Me and my sons eating Turkey.

I got this great 32oz T-bone steak at "Great American Land and Cattle Steak House" in 2010 when I visited El Paso Texas. It was so good. And YES I did finish it along with all the sides.

I forgot about this nice message from a chump friend of mine.

More of his "Art"

Old Computers Blow

Friends are MEAN I say MEAN

Friends Have Such Mean Ideas

A WONDERFUL friend of mine is creating "ART" on some of his
old and crusty computers.

More of his "Art"

Friends are MEAN I say MEAN

Friends Have Such Mean Ideas

Do I really deserve this?

Same "Friend" as this post

Friends Have Such Mean Ideas

My Old Name Tag from a Job when I was in College

I AM A BLOCKBUSTER!!!

Here is another REASON my friends are mean.

Just because I made the *CHEEECKNOISE!* when my friend asked if I
could go hunting for AMIGA gear... he had to create THIS for me.

PS.. Commodores BLOW too.

Do I really look like this?

A "friend" of mine does. I think I have punks for friends.

I was going through some files and found a drawing
a "friend of mine made of me a while back. I thought I
should share it with the interwebbs.

He really knows how to BURN me up.. with that
TREK shirt and the Tree branch to HANG myself.
HE WILL GET HIS!

Me and my son eating Turkey.

Hope you had a good Turkeyday.

photo by: Brian Pobuba (Photographer at GENSLER)

Great picture taken by a friend at GENSLER

Link to Brian's work: http://www.brianpobuda.com

AC Transit installed WiFi internet access on their Transbay Buses
and it is FREE$$$  About a 2 months ago I saw new stickers on the bus
stating "Wifi Access"  so I busted open my Nintendo DS and tried to
connect... and NUTHIN.  Then about one month ago I saw some people
at the bus station handing out papers showing how to get connected,
and the buses had signs inside advertising the free wifi.  SOOO I AGAIN
busted out my Nintendo DS (with Mario Kart) and tried to connect, and
BAM Right in the KISSER I got connected to the INTERWEBZ.  It is so nice
to see all the CHUMPS in traffic while I pass them on the car pool lane,
playing Mario Kart DS with chumps on the Intertubes for 3 bucks and fifty
cents.  These buses are not the busted assed ones you see on the streets
these are the tour bus looking ones that are all green, each seat has its
0wn overhead light and AC vent.  The seat is similar to the ones you see in
the large movie theaters AND there are also power plugs for all your electronic
devices to cook into.

MY Controls

HUMMM.. Bay Bridge Toll = 4 bucks
Bus Ride = $3.50 ... FITY CENT SAVINGS

A while ago I posted some gloves that I found
walking around the San Francisco Bay Area, well
I keep coming across more and more so I created
a FLICKR account just for these finds.

www.flickr.com bayareagloves' SF Bay Area Gloves photoset

Here is a link to my previous post.

http://www.helpfarm.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,3d1918e0-cc85-4c34-9091-ed98dc36ba9e.aspx

I grew up in Texas and always thought a 3 Liter of Soda was
something that was everywhere.  When I moved to California
I tried to look for some and didn't find any.  I asked some friends
and they looked at me like I was on Crack, they had never
seen them.  Well my parents came to visit and brought me
a couple ask PROOF! 

Close up of Diet Coke 3 liter

Close up of Diet Dr. Pepper 3 Liter

~VIVA TEXAS 3 LITERS~

Declan is only five days old and he grips his Light Saber
like a true Jedi.

~Viva Declan!~

Well it is twelve days into the New Year and so far it is pretty good.
To start off my new year, my Mom got me this RAD mug from
Chico's Tacos from El Paso Texas.  If you never had these Tacos,
you are missing out.  Every time I visit El Paso, I am SURE to go to this
place.

~VIVA CHICO'S PINCHE TACOS!~

A couple of weeks ago I went to a pumpkin patch in Sonoma to pick out the perfect
"Pumpkin Patch" pumpkin.  The one in the above picture didn't make the cut.  While
we were walking around the pumpkin patch, my friend Carlos got in a battle with a
Dark Lord Pumpkin.  You can see the scuffle when you click on the below link.

los_vs_punkin.gif (224.2 KB)

~VIVA PUMPKIN SEEDS!~

Now that I work in San Francisco I use public transportation to work. 
I also get to walk around the city more now, and I see some pretty
cool things.  I started to find gloves around the city and began taking
pictures of them.  It seems that a lot of people lose their gloves
around the Bay Area, and here are some that I found.

