Author: Cj B

PhotoDump

Hey y’all. Well, I’ve been kinda sucking at updating my photodump site. MyPhoto wasn’t being updated any more, so I had to find a new solution. I came across WiPhA so I’m using that now. You can go check it out at my Photodump site. Just click to log in as a guest and then you can view all the pics you want. 🙂 I suggest going and looking at the 2006-08-26 – Pirates of the Carb album, as I’ve added a few more shots of the ship and stuff.

This one will be much easier to keep up to date as well, because I don’t have to have anything on my local mac running, I just upload the changed files in my iPhoto Library. So hopefully I’ll keep things better this time! 🙂

All weekend Star 98.7 has been giving out free tickets to the DMB concert today. All evening Friday I tried winning them, but I kept missing the phone number. I thought it was 800-STAR-987. But everytime I called it, I got a message saying that the number wouldn’t accept calls from my area. Ugh! So then Saturday afternoon I finially got the number, which was right! Bastards, why can’t I call them! :'( Hopefully they might sitll be giving out tickets today, so I’m listening, and I now have a 949 number to call from!

Friday I hung out with Andrew, that was fun times. We went out to Panera and then just hung around the chapman. Also went to this amazing play thing called NWC. OMG, it was so great!

I ventured out Saturday and went to Target/Home Depot. Ended up spending way too much money there! Saturday afternoon/night I hung out with two different guys. The first one, James, was nice, and entertaining, but a little short.. Friends only there. lol

The second guy, Di, was really nice, and cool. And hot. 🙂 We just hung out at my place watching Dragnet. lol. He’s apparently on outrigger as well? haha. Oh well. He lives like right down the street from me, so we’ll see if we hang out any more.

Sunday I lounged around the house all day. I ventured out ONCE and almost got killed twice! Stupid fuckers don’t know how to drive. The first guy, clearly merged into my lane in the middle of an intersection and almost killed me. So I honked at him, then the jerk drove 15 mph in front of me and every time I tried to pass him, he kept swearving infront of me so I couldn’t get around him! JERK!

The second one was this Jag that clearly went through a red light… It was SO red for her that it was NEARLY red for me! She just blew right through it! OMG!

So yeah, that was my weekend. Adios!

Seriously Folks..

Ok, I have to admit, I’ve been on sort of a shopping spree lately, spending large amounts of money that I really shouldn’t.

First there was the $300 in clothes that I bought and posted about before, then there was the $450 worth of plane tickets…

Today, I bought:

2 – Tickets to The Fray for Nov 15th ($80).. Anyone wanna go with me??? $40 for your ticket. 😛 (Fucking ticket master.. I’ll bitch about them later)

A shirt from Banana Republic:

Classic fit diagonal wide-check dress shirt

A D&G Shirt:

Dolce & Gabbana Men's Plaid Dress Shirt,White&Blue Plaid

My TIX Clock ($50), and a Bike Tune-up ($50). And I still have to pay for the Zumanity tickets ($100).

This weekend, I have to go by lumber and a few other things for my giant clock… Hopefully that’ll stay below $30.

Someone make me stop spending money! lol

I’m a bit pissed though, because Ticketmaster charged nearly 50% fucking service fees!!! Excuse me whores?! You do NOTHING but host a fucking website, and a SHITTY one at that! Why do you charge so much fucking money! If it we’re pre-sale tickets, I’d totally have gone to the place and bought them in person, that way it’d be cheaper. But oh well. :'( Fucks

And seriously, who’s gonna pay $150 for a ONE PAIR of briefs!?!?! That’s right, $150 for ONE pair of Gucci black striped waistband briefs.

Do you want the Screen name “Master”? Well go bid on it @ Ebay. It’s currently at $355.

This morning, I headed down to the pier before coming to the office. I missed the big boat heading out, and it was so foggy you could only make out a dark blip in the horizon as to where it was, but I did witness them loading up a bunch of extras into speed boats to take out there.. They were all dressed up in period garb and had muskets and such… Last night while walking on the beach, I saw some flashes of light coming off the big boat as well… could it be cannon shot, or some such? who knows!

My ‘u’ key seems to be having issues today. 🙁

Adios.

Drive Right, Pass Left

Drive Right, Pass Left

Become the Telemarketer

I hate leaving a job, you always lose so much of your work from the past. IE, here it is 2 years after leaving my last job, and I’m suddenly wishing I had backed up a lot more then I did when I left. I took all of my home directories off all the servers, and most of the root directories, which contained tons of scripts that I’d written during that time. But now I’m really wishing that I had taken some of the /etc/ config files. 🙁 Thankfully, they have been very good at fulfilling my requests for data.

I worked 12 hour on Monday, 14 hours on Tuesday, 10 yesterday, 7 today and 5.5 tomorrow, and that was just for my real job… It’ll be nice to be back to a normal schedule after this week. 🙂 The training we had for my software yesterday went off very well, only one thing blew up during the training, and that wasn’t a part of _my_ software. And the food was excellent. I love lunch meetings!

I do have a nice list of things to do still for this project, mostly annoying little things, one however is really stumping me.

