I don't think I can live in this world anymore.

Where's the door, I want to get off now.

Work officiallay owns my ass right about now. The other developer has some super major bad mojo happeneing that he has to deal with, so now I get to do more work. I have been exercising, but been too tired to update the exerblog. I imagine I will have free time again sometime in May.

Stop the madness
Here in Tempe, they want to ban smoking in any and all public places, including bars, pool halls, and clubs. This is totally idiotic, and a perfect example of the local government stepping exerting it's power somewhere it doesn't belong. If you live in Tempe, and read this, click the link above to get you early ballot and please, stop the madness.

Ok, I have been saving up some rants, so now I will let it all out. Reader beware, two of these are racially motivated, and the rest have to deal with my underwear.

So, how many people have heard this story. Is it just me? I just heard the story on friday, and spent a large part of the weekend looking for it. Is it just me, or if the black and white roles were reveresed, would the reaction still be the same? Are only whites capable of hate-crimes? Should we be spending so much time trying to understand why they did this, and on the other hand, should we look into understanding the reasons that whites commit hate crime? This sort of thing really bothers me. We need to treat crime like crime, and personally, I don't really believe in 'Hate' crime. If someone is shooting at me, or trying to hurt me in anyway, I would personally consider it a hate crime, regardless of race.
Ok, enough of that, now for the funny one. It now seems that the term 'minority' is offensive. So a term was coined at Boston College back in 1979, AHANA (African-American, Hispanic, Asian and Native American). They cited the fact that minority means 'less then'. Ok, this is just rediculous. Of course you would use a term like minority, because they were in the minority. If there were more of them, they would be the majority. See how that works. I personally like to think of myself as pretty colorblind, and I really think that everything could be dealt with a whole lot faster if we stopped playing the race card all together. If your a citizin of the United States of America, then you are an american. That's it. Be proud of it, because there is nothing else like it on the planet. Personally, I think if the term minority is offensive, we close the departments of minority affairs offices and end all minority programs and treat everyone equal.

Now, my underwear. I decided this weekend to use my REI dividend to buy some backpacking stuff. I also wanted to get a couple pair of the stretch boxers to try. So looking at the little waist size chart, I find that I need a small (I have a 29 inch waist). So I check out and get home, start taking tags off things and realise that one pair was womans. Now, I have no problem, as they were almost the same as the mens, sans fly. And, I personally like the fly, so I decide to take them back. That lead to some interesting coversations, as the cashier had scanned the womens pair twice (I bought two pair, one was actually mens) so I had to explain why I was returning only one pair. Finally got checked back out and got to go home with my new underwear. So guys, when you are buying your underwear off the rack, check for the fly.
Also, REI stretch boxers are extreamly comfortable. I highly reccommend them. I am a big boxer fan, and haven't worn briefs since I was a child. But these are so comfortable that you can almost forget you are wearing them. Plus when you are wearing your gym shorts, you don't have to worry about Mr. Happy popping out to say hi to the ladies.

Laptops rule. Hacking java in bed, streaming MP3's from my main server. And all this by 9am on a Saturday.

I so rule!

You are Hobbes! You're a bit too mellow to be an incarnation of Calvin, but you're still his best pal. You don't mind having fun, though, and enjoy playing tricks on your friends when they least expect it. Take the What Calvin are You? Quiz by contessina_2000@yahoo.com!

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Swank-tacular!
True to my word, now that MT 2.0 is out, and I am all upgraded and whatnot, I went and donated my share to the good fine folks over at MT. I love this program and wish them all the success in the world (although they should be exporting in XML, but that's just me, I suppose)

So, Thank you Ben and Mena for such wonderous software..

Cutest dog in the Universe

The cure for smoking
Ok, any of you smokers out there want to quit? I have but 2 words for you. Violent Exercise.
5 miles on the roller blades
5 sets with the 4 pound hand weights
15 minutes on the jumprope
6 ab-crunches
8 leg lifts
2 miles to walk it off.

If you still want to have a cigarette after that, then you are a stronger man then I. All this to prepare for, what I am at the moment just beginning to plan, my first solo hike. 15-20 miles in the Superstition Mountains. I will be doing this every day, to prepare for it. Either I will do this or drop over dead.
The goal isn't increased strength or flexability, or increased cardiovascular health. I just want to look good naked :)

And lucky you. I have created a new blog-thing here so any and all interested parties can track my progress, and call me nasty names if I don't work out one day.

AOL to switch to Mozilla client, drop MS Explorer
It always amazes me how, in the free software community, a company can jump from evil big-brother monopoly to wonderful forward thinking company in the bat of an eye.
It just goes to show you, it's just software folks, nothing more, nothing less.

