Tristan's Blog

End of Days

2008-03-12T14:38:00.000-07:00

I have retired this blog. I noticed it was still getting hits from Blogger profile readers. Please visit http://www.tristanpipo.com if you would like to continue reading my blog.

TristanPipo.com

2006-10-31T11:56:00.000-08:00

The TristanPipo.com Blog

SpeedTest

2006-08-15T11:54:00.000-07:00

TristanPipo.com

2006-07-24T15:18:00.000-07:00

Tristan's Blog

New Blog and Site are at tristanpipo.com

What are you still doing here?

Go On! Click the Link! =)

Blog Changes of RSS

2006-06-25T09:26:00.000-07:00

Well I forgot to change the RSS feed for my blog loyalists that subscribe. If you subscribe to the Atom Feed for the blog well that feed will no longer be valid.

The new feed address is

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TristansBlog

But if you already subscribe to feedburners feed well you will just see things migrated over for you. Or you can subscribe directly at
http://www.tristanpipo.com/feed/rss2/
http://www.tristanpipo.com/feed/atom/

So I hope that takes care of everyone.

Working with Design

2006-06-22T09:13:00.000-07:00

Figured give a preview to what is in the works for TristanPipo.com since not everyone has migrated over to the new page. Come check me out.

Site Archive

2006-06-15T13:25:00.000-07:00

I was having issues with the site Archive. Providing an Update currently and they will be online shortly.

TristanPipo.com

Moving Names and Shuffle

2006-06-03T23:37:00.000-07:00

Well as things progress as they do we move on from one thing to another. I must migrate and move things hopefully onto bigger and better things.

In a sad move SiriusDude.com was going to expire and went past due. I had to decide if I wanted to keep that domain name or move on. Through some deep thought I decided to part ways with the name and it is now being removed. So any links that pointed to anything at SiriusDude.com or at the Blogger address should be moved to blogger.tristanpipo.com or tristanpipo.com/blogger if you want to link to this blog. Or you may just want to update to TristanPipo.com since that will be the next thing to move.

As we migrate I have a new name that I will be introducing in Podcast Show #9 which got put on a temp hold until I can get this name change worked on.

The new domain is.

TFactorPodcast.com

So as it currently stands it just links to the main page which works for right now. Not much on the blog front because I feel like expressing myself with audio is a much better out.

Anyways update your links and enjoy. GoodBye SiriusDude I will miss my self given nickname. And also if you have Tristan@SiriusDude.com as my e-mail address please update to tristan@tristanpipo.com or tristan.pipo@gmail.com.

Thanks.

New Podcast Show #8

2006-05-30T18:59:00.000-07:00

Well the new podcast feed link is http://www.tristanpipo.com/podcast/Podcast.xml And you can go check out the shownotes in iTunes if you are subscribed and you can go read them over at www.tristanpipo.com

I have a wonderful new female cohost in the ranks and will be having her back again soon. We tried a new way to podcast using iChat AV and Garageband 3 but as we discovered the Sound Quality wasn't that great and we didn't want to start over after our 4th take on a 50 minute run last Saturday.

We have a new episode of Frank Cumminsworth planned for Show #9 which I am not sure if I will be cohosting that or flying solo probably time for a solo run. Like to do my own show again.

Started my new job today. Must say Love It.

Anyways as I ween of this blog and onto another here is a Ringtone for Jon's Cell Phone since I forgot to post it last night.
Penn and Teller's Bullshit Theme

Stay Tuned to TristanPipo.com for the most recent up to date Blog Postings and be sure to change your feed I merged the new feed with the old one so you might see double postings. I also put the first show back on Live my 500th Post. Anyways Happy Blogging, Podcasting and Making Sweet Love.

Tristan Da Cuhna via Google Earth

2006-05-27T18:39:00.000-07:00

I thought this was a cool image to have since Google Earth finally updated and we get a clear shot of the Island Now.

