Sofitel Tokyo Hotel

Sofitel Tokyo Hotel
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

Today I just found out that this hotel is no more. I did not stay at this hotel, nor did I even get close to it. But it is still a symbol of my trip to Japan. I like many others have this building etched into our memories as a reminder of Tokyo and Ueno Park. Next time (if ever) I return to Tokyo and Ueno park (My Japan) this scene will be gone. Lost for eternity in an ever changing Japan. The next time I visit Shinobazu Pond and would like to snap some pictures of the surrounding buildings Sofitel will be no where to be found. Hotel Kojimu will apparently fill the void that has been left by the demolition of Sofitel Hotel Tokyo. Maybe I will stay in this new hotel next visit, to reclaim some lost memories that I never had....

Hack or Slash?

Well I am doing my normal surfing on the internet, and check my Jaiku to see whats up. I notice from my own blog that there was some posts about some 'unsavory' things. I was a bit confused at first but was not so sure if maybe something had just gone awry on the Jaiku side of the world. Upon going to my blog I noticed that there were indeed some 'unscrupulous' posts that were not done in my name. They did have a header of RE: (insert adult natured things for sale on the internet). A picture of a fair looking maiden with nothing on other than a Santa hat and a string of pearls. Although I really don't have much problem with the photo. The main fact that I did not put it there or the content about adult enlargement was not posted by me. And it had to go. I guess if I were going to sell such items (or services) I would do it the traditional way and spam the crap out of the planet. And not post it on my blog that is 'fairly' family friendly. 13+ would be the rating I think. But alas in the pursuit of money I cannot bring my self to a low as low as that.

Cool

Cool
Originally uploaded by Ninoxowl.

A trip to Chicago to meet up with friends from around the globe. The photographer of this Photo "ninox" as we know him, from Australia. "Cyberia" on the right (North Carolina) and I on the left (Michigan). We are waiting at a bus station adjacent from the Lincoln Zoo. This bus returned us to the downtown area where we continued to freeze until a most magnificent Taiko drum show! TAO was performing. You can find some information here. TAO

This is too awesome I would love to see a better view of this!!

Make them pay!!

Hello Blogosphere,

Do I get to greet like that? Am I part of the blogosphere??? I think so...
Anyways, tonight I made a quick video about what I think should be done to junk mail that comes to my door. Just watch below and tell me what you think. If you have other ideas about it pass them on.

Thanks so much :)

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The wilds of the internet

This is my first test of my new verizon wireless broadband. I am sitting out in my truck in the driveway, because my home cable connection is crappin' out! POS! I have to be out in my truck because there is too much signal interference inside the house, or at least inside the computer room. I figured I would give it a good chance the first time outside. So far it seems pretty good, I can't wait to get out there and try some of my streaming. But looking at the TOS it appears I can only do things like browse and check email and crap like that and cannot go over a 5gig monthly limit. That seems pretty low but we shall see. Might make it hard to watch some videos on youtube or stream on Ustream.tv. I guess we shall see how it goes, I will try not to be a bandwidth hog, but some how I don't forsee that happening. :) I have always wanted to get a repeter for the signal, because the phones don't get crap in the house either, but from what I have seen those things cost some money! I will continue to look I guess. But for now that is it....live from the drive way!

castle-Osaka

castle-Osaka
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

I happened to have some time to kill and was sitting in Barnes & Nobel and had no internet, cuz I didn't want to pay money for damn half hour of surfing. So I was looking thru our pics from Japan, and came across this one and fiddled with it a bit. I like how it turned out and wanted to share with everyone. I want to go back so badly. Japan is so great and tons of fun.

ハート♥

ハート♥
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

The drunken lifecast was a hit!! Lot of fun and Lots of laughs! Thanks to all that came and asked questions! Left comments and participated with us!! btw...we were not even hardly drunk when we took this pic!

Drunk test of skills

On tonights show, we will be live @ 8pm taking your questions!! email them to me at the bigfreaky.lifecast@gmail.com, or add me on your yahoo msg'r. bigfreaky.lifecast@yahoo.com I forgot to mention one thing, we will be getting absolutely smashed in the process!!! I might even open up the skype lines!! Come join me and my buddy se7enraven on ustream for a fun filled night of adult beverages!!

lurking in the shadows

lurking in the shadows
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

He waits in your dreams, patiently. For you to drop your guard. When you least expect it, he will come.

