Hitchhikers Guide to Blogging

I discovered this wonderful little piece of audio when I bought the audiobook version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. They had this extra bit that defines what blogging is.



But I figured most people don't have iTunes to go listen to the preview of this track so I took time out of my day to write it out in text format for everyone.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on Blogging

"Blogging: Blogging is the act of regularly updating your website with some hum-drum information about your life or a link to something you just read on the Internet in the mistaken belief that someone actually cares. It is the 21st century equivalent of hanging around railway stations writing pithy but erudite descriptions of the passing trains.

To take part in Blogging or to use the appropriate terminology to join the blogosphere there are a couple of things you need to do. Firstly you will need to increase the size of your ego. Without a swollen ego you simply cannot achieve the levels of solipsism required by a modern blog. This necessary step is often missed by new bloggers. Yet without it you won’t believe that anyone is remotely interested in what you have had for lunch today, how cute your cat mittens is, or whether or not you designed some tedious internet protocol.

In fact Blogging without an oversized ego can actually be dangerous. If you start using words like blogosphere there is a very major possibility that your own major intestines will leap straight up through your neck and throttle your brain in an attempt to preserve civilization.

Fortunately there are various forms of medication to increase the size of your ego many offering a money back guarantee that you’ll be at least twice as obnoxious in four weeks or less. Until you are sufficiently obnoxious you might feel the need to explain or at the very least or at least describe the things you link to.

Experienced bloggers know that they are so important that readers will blindly follow their links. After all a few seconds of one bloggers time is clearly more valuable then all the time spent of people discovering they really didn’t care.

The other thing you should do to become a successful blogger is change your website to use dotted lines and unreadable tiny fonts wherever possible."

RSS and Atom Feeds

Well I recieved a request from a user to have an RSS Feed instead of an Atom Feed so I went with FeedBurner to syndicate an RSS feed of my blog with a cool feature of a who is syndicating my blog. So to anyone that wanted the RSS Feed of My Blog. I made it easy for you.

Flash Friday

Well a lot of people are asking about getting flashed on the freeway. Well you just need to show you are listening to the Tom Leykis show with your headlights on and maybe something a little extra.

Flash Friday Window Flyers

That might help you out on your quest. I took his thing off his page put it in Illustrator made a 8.5x11 letter page and just copied it twice. Happy Hunting.

Blogging

Well I have been blogging almost two years now and have revised the blog it's been through two major graphic revisions. It used to have this orange theme since the CSS templates were very limited. Now we are on the second phase which is what you see here.

So I have been asked how do you decide what to write? Well I just write about my life and how I know it to be. I have switched the format from how I blog. I used to just login and write a message on the fly but recently I have been working on articles about my life which I tend to write in Apple iWork's Program called Pages and then I send it out to my friend the english major and she gives it a once over for spell check. But posts like this I don't even bother with.

I have been working on the "Worst Day of My LIfe" post which is really funny. Last edit it was 4 pages. I'm also working on an online article called "MySpace Dating" but that's just a working title. Me and Preston have also been working on a project that will be featured here. We have a small little site together that we just use to host the few little videos we have made at www.nailsintheroad.com.

But my goal is to be myself as much as possible so if you were to meet me in person I would be the same person you have come to know reading my blog. Most of my loyal visitors are my close friends and the ones that I don't really know I am sure if you asked any of the people that comment there are no suprises from who I am to what I blog about.

But anyways just thought I would post from home be a little more awake then my last blog post. I thought it was pretty cool that I have inspired a few of my friends at school to start a blog. I was thinking that's great to know that my blog has inspired some other people to enjoy the blogging revolution.

Lake = Sunburn(Post #420)

Well people have been calling me saying that my blog is an interesting read. "You have a wit and a charm about you that people just hook onto and can't stop". So let's look at the past couple days.

Weekend Update!!!!!!!
Well let's see Fridays are pretty much the lamest night of the week. I work then drive 80 miles to class. I observe traffic and I begin to wonder as I always do why do people do what they do? Traffic goes from crazy to nothing in a period of a few feet. Just because people are to considered with what might happen instead to just go. But great thing about Friday's is driving on I-5 and it's Flash Friday so all you have to do is turn headlights on and girls drive by and flash you. It's pretty simple concept and yet so great to end a boring day on a positive note. I have my Linux Server Admin class friday nights which is on the most a great learning experience.

Saturday -
I worked long day kinda crazy. Then I got off work and went to meet Jacob for some coffee to discuss how we were going to take care of some business cards and get some work done. After that I went to go meet up with the work out buddy Nick and we fixed his computer and then Lydia showed up and was like Hey. We were chatting and she was like Here! Have my # call me sometime. Her boyfriend just broke up with her. I was like hey that works. Then she invited me and Nick to a little party.

The other Nick called me and was like Hey I'm in town so I ran over to his dad's place and we were eating some peanuts and Nick called me and said "Dude MAN ROCK ON! ME and Justin are going to kill ourselves rollerblading you DOWN!? Then were going to the Party" I was like "Nick Buddy I don't have rollerblades and don't really want to know how much a pair of size 14-16 rollerblades cost me. But Dude Hey give me a call when your down and I will follow you to the party" and Nick replied "SWEET"

So me and Nick went to go Meet Nick to get to the Party and when we get there it was the normal Nick female crowd and we were all chilling. Nick my workout friend was like "Ladies Tristan got ditched" so got some form of bizarre pity I had never seen before so they had me grabbing ass and face in cleavage and taking pictures of this. I must say I had a smile on my face. Then party was lame and we left.

