Mike Hall: For Sale

8 Favorite TV Shows:
1. Lost
2. Arrested Development
3. Flight of the Conchords
4. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
5. The Office
6. Fringe
7. House
8. Battlestar Galactica

8 Things I Did Yesterday:
1. Slept In.
2. Washed and detailed mine and Nikki’s cars.
3. Got the tuxedos figured out for the wedding.
4. Watched some Battlestar Galactica.
5. Dinner at Iggy’s.
6. Cleaned my room.
7. Watched more Battlestar Galactica. Yep, we’re addicted.
8. Ate some of Phil’s homemade peppermint shake!

8 Things I Look Forward to:
1. Getting married to my beautiful fiance!
2. Honeymoon!
3. School to end.
4. Summer!
5. Money.
6. Finishing Battlestar Galactica.
7. Graduating.
8. Buying a house.

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Macaroni Grill
2. Bucca Di Beppo
3. Tucanos Brazilian Grill
4. Yapona
5. Red Mango
6. Thai Chili Gardens
7. Ruth’s Chris
8. P.F. Changs

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. Money.
2. Dog.
3. Motorcycle.
4. House.
5. New iMac.
6. Get in better shape.
7. Phil Hudson.
8. Write a screenplay/book.

8 Favorite Movies:
1. James Bond
2. Star Wars
3. Casablanca
4. The Man Who Knew Too Little
5. 300
6. The Godfather
7. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
8. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1. Do you like bleu cheese? Ture!

2. Have you ever smoked heroin? Negativo.

3. Do you own a gun? Negativiivo. But my fiance does!

4. What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic’? None, I don’t like flavor.

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? Not so much.

6. What do you think of hot dogs? Mmm… deliciously good times with Payden in New York City.

7. Favorite Christmas song? Oooo, tough one! I don’t know. I love so many. I’ll say Mele Kalikimaka for now.

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Juice

9. Can you do push ups? Yes I can.

10. What’s your favorite piece of jewelry? Don’t have one yet. I know it will end up being my wedding ring though.

11. Favorite hobby? Snowboarding.

12. Do you have A.D.D.? Nope I don’t, I have A.D.H.D. Big difference!

13. What’s one trait that you hate about yourself? Hmm, I think my brains. They’re just too much for anyone to handle!

14. Middle name? Wayne

15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment. This class is boring. What am I going to do about my internship? And what in the world is Nikki giving me for my birthday!?

16. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink? Water, Coca-Cola, Orange Juice

17. Current worry right now? If I’m going to have a job after February.

18. Current hate right now? Annoying classmates that all have to ask me for help.

19. Favorite place to be? Relaxing with my lady friend.

21. How old are you? 23 on Wednesday! Crazy…

22. Name three people who will complete this? No clues.

23. Do you own slippers? Sure do, they smell delicious.

24. What color shirt are you wearing? Green.

25. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? Heo no.

26. Can you whistle? Yesh.

27. Favorite color? Black and Blue

28. Would you be a pirate? Ture! So here’s a joke I came up with yesterday… What state do most pirates want to live in? Give up? Okay, Arghkansas. Hahaha.

29. What songs do you sing in the shower? Opera.

30. Favorite girl’s name? Peyton Tajma Hall

31. Favorite boy’s name? Wyatt Michael Hall

32. Last thing that made you laugh? Nikki’s answer to this question.

33. Best bed sheets as a child? Ninja Turtles!

34. Worst injury you’ve ever had? Broke my collar bone once.

35. Do you love where you live? I love it because its the closest to Nikki I can be.

36. How many TVs do you have in your house? Four.

37. Who is your loudest friend? Payden.

38. What is your favorite game to play? Gorsh, I don’t know.

39. Does someone have a crush on you? Nikki does.

40. What is your favorite book? Brotherhood of the Rose.

41. What is your favorite candy? Sour Patch Kids?

42. Favorite Sports Team? Utah Jazz

43. What were you doing 12 AM last night? Shleepy shleepy!

44. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Ugh, I don’t want to go to school today.

According to Gizmodo, the following is a list “50 Skills Every Geek Should Have.” Now usually I’m not one to brag but I thought that this would be fun to see what all I have accomplished on this list. I’m torn as to whether I should be proud or sad… well… I’ll take proud. So have a look, here is how I measure up to Gizmodo’s standards. I hope some of you can find this interesting and to those of you that don’t (Nikki) well… you can just roll your eyes and stop reading now. Your welcome, you have been spared. Alright, on to the list, as I said before, I am proud to say I have achieved 41 out of these 50 various skills. Enjoy.

1. Install a hard drive in a laptop
2. Perform a clean OS install on a machine with two OSes
3. Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone
4. Jailbreak an iPhone
5. Wire your house for Ethernet and Coax cable
6. Use BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download new shows from trackers
7. Use an A/V receiver to its fullest capability (every port is taken)
8. Calibrate an HDTV without the manual
9. Use a DSLR in full manual mode
10. Hack the encryption and mooch your neighbor’s Wi-Fi
11. Solder cleanly enough to get around a circuit board
12. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point
13. Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console
14. Design a webpage in HTML by hand that features a picture of your cat
15. Use Photoshop to imperceptibly doctor a photo
16. Abstain from buying extended warranties
17. Know where to buy cheap cables and accessories
18. Fix your parents’ computer over the phone without looking at a computer
19. Enter the Konami code
20. Comment on Gizmodo from your phone
21. Type quickly using T9 texting
22. Program a universal remote
23. Contribute code to the Linux kernel
24. Hide porn from your significant other
25. Avoid DRM on everything
26. Know how to back up your data to networked storage—and actually do it
27. Watch TV shows on the internet for free
28. Edit together digital video ripped from YouTube
29. Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator
30. Reset expired trial software by messing with the registry
31. Hackintosh your PC
32. Download pre-release movies from Usenet
33. Hack the Wii to play homebrew games
34. Get around web content filters on public computers
35. Get into a Windows computer if you forgot your password
36. Securely erase your data so it can’t be recovered
37. Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network
38. Build a fighting robot
39. Write your own Firefox plugins
40. Navigate and reorganize the files on your computer in DOS
41. Get something on the front page of Digg
42. Get through to executive customer service
43. Rip a CD to V0 quality MP3s
44. Rip a DVD to DivX
45. Build your own computer from parts
46. Swap out the hard drive in your DVR for a bigger one
47. Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it
48. Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system
49. Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS
50. Talk about things that aren’t tech related