I am tired. Really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really tired.
I mean really tired.
Last night I went to bed at about 9:00. I fell asleep almost immediately and then woke up again at about 10:30. Then again at 11:00. Then again at 11:30. And so on and so forth.
My teeth were the reason, of course.
The pain has been constant over the last couple of days. At times it's been as close to excruciating as my limited pain receiving experience has gotten. It sucks. I've tried ibuprofen, acetaminophen, and whatever the hell Aleve is made out of. They all knock it back a little, but not enough. At least not enough for me to sleep much last night. I still have percocet from the first attempt at a Dental visit and I haven't cracked open the bottle yet. I don't want to, but tonight might be the night. I hope not.
I have done a little research into "sedation dentistry" and have decided to pin my hopes on it. I have a consultation at a place in Andover on Wednesday. My hope of hopes is that the doctor will hear my tale of gag-reflexive woah and say, as a light shines down from the heavens upon him making him look like he has a sort of halo over his head and maybe a pair of angel wings sprouting out of his back, "I'll take care of you. I'll fix your problems."
Let's hope so. Please please please please please please please please please please please.
I feel sleep deprived enough to have my judgment affected. On the first full day of my marriage to the beautiful and talented and amazing Jenny my wedding ring fell off in the shower. Each shower since then I have removed it and put it on the bathroom sink while showering, and then shortly (if not immediately) after getting out I have returned the ring to it's rightful place on my left hand.
Today I got out of the shower and was in a hurry because my sleep deprived self had been a little zombie-esque and took too much time getting into first gear this morning and was worried about making Jen late.
When I got to work I noticed that I didn't have my watch on. I stopped in the bathroom on the way back from dropping my lunch off in the kitchen and while washing my hands realized the ring wasn't there. It's still on the bathroom sink.
I feel terrible. That ring is a symbol of my feelings for my wife. It is a symbol of our marriage. It is a symbol of our love. And I have not had it on my finger since about 6:35 this morning. I won't have it on my finger until about 6:45 this evening. 12 hours with a ringless ring finger. I hate myself right now.
I've been tired enough today that I have been chugging caffeinated beverages since before 8:00am. My hands and my eyes are jittery. (Yes, my eyes. You read that correctly.) I am exhausted but too wired to worry about falling asleep. I just can't think 100% clearly. This sucks.
To top it off, the tooth pain has actually been different since I got up this morning. Generally it has just been a wicked powerful ache. Today, however it has added the bonus factor of being really sensitive. There are two teeth in question here, both on the upper left. One actually broke off at the gum line a few years ago. The root is still there and has been hurting a bit. The real problem is two teeth back from there where a cavity is forming around a filling. Today when I take a drink (of a caffeinated beverage) it hurts whenever the liquid touches that tooth. That's a new one for me today. My teeth have always been a little sensitive to cold (especially the broken tooth. I wonder why? Duh.) but it's never felt like this before. I can definitely live with it, it's just an added flipping of the dental bird.
Oh well.
Tonight I will be able to keep my shit together long enough to get home and eat some tacos with the wife and kids. Mmmmmmm tacos. I learned many years ago that for some retarded reason when I have a tooth ache it is much worse on an empty stomach. If I have a bite to eat the pain lessens. How do you spell psychosomatic? Over the last two or three days that has still been the case, it's just that the lessening doesn't last as long. Still, I can honestly look forward to tacos as a kind of homeopathic (how do you spell placebo?) remedy in this case. That's pretty cool. After the kids go to bed Jen and I are going to play around with some more programming in C#, but I don't think I'll be up for more than an hour or so. I want to try and go to bed a little early (again) and hopefully be too tired to notice that I'm in pain.
Tomorrow we have to get new school shoes for the kids. After that we're going to risk taking them to the movies to see the new Harry Potter flick. I will definitely be covering a certain boy's eyes through a certain Inferi scene. (note: I went to a Harry Potter glossary site to look up the proper spelling of inferi.) After that it's dinner with the newly moved to Haverhill Geyers. We missed out on seeing their new house last weekend, hopefully things will work out better this weekend. I know we had something on the agenda for Sunday too but I can't for the life of me remember what it was... was it Harry Potter? Had we planned on that for Sunday originally? I can't remember.
As for right now, I want to go home. Simple as that.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Sometimes I Suck...
Sometimes I suck so bad it hurts. I suck so bad I want to crawl into a little ball and hide until people forget about how bad I suck.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Post-Rapture Pet Care
While perusing twitter I saw this from @BoingBoing, "Atheists who'll take in your pets after the Rapture http://url4.eu/Js4Q"
Here is a link to the actual site, Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA.
