Mathemagicians

Credit for this goes to vinny9 on sillytech.com:

dumb math joke

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January 30, 2006

Midgets

I’m sitting in a coffee shop a block away from my apartment finishing up some work before heading off to a party celebrating the 25th birthday of one of my designers when, without warning, a motorized wheelchair goes scooting past. Clinging to the back of the wheelchair is a midget. No one even bothers to gawk at this spectacle. I’m not quite sure how I’m supposed to respond, but I can’t imagine they see this sort of thing on a daily basis.

weird. really weird.

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January 28, 2006

Yakov Smirnoff

On rare occasions, I will read something that is genuinely amusing on Slashdot. I just had one with a Yakov Smirnoff-esque joke, of sorts.

yobjob says: “IN CAPITALIST AMERICA, WORK FINISHES YOU!” in response to a fairly involved thread about the IT industry and bringing your work home with you.

Sigh. I clearly need to stop reading Slashdot.

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January 24, 2006

Favorites

And lest I forget, my abbreviated 2005 favorites:

Album: Takk, by Sigur Ros, followed very, very closely by Plans for Death Cab for Cutie
Asian Person: Helen
Asian Person that I am Not Coerced into Listing: Helen, still
Beach: Waikiki in Honolulu
Movie: Batman Begins (but you have to keep in mind that I, essentially, saw no movies after July 2005)
Star Wars Movie: Empire Strikes Back (still)
Star Wars Prequel Movie: Revenge of the Sith, duh

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January 16, 2006

Another Week

Yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted; I’ve been busy, dead-tired, and generally unwilling to expend the energy to reach out and touch all four of my loyal readers on this blog-thing. Work’s been kicking my ass of late. We’re winding down our current project milestone, which means that my ‘real’ work for our project is just beginning. I’ve been mired in presentation-purgatory for the past few months, and I have another one to give to a fairly high-up person on Friday, for which I’m currently procrastinating.

I’ve felt incredibly worn down for the past few weeks now, which has started worrying me. I’m sure I’ll bounce back before too terribly long here. I feel like I need a change of pace in the office, and, hopefully, I’ll get just that with the impending milestone. The big things I’ve been aching to do lately are to read a book, learn more about Ruby on Rails, finish iRooster v2.2, and experiment with a number of UI ideas I have for developer tools platforms. Unfortunately, I don’t feel like I’ve been able to do any of those. Maybe I’ll take some time off (like a long weekend here or there). I have three weeks of vacation time saved up, and it’s burning a hole in my calendar.

Perhaps that’s my issue (tangentially, don’t you just love wading through my stream of consciousness babble, especially when I actually figure shit out about my life? :-P ). I’ve had so much trouble seeing an effective end to any of the projects I’ve been working on. They have had poorly defined end goals and end dates, and it’s been challenging to see definitive progress made on them as a result. And, to compound issues, I haven’t taken a real weekend off in quite a while. Sigh.

It also doesn’t help that it’s been raining for a whole fucking month now. That wears on you a bit, too.

On a more personal note (something I usually avoid here, as I’m sure you, gentle reader, have noticed), Jamie’s no longer talking to me. Yet again. We’ll see what happens there, although I must say I’m happy about her choice here; it’s exactly what I wanted and she wouldn’t accept. I haven’t spoken to Anne in upwards of three weeks now (for which I feel like a complete dick).

Helen’s currently asleep in my bed. We watched the season premiere of 24 (Day 5) tonight. We’d do it at her place, but she owns no TV at present. She is planning on ordering an LCD HDTV, but has been playing a waiting game now that CES has come and showed us all sorts of nice little goodies shipping over the next few months. I’m in the same boat. I refuse to buy an HDTV before two things occur:
1) I can get an HDTV tuner for my media center.
2) Snazzy new HDTV models are released into the world.

Maybe I’ll break down and order one before those critieria are met. Maybe not.

On a weirder note, Helen went to a show on Saturday at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard. It turned out that one of Anne’s friend’s bands was playing there that night. Seattle, despite being the size of Minneapolis and St. Paul combined, always seems small to me; you never know who you might run into, but you can guarantee yourself some odd event like that.

Meanwhile, I spent Saturday night with Rachel, a friend from University who just moved out here. We haven’t seen each other in the better part of two years, but had no trouble picking up right where we left off. It’s always strange when you find yourself able to do that. I enjoy it, though, and I’m really looking forward to having her around. We hit up the Stumbling Goat Bistro (have their risotto, i usually do). Following dinner, we found ourselves at a Fiasco show at the Owl n’ Thistle. A good time, I believe, was had by all.

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January 16, 2006

$600 Dinner Bills

I had dinner with Helen, her friend Kat, and Kat’s boyfriend, Kirk, last night at Rover’s. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, let me tell you three things:
1. Bring your entire last paycheck to pay for it.
2. Bring an appetite.
3. Bring a stretcher, you’ll need it by the time you leave.

This was, quite possibly, the single best dinner I’ve ever had in my life. It was also rather pricy; not unreasonably so, given what we had (4 meals, 2 glasses of wine for me, plus a half-bottle for Kat and Kirk, and a pair of espresso drinks at the end), but it’s still somewhat frightening to see a $600 bill at the end of the night.

Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly an experience well worth having. Take a look at Citysearch’s opinion, too.

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January 8, 2006

Nothing Says Lovin…

Music Filter: nothing says “high speed processing” like the Black Eyed Peas!

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January 3, 2006

Portents and Signs

NewDonkey, the Sharp Edge of the Vital Center, had this to say about his Holiday Season: “[My car] was loudly sounding an apocalyptic blooga-blooga-blooga by the time I reached Arlington.” Never once have I though to use the words “apocalyptic” and “blooga-blooga-blooga” together in the same sentence. Never again, shall I make that mistake.

Oh yeah, and New Year’s Eve pix are up now too.

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January 3, 2006

The Wisdom of Crowds

The crowd is always right during a trend but is always wrong at a major turning point.

Good food for thought.

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January 1, 2006