Frustrated Inc.

2003-04-07T21:05:00.000-04:00

Wow, I haven't posted in soooo long.

Well, this will be a quick update. Not too much news to report. Classes ended. Wrote my STV final in-class and I'm pretty sure I rocked it. Next evil final exam on Wednesday. Ick...

In positive news, my implementation of Blogger is coming along quite nicely...in fact, I'm making this post to see what happens on the Blogger Post popup page once I submit. Anyhoo, I should return to more productive things...

later muchachos,
~K
Quote of the Day: "My back is warm with your friendly fire. I know you're trying but won't you please aim it higher."

2003-03-15T17:03:00.000-05:00

kickin...

one ticket to Juliana Theory for me. Now all we need to do is find where we can pick it up...

sweet,
kev
Quote of the Day: "I'd like a supersize of death with a coke..."

2003-03-13T02:30:00.000-05:00

Hooray for hello-worlds

well the first non-me test of my blogger implementation happened tonight, and without a hitch no less. slick...

cinnamon buns make almost everything better.....and so do cookies that contain pop-rocks...

yummy...

slack on all,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up. These are the best days of our lives..."

2003-03-09T17:32:00.000-05:00

WOOHOO! MIDTERMS ARE DONE!!!

So the regular season of vball is done for the Continental Drifters....and final outcome 6 wins, no losses......in fact we only lost 3 matches out of the 18...and I must say, my last game was probably one of the best vball games I've ever played....super kick ass.

In other news...there's a new album from The Ataris!!! sweetness....came out on Tuesday, so it's all mine on Monday. Thanks to my cousins for the purchase with my xmas present of hmv giftyness...
so sweet

brain in off position,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Can't stop the Gods from Engineering."

2003-03-01T17:14:00.000-05:00

How the hell did it get to be March!!!!

I hate midterms...

midterms suck large...

no beer and midterms make kevin something something...

and it's by far the nicest day all winter outside today. I feel like I'm living a simpons episode...

stupid D.E.s,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Smooth like peanut butter and still contains nuts."

2003-02-15T02:55:00.000-05:00

And so another vday in the books. And by the end of it, it wasn't so bad...

I decided that music could be my valentine this year. Now, I know this may sound strange to some (if not all), but hey, I'm used to explaining myself.

Reasons why music makes a good valentine:

- doesn't make you do household chores of any kind
- helps to pick you up when you are feeling blue
- will always be around no matter where you are
- even when you obtain it the way that is perscribed by the RRIA, it still doesn't really cost a fortune
- helps to encourage intoxication and spending time with your friends
- invites you into the arms of other women and encourages you to have a good time with them...hehe

so yeah, music is a cool valentine, and for those of you with actual loved ones for valentines, I hope that you truly enjoyed your day :)

vball tomorrow at 5pm so I gotta get to some snoozing...
~K
Quote of the Day: "Last night a DJ saved my life..."

2003-02-11T23:35:00.000-05:00

Wow, I had quite a run there, sorry for the sudden break in chatter on this ever informative rant...

vball record:

4 - 0

after YET another game shortened due to time, I am thoroughly exhausted. At least they told us that they were shortening it this time. We were short a setter tonight making things a little more confused than usual, but we pulled it out and got the job done. Good times...and and the end of it all we finished early so we took a round of post-game hitting...it was all good, and I blocked Steve which I definitely was not expecting.

Next game: Saturday afternoon...kick ass...

In other news, assignments suck and open-source projects would be more fun if there were a few extra hours in the day so that you could actually get somewhere in one sitting...

in grocery shopping news, the pudding/chocolate milk sale is over and now Dare cookies are on for almost half price....not to mention mini-wheats are on for like 2 bucks instead of 5...
for anyone needing context as to why I can quote prices from Sobeys, no I do not work there, but I live a 10 minute (ass-alow) walk from a 24-hour one....and I go a few times a week...hooray for food that doesn't make me poor....but it's a damn good thing I'm getting some good excercise this term.

one tired power,
kev
Quote of the Day: "I just wanna get loved by you and you just wanna get fucked."

2003-02-02T17:48:00.000-05:00

mmmm....weekend volleyball...

my team fought a pressed battle against the Blue Pirate Monkey Seals and kicked ass....no room for k-dawg and wolf related fun, but even though we were playing on different teams, he did set me up beautifully twice...;)

mmmm....mini wheats....so bi-polar, and yet so yummy...

Kev
Quote of the Day: "Aye, it's a rock-an-roll breakfast..."

2003-01-30T01:19:00.000-05:00

For future reference, math can be used to obtain free home-cooked meals. Who knew.

VBall Round 2:

We won! That is all. One injury, but not to us.
We won!

kev
Quote of the Day: "Time to kick it up a notch! ARRRGH!!!"

2003-01-25T15:56:00.000-05:00

Not much sleep...costly

A crappy old dance CD on repeat all night from above....tiring

Headache and crappiness due to no sleep....painful

The bitter taste left from seeing a bad movie....fuel for the flames

Cranking Chevelle's The Red at 7:30 am....priceless

Now that they have seen my point and turned off their music, I shall venture to sleep for a little while.

kev
Quote of the Day: "payback's no bitch, it's more like a blonde secretary looking for a raise"

now that I'm up again....I shall reiterate simply "ugh"

2003-01-23T22:40:00.000-05:00

Ah Thursday, it's a good day...

went and hung out with swank and dancer and had some good times speaking geek and trying desperately to digest semi-plastic/semi-unknown material that goes for late night student food around town.
My upstairs house-mates kept me up watching a movie last night...definitely worse than the porno sounds. Ah wells...only slept through one class.

Got marks back and I'm stylin...

now back to burying my head in the sand for a while,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Neo.....da...da...da......Sporin...."

2003-01-21T21:46:00.000-05:00

woohoo!

Round 1 B-League Volleyball Results:

Us: Many
Them: Way Less

It was a good warm up game....I expect next week to be a more hard-pressed victory. Ah wells, it was all in fun. And much fun was had. I wish our competitors well.

kev
Quote of the Day: "Aww, but then you'll miss American Idol!"

