| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 |
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009 |
| 12:54 am |
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| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 |
| 2:13 pm |
FUCK YOU MARK
Sorry folks LJ comments are now friends-only becase some assholio who has a vendetta against a family member of mine has taken up stalking me online to get to them and leaving threatening and harrasing messages in my LJ intended for them He would leave anonymous messages in LJ - so yesterday I switched my account to registered users only - so he created an account to leave me these messages - fucking psycho! If you are an LJ moderator - please note that user "budotaijutsuva" has been - by the terms of LJ service , as well as local legal definintions - criminally harasing me and people I know - is defying restraining orders and is clinically insane Is there a way to spam filter keywords from my LJ so I can open my communication up to real people again |
| Thursday, May 28th, 2009 |
| 3:58 pm |
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| Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 |
| 4:27 pm |
The ultimate act of media piracy
Yesterday - I was in the Boardroom of SOCANs Vancouver office ripping DVDs to my laptop BooYEAH!That'd Make me the Pirate King Arrrgggh! |
| Monday, May 4th, 2009 |
| 1:37 pm |
I went to google website - did a search - clicked on the first linke BAM! I have a browser hyjacker I cant get rid of It was something to do with the google update - God dammit I just did a nuke+ pave last month |
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| Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 |
| 11:07 pm |
theres a point during Burning Man on the sunday night after the Burn when you are walking down the streets of the tent and RV city and they are nearly deserted, all the formerly brightly lit and cowded attractions, theme camps and art installations are dark - or 1/2 way torn down. The Once vibrant and playfull place no longer sings with music and bright ligthts. It is at that point you look at it with a certain sadness becasue you KNOW its over. That is the feeling I had walking down the granville strip this evening Almost all the old businesses that were there were now vacant or the overpriced brand new busineses that replaced them were dark and dead having closed early (it was only 9:00 pm), the street were ripped up , fenced off and abandoned by construction, 1/2 the streetlights were dead (I think the city was trying to save power since it didnt need to illuminate streets with no cars traffic) I found myself MISSING the obnoxious yahoos from surrey and the convoy of SUVs carrying party people from the suburbs in. I miss the myriad of street performers we used to have all over the place and the Busloop filling the entertainment district up like a buslting entertainment metroplolis. I miss the nightlife - but as the average population of Vancouver gets closer to retirement age and starts putting in all these bylaws I fear we have lost our nightlife completely and its not comming back I cant help feeling its over. |
| 12:04 pm |
A rather silly investment
So today I went out into the bright beautiful sunny day and ended up buying of all things ... a sun lamp - more notably a natural spectrum lamp for S.A.D wich I am prone to The wheelchair/pacemaker/medical supply shop were trying to clear them out for the summer thinking that nobody would need them except they seen to forget the weather pattern we have been having for the last 4 years where it cloulds over in late may and stays that way until July on top of that contruction crews have recently erected scaffolding outside my home wich is now reducing the ammount of sunlight I get in here. Overal it makes my home rather dark and gloomy. So I though I would give this thing a shot to see if it does anything to my overall mood |
| Saturday, April 25th, 2009 |
| 1:24 pm |
Last minute casual B-day party
Birthday/ 10 year housewarming/movie night gathering at my place Sunday (april 26th night after 7:00PM ) cake, ice cream , He man cartoons and some booze. casual and laid back *(I may already be hung over) email me offlist for dir ryan@mvpvideo.ca |
| Friday, April 24th, 2009 |
| 10:40 am |
So I was invited out to a workshop on social techniques on picking up women - I met these guys at the entrepreneurs meetup and they were starting a business in Vancouver so I thought I would check it out and attend their workshop. I kinda expected a LANK THOMSON I'M A HANDOME MAN (see SNL mid 90s sketch) type scenario - but the information was good well presented and I found value in what they were teaching spplicable to a lot outside of sex so I though I would sign up for their full course except for the fact that they dropped the price bomb at the end that put an end to that. What struck me funny about this class was there were 3 divisions of the attendees. 1. people who looked like they were straight out of "school for scoundrels" 2. groupies of "The Game" and consumers of media on the subject who spent more of their time reading about how to talk to woment than talking to women. 3. people already dressed to go out to the Roxy or a night-spot after words.. almost like they were dropping by for a quick lesson - then running out to apply it. "I will see you in surgery at noon ... I just have to drop by a mediacal school in the morning and learn how to do surgery - then I will see you at noon" Good material , better uses than just getting laid , however the price was prohibative |
| Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 |
| 10:57 am |
speaking of driving
if someone wants me to share driving duty to the Burn / parties they better start training me now! I am also offering Free video / VJ work for driving lessons. As for the rest of you - I will be on the road at the wheel of 1000lbs of steel - better take cover "..this isn't the road to Country Kitchen Buffet" |
| 10:25 am |
Novacaine at the DMV
