here you go my friends, its a special treat from my
heart to you! This is a beautiful picture of my
georgeous girlfriend. isnt she beautiful?

I love you sweetheart!

















The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

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feeling under the weather...

I hate this time of year... i am never sure what i am going to pick up nd come down with.. it seems like i am sick way too much of the time... i will feel a little better when winter is finally actually here, i just hate the in between stages... i dont do so good with changing climates and the in between seasons...

stay healthy everyone!


The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

I LOVE Pandora Radio

And i think i decided today to get my next phone as one that has pandora radio featured on it so i can leave the house and keep my favorite internet radio stations with me... if you arent listening to Pandora do your self a Favor. If you are, come share your stations and favorite music with me!




The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

A friend of mine passed this on to me, I agree with the message and liked the video so i am doing my part to pass on the message. please do yours!




The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

An Amazing Photoshop Alternative!

I dont own photoshop for the PC or Mac anymore,
the version i used to have is sadly out of date and the
CD has gone missing into the abyss...

but then I discovered:


It is basically a free Photoshop clone that works completely online...
you can sign up for a free account and use the online version,
or upgrade to Sumo Pro and get the locally installed version of Sumo Paint
and some other benifits and extras for $19 a year.

go check it out! I think it rocks! All the photo editing you need on the fly,
or it can be used as a complete painting or drawing program to create art
from scratch. If you sign up for the free acount you get online image storage
as well, but you dont have to have an account in order to use the program.

There is also a seemingly robust online community surrounding the
software and a large image library of all the images and Art that people are
creating with it. Just one more beautiful example of cloud computing that is
IMHO the future of where we are headed with computers.

I like Sumo Paint because it is cross platform, (mac, PC or Linux etc.)
and it does everything people really need from an image editing program.
Whether to quickly optimise your photos, or crop and edit them for content,
before you upload them to your facebook photo album or other social
networking site etc. etc. etc...

A huge bonus is that the GUI is similar in many ways to Photoshop functionally,
so if you are used to using Photoshop it does not take a ton of time to figure it out..

Let me know if you check it out and like it, I am always interested to know
if my suggestions help people out.


The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

Door to Door Atheiests…

heh heh this make sme want to go door to door trying to spread the gospel of the flying spaghetti monster… i LOVE this guy!

and i wanted to add this one because a friend reminded me recently (thanks Douglas!) how much I love it! heh, if you haven't seen it make sure you take a moment and watch this too.






on another note entirely, please go and check out my friend mike’s blog about his trip to Ghana, it is moving and eye opening and i am enjoying every post…


The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am

Had a good day

Started out with waking up and having couple of hours to get ready and go to see a couple of friends of mine, Danele and Delandus, do chest suspensions for another friends documentary. it turned out to be a great afternoon, very beautiful and a great example of the continuum on which people approach suspensions. Danele was probably the quietest and most peaceful i have ever seen her do a chest suspension and Delandus had what seemed to me to be a very intense and cathartic experience. he was able to get off the ground and get through the process with tremendous beauty, (there was not a dry eye in the theater) and I feel like it was a successful experience for all as the documentary was seeking to use this to illuminate both what different experiences people can have with the same sort of suspension and also what a tremendously varied audience would think of viewing such an intense ritual. very interesting. we were unable to stay for the discussion group portion of the afternoon, but i cant wait to see how all of this turns out...

having a light dinner at basta's and then going out to a strip club later to help celebrate with danele... all in all a nice relaxing day.

read my friend Mikes first blog post from Ghana where he is spending a month ( lucky bastard!) and i was inspired to start blogging again.

I got my new Aspire One netbook and its portability and convienience is helping to bring together all of my online worlds an create more of a cohesive online presence and experience.


YAY!

over and OUT

The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

new Post coming soon!


I have been very busy, been to the ER, have some new xrays to show for it and have tons more news...
bear with me, i am gonna try to post a good long post later...

talk to you all soon!

Devan :)

The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

A New Hope

so there have been a lot of things that have been falling through the cracks while i got over having mono. ( not fun... over a month of no energy and feeling like crap and fighting nausea and random fevers and chills) and now I have so much to do to get caught up with my life and get back on task with what were my plans.
I am feeling so behind.


but the long and short of it is that is the reason that i got so lax with my posts and have not been keeping up with my art projects and some of my other tasks...
stay tuned for some catching up in the next couple of weeks!

Oh and it was my little brothers birthday on the 9th and it will be my dads birthday on the 13th. So happy Birthday to both of you! and I wish you the very best in the upcoming year. may the next year bring you all the joy, peace and happiness you can handle and may your deepest wishes come true! I love you guys!

With Love



The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

proud to be.

go checkout dipdive.com i just found it tonight in my insomniac wanderings on the interwebs, i like it. DipDive

wow, pretty cool.

and theseis video help to explain why i am cautiously hopeful about being an American.
for the first time in my life i think. I mean these videos are just the tip of the iceberg and the interface is nice and it seems easy to connect to. tell me what you think...





I have a crush on Zoe Kravitz
just thought i would share ;)

spread the love.

The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

hulu superbowl ad


ok, this has to be one of the very best anti TV commercials of ALL time! ( pro TV? I can"t figure it out... ROTFL) I love hulu.com and now i think i love it just a little bit more.

heh heh




The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

feeling a little better finally

wow, the last three days have been a hell of stomach virus and vomitting....

I am finally keeping food down... hope that i will feel well enough to get on with the long list of things i have to do very soon.

talk at you all very soon :0


The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

Comcast impressed me today...

I am a little in awe.