2003-01-20T18:08:00.000-05:00

So they closed Fed Hall....no matter, I'm past first year, as inviting as frosh beds are...
And they closed Bomber....weakening the coolness of my Wednesday nights....but more scary is when midterms arrive....what if I have another Calc 2-esque midterm and need to drown my sorrows with my buds at 12 in the afternoon? Where else can I go to wash away my memories that is so close to the building which haunts them so? Molly Blooms it is! :) Oh well....I wish the protesters well in their endevours tonight.

Here's to drunken rowdiness...
Kev
Quote of the Day: "Wahhhhh....they took our booze away!"

2003-01-19T21:12:00.000-05:00

today is a frustrated day.

Simpsons is pre-empted for football.
AMATH has swallowed my entire day.
It's cold out, and I have to go to Sobeys.
I have no Red Bull.
I endured the torture of watching Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai.
the jessman is illin' like crazy.
graham pretends to be online.
I have to listen to a tape of interviews with Dr. Ball before tomorrow.
my router is still broked...though money and future shop's return policy has temporarily solved that problem
I'm tired and unspired, but I can still rhyme.

kev
Quote of the Day: "What you say is unbelieveable, and what's worse you can't even say why."

2003-01-15T12:17:00.000-05:00

Ah the between class break....

It seems my days posting on Swank.ca could be numbered thanks in no small part to the latest Slacker contest. Ah well. It was good times while it lasted so no complaints either way. And besides, it's not like it would change anything too much I guess even though I would far rather keep my little cartoon head.

Shame I have so much work to do.

why must assignments suck?
kev
Quote of the Day: "Anyone who thinks that could ever be exactly zero is stupid because it's absolute bullshit."

2003-01-14T19:32:00.000-05:00

Assignments suck.

That is all for now. Not back to pretending to work.

kev
Quote of the Day: "It would be like a GO-Bot standing next to a Transformer. There is no question who is cool and who belongs on the cheap impression scrap-heap."

2003-01-13T02:55:00.000-05:00

I fear greatly that my router may be more toasted than a marshmallow for s'mores...

I will update when I can, hopefully this problem is resolved soon.

btw....though the store may have it's short-comings, Future Shop's drop a bomb on it and we'll give you a new one attitude to business might save my ass (and 400 worth of change) this time.

I bid you farewell from my shoddy, un-networked existence,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Unathorized user. Access Denied. [sounds of an electric shock]"

2003-01-11T17:35:00.000-05:00

Half crushed, half frozen, but good times.

Headed out for some wicked breaks courtesy of Tubesock from Hamilton. The following is an instruction manual:

Step 1: Freeze your ass off walking over to a friend's place.

Step 2: Dust off all the snow and dethaw.

Step 3: Drink Red Bull and vodka and be happy.

Step 4: Head out to a club.

Step 5: Nearly get crushed into hot females in the mosh pit like "line" outside of the club.

Step 6: Wait for about an hour out in the cold while being warmed by the increasing psi.

Step 7: Maintain consciousness and leave the mob mentallity to pay too much for cover that you should have missed were it not for the line.

Step 8: Enjoy cool breaks at incredibly loud volume.

Step 9: Walk home in steps, being sure to pick up provisions from 7-11.

Step 10: Arrive home and thaw out.

And today, I'm proud to announce that I have accomplished work on assignments and eating and nothing else....horray for lazy.

it's Saturdaaaaaay,
kev
Quote of the Day: "I hope these two aren't breeding, cuz they'd give birth to furniture."

2003-01-10T18:49:00.000-05:00

So Christmas is more or less over for another year....

After much ado about nothing many a gift changed hands and made other hands happy. Stiil a few notable outstanding gifts, but only due to the fact that ordering shit cannot easily be scheduled to arrive in time for Christmas day. Had a good workout yesterday, it was good times. But for future reference, if ever it crosses your mind to go to Morty's pre-workout for wing night, just say "No". Not only is the service slow and unreliable (although rather hot) they make you stand and wait for an hour after saying, " Oh, 3 people, then it will be 15 minutes." Thankfully Graham was also late so I got to miss out on the Cale-standard - "Jackass" comment. Anyways, good times were had by all, and no doubt tonight will bring more good times to memory, even if I kill them with mucho alcool shortly after :)

the weekend,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Watch out guy, you might catch a DVD."

2003-01-09T13:57:00.000-05:00

Afternoon all,

Well, after a night of trying to remember high school calc to help my cousin with a bonus assignment, I'm back in the University mode and hard at the assignments....I'm hoping to get one of them done before the weekend so that I have mucho time next week. In other news, hitting the PAC again today. In shameful news, I missed my first class of the term, but it actually was not my fault. My alarm clock is *this* close to getting it's sorry ass replaced and them promptly beaten with a baseball bat until it is no longer distinguishable. And they won't even be able to use dental records since most alarm clocks lack teeth. Oh well, it was only the second class of a slideshow course, so no worries...the course notes will tell all :)

back to work for me,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Sagitarius. I'm the half man, half horse with a bow and arrow. Damn right, mess with me and I'll trample and kick ya, shoot you with an arrow and then make fun of your mom."

2003-01-08T16:49:00.000-05:00

Did you know that the Chinese calender calls this the year of the sheep....Scotsmen eat your heart out ;)

Wow, day 3, and already I have two assignments. And are you ready for the crazy part? I've already started to work on them. Go figure. Well, time to get back to the joys of a calc review for my DEs class.

tonight should be a Bomberin' good time,
Kev
Quote of the Day: "It conveys a good idea, but it's quite frankly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Go Galileo!"

2003-01-08T00:01:00.000-05:00

Good evening,

Well, the maiden voyage has been made to the PAC for "triathlon training". Overall, I was pleased with my performance...particularly on the rowing machines. I was amazed to see 31 strokes per minute where people far less healthily inhibited than myself wussed out at a mere 24 strokes. 31 strokes per minute for half a KM, twice....that's some damn good excercise. Of course, I undid all the benifits by just eating a bag o' Bit's and Bites.....but they are so damn good that I'll deal.

on the road to health, or a grave injury trying,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Damnit I just hurt myself on snack food, who am I, the president?"

