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Name: Jason
Location: California, United States
Birthday: 9/1/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: hmmm my intrests never really stay the same for long but at the moment i am obsessed with apple computers and calories.
Expertise: Web Design, Gran Turismo, and insomnia.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Computers (Internet)
Message: message meEmail: email me
Member Since:
6/14/2004
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| officer: licence registation and insurance.
jason: (scrambling through blove box) ...is this my registration?
officer: yes but its expired, this wont work
jason: oh ok hang on (scrambling) ............ (scrambling) ok here it is!
officer: ok now let me see your licence and insurance.
jason: (pretends to check wallet for licence but really already knows its nnot in there) oh no officer!
officer: whats the problem?
jason: someone must have stolen my licence!
officer: step out of the car sir.
jason: but officer i -
officer: (hand now hovering over gun) step out of the car please.
jason: (pretending to become very emotional on the verge of tears) i dont know whats going on here officer! i payed my taxes! i dont understand whats happening!
officer: now now calm down... look, write your name on this paper and your birthday.
jason: (writes name and date still acting emotional)
officer: (goes back to car cchecks name and birthday in computer) well i see you do have a licence... thats the good news, now how about that insurance?
jason: its missing too! i keep it in my wallet. iss there any way you can chek that too?
officer: nope... how fast do you think you were going?
jason: um... um... 70?
officer: 81. whats the speed limit?
jason: 65?
officer: (ponts to sign right in front of jason's car) 50.
jason: oh.... well i was only going fast because i was merging into traffic back there and i didnt want to get rear ended you know?
officer: well that might make sense if there was anyone behind you. (goes back to car)
jason: (im going to jail.)
officer: wheres your front licence plate?
jason: umm its in my trunk.
officer: look, the people in san quinton make tkhose for you and unless you want to join them you better put that plate on the front of your car.
jason: ok.
officer: sign this. (hands jason ticcket)
jason: what is this? (desperatly trying not to sign anything)
officer: its not a ticket, all you have to do iss bring your licence to the police station and your insurance and put your front plate on and get them to sign and you wont get a fine.
jason: so this isnt a ticket? or a point on my record?
officer: nope.
jason: (signs) your a good man officer! (smiles, shakes officers hand)
officer: have a good evening.
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| yes i know it has been quite a while sense my last entry... i was in fact debating wether or not to just close the site altogether but as you can see it didnt come to that.
the other day i was at the fairfeild mall walking around trying to kill time while i waited for my brother and my mom to pick out some shoes for his first day of school. now i dont know if its just me overanalyzing everything in sight or what but i saw so many things at the mall that just struck me as crazy i decided that id share it with all of you.
ok so one of the first things i noticed while i was walking around was a girl who couldnt have been any older than 18, really she probably was more like 16, this girl must have been at least 5 or 6 months pregnant. now i dont know what everyone else my age thinks when the see something like that but to me it was unbelievable. i mean the sight of someone obviously younger than me, and i am by no means old, pregnant raised so many questions in my mind i really didint know what to think, i mean i feel bad for her in a way but then it really was most likely a result of her own carelessness and irresponsibility butt then again who am i to say anything? im not the one having a baby.
well it ended up that i was walking around through mervyns with my brother in the kids department and i was looking at the clothes on the racks and i couldnt help thinking that the marketing campaigns towards the middle school age kids must be the most ridiculous of all marketing campaigns, the first thing that caught my eye was a pair of jeans that come with a piece of sandpaper attached to them where the tag goes. now why you ask would a pair of jeans come with sandpaper you ask? ill tell you. after reading the tag behind the sandpaper i learned that by sanding holes in the hips, knees and wherever you feel like it you could take that ordinary pair of jeans and "make them yours." to me this was nothing short of crazy, lets be serious for a minuet here, who the hell buys a piece of clothing from the store with the intent of taking it home to sand holes into it? i for one dont. apparently these pants were trying to appeal to the preppy abercrombie im so filthy rich i actually pay extra to wear clothes that look like they're old and cheap kids.
