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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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12:05 pm
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Flight school apparently ranges from $6000-12000. This saddens me, but I will probably try to fly a plane once or twice for about half a grand anyway.
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| Friday, June 5th, 2009
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12:41 am - sup thursday
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| Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
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9:08 am - monay monay monaaay
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This morning I heard that a millionaire in Austria was going to auction off his mansion and start a non-profit that would provide micro-financing to people in developing countries. He plans to just rent an apartment afterward.
He estimated he'd get about $2 million for his place (3,500 square feet - that is about $571/square foot. a penthouse condo in downtown austin was going for about $219/square foot last month, but it had been reduced from $574/square foot for one of those big deal grand gesture our-economy-is-balls auctions. coincidentally, i heard that the housing market here is stabilizing, even if the job market still sucks. get ready to buy some places i guess if you have money for that.)
The main point is, Austria guy would have $2 million for this non-profit. As I know pretty much nothing about running a business or non-profit or whatever, I just looked up overhead costs and found that the CFC apparently set a bar that to be an efficient non-profit, you only use 25% of your revenue towards overhead.
So best case scenario, we've got Austria guy with $1.5 million to put into his non-profit venture, giving really poor people a way to meet ends and possibly take out small loans for baby projects or investments. I am really curious what kind of impact this could actually have. I found this report on a micro-financing experiment on an impoverished reservation in South Dakota, which I may read later to see if there are formulaes hidden in there. Also maybe the World Bank has answers. Just looking at Kenya (randomly selected from wikipedia's list of developing countries), dropping $1.5 million into the economy barely makes a dent in the per capita numbers, but this would be about building and not just feeding the economy. I do not yet know how to quantify that, but I want to know.
Anyway, here are more things on that.
Also, a story about veterinarians I hope is real.
Oh yeah, and I'm seeing a chiropractor who is part of this group called Maximized Living. They are far more slick-businessman-with-elixirs than other chiropractors I've seen, so I started looking into them. So far the internet hates them, but it is still basically just a battle between people who have seen and are okay with chiropractors and the internet that villifies their cultish spinecentric ways. Next move, talk to non-ML chiros.
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| Saturday, May 9th, 2009
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11:56 am - child day
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| Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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4:26 pm - i keep talking about my house
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| Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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6:23 pm - Jams
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It turns out that people playing instruments and having conversations in song during a hangout is a lot of fun.
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| Monday, April 20th, 2009
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5:56 pm - May Party
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Hey, I have heard some of you out in California are possibly coming to Austin soon. There is a big party being planned that is basically childhood games themed - four square, three legged races, freeze tag and the like in Zilker/a park during the day, then to my house for furniture-tent camp, ball pits and other things.
If you give me dates, I will maybe be able to move this party date around so you can come, and also tantalize Christina with your imminent arrival so she considers flying down.
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| Saturday, April 11th, 2009
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9:06 pm - games
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i was playing games earlier. i have started this hobby again in recent times. after playing some things on the xbox 360 and ps3, not having played much since super nes times, i am of the mind that games nowadays are largely disappointing. the new oblivionesque approach pretty much just lets you run around a big, fancy world, doing a variety of mini-games, but the fulfilling middle ground between hard-core first person shooter and well-crafted story-based game is thus far elusive.
now i'm painting a giant fat undead buddha-like creature with ten arms, each hand holding a different alcoholic beverage. this is in preparation for the hippie fest in May, Burning Flipside. We have a camp of 15-30 people, and there are plans to decorate in general, so i volunteered to make some things because why not.
also, playing call of cthulhu again. i like it still, because there is still a larger proportion of fast-thinkers with good jokes over rule-mongers and bored players. games.
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| Friday, April 3rd, 2009
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1:36 pm - a dream
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(9:32:40 AM) CasH: I had a dream last night where I was in a detention facility prison yard type thing. A few kung fu brothers were there too, and you, and there was a killer running around.
(9:32:56 AM) Erik: Bad news for him.
(9:32:57 AM) CasH: Everytime a body was found, or someone was suspected, or there was a stressful moment, you would smile unconcernedly, arms crossed over your chest like a 50s greaser and say, "I vomitted," and there would always be a pile of vomit at your feet.
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| Monday, February 16th, 2009
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1:41 pm - february the 16th
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(1:37:24 PM) CasH: would you like if i started posting on livejournal? i don't, but i guess you know a lot of those people
(1:37:33 PM) CasH: i could make posts about shit we do, and they can say, mike is alive!
(1:38:46 PM) me0w moo: Ha well you can if you like but its not necessary
(1:39:21 PM) me0w moo: Can be nice to look back on for oneself though
He is right! Also I want to post somewhere again, and I already have this thing.
So here is a weekend update. Easy.