2003-01-07T02:08:00.000-05:00

Well good morning to you all,

For all fans of Kevin Smith's movies (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back) may I highly recommend the DVD "An Evening With Kevin Smith" which is now readily available at GenX. It's absolutely hilarious. It's not Robin Williams' stand up DVD, but it's still damn funny.

enjoi,
kev
Quote of the Day: "I would especially never read anything written by Kevin Smith."

2003-01-06T01:30:00.000-05:00

Well, it's official, I've moved.

The Haven still holds a few of my belongings but for the most part, I'm all moved in. It's pretty sweet.

On a sad note, holidaying is over for the term and the work starts tomorrow. 10:30am is first class, and simple math tells me that my alarm is going off in 7 hours and 29 minutes....so I shall bid you adieu for now.

kev
Quote of the Day: "What, do you want it in cubic metres?"

2003-01-04T02:48:00.000-05:00

Phils Phils Phils Phils

Phils is like the sort of woman that most women hate; Fast, easy, cheap, and always willing to provide you with a good time no matter what.

Sleep now or pain on ski slopes tomorrow.

please don't call too early, please don't call too early, please don't call too early,
kev
Quote of the Day: "So lay down, the threat is real."

2003-01-03T13:35:00.000-05:00

Well, the new look to the place is shaping up. I'm pretty much ready to say adios to the Haven's basement apartment that I have enjoyed the massiveness and near constant darkness of for so long. Time to move to the SIN BANK :) Should be good times, if only for 4 months. In the basement yet again, but basements are good for my pale complexion and vampiric and nocturnal tendencies.

kev
Quote of the Day: "Caught a bolt of lightning and cursed the day he let it go."

2003-01-03T01:08:00.000-05:00

Well, over the break I finally finished off that Huxley book that I was reading. It is quite a worthwhile read, though long as a result of it's heavy philosophies and whatnot. But nevertheless, I would recommend "Island" by Aldous Huxley to anyone interested in distopian/utopian novels.

And with the new year, I decided to spruce this place up a bit and switch to a new template. One of these days I will design my own, but until then, customization works well enough for me.
~K

2003-01-02T17:30:00.000-05:00

Yeah....a new year!
woohoo!
and back in the 'Loo again

kev
Quote of the Day: "Is it better to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?"

2002-11-26T20:57:00.000-05:00

Congratulations boys and girls, you've done it,

Well, my sleep schedule is officially in the state is always reaches shortly before exams. Las night I slept from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm....Hooray for no windows in my little fire code busting basement apartment. Sleep is good, no matter what time of day :) Damn the everyday inticing of daily McValue double hamburgers/cheeseburgers.... Yummy, twice as much "meat" for less the the regular cost. Oh who cares, I'm a student and it's not like I have anything better to do than try to not spend all of my money on food.

Healthy people must be poor,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Out of touch, out of time."

2002-11-26T01:33:00.000-05:00

Wow, how the times flies

It was my sis's birthday last week. I hope she had a great bday celebration. Also, Jen had her bday the following day which brought the havenites out in full celebrating force. So much cake....and so much drinking...wow...no trips to the porcelain god or the hospital so it's all good. Snow sucks. Tonight it snowed again. Why won't it stop?

I've been inspired. Time for some odd flavoured poetry about the assness of snow.

The Assness of Snow
Snow is ass
Not small ass
Not cute ass
Not pokeahotass
just pure, nasty ass

Thank you, and goodnight.

What the world needs is globalized central air....and as a skater, it would always be warm enough to keep the pavement clean.

argh...snow makes kevin's walk to school far more unpleasant.

You might ask yourself, "wow, he sure is bitching. There must have been a lot of snow." Nope. I hate it that much that any makes me angry. Average snow covering on the ground < 2mm....

in need of a non-snow chick,
kev
Quote of the Day: "So how exactly would they bring it up that they left there underwear here on your floor? Seriously, can you imagine that conversation?"

2002-11-09T03:06:00.000-05:00

Sickness almost gone. Or rather, gone and back and gone again. It's been awhile, no?

So I watched some crazy long french movie tonight called Brotherhood of the Wolf. It was quite crazylicious. There wasn't a single scene where I didn't wonder what the heck was going on. It was a little artsy, and a lot french....but there was the coolest hooker ever in this movie. She just had more up her sleeve than anyone could have imagined since she was naked a lot and therefore didn't have sleeves. Quite cool.....and it's got some kung fu action....lots of killing and sword fighting related injuries sometimes causing death. Most excellent overall.

In other news, snow in the KW region has lead to me hanging up my decks for the season.....I'm still hopeful for maybe one more ride, but we'll see how my luck works out. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to trick with my bike instead. mmmm.....snow biking sounds like painful good fun to me.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City is damn fun.....you pick up hookers and they rock your world for health.....you can also get head from random chicks on the street, go figure...

Countdown to THPS4 is on....

Ever from my basement,
kev
Quote of the Day: "What left to do, but complain, better find someone to blame. Hey, get over it."

2002-09-25T01:10:00.000-04:00

Ugh...

Being sick is ass. No it's worse than ass. It's really nasty fat ass.

just to reiterate, ugh...
kev
Quote of the Day: "If money is such a problem, they've all got mansions and I think we should rob them"

2002-09-22T02:34:00.000-04:00

So I'm here again,

Last night rocked. Had a nice sit down dinner at a high class restaurant called Wendy's. Went down to Burlington for some fun at the ever joyous Kingdom. The music was amazing. The crowd was full of energy and kept the place packed all night. To top off the evening, I even got FREE money at the cash grab. So cool...

Today was filled with waking up. After that, I made time for some beach v-ball yet again. The tag team of "K-Dogg and Wolf" weren't necessarily in their finest form, but fine enough to help our glorious teams never lose a single game. Although it might have been disheartening for our competition, much fun was had by all as we all had good senses of humour. A special thanks to Ray, Luke (Craig Kilbourn look alike contest winner), Kristen (Bday rep), Samil (the ever flailing V2 Prez), and the other people whose names I have forgotten....but hey, 4 out of 6 ain't bad.....for making it a Haven vs V2 match of sorts with laughs and good times to be had by all. Cheers.

from the land of eternal darkness that is my basement,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Your fist to my face style, how you like it!?!?!?"

