4/30/07

Ok, so it has been a long time, Mackenzie "broke up" with me because she was under the influence that we were going out (not sure how you mistake that being as we have NEVER gone out) and thought that I was hurt that she was leaving me. How strange, scary, funny and everything else. Speaking of strange, scary, and funny, I have been listening to more ICP, I have always loved Tech N9ne and his style of music, but I never really put 2 and 2 together, they both are extremely similar, so I did some research, some listening, and I enjoy them very much. Just gotta make sure they do not influence me (that will be pretty easy, they are insane). I have seen the blue screen of death many times in the last few hours, but I have only really used this laptop a few times this week, my mother has let me take her MacBook and I have been using that lately. Cnet has been boring, (nothing new or overly interesting) and Google Reader has been just as boring. I was listening to BOL today, and I heard that it is not exactly unheard of to loose your google homepage, or g-mail account (my primary e-mail) so I got all scared, ( I get scared when something I rely on just might go away). I have been wanting to get Thunderbird, I have never really used an e-mail client, but I really wanted to play with it, 2.0 just came out and was supposed to have all these cool features, so I downloaded, it knew the special settings for gmail for me, all I needed was login and password, and 712 messages were downloaded to my inbox. I had to enable pop on gmail first though. I made all new folders, and sat down and used the search feature to make sorting the messages into folders a 20 minute job. I am very happy. I just wish I knew how to then transfer to another computer with thunderbird when I get my new dell. Yes, I have decided that paying half and being a little more complicated and uglier is worth it. I will buy the dell over the macbook. It has a bigger screen too, and that alone is a big seller or me. I just do not get why Apple ONLY sells 13" macbooks, they used to have options, 12" or 14" they should have 13" or 15". And It would make my decision to switch to dell even more difficult. But they don't, so I am like meh. But yea, I want to transfer all when I get my dell, and I would like help. If anyone reading this has any clue, please let me know. I would absolutely love to know. I wouldn't normally do this, but since I have a great email client now, I can handle lots of messages, my e-mail is ryanbrooks33@gmail.com or you could comment this post.

You are all great, (not that many if anybody reads this)

-Ryan

4/22/07

I was sitting out in my garage today (sunday) with my father. We were discussing how there are 113 days until i get my permit and how i want the key to the camry as a birthday gift. He was all ok, get good grades and shit. We went inside to get lemon aid. I got some and started to walk outside, saw mackenzie was walking over, so i shut the dore quickly and ran. I waited like 10 minutes, my dad was with my mom talking about something. I eventually peeked out. And she was leaning against my car ( I got a carwash and a tire shine earlier that day) and I was like get off my car you idiot. (word for word, I seriously hate her) and she is like I think you need to sit down. I am like I think you need to go home. I sat down and started to sip my lemon aid. She helped herself to one of my chairs. And then she was like I dont know how to tell you this, but it's just not working out. And I was thinking OMG she cannot be talking about what i think she is talking about. But she was. lol, she was like there is this other boy that I like (not sure of him name) and she is like I really like him and i think he likes me back because he didnt hang up on me and was nice to me on the phone (infering that i am an ass and hang up on her alot on the phone ((i usually dont even answer)) ) and I am like HA! thats a mistake. And she is like I can see your hurt. I say, Nope. . . She says yes you are, I say, I dont believe I am. And she is like, well, we can still be friends, I never really wanted a relationship anyway. (note that I was never even aware that I was her friend) And I am like you know, I dont really want anything. She says what do you mean because she is as dumb as a piece of wood. And I saw, I dont even want to be your friend. And she pauses for a moment, and then gets all defensive and says, SO YOU DONT WANT TO BE FRIENDS, YOU DONT WANT ME TO CALL YOU, AND YOU DON'T WANT TO HANG OUT? And I said, ummmmmm. . . . that sounds about right, bye now. (all happy like) and walked inside. (for dramatic affect and to make her feel bad) I am not usually that much of a dick, but since the day I moved into my house about 6 years ago, I have not been able to walk outside and or have much of a social life without her tagging along, (she even invites herself into my house sometimes) And she is exceptionally rude without knowing it. so I don't feel bad. I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Feel bad for the next guy she stalks. Her idea of having a romantic relationship is taking bike rides, and holding hands. Call me shallow, but that sounds a little boring.

-Ryan

4/18/07

Today I was supposed to go to the West Campus, my high school, to shadow a freshman. That was canceled because there was a play and west would just be comming back to south anyway. It was OK, there were some dancers, (apparently there is a dance club) and they were actually ok. I do not enjoy sitting on the ground. It is uncomfortable. I am nearly finished with my book cover for school. I have been keeping up with my Google calender a lot more. I am expecting a Zune Phone 75%. They patented an interface. Google has a 25% chance of introducing a phone as well. A person I know, lets call her Ann, thought she had a 17" Dell laptop for the last year or so. And it turns out it is a 15" bottom of the line model. Sad. . . Gonna go now. Sorry for the short entry. btw, i would like to say that I cant wait for high school, and I can. It is killing me. Anyway, see ya later.

