Category: goals

Who is Julie?

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It’s 1996, and I used to record music videos off the television during the night while I sleep on a VHS tape set to EP. This gave me 6 hours of music and memories. I’d wake up early on Saturday mornings, plug in my VHS tape, and see what awesome music I captured.

First song: Soul to Squeeze by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Ringmaster, Clowns, Freak Shows, Awesome.

Second song: Shame by Stabbing Westward. Intro: Apartment, Night. Leggy brunette walks into scene, cut to band charging up, song starts while brunette turns up radio and begins jamming in her red undies. The next 5 hours 45 minute of this VHS didn’t matter anymore.

The hell did this come from? This is awesome. Nick stalking Julie, A cop in a bad position, the band intertwined in this entire scenario, cheering at the end, complete entertainment. I’m hooked. I buy Wither Blister Burn + Peel along with Ungod with my 1 cent from the Columbia House (along with Fear Factory, Soundgarden, etc), and successfully navigate my teenage years with both albums.

30 years later I’m looking through archives, wondering about these actors in this music video, and I’m not the only one.

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Disk Usage: 100% to 76%

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Around October of 2021 I was running out of disk space on my 6TB hard drive that I had acquired back on November 2015, so I decided to upgrade to the newest and greatest storage solutions of all time: 14TB of block storage! I went ahead and purchased a WD Elements 14TB USB 3.0 external hard drive, proceeded to format it down and get it ready for storing all my useful content.

From October 2021 to July 2025 I completely filled that volume up, and just recently hit the 100% usage. What to do? By the looks of the graph I figured that out without having to delete any files…

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Walt Huntley

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Recently this came alive due to “A Homeless Man in Central Park“. I was able to trace this back to 2005 from a forum post on, hilariously, steven-seagal.net.

How good it is that God above has never gone on strike.
Because he was not treated fair in things he didn’t like,
If only once he’d given up and said, “That’s it, I’m through!”
“I’ve had enough of those on earth, so this is what I’ll do.”
I’ll give my orders to the sun-cut off the heat supply!”
“And to the moon-give no more light, and run the oceans dry.”
“Then just to make things really tough and put the pressure on,
Turn off the vital oxygen till every breath is gone!”

You know He would be justified, if fairness was the game,
For no one has been more abused or met with more disdain
Than God, and yet He carries on, supplying you and me
With all the favors of His grace, and everything for free.
Men say they want a better deal, and so on strike they go,
But what a deal we’ve given God to whom all things we owe.
We don’t care whom we hurt to gain the things we like;
But what a mess we’d all be in,if God should go on strike.

20050826 – If God should go on strike _ Unofficial Steven SeagalDownload
20091110 – If God Should Go on Strike – Sermon IndexDownload