Sunday-
Well what happened Sunday? Well woke up and then went to the gym by myself which I admit I didn't get such a great workout but it was still good to have the experience that I could do it myself. I would like to thank the apple iPod for making such an effort possible. Then went to go get a protien bar and a VItamin Water and then went home took a shower burned a CD then went out to go fix a computer. So I also had a date planned with Ally to go see Charlie and the Choclate Factory and I must say great movie. Johnny Depp did awesome the Oompa Loompa were retarted in this one and MikeTV had a brain which was cool but eh. Songs were a bit lame but I really enjoyed this movie. It did a great job.

Then after that I went home and chilled I had a lot on mind so I thought I would go clear my head so I went down to the boardwalk and just was walking up and down and enjoying the sunset and just kinda drifted out into a trance and this girl was walking by and was like Hey I was like Hey and she was like you okay you have a lot on your mind and I just let out what I was thinking to a complete stranger. No Bias that way and it was good got her Yahoo name but I don't know. Then Jason called me back and was like going to a BBQ out at my roomates parents house wanna go. So I did and then had some food and it was good.

Then went to go see Wedding Crashers. Which I wanted to be the funniest movie I have seen all year but it failed at that task. I would have to say the funniest movie of the year so far has been The Longest Yard. So that was pretty much the weekend in a nutshell.

Monday-
Went to work got off work went to the gym. Then me and Nick went to go get some Food and this has been discussed.

Tuesday-
I went over to help service the Russian KGB Mafia Man and work on his website and got a decent amount completed on getting it to work. I also learned more about the Adobe Suite in one day then I have learned since I have been playing with it since version 3.0. Then me and Jason went to hit the gym came home and just enjoyed the rest of my evening.

Wednesday-
Well this was a pretty simple day. I woke up drove out to Jacob's work to fix a small computer issue mostly getting the server in seattle to be able to print to this local printer in the shop. Then got Jacob's computer to talk to his Mac over the network with NFS and Samba and got everything working. Then got paid and went to deposit the funds. I like getting paid the day I finish the work seems like a great concept to me. =p

Then I called Jason and was like Hey my sister is going to the lake wanna go. He said only if they have a Dock. So I stopped at the grocery store purchased a vitamin water and some Diet Pepsi and was on my way to go home and change clothes. Grab the swimsuit and went on my way to Pick up Jason.

I was thinking you know what I am not wearing shoes down to the lake and I don't have a pair of sandals. So I thought we should stop by payless to get me a pair. I went in and they only had them in size 13. And it was $19.99 for that pair I was like screw that lets try that expensive shoe store. So I walked over to Casual shoes or whatever it's called and I found a pair of size 14 Adidas Sandals and they were only $24.99 I was like sweet marked down for $35.99 so I bought those and went to the lake.

Swam for about 2hrs which was good got a bit sunburned and got a great workout. I was really happy and in lots of pain. Best Cardio ever I think I am going to try and push myself like that at least once a week.

But all and all it was a great weekend short for some drama that I created in my own mind. But we got that issue resolved. Perhaps another blog for that. Anyways I finished this blog in class.

Such a bad student playing with DNS and DHCP services in Windows Server 2003. Anyways thanks for Stopping by the Blog. I was also just discovered at school and people from my class have been visiting. Welcome my fellow peers from school.

-Tristan Pipo
P.S. This is the real deal.

July 25th

Well I decided to save the weekend's events until I resolve one issue. Which we will leave at that. But anyways yesterday.

Had a short work day they gave me a raise and a different job which I must say is so much easier. Don't have to deal with any of the annoying aspects of the last job mainly because of customers. But anyways about work everybody keeps coming up to me like Tristan I read your blog when you going to update again. Which is totally cool more people that read this the better. Hits are growing at an increasing rate which is awesome. Never thought a guy like me would have a life so interesting that everyone wants to read what I am doing or what I have done.

But Joey came up to me he was like Man I never knew you were so into movies. Barbara keeps asking me about this blog. She's a pretty cool young lady as far as they go. She always says I am a flirt or calls me Robot Man. Being called a Flirty Robot what should I think of that. Oh well cool with me.

But anyways worked a short day then came home and chilled. Checked the e-mail but that's for later. Then I called Nick and was like dude lets hit the gym so we went to the gym. I wasn't really feeling it cause I had a lot on my mind. But Nick's cool and we just got to it. I biked for 25 minutes then jogged for 1/2 mile and then we went and did back and some chest and then abs but mainly back. Then me and him went to go grab some grub which was good. I always love a little Pan Fried Chow Mein and some Egg Rolls. I had never been to the Golden Lion pretty decent. Nice looking Hostess we were talking to her then found out she had a boyfriend so it was like interest dropped at an ever increasing rate.

Talked some business about Real Estate since I knew some people that were looking for a piece of property or a house and going to get that in the motion. You can make some decent cash for finders fee's. It's funny I make more money at my side jobs now then I do at the main job. I just got some business cards printed up thanks to the almighty Jacob.

