Category Archives: Life

Tales from the Far East

By raishad | Published: January 16, 2010

For this New Year’s Eve, I packed my bags and headed east to the great city of Miami Beach. So this is what happened from December 30th to January 4th Travel That jerk off just had to try and blow his dick off before my trip. And what’s that? David Finfrock is predicting Freezing Fog [...]

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How to throw a (successful) BBQ for 55 people?

By raishad | Published: June 28, 2009

I’ve been meaning to write this entry for a long time. Anyways… So, how /do/ you throw a successful BBQ for 55 people? The same way you get to Carnegie Hall – practice. The BBQ I had on Memorial Day was #3. BBQ #1 was a small affair – 10 people at the most. And [...]

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You gotta understand

By raishad | Published: May 12, 2009

Another semester is finished. And just like that, I have my nights and weekends back. This last semester I took CSE 5324 – Software Engineering I. And at the end of the semester, I have to say I did like the course. I didn’t agree with the professor on some things, and I didn’t like [...]

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UVerse has me by the balls

By raishad | Published: April 23, 2009

It’s true. They know they have the best product available. And they know that they will really, really, really, really have to piss me off before I switch to another service. My Residential Gateway has been resetting sporadically for the past 2 months. Note the word sporadically. sporadic |spəˈradik|adjectiveoccurring at irregular intervals or only in [...]

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An Embarassment of Bubble Wrap

By raishad | Published: April 7, 2009

I received Where Did It All Go Right by Andrew Collins in the mail today. It’s a book. All you really need to do to send it in the mail is stick it in an envelope, padded if you feel like splurging. That is pre 4/7 thinking. What you need to do, is stick it [...]

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Twitter + Radiohead + Woot

By raishad | Published: February 7, 2009

People love twitter. Some of those people love radiohead. And of those people who love twitter and radiohead, they also like woot. The Evidence: Today’s Woot is a radiohead box set. As of 9:51AM CST, it’s sold out. Head on over to TwitterSheep and search for radiohead These are the results As an aside – [...]

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Dirty Jobs

By raishad | Published: January 11, 2009

I don’t know about you, but my shit stinks. I always assumed that bathroom exhaust fans were standard. You wouldn’t build a bathroom without a sink – you wouldn’t build a bathroom without a vent. But, in the past few weeks I’ve been shown that my expectation about bathrooms is apparently unreasonable. On my trip [...]

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The City by the Bay

By raishad | Published: January 11, 2009

Are you a tourist and planning to go to San Francisco? Be prepared to stand in lines. Lines everywhere. Lines. No kidding. Lines for food. Lines for museums. Lines for hot chocolate. Lines for the rainforest. Lines. But the lines are there for a reason. San Francisco is a pretty neat city. I was there [...]

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I Left My Heart In San Francisco

By raishad | Published: January 4, 2009

… along with my stomach Part of any good trip that goes along with what you did, is what you ate. So the best thing in San Francisco that I stuffed in my face – Wings from Coco Bang. Yep, chicken wings from Coco Bang. I’ve never had wings so good. And they were meaty. [...]

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Fake Tales of San Francisco

By raishad | Published: January 4, 2009

This New Year’s Eve – I decided to do something different. Instead of not doing anything, I would go to San Francisco. Yes, the one in California. Backstory: Last year Surren was complaining that he never goes on vacation. So I jokingly suggested we go to Australia for New Year’s. But he didn’t know it [...]

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