Link to the Pictures

~VIVA USELESS JUNK!~

Some people might not know what the above is... it is a *RARE*
Star Wars figure called "Snaggle Tooth (blue version)". This action
figure was quickly pulled from the stores because it was not what
the character was supposed to look like.  Lucas Film sent the toy
company a black and white waist up picture to create the figure
from, which is why it was made incorrectly.  The character should
have been reddish in color, half as tall, no boots, and with fur on his
hands and feet. Blue Snaggle Tooth could only be purchased by
getting the Sears exclusive Cantina Scene toy set.  How did I get
mine?  Let's look back to 1994 when I was hunting around a flea
market in El Paso Texas.  Some poor sucker had a box full of action
figures for sale that were 50 cents each.  So I SNATCHED all the
Star Wars figures I could find, including Mr. Blue Snaggle Toothand,
with (hands shaking) I paid the man and ran home.  If you would like to
collect one, go to ebay and search, but make sure you have
at LEAST $200-$300 bucks cause that is how much it will
set you back.  If you read through his crap, I think it means you
are a Star Wars fan or just bored.

Here is a screen shot of an auction for a Blue Snaggle Tooth on Ebay

This weekend I went down to SoCal to visit this place called DisneyLand.  In the 110 degree heat
I found the long lost SWORD.

I bet my shirt helped me find it and it seems my July posts seem to have a theme huh...

Here is some dandy Treasure Art left behind by my good buddy Thrawn at
a get-together I had at my house. This was found on my fridge...

Is this maybe some sort of grocery list for me?

I was walking down Folsom in down town San Francisco from work minding my
own business when out popped a city Ratt from behind a fence to grub on some
bird seed.  The ratt must have sensed my Texas roots and ran for cover, he must
have known I was a meat eater.

 
(CLICK Image FOR LARGE SIZE)

CLICK HERE to see Mr. Ratton running away from me

This weekend my friend and I were driving around Palo Alto and saw this newly created Water Fountain. 
My friend snapped this picture with the quickness, so we could enjoy the moment for years to come.

      (CLICK Image for Large Version)

File was dated 06/04/1997

I created this animated GIF for a Web Graphics class I had in Art School.
We used Java to call and display the 20 gif files in a sequence, which
created this animation.  I simplified it by creating an animated GIF, I
Still don't know why we didn't just create this as an animated GIF in the
first DANG place.

Man I do love bad ass animated GIF's

PS... SHUT IT about the flower... I must of created it for Erin

~VIVA DESTRUCTATRONIC~

I was going through some of my old graphic files and found this ticket
I created when I worked at www.listen.com .  I made this ticket for
an employee party we were having May of 2000.  In the ticket I put some
little easter eggs... can you find them.

Click image for large size

Man those days of the Dot Com's were mighty fun... and also a TON
of damn work.

(Right Click Save as) Printable Large Download of Above file TIFF (2.76 MB)

~VIVA STOCK OPTIONS!~

Here are some juicy nachos I made in 3D seven years ago.
They still look DANG good if you ask me.

What is that Green thing you ask... well it was my attempt
to create an old looking pedestal (with a Tim Burton Feel).

~VIVA HOOPTIE NESS~

now go and get your green beer.

~VIVA LUCKY CHARMS~

Here is a chat session I had with her today.

[17:01] My Better Half: hey
[17:01] My Better Half: i just got the dvds for the rest of season 1 for 24
[17:01] My Better Half: it's a 24 weekend baby!
[17:10] Joey: hehehe
[17:10] Joey: what if I want to go to church on sunday
[17:10] Joey: and Sat night
[17:10] My Better Half: hahaha too bad
[17:10] Joey: hehehehe
[17:10] My Better Half: you have to find out what happens
[17:10] My Better Half: :)

I was WALTZing around China Town last week getting some Lunch muchies, and I saw this Red Greasy Mitt in the street. It must be the Lost Glove of Satan, because it is RED, it is Flipping the Bird, and because it had a pentogram under it. Well one part of this isn't true.