2002-09-20T02:58:00.000-04:00

End of Week 2
Current Status: Suffering from that odd form of insomnia yet again. It's not really insomnia, because I can sleep lots. However, the bulk of that sleep comes during the late morning to mid afternoon. I'm impressed. Normally it takes far longer in a term for my vampiric tendencies to come forward. Just my luck I guess.

In world news I just don't care.

Though I can scarcely imagine why, I'm am sitting here wearing a toque. It's actually rather warm outside but for some reason I feel the need for winter head gear. I really have no idea what's going on.

penny for your thoughts, though mine will cost a quarter,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Money is like manure, you got to spread it around to make things grow"

2002-09-17T22:44:00.000-04:00

Sad news boys and girls,

I had to return my 700 dollar GeForce 4. Such a shame really. But at the same time, how can I possibly justify owning that card....it's far too powerful for anything I use it for. It was cool though, to know that for 30 days I had the best card on the planet. Shame shame...

with dreams of sugar plums and bisexual fairy chicks,
kev
Quote of the Day: "So you're saying that you picked the gay latino hairdresser over 3 hot chicks?"

2002-09-16T14:57:00.000-04:00

If you plan on writing any laws today, be sure to have some one proof read it, or this could happen to your country. You'd think they would proof read it or something. All I can say is hooray for the multi-tiered legal system we have because it requires at least 300 people to be that stupid in order for such a legal folly to occur.

in legal-eeze,
kev

2002-09-16T02:58:00.000-04:00

Oh wait, I wasn't done that last one. Oh well, I was just going to start another topic anyway, so here goes:

The following topic came up earlier today. The idea is this: Everything that we see is an illusion that we, the viewer create for our own entertainment. A fascinating depiction of the world that we exist in, no? Imagine if this is all just some fantastical dream that we never really wake up from. If that is the case, let's all remember that dreams are ours to have and control, so make sure your dream is a good one. The thoughts behind that are very similar to those of Buddhism, mixed with a touch of Marxism for added zest. The Buddhists see all all composite things as empty, and every aspect of our lives as a glorious and elaborate illusion that people must look beyond to put an end to Samsara (the cycle of death and rebirth). Marx would add a little bit of an "Opiate of the masses" twist to that, which is rather ironic since I am trying to use a religion to compare to this ideology. Of course, what's the real difference between a theology and an ideology. One is the body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture. And the other, the science of religions or simply, a school of thought. Odd isn't it, how semantics arguments always arise when discussing weird philosophical goodies? So this world might be nothing more than a contrived illusion or hallucination roughly equivalent to that of a drug trip. Here's to a good trip for all of us...

living in a dream world,
kev
P.S. I also saw "One Hour Photo" today. It was quite good. Great role for Robin Williams yet again. The dark side is actually suiting him, as odd as that seems given how hilarious he is.

2002-09-16T02:57:00.000-04:00

Wowzers. First update since my bday. That's a month...how sad.

Well, this is my first concerted effort at writing a somewhat daily log here at Frustrated Inc. I have once again returned to the joys of my scholarly endevours at UW and in one of the nicest years for Frosh yet. Hmmm....third year isn't too old for first year girls....in fact, it's just right :) Sadly I must report that my entire coding vacation was spent moving. Although I do have quite the killer pad, so I suppose it's worth it. The roomies are working out great thus far and I don't see that changing any time soon. The week break at home with the fam was refreshing and reminded me just how lovely some of the ladies back home were. It's hard to recall sometimes after you've all but moved away from a city so it's always nice to go back for a refresher course.

This weekend was a fairly decent one. Some sweet beach vball with stunning set ups via the Jester himself. Thanks Mikey B. I'll be sure to throw some up for you next time we are out on the court. There was also a slick impromptu jam session with Enrique on lead, new friend Justin on second, and me strumming away in the background while the crowd handled the vocals and much booze. Good times for certain. This weekend also brought about the chance for power outage fun with 15 people and a viscious game o' "Gender Gap" which lead the group to all sorts of revealing and awkward topics :) Also, a special thanks goes out to Matt Hoffman Pro BMX 2 for being such a damn cool game that was always there for us when we weren't sure what else to do.

let there be light,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Yeah, he's a pretty special guy, just like the Olympics."

2002-08-14T01:47:00.000-04:00

Happy birthday to me!

Well, since it is now techinically speaking, officially my bday, this is my birthday post. SlackerFTP gave me a pretty sweet present too. First upload sucessful to good ol' Student.Math. Hello Freakin' FTP WORLD!
Today FTP, tomorrow some booze and dinner with the boys...no wait, that will also be today. Oh well, sleep for me. By the way, make sure you see Lord of the RIngs again on DVD....such a sweet movie.

Gettin Old,
Kev
Quote of the Day: "Its Alive! ALIVE!"

2002-08-13T19:20:00.000-04:00

Well, how's this for a change

Today was a momentous day of sorts. I found the almighty Frustrated Inc. as the top search on Google for a query of the same name. Now call me geeky, but quite frankly, it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. I'm sure all of this comes in no small part to my link on Swank.ca, the high traffic site for the fun loving, in your face skater geek in all of us. Thank you GoogleBot, wherever you are.

Come September, there will be an update to the Look and Feel of this site. Not that it needs it, but what can I say, different is good.

In more geeky news, SlackerFTP is off the ground. Though it barely had a UI at all (command line), and can only download so far, things are going well. I'm working on a bit of a revamp right now to handle communication control port sharing for version 2.0. This will definitely aid the transition down the road to a full client/server model. All good....and my coding vacation is coming up. That week and half should finish an alpha of version 1.0....at least a command line one. hehehe...so much fun

Knowledge. Such a vast and interesting thing. Such a powerful tool. I'll stop myself here before I rant onward about this. I blame working at a Collabotive-KM company....lol

feeling the google karma, and all its love,
kev
Quote of the Day: "I think you're smart, you sweet thing. Tell me your name, I'm dying here."