I have notifed I don't really hang so much with Ollie anymore I spend more time hanging out with Jason and Nick. But Jason goes back to school in August and time to chill with him will be reduced.

Wanted to let everyone know to keep a weekend in September open because George Ollie will be having his amazing pajama party and if it even is a 1/10th as good as the last one it will bring down the house.

Kinda weird I logged in thinking this would be a small post cause I didn't really have much I thought I could talk about at this venture and look what we ended up with.

BUt anyways peace out everyone and thanks for stopping by,

Also I decided to reduce some of the traffic to my mail server and if you have a question you would like me to answer or do my best to answer feel free to send an e-mail to Tristan's Answer Line It's funny how many of these I get but most of them I don't want to answer on here lol. But I will e-mail you back =)

Cameron Crowe Films

Today me and a wonderful young lady went to the movies but more about that later. On the weekend update but when I was walking into the theater I saw a huge cardboard ad for this movie called ElizabethTown. I didn't give it a second look but walked out and saw it again and was thinking WTF why does this keep jumping out at me.

So I came home and watched the trailer. Elizabeth Town Movie Trailer (Large)

It is a Cameron Crowe film he has done other films some of my favorites of his were Say Anything, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky. This guy has this thing for romance films that he does very well. He just seems to know what he is doing and how I would want a relationship to be you know. I really liked Say Anything cause it was filmed in Seattle and it was just one of those great films. I got turned onto that film in Film Study it was the first movie we watched and since then I just have enjoyed that film along with many of his others.

I'm thinking I might check this movie out perhaps. But anyways just made a quick pit stop at home thought I would talk about this and then head out again. But weekend update of what happened is coming after I get done with the weekend ;-).

-Tristan
P.S. If someone knows the song in the trailer that would be awesome to find out.

Mid Weekend Update (Thumbs)

Well I am going to save the weekend update till it's done but today I was thinking what is something I normally do?

And for some reason I give a lot of thumbs up and like challenging people to thumb wars. And I was thinking I can't be the only one who has this odd desire on occasion. So I did some research.

Wiki Thumb Wrestling
They say it's a childrens game (Or for the Young at Heart) and no olympic events are based around this. Well how depressing. =p

http://www.monochrom.at/daumen/index-eng.htm
This group invented multiplayer thumb wrestling. And did all kinds of things to jazz it up a little. Now this sounds good to me.

Anyways thanks for taking the time to stop by. Weekend isn't over yet so much going on today. But anyways I'll update about that later.

A Picture Share!

I love satellite radio :) lol funny crap like this on the display

I Made some Cash!

Well if you don't already know all the iTunes LInks around the page are technically ads. And if you click on one I get 5% of whatever you buy from the iTunes Music store in a 24hr period. I have been running this service for a while now. I got a check in the mail today. For a grand total of $2.35!

I am not sure if I should frame it or what. This will be the first time I have had made money from a website =). That covers about 1/3 of the cost to host this stie for a month.

I just thought this was to funny. I wonder how much of that was me clicking on the links to enable my account for Profit Sharing. So far I have had 11,601 Impressions from the iTunes Links on my site 623 People have Clicked Them. Out of those 623 clicks 13 people have ordered something. Ordering 27 items I helped iTunes sell $43.89 worth and I got a commission of $2.35 after taxes that math doesn't seem like it's working out correctly. But that's what I gathered from the report I ran.

Well anyways just thought I would share that info and let everyone have a laugh.

Today's Thoughts Post-#414

Well today was an interesting day so far. Had the little e-mail blog earlier maybe I should start a babysitting firm for 2 people. But anyways onto the news for today.

Abused Children
Today when I was on my way to class I stopped at a grocery store to pick up whatever diet energy drink they had on sale. This week it was a Sugar Free Coke Energy Drink. Outside the store was a lady asking for money to help the abused children. I try not to judge people by looks but if someone is begging for money to help abused children I don't think they should be dressed like a hobo which makes me think they are going to keep the money for themselves. Another thing that I noticed was she was smoking. Which makes me think she also has children and she probably smokes around them. Now that seems like child abuse to me. Forcing toxins into their bodies. So made me care even less about her cause. So just by looks I judged what she was doing and how she was going about collecting money. I feel guilty about not helping the "abused children" but really not so much because I didn't trust her. So I am not really feeling wrong by not supporting her. Since I know probably not a dime would ever help any abused child.

Dating
Now I really don't claim to be an expert on dating but I was listening to a podcast on the way to class which is about a 76 mile drive. I am sure Jon will correct me on this saying something like it's 74.6 miles. ;-) But anyways I subscribe to a few podcasts on my iPod. The Daily Source Code, Podfinder, iTunes New Music Tuesdays, and SuicideGirls.com Podcast. The other day SuicideGirls released a new one and I checked it out. And they were talking about this girl named Bee wanting to date a girl. And she was discovering what guys go through everytime they date a girl. She was bringing up a lot of good points. One that I was interested in was first dates. Going Dutch now I was under the impression that this was a bad idea on a first date. But then I tended to start to agree with their way of thinking. If that person really wants to hang out with you, spend time with you. Then paying should be dutch since both of you are taking time to be with each other and get to know each other. Material things like what restaurant you go to or what you do otherwise shouldn't really matter. You are there to get to know that person better not see how much of his or her wad they are trying to spend on you. So I see dutch as a good thing but I guess that just depends on the girl. What do my readers think of this.

