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| 01:55pm 05/05/2008 |
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mood:  contemplative
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Sometimes I get in a weird mood to write random haiku(s?) just about ordinary things I'm doing.
Peacefully coding
The green light is now red
The build has broken |
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| Project idea: Scour |
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| 02:15pm 29/02/2008 |
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So I put together a little birthday part for my wife a couple weeks back. Just for fun we decided to have "Saturday Morning" as the theme of the party, since we'd gotten the idea while talking about various things during New Year's Eve this year. Being that I remain fairly busy (as is obvious from my horrible posting schedule) I luckily realized early on that I would need to delegate and did so. I have a couple of good friends who simply excel at "finding stuff" on the net so sent them out after episodes of 80s cartoons that I could put together into a DVD for everyone to watch (complete with 80s commercials!).
While speaking with one of my friends who was looking for this stuff for me I got to thinking. He was spending quite a bit of time manually searching around, picking out torrents or what have you when he came across them. He had plenty of time, but I started to wonder if there might not be a better way, and sort of formulated this idea of an application / service I'm nicknaming "SCOUR," as in "scour the internet for information"
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| Dear CEO |
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| 12:13pm 01/02/2007 |
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mood:  aggravated
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I have generally found you to be an intelligent, friendly, and all-around good guy. However, there have been some problems lately. Because subtle hints and comments don't seem to work, I'm going to put this as bluntly as I can. I believe you have become, or are acting, completely obtuse.
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| Mulling over things |
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| 09:27am 23/01/2007 |
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mood:  amused
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No major techie update until I work some more things out on this concept of a Darknet file system I've been pondering (distributed systems intrigue me). I've also decided to get a bit more organized, so I can actually set aside time during the week to work on all these side projects I've got rolling around in my head and NOTHING ELSE during that time. Having so many on my "list" and not getting any of them really worked on steadily is driving me nuts.
In other news, a friend of mine, knowing my enjoyment of Elfen Lied sent me a link to a webcomic called Nana's Everyday Life
DISCLAIMER: Following the above link is rated DBF (Disturbing But Funny) for gratuitous Metal Gear Solid references, Box-Kicking, and Sad Sad Girls. (Also, some blood and NAUGHTY WORDS).
P.S. - If you don't know who Nana, Lucy, "Papa," or Mayu are, go lock yourself in a room immediately and watch Elfen Lied.
If you don't know who Henrietta, Rico, or Triella are, go lock yourself in a room immediately and watch Gunslinger Girls.
That is all. |
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| On Linear Video Networks |
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| 02:19pm 27/12/2006 |
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mood: contemplative
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So, I work for very new tech startup. What we basically do is create online video-based communities or networks. It's in some ways like YouTube only I would say it's more refined and focused.
Imagine you could create a cable channel of your very own about anything. Butterflies, How to Make Sandwiches, or whatever. Now imagine it's online so you have user lists, forums, maybe community calendars for gatherings IRL, or other such things. That's us. The content is all professionally produced in a video studio run by one of the business execs, so it's not your low resolution amateur webcam stuff (not that doesn't have it's place).
Anyway lately I've been working on a way to deliver what my boss refers to as a Linear Network in Flash Video.
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| The Wandering Office |
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| 12:06pm 15/01/2004 |
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mood: working music: DJ Phosphor - Mix 29
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The company I work for got a 90 day notice that we are basically booted from our offices the other day. Something about the office building being too old so the people who own it are going to remodel it or tear it down and build a newer one.
So everyone around here is half spazzing out now, we've even got a little temp girl here going from office to office packing up all non-essentials and whatnot.
Rumor has it that the boss is thinking of going and actually buying a house that's zoned for commercial so that we won't be in danger of being uprooted ever again. This should prove to be an interesting upcoming month for sure. |
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| OMG He's Not Bitching! |
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| 02:40pm 09/01/2004 |
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mood:  bouncy music: Diss Reaction - Jiehaaa
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It's Friday!
It snowed and it's all pretty outside, and the snow wasn't even really an inconvenience going to work or anything.
