Ryan j Budke

So after a lot of traveling and being under the weather, which meant a whole lot of not doing anything, our apartment is probably the messiest it’s ever been. That’s saying something too. I’ve been spending most of the day trying to get my room in order, and it’s just about there. I plan on buying a new bed in a few weeks, and I need the room, so I decided to throw out a bunch of random clutter that I had.

I guess to this wasn’t a tedious enough task so I decided to watch American Gangster and Gone Baby Gone to help lighten the mood. A well thought out plan.

Two days shy of my six month anniversary of departing Cincinnati for Los Angeles and I just experienced my first earthquake. The US Geological Survey put it at a 3.2 and the epicenter was roughly four miles North of where I live. I installed some shelves right above my head where I sleep (wasn’t thinking about that at the time) and it’s good to know that they’ll at least stay up during a little wobble. It was a very odd sensation, but not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. My early warning system (read: Deuce) really didn’t do crap though. He was sleeping at the foot of my bed and just kind of rolled over.

When I moved to Northridge I didn’t realize that it was the epicenter of the 1994 quake that hit Los Angeles so bad. A fact which was hammered home by jokes in both an episode of Entourage and in the movie Knocked Up… both which I saw within weeks of moving in. Huzzah!

So, just in case those that know me see something on the news (which I highly doubt, it lasted all of two seconds), I’m fine. I wish something would have fallen on Ken’s head though… that would have been awesome.

Ken and I filmed this back in November when we were still in Cincinnati. Completely moronic, but a ton of fun.

Don’t worry, we still plan on doing a Part 2…. eventually.

While this obviously was staged, this is a pretty normal day around our house. Anything little that I can do to aggravate big bad Angry Ken is instantly worth the time.

We’ve got a bunch of others filmed and other little shorts planned, so keep checking back, or feel free to fire away with ideas or suggestions.

As I’m going around unboxing all of the stuff from the move, I keep finding more and more computers. I’ve got one machine that is a Windows Media Center Edition, one is running Red Hat that I was using to play around with Linux, one is an old Windows 98 machine, and then I have one running XP. I also have two (maybe one more) older Dell laptops.

Now, the question, what do I do with all of this potential fun? I think one will become a dummy hard-drive farm, I was playing around with making one the brains behind my dream home automation setup. Any ideas for the others, or ideas/experience on how to go about doing these two projects? I need to make sure that the laptops have power supplies, but one (or both of them) may turn into a digital picture frame.

So you guys are all geeks/opinionated, let me know if you’ve got any pearls of wisdom.