~Viva Crappy Photos~

Here is me 31 years ago... after 31 years I still eat MEAT.
I became a year older today, and I actually feel like I am getting old.
I got an email from one of my childhood friends today out of the blue
letting me know  "Sh*t. We're getting old." . I wonder what they were
feeding the turkeys back in 1975, cause DANG look at the size of that
turkey leg...maybe it is true that everything in Texas is bigger.

~VIVA 1975~

Here is some more of my WONDERFUL "art" I created when I was in Computer Animation School.  It
really isn't some thing to brag about... but I know it is worth the laughs it will get. I guess the road
to SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION is starting to be clear to everyone. ENJOY

 
CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LARGE VERSION

~VIVA BAD COMPUTER ART!~

I found an old animation device that I made when I was in computer animation school during my first quarter.
This device was made out of card stock paper and some twine. You would cut the paper in two similar size circles,
draw two things to animate, and sandwich the twine between the pieces of card stock with some glue. I created
an animated GIF of my device.

This wasn't very "COMPUTER ANIMATED" but that is what you get for $30,000 worth of education.

BLAAAAAMOOOOO is the frogs name. (wow I just realized my blog FROG was created back in 1996)

I just got back from a week long trip in Anaheim to visit family and check out Disneyland.  On my drive from San Francisco to Anaheim, we got stopped by three road blocks.  First was a wreck on the other side of the freeway... damn rubber-neckers, then by two 18 wheelers that got blown over by the high winds, and to finish it off... some power lines fell on the freeway. So this made a 5-6 hour trip turn into a 13 hour fun filled road trip. Here are some below pictures of the miles traveled and how much time it took, this was in Bakersfield...

253.8 Miles

After 1 Hour and 8 Mins.... 254.7

Yes that is .9 miles in 1hr 8mins Lucky me.

Besides this wonderful day, the rest of the trip was fun.

Here is some Menudo that I made from scratch using my Dad's recipe.
This is my second attempt to make this, and this time it came out
pretty good.  Hope you all have a great and safe New Years eve.

-COME CACA-

:) 

My little buddy Palpatine  brought me something from his November visit to Texas.
I guess he thought of all the LEAD I shoot at him when we play QUAKE 3  and got
me this. OH YEAH... and isn't that nice of him hinting about the use of the tree for
rope... I take it for my neck. That basTURD.

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More images below

Back Details

Buck Shots Close Up

Buck Shot Lights

I will hang these lights on my monitor while I CRACK Palpatine full of
ROCKETS the next time we play.

Today I was driving behind a Silverado Chevey Big ass truck and notice two bumper stickers.
One was the typical "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!"

BUTT the second was... well you read.

"Peace through Superior Fire Power"

I could not believe that somebody would have a sticker that said that...

I guess you learn something every day.

~Viva Jack Asses~

Erin Geiger is on a Holiday Gift Guide on TV.Com

Here is the link to the feature http://www.tv.com/feature/2005giftguide

I was browsing a website that had pictures and descriptions of toys from the 1970's / 1980's and it had the above Tonka truck.  I remember playing with that truck, which to some was called and indestructible truck. But to my brother and I, it was FUN FUN FUN DESTRUCTOFUN! We had two trucks, one was the above dump truck and the other was some type of Tonka wrecker type truck.  We would have our trucks facing each other about 1 foot away, then we would start to BASH the HECK out of them like two RAMS fighting each other.  First the plastic windows would go, then bumpers and lights, and then one of our fingers or hands would get crushed or cut.  We would then stop and recover, and start again on the bashing.  We would bash them till the front of the trucks looked like they fell off of a 100 story building.  BUT NO that was not enough for our trucks! OH NO... we would grab some bricks (yes we had loose bricks in the back yard that my dad had) and start to crush any part of the truck that was not bent or in normal condition. After we got board with that, we would get some hammers (my brother would get the good hammer the one that was all metal and had a rubber handle) and we would make these trucks look "battle damaged". I will never forget the day that my dad found us "playing" with our trucks, and saying "HOW did you DO that to a TONKA Truck" with a very disappointed look on his face. My dad didn't have many toys when he was a kid, so I guess we just looked like mean, ungrateful, destructive kids. We had a lot of fun with our Tonka trucks, and we made them look like they came from the Star Wars universe, by adding some "battle damage" to them. We finally got rid of the trucks once we broke the tires off... they had some good times.  I never though our version of "playing with our Tonka trucks" was unusual until I started to talk to my friends about it. I wish I still had my old Tonka truck, so I could see the piece of art that my brother and I created.