Friday I worked half a day, then spent a ridiculous amount of money on prescriptions and clothing and jewelry and food. At night Mike and Margaret and I went to some guy's house that threw the New Year's party Tom went to and left immediately from, and it was alright because I saw a bunch of people I hadn't in awhile. Then I left early because Mike had to sell rugs in the morning and Margaret was crying because she was feeling solipsistic.
The next day I slept in. There was strange tasting leftover coffee, and lots of work on illustrations and web site things for Shawn's Square Patrol company. Relearning graphic software is a slow and distractable process. Roommate Megan's family came over and put a big entertainment center in and rearranged our living room furniture, which was alright because now the place feels more comfortable. They also brought a giant chocolate lab dog named Fats or something. I do not understand why these things are so bulky and awkward by comparison with the golden labs.
There was a large party later that night during which my ex's band played 3/4ers of a song before the cops showed up and told them to stop. I talked to some grad school guy that had a dog named Ginsberg. Margaret said something funny about that later to me that I wish she had said at the time. The rest of the night is me being really, really drunk, and Mike taking care of me. At some point he found a balloon and suddenly had a really high voice in conversation for no reason, and this was good. Will drove us home later and bought donuts at some awesome donut place, and we watched some version of Lord of the Rings until maybe 3 to 5 am.
Sunday was studying at Spiderhouse, because I kind of enjoy that place for that now. Later we went to Mike's place, where I made a spreadsheet of twenty-one potential schools for graduate study, which shall be a beacon of organization in the months to come. Will, Tim, Matt and Kerry played Magic in the living room - actually, I think they just put together decks for two hours, and never actually started playing while I was there. Then Mike and I retired to my house and watched things and relaxed and ate pizza.
Sup, Jessi. Write more movie reviews.
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| Monday, November 3rd, 2008
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10:21 am - howletwean
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| Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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8:56 am - dear journal
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Almost done moving into the new house.
We'll see how this goes.
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| Sunday, March 30th, 2008
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12:29 pm - Modern Sci Fi
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| Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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11:01 am - take my things
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DVDs: spygame, in the bedroom, trigun
VHSs: the game, aliens, krull, dark city, shit ton of anime
Books: lots of them
Girl clothes: denim jacket, skirts
big pretty green ceramic plates and bowls
perfume and lotion
probably other things i will find later
I am going to Goodwill today or tomorrow. If you want these things, come and take them.
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| Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
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6:03 pm - Design Your Portion of the Border Fence
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| Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
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2:42 pm - Musical Road Trip
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I am now going to Bonnaroo, June 15-19, in Manchester, Tennessee. It is like a mini annual Woodstock. There'll be room for one or two more people in our car, so if anyone is down with this idea and can afford it and get time off, you should come with us. We will be driving and camping and not showering and listening to a lot of music while drinking and playing cards and meeting dudes and taking pictures and all of that.
Some of the lineup:
Beck
Oysterhead
Radiohead
Ben Folds
Death Cab for Cutie
Matisyahu
Cat Power
The Dresden Dolls Dresden Dolls will have a vaudeville act come on before them, which will be awesome)
Blackalicious
+10000 more
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| Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
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4:53 pm - Ninja Water Food Picnic Party
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This is kind of my belated birthday party, but really I just wanted to do it. Thanks, Lisa.
Hosted By: Chris Hamje
When: Saturday May 06, 2006
at 1:30 PM
Where: Zilker Park
Austin, TX 78746
US
Description:
Chris Hamje
Click Here To View Event
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| Sunday, April 9th, 2006
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11:34 am - Update, alright then
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This weekend is the first since last September that I've actually stayed home the entire time. This is partly because I have a new apartment and I needed to unpack the multitude of crap I seem to have accumulated into it.
A) I have too many things.
B) The guy who stayed here last left a gross, gross box of disgusting things in my room, one of which was a bathroom cup that I first thought held a used condom, to which my new and his old roommate speculated must be from 2002, but then we realized it was just a glove.
C) I miss traveling
D) I am learning piano, and bought an out-of-tune upright box for this purpose. So far a good decision.
E) My job is good, and I might go into marketing there
F) Bonnaroo June 16-18 a go ?
G) Seriously I have way too many things come over I will give you some
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| Thursday, March 9th, 2006
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9:01 am - March 9
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I start a new job on Tuesday that will keep me in Austin for at least a little while longer, and I move in with this man in a few weeks, so that will save me some cash and also just be interesting.
There are a variety of good stories about fancy and/or mud parties and houseguests flying from Portland to propose to best friends and other things like that, but I haven't had a good night's sleep in a few weeks and am at work, so this will do.
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| Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
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11:47 am - oh no
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My job just became much more horrible. These days are numbered.
Austin Pros:
friends
nightlife
schools
city
kung fu
much more fun
spontaneity
Cons:
not free
soulless, youth-wasting jobs
unreliable
no reflection time
Saginaw Pros:
free
family
reflection time
new
adventure potential
Cons:
suburbs
horrifically boring
family
etcetera
I hate this job so much I made this list, that is a bad sign. I am such a downer.
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