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I got the job in Fort McMurray.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
In the meantime...
So right now I'm on Facebook looking at pictures of tattoos, piercings, suspensions, and other body modifications. That's what inspires this post.
1. First of all, if you're going to show off your tattoo, get a decent sized picture of it. I can't see/compliment/critique it if I can't even tell what the hell it is.
2. If you're going to take a show off your piercings, please make sure you are posting a decent picture. I want to see your piercings, not how shitty your camera is.
3. By all means, feel free to post pictures of your brand-spanking-new ink on your foot, but ladies and gentlemen, please do this before taking the picture: trim your toenails, dig out any toejam, and if you're wearing nail polish on your probably ugly feet, make sure your photo is taken post-paint job.
4. If you have ugly feet, but have a tattoo on your foot, please crop out all of the ugly, misshapenness of your feet. Hell, Microsoft Paint will let you crop your photos.
5. Nape piercings, corset piercings, and other surface work can and will reject. Take the picture when it's all fresh, because anything after that point they're all scarred up, rejecting, and just nasty to look at.
6. If you are an observer of other people's work (namely ink), don't bother to leave a compliment if it's just really shitty work. Shaky lines do NOT deserve a "Wow, awesome!" It amazes me how people can lie to each other!
7. When you mix two types of tribal work, like Borneo meets Maori, it's "neo-tribal", whether you want to admit it to yourself or not.
8. Don't you people check the design before it gets put onto your body? Can't you see the lines are shaky, or maybe, I don't know, the artist CAN'T DRAW? What the hell is wrong with you?
9. Please, don't post a picture of you tattoo if it looks like it could have turned out better if it was drawn on with a Sharpie. As a matter of fact, don't show it off at all. Just pull a Nelly and wear a bandaid over it. Or scrub it off. With a cheese grater.
10. Only one picture of your last suspension experience will suffice, thank you.
11. I don't need half a dozen close ups of your tattoo. Again, just one will suffice.
12. If you're tattoo is finally healed, SCRUB THE TAPE RESIDUE from around it! You've been walking around with sticky shit around your tattoo for a week? You filthy bastard...
13. It's been done before. I know. You know. We all know, but I'd be a bit pissed if I showed off a picture of my ink and have someone say "I wanted something exactly like that! Lololol!" Fuck you, it's my ink. I don't want myself associated with your dumb ass.
14. Ashy tattoos are not sexy. If it's supposed to be in red ink, and it looks pink because your skin is as dry as the desert just outside of Las Vegas, do something. Please, moisturize before snapping that photo. Also, if you have chapped lips and you want to take a pic of you new lipring, at the very least lick your lips before taking the picture. You don't have to take the picture right away, so I actually suggest waiting after you've gone through a rigorous moisturizing regimen before posting.
15. If you're not Japanese, and don't write Japanese, DON'T FUCKING GET a Japanese tattoo! You don't know what it means, and sometimes shit like that can end up drawn sideways, backwards, and even upside-down. Don't believe me? They have websites dedicated to making fun of assholes like you!
16. Get a better camera. If you are going to take a close-up, please be sure that your camera can actually manage such a task.
17. I never use flash when taking photos of anything. Why? Simple, my friend. Glare. Most people take pictures of their tattoo after applying vitamin E oil or something like Tattoo Goo to their tattoo. Well, it's shiny. The light from the flash will reflect, and I can't see your tattoo with a line of reflected light down the middle of it.
18. As mentioned by Lish* in her rant about piercings, don't stick your tongue all the way out just to make sure the stud in the tip of your tongue is actually photographed.
19. As always, learn to spell the name of your piercing, or what tattoo you have. Idiot.
20. Don't take photos yourself. Seriously. Have a friend or family member take it.
*Lish's Rules For Photographing Piercings are not only informative, they are at the very least good for a laugh. They can be fully viewed here:
http://www.bmezine.com/lish.html
1. First of all, if you're going to show off your tattoo, get a decent sized picture of it. I can't see/compliment/critique it if I can't even tell what the hell it is.
2. If you're going to take a show off your piercings, please make sure you are posting a decent picture. I want to see your piercings, not how shitty your camera is.
3. By all means, feel free to post pictures of your brand-spanking-new ink on your foot, but ladies and gentlemen, please do this before taking the picture: trim your toenails, dig out any toejam, and if you're wearing nail polish on your probably ugly feet, make sure your photo is taken post-paint job.
4. If you have ugly feet, but have a tattoo on your foot, please crop out all of the ugly, misshapenness of your feet. Hell, Microsoft Paint will let you crop your photos.
5. Nape piercings, corset piercings, and other surface work can and will reject. Take the picture when it's all fresh, because anything after that point they're all scarred up, rejecting, and just nasty to look at.