Did you know that your BCID expires? I didnt I was at a bank a month back and the elderly Asian (super introvert) teller would except my picture ID to get account info. It proved who I was but she said it was invalid becasue it expired. I explained to her the logic that my identity , my name and my address don't change becasue the date on the ID passes. She kinda gave me the look like a deer in headlights trying to focus on the driver of the car. She just refused to accept I really can't fathom people who can't follow simple logic - we learned this logic style thinking in grade 3 people! How the fuck did you get a job in a bank? Too many people in too many jobs think by process/rote , blindly follow steps and are incapable of thinking past the next step on the list and are completely defeated by moments that the may need to know what is actually going on. As for the ID thing - I've heard of identity theft - but appearently BCID wants you to keep paying for life or they take your identity away anywhoo back on topic Another reason for my trip is to eventually get my drivers licence - I am encoutering WAAAAAYYY too many ideal creative jobs that I would be perfect for if only I had a licence. so I went to look into renewing my learners licence Bad news at the DMV - I have to take my learners test again to renew it Good news - I won't have to wait the year for my road-test for my full licence as the time I had my old learners counts towards the 12 month process So in theory I could take the learners and then book the road test right after.... of course I wont do this since I still need lessons The experience was relatively painless to get my BCID renewed (though appearnely it takes 6-8 weeks to print an mail a small plastic card) |
| Friday, April 10th, 2009 |
| 12:27 pm |
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| Thursday, April 9th, 2009 |
| 9:41 pm |
The work I got for nothing was unusable - give me money back
You know I really gotta stop giving people deals on work that I do - this is the second customer that I have had ask me for a massive refund due to potential loss of income based on the quality level of work they paid scrape-the-bottom-of-the-barrell-for. Last novemeber a music promoter paid me $300 to shoot three bands - the video didnt turn out all that good due to venue and technical issues beyond my control wich there wasnt any budget to handle the incidentals. One of the bands demanded a full $300 refund becasue the $100 video didnt look like the 5-camera fully crewed shoot they paid the last video company $2k for. Yes they "couldn't use" the footage so they wanted me to fork over more-than-a-full refund. They wanted me to refund the value they lost rather than what they paid. And today another client wanted me to pay him back on a VHS-DVD transfer from a degraded 15 year oid VHS tape of 3rd generation analogue dubbing becasue he wanted to use it in his simulator. He was mad that he paid me $100 for $230 in work that he couldnt use in his $250K simulator. Why do people who don't pay for anything feel entitled to compensation when the shit they didnt pay for doesnt match their expectations? Why do they also feel entitled to compensation equal to their percieved-value of loss rather than the investment they actaully made? If you go into McDonalds and the food is terrible do you demand the cost of a steak dinner from the manager? If you buy a plastic charm in a plastic bubble from a coin-vending box do you demand a limo ride and a new dress if the plastic thing breaks just before your prom photo? Gotta raise my prices |
| 11:22 am |
My business is dead - but its still twiching...
So yesterday I went on a shoot I might have 1 or 2 more shoots this month I just had a guy call to confirm a booking in Nanaimo for the June For a busines thats dead its doing a lot of twiching I might have to reconsider this job-vs-business thing as I am having slightly better luck finding paid gigs than finding employment. |
| 10:27 am |
The end of a Vancouver institution - a carnivore cornerstone
Attention fellow Carnivores and the consumers of dead cow, pig and chicken It is my sad duty to report that SAVE-ON-MEATS on Hastings (the one with the neon pig) - our (clean) source for cheap flesh on Hastings is no more. Today I went down an noticed that there was no meat in the bins and no butchers on duty. The Asian spice counter,. the vegtable market and the greasy-spoon diner at the back is still there - but all the meat is gone. Does anyone know where the next cheapest butcher in Vancouver is? I think I am down to 6 frozen chicken dogs and I need to buy some meat before I decide just to kill and eat my neighbors. And I am not into shopping at one of these re-branded posh supermarkets where they double the price of the food becasue its illuminated by track lighting and lying in a black bin in a nest of faux lettuce/greenstuff. I like HONEST meat - served up by ugly people in hair-nets with bloody greasy aprons illuminated by gawdy flourescent lighting |
| Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 |
| 6:19 pm |
well craigslist and most job-boards are a total bust
So I got notice that I was turned down for a job today due to overqualification I must have gone through hundreds of job postings and applied for 30+ jobs through craigslist that I have more than the qualifications to do but I haven't had a since call-back on any of them. It seems like I am either waaay overqualified or waaaay underqualified (must have a Masters Degree in customer service) or there is always a deal-killer in every post (drivers licence required for a job that requires no driving) or a few skillsets I dont have. I think I have determined that Job-listings are utter bullshit lies and applying for them is like entering a job-lottery. So many people applying that you have little hope of even getting your resume read and on top of that there is no active way of following up as these job posting put up bariers to prevent that. Looks like I am going to have to declare Job postings a dead avenue start a targeted cold-call campaign shit I HATE cold calling - I really suck at it - I find myself stumbling and babbling over my words |
| Monday, April 6th, 2009 |
| 1:43 pm |
Recomp
Threw my back out hauling a large camping backpack from the ferry to camp Elphinstone (its further than it looks by car) Ended up staying with the Bunnys at Fur and Loafing VJ'd all night Friday Got married to a large Chewbacca cutout during the Legion of flying monkeys mass-wedding service. VJ'd all night Saturday Sunday did tear-down on little sleep all play then all work makes Ryan a tired boy - ended up crashing last night early and woke up this morning. |
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