E-Mail
I got this e-mail sent to me today from someone who wished to stay hidden. It had a question in there that was "Tristan I frequent your blog and you seem like a really interesting guy. You said you would answer anything so I am just wondering what do you have in your pockets right now?"

Well okay kinda of an odd question but here we go. I am carrying about $12 and some change, Cell Phone, iPod, Car Keys, iTrip, Clicking Pen, Wallet, And Flash USB Drive. So glad I could answer your question. If you have anything you would like to ask me feel free to e-mail (Link is on the right hand side of the page) and let me know if you would like to keep your identity hidden.

Thanks for stopping by. Remember Take it Easy, and if it's easy take it twice. I guess another saying I say more often then I should is "It's all good" "No Worries"

-Tristan Pipo

E-Mail

I was checking e-mail this morning and the server log had the most interesting query.

Google Search

Someone typed "2 person babysitting jobs in poulsbo, Washington" into google and my page was like #3. I have seen a lot of weird stuff come my way but right now that takes the cake. I would have never guessed that's one way to find me. Oh well we all had a few laughs.

WTF Parents!

Crazy Mother (NSFW)

Okay I am not sure if I find this funny or really sad. How in the world could a parent treat a child like this. I mean WTF is with America that a parent can do this.

I sent this to Jon and we discussed this and we came to the conclusion that the best part was.

"She's been treating you better then you have ever been treated the past 16 years"

She contradicts herself so much. Your Grounded. Now Get OUT! The two times I was grounded I was forced to stay home and couldn't leave. I don't know how this kid stayed cool he gets my respect for that. But I mean if this was me I think I would have to lay some fists down. But then again my mother could kick my ass nine ways till sunday. She still can.

But what are your thoghts on this. It's in Windows Media Format so you need Windows Media Player and I recommend Broadband.

Funny Phone Calls

This is only a partial blog post I have to work a bit on the rest but this will just give you an idea of where I am heading with this. As everyone who reads this blog on a regular basis I had a stalker for a while there. Named Dave and another person he was driving crazy with his antics was this guy named Bob who comments here on occasion under the SN U235Radioactive. Bob was fighting back with comics and so forth. I have been featured in a few of them at lorettasworld.info.

But anyways he sent me a link to this phone call that was just crazy funny. Made by Dave to him. Dave Gone Crazy (NSFW) and I was thinking this reminds me of something. It was an old phone call I heard from the Mark and Brian Show when they were on in the mornings up here in Seattle on The Buzz back pre 2000. They call this the 911 Cat Call. I just thought everyone might like to see how much they compare.

I thought both parties on this were a bit crazy. I didn't really want to bring the topic of Dave up again but this was to good to resist. And then take my ultra awesome nerd skills of converting the Real Audio Format of the Cat Call to Mp3 so people wouldn't have to download the crappy ass real player. Unless they already have it. Well then we shall feel sorry for them.

This laugh for today brought to you by Tristan. =p

2 Months of Gym

There are two posts that I wanted to do today. I got this e-mail from a lady named Joanna saying she has been reading my blog for a few months now and what a typical internet experience for me was. That will be an interesting post I will say the least. Kinda blow the casual internet user away. ;-) But 2 months of working out was far more exciting to me anyways.

Well today is the 2month anniversary that I started going to the gym. So lets look at some things. When I first started the max I could benchpress is 95lbs (Lame Yes I know) But not I maxed out at 195lbs today, did that twice so that was a big hell yes. I have noticed this kind of improvement all around on every exercise.

But the greatest part is everything is getting tighter. Arms, Chest, Shoulders, Back, Legs, Ass, Abs. I have upped how much cardio I do. I used to bike 2-3miles at 3-4 Resistance. Now I am at 7-8miles at 9-10 Resistance. Me and Nick are currently planning a mountain biking trip hopefully we can hit that up in August or September before the weather gets bad.

I have had this back idea of doing a marathon just to do it. But most of them you have to pay to enter and it's like $50-$100 for charity to run. But the fact of this was that I actually could do it when before I doubt I could have ever done such a task.

My energy has been out of control you know how nice it is to wake up at 7am and just get right of bed and just feel great?

I know most of the hardcore blog readers are like not the gym crap again. Hey I have kept it on back burner for a while just wanted to celebrate this accomplishment of 2 months. It's been my new addiction I go to work and then just think about how great I am going to feel working out and getting any of that negative energy burned away in calories.

My diet has changed also. My latest cravings have been Watermelon and Milk I can't get enough bizarre I know. I will sit there and like eat half a watermelon for Dinner and then have a glass of 1% milk. Protien Bars, Stir Fry, Vitamin Water, Subway, Salads are the best thing in the world now.

To anyone that ever had the thought of you wouldn't stick to it, Or Yeah Right. It's been quite a joy showing how wrong you were. ;-) Not that I can think of any of my friends that thought that. They have been nothing but supportive. I love you guys and gals for that. Anyways Thanks for stopping By,

=) Tristan Pipo

A Picture Share!

