| Morrissey. |
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Anyone going to the Morrissey show on Sunday? |
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| Looking for arcade repairman |
[May. 20th, 2007|11:06 am] |
Hey guys, so I'm wondering if anybody knows someone who knows how to refurbish old school arcade games (some electrical work required I think). I have some business I would be interested at throwing their way if the price is right.
~D.
(P.S. in "I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine" fashion I know a good no frills real estate agent / loan broker if anyone is interested in buying property.) |
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| !In the Name of Science... I need your Help! |
[Nov. 29th, 2006|01:54 am] |
Hey guys, I wanted to ask you for a quick and easy favor concerning a scientific study I'm working on here at UC San Diego. Some colleagues and I are trying to build a statistical model for the words that people use to describe music. As part of our experiment we have devised a website that plays music for you and asks you to fill out a form based on the words you might use to describe the song. We're releasing this study to the public and trying to get as many of our friends and family to fill them out. If you could log on and fill out the form for a few songs it would really help me out in a big way!
If you could:
1) check out the experiment website at http://cosmal.ucsd.edu/cal/friends/.
2) Register with unique a user name (e.g. DavidRocks123)
3) Answer a few questions about your musical background
4) Listen to some music!
Once you've registered, you can log on again at any time and pick up where you left off. If you can do just 2 or 3 songs that would be great. If you can do 5 that would be excellent! If you have any more questions about what it all means, how it really works and what, exactly, we're doing here... please get in touch. Also feel free to mail me back with any comments concerns ,etc.
Repost this to your friends if you can! Thanks so much for helping me out!
Peace,
David
torresdavid@gmail.com
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The Computer Audition Lab (http://cosmal.ucsd.edu/cal/ ) at
The University of California San Diego
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| What about love? |
[Oct. 27th, 2006|12:53 am] |
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An article about how we choose mates, based on research being done at the University of Texas, Austin. |
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| Cirque Du Soleil is touring a show here in Cali. |
[Jan. 30th, 2006|05:48 pm] |
Cirque Du Soleil is touring a show here in Cali.
>Click here for info about Quidam.
SAN DIEGO
Jan. 19 through Feb. 26, 2006
Under the Grand Chapiteau
at Del Mar Fairgrounds
Ima try and scrounge up some bucks to go. If anyone is interested send me a line, maybe we can make it a group outting.
~D. |
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| Fucking Pho |
[Jan. 17th, 2006|03:10 am] |
In San Diego. I kinda miss the fam back home for a bit, then I remember what a beautiful city I live in and I smile.
We go out for Pho tonight, go work out, and then bullshit a little bit. I'm fucking starving now. Fucking Pho. |
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| Here comes the year of the dog. |
[Jan. 1st, 2006|07:35 pm] |
Here comes the year of the dog. I love dogs, they used to be my favorite animal when I was a kid. I used to pretend I was a dog and bark at my classmates, especially at the girls I liked. Maybe it’s a sign this year will be a good one. Oh wait, I don’t believe in signs.
I decided to stay in with the family this year when the clock struck twelve. My family and I are notoriously non-exciting when it comes to holidays. I spent the new year curled up next to a Stephen Hawking book listening to a Curb Your Enthusiasm marathon on TV when I realized that it was 12:02. Oops, Hey guys its midnight, I yelled out. I was going to meet up with people afterwards but living so removed from the inner city, I was just too lazy to go out.
This entire past year has been marked in laziness I feel. Or if laziness is not quite the right word here, then lack of motivation is. I haven’t pushed myself as much as I wanted to last year. My excuse is that last year was just one of those years: chill, down-tempo. A time to incubate, kind of like those unproductive periods in the career of artists and mathematicians.
It’s been a year where I have really had to pause and ask myself where it is I am going, now that I am poised to start my career. If I am going to shift focus in life from academicia, an environment that I have known and loved for the last seven tears, to that cold cruel working world, then, shit, it only makes sense that I consider my choices and attitudes as meticulously as possible. The truth is I am quite done with school and ready for work. The caveat is finding the type of work that will keep me happy, interested, that will provide for enough mobility. All of these things that impossible to guess. I may as well just jump into the pool, that is how I will learn how to swim, so to speak.
The good thing is that I have also spent the last year building up inspiration. Building up enough energy so that (hopefully) blaze through these last six or nine months of school and set my working world on fire.
This year has also been important in one other way. Old friends have always been of immeasurable importance to me. But the source of much of my support and happiness this year has been in new friendships forged. I had to be a recluse in 2004 to focus on school responsibilities. And the hard work then allowed me much more time in 2005 to branch out into the real world and not only meet new people, but really know and love those who I had already met.
It started this past summer, when work actually afforded me a leisure time. And I have to say I have met some incredible people. I am speaking specifically about many of the people that I have met in San Diego this past year. I won’t mention any by name because there are so many great people to appreciate. They know who they are. I also feel lucky because I already know some of these friendships will be kept for life. I’m privileged for that.
