Scripts of the Revenant

to-day i am getting a passport. new picture too. i even shaved, first time in two weeks. not that anyone could tell. i am the worst facial hair growing irishman i know. yesterday i was pouring through old photographs to see if any of them could be used for my passport, and i noticed two things: in most of the photos i am smiling, and i look exactly the same as my last year in high-school.

however, since the photographs with burnt in images of me show myself smiling, i need a new picture. england does not accept anymore passports with smiling faces. either does canada. sourpusses. something about biometric scanning and photo doctoring- neither of which i have, i am as healthy as a bow legged ox. but i tell you what i do have: a new pair of socks. i should use a picture of those new bad boys for my secondary picture.

customs: name...
me: socks, socks mckinstry. i know, i know- it is a bad picture, i tried really hard not to smile.

but my flight will be to england- under $300, then i go up north and take the ferry across. or just take another plane, i have not made up my mind. therefore i need a passport without my pearly whites. and why is it pearly? why not eggshell, or off-white, or ultrawhite, or even dingy, stained, discoloured white? maybe the perly reminds them of the ocean. so then i cannot show off my salty-whites.

posted by billiam at Tuesday, July 25, 2006 | Permalink | Comments

this week i am working on getting out of here. though it won't be for about seven or eight months, the way gas is going, national deficit, ridiculous heat and the likes- it is time to change the scenery. phone calls and maybe even the purchase of a plane ticket or two, and i will be all the closer.

one more international trip this year, and one for next. culture, culture, culture.

posted by billiam at Tuesday, July 18, 2006 | Permalink | Comments

imuffs came in to-day. they are great. i can go thirty feet without loosing the signal. and twenty-five feet if there is a wall inbetween the imuffs and ipod, and about fifteen feet if there is a door and wall seperating me from the imuffs and the ipod. they work well with my bluetooth razr, and i can use them with my mac as well. i love them.

speaking of macs... why not get one. i know they seem pricey, but think about it- would you get a kia over a mercedes just because the kia had a bigger v-6 engine and two cubic inches more trunk space? i think not, or i should hope not.

i had a pc that i built myself. it was awesome, for about two years. then it kept getting slower and locking up here and there. then i bought a mac. this mac has lower numbers compared to the pc i had (1.5ghz and 1.67ghz, respectivley). however my mac did laps around my pc.

here is a price comparison:

dell's xps 700
Pentium® D Processor 930 with Dual Core Technology, 3.00GHz, 800FSB Windows® XP Professional with re-installation CD
2GB ram (most people do not need more)
500GB Serial ATA Harddrive
Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable
1GB NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual-GPU Graphics Card
24 inch UltraSharp™ 2407FPW Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic (D), w/Dolby® Digital 5.1
NETGEAR WG111 54 Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter
3Yr Ltd Warr,At-Home Service,and HW Warr Support
Dell On Call 13 month includes 30 Day Unlimited +1 Yr 5 Incidents
Microsoft Office Small Business Ed.- Basic plus PowerPoint and Publisher
McAfee SecurityCenter with VirusScan, Firewall, Spyware Removal, 36-months (stupid not to, all those viruses, right?)
Combo: Roxio Creator Deluxe and MyDVD Deluxe (DVD+RW only) (how else would you make those dvds?)
Deluxe Entertainment Pack -Starter PLUS superior Photo and Music management (to compete with ilife)
$4,588

apple's g5
dual-core 2.3ghz powerpc g5 processor (next one up is quad-core, and that just wouldn't be fair) 1.15ghz frontside bus per processor (faster than dell)
2GB ram
500GB Serial ATA Harddrive
nvidia geforce 6600 256mb ram
apple cinema, 23-inch cinema hd
apple airport bluetooth wireless
applecare protection plan (same support as both of the dell plans)
$4,746

notice how the apple seems to have less? it is missing speakers (another 100-200 if you want) and it is missing virus protection- because you will not need it. everything is included, minus microsoft word, which you can get for 150, or get iworks (which has a word processor) for 70. but the mac is in a quiet, aluminum case. dell is in a plastic case. so, yes- it can be a bit more, but would you buy a kia over a mercades if you had the money? the interface is easier, smoother and cleaner. my old pc would scream like a mother f*er if it had to do what my mac does. and levi- specail offer, i will pay the $158 diff, and show you how to use it and other cool stuff.

posted by billiam at Friday, July 07, 2006 | Permalink | Comments

remember when i had too many email addresses? just about all of them have closed. let's see how many i had:

ethiopboy@hungryfisherman.com (that was a good one)
ethiopboy@bombdiggity.com
ethiopboy@dbz.com (good 'ol dragonball z)
ethiopboy@gastroenterology.com (i was dr. harry ethiopboy- until they closed it because i am not a real doctor.
ethiopboy@mail.com
ethiopboy@email.com
ethiopboy@themail.com
ethiopboy@hotmail.com
ethiopboy@celtic.com

well, i cannot remember them all, i know that there was over fifty of them. most shut down though, or wanted me to pay for the use of the email. and i just got tired of checking fifty some email.

posted by billiam at Tuesday, July 04, 2006 | Permalink | Comments