6. If you are an observer of other people's work (namely ink), don't bother to leave a compliment if it's just really shitty work. Shaky lines do NOT deserve a "Wow, awesome!" It amazes me how people can lie to each other!
7. When you mix two types of tribal work, like Borneo meets Maori, it's "neo-tribal", whether you want to admit it to yourself or not.
8. Don't you people check the design before it gets put onto your body? Can't you see the lines are shaky, or maybe, I don't know, the artist CAN'T DRAW? What the hell is wrong with you?
9. Please, don't post a picture of you tattoo if it looks like it could have turned out better if it was drawn on with a Sharpie. As a matter of fact, don't show it off at all. Just pull a Nelly and wear a bandaid over it. Or scrub it off. With a cheese grater.
10. Only one picture of your last suspension experience will suffice, thank you.
11. I don't need half a dozen close ups of your tattoo. Again, just one will suffice.
12. If you're tattoo is finally healed, SCRUB THE TAPE RESIDUE from around it! You've been walking around with sticky shit around your tattoo for a week? You filthy bastard...
13. It's been done before. I know. You know. We all know, but I'd be a bit pissed if I showed off a picture of my ink and have someone say "I wanted something exactly like that! Lololol!" Fuck you, it's my ink. I don't want myself associated with your dumb ass.
14. Ashy tattoos are not sexy. If it's supposed to be in red ink, and it looks pink because your skin is as dry as the desert just outside of Las Vegas, do something. Please, moisturize before snapping that photo. Also, if you have chapped lips and you want to take a pic of you new lipring, at the very least lick your lips before taking the picture. You don't have to take the picture right away, so I actually suggest waiting after you've gone through a rigorous moisturizing regimen before posting.
15. If you're not Japanese, and don't write Japanese, DON'T FUCKING GET a Japanese tattoo! You don't know what it means, and sometimes shit like that can end up drawn sideways, backwards, and even upside-down. Don't believe me? They have websites dedicated to making fun of assholes like you!
16. Get a better camera. If you are going to take a close-up, please be sure that your camera can actually manage such a task.
17. I never use flash when taking photos of anything. Why? Simple, my friend. Glare. Most people take pictures of their tattoo after applying vitamin E oil or something like Tattoo Goo to their tattoo. Well, it's shiny. The light from the flash will reflect, and I can't see your tattoo with a line of reflected light down the middle of it.
18. As mentioned by Lish* in her rant about piercings, don't stick your tongue all the way out just to make sure the stud in the tip of your tongue is actually photographed.
19. As always, learn to spell the name of your piercing, or what tattoo you have. Idiot.
20. Don't take photos yourself. Seriously. Have a friend or family member take it.
*Lish's Rules For Photographing Piercings are not only informative, they are at the very least good for a laugh. They can be fully viewed here:
http://www.bmezine.com/lish.html
I have no idea...
Small stuff first:
I quit smoking.
I'm almost done my driving lessons.
I need a full-time job.
Big stuff:
I just got off the phone with the guy in northern Alberta. They're offering me 30 grand plus $1000 for moving expenses.
I'm still not sure if I want to stay in radio anymore. It's a guaranteed full-time job. Guaranteed salary. Problem: it's in northern Alberta. Fort McMurray to be exact. Sixty thousand strangers. And I'll be going alone. Rent's expensive, a grand a month for a matchbox.
I still want to move to Vancouver. I feel like I'm selling out, if to nobody but myself.
What am I going to do?
I quit smoking.
I'm almost done my driving lessons.
I need a full-time job.
Big stuff:
I just got off the phone with the guy in northern Alberta. They're offering me 30 grand plus $1000 for moving expenses.
I'm still not sure if I want to stay in radio anymore. It's a guaranteed full-time job. Guaranteed salary. Problem: it's in northern Alberta. Fort McMurray to be exact. Sixty thousand strangers. And I'll be going alone. Rent's expensive, a grand a month for a matchbox.
I still want to move to Vancouver. I feel like I'm selling out, if to nobody but myself.
What am I going to do?
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
No, I didn't forget.
Here's my past week or so summed up:- My father's mother needs open heart surgery. They found a clot right above her heart. If they don't remove it, she might be fine, or it could pop and she'd drop dead. She's choosing to have it removed. My sister thinks she's insane for going through with it, but come on... this is grandma. The woman who almost died about six years ago because she had an infection. Months after that, she broke her hip and needed it replaced. Grandma's a survivor. I say go through with it.
- I had my first driving lesson today (finally). Apparently I'm really good for a beginner. I need help with turning.
- I stopped working Saturdays. I'm sick of getting up so damn early in the morning. I switched to Sunday nights. I'm playing around with the idea of learning Portuguese because I op for a two-hour show from this one couple.
