New Moniker - comments(3)
Thursday April 28, 2005 - 11:23PM EDT
I would like to be called Mace Windu Part II from now on. So if you see or call me refer to me as that or I will not respond. Thank you and have a nice day.
I would like to be called Mace Windu Part II from now on. So if you see or call me refer to me as that or I will not respond. Thank you and have a nice day.
Home for lunch today. Work is work. I have to finish up a few website things tonight. Thats it.
I would not have cubicles. Instead there would be plenty of windows for a sunny and airy feel. Just came back from a movie. As the credits rolled all I could think off was "back to the dregs of reality." I am really starting to like my jacket I bought a few months back now that it is almost fully broken in and loose. I is replacing my grey hooded sweathshirt which is a good thing, because that thing gets nasty. In other news I got a new brand of contact lenses. They seems really good, I barely even notice them I think they are better than my former brand. No I am not naming brands, you'll just have to ask if you want to know.
Time for self deprecation. Damn I am a loser, I wonder what would happen if I wasn't such a complete slacker. Nothing because I'm still a loser, but maybe I would regret being a loser less. Nah, loser to the end. Ok what's next. Can't complain about the job yet, because there is nothing to complain about. I'm sure I could find something small but it is not even worth it. I will say this though, this is the first job where as soon as I leave work I completely forget about it. It is strictly 9-5 and nothing else. I don't go home with monster headaches. Maybe because it is so quiet in the office, everyone seems to be quietly doing their job and nothing more. No one seems very social, which is fine with me. My wrist is getting better but it will still take a week or two before it is back to normal. Just a dull numbing constant pain now. It is similar pain to what I get in my knee every now and then. Fuck not only am I a loser, my body is breaking down too.
I wish it was warmer this 60 bullshit had got to go. I want minimum 70 all the time. I especially like warm nights, I fucking hate cold nights. I don't have much hope of making any real money on the software, though I am still working on it. I think the real money maker is my other idea with web hosting and art stuff. Maybe not, but at least my intial numbers estimates seem feasible and realistic. Fuck, life blows.
Second day of work. Nothing to say really. Nothing particularly good or bad. As Samir said at the end of Office Space in response to Peter's question "how's Inatrode", "It's work."
That's it.
I think I want to deny the existence of anyone who wants to promote creationism or intelligent design over evolution. Or anyone who says that there needs to be alternative teachings and more criticism of evolution. I don't even want to get in how many different things are wrong with thinking like that. Its a damn shame. That kind of garbage is the definition of ludicrous.
Well my first day of work it over and it went as well as any first day could have gone. In other words I haven't quit yet. This place is an infinite improvement over the debacle at MBNA. I got a badge on my first day and access to a computer. An the computer is fairly new Pentium 4 with a decent size high res screen. Tomorrow I will get email. They have spoiled me already. Business casual attire which is fine and everyone is rather laid back, however they actually do work. Compared to the mess and MBNA this place is a mecca of technology and organization. I actually feel as if the people who call themselves experts are actually experts and that everyone I work with is technically competent. Of course last but not least I am actually going to do work, not sit around and pick my ass all day. All the decisions have been made as to what is going to be done and I reviewed initial specs today. One more review tomorrow and I will start doing something. It is just an amazing change from the loads of bullshit at MBNA. This place is not exciting by any means and it is in your normal spirit crushing cubicles but I know I'll at least learn something and do some solid work. I'll serve my time like a model prisoner and be on my way.
Today I start work. Who has got the over-under on how long this one lasts?
Maybe working for THE MAN again will motivate me to get these projects done faster?
Some philosopher, never read him though. So tomorrow I start working again. Unless this is some Mentor Capital scheme, nah. Besides if it was vengence would be mine, don't mess with an information wrangler, they will fuck you up good. That sounded weird. My wrist is still rather messed up, it is going to take a week for it to get back to normal. I won't be able to lift or jump rope with this wrist. So I'll just work on legs today. Kind of interested to see what kind of people I'll be working with. That is the only real interest in working again, blogging material and money. I suppose I do need some of that.
Recenntly I've wanted to start doing medical research. Actually any type of information on medicine, biology, etc. I wonder if I read enough books if I could take the MCATS and apply to medical school? Those books are so expensive thought, maybe I can find used books somewhere. Find out the cirriculum of a good program and read all the books they do. I don't know, weird thoughts.
Fucked up my wrist pretty bad playing dogeball, of all things, I fuck up my wrist playing dodgeball. I can barely type, hopefully it will be better by the time I start working. Luckily it is my left wrist and not the right (mouse hand). I got nothing else to say, I want to drink.
I'm pretty sure I have used that title before. Well anyway tomorrow at 8:15 I am participating in a dodgeball tourney fundraiser thingy. So tonight in preparation I am drinking my usual Southern Comfort on the rocks. I don't drink it that often, just sometimes.
