Category Archives: Journal

Default – Self reflection etc.

Super Bowl Party

The past two years have resulted in a hosted “Super Bowl Party” at my home/apartment/current living space. I’d like to continue that Tradition this year as well, as it seemed a good time was held by all. hence, the information below…

  • What: Super bowl Party
  • Where: Castle Vanberge
  • When: Super Bowl Sunday
  • Who: Anyone reading this who knows where Castle Vanberge is and leaves a comment (food portions)
  • Why: Vanhood
  • How: Vanhood

Food / Drink: Food provided in all shapes sizes capacities, but bring your own drinks. 😛
I love everyone and everything.

Addicted

I am genuinely addicted to the internet and/or computers. I know this because I have spend the last 2 weeks of my life changing websites, creating websites, dumping mysql, importing mysql, moving directories, breaking things, fixing things, and in general staying up too late. That’s in my SPARE time. During WORK, I spend 8 or 9 hours a day administering servers, networks, and overall I.T. related activities. This combination is clearly not normal activity for a human being.

At any rate – Here’s a recap of site related ventures:

  • I upgraded my gallery install to 2.2.1(r1). Not because I wanted to, but because I broke gallery 2.1 when i moved it into a subdirectory without deactivating any plugins. I tried for 2 days to fix it. At any rate, running the upgrade fixed it.
  • I finally got www.vanhood.com up and running. I have no idea what will become of that internet destination but at least there is a site there. After hearing jjafuller talk about Drupal, I figured i’d at least install it for awhile to see what it had to offer.
  • I moved p4p’s entire site into a subdir. Thanks to chouse@the-bob.org for re-organizing my virtual sites/dns. Now i have a much cleaner directory structure.
  • www.theScionTC.com is hopefully getting a new breath of life

I hate… the effing internet

Follow up…

A couple more changes to the site. A faint blueish grayish background for the sidebar, an about page, and I also posted my very first blog (straight up html) here: www.palmerforpresident.com/old (clean urls in wordpress rock). There is also a link to that web log at the bottom of my archives (see header nav). I didn’t even know i still had that. It was a wierd surprise to find it…

My first web log dated back to July of 2003. So, i’ve technically been keeping a “web log” for approximately 5 years. It is actually pretty embarrasing to read. I’m definitely not the same person now that I was 5 years ago. But, at the same time it made me feel appreciative of my life. That original website journal chronicles through the most dismal time in my life. I hated my job. I was very lonely. The real world hit me with harsh reality and I had realized i was nowhere near an adult yet. I missed college because most of my friends and brother were still there. The only thing i really had to look forward to during that timeframe was weekend trips to Mulligan’s. Aye. wierd times indeed.

2007

It is 2007.  Bullets.

  • Jjafuller’s wordpress counter stopped working and broke my footer.  It also broke csh.us pretty much completely.
  • Tony Soprano
  • The Wire
  • 24
  • The Shield
  • Guitar Hero
  • Pool / Pool Table
  • Still running Ubuntu/Beryl
  • the-bob.org isn’t sending email i dont think (i tried mail from command line even)
  • www.DetroitLions.com.  Seriously.
  • Marriage
  • Mexico
  • Sauerkraut two days in a row
  • Information Technology
  • Overall… Asi asi.

This post is mainly to see if jjafuller’s plugin will work now.  Powerhouse everything 07 post coming ASAP.

+5 Things

Ef vanlandw for starting this. Here are TEN things you probably didnt know about vanberge.

  1. I met Anthony Kiedis of the “Red Hot Chili Peppers” when I was in the 8th grade. He is genuinely probably 5’4”
  2. I learned to juggle while sitting in the ‘dugout’ being a designated hitter on my highschool baseball team. I was a DH because my batting average was over 400, and because i couldnt field ground balls.
  3. The first Rated “R” movie that I ever saw was “Predator”. I was 12.
  4. I did not use a washing machine ever in my life until i started attending GVSU. I don’t think vanbergs has even yet.
  5. On the “J.V” basketball team, I led the team in blocks my sophomore year with 9 on the season. (in 12 games)
  6. I am pretty good at the ‘yo-yo” I can do tricks like “walk the dog” and “Rock the Cradle” and “Around the World”
  7. I was elected to national honor society in high school… All well taking “Foods, Foods II, Metals, Woods, Parenthood, Contemporary Living”
  8. I made “Deans List” in both semesters of my final year at GVSU.
  9. I am absolutely petrified of heights and/or falling. I can’t climb ladders. I can’t lean over rooftops. I can barely walk next to the hand rails on the 2nd story at the mall. I get the ‘ball tingler’.
  10. I started my college career majoring in “Elementary Education”. Quite a stones throw from where I ended up: “Information Systems”

Now i am re-calling out everyone who did these ‘5 things’ – pick it up vanlandw, flo, kramer, vanbergs, etc. do 10 things noobs.

Sheer Holidays

I’ve had a couple of days off this week, just to burn up the rest of my vacation time before the year’s end – and it’s been nice. Yesterday i loafed around and watched a few movies. “Jurassic Park” (hadnt seen it in awhile and i own it.), “Dirty” with Cuba gooding Jr., and “Covert One: The Hades Factor” with Stephen Dorff and Mira Sovino. Overall, all three movies were pretty good, even considering the “Jack Bauer wannabe-ness” of Stephen Dorff.

Today I did all of my Christmas shopping. And it wasn’t even hard. GG Best Buy, EB Games, and Eddie Bauer.I’m really looking forward to Christmas… There’s really nothing like a Christmas spent in the Kingdom of Vanhood. I’m not sure when this’ll change for me… but The kingdom of Vanhood really still feels like home to me. When I stay there for a weekend or holiday, its always hard to leave… I love Hart Michigan. 🙁

Now a bulleted list of ‘things’:

  • Added some Ubuntu/Beryl Screenies. Its much cooler with transparency
  • Rockbox is still running my ipod.
  • Rocky 6 really is coming out.
  • Guitar Hero II on expert is not possible.
  • I hate comment spam. (on wordpress and Gallery2)
  • Google provides a customized IE7 now… that rocks.