2002-08-01T14:33:00.000-04:00

A rare post from the land they call work,

I found a rather telling quote today. I'd heard it before, but it's worthwhile to share with the internet world. It might seem like little more than a cheese-ridden quote from a fantasy novel, but here's some food for thought. Change the word "Wizard" to "Marketer" or "Expert" and see what you think. The only cure for collective stupidity is knowing it's there, because without knowing it's there, all of the individual intellegence is just washed away...

Fighting the Evils of the Great Dumb,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool" ~ Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

2002-07-27T21:24:00.000-04:00

Morning always comes too early, even at 5:30 pm,

It always amazes me just how long a game of monopoly can last, especially when some of the players are rather intoxicated. Makes for a fun evening, but a very LONG fun evening. So much wheeling and dealing. So much backstabbing. I'm glad it's just a game....or is it? Monopoly definitely isn't that bad as far as friendships go. Friends definitely don't let friends play RISK. No friendship can survive that game....and relationships, forget about it. The only thing you can hope for is the possibility of "make up sex" after the dust has settled on the game. Hmm...come to think of it, maybe people in relationships should play RISK more often than they do now...interesting thought.

But now for something more interesting than a discussion about the social havoc board games result in. Last night one of my friends began a drunken rant of sorts. The topic: Morality. What is moral? Good question. To be moral is something that no one can really define. After all, there's two distinct opinions out there. A higher morality and a personal one. The believers in a higher morality have the hardest time when dealing with other cultures and religions. After all, to each there own higher morality. If only people would believe that there own morality is not the highest morality, we would be a little better off. And that statement is true of both opinions of what is moral and good. Since I am not drunk at this time, and choose to not fuel too much debate, I will leave it at that. Think about it. It's a rather interesting idea...

if only caffinated water tasted any good,
kev
Quote Of The Day: "You mean the band geek with a flute fetish?"

2002-06-03T01:55:00.000-04:00

How sad is this,

I make this post, but I should be sleeping. Perhaps it's just me, but really...must I always do this sleep thing? I have so many things that I want to do....and yet....sleep wins everytime. I'm almost too tired...
oh well....sleep happens....and life is what happens when you don't wake up, but when you don't sleep in, no one ever decides to do anything interesting. Cheers to my boy who woke up in Hamilton this morning, far far away from his bedroom in Waterloo....

mucho confuso,
kev
The Quote of the Day "He makes fucking up look so cool"

2002-05-20T03:08:00.000-04:00

Wow, it's been a while since I posted last. Well here's the news that makes it super worth logging in. Let it be known that I seen a super funny movie that way just be the surprise movie of the year. The movie is "The New Guy". It's a solid flick. Laugh your ass off funny, never takes itself seriously, has TWO cameos with Tony Hawk, he's actually skating for a bit too, and holy shiat is that babe Eliza Dushku fucking hot man...

a definite must see for anyone who likes skating, super hot brunettes, or funny movies.

2002-05-07T08:47:00.000-04:00

I'm back, sort of...

Being offline is SOOO not cool. I had to come in early for work today in order to swing a little net access time. But fear not children, my raging cynicism has found a new development team to feed off of :) I think sarcasm must come from working towards a BMATH degree, because everyone I've ever met with one has a most wonderfully cynical sense of humour.

Anyway, back to work for me...
kev
The Quote of the Day is on vacation, it will return soon....

2002-04-13T04:46:00.000-04:00

me Slacker, you not so Slacker...

Day 12 of Study Week, 3 days and counting...

me sleepy, and me drunk. Phils provided good tunes, good times and good scenery as always...

Now, I will sleep,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Oh how could I not grind with it? The wall is just so irresistable..."

2002-04-08T17:34:00.000-04:00

You can see it in my eyes, I'm not myself right now...

Day 7 of Study Week, 3 days and counting...

hmmm....a week of nothingness...it was slackerlicious. There was very little that occured that could be considered even a little fucocked, which is good. Swank and dancer return from UTM and dino-land under the big smoke with tales of stickers, public nudity, and rules about how not to play cards. There was mucho celebration for roomie Brian and Shannon who both turned old this weekend. Next stop hip-replacement and dentures. The Friday celebrations were good....Charcoal steakhouse for a nice dinner and then chillin at the Haven. Oh, and lest we forget Simpson's Monopoly and UT on Dreamcast! Now, let's see what else happened, and lets see if I can put all of it in the most confusing order possible...oh yes, Louie's Thursday is still a kick ass time, as it ever was. Not to mention Bomber on Thursday too...it was funky live music for a cause of some sort....don't really remember what it was now but it was good times. Oh, and Wednesday....the Bomber-Weavers combo was pretty good to swank and myself. Keep running into those cab girls. It's funny, I think they're stalking me. Oh well, haven't been stalked in a while, it should liven things up a bit, especially since my bedroom has no windows....that can only make it more interesting for me. On Saturday, thoughts of Van Wilder turned cold cuz of high cost and low time followed quickly by die-harder disappointment in the ticket line. Oh yes, and saw Jimmy Eat World on SNL that night....wasn't the best SNL show, but overall I'd give it a rating somewhere in the Middle. Last night I went out to Phil's for my first taste of Retro 80's Sundays....Somehow it seemed wrong to be drinking and partying on a Sunday, but after a drink and the DJ playing "Jesse's Girl" that feeling passed. Kudos to the Sunday team of swank and guy the perceived gay couple, vicki and lindsey the "we're not REALLY lesbians" lesbians, and ashley who just wants to have fun. I will definitely return to that Sunday night sometime soon, as it was quite a party. Hopefully dancer will join us next time.

Well, that's all I can remember right now...if I think of anything, I'll be back to confuse you further...

testing you all on this later,
kev

Quote of the Day: "I never thought I'd say this about a woman, but really, the only thing I have against her is that she gave me too much head."

2002-04-02T16:46:00.000-05:00

So I've heard, but everyone knows that a monkey isn't a domesticated animal,

Day 2 of "Study Week", 10 days and counting...