the next thing that i saw was a whole area of p. miller clothing, whats weird about that? well for one who the hell is p. miller? after some investigation work i learned that p. miller is lil romeos clothing line. wait a second here.... who the hell is lil romeo? turns out lil romeo is the 13 yr old big time rap star who made the 2001 hit "my baby." wait a second... my baby? i dont know maybe im out of touch here but i dont seem to know that song at all... nor do i know anything about this romeo character except he seems pretty small time to me... am i right? well if i am then how come he has a clothing department reserved for his clothes that would have made p diddy jealous? i mean when i was 13 and 14 i dont really remember people being into wearing actual artists brand name clothing, i remember people being into wearing nike and addias but you didnt see 7th graders walking around wearing sean john and stuff did you? maybe i just dont remember...
what this reminded me of though was a jc penny commercial which is obviously trying to get kids to want to shop there by showing a bunch of very urban hip hop kids dancing their way back to school to some generic rap beat, presumably they all got fitted at jc pennys (yeah sure). the part that i thought was weird was at the end youll see a 12 year old girl standing on her school desk bouncing her ass and "backing up" the same way i once had a stripper do for me (ok maybe its been more than once). now i know when parents see this stuff they get all upset, you know that these young gilrs are dressing like they do and stuff but its even starting to get me asking some questions.. i mean really should girls that age be acting like that? in all honesty i would have to say no, thats a little young dont you think? you know the girls im talking about, the little middle schoolers wearing short short skirts and teeny tiny tight little shirts, you know...the ones who have all of us wondering "where the hell was she" back when we were 7th and 8th graders. you know i think the more and more we let little 12 yr old girls go to school looking like they are going out to a club, the more pregnant 16 yr olds well be seeing walking around the mall. just a hunch.
the final thing that i saw that bothered me was when we went to go pay for my brothers stuff there was a huge display of gift cards on sale, not a single one of them was printed in english. now i didnt think anything of it until i realized that i was in AMERICA. to me it was bizarre to see no less than 50 different gift cards for sale and not a single one of them could i actually read. the other day i was in my politics class and my teacher asked us to vote yes or no if we thought there should be more immigration control, i voted no. you know everyone has the right to live a free life and if they want to come to america to do so great, i had no problem with that. when i saw that display though i had to rethink my vote, you know i still have no problem with immigration and i have nothing against people from other countries, but you know what? if they want to come here and have the rights and freedoms of everyone else the least they could do would be to learn to talk to us, they dont have to know the history of the US or the pledge of allegiance or anything but to hold a basic conversation with the people around them would be nice dont you think? thats all i ask, if they would just do that i would even go as far as to stop talking so much shit about their loud ass annoying gibberish while they drive around with their windows down annoying everyone else on the road music.
so whats the deal here am i just living in the past? i feel like i am sense these things seem to only bother me and, well... old people but i dont know maybe some of you out there are thinking the same things? i mean how can i be living in the past if im not even old enough to be from the past? oh well, enough ranting for one night.
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| for the past couple of weeks my mom has been taking this nutrition class, and all ive been hearing out of her is we need more protein/fiber/glucose/etc. like shes some kind of dietitian now, its driving me crazy - or at least it was... im not sure why but now my mom is certain that my brother is suffering from malnutrition or something so shes determined to feed him high fat foods, and alot of them, so now at any given time that you stroll into my kitchen there are no less than three different cakes to chose from, the freezer has no less than four flavors of ice cream, there is what seems to be a never ending supply of bbq hot links and chicken, there is at least 3 or 4 different kinds of lunch-meat to pick from and if you want to make a sandwich you even have the option of using a croissant (mmmmm...) which also seem to be coming out of some bottomless pit... life is sweet.
