Tag: School

Wow, 80

Record, Dumb, School, TB, Apple, Break, NAIAS, and Website.

Eighty posts, thats a new record. Blogger record was 79, tied on Wednesday.

I have compiled some reminders for the dumber people:

When in the shower, use the hair dryer to dry your hair while soaping with your other hand, saves time.
Always reduce time, as with fractions, so 10 to 5 would be 2 to 1.
If you’re low on cash, kill yourself, and collect the insurance money.

This is the last post of my vacation. My classes start Wednesday, but the online class technically starts Tuesday, on which I post, so this is it.

I was tested for TB yesterday, as an employee of the Hedge is in the hospital with it. Chances of me having it is very low, as it is only contagious when symptoms are showing, which they weren’t. Just the same, a $10 precaution isn’t bad.

Rumors are that a new G5 will debut on Jan. 20th, along with more on 10.3s least mentioned feature: Pixlet, a loss-less video codec. Pixlet is meant for pro customers, so receives little mention at consumer events, hence its mention only last year at the WWDC, and the coming G5 update.

I have accomplished less than hoped over break. I did manage 3 job apps, and site updates, but book is unfinished as is room cleaning. I did make dents though, and did something else, not sure what…

NAIAS trip is tomorrow. I haven’t been there in three years. Maybe I can convince the guy at GMs private area I am still an employee? Free pop and snacks, WOOHOO!

I played with site and blog last night. I shrank the banner image on site to 600 pixels long, from 800. 800 was too long, and 600 seems short. I presume most of you are using a 1024×768 resolution, so I am aiming for something neutral on that. As for blog, I was playing with the style-sheets that control all the colors, but cant find one I really like. I want to change both blog and website theme to A) match each other, and B) look not so cheesy-beginner-esque. Will do some trials on own, and post for your amusement when I find what I like.

Ok, I am tired, so heading to bed.

Till Tuesday,
nick

Being an assisted suicide physician is a nice job, because even if the customer really doesn’t like your work, they still can’t complain.

Almost Over

Break ends soon, MacWorld Expo, Library, NAIAS, and Cleaned up HD.

Yup, only one more week off, then I will be dragged back to school. Oy, I am not particularly excited, but it was my choice, right?

Also, MacWorld Expo San Francisco begins Tuesday, with the keynote at noon. I expect some cool stuff, and will let you know all about it Wednesday in next post. Maybe some cool new dual 2.5GHz XServes, and new versions of all the iLife software? Mini 2gb ipods?

I have entered all my CDs and DVDs on an Excel spreadsheet, and am almost done with books. Should be able to finally get the library page up by the end of this week.

I talked to Jason, and I will be going to the North American International Auto Show next Sunday. I haven’t been to one in 2 years, since I was working at GM. They are cool, and just $12.

I have cleaned computer up more, the HD is finally organized. Instead of a dozen folders of random stuff, there are just 3 disk images I need to burn, very nice.

Well, I can’t think of much else, so I will let you all go till Wednesday, should have plenty to say then, either praising or bashing Apple. Ahh, just like old times.

bye bye,
nick

“And now, a man who needs no introduction…”

The End of 2003

End of ’03, Resolutions, Break, My dog’s BDay, Idea’s are just that, Broken special, jobs, and a boredom ranting extravaganza.

Whaaa! It’s the last one of the year!, Boohoohoo!

Ok, anyway, yeah, this is my last post for the year. Thursday will be 2004, and I don’t update till Thursday night, so…

I could do a “Year in Review” Special, but I think there are enough of those around.

I don’t know, it’s been a long year, I’ve made new friends, regained lost ones, and did some new things. I never did get a job though. I mean, I have a job, but it’s screwy, and I don’t consider it real, so. But thats my New Years Resolution, to get a real job, and get beefy. Yeah, beefy. The way I see it, if I at least ride my bike more, it will do something. I’m not going to go get a gym membership or anything, just take dog for a run more often, and ride bike more, yeah. Of course, not till its warmer out though. Ooh, and clean my room.

Christmas break isn’t even half over yet. I don’t have class until Wednesday the 14th. Hah, thats like 3 more weeks. I love college.