I will be starting my life cast starting this friday at midnight...if you would like to check it out it will be at the following link. BigFreaky's September Lifecast
show updates will also be available on my twitter
feel free to add me even if you don't watch the show.

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bigfreaky.lifecast@gmail.com is a new email I have created for the lifecast so please send me emails of questions, comments, and ideas! send em' in!
or you can add me on yahoo msg'r bigfreaky.lifecast@yahoo.com

Lots of different ways to get in contact with me make sure to do it!!
See ya!

Lifecast

This next month (September) I decided I am going to do a lifecast. If you do not know what a lifecast is, to put it simply, I will have my webcam on 24 hours a day 7 days a week for the entire month. I don't know why I decided to do this, I just did. I figured why not, all the cool kids are doing it? right? well maybe not. If I go out I might take a cam with me, but a camera will be live 24/7 as long as I have a internet connection somewhere. I think a half of a month is ample time to allow me to clean up my area, and work on the details, positions cameras and what have you. If you have some suggestions for me please do not hesitate to send me some ideas. You can post the comments right here, and I will see what I can do. Thanks and I hope you all check it out. My lifecast will be streaming right from ustream! thanks so much.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bigfreaky-tv

friends!

friends!
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

We are going to start a scooter gang! We will rule the streets! You better beware and keeps your children out of the streets!

Hi from no internet land

Well here I am in no internet land, but some how I have found a connection at a relatives house...too bad they don't live closer to where I am staying at. Oh well I guess I can use it while I am here now. Well I will have to go a few more days after this and I will be back to civilization. Then everything will be back to normal. I can ride my bike again. But then that means I have to go back to work too.

chicken burrito

chicken burrito
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

I am asking all who will add some funny captions to this photo I took at a Rampage Arena Football game. Please Family friendly. Thanks!

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Murphy the cat

oily cat
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

Mookie who is our newest addition to the family, has turned out to be a great cat. Not like it is to be not expected. Animals do great when they are shown attention, and not yelled at, and of course given food all the time. He is the largest cat that has ever been in my family in my lifetime. I think he also might be the only male cat as well. He is quite an armful. I have been in the process of "mauling" him into submission to be able to hold him like a baby. Our other cat has been held like that since forever and does not mind it at all. But he is a little stronger willed. The previous owner did not hold him like that I don't think, just over her shoulder. She also had something like another 3 cats, and a huge old and loud dog. I don't think he cared for that very much. He is now totally at peace, and will lay anywhere stretched out without a care in the world. I have also been "talking" to him a lot, and he has picked up on that as well, and talks back frequently. When I return home from work, or enter a room. It is very funny, he makes a cute noise. But deep down, I think maybe he is just being "nice" so I will keep giving him food, and those feather toys he loves so much.

sick and tired

Man I don't know what the deal is today. I wonder if I have heat exhaustion? I was not outside very much, but I ate a lot of very salty and spicy food, drank a cappuccino and mt.dew all day. It was very hot and I was sweating inside, while playing video games. :) I have not played comp games in a while (not first person shooters) and I know I upset my stomach like that. Pretty much a liken too motion sickness. But when I got home from the lan today, I just had to lay down. Too many factors against me today I think. Sleep dep, Heat, poor food and liquid intake, motion sickness. All I know is that I have not felt like crap like this in a long time. On top of it all heart burn....(of course from the poor food and liquid intake.) Taking the chalky chewables is leaving a terrible taste in my mouth... I think I better just drink a bottle of water and call it a night. Chalk it up to the summer time blues; yet... it is still only spring.

champagne twilight

champagne twilight
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

Just Blogging a Photo of mine, that I liked. Hope you like it too.

石南花

石南花
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

The doorway to summer has opened. When the rhododendron has bloomed, the heat is all too close. Soon it will be too hot for the flower to live, and they will disappear once again. This year seemed to be a very good one for the flowering trees, they were seen everywhere. Unfortunately they don't seem to last very long, a couple 2 weeks at most. They are pleasant to look at the short time they are in full bloom. Subtle pinks and crisp whites were very pronounced this year. Now for the rest of the year until Autumn comes, the regular trees will fill with green leaves. At that point the leaves will change to the fiery reds and yellows and fall to the ground, paving the way into winter. But for now winter is too far off, and not to be thought about...and it will return all too quickly.

decency and a sandwich!

