Awesome Movie Posers

Okay, this is an Apple / Steve Jobs thing, but its really cool. There was a contest on this guy's blog for those that didn't get an iPod for christmas. The idea was to make a movie poster with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in a movie poster. I've added a to the website and my favorite photo below.

CONTEST

New Podcast

Hey, we just did a podcast. Finally, you can hear the words right from the source. Check out the website.

PODCAST WEBSITE

Skyler's Tips for getting along with people

Well now, I thought I might want to give my tips for getting along with people. After applying at 10 or so different jobs, and a few of them asking about getting into arguements / fights with co-works, it made me scratch my head. Are people really that bad? Do we think problems are solved by pure force in the workplace (or homeplace)? Okay, so I'm going to go throught this and add as things come off the top of my head.

1) Don't get into the "snap back" talking stle. Always take time to think about what someone says. Your job when listening to someone give information is to first listen to it, then evuate it, then take your time to respond. Its a three step process. Just like taking your time to eat, really take your time to talk back in a meaningful way. By taking your time to slow down, your benifits outweigh the disadvantages. WHen you take your time, you allow the comversation to slow down as well, and things won't become as heated. Just remember that yelling back is never the answer. And just because someone is yelling at you doesn't mean that you should yell back. Take the time for them and yourself to calm down.

2) Your job is to tell the truth. Sounds simple, well it is. If you didn't do something, or forgot to do something, just tell the person that. Make sure you take your time like I said before, but telling the truth is important. People know honesty. When you are more honest, people will respect you. No one is ever perfect, god knows I'm not, but if I do my best and tell the truth, thats the best thing I can do.

dinner time, back later

Role Model

It's kind of funny how people look up to me. Since I havn't gone to weight wacthers to sit down for the whole meeting in a few weeks, I forgot how my image makes a difference to people there. Terri, our weight watcher leader, always likes to bring me up in front of the class. It seems like she does it every week, but who knows. She likes me to once again to tell the class my success story over and over. Not to say that it isn't bad for me to tell it, and I must admit that I forget it myself sometimes, but she sometimes brings up things that I don't remember. Things that I use to do, but don't anymore. I feel kind of bad when she brings these old things up, and I kind of smile and nod just to make her chance her subject. The best part about being up is that I get my little time to try to make an impression on the class. I get to tell them what I'm really doing each day, or over the last week. Back to what I was talking about in the begining of this post, its kind of weird how I'm a role model for some of these people. Maybe it just sounded wierd on the drive home, but I guess I havn't spend enough time thinking about it. It did make me think how we are each role models for one another in this world. I think I was trying to say is that we can each learn something for one another. Just beacuse I don't consider myself a 100% perfect role model, doesn't make me a role model for someone else. Just had these thoughts that I wanted to share.

MacWorld

Once again, MacWorld has come to us Apple people. For those who don't know, MacWorld is a magazine full of Apple related stuff, and once a year, there is an expo / conference that they put on. Its the time in the begining of the year where Apple announces thier new products. New out this week, new iLife '06, the new Pro level laptop - MacBook Pro, and a new iMac. I'm real excited, and I just orded the new iLife as I speek. It of course looks awesome. Oh yeah, my mom and I made the trip to the city to check it all out at MacWorld. It was really cool, and very Mac Geeky. My Mom and I had a great time. Okay, so enough mac talk, check out the photos by clicking on the Picture of me on the left.



In other news, I've been working with Photoshop and taking lots of pictures. This cute picture of Lilly is one of my favorites at the moment. Yeah, it's not real, I've done some work on it, but that's the point. I think it looks great. We'll I don't have much to say other than that. Have a good Thursday everyone! Catch ya later.

-Skyler

Silence!

Today was a pretty uneventful day. Skyler woke me up bright and early for a joggy-poo outside in the freezing cold at 9 am. Then we played some tennis, which gets us both a dose of endorphens (sp?). Then we went over to my g-ma's for me to get her bills done for her. It was a party. After that we came home and redecorated a little bit. We reorganized my dresser in my room. I was getting sick of the huge stereo I had so I decided that I wanted it gone, since I never use it. So we cleaned it all off and put up some pictures and cute decorations (pics coming soon), so that was pretty exciting. Also, while we did that, Sky convinced me to try something new and the whole time we didn't talk. At all. Sounds crazy but it really made me appreciate the fact that I can talk, because if I couldn't it would make things take longer and longer. We tried to communicate by talking on a notepad page on my laptop, and we did some makeshift sign language. It was great practice for charades (p.s. REMATCH, Torie!!). So then we went up to Best Buy and I bought myself a stereo thingy for my iPod. It's one just like Sky's mom's. AWESOME. It really sounds good, even for the price...plus it takes up about 1/20 of the space. YES!! Hehe, then after that we came home and ate some lunch/dinner stuff...and then off to soccer practice for me, and more tennis for my Skyler. Once we were done there we just came home for some bbq chicken and roasted veggies. Yummmmmmy. Me gusta. Anyway, then we watched Wedding Crashers! I bought the uncorked version; and it had some pretty funny adds. I'm surprised they didn't put them in the movie. But anyway, yeah. After that, during which Skyler fell asleep (I guess he had seen it 3 times), we had to jump Sky's car cuz the battery was dead. But lucky for him, I was right behind my front door waiting for his call. Well, sorta. :-/ Anyhoo...it's prob my bedtime right now...AY 11:42!!! Here I go. Have a good one peeps.