So that’s the end of the old year. As for the coming year, there’s no way I can project myself that far. But hopefully I’ll be done with school, I may no longer be in San Diego, though I hope that I will be able to stick around for another couple of years. And, of course, I look forward to strengthening my ties to my friends and making new ties to new people. Happy New Year. |
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| if the world were only smaller... |
[Dec. 23rd, 2005|03:13 am] |
The last few days have been spent shopping around for iPod nano for the sister. We've also hit up the malls and the bookstores and general quaility time hanging out with Grace (the sister). I've been reading, I've been playing video games, I've been having a real fucking vacation for once.
I'ev also been meeting quite a number of new people too. All of them have been absolutly great people, I can tell right away. It makes me wish that me and all of my friends could all live in the same city.
I went to my bestfriend's son's birthday party. It was so nice seeing him again. Seeing all his family who has nothing but good to me since I met up with Ivan when I was in high school.
Been listening to the Candleland album by Ian McCulloch. I am convinced that no songs can possibly be sweeter than those graced by the voice of Elizabeth Fraser. She sings in "Candleland" which has easily rocketed to the top of my all time favorite songs. Good call Tom, that album is important! |
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| seclusion |
[Dec. 16th, 2005|03:32 am] |
So I’ve spent the last few days in seclusion. I came into Texas Sunday afternoon and have spent my time reading, TVing, and with my Moms and Sister. It feels like forever since I’ve been able to chill with them. It’s nice to be home for a while. It’s nice to belong to a pack for a while.
It wasn’t until a day ago that I decided to creep out of my surroundings and let the world know I was back in Texas. I mailed the girls, called up Ivan, and called up Frances, who I have not been able to get a hold of for quite some time now. Frances is one of two of my longest and closest friends, though time to time she’ll disappear.
Tonight I went out with Claudette and her crew, who were fantastic people. I got to meet Lacey~Bean tonight too. She’s money. We ended up at this bar the Texas Lounge, I think it was called. It had a discernable divish feel to it. Not the type of place I would mosey on into all by myself, but with a good group of peoples it’s pure fun. At the end of the night we ended up dancing a good bit of 80’s top 40. I probably would have done the same tonight if I were back in San Diego at the club. |
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| last days... |
[Dec. 11th, 2005|04:56 am] |
Phone rings. I’ve been half awake for an hour now. I’ve been having vivid dreams lately, which is rare. I’m pulled out of a nonsensical trance because the phone is ringing. Tom is getting off of work in an hour. I’m meeting him up for breakfast-lunch so I get up and get ready and head off to Hillcrest. Breakfast is good, and that’s not just because I’m hungry. Afterward we end up going to the record store and I score The Cure b-sides box set for an insanely reasonable price. I’ve been eyeing that box set since it came out in ’04 and have been waiting to pounce on it at a good price.
More serendipity tonight. Echo and the Bunnymen are playing at the House of Blues San Diego tonight. I manage to score some tix last minute for me and Karla. Tom and Josh go as well. When we are there Karla manages to steal a spot in the crowd front and center of the stage. We stand there waiting for like what seems a good forty minutes before the band makes it on stage. Hitler, when he used to make public speeches, would purposely start several minutes late because keeping the audience in waiting seems to induce a sense of importance about the event. I can’t help but think about this as I’m waiting for the show to start.
The show was a little rough around the edges. I would describe it as a hard rock interpretation of their songs, which I would be interested in if it were a polished studio album, but it sounded like a lot of their sound was forced. It didn’t gel, it didn’t vibe quite the way you would expect from a band who many would argue was one of the best live acts to hit a stage. In their defense the acoustics in the place were shit. The audio engineering just wasn’t doing it. The vocals were inaudible all night and unless you knew the lyrics to the songs you were fucked. But, this being the first time to catch them, it was an incredible treat to see Ian McCulloch chain smoking his way through the set. |
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| the Gimp |
[Dec. 3rd, 2005|02:43 am] |
So I dont want to sounds utterly lazy, but Im sure I will anyway: I have been sleeping about 10 hours each day. No Im not depressed. Im on student loans and on my last year of grad school, so Im only taking one real class this quarter and I get away with sleeping as much as I do. Sleep by the way, if one of my all time favorite things. Thats one thing that I look forward to in death, is being able to sleep forever. I may not believe in heaven, but eternal sleep is enough for me. Ill stop being creepy, promise.
Well it turns out that today my body had its fill of sleep. After only a few hours, I woke up refreshed as ever. Unable to fall back asleep I got up and read the news. I felt a little guilty for not having anything to work on anymore. School has trained me well, I suppose. I never feel quite right unless Im stressing about something school related.
I decided to take some time to go to the gym, and somewhere in my workout I injured my left foot, so Ive been gimping around like a lame dog all day. I usually dont have a care about things like that but I am a little disappointed because Id like to be able to be mobile for Club Decade tomorrow night. I know its going to be quite a night and Id hate to have to just stand around in one place all night cause of my retarded foot.
