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| Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | | 1:20 am |
Not dead yet!
Still alive, now in Portland, 97202. Living with Emily, who knows little of my past transgressions, so please, nobody tell her. Doing pretty well, not too broke, not too wealthy. Having fun, learning a lot about how not to piss girlfriends off, and how to make friends and influence people in the technical community here. Anyhow. Hope you're well, and if you are in the area, I'll buy you a beer*. * Not some shitty kind, only real beer. | | Friday, April 6th, 2007 | | 1:43 pm |
Another year close to the grave
Just turned 24. (mar 30) Living in LA. (91606) Working for http://www.bitscribe.net/Ruby on Rails. (learned to hate PHP) Making a lot of money, but it costs more to live here. Almost break-even. (delta 500 or so a month) Emily, my girlfriend, is still in Portland. (sucks) | | Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 | | 7:04 am |
irc interestingness.
[7:00:32 AM] * Channel message: <[EE]Decimator> has kicked <jaggederest> from server (reason: no.) | | Friday, June 23rd, 2006 | | 2:22 am |
| | Saturday, March 11th, 2006 | | 10:22 pm |
I'm so sick
I need to just be unconcious for like, the next three or four days. I've got every symptom on they nyquil bottle, plus a couple, like bitching and moaning on the internet | | Thursday, March 9th, 2006 | | 10:49 am |
| | Monday, February 6th, 2006 | | 5:27 am |
New job (landsavvy)
Today I start a new job, working for the good people behind the (currently empty shell) website landsavvy.com I've got some kind of throat infection and I slept 2 hours tonight, so I'm off to an all-around excellent start, I think. This is a pretty pimp job, if it works out long-term. The real upside, as with most startup companies, is that if they do well, there's a job for me, and hopefully profit sharing. The downside is, no guarantees of a job beyond three or four months. Anyhow I thought I'd record the event for posterity's sake, (not that I expect to have any posterity, mind you, but in case) | | Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 | | 7:30 am |
wishlist
found feb 02 2006 HDTV computer camcorder xbox fireworks car stereo dvd-tivo new bed nicer clothes | | Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 | | 2:01 pm |
Sick
Strep throat, again, dammit. Why is it that I'm prone to the only illness which I can't suffer through without medication? I'd gladly take the flu or a couple colds a year in exchange for this, but nooo. C'est la vie, as they say. Current Mood:  tonsilitisCurrent Music: some weird ambient stuff on 87.9 | | 1:59 pm |
The internet is wonderful
I've been searching for some simple utilities to do tasks I do on a regular basis, and I found one that was almost perfect. So I dropped an email to the author(s?) to see if they could tweak it a bit... Email back in two hours asking me how I'd like to have my cake while I eat it too. Now THIS is why the Internet is good for business. | | Friday, December 16th, 2005 | | 8:53 am |
UPS
Did you know that UPS loses packages? I do, now. The UPS guy drives up, says "I'll have it in a second" and comes back with... nothing. He grins kinda sheepishly and says "Sometimes they don't get on the truck at christmas time, sorry." and drives off. I'm like, wha? Current Mood:  confused | | Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 | | 10:39 pm |
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| | Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 | | 6:54 am |
in what universe is  that an ok thing? | | Monday, November 21st, 2005 | | 12:41 am |
| | Sunday, November 13th, 2005 | | 11:56 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 | | 7:39 am |
I think of the oak beams in the ceiling of College Hall at New College, Oxford. Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now? - Danny Hillis Current Mood:  contemplative | | Saturday, October 15th, 2005 | | 8:12 am |
Knee agony
Note to self: do not volunteer to push carts around at work. While it's more engaging than the same old routine (marginally, for a while, I suppose) it's hard on the knees. Like, ow, my knees. Seriously, if knees were an auto part, they'd have been recalled a long time ago. I ended up icing them for about three hours instead of going to work last night. And I've been terribly bored since then, as they kinda-recovered. Kinda. Damn our quadripedal tree-climbing ancestors and their lack of foresight in developing proper joints. Or maybe it's more a matter of lifespan, being as how prior to the turn of the last millenium, lifespan was ~40 years or so. My knees could afford to be halfway worn out now, because odds were good I was gonna snuff it in the next 18 years, instead of having to last till I'm 80 or so. Current Mood:  ow | | Sunday, October 9th, 2005 | | 9:10 am |
| | Wednesday, October 5th, 2005 | | 4:24 am |
So now that I have money, we need to decide what I should do with it... A) save B) spend If you think I should spend it, what should I spend it on? I already have a decent car & computer, so those two are pretty much out of the question. I'm open to suggestions! Among the more interesting ones I've heard so far: - Expensive scotch (longer you keep it, the more it's worth and the tastier it is, $200 to $2k) - Audio system for my car. I'm still using the stock audio system, which is somewhat disappointing, and also won't play MP3 CDs or DVDs, makes my 30gb collection pointless ($1k to $4k depending) - A new TV for my folks. They're still limping along on an early-nineties rounded tube CRT (probably a DLP TV, $2500 or so) - Survival/camping gear ($100 to $5000, depending) - Good shoes (my old ones are worn out and my job I spend 90%+ of my day on my feet, $100 or so) Suggested by my dear Mother:- Skydiving ($20k or so for A-level training and purchased gear) - Scuba training (Several thousand at least) - A house ($200k+, probably at least $15k for a down payment) - A trip to space (future, of course... $100k estimate) |
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