Ooh, ooh, Today is Molly’s Birthday, or so we decided. The vet figured around the end of ’02 she was born, and my aunt died on the 29th of cancer, so we decided molly was born same day (but a few years later). So my baby it 1 today, woohoo!

I was told that some of the ideas I put in blog wouldn’t work, like my child bearing license. Well no shit. I just write stuff that comes to mind, I don’t actually think about it or anything. I’m sure with some work they could be made to work, but I’m lazy, so screw that. Just wanted to point that out.

So that special thing I mentioned, it kinda sucked. It sounded really good in my head, but my mind is kinda warped, and the brain-to-hand travel seemed to have degraded it. Anyway, it’s on the stories page. I’m not even going to link to it, go find it yourself. Link to homepage is in top right of page, go from there. If you convince me it sounds interesting, I will work on more, otherwise, it might just go away.

Hmm, Uhh, well, yeah.

I just applied for home depot online. Including my Staples application, thats 2, plus IBEW, so 4 job apps this year. Wow.

Ok, my brain is going off, and I don’t feel like typing through a ramble, or do I?

hmm

spelling will probably be bad..

but could be funny…

ok, I’ll do it.

Ok, so this guy is running through the woods, and he hears this noise, and hes like “Whos there”, but nobody answers, so he ceeps running, and running, and theres more noises, and he runs faster, and there coming nearer, AHHHHHHHHHHH.

So he trips, right? And the thing comes up to him, and suddenly all the trees are gone, and theres this big clearing, and hes bleeding and shit, and all scraped up from the banches, and can barely make out his persuer, and then he realizes its a snake! Not just any snake, but a big cobra, then BOOM! Theres GI Joe, and they kill the evil cobra, and the guys all like “Yeah, woohoo!”, and then GI Joe’s like “no problem”, and the dudes like “I dodnt know you guys were even real, I must be dreaming, your really here?” and GI Joes are like, “Well now you know, and knowing is half the battle”, and so the guys like “Hah, you always say that, can’t you come up with something new?” and GI Joe is like, “Hey, we could just leave you here, to die or something”, and so the dude appologizes, and gets a ride home in this wicked helicopter

the end

Woo, that was fun. Ok. I am leaving it how I wrote it. Thats how I wrote the Sock, by the way. Except on paper, so was illegible, AND had poor spelling and grammar.

Ok, til next year,
don’t die,
nick

“It’s ok, I’m cool.”
“No your not.”

Merry Christmas

Christmas, Website, Book, Movies, Jason’s BDay, Grades, Upcoming Special, and Seeing you All.

Merry Christmas all. Since my next update isn’t until Friday, I wanted to say that now.

Major updates to the website. I added 6 new pages and modified all the others. I have finally figured out how to do the sidebar in JavaScript, so now I can just update the script that prints the sidebar in a single file, rather than make whatever change on every page. The new pages are Annoying JS, Legal, and Short Stories (which is more of a section). I expect to make more updates before my vacation ends.

I have begun reading The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick. Good book, hope to have it done before break ends too.

Still haven’t seen LOTR:ROTK yet. Should within about a week, hopefully this weekend maybe.

Today is Jason’s Birthday, so happy 21st to him.

Grades for Delta will be posted on myDelta tomorrow, so any of you who care, now you know.

And I don’t know what else. I have been kinda busy with website, so didn’t put much thought into this blog entry. I do have a kinda special edition for next time, but might be put off till next Monday. We will see.

I hope to see some of you that were away to CMU, NMU, GVSU, etc… before vacation ends. So email me, IM me, call me, whatever.

And I guess thats it.

Til Friday,
Merry Christmas,
nick

If you can’t beat’em,
Beat’em up.

I'm Free!

Exams, Software updates, Poor starving children, and Christmas and New Year

Exams are now completely behind me. Though this was the longest week I can remember. Oh well, I have a full month to sit on my ass now, so thats nice.

