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Geico Commercial – Ring tone

Another PHD Comics comic nails it.

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Holy weather batman. Yosemite just got hammered with snow… Wawona had about 2 feet of fresh, heavy, wet snow starting from about 10 pm 1/21/10 – noonish 1/22/10. During the night, trees were falling like mad. At 1 am, a tree hit my house… didn’t do too much damage from what we could tell. Then 45 minutes later, several trees fell en masse and completely destroyed our deck… Check out facebook for photos. I’ll try to add some on here.

Anyway… I’m safe, my car is safe… I’m staying with friends here and have heat and generator-driven electricity. Anticipated date for power to come back is the 25th, but I doubt that… the number of trees and powerlines down… crazy. We’ll see. I’m sure I’ll be moving to a different house here as soon as buildings and grounds gets one opened.

Respect the trees!

Photo of the patrol car I was driving today. We do chain control to ensure that people are actually following the chain restrictions in order to not make complete chaos on the road when there’s snow or other inclement weather. It doesn’t really stop the chaos though… CA has the highest per capita instance of bad drivers in my opinion.

P.S. I love the fact I drive a car with emergency lights. :)

For those of you who thought geomorphology was not dangerous work…

Original Post: http://xkcd.com/402/

Hello there everyone, or at least those people who visit beezer.com on an occasional basis. As you can tell, things have definitely changed.

beezer.com was getting too crazy, way too big and bloated and I had no idea what the heck was going on. So, I made a backup of everything (key step, btw) which involved downloading 7,980 files off of the old site. Really? I had 7,980 files on this thing? Crazy.

Then I installed this wordpress thingy. That’s right, beezer.com is now a blog. Whoo!

But, it shall still have some of the old stuff, when I get time to add the stuff back. It’ll be a while before everything is where I want it. But at least, it’ll be different. And hey, different is good.

Either way… I hopefully will update this more frequently. But, knowing me, that won’t happen :) And I’ll try to get some of the old posts back up here… once I find a way to get them from the old format to this new fancy wordpress format. Give me time, it’ll be good again. In the meantime, take a look around at the new stuff. I know there isn’t much now, but it’ll be changing soon.

-beezer

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen… but its so, so true… You sciency folks will totally love this.

Link to the original: PhD Comics

Thesis is done and its defended… Check it out!

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I think my apartment is haunted. Actually, I’m pretty sure it is. I live across the street from a cemetery. I’ve had far too many things happen that are kind of unusual to say the least. I just moved into this place in May… its a very nice place, and I really like living here. However, the past few months, I’ve had some… well unique events happen. Stuff that can be disputed to insanity or the belief that some of the residents across the street want to play a few games on little ole me. I’m cool with it as long as they don’t get violent.

Without further ado, here are the 6 things that have happened so far:

1. Door flies open in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm. Door flew open with great speed, but stopped half way open (highly unusual — it was as if someone was standing there, opened the door really hard and stopped it about halfway open). The Deadlock was *still* out and the chain was moving back in forth (as if it was just taken off). I was alone and it was 4 AM.
2. Doors: My door, when half opened, will spontaneously shut. Sometimes it does it when its fully open too. And, recently, my roommate’s door, which is always shut (cause he’s on an internship in Chicago) opens itself. So, my door is supposed to be shut and Jordan’s door is supposed to be open… okay :)
3. Woke up one morning to my room light being on. That was weird, until I opened my room door, walked out and looked at the rest of my apartment… Every light in my apartment was on. This includes the fan vent in the bathroom and the under cabinet light above my sink. EVERY light was on.
4. The outside light likes to turn itself on at random times. *note: you must flip the switch *upwards* to turn it on*… This repeats itself about 4 times a week.
5. I saw a figure walking down the hallway once. I also was slightly drunk, but *I’M SURE* I saw it.
6. This one happened this morning, and was probably the coolest/scariest (depends how you see it) of all of the strange unique events that have happened so far… My computer’s monitor turned itself on as I was watching it. My monitor has a button you must push. I saw the button depress. No one was in the room with me. How does one explain that?

Oh well… I think its kinda cool :)

Hey everyone… Long time no update. Sorry, I’ve been *swamped* as of recent… Class, PT, work, etc. Finally have vacation coming up next week — about damn time.

Well.. the subject says it all. Exactly one year ago, at 10:30ish AM, I was, at some point, the tallest object for several thousand miles. I accomplished a goal that I had set out for years in advance. I had, with much help from Mother Nature, climbed the 14,411-foot Mount Rainier in Southwest Washington State. I had worked my ass off, overcome some pretty big odds, battled a cold, and, after a night of some pretty good hiking, I saw a sunrise at 13,000 feet on the northeastern flank of Mt. Rainier. I remember thinking right before that time, in the stage of the climb called “The Disappointment Cleaver”, that I was going to turn around… I felt like shit. I felt like everyone was slowing up because of me. My mind wandered. Instead of climbing smart, I was thinking about how to tell Saeed I wanted to go back.

Then I slipped.

It wasn’t a big slip or anything… hell, if it was some other part of the trip, I probably wouldn’t have thought about it or even remembered it. The point was it was the turning point in the trip. Every minute before then I was questioning myself. I was questioning whether I should be on this rock. Right then, I said to myself “Thinking like this is going to kill you. FOCUS on the climb.” And I did. From then on I had a renewed vigor. I remembered why I spent hours at the WRC on the stair machine. It was for a CHANCE to climb this mountain. It was a moment I will remember for a long time.

Instead of turning around, failing, and quitting, I refocused my thoughts onto “a step at a time”. And I succeeded.

Life is strange like that I guess. We can’t think about the big picture all the time. It’s about the small steps we take in life.

I want to publicly thank Mr. Saeed Tossi and Mr. Stefan Van Baars for their help on that trip… I learned a lot about myself, and at the same time, had a great time.

I can say, without a doubt, summitting Mt. Rainier was one of the greatest things I have ever done in my life. I worked very hard for 6 months… planned the trip for several yers… and it all definately paid off…

Looking back at my trip report, I found this… This just summarizes everything: “But it was exciting to think about summitting this rock. It had been the only thing I thought about for the last six months. Everything was coming together. It was really hard not to smile. Even if I didn’t summit, there was no better place I could think about being at the moment — cramped next to 45 others, trying to get sleep in a building that had everything from snoring, farting, talking and noxious gas fumes from the stoves that made our water. Tomorrow was going to be a big day and somewhere deep down inside me told me I would have a great day.”