October 2008
“My object, the sole and only desire of my ambitions since I first saw Texas, was...”
– Stephen F. Austin
Hansom
I wanna start my own taxi service. I would call it Jacob’s Hansom Service.
September 2008
Fact:
It doesn’t matter which browsers I use (i use several in a day), I always crash them no less than 6 times a day.
YAY!
The previous version of Ring Them Bells, bootlegged from a performance at The Supper Club in 1993 is now officially released in Tell Tale Signs.
“This is an alternate version of the song from the 1989 album, Modern Times.”
– NPR - Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan’s ‘Tell Tale Signs’
Actually, Modern Times was released in 2006. Sorry NPR.
While others ferociously try to fact check and reveal all lies made in politics, I do the same for Bob Dylan information.
Disturbed
I think somehow I will like anything titled Disturbia. I loved the movie, and it is in my top 5 favs of all time (along with Rear Window [#1]), and now I like the song by Rihanna.
Someone could probably publish a 360 page book of “Lorem Ipsum Dolor…” and name it Disturbia and I would be like “Man that’s a good book.”
C
Hey Elliot (who killed?) What colo/ur is the letter above?
Reblog with answer.
Alicia Traveria - Etsy →
She was at ACL painting one-of-a-kind pictures. I bought one for a friend. The store temporarily is only one page long but there should be more soon.
Oh. . .
danielac:
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The other night I thought I should make some sort of memory box that I could keep little mementos in of all the cool things that have happened in my life.
Then I remembered that I have a blog.
I have a memory box. Its this black box from the Container Store where I keep all of my old movie stubs, notes from boys in middle school, some pictures, graduation momentos, plane...
“Occasionally they kill deer, and at times take fish; but the quantity is so...”
– Cabeza de Vaca recounting the time he spent living with various native tribes in Mexico. (it sucked)
NPR to stream Dylan's new album →
Starting tonight at midnight, for one week, they will stream (on-demand) all 27 of the songs that will be on Tell Tale Signs (Bootleg Series Vol. 8).
Oh. . .
The other night I thought I should make some sort of memory box that I could keep little mementos in of all the cool things that have happened in my life.
Then I remembered that I have a blog.
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good...”
– Oscar Wilde (via simko) (via alla1)
Oh no my nose is sunburnt@!
ACL Day 2 - Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful
The first day of ACL is over, it was a blast but by the end of the night there was so much crap in the air (smoke, dust, dirt) that my nose and throat almost completely closed up. It’s never happened to me before, I’m still recovering but I have to go back out there again (actually I’m at ACL now). If you looked inside me right now it would look like someone dumped a couple...
In the press area at ACL. Pretty nifty, free snacks and drinks, and WiFi. Who cares about the concerts, I think I’ll just stay here all day.
Downtown Austin - Pictures →
Austin
I’ve arrived in Austin. I’m downtown now in a starbucks. The city is great, I went to the capitol which is massive. The inside is breathtaking. I wasn’t going to go in at first, I walked up to the door and then turned around but a lady standing at the steps asked if I knew I could go in. She said that I was missing the best part, and she told me to go into the center of the...
Jacob Martinez in Austin Texas
3 nights only. Austin City Limits Music Festival (watching bands, not performing).
Help Wanted
My blog takes way too long to load, especially on mobile devices, most of it is due to my followed list which is really long.
Does anyone know how I can make it so it just displays a random X amount of people I follow instead of all of them? The Random part being important because I want everyone to have an equal chance of getting displayed.
It's True
I had a dogtag made with my name and blog address on it, that way they can identify my rotting corpse.
Low Cal
I tire of FriendFeed (or Tumblr Lite, as I call it). For a while there I was really trying to get into it, but I just can’t. It’s like one of those 100 Calorie packs of cookies that you know in your heart can’t possibly compare to the real thing, but you still want to try them anyway and sure enough, they don’t.
Travis Barker and DJ AM in Critical Condition... →
They are the only survivors.
