Monterey Bay

So it's like 11:15 here right now, and I can't sleep. Lol, this is what I get for staying up all night last night raiding sunwell. Now my body thinks this is the normal time.

Well, anyways, I'm in Monterey Bay right now. We are staying in the Travelodge Inn. I was really lucky to get this room, because it's pretty close to the water, about a 5 min drive from cannery cove. Although now as I'm typing this, I already see the biggest downfall of this hotel... the gas station right in front! Not that I'm complaining, but it always sounds like a party right outside my door. There is a weird sound like every couple seconds. I really don't think this town ever sleeps, but then again.. it is memorial day weekend.. friday night.. and I'm the one at the computer. lol. I think Erica's biggest problem were the girls giggling next door. Although while Erica was complaining about the girls, I was secretly plotting my master plan on throwing our conjoined doors open, and having a little 2 room party. This was in my head though, I grumbled in agreement to Erri, and then I went back to watching the history of Dale Earnheart movie on tv.

The day has been great so far. Not very sunny, but just how I like it :P . After getting to the hotel around 4 and resting for a bit; we ended up walking around cannery row, to get a feel for the place. Luckily, it wasn't as packed as I thought it would be. The largest group of people we saw, were leaving the aquarium. We ended up eating clam chowder and sitting by the beach. We also saw the movie Sharks in 3D, at the local Imax. This was my very first Imax movie, and I have to say I was both disappointed and impressed at the same time. Firstly, I was amazed by the ginormous size of the screen, and the 3D effects of the film were very good in parts. The only thing that bothered me, was that the movie didn't offer enough facts. It didn't even have any action to make up for the lack of facts. That was a big disappointment. After the movie, we had some Ghirardelli hot chocolate, and sat on their dock overlooking the water for a good hour and a half.

Well I should get off of here now and try to get some sleep so that I can have energy in the morning. Erica tends to drag me out of bed against my will. All of my pics so far have been uploaded to my flickr. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get some better ones, since I'll be using Erica's Nikon D80. I swear... I don't get what i want out of my camera no more..haha. <-- although my camera is nice... just lacking the manual features. Well good night all... here they go again outside! xP every time i hear people, I get the urge to go out and check on my car. But then I remember we took Erica's car, that is parked in the parking garage..lol.

The Pope is on facebook

So I had a rather bit of interesting news in my inbox this morning. The Pope is now on facebook. Rather he has his own website, where he provides an application for facebook. This allows them to better "connect" with the "youth" on the web. Honestly when I read this, I couldn't help but keep thinking about Angels and Demons. Because in that movie, it was a heavy debate in the vatican about how they need to modernize more. I'm not religouse in any sense, but I do think it's a great idea. Instead of saying the internet is blasphemous, you should use it as a medium to connect with everyone in the world. The Pope also issued a statement that if they would have used the internet more, they would have known about the issues with the cardinal who spoke bad about the Jews .. or something like that. I forgot the points of it already. But I think that the Pope wants it to be more known and common in peoples lives. Cuz im sure some of you agree, the vatican has some very shaky history, and keeps a lot of secrets from those who believe in them. I could not trust a faceless operation like that.

So anyways if you want, his site is www.pope2you.com they have a link to his youtube, and his facebook application. Hmmm I don't see god in his top friends list. I think they broke up!

Iphone Ringtone How To

SO, HOW TO MAKE AN IPHONE RING TONE  itunes 8 only

this is also a trick that is used on songs without DRM protection.  So these would be songs off of cd's that you ripped, or acquired through a friend *cough*

-first you have scrounge your library for that epic song you want

-next, right click on the song and click get info

-search through the tabs until you find the one where you can change your songs starting and ending time

-ringtones can only be 40 seconds or less.  so for my epic metallica intro, i checked the box on starting time and left it at zero.  Then I checked the box for ending time, and set it at 0:40.

-you can close that box now that your times are set

-next right click on the song, and select convert to AAC.  You will see a duplicate file made of the same name, but only 40 seconds long.