Norman Borlaug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2006-05-24T22:14:00.000-07:00

Norman Borlaug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Penn and Teller - Bullshit voted that this man was the greatest man of all time. After seeing Episode 11 of Season 1 of Bullshit and reading his Wiki I tend to agree. Fuck you Greenpeace.

Post #685

2006-05-24T18:34:00.000-07:00

Well we now have some Google Ads to basically fund the hosting fees so click on an add look around they seem to be relevant to basically whatever the topics on this page are.

As always stay updated at TristanPipo.com as we slowly migrate from one source to another. tristanpipo.com/test/ will now redirect you since the test site is no longer online.

Enjoy.

The Tale of 3 Condoms

2006-05-22T22:08:00.000-07:00

What you want to read this? Holy Shit it's not here!

But it is Here http://www.tristanpipo.com/?p=659 or http://www.tristanpipo.com

Or you can just read it here. But why would you want to read it here? =p

Well I thought I would share a tale of an event that happened for a pre-birthday celebration. It all started off when I heard I was going to have a visitor coming into town and being the optomistic person that I can be I went looking in my nightstand for a few rubbers. Well it appeared that being in a dry spell and not having a need for them (Or so I thought) I must have tossed them away a while ago. They were lame anyways all colorful and crap. Even had a few black ones that wasn’t cool. So on my way to meet my guest I stopped at a grocery store. Normally I handle the purchase online and have some handy. But yeah so it was my first experience going into a public establishment to make this purchase. I guess I was lame and never made that right of passage.

Oh well so I go walking around and cannot find them in my first stop. I find KY Jelly, KY Warming Jelly, Woman Yeast Infection Stuff and cannot seem to find the rubbers. So I go out and call the trusty master of everything and he said go ask at the counter. I don’t do that because she was a rather old woman and didn’t want to be asking “Hey where are the condoms?” to a lady who probably hadn’t had sex in a while looking to be in her 80’s and didn’t want to send her into a heart attack. So I decided to go back out to my car and then she pulled up.

So well that stop was out so we go check into our room and then we go grab dinner. Then some ice cream and then we go for a nice little walk at the waterfront park having that sunset romantic time that is a cliché. So after that I go to another grocery store to get a bottle of wine. I go to scope out the goods but they are locked behind glass so I find a shelf guy and he says you can only get them when the Pharmacy is open because they are the only one that have the keys. (Okay at least they have them but most people would probably pick up condoms when there are less people around to judge them. So I am denied again. May we press forward)

So I get the wine and get back to my car and thinking where else can I go on my quest for not pro-creating but commiting the act safely. So I look at my gas tank and see that I am 3/4 tank and say “Oh I need to stop and get gas” So I find a nice gas station normally I pay by Debit or Credit Card and never go inside so I paid the way I normally do. I use the excuse I have to use the restroom. So I go in and ask for a restroom and they don’t have one. What kind of gas station doesn’t have a restroom. Oh well so I go over to the very limited health section and no condoms.
Is this what happens when a republican religous president is in charge. That a 20 something guy trying to be smart and safe can’t get a condom so that I don’t force people to pay with their tax dollars for a child to grow up and live that I didn’t want to begin with? So with 2 Grocery Stores and a Gas Station not having condoms I get in my car and start driving and think. OH WE NEED CUPS! so I find this really crappy store and go in and go hide between the soda coolers and a shelf to peer over the shelf to look at the health section and in the middle of this place there are condoms. So I am like finally. So I grab some gum. I must say that Orbit Cool Mint Gum is the best gum in the world. So I go drop them both on the counter and this what I would assume Korean lady is like do you need a bag? I said my Pocket is just fine. Then she started laughing and said “Have a fun night” I said “I will, I wish the same for you” Then I pointed at her and made a click sound with my mouth for some reason.

So if you take anything away from my story. Avoid Grocery Stores and most gas stations if you need condoms in a hurry. And hopefully a nice Korean lady won’t make fun of you either. But anyways after that the rest is history.