So, is it just me or does it seem that the blogging thing seems to be shaking out, for one reason or another. I know of 2 sites that have vanished, and one that hasn't been updated in 3 weeks or so. I suppose this is good in a way, but it still sucks major when people you have grown to know and enjoy the 'company' of walk away from it.

Well, to all those who have, for one reason or another, decided to pursue other things, good luck to you and I'm glad to have known you.

Congratulations!
Your general IQ score is 150.

A person whose IQ score falls in the range of 144-160 is considered to be "gifted".

Check your score

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buttons
I have spent the better part of my life pushing the buttons of the people I know. Not in a bad way or just to get a rise out of them or anything. Pushing buttons to make them see things that maybe they chose not to see. Things that they should see and didn't want to. But now, I wonder...
All this time, all these people, how come I have never run across anyone who wants to push my buttons. People tell me I'm a good person and whatever, but no one ever wants to dive into the depths of me and find the perhaps not so nice things about me. That underneith this nice guy image, there are things that I need to deal with. Apparently I am left to deal with these things about myself. I don't have someone who thinks about me when I'm 'out of sight'..
Is that why I do this? Maybe someone will be think about me. I mean this whole thing is totally self centered anyway, but I have never been reduced to begging 'someone please care about me'.

whatever...

I'm a bad American
Read this

When I grow up, I want to be Lloyd Dobbler, standing in front of my Malibu with a boombox over my head blaring out Peter Gabrial...

When I grow up...

Rearden Steel
Today, President Bush declaired that everyone should have the formula to Rearden Steel. Orren Boyle decided that everyone needs to have the same shot at being profitable. Now, if you'll excuse me, Miss Taggert and I are going to run away and live in the mountains and be productive.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you need to read more books, and anyway, Who is John Galt?

Glee
So, today down at the Borders, I noticed a new movie on the shelf. 'Say Anything...' is now available on DVD. I grabbed it off the shelf. Then, after the helpful and friendly sales clerk asked me to stop prancing around like a fairy in heat, I bought it. I had to resist the urge of running home. I walked home and popped it into the DVD player. Glee...
Go and buy it. Most romantic serenade in the history of movies.

As an afterthought, I don't think I have given proper love to the sweet, sweet, Jamie O'Neal. She is a wonderful singer, and quite the hottie, if you ask me. Check out this grammy presenter. From what I read, she has her own House of Blues radio hour, and that in itself is worthy of respect. Listen to her and dream sweet, sweet dreams.

Well, since I can't whore comments out of you people with sex, I suppose I will have to try honesty again. Nothing too much rolling through my brian as late. Been working, with some code-kid. Seems like a smart kid but he is 4 years younger then me. Found my dot.com on the front page of Fridays Arizona Republic. Heard a couple of the smart engineers I worked with have found other jobs, which is good. One of them in San Deigo. Cool and all but they will be moving and all. I feel really bad about the ones I know who haven't found jobs. I heard this stupid commentary from this stupid woman who got laid off, with a months notice. I and mine got no notice about the whole thing. Apparently she lit a candle for loosing another virginity, her job virginity. I was driving home and I swear I almost vomited. It made me sick to hear someone like that lamenting her ill fortune in having a months notice of her release. I hope she never finds another job, even though that makes me a bad person. Losing one's job is a pretty crappy, I'll give you that, but having a month's notice is pretty cherry if you ask me. I had no notice, the execs saying that we had money until March. I suppose that the board can do whatever it wants, and from what I was told, the execs didn't know until the plan was hashed out over the weekend before I was laid off, but I have a hard time believing this. There had to be a feeling, a notion, whatever.
Whatever though, I hear the CEO has landed another job in California. It's stuff like this that makes me want to start my own company again. My time with the ISP pretty much wrenched every urge to own my own company out of me. Knowing the crap that the owner went though on the money/busniess side made me ill. Nothing I ever wanted to deal with. I just want to do good and interesting work. But I know that if I ever owned a company, I would be honest with my people, without worrying whether they would jump ship. If they believed in the company, the way we all believed in our company, they won't jump. No one jumped after our layoffs. Maybe it was because of the market, as for the engineers, I don't think so. I think they believed in the company. I don't know if I believe in the company I am with now, but that is primarily due to engineering problems. I personally don't think I will ever find a gig as good as well as Neoplanet. It was a wonderful place to work and I would do it all again. I met an awful lot of really smart people that I can only hope to keep in touch with.
That's all I have for the moment. Check back later and I will let you know...