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singing bunny September 24, 2006

Posted by BatWeasel in : General , 1 comment so far

OK, Skittles wins the prize for the best commercial EVER!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HEF49nMsM8

Thailand is under new management September 20, 2006

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Apparently a rarity has occured in world events… a peacefull military coup. Acting on the will of the people, the military siezed control of the government while (of all things) their current apparently widely disliked prime minister was in New York about to address the UN (how embarrasing). At a press conference one of the generals involved said the military would be out in two weeks and that elections for a long term replacement ot the PM would occure next year at the regular time. The yellow ribbon by the way indicates support for the king, the flowers.

Thailand is under new management September 20, 2006

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Apparently a rarity has occured in the world’s events… a peacefull military coup. Acting on the will of the people, the military siezed control of the government while (of all things) their current apparently widely disliked prime minister was in New York about to address the UN (how embarrasing). At a press conference one of the generals involved said the military would be out in two weeks and that elections for a long term replacement ot the PM would occure next year at the regular time. The yellow ribbon by the way indicates support for the king, the flowers.

New bike! September 19, 2006

Posted by Aaron in : Play , add a comment

Huzza! I have given my new bike a proper introduction to the road! Though I am happy to be starting a new job in about a month, one of the things I shall truely miss is the trails around here. I’ve roughly plotted out my route on the gmap pedometer, but it looks like it was a good 10 and a half miles. I found a cool little island covered with trails, sadly dusk was close enough I couldn’t explore more. I was peddling east at one point and turned a corner and glanced back the way I came… the sunset that was going on was so startlingly beautiful that in my haste to stop I very nearly went over the handlebars. I’ve not had good breaks in so long this could be interesting. I tried to drop in on practice with Jason’s band, but though I got the people’s dog barking, for the life of me I couldn’t get their attention (they were in the basement rocking out at that point). And though it got dark, I was ready. When I was buying the bike I had a small conversation with myself, “Aaron, you know sooner or later you’ll be riding in the dark.” “How do you know me so well?” “I’m not going to dignify that with a response, instead, lets get a tail-light.” “One that blinks?” “*sigh* yes, yes we can get one that blinks.” “Huzza!” And it does indeed do several variations of being on and off (besides be as bright as the sun at close range, my first action upon putting batteries was to turn it on while looking at it from about a foot). The ride back was quite chilly, I broke out gortex long johns to rescue my cold self when I got back. Why even as we speak my tummy has warmed up enough that I can feel it when I poke it. I shall sleep well tonight, though I’m a bit concerned about how well I’ll be able to sit or move tomorrow, oh well, it was a most excellent ride all the same.

Recent exchange with manager September 15, 2006

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me (email to manager): can you change this field from a string back to a datetime (what it actually is in the db) in this stored procedure, I have checked and it is only used in these two places and I’ll go make sure they work when you are done
manager (in person): I’ll add a new field that and then you can decide which field you want to use, we don’t want to break anything after all
me: I’ve checked, it is only referred to in two places in the entire code-base
manager: *repeats previous statement*
me - internal dialog box:
Click one to continue:
Button 1: “Look you twit, which part of “I’ve already found all the changes that will need to be made” doesn’t compute?”
Button 2: “Ok”
…
me: Ok

This same person was surprised when I told him I was quitting monday, and wanted to know why. I gave lots of reasons, and even hinted at some of the bigger ones, but was too kind to cite things like this.

Kill! Kill! Murder! Murder! September 12, 2006

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Yes I just had an experience that was great for my life! I left work a little late but saw something going on across the street at the athletic fields… it was a high-school cross country meet! I quickly parked my car and jumped around in business casual cheering and clapping, it was great!.

Well I guess thats about it September 11, 2006

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Today I let my current employer know I was leaving and passed my official acceptance on to the other. Final move is still up in the air because I’m giving my current employer time to figure out how long they absolutely need me. Oh and for the record, I never want to be put in this situation again, that talk with my manager really sucked.