One question...
Here is a link to the actual site, Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA.
One question...
WHY THE HELL DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT???
Sedation Dentistry... Have You Tried It?
Sedation Dentistry... is it the solution to my dental work problems? Is it a dream come true?
I don't know, I'm hoping you can tell me.
Seriously, if you wander across this silly little page and have actually gone to a Dentist who heavily sedates you and then does all of your dental work in one sitting could you tell me how it went? I found a few places near me that do it and I'm going to pick the one with the best press and schedule a consultation. My teeth are hurting quite a bit and I really want to stop taking over the counter meds all day every day trying to keep the pain under control.
So if you've done it, tell me about it. There has to be a way for me to beat this effing gag-reflex garbage that I've been screwing myself over with since I cut my first baby teeth. It sucks, I'm sick of it. I want to feel like a grown up at the Dentist's office for a change.
Anyway, massive subject change...
How is this for a rock band's rhythm section: Dave Grohl on drums and John Paul Jones on bass. (That's the guy from Led Zeppelin, not the American Revolution period sailor)
Check this out: Them Crooked Vultures
I don't know, I'm hoping you can tell me.
Seriously, if you wander across this silly little page and have actually gone to a Dentist who heavily sedates you and then does all of your dental work in one sitting could you tell me how it went? I found a few places near me that do it and I'm going to pick the one with the best press and schedule a consultation. My teeth are hurting quite a bit and I really want to stop taking over the counter meds all day every day trying to keep the pain under control.
So if you've done it, tell me about it. There has to be a way for me to beat this effing gag-reflex garbage that I've been screwing myself over with since I cut my first baby teeth. It sucks, I'm sick of it. I want to feel like a grown up at the Dentist's office for a change.
Anyway, massive subject change...
How is this for a rock band's rhythm section: Dave Grohl on drums and John Paul Jones on bass. (That's the guy from Led Zeppelin, not the American Revolution period sailor)
Check this out: Them Crooked Vultures
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Ted Kennedy
Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy died last night.
Say what you will about Ted's personal life, he fought for the causes he believed in and always stood for his constituents.
It's the end of an era.
Happy Trails Ted
Say what you will about Ted's personal life, he fought for the causes he believed in and always stood for his constituents.
It's the end of an era.
Happy Trails Ted
Surprise Discovery
One of the first things that brought my wife Jen and I together was a love of The Beatles. Any time we go on any drive of any significant length, The Beatles are our soundtrack. Our first dance as a married couple was a Beatles song. I can go on and on.
Last night we discovered that Jen's father, who she did not know growing up, met The Beatles in 1964. He won a radio contest and had his picture taken with the band. Neither Jen nor her mother have seen the picture, but one of her cousins, who she recently met for the first time in ages through Facebook, confirmed it's existence.
My wife's dad met The Beatles right during the insanity known as Beatlemania.
She is sooooooo cool!
Last night we discovered that Jen's father, who she did not know growing up, met The Beatles in 1964. He won a radio contest and had his picture taken with the band. Neither Jen nor her mother have seen the picture, but one of her cousins, who she recently met for the first time in ages through Facebook, confirmed it's existence.
My wife's dad met The Beatles right during the insanity known as Beatlemania.
She is sooooooo cool!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Physiological Signs of Tone Deafness?
CNN.com is running a cool story that discusses some brain studies dealing with different senses. There is a section on your sense of direction (not very good), your sense of smell (your nostrils appear to be in competition with each other), and on tone deafness. I found this one very interesting.
My wife and one of my best friends are tone deaf. Jen complains about it now and then. She seems to think that there is something wrong with her because she can't sing in tune. I disagree. My friend Larry is in the same boat, but he was a music minor in college and had to take a course that required a great deal of recognizing different sounds, including pitches. How did he do it? He trained himself. As with everything, practice makes perfect. The more he worked at being able to match pitches with his voice the better he got at it.
This story doesn't go into detail, but it does say that it is possible to teach some one who is tone deaf how to hear specific tones. I knew it all along. It just takes practice.
Here's the segment from the article (I have removed the links)...
Practice. Practice. Practice.
My wife and one of my best friends are tone deaf. Jen complains about it now and then. She seems to think that there is something wrong with her because she can't sing in tune. I disagree. My friend Larry is in the same boat, but he was a music minor in college and had to take a course that required a great deal of recognizing different sounds, including pitches. How did he do it? He trained himself. As with everything, practice makes perfect. The more he worked at being able to match pitches with his voice the better he got at it.
