http://vagrantant.blogsome.com Just the musings of an intrepid wanderer in his search for meaning Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:24:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As ridiculous as this is, i’ll be going on a haitus for a while… When I come back, I’ll be moving everything to…. *drum roll please* jominglau.com!! huzzah! Nothing there yet, but patience young grasshopper! Yeah, i’ve registered my domain name, and i’ve gotten hooked up with some really cheap hosting ($95, for LIFE!) ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/11/28/hiatus/ Am in some transitionary times right now… about to move into my new place, roommating with my dear friend Dear… yay! more to upload later, it’s been so long since i’ve posted properly… geez…. for now, please enjoy the following video i made! :p http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/08/19/silliness/ I’m nearing the end of my tale, finally… And only 362 days from when it actually happened! haha As I’ve said before, the photos started to peter out right around now, so it’s going to be much more text heavy, these posts… anyways, here goes: Days 9+10: Montana to Washington July 22 ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/the-end-of-the-beginning/ Day 8 - Yellowstone Park continued, and making it to the West. Having stuck around the Black Hills as long as we did, we really only had a day to check out Yellowstone in daylight. More time would’ve been nice, but with Elly, it would’ve been hard to leave the ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/07/12/land-of-fire-and-water/ Day 7: July 20th I’m on a roll here, so let’s continue with this journey! 4 more days! Morning had us on a hike around Devil’s Tower. Despite it starting to rain and gust, we just plugged on through, and it ended up being a relaly nice walk. ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/07/11/driving-high-above-and-in-the-dark-thankfully-not-at-the-same-time/ Life has been insanely busy, and I still feel like i need to finish this epic story before I can move on in my blogging life… So here goes my adventure, and today’s topic of the day was definitely ROCKS July 19 Devils Tower in silhouette Today had us driving BACK towards the ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/07/10/63/ I’m back with another installment of my Oregon Trail adventures!! Excitement abounds, with ridiculous monuments, gusts of gravity, a couple close calls, and late night pizza. So read on as we continue down the road across the plains, into the mountains, and into the badlands of South Dakota July 18 Gusts of gravity ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/04/05/gusts-of-gravity-and-funny-leaves/ Well, I certainly fell off the caboose, when it came to writing about this roadtrip… hahaha Is that even a proper term? (katie, as my personal word-sage, please correct my idioms, thanks!) Anyways, like i wrote in the last post, i’m determined to finish blogging about this trip before a year is ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/03/19/we-shall-forge-ahead-with-vigor/ Yeah, it’s sad, but this is what my blog has been reduce dto… After about a month of not blogging, i post a survey… about movies. I wish i wasn’t so braindead, geez. but when all they ask you to do is to put an X, it’s ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/03/17/60/ Wow!! this is like the greatest pet store on earth! I know where i’d shop, if i lived in San Pablo! YouTube - Wet Pets http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/02/15/youtube-wet-pets/ Whatever you do, don’t click on this. just don’t do it! But no, you just won’t listen, will you…. http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/02/05/for-the-sake-of-all-living-things/ Man, spam these days…. What the frak are they even trying to say? I know it’s absolutely nothing, but it’s just interesting how they take snippets of text from the news, and send it as spam.. I got this while I was on the job search… damn you, spam!! wow, ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/01/10/spamspamspam/ I feel like this 2006 recap and new year stuff is long past in the blogosphere, but tough beans… so here’s my recap of 2006, and a glimpse at 2007. 2006 treated me pretty well, all in all. I was able to get in a fair bit ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2007/01/05/better-late-than-never/ For once, I’m actually busy…. That’s because… I’m gainfully employeeeed!!! wee! yeay!! well sort of employed, I think…. It’s kind of a fucky situation…. I started out volunteering for Real Living Solutions, as an intern… I had found a posting on craigslist from them… Title: Want ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/11/23/busy-for-a-change/ Unique Mycenaean suit of armor due for conservation Wow, this armour was from… 3400 years ago… It really is a relic from the past, it really does make one feel insignificant, when one contemplates how the world has changed, from when a soldier put this on a product of the ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/11/11/hard-to-imagine/ Haha, these are a bit late, but thought I would share anyways… I didn’t get up to much for Halloween, just took it mellow in Seattle with Katie and gave out candy. Only 3 kids came to the door though… And we bought 3 BAGS! dammit kids, where are ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/11/10/belated-halloween-photos/ that’s basically how i’ve been lately… i haven’t really been hanging out with people much, except for my sister, and Katie… Part of it is career-induced, i think, or the lack thereof. Being in the lucky position of being able to live at home and save money, i’ve been able to ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/10/23/hermitriffic/ First day of the youth part of the food security conference just concluded… I’ve been generously sponsored to attend by BLAST (building local agricultural systems today), and I’m slightly blown away, and intimidated at the same time… So many people have done so much in their lives, to ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/10/08/first-day-impressions-food-security-conference/ As Slacktivist says it so well: “Sometimes, though, I read something interesting, bookmark the site, and then never get around to writing about it. Weeks and months pass by and the bookmarks folder gets filled to overflowing… Now there’s months of stuff stuffed in there and it’s about time to concede, ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/10/05/cleaning-up-the-attic/ Today was a pretty decent day, I guess… Woke up much later than I wanted… about 12:15 or so in the afternoon? Ugh, I’ve got to stop the stupid habit of going to bed so late… I’ve been trying to figure out what it is exactly that keeps me up ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/09/29/rant-on-food/ I’m really want to share my road trip with you guys, so i just don’t care if it’s coming in sporadically.. There’s this mental backlog, that my brain can’t deal with… haha For a recap, read Days 1+2: (Arrival and Departure) Otherwise, read on… July 16 Wisconsin Dells and reaching the ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/09/28/road-trip-revisited-day-2/ (edit: I’ve fixed the photos, having uploaded them to flickr instead of using the bogus yahoo links… so yay, pictures!) Yet again, It’s been a while… I really suck at this whole blogging thing, but yet, I don’t give up. I’m still here, kicking at the dregs of blogdom. ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/09/21/where-ive-been/ Alright, this is the “long awaited” road trip post… It’s been a friggin month since my road trip, and I’ve been trying to write it down in my paper journal for posterity.. Partly to just keep writing when I’ve got some time on the bus or whatnot… But ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/08/19/so-where-do-we-begin/ Hello world, I’ve been meaning to post earlier, and write about my fantastic road trip across the US with Katie, but alas, it has been a busybusy time. I’ve spent the last week writing in my journal just to wrap my brain around everything that we did on the trip, ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/08/06/delayed/ I got this in a newsletter I receive, and it’s a bit long, but this is one of the scariest/most depressing things i’ve read in a while, if it’s true, this is one of the scariest/most depressing things i’ve read in a while… eep. woo, global warming. Subject: Amazon rainforest ‘could ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/07/26/wow/ Off on my road trip, with Katie to help her move all the way from Erie, Pennsylvania to Seattle, Washington! S’gonna be an adventure! http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/07/14/and-im-off/ I don’t know why it took me so long to figure out…. or maybe I have been subconsciously aware of it the whole time, but I really do need to slow down my mind, and remove the distractions that keep me from self awareness. I keep giving myself ‘tasks’ ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/07/11/stasis-and-movement/ Well, I’m back in Vancouver again… It feels like I just had a weekend, but it’s only friday tommorow. It was so nice being able to hold Katie in my arms again, to have the warmth of human contact to ground us both. Damn it’s been a long ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/07/07/oh-the-drama/ Life’s going so fast these days. It’s July 5th, and I can hardly believe it. So here’s a re-cap. I swear it was just yesterday that I was getting ready to go to the world youth forum and the world urban forum. Slightly apprehensive with the prospect of ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/07/05/where-i-was-and-whence-i-shall-go/ I’m part of a flickr group for the World Urban Forum, and someone asked what my “hot button” is… the topic that I respond and relate to most strongly, what drives me, and to post one image that indicates my issue. My Hot button right now is food, food security, poverty ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/06/14/hot-button/ Wow, the weekend went quickly… I can’t believe that it’s already mid-june! the world urban forum and world youth forum is THIS week!! ahhh! and I don’t really have a clue what is happening.. eep. Things are starting to come together though, I think. Katie and I have set a date…. for her to ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/06/13/just-kind-of-random/ June’s been pretty crazy so far, and i think it’ll only continue to get crazier… The World Urban Forum (WUF) will be happening, from June 19-23, and it was established by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanisation and its impact ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/06/09/busy-these-days/ It began on a road trip with two of my good friends… we had just left a campsite, and I was about to put on my hiking boot, when i noticed an ant that had found its way in there… By now, we were a few kilometres away from ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/06/07/the-meaning-of-my-name/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Check one off…, originally uploaded by vagrantant. my list of life goals…To have a nanaimo bar leaning on a bar, by a bar(pub) in nanaimo! http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/06/06/check-one-off/ Wow, it’s been so long since I wrote in there that it just feels entirely weird… yet not entirely unnatural. Can’t believe that it’s been over two months since my last proper update. That is just ridiculous… Life has been treating me really quite well lately though… I had ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/05/25/back-to-the-land-of-the-living/ Night Bus There is a taste, a taste of sweetness sugar left in the mouth two hours too long while watching street lights streak by light trails away from there, a place of stasis; the bus stop a bus ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/night-bus/ yay, 2nd post in 2ish days… goody for me!! hehe.. So it’s pretty cool! Like I said last post, it’s an internship with a non-profit called the environmental youth alliance.. They’re a pretty cool group that does a LOT of grassroots environmental work in vancouver, concerned with youth empowerment, and urban ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/03/21/about-my-job/ The lack of blogging has been a bit due to my neuroticism towards blogging itself… I do enjoy the cathartic release that I get from it… But I feel like I have to offer too much or something. That I have to offer something meaningful. This is exacerbated ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/03/20/neuroticism/ Feeling a bit random right now… brain’s a bit zonkified from being at home for too long, i think… I’ve been in my PJs all day, even though i woke up “early”, at 9am… It gets a bit crazy when your mom is going through menopause, and is ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/02/22/a-whole-new-meaning-to-surfing-the-web/ Just because this is honestly one of the most beautiful places in the world, I’m posting another set of photos from my hike last week. There’s just something so majestic about this landscape, the way all the trees stand so proud and tall. But it’s not just the trees. ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/02/15/squamish-captured-part-ii/ Here’s something interesting I came across… It’d be cool if you guys did this! Huzzah for Valentine’s day, another day across the continent from my love… *sigh* We had a good talk online today though, about our future plans, and it felt really good… finally, there seems to be some kind of ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/02/14/tell-me-about-me-oh-and-happy-valentines/ My legs are burning… I really gave them a workout today… Went up the the Stawamus Chief in Squamish yesterday, with Joyee and Elise, and it was just the most perfect day for it… Bright blue skies, and the sun was shining on the land. It definitely felt like ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/02/09/oh-my-legs/ After a crazy weekend, I feel like I’ve suddenly hit a wall of stillness, inside of me… For a brief moment, my inner self was stirred, the mirrored surface of my psyche rippling from her visit. Katie was here from Friday night to Monday morning… So 2.5 days… ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/02/08/stillness/ Gung Hay Fat Choy, and best wishes to all of you in the Year of the Dog! What a way to bring in the new year! And if you can’t hear the drums and feel the explosion firecrackers on the ground, you’re missing half of the experience! Click the link for some ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/happy-chinese-new-year/ This is why the internet is so scary these days… I’ve always been sketched out by the power of google, in its overreaching access to personal information: During each visit to Google or any other Internet site, a visitor’s computer reveals a numerical address assigned by the ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/01/22/scariness/ Some photos from a hike in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. Proof that it’s not all concrete jungle! http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2006/01/20/photo-post-hike-in-hong-kong/ argh… can’t sleep… 5:30am, but blessed sleep just ain’t coming, it seems… It’s been like this for a while…. just so many thoughts running through my head these days, it seems… It’s like I’ve gone to bed without turning off my brain… I need to figure out how to ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2005/12/10/when-nary-a-soul-stirs-2/ Dammit, I’ve tried to code this website so that it looks good in IE, but it’s just ridiculous. My site looks just beautiful in Firefox, but IE has some serious issues… The sidebar of photos from my buzznet photos won’t show up, and there’s the most annoying white ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2005/12/01/internet-explorer-is-stupid/ The past week or so has been terribly nostalgic… It all kind of started with cleaning up the basement, find finding my old red and white Japanese-style nintendo I started playing all the old games, and then moved onto another classic, the PC Engine. And damn if it ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2005/11/29/updateupdate/ Came across this the other day… Rock, Paper, Saddam!. Teehee, so funny.. Saddam: WHATEVER. Let’s play *plays* Saddam: ROCK! Judge: TWO PAPERS! Saddam: DUDE, DOUBLE YOU TEE EFF is two papers? Judge: Two papers are better. Two papers cover the rock TWICE. That fucking rock ain’t going NOWHERE ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2005/11/14/rock-paper-scissors/ WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Knowing Nature Through Technology, Part II The idea of wiring the planet offends some people’s sensibilities. To some, it betokens a lack of reverance for wild nature. Some even seem to think that knowing more about nature is somehow transgressive. It seems to me that the ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2005/11/13/article-another-world-is-here-knowing-nature-through-technology-part-ii/ This flash music video is nifty, with a catchycatchy song! now that you’ve been aurally stimulated, some photo goodness for your viewing pleasure: Lands of cloud and fog Towering Giants http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2005/11/12/catchy-song/ Organ Printing Wow, using special printers to print organ tissue… really scary stuff, but lots of potential in questionably more ethical ways of aquiring organs for medical research, or maybe even applications in cruelty-free “meat printers”. Not the most appealing to think about, but a potentially valid route to ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/organ-printing/ I’m updating from Soma, a cafe on Main and Broadway right now, on my sister’s laptop… Mark’s sitting across from me, working away at his LSAT… i’m making a face at him… hahahahaha this laptop business is fun… It’s cool to have the change of scenery… it does make a difference… ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/hello-from-soma/ Hey, here’s the first post here!! my last blog at blogger was starting to not work… I wanted to be able to post in categories, so I can talk about random shtuff I come across on the net, and not feel silly for writing 2 sentence posts, and then feel obligated ... http://vagrantant.blogsome.com/2005/11/04/hi/