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Cocaine
Originally uploaded by construct.

“the legal alternative” that is REALLY hard to drink.
It’s a bit easier than taking a shot.

• “Keep California Clean” billboard covered in graffiti
• Paying $197.00 in parking tickets to my college. ouch.
• Seeing Adam Brody for the second time at the We Are Scientists show
• Rosie O’Donnell is disgusting, even when made pretty on the show Nip/Tuck
• Watched first 3 seasons of Entourage in around 2 weeks because it’s such an awesome show
• I havn’t done anything with the 400 + photos from my trip to Utah in September
• I like lists.

Today many thoughts wandered my mind about what I use everyday. My job (I have many but to keep this kinda short…) is basically internet production. I don’t know if that’s a real position, but I design, manage, test, websites all day. I also realized today how much I use the internet everyday. If the internet went down, I figure I would have significantly less to do. Sure I could still work on stuff locally, yet email, blogging, photo sharing, news reading… so on and so forth would not be possible.

Then onto more thoughts, after thinking all this I hit up one of my usual reads Zach Klein, specifically todays post on video. Video on the internet wasn’t anywhere near as popular as it was sayyyy a year ago?! Sure there was video like quicktime/windows files that are damn near impossible to watch on every computer. In this day and age the smart way to go is Flash. Vimeo one of Zach’s projects uses flash since their redesign, but I remember the days of the Windows Media/Quicktime files. Then every other online video site uses flash because it works in every browser that has flash player installed.

Towards the end he mentions this:

Aside, if I were a recent college grad without a job — I would startup a venture that produces 5/15/30 second ad spots for small to medium-sized companies. If popular video-sharing sites begin including pre-roll advertising before clips, there is going to be lots of new ad inventory, and lots of new advertisers who don’t have video creatives.

That is an amazing idea that many have shared. How would you get started in that kind of thing? I feel I could start something like that, especially by the time I graduate with a degree in Computer Information Systems with a minor in Digital Media. Anybody want to do a startup?

I suppose the whole purpose of this post was my short thoughts on how internet is attached to everyday life, with a little side on video.

P.S. Most of the time I forget to mention my various projects that I work on that make this blog dormant. Check out the Film or Video categories. Then head over to my daily music blog, MUSICGLOB.COM. Sooner or later I’ll update this site to showcases a few things.

Randomly I decided to open up a spam email because I do that every so often just for kicks. In this one there was the sales pitch for a bigger penis, then the last paragraph was all this:

Where there’s a will, there’s a relative. No news is good news A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. A creaking door hangs longest. When Mumma dead family done. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

WHATTTTT???? All of that doesn’t even make sense at all. Those silly spammers.

Havn’t been hanging around this blog all that much cause I’m over at MusicGlob and working on a couple others. Pretty soon I feel like getting back into random blogging of everything.

Cause that is fun. I was also thinking about making a personal writing blog, or maybe just a section of this site like I always have. hmmmm

Last night, mainly just last night I managed to drive on six freeways. I don’t think I’ve ever done that. I think my max has been five in a day. I didn’t even drive on that many freeways when my friend Chris and I drove straight from Seattle to Los Angeles.

Here they are,
Highways/Freeways : 2, 5, 10, 60, 101, 110, 605

2 weeks ago I saw the presets, and four other bands on Tuesday at Cinespace, then onto Wednesday to see Minus the Bear. Both amazing nights. Last week was a busy work week. This past weekend was way fun with all the San Diego friends and working on Saturday.

This week?? Well, I like staying busy so work and play and work it is. Gotta get my passport this week too.

Saturday was also an old friends birthday, Happy Birthday to you.

The last couple months Chuch Norris has been all the rage. Pretty funny Chuck Norris facts all over ther place…
Here he reads some from ChuckNorrisFacts.com

Cutting a line of hair off my leg… and testing with flash.

i’ve taken lots of photos recently, just hadn’t really had time to do anything with them yet. Currently finishing a short film for school which I’m fairly pleased with.

I’ve always wanted to take a photo from this point on the 10 west looking west to downtown LA, and I already had my camera out, and was able to get one shot I like. It was so perfect because the rain cleared out the smog momentarily.