Plus, my girlfriend bought me a subscription to NewType magazine for Christmas, and the first issue arrived two days ago. I haven't had a subscription to a magazine in like 5 years, and I found I actually kinda missed it. Now there should be lots of interesting new stuff to read each month, along with tasty samples of Manga and Anime DVDs. Yay! Now my fairy godmother can turn ReDDoG from wood into a Real Fanboi :P
I haven't gotten a chance to read through it yet but it's like 200 pages and I have the whole weekend ahead of me. Hooray for Friday! |
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| Rats and Sinking Ships |
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| 03:28pm 05/01/2004 |
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mood: aggravated music: DJ Uraken - Mix 36
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Well in case you didn't know (and you probably didn't) I recently aquired a new roommate. This is one of my college friends whom I spent a lot of time with when we all lived in the dorms, etc. so I'm used to him pretty much, and that's not a bad thing. The thing is I kind of grudgingly agreed to let him live with my existing roommate (another college friend) and myself because he was in a bad way and needed someplace to stay. This is what bugs me though. The original plan we had was to all three get a place at the beginning of the summer when school let out and all get jobs, etc. However, the one friend ducked out on us halfway through last spring because he dropped out of school and didn't want to face his father's disappointment. So instead he got a crappy apartment with a crappy roommate and worked retail for the summer. Now he's realized his apartment is crappy and he got fired from his job, and he decided not to return to school, so he comes crawling back to my existing roommate and myself for someplace to live so he doesn't have to move back in with his father (once again).
So ok, it felt kinda like he ought to face the music, but I agreed to let him live with us - he is a friend after all. On top of this I set him up with a job at the company I work at - not retail, decent pay, and in his field (computer science). For this effort I have been rewarded recently with catching him talk behind my back, and coming into the apartment situation trying to change a bunch of the ways my roommate and I have been doing things for the past 6 months.
I'm slowly getting over this crap, I figure it will go away soon enough.
Now, on top of everything, this new roommate has informed me today at work that my existing roommate has decided to let the new roommate take over his half of the lease so that my existing roommate can quit his job that's he's gotten tired of and go crawling back to his mommy in his hometown.
So yeah, I'm pretty much thoroughly convinced that I don't want another roommate ever unless I have either A) lived with this person before and know they won't flake out on me or B) put them through some sort of extensive interview process.
I mean really, some people need to grow the fuck up and realize you can't just go hopping around doing whatever the hell you feel like or quitting and running off just cause something you don't like happens. |
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| whee! |
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| 11:53am 21/11/2003 |
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mood: content
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After a kinda crappy week I had a pretty good day yesterday.
I got to work early and got some decent work done.
I talked to my roommate about the incident we had earlier this week and got that resolved, everything seems to be fine again.
I went out with my parents for hot wings (only 10 cents each!) and we went to see a movie of my mother's choosing. She wanted to see Love Actually, which was scary at first since my mother usually picks pretty bad movies, but this movie was quite good, with a decently complex plotline and quite a few funny parts.
After leaving the movie I had a message on my voice mail from Barnes and Noble. The book I had gone to 2 different bookstores looking for on Monday came in on order. I got to the bookstore 10 minutes before closing and picked it up! woohoo!
I went home and took a nice long hot bath and read my book and then went to sleep. It was quite relaxing.
I need more days like these! |
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| Something to ponder |
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| 10:00pm 11/11/2003 |
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mood: contemplative music: Cold - Year of the Spider
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Forget about what you think is right or wrong.
Instead, consider intention and motivation. |
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| Predators |
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| 07:30pm 16/10/2003 |
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mood: evil music: The Offspring - Dirty Magic
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I was talking to friends the other day about people who annoy me, and I arrived on a conclusion. Just about everything else in the world has a natural predator. And if it doesn't, it has some other sort of problem that keeps it from being too powerful, like the fact that sharks can't get out of the water, etc.
Therefore, the reason humans have screwed up so much stuff is because they have no natural predator. I think we need one. So I designed one:
( A Predator for Humans... ) |
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| Hmm |
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| 10:58am 16/10/2003 |
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mood:  bored music: The Sound Assassins - Hyper Speed
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I saw this on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tiamat_the_red's journal, so out of curiousity I went ahead and took it.
( Results... ) |
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| Work Complete! |
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| 09:46pm 07/10/2003 |
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mood: relieved
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Just got back from my night class tonight. I had a quiz (read: test) tonight that I have been stressing over the past couple of days. This is an American Lit. class, and my last class necessary before they give me that stupid piece of paper that shows that I'm smart or something. Amazingly enough, the quiz turned out to be way easier than I had been thinking it would be and I think I aced it. That was like 20% of my grade, according to the syllabus. I always hated classes where you got like a grand total of 5 grades the whole semester, but at least that's one weight off my shoulders. |
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| Streaming radio really rocks... rar! |
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| 09:30am 03/10/2003 |
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mood: working music: Blossom - Just a Dream
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I listen to music constantly, but for some odd reason my CD collection is not that large. So of course when I'm listening to stuff all day long, I end up going through my entire CD collection like several times a week, which gets a little repetitive, even with stuff I love.