Podcasting and Birthday

2006-05-19T12:06:00.000-07:00

Well Mike will be joining me on Show #8 and I got asked to be a cohost on another podcast from a lovely lady in Canada. She is my age a computer science major and a Mac User!

So I sent off a note to Mike so he could see the articles I plan on talking about.

I turn 23 tomorrow and weel we shall see what happens.

On a side note here is a video from 2002 film festival that I have always enjoyed.

The Parlor

Web 2.0 Revolution

2006-05-17T23:05:00.000-07:00

As I get into the Web World a bit more I keep hearing Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is coming be ready. Hey your Web 2.0 Awesome!

Well lets talk about WTF Web 2.0 is. Basically it's a dynamic internet where content of the web is created in a dynamic fashion using stuff like Podcasting, Video Blogging, Blogging, AJAX, Flash, RSS and just all this content being created by users for users.

So how have I applied Web 2.0 in my life? Well tonight we were having a Final Review and we had a study guide. So I typed out the study guide using Writely.com and then shared the document with everyone in the class who took my work and made corrections to the study guide and in a matter of 30 mins we had a study guide with all the answers in a correct fashion that was created by everyone in the class. Now using a website that was dynamic we had a system setup for everyone to have access to a document that everyone created.

In the old times we would have created a word document and then sent it off to everyone and then we take all the documents and form one document. A huge annoying process that was eliminated tonight. Now that I got everyone on Writely we can create documents and share them and have access to information and notes for whatever we need.

WeatherMole here is another cool Web 2.0 product using Google Maps API you can click anywhere on this map and get the weather and weather forecast. No navigating you just click and your done. Totally Free and just an all around awesome idea.

del.icio.us This is my favorite addiction online social bookmarking. I find a link I add it to my page. Add some tags to organize it I can see who else has linked this document and then see what they liked and just have a giant access to information.

Frappr.com This is also a really cool site you get a visual map out of where your friends are and pictures and messages and blogs all together on one site. It has RSS Feeds and you can join groups and get a visual map of where everybody is and see who is close to you and chat with them totally fucking cool if you ask me.

Digg.com This is a pretty cool idea links that are cool get voted up by the users and it's a news site that is not run by editors but the users of the site. Very Sexy Idea to me.

ytmnd.com This is a pretty cool idea user made pages of animation and music they are short and funny. I haven't really played with this site but I like the idea.

YouTube and Google Video Now Web2.0 here we go. Users can record video upload it and share it. It's made easy and this is really cool.

Now there are sites like MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, Tagster which are online social networking sites. I am not really a fan of any of these because it does not really inspire anything original it's just more and more of the same. They are more along the Web 1.0 stuff. They have some Web 2.0 features but don't make use of them very well at all. That is why they say MySpace, etc are for the kids but soon they will want more and there is more out there. The web isn't a popularity contest like these kiddy sites are.

The web should be a portal of information and ideas which is what Web 2.0 is all about. Taking an idea and making it available for everyone. That's what Podcasting, Blogging, Sharing Photos via Flickr are all about. I have lots of ideas for writing and creating and speaking and with what is our there now it is all possible. The people that choose not to do so I float the question why? Everyone has something to say, publish, edit, create, download, upload, syndicate the only crime is that you don't.

I love waking up opening up my e-mail and checking bloglines to see what people have to say or have created or what they want to create. I totally support everyone in that venture. So everyone go create a blogger account! Make a Feedburner Feed if you want to Podcast with Blogger! Go check out Wikipedia see what something is! Just please don't post another bulletin on myspace.

Funny enough this will be a topic on the next Podcast. How much more Web2.0 can you be? =p

The TristanPipo.com Podcast Situation!

2006-05-16T20:40:00.000-07:00

Well I keep getting "When is your next podcast?" Well you are right it's about fucking time I do one. So I have hired a team of monkey's to get the audio back in action. Going to try a new into scheme.