Mark Casem from Comcast's National Customer Operations commented on my previous post. "I hate comcast" You have to be impressed with a company that is employing people to specifically search for these kind of statements and blog posts on the web and offer to help fix the problem. (thats the only scenario i can figure out as I know mark is not a regular reader of my blog...)

So i sent him the phone number associated with my account and lo and behold someone from the executive escalations dept at comcast contacted me this evening and helped me to figure out all of my options. (thank you Mark!)

Unfortunately I still dont think that I can either afford or need all of the services that I have had with them. So first thing tomorrow i am going to see if i can get wimax ad if it is a viable option, then I am going to call the executive escalations rep back and either strip the account down to just internet or cancel it altogether.

But the customer service that this whole experience implies is pretty amazing, and I have to admit that I am impressed. At the very least I guess comcast is aware of their public image and the state of things and is very dedicated to making some changes. the Wired article must have really lit a fire under the corporate staff. I will have to reserve my judgement before I label them as "evil" or state that I "HATE" them.

i am curious what the future of WiMax turns out to be. we will see!


The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

I hate Comcast!

There was a great article in the February issue of Wired magazine about Comcast called "The Dark Lord of Broadband" by Daniel Roth one of the Senior writers for Wired.

I suggest you find a copy and read it if you can, its a real eye opener about the monopoly that Comcast has on america's internet access. I also read that according to a recent harris interactive survey that out of 60 companies, only 4 had a worse reputation than Comcast.

I have decided that i cant really afford to keep paying comcast what they are charging for internet and cable television. With the way the internet is these days, i can get all of my media entertainment online or with dvd rentals either netflix or hollywood video, or even RedBox (gotta love $1.00 movies from a vending machine) and now that Clear Wimax has moved into portland, I think it is my duty to stop supportng a company that has such awful business practices.

Really, Comcast sucks and they are expensive, go read the article if you have not dealt with them yourself. The problem is that WiMax is a new technology, and although i like what i am seeing so far, it is going to be a while before it proves itself. does anyone else have an opinion on this? read anything about Wimax that I should know about?

Qwest is just as expensive and i really dislike DSL. so Clear WiMax it is and until then i will just have to limp along borrowing my wonderful neighbors wireless, and the free wireless that is in our building. ( the free wireless could not have found a worse company as far as I am concerned, thats what happens when you purchase wi-fi by the lowest bid, but that is a story for a whole different entry)

until next time!

The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

Free Stuff


I usually hate the spam about get a free laptop for filling out these offers frm our partner websites crap, but a friend of mine, nathan decided to try to see if he could actually get some of that free stuff and what it actually took... he is blogging about it over at http://freestuffy.wordpress.com so i decided to try it to and add to his endeavors.

click on this link http://www.rocketbills.com/?referral=12802 and join and complete the requirements for joining and I will get some cash and then maybe you too can get some cash in your paypal account. just make sure and cancel the free offers efore they start charging you! i have heard it does work if you keep up with canceling the offers and actually take the tme to keep track of what you signed up for, when you have to cancel and make sure you follow through. so i am gonna try it. wanna join me in the experiment? got any insight? leave me a comment and tell me what you think...


The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

Congradulations President Obama!

just finished watching the inauguration day festivities on facebook/cnn and I have to say i am so glad to be living in this day and age! It is an amazing time to be able to have access to the technology to be able to watch all of that live streaming on the internet and share it with your friends all over the country.

for the first time i am happy and proud to be american, and excited for the future. now we will see what the next year will bring.

we can do it! it is time for real change!


The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

Enjoy the Full Moon tonight!


My girlfriend pointed me to an article today on yahoo entitled Saturday Night Special: Biggest full Moon of 2009. about tonights full moon. It happens to be the full moon of the year where the moon is at perigee, or its closest point in orbit to the earth. So it affects our tides and other things most strongly. (in July the moon will be at apogee, or its farthest point in orbit from the Earth.)

That also means that tonights full moon will appear 14 percent bigger. this doesn't sound like a lot until you actually look at the difference.



That looks fairly significant to me. and considering the craziness that occurs out in nightclub land and throughout the world on a full moon ( I know this has never been scientifically proven, but I KNOW it is the way it works) tonights full moon should really do a number on people. So enjoy yourself out there and be aware that if you find yourself feeling more emotional right now this is probably at least one of the several astrological reasons that I can find for it.

There are a couple of other pages I found at www.space.com like this Article about what makes our world go "round or moon mechanics, that really struck me as being facinating. this is informationt that I think everyone should know. It really makes you gain a little perspective.

My advice? Reach out and love that special someone a little extra the next couple of days. They probably need it, and I now they will thank you for it. Tell them I said so.


The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.

TriMet ticket machine crash



Well, I had to post these here for a start and then see if I could get them to someone at the Portland Mercury who would appreciate the irony...

There has been a whole rash of problems with the TriMet ticket machines in the last year and as a frequent trimet rider I was highly amused when my girlfriend brought the crashed ticket machine to my attention.

It certainly explains a lot. no wonder why TriMet cant seem to get the machines to work properly and seem to be kind of defensive about the issues even.

Maybe if they tried a different operating system they would have less problems. in my experience Macintosh OS X has much less problems with being left running for days at a time. The last time i tried to do that with a windows machine, it just kept crashing.

But that is just another symptom of a broken system. If you try to run an infrastructure on a flawed syistem, its going to keep crashing. I am willing to bet on it.

heh heh

stay tuned for more, its gonna get exciting around here :)



The Reverend Purrv23
::::: Creo Ergo Sum :::::
I Make, Therefore I Am.