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Only at Easy Estates does someone bring this...

2009-05-30T15:45:00.000-07:00

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Dee rocks Sublime.

2009-05-30T12:29:00.000-07:00

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SIE rocks The Doors.

2009-05-30T12:00:00.000-07:00

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Wilkie makes his appearance!

2009-05-30T11:43:00.000-07:00

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Arrival of the drums.

2009-05-30T10:44:00.000-07:00

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Zinn and his bass action

2009-05-30T10:20:00.000-07:00

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Tim rocking the Beach Boys

2009-05-30T10:19:00.000-07:00

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Rick and his Les Paul

2009-05-30T10:18:00.000-07:00

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Warming up with some Queen.

2009-05-30T10:04:00.000-07:00

Crazy little thing called Love.
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Newest member of the Easytown Family...

2009-05-30T09:35:00.000-07:00

I give you, Sweetheart.
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The most METAL guitar I have ever seen!

2009-05-30T09:27:00.000-07:00

He drove 80 nails into the body because it wasn't heavy enough.
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Bocce-Q at Easy Estates

2009-05-30T09:13:00.000-07:00

Stage soon to be taken by The Suck It Easy Band.
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Oh the things I do...

2009-05-21T11:35:00.000-07:00

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New Layout

2009-05-19T12:09:00.000-07:00

Sooo....whatcha think? I can dig it.

See you in 2010!

2009-05-14T10:41:00.000-07:00

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This is Awesome!

2009-05-14T04:15:00.000-07:00

Lost

2009-05-13T16:39:00.000-07:00

So Lost is about to start....and I can't freak wait!!! I can't believe how much I am actually into this show. It is easily the BEST show on television and anybody whose anybody knows it.

Its time to go back to the island!!
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I serve too many masters

2009-05-12T09:18:00.000-07:00

I was just having this conversation with my brother the other day and I thought it was important enough to share with everyone. Over the last few years, my brother has gotten more into the musical side of music versus the listening side of music (although he does do both quite frequently). By "the musical side of music", I mean he has starting to actually listen to the drum parts or the guitar parts and is starting to break these things down to learn to play them, versus just listening and saying, "Wow that's awesome.". So I was telling him that now with this new found listening skill, he should go back and listen to the music that got him to where is he today. Currently he is very into Lamb of God, Mastodon, Amon Amarth, Goat Whore, etc. and I told him go back throw on Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera and really listen to it. It'll blow you away.

For those of you who know me, know that I'm into mostly heavy music with some rare exceptions. Sometimes, some of my favorite bands/CD's are forgotten about because they either broke up or haven't put out a new album in an extensive period of time. A perfect example of this is, Pantera. Don't get me wrong, almost every single time I pick up my guitar, you can be damn sure that I rip out some Cowboys From Hell, but that doesn't mean that I'm playing along with the CD or even playing the whole song and sadly enough, the Pantera story died along with Dimebag (R.I.P. Brother!).

The other day, I was hanging out with the boys and "Fucking Hostile" came on randomly and I said to myself, "Self, you need to throw that album back in the mix.", in which case, I did. Goddamn that album is amazing. Vulger Display of Power is now currently in my car, on my iTunes and on my phone. Long story short, go back and give the albums that got you where you are today. You'll thank yourself.

My leg is asleep.

2009-05-07T09:30:00.000-07:00

Yup. Sure is.

Anyway, I figured out how to make my work day less annoying. I cleaned out all the pictures and videos from my phone and packed it with about 100 mp3's. I also brought in my charger to keep the battery going while sitting here. Now at least I can listen to some tunes while I sit here and slowly die.

Music always helps me.

Creepy much?

2009-04-29T12:38:00.000-07:00

Wow. This is on a bus stop bench. Creepy.
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I have never felt so small...

2009-04-23T08:25:00.000-07:00

I just read this here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090422/sc_space/giantmysteryblobdiscoveredneardawnoftime

A newly found primordial blob may represent the most massive object ever discovered in the early universe, researchers announced today.