Call in and you do the intro. Somethine witty, funny, sexy.. whatever. Movie Quotes can get lame and if you want to be featured in the intro well either Skype Me or call the voicemail line 206.973.7886 Make sure it's about 20 seconds give or take a second or two. And you will come on during the Alfred Hitchcock music.

We will not be graced with a female voice this show #8 because of some bitches flaking out. So going to fly solo with this one. Ahh the story of my life. Maybe Mike will join us or the mysterious Darin. Preston said he would be down but haven't really heard from him since his nuts got put in a vice. =p Maybe the KGB Mafia Man who the hell knows it's all so exciting maybe a cake as PINK AS POSSIBLE!

Anyways much love is sent. Also if you would like to call in a Birthday Greeting or Wish that could be cool. 206.973.7886 or call my cell phone. Which reminds me I do have a voicemail I could use... Well a few... Ahh Yes Still Call In..

Anyways in response to Dave's comment. You don't see me getting out of the car because I never filmed that and would be difficult to hold my phone outside the car from the front and get out at the same time.

Alright New Podcast next week after Birthday Hiatus for the 20th of May! Amazon.com Wishlist is on the side for those that love me enough to send a gift =p

Holy Hot Sex!

2006-05-16T16:35:00.000-07:00

Saw this and just thought I would share with those who are not so lucky. =p

Cell Phone+iMovie+Soprano's+Washington = This

2006-05-14T20:58:00.000-07:00

Well a while ago I posted This Made My Day where the Simprano's and the Soprano's did a Parody.

So I got bored and took some video of me driving around in my car and got inspired and thought. I need a digital camcorder of somekind any have a recommendation? Something that looks good and has firewire.

http://www.tristanpipo.com/podcast/KitsapSopranos.m4v

Apple Quicktime
or
VideoLan
Are Required

Skype Goes Cool. New Test is Live

2006-05-13T10:26:00.000-07:00

Also a new interface design is up at http://tristanpipo.com/test/ So feedback is welcome. Working on editing and removing some text and so forth. But I think this version is not as professional looking as the green and white and gray one that was created. So this one is a bit personal and working on getting the graphics finished and so forth.

I put in my two weeks notice at my current job. Got a new job doing what I enjoy and getting a nice little pay raise. So that is pretty sweet. Working on getting living situation and travel situated.

I noticed my last blog post started a little tension between parties involved. Since this issue is a bit of a personal one I will speak with the parties involved and get things solved.

Anyeays input for TristanPipo.com 2.0 is appreciated. Tip if Necessary. =p

Worth of a Woman's Word

2006-05-08T20:58:00.000-07:00

Shall I set the scene? I have made the claim that West Coast Girls are flakes. Generated some heat from it and then backed up my statements and got deleted off some girls myspace friends lists and some nasty e-mails. I have been accused of generalizing women and I have also been called a male pig. So where does my thinking this way come from? From the same shit happening over and over again with Women.

So Sunday this girl at work asked me to dinner for Monday Evening. I was in agreement and so today I sent a text message since that is the "cool" way to communicate instead of picking up the damn phone. Takes 20 damn minutes to have a one paragraph conversation that I could have finished in 30 seconds via voice.

So were going to a Mongolian BBQ place where you cook you basically make your own bowl of stir fry and can do it over and over again for $10.86 after tax. Tip is Extra and Optional. So she wanted to change it over to Pizza. (Why this sudden change?) I said I enjoy your friendship and will join you wherever.

So that inspired this picture.

Me and the KGB Mafia Man bet 50¢ on if this event was going to happen. He said it wouldn't I was being the optimist and said it would. I had a Dollar Bill in my pocket I could have bet it. But I had doubts and went 50¢ because that is all I felt her words were worth to me.

So then I get a phone call again she wants to bump up the dinner 2hrs earlier and bring her niece along. I am all for kids don't get me wrong but this just "smelled fishier then Oprah's Panties after a workout." -Mark Yoshimoto Nemcov (Pacific Coast Hellway). (I have been looking for a time to use that quote mwa ha ha) (Man that is wrong) But I digress.

