Obedience is better than sacrifice.
Thoughts?
Monday, July 16, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
What a Vacation!
Wowwww! Cheryl and I just got back from a 9-day vacation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Nassau, Bahamas. Check out the photo gallery here: http://picasaweb.google.com/ultimadj/FtLauderdaleAndBahamaVacation
Some of the highlights include:
Some of the highlights include:
- Antonino's Pizzaria (The incredible 2.5 foot calzone)
- Being within 2 ft of an Alligator (no fence)
- A room at the resort that was bigger than my apartment
- Hard Rock @ Hollywood
- A pool with a WATERFALL
- Ft Lauderdale, Miami, and South beaches
- Snorkling and swimming with 1000+ fish (Including a Lion Fish, Puffer Fish, Needle Fish, Sea Anemonies and all sorts of other fish I don't even know the names for)
- Winning a dance contest on the cruise ship
- A shade of blue that I've never seen before in my life (deep ocean)
- And sooooo much more!!!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Can you understand?
I'm starting to think that I'm speaking geek. 'Geek' is a language developed by people in specialized cultures to more concisely convey terms that are known too all in that sect.
Today, I had someone approach me about a scholarly paper I wrote regarding asynchronous error handling strategies for services implementing diverse input methods including bean managed transactions, the avoidance of resource starvation and failover strategies for scalable production systems. They said, "I have come to the conclusion that it will take someone with a great deal of skill to read this document." Everyone seemed to follow the presentation easily enough... perhaps they were just quiet because I'd lost everyone.. :/
Later that day I had a meeting for one of the projects I was on and we were discussing how to get around a particular implementation shortcoming and I tossed in a not about using RMI/RPC. Everyone stared at me blankly. One person said, "Whatever that means," and the meeting continued.
I'd really like to have a tape recorder running 24/7 so that I can play back what I said when people completely misunderstand/don't comprehend what I'm saying. Gah!
Another interesting 'ism I found out about was my work 'tude. I'm overly happy at work because I get to hang out with great people that I'm happy to just be around. When it comes down to business, apparently I have a very worried face, or a very creepy blank stare. Too bad there are no mirrors at work.
Yesterday I was hangin' out at the Avery's making fun sounds with my band. You HAVE GOT TO HEAR OUR NEW STUFF. Seriously, it's going to blow people away. I almost cried it was so good... it gave me the goosepimples. One of my favorite moments from the evening was when Mike (in charge of keeping us moving in the right direction) started recording and Tim was still messing around on his guitar. "Tim! Pay attention." Well, not only did Tim snap to, everyone else popped up, eyes front. Haha! Everyone was in their own little zone.
Hrm, you probably had to be there for that to be funny. :P
I'm on facebook people! If you are too, add me! I send out invites now and again for cool activities. :D
Today, I had someone approach me about a scholarly paper I wrote regarding asynchronous error handling strategies for services implementing diverse input methods including bean managed transactions, the avoidance of resource starvation and failover strategies for scalable production systems. They said, "I have come to the conclusion that it will take someone with a great deal of skill to read this document." Everyone seemed to follow the presentation easily enough... perhaps they were just quiet because I'd lost everyone.. :/
Later that day I had a meeting for one of the projects I was on and we were discussing how to get around a particular implementation shortcoming and I tossed in a not about using RMI/RPC. Everyone stared at me blankly. One person said, "Whatever that means," and the meeting continued.
I'd really like to have a tape recorder running 24/7 so that I can play back what I said when people completely misunderstand/don't comprehend what I'm saying. Gah!
Another interesting 'ism I found out about was my work 'tude. I'm overly happy at work because I get to hang out with great people that I'm happy to just be around. When it comes down to business, apparently I have a very worried face, or a very creepy blank stare. Too bad there are no mirrors at work.
Yesterday I was hangin' out at the Avery's making fun sounds with my band. You HAVE GOT TO HEAR OUR NEW STUFF. Seriously, it's going to blow people away. I almost cried it was so good... it gave me the goosepimples. One of my favorite moments from the evening was when Mike (in charge of keeping us moving in the right direction) started recording and Tim was still messing around on his guitar. "Tim! Pay attention." Well, not only did Tim snap to, everyone else popped up, eyes front. Haha! Everyone was in their own little zone.