Why is it that people think it is OK talk on their mobile phone no matter where they are? In the car, in the line at the grocery store, at break in the lunchroom??! And of course the idiots have to talk loud as hell! Don't they get it? Especially those jackasses with the nextel phones and that annoying walkie talkie noise. They have their sound cranked uo so loud on that thing you think there is a 100 foot grasshopper coming to eat your face off! I used to own one of those stupid things, and to this day I still don't understand a damn word coming out of those things. It sounds like someone just got punched in the face, broke all their teeth and decided they needed to call you right away to say 'sup'. I could go on about this but I would just be repeating things you have all thought before. You are a pain in the ass people. Wise up and shut up; and go the hell outside already. I am trying to eat my PB&J in peace!!!

(pic unreleated)

Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.

Found a new site today via mIRC in the #chris channel on WyldRyde server (for his Ustream.tv "show") called www.flickrSLiDR.com it allows you to put in the info you want to embed a Flickr slide show onto your Blog or what not. So I choose my Beautify '07 set. This set is showing the transformation if you will for my home over "X" amount of time. I am not sure on how long the project will go for (probably till fall'ish or whenever I don't care anymore :) ) But the main focus of the project is to do no more then a half hour of work a day, and to spend as little money as possible. Current status of May 20 is 3 (half hour) days, and 0$ dollars.

10,000!!!

10,000!!!
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

I have reached 10,000 views on my Flickr. It makes me happy. I seem to have caught my page just in time. I hit it right on the nose!! My own views do not count which is good I think. If not my views would be double what they are now. Hopefully the rest of this year will bring good photo opportunities and I can increase views. I need to do some more networking I think on flickr and it all. Thanks all who have viewed my pics in the past, I hope I have not posted too much garbage. I know I have quite a few duds in there, 2aDay is hard sometimes. After the year is up I will remove the absolute crap and rename the group to "least worst of 2aDay 2007" I think that is a fitting name.

Shanghai Night

Shanghai Night
Originally uploaded by Ninoxowl.

This right here is the main reason I would ever want to go see China, The awesome night views. The city I live in is not large (it is also not small or too hickish). A drive a couple hours will lead me to Detroit or Chicago, but those two places are still nothing in comparison to playes like Shanghai or Tokyo. I don't know if it is the geek in me or what that makes me like the huge cityscapes with the blazing lights at night. I may never know. Hopefully some day I will be able to travel to Shanghai or Hong Kong to see the wondrous night scenery like this one. It might never happen, since the pull to go back to Japan is so high. Japan is a most incredible place. For those who have never world traveled I am telling you to get out there and do it!

Thank you Ninox for the great photo to blog.

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24 Hours of Flickr

Today was 24 Hours of Flickr. Flickr is the "social" Picture site I use to post my pictures. This year I started a 2aDay photo project, for fun and practice. Today "5th of May" (other then being cinco de mayo)was 24 hours of Flickr. The site asked it's members to upload 1 picture today of their choice. Be it their life, what they see, ect. The photo that I choose was this...


Not sure why I chose it, I just did. I also did my own version of 24 hours of Flickr. All the photos for the 24 hours of Flickr can be found here. Also it will show info about the project.

O -

One of Type O's best songs, they now have a YouTube channel.

Type O Negative, Check it out!

i got gas...

i am just waiting for the gas to pump into my truck...damn gas is 2.72 a gallon *sigh*

and continuing with more crazy internet stuff

I have now joined Ustream.com it is friggin awesome. You can stream live, and you only use the bandwidth to upload one stream; so you don't tax your comp or your bandwidth.

The Web2.0 Onslagugt continues....

I have decided to join this thing for some reason...I made it into the first 1000. Lets see how it goes, and feel free to join!



Is another thing I joined today. Lets see how this one goes too.

cage

cage
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

Saw this on the news and was in town. Went to go check it out and snapped a few pics. Maybe not so much an interesting story for most, but might be to others.

ゲロゲロ

ゲロゲロ
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

Took a trip to Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park today, was a nice day, not too many people, but still too early for the flowers. Pictures Included.

