so i was playing around with my leds tonight cause i wanted to take a well desreved break and i had a 9V battery explode in my face. It's a damn good thing i wear glasses cause they caught most of the debris. From now on i'm wearing goggles while doing electronics. This is the second time I've had something explode in my eye. I guess that's what I get for messing around with things that I don't really have any training in.

so i was reading that last post from forever ago. just to finish what's up with this awesome laptop of mine. The rebates never went through because my mom's friend used our home address for her rebates because she lives in mexico and now they have a one rebate per house policy... retarded...

anyway life is pretty good. this semester is almost over and i have lots to do over the summer. my friend got me into a research program at school so how i get to spend 30 hours timing sperm races, wooo! I also have to study for the DAT (dental admissions test) and take that, spend some time shadowing a dentist (lurk), apply for dental school, and i'm teaching two kids chemistry and two other kids geometry. As for fun stuff that I want to do, I just won the bidding ($10) for the domain that I wanted, so I am now the owner of www.micepaste.com (say it out loud a few times if you don't get it) and now I want to learn how to use dreamweaver to build my awesome site. I think I'll just put like different sections concerning different hobbies of mine like knitting, bike building, electronics, snowboarding, photography, crazy videos, music, umm and much more. I always forget what all of my different hobbies are when I try to name them off the top of my head. It should be a more interesting view into all the things that are Ari than an online journal or myspace could do. Pretty much it's my ego online! I'm hoping that with such a free space to be creative as I see fit I'll be more inspired to do things that would add to the site.

I also want to build more bikes and more lights and hopefully sell a few. I want to build a fixed gear bike, but because I refuse to buy into the trend what I want to do is build the frame from scratch which will probably require me to now learn to weld aluminum if I want to make it lightweight. I love it when people say to me "hey nice bike!" and then I can respond "thanks, I built it!"

One of my friends, Alek, is moving back to LA this summer after his trip to Europe. I'm really looking forward to that cause I think we're going to spend a lot of time hanging out. Alek, Lars, and I have known each other since 5th grade and we're still the best of friend. He's been doing the equivalent of midnight ridazz in san luis obispo for the past few years and wants to continue it down here in LA with me. Also he's pretty athletic so hanging out with him means besides bike riding we're going to do the rings at the beach regularly and he's going to teach me how to surf cause I've been saying that he's gotta do that for years. Hopefully after all this working out I won't be just a skinny boy anymore, but a skinny strong boy now :O)

Oh yeah and I'm going to knit my friend Lauren that "About a Boy" hat once summer starts and go see her perform. That should be fun.

Ummm yeah that's enough for now, I should really be studying for finals. All I have left for this year is a class tomorrow morning and then two finals next week!

I can't sleep, I've got mimes on my mind.
Got some ideas for shirts or illustrations, or something, I dunno. Tell me what you think.

Mimes:

1. The original emo
   
2. Do it in silence
   
3. Don't use props
   
4. The silent assassin
   
5. MIME ATTACK!!!
   
6. What have they got to hide?
   
7. I don't trust 'em
   
8. Have all the right moves
   
9. College dropout
   
10. Fart, silent but deadly
    
11. don't use parachutes
    
12. WHY?
    
13. I don't get it...
    
14. Are good at keeping secrets
    
15. Usually do it alone(?)
    
16. Will work for food
    
17. Taste like chicken
    
18. Play with their imagination
    
19. Learn to draw bitch
    
20. Pictionary is better
    
21. Can't afford props
    
22. Two-tone
    
23. Waste of flesh
    
24. It's ok to kill mimes
    
25. Get a Job!
    
26. Get allllll the ladies
    
27. Rock
    
28. xcore
    
29. pwnd
    
30. lol
    
31. Goy
    
32. The other white meat
    
33. passed out drunk
    
34. Are human too
    
35. Might be robots
    
36. Vs. Pirates and Ninjas
    
37. Riding an imaginary horse
    
38. An evolutional dead end
    
39. The next level of consciousness
    
40. Won't call you back
    
41. Live under my bed
    
42. Invented the internet
    
43. Only a figment of your imagination
    
44. Dress normal on halloween
    
45. Hate goths
    
46. Can't sing
    
47. Smell like cheese
    
48. Hate me
    
49. Pee into the wind
    

It's amazing how versatile the mime is as a character. I personally like the "lol", maybe because it's like you can laugh at them and they can't laugh out loud. Ok, I'm going to try to sleep again now.