The entire principle of study weeks is appealing to me. A week off. The chance to NOT stress out. And time to learn some of the stuff you were supposed to be taught. But, for a Slacker and a geek, it means something far different. To me, study week means: "Time to start an open source Java project!"....which is fine by me. Watch for SlackerFTP to show up on your local swank website sometime.

SlackerFTP
"Taking FTP to the N, without trying"

On a sad note, tonight will be my final class. You may think I am crazy, but I will actually miss my Tuesday night classes. They are so informative and choc full of quotey goodness. Ah well, I'll get over it studying for the final.

less sleep deprived but more glued to my computer,
kev
Quote for the Day: "Wow, there would really be nothing more embarassing than having your car stall at a Taco Bell drive through, and then needing people to push you into a handicapped parking spot."

2002-04-01T03:38:00.000-05:00

Early in the Morning, Rising to my Feet,

sleep good, awake bad...and yet, I'm still here...what a joy. I shall turn back to my coding now to see what mysteries I can solve...

that time already? I hate that time,
kev
Quote of the Day: "The evening will be x-rated for breif nudity"

2002-03-30T06:20:00.000-05:00

So friend, we meet again,

I assure you, the rhyming in my greeting is entirely coincidental. It's 6:00 am. I am awake. I am working. Something is wrong. This is fun. You are reading. he he he. Sleep I need.

well, no chills, no spills, and no phil's this evening. I watched part of a rather dull movie based on an Arthur Miller book about racism called 'Focus'. It seems that Graham's comment, which I tend to agree with, about most racism related films being of low quality jumped out at me in this film. I actually enjoyed it less than "Spy Game". And to say that I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed watching a bad board meeting on the big screen says something. Perhaps if the actors had been a little more capable and/or the roles were developed at all it may have been better. I blame the title really. After all, I associate that with the Ford Focus, a most inherently sad little vehicle. And for any who would dispute that remark, I've had the "joy" of being behind the wheel of one of those gutless wonders and I assure you, there's nothing to them....speeding isn't against the law in a focus, it's almost impossible. But enough Ford ranting for one evening.

Then there was slacking to be done. Pool was played, a la CLT....hmmm....clt....it occurs to me that that's only one letter off from a rather interesting word, don't you think? It must be a sign of some kind. I'm sure many guys are thinking cult, women are thinking I'm a perv, and the rest are trying to figure out what a calt is. Well, have fun with that all of you...

meditate on that one for a while,
kev
Quote of the Day: "When you say sure as hell, then I say no"

2002-03-29T16:56:00.000-05:00

Salut my friends, Romans, and countymen,

So I'm awake again. It's an interesting place to visit, but it seems I can never stay here too long. I always have to return to the warmth and comfort of my bed. Who knew that sleep is considered to be a necessary component of life. I sure didn't. Or maybe I did. It's hard for me to remember the days fo normal sleep (i.e. pre-university). But ah well.

Another busy day locked in the basement coding fiercely. What a joyous occasion, too bad it wasn't something slightly more interesting or entertaining. Oh, I will create those spies, and oh yes, I will use those spies, and even terminate them should it be necessary. But really, what does it gain me? Satisfaction? nope....that's not it... Oh yeah, marks...that's it. Ah well, I should get back to my little programmatic pursuits...

lather, rise, repeat
kev
Quote of the Day: "I'm holding out, not getting an answer. I'm finding out that cheating gets it faster"

2002-03-28T14:56:00.000-05:00

Hey look it's another preemptive daily post for me!

It sucks that I've gotten behind in my little weblogging joys here. I need to get back to using strange hours to post again. It's not like I'm not up anyway.

ta ta for now though, for there is much to do,
kev
Quote of the Day: "I've been up 15 minutes so far, and already you expect a quote? It's not like I have a script writer over here. Though that might be a good idea."

2002-03-27T22:22:00.000-05:00

You've got mail! Really! Don't you believe me?

Well this post is going to be rather sad. Not emotionally sad mind you, so feel free to cheer up now. However, due to a busy schedule etc, my Wednesday post just went by the wayside. It was a good day though, with much Bombering, or should I say, much standing around in Ground Zero waiting to get into Bomber. But ah well, a good time was had nonetheless. I will elaborate more in tomorrows rant, but for now, cheers...

sometimes you expect so much,
kev
Quote of the Day: "Tai Chi is an ancient martial art, and the main weapon used by China's People's Slow Motion Army"

2002-03-26T17:11:00.000-05:00

What is this awake thing I keep hearing so much about?

Yeah for Tuesday, time for arguably my fave class....nothing like having a prof who doesn't consider sex a taboo topic for his lectures. It never fails to provide me with at least one solid quote for the day. I will finish this post later....I have a fierce case of the munchies that must be satisfied.

Hunger: sated, for now....but will likely return...damn my stomach heard me...time to raid the fridge

Night Class: over for this week, and complete with a short Tai Chi lesson in the middle, of all things...just one more of those left before term is over....oh dear, what will I do for interesting Tuesday quotes now? Oh wait, I'll be in the midst of exams...if that stress doesn't spout catchy phrases, nothing will

Quotes: A'plenty :)

Because I bore easily and like putting myself in overly complicated situations which could be easily simplified, I decided to take votes for which phrase would be elected as quote worthy this evening. As per usual, class left me laughing profusely at various moments over the course of the 2+ hours I was there. I decided to use a survey against a single person. It was Graham of all people. Well, come to think of it, it wasn't really my idea as such...horray for shifting blame! It was an interesting idea, in theory, but here are the results now, live from chopper 6....Sorry, just wanted to say that for no apparent reason whatsoever...Well the votes are in, and it would appear that there was a miscount in the state of Graham's room. It seems that he doesn't know how to work the idea of specifying a favourite. Or perhaps his int cntr; isn't incrementing. That was sad...but I'm sure some of you geeks out there laughed, or at the very least, felt naucious and had to leave the room screaming for divine intervention of some kind. To save a lot of pain and mental anguish on the party of the first part (that would be me in case you can't translate legaleeze), next time, graham clearly gets no vote...or way more than one, whichever The Company (Frustrated Inc) sees fit at the time. So I decided to go back to the old way and just pick the damn quote myself. Hope you enjoy it, you had to read enough ranting to get to it tonight...

kev
Quote of the Day: "A religious war is about the same as two kids arguing about who has the best imaginary friend"

2002-03-25T22:41:00.000-05:00

Well, why didn't you remind me?