Apple has disgraced itself. It released like 8 different updates to the OS, Pro apps, itunes, and XCode in just 2 days, but then came “Security Update 2003-12-19”. Why would there be a security update just 2 days after an OS update, which always incorporates previous security updates? Well, turns out, this was really “OS 10.3.2.1 update or as I am calling it “Oops we gave you a crappy update Update”. At least they gave it to us, rather than waiting till 10.3.3 like some OS manufacturers would.

I was watching TV last night, and saw a commercial for the Christian Children’s Fund, and came to a sort of epiphany. They want us to send thousands of dollars to save the little children, but I say, why are the children there? Why don’t we send thousands of condoms, so the people in Ethiopia who can’t even support themselves stop having children? Think about it: You live in a third world country, you rent a hut made from pallets, there is no clean water, and you work sun up to sun down just to go deeper in debt, so you have a kid? The parents should be shot for there stupidity. Seriously, headlines like “Man kills self to collect own life insurance” come to mind. Let alone, that now we are expected to bail them out. The fact that we are one of the most wealthy nations on earth doesn’t mean we can pay for everyone else. We were poor farmers, and did we get help? Yes. But then we had a war, got independence, and brought ourselves to where we are. Were not rich so we can help others, we are rich to set an example for others to follow.

Furthermore, we have a similar problem here. People right here have children, and then suck our tax dollars to pay for them. What we need is a child bearing license. You must prove mental, psychological, physical, and financial ability to raise a child, otherwise we just wont let you. A single $.50 condom can save $50,000 is WIC, food-stamps, etc… If you can’t support your baby, you shouldn’t have had one. And as for these brilliant people that can’t support their kid, but then have another, well, I wont go there.

Now don’t get me wrong, I feel bad for the skinny little Ethiopian, but I ain’t giving him any of my money.

Anyway, I finally counted, and I have an update the day after Christmas, so I get Christmas Eve and Day off, then one the night of New Years Day, so get the Eve off there too. I am glad, I would have skipped if I had to update on those days anyway.

Ok, I think my rambling is becoming a bit too disorganized and random, so I am going away, and you should too.

bye bye pretty lady,
nick

No matter how tough work gets, remember that one day some junior executive will take the credit and be promoted to a 6 figure salary, all thanks to you.
Keep up the good work.

Exams!

Exams, Book rip-off, Blogging, Car, Saddam, Christmas, GM, and New Years Party.

Well, I only have one exam left now. Took Unix Monday, C++ Tuesday, Java today, and have HTML to e-mail in by 4:00 tomorrow. I had to do alot of Java make-up programs too, but I am finally done.

I took my C++ books back for buyback. One was old edition, so they wouldn’t take, other I got $2. What a rip. I will have to try this one on ebay, I paid $65 freaking dollars for it, and will never use it again, I need to get SOMETHING for it.

Scott says I can take a break from blog, but I don’t think so. Just because nobody reads it, doesn’t mean I don’t have to write it, right? Wait, why am I asking you? Like I said, nobody reads it.

My car is still being an ass. I don’t know why, it just pisses me off.

So we got Saddam. I can hear the conspiracy theorists now. “That’s not him, its a phony, the US couldn’t find him and they’re paying off the media to disguise that he’s still out there, wreaking havoc!” My ass. If they can believe Elvis and JFK are still alive, and that we were never on the moon, I’m sure they can come up with claims like “But we never saw the DNA test proving that it is him, they just said it was him.” Yeah, well, I never saw the test proving your a complete imbecile either, but I still know it’s true.

Anyway, Christmas is fast approaching, only about a week left. I just counted, and I lucked out. No blog on Christmas, or the eve. I don’t want to count all the way to New Years, so I will wait and see on
it.

GM is not having an open house this year. It should be this friday from 1 to 4, but they decided not to do it apparently. Disappointing.

Is it too early to talk New Year? I decide – no. It has become a tradition amongst (holy crap, thats a real word?) us to go get a bunch of wings from Hooters on New Years Eve. If any of you would like to join, your all welcome. We will probably just go get 50 or so, depending how many people show up, and bring them all back here. (Mmm, Hooters, reminds me of Larry, where’d he go?)

Ok, that’s good for now.

TTYL,
nick

rm -R *

Little One

Not enough to list.

Well, being Exam week, I am a little too busy right now, so this wont be long.

