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sweeet new trackz uploaded

nate — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:12:47 +0000

We’ve been recording some stuff in the band and finally just put some of it up on a myspace page. It’s not amazing, in fact some of it is downright terrible, but go have a listen. You’ll like it.

I also purchased the domain stainlessrevolution.com, which at present has approximately nothing to show.

Whoa, who put this blanket on me?

nate — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:29:14 +0000

So last night I was jamming at Tomas’s place. After the jam we were watching TV when suddenly I woke up in the fetal position on his floor. All the lights were off and there was this baby blue blanket covering me. What!? So I walked downstairs to get my horn and drive home, and Clark told me I had basically passed out in the middle of conversation and they had left me there, sleeping on the floor in front of the couch. It had only lasted ten minutes.

We decided to watch Borat at that point. Smart move.

Anyway, I remember seeing the end of Borat, and then I woke up again, on the floor, baby blue blanket, with the lights all turned off. This time I really did take my sax and drive home.

This has all been an introduction for THE GREAT SLEEP EXPERIMENT! I’m going to sleep for one hour ever five! That’s four hours total (approximately my nightly average) but spread throughout the entire day and night.

I told Spencer earlier: “why not experiment on yourself a little? You only live once.”

Narcissism, by request only

nate — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:16:22 +0000

Those of you who see me often in person probably think the request to see pictures of me is laughable at best.

I know, right!?

Yeah, some crazies out there keep asking for more pictures on my blog. Apparently spiders and emacs don’t cut it for you! So, uh….look at these ones, you know?

Wolf Spiders Abound

nate — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:16:56 +0000

I’ve seen at least three of these in our office in the last week. Apparently their bites don’t do too much to you besides just hurt for a while. They’re still a little freaky.

spider identification chart

I totally beat emacs snakes

nate — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:42:48 +0000

That’s right, I filled the entire screen with my snake and crashed into the back of myself.

On the unloading of a CNC machine

nate — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:44:05 +0000

I and two of my friends own a company that manufactures wakeboard racks and other boating equipment. Until now, we’ve had most of the metal-working done overseas. Last weekend, we purchased a new CNC mill to help us with prototyping and touch-up work.

Our shop is located in Bountiful, Utah, but the machine we purchased was in Los Angeles, California. So, my two friends drove down to pick up the machine and bring it home.

I drove up after work to help unload the machine, and was very enthusiastic about what I saw.

The machine is about seven feet tall, just as we were told by the previous owner. Unfortunately, it is exactly 7′3″, which is three inches too tall to fit into the garage where we will be using the machine. We were tasked with the difficult feat of unloading a 4,000 pound machine, armed only with ingenuity. We considered renting a forklift, but realized immediately that any space between the bottom of our machine and the floor would make it that much more difficult to move in to its new spot.

The trailer is able to tilt and become a ramp, and so we decided that our first task would be to pull the machine off the back of the trailer without allowing it to tip over.

We built what might be termed a wedge out of a few two-by-fours, anchored against the cement foundations of the garage.

We connected a hauling strap to the wedge, and connected this to a chain wrapped around the base of the machine.

The idea was to drive the trailer right out from under the machine.

We kept the top of the machine stable with chains, and after a series of successive pulls, we would slacken the chains again to allow more sliding.

When the top of the machine was within inches of the garage entrance, we stopped to cut out a section of garage. Between the chains and the saw, and shouting back and forth as the trailer was sliding under the machine, we were making quite a lot of noise.

It was enough of a racket, and late enough at night, that the police showed up to restore peace.

We had an awful lot of tools in the garage, and a nice boat full of gear, and were unable to close the garage door. We decided to sleep out there and get up with the sun to finish the job.

In the morning, we cut out the offending part of the garage.

We removed the wedge and pushed the machine with the trailer.

As you can imagine, we left some marks on the garage floor.

The trailer wouldn’t fit into the smaller section of garage where the machine was fated to spend its days, so we pushed it the rest of the way using a two-by-four and … the truck.

With some tricky maneuvering, we got the machine right into position.

Conversations with people on the internet

nate — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:38:04 +0000

In the conversations below, I am zm1th.

naked

zm1th: currently coding naked, can see my breath and I am not cold. All my clothes are in the laundry

dandorman: @zm1th Hmmm. I am going to have to find a way to filter tweets containing the word “naked.”

zm1th: @dandorman it is my natural state. And yours. But I’ll try not to mention it too often.

kittygutz: @zm1th Heh. Your avatar appeared in my head… nude.

zm1th: @kittygutz um. This is an awkward twitter moment. But no, the avatar stays.

I included the naked conversation because I thought it was funny.

eliteeternity: About to watch Seven Pounds. Is it worth it?

zm1th: @eliteeternity Not worth it, if you value life on this earth. It is the portrayal of an impossible moral code made heroic.

eliteeternity: @zm1th hmmmmmmmm….I shall watch it.

zm1th: If you would not give your life for a stranger, why treat as a hero he who would?

zm1th: If you would give your life for a stranger, what is the moral basis for your decision? How does it supersede its brother, suicide?

zm1th: “The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.” -Ayn …all I can’t understand is the why!

dandorman: @eliteeternity Yeah, it’s worth watching. @zm1th’s points are well taken, but don’t directly apply.

eliteeternity: Crying in movies FTW! Seven Pounds was an excellent film. @zm1th @Jordanbrown @dandorman

eliteeternity: @Jordanbrown Definitely see Seven Pounds, man. Business is alright dude. Could be better, could definitely be worse. For you?

I included the conversation about seven pounds because I think it’s important.