| feras=hero or how another douchebag bites the dust. |
[08 Jun 2009|06:12pm] |
so there i was on i 95 minding my business in the left lane traveling at about 65mph when i look in my rear view mirror and see off in the distance a lexus weaving through traffic doing at least 90mph. I think nothing of it and pay attention to make sure he doesn't hit my car just in case. When all of a sudden he hits the car behind me! Holy crap! the car nearly is pushed into the divider and the lexus immediately hits the brakes and limps off to the right. The car behind me that got crashed into pulls off to the right as well. And i think nothing more of it, looks like everyone is safe.
All of a sudden i see the black lexus shoot on by again swerving through traffic this time in excess of 100mph. I think for a second, do i just let this happen. Then i say no fuck this...thats not right...that bastard is going down, i downshift to third hear the turbo spool up and blast off afterwards i catch up and luckily he was getting off the exit to 476 just like me, so i didnt have to lengthen my trip. Then a wall of traffic...he has to slow down, he tries to get off on the shoulder but theres no room he has to stay on the road. i spot the tag number, say it back to myself three times memorize it and call the staties.
ring ring and the trooper gets on asking me whats going on and i describe to him what i saw and the tag number of the guy who did it. I describe the damage i saw on his car and thats he's swerving all around. He lets me know that they're aware of the accident and that i will be contacted by the investigating officer. I ask if i should continue following him, since he's exiting the highway...and they say no, thanks you've given us enough to grab him.
HAHAHA i got the bastard!
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| when in doubt...duct tape |
[18 May 2009|11:22am] |
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so the water distillery broke down today. Bascially it would not stay on, this is a number of thousands of dollars machine. However if the switch stays on it works. Quite a dilemma. Duct tape to the rescue. Its on and distilling...hooray!!
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| I have... |
[14 May 2009|08:12am] |
...a new car!! got an 09 subaru WRX yesterday. 900 miles to go on break in and then i'm cleared for take off :)
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[27 Apr 2009|11:57pm] |
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so i'm shopping for 07 WRXs because thats the car for me right now i need it...when i saw a perfect STi in Illinois in the range i set for myself. That is all for now.
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| the pain of loss |
[26 Mar 2009|11:31am] |
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so i've been thinking of a new car anyway. The audi just isn't my style, wrong color, wrong transmission, not enough power...etc etc. My thought was to get a 2006 or 2007 Subaru WRX, nothing crazy, but a little faster, a manual an AWD, a good car, and i would be satisfied with it, but i doubt i'd love it. Spring is coming and if i still had the 8 this weekend would be the weekend when i put the summer wheels back on and readjust the suspension for that little bit of snap oversteer that i love and the hard settings that make the car like glue on the road. Alas my 8 is dead, but i have a garage full of parts and modifications for her that i had thought of selling. Now there is a thought that enters the liminal to not just get something new and boring, but to go ahead and get back behind the wheel of one that i love. The time is right, my money is right (at least for a used one...and thats what i'd want). I miss working on one, i miss driving one, i want it back. Is this too crazy? I feel like i need an 8 back in my life.
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| computer problems |
[17 Mar 2009|10:21am] |
since i got one request to post more often, and seeing as how i'm quite vain i shall. But this post is a post brought on by annoyance and frustration.
A few weeks ago i noticed that my computer will sometimes be frozen in the morning and had to be rebooted, i thought m'eh whatever. I go on a trip to massachusetts, and leave my computer off during the trip figuring its got issues why leave it on. Come back start it up and as soon as i do anything memory intensive the screen freezes. Turn off. Wait. Restart. Memory crazy thing and freeze. So i decided to try and check the memory and see if its faulty using memtest. I get some errors and the test freezes. So i'm thinking great its a memory problem. I'll try out the sticks one at a time and see which one is broken. One of them i was able to get to windows on, but the problem persisted. The other one would freeze the system at the BIOS screen. Replace the good one with the bad one and same problem. (Micro center was closed at this time so i couldnt just buy new memory)
This is frustrating so i read up online on these things and somewhere i read that resetting the CMOS may help with things. I reset the CMOS, get the time and date error in BIOS and then windows loads up fine and dandy. Except that it thinks its 2001 which causes issues with a number of programs and the computer goes back to freezing. ARGH! So i let it sit overnight, go to work yesterday and on my way home pick up some memory. 4GB DDR2 800MHz $25 after mail in rebate...fantastically cheap. Awesome. Go home stick the two sticks in. Magically the computer loads up into windows, hooray! Both old sticks had problems. I was very excited.... ...but unfortunately this is not the end of my story.
