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poker night 2-19-05

Last night, in my sleep, I came up with a wierd story for a movie. I wrote it here:

http://wiki.robkohr.com/Zombie_Bob

Diplomacy

Oh forgot to put up that I played some diplomacy the other weekend.

EOG summary is here:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/NYC-Diplomacy/message/2053

Poker

I won a poker tournament at cody's this weekend!

It was tons of fun, and adrenalin was pumping at the last table. In the end I won $110.

Note to self: Jeff doesn't play well when you upset him by not playing conservatively.

Party Pictures

Posted pictures from our last party here:
http://party-2004-12-04.robkohr.com/

Images Hurray

I finely found the bluetooth usb thing for my phone, and I can download the
images off of it. Here are some my the pictures I have collected:

This
is from Cirque Du Soleil

Jenna

and her friend. We went out partying for Jenna's birthday. I like Jenna's new
glasses.
My
brother jordon somking a cig (and trying to look cool)

My
mom

Kristen
(so cute) when we visted the Natural History museum. Here is the back
and a tower of it
and our feetand
the street

These are pictures from the New Vernon auction:

Ori ->

This
was a huge spider that was in my car. He was as big as my thumb<

The
play "The Big Idea." Made me realize that I really don't like campy
plays, now on a quest to see a "good" play.

Picture of a wood carved tiki statue. This was taken a while back in wildwood.

 

Sunday - Indian Food, Tapeing, Movies

Went to Mogal for indian food for lunch. I think I am bored of indian food. It isn't that I don't like it, but it just doesn't seem that intresting anymore.

I started writing a book on wikibooks on cinematography. I am basing it off of the book "5 C's of cinematography".

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cinematography

I figure that writing a book on something is an excellent way of learning it. You try hard to get it right, and in doing so, you really learn the material. Next semester, I am going to be taking a negations course, and I think I will try to write a book on that as well.

After eating and writing, I went over to home depot and picked up some painters tape and some stuff to patch the hole in the pantry drywall (the hole was used for a dryer exhaust). Kristen patched up the hole, and I did some taping in the spare room. Then we watched some of eXistanZ. Excellent movie. Lots of reality bending story line and a weird sexual undertone. I definitely recommend for anyone that likes odd movies. It was directed by David Cronenberg who mad many other odd movies questioning reality. I think I should see some other ones he has made.

Anyway, if you want to know more about the movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/

After that we watched some southpark. The makers of southpark fed bacon and sausage to pigs during the introduction. They are some weird guys. The first show was about the planetarium and some guy trying to control the minds of the children with weird visuals. The other one was about the kids building a tree house to play truth or dare with some girls. Both were OK, but I don't think they were that funny.

I also started to download some episodes of red dwarf last night. I really like that show. I need to get my external HD out so I can use it to store some episodes. Right now my laptop is full of about 4 Gigs of seinfeld, and I have only about 1.5 gigs left.

Next weekend (after thanksgiving) I have to write a paper and a presentation for class.

Dreams and story ideas

Doctor in a phsychatric institute. Someone is trying to kill him that is a patient but he doesn't know who. When everyone is in the rec room he puts an ax in a room and everyone can see him do this (he is doing it publicly to try to bring out the killer). The killer doesn't do anything till later, he gets the ax and confronts the doctor in the hall way.

3 options:
* The killer kills the doctor
* The doctor grabs a trash can lid to fight the killer
* Does some crazy matrix bounce of the wall kick in the head move


Another dream that kristen had,
Beefy was lying on the ground and she rolled him over, to expose his belly which was made of ground beef.

Ags B-day and Wandering around NYC

Kristen and I went up to NYC on saturday. We wandered around in the rain. It was dark and beautiful. We toured around the village, and bought some stuff:

* Tea at a little asian shop that bags many different teas. It was cool and rustic
* Kristen picked up some rocks at a rock shop.

We wandered around aimlessly, and circled around many times. We went to an indian place to eat that was recommend by the rock shop lady (butch girl with dyed blond hair). After which we wandered around looking for a coffee shop to sit down and waste some time at. After circling around for a couple hours, we settled for the pink polka dot. It was a cute little place and we had some hot chocolate. After that we went up town to do karaoke at a bar with Agatha and friends (it was agatha's birthday).

It was lots of fun and I really like karaoke. I did Mony Mony, Shout, and Love shack with all of the girls. I think Amy had some fun with me and we probably will do some more karaoke sometime together.

I couldn't figure out what he would be thinking in this picture, perhaps nothing :)

Feel free to post a comment as to what you think he is thinking.

I need to write jordon!

Watched matrix last night. Great movie. I think it was way more enjoyable the first time around when you didn't know where things were headed.

Had a crazy dream where I was preparing to climb up the cliff face of a cove. After stopping at a little wooden shack that rented out the climbing equipment I headed down to the water. It was a beautiful blue and it was cold and refreshing. The cove was a deep lake that was surrounded by huge cliffs, and at the end was an opening out into the ocean. I was supposed to climb into the water and swim to the area where you climb up. When I got in the water I looked down and an orca swam up to me with is mouth open and I could see his teeth. Everyone in the group including me was scared that it was about to attack, but it stopped and I petted its head and it was happy. It stuck out its tounge and I petted that too and it was all smooth and slippery. Then a porpous came up and I petted it too. It was a pretty happy dream.

Well, it looks like 11 days was too much time for a long shot. Kerry has surrendered and Bush will continue on.

An intresting break down of exit poll results are here:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html
Shows what groups of people voted for who and why.

and for a geographic look at the nation:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/president/

We went to Lowes and picked up many things. Kristen had a 10% coupon, so we picked up a stove, refrigerator, hanging light, paint and the rest of the stuff on the shopping list.