By popular demand...no, allow me to rephrase that....by my own blundering memory of a previous rant, it occurs to me that I have yet to explain the mythical concept of benchophilia yet. Well, here goes nothing. Also, let it be known that the term "benchophilia" and related conjugations such as "benchophile" are registered trademarks of shannon and cannot be used without the expressed written consent of her...

Benchophilia - (ben-choe-Fee-Lee-a ), from the English root bench, which refers to the hard metal or wood object designed for sitting your ass on, typically in the form of an elongated chair (see bench), benchophilia refers to a mental condition. This mental condition results in the deisre to grind all benches humanly possible. To all non-skaters, this provides a humourous opportunity to mock an individual based on blatant sexual inuendo involving an inanimate object, in this case the bench. To skaters, benchophilia is quite common, and is not all together a bad thing.

Example - "Wow man, that backside darkslide was sick. You suffer from benchophilia don't you?"

In an effort to further confuse you, see also backside, and the.

That is all for now,
kev

Quote of the Day: "hehe, I bet you don't know where I am right now!"

2002-03-24T05:15:00.000-05:00

Wow, you're reading this?

So I managed to crawl my way back to the 'Loo in an effort to make some attempt at some crazy assignment that's due tuesday. But enough about school, as long as I'm awake, it's close enough to being Saturday for me. Some genuinely kick-ass fun was had in Toronto tonight. Phoenix was amazing. It got progressively better as the evening went on too, which was the most astounding part. I don't know how many times when it came time that people were thinking of leaving, a song came on that made it just impossible to go. Such excellent and excellently loud tunes. For those of you who have not ventured to the almighty Phoenix for Edge102 live to air, picture a really really massive and incredibly clean Phil's on a Friday night, with comfy chairs and couches and random radio personality Martin Streak thrown in the mix, and that's Phoenix. I know that not everyone enjoyed it as much as I, but I'm sure that I shall return there sometime....and next time I'm definitely trying to bring Slacker with me.

Speaking of Phil's, it occurs to me that after my long walk home, I failed to provide the necessary rant on that evening. Wow. Just wow. Where to begin? Well, I'm too lazy to come up with a good starting point, so you might as well just read Jesse's non-sensical phriday phil's report from this week. It will put it in perspective if nothing else. There was only one downside to the entire evening, and that was my very chilly walk home. It never seems to occur to me how far away stuff is until I try to walk back from it in the winter while somewhat intoxiacted. But I can't complain too much, after all, my walk was uneventful. And to be quite honest, I'm glad that was uneventful, because eventfulness on "The Path" is usually worthy of someone posting police bulletins in the SLC....wow, didn't this topic take a dark twist. Oh well, just sing a song from Ren and Stimpy at the top of your lungs and you will feel better, trust me.

Now that you are all happy again, cheers to the house77 boys and their Ottawa buds for a blast of a weekend. It was most excellently good times. Also, hats off to the amazing chaffeuring job on the part of Sole who went from 0 to amateur street racing in just 3 short days driving standard. Well done....very well done. Well, I guess it's time to go back to the abnormality and odd little conundrums that make up Waterlooian life. Damn reality, why couldn't you wait until Monday to return? Sleep is the next obvious step for me, and since I lack creativity at this point, sleep it is....

Your resident New Found fan,
kev

Quote of the Day: "I guess someone should tell him that you can't fuel a car up by watering it like a plant"

2002-03-22T20:37:00.000-05:00

Well, isn't that precious....now let me get on with the story,

Cold days once again. Oh how I wish it were not so cold. Oh well, I'll likely spend summer complaining about it being too hot. Today I continued my earthshattering experiments into becoming more nocturnal. All tests have been positive so far, but clearly more testing must be done.

Well yesterday was interesting. The house77 boys arrived much later than originally anticipated and missed altogether any signs of Xboxy goodness. Not that it was all that good. They had one screen and one game. Nothing terribly exciting, except when Jesse got excited and his nipples started to glow green with Xbox lovin'. Then, upon leaving the less than fantastic event, Jesse decided to take off for home. Graham and I, being the nice people that we are, went over to help a girl who had seemingly stranded her car in the middle of ring road. Her four-ways were on and she seemed to be trying to get our attention. Then, much to our surprise, Brad lept from the vehicle. We were offered a ride home, which we graciously accepted. I wish that I could pronounce the driver's name....but assuming Graham is right (not usually a good idea) it is spelled "Sole". She did pretty well at her first time driving standard, though we made much fun of her due to our Slacker natures. You did good, strange girl who I don't know....really you did.

Well, I'm meeting the guys in one hour at Phil's so I should really go get ready...but remind me to tell you all about "benchophilia" in tomorrow's post.

cheers and jeers,
kev

Quote of the Day: "So that's why they have lightswitches in bedrooms"

2002-03-21T17:17:00.000-05:00

To my freezing cold listeners,

The weather is mad at me. Here it is, first day of spring, me with a renewed enjoyment for being outside, and the forecast is for wind storms and snow. Not funny Mr Weatherman.....not even a little bit funny. Not to mention, due to my recent hair cut, I am that much colder when I am outside. Outside is cold and evil...I shall play inside today.

I'm just a kid, and life is a nightmare.
I'm just a kid, and I know that it's not fair.
Nobody's cares cuz I'm alone
and the world is having more fun that me tonight

But not tonight my faithful listeners, it should be a most excellent party! :)

I just thought that I would the world know that Graham is having a gender identity crisis. His inner lesbian is trying to get out to escape his star wars loving, Jessica Alba worshipping spiral of self destruction. She's bored and needs entertainment. If anyone out there has an idea of how to help inner-lesbians in college guys, send email to graham's inner lesbian with subject line, "I will help you little lesbian". All emails would be appreciated, even if you just spend the time trashing the whole inner lesbian thing. Thank you for your assitance. It's people like you who make the internet what it is.....a sespool of horny raving lunatics :) Cheers.