I can't find my pocket notebook. I'm so sad without it. I had so much in there. Well none of it was really of much importance I guess, but it already had a lot of sentimental value in the couple of pages that were filled with notes, quotes, drawings, and addresses.

Summer is going quite well. It seems like I'm spending most of my summer at home, in manhattan beach, in movie theaters, and at the knitting factory. I really should bring my knitting there one day to work on while I listen to music. I don't really like knitting in public, you'd be surprised at how much a guy could get picked on for knitting.

Someone sent me a text message at 2:30 am saying "We wanted to watch the sunset but we watched the wrong side... it just became light." Kind of random eh? I should call the number and find out who sent it.

Tonight I went to my first midnight riderz. It was awesome. There were probably 200-300 people there out riding their bicycles through downtown LA. People would stop traffic so that we never had to stop on our route which was cool. For some reason that doesn't seem to be illegal. There were lots of police around just watching mostly. A lot of people were dressed up all funky and had crazy bikes and everyone was really friendly. They do this the second friday of every month in a different location. I don't know how exactly to find out about where it is other than my friend who invited me. The whole trip was only about 10 miles at a nice slow easy pace. I could have gone on longer and faster, but my brother took his cruiser and was having a hard time. At the end he looked like he was going to pass out and I had to drive home.

As I was riding in this huge group of people I just kept thinking to myself how great it would be if we all got around like this. It was so chill and there was so much room since we were the ones running the cars off the road, not the other way around. I realized though that people probably enjoy the privacy of being in a car way too much to ride shoulder to shoulder with other people as a way to commute. I found myself frequently turning to whoever was next to me and just talking to them a little. It's also cool because it was like a giant moving party on the street. I want to find those instructions online that I saw once where they show you how to set up LED lights on the bike so that as the wheels rotate they animate images. The cool example they had online was having on the back tire pac man and on the front tire the ghost dude that way as you ride it looks like pac man is chasing the ghost.

So I just completed my first BEAMbot. It's the simplest one possible because I'm just learning, but it is already quite the little bugger. It's sitting on my desk spinning around and moving whenever it collects enough energy to do so. Of course it can't do much since pretty much it is a single electronic neuron, but it's cool how it relates to life. It has no off switch and runs on energy it finds and I have no control over it other than being able to move it and modify it for better or for worse, so in a way it is alive. The difference between my bot and real life is that this can't replicate and evolve on its own. In a way my knowledge is the evolution of my bot. If i lose interest its species dies out, and if I continue to have an interest in learning how to make better ones and improve on the design then it gets to multiply and evolve. Craaaazy!!

Check it out

Cute huh?

I just completed my first screen print! It took me a while of running around getting different things that i realized that i needed, building specialized equipment because i'm way to cheep and creative to pay for it, and making tons of mistakes and learning. I'm pretty excited about it. If you got any cool ideas of things i should do with my new skillz let me know.

Peace.

Sooo... I've decided just now after writing an entry that I'm not going to post anymore journals for the public to read on lj anymore. I'll just use it to read a couple of my friends' journals and post comments to them and write my own journals but keep them private. I pretty much just feel sorry for anyone who takes the time to read my journals cause they're getting pretty lame and I just want to write for me. I already have a ton of private journals and really I feel that most of the other ones should have been private too. I guess I'm just going to write on here because this is what I associate as the place for me to write my thoughts and I can continue to keep them all together here. Maybe every now and then I'll post some sort of major update on my life, like if i get married or something. Who knows, maybe I'll miss the attention of having people read my journals and leaving comments.