Beautiful washington night with a beautiful moon Get out enjoy tonight :)

Updates

Well that cookie post has been the most popular post that I have ever made. So much advice some choices need to be made. Well what should I really do. I have no real clue I really think that honestly she isn't really into me she was just doing something nice. But I have no idea. I haven't seen her since the cookies.

I think I have changed my vibe because I seem to be getting more positve feedback from people. Like I was on my way to class yesterday and I stopped at Gig Harbor Safeway To get an energy drink cause I was falling asleep and I walked in went to the deli and got a 99¢ Burrito and a Diet Rockstar and the checker was smiling at me. I would guess she is 19-22 and we just kept exchanging smiles and had some small moment that was just a good feeling.

I don't know it's been kinda weird all of this has been hitting at once not exactly sure because went from None to a little Feedback from the opposite sex to more then I have had in a long time. I went from wanting a girlfriend to just wanting to do my own thing and just kinda discover what and who I really am. Trying to better myself.

For the first time ever I have been achieving my New Years Resolution I have achieved 3 of my 5 goals this year to accomplish and it's only July so much left to go. The other two goals I know I can make happen I just have to decide where to channel my energy.

It's like I am truly happy with who I am who I have became. It's kinda of a weird feeling. Like I have always known since I was 6 years old and walked into the computer lab and sat down at the Apple IIe that started it all. At that point I knew that this tool was amazing and that's what I wanted to do and use everyday in my career. Things seem to be going awesome in that direction.

I don't think this is the update everyone wanted to the cookie Blog. But when I have news if any news I will be sure to post it.

I will let everyone know that I have been working on probably one of the greater posts. Of probably one of the few days I have been stressed out, pissed off, embarassed more then I can recall on any day that I remember. I laugh about this day more then any other. It's a great party for a laugh. Only Me and 2 other people experienced this day. But it kidnda was just two really bad days in a row. It's really clear in my memory and lots of details are in this story it's on it's 3rd Draft. But anyways look forward to that. But anyways hope everyone is well. There is a Hawaiian Party tonight so that should be fun. I would really like to go see a movie tomorrow. Either Charlie and the Choclate Factory or Wedding Crashers. If you want to go hit up the Cell or the E-Mail or leave a comment or send a Text to the Cell. Or e-Mail the Cell or e-mail my other e-mail or hit me on on AIM, MSN or Yahoo.

I better not hear anyone say I am to hard to reach. Maybe that is a problem that I am just to easy to reach. Oh well I can figure that out later.

Cookies

Well today was pretty great I must say. This girl I work with she is pretty cute 18 I will assume today she just brought me some cookies and said she baked them for me. Handed me a plate with a card on it and smiled and walked off. Open the little card and it says "hope you enjoy them -Her Name". Now I do my best to try and not get romantic with anyone at work cause if something goes wrong it will probably be awkward. But what kind of gesture is this is this something I should take as she likes me. Or was this just a friendly gesture. I asked around nobody else got cookies.

I am fairly reserved and quite at work I don't really know much about this girl other then her name and she eats bagels all the time. Should I return this gift of cookies with a favor or a gift of some kind back to her. I am not sure about such things anymore.

But I leave it up to you the blogging visitors of my site to give some advice of what to do.

Man what to Blog About?!

Well what to blog about so much to tell. Well let's start off with some Past
Weekend Highlights

Saturday - Got up me and Jason hit the gym. Dealt with the weekend stalker. He is gone or maybe he still comes and just reads. That's cool no harm in doing that.

Sunday - Got up and me and Jason hit the gym. Came home loaded up the Playstation 2 played some Metal Gear Solid then Me, Ollie and the Russian KGB went to go shoot some guns. We shot this .22 Pistol, a 45mm Hand Cannon Thing. And this Rifle that was just intense. I had never fired a gun let me tell you it's a rush would go do it again in a second. I didn't shoot any targets wasn't as lucky as I was with the bow. I destroyed a lot of dirt and sand though.

Kinda a lame chill weekend but after last weekend a break is always good.

Google Discovery
I think this means that I have been put in some kind of record book but if you type in my name incorrectly in google like if you use Trisstan Pipo or Tristaan Pipo you get a screen like this Saying did you mean "Tristan Pipo" now I thought that was pretty fucking cool.

E-Mail
I have been getting a lot of feedback about the recent events of Stalker Dave. Most saying something along the lines of "Man that is funny shit what a loser" or "Tristan that Dave is one fucked up pathetic jerk off" I went to his myspace account and there was a girl named Heather on there. I sent her a message saying watch out he is a stalker of sorts and she said thank you for the warning she seems like a pretty cool chick. I got this one e-mail from someone that basically said "Tristan that is kinda crazy someone with so many issues came to you. Scary to think that people like this are left alive. Sometimes I wish I had control of the gene pool to prevent such mistakes" So in math terms. Dave = Mistake. lol

Well that's all I got for this. Hope everyone is doing well. People I haven't heard from in a while chime in let me know the 411.

Idea
Seems like everyone has been going on a seperate path as of recently. I was thinking we should all get together for like an end all summer BBQ or something. Get a nice spot on a lake have some volleyball or something just have a good time chilling at a lake eating soem good food playing some games.