I blame you for this satellite radar,
kev

Quote for the Day: "Well, doing that might not be a bad idea, as long as you don't mind shaving your head after"

2002-03-21T02:29:00.000-05:00

Well, good morning children,

Hmmm, another sleepy day. A dangerous theme in my life...ah well, it could be worse, I could have tons of laundry to do. Oh wait, I do. But not after tomorrow! Mwahahaha....I must be delirious. Well, as you may not notice because I'm editing a particularly short and otherwise pointless post from last night, this is actually being posted in the daytime! I know, I know, I'm breaking up my ability to rant about how late it is. But at the same time, it's nice to be able to sit here at my computer and not be pulled like a magnet towards the dreaded extra-long-stasis chamber that has been known to be called a bed from time to time. I must have some kind of sleep disorder, I think they call it a need for natural sleep in regular patterns....well, so much for ever curing that....

Had an exciting evening of skating with swank and rolling up the rim with dancer and jono last night. It was good times. Although, those cups could stand to be a little more winning at times. And naturally, because we ended up at someone's house (mine namely) there was Mario Kart battling to be done. I lost miserably, mostly due to jono's rather off-the-wall strategy. He decided to come to a complete stop and let people hit him! It seems like it wouldn't be that successful, much like jesse playing rock paper scissors, but even though he shouldn't win, he does. Damn rock! Why must you foil me everytime!

So I ended last night with the rather domesticating activity of doing the dishes. Other than the fact that the dish soap smells like the nastiest fake lemon imaginable, there were no serious disasters to report. Just as well really. Although it's nice to have things to rant about, I also like have dishes to use while eating. It's a little thing, but it's a nice thing...

T-10 hours on the arrival of h77...there is growing anticipation. Also, there are many people asking how graham is supposed to go to sauga and back without the benefit of vehicular transportation. I liked jon's idea....we should definitely box him up and FedEx him there. Of course, he'd arrive early and the h77 boys wouldn't be back to sign for him. Poor graham....I guess we'll have to put some food and water in your box. Maybe some straw so you can lay down comfortably.

confused by this daytime concept,
kev

Quote of the Day: "You've really quite lost your mind....wait, should I repeat that more slowly?"

2002-03-20T01:51:00.000-05:00

Hey, are you listening?

Today my rant is directed at a certain professor who believes that it is funny to have two different copies of the course webpage with entirely different assignment content on each page even though the rest of the pages are identical. One of the assignments is the one that I have to hand in tomorrow morning. The other, quite similar assignment, is the one that I locked myself in the basement to spend all day working on. If it hadn't been for me running into the Jessman during night class, who was casually drinking a Pepsi and pondering the meaning of life while on a break from sex, I would be without knowledge of my error, and would be sleeping this evening. As it stands, I have to redo the assignment much to my perturbedness. If only it were illegal for computer illeterate professors to have webpages that aren't moderated. Oh well, such is life. The internet is still a vast collection of people writing endlessly about nothing with little or no fact behind it (much like I am doing right now)...oh, who am I kidding. You and I both know that it's all just porno.

As a slight aside, I would like to offer this little piece of advice for healthy living: More than 3 tacos from Taco Bell at 12:20 in the morning is a bad idea, no matter how cheap they are. Speaking of saurasses (not witty in the least, but it's early and my insides are mad at me), the dino speaks limericks again over at Swank.

In weekend news, the boys of house77 will be in the 'Loo enjoying themselves with their Ottawa buds in full Slacker style...

I shall return to the depths of my textbooks now, to tackle my second massive PMATH assignment for today. Woohoo! You feel that in your face?....I clearly need more sleep

snoogans,
kev

Quote of the Day: "Buddhism has many forms. It's kind of like all the different versions of Windows, with 98 and XP and whatnot. The difference is Buddhism doesn't crash every 15 minutes"

2002-03-19T02:40:00.000-05:00

Well everyone,

It's that disturbing part of the morning that I seem to find the time to rant. Hmmm....today was a sleepy day overall. Perhaps too sleepy. Alarm clocks, now there's an annoyance. Why is it, that on days when you need to get up and venture to do important things, the alarm never goes off? It's a strange and terrifying reality that so many of my fellow classmates can attest to. It is a thing which happens so often that it is almost worthy of a name to define it. I, being the only one here in my basement apartment at this time, have decided to nominate myself as the worthy candidate who will create this name...

And the name shall be, *trumpets sound*

'alarmssuckalotalitis'

alarmssuckalotalitis - pronounced "a-laR-ms-Su-ku-law-ta-lY-Tis", alarmssuckalotalitas comes from the vernacular of the 'Haven' dwellers, and is a derogatory term directed specifically at alarm clocks and the results they have on a person since they only seem to go off on days that you don't actually have to get up early. Examples: "I'm tired, and suffering because of my alarmssuckalotalitis".

That is all for now, and I shall return tomorrow with more tales of my confusion... :)
kev

Quote of the Day
"That internet service goes down more often than a White House intern"

2002-03-18T02:01:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone,

Well, this being the first post to Frustrated Inc., I should probably say something profound. But as it stands, I'm just going to rant a bit and explain a few things. Thing numero uno....why is this site referred to as Frustrated Inc? Well, I was listening to my vast collection of MP3s and came across a bitchy, downer of a song called "Misery". For those who don't recognize or remember, I'll sing, well, type a few of the lyrics..

"They say misery loves company.
We should start a company, and make misery.
Frustrated Incorported"

Enough said. And as for my choice of URLs, I like blue, and lithium is my favourite Nirvana song...those two things alone sound pretty strange, but you have to admit, bluelithium does have kind of a nice ring to it. Anyway, I'll keep this place as "Frustrated" until I get told to change it and/or come up with something cooler like say swank or the house77 boys. Kudos to both crowds...

In the words of Caler's little bro, now that was a fist full of stupid.

On that note, I think I will sign off for the evening and work on some damn graphics for this site....
templates: only good if you were the one who came up with it...

ciao for now,
kev