We got Saddam, woohoo.

Jason replaced my spark plugs, car still being a bitch.

Java still is annoying, and glad its almost over.

LOTR opens Tuesday Midnight, I guess thats Wednesday.

Welcome home all you bitches that are already done with semester.

Ok, thats all. Have fun till Wednesday, bigger blog then.

nick

“I have been authorized to take extreme measures to ensure the safety of this information,
including the permanently extreme.”

Number 70

School, Visits, and Christmas.

Well, I got score for that C++ test, managed a 40/50 so pretty good, all things considered. I also bought my books today, a mere $107.50 for 2 books, and one was even used. Luckily, third class uses a book I already have. Next Tuesday I will sell back some of this semesters books, and hopefully make some cash.

My daily visits seems to have slightly decreased thanks to my switch of “i” with “*”. I am still averaging 200 visitors a month though. If I wasn’t on the .mac server, I would put an ad bar on the top of the pages to get some cash flow. $.01 a visit, 200 visits a month, $26 a year. Not bad at all.

So Christmas is just 2 weeks away, and I think you will all be looking for gifts, so I have a word for you: Cash. I know, but that’s what I need. Unless you want to go to AutoZone on center and just ask Jason what I need. That would work too. Gas cards work too. As does pretty much anything on store.apple.com. Also, you could get me a decent job, or buy some of my stuff for someone else on your list, thats a 2 for 1!

Uhm, well, I think thats it. I wasn’t prepared for a blog tonight, snuck up on me. Sunday I will try for more, unless I am really busy with finishing Java and Unix, which may happen.

Ok, go away.

nick

General congratulatory remarks toward your non-denominational winter holiday.

Happy Birthday!

ibook birthday, Quotes, Car, School, and Dinner.

Happy Birthday ibook, you’re one year old. No more warranty, but that’s fine. Could have bought Apple Care and had another 2 years, but the vast majority of problems occur within first couple months, and chances decrease from there. Wow, a freaking year.

I finally put all the quotes I have used up on website, up to last post. I will try to update the list every couple posts. You can see them all here.

The car is pissing me off. Replaced a part due to problems, and problem still exists. And, because I had to disconnect the battery to reset computer for new part, the radio is now locked (don’t ask, Pontiac is a bunch of evilheads).

School is almost over, and I am happy as hell. I don’t know why I go back, I should know better by now. How many years of school does it take to drive a person away? In my case, apparently over 15. God, I can almost retire from school. Five more years?

I made stew for dinner, it was, uhm, yeah.

Ok, I am leaving it here tonight. I will be trying something a bit different next time.

Till then,

nick

Why are you talking so fast?
Why are you listening so fast?

Hoojibob!

Movies, Domains, Oops on the test, TV, and Cable.

Hey all, and welcome back.

More movies, rented Shrek, because it was good, and Bulletproof Monk. T3 was disappointing, expected more, but still good. Charlie’s Angels was good too. Will watch both new rentals tonight.

No poo.com, but pootech.com is open. Could use a slogan like “PooTech, when LowTech is just too damn expensive”. Probably not though. Anyone who knows me well, know I would get hoojibob.com. Besides, who else would take it? Regardless, I need a server to have a website, which I don’t right now. Eventually.

I was in Object Oriented C++ today taking the test. Took me around 90 minutes of the 2 hours allowed. I turned in the test and went back to get my stuff, when the teacher
says:
“Nick, you know this is C++, right?”
“Yeah.”
“And you know you wrote your test is Java, right?”
“Crap!”
So I spent the next 30 minutes converting Java to C++. It wasn’t all Java, but more than should be. namely the class declarations and such. Will know next Tuesday how I did.

I am watching “the Tracy Morgan show”, he’s so funny.

Nick fixed my cable yesterday, for the first time since we moved I can watch SciFi Channel on my TV. Connectors on coax from wall to TV were loose, so was getting a bad signal. He crimped some ends on and it’s all good now.

Well, thats all for now.

Next post will bring iblog posts even with the blogger posts. Should check time difference before next time.

Ok, bye for now.

nick

“Quotes are the signatures of the unoriginal.”
Yeah, screw you.