This story doesn't go into detail, but it does say that it is possible to teach some one who is tone deaf how to hear specific tones. I knew it all along. It just takes practice.
Here's the segment from the article (I have removed the links)...
Some people are really bad at singing a song they've heard, and scientists are figuring out why.
The phenomenon, called tone deafness, refers to people who do poorly at distinguishing between different musical tones.
Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, looked at images of the brains of 10 people who tested as being tone deaf, and 10 people who were not...
Previous research has shown that people with lesions in the brain pathway that connects perception and motor areas of the brain have trouble with language, said Psyche Loui, instructor in the department of neurology at Harvard University. People with damage to this area tend to have problems with repeating words they hear.
The new study in the Journal of Neuroscience also found that the pathways in this brain area, which usually have top and bottom branches, were implicated in tonal recognition. In fact, scientists could not identify a right-top branch in any of the 10 tone-deaf participants.
"The better you can tell the difference between two tones, the larger that particular brain pathway was," Loui said.
The findings do not mean there is no hope for tone deaf people, however.
"I think there's a lot of music training in general that could help enlarge these pathways," Loui said.
In fact, a treatment for tone deafness might also help people with speech disorders such as dyslexia, she said. There has been evidence that people with dyslexia have same auditory processing problems as people with tone deafness, she said. Her lab showed last year that children with musical training performed better on dyslexia tests.
On the other end of the spectrum, some people have perfect or "absolute" pitch, and can name any musical note they hear. Diana Deutsch, psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, has found people who speak "tone" languages, with words that change meaning entirely depending on tone, seem to have a greater likelihood of perfect pitch. More speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese, two tone languages, tend to have perfect pitch than English, for example, she said.
In theory, in Deutsch's view, it should be as easy to call a pitch "F" as it is to say that an object is red or blue.
"If you assume that there's something missing in our environment in terms of early exposure to the right types of sounds, and that it is bundled in with speech, then the whole thing makes sense," she said.
Practice. Practice. Practice.
Rainbows... Two of Them!
Last night while driving home from work I had to stop at the Home Depot store in Tewksbury to buy some spray paint to artlessly put our house number onto our new garbage barrels. (too much information? Deal with it!)
While walking into the store I saw this:
Storm's a-comin'.
At the very moment I exited the building the rain started. Lucky me, eh? It was very large drops at first, but not many of them. I got into the car without getting very wet.
Just after I got into the car, however, the sky fell on me. It poured. It only lasted about five minutes though and then it pretty much stopped and the sun came back out.
By the time I reached the junction with route 93 I saw this:
Rainbows are great, but look closely. You may have to click on the image and look at one of the larger versions of it to see the super cool aspect...
Do you see it?
That's right, there are TWO RAINBOWS.
I saw a double rainbow. I think it's only the second or third time I've seen one. I think that is wicked cool.
The only downside of those pictures is that you can't see what I saw while driving around the bend on the exit ramp. The inner, brighter rainbow was complete. You could see the entire thing. You could see where it started, all the way up to the top, and all the way down to the end where the Leprechaun was hiding with my gold!
I thought that was cool. I just wanted to share it.
While walking into the store I saw this:
Storm's a-comin'.
At the very moment I exited the building the rain started. Lucky me, eh? It was very large drops at first, but not many of them. I got into the car without getting very wet.
Just after I got into the car, however, the sky fell on me. It poured. It only lasted about five minutes though and then it pretty much stopped and the sun came back out.
By the time I reached the junction with route 93 I saw this:
Rainbows are great, but look closely. You may have to click on the image and look at one of the larger versions of it to see the super cool aspect...
Do you see it?
That's right, there are TWO RAINBOWS.
I saw a double rainbow. I think it's only the second or third time I've seen one. I think that is wicked cool.
The only downside of those pictures is that you can't see what I saw while driving around the bend on the exit ramp. The inner, brighter rainbow was complete. You could see the entire thing. You could see where it started, all the way up to the top, and all the way down to the end where the Leprechaun was hiding with my gold!
I thought that was cool. I just wanted to share it.
Monday, August 24, 2009
No More Anonymity for Bloggers... sorry kids
So there was this blog, hosted by Google's blogger (just like this one that no one is reading right now) where this person anonymously trashed a model named Liskula Cohen. The title of said blog was the uber classy Skanks of New York. Terrible title for your site, but still better than the two rotten cruds I use. Anyway.