Windows Vista Update

Earlier this week, Bill Gates gave the Keynote Address at CES. In an effort to gear people up for the gadget wizardry they were about to experience on the show floor, Bill touted the revolutionary new features of the upcoming Windows Vista. Baring any further setbacks, Vista is scheduled to be released near the end of 2006.

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Getting out of the House

Some days, you just need to get out of the house. It might be a condition I have, but if I spend a few days doing generally the same thing over and over, it drives me crazy. Well, today was my lucky day to get out a little. This morning, I took a drive up to the Apple store in the mall in Santa Rosa to take my dad's sick iMac G5 in. It was having some overheating problems, so I took it to the nice genius there. After a 20 minute wait while the genius was helping someone else out, he looked over my computer. I told him what was going on, it was overheating after a while, and we decided to test it out again. Launching every program on the computer, he went away while the computer hummed along. Like I hoping it would, the iMac overheated. Though the genius was in the back fixing something else when it happened, when he came back out and looked at it, he heard the overpowering fans that both my dad and I hear. He said something like, "oh yeah, I know what's going on here". Man, isn't that a releif to hear. The genuis printed out a sheet of paper so they could take it over to spend the night there. They were going to replace the logic board or something. Guess what, FREE! Man, Apple rocks. Where else can you take your computer and get it all looked at and fixed for free? My point exactly. Buy an Apple.

After a quick lunch at Monique (yummy Turkey sandwitches) we headed to Washington Mutual for her to open an account. It look like 10 minutes, and I sat there reading my Photoshop CS2 book I bought on Amazon. After she deposited $1 into her savings account, we headed off to my house. I knew once I got home, that I didn't want to stay. I had wanted to go the coast to take a hike, but Monique couldn't go far. She has to stay "close to here" so that when he work calls, so can go work. Monique's working on call now that they are re-doing the store after the flood. The good news is there is still work, but the bad news is, you don't know when its going to come, so you just have to drop stuff and leave. Kind of sucks when you want to plan stuff, but eh, it happens.

Monique was good enough to notice that I didn't want to stay home at all. She started to drive us Helen Puttnam Park when I suggested that we go where I though would be cool. We ended up on a hill overlooking Petaluma. Just a few blocks from my house, its such a cool place. We hiked around the trees and took photos. We got some great shots! So go check them out. I had such a great time walking around the hill. The fun had to end when Monqiue was of course, called into work around 3.

But oh no, the day wasn't over. Monique got off at 7, and I had an itching to take her out to dinner. After a 10 minute brain storm of every food place in Petaluma, we decided on Hunan Village in Petaluma. A good chineese food place on the east side, near Kmart if you don't know where it is. We ordered some sweet and sour chicken along with an order of Kung Pow chicken. We sat for 7 minutes before the food came out, talking about random things. About the food, you know its good when Monique and I go from chatting to no noise. We were both really hungry and the food was so good, we just sat and ate. It was just really good food, and that's all I can say. We ate it all and got out the door $21.70 less rich. But of course, more rich with memories and satisifaction. Making our way home, we cought the end of Goldeneye with my brother and his friend, and that was about it. Monique left. I've been on ther computer here since then, its 2am now, and I need sleep. Have a good Saturday everyone!

It's Bowling Time

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Wednesday night is bowling night. 'Nuff said.

Happy New Year...and stuff...

Well...it's been a while...actually only like 4 days, but w/e. Anyway, we have been busy. On new years eve, the same day Sky posted the flood stuff, we went to the dance. We should have some of those photos on flickr one of these days...who knows? Anyway, then after that Sky had to work the next day, poor guy, but I went over to Torie's for a bit. It was, if I remember correctly, the fourth year in a row that I've gone over to her house on New Years day. Well, anyway, we watched 40-year-old Virgin and talked. Other than that, I have gone to work where nothing particularly super was happening...it was very 1) muddy, 2) wet, and 3) REALLY REALLY smelly. Luckily on Tuesday while I was in, they had floor cleaners fix that, and now it smells better. The sucky thing is, though, that now they don't need us to come in so I am not gonna get my hours in! :( But oh well, could be worse. I could be at Brooks Bros., but I'm glad I'm not. Anyhoo...today Sky and I just hung out and we went bowling with Torie and Anthony @ Double Decker (photos coming soon also). We played a nice 2 games, and Torie one the first, while Sky dominated the second after finishing last the first game. Talk about the underdog...my baby's a studmuffin! :D Anyway, I hope everyone has a super rest of the week. Check in later for somemore aimless talking!