I decide to go into the BIOS and see if i can get the date and time set correctly, and i go in and see that the date and time are in fact correct. I think...wonderful now things should work. So i exit out of BIOS and go to load windows and BAM! theres a corrupt file in my windows32/something something. Something about a kernel. Its like shooting down the red baron, tragic all around. I should of paid attention to the fact that my antivirus was screaming bloody murder because its virus definitions are 8 years in the future. It likely caused some problems frantically trying to fix things.
So i get myself a copy of XP from courtney (thanks for that), and i try to get it to correct things. At first i forgot to set the CD to boot ahead of the HD so i went into windows. I got a caution sign about corrupted files and got a BSOD with a 'BAD_POOL_CALLER' whatever the hell that means. So i sigh, hit reset and wait for the BIOS screen to offer me a setup option, it does i hit delete and i wait... and i wait... and i wait... nothing is happenning. Every time i goto setup in my bios it freezes.
I remember that when i reset the CMOS things seemed to be fine, so i did that again...it was already reset once, why not try again. So I do and i'm able to get into the bios setup and i set up the CD to read ahead of the HD and hooray windows setup starts. It starts loading itself up and then bam freezes. FUCCKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!! so i start again from the beginning of this paragraph and instead go to windows safe mode. I'm in...i open the windows CD and begin an installation, churn churn churn...BSOD! Go to restart and i'm hung up in the bios loading screen again. I start this paragraph over onve more time, this time managing to get into windows, deleting the culprit of the kernel error (in case it causes it again), the culprit being my antivirus software that shot all kinds of errors and warnings at me. I go to start windows installation, and BSOD...this time it restarted so i have no idea what the BSOD was.
Im frustrated and I don't know what to do...the only thing i can think of is to buy a new hard drive, take out my old one for now and start fresh. Recover my files later. But what if my motherboard is f'ed from all this nonsense (cause crashes and failures to load during the BIOS don't sound promising). Then again if this is all a HDD problem a new one will solve things and i may be able to recover my old data somehow.
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| heres a neat meme |
[20 Jan 2009|11:23am] |
The first five (5) people to respond to this post will get something made by me. It will be about or tailored to those five who respond first.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
⇒ I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.
⇒ What I create will be just for you.
⇒ It'll be done this year.
⇒ You have no clue what it's going to be (but feel free to use your imagination)!
⇒ I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well, if you expect me to do something for you!
And you have to give me your address, so I can mail it to you. Unless you are local (or getting a visit soon) in which you'll get hand delivery.
and the big bonus is a lot of you don't know what my crafting hobbies include, so it will really surprise ya.
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| electioning |
[05 Nov 2008|12:20am] |
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Just a quick note of interest that i noticed in at least CNNs coverage of the election. For both the concession speech and victory speech they played recessional music from two action movies as the respective candidates left. The recessional from crimson tide for mccain, and the recessional from the patriot for obama. I just found it curious in terms of choices. But yes we have a new president elect so congrats to obama. do good plz k thx :)
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| my little demon is dead |
[30 Aug 2008|12:23am] |
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May 19, 2003-August 29, 2008 May she rest in peace (unfortunately she'll be resting in pieces). My car has been totalled.
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| and now i float in the unknown |
[12 Aug 2008|02:25pm] |
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my warranty on my car has officially given out. Its kinda the feeling of you're in a plane your climbing climbing climbing and then poof the engine cuts out and its quiet...nothing is specifically wrong at the moment but any minute now you may not be able to recover the plane and bam you'll have problems. That analogy made more sense in my head...sorry. Either way right now im waiting with bated breath for something catastrophic to happen. Luckily if its my engine (they recently upped the engine core warranty) im still covered. Likely this is gonna mean more mechanical skill learning for me since i'll be inclined to do it myself. So win win hopefully.
the plane is still climbing but its awfully quiet, hope i can get her leveled off.
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| trouted |
[07 Aug 2008|02:14pm] |
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i got trouted the other day...it was strange. apparently if you post to lj theres a bot out there that knows your AIM client and sends you a third party blinded message from someone else and you talk to them. Very wierd, yet very interesting.
