Josh Highland’s Blog

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I just spend the last week on vacation in the midwest with one of my best friends Jason Keller. We spend the time visiting a very sweet group of dudes.

We were scheduled to fly home Tuesday at 6:25 pm from Indiana, at least thats what I thought! I had looked at the itinerary wrong, and was looking at the time our CONNECTING flight was leaving from Texas to California. We missed our plane by 4 hours! Oops. So we were stuck in Indiana for another day until we could catch a flight the next morning.

We were staying with a friend who works in a tattoo shop, so we had been hanging around making friends with the other artists that worked there. It was a slow day, and everyone was giving me crap about making us miss our flight. We walked over to the corner store to get some drinks, when i saw a temporary tattoo machine, you know the kind you put the quarters in. As a joke, I said “I should get what ever comes out of this machine tattooed on me for real”. Lexie, one of the tattoo artists said “I will do it for free if you agree to get what ever comes out of this machine, as punishment for missing your flight”. I agreed, inserted my quarters and threw caution to the wind. what the hell, right? Its only going to be on me the rest of my life!

Luck was on my side, I got this sweet tattoo out of the machine!

I am a man of my word, so I went through with it! Check out the pics below.

This is the final product, its still healing. It turned out so good that it looked like a serious tattoo, so I had her free hand a speech bubble with a phrase that my friends suggested… “OH HELLZ YEAH!”

I will never miss another flight for as long as I live!

I love this cartoon from toothpastefordinner.com, but i think its wrong. The housing market is down…the BEST time to buy a house!

I am trying to sell my house right now, you can see it at 2061Redlands.com. Its a great place. You should go there, fall in love with it, and then buy it. It would be a win-win situation! You would be getting an awesome place.

UPDATE:
The Fed has decreased the rate by 3/4 a point! Here are a few articles on it:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080122/ap_on_bi_ge/fed_interest_rates
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/fed/main-jan2008.asp
(thanks Christian!)

2061Redlands.com

I have known about the tv-b-gone for some time now. If you don’t, its basically a small device that will turn off any tv in a matter of seconds, from over 200 feet away.

Earlier this week I saw one of the coolest/most screwed up things I have seen in a while. One of the guys form gizmodo took a tv-b-gone device into CES (consumer electronics show in las vegas)and wrecked the place. Here is the video http://youtube.com/watch?v=ICpM3ItIhI0

After seeing it, I had to build one for myself. $20 and 4 days later I had the kit in hand. It took me a bit to make it, as I have never soldered anything this small. I got it put together, and it works. All the TVs die the second i press the on button and aim this thing.

I have a feeling that this is going to be one of my new best friends. Just holding it makes me want to go play some pranks! I will be posting some pictures and videos later on for sure.

UPDATE!
My favorite web comic, toothpaste for dinner recently ran this…

I found an interesting article from a while back. I guess people who work in the IT industry are twice as likely to wear a heavy metal t-shirt as their non-IT counterparts.

If I was to be given the survey, i would have answered yes to it. I wear heavy metal/hardcore shirts EVERY DAY to work, I just wear them under a button up shirt. I’m undercover I guess.

The study also showed that black jeans are 63% more popular among IT types than other workers (yes i wear black jeans some times), and IT people are 34% more likely to sport a ponytail (I cut mine off a few months ago!)

I wonder what the statistics on tattoos and piercings are?

Either way, a mildly interesting read that I thought was funny
http://www.intermedia.net/about-us/news/2006/IT-people-are-different.asp

toothpastefordinner.com has the best cartoons. So many of them apply directly to my life. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go to graduate school or not. Instead I just stretched my earlobes and got a job.

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