I neglected to mention

Drew is conducting an experiment he's calling the Internet Connection that tries to see if there's sex in the champagne room - I mean, if there is love to be found online. At this point in the writing, he's basically just chatting with some local ho and I personally think it's hilarious. I'm excited to see where he goes with this, so everyone keep an eye on it.

Good news aplenty

So the John Mayer concert is next weekend and I'm starting to get pretty damn excited. I watched a video yesterday of a behind-the-scenes on the road kinda thing with John, which was incredibly funny and very well shot and wrapped with a live recording of City Love with a great guitar solo. This guy's just plain good. What's got me more excited is his upcoming album which is out early September (I'm going to be a VERY poor college boy between that and Half-Life 2 all coming out in the same month) which has only 10 tracks (frowny), most if not all of which are songs that he already plays live, but it has absolutely the coolest cover I've ever seen. It's a two-tone cover in a shade of dark blue or turquoise with just a picture of Mayer standing tall, arms down to his sides, guitar slung around his neck. It was almost like how I saw myself - especially since he's wearing cargos, a t-shirt and sneakers in the picture. It's called Heavier Things, which I guess fits the whole cover theme. I'm very, very excited to hear this album - his studio tracks are my favorite songs to listen to.

This past week, you may feel old to find out that the NES turned twenty years old. Yeah. 20. The system we all adored as little kids is just a little bit older than we thought. I got mine at the age of 5, which was thirteen years ago, which means the system had already been out for seven years. And it still sold like hotcakes when Super Mario Brothers 3 broke every game sale record up to that point.

And! I get my car back today. At last! I've been missing it for about the last week. Of course, nothing will compare to the dream I had where I acquired a 323Ci convertible and everyone loved it. But at this point I'm just happy to get the Camry of Serious Hardcore Action back in my life. And I'm still waiting for TRD to produce suspension mods for the current-gen Camrys, because dammit, it needs it.

The search is on

So I sent a nice little email to my roommate Tim Allen (cue manly barking sound) introducing myself only to find that his email address doesn't exist. I wonder if he's able to get UT email at all. So I figured his email username 'moredakka' might have been an alias. Enter Google, search engine of the gods. Searching for his alias got exactly two results: both hits on a high school robotics competition forum. Turns out he's a robotics guy from Houston (verified by one of his posts) and that's all we know at this point.

What blake's up to

I've felt a lack of things to post lately. Life is moving really quickly - I have two weeks of work left before the August vacationfest leaves me exhaused just in time to move down to Austin permanently. I'm working on two writings: one is for a Plan2 essay contest (write a retrospective on Iraq from the year 2013) and the other is a short story about revolutionaries. I'll post #1 after the deadline (late September) and #2 when it's done.

I just got a photo collection from Nathalie that's nostalgia supreme. There's lots of fun mixed with lots of emotion and it altogether makes me wish I had the foresight to spend a year or two at LHS, because it would have done me a *lot* of good. Pictures from the recent parties plus graduation, which I'm sad I missed.

I got my room assignment stuff in the mail - my roommate's name is Tim Allen.

Plan for the rest of summer:
-work two more weeks
-attend the *69 pre-Quakecon lan to play alongside Daler (read: play Halo on Rob's HDTV)
-attend Camp Texas the day after the lan
-attend Quakecon the day after Camp Texas
-four day break
-move to Austin with Kris

I had no clue it would all go by this fast.

For sale TODAY ONLY!

My buddy, local gamer and mod god mic crispy is selling a pretty cool toy. If you've got three open 5.25" bays in your computer and want to fill those slots with an LCD screen (modified from the Gamecube portable LCD) then send Tim an email here. He needs to free up the bays pronto so he wants to sell it today for $75. He's local so it wouldn't be hard to go pick up. Someone buy from this man!

update: SOLD to the brown man!