-R

4/12/07

Good evening, morning, afternoon, what ever suites your mood. I have had a crappy day. I went to school and I was content with everything, BOL was nothing special, got to school, took the Mitch Album research I did last night and I wrote a biography, then i went to see miss d (social worker I am required to have by state law for those of you that do not really know me and are stalking me) but I am usually cool with her, but her and I do not agree with anything anymore. We just argued. I talked to Annabelle Elizabeth Srodulski which has not responded to my emails. Which is tragic. I sent out many friend requests last night, 25, 4 accepted, and 12 asked who the hell are you. I said who I was, and most were like oh nice to meetchya and accepted me. And Many said, sorry, i do not know you. I have to tell you about lunch today though. TBA club is what a certain lazy staff member at my school decided to call the club she created. TBA for to be assigned, not computer club, not movie club, not so and so club, but TBA club. Dumb ass, anyway, we did a saltine eating contest, in which I refused to take part in and was told I have to or I will be kicked out, and I do not need that kind of drama at this point in time so i took the fucking crackers. I took a bite and threw them out. Next, we did a "special" talent contest. Were people went cross eyed, flexed their bodies in strange ways, and made fools of themselves. The was the poker face contest, which I knew at the beginning I would win because I admire people who can keep a strait face and intimidate people and want to be like them. I set this goal like four years ago, and I am extremely good at it. I do not find a whole lot funny either. I will laugh sometimes and smile to appear interested and just plain be polite. Do find things people may say funny, just not worthy of laughing out loud. I went home, did not have any homework, had some comments from Ali, that was fun, nobody writes me. People that I know outside of this little black machine i am tapping my fingers on at least. I then went to the store, came home, did the trash, watched ER, the daily show, the Colbert report, and now am blogging. I will update and charge my ipod in a few, then shower, and fall gently to sleep. Ahhh, my cheesy choice of words makes going to bed sound so much more fun. I think I will go shower now so I can do that.

4/11/07

Today it SNOWED! Just the night before they said it was going to snow, I was out without a jacket on with bo. And then it freaking snowed! Gah, so yea, BOL is not going to be saying the day anymore. That makes me sad, I enjoyed that. Apparently T & V have seen M's baby, he is apparently A) Sleeping, or B) Very Angry and enraged. Which would mean it is definitely her son, lol. I am learning that I crave a smart phone more and more every day. I am almost definitely going to put in some extra dough when my contract expires to hopefully get the helio ocean, or the Amp'd Moto Q with all of those useless boring battery eating video , I like unlimited and 3G networks, with qwerty keyboards, they rule. But I must have a web browser, or it is not worth it. I like the t-mobile dash. Not as much as I like the sidekick (sexiness wise) but i do not know (didn't bother to check) if the sidekick is a fully functional smart phone as the dash is. If I end up getting a job at 16 (which i most likely will) I would probably switch to t-mobile just because they are strait forward, cheap, and you can hook any unlocked phone to their network. I have sent out 24 friend requests in the last hour on myspace. Mostly girls and some guys that have similar interests as I. I have had an okay school week. There has been plenty of fun ghosip, and shit. Well, I must update my ipodpodcasts that I subscribed to without thinking yesterday. Bty, I had a theory that with apple tv supporting up to 720p picture, the itunes store would have HD content rolling out in the next few months. Well, The Washington Post's video podcast is now in HD, and I assume there are more to come. EMI is drm free on itunes, as you may know, and MGM pictures has signed a deal with itunes to sell content. That is my current life situation, I mush shower and sleep now, I plan to attend school tomorrow.