I would like to do the drive in with the Aunt's Truck again this year. Give it a rego since last year was just umm probably the worst night ever to those who know the story or to those who were actually there. I think only one of the people besides me that were there read this blog. lol

Anyways Peace Out.
-Tristan

Vitamin Water

Well yesterday after me and Jason went to workout we went and bought the usual protien bars and so forth. And we gave some vitaminwater a try. I had the energy tropical citrus variety. So anyways it was a citrus drink kinda reminded me a bit of super water downed tang. Or a less intense version of this Amino Acid Supplement drink I had been having a sample of.

What makes this water different is that it is water with a sense of humor. On the bottle it says such things as. "enjoy cold, refrigerate responsibly." or "one sip, swig or gulp may result in boycott of other beverages." or probably the best one of all "we, the makers of this product, hereby rebut any offers by any professional sports leagues to become "the official water" of anything. although this is a great alternative to sports drinks, we do not believe in succumbing to commercialism, unless, of course there's a lot of cash. then we'll talk". I just discovered this one this morning "the inside is natural. the outside is plastic"

This water I will admit isn't great but it also isn't bad. The ingredients make sense and they tell you what each complicated item is, for example monopotassium phosphate (electrolyte). That's cool in my book. I sent them an e-mail cause sometimes I think it's better to express the positive to a company over the negative. I got a response from haley and here is what she said.


"hello Tristan,

thank you for contacting us regarding your positive experience with glacéau vitaminwater.

we appreciate your feedback and love hearing from consumers who have truly embraced our products as well as our personality and are experiencing the benefits of drinking better water.

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A Picture Share!

Another visit to the gym my third home :)

Moron = Stalker

Well I would like to thank Mike England for hooking me up with this document.

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/house/2750-2774/2771-s_01302004.txt

Technically this guy is cyberstalking me so I have the right to press charges I just have to do some more background research make sure this was passed into a law.

Do I really want to take it this far? Well let's see where it goes from here. I would like to get back to my normal blogging style. So anyways. Wait this out a couple more days.

Return of the Moron

Well this Dave guy came back. So anyways it's funny how he is the only one who doesn't realize how much of a moron he is. He commented in my XM post. Didn't even spell my name correctly. When he decided to call me gay. I could delete his comments but it's just more proof on how much of a moron this guy is. I am not the only one who thinks this we have comments people agreeing with me below in other posts.

Here is his phone # if you care to call this moron and let him know how much of a moron he is.
Phone #: (845) 635-2672

His screen names are posted below.

He has a few people that make cartoons about how much of a loser he is.
Loretta's World

From what I understand Loretta is the name that he used when he was pretending to be a lesbian to get girls to talk to him. I have news for Dave this is how most lesbians in the real world are.
Lesbian Reality (NSFW)

And here is a gentelman that also likes to point out how much of a loser this guy is on his blog that is devoted to showing how much of a loser he is.
Lightning007.blogspot.com

We banned Dave from SiriusBackstage for doing this kinda crap before so this isn't new for him. So anyways Dave before things get really nasty for you I suggest you just back away. You really have some major issues and your really messing with the wrong guy. I have access to so many more resources then you do.

XM Free For Life

Now some people know that I have XM Free for Life. They are like how did you do this. Well at the time that I got XM Radio they had this contest where if you referred 25 people you got XM Free for Life.

XM Radio Rewards Program 2002

So my Pioneer XM Tuner 900 first series XM Tuner. So right now it's sitting in the trunk of new car waiting to be installed. It has an 8 character limit so as soon as I get a new Pionner HU I will have XM back in my car.

So XM didn't hook me up for being a ClubXM Moderator as people have thought. I had to sell 25 of these things to people in Indiana which was no small task. I used to have the XM Beer Glasses that this contest did offer but choose to leave them in Indiana. They have the hardly remembered Club 82 on one of the glasses. But those times are gone.

Just thought I would clear that up for everyone.

Dealing With Idiots

Well I decided give into a moron and give him some attention since he is whore for it. So this guy is pretty much regarded as an internet troll. He is on a large part a Moron thought I would take the quote he put in my comment and disect it a little bit. So he posted this quote on my 4th of July post.

"I FUCKING CAN NOT STAND YOU said...
ok folks, here is a guy named Tristan (WHO BTW IS ALSO A MOD / ADMIN @ SIRIUSBACKSTAGE.COM http://www.siriusbackstage.com

anyway, this MORON likes to talk about his ""PRIVATE LIFE"" in front of total strangers

ME being one of them because i have never met the man,
#2 this idiot also loves to talk about IPODS and wants ME to buy one (which i won't because i HATE IPODS which are also made by APPLE)

OH, BTE TRISTAN
1-877-MAXIM145
even tho there are LOTS OF OTHER RADIO Channles on SIRIUS.COM i like MAXIMRADIO145
AIM: MaximStudio145

well, i've writen what i wanted to say about this ""idiot""
OH... BTW...

he also sends me LINKS on AOL IM which i really don't give a fuck about but he does it anyway LOL!!

BYE ALL!!

**NOTE**
Tristan Is One Weird Dude
**NOTE**"

So this guy likes to spend his day scrolling Blog's and Forums to get people behind his cause of trying to take another gentelman down for posting degrading comments about him online. He runs a very crappy website called JDPLVY.com he likes to send me messages trying to figure out why I make this all public. He asks me if I worry about people stealing my text. When in all reality I don't really care I make it public for people to syndicate you can have my RSS feed to put on your page if you want RSS Feed it's in ATOM format and most standard RSS readers have no problem. I use Safari or Mozilla Firefox.