Eeep(c)!
Bought an Asus eeepc 901. It’s coming in on monday. Can’t wait, I’ve been watching every video on the internet of it.
Almost time for the ol' grind
Every day on my way to work I have this horrible sickening feeling in my stomach. Not because I hate my job, but because I hate working anywhere at all. Usually this feeling goes away once I’m actually at work, but I try to find a song on the radio that makes me feel happy on the way. If I do, the feeling goes away, if I don’t I just feel nauseous.
Greatest Video Games of All Time (Definitive list,...
muroo:
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I don’t understand the rules (does “Nintendo” mean the company or the NES?) 1. Mariokart 2. Chrono Trigger 3. Power Stone 2 4. Golden Sun (just thrown in there for no reason. Pokemon should probably be in there for being one of the most addictive games…ever made.)
Can you tell I didn’t give it much thought?
Nintendo in this case means both the company and the NES.
it was green.
There was just a bug flying around my room and I sprayed it and it fell down and died but I don’t know where. It could be in any of the following:
shoes
soda cans
textbooks
file folders
clothing pile
in my hair
trash can
book shelf
thomas edison model phonograph
it’s not dead and just planning a second attack
Greatest Video Games of All Time (Definitive list,...
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
Sonic 2
Metal Gear Solid (Playstation version and Twin Snakes)
Resident Evil* (all of them)
List is in order of descending greatness.
Learn to Live
Darius Rucker’s country album came out last tuesday. I still need to go get that. So far 100% of the reviews on Amazon are 5 stars. Can you believe that? I almost can’t, but then I remember that it’s Darius Rucker and I can.
“Dear America:
WITHDRAWING ALL YOUR MONEY IN FEAR OF A BANK FAILURE CAUSES A...”
– filigree: “we can just have a BANK RUN!!! EVERYONE RUN TO THE BANK!!! PANIC! CHAOS FIRE OBAMA BURN!!”
Cryptoquip
thewordunheard:
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stupid cryptoquips. I spent hours trying to figure out the one in yesterdays paper. In the end the message was lame, so here’s one of my own.
HTOUXQCC TXH BSYOD OQRYKZKXBSD MSQXHKXB,
QTOLE OKCKXB LY EQTFQX TXH EQTFQX HQCZQXHKXB.
~ QWKSD MOYXLQ
Hint: Q = E
Answer will come later.
EDIT! - A letter wasn’t properly encoded. It’s fixed now.
I think I solved it...
Cryptoquip
stupid cryptoquips. I spent hours trying to figure out the one in yesterdays paper. In the end the message was lame, so here’s one of my own.
HTOUXQCC TXH BSYOD OQRYKZKXBSD MSQNHKXB,
QTOLE OKCKXB LY EQTFQX TXH EQTFQX HQCZQXHKXB.
~ QWKSD MOYNLQ
Hint: Q = E
Answer will come later.
EDIT! - A letter wasn’t properly encoded. It’s fixed now.
Scariest Story I've Ever Heard:
theoriginaljoefisher:
peroty:
anjalouise:
duplo:
I’ve actually been to Newport and met that very same octopus. I was leaning up against his tank. It had no top to it and was about a tall as a writing desk. I didn’t know there was anything in there because the room was so dark. I look down at one point to see a TENTACLE WRAPPED AROUND MY ARM.
It was intense.
To which you then...
“It might be tomorrow (Oh well)
I just don’t know (Oh well)
It might take...”
– Canned Heat - Poor Moon
Scariest Story I've Ever Heard:
duplo:
My friend Rebecca grew up in a town near the Oregon coast. When she was in high school, she had a job at the aquarium in Newport. They had a octopus there and apparently he would occasionally escape his tank. When he did, he went straight for the front door f the building. As Rebecca said, “He never end up in the bathroom or the bookstore. He always went straight for the front door.”
How...
Word + Word
I found out last week that my favorite two word combo is Dog + Bone. Dogbone.