It's weird to have no real permanent home. I've been living between NJ
and MA since 2004 and will continue until may2009 when I'm done with
school.
I'm really tired of this whole lifestyle and I can't wait to just
chill at home and make money working. I'm tired of being broke and
going to class everyday. I'll probably not find a job quickly enough
to get on my loan paymnts next year, so I'll just grab some job I hate
and do that while I go to grad school. Being an adult sucks. I miss
high school when my biggest worry in life was finding a place to play
drums. I remember setting up our whole lil bad in Sergio's boiler
room. That was so heavy-metal-crazy-teenagers hahahaha.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
More bum news
The bum on the bus approached me again and asked me what he thought
about the whole Olympic tailwind issue. (a tailwind is a wind that
pushes u from behind, speeds u up. Often use in airplane flight
contexts. I know this cuz the bum asked me about it so I wikisearched
it on my iPhone.)
about the whole Olympic tailwind issue. (a tailwind is a wind that
pushes u from behind, speeds u up. Often use in airplane flight
contexts. I know this cuz the bum asked me about it so I wikisearched
it on my iPhone.)
The story is that some olympic runner guy broke a record. The judges
are questioning whether he should be accredited with this because a
wind happened to be helping him while he was running.
I honestly don't know what to think of this.
Should he get it?
Does it matter since all previous record-breaking runners also ran
outdoors?
Should I care?
Now here's another question for you.
If there was a headwind (or whatever the opposite of a tailwind is),
would he get extra credit if he still broke the record?
That would be amazing. But the fact is that running outdoors has its
random naturally-induced drawbacks. It's not his fault thad God
decided to help him like "Angels in the Outfield". (remember that
movie?)
He's a winner in MY almanac.
Anyway so this bum got more specific about the origins of his bummyness.
He's convinced that he is gifted with a heightened ESP (extra-sensory
perception).
Ta' loco.
This ESP thingy is basically a hardcore collection of brain-type-sixth-
sense nonsense. He quoted Einstein, who said that we only use but a
small fraction of our brains. Mr. Bum thinks he can expand his ESP
abilities and use it for the following:
- Telepathy
- Telekinetics
- Spidey-sense-type stuff
- Mind-reading
This dude thinks he's the little kid with the spoon in The Matrix.
Ta' LOCO.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Why blog? Tony's fault
Tony called one of my random long emails a "blog", and that inspired me to then start blogging.
So here goes.
So here goes.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Stealing WiFi
I'm sure stealing Internet is wrong ad maybe even immoral, and
sometimes I feel like a hippocrate robin hood.
Me and my family haven't been able to afford Internet this summer so
it was cut.
Recently my brother was with his iPhone in the backyard and discovered
some free unprotected wifi. iTunes does a library sharing thing and we
saw what the dude named his iTunes library. His name k course. We
looked him up in the yellow pages and there he was. Our neighbor who's
backyard faces ours was feeding us wifi.
The problem is that the wifi doesn't reach indoors so we had to put
Jesse's mac mini outside with a long cable. This lasted for a while
until it got really annoying so I went to J&R music world by WTC and
bought a wifi/Ethernet bridge. I wrapped it with some plastic to
weather-proof it and voilà; free Internet for the whole house.
sometimes I feel like a hippocrate robin hood.
Me and my family haven't been able to afford Internet this summer so
it was cut.
Recently my brother was with his iPhone in the backyard and discovered
some free unprotected wifi. iTunes does a library sharing thing and we
saw what the dude named his iTunes library. His name k course. We
looked him up in the yellow pages and there he was. Our neighbor who's
backyard faces ours was feeding us wifi.
The problem is that the wifi doesn't reach indoors so we had to put
Jesse's mac mini outside with a long cable. This lasted for a while
until it got really annoying so I went to J&R music world by WTC and
bought a wifi/Ethernet bridge. I wrapped it with some plastic to
weather-proof it and voilà; free Internet for the whole house.
Suckers.
I hate that I have to go to J&R in NYC cuz there's no circuit city or
best buy at the mall. I HATE that. You would think that Downtown
Jersey City with all these rich white ppl would have an electronics
store besides tiny-limited-garbageous-prices Radioshack.
I'm gonna stop complaining cuz I live right by the PATH and WTC is
literally two stops away. I walk a total of 5 blocks to get to J&R.
Anyway so that's that. Stealing Internet is a crime but I am having
trouble feeling bad about it.
Lemme know wuchu think.
Bum philosophy
> I was riding the bus to work and there was a very bummy-looking
> individual sitting accross from me who seemed to have been talking
> to himself a bit.
> Although Ive seen him work at UPS, he was dressed like a jobless
> hobo; with very disgustingly old apparel.
>
> He was doing some of the typical dumb bum stuff; hitting on girls,
> talking to himself, drinking from a paper bag, etc. He was laughing
> loudly and turned to ask me if I have a cigarette. I said, "no, I
> don't smoke", which in turn led to him asking me, "how about acid?".
> Before I could answer, he was laughing again, loudly and obnoxiously.
>
> Suddenly his voice calmed and very genuinely and articulately asked
> me where I'm attending college. He somehow correctly assumed I was a
> student, and I told him "Berklee".
> As is the usual case, he mistakenly thought I meant "Berkley", the 2-
> yr college in NJ, which somehow lead to a conversation about goals,
> life, morals, philosophies, etc.
> Typical bum stuff.
>
> He was one of those bums who was too smart for his own good,
> especially considering his young age; 23. He knew this and made it
> clear to me that we should both know the reason for his bummyness:
> he is simply too enlightenend for this world to accept him.
