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Ultimate Mixxxx

ralphhogaboom — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:09:01 +0000

Rearranged version posted below. Better; I can dance to it now. I’m not telling you and I know guitar (ultimate mixxxx)

It has two L’s, “belligerent”

ralphhogaboom — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:34:28 +0000

Did some music with my son last night. He wanted a song so that all the animals under the sea would know it was Christmas. My mix is first, but then he wanted to put the Zapper envelope filter on everything. So his mix is second.

Christmas Song For All The Sea Animals (Ralph’s Mixxtreme)

Christmas Song For All The Sea Animals (Hott N Sweaty Nels’ Mix)

We tried a second song, but he got belligerent. So when I said “What’s the title for this one?” He said “I’m not telling you and I know GUITAR.”

Yes I Was Trying To Drive Her Nuts

ralphhogaboom — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:32:00 +0000

[1:44:12 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: How’re you on router configuration these balmy days?
[1:44:53 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: Balmy days of yore, if you will.
[1:45:10 PM] Doc Golbeck says: What type of router config?
[1:45:41 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: Either using the VLAN stuff in the powerconnect, or using a spare IP to give our conference room segregated internet access.
[1:45:58 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: It’s becoming trendy for people around here to ask for that.
[1:46:19 PM] Doc Golbeck says: It was my understanding that Jim did not want the segregated internet access in the conference room…
[1:46:27 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: Ah, that is not the case.
[1:46:33 PM] Doc Golbeck says:
[1:46:51 PM] Doc Golbeck says: Yeah because he doesn’t want people to have to VPN in to get access to our network..
[1:46:59 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: The big thing is to have a segregated network for WIFI right now.
[1:47:02 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: Yeah, maybe you’re right.
[1:47:29 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: But he is ok with both APs being used, WPA on the lan and WEP on the segregated vlan.
[1:47:38 PM] Doc Golbeck says: |-) Hoss, We just discussed that at our last big meeting and he said he didn’t want that.
[1:47:56 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: Holl, I have had several high-level and high-function meetings with him.
[1:47:56 PM] Doc Golbeck says: You trying to drive me nuts?
[1:48:00 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: No, I’m not.
[1:48:06 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: You’re clearly already mad.
[1:48:18 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: Why, I read in your employee file that you clawed your way out of an asylum.
[1:49:19 PM] Doc Golbeck says: very funny. I’m not mad but we’ve been through this before and that is what I recommended but Jim didn’t like the idea and felt that with the new wireless security it was an overkill…
[1:49:24 PM] Hoss Hogaboom says: So, this sailor walks into a bar. He has a steering wheel in the front of his pants.
The bartender says “Why’s that down your pants?”
The sailer says “Arrgggh, it’s drivin’ me nuts!”
[1:49:33 PM] Doc Golbeck says: Dios Mio!
[1:49:54 PM] Doc Golbeck says: ring ring

blood

ralphhogaboom — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:24:00 +0000

Only 7% of the world’s population has type O negative blood. It’s not the rarest; Wikipedia points out that AB- is the rarest at 1%. Still — the thing about O- is that I get treated better than everyone else. At blood drives, anyway.

What some of you plain blood folks may not know is that we get special calls.

“Is this Ralph Hogaboom?”
“Yes.”
“Hi Ralph, I’m Denise and I’m calling from the Puget Sound Blood Center. How are you today?”
“I’m good.”
“I’m so happy to hear that!”
“Thanks!”
“You’re in Port Townsend, right?”
“Yeah.”
“How’s the weather up there today? I heard you guys are in a rain shadow…”
“Oh, it’s balmy here Denise.”
“Lucky!”
“Yeah.”

Eventually we get ’round to scheduling a time for me to come in. See, when your blood is as valuable as mine, they respect your time a little more.

They also do reminder phone calls, ’cause they want my blood.

They’re also unfailingly nice at the blood center. They know I’m different than others because the check-in lady says “And here’s someone else for you … he has a 10 AM appt.”

That’s code for “He has an appointment, that means he has valuable blood. Treat this one well.”

I don’t love getting treated this way. It’s more accurate to say I looooooooooooooove being treated this way. I’m over a half gallon for the last 12 months; when I hit a gallon of blood donated, I get a new pin! I’m pretty excited.

CANT STOP

ralphhogaboom — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:25:00 +0000

I CAN’T STOP PLAYING SPIDERMAN 2 THE VIDEO GAME PLEASE SOMEBODY STOP ME BEFORE I PLAY AGAIN

"Geeg, Get This Guy A Waffle Iron."

ralphhogaboom — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:32:00 +0000

On Sunday mornings, early, we go to a place called Waffles. It’s this house in Uptown; Gary has been doing Waffles for 30 years. Every Sunday morning, it’s like open house; you show up, he feeds you waffles.

That’s the deal.

There’s between, oh, 10 and 40 people total coming and going between 8 am and noon. It’s a very Port Townsend thing, although I think Gary did it at his old house in Seattle four+ years ago before he moved here.

I’ve been trying to get a good batch of waffles ever since I lost my groove for it back in ‘02. So I asked Gary for his recipe. He has a stack of them at the ready, and he quickly equipped me with the information.

“You need to play with the recipe to get what you want, though,” Gary said.

“I’ve been playing with waffle recipes for two years now. My recipes always suck,” I said.

“You have a waffle iron?” he asked.

“Yeah,” I said quickly. “Well … it’s a plastic thingy, you know, …”

He just looked at me.

“That’s not a waffle iron,” he said. Then he called out over his shoulder to G.G.:”Geeg, get this guy a waffle iron.”

“You have a spare?” I asked, surprised at the thought that I was just going to get a free waffle iron.

“Christ, I have 30!” he said. And he wasn’t kidding. G.G. picked a good one out and now it’s sitting in my truck. I’m a bit intimidated by it, and it might be some time before I can bring myself to plug it in.