most of my day is summed up here in erika's journal.
Hmmm anything to add... besides that erika woke me up this morning (afternoon) asking me to hurry over and pick her up asap which was a shock, but i'm a good friend so i did all that i could to help.... I had a pounding head ache almost all day, but it seemed to go away the more i ate, so that was good. After I hung out with erika i went to see ice age 2 with robert. it was thoroughly dumb, though i do like the squirrel dude skits cause they remind me of looney toons. I've also been having a lot of anxiety this weekend... dunno why... been feeling good for too long i guess.
on friday night i hung out with my friend ilana, we saw failure to launch, which i could relate to being 22 and still living at home (at least i'm not 35). i thought it was pretty funny. Afterward we came back to my house and got freaky... with needles... jk i taught her how to knit. while she was working on that i started making my brother a camera strap like i made for myself. on saturday some family came over. for some reason a whole bunch of them thought they weren't invited so only 3 people came, which was kinda weird. i think it was because we invited them over just to be nice instead of having a reason like a birthday or holiday like usual and they were freaked out cause they're crazy. afterward i had a choice between going to a bar with some friends and not drinking, going all the way down to mb to hang with lars for an hour or so or playing video games with my dad. I chose to play with my dad. I got Oblivion for his computer (cause he has a pc, i don't) and he wanted to learn how to play it so i've been sitting with him and helping him along, it's funny. considering that i grew up without video games this is quite different from what we're used to doing together, but he really likes it so that's cool.
Oh i have a picture from today to share.

This reminded me of the comment a while ago where beth said she was nucking futs in high school. i wonder what it means??

I realized that my cat is just using me for my laser pointer and that's why she hangs out with me so much. I feel so used, I thought we had something special. I wish I could just play with my laser pointer without her showing up and making it about playing with her. Maybe all relationships are just based on using each other and seeing how long it will last. Life is just full of disappointments. But I can't help but love her anyways.

Now she's laying between my arms on my desk as I type this and purring, maybe I was wrong about all that.

Oh and in case you were wondering, no, this was not a metaphor for anything. It is what I say it is.

Yay! I'm officially the boss of someone now! Hehe I have my own personal assistant who will do whatever I want muahahahaha! I wonder if I can get her to do my work for my online classes for me? This should be fun.

Ok that's all.

Bye.

This is actually something that I was thinking about a week ago, so I decided to write it down and share it. It's about shoes... well shoes and girls actually... well shoes and girls and the guys who wear the shoes...

I was hanging out in the bathroom philosophizing, like I usually do, and I looked down at my shoes, my Chucks, and started to think about them. First of all Chucks should always be named Chuck. I'm one of those crazy people who likes to name is favorite objects. My car's name is Vash, my computer's name is Chii, my old laptop was named Betty, and my favorite calculator is named Sara and of course my shoes are Chuck and Chuck: my Chucks. I recently researched the whole history of the Converse company and its name and whatnot. Did you know that 60% of Americans own or have owned a pair Converse making it the most popular shoe in history, and the design of the shoe has not changed since 1926 except for adding new colors?

Anyways, I got my Chucks back in August in 2004, so they're getting pretty old and tattered. Actually they already started to look old and tattered after only a few months, but I love them because they are comfortable and have memories (anything with a name has memories of course). Many people tell me that I should get new shoes and a new pair would be the same, but I don't want to... and this is where I get to the thoughts that I had in the bathroom.

You know how they say that the first thing that girls notice about a guy is their shoes, so guys have to wear shoes that impress girls and stuff? Well I was thinking about what my shoes would say to a girl. The average girl might look at my shoes and go "oh yuck! he's a dirty, cheep, slacker" or something like that 'cause, you know, girls say "yuck" a lot. Luckily if that's what she thinks, I wouldn't be interested in her anyway. But if you think about it my shoes say something a lot more meaningful about my personality. It shows that when I love something I am truly committed to it to the very end. I even felt bad when I cheated on them and got a new pair. I wore the new ones for a while, but it just didn't feel right. Maybe it was because I missed my old shoes, maybe it was because they were a half size too small, I don't know. I've gone through many shoes in my life time to reach these ones. Some of them I liked very much and also wore for long periods of time, but when it comes to me and my chucks, it's true love.

Of course one day my Chucks will have to retire. I don't think I'll ever be able to wear a different pair of shoes, so I will just wear moccasins that I will make out of the skins of animals that I hunted and killed... oooooorrrrr remember to get the right size next time, I don't know.