- I started studying Buddhism. I've got a lot to learn.
Aside from all that, it's Halloween. This is my favourite day of the year. Actually, I'm sure I like it more than my birthday.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The Blogger's Guide to Better Communication - Part One
In this day in age, technology, along with general stupidity, has caused a devolution of the English language. I'm not sure about other languages, I only speak, read, and understand English, so that's what I'm talking about.
Inspired by chatboards, other people's blogs, and websites like urbandictionary.com, I've decided to compile a list of words that are commonly spelt incorrectly; in no particular order. It's disappointing because they're not even difficult words. I recommend looking up their definition on a website like dictionary.com, if you're in the middle of typing something and you come across a word that you don't know how to spell. Please be advised that this list will likely never be complete, just expanded upon until I think I've covered everything.
1. to
2. two
3. too
4. there
5. their
6. they're
7. basically
8. supposedly
9. necessarily
10. necessary
11. social
12. controversy
13. you're
14. your
15. we're
16. were
17. where
18. stupid
19. ridiculous
20. ludicrous (not Ludacris, like the rapper.)
21. congratulations
22. regardless
23. hypocrite
These are not just words, but phrases. I put them here because people often say could/would/should "of." That's incorrect. They are all seen as the contractions "could've, would've, should've" and in slang terms, butchered as "would'a, could'a, should'a."
24. could have
25. would have
26. should have
This is the first installment of what will likely be a collection of spelling corrections. More to come, I just don't know when.
Inspired by chatboards, other people's blogs, and websites like urbandictionary.com, I've decided to compile a list of words that are commonly spelt incorrectly; in no particular order. It's disappointing because they're not even difficult words. I recommend looking up their definition on a website like dictionary.com, if you're in the middle of typing something and you come across a word that you don't know how to spell. Please be advised that this list will likely never be complete, just expanded upon until I think I've covered everything.
1. to
2. two
3. too
4. there
5. their
6. they're
7. basically
8. supposedly
9. necessarily
10. necessary
11. social
12. controversy
13. you're
14. your
15. we're
16. were
17. where
18. stupid
19. ridiculous
20. ludicrous (not Ludacris, like the rapper.)
21. congratulations
22. regardless
23. hypocrite
These are not just words, but phrases. I put them here because people often say could/would/should "of." That's incorrect. They are all seen as the contractions "could've, would've, should've" and in slang terms, butchered as "would'a, could'a, should'a."
24. could have
25. would have
26. should have
This is the first installment of what will likely be a collection of spelling corrections. More to come, I just don't know when.
Friday, October 12, 2007
So hare-brained, it just might work.
I have a plan.
Ever since I went on vacation to BC with my dad two years ago, I fell in love with the city of Vancouver.
I really want to go back to school, and as tempting as northern Alberta sounds (at least when it comes to money), I don't really want it anymore. I'd rather go back to school. Where? The University of British Columbia, of course!
I want to work my ass off for the next year, and move to Vancouver. End of story.
I don't care if I have to work three jobs to pay for it, I want to go. There really isn't anything for me here in Ontario, aside from my current part-time job, and that's not saying much.
So, if you're reading this, and you know me, it'd be great if you could help me out.
Ever since I went on vacation to BC with my dad two years ago, I fell in love with the city of Vancouver.
I really want to go back to school, and as tempting as northern Alberta sounds (at least when it comes to money), I don't really want it anymore. I'd rather go back to school. Where? The University of British Columbia, of course!
I want to work my ass off for the next year, and move to Vancouver. End of story.
I don't care if I have to work three jobs to pay for it, I want to go. There really isn't anything for me here in Ontario, aside from my current part-time job, and that's not saying much.
So, if you're reading this, and you know me, it'd be great if you could help me out.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I'm thinking...
... of going back to school in a couple of years.
I might even be doing this a bit backwards.
I have a job offer in northern Alberta. I'm just waiting on a number... specifically the amount of money they're going to pay me.
I'm not really sure I want to be in radio for the rest of my life. I don't know what I want to do now.
I know I want to study at UBC. Basically, I know I want to move to Vancouver. I'm just on the UBC website to try and decide what I'm going to study. I have to wait because I don't have the money to move now, and I have an Ontario student loan to pay off.
I might even be doing this a bit backwards.
I have a job offer in northern Alberta. I'm just waiting on a number... specifically the amount of money they're going to pay me.
I'm not really sure I want to be in radio for the rest of my life. I don't know what I want to do now.
I know I want to study at UBC. Basically, I know I want to move to Vancouver. I'm just on the UBC website to try and decide what I'm going to study. I have to wait because I don't have the money to move now, and I have an Ontario student loan to pay off.
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