Summer Goals
Being unemployed gives me a lot of time. Aside from waking up at noon, I am trying to accomplish things this summer. I figure that I might as well make an itemized list of things I will complete.
1. Make a dedicated Linux box with Subversion.
2. Learn to use Subversion properly.
3. Utilize Subversion on all of my new projects / documents / notes.
4. Embrace gdb.
5. Take more photos.
6. Play bass more.
More to come..
Tags: bass, debugger, gdb, goals, Linux, photos, practice, subversion, svn, to-do, todo
18.Jun.09 
General 
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Enhance
23.Apr.09 General, Movies Comments (0)
Another good article
This is a good article about big O notation. It helped me understand it further.
Big O For Eight Year Olds
Odd title, I know.
Tags: big o, learn some shit, programming
19.Apr.09 School Comments (0)
School’s back in session
Well, spring break is over. Sucks. It’s still cold as hell here, but starting to look a little more like spring. I’ve been working on my computer science classes pretty hardcore. I’m starting to feel progression in my programming competence. According to this I think I’m somewhere between stage 2 and 3. I still don’t think that I could work a CS job full time right now. I need to get my feet wet in real-world programming experience. I’ve been looking at some F/OSS projects but haven’t been able to find one with stuff to do around my skill level or language competency. Hopefully I’ll get some sort of internship or I’ll work on the Google summer of code stuff.
In other news, this is a pretty helpful read: How to write fast code
Tags: c++, java, programming, School
23.Mar.09 School Comments (0)
I have seen it, and it is great.
Just got back from the midnight Watchmen premier. I can say hands down that this was the best comic-based movie ever. I am satisfied.
06.Mar.09 General Comments (0)
CS Student LF Work
Hi. I’m pretty much unemployed now (waiting for CC to close). Hire me as an intern please. I can haz job?
Tags: hey i actually exist, lfw, looking for work, no this blog is not dead
25.Feb.09 General Comments (0)
Star Trek + NIN = Profit
10.Jan.09 General Comments (0)
Top Ten Albums of 2008
It’s that time of year again, and I’ve decided to repeat last year’s tradition.
10. Made in the Dark – Hot Chip
9. Fasciinatiion – The Faint
8. Feed the Animals – Girl Talk
7. Ghosts I-IV – Nine Inch Nails
6. Blooddrunk – Children of Bodom
5. Watershed – Opeth
4. In the Future – Black Mountain
3. Kala – M.I.A.
2. Traced in Air – Cynic
1. The Slip – Nine Inch Nails
To be honest, I’m pretty disappointed in this year’s releases. There were a lot of mediocre filler and re-releases this year. Everything in my top 10 was good, some were great and some were revolutionary (here’s lookin’ at you, NIN).
Tags: album, children of bodom, cobhc, girl talk, hot chip, list, metal, Music, nin, nine inch nails, opeth, top 10, top albums, top10
01.Jan.09 Music Comments (0)
Awesome video
Tags: computer, ed, fixit, furtv, lulz
28.Dec.08 General Comment (1)
I hate retail.
So the biggest shopping day of the year is quickly approaching. I hate it. All this rampant consumerism coming to a boiling point in just two short days. Customers are redic, and stores are desperate. Here’s an example of how crazy people can be.
This evening, I’m working as usual fixing up people’s porn-ridden, spyware-addled PCs. This older lady comes up to the counter and I offer my assistance. She tells me her name, and that her computers are here (at the store) and she wants to pick them up. Ok. So, not immediately recognizing her name (the work order queue isn’t that big), I do a history search. Only one entry shows up from her name, and it’s quite old. December 17, 2006. This can’t be, I think to myself. I pull up the work order, and sure enough, it’s for two laptop computers. The ticket was closed over a year ago when the tech supervisor sent the letters out for intent to destroy. We usually only wait for 90 days to consider it abandoned before we send out the letters. He waited nearly a year. I look at the record, see how the technician that worked on the PC noted a lot of water damage or something acidic on both PCs. I wouldn’t even know because at the time, I was not even employed at the store. The supervisor noted that he had attempted many times to contact the customer, via phone and mail. Reading all this, while the customer is standing there, I thought “why me…?” I told the customer that I’d be right back. I went and asked my store director what to do, and he said to tell her that those computers were long gone, and that if she had any questions, she could contact corporate. Begrudgingly, I went back and informed the customer of the news. She flipped her shit on me, telling me about how she was sick, and how she had several surgeries, and all along we charged her money for a diagnostic on a perfectly good “brand new $3200 laptop” etc, etc. I empathised with her and attempted to give her the number for the corporate affairs hotline, but she resisted, demanding to speak with a manager. I got one, and gave him the phone number I’d written on a post-it note, and went along with my day.
While she was giving me this whole giant sob-story, all I could think was “I know you probably couldn’t make it out if you were sick, but honestly couldn’t you use a phone, or write a letter? If this was so important to you, why did you wait two years to come and get it?”
Argh.
Tags: Black Friday, consumerism, the customer is not always right
26.Nov.08 Work Comments (0)