So Ms (Mrs? I'd look it up but I'm lazy) Cohen decides she doesn't like getting the Skank treatment and sues. But whom does she sue? The writer of the Skank page is unknown. What's a libeled fashion model to do? Smartly she goes after the company that hosts the skank site in an attempt to out the author so that she can sue the right person.
A judge (again, too lazy to get the specifics, like a name or a court) rules in favor of Ms Cohen and forces Google to unveil the author's name, Rosemary Port.
Ms Port then decides to sue Google:
Okay, so I am getting off the point. The point is, if you want to write anonymously go ahead and do it. Have fun with it. Hell, Benjamin Franklin did it all the time. Just don't expect that your anonymity gives you the right to commit libel. If you are going to go after some one make sure you have evidence to back up your claims, and don't expect your hosting service to be your white knight and break the law so that you continue to break the law anonymously. It was a judge who told Google to out you. A judge. Do you understand that? It was a judge. Not a lawyer, not a reporter, not a politician... it was a judge. Did you really think that Google would ignore a ruling from the bench in order to let you continue to commit libel on your little blog?
If being anonymous is fun for you then go ahead and enjoy it. Just don't use it as a shield against responsibility. You still have to play by the rules. If you don't then you're going to have your anonymity taken away from you. Rightfully so.
I'm tired of writing this post now so I am going to stop right here.
http://mashable.com/2009/08/24/skanks-of-new-york-lawsuit/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_amendment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Amendment
So Ms (Mrs? I'd look it up but I'm lazy) Cohen decides she doesn't like getting the Skank treatment and sues. But whom does she sue? The writer of the Skank page is unknown. What's a libeled fashion model to do? Smartly she goes after the company that hosts the skank site in an attempt to out the author so that she can sue the right person.
A judge (again, too lazy to get the specifics, like a name or a court) rules in favor of Ms Cohen and forces Google to unveil the author's name, Rosemary Port.
Ms Port then decides to sue Google:
“When I was being defended by attorneys for Google, I thought my right to privacy was being protected … Inherent in the First Amendment is the right to speak anonymously. Shouldn’t that right extend to the new public square of the Internet?”I think you're out of line Ms Port. First of all, you have the right to free speech but you do not have the right to lie. Only Fox News, politicians, and baseball players caught using steroids have that right. Secondly, doesn't Ms Cohen have the right to face her accuser? I know the 6th amendment refers to court cases, but shouldn't that right extend to the court of public opinion? At least in cases like this where whether she is a skank or not can affect her profession? Who wants to book a skank for a photo shoot? Okay, well some magazines would gladly book skanks for photo shoots, but they are generally kept at the back or the store or in brown paper bags.
Okay, so I am getting off the point. The point is, if you want to write anonymously go ahead and do it. Have fun with it. Hell, Benjamin Franklin did it all the time. Just don't expect that your anonymity gives you the right to commit libel. If you are going to go after some one make sure you have evidence to back up your claims, and don't expect your hosting service to be your white knight and break the law so that you continue to break the law anonymously. It was a judge who told Google to out you. A judge. Do you understand that? It was a judge. Not a lawyer, not a reporter, not a politician... it was a judge. Did you really think that Google would ignore a ruling from the bench in order to let you continue to commit libel on your little blog?
If being anonymous is fun for you then go ahead and enjoy it. Just don't use it as a shield against responsibility. You still have to play by the rules. If you don't then you're going to have your anonymity taken away from you. Rightfully so.
I'm tired of writing this post now so I am going to stop right here.
http://mashable.com/2009/08/24/skanks-of-new-york-lawsuit/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_amendment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Amendment
Stuff
So this weekend we had three hair cuts. One each for 3/4 of the household. We bought tons of new school clothes for the 2/4 of the family who are going back to school. We had steak and cake for my little brother who turned 32 on Sunday. If he's 32 then I must be really really old.
Sunday was a quiet stay at home kinda day. We did sneak out to Portsmouth for lunch and to see where Jen is working now. We also got a quick view of the ocean and a couple of light houses. I have decided that I really like light houses.
This week is looking pretty quiet. Laundry and food shopping and fun stuff. Some more work on our still yet undefined programming-at-home project. Maybe an episode of Scrubs or two.