So we get to the pizza joint and have this little girl who acts like she hasn't been around a guy that is over 6ft before and nervous but is all close to me anyways. We order pizza. It cost me $14 for a Small Cheese Pizza and a Soda. Fucking Bainbridge Island Fucks. So we get the food and then this little 2 year old pulls a drama fest and starts crying and freaking out cause she misses her mom and doesn't want to be out with her Aunt. The girl I am with freaks out gets a box and leaves. So I am sitting there eating my pizza in a WTF state. I get a phone call from her saying how Sorry she is. I said you owe me and leave it at that.

Why does shit like this keep happening? What the hell is going on in a Woman's mind that conjurs up these ideas to get out of something. I would much prefer a woman say "Tristan I don't like you. Go Fuck Yourself because you did (Example A)" but we get fed these lines of bullshit because they are afraid to be mean.

I am so tired of the "I am sick" or "I am tired" or "I have a headache" or "Sorry, I just got busy" If you don't like me that is perfectly fine. But don't feed me this giant sack of horse shit. Busy lets take a look at just being busy.

24 hrs in a Day. 60 Mins in an hour that is 1,440 minutes. Minus 8 hrs for sleep we get 960 mins. You work full time that is another 8hrs so we have on average of 480 mins of time we are not slaving away or sleeping. Then we minus out commute time and so forth and taking a piss or a dump. I will say 400 mins. Can you really not find 2-5 minutes of time to return a god damn phone call?

Oh well could I blame everything on this girl? I could have read the signs and just backed out of the deal. But I think I really wanted any attention I could get from this girl. So as much as I blame her. I have to blame myself for falling for the bullshit storm she was putting me through.

But anyways I lost 50¢ + $14 + Gas + Time man I got fucked just for a few minutes of 2 year old annoyed conversation.

Loose Change 2nd Edition

2006-05-08T01:24:00.000-07:00

Loose Change 2nd Edition

Okay this video may be a bit long for some. But it has an important message that everyone should see. I feel like my blog is turning into a political Fuck George W. Bush Site. But this link was sent from my good friend Mike England. I was watching this video half expecting the FBI to come busting in here and seize my laptop.

But it brings about a lot of interesting points that have been ignored or neglected since 9/11. I feel nothing but empathy for everyone that died on 9/11. I remember the day so vividly in my mind. I was in Indiana living my girlfriend at the time and her parents. I was sitting on the couch watching old family movies with my girlfriends dad. Then the phone rang in hysterics was my girlfriends mom saying "We are under attack" we turned over to CNN and that is right when plane #2 hit the building. I didn't know what the hell was going on.

That is when the media shit storm happened. It pisses me off that every piece of information is not out there. IN today's society where I can get anything online from a girl getting fucked by a horse to a guy who rates kids artwork at his office and says how stupid it is. The simple truth of what the hell happened is being hidden by the people that I didn't vote for into office that pick peopel who commit acts of dumb fuckery daily to tell me how to be safe. The morons eat this up like choclate because they are not willing to do our right given at birth which is free will. We are all controlled by something and that is the human mind which has been developed by daily interaction with other human beings.

I can present this link to you and you may not click on it. You may not even read this far down this post. You may click on it and see 1hr+ and go I don't have time to want to question the world. It's the question that drives me. Why? I sure as hell know religon doesn't control me. We debunked that myth ages ago. I shall save the religon thoughts for another day since that will probably spark a great deal of christian biggots flipping out on me. I am always up for a good debate. As my new favorite quote from the movie Thank You For Smoking Says. "If you know how to argue correctly you are never wrong" which basically you don't have to be right. You just have to prove the other person wrong people will focus on that issue and not worry about your message because if one person is wrong the other has to be right? Sounds like total bullshit to me but it's the way most people think.

But get out there. Educate yourselves. Use your brain other then filling out useless surveys or reading about Britney Spears and the dancer she is sleeping with. Quit staring at your neighbor and suspecting him of jerking off in your gas tank. We care about issues that don't really matter and are in constant fear of everyone. Why? Because most people use that as an outlet because they are afraid to deal with the real issues at hand. Themselves for being so god damn pathetic they can't admit fault in themselves.