4/8/07

Goodness, my blog got away from me again. I guess I will start up from what I remember from a few days ago, and today. A few days ago, I figured out that I will be shadowing at the west campus (my high school) on the 18th of this month. I also was informed that there is a major rivalry between all the staff at my current school. Apparently, my homeroom teacher is a Nazi, according to another staff member. And everyone just hates everyone. I am was unaware of that. I mean I knew they hated each other, but I assumed they were mature enough to keep it to them selves. So that was extremely interesting. I had to walk laps in gym last week, around the building, which is no fun, being as lazy as I am. I dug deeper into that guy that added me as a friend on twitter. It turns out he lives in the same metro area as I, and he listens to Buzz Out Loud. He likes awesome cars, and he sent me a Joost Beta invite. Joost is cooler than I expected it to be. All of its programing is watchable and fun, and it works with my Apple Remote. So it is like having on demand comedy central and Laguna Beach and everything else at my fingertips. Easter was today. But I guess I should start with 2 nights ago. I snuck into the storage room and I saw my wireless adapter I asked for fr my laptop. I brought my mother's MacBook pro up to my room and used it's built in wireless all night because I was not aloud downstairs. I was watching Joost and playing around with it into the night. I eventually shut down and went to bed. Then this morning, my mother came in and told me it was time to wake up, Lauren wanted to go downstairs. So I got up, went down, ate a peep while looking at the PC card. Then I put it in, and set up the connection. It works great. So I am happy. That makes 3 of 4 or our Internet connected computers wireless. My father does not trust it for reasons unknown. So he will not let me set it up on his Dell, which has it built in. The card is not as bulky as expected, and it seems to be doing just fine. It is not flimsy, but the gauges are upside down because my PC card slot is on the left of my computer so I had to flip it. Oh well, now I can take this anywhere so I am happy. Then I got in the car and my dad and I just drove west. We drove a little past the Belvedere Assembly Plant (makes the jeep compass and the dodge caliber) and then came home in time for ham in the dining room. This is were my mother said she would like to do a vacation to Colorado and make it completely outdoors. Camping, skiing, biking, hiking. My idea of a nightmare in a nut shell. So have to talk her out of that now. I am hoping visiting the Grand Canyon will be a good compromise. Anyway, I am going to haul my seven pound laptop up to my room now, wish me luck, I may fall on the stairs it is so heavy. Anyway, that was my day. ttyl,


-Ryan

4/3/07

Hello, today there was crappy weather. A Hyundai pickup truck is a no definitely not maybe yes probably not. And that is about all that is interesting. I went to school today and I chilled and worked and went home. I was raced by a teacher of mine in my cab. I lost :( but I think I will get over it. I had homework for once so I am out of time for writing any more. I will put much effort into not procrastinating tomorrow. Not that I would have had anything interesting to say anyway. But I like to put in my two cents.

-Ryan

4/2/07

God evening all, I am Ryan Brooks here with a humorous security update, your computers banana peel cursor is going to kill you. What ever, today I went to school, nobody was there. I came home, it was a half day. And this is officially the shortest post in history. Wait, EMI has DRM free music on iTunes now, all of it, but it will cost you, and you can get higher quality tracks if you par even more, you are nearing a dollar fifty when you get DRM free and high quality tracks. Most likely all of the other music production companies will do the same. We all fought for this, and it looks like we won. Now we must make sure that Blu-Ray makes it as the winning format. It holds more and can do more. Hands down. MORE. Period. So yea, it has been a good day. Wish there was a new mac out, or an iPod or something, but what can you do? Wait until tomorrow of coarse. Sorry about the short post, but I am way behind on everything, I was procrastinating and do not have time. I am sorry, but there is not much else to cover. I mean I would have covered my minute by minute half school day, but not much happened, I reluctantly mowed the lawn, and I plan to teach Kyle how because I absolutely refuse to mow when it is hot out. And I do not even get payed that much. Like 10 dollars. So yea.

Again, sorry for the short post, i feel bad, ttyl,

-Ryan

4/1/07

I am posting this earlier today, (not that it will effect you) because I have to get up at 6 tomorrow because spring break is officially over. Today there were a few funny April Fools jokes going around the Internet. Google's TiSP free Internet service that runs through your toilet. Google also came out with (not really) Google Paper. This theoretically would let you have any e-mail printed and shipped to you. And Tom Merrit from CNET's CNET-TV apparently snuck into Apple's headquarters to show the world Apple TiVo. Which will transfer anything from your Mac to your TiVo. It was a TiVo logo on an AppleTV. But still funny. While on the topic of silly/funny videos on CNET-TV, there was a crave that made me giggle today as well. Tim Moynihan goes around the CNET office and takes a look at all of the CNET employees toys in this crave video. It is funny. Another joke that made me chuckle before I get on to my day, was one by the Korean car company Kia. My mother recently bought a Kia, a Kia Sedona, but that is besides the point. Kia decided to poke some fun at the furniture store Ikea that has a lot of furniture that needs assembly. So kia introduced the concept car last night called the i-Kia, which is a car that you must build yourself. And then you contact kia, and they ask you some questions and depending on how well they think you built the car, they will set the length of your warranty. Anywhere from 7 years, to a couple of weeks. That did not make me laugh out load, but it is by far the funniest of all April Fools Day jokes I have heard so far. OK, on to my day. I woke up a little earlier to get a little more prepared for tomorrow morning when I have to wake up @ 6. And I went downstairs, had some cake and Ice cream, but I had very little, so it is OK. Seriously, I had crumbs of cake and like a teaspoon of ice cream. So it is definitely better than what I could have done and would have done if I wasn't second guessing what I eat. I also had 2 hard boiled eggs. Then I got in the Kia and off to the movies I went. Crap, i just remembered I have to update my twitter. Anyway, I saw Blades of Glory. It was pretty funny. I rate it a 6 or 7 out of 10. It is way better than Wild Hogs which I saw a few days earlier. Then we came home, I got out of the Kia, jumped in the Toyota, and off to Borders Book Store were I sat and pondered looking for a book that didn't suck. I ended up getting Macs for Dummies, (wish I got vista for dummies, I already know OSX like the back of my hand) and Complications, which will probably scare me, but it still looked better than the alternatives. It is written by a doctor that talks about how modern medicine is not a miracle and there are still many problems that are very difficult if not impossible to fix in the human body. Then I came home, read Macs for Dummies, which I just skimmed through and then wished I had gotten Windows Vista for Dummies because I knew everything. And then jumped on the computer to blog, and catch up on all of my Google Reader stories. Low key day. But I almost prefer it that day at the end of a vacation.