Just can't get it!

Took this cameraphone vid last year when I went to see my buddy go for his blackbelt. Unfortunate its only 15 seconds long... but I think its pretty funny enough.

damn snow!!!

truck
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

Dammit it is spring already! WTF is up with the snow. This Damn State I tell ya. I think I am old enough now to understand why all the old people go where its warm, cuz there is absolutely nothing that is good about snow. To you people have never seen it, stuff it. You don't know that it sucks, and probably will never find out.

Gmail Paper

Well, here I was sitting at my computer, like every night. Went to check my Gmail, and noticed there was something going on with the log in page. There was this thing about Gmail Paper. According to Gmail, they would now send you a hard copy of your Gmail thru the "snail mail" if you would like, and they would print picture attachments as well. I thought well this is kinda cool. I got real excited, and was going to try it out see how it worked. I mean hell, all the free photos you could get??!! Thats awesome. Well upon logging into my Gmail I did not see the feature, and just figured that it wasn't fully integrated yet, so I searched around (on Google) too see if there was any buzz about it; there was not. So I just went to sleep hoping that the next day I would be able to send myself a free Photo thanks to Google. Well upon awaking still no 'real' feature to be found. I once again (Googled) about it, and found some websites calling Google on their April Fools Joke. It indeed is true...Goggle got me. I must say this is the best April Fools Joke for me ever; I think it might be the only one I have fallen for. :( Well, its too bad; Gmail Paper would have been great. Hopefully there would be some way they could figure out how to pull it off, because it would be awesome!

Grand Haven Night time

night
BigFreaky.

Snapped a few shots of the city from 5mile hill. It was a bit cold, so I didn't take as many as I wanted. Hopefully it will get warmer soon!

chinese thief

It appears that someone in china is spending my money without my permission.

More to come later.

Dumbass on ice

Me and the wife head down to the pier to take some snapshots, but when we got there we ran into some boys up to no good. The following is an example of why not to do drugs.


Bear in mind, it is only March, and but a few days into spring, as you can see there is plenty of ice in the water, and we all know how cold it has to get to make water freeze. Especially into "cubes" as big as seen in the video.

Christmas Lights in March

The weather was absoultly excellent today, so I FINALLY got out and took the rest of the Christmas Lights off the house. I had planned to do it back in...January, but it started to snow, and ever since the snow has not stopped or gone away. It has gone now finally (I hope); and yard work begins again :( If you didn't happen to see my lights, I have a short video on YouTube with them.


I am hoping to increase my light show this coming year, and lets hope I can do it!

Photos

This week I started uploading some more animal photos. This time they are from the Grand Rapids zoo; as well I uploaded some more from my Chicago trip, and of course 2aDay, and also shots that were taken in Kalamazoo.

We ate at Hana East (Kalamazoo), it was ok; local Wild Chef (Holland) is much better.

Chicago

chicago033
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

I have uploaded pictures from a weekend trip to Chicago (March 16-18) They can be found on my Flickr. Check em' out!

sleepytime? tags: sleep self

need to go to sleep....!

I couldn't help myself....

As much as I mulled over why I would give a crap about this www.twitter.com site, I still joined it. I don't know why, I will probably use it too much, but at least if you use it. Add me please... :(
:)

ヲタラブ

Maybe someday, if I try real hard I can be like these ヲタ(wota)...



...I don't think I will ever be able to live up to their expectations.

DoggBone

Some Crazy Japanese Rap for ya's

aero

aero
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

A Engineer from work traveled to Canada, I told her that Aero bars are delicious, and I could only buy then in Canada (some actually at a local store @ a jacked up price). So she was nice enough to buy me some!!!!
嬉しい！

cheeeeeze!

whipping up some yummy mac(spirals) & cheeze. My childhood revisited.

del.icio.us

a test of the broadcast system

nothing but boring blog tests...

La Luna

La Luna
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

A photo I snapped, the day AFTER the lunar eclipse. Of course the sky was fully cloudy that day... Oh well.

月

the cats

from da fone, a blog comes

Welcome

Well it seems I have a "real" blog now, I suppose I could do a "mirror" more of less of what I have on Myspace. But as my most active thing in my online life I give you my Flickr page.