Douche Moments

Posted on August 31, 2008

I was driving through the parking lot the other night, coming home from a long day at work, and I happen to see a pair of attractive girls getting out of their car, presumably also coming home from a long day somewhere. I am one who is often wont to listen to music while I drive, and at a loud volume, because that’s the way music should be listened to. (I am also one who is often wont to use words like “wont”, but that’s neither here nor there.) So I drive past, looking cool and such. I see them, they see me. And then it hits me.

Fuck. The song coming out of my iPod is ska. I hadn’t really been paying attention to what was playing, and now, instead of cool, I was the guy listening to ska. A ska cover song in fact. Ska-punk covers are the pinnacle of douchiness, and to be seen in public listening to such is a terrible thing. I shall be forced to wear a badge of shame for this terrible douche moment.

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New Tech at Home

Posted on July 10, 2008

Since USPaul had to go all high and mighty and brag about the cool new stuff he got, I figure I’d do the same. Gotta show off the goods, y’all.

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Tweets of the Week

Posted on July 8, 2008

Highlights from the past week on my Twitter account.

I love watching carnies chain smoke. - 10:33 PM July 02

Nothing makes you feel cooler than driving through a town of 700 with Judas Priest blasting out the stereo and all the townsfolk staring. Nothing! - 04:24 PM July 03

My Native American name would be “Comfy-in-Slacks” - 12:38 PM July 04

Going on a man-date with Tyler. Red Lobster and then Wall-E. So not gay I swear. - 6:15 PM July 06

Apple rumor: Segway’s CTO joining Apple as product design lead so Jonathan Ive can become CEO, as Steve Jobs is stepping down. Oh noes! - 12:14 PM July 07

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Leaving Tomorrow

Posted on June 30, 2008

Going up to my step dad’s home town of Butte Nebraska for Pancake Days and Independence Days celebration. Because it’s a town of about 400 people, most of them elderly, in the middle of nowhere, I don’t expect much in the way of internets. Though I will be wardriving the little town. I might even buy some chalk. Realistically though, I’ll be lucky if I even get cell phone reception. We’ll see. (The town has a website, so there must be internet there somewhere, right? Unless they outsource their internets to O’Neill…)

And talk about timely, this just got posted today at Photojojo. Expect Pancake Days pictures upon my return.

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Save Me Obi Ken Schimekobi, You’re My Only Hope!

Posted on June 4, 2008

Tornado sirens went off about half an hour ago. I was a bit confused because, outside of the twice weekly tests of the civil defense system. Because basically there’s not much threat of an air raid these days. Here’s a map of what’s happening right at this moment, I live right at the point of the blue arrow:

tornadomap

About 45 minutes ago, being as there was an apparent immediate threat of tornado, I naturally went outside with the camera, so as to show others exactly what this storm looked like. Here’s the first picture, facing south Lincoln:

I live right near Gateway Mall Westfield Gateway Shopping Town, for Lincoln folks. In the same minute I turned ninety degrees, facing east, and took this photo:

You can even see the reflection of the southern sunlight in the building’s glassy fascia. Pretty keen, huh? The joys of living in the Great Plains.

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Back to Posting Soon

Posted on June 1, 2008

I think.

ha’p’orth” is my new favorite word.

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Official Hiatus

Posted on April 27, 2008

I been busy lately with work and everything else, and haven’t had much to put here in a while, so I think it’s time I (temporarily) shutter the blog. Maybe for a month or so, so I don’t have to worry about it, and can “recharge”. Meanwhiles, you can keep up with me at Futurabolditalic, Twitter, and Flickr. And I’ll be back eventually.

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iTunes Stats

Posted on April 12, 2008

My Top Ten Played Songs in iTunes

4th Avenue Jones - Fabulous Dramatics (53)
Tiefschwarz & Matty Safer - Warning Siren (43)
RJD2 & Ric Ocasek - Through the Walls (42)
Buck 65 - 463 (37)
The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives (33)
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (32)
Berlin - Erotic City (30)
10cc - I’m Not in Love (30)
Miri Ben-Ari - Sunshine to the Rain (29)
David Bowie - Space Oddity (29)

Looking at my iTunes library, I notice a weird trend in my most played songs. A lot of them make sense (The Decemberists, Bowie, or RJD2, for example) but others are songs that I wouldn’t expect. 4th Avenue Jones, I haven’t listened to in months that I can recall. The same goes for Miri Ben-Ari. And I certainly wouldn’t have expected 10cc to make the list, catchy though they may be. It may be a matter of songs/sounds I once was really into have now fallen out of favor, or perhaps I was just in a mood then. Except for that Berlin track. I’m not sure what’s up with that.

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Woohoo

Posted on March 29, 2008

They finally released Wordpress 2.5. jwiltshire.org is fully updated now, after a slight hitch with one troublesome plugin that I stopped actually needing a long time ago (Disable Wordpress Widgets was the plugin, if you’re curious). I rather like it so far, it’s much prettier (though still too much soft blues, I think I remember seeing something about different color schemes for the backend, I’ll have to check) and the Dashboard is actually useful, chockful of information. One thing that kind of irks me is that in 2.3, when I went to write a post, there was a list of my drafts, that no longer appears in 2.5. I have to go to a separate page for my drafts. I’ll live though.

Oh and it’s my birthday. Free dinner tonight. Frickin’ sweet. Now to go upgrade MacFags. I should really get around to posting there too.

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Birthday Wishlist

Posted on March 18, 2008

Since I’m coming up on 25 years (or “a quarter of a century”, as my younger friends like to put it), I thought I’d put together a nice little list of presents I would like to receive. Start saving.

I’m sure there’s some other shit I want but I’m tired and can’t think of any. Oh well.

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