Photogs

I went on a date last night with a really cool girl.

She said something funny. Afterward she asked me if I was going to put it in my blog. Guess I better actually put in in my blog. :)

The convo went something like this (some paraphrasing has been used to protect the identities of innocent parties):
Her: What do you do exactly? At Work? School?
Me: Basically study computers at school and how to program them. At work I study computers and program them.
Me: What do you study at college?
Her: Photography.
Me: Interesting. Why did you decide to go into photography?
Her: I felt it was the only skill I could develop.

Hopefully she will develop well as a photographer. (get it? - I hope so... that's pretty low hanging fruit there)
Hopefully I will develop well as a 'developer'.
Funny. That is actually my title at the office. I am a developer/linux administrator. Sounds cool. And linux - as I have said before - is cool.

I am actually mostly doing simple html in our internal wiki so far though.

Enough. I must get back to work.

Dynamite

Just bought Napoleon. Watched last night. Laughed. It was at least 3AM. There were a bunch of girls at my house. :)

Speaking of girls...

Let's not go there.

Alias

My family just got addicted to Alias (the TV show). It is pretty butt kickin'. I must admit that Jennifer Garner is awe inspiring with some of her moves. I think we will have watched all episodes of all three first seasons in less than 40 hours. Correct me if I am wrong. When I say we, technically i must exclude myself as I missed many of the episodes having to work - as I am right now, and the rest of 'we' is at home watching alias.

linux

I learned a lot about linux today. Performed a network install on a new box 'almost' singlehandedly.

Linux is way cool.

I need to get some of this at home. I want to go home and install linux on one of our Macs.

That would be soooo cool.

I need to drive home.

Laptop

My laptop arrived today.

Dude I am getting a Dell.

Right now the boys are castrating Windows and installing debian Linux.

Newbie

I started my new job today. The company began 26 months ago with 2 employees. I am employee #17. They want to have 20 employees by January, and have been growing 25% every quarter. I am a Developer for the time being. I will be working on several projects which I am still unfamiliar with. So far I have been looking at 'bugz'. :)

I got a company cell phone.

It is a video phone with walkie talkie, Sprint PCS. They set me up on a new Dell desktop running Debian linux (the sarge beta). There is absolutely no M$ on it at all!

Soon I will be getting my laptop (also a Dell running Debian linux, either woody or sarge). I am posting this from my Linux box here at work! It is really cool, and has a dictionary on the toolbar. Well it didn't at first... but I put one there. MacOS 10.4 Tiger is purported to have a similar feature.

Well I must now go outside and brave the cold... I actually get off work now at 5PM... amazing.

New job

I just got a new job. I am now a web application developer at a really cool (and small) company down in Indy. I'll be a normal M-F 9-5er. I will still work the old job on the weekends at night probably.

I am very excited about this. I can finally make a dent in my debt!

Update your tags

So Zimm and I were talking several days ago about how to easily update your tags after ripping a CD that wasn't found on the CDDB or that you ripped while offline. So I've been digging and found the holy grail of tagging. It does most common formats, mp3, m4a, wav, and aiff. It compares a fingerprint of the song based on the audio to a fingerprint database, and then gives you the option of updating the tags. The Mac version is like an iTunes helper app. It integrates with the iTunes database. Not sure exactly how the PC version works, but it sounds cool. So Zimm - this is your lucky day.

I am no girl

I am not a girl.

Sometimes I like to remind people. Especially in this age of internet personas who really knows anymore?

So anyway the blind date was fun. She is a cute country girl. Only bummer is that she's not a possibility for me. So yeah, it was fruitless from the beginning. But fun. So now what do I do with myself?

I had an interview yesterday. That was awesome. The company has a totally cool atmosphere, the people are all really cool geeks, and it is basically the best work environment you could possibly imagine. It is small, maybe 10 people. So I am really hoping they give me a call and offer me a job.

Problems.

There is no end to problems. I try to love them though. They're so good for you. So I guess I love today a whole bunch.

On a brighter note. I have a blind date on Thrusday. I guess you could even say that I met her over the internet, though technically that's only partly true. Anyways - I am excited, and it's all because of Applebee's.

This month is going to be a rollercoaster. Right now is the slow menacing ascent! Get _____! Check!

Freeciv

This is exciting. For all those who loved Civilization, and Civilization II, and maybe even a little Civilization III, this is an open source sort of conglomerate version of those games taking the best from each and improving upon every area. It is under constant development and the next major revision is about to leave beta. It is fully multiplayer over LAN or world-wide internet. It is available for most systems I have ever heard of (including my lovely Macs). Did I say it is way cool? If you need help figuring out how to install and get it running let me know. It can be a bit complicado on the Mac as it runs in Unix and X11 (X Windows envoronment of Darwin). Don't worry though it's nothing scary. The version 2 currently in Beta should be a double clickable application on the Mac, but for now we have the command line as the game is a Unix game. For Windows it is already a double clickable beast (er I mean binary).

So it's been a while.

A lot has happened, and this is the reason I haven't posted. All during Turkey Break I spent day and night fixing up a rental apartment I manage. I wasn't alone either, various of my cousins and family members helped. And a lot of us worked 24/7 day in day out to get it done by the time the new tenants signed the lease on the first. Finished that on Wednesday morning at 7:10AM. Not wanting that to be the end of being dirty I went to my uncle Steve's house and helped him install his subfloor installation and teh floor itself. Learned some stuff about that. Also got a call from a guy who wants me to come see him next Wednesday about a new job which I am very excited about. More about that if I land it. So I have been very tired, very little sleep and my classes have been suffering. I truly dislike classes with stupid teachers. As well as classes that are butt crack of dawn early. Maybe I am just bitter.