second phase » Friends http://www.phase2.net confessions of a geek Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 RIP Mike http://www.phase2.net/2009/03/rip-mike/ http://www.phase2.net/2009/03/rip-mike/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:35:19 +0000 steve http://www.phase2.net/?p=831 Continue reading]]> Michael Murray, 30 years old and a sheriff deputy, died yesterday in his home.  Mike was one of my best friends all through grammar school.  We went on each other’s family vacations, stayed up late and had plenty of good times.  We grew apart a bit in high school, although we still hung out occasionally and we never met up again after but it’s still hard to think that one of my childhood friends is now gone.

My heart goes out to his family and friends.  Mike was a great guy, always laughing and being thoughtful of others.  The world is a lesser place without him in it.

]]> http://www.phase2.net/2009/03/rip-mike/feed/ 0 Tattoo Aritst + Technology = Dali Rău http://www.phase2.net/2008/04/tattoo-geek-the-dali/ http://www.phase2.net/2008/04/tattoo-geek-the-dali/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:53:58 +0000 steve http://www.phase2.net/?p=192 Continue reading]]> My brother recently started getting some new tattoos and it got me to thinking that I should get mine re-done and maybe get some new ones. ( I know my girlfriend is cringing at this point. ). If you haven’t seen my tattoos yet, I’m sure there are some pictures in my gallery somewhere of them but in order to save you the browsing time – I like tribals. I like the clean, artistic design of them. I like how they stay nice and bold, even as the tattoo gets older. And if you know me at all, I do not simply like dragons, I love them. I collect them. Hell, the Tiger calls me the Dragon.

The problem with tribal designs is that they are everywhere and when they are everywhere, it means you get some really crappy ones and some really good ones. After about 3 weeks of scouring the web, I found Dali Rău. This guy is just amazing. And the best part, he’s into computers and technology. Hell, he has his own wordpress 2.5 blog. I mean, c’mon, how cool is that? Most tattoo artists around here are just into bikes and skulls and crap. Here’s a dude who actually knows what XHTML is and is pissed when his site doesn’t validate. ( FYI, my site doesn’t validate, due to some issues with how WordPress displays the link categories.. ). The only downfall? He lives in Japan. :(

So, me and the Tiger are thinking of planning an excursion for sometime later this year to make the trip to Japan, drink lots of sake, eat lots of sushi and get ourselves some tattoos from the venerable Dali.

If you’re into tattoos at all, check his site out.

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