The gas cloud, spotted from 12.9 billion light-years away, could signal the earliest stages of galaxy formation back when the universe was just 800 million years old.

"I have never heard about any [similar] objects that could be resolved at this distance," said Masami Ouchi, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution in Pasadena, Calif. "It's kind of record-breaking."

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). An object 12.9 billion light-years away is seen as it existed 12.9 billion years ago, and the light is just now arriving.

The cloud predates similar blobs, known as Lyman-Alpha blobs, which existed when the universe was 2 billion to 3 billion years old. Researchers named their new find Himiko, after an ancient Japanese queen with an equally murky past.

Himiko holds more than 10 times as much mass as the next largest object found in the early universe, or roughly the equivalent mass of 40 billion suns. At 55,000 light years across, it spans about half the diameter of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Lyman-Alpha blobs remain a mystery because existing telescopes have a hard time peering so far back to nearly the dawn of the universe.

Himiko sits right on the doorstep of an era called the reionization epoch, which lasted between 200 million and 1 billion years after the Big Bang. That's when the universe had just emerged from its cosmic dark ages and had begun brightening through the formation of stars and galaxies. Hot, energized hydrogen gas from that time period has allowed astronomers to begin seeing some objects — as much good as it does to squint at such fuzzy blobs.

"Even for astronomers, we don't understand," Ouchi told SPACE.com. "We are keen to try to understand what those systems are in the reionization epoch."

Himiko may represent an ionized gas halo surrounding a super-massive black hole, or a cooling gas cloud that indicates a primordial galaxy, Ouchi noted. But it might also be the result of a collision between two young galaxies, or the outgoing wind of a highly active star nursery, or a single giant galaxy.

Pinning down this riddle will require further telescope time. The W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii can help accurately estimate star formation in the blob, while NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory could test the super-massive black hole scenario, Ouchi noted. And even Hubble could get in on the action.

"We're planning deep infrared imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope to tell whether [Himiko] has merger-like qualities or not," Ouchi said.

However, that particular research hinges upon the future success of a risky repair mission to the aging Hubble. Astronauts are slated to blast off with the space shuttle Atlantis in the attempt next month.

For now, researchers may celebrate the fact that they found Himiko at all. They almost overlooked the blob among 207 galaxy candidates, while sweeping a portion of the sky designated the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey Field.

After making the initial sighting with the Subaru telescope in Hawaii in 2007, Ouchi and his colleagues followed up using instruments from the Keck/DEIMOS and Magellan/IMACS arrays. Those spectrographic observations allowed them to pinpoint the signature of the ionized hydrogen gas and determine the distance and age of the mysterious Himiko.

"We never believed that this bright and large source was a real distant object," Ouchi said. "We thought it was a foreground interloper contaminating our galaxy sample. But we tried anyway."

San Fran airport art

2009-04-20T13:47:00.000-07:00

Thought these were kinda interesting. Figured I'd share.

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San Fran airport

2009-04-20T13:38:00.000-07:00

Interesting piece made from driftwood.
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People with Blue-Tooths...

2009-04-20T11:04:00.000-07:00

Just look crazy. Like, who are you talking to? Jesus? Patrick Swazye in Ghost? Well, they're one in the same I suppose.
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That's a wrap!

2009-04-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

Well, the time is here again. I hate this part the most. Leaving. : (

Had a great time (as always). Lots of pictures, videos, stories, and experiences all rolled into this past weekend.

Highlights:
-My cousin Christine coming down with some friends to hang out on Friday. Always good to see some more family on the west coast.
-Seeing Paul McCartney was fantastic. That man, with all that he's seen and been through, to be playing in front of you, incredible experience.
-Listening to Henry Rollins rant about his world travels and telling everyone that "War is a scam!", was very inspiring.
-The Cure playing for over 3 hours, playing literally until the power was cut from the stage. It got to the point where only the amps on the stage were going and the lyrics were being carried by the audience. Amazing to be a part of that.
-Going to a Hookha bar 2 times in one day was pretty bad ass too.

Goodbye Coachella! I love you!!

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