Dan Is Awesome

So there’s new pictures up on Flickr of my new place. It’s a fairly spacious apartment with a big living room, kitchen and a decently sized master bedroom. The actual building is a house, split up so three people can live in it. My front door is the back sliding window, and the back yard is mine. There’s this old guy that lives in the basement, he has a tomato garden he works on back there, which I guess is fine.

So far I’ve just been hanging out, seen a few movies which I’ll go into after Friday. The Toronto International Film Festival is happening, and the first movie I saw at it was actually really good. I’ve also been looking around for a YMCA to join, and have been working on some web design.

This desk is falling apart. I need to fix it now.

I’ll have more to update later, but just wanted to post and say I’m here and alive and surrounded by Canadians. My apartment is pretty sweet, very spacious. There is an old guy with a bird and a tomato garden and a broken minivan. That’s it for now.

So I lost one screw, accidently removed the wireless card, and broke two prongs. But it was kind of fun, so worth it.

Lookie hur.

I got that. It drives nice, decent on gas, and has more gadgets than my Z. The only thing I really miss is the cockpit seats. But I’ll survive.

That was a lie, there’s no good news. I added a page to sell my car, but have thus far been thwarted in my attempts to actually clean and photograph my car. I was going to take it to Enterprise / Carmax today to get an estimate for a straight up trade in, but both told me they were only accepting trade-ins if I was going to buy another car. Disheartened, I decided to nap and play the internet all day instead of accomplishing things. Oh well. Somebody buy it.

I think my username for every service on the internet is now danpaulson@gmail.com. E-mail, aim, msn, facebook, yahoo, twitter. If I could get danpaulson.com away from that damn dirty farmer, my internet domination would be complete. Seriously, I hate that guy so much. That is a nice hat though.

I haven’t played the WoW beta all that much, but from what I’ve seen, it seems decent. Nothing earth shattering, if you didn’t like it before this won’t change your opinion, but enough to keep current addicts stuck for another year or two. I’ve heard decent things about WAR, and of course the KOTOR MMO makes me all kinds of sexy.

So I ordered an XPS 1530M, 2.5ghz, 4gb ram, LED screen and the 8600gt. Transferring my warranty to Canada/Korea seems pretty straight forward, though I may need Jin to translate as I think the Korean service centers are devoid of English. It ships with Vista Home, and while I’m inclined to wipe it as soon as I get it and load XP, I’m thinking I may give Vista a quick look. I suppose running Vista / Linux on my laptop and OS X / XP on my mini would at least give me diversity.

I hate Thomas Welfley. My name is Dan Paulson. Please google, track me.

Gonna have to edit for this – WOW. WOWOWOW. How am I supposed to compete with that?

So yeah, I’ve obviously done some things with this little blog. I added pictures, but they don’t seem to update. So they can go right to hell. Victoria was here for the last week or so. That was pretty swell. I’ll spare you the details, and save me the manpoints.

My next steps for this site will be to attempt to develop my own theme. I have an idea for the layout here, but this activity is more of just practice for when I may need to do it for ifsi.org. They’re not really sure what a blog is, they thought it was “chat”, but I could see some applicable use for it that would still leave me a job. And that’s always fun.

My portable workstation is nearing completion. I picked up some new speakers over the weekend, and they actually perform quite well. They also come with a shnazzy little carrying case, “cute” was one description, but regardless they are handy and portable. The USB cable is about as small as…a small USB cable, but that’s easily overcome.

I’m thinking I need an additional external hard drive. The 750 gig is always sitting at 97-99% full, and I really want to get all of Stargate and the rest of MST3k on it. Poor Mac Mini is running out of USB ports. Other than this, all I’m really waiting on is for Dell to have a deal on an XPS1530, which from Billy I’ve heard is awesome and from limited hands on experience I’ve decided is quite good. My Dad also has this awesome SwissArmy bag that holds a laptop and like your life, but I haven’t looked much in to that.

This posts sole intention was a pre-emptive strike against any content cyproject.net may post.