Blog archives

A collection of all the nonsense I've posted to the internet over the past 25 years of my blog life

  • Mid September Happenings posted - 2 comments

    Ahhhh, a laid back weekend with a hint of craziness, a nice change. Plus it was especially nice to get treated to a great meal and night of going out - much thanks to Jeff. So Friday Kari's fam showed up, we hung out, played video/board games, ate pizza, had homebrew, etc. My body was confused by the relaxation and wanted insanity, but it worked out. Saturday we were lazy for the most part then did a little shopping... read more

  • Massive Need for Tech Upgrades posted - 3 comments

    Man. This house is in so much need of tech upgrades, it's ridiculous. My PC runs decently but it's now over 4 years old (9/2/2002). I started noticing the suckiness a lot lately because I am constantly running out of room on my secondary HD, which is primarily used for media (photos, videos, music, etc). I mean, I have an 80gig primary and a 120 gig secondary... read more

  • Google Index and Sitemaps posted - 7 comments

    I'm really confused about Google's index. I used to think I understood it really well, but now that I've gotten into this sitemaps business, it's much more confusing. I mean, Google had www.cedarrapidsalive.com indexed fairly well shortly after I released it. Then I added the link to Google Sitemaps (without submitting an actual sitemap) in an attempt to get the pages picked up faster. It made things worse... read more

  • Sprained/Hurt/Broken Wrist posted - 2 comments

    Hmm, so I've done enough extreme activities and hurt myself enough times that I keep a couple of those wrist/ankle/knee wraps around - and today I'm wearing one, haha. Stupid wrists. See, Zach and I were skating last night for quite a while. I was finally starting to stick a couple grinds that felt super unnatural to me before. It was going well... read more

  • omg, I hate Walmart posted - 1 comment

    Seriously it is soooo ghetto. I usually try to avoid it at all costs. But I came in today to return some headphones that I got in florida and didn't like - it straight sucked. I sometimes forget how ghetto and sucky Walmart is, and then I return only to regret it - immensely. And you know what the worst part of walmart is? read more

  • Drive, Party, Demo, Drive posted

    So, this weekend I went to Chicago for a few minutes, which will put an end to a month straight of weekends I was out of town - without Kari, haha. Rochester, Minneapolis, Orlando, and Chicago. Traveling without Kari was a little weird, a little lame, but also nice. We both enjoy time with each other as much as we enjoy time without each other. However, 4 weeks in a row may be a little excessive... read more

  • I Travel... posted - 5 comments

    ...seen the Grand Canyon 66 times, spittin wicked sh*t rhymes. So yeah. If you didn't know, I had this Map that kept track of everywhere I've traveled to. It made use of the Google Maps API (v1) and was fairly ghetto. So I upgraded to v2, used xml, and integrated it into derek.broox.com... read more

  • Steve Irwin posted - 6 comments

    If 1 more person asks me if I heard about the crocodile hunter dying from a stingray barb to the heart, I am going to punch them. I was in Orlando, not space. Tanner sent me the CNN story Saturday. I know about it. read more

  • Kevi Lives in Florida Now posted - 3 comments

    Ok so, kevi totally changed everything in his life up again with a new place to live, new job, and new gf... Imagine that. In fact he still owes me a case of dewski for winning this bet... how long were you at yellow book? 2 months how long were you at the hospital? read more

  • Canon Rules, FedEx Drools posted - 1 comment

    Ok, so Canon fixed my cam for free, woot!. It was actually really a fast fix and they sent the cam back to me yesterday... So I checked the tracking status today and was quite surprised to find that my cam was supposed to be delivered today... just in time for my trip to Orlando tomorrow! I then checked it again at 11am and found this: Sep 1, 2006 | 10:12 AM | Delivery exception | CLIVE, IA | Customer not available or business closed So I called FedEx just like I normally do with UPS to let them know I want to pick my package up... read more

  • Internet Neutrality - Save The Internet posted - 6 comments

    Hmm. I sort of said, "yeah right" when I first heard about this this morning. Because netrality and freeness is really what the internet is all about. And I rarely like to stand behind causes - but since internet is what I do... this one seemed scary enough for my attention... read more

  • Minneapolis Birthdays posted - 2 comments

    Welp, as most of you know, Nathan, Chuck, and I went up to Minneapolis this weekend, which started out as a birthday bash for Josh, but ended up being a celebration of all our birthdays. Mine's in August... Nathan's is in June, and Chuck's is in November, haha. On the way, we ended up making a last minute pitstop into Clear Lake to pick up Monica and drop her off at her BF's place just outside of the cities. We got to our hotel around 9ish, which was in a pretty rough part of downtown - greyhound station, dudes getting handcuffed, etc... read more

  • Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred. posted - 41 comments

    This error has been forwarded to MySpace's technical group. Why does MySpace suck so bad? Seriously. It's horrible. I think I see that message more than whatever it is I'm actually trying to look at. read more

  • Character Flaws posted - 3 comments

    This is going to be so "college" and "lame" and "sappy" and "retarded" of me. So I apologize up front. I've been meaning to write about this since the first time I saw SLC Punk, which was some time in college. In the movie, there's a quote by the main character, Steve-O (Matthew Lillard), that was interesting to me. Actually there were several quotes that sparked some thought - which is weird for such a "B movie," but this one in particular really got me... read more

  • Rochester Knockdown posted - 5 comments

    Welp, Rochester was pretty rad. We tried to hit all the hot spots in 1 night, which made things quite insane. It ruled though because everything was pretty much within walking distance. So we started the night off by eating at Newt's. I had heard that Newt's has the best burgers in town... read more

  • Wang's Auto Insurance posted - 1 comment

    So, my Car Insurance only went down $10 a month... booo. Maybe it will go down more when Kari is 25 too. On another note, I really love the Asian Market. There are always interesting things there, plus everything is always spelled wrong... read more

  • New Broox Dot Com posted - 1 comment

    Oh yeah, I redid the home/splash/main/whatever page for www.broox.com. I figured that after over 3 years of that blue design, it was time for something new. Plus I don't wear suits, I have facial hair, I'm cooler, etc. However, I'm not quite ready to admit that I don't skateboard. P.S... read more

  • Parties, Newton, Fair, etc. posted

    Things have been pretty fun lately, busy again, but fun - and slowly becoming more insane. Friday night was Zach's housewarming party, which was quite nice. Saturday, Jeff and I made 2 batches of beer, which I'm pretty sure will turn out awesome. We were focused on these batches, I'm excited. Afterwards, we all went to Newton to celebrate Morris' 80th B-Day... read more

  • Old and Boring @ Twenty Five posted - 4 comments

    What an insane birthday. Seriously. And now that my life is 1/3 over, my insurance should go down now, ha. W00t. Ok... read more

  • I accidentally shaved my head again posted - 10 comments

    hahaha. Omg. So I just decided to trim my hair down to about an inch long with my clippers. However my long hair kept clogging them so I took the attachment off to clean the blades. Instead of putting the attachment back on I simply slammed the open clippers into my head - taking a big gouge out... read more