The G-Drive is a success!! that's what they call it, a g-drive. it's an antigravity device that's made from balsa wood, tinfoil, copper wire, and the power supply from a computer monitor (25,000 volts). it's quite simple and at the same time so amazing. check it out yourself at americanantigravity.com . Today i built one...well actually two, but the first one didn't work and i accidentally dropped a heavy board on it and crushed it. but the second one worked perfectly...well almost perfect, it flys off to the side a lot...i'm still trying to determine why it does that.
i noticed one thing though. for kicks i decided to turn out the lights and cover the monitor to see if any visible photons were emitted, and to my surprise there were tons of the. the most beautiful light purple you ever saw...i noticed that the side that wasn't lifting well had this broad streak of them going from the corona to the skirt. i also noticed that it was that band of particles that was making the infamous hissing sound the g-drive makes. my hypothesis is that a more efficient g-drive will not make any sound or produce any of these purple photons...only thing is to figure out why it was making them there and not anywhere else!
also i wonder what is the purpose of the skirt? i'll try making one w/o a skirt and one w/ a small skirt to see what happens.
another interesting thing i notices was the amount of air..or wind.. it produced. i could distinctly feel air blowing from the bottom...maybe it's coming out from all around. i don't know...yet

ERIN'S PROM IS TOMORROW!! EEEEEEE!!!! I'M PACKING RIGHT NOW FOR TOMORROW MORNING'S FLIGHT! EEEEE!!!!!!

haven't written in a while. getting tired of this journal thing again. still reading others and posting comments. stuff's ok in life...going to a third prom this year next week. friday is erin's prom, i'm spending the weekend in sac w/ her :O)

saw a show w/ nathan tonight. it was at a neat little place called Largo...i had an interesting pasta dish there. i wasn't really ready to order, so i just ordered the thing that looked the weirdest since everything was the same price.... i had fun being "the guy w/ the tapper" pretending that i knew what i was doing. got some jew pride from our proformer we saw...damn i forgot his name again....he was good, a lot of his stuff sounded the same, but it's hard to be different when all you got is your voice and a guitar and 2 hours to kill. i'm so freaking tired i have no clue what i've been saying for the last hour or so....i believe i just told dov he could go to mexico w/o me and with his friend instead, if he'd just leave me alone...didn't talk to erin today :O(
randomness is fun
last physics lab is all done for me!
i wish i could've done an internship this summer...maybe dr. collins could hook me up w/ something...damn need to study biology
....drifting...drifing into sleep...maybe that's why i call it the snooze mix...
if anyone could make any sense of this entry let me know :D
sponge bob square pants
i've already lost 50% of my audience by now...muahahahaha...got my tux today for erin's prom. it was funny, turned out that nathan and i were both getting fitted at gary's tux shop at the same time at different locations in northridge.
ok enough rambling, you must be bored. congratulations on reading my whole entry!

i'm such an idiot..so today i was walking from physics class to my bike and i notice a bulitin board w/ summer internships for physics majors and i started flipping through them. they said they'd pay $3000 to $5000 for 10 weeks work, plus you can stay in the dorms for free, free food, and travel expenses paid. i got all exciting and went home to look up all of the different schools that were offering this. when i saw the cut off date for applying, i thought i'd only missed about half of them. but me being the idiot that i am didn't realize what freaking month were in! i automatically assumed cause the month started with an M it must be march...dur...my mom was like, "that's nice honey, but it's May now" *slap my forehead* ...i did the same thing w/ lars saying that i'd been w/ erin since july instead of january. you know what, i think all months should start w/ different letters for people like me!
oh well next summer...

P.s. check out the subject, neat huh?
P.p.s damn i should do my physics report that's due tomorrow..
ppps. hmm seems to work best if you know that it's supposed to be dumb ass mother fucker...
pppps. not the homework, but the subject that is...

i made a website with my pictures from my horse back riding adventure. http://homepage.mac.com/ariv83/PhotoAlbum9.html

today was ok, nothing special. went to school, hung out there from 9 am to 2 pm cause i was waiting for my teacher to give us back our bio tests. i thought i'd do better. i only got an 86.... after that i ran into my physics professor and we chatted for a while. he's cool... came home, short nap, tutored math...and now it's now.