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Giving Up All My Yesterdays For All My Tomorrows
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| Life Lesson |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|10:25 am] |
So I haven't charged anything on any credit cards for about a year and a half and all of my cards have a zero balance. Naturally, when the statement came in the mail for my card that I keep open for emergencies I just threw it away... mistake.
Apparently I charged something by accident for about $10 six months ago! I think it was an amazon purchase with my old card on file. It'e been racking up interest and late payments for the last six months! I called the company and they let me pay off the money plus interest without the late payment charges (thank you bank of Omaha!). The only reason I found out was that I got a strange, different letter from them that wasn't a statement (so I opened it) that told me they has closed my account and forwarded to collections!
So, yeah, I'll be checking those statements from now on. |
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[Jun. 15th, 2009|09:34 am] |
Things that are cool when they're up close and standing still but horrifying when they're up close and moving.
Bats
Emus
Monster Trucks
Jellyfish
Crayfish
Octupuses (octopodes for the grammar police)
anything else? |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2009|04:57 pm] |
Ha ha, clip from an Engadget Liveblog of the Nintendo E3 Keynote
1:10PM Team Ninja and Nintendo collaborating on something. It's in space.
1:10PM IT'S METROID.
1:10PM THIS IS A METROID ACTION GAME FROM TEAM NINJA. THIS IS HAPPENING. WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS THING THAT IS HAPPENING.
1:11PM 2010: Metroid: Other M.
1:11PM Samus Aran, for the first time, speaks in the trailer. Footage includes first person and third person sequences.
New Mario and Mario Galaxy 2!!!!
Rest of it here
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/engadget-and-joystiq-live-from-nintendos-e3-2009-keynote/ |
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| Four SquAWESOME |
[May. 17th, 2009|06:40 pm] |
We had our third scored game of Four Square last saturday. The rest of the pictures are at RalfFourSquare.Org
Come play with us!
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[May. 15th, 2009|10:12 am] |
I write programs every day that to another programmer would be a beautiful piece of art. Nobody else will every truly see or understand the code in that respect although the code will be used every day.
Somehow that makes me happy, knowing that beneath things that are used every day there is a beautiful symphony being played, expertly balanced and harmonious. |
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| From Newsweek |
[May. 14th, 2009|09:02 am] |
Was he supposed to???????
This just in, new study finds that Obama doesn't turn water into wine.
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| [LJ2ME] Personalities |
[May. 8th, 2009|09:38 am] |
There are a few folks at work that I personally can't stand. Objectively they are all nice, good people but their personalities are nails on a chalkboard to me. When I'm talking to them all that I'm thinking is "how can I make this conversation stop?"
Does anyone else know people at work like this? How do you deal with them? |
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[May. 1st, 2009|11:15 pm] |
She's been living with me for two months and I still miss her almost daily.
I've been told that I'm an extraordinary programmer by enough people that I'm starting to believe it instead of questioning their judgment
I'm beginning to feel that one day I might be able to control the panic that invades my every thought
All in all life is going well.
I'm trying to save up enough money to buy a house at the end of this year, don't know if everyone knows that. We'll see. There are some financial unknowns right now and a mortgage isn't something you want to guess on. |
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[May. 1st, 2009|06:01 pm] |
Wow! I'm enamored
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, this is new music recorded in 2006 I believe. There is a whole new groovy, funky sub genera of music I've never heard of before, joy of joys!
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[Apr. 29th, 2009|11:48 am] |
Worrying about swine flu in the US right now = too much time on your hands.
Only 7 people have died worldwide (via WHO), statistically just about zero people have it in the US and if you get it you go the the hospital and get some Tamiflu for a few days, END OF STORY.
The media is just being a bunch of reactionist whores (which should not surprise anyone)
Everyone else needs to relax and establish valid priorities, we're creating a media/healthcare/government clusterf*** and it's annoying.
That is all. |
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[Apr. 27th, 2009|09:56 am] |
Rhode Island League for Foursquare is having our second game of the season this Saturday in Warwick at 11am, come play with us! Foursquare, while known as a playground game is a very fun and entertaining sport. The rules are easy and the first hour is free play so we'll teach you. We play every other Saturday and have a blast. (There is no admission, dues or donations either)
More info here
Be there or be square! |
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[Feb. 14th, 2009|07:39 am] |
Happy V Day!
Wonderful song for the Occasion.
Amanda is moving in at the end of the month!!!
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[Jan. 23rd, 2009|09:36 am] |
Embarrassing moment at work while in the stock room:
(Shiny Toy Guns song comes on the radio)
Me: I hate this band
Co-worker: Really? I like this band a lot, what do you listen to?
I shouldn't assume that other people share my opinions. He was looking for a short list of common bands or the name of a genera that explains my taste in music. I flirted with the idea of explaining that I don't really listen to anything in particular, I just listen to good music with a soul in any genera but I did a half hearted explanation of what Gothic Americana was and seeing his eyes glaze over said that I listen to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs a lot (which I do).