~VIVA BROTHERS HAVING FUN!~

Last year I visited Viansa Winery across the Golden Gate Bridge in Sonoma and here are some highlights.

Here is an animate gif of a flower I found on my walk up to the Winery.

This Winery has some really good wine, which you can only get at the winery or their online store.

When I was walking to my car to get on the road back home, I came across this car with 100 spoke DAYTONS.
I could not pass up a picture of this UGLY ASS site.

ENJOY DOT COM

wine=old grape juice

I am switching over to a new blog so tomorrow night my rss feed will no longer work. Please point your RSS reader to the new link: http://www.helpfarm.com/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss
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Hope you like it.

I was cleaning out stuff out of my garage when I found my old PHOTON Lazer Tag card from when I was 11 years old. I joined the lazer forces to defeat the Robot Swarms that happend in '86. I retired after we defeated them. I still have flash backs when I play Quake 3 with my friends. Well here is my old member card from the wars.

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A couple of months ago I went to Las Vegas for a family wedding, the wedding was really nice and fun. Vegas on the other hand was…eeh ok. Here are some highlights from the trip. Here is a picture of a 4D movie that I did not see but might have if I had others to see this with. Nobody else really wanted to see this… I guess Sys Admins are the only ones that get a kick out of Piratez.

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Here is the closest thing I could find to something of Star Wars… I wonder if George knows about this… HE SHOULD SUE and get his CA$H he is entitled to.

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Next is my visit to the Hilton, I am not a Star Trek fan ( I do love the 70’s TV show… but those don’t count to be a true Trekkie) but I am glad to see some cool sci-fi stuff. Here is a picture of the Enterprise at the Hilton.

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Finally this is a picture of me in a fight with a Gorn… you know I won cause of my LaserSword.

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This is the hour (11:30am) 30 years ago that I came to the world cold, pissed, and hungry. One other GREAT thing that happened on this day was the first US air mail was delivered... well maybe not great. I will spend my first day being 30 with family/friends, playing video games and talking about all the crap we did when we were young. I am getting closer to the age where I can have a cane, WHICH I will poke people with it when I am talking to them, similar to what Yoda does.

VIVA ME!!!

I have migrated to a new BLOG for Helpfarm. I have also added links to the old Blog Archives (bottom of page) incase you wanted to look back at my stupidity. I have also combined the HelpFarm Blog and Joey Blog, I figured I am the same JackPipe writing this Junk I should just do it in a central place... and people were confused on why I had two. Hope you like the new KLEEENer interface.

VIVA TEXAS!

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Today was my first day of a switch from a PC to a MAC at work. I ONLY did the switch because I have to support some MACs and the users are some high up Exec’s, and not cause I really wanted to do the trendy SWITCH. The thing that really was fun was setting up Virtual PC :) . The very first thing after installing Office 2004 on the MAC was Virtual PC, then I setup a fresh custom install of Windows XP FULL SCREEN (Microsoft ALWAYS first). The speed isn’t too bad, and now I can still support the 85% of the PC users that I work with. So far I have see only some things that bother me, like slow mouse speed (even with it turned up), when you hit DELETE in Virtual PC with Outlook 2003 it does a backspace command, and not remembering my view of details when I switch from folder to folder in finder. I do like the sleep/suspend that the Mac does, it actually works and detects the network unlike my PC where it sometimes "mostly" gets confused. I know some of my bitches are just me learning where the settings are on the MAC, so I will give updates of my APPLE SWISH. At least I can still play quake 3 on this damn thing. VIVA TEXAS!

Went to Szechwan Cafe in Palo Alto for the 100,000 time with some fellow salty snack jonezerz. We got some Hot and Salty Chili Wontons! This dish/appetizer is one of their specialties, of course the person that found this place could not make it once again to enjoy the one of a kind salty snack. Here are some pictures from our journey, notice... no HOOVER once again... but we did eat his portion of the Chili Wontonzzzzzz, KORRRRECT!!!

WONTONERS 1

WONTONERS 2