He claims I send him links but I find lots of interesting links out there. He likes to assume they are gay porn. But I guess that is the moron mind for you.

He says I am a Moderator at SiriusBackstage.com which is true. I include a link to them on the right hand side of this page under Links =). I have been a Satellite Radio Forum Moderator since 01 in the ClubXM days. But that is a post for another day of how I got involved in that.

If you can't stand me then why come post your moron feces in the comment section of my blog? Why do you talk in CAPS most of the time. You try to make a point where there is bold for that.

I ask for comments from friends when trying to deal with your problems with other people. But you never seem to realize that you are the cause and beginning of your own problems. You are one of the most close minded people I know.

You don't like iPods because they are made by Apple. But iPods are pretty much standard for how we listen to music now. Go to sites like Craigs List if you look in the personals people list what is on their iPod. But you are an IE user and are not open to any new ideas. I hope your getting the attention you want from this post.

Let's point out some flaws in your website. You have your call to maxim is encoded in *.WAV format. Why kill your bandwith with a WAV file that is huge. I compressed it with MP3 format to about 3MB using 64Kbps Stereo. But I used Apple iTunes to do this. Heaven forbid you have good software on your computer.

Sounds like you need a life you unemployed moron. You haven't even been to college where are you going with your life. I suggest you do the rest of the world a favor and just delete your life now. I do not believe you will be missed.

Rather be weird anyday then Normal.

Say Hi to JDPLVY
Or
Say Hi to JDPLVY

The 4th of July Weekend Extravaganza Post!

Well greetings everyone been a while since I last blogged and I bet all of you are thinking a thought something like this. "Dude Tristan WTF have you been up to how was your 4th? Well ladies and gentelman this is the blog post that will end that thought. This will have everything in some kind of order as to what happened.

Let's start off with July 2nd since it was rather blah.

Well July 2nd I got conned into volunteering to make Root Beer Floats for Relay for Life so I did that for a good 8hrs and made like $400 in donations. Went home and just crashed.

July 3rd was by far amazing. Woke up and slacked off and then me and Jason went to hit the gym to be like super awesome for this party on Mason Lake we were invited to. So we hit the gym and worked out for about 90 mins did all of the lifts till we were in pain and then did them again just to be like WTF man.

We decided to leave the gym and I went home to take a shower and prepare for the evening. I decided to wear some jeans, black t-shirt, this dragon shirt that the Russian Mofia man gave me to rent. and I put on some bling bling with a silver necklace and some black dress shoes just to look a bit snazzy. So went over to Jason's house and he was like we need a tent I was like WTF for what I will just drive home. But then I thought ahh tent spending the night. So got all that packed up and I also packed my swimtrunks and a small change of clothes. So we get all loaded up and then head out to Albertsons to pick up some beer and some food. Which was a smart idea. Jason drank all the Mountain Dew Livewire I had. That Fucker but eh lol. I wish they had a Diet Livewire but eh that's another rant for another day.

So anyways we begin our Journey out to Mason Lake. I tried calling Andrea, Steph, Miranda, Tara, Mike to confirm their arrival but they didn't answer their phones. WTF if your going to flake just say Hey I am not coming cause the party sounds gay. That way next time I see you I can rub it in your face of how awesome this shindig was. But anyways those losers can just shutup. lol Man that was a mature comment. But hey I am working off my workout buzz

So we get there and driving out to this lake kinda out in the middle of nowhere we are behind a Black Porché and we were like damn nice car and then we found out it was the long lost Jack Holt. Good to see that guy. So we get to this party and it's awesome right next to the Marina. This guy has an awesome house, hot tub, and Nick's Band was setting up for a 2hr Jam session of some sweet tunes. The BBQ was going chicks were smoking it was a perfect view for some fireworks and some good tunes. I go around say hey to everyone i know shake a few hands of those I don't just get to feel the crowd. Jason was doing something but he has his own matters and will comment where he is needed. So we listen to the band play and just have an awesome time dodgins some frisbee eating some good food. And then starts getting dark and we Ran out of Beer. *Cry* so somehow me and Ollie get Volunteered to go on a beer run. They had us $172 to go buy beer. Ollie took $3 for gas and we went on an epic quest for Wal-Mart Fuck Wal-Mart

Ohh here are a few pictures I snapped.

So we head out and get lost so we stop at a Fire Department and ask Where Wal-Mart is and they get us in the right direction and the fireman was like Ran out of Beer? lol So we drive for like 40 mins and finally find it. Go in there load up 2 grocery carts full of beer. lol And we also grabbed 2 bottles of champagné for me and Ollie to rock with. So we head on our Journey back to the party and went down three wrong roads.

One road was full of cars and cops were directing traffic. He pointed the light into Ollie's backseat and still let us go not saying a word. Cops are sometimes cool as hell. He even gave us directions to get where we needed to go. So we get back to the party and the Host Jeff see's us and gets out of the hot tub to come greet us and he is naked as can be. Ollie is carrying beer and doesn't want a naked dude touching him so when Jeff tried to help a case of beer fell over and broke and I have never seen so much foam. lol But I wouldn't want a naked dude coming up to me either.

