Fast Twitch - comments(1)
Monday April 18, 2005 - 4:35PM EDT
Working on my fast twitch muscle fibers today by training heavy.
Working on my fast twitch muscle fibers today by training heavy.
For the next few days it will be hot and spicy. Actually only 70-80. That means that it is work outside day for the next few days. On the back deck/porch at the table with the umbrella up. Warm breezes, quiet. Doing 20 minutes on the jump rope in the morning follwed by 1hr at the gym and then back to programming on the laptop. This week I will attempt to finish up the enhanced version of the software and begin beta testing with the web hoster, I also have another new website to work on along with tweaks to existing websites to complete. At the end of April I want to have the enhanced software going and a few web hosters testing it out along with tweaks to existing websites done. By May I want to begin real work on the two new websites that I've been planning for a while. Projects with the code names Dailyspecials and Artmanager.
Saw an Illusionist tonight. Pretty good, Andrè Kole. His visit was sponsored by a church and he has strong Christian beliefs. I on the other hand am more nihilistic. Anyway, it was a solid performance and he was a good illusionist. He has worked with David Cooperfield in the past. Aside from the extraneous sermon about Jesus in the middle of the act it was cool. That is the main thing about Christians that I find amusing. Their treatment of Jesus. I find it amusing that they think of Jesus of more than a man like me and you. Weird.
Supposed to be warm for the next few days, 70-80 degrees.
This article is garbage especially in today's economy, I always hated such surveys, what purpose do they server besides the degredation of education. here. I am going to try an experiment. I am going to change my resume and put fake Degree on it. How does Masters in Computer Engineering sound. Hmm...maybe Masters in Computer Science. I want to see if I get any more calls with a higher degree. I'd challenge any Masters grad at Villanova in Computer Science to do better than me. I'm at least as knowledgable as them. Damn fools.
I've discovered a new vegetable. Baby spinach. It is good, the taste is very mild compared to some other raw vegetables, I can almost just eat it plain. But just a little balsamic vinagrette is best.
Tonight I stood at the kitchen counter and ate a two pieces of chicken breast with jerk sauce and a bowl of baby spinach. Last night I had curried chicken with rice at a malaysian restaurant. There was a large table of 8 people having dinner. It looked like a bunch of bohemian intellectuals. I keep thinking about it and laughed every once in a while about how clichè it seemed. Ironic part about it was that I wished that I was sitting with them. So now it is 11pm and I am sitting here in my room as usual, windows open, tv on. 77 degrees tomorrow. I'm hungry. I want pancakes with strawberries cooked inside tomrrow morning for breakfast with a side of sweet cantelope and some medjool dates with cream cheese. I wish I could have them sitting outside on a warm summer morning, maybe on a beach somewhere, but that is not a requirement, it just has to be sunny and plenty of grass or white sand. They were the best pancakes I ever had. I had them at the Ardmore Station Cafe and a hotel in Pittsburgh.
With the Internet there is a lot of information out there. Google is a great search engine to find webpages. But there is still no organized source of information about everything. No organized source of reliable information. Search engines are great for searching for fun stuff and little things but when you need to find something reliable, fast, on a known subject then it is still very difficult. Mainly because such information is in books and publishers dare not give information away for free. Damn fools.
Christoper Walken's delivery is freaking hilarious in comedy movies. One of the funniest I've ever watched.
No call back about that job. I'm just going to stop looking, there is no point anymore. Fuck those people, I will not answer any more emails or phone calls from anyone looking to "fill a position". They are all just monumental wastes of time.
Sunny day today. Want to begin sketches for this 3D animation website project. Figure I'll look at some old drawings to get me motivated. About 25% done the enahanced version of the software. It is coming along well and I have the test server up and running. Another week or so and it will be ready to distribute to the web hosting company that wants to test it out. Having the test server s key to another project that I think has the most potential. I won't begin real work on that one until I am done with the enhanced version of the software though.
Also with the test server there is another website that I want to get started on this summer. Particularly during the summer because it involves trolling the city. I've had this idea for about 2 years now and I think I have rolled it around in my mind enough to get something going.
It needs to get warmer, 50-60 is not warm enough. Damn fools.
People need to stop criticizing TO for what he is asking. When you risk your life on the field for a freaking game that makes owners that much money you should always fight for as much money as possible. People need to get off his back. There are atheletes that aren't half the person he is and are adored, its a damn shame.