Lowes is much better then the home depot. The staff is more friendly and helpful, and the place is much cleaner (this could of course be the individual stores).

We were going to paint, but didn't really have the time.

Kristen's family came to the new house and we ate lots of food. It was Kerry's birthday!
Kerry and played some bass. I can't wait till the office is set up so I have a place to play.

Also, it was halloween, and I dispensed lots of candy to kids this year.

Andy's car broke down and dropped it off. He thinks it has something to do with his fuel pump, and his dad is going to come work on it this week.

Andy and I played some bass. He is pretty good, hopefully I can learn some from him.

On haiku kick
Created google group
Here it is:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/haiku-english

Haikus I should use:

First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.

-- Simon Firth

The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist

-- Joy Rothke

There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge

-- Rahul Sonnad

To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy

-- Brian M. Porter

- - - - - - - - - - - -

You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

-- Cass Whittington

Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."

-- Len Dvorkin

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

-- Ian Hughes

No-one can tell
what God or Heaven will do
If you divide by zero.

- Elas Giordano

Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.

-- Jason Axley

http://www.haikucircus.com/

Just had Big Eds all you can eat baby back ribs. Feelling heavy.

Currently I have a head cold, feeling sick.

Going to briggs auction house tonight, hope I feel up for it.

Rob tired recently. Wonder why.

Down with TV.

After a long day I got home around 9pm and Kristen and I watched some TV (sex and the city). It was very entertaining, but it almost makes it irrelivant to be together. After watching an episode (another was coming on) I decided to get away from TV and pull kristen with me (with some resistance). I was successful and we got to hang out for an hour before going to sleep.

The way I figure it, TV probably does cause harm to families. Time spent watching TV together is far from spending time together. No connection is felt other then the common experience of seeing something.

TV is also very attractive. Something is always happening and happening quickly. Look away from TV and you are suddenly faced with the desire to look back, since nothing is happening around you.

Probably the least appealing thing about TV for me is that there are no intresting stories. I am continually scanning channels for anything even remotely intresting. Part of watching TV seems to be the experience of digging for anything good among a sea of crap.

I think there is a big difference for watching a video (vhs, dvd, whatever). The story pulls you in, not the flash and the possibility that you might have found something good in the sea of crap. There is something much more satisfying about it.

Down with TV

I need food at home. The empty refrigerator is a sad sight. Kristen has
taken to bagels in the morning, which are OK, but I like eggs. I should
think of other things to eat in the morning instead of eggs and toast.
What do people eat for breakfast? Not really into cereal, maybe grits
would be good. Bacon and sausage are too much. Well, maybe sausage
would be good.

I have filled up my phone with images for this blog, but my usb
bluetooth devise is in a box and I can't get to it until I unpack :( Oh
well, some time next week (hopefully) I will post up about 10 images on
this blog.

Need more food choices at student center.

I Slack too much when I have to write a paper.

So I went to the med center today (they have a cafeteria that is close to work) to pick up coffee. The coolest thing happened, someone bought me coffee. I was helpful to her and told her where milk was. I had cinimenon(sp) in my coffee and she liked the smell, and I told her about using cinimon (again sp) in coffee insted of sugar. Well, she must have liked my casual friendlyness towards strangers, and when I was at the register, she had the cashier give me my money back and paid for me. Very cool! I thanked her and when I was walking away, I heard her say to her friend, "He was such a sweet man." :)

packing packing packing

The entertainment center has been put into boxes. Now we have to move!

We have picked couches and furniture. Unfortunately they don't get
delivered till February. Thats ok, I think sitting is over rated.

I love sunny weather. I think it is time for a walk, after coffee.

Note to self: don't go to the dining hall for omelets again. They taste
fine, but take forever to get. Also $6 for breakfast is too much.

Mmmmm time for lunch... I think chinese today.

Kristen and I did the final signing of the contracts for the house
today! Maybe we will close on time.

The lawyer's office was completely devoid of computers. It felt kind of
odd to be in a computer-less office. I like it. maybe I will become a
lawyer. He had a huge amount of legal reference books all around the
walls. They create a nice warm feeling.

Here are all of my old posts (that I maintained on my website) put into one post here:

August 25, 2004

Well, it appears that I am a pretty slow blogger. Recent happenings:

• Had one movie makers group meeting. Went pretty well


• Buying a house (a very expensive diffuclt process)


• Selling a condo (only need to live in one place)

Also put up contact info page.
You can find all different kind of ways of stalking me there.

Soon I will be starting up 3 classes. Perhaps it will make me stronger.
Hopefully it won't kill me.

Ok, back to work. . .

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June 1, 2004

I just started a movie making group. I am pulling people together through
craig's list and using yahoo groups as a forum. I also set up this
site.

I figure this will be a fun hobby to start on. I always loved watching
movies, I figure it might be intresting to make some.

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May 31, 2004

Kristen and I took Cody and Vivian up to Mount
Fuji restaurant.

The food is excellent. The specialize in hibachi, but their sushi is
delicious. Beyond the food the place is beautiful.

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May 23, 2004

Went up to play diplomacy in nyc and had a good time despite losing quickly.
This is the only picture from that trip:

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May 19, 2004

Just bought a new cell phone,

It is pretty cool, and has a camera on the back

So I am going to start a little blog here with images from places I visit.

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May 1, 2004

 

Added links to current RUCCS projects. I also added a link to my wishlist.

I will be having a poker night sometime soon. If you would like to be
on the list, send me an email

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Dec 31, 2003

Put up this fine web site I also put together my image gallery. Feel
free to browse around it and leave comments and stuff.

A little while back I had a video game night. I put the photos of that
night here.
It includes the final scoreboard of tournament.

Happy New Year!