| I need some help |
[Apr. 13th, 2009|12:35 pm] |
I'm bored and would like to read something interesting. Can anyone make some recommendations? Please limit it to 1-2 recommendations. I'm open to recommendations for anything but romance & Ayn Rand novels.
Thanks. |
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| i smell bulls--- |
[Jul. 28th, 2008|09:24 am] |
A development team from the company that I work for just reported that a project that they're about to release (been working on for maybe 7 months w/development starting in maybe the last 5) contains close to 150 million lines of code...not including database development. I did a quick search and found this site http://www.xhovemont.be/archive/2005/12/07/1072.aspx which quotes a book that states that Windows XP was written in about 40 million lines of code by 2000 developers. Our team was probably < 20 developers working on a project less complex than most senior year programming projects.
Anyway, i have a hard time believing that they're telling the truth but an even harder time believing that everyone involved in the project is so inept that they'd make up such a ridiculously large number. |
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| Just finished The Road |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|09:33 am] |
I didn't find it depressing, it was somewhat uplifting. I found the book very short and easy to put down, but I'm content that I read it. Can't wait for the movie.
Cannibal seems like an inappropriate word to use to describe the people in the book who ate other people. I know that the definition of a cannibal is essentially "a person that eats human flesh", but in that type of situation it doesn't seem to fit. |
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| I learned something about myself today |
[May. 5th, 2008|05:41 pm] |
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I'm pretty sure that I would scream like a little girl if I ever met Olivia Newton John. Michael Jordan, Linda Carter, Shakira, Jay Z, Prince, Barbara Edens...I'm pretty sure that none of them would elicit this reaction from me (well, maybe Linda Carter), but for some reason I think that I would turn into a 12 year old girl from 1975 if I ever met Olivia and heard her speak. |
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| plo w/gary carson |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|11:44 pm] |
i was bored & drinking the other day so i went to stars and opened up a bunch of penny plo tables. i was checking one of the hand histories for some reason and noticed that 'garycarson' was at one of my tables. i'm guessing he's either broke or doing research on his book 'The Complete Book of Maggot Stakes Omaha'. I didn't get a chance to ask him about it. He lost his 80 cent stake pretty quickly.
Anyway I think that it would be hilarious if a bunch of people were to transfer 80 cent to gary's stars account, so if you have the dimes to spare, please transfer 80 cents to 'garycarson' from 'cushing'. |
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| (Big) 10 Goals for '08 |
[Jan. 21st, 2008|01:55 pm] |
08 is the year to do all the things I've said I was going to do in the past 3-4 years but haven't. This way i can realize success or accept failure and move on with my life. Here are outstanding items on my plate...even if they no longer serve a purpose, I'm still going to do them:
Take Level 1 CFA exam
Take Level 1 Actuarial exam
Take LSAT
Take GMAT
Read 3 architecture books
Seek diagnosis from psychiatrist
Write a 30 min standup comedy routine
Perform stand up comedy routine
Write a book
Get in shape or learn how to box or learn how to dance.
Find a favorite regular beer or give up alcohol for life. |
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| Perspectives |
[Jan. 8th, 2008|05:10 pm] |
Human perspective:
Dog saves boy from fire by biting foot
Dog's perspective:
Dog narrowly escapes fire because of his fucking idiot owner
Dave Peebles said that one point after Laney had ushered Christopher and his friends out of the house the dog ran back inside...
A clear sign that the dog was fed up depending on you dumb fucks IMO. |
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| Kind of ashamed to admit it but.. |
[Jan. 7th, 2008|12:55 pm] |
I LOVE the Bee Gees. Can't get enough of their music. I think I listen to More Than A Woman, Jive Talking and I Just Want To Be Your Everything (Bee Gees were involved) each and every day that I listen to music.
that is all. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 4th, 2008|05:22 pm] |
I'm thinking of raising my tolerance to high temperatures so that I can do something that I would find impressive. Your take on it?
Poll #1115809 Cool or not cool?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7You're in a meeting. A person pours themselves a hot cup of coffee/tea (you can see steam), adds sugar and proceeds to stir it with their finger. Are you: |
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| Random musings on communication |
[Jan. 2nd, 2008|12:36 am] |
I like talking to other people but I hate conversations. There's a structure to conversations that I've never been able to grasp. No matter how much I practice, my conversations come off as choppy & strange (unless I know the person, in which case they're used to it.)
I'm 28 now and still have no idea how to carry on small talk. I've always said that no questions fills me with more dread than 'How's it going' or any of it's derivatives. Oddly enough, my 6 year old can answer that question with ease. We went to Dunkin Donuts one night about a month ago and she responded to a cop's "How are you" with a perfectly acceptable canned response. It blew me away. I was about 18 or 20 before I realized that people don't actually care how you're doing when they ask the question (some don't even expect a response, which makes it even more confusing to me.) Anyway, I have no idea when or how she learned to do it but she can do it.
Over the last few years it's become apparent that I don't have a clue on how to walk properly (i.e. where to look & how to carry one's self when walking amongst people), but I'll save that for another time. I think my walk makes me come across as arrogant.
lol...I just realized that I have mild social anxiety or something.