I thought it would come with age but I still don't understand how most people seem to live. Watching American Idol on the weekdays, Football on the weekends, listening to whatever is on the popular radio station and generally taking in whatever has been served up by popular culture.
I mean, I know it's more complicated then that and that I'm overgeneralizing this but that got me thinking, there are two sets of people, right? There are those who take what is given to them and those who instinctively disregard anything that comes so easy. I'm not sure which one, if any, is better by the way.
On that line of thought I think I figured out how to segment along those lines easily, those who have a sense of adventure and those who don't. I'm turning it over in my mind and it works, yes?
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you know, reading though this again I realize that it's almost impossible to say what I said about some people being adventurous and some not without putting down the people who are not adventurous. This is because some traits or words come with inherent positive or negative connotations. We've all been taught that being adventurous is a good thing, but is it really? I imagine that the most adventurous of us would have tried every drug on the planet, is that positive? I imagine that the most adventurous of us would have done a million things that shorten their life expectancy.
Isn't a non-adventurous person better for our society as a whole? Doing a job for years and years that somebody has to do, dutifully maxing out their credit cards to stoke the economy, being safe and raising healthy, normal kids?
Of course we need adventurous people to innovate and move society forward but we need both and we need far more non-adventurous people than adventurous, if everyone was a entrepreneur then there would be nobody left to work for them!
Take that and amplify it to thousands and thousands of improperly positive or negative words and it becomes apparent that subtle language differences can change the course of an entire nation. |
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[Jan. 20th, 2009|10:34 am] |
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The 21st Century begins today. |
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[Jan. 19th, 2009|01:37 pm] |
I figured out why nobody really cares about Veterans Day, Labor Day and Martin Luther King Day...
There is nothing to buy! Any holiday that is associated with buying things (Candy, Costumes, Presents, Fireworks, Mexican Food, Big Meals) is a holiday that people celebrate. Anything else is just a day off of work (or a day not off of work if your me).
It's not official unless there is specialized consumption. |
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[Jan. 16th, 2009|01:02 pm] |
been thinking a lot about the future of technology lately. It's obvious to me that the operating system of the future is the internet and that we will interact with it constantly. The internet will become so ingrained in our thought process that will become like another sense. We will always be connected (maybe not we but our children/grandchildren).
What will change dramatically is the way that we interact with the internet. The bottleneck is currently between the technology and the user. Screens limit the size and location of our devices, typing and clicking limits our use the the devices we can use.
Nobody has an answer to this one but I feel like one is there. I can feel it at the edge of my consciousness, taunting me. The main stumbling point is conveying information from the internet to the user, not the other way around. The new method must be effortless and private. There will be no physical effort made to gather information from the internet and no one else will know.
One somebody figures this out and somebody else with sufficient business acumen steals/buys it from that person it will be something so obvious that we'll all say "Oh man, I could have thought of that". |
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[Jan. 14th, 2009|10:28 am] |
So I was in my brand new super comfortable bed reading before bed last night. I'm very happy with my new bed, my previous one of 4 years being a $199 Wall-Mart special that came in a box all rolled up.
However, regardless of how well I sleep now I had an instant, palpable feeling of deep loss and regret over my old bed last night. The feeling was intense, I felt like nothing would ever be the same again and that I was somehow a different person leading a different life. I felt like the old me was dead and I was some strange new being, the panic came creeping.
I began to rationalize, telling myself that I was the same person who slept in the other corner of the room but just sleeps better. A voice came creeping, the voice of a good friend whose words sometimes guide me when I ask myself great questions. She told me how silly it was when people worry about changing who they are because we are always changing who we are, every day. She told me that who you are is who you are and whatever you were is just who you were.
I remembered the Buddhist question that proved there was no such thing as a soul "Are you the same person you were yesterday?"
Grasping wildly in anxious fugue my hand touched upon something solid. We live a life of loss. We lose every single day. We lose who we were, we lose memories, lessons, things we've learned. We lose friends and loved ones. We lose time, seconds, minutes, hours, days, life. I will lose this moment, this feeling, this memory. In just a few generations there will be no one alive who will remember that I existed.
We move through life, bleeding into space and we can't stop it. We can't stop gaining though. Every day we receive a new life, we get new memories and lessons, we learn new things. Every day we come closer to new friends and loved ones. We gain time, seconds, minutes, hours, days, life. I will gain another moment, another feeling, another memory. The world gains new life every second. There is another baby being born right now, another child speaking their first word, another two people falling in love.
I must accept that fundamental truth that my good friend has told me more than once. Every second is another chance to do so and every day brings me closer. |
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| [LJ2ME] |
[Jan. 12th, 2009|02:01 pm] |
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I just had this insane idea. Building a hundred or so live journals and building a computer conversation engine that can generate posts and comment on posts as well. Then set them all up as friends and let them go commenting and writing to each other on their own! |
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