I used to stream a radio station from Atlanta sometimes, but the sound quality on there is not so hot.
Then a couple weeks ago a friend of mine pointed me to this streaming audio site called Digitially Imported. I now pratically listen to it constantly. It's got a bunch of different channels for different flavors of music (mostly techno/trance, but there is a classical channel too) and there's several different qualities of stream for each channel, and you can use a couple of different players to listen to it.
Definitely check it out if you're into that sort of thing. I'm listening to the Hardcore channel like 99% of the time. Keeps me awake through my work day. :) |
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| Irony |
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| 09:01pm 02/10/2003 |
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mood: contemplative
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Life is just full of such weird ironies and contrasts. All this week I've been working extra late hours, I've been getting conflicting instructions from various bosses, and at one point I practically had two coworkers in my office fighting over what I was going to do next. I look out my window during the day and see zillions of cars going up and down the road, people coming and going out of the little italian resturant nearby. It's like an ant colony.
And then I get off of work. By then, everyone in the office has already gone home. I'm in the office myself, the parking lot is completely empty except for my car, and there's maybe 1 or 2 cars driving by in the street.
The entire ride home is just very quiet and peaceful and so completely opposite of what goes on during the day. And now here I am at home, the apartment is dark except for two small lamps and my monitor. My roommate is still at work closing down the store he works at, so I'm here all alone.
It's just such an odd contrast between work and home these days, it's like it's two separate universes or something. I almost feel like I don't want to turn the TV or anything on for fear of letting the chaotic universe break into this nice quiet one.
Too bad I have to leave it in just a few more hours and go back to the chaos. |
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| I have a head full of pudding... |
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| 03:30pm 29/09/2003 |
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mood: drained music: DJ Virus - Mixing it
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Or at least that's what it feels like. But anyway...
shmitz recently reminded me that I haven't posted here in like forever, so I suppose it's about time for an update.
I've been spending most of my free time playing a game called Shadowbane, which was great fun and all, but due to circumstances and disagreements with people, that kinda turned sour. I still play occasionally, but as us old folks say, "It ain't what it used to be."
As far as the rest of things go, it's been pretty dull, with some spice thrown in off and on.
A rear window exploded outward while I was driving down the highway one day, that was pretty interesting. So I have been driving around for a month with plastic, cardboard, tape, and you name it covering the hole from the rain. Finally I had the money this weekend to get a spare window, and my father and I managed to put it in ourselves, so at least I didn't have to pay labor costs.
Work has been going steadily, if not enjoyably. I got offered a permanent position at my company finally, since until now I've been basically an intern, working only during the summers. This "promotion" came with a handy raise and medical benefits, so I guess that's a nice bonus.
Unfortunately, sometime this weekend I seem to have caught some sort of nasty bug and that's where I got my lovely pudding-head. Let me tell you, it's difficult to debug code when you have pudding instead of brain matter. And it's not even the tasty swirl type pudding either.
I think I may just go home early from work today and drool on the floor for a while. |
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| That's So Wonderful... |
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| 06:45pm 26/06/2003 |
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mood: working music: Love Hina Opening Theme
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When you're super busy, working 11.5 hour days during this Week From Hell, it's amazing how many times you can listen to one song as your playlist repeats.
I blame lighthawk
P.S. Please kill me. |
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| Chinese conspiracy is afoot! |
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| 12:56pm 19/06/2003 |
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mood:  lethargic music: Powerman 5000 - A is for Apathy
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I discovered something at lunch today. You see, the Chinese are trying to take over the world. I went to a local Chinese buffet today to eat (the best one in town) thinking to have a tasty treat and then go back to work and finish out my day. HA! That's how they get you. All that nice peaceful bamboo and calming architecture is there to lull you into a false sense of security while they carry out their plans. So I unknowingly eat my meal, consuming my General Tso's chicken and my happy little Chinese donuts, but then, when I return to work, I come to the realization. I can do virtually nothing. I am so full of chicken, rice, and noodly goodness that my productivity has fallen through the floor! Slowly they are going to feed us lo mein and fortune cookies until we all just fall asleep simultaneously and no one can lift a finger and do their jobs to protect us.
Beware the coming Armageddon, for the streets will run with Sweet and Sour sauce and everywhere you walk you will hear the crunch of Chow Mein noodles underfoot.
In a completely unrelated comment, I was thinking on the way to work about how people always say stuff like "Well you know what THEY say" etc. and no one actually knows who "they" are. Well I thought, wouldn't it be funny to create a website called "THEM" or "THEY" and actually have somewhere where you can go to see what "THEY" say. Sadly I discovered that someone has already beaten me to it...
Go read what THEY say. |
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