Zoo wants chimp to stop smoking. That headline is just funny regardless of what the video clip is. I start working on Tuesday. I still think it is funny that I have a job at a place that didn't even interview me in person. Did I mention that I have to wear a white labcoat while working. Semiconductor manufacturer, maybe I can get some pointers on astronautical electronics for when I build my spaceship.
Apparently Ebay is spearheading an electronix recyling initiative called Rethink. Damn bastards will fuck it up somehow. I should be seeing commercials for that shit like I see car commercials. Fucking bastards doing shit half-assed again and patting themselves on the back for it. Every single store that sells electronics should be a drop-off point. I could probably find a place to buy guns faster than a place to drop off electronic recyclables. Fucking pathetic slime, when are they going to do something worthwhile that isn't a piss-poor effort? I am just not sure why the federal government hasn't made recycling mandatory after all these years, it doesn't make any sense.
Well, I got a new job. Sort of unbelievalbe. Especially since the place is so close to where I live. Short term, this is funny.
I got so mad reading this article. Seems like a good article talking about electronic waste recyling. Promising my ass, this is just another example of half-assed efforts and ways to avoid doing anything real. There is no reason why all electronic material isn't recycled or reclaimed in some way. Don't give me bullshit economic reasons. Those are just excuses. Damn fools. I don't know why all major electronic manufacturers just don't recycle every single piece of equipment they make. It would probably reduce their reliance on mining of certain mineral and natural resources. Just seems to make sense. In fact, since when has it every made sense to use something once and bury it in a hole somewhere. I don't know.
Got a call just now from the recruiting agency I interviewed with last week that said I will be conducting a phone interview for a job tomorrow. Based on that interview they will either hire me or not. This is a short 1 month position. I guess 1 month to build up some cash to start the Art Manager software project would be ideal. Would still allow me to go to Venezuela for the month of July and be able to play ultamite May, June and August. With the upgrades to the software being complete by next week and beta testing starting the following week (hopefully) I should have time to work full-time for a month and still be able to monitor and support the new version of the software. Besides this place is 10 minutes from my house so no long ass commutes. I probably won't get the job anyway.
I run out of titles to name these blog postings so I just look around the room and pick something random. Oatmeal with blueberries is great, blueberries and a tangy explosion of flavor to contrasts to sweet mush of the oatmeal. I am making progress on websites, suprisingly. Seems like I just keep working and before I know it a project is complete. My pace is still much to slow and not intense enough. There are three sites/softwares I need to have finished by the end of April which is in about 1 week. I think I'll make it. Working on some of those tonight. It is still mainly a motivation and direction thing. But once I sit down and do it, things go very fast(in most cases).
Finished that new website and I am now just waiting for client feedback to make tweaks. Then I'll setup the domain, upload and get paid some much needed money. Got my tax refund today finally. For the rest of the day I'll be workout on huffart.com and dutchhuff.com websites. Tomorrow I'll work more on the software which is nearly complete. Then by the end of April I want to have a few web hosting companies beta testing it.
I like training heavy, it is a nice change of pace.
That cartoon is hilarious.
So I clicked on the article naming the new Pope. Although I could care less about who is Pope or the "authority" of the Pope I admittedly was interested in who was next. It was front page news after all. I skimmed the article and came across some quotes by this new guy about how he wants to get away from things like atheism, agnosticism, relativism and a bunch of other isms. I've heard of most of those terms but never really researched them so I decided to do some quick searches on them. Apparently Thomas Henry Huxley coined the term Agnostic in the 1860s to describe what his thoughts were about things in general. The term was meant specifically as a label for his own beliefs and not as the belief system that it is seen as today. I searched a little more and found that surveys taken today say most scientest consider themselves agnostic or atheist. Even back in the early 1900s a more than 50% of scientest surveyed replied with agnostic or aethist. But here is the funny part (in my opinion). In examples given of prominent scientests throughout history when they are asked about their belief system they reply with agnostic or aethist seemingly only because it is the only thing that those asking the question seem to understand. It is as if they have moved past such questions of existence of god because it is utterly illogical and reluctantly allow themselves to be categorized using such labels. The orginator of the term Agnostic said himself that there is no real organized agnostic system it was just somthing to describe his own personal beliefs. Probably because he got tired of explaining it to people in so many words, ha. So where am I going with this. Nowhere I guess. Modern homo-sapiens have been around for about 70,000. The major religions have been around for about 2,000 years. It may take another 2,000 years to get that turd out of our system. Probably was some bad pork we ate about 3,000 years ago.
I wish the whole planet had this type of weather everyday. Sunny, warm, 70-80 degrees. I have another website to work on, small one but it is something.