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So back in October I had my little pant problem. Really it was funny so I posted about it, not anything major but funny. Today my RSS feed of tedger.com blog comments showed that I had a new comment on the website. Turns out that it was someone going through the same search for these fantastic Levis 569’s and on the third page for the Google Search for “Levis 569 corduroys” is my blog post. It’s pretty amazing that my blog post is that high, but the fact that Google/the Internet has helped this person find someone else with the same issue.

I’ve already e-mailed the person and told them that I found the pants on JCPenney.com. The Google and the Internet are so cool.

The last couple days I’ve developed an addiction to a TV show. A TV show with a group of space-fairing characters looking for home. Sounds a little like Star Trek: Voyager?
The last couple days I’ve developed an addiction for a TV show with a charismatic leader taking his crew through hell and back. Sound like Star Trek: The Next Generation?
I’ve developed and addiction to a TV show about the crew aboard a ship that is more than a crew but a close knit group of friends that move on for the betterment of humanity. Sound like Star Trek in General?
Well it should, although these are superficial and elements chosen purely to their similarity to Star Trek there are many others, most hard to describe that give this new addiction the feel of what I love in Star Trek. Only thing is…. it’s not. I did just recently watch the last season of Star Trek: Enterprise. It was canceled after only 4 seasons. Before it the only Star Trek show to be canceled before season 7 was the original and it was doomed by stupid network execs and faulty rating systems. The point is that although I enjoyed it, Enterprise isn’t what Star Trek used to be.
My new addiction is Battlestar Galactica. Not the old series the new one that’s currently on the air. It’s absolutely amazing. I’d read reviews calling it “the best show on television… period.” I found them kind of hard to swollow. Although it does have some decent stuff the Sci-fi Channel isn’t really known for quality in it’s original shows. Quite frankly Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis are ok at best, they can’t lay a hand on The Next Generation though. BSG is simply amazing though. Good writing, great characters, fantastic story. Really it’s all there.
Battlestar Galatica is the new Star Trek.

I stuck up some pictures of my apartment. They are just of the living room, kitchen and my room. No one wants to see the bathroom or laundry room anyways so I figured this would be good enough. I’ve got a ton of posters on my wall and I’m feeling lazy so I’m not going to explain what they all are but if you’re curious your more than welcome to ask.
I also moved things around on the picutre pages and moved less recent pictures into an Old Pictures folder. If there was something here before and you don’t see it, look there.

As anyone that visits here with any frequency (the few of you that remain) you will notice that I haven’t been making a lot of changes, improvements or even content additions lately. Most of all that’s because the school year is just starting off and I’m getting started with that but there is another reason… I’ve been working on another website.
I’m relatively new to web development, tedger.com being the first real website that I built from the ground up using pure html and css code. Well today I’m able to say I’ve got two websites under my belt. Although it requires some finishing touches work is pretty much complete on the Harwood House Website. The whole website is designed from the ground up to be created not by a webmaster but by the members of the house itself. I’m pretty happy with it and I’m looking forward to seeing how Harwoodians end up using it :D.

Happy Independence Day! To all of my fellow Americans. Really anyone can celebrate. Celebrating the worlds longest standing constitution and stable democratic government is something we can all enjoy.

As noted 2 posts before U2 Rocks. To explain this seemingly random post let me explain.
Back in February tickets for U2’s Virtigo ‘05 tour went on sale. A friend of mine, Catherine, and I got up early on a Saturday to get tickets. We tried the website and they were sold out to web users. We grabbed another friend’s car and drove to HyVee (the nearest Ticketmaster location). We stood in line behind a woman trying to buy 15 tickets. We probably stood there for 20 minuets. We could hear the tickets selling for what we thought were only 2 shows.
When we eventually got our turn we were elated to find out that there was now 4 shows, and that they were all close to being sold out. We asked for the best 3 tickets she could get us and she printed them out, we paid and we were on our way with tickets. 3 months pass, the tour announces another 3 shows in the area; 2 more for a total of 6 in Chicago (all sold out), and one in Omaha (also sold out). More importantly the day of the concert comes up. Cat’s Mom wanted to see a relative and was nice enough to drive us to Chicago.

The show was nothing short of amazing.  It's really hard to describe it. It was a little unbelievable being not that far away from a group that has been making amazing music for over 25 years.  

In summation, U2 ROCKS!

Tonight I decided to take a walk… It was just kind of one of those nights where I felt like taking a walk. Nothing bad, but I had just kind of had a long day and felt that it would be a good wind down. Well I made it quite a ways. I don’t really pay close attention to where I’m going when I take walks, it’s pretty free flowing. When I come to an intersection I decide where to proceed from there. Anyways I was south of campus in the residential/frat areas and it started to rain.

I have to say it wasn’t bad. I actually somewhat enjoyed being caught in it. I was able to take refuge in Annie, Laura, Kate, and Rachel’s new house. Hadn’t originally intended to go there, but like I said before, my walks are pretty free flowing.

The moral of the story is: Rain is cool and Life needs no reason, it is it’s own reason.

On another front today I upgraded from Ubuntu linux 4.1 (Warty the Warthog) to 5.0 (Hoary the Hedgehog) the upgrade was as simple as changing some variables in a text file and typing 2 commands. After 25 minutes my computer had downloaded (for free of course) and installed all of the upgrades that the new version entailed. No restarting, no install CDs, no money. Not going to get me to give up my Mac, but linux rocks!

This post is pretty nerdy, you have been forewarned.

Recently I decided that music has become somewhat of a burden on my Powerbook.  It only has a 40GB hard drive and with over 10GB of that being music I think it's a little ridiculous.  Another ridiculous thing is that I have a beautiful 4.1 speaker system that I rarely use to it's full potential, the powerbook only has a headphone jack. while pondering this situation I realized the perfect solution: Aria.  Aria has a built in 6.1 sound card (thanks to the nForce2 chip-set) and a 80GB hard drive.  Without all the other things that clutter Sam's (my powerbook's) hard drive, double the hard drive space, and a better sound card aria makes the perfect jukebox.  
The idea of using it as a media center of sorts isn't new.  It's been suggested to me a couple times.  But quite frankly what I've seen of linux's capability of doing things like hooking up to a tv for video, my powerbook can't be touched.  This on the other hand is very simple all it would require would be a suitable player.  Aria running headless makes primarily graphical players cumbersome, and far from ideal.  However Peter, Mr. Linux Extraordinare, gave me the answer.
<a href="http://www.musicpd.org/">MPD</a>, a Music player daemon with support for MP3s and AACs.  The whole thing is just great and I'm already enjoying using it.  It lacks the simple single user interface of iTunes, but what it looses in that it makes up for in versatility, and pure cool factor.

Today I think Spring and thus the onset of Summer officially hit me. It has been really humid. It’s been kind of miserable, especially at work in the basement of Durham. Even though this part of the weather wasn’t so great it rained. Not a bad rain, a good rain it cooled things off a bit and really greed campus up. Campus is amazingly beautiful right now. Anyways the appearance of spring has mad me realize how close summer is…. and I’m really looking forward to it.

This is the first post for a new category “Brainfart” for random posts that aren’t completely coherent but a feel like posting about.