-Now go back to your original song and uncheck those timing boxes, you don't want your song stuck on that guitar solo do u??  ;)

-Now drag your duplicate song from your itunes --> onto your desktop,  and delete it from your library

-Now change the extension of your duplicate to .m4r ... cuz right now it should be like .m4* something.

-once you've change the extension, go ahead and drag the ringtone back to your library.

- When you drag it over, you'll see that library is highlighted, and once you drop the ringtone in your library it will autmatically show in your ringtones folder.

- Now make sure you have your iphone set to sync ringtones, and sync away.

Hope this helped at least one person out there, cuz i know this is something i've wanted to do for the longest time.  If anyone has a problem, lemme know and we can figure it out ;)

Bowling

So I went to a bowling tournament with a few people from my work.  I did really good so it was a blast.  I honestly was worried that i'd do horrible, and that I'd drag our teams score down really low.  I don't bowl.. and haven't bowled in a year.. and before that.. in like what.. 5 years!  I've only ever bowled like 6 times in  my whole life, most of which when I was a kid and my dad would take me.  My team ended up having the second or third highest score out of hella schools.  Now it wasn't professional bowling, and none of the teams waited for other teams to bowl first like they do in the big leagues. 

  In this photo starting from left to right, George, Katy(cousin), Dan(Katy's Husband), Melissa, Me!, Bossman Kevin(Katy's dad).  Lol ik ik, most of us are family xP.  




  Lol, what's with me cheesing in all of my group photos.  Melissa grabbed my boob in this photo, that's why we're all cracking up.


  Yess, me throwing up signs.. haha. nah just watching my ball working on my telepathic powers.  GO RIGHT, GO RIGHT!!

 


  If this is the photo I think it is, then I got a strike!  Haha, I got a strike on the first two rolls, and I also got like 5 strikes in this game.  3 of the strikes were in a row!  That look on my face is like. NO WAY!  IT's ROLLING STRAIGHT!

 

photos

This Saturday my photo portfolio is due for class, so yesterday I decided to go take some pictures. Ik ik, woww I'm getting an early start, but the real reason was that yesterday was the last day I could use the Nikon D80 I borrowed from the colleges photo department. Yes you read that right, a Nikon D80! Those cameras are really nice, it just takes a while to get used to them and learn all of the features. I have to laugh, cuz I was telling my little sister how a great photographer never needs flash. I was like it just ruins your image! Now if you change these settings just like this, it'll look really nice. xP I'm bi far not a good photographer, but it is nice to have taken this class. Now every time I see a photo, I can pick out elements where I go this or that is nice.
So any ways I here are a few pics from yesterday. The top one is of a cow who at first wasn't very afraid of me, and kept walking closer. I was so excited I took like a million photos of just him, ever so slightly changing the camera settings for each photo. I wanted to pull out the best detail I could while he was close. Below, I have a picture of a calf, who was curious about what I was doing. Below that, I have a picture of a very white washed scene. This is a bad photo that looks good. I had taken it while showing my sis the different settings on the camera. The white washyness just makes the photo look really dreamy, that's why I like it.

Granny Scammers

I heard this story on the radio today as I was leaving the college, and had to check it out as soon as I got home. Basically there is a big thing right now where grandparents are being called up by people pretending to be their grandkids. The pretenders then tell the grandparents a concocted story of how they are in jail, or in an accident and need money right away. They come up with a convincing story, and with a since of urgency and the grandparents love for the grandchild, they are had. Most are convinced not to say anything to the rest of the family until they arrive. Although the grandparents never get that notification of the arrival, and find out about the scam as soon as they talk to their real grandson. I had never heard of scamming grandparents like this before, but this is pretty low. I believe it was around 120 something complaints were reported. All of the money was wired to canada.

One key thing to note when receiving this phone call, is that the caller insists on the secrecy which is a major lightbulb going off. Also...verify...verify..verify. What ever happened to call id and *69?? But I guess that can be easily spoofed now too.. heck i've spoofed phone calls to mess with people :P