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August 2003

Unproductivity at its best…

So this week was more entertaining than most. An old CMU friend (Matt) showed up Wednesday night and stayed until today. It was good to see old friends again. We didn’t do a whole lot, mostly just wandered around the town hanging out with various mutual friends in the area. Finally watched Pirates of the Caribbean, which honestly wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. During the weekend, I managed to score a free couch, so my apartment doesn’t look as bare anymore =P That forced me to stack up my textbooks in the corner of the apartment, but at least now there’s something besides the floor to sit on in front of my speakers. That and hell, its just another place for me to sit and do nothing at.The couch actually came from another CMU friend who had to leave town since he just finished law school. Unfortunately, the shitty job market gave him no opportunities in Austin, so he’s heading back to Houston, hopefully finding a job or something there. Man, every CMU kid is running out of here, maybe I should too ;-)Besides that, nothing really interesting happened. Spent most of today cleaning up my place and rearranging some things. Its a little easier now that the leg feels a good bit better. Its hardly ever sore now, and I can walk around half decently without the brace on for a short while. Longer walks I still wear the brace just in case, but my left leg is getting stronger and it should be feel near 100% soon, even if the x-rays say that its not yet. Since July 4th, there has been some decent bone growth in my leg, so hopefully withini another month it’ll be completely healed.Worked with some stuff for my webpage today. Ran into a shitload of limitations imposed by the language I’m working with, PHP. After a year of using ASP.NET and C#, I do have to admit it is a far nicer web programming language to work with than anything else I’ve worked with (PHP, ColdFusion, classic ASP). Of course, a big part of it might be that all the previous ones I’ve worked with are merely scripting languages, whereas ASP.NET is a full fledged programming language, more akin to Java than any of the scripting languages. Maybe its just me, but being able to overload methods in a class is a good thing.

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2003 08 18

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An era has ended

The last Futurama episode was shown today (well, yesterday, Sunday). It was a good show, another good show canned by Fox before its time. I honestly think on the whole it was funnier than the Simpsons, but I guess the Simpsons are a national icon or something now and will be on tv for the rest of eternity. At least it’ll give me a reason to keep watching tv. With Futurama gone, only the Simpsons and Conan are left to make me tune in. And I’m not about to start paying for cable again in the near future…The week at home was good. Didn’t do a whole lot. Tends to be a good thing. Visited a few friends, and just sat around and ate food mostly =P Got back into town yesterday and just chilled out some more. Eventually went out and got some food, I hear its useful for things =P Probably should vacuum my apartment, maybe in a day or two.I can finally walk around without those damn crutches again. Its a good tihng. Not completely back to normal walking just yet, but its something at least.Thinking about getting a fish and putting him on the Internet. At least that’d be something else to look at besides my ass on the webcam ^_^People have asked about the random data post I made. Lets just say some things are changing up on my page, and I needed a test case. Not sure when these updates will be up and running, but hopefully soon.Austin is fucking hot. How did people live here prior to the miracle of air conditioning? They must have been insane.

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2003 08 11

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Randomly adding random data

Random isn’t it?Just a test after all ^_^

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2003 08 08

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The story of yesterday

So yeah, yesterday fucking sucked.After my last update, I went off to go get some breakfast. I came back to the gate thinking \”ok, its about time to board\”. Nope. Can’t board without an airplane. 30 minutes later, after the late plane arrives, we all pile in. Good stuff. Haul ass out of the airport into the sky. Hell, we even beat our expected arrival so we have to wait at DFW for the gate to clear out. Good stuff. 10 minutes pass. Slightly annoying. 10 more minutes pass. Ok, getting annoyed. 30 minutes pass since our touchdown. What the fuck. 40 minutes from touchdown pass!!! I’m pissed. Remember, the Austin to Dallas/Ft Worth hop only takes 36 minutes of flight time. after about 45 minutes, we finally pull into the gate. Ok, fine. My two hour layover has just turned into 1 hour 15 minutes. Goatfuckers.After riding the tram to the A concorse in DFW, I hobble over to the gate. Cool, almost boarding time. Why is there a flight to Mexico City there? I ask the gate attendant, she says that flight is departing late. Fine, thats cool I guess. Finally, the flight leaves and the plane we need gets on and unloads. 10 minutes later, I hear an announcement that the maintenance guys are all over the plane. Not cool. 20 minutes later, they cancel the flight and are trying to find us a new airplane. A few minutes later, they find one. Back in C concourse. And back onto the tram I go. Now you might ask why I didn’t get one of those little carts to bus me around. Its pretty simple actually. I did call for one at DFW. They never showed up in the time we were stuck on the runway. Assholes.Finally, we get on the airplane and get to Charlotte. About fucking time. So basically, yesterday was me waking up at 4am CST flight, then arriving finally at 7:30pm EST.I hate airlines. At least American airlines (the carrier I ended up taking) has awesome seats ^_^

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2003 08 03

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Aren’t you supposed to be on an airplane?

Yeah, I should be.Got up for an early as hell flight this morning. Left my apartment around 5am to go down to the airport. Get there, everything’s cool. Get on the airplane, back off from the gate. Next thing I know, we’re pulling back to the gate. Apparently we sprang a leak. Yeah, good job ground crew. We get off. Wait in line to get a new flight for about an hour. 10 minutes later I’m on a new flight with American (was on United earlier) that brings me into Charlotte 5 hours after I was originally supposed to arrive.So how am I online? T-Mobile is cool like that. Got a wireless day pass for $10. Unlimited wireless usage for 24 hours. I have a 2 hour layover in Dallas/Ft Worth anyway, so why the hell not I figure.At least United took care of their customers at a good rate. Guess going into Chapter 11 sobers you up =P

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2003 08 02

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