Wednesday, April 28, 2004 :: 12:45:00 AM

Song of Choice: The Power of Love: Huey Lewis and the News

SO... all of you know that when I see something I want, nothing will do until I have it. I get a certain satisfaction at purchasing things that I long for.. I dont know what it is.. I'm not very materialistic. I dont see the objects that I buy like my computer, my pocket pc, mp3 players of yore, video game consoles, or surround sound equipment as things that I LOVE.. Sure, I spend a lot of money buying the Nintendos, Playstations, and XBoxes as well as games for the respective systems (although I never did buy a Playstation game... bought the system on a whim and never really used it).. but I dont see a point in having money and not spending it, so I save up and buy whatever I have my eye on... it's always been that way.

sometime in the next 365 days or so, I will be looking to purchase a car. So what makes me (or anyone, for that matter) believe that my "buy what I want if I can afford it" phase will lift between now and then? absolutely nothing.

Enter DMC:





I've ALWAYS wanted a Delorean. I have to say that the Back to the Future movies made me, like many others, fall in love with them. Some people think they're ugly. And they ARE slow, only 135 Horsepower.. well, I guess I shouldn't say slow, just 'average'. But that's half the fun, because not only will I buy one, but that (like my computer) will be my own little frankenstein. I'd almost immediately do an engine swap, and change the transmission on that beast pushing it (easily) up to 250-300 horsepower... A friend actually wants me to put a 350 Chev engine in there, but because the engine is rear-mounted in a Delorean, and the front is the trunk, if I were to floor it, the front end would be facing the sky seeing as how there's no ballast to hold it down...

There's a bloke here at school that drives one. I drool every time I see him pull that gull-wing door down, and speed out of the parking lot. That's the first time I've ever seen one. They're quite a rare breed, seeing as how they were only made from 1980-1984. Then it was found out that John Delorean, president of the Delorean Motor Company, was caught embezzling a bunch of money for some Germans or something... I dont exactly know, but his company went belly-up, and with it his plans for a new car - the Firestar 500 (google it for some concept drawings.. pretty weird car).

Anyway, I just decided to proclaim here that I, Kyle Eyers, will soon(ish) be a member of the Delorean Motor Club of Canada.

Until next time.......
*fade to black*

:: Eldorado ::

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 ::

Song of Choice: Cant think of one off the top of my head... too sleepy

Well, for those of you who have been talkin' to me (and following my msn names) I've been out to upgrade my computer for the last little while.. well, now I have! I went from an AMD Duron 1Ghz to an AMD Athlon XP 2500+..

ok, lil too much for you to take? For all of you pentium people out there who are clueless, AMD is their biggest competitor among other chip makers... the Athlon XP 2500+ is only 1.8Ghz, but runs like a 2.5Ghz Pentium... (one of the many reasons AMD is SO much better).. Well, that and price... and how they deal with instruction sets... but I wont bore you with the details of RISC and CISC.. lets just say that AMD chips are more efficient..

anyway, I'd love to post some comparison graphs... so lets see... nope, too tired...

Anyway, I'm loving my new, faster, QUIETER beast that lays before me... It really is my frankenstein.. I love just every once in a while buying something new and replacing a part, making the computer better as a whole one piece at a time.

Anyway, Friday night...

Beth and I were invited to join christa, james, chris, and erin for dinner. It was nice of chris to invite beth... I never did completely thank him for that.. But anyway, we showed up late to dinner (As usual)... an hour late.. But I still swear it wasn't my fault! I would have been on time (if not 5ish minutes late) if it wasn't for traffic.... But I'll tell you, it's asking a lot of someone to drive from mississauga, to etobicoke, to oakville on a friday afternoon/evening and expect them to be on time. lol I left the house at 4:30, got the car washed and picked beth up... we were on the road at 5:50 and made it to the restaurant shortly after 7... After making an executive decision not to take the highways and have a chance to be caught, we took city streets...

...I still hold that it wasn't my fault :p

Anyway, dinner was fantastic.. Food was great (go Outback! I haven't had a steak that good in weeks... stupid humber food)... it was MUCH better than my peanut butter and water diet...

pb&w??
yup..

I ran out of money on my meal card.. and I dont have any real money to eat with.. so I'm left mooching off of people who have too much food in their rooms/ money on their meal cards.. they really are great for letting me do that, otherwise I'd go hungry.. I dont like it, and I vow I'll pay them back.. but either way, they're good to let me mooch..

I've been taking pills lately to help give me more energy and.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

*wakes up an hour later* they seem to be working... my legs dont feel as heavy anymore, and I actually want to do things.. so maybe it's a good sign of things to come.. I'll keep you posted..

in the mean time, I've gotta boogie to sleep, just thought I'd do some useless rambling before I did... I'll update for real some time... really I will... when the urge strikes me.. but nothing really profound has struck my path lately...

until next time.......
*fade to black*

:: Eldorado ::

Friday, April 23, 2004 ::

hey guys

my pictures and everything are all probably going to be going offline. My blog is still gonna be here, but just with a bunch of non-loading pictures.

I cancelled my Rogers subscription today, which is where I hosted all of my pictures and such, and as a result when they cancel my service, my webspace will no longer be active.

I've taken the steps needed to back up all of my files, but they wont be put back up on the internet until sometime around the 1st of May.

Enjoy the super-fast loading blog!

oh yea, as a result, my website is going to be down too (have to wait on that one thousandth visitor!!! it's coming soon enough though)

cheers....

:: Eldorado ::

Saturday, April 17, 2004 ::

felt I should respond to something.
first off, the post.

Second of all, the conversation surrounding the post.

I'd like to respond, but choose not to fill james' comment system with message after message.

christa: coulda fooled me. something worthwhile? retarded? sleazy? nice circle of friends you've found for yourself up there. You people have to be so friggin' closed minded to not let have someone have an opinion and let them keep it without trying to prove them wrong.

Ian,

- if you cant accept the fact that none of this was an arguement.

- None of this was me telling you that you're wrong.

- None of this was you looking at someone and basing your opinion of their entire character (and mental wellness) on an opinion that you dont share with them. well, maybe it was a little of that.

Wanna talk about bad rhetoric? fine. But what you're doing isn't much better. Insulting me, the way I think, the way I spell, on top of my (previously mentioned) mental wellness... Usually when one believes in their point strongly enough, they dont need to prove it to someone else who doesn't believe them. They don't need to resort to insults. Must just be your style (or lack thereof...), though... God I'd love to see a person who would be willing to share a relationship with you... "Sweetie, why dont you agree with me? are you retarded?"

But you're right. I'm slow. I wont be afraid to admit that here. I've been slow all my life. I'm not going to blame that, but I might as well make it public... Do I have a learning disability? well..

in fact.. no, I dont need to justify any of that to you...

oh, one more comment... all of you who wont let me have an opinion and keep it (and really let me keep it.. none of this pity "just let him believe what he wants" crap. I dont want that shit from you, and I wont put up with it) without trying to convince me I'm wrong.... you all can go straight to hell.

I've edited this paragraph out due to the fact that it was unfair to a good friend of mine. It was all based on a misunderstanding and it has since been cleared up. I apologize for the mis-information, and hope we can look beyond the misunderstanding.

I'm finished with this commenting thing.

:: Eldorado ::