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*zzzzrt!* *zzzrt!* Hello? Testing.. Testing… 1 2 3. After two and a half months of grueling repair work, my transmitter is finally working again. After my last report from the land of frozen cheese, my field satellite transmitter was sabotaged by one of the natives trying to feed it a lump of bleu cheese. Thank God for duct tape and bailing twine; I might have been stuck out here in these frozen northern parts forever with no communication… Learning the local language has been a challenge, but I’ve gotten to the point were I can usually carry on a conversation with only one or two confused (and sometimes mortified) looks from the other party. I still haven’t figured out why they like the colors yellow and green so much… But I try not to push the issue too much, they sacrificed a squirrel to the diabolical color combo a couple weeks ago, and I’d rather not share the same fate. The people are mesmerized when they see me working with electronics, and seem to think that I’m some kind of wizard, often coming to me asking that I cast a spell on their primitive tools to make them work better. In spite of the occasional annoyances though, I’m learning more and more of the subjects I’ve come here to study, and assuming I come out of this excursion alive, I believe it will have been very beneficial.

Well, a storm seems to be brewing up so I’m not sure how much longer this thing is going to wo– *KER-POP! BZZZT!!*

Over labor day weekend, I added another instrument to my arsenal.

This is “Zahara”:

She is an Epiphone Special SG Model. Basically, a less expensive version of a Gibson. Rock on dudes!

It would seem that I’m a bit overdue for a post on this poor blog…. So before this month is over and I have over a month between posts, here goes.

I am back in WI for my second semester at New Tribes Bible Institute. The weather here has been very hot and muggy the past couple weeks, so much so that I had to get a fan to blow on my bunk so I don’t wake up in a puddle of sweat every five minutes while trying to sleep. That’s OK though, in a couple months or so it’ll be nice and sub-zero, and I can go back to being an Eskimo again.

My dorm room consists of a two section desk area, a bedroom, and 7 roommates. If anyone reading has seen the former apartment of Bubbles the Dolphin, it’s about that size. It is much bigger than the closet I lived in last semester though, and it’s in a slightly quieter part of the building, so I’m content.

Right now I’m taking four classes, each an hour every weekday: Prophets, Hermeneutics 2, Theology, and Job. I took two tests today, one for Job, and one for Hermeneutics. I’m still waiting to get the Hermeneutics test back, but I got a 93 on my Job test (would have been a 95 if I hadn’t been dyslexic and written a J instead of an L on a matching section…).

I’ve resumed working out again, now that I have ready access to a weight room. Hopefully I’ll build some bulk in muscle and not come home with a spare tire from the school cafe…. Hopefully….

Well, that’s all the news I can think of right now… If I think of something really genius and profound, I’ll be sure to post it immediately.

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N8 the Net Ninja

Remember a few posts ago when I was talking about building a new desktop? Well, I built it!

Here’s the tower:

And a screenshot:

If any normal people are reading right now, that’s probably all the information you really want, but for you nerds who are reading, here’s a more detailed description:

• AMD Phenom X4 9750 2.4GHz
• 4GB DDR2 1066 RAM
• 640GB SATA HDD
• SATA Lightscribe DVD Burner
• ATI Radion HD 3600 PCI-E 2.0 512MB GPU
• 19″ Widescreen LCD Monitor
• Dual Boot Ubuntu AMD64/Windoze Vista Home Premium 64-bit

Of course most of you nerdier readers are going “VISTA?!?!? WHAT?!?!” unfortunately I had to downgrade to Vista in order to take advantage of the 4GB RAM. Oh well, that’s what I get for building such a monster I guess.

Haven’t really had any major issues with it yet except a problem with air flow that was fixed by flipping a couple fans over.

Until next time!

Well, my old domain webn8.net has finally expired. I visited the address a few minutes ago to find some rather annoying things are going on. Some of you probably know the routine of domain registration sites selling expired domains to advertisers, and I wasn’t really concerned about it that much since I won’t be using that name anymore, but what really irritated me is that they have taken certain key words and phrases from my current site (thenetninja.com) and turned them into advertising key words. Phrases such as “The Net Ninja”, “Sven Jorgenson”, “The Blarney Stone”, “Olive Branch Music Studio”, “Hazy Notions” etc. They are hijacking phrases that define my web presence, and the web presence of some of my friends and website clients. Unfortunately, I see very little that I can do about this, but I thought I would release my frustration on a blog entry instead of banging my head against my keyboard… Oh well, hopefully they will discontinue the site once they see how little traffic it gets.

Well, it’s long overdue, but I finally made another wallpaper! You can find it at the top of the “wallapaer” Page. Enjoy!

In case there was any doubt that I’m a nerd, here’s this Firefox icon that I made:

Yeah, so I couldn’t sleep, and I decided to upgrade wordpress and try out a new theme….. So yeah…. What you all think?

Yes, I know, this blog has been horribly neglected the past few months, and I apologize to any who are still waiting for my stagnant website to do something. ahem.

So, let me try to summarize the happenings of late, and the very late.

I am now back from the frozen northern territories of cheesetopia, and have swapped frozen cows for horses, cars, and firearms. At least for the summer that is. My plans for the summer are mostly to get a job and make some money. I have applied at Murdoch’s home and ranch supply, and the Apple store so far, and plan to apply at best buy, and whatever else I can find that needs someone with my areas of expertise. If I can’t find something really in my niche, I suppose I will just take what I can get.

Some other things I’ve been thinking of doing this summer are building a desktop, and taking martial arts classes. Both of which depend on money, so naturally the possibility of these activities happening hinges on whether or not I find a good job.

The computer I would like to build would be somewhat similar to a mac pro, except with an AMD Phenom instead of the Intel Xeon.

The martial arts would be Krav Maga. It’s the system developed by Israeli special forces, and is apparently the most effective self defense system with the least amount of time invested.

I guess we’ll see what happens!

until next time!

I just got some new icons and a really cool background… Check it out!:

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