So we carry all the beer down and some girl is like where is my Mikes Hard Lemonade. I am like chill out I am carrying it in one of these bags of many here. She is like I paid for it give it to me NOW! I was like bitch chill give me like 32 seconds and you can have all the bitch beer you desire. Then she flipped out she was like the female tasmanian devil. lol

But anyways I parked it near the hot tub which was full of naked people. More guys then girls and got to see some nice sights of females but the naked dudes killed any mood of greatness and Ollie got on the tables to spin. About this time Miranda showed up I was like Fuck Yeah. I flaky chick restored her coolness. She even brought some girls and that is by far cool with all the guys there. Me and Jason were walking around like yeah had some chill time by the bonfire while the sky was exploding around us it was a good time.

SO I was inside having a chat with a few strangers about working out and then this dude comes in from the hot tub and he claimed he was wearing a skirt. Which actually was some girls shirt he managed to stretch around his waist lol and was like Dude my names Jeremey you won't forget me cause I'm a dude wearing a skirt. This was by far the most horrible and funniest thing I have ever witnessed. But he was cool the next morning laughing at himself.

So party was awesome and then it was like 2am and people were starting to go to sleep. So me Ollie and Jason decide to go jump off the dock into the lake. This was really awesome me and my good friends doing something crazy but fun something I had never done before. Drunk a bit going out to a dock and jumping into a lake. Not sure then we were all walking back and doing like the high five thing but with a fist with my close friends was a good time.

Then we went back chilled in front of the firepit and talked about life with everyone. Then setup the tent and crashed. Next morning we woke up about 9am or so and had some pancakes packed up the tent. Watched Adrian Puke her brains out for being a stupid drunk. This is by far the loudest chick in the world. She far surpasses drunk Rachel. d

We left there about 1pm and went and picked up Matt. So this is the end of the July 3rd Event. Now we start JULY 4th!

Well lets see we had picked Matt up and then I had to drop Jason off so then I had to drop Matt off at Ollies and then Ollie was already there to which we hear that Ollie and his mom had a fight Suprise Suprise there. Almost had a cancled 4th which would have sucked more then a crack whore trying to earn enough cash to feed her 16th child some Gerber. But anyways I go home and take a nap and a shower get some clean clothes and go down to Ollies about 5ish. Get there and just me and then Jason shows up and then Nick so we start setting up Nick's stuff and then Garette arrives with his girlfriend and we get everything setup for the band to blas music all over the Slab! Jon writes about this on his blog. His link is here on the right hand side of the page if you want to check out his post. Feel free to read his reviews of the party's.

But the music was awesome and we got another new crowd that was more of the close friends at this party it was pretty laid back and chill good music, good friends, good fireworks, good hot tub. No naked people this time. I was there till like 3am just having chats with people and enjoying life. Seems like the best parties are with close friends just relaxing. Matt got some action on Ollies couch we were all sitting outside on his patio like let us in to get out of the cold. Ahh that was a laugh.

But anyways it was an awesome weekend. I am sure I left a lot out but I will update it as necessary. Comments are always welcomed. Hope this blog gets everyone the info they needed. If you missed the party summer is still young. Jeff said he would have more and we got Nick's Band working on some new songs.

So peace out everyone. Miss Talking to everyone.

P.S. Rock On!

Edit#1 Well Jon told me it's not Nick's Band so let it be known since their band doesn't have a name we shall now call it JMNG. Hey that could be Jamaican Mutant Ninga Gophers.

A Picture Share!

Have to love a sunroof with a pic of the sun

iTunes Music Store

Well I am not sure if everyone is aware of Live 8 the make poverty history campaign. Yesterday they did a series of concerts live around the world with dozens of artists. And Paul McCartney and U2 did the only beatles song now on the iTunes Music Store which is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I must say you need to pick up this track your 99¢ all of it gets donated to the cause for Live8

I must say it's truly a great track. So help a good cause pick it up today. iTunes is required iTunes Download

George W. Bush Fucks Up Again

Bush Net Policy

Okay from how I read this is that it would work out something like this. Every country would probably split off and start their own internet and this could in turn lets say if I go to Europe and type in Google.com I could get something totally different then if I was in the US. Why do they always have to mess with stuff that is just fine the way it is.

Then I also see where this could be used as control where we could be monitored what we do online all the time. I just see this is bad all around for everyone. But that's what the current president is. Bad for everyone.

July 1st Today!

Well it's the 1st of July so another new month is added to the archive starting with this. It's 4th of July Weekend which means parties left and right. I have a calendar that is rather jampacked with stuff.

Tomorrow I am making Root Beer Floats for Relay For Life Charity which should be a fun day and then chilling with the Preston and the 3rd wanted to take a date down to the show but that didn't pan out so going with Nick's Band to the Mason Lake 3rd of July Testing of the 4th of July Olympia Fire Works show. Pool, Hot Tub and a Lake and lots of booze and beer sounds good to me. 4th of July hmm Ollies Shindig will be happening.

So that should be good. I am not really feeling to deep today. Going to head to the gym later with Jason if he quits playing WoW so we shall see what's up with him later. Anyways sorry for the lack of blogging just haven't had much to say you know.

Still working on the iTunes 4.9 Review =).