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[04 Aug 2008|12:00pm] |
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Add to my set of skills, laptop repair. Against all my best judgment and all the suggestions of people around me, i bought and replaced the USB ports on my laptop myself. I had to take the thing all apart, remove the keyboard and the screen and play with the motherboard. But i did it! and once it came all back together, it worked! Huzzah! and i can use my mouse again which is good since i hate touch pads.
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| a lovely topic for a livejournal entry |
[17 Jul 2008|12:47am] |
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Haven't posted in a while and sux thats its bad news like this. At a soccer scrimmage today i managed to nearly break my ankle. Spent the rest of the evening with my dad in the ER of presbyterian hospital at UPenn. Took a few hours but it would have taken longer if it hadn't been for him, thanks dad. So they gave me some percocet and the horrifying pain eventually went away and i became a giddy talkative lad hehe, but apprehensive since im assuming the worst especially after how swollen my ankle was. The podiatrist comes back and tells me that she found no fractures (hooray!) and that i wont need a hard cast. I'll be wearing a soft cast for a week and on crutches for hopefully no more than 2 weeks. Then the slow recovery and hopefully ability to play again by the end of the season. But i'm still flying on the painfree ness of the percocet so im gonna go to sleep.
p.s. i oughta update this thing more often, things do happen in my life still after all.
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| andrews great idea |
[20 Dec 2007|11:14pm] |
1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 12 more times; those are the tracks on your album.
Band Name: The Second Great Fire of London
Album: USS Enterprise
Tracks:
1. Mid-Atlantic States
2. Headless
3. The Legend of Rah and the Muggles
4. Blip enhancement
5. Chaupai
6. Jennie Reed
7. Nature (innate)
8. Franz Josef Railway
9. Rock of Dunamase
10. Epinetron
11. Pityriasis rosea
12. In the Wings
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| well its been a while... |
[10 Aug 2007|12:17am] |
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...but i've got some good news...looks like i'm gonna be Dr. Feras Mardini MD, i got accepted at upenn (i know, im shocked they took me back too :) ) and im really excited and also really freaked out since its gonna be a long tough road. But i thought id post here and let peoples know.
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| A man who has a lot to lose lol. |
[23 Jan 2007|04:30pm] |
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my lease is up in april on my car and i love it too much to let it go so i bought it today. They made me an excellent offer on financing (6.65% which is almost a whole percentage point below the average for used cars) and I also got sassy with them. I told them its in our mutual interest to sell me the car for less that the residual value since the price they'll get at auction is well below that value and they'll have to write off the ifference. I offered to help them out with the write off by offering $1500 less than residual, they came back with $800 so i took it...not bad for something that is contratually non-negotiable (i was seriously expecting nothing). I was likely at lease end to be 9,000 miles over mileage which would of cost me $1,530 along with a lease end fee of $350. so all in all by buying my leased car i saved a total of $2,460 (overmileage, lease end fee, negotiated discount, and difference in finance fees ). I hung up the phone then found out from a forum that amazon was selling wii's at retail price $249. I got on there bought one and not minutes later the deal was gone. Today has been a good day for me and my toys.
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| direct your attention |
[11 Dec 2006|02:36pm] |
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hey anna i would just like to direct your attention to the brown bear thats been in my lj avatar for a few months and i just remembered. Let me know what you think lol.
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| memeness |
[27 Nov 2006|11:10am] |
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Comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. After, post this in your journal, and give out some letters of your own. Let me know if you want a letter.
Mine was "R"
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| mad world |
[14 Nov 2006|11:12am] |
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So yesterday i was watching a commercial for a game on the xbox 360, gears of war. The action on screen is muted and the protagonist picks up a broken sculpture head in a war torn city and looks at it, and then the road explodes behind him bearing down on him and he runs into a building for cover, he catches his breath and this giant spider is there and he starts filling it with lead and the screen goes black. The song in the background is Mad World as covered by Gary Jules (originally a tears for fears song). This song is really evocative (so much so im writing about it and finally a commercial that does something more than visually stimulate) but its also familiar, and i realized where i heard it before, on buffy the vampire slayer, it was the requiem song for Tara. Tis a good song, give it a listen, i actually nabbed the single since i liked it so much.
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