Gimp foot or no, tonight, Matt, Justin, Meredith, Liz and I went up to Carlsbad for the Strong Ale Beer Festival being hosted just next door to Pizza Port. Twenty bucks bought us six four ounce beers of our choosing from a selection of a little less than a hundred kind of beers tonight. They had an amazing selection tonight, but I kept picking sub-standard beers for some reason. Anyway, though six four-ounce beers may not sound like a lot I assure you everyone was having a great time by the end of the night.
There was this one guy, he looked like Pauly Shore in In The Army Now, only he wore a gray sweater and was, ostensibly, a brewer from Vegas. He got so fucking drunk, when he was serving beers to the masses of people at the bar, homeboy would honestly stick his nose in every drink he poured and he would even take a sip of the beers before handing them over to the patrons. The fucked up part is that no one said anything.
Nuh-uh! Im moving over to the other line thanks.
Justin actually called him out on it later and he just played dumb and started hitting on Liz.
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| Four things you say... |
[Dec. 1st, 2005|03:10 am] |
FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
1. Book Bitch (Receiving) at the PCL library in Austin Texas, one of the largest libraries in North America. I worked with an old Hipster boss who looked like Alan Ginsberg and we would listen to music all day!
2. Applied Research Labs at UT Austin: Signal Physics Laboratory.
3. Center for Perceptual Systems Laboratory at UT austin.
4. Sequenom Inc., A bio tech company in La Jolla California.
FOUR FIVE MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
1. list in translation
2. spirited away
3. shawn of the dead
4. blue velvet
5. napoleon dynamite
FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH:
1. Rome
2. Six Feet Under (Well not any more I guess)
3. Penn and Teller's Bullshit on Showtime.
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm
FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION TO:
1. Mexico, somewhere.
2. San Fran
3. Vegas
4. Somewhere in New Mexico
FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY:
1. myspace.com
2. livejournal.com
3. gmail.com
4. wikipedia.org
FOUR OF YOUR ALL TIME FAVORITE RESTAURANTS:
1. Frank and Angie's Pizza (Austin)
2. Arrivederci (San Diego)
3. Crest Cafe (San Diego)
4. Casino El Camino (Austin)
FOUR COSTUMES YOU'VE WORN ON HALLOWEEN:
1. Ninja
2. Spiderman
3. A student studying for a mid-term the next day (D'oh!)
4. Lame guy who bought a cat tail so his dressed up friends don't make too much fun of him because he didn't dress up.
FOUR SCHOOLS YOU ATTENDED:
1. Socorro High ( El Paso, Tx)
2. UT Austin
3. UCSD
4. Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPINGS:
1. Sausage
2. Lotsa Pepperoni
3. Black Olives
4. Bacon
FOUR THINGS MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU:
1. I don't like using spoons, unless I have to, e.g. soups or cerial.
2. I read math books for fun.
3. I never crumple napkins, I always fold.
4. I don't like large bodies of water. (Well I can look at the ocean, I just dont like to be in/on it.) |
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| Yay! Start! |
[Nov. 26th, 2005|12:20 am] |
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Spent all day alone getting stupid tests running for my project. But I have started the first and longest stage of the data processing. Going to leave my mean 3.0Ghz running for, oh, 12 hours. ..hmm okay if i dont see another human being tonight I'm gonna go nuts... think i'll hit up Therapy and see whos there. |
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| that's about all to report... |
[Nov. 21st, 2005|11:39 pm] |
Tired of writing papers. Been writing a paper all day. It takes me a long time to get the words out just right. At least when they do come out they are nearly 100% satisfactory. Still, I know some people who can churn out papers in an hour! Ryan whats it like writing papers in your field?
I got another late start on my day, and it seems like my sleeping schedule is out of phase with my hunger schedule because I only get hungry once a day now. I get hunger headaches, or rather when my body doesn't have its nourishment for the day my head starts pounding, so recently I have been having to guess when I should be feeding myself. I've been moderately successful, but I've felt little ones coming on for the last few days. Well its midnight and I just popped some sleeping pills so maybe going to sleep 5 hours earlier than usual will get me back into a regular mode. Can you believe this shit started because of one innocuous nap at 10pm 3 or 4 tuesdays ago?
This past Sat my friend Karla called me up and invited me over to dinner for Turkey Holocaust on Thursday. That is really sweet of her, and I think I'll take her up on that. You know people say that bars are a shit place to meet people, but I have had some really good luck. I met Karla at Shooterz about a year ago and even though we only hang out once every couple of months, every time we get together its really pleasant. Me and her are on the same wavelength kinda thing.
Well thats about all to report. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 21st, 2005|11:38 pm] |
vandint: In general, about the only time I get gutsy enough in bars to start getting numbers and such is about the time I start forgetting the people I met
vandint: Which does kinda defeat the point...
etfd: lol |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 20th, 2005|12:48 am] |
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"etfd" stands for "eat the dog." Long story. |
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[Nov. 18th, 2005|06:35 pm] |
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Happy Birthday Ivonne! Last night at 80's was great! Good to see you and the rest of the girls lit! Hope you had fun! |
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