned better. anyhow, it was really to see sarah, plus i finally got to meet sarah (nedo) and charlies adorable new child (pictures 1 2 3). we didn't have nearly enough time to do the things we were hoping to do, so i am going to have to return soon for a bit of eithiopian eating, brewing/viewing, deadwood watching, story reading fun. we nearly almost didn't get to have pho together! luckily a new pho resteraunt opened at the bus station, so we had our traditional pho meal together before leaving. it was sad, standing in bus stations for 3 hours will always be sad. this station had a really wierd shoot-em-up video game called "target terror" that i think we also have at the gerald r. ford airport in grand rapids. it must be a new fad, having games about shooting terriorists and hijackers in major transportation centers. the game is crazy!! on the trailor it has images of Bush, Osama, and Saddam, followed by a sequence of a player sniping hijackers in the cockpit of a plane taking off, and then shows a plane crashing into the white house. INSANE!!!
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so... nearly done with school. i walked and all that. just need to finish my documentary and im done. but... tonight i play "ANIMAL CROSSING"!! so... if this game is good, then i buy a nintendo DS... it comes down to that. also... lost is totally crazy. im all caught up now and ready to try and watch it in syndication like tv watching people do.
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so... this last week has been very weird. i had a very emotional 6 hour night finishing 6 feet under. watch the whole second season of the L word, started Lost, and watched season 4 & 5 of Ab Fab. now i have a big crush on jane horrocks, eddy's secretary 'bubbles'.... as well as being a voice in chicken run and the corpse bride. i don't know what it is about her, but i have a total school boy crush on her (and those crazy outfits she wore).
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my computer is soooooooo fixed!!! how exciting!! i will be working on it all weekend!!! totally new desktop! to celebrate, i am learning how to use illustrater, and making a very special wallpaper that moves every couple seconds! like a really slow animation. hardly noticable...
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so... i shaved my beard. yes indeed, i was super-duper attached to it, but its my moms birthday today, and i know she would appreciate a clean face on her oldest son. actually, she has even offered to pay me more than 200$ to shave it. so, i guess this was my opportunity to give her a gift much more than i could ever afford. the funny thing is, the next night, i ended up at pats place, which was hosting the overflow traffic of the annual michigan bear convention. if your not hip to the lingo, a bear, is a bit of a large burly gay man... often wearing leather, and always very visibly proud of their chest/facial hair. and there i was... freshly shaven, playing shufflepuck with my new bear friends, no beard on my chin to boast of. i had a great time, but i thought it was pretty ironic. almost like fate wanted to test my commitment to the new clean shave thing. i passed. i will always have my chest hair.