>
> This, I thought, was funny. You see, this guy is a neo-agnostic-
> aethistic-pragmatic-typical-American-retard-that-thinks-they-know-
> everything kinda guy. Everybody knows one of these ppl. They roam
> the earth looking for nothing, thinking that this is the true way to
> be happy. The funny part lies in the false fact that these ppl think
> that they are part of a rare breed. They don't know that there's a
> buzillion confused ppl that think the same way. It's a result of the
> retarded "religious" censoring in schools, the entertainmen
> industry, and in media. Can't say "God" or "Jesus" but we can talk
> all day about Islam and Hinduism cuz it's "foreign" and "exotic".
> These are ppl that call Christians like me "blind and religious"
> because they think I didn't figure out what I want on my own.
>
> They are mistaken.
>
> The bum was trying to tell me that we are designed to search for
> answers and live to stay positive and be happy. The problem with
> this philosophy is that if I really applied this way of life, I
> would please no one but myself. I told him that I disagreed. Living
> purely to be happy is so simple and stupid that it's why ANIMALS do
> it.
>
> I am no animal.
>
> This bum was trying his best to be smart, wise, and open-minded as
> much as he possibly could, with a minor side effect of trying to
> make me look like a bible-in-my-armpit-idiot-Christian. I told him
> that I searched for the "answer" just like everyone else. I looked
> thru every school of thought this planet has to offer, but I saw God
> in everything. You can argue that it has to do with my upbringing,
> which today I can say I am proud of, but feeling God's presence or
> seeing His mercy are too things I can never confuse with
> "upbringing" or "habits".
> I told this bum that I am ready to drop God and tell myself He
> doesn't exist on the day I don't feel Him around me.
>
> Fortunately I have yet to see that happen.
> individual sitting accross from me who seemed to have been talking
> to himself a bit.
> Although Ive seen him work at UPS, he was dressed like a jobless
> hobo; with very disgustingly old apparel.
>
> He was doing some of the typical dumb bum stuff; hitting on girls,
> talking to himself, drinking from a paper bag, etc. He was laughing
> loudly and turned to ask me if I have a cigarette. I said, "no, I
> don't smoke", which in turn led to him asking me, "how about acid?".
> Before I could answer, he was laughing again, loudly and obnoxiously.
>
> Suddenly his voice calmed and very genuinely and articulately asked
> me where I'm attending college. He somehow correctly assumed I was a
> student, and I told him "Berklee".
> As is the usual case, he mistakenly thought I meant "Berkley", the 2-
> yr college in NJ, which somehow lead to a conversation about goals,
> life, morals, philosophies, etc.
> Typical bum stuff.
>
> He was one of those bums who was too smart for his own good,
> especially considering his young age; 23. He knew this and made it
> clear to me that we should both know the reason for his bummyness:
> he is simply too enlightenend for this world to accept him.
>
> This, I thought, was funny. You see, this guy is a neo-agnostic-
> aethistic-pragmatic-typical-American-retard-that-thinks-they-know-
> everything kinda guy. Everybody knows one of these ppl. They roam
> the earth looking for nothing, thinking that this is the true way to
> be happy. The funny part lies in the false fact that these ppl think
> that they are part of a rare breed. They don't know that there's a
> buzillion confused ppl that think the same way. It's a result of the
> retarded "religious" censoring in schools, the entertainmen
> industry, and in media. Can't say "God" or "Jesus" but we can talk
> all day about Islam and Hinduism cuz it's "foreign" and "exotic".
> These are ppl that call Christians like me "blind and religious"
> because they think I didn't figure out what I want on my own.
>
> They are mistaken.
>
> The bum was trying to tell me that we are designed to search for
> answers and live to stay positive and be happy. The problem with
> this philosophy is that if I really applied this way of life, I
> would please no one but myself. I told him that I disagreed. Living
> purely to be happy is so simple and stupid that it's why ANIMALS do
> it.
>
> I am no animal.
>
> This bum was trying his best to be smart, wise, and open-minded as
> much as he possibly could, with a minor side effect of trying to
> make me look like a bible-in-my-armpit-idiot-Christian. I told him
> that I searched for the "answer" just like everyone else. I looked
> thru every school of thought this planet has to offer, but I saw God
> in everything. You can argue that it has to do with my upbringing,
> which today I can say I am proud of, but feeling God's presence or
> seeing His mercy are too things I can never confuse with
> "upbringing" or "habits".
> I told this bum that I am ready to drop God and tell myself He
> doesn't exist on the day I don't feel Him around me.
>
> Fortunately I have yet to see that happen.
Monday, November 5, 2007
It's cold and I finally realized it.
It's been cold a lot more often lately. Although we've already had a few days with low temperatures, it has finally hit me that I do have to wear a jacket everyday. It didn't become an automatic habit for me until yesterday. I know it's going to become a security blanket, and eventually it will be difficult to remember that I don't have to wear it anymore.
I am super super excited about Christmas vacation this year. I'm going to spend as much of it as I can in NJ. It's been a while since I spent an extended period of time with my family.
More importantly, the girls are coming! (Ginel's sisters). I can't wait!! They are sooo much fun and for some crazy reason they LOVE me. hahaha.
The cold has hit my head
It's been cold a lot more often lately. Although we've already had a few days with low temperatures, it has finally hit me that I do have to wear a jacket everyday. It didn't become an automatic habit for me until yesterday. I know it's going to become a security blanket, and eventually it will be difficult to remember that I don't have to wear it anymore.
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