November, 2005


30
Nov 05

What does $908.99 get you?

I went to the NMFF Travel clinic during lunch today and got my final Hepatitis A/B vaccine shot (3 shots over 6 months). Today’s tab for literally 3 minutes worth of time was $168. Looking back over my notes, I’ve spent $908.99 on immunizations this year. I figure that this entitles me to never get sick ever again otherwise I will have to kick someone’s ass. My left arm is particularly sore from the shot. :(

This is what I’ve recieved immunizations for:
Hepatitis A/B. Three shots over 6 months at approximately $150 a shot. Supposedly good for forever.
Diphtheria/Tetanus. Another shot supposedly good for forever.
Meningitis. Only good for 3 years.
Polio. Good for the rest of my lifetime.
Typhoid. The shot is only good for 2 years whereas the pill (4 pills in 7 days) is good for 5 years. Why get the shot? Fuck if I know.
Yellow Fever. Good for 10 years.

Oh, and you get a free yellow WHO book with all of your immunizations.


28
Nov 05

Camera geekin’

Drew asked me yesterday what I’ve spent in accumulating my my beloved SLR and I sat down and did the costs yesterday. Fuck, it’s a lot. I had no idea going into it that I’d be throwing down mad cash like you wouldn’t believe on lenses and other accessories. I probably should have stuck with a cheaper habit, like cocaine.

So, this is what’s in the arsenal:

Canon Digital Rebel XT (black)
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens
Canon EF-S 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Zoom lens
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Telephoto Zoom lens
Canon Speedlite 430EX

and 5GB in CF cards.

The sad thing is that I’m just budget prohibited at the moment. I’d love to go to a 20D and upgrade the lenses to L series lenses (I am in love with the Canon L 100-400mm lens).

In a way, I’m justifying this as in an investment in my travels. I’d love to come back with kickass photos that I could send out as gifts (because everyone loves objets d’art).


28
Nov 05

Love only lasts a year

It’s official. According to Psychoneuroendocrinology (via the Beeb).


27
Nov 05

Boredom

You know it’s a boring Sunday in my life when I make a short movie. lol (right click and Save As, because for some reason WMP doesn’t play nicely although it plays fine in Firefox – go figure)


27
Nov 05

Getting to know Hawkins

While I spend my Sunday morning watching DVDs of Benny Hill from Netflix, I figured that I’d open up the book to all 3 blog readers and let them ask any questions they wanted to know about me or in general and I will answer them. This should be fun and entertaining.


26
Nov 05

Pictures

I forgot to post my pictures from Dublin. They’re up at Fotki.

Oh and I updated my 2005 route map and added the 2006 route map as well.


24
Nov 05

Thanksgiving ramblings

I survived Thanksgiving and am looking ahead at what I should get myself for the Festivus holidays. Besides a new knee, a raise and respect, I think I will head to Buenos Aires for 4-5 days in February and then think of something else in late February because I am on call in March and probably can’t leave the country like I normally do. This brings up another dilemma.

When dating someone new, do you “forward look” to think, wow, I might have to bring this person along on my trip or do you just plan it first and then if it survives that long, then plan to bring the new chica? Knowing me it won’t last until the first day of Hanukkah but still I like to plan ahead.

I did get a Dell 2405FPW LCD for my desk at home. I am now the proud owner of a 24″ bundle of joy that gives me more screen real estate than I know what to do with.

I also did order a remote for my Digital Rebel XT from Amazon.com. What’s awesome is that NOTHING WAS IN THE FUCKING BOX WHEN IT ARRIVED. Well, just the sales receipt, but NOTHING ELSE. A few emails to Amazon.com’s outsourced customer service department and it’s all resolved, but still – wtf?


24
Nov 05

Does it make me a bad guy if….

I really really loathe tattoos on women?


22
Nov 05

Gems of the Internet

Top 30 Random Vin Diesel facts:

When Vin Diesel drinks pee, his asparagus smells funny.

If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it reveals his credo: “I End Lives.”

Vin Diesel was scheduled to be Stalone’s stunt double in Rambo, but he was replaced after refusing to wearing a parachute when jumping from the plane.

Crop circles are Vin’s way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the fuck down.

There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Vin Diesel allows to live.

When Vin Diesel goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.

There is no “I” in team. There are two “I”s in Vin Diesel. Fuck you, team.

When Vin Diesel was born, the nurse said, “Holy crap! That’s Vin Diesel!” Then she had had sex with him. At that point, she was the third girl he had slept with.

Vin Diesel coined the phrase, “I could eat a Horse” after he ate every last unicorn in existence.

In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Vin Diesel could use to kill you, including the room itself.

Vin Diesel once walked down the street with a massive erection. There were no survivors.

Vin Diesel has always been able to find Waldo, except for one time. He found himself stumped on the last page of Where’s Waldo Now?, not being able to find the Waldo without a shoe. He threw the book down and screamed, “This is BULLSHIT!” They’re all wearing shoes.” He then proceeded to eat the book and exclaim, “IF I CAN’T FIND WALDO, THEN NO ONE CAN!” The book he ate belonged to a child that he had borrowed it from. The child began to cry and Vin ate him for good measure. The incident has since been refered to as Christmas.

Vin Diesel is the reason why Waldo is hiding.

Vin Diesel has two speeds: walk and kill.

Vin Diesel is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.

Vin Diesel once beat Super Mario Bros 3 without even touching his Nintendo controller. He just yelled at his TV in between bites of his “Filet of Child” sandwich, and the game beat itself out of fear.

When Vin Diesel jumps into a body of water, he doesn’t get wet. The water gets Vin instead.

Vin Diesel doesn’t believe in rubber condoms. Instead, he sticks his penis in a girl, and uses that girl as a condom while fucking another.

Vin Diesel can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.

If you were to lock Vin Diesel in a room with a guitar, a year later you would have the greatest album ever, it would sweep the Grammy’s. When asked why he doesn’t do this Vin replied “Because Grammy’s are for queers.” Then he ate a knife to show the seriousness of his response.

Vin Diesel was the hunter who shot Bambi’s Mother. He then wore her carcass like it was a coat while he made his rounds at the local children’s hospital.

You are what you eat. That is why Vin Diesel’s diet consists entirely of bricks, steel, and the tears of small children.

In fine print at on the last page of the Guiness Book of World Records it notes that all world records are held by Vin Diesel, and those listed in the book are simply the closest anyone has ever come to matching him.

Vin Diesel is not lactose intolerant, he just refuses to put up with lactose’s shit.

Vin Diesel can divide by zero.

On his birthday, Vin Diesel randomly selects one lucky child to be thrown into the sun.

Vin Diesel once ate the entire cake at a bachelor party before anyone could tell him there was a stripper in it.

Vin Diesel invented black. In fact, he invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Tom Cruise invented pink.

It takes 14 puppeteers to make Vin Diesel smile, but only 2 to make him destroy an orphanage.

The eternal conundrum “what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object” was finally solved when Vin Diesel punched himself in the face.


21
Nov 05

War wounds

In addition to getting thoroughly sick on Friday, feeling like shit like I have the flu still today, and managing to twist both ankles, I got bit today at lunch by someone who shall remain nameless. Let’s just call her “Bitey.” See, Bitey got pissed at me for picking up the check for lunch even though I got my entree for free so I was just being nice. So she responded by trying to get the check from me and then biting me when I got my way.

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