See you all tomorrow,

-Ryan

3/31/07

Correction, I had said yesterday that one of my goals was to just not think and throw myself out there, and after much deliberation, I have decided that while that may work in some situations, it will only lead to disaster in most others. So I will think, but not too much about life decisions. Today, I woke up at 1:47PM, to my father coming into my room with the iPod AV cable I had ordered the day before or maybe two days before, i don't remember. All I remember is that I had the regular shipping, and it came in like a day. So I wonder, If I had paid for express delivery, which is like 30 bucks, would I have it any sooner? Hey, never know, maybe express items go to a different export door out of the warehouse or something and I would have gotten it later. I think express shipping is worth it on some things, but for pretty much everything from the online apple store, the standard shipping is plenty fast. So I plugged it in to my TV's AV input and played Avril Lavigne's music video "girlfriend" then I played Nickelback's music video that looks like a video game. Then Stephen Colbert's speaking at the white house convention thingy, and I have decided that I like it, but it is extremely pixelated. If this is how AppleTV looks, I would not buy. But maybe I would, it was hacked earlier today to run the full version of OSX that you would get if you went to the apple store and bought a new mac. It was very slow though. It had 1ghz and 256of ram, but yes, that would be the cheapest apple device to run OSX. AppleTV was released 8 days ago, and it has been hacked to be your personal mac, support USB, have any HDD you want as long as it is 2.5". And I am sure there are more. Apple must feel weird. But after seeing what videos bought on iTunes look like on a TV, even a HDTV. I can only guess that apple is going to have HD content in the iTunes store pretty soon. If not HD, then at least DVD quality. To go along with your nice movies, you can also spend some money on the updated MacBook Pro, and the new iMacs, that haven't been announced yet. But it has been over 200 days since the last update to the iMac, and the average is 168, and something like that for the macbook pro as well. Possibly new macbooks and everything else too? maybe. The only things we are not likely to see any updates to are the iPod shuffle, and the AppleTV. I heard a rumor that the apple flash based laptop may run the stripped down version of OSX that is on apple TV. Now not that I do not think that I could hack that, But that would still be a pain in the ass. I mean who is going to buy that? And even if I could get it to run OSX the full version, it would probably be slow because it was designed for the stripped version. So that irritates me, I may just end up buying the Mid-range MacBook. Eventually, i will need the MacBook Pro. But that is an entirely different post, this is supposed to be about my day. So yes, I woke up, tried out the connector from my iPod to my TV, then I went downstairs and I realized that my mother and my brother were gone, my sister and my father were walking out the door to go to her softball practice. So I made some mac n cheese, then got onto the tech news sites. I think i could be a journalist. I am very good at researching and expressing my opinion on what I am interested in. And that job pays OK. Hmmmmm. . . that's a thought. I will probably get carpel tunnel though, but there is a surgery for that. I have been trying to eat healthier, but the food is so good. But yes, I have been cutting the junk. I think sometimes I eat just cause I am bored. Which I am not doing as of last night when I realized this. I am skinny, but I will die very early if I keep eating the way I do. Or hopefully did. I always carry around a flash drive, my apple remote, a little led flashlight, and my cell phone, and today I put the flash drive on the same key chain as the led light. Which is also flat, and the same color, so it looks pretty cool. I put an animated GIF image of me looking around and then getting all up close to the camera and giving it a thumbs up. That is on My MySpace. Check it out, comment it, then look at my cool new layout.

ttyl,

-Ryan