Published Wednesday August 13th, 2003


Wow.... well then... It's been quite some time since a real, current news posting, so.. here will be a long extended version of many in one! Lets start off with this... While i was in hawaii and switzerland, i kept a little travel journal thing.... I plan to type those up, and then put them up on this site to make up for the lost postings, however... this task does not have highest priority on my todo list, and.. this may be unfortunate, but i am up to way to much to bump up the priority on them.. lol... Maybe type up a little bit every day.. we'll see... I have yet to start.. another thing, A current side project im working on with chris is called Gadmud. Its basically a database driven media toolkit... i suppose. One of its features will be Photo albums, called Gadmud Photo Pages, and with this i plan on streamlining the process of putting up my over 2500 photos from hawai'i and switzerland, and even create a photo album with more relevant photos and cross reference them with the text from my travel journals... But, this all requires time, don't know when ill get this done...

Anyways, Since i have returned from Switzerland... i've been out of the house for the most part every day... I wake up, i leave... i come back home before midnight, just barely... watch Late night w/ Conan... and then, off to bed. Repeat. heh, lol.. Last week, on the 4th.. (I invited chris about 3 months prior) Chris, my dad, and I all drove up to San Fransisco (i as the driver.. quite boring i must say.. 7 hours... snore..).. The next day, the 5th we went to the Linuxworld Expo at the Moscone Centre... It was awsome. The word 'awsome' cant begin to describe how... awsome it really was.. On display, they had these huge rackserver farms.. IBM displayed their huge super computer application servers... ... it was like... holy shit! I nearly pissed my pants... I talked to various people, various projects... it was cool.. THe smaller booths were really cool because you could talk to the people... although.. we did speak to some IBM guy.. lol, that was great as well.... It really kicked ass... It was amazing... lol, now.. i am obbsesed and wish to go to other software/computer/technology Expo's... ... niceness! lol.. We also picked up soooo much randomf free stuff... Software... T-Shirts... magazines... lol, it was awsome. heh.. did i mention it was awsome?... oh! one more thing... IT WAS TOTALLY FUCKING AWSOME!!! ... *ahem*... yea. The day after, the 6th, we returned back hom... 7 hours drive away.. lol.

As though my summer was not yet quite eventful and... crazy enough.. oh.. oh it just keeps getting wilder. What am i talking about?... oh, well.. simply put.. I am dating one of my best friend's ex-girlfriend Kate; went on our first date aug 7th.... yea... interesting, dont you think?... rather awkward, id say... yea....

So, Kates family is hosting an exchange student... and, for 1 week, untill the organization that is doing the exchange service finds another family... 2... basically put.. this week.. there are 2 exchange students at Kates house... So, Sunday, when they both arived we went out and about with them.. and.. yea.. we hung around... it was fun.... normal hanging out.. +2 exchange students... Elena from Italy (who is staying with Kates family for 1 year) and Marwin from Germany, with whom i spoke german.. lol, fun.... The next day most everyone from the group minus.. Mike, Kate, Adam and CHris, went on a little hike out in Angeles National Reserve near Pasadena.. We took along Elena and Marwin.. and.. i think everyone had a good time.. it was fun, indeed... At first, the trail we wanted to do had a sign posted at the trailhead saying that the gates closed at 1800... it was 1715 and we didnt want to risk getting screwed, so we just picked another random one we saw on the mountain road.. it was a nice trail.. well maintained... was good, i think.. lol... Everyone took pictures.. Raymond nearly steped on a huge rattle snake.. im sure that was fun excitement for Marwin who seems to be a city dweller... lol.. Uhm.. yea... We returned home.. at at In-and-hout.. then i dropped off Elena and Marwin.. and the rest of us, Raymond, Wes, Tyson and i went to star bucks and hung out a bit... was fun...

Yes... well then... that said.... oh.. thats right.. there's more....

Today, Chris and i decided to meet at (with me picking him up) starbucks to discuss some things about Entropy, or rather the Epiar website... and.. influentially.. later websites we have planned or, rather.. will require.. We talked for a good 90 minutes.. argued.. discussed... evaluated.. it was good... However.. i think it was cut a bit short, as an old friend of mine, COry Franklin called me before i left for Chris and I's little "meeting" and asked if we wanted to do anything.. i hadnt seen him in a while.. so.. i figured.. why not try to squeeze him into my oh so busy day.. lol... (I LOVE SUMMER, BTW!!!!) Anyways.. i picked cory up.. and then chris cory and i went to carls jr where.. we ate dinner.... i dropped chris off.. cory and i came to my house.. we played some Halo in the guesthouse.. and.. then we left to go to his house where we would play Halo with a few of his friends... so, we were 4 total playing Halo.. it was fun.. i quite enjoyed playing.... heh... I returned home, watched Late night w/ COnan.. and.. then.. i synchronized movie times with mike and we watched Equilibrium.. holy crap that movie kicked ass... ... like.. you dont understand.. it Kicked ass on the same level Matrix and Matrix Reloaded did!.. it was so cool! lol.. heh.. yea... good movie.. definately up there with my favourites... ...

Heh, another side note about.. today... or.. rather... (since its 0400 in the morning) yesterday... I got this phone call from, as the caller ID pointed out, "US Government" ... i was like.. oh shit.. wtf? lol.. So, it was this guy from some Marine recruitment college schollarship place/dealio thingo.. lol, the guy asked if i was interested in schollarships.. i was like.. sure.. im interested in schollarships... and he asked me some questions... and.. one of them was "SO, would your parents care if you got a schollarship from the marine crops?" and i, musingly... replied, "No, my parents are pretty liberal." Slight hesitation and he said, "What about you?" and, i replied "Im pretty hard-core liberal." awkard silence... "So, looking over your answers, you may apply to some schollarships." So, i agrred to some metting with him where he could show me what schollarships they have available.. i figured .. hell.. i might as well go.. it would and will make for an amuzing story.. Marco, liberal, anti-war, not-a-fan of USA going to some US Marine guy... lol, hey.. i think its amuzing.. lol... yea.. so.. i'll see how that goes.. hopefully it will amuse me.. otherwise.. it'll have been a waste of my good summer time.. lol... (yea, im probably totally wasting this guys time... but.. i didnt say i'd accept a schollarship... right?.. am i a total bastard?.. ehh.. now i feel bad.. lol) So, thursday at 1500.. that'll be funny....

Uhm, anyways... Tomorrow, hopefully.. i am going with probably CHris, Tyson, Raymond and possibly Marwin (dont think elena would be ineterested, but i'll ask..) to Guitar Centre out in Oxnard... that'll be cool.. screw around on the drums.. synths... etc... yea... Heh....

Hrm... in the world of Epiar... what is new... We have some professional studio musician who does music for other games doing music for Epiar, for free! Which is very awsome, and good for Epiar.... Heh... yea.. We're also working towards having Epiar and Epiar.net look as professional as we possibly can as we become more popular and have more people interested and involved.. That, and we want Entropy Devel Studio to look good.. lol.. yeh...

Hrm... all in all... This summer break has to be one of THE BEST summer's i've had. SO much going on... so many places ive been and so much i have done... its awsome... And, i still have 20 days left of this freedom, this complete happiness, this.. total extacy, bliss... you name it... simply put...

I love summer vacation

i wish it would never end.

There is so much for me to still do, and... i can already see that time is slowly slipping away; soon ill have to return to the flaming pits of Hell, as the little deamons open up the gates to Hell and summon all poor students within Lucifers gates to rot and cry in the agony of boredom.

*sigh*

I love summer vacation.