A little off subject, but 2 nights ago I had a dream that it was the day that my wife was going to prison for killing someone before I met her. I don't remember many details except that in my dream, I was a bit relieved because I had killed many more people than she had and I was still free. Then last night in my dream, I met the 2 children that resulted from an affair that my wife had had. My wife looked real excited and happy about them, like she did with our real children. When I saw that neither of them resembled me (in the dream, I knew she had cheated but believed that one was mine) I feigned happiness and then had someone kill them for me after she left. I attribute the former to watching too much Dexter and the latter to playing too much Scarface....but deep down I may just be a homocidal maniac. |
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| R.I.P. Ike Turner |
[Dec. 12th, 2007|03:59 pm] |
I think everyone should go home and beat their significant other in his memory.
While on the subject, anyone heard any good jokes or one liners on spousal abuse? My favorite is Flavor Flav's "...she said I wasn't right so I gave her a left." |
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| no shit folks |
[Nov. 28th, 2007|04:15 pm] |
'Intelligence genes' proving hard to find
Maybe cuz they're intelligent? Try looking for the dumb genes, I'm sure they're much easier to find. As a hint, in guys they're located around the genitals and in women around the parts of the brain that control emotion. |
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| Sí más más |
[Sep. 5th, 2007|05:17 pm] |
As an elective, I may take a class in the near future on programming languages where i'm sure an assignment will be to create one. This got me to thinking about programming languages - specifically that for non-english speakers, at least with their first programming language, they're probably learning 2 languages at once. I've had this thought before but today I was bored so I decided to see what a program might look like in spanish. Seems easy enough to follow. Now I wonder if it'd be acceptable for a class assignment. Seems like a decent idea:
/* $empieza hostinfo */
#incluye csapp.H
int principal (argc de int, carboniza **argv)
{
carboniza **pp;
struct in_addr addr;
struct hostent *hostp;
si (argc =! 2) {
Fprintf (stderr, "el uso: % s n",
argv[0]);
exit(0);
}
si (inet_aton(argv[1], &addr) =! 0)
hostp = Gethostbyaddr ((const carboniza sizeof(addr) *)&addr,, AF_INET);
más
hostp = Gethostbyname(argv[1]);
Printf (" hostname oficial: % s\N", hostp->h_name);
para (pp = hostp->h_aliases; *pp =! NULO; pp + +)
Printf (" alias: % s\N", *pp);
para (pp = hostp->h_addr_list; *pp =! NULO; pp + +) {
addr. s_addr = int *((unsigned *)*pp);
Printf (" la dirección: % s\N", inet_ntoa(addr));}
exit(0);}
/* $hostinfo final */ |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 14th, 2007|04:01 pm] |
stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pb9617 who stole it from sabyl who stole it from someone who stole it from someone who stole it from....Little Richard. Because all music related thefts eventually end there.
Open WinAmp (or ITunes for you AOL users), put it on random, write the first line to the first twenty songs that play and see if people can guess what songs they are.
1. I don't eat no meat, no dairy, no sweets
2. If you asked me would I love you
3. Kanye got stacks y'all already know that
4. No pido que todos los días sean de sol
5. You're the reason I been ridin around on recapped tires
6. For so long, you and me been finding each other for so long
7. You catch my girl's legs open better smash that
8. Baby, what's your phone number?
9. Remember when you ran away, and I got on my knees
10. Now who is the cat eating out on the town that make the whole dining room turn they head around
11. I never used to snore in my sleep til this rap shit started
12. We been fighting for power, but they know not the hour
13. I guess I got to let this woman slip away, cause I got my eye on you
14. I want to change the world, kaze wo kakenukete nanimo osorezu ni
15. LL Cool J is hard as hell
16. So your brother's bound and gagged
17. When you walk in the bar and you're dressed like a star
18. I really can't stay (but [Song Title removed]) I've got to go away
19. Tall and tan and young and lovely
20. That's right pleased to meet you, I still won't tell you my name |
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| I think I learned something new about myself |
[Jul. 26th, 2007|08:22 pm] |
I think I discovered today that deep down I want to hit a woman. Now that I'm back in the city, I was looking forward to signing up for a boxing program at a local park district. So I'm looking at a catalog and see that they have co-ed boxing and for some reason, that got me really excited. I really can't think of any other reason why that would grab my attention. I mean, it's not like co-ed wrestling or something where I'd be able to get a cheap feel, not that I would want to feel up a woman big enough to be in my weight class...so it must mean that deep down the prospect of potentially beating up a woman interests me.
I was thinking about asking my wife if she wanted to join, but she's not in my weight class ;). Besides, as small as she is she might have to get in the ring with some small 5 foot mexican dude and then I'd have to chase his little ass around the parking lot afterwards to beat his ass for hitting my wife. If I were in better shape, that might be fun, but I'm too lazy for that right now. |
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| Elevator habit |
[Jul. 26th, 2007|12:31 am] |
When I'm in the elevator with other people, I often find myself thinking of how I would kill them if they were to attack me in the elevator. I know some may consider killing to be 'harsh', but when it comes to self defense, that should be your goal. Maybe I'll write about how I came to that conclusion one day.
So, anyone else do this? |
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