I’m feeling quite sick right now, and I’m sorry that I haven’t made a post in a while, I don’t know what I’m thinking. Anyway, more posts soon. But for now, rest.

I just opened the kitchen cupboard to this.

Yeah,
cookies will pretty much be the death of me.

Thanks Mom.






PS, I’m pretty sure Trader Joes puts crack in these.

Awesome short documentary on pirate radio in London. I still have yet to see the recent movie, but this is the real deal and an absolute must see. Enjoy!

This is my car. It is a 2002 3-Series BMW, white, manual transmission.

Why BMW?

Because it’s simply smashing.

Tonight I had an interesting conversation with a friend of a friend, he’s 40 years old, and shared some of his wisdom with me. He said to travel when you are young. This isn’t the first time I had heard this, I’m sure everyone around my age has heard the same thing before, see what the world has to offer while you are young. Another interesting subject that talked about was how years (a couple decades or so) ago it was so easy to not only travel, but also to get things done, okay.. that’s a bit vague, but what I mean is; it was easy to say.. get a job, and not have to go through a bunch of loops to get to working. Today if you want a Job, you might have to show credentials, do a drug test, take other tests, talk to human resources, see three managers, and fill out a bunch of forms. It was a lot easier in the 1960′s and 1970′s to just walk in, and get hired. If for some reason you lied about something to get hired, and no one finds out until months later, but you just happen to be doing your job really well, it just became a laugh.. and it was brushed off. You simply did you job, and you did it well.

I am realizing as I type this that the entire post is all over the place, hope you don’t mind. Back to Travel, long ago it was easier to Travel, you didn’t need this or that, you could travel with a Drivers License, and that was simply good enough. So with all of this said, I like the idea of traveling while you are young, it makes sense. The gentleman I was talking to tonight brought up a good point.. when you are young, no one cares that you are sleeping on a deck of a boat, or fall in the mud, or simply backpacking around. You can attempt to talk to people that barely speak your same language but still are quite helpful to you. The term “because your young” really comes into play here, or “oh, he’s just young”, something about the mentality of society all around the world just doesn’t think the same about someone of older age.

Travel when you are young. I still haven’t, but I need to. I have energy, I’m young, it’s just the right time to do something of the sort. Even if you aren’t traveling outside the country, see what the country you’re in has to offer. Go hiking, see the wilderness, see the city.. see history, see culture, and take pictures. You will have stories upon stories and something to always talk about. I can only imagine 100 years ago how many stories everyone must have had. Life needs to be like this, always new and refreshing. Be adventurous.

Anyway, that’s all I have to say, if you like any of this, talk about it in the comments. Oh and let me know if I misspelled anything, I’m a bit lazy tonight.

Daylight savings.. it’s lame, it’s wonderful.. it’s happening in about 10 minutes.. AKA I need to get to sleep.

At 2am set your clocks to 3am.. or watch them do it for you, then realize that you are losing 1 hour sleep and go to bed.

Okay seriously.. bed time.

Oh, and sorry about the lack of post I promised.

I am under your bed. Actually I have been keeping rather busy, but aside from that, sorry I haven’t kept with the flow of updating. Expect some love tomorrow!

By the way, I have been listening to way too much (or not enough) AC/DC lately.. aren’t they fantastic?

EDIT: I bet you thought this post was something else. HA!

For those of you not familiar with TED, here is a great introduction of what it’s all about, well sort of at least. TED is usually conference where people share their ideas and innovations, always something interesting to watch and listen to. This time Bill Gates takes the spotlight sharing his thoughts on the world, poverty, and brings it together with the focus on energy. Check it out!

As one Digg user said, “This is too awesomely stupid NOT to laugh at.”

Okay, not literally, but this thing is ridiculously bright. I decided to go with a Romisen flashlight, the price was great on dealextreme, but then I discovered Shining Beam. Tuesday I ordered the flashlight, and it came today. Shining Beam typically sells modded flashlights that you can find on websites like dealextreme. Both websites sell flashlights at a great price, yet work ridiculously well. The Romisen flashlight I ordered has a modded clicky switch in the back so that you can momentarily turn it on, and upgraded with a CREE Q5 LED. The flashlight is fantastic, and the build quality feels wonderful, the best part though was the price, which can’t be beat for what you are getting. Once again the thing is bright, and you must be careful operating it so you don’t hurt your eyes, like those guys on the freeway that upgraded their headlights to HID lamps and either never properly aimed them, or aren’t running them with lenses, which in that case totally blind you when they are behind you, and you want to kill them.

So you are reading this and thinking either whoa cool! or eh, totally lame. See, last fall I found myself on a hike at night, with a small toy-like LED flashlight that had some luminance, but just not enough. Later I started doing a little bit more research and came up with what I got, and I am more than happy with it. I think my next flashlight though I might was something adjustable, regardless, I encourage you to check out Shining Beam and Candle Power Fourms if you think this might be something that interests you.

Here is a link to the flashlight I bought, they also sell it in black,
http://www.shiningbeam.com/servlet/the-88/Romisen-RC-dsh-F4-CREE-Q5/Detail