:: Thursday, January 23, 2014 ::

Hey there nonexistant readers! Just wanted to pop on in and make sure this ol' blog was still rolling along... happy to report that out of all the technologies Google has seemed to supremely f&*#ed with over the past few years their Blogger technology has been spared such a fate! Everything is just how I left it. Still the stale smell of old N-philes reviews, teenage angst, vapid concert musings. Time to freshen things up a bit. I'm going to start a new blog! But I won't tell you all where. It'll be a place for me to post my real thoughts and opinions on daily life. Frankly it's all a bit too harsh to share when every opinion, every observation is so easy to track back. Anonymity fosters humor. However I will finish with one useful bit of information: http://floydthebarber.smugmug.com shall be the new home for all of my photography work. I'll be posting work from both sides of my family going back 100+ years. Trust me it's all much more fascinating than I'm making it sound! and i'm out.

:: Floydthebarber 1/23/2014 10:01:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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better consider hiding this thing asap... gotta clean up my internet presence! facebook timeline demands it so!!

hope you all have a happy new year :)

Labels: 2011, good year, progress, public image

:: Floydthebarber 12/27/2011 09:36:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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Boy it's dusty in here... *cough* *wheez* *ahem* ...wow. It's 2009. Hello. This thing is so old, but I'm glad blogger is so integrated into google now... pretty soon google will own us all I am sure of it. I think I need to setup a wordpress blog or something, maybe on my UNC space but there are lots of good places out there on the internets. Something with PHP, mySQL, etc. 

This could be the first time I've ever written in this blog when I was really single. I don't mind though. I have confidence in everybody, including myself. The best is yet to come. 

Labels: UNC

:: Floydthebarber 4/30/2009 02:20:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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My goal is to use my madddd php/mySQL skillz acquired in class to revamp this thing. Except I don't even know if I can embed php script into the templates. watch out though! This isn't an empty threat!

:: Floydthebarber 9/18/2008 03:01:00 AM (0) comments [+] ::
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Another musing that is unlikely to come to fruition: spending time developing a website instead of surfing the internets all of the time. Perhaps I am feeling the lack of Computer Science in my curriculum as of late.

I never realized what an odd sensation it is to write purely for one's own benefit and reflection until just this moment, when I have not attempted an update of this blog or anything for months on end. I'd say that the HP notebooks (whose supply is dwindling though Nick promises a resupply shipment in the near future) have supplanted the desire to reflect on the internet. Most of my "thoughts" that I would transcribe here are fleeting and disconnected - more worthy of a scribble in a notepad than a blog. After 6 years of blogging, I can safely say that people on the internet rarely care about what you have to say, especially if it is inconsequential ramblings from your own life.

I'd rather not have this blog become simply a repository for musings of my youth. If I were to start using this site again, I would prefer to divide the content up between things, say, pre-2007 and now to reflect a change in pace and purpose. All talk and no action would be the side to hedge bets on. Maybe I can find a simple Blogger Firefox addon that makes putting the effort of placing words into this less taxing.

I probably would not use this site for videogame musings, as I have several in the queue and more forthcoming with no start or end in sight for me picking up gaming again on more than the most casual of levels. Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime, Paper Mario, hell even Link's Crossbow Training or whatever the hell it is all need more attention before turning my sights towards Advance Wars or Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I can't believe that the entire lifespan of the blog has passed since the last Super Smash Bros. game, over SIX AND A QUARTER YEARS by the release in March. Insane. Oh how the world was different back in the day.

Short quip about my personal life: it's going alright. Classes are ok, relationships are ok, and the future looks bright. I suppose blogging was more interesting when life involved more angsty emo-ramblings. Just be glad I didn't post anything from, say, mid-September to mid-December!

:: Floydthebarber 2/19/2008 04:36:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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Oh and Constant Change at the cary plumbing tourney :D

:: Floydthebarber 11/09/2007 02:43:00 AM (0) comments [+] ::
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Add to the list of amazing bands seen this year: Hackensaw Boys (as well as Songs from the Road)

:: Floydthebarber 11/09/2007 02:43:00 AM (0) comments [+] ::
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running concert tab:

Squirrel Nut Zippers
Billy Joel
MC Chris
The Old Ceremony
The Mountain Goats
Rush
Smashing Pumpkins

I don't think I'm missing anybody. soon to be added: Weird Al

Our AT hike was great. I think I should try and put forth the effort to upload some photos from the trip and make this a sort of photo blog for myself to look at, but I know i'll be far too busy tomorrow with work and seeing Megan once again to do that. It'll happen sometime, though! back to IRC with me.

:: Floydthebarber 6/30/2007 10:51:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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