In other news, there is no other news.
One should floss everyday. Think about it. If you don't floss you are essentially letting food rot inside your mouth. NO! brushing alone won't get the food stuck between your teeth.
I've been meaning to add the ability to make blog posts from my cell phone so that I won't miss a clutch oportunity to blog. If I only had a camera phone to capture the moments it would be even better, eventually. Been starting keeping track of all the movie ideas I come up with. Maybe I'll get to make one of them one day and maybe it will actually be good.
I've had a lot of good blogging material lately but I've been waking up early and not taking my mid-day nap, so when I get to prime blogging time I am to tired to elaborate on the days happenings and musings. I've also been more focused on work during the day so there are less postings during the day.
I've developed a habit of trolling for strange craigslist postings late at night. I should talk about Monday, it was a doosy. Not really though, so I'll talk later.
First a note on schooling. I've been looking into film/animation schools. Want to go west coast so I looked at USC which is one of the more noteable film schools, I think. Then I took a look at their tuition. I have come to the conclusion that Villanova University is an insanely ridiculously expensive institution. I think it cost the same to go to Harvard as it does to go to Villanova. $30,000+ a year for that school is highway robbery. I would have to say that Villanova University is the biggest rip-off in post-secondary education in the United States. I think my fellow Villanovans would agree. I challange someone to name a bigger rip-off. Since I consider Villanova basline in tution every other school I research seems cheap.
I got so much good blogging material today that I can't write about it all. First I had an interview with a recruiter. Actually that was pretty normal and nothing really interesting worth speaking of there. It was when I was waiting in line at the film festival that the good stuff started. I'm tired now though, so I'll continue this later.
Did a lot of code review and went over a bunch of technical papers today. I like doing that because I learn a lot much in a short period of time. It was also going to another piece of software I am creating. This is the cell phone software. There is nothing out there like it yet in the language I am programming it in, so it may be a first. I am not an expert programmer I consider myself serviceable, maybe above average in terms of pure coding ability.
This article is hilarious for so many reasons, especially for those who known of my exploits over the past couple years. So many reasons.
Sunny out, that is good. Not warm enough. I've been working all day on code, I have to take a break. Maybe I should go to the film festival today, catch some flicks.
Been having a lot of dreams involving women lately. I always wake up with this strangely empty feeling. Not sad, depressing or even hopeless. Just one of complete surrender to whatever happens that day, like my existence is more meaningless than usual (if that is even possible).
I got this thing about pain and blandness. Sometimes I like it. The blandness of everything around me mixed with physical pain. Not masochistic type physical pain, but maybe I was injured playing sports or I cut myself working on the car or the computer. Drinking water and eating oatmeal in a quiet room where all I hear is the incessant whirring of my computer's cooling fan, maybe I twisted my ankle earlier or have a bad cut on my finger. I like it. I don't like it like I like movies or women. I like it because there is no thinking involved, I just shut out everything and there is nothing. Its fun you should try it.
Damn I am pathetic. I want to at least make an entry into this web short film competition but I got no ideas or actors or ideas or actresses or scripts or ideas or any of the aspects required of creating a short film. Do I want to make movies or do I want to create visual effects? What kind of question is that? I wish it was warm. If there is one thing that seems more impossible than me getting a job it is making movies or doing visual effects. I am not even talking about big movies or visual effects or even small movies. I couldn't get a job creating powerpoint presentations for sweatshop promo material. That is how much I suck. Fuck. I am going to watch a movie tonight. Sin City, heard it was ultra-violent. Been working on various website stuff on and off all day. Got some stuff done. If I am to submit something of quality to this competition I have to come up with an idea today, the deadline is Wednesday.
In a previous post I was rather ambivalent on the movie Million Dollar Baby. I don't know why I was, maybe I was in a bad mood, but that movie is awesome I want to see it again. It was so good. Everything about it was great. It was my kind of movie, a quiet movie. Maybe it just took time to grow on me, hmmm.
Why do I even try replying to job postings anymore. I still have that interview on Monday but everything else seems hopeless. I don't know what else to tell these people who hire. Making movies or animation is somehow even less than a pipe dream. Not only do I not have the basic art skills to draw a decent character I have no decent portfolio to speak of. Fuck.