You see, we’ve got this database… One table holds a transaction listing. For each “Ticket”, you can have multiple transacations, and each transaction has a type. Anyways, I need to somehow find all the transacations where a ticket goes from one state (open/new/resolved) to another state (pendind_c, pending_r). So when you change the status it creates a record like this:

OldValue: $OldValue

NewValue: $NewValue

I can get the list of them with this query: SELECT * FROM Transactions WHERE Type = ‘Status’ AND (OldValue LIKE ‘pend%’ OR NewValue LIKE ‘pend%’) AND ObjectID = $TicketID ORDER BY Created

And they all come out in the right order, but now the trick is that I need to figure out how to calculate the time that a Ticket spends in the “pend_*” state. So when a ticket changes from an “Open” state to a “Pend” state, everything from that point to when it changes back to “Open” counts against us.

Right now, I’m just (from another table) UNIXTIME(Start) – UNIXTIME(Resolved) to get the total time.. But I gotta subtract out the time spent pending.

I’m sure there’s some easy way that I’m just not thinking about, but I’m lost. It’s time for me to go home now.

Adios.

Pirates, Pirates! Everywhere!

Apparently they are filming scenese of the next Pirates of the Carb movie… OUT MY FRONT DOOR!

Pirates

Sorry it’s so blurry, it was a LONG ways away. Jason and I saw it coming in while we were still on our bike ride, I hauled ass back to my house, grabbed my camera and got the best pic I could before it went into the harbor.. Perhaps this weekend I’ll head down there and get some closer pics of it… I hear it’s here for 9 days….

Pretty damn cool.. That’s two movies in the as many weeks I’ve seen being filmed right here in Redondo!!

The Apple Debate

I HATE when people say. “Well, because it’s a mac”… My Mac is NOT sub-par to your windows computer.

I agree, that 5 or 6 years ago, before OSX came out, that YES mac’s were sub-par, you couldn’t do shit. They sucked. I’ll gladly agree to that, but anyone who says that now, is an idiot.

Since OSX Mac’s have blown windows out of the water for everything. I don’t have to worry about getting a virus, I don’t have to worry about accidentially downloading trojan software, my browser correctly support standards, it has tabs built in, the Mail Application is useable.

My Mac has an amazing collection of applications to manage my music, photos, and everything else you could want.

I easily can use my favorite Unix applications, and with a small dwnload, I can have full X abilities!

Show me where Windows competes in any of these areas? IE doesn’t even come close to supporting standards, IE doesn’t offer even a basic ability to have tabs, the Mail application sucks, and to have even the basic usability of Unix, there’s a TON of extra things to download, and they don’t even come close to the ease of use and integration that the Mac has.

Whenever I complain about something… IE. “Why does Acrobat install Yahoo! Messanger”… it’s almost ALYWAYS because I am using a windows computer. So SOMEONE please tell me WHY THE FUCK does Acrobat install the fucking Yahoo Messager!? I NEVER have these issues on my fucking mac… When I download Acrobat, that’s the only fucking thing it installs… ETC!

The new MacPro’s beat out Dell’s pricing for similar hardware spec systems, granted, we’re talking systems that are $2,500+. Although Apple can’t yet meet the $300 price-point of some Dell systems, even the cheapest of Apple’s machines, the Mini, still beats out an equivalent Dell system in price. Also, each time Windows is released, you typically have a major slow down in your performance on your system, thus causing you to buy a new system. With MacOSX, each new release has actually brought about FASTER OS speeds to those with older systems over the previous OS release!

In short, I honestly don’t think that people who haven’t significantly used both OSes for a while should really be dissing one or the other. I have used Windows, MacOSX, and Linux in a daily operating life, as a desktop, server, and tons of other roles. In the long run, the MacOSX has proven to be far more useful and reliable then the WindowsOS for me.

References:

Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?.

VT again adds machines, and again boost score.

US Army Drafts Apple Xserve for Supercomputer.

New MacPro Beats Dell Pricing.

IE 7.0 Technical Changes Leave Web Developers, Users in the Lurch.

Windows 5x More Expensive than Mac OS X.

Top 500.

When I lived in Iowa, I drove my car for ~60,000 miles, during all that time, I NEVER changed the air filter.. I know you’re supposed to, but I never noticed any problems. Since I’ve lived in OC, I changed it every couple Oil changes. NOW living in LA, it seems to be EVEN worse! Ugh!

Friday, I always look forward to getting to my office and having a NICE big office to myself, and of course …. My WONDERFUL chair. It’s so comfy and set just right… I get there this past week, and someone has STOLEN my chair! UGH! Why do people feel they can steal your chair!!!

Also, Friday I was driving down to Austin’s via PCH, lots of stop and go, traffic lights, etc. But the speed limit is 45. I got stuck behind this Mini-van.. Every light we came up to, the damn van would slow down to 15-20mph.. Even if the light was CLEARLY GREEN! It was SO annoying!

Check out the adorable Firefox Dog! I want one of my own… Too bad it’s not real. :'(

FireFox Dog!

And who says Starbucks isn’t taking over the world:

StarBucks and MacDonalds