Next weekend is still up in the air to some extent. We had a cook out with Mike and Tammy and Cecilia scheduled for this past Sunday that had to be postponed. One of the kids earned a Sunday full of being punished that was lightened slightly by our need to go out to lunch, but otherwise was stuck too all day. We are hoping to reschedule for this coming Sunday. I hope so it happens as I'm looking forward to seeing their new house. Jen also has a party with some old work friends on Sunday evening. Saturday is pretty much up in the air. There was some brief talk about maybe taking the kids to see the new Harry Potter. There is one scene that will undoubtedly result in nightmares for at least 1/2 of the household children, but I think we can work out a way to cover a pair of eyes or two when that scene happens. We'll have to be spot on with our timing, but we'll be able to pull it off. Still, that was only in the discussion phase. We might put that off for a few weeks more.
All of this is leading toward the One Big Event on the horizon...
The first day of school.
Not only is it the first day of school, but for one lucky little man it is the first day of first grade! I took a vacation day for that special day so I can join in on the fun. Hopefully all of the tears will come from a very happy and proud mom, and not from a nervous six year old. He's going to do fine, but he does seem a little apprehensive. Lucky for him he has a big sister to help show him the ropes.
On a totally unrelated subject, I want to watch these youtube clips later if I get a chance.
On a slightly unrelated topic, my wife is much much smarter than I am.
Sunday was a quiet stay at home kinda day. We did sneak out to Portsmouth for lunch and to see where Jen is working now. We also got a quick view of the ocean and a couple of light houses. I have decided that I really like light houses.
This week is looking pretty quiet. Laundry and food shopping and fun stuff. Some more work on our still yet undefined programming-at-home project. Maybe an episode of Scrubs or two.
Next weekend is still up in the air to some extent. We had a cook out with Mike and Tammy and Cecilia scheduled for this past Sunday that had to be postponed. One of the kids earned a Sunday full of being punished that was lightened slightly by our need to go out to lunch, but otherwise was stuck too all day. We are hoping to reschedule for this coming Sunday. I hope so it happens as I'm looking forward to seeing their new house. Jen also has a party with some old work friends on Sunday evening. Saturday is pretty much up in the air. There was some brief talk about maybe taking the kids to see the new Harry Potter. There is one scene that will undoubtedly result in nightmares for at least 1/2 of the household children, but I think we can work out a way to cover a pair of eyes or two when that scene happens. We'll have to be spot on with our timing, but we'll be able to pull it off. Still, that was only in the discussion phase. We might put that off for a few weeks more.
All of this is leading toward the One Big Event on the horizon...
The first day of school.
Not only is it the first day of school, but for one lucky little man it is the first day of first grade! I took a vacation day for that special day so I can join in on the fun. Hopefully all of the tears will come from a very happy and proud mom, and not from a nervous six year old. He's going to do fine, but he does seem a little apprehensive. Lucky for him he has a big sister to help show him the ropes.
On a totally unrelated subject, I want to watch these youtube clips later if I get a chance.
On a slightly unrelated topic, my wife is much much smarter than I am.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The Yankees Scored How Many Runs?
The is the most painful Red Sox stretch in a long while.
They scored 11 runs last night against the Yankees and still got blown out?
Yankees 20 - Red Sox 11?
When does hockey start?
This sucks.
They scored 11 runs last night against the Yankees and still got blown out?
Yankees 20 - Red Sox 11?
When does hockey start?
This sucks.
Friday, August 21, 2009
The Twitter Wagon
Last night my wife, the beautiful Jennifer I rave so much about on these here pages, finally had a holy-shit-that-was-fun! experience on twitter.
One of the top 10 trending topics was #songsincode. Song lyrics written in source code. She ate it for lunch. She was so good at it that after a little while she had two or three people telling her how awesome her posts were and she was being retweeted left and right.