Hrm, you probably had to be there for that to be funny. :P
I'm on facebook people! If you are too, add me! I send out invites now and again for cool activities. :D
Monday, June 18, 2007
Hahaha! Confrontation
I'm frustrated with people who go about things in the way that Dilbert does in this comic: http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070617.html
Got a problem with me? Approach me! I'm not in the habit of tearing people's limbs off unless they are bad drivers with bad attitudes.
Got a problem with me? Approach me! I'm not in the habit of tearing people's limbs off unless they are bad drivers with bad attitudes.
With that said, this weekend rocked!!!
Nate and I biked from my parent's house to Brie's to the disc golf course and back again covering .
Here's the approximate route we took:
See the turquoise line on the map here:
It was a grand day filled with odd movies, much excercise, Super Smash Bros Melee (BOOYAH!) and other such great activities that imply great times. :)
Yesterday was the first father's day that I received gifts from. Both sets of families got together for barbeque and the the kind of fun you look back on saying "those were the days" that only family can provide. I'm still glowing! :D
Friday, June 15, 2007
Who Beat Me in My Sleep?
This morning when I got out of bed, I couldn't help but wonder who beat me all night while I slept. I thought I was sleeping, but I was really taking a beating... all night. I'm exhausted and I feel like I weigh 573lbs. This compounds the fact that I am ahead of schedule and therefore have to wait til my meetings for the other things I want to be doing now.
This is funny because last night, I had so much energy that I was having the time of my life playing basketball til late after completing a church workday to prepare the main meeting hall for new carpet.
Did I mention that power tools are fun? (Yes, all day I've been jumping topics this rapidly.) I got to take a sawzall to a large, rusted, metal feeding trough, reducing it to plates of scrap. It was an intense battle involving 4 saw blades, glowing shrapnel, a refrigerator and a large dumpster. Wheesh!
I'm still psycked about facebook. I love my friends and the ability to be in touch with them!
This is funny because last night, I had so much energy that I was having the time of my life playing basketball til late after completing a church workday to prepare the main meeting hall for new carpet.
Did I mention that power tools are fun? (Yes, all day I've been jumping topics this rapidly.) I got to take a sawzall to a large, rusted, metal feeding trough, reducing it to plates of scrap. It was an intense battle involving 4 saw blades, glowing shrapnel, a refrigerator and a large dumpster. Wheesh!
I'm still psycked about facebook. I love my friends and the ability to be in touch with them!
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Facebook is Exciting!
Facebook is really exciting! Especially for me, right now. Everyone I know, all the people whose lives I had a vested interest in that I thought were completely lost to me have been piling in with friend requests! I'm completely blown away!
The most exciting categories of people thusfar are
- Interesting, intelligent, or professional people that I didn't think wanted me around
- Friends that I'd loved dearly that have fallen through the cracks or moved away
- Friends that have been in the area but haven't had similar interests
I'm really excited that facebook can be such a tool for getting people together. I feel that I am once again close to being surrounded by the people I dearly want to be associated with and learn from. Canoe trips, picnics, parties... all are only a click away. I'm overjoyed!
Other notes from the past few days:
- My keys were stolen along with a stereo from my church while I played basketball. Keys are expensive... 70 bucks a pop for each of my rf keys, not to mention car cylinders for my wife's toyota (no anti-theft) grr...
- Ghost Rider was the worst B movie I've seen to date.
- Brie and Pizza are a combination that can make any day rock
- Waking up with Cheryl is still one of the best feelings known to me
- I love my job! I'm past configuration nonsense and on to better things!
The most exciting categories of people thusfar are
- Interesting, intelligent, or professional people that I didn't think wanted me around
- Friends that I'd loved dearly that have fallen through the cracks or moved away
- Friends that have been in the area but haven't had similar interests
I'm really excited that facebook can be such a tool for getting people together. I feel that I am once again close to being surrounded by the people I dearly want to be associated with and learn from. Canoe trips, picnics, parties... all are only a click away. I'm overjoyed!
Other notes from the past few days:
- My keys were stolen along with a stereo from my church while I played basketball. Keys are expensive... 70 bucks a pop for each of my rf keys, not to mention car cylinders for my wife's toyota (no anti-theft) grr...
- Ghost Rider was the worst B movie I've seen to date.