Weird dream September 11, 2006

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Man I just woke up at the end of a most vivid dream. In the dream I worked at a hospital and my primary job was to make sure that patients were given a proper chance to receive an organ transplant (and make sure there was no bribing of people in the chain somewhere). A young girl came in with her father one day who needed a liver (I can’t remember why hers was slowly failing). Apparently they had been at the top of the list and then right before surgery bumped down a couple positions and suspected foul play. I typically check in on all cases where individuals are bumped down at the last minute anyway and so I quickly agreed to check into it (quickly because I wanted to get the overly agressive conspiracy theorist father out of my office besides, agreeing to do what I was paid to do anyway is pretty easy). I did check into it, very thoroughly and there turned out to be no foul play involved, simply people with a greater need for an immediate transplant than this girl. Of course the father blew up when I informed him of this, accusing me of “being in cahoots” with “those people” and it was only my quiet suggestion that I’d call security that got him out of my office. So that over (the girl’s life wasn’t in any immediate danger by the way, her liver failure was still estimated to be nearly half a year away, pleanty of time to get the people above her on the list dealt with and get her in), I returned to reading through files for other transplant choices that had made the investigave antennas twitch. Or at least I thought it was over…

A few days later after another late night I headed to my car to go home. But someone jumped out from behind my car when my back was turned and put a funny smelling rag in front of my face and then everything went black. When I woke up I was in a small bare room facing, you guessed it, the previously mentioned father. He informed me that since the selection committee was too corrupt to get his daughter a transplant, he’d decided to do it himself, and apparently I was the donor. Apparently I’d been given a temporary reprieve as he was still reading medical books to try to figure out how to even do it. The dream is kinda fuzzy in this part but I remember at one point trying to convince the daughter that if she let her father do this then all that would happen would be that we would both face painfully unnecessary deaths. Didn’t work of course, she trusted her daddy to match the medical skill of a doctor whose been through at least 8 years of school, children are the darndest things, though I can’t say at the time I was able to face it so calmly. There are already bits that have faded away but eventually I slipped out an unlocked door and made it to a nearby walmart where I called 911. After another seeming eternity, I convinced the cops who arrived that it wasn’t a prank and that I wasn’t crazy. All ended well, but man that was a weird dream. No more watching House before bed for me (of course since I didn’t watch any episodes last night… *shrugs*).

PS sorry for the rather abrupt ending, but it really is fading already as dreams do (that took a long time to write) and besides, since I’m awake, sunrise is in a few minutes and while I’m not going to go down by the river to watch (its rainy so it won’t be much) I thought I’d stand at a window for a bit.

Hmm its 1am September 1, 2006

Posted by Aaron in : Life, Work , 3comments

1AM has snuck up on me, I’ve been listenning to music, playing with site configuration and copying music to an Ipod shuffle that my new bank gave me for using direct deposit. Incidentally I’d love to get some feedback from someone who has used iTunes under both windows and mac environments. I guess with all the publicity over things I expected it to be this amazingly functional and intuitive program. I’ve only been using it for a few hours now and maybe its because I have virtually no mac background… but it feels clumsy and worse still inexplicable. I’ve closed it several times simply because I started some operation by accident that I didn’t understand but didn’t want to complete and couldn’t figure out how to cancel any other way. I’m pretty sure the big status thingy at the top of the screen should allow me to cancel operations but so far all my clicks have been ignored. I guess I’ll figure it out, but I’d much rather have an MP3 player with better software (since I don’t care to use iTunes as a purchasing tool).
Tomorrow I head to oklahoma for a bit. I haven’t talked about it much because frankly I haven’t really known what to say. Sufficient to say that things got better at work, but its only making the vast differences in approaches more obvious. Oh and when my manager gets angry he gets quiet. Kinda wish I hadn’t had the opportunity to find that out (and I certainly had a deservidly pretty large share in why he was angry at the time) but oh well. Time will tell, I’m keep hoping for a hand with no apparent body to write something on the wall, be it stay here or go. *shrugs* I’ll be back by wednesday night and much pondering I will do.