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BlogWhile visiting
Ron and Jen for dinner I decided to experiment with a fix for my squeaky shoes. Lately they have been making a noise similar to a duck quack when I walk. My theory is that the rubber layers have separated. The plan was to heat it up till the layers re-fuse again, ending the squeak. With the
help of Ron's butane torch I was able to get it hot enough to stink up his house and half the neighborhood, but the squeaking prevailed. I still think the theory is correct, but to completely refuse the layers will require more burning than would be tolerated in any populated area. In case you've never burned shoe-grade rubber I can confidently tell you it stinks horribly. To celebrate our failure, I decided to consume a full quarter of a German chocolate cake.
While eating out of a bag of baby carrots yesterday I found
this distorted carrot that looked like it had been through hell. I'm theorizing another carrot wrapped around it before it went through the deskinning machine, after which if fell off, never to be found again. After the success of the "
Virgin Mary Sandwich" I decided to try my luck and am currently
selling it on Ebay complete with sappy story. I'm sure this experiment will wind up a non-event just like
project flamingo, but for a 35¢ listing fee it's worth a shot. Wish me luck!
It's been almost
4 months since I properly checked all the software in use on this server, so today I went through and made sure they are all up to date. I have tested everything on this server that I am aware of with these new versions and everything seems to work great. If you run into problems with a project you are running on this server email me with the issue and I'll try to help resolve it. Below are the current versions of all software in use:
| ASP.NET: | 1.1.4322.573 |
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PHP: | 4.3.10 |
| ActivePerl: | 5.8.6.811 |
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ActivePython: | 2.4.0 |
| MySQL: | 4.1.10 |
|
MS SQL | 8.00.760 |
| Win2k3: | 5.2 (Build 3790) |
|
IIS: | 6.0 |
| BmoonFTP: | 2.9.8.1715 |
|
FreeWX: | 2.03 |
Yesterday at 5:30pm Mr. and Mrs. Joseph made their titles official. They have yet to give me photos, so instead I offer
photos of them drunk at my new years party. In addition, I decided to create
this masterpiece which is a representation of thier wedding assuming Stavos, Enorym and I were invited to attend.
Yesterday at work a co-worker was firing rubber bands at me (a common event) when I decided to turn and face him. It was a bad choice since a rubber band was fired at that same instant impacting directly onto my eyeball. The pain was intense enough to make me sick to my stomach, and my tear system was pumping a gallon of water into my eye every hour. After I got the courage to open the affected eye my vision through it was pink and hazy, prompting a call to the doctors. After many comparisons to "Ralphie" from "
A Christmas Story" I was given eye drops and sent on my way. The plus side is I can now register with
WEIR and join their elite club of members. After browsing through their site my injury suddenly seems like a blessing.
All last week I was on the
Carnival Valor crusing around the
eastern caribbean. If you find yourself thinking you need to be fatter and lazier I highly recommend a cruise. It's like a city that floats around from port to port, with all the food you can manage to stuff into your face. Photos:
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3DMark05 Benchmark lastnight and convinced me to run it
on my system. I have an
entire section of my site dedicated to system specifications so it would be against my religion not to run a performance benchmark. I thought I'd fair pretty decently considering my
recent upgrades but after
getting my results I once again confirmed that no matter how current your system is, it's never fast enough. Watching a high-res graphic demo at less than 15 fps brought me back to 1995 when I ran a creative labs demo on my old
IBM PS/2 65sx with similar results. Fortunately back then I was locked into the proprietary micro-channel architecture and an upgrade would have literally cost $1,000. Now with better video cards approaching the $200 mark the temptation is there, with my lack of time for quality gaming as the final boundry that will hopefully keep me in the realm of reality (and budgets).
I
recently installed a weather station at my house and all the streaming data it spits out got me all excited about what to do with it. Ignoring the fact that I'm probably the only one who will actually care about the weather conditions at my house, I forged ahead with my
Automatic Weather Station webpage. Not satisfied, I set a program to send updates to
Weather Underground and created an
XML Version of the weather page. This of course lead to the creation of my
Desktop Weather application to
consume the XML (requires .NET framework). Now that I can visit my webpage, a Weather Underground webpage, and have the temperature on my desktop I can finally rest.
Over a
foot of snow fell lastnight getting me all giddy to go for a drive in it. Fortunately I didn't have long to wait.
Duane called requesting assistance with his car which had blown a fuse and I was off. The nice thing about a foot of snow on a Saturday is that the timid tend to stay off the roads leaving me free to play. After assisting I returned to find that Missy had already blown off the driveway. To show her how much I appreciated it I made her videotape me doing drifts at an unnamed parking lot. With my snow fun satisfied for the day, we were off to see the homoerotic play 'RENT' with some friends. Getting lost in Detroit during winterfest before the play put us in the right mood for the perormance. Afterwards I returned to find
PlasmaTeam waiting at my house for web assistance and general brohaha. So ended my day of snow.
I recently started renting my old house, Beta (see
Alpha/Beta classifications). Saturday night, during part 2/2 of the
Jan LAN party I got a call from
Stavos alerting me that there were two cop cars, a fire truck and an ambulance parked in front of Beta. Concerned, but not alarmed, I decided I would ask my renters about it today while I'm installing cabinet doors for them. After emaling the renters about the time I would arrive today I found out the reason for the emergency vehicles. Apparently a homeless person had stopped in my neighbors front yard and succumbed to the cold. The renters in my house found the man and called the ambulance and police.
Here is the news article. A very horrible experience both for the gentleman that died as well as my renters who found him.
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