Here's what she posted. (I hope she doesn't mind being retweeted outside of twitter. hehe)
1: int acceptKnock= 3; int deniedKnock= 2; if (wantsMe) assert("Knock " + acceptKnock.ToString() + " times on the ceiling");
2: do { document.write("young") };
3: SELECT * FROM ROCK WHERE YOU Like 'Hurricane%'
4: if (forest.Unrest== true && trees.Trouble == true) maples.formUnion();
5: if (sprit.HasVision) { dream.HasMission = true} ;
6: for (int i=1; i<=4; i++) { assert(i.ToString() + " banana" } assert("Tra la la");
7: case (name == "love"): break;
8: if (!preacher.Son) !me.Reach();
9: if (you.Ready) { me.Ready = true; }
10: if (DateTime.Now.Hour == 5) { somewhere == true};
11: me.IsTooSexy(shirt) == true; me.IsTooSexy(milan) == true; me.IsTooSexy(NY) == true;
12: while (you.Breathe && you.Move) { me.DoWatch(you); }
13: you.GetOut(dreams); you.GetIn(car); me.Say(Yeah);
14: double money = 0; ArrayList chicks = new ArrayList(); foreach (chick in chicks) { chick.cost = money; }
15: if (me.Sing(!tune)) { you.WalkOut(me); }
16: leaves.color = #8B4513; sky.color == #A9A9A9; if (season == "Winter) { me.Dreaming(California);}
17: baby.color = #000000; me.feeling.color = #0000FF;
18: girl.dress.color = #000000; me.feeling.color = #0000FF;
19: me.GimmeThat(FiletOFish); me.GimmeThat(Fish);
20: if (!you) { me.Hear(birds) = false; }
21: debris.Contains(car); car.color = #DC143C; car.fireEngine(); foreach(Tire tire in car.Tires) { tire.SpitGravel(); };
22: ElderlyWoman.SetLocation(Pasadena);
23: if (DateTime.Now.Hour >= 9 && DateTime.Now.Hour <= 5) person.Working;
24: div id="oldOakTree" style = "color: #FAFAD2;">ribbon /div> (one < style="font-size:78%;">
There you have it. 24 reasons why I love my wife.
answer key... if I know the title I'll write it, if I don't I'll write the lyric... unless I can't figure it out, then we'll have to hope Mrs P adds a comment.
1: Knock three times by Tony Orlando
2: Forever Young by... Rod Stewart but he didn't write that one, did he?
3: Rock You Like a Hurricane in SQL by The Scorpions
4: The Trees by Rush (I would marry her all over again just for that)
5: Mission by Rush (I would marry her all over again for that one too)
6: The Banana Splits Theme. Absolute Genius!
7: Stop in the Name of Love by The Supremes.
8: Son of a Preacher Man (is that the title?) by Dusty Springfield (I think? Yes)
9: I'm Ready by Allison Weiss. A massive twitter user's song gets tweeted in code.
10: It's five o'clock somewhere.
11: I'm Too Sexy... Right Said Fred? Was that their name?
12: Every Breath You Take by The Police.
13: Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car by some one whose name I forget. Billy Ocean?
14: Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Freakin Brilliant!
15: A Little Help from My Friends by The Beatles. (I would marry her again for that one as well)
16: California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas. Pure #songsincode Gold!
17: Baby's in Black by The Beatles (another worthy of marrying all over again)
18: This one I don't know... girl in a black dress makes me blue. hmmmm
19: Gimme that Filet o Fish jingle. I wife is the most amazing person ever to exist among humans.
20: Till There Was You as done by The Beatles. Our wedding dance.
21: Red Barchetta by Rush. (do I have to tell you'd I'd remarry her for this? I would)
22: Little Old Lady from Pasadena.
23: Working 9 to 5.
24: Book ending with Tony Orlando... Tie a Yellow Ribbon.
One of the top 10 trending topics was #songsincode. Song lyrics written in source code. She ate it for lunch. She was so good at it that after a little while she had two or three people telling her how awesome her posts were and she was being retweeted left and right.
Here's what she posted. (I hope she doesn't mind being retweeted outside of twitter. hehe)
1: int acceptKnock= 3; int deniedKnock= 2; if (wantsMe) assert("Knock " + acceptKnock.ToString() + " times on the ceiling");
2: do { document.write("young") };
3: SELECT * FROM ROCK WHERE YOU Like 'Hurricane%'
4: if (forest.Unrest== true && trees.Trouble == true) maples.formUnion();
5: if (sprit.HasVision) { dream.HasMission = true} ;
6: for (int i=1; i<=4; i++) { assert(i.ToString() + " banana" } assert("Tra la la");
7: case (name == "love"): break;
8: if (!preacher.Son) !me.Reach();
9: if (you.Ready) { me.Ready = true; }
10: if (DateTime.Now.Hour == 5) { somewhere == true};
11: me.IsTooSexy(shirt) == true; me.IsTooSexy(milan) == true; me.IsTooSexy(NY) == true;
12: while (you.Breathe && you.Move) { me.DoWatch(you); }
13: you.GetOut(dreams); you.GetIn(car); me.Say(Yeah);
14: double money = 0; ArrayList chicks = new ArrayList(); foreach (chick in chicks) { chick.cost = money; }
15: if (me.Sing(!tune)) { you.WalkOut(me); }
16: leaves.color = #8B4513; sky.color == #A9A9A9; if (season == "Winter) { me.Dreaming(California);}
17: baby.color = #000000; me.feeling.color = #0000FF;
18: girl.dress.color = #000000; me.feeling.color = #0000FF;
19: me.GimmeThat(FiletOFish); me.GimmeThat(Fish);
20: if (!you) { me.Hear(birds) = false; }
21: debris.Contains(car); car.color = #DC143C; car.fireEngine(); foreach(Tire tire in car.Tires) { tire.SpitGravel(); };
22: ElderlyWoman.SetLocation(Pasadena);
23: if (DateTime.Now.Hour >= 9 && DateTime.Now.Hour <= 5) person.Working;
24: div id="oldOakTree" style = "color: #FAFAD2;">ribbon /div> (one < style="font-size:78%;">
There you have it. 24 reasons why I love my wife.