I know every action in my life has been caused by myself. I don't get a job on an interview because I didn't do something. I may not have done the proper handshake, my cologne may have bothered him, he just may not like the way I smile. But it's all my problem. I don't go blaming someone else because I know in my mind it is myself and my decesions that cause every reaction in my life.

I guess in closing.
1. Educate Yourself
2. You have a voice fucking use it!
3. Quit blaming people for your own fuck ups.
4. Treat People with Respect.
5. Read My Blog More
6. Don't accept anyones norm. Make your own
7. Listen to more Podcasts
8. Republicans Are Annoying
9. Love Yourself before anyone else
10. Learn to admit you are wrong when you are. Don't fear being incorrect. Have the mindset that you can always pick yourself up. And hope that the people you have treated with respect are good enough to offer you the same to help you through the hard times.

This Post Brought to you By Tristan Pipo. Video Link from Mike England. Hosting of TristanPipo.com by FuturePoint.com Video Hosting by Google, Inc

~Fin~

The Day of Rants

2006-05-07T21:11:00.000-07:00

Well lets talk about the end of the day. I bought a book by Larry King. Better Communication with Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere. I love these books on how to communicate just being able to speak to people with a bit more flow and saying what I mean and will add to my collection of this type of self help books.

I stopped by a KFC to get my favorite cole slaw and they were out of Cole-Slaw, Original Chicken, Biscuits, Baked Beans. WTF KFC you just made the shit list! Which you have now joined with UPS, Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, MySpace and Disney.

I did see a clever bumper sticker that said "Will someone please give the president a blow job so we can impeach him" Now I found this rather clever and a bit off in a few ways. When we had a democrat in office and he got his cock sucked by some ugly chick I didn't judge him any less at a president. I don't know a guy alive who would turn down getting his johnson sucked off for any reasons other then disease. So as a husband that's fucked up to do. But they always say "Oh he lied" Well I don't know a guy that if he got caught with some girl sucking him off and asked if it happened that would say Yes about it. As Alonzo Bodden said on his CD he should have said "It Seemed like a good idea at the time" Most guys would say "Agreed when does a blow job not seem like a good idea"

I do not agree cheating on your girlfriend or wife or whatever words we make up to call a partner or a mate or whatever. Beau or whatever slang we use now days. But we didn't impeach Clinton we elected some man named George W. Bush who likes to commit acts of dumb fuckery and charge me $3.02 for a fucking gallon of gas so I also do not see anything valid about him getting sucked off and getting him out of office.

Now I am sure reading this you are thinking Tristan this is wrong. You are swearing to much. You are a liberal. Well look at life it's pretty fucked up world out there. I have seen people trading in possessions to buy gas. Who says that soon people will not start stealing gas and the first person who gets shot stealing gas what will happen?

Fucking Republican's and Money.

The Power Test!

2006-05-06T22:34:00.000-07:00

Your Power Level is: 87%

You have all the tools you need to be a success - both professionally and personally.
You'll probably go beyond reaching your goals. You'll change the world (at least a little).

How Powerful Are You?

Dumpster At Work

2006-05-05T09:48:00.000-07:00

I thought I would share this lovely picture of the spelling of the managers of the building I work at. Me and a few guys have decided that a Liouid is a creature that if placed inside the dumpster they will get angry and destroy the dumpster. Just thought everyone should be careful not to place any Liouids in the dumpster.

This Made my Day

2006-05-04T17:24:00.000-07:00

The Simprano's

Saw this reminded me how I spend every sunday night at 9pm. I thought it was rather crazy to see Ralph and a Dog spinning in a circle smelling each other. But I love that music it's shaking the room with the boom. Anyways carry on with your lives. Something new to see her later.

Here is the regular intro for those that like to compare things.

Soprano's Intro on HBO