Ebay now has financing… check out the link from this auction.
So, I discovered hashtables today…I know — how could I go so long without knowing about them? I dunno..I guess I’m just retarded. I had always thought to get a key/value list, you had to use some sort of multi-dimensional array, and that’s a hack, at the very best….
Here’s the MSDN page on hashtables
So, I’ve worked enough overtime this pay period that I’m pretty sure it will cover my base rent in OT alone. Downside is, I’m totaly worn down…. upside is, well, I think it’ll cover my base rent, which is good because I had to buy 2 new tires last week, and I’ll have to buy another 2 tires on friday or saturday, probably. Tires are expensive…
Just read my past couple blog posts..they’re really negitive…:( Sorry about that, just been that kind of week I guess. I need to be more upspirited I think, or maybe just a full weekend off where I can go do something TOTaly fun.
Next week should be better — maybe I’ll see if I can catch Timbers game or something, if they’re still playing down at PGE park.
I know I’ve promised people wedding pictures, and now I’ve also promised them Jake pictures (I’ll post about that later) but I’m just feeling totaly beaten down this week. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this drained, and it’s taking it’s tole on my physically. On top of everything else, my sister is now sick, both her kidney’s are completely inflamed and we’re waiting for test results. It’s probably just some Strep that got into her kidneys… (we hope).
So, driving to Yakima sucks. Specialy at night. The lanes are narrow, the freeways are unlit, it’s super windy and gusty. Although, the 84 portion is actualy kind of nice. Most of the drive runs the bank of the river, so you get a nice view, at the very least.
So, I bust my ass all week making sure a project gets done. I’m already at 80 hours for this pay period and it’s only thursday. So, I’m here untill midnight last night making sure everything is good to go..and guess what? The other company involved doesn’t have their side done, and the contact is MIA, no where to be found. Ontop of that, I was just informed I have a completely flat rear drivers side tire. It’s raining outside, so I have to go change that, my car happenes to also be parked on the street, so I get to deal with traffic. MOST BESTEST DAY EVAH.
A customer is totaly livid about a percieved, but as of yet unrealised deadline slip. We won’t let it slip, but there’s a lot of pressure. I quit smoking..but days like this make me wish I hadn’t..
–stress–
Amazing article about a survivor…
Link here
Well, being a developer on the M$ Platform, I spend a fair amount of time looking @ technical web pages on Microsoft’s MSDN site, however, the font they use is horribly small. Well, a co-worker showed me a trick today, which utterly simple, is a real eye saver. In both FireFox and IE, if you hold down the control key, and scroll the mouse wheel, you can adjust the font size of the page smaller or larger. Yay for me 
Every Tuesday is Taco Tuesday around here… one bar has them 3 for $1.50, another has them 2 for $1 (really, same price) so… here’s my song of the day, sung to the tune of Brother John.
Taco Tuesday,
Taco Tuesday,
Dormez vous?
Dormez vous?
Sonnez les matines,
Sonnez les matines,
Din, din, don!
Din, din, don!
So, I know I haven’t posted much recently.. I’ve been super busy. It’s only monday and I’m 12 hours (yes, a day and a half) into overtime already…. that’s my update –back to work
-b
My updates are so close to coming, you may even be able to find them on the P2P networks as ‘0-day warez’…
or not
But I will be updating soon. Going west side sometime this week to use my dad’s garage to replace my broken O2 sensor, and may as well get the data cable to my mom’s digital camera so i can get the wedding pictures off of it and return it to her.
Rae sent me this theory today…
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“evil woman” = redundant
So today I told Brian that female is synonomous with evil… Then.. I realized it was terribly true… I’m evil… I was born with a vagina and its like devil horns are just a metaphor for pussy if you think about it Pink (the color of pussy) is just a muted red like the devil horns and if you turn devil horns upside down you get the shape of pussy lips… ask anyone whos EVER dated a woman, or lived with a woman, or KNOWN a woman… Even women will prolly tell you its true.. even though the ones who dont are liars or are using you for money or sex… women are all evil… we pretend that we dont use people like we think guys do, but we do… cars, money, SEX oh yes boys we use YOU for sex too!!! I have had sex with a virgin guy and then never spoken to him again, even though he did it because he “loved” me… hmm… I think i have to go now… I have already told you too much….