answer key... if I know the title I'll write it, if I don't I'll write the lyric... unless I can't figure it out, then we'll have to hope Mrs P adds a comment.
1: Knock three times by Tony Orlando
2: Forever Young by... Rod Stewart but he didn't write that one, did he?
3: Rock You Like a Hurricane in SQL by The Scorpions
4: The Trees by Rush (I would marry her all over again just for that)
5: Mission by Rush (I would marry her all over again for that one too)
6: The Banana Splits Theme. Absolute Genius!
7: Stop in the Name of Love by The Supremes.
8: Son of a Preacher Man (is that the title?) by Dusty Springfield (I think? Yes)
9: I'm Ready by Allison Weiss. A massive twitter user's song gets tweeted in code.
10: It's five o'clock somewhere.
11: I'm Too Sexy... Right Said Fred? Was that their name?
12: Every Breath You Take by The Police.
13: Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car by some one whose name I forget. Billy Ocean?
14: Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Freakin Brilliant!
15: A Little Help from My Friends by The Beatles. (I would marry her again for that one as well)
16: California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas. Pure #songsincode Gold!
17: Baby's in Black by The Beatles (another worthy of marrying all over again)
18: This one I don't know... girl in a black dress makes me blue. hmmmm
19: Gimme that Filet o Fish jingle. I wife is the most amazing person ever to exist among humans.
20: Till There Was You as done by The Beatles. Our wedding dance.
21: Red Barchetta by Rush. (do I have to tell you'd I'd remarry her for this? I would)
22: Little Old Lady from Pasadena.
23: Working 9 to 5.
24: Book ending with Tony Orlando... Tie a Yellow Ribbon.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
This Video Talks About Me
How many bloggers? Did I mention I found new trash barrels at Home Depot and they are nice? hehe
I am the inspiration for this video!
C'Mon and inflate this red head's ego some more!
I am the inspiration for this video!
C'Mon and inflate this red head's ego some more!
C#
I have a degree in Computer Science. I am a programmer. When some one can't figure out how our application works I look directly at the code and tell them step by step what it does. I also have some nice tools that allow me to track data values as they are being operated on so that when a value is entered into the system and comes out as something unexpected or possibly even incorrect, I can track through and see where the fruitiness happens.
My beautiful wife is a Software Engineer. A really good one. If we worked in the same company she would be the one actually writing the application that my group uses. She'd be the brains behind it all.
When I was at Middlesex Community College my classes primarily used the programming language called C. I also spent one semester touching on C++ and another touching on Java. At UMass Lowell again most of the programming courses used C. One semester used C++. My senior project courses, 2 semesters, used a number of different things here and there including HTML, javascript, and Java Swing. There was also a little bit of lex and yak in a database class along with a little SQL, and one horrible semester's worth of Scheme. (a shudder of horror just went down my spine)
When I started my job all of that went out the window. The company I work for uses it's own language, it's own database, it's own operating system (in one of the platforms I work on), it's own email client, it's own word processor, it's own calendar/schedule program, it's own everything.
After a few years all of the language syntaxes and conventions and structures along with a lot of the design techniques I'd worked on in school were pretty much gone.
Then I met my wife. (Hi Jen!)
A lot of what I had done in school was already becoming obsolete when I graduated and Jen had already moved beyond it into new and better things. We had talked a lot about maybe trying to figure out a project that we could work on for fun that would have the side effect of keeping her skills sharp away from the office, and letting me see some of the cool stuff that has come along since I left school. Win/Win as far as I can see. Add to that the fact that we are very much two computer nerds who are inseparable and would enjoy nothing more than to sit side by side with a couple of computers hammering out geekiness for other people's online consumption. Wouldn't every married couple see that as a honkin' good time? If they don't then they should get the sticks out of their asses and do it.
