Taste of Lexus:
Saturday we went to the Taste of Lexus event at FedEx Field. It was tight.

1. The field is very nice. The situation is much more ideal for fans than Ralph Wilson Stadium.
2. The cars were amazing.

I got to drive the not even new yet IS 350. It was a pretty tight little ride. You can see the video here. That ruled. It is always nice to be able to push a car like that. I now have a bit more confidence in my own car (since it can't push that hard) around turns and stuff. It made driving fun. Makes me want to take up a hobby in racing.

So the food was also very tasty there. It was rich people food so I didn't understand it, but it was super delicious.

I was supposed to go to the Red Sox Orioles game immediatly after the taste of lexus but I decided to stick around and test out the BMW 530 and BMW 330i. They were both nice cars. I am a big fan of the B dubs.

So I went to Baltimore and made the 6th inning on. I missed all of the free food and free beer but whatever. The game was fine. Only 5 innings of baseball is good enough. Steven Long almost got in a fight with some Sox fan. That was weak. The guy was such a blow hard. Went out to Federal Hill in Baltimore and it was cool.

New Job:
Got a new job. Its a networking position on a project called TSAT. It is pre-RFP which is total odd to me. What that means is that it is right up my alley in terms of process and stuff.

My first impression of the job was that I got a schedule with my name on it. So I have deliverables. Anyone who knows my old situation knows that this is a huge step for me.

So the job for now is that I am writing Linux Kernel Modules to do network filtering. Thats fun. I don't know how to do that.

Housewarming:
I'd say it was a large success. People seemed to enjoy themselves and nobody got in any fights.

The one thing that I realized during the party process, is that I seem to have a decent number of friends here. Thats pretty cool. Most of those people I would say went beyond acquaintences so that pretty much rules. I am pleased with that.

I think there were like 40 people there. That ruled.

Poker:
Played some poker with Luke, Jim (Luke's friend), Nirav and Adrian last week. I found that it wasn't quite what I was looking for and I should have taken advantage a little more. Luke and Jim like to play REALLY LOW LIMIT holdem. I thought we played low limit, but they like doing $1 max raise which to me is pretty pointless. We usually do $3 max raise with unlimited re-raising and that seemed to work out ok. With $1 raises, it takes out a gigantic dynamic in the game. That that point you are betting exclusively on who has the highest cards. I didn't like that so much. It seemed to make the game less exciting and dramatic. I didn't ever milk it though. Luke would always fold if anyone raised and I should have capitalized. I didn't. Shoot. Oh well. I learned something new.

Failure of a year:
I was debating weather or not to post this. So I will just list of some goals I had for the past 12 months.

1. No Credit card debt
• um....
  
2. Project finished
• um...
  
3. Success at work]
• ELDP - 12 months later, I'm batting .334

So that is that.

Project update:
Speaking of which. I started doing time trials. The results for DH (switched from RSA) yielded a linear progression until you add multiply 32-bit digits. Now 1 iteration of Key Generation at 2048-bits takes about 4 hours. Good times.

WOW:
Yeah so one of the reasons I haven't been posting is because Joel got World of Warcraft and gave me his 10-day demo. Uh...yeah...I'll see you in about 6 months.....Damn that is a good game. That is a recipe for success right there. 4 million players at $12/month. Wow. Count em for Blizzard.

Thats long enough. I'll comment more later.

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