- Brie and Pizza are a combination that can make any day rock
- Waking up with Cheryl is still one of the best feelings known to me
- I love my job! I'm past configuration nonsense and on to better things!
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Data Recovery Master!! All your byte[] r belong to us!
Yes yes, once again I have recovered data from a dead on delivery hard drive. This one was particularly challenging because the more I used the drive, the worse it got.
When I got the drive, it couldn't be read. Blast. I popped it out of its enclosure, dissasembled my laptop and popped it in. Then promptly realized that I missed a screw and went to remove the drive... it... stuck... AGHAGAHGAHGAHAHGGAHAGAHA! Stupid 'almost' form factor drives AGH! With great anticipation I wriggled and buffeted the drive for nearly 15 minutes before I could remove it. I will NEVER forget a single screw again.
When I started up the computer I got the typical error message that causes all in IT to despair... that's right... corrupted ntos...
So what then? SpinRite diagnosis of course! A quick scan showed that the drive was in poor shape with multiple physical damage areas. Ooof. This eliminates all of the Stellar suite (my favorite data recovery tool). Refreshing with sprinrite isn't an option either because you can hear the scraping... bad news.
And so he realized that his typical recovery arsenal wasn't going to cut it. Off to the everpresent crawler of the web he went with high hopes and eager spirit.
Hey, this is my blog! Keep your digital comments to yourself.
Ok Dave. *computer snickers* I hope you like the blue screen, it's my NEW favorite companion.
Oh brother! Upgrade or something *lays the smackdown on computer: ctrl+alt+SMACKDOWN*
Where was I? Oh yeah google.. I searched for a linux livecd with windows networking capabilities and local NTFS rw. The first result took the cake by far, I highly recommend getting this tool for emergencies if you don't have it yet: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
A little zsh manipulation and I was off and running. The data streamed off the broken drive onto my stable desktop while I slept (between 3am and 7am). When I woke up, I burned the 18 gigs of data to DVDs and scooted off to work.
Booyah! I can even recover laptop hard drives! To think that the person had been quoted at $800 for what I did in one evening. Wait, maybe I could do this on the side...
Do you or does anyone you know, have data recovery needs? (Lost/deleted files, corrupt hard drives, dods)?
What do you think? Could anyone benefit from this service?
P.S. Does anyone know of a good way to create polls?
When I got the drive, it couldn't be read. Blast. I popped it out of its enclosure, dissasembled my laptop and popped it in. Then promptly realized that I missed a screw and went to remove the drive... it... stuck... AGHAGAHGAHGAHAHGGAHAGAHA! Stupid 'almost' form factor drives AGH! With great anticipation I wriggled and buffeted the drive for nearly 15 minutes before I could remove it. I will NEVER forget a single screw again.
When I started up the computer I got the typical error message that causes all in IT to despair... that's right... corrupted ntos...
So what then? SpinRite diagnosis of course! A quick scan showed that the drive was in poor shape with multiple physical damage areas. Ooof. This eliminates all of the Stellar suite (my favorite data recovery tool). Refreshing with sprinrite isn't an option either because you can hear the scraping... bad news.
And so he realized that his typical recovery arsenal wasn't going to cut it. Off to the everpresent crawler of the web he went with high hopes and eager spirit.
Hey, this is my blog! Keep your digital comments to yourself.
Ok Dave. *computer snickers* I hope you like the blue screen, it's my NEW favorite companion.
Oh brother! Upgrade or something *lays the smackdown on computer: ctrl+alt+SMACKDOWN*
Where was I? Oh yeah google.. I searched for a linux livecd with windows networking capabilities and local NTFS rw. The first result took the cake by far, I highly recommend getting this tool for emergencies if you don't have it yet: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
A little zsh manipulation and I was off and running. The data streamed off the broken drive onto my stable desktop while I slept (between 3am and 7am). When I woke up, I burned the 18 gigs of data to DVDs and scooted off to work.
Booyah! I can even recover laptop hard drives! To think that the person had been quoted at $800 for what I did in one evening. Wait, maybe I could do this on the side...
Do you or does anyone you know, have data recovery needs? (Lost/deleted files, corrupt hard drives, dods)?
What do you think? Could anyone benefit from this service?
P.S. Does anyone know of a good way to create polls?
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