Last night we finally got around to it. We have a couple of vague ideas for the overall project we want to work on. Maybe something social for families, or maybe something to catalog your DVD/CD collection. Maybe even simple things like a website for my father's tax business. Who knows what we'll end up with.
The first step, however, is getting me back up to speed using current tools. We started with Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net. I had used Visual Studio 6.0, but the next version after that was the first version of .Net and it changed everything. I was very much lost poking around the development environment, but Jen cleared up what I need to get by for now.
We also played with a language that was totally new for me, C#. It is an object oriented programming language that I had never looked at before. C++ and Java are both object oriented too, so conceptually it wasn't new to me, but I still had to dig the correct terminology out of the deep recesses of my memory, and get back into the swing of writing source code in a language that allows white space again.
We didn't do anything terribly useful for anything other than a teaching tool. We defined a class that defines a person and then defined a second class that defines a student which inherits the properties of a person. Simple stuff, but I hadn't used that portion of my brain in something like seven years. It was nice to brush a little dust off, and it was fun playing techie with my sweetie.
She wants to get into ASP .Net tonight. Server side programming. That's a new one for me. I've done some web stuff using HTML and javascript and even a tiny bit of XML but it was all client side. I'm looking forward to the next lesson. Believe it or not, dorky stuff like this is fun.
My beautiful wife is a Software Engineer. A really good one. If we worked in the same company she would be the one actually writing the application that my group uses. She'd be the brains behind it all.
When I was at Middlesex Community College my classes primarily used the programming language called C. I also spent one semester touching on C++ and another touching on Java. At UMass Lowell again most of the programming courses used C. One semester used C++. My senior project courses, 2 semesters, used a number of different things here and there including HTML, javascript, and Java Swing. There was also a little bit of lex and yak in a database class along with a little SQL, and one horrible semester's worth of Scheme. (a shudder of horror just went down my spine)
When I started my job all of that went out the window. The company I work for uses it's own language, it's own database, it's own operating system (in one of the platforms I work on), it's own email client, it's own word processor, it's own calendar/schedule program, it's own everything.
After a few years all of the language syntaxes and conventions and structures along with a lot of the design techniques I'd worked on in school were pretty much gone.
Then I met my wife. (Hi Jen!)
A lot of what I had done in school was already becoming obsolete when I graduated and Jen had already moved beyond it into new and better things. We had talked a lot about maybe trying to figure out a project that we could work on for fun that would have the side effect of keeping her skills sharp away from the office, and letting me see some of the cool stuff that has come along since I left school. Win/Win as far as I can see. Add to that the fact that we are very much two computer nerds who are inseparable and would enjoy nothing more than to sit side by side with a couple of computers hammering out geekiness for other people's online consumption. Wouldn't every married couple see that as a honkin' good time? If they don't then they should get the sticks out of their asses and do it.
Last night we finally got around to it. We have a couple of vague ideas for the overall project we want to work on. Maybe something social for families, or maybe something to catalog your DVD/CD collection. Maybe even simple things like a website for my father's tax business. Who knows what we'll end up with.
The first step, however, is getting me back up to speed using current tools. We started with Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net. I had used Visual Studio 6.0, but the next version after that was the first version of .Net and it changed everything. I was very much lost poking around the development environment, but Jen cleared up what I need to get by for now.
We also played with a language that was totally new for me, C#. It is an object oriented programming language that I had never looked at before. C++ and Java are both object oriented too, so conceptually it wasn't new to me, but I still had to dig the correct terminology out of the deep recesses of my memory, and get back into the swing of writing source code in a language that allows white space again.
We didn't do anything terribly useful for anything other than a teaching tool. We defined a class that defines a person and then defined a second class that defines a student which inherits the properties of a person. Simple stuff, but I hadn't used that portion of my brain in something like seven years. It was nice to brush a little dust off, and it was fun playing techie with my sweetie.
She wants to get into ASP .Net tonight. Server side programming. That's a new one for me. I've done some web stuff using HTML and javascript and even a tiny bit of XML but it was all client side. I'm looking forward to the next lesson. Believe it or not, dorky stuff like this is fun.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Happy Birthday Ginger Baker cont... cont...
And another one. These are the only three songs from this shoot that I know of. Are there more?
Happy Birthday Ginger Baker
The British invasion is starting to reach their 70's. Today is Cream/Blind Faith drummer Ginger Baker's 70th birthday.
Happy Birthday Ginger!
Happy Birthday Ginger!
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