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| - Houses of the Holy -
Click here, then open the picture, then read the blog.
ok so thats the picture i made, it took me many hours last night and tonight, mostly because i am such a perfectionist and always end up spending hours and hours tweaking every little detail you can see (also because im working in illustrator and im not that familiar with how it works). anyways for the most part i like what i made, i love the way the sky turned out, i had to learn how to do something different than what ive done in the past to make those clouds like that so it was a bit of a challenge but now that i see how it looks i like it alot. the part that i am not satisfied with is the hills and stuff, really what it all came down to was that i had been working on this thing for at least the past 5 hours and i was too tired and exhausted to keep working. so if you have any ideas for what maybe i could put in there to fill it in a bit let me know because as of right now i dont really have any ideas... i might even go and get rid of those hills because i dont really like them much, i basically only put them in there as a quick fix.
ive got this cool idea though, see with illustrator and its vector graphics you can zoom i on an image up to 65,000% and of course everything will still be crystal clear. so heres what i was thinking, i could zoom in and then put things like houses or people or whatever, then zoom in and put little details, then zoom in and put more details, and so on and so on... sure it would be a lot of work but its not lilke i would do it all in one day or anything. i dont know if ill take it that far or not but it seems like it would be cool, i guess for now though i need to get the basic setting of it finished.
if you want to give me a suggestion or tell me how amazing this thing is send it to this email: jason_hayes@mac.com
edit: how about this idea, ill take the hills and stuff out and make it look like an ocean under the sky with a silhouette of a tropical island? sound good? let me know.
edit: ok the island picture is up although not at all complete but you can at least get an idea of what it will look like. i think it looks good, much better than the hills and stuff, that was lame.
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| over the past two days ive been spending alot of time with my dog whom i havent seen in a long time. see my dad is out of town so ive been staying at his house and for the most part my only company is my dog pepper. its been pretty cool though, hes got all kinds of good food over there to eat, and a nice comfy couch right in front of a big 50-something inch tv.
despite all of this it can be kind of boring over there with nobody to talk to so im glad the dog is there to keep me company. its funny though because i think that i learned something from hanging out with my dog so much these past couple of days. see we cant talk to our dogs, i mean sure we can say a few things to them like sit and speak but we never could have a conversation with them. because of this when we want to show our dogs or cats or whatever that we love them we actually have to show how much we care, we cant just take the easy way out and say i love you. but the cool thing is that you can tell when a dog feels loved and it knows that you and it are friends, my dog is always excited to see me when i come in the house even though i havent seen her for months, and when i pet her and play with her she is happy. i really do genuinely believe that my dog knows an understands that i like her and that she is my friend, whats crazy is that is more than i can say for some/lots of the people that i know.
so why is it that i can tell that my dog really does like me and that she can really tell that i like her, when at the same time i dont truly know how some of the people i know feel about me? (or how i feel ab out them) i think its because the two of us cant talk to each other, so we have to actually show each other whats on our minds. they say that actions speak louder than words and even though the connection between me and my dog may be an obscure example of this being true, i think it is in fact a very good one.
well after i thought all of this through i started to think maybe this is what girls are complaining about, see they always are talking about how guys dont care about them and stuff even though they say so. and even though they spend their money on them and stuff they still act like it doesn't mean anything to them. well maybe its not that they are all just ungrateful and that they are being bitches, maybe its that guys are approaching the situation in the wrong way. i mean i never buy anything for my dog and she still loves me right? so then what am i saying? that guys should go pet their girlfriends and take them for walks? no, but i am saying that spending money - although impressive is not the way to really say how you feel, nor is simply saying "i love you" right before you hang up the phone or whatever. if you really care about someone they should be able to tell because it should show, and if it doesn't... then maybe you dont really care about that person as much as you thought, or as much as you wish you did. i mean i dont go out of my way to show my dog that i think shes cool it just happens naturally because i really do think that.
now even if any of this is true i will admit that i am basically comparing the meantality of all girls to the meantality of my dog, which may not be quite fair...then again it might be more than fair haha.
who knows though...there also is the fact that im the one who gives my dog her food every day so maybe thats why she likes me? could be. and yes i am aware that this is probably the stupidest thing youve ever read.
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