[background]: on xxx’s 21st, birthday we took him and his g/f out to the bars. At the end of the night, when he was completely faded, I gave him an irish car bomb….(see below if you don’t know what that is). Suffice to say, he ended up not liking the first full day of being 21…
log from IM —
(15:57:38) BC: went out in a limo
(16:01:17) xxx: huh? really? why
(16:02:26) BC: drinkin
(16:02:28) BC: heh
(16:02:36) BC: for my roommates sisters 21st b-day
(16:02:41) xxx: nice
(16:02:52) BC: yeah
(16:03:35) xxx: did you slip her an irish assbomb too?
(16:04:03) BC: hah
(16:04:08) BC: irish assbomb?
(16:04:13) BC: irish carbombs are good
(16:04:18) xxx irish carbomb
(16:04:18) BC: if you’re not on the verge of puking as is
(16:04:29) BC: I like that…I should try to slip more girls the irish assbomb
for reference, an irish car bomb is a drink consisting of a shooter made from bailey’s irish cream and whiskey, dropped into a glass of guiness beer. It’s really quite tasty, if you’re just starting the night out….
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It’s kind of like, two people talking over a brick wall. When things are good and everything is in order, they can’t really see each other, they don’t know what they look like, but they can communicate clearly. Now, say a truck drives by (truck representing any myrid amount of things that can go on in a system) and you’ve got the following…
[.Net] “I’ll meet you at 7!”
[wall][wall][wall][wall][wall][wall][wall][wall]
[truck][truck][truck][truck][truck][truck][truck]
[Com] “I didn’t touch your sister!”
——and that’s one reason COM sucks.
It was Elizabeths (David’s sister) birthday last night. We got picked up in a limo and I made an emergancy call to my sister to get us on the guest list at the Voodoo Lounge. She managed to hook me up with me +4, which is awsome. There was 8 of us, and I think we went through 2 24oz PBR’s, a half rack of Sierra Nevada, a half rack of Corona, plus drinks at the voodoo lounge.
The beer we had to get at Plaid Pantry, which was amusing in and of itself.. We pass one in the limo, and David’s yelling at the driver, “Stop the car IMMEDIATELY!” and trying to get out while the limo is still moving, just to goto plaid and get beer. So we had the limo driver drive around the corner and park at plaid, where David got beer and we drank what was left of our original beers in the limo, outside of plaid, while we sang “Everybody’s Kung-Fu Fighting” off my one hit wonders of the 70’s and 80’s cd.
After that, we some how wound up at Washington Park (which was closed) so we hung out by the gate being beligerantly drunk, and I think some people pee’d in the forest. All in all, it was a hell of a lot of fun. She’s having a keggar at my house this friday..
I think I took some really crappy pictures, if I did, I will post them in the gallery soon.
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If Internet piracy ends ruining the film industry at least they’ll be able to put all those empty movie theaters to good use: a theater in Logan, Utah set up video projectors in four theaters, hooked each one up to an Xbox and is now holding a weekly giant-screen Halo tournament every Friday night at midnight. They’re even charging teams $60 to play and spectators three bucks a pop just to watch.
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Original article can be found here, which contains a link to here.
So, in reading one of the Microsoft Employee’s (Cyrus) blogs, I saw this post…so I’m shamelessly stealing it and posting it, cause it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all day.
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I have figured out the best way to get my olympics fill for the day. I go to the gym with some friends and we turn on a different channel on each TV each of which is showing some olympic sport. NBC, MSNBC, Bravo and even CBC (god bless you kooky canadians). You can then watch Track and Field, Judo, Swimming, Rowing and Volleyball simultaneously. Do that for two hours and you’ve watched eight hours of the sports and that’s enough to totally saturate you.
Best quote of the night so far:
(We’re watching one of the many swim matches. It’s just been an incredibly close round with 3 competitors separated by like 3/100s of a second)
Me: “You know what? It’s suprising we haven’t seen any ties so far in the olympics.”
Moon (my roommate): “Yeah, you’re right, and you don’t see any vietnamese either.”
Me: (brain halts for a few second trying to understand what I’ve heard. Five seconds later, just stare at her. Finally she gets it)
Us: (much laughter ensues)