Posting Marrone Style
Monday May 9, 2005 - 4:28PM EDT
To post at work I like a fellow blogger's method of making one in notepad then copying it later to the blog. So that is what I am doing now. This weather is awesome to the MAX. At my current job I am content with them wasting time and me not doing much except for a few odd helper things here and there. I could care less whether I finish the project. All I know is that come mid June I am going to Venezuela whether they like it or not. It is not my fault they hired a contractor and had him sit around and do nothing for 4 weeks. It is kind of like MBNA but at least I don't have to deal with weak-ass posturing and people arguing over what needs to be done. Here, I am just waiting for information that should have been gathered before I came if they knew it was going to take a few weeks. Maybe it is because the commute is so short I don't have time to think about how much I hate the job. I am going to add picture upload and wap posting to the blogging software today. I gotta move by the winter I can't take another cold season.
There are 4 software projects I am working on and possibly a 5th. Also there are 2 other minor software projects that are linked to sites that I already work on. Why do I keep saying that, ehh... whatever. I am just sitting here. There is custom e-commerce software I want to finish before I go to Venezuela. Also there is a flash website I need to finish by the end of the month. I'll start working on the sketches this week.
Now that it is warm this week. I am going to try and do rope early in the morning. One thing that the job has forced me to do which I like is wakeup early. I even wake up early on the weekends. I get much more done that way. I'll need a new laptop before I go to Venezuela so that I can work on stuff over there. Really there won't be a lot to do most of the time so I might as well work on software. I want a 15-inch Powerbook or a comparable PC. Nah actually I want something with MacOS just so I have the three major OSs covered (Windows, Unix/Linux, MacOS). This may be a huge oversimplification but MacOSX is like BSD with the world's best GUI. They used BSD as the base for the OS and integrated their world-class gui (which since the begining of desktop guis has always been the best). You can sort of make a analogy to GNU/Linux with Gnome(or KDE, now if someone could make Gnome or KDE function and look as good as the MacOSX interface that would be an accomplishment, actually I think it has been done) When I look at screenshots of the new Windows Longhorn GUI it is for sure better than XP but still is no comparison to OSX. I just feel like they could do much better. But I will reserve final judgment until it officially debuts. Its funny though, I think the OSX Dock was inspired at least partly from the Windows Start Bar which itself was a copy of MacOS standard top menu bar. Windows has a Dock too, it is called the quick launch bar. Except it is much crapier looking. Not sure what was first though, the quick launch or the Dock. Who cares, I just want to build a spaceship
Holy shit I am bored. I can't wait to get home to jump rope and work on websites. I love broccoli and eat tons of it. I need to buy a steamer so I can steam it at home. BroccoliAlso I need the steamer for other steamed vegetables. If fast food places sold steamed broccoli i'd be there all the time. I want a fast food place that specializes in flash steaming raw vegtables and fresh fruits. Baked sweet potatoe slices would be nice. I'm hungry right now and all I want is steamed broccoli, baked sweet potatoe slices and a side of cantelope or strawberries.
Almost time to go 1hr left. Been keeping this blog since after lunch. 40 minutes left. 37 minutes left. 35 minutes left. The quality of the recent best-of postings on craiglist took a huge dive. Most of them sucked, they were mainly just nasty pee and dooky stories.