Ahhh so this weekend was the chap white water event. It was pretty tight. I had never white water rafted before so this was a new thing for me. I enjoyed it. The rapids were anywhere from Class 3 to Class 5 rapids. It was great. There was a picture taken of Kathy that was probably the best picture I have ever seen of her. It was probably the biggest smile I have ever seen of her. I bet I will regret not buying it.
So bonus round.
Turns out that it was Bridge Day at the New River in West Virginia. Yeah that is the one day a year when it is legal to Base Jump off of the New River Bridge. How rad is that? It got me thinking of ways to get into Sky Diving as a hobby. I would love that.
It was just really cool to see that the ENTIRE bridge was lined with spectators. There were cops there and food vendors and all kinds of stuff. I guess you need 50 Solo Skydives among other things. Anyway, we saw some people go like half way down before pulling the chute. Mark said: "I want to go up to that guy and ask him if it is hard to do that with 500lb balls". It was funny. We all laughed.
There were also repellers going down the entire height of the bridge. Dude that must have been Bad ass too.
Anyway, so later in the night we were telling ghost stories. Only they weren't ghost stories. They were movie plot lines. Some of the memorable ones were Face Off, and Back to the Future. Some others were Friday the 13th and Joel's adventures in World of Warcraft. All in all, it was pretty funny.
Monday, October 17, 2005
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Today is the day!
It should be noted that Socom 3 comes out today.
A moment of Silence
<pause>
So I have this presentation to do. I had to wear a suit today to work. Basically, I have to fight off the chicks with a stick. The presentation is at like 3 or something. I'll have to split right after that to go get Socom. I'll play for a few hours then go to Salsa lessons. It should rule!
Also, I had a big day on my project yesterday. I successfully sent data to and from the phone and found out that the phone computations shouldn't take too long. ROCK!
It's been a long time my friend...It's been a long time.
A moment of Silence
<pause>
So I have this presentation to do. I had to wear a suit today to work. Basically, I have to fight off the chicks with a stick. The presentation is at like 3 or something. I'll have to split right after that to go get Socom. I'll play for a few hours then go to Salsa lessons. It should rule!
Also, I had a big day on my project yesterday. I successfully sent data to and from the phone and found out that the phone computations shouldn't take too long. ROCK!
It's been a long time my friend...It's been a long time.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Taste of Lexus:
Saturday we went to the Taste of Lexus event at FedEx Field. It was tight.
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.
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.
Best
Saturday we went to the Taste of Lexus event at FedEx Field. It was tight.
- The field is very nice. The situation is much more ideal for fans than Ralph Wilson Stadium.
- The cars were amazing.
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.
- No Credit card debt
- um....
- Project finished
- um...
- Success at work]
- ELDP - 12 months later, I'm batting .334
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.
Best
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
DC - Deals - Light - Football
Wanted to mention one or two more things that I forgot.
Drumcorps:
How could I forget. Finals is on ESPN2 tonight.
Soaps:
Gotta love slickdeals. Kathy and I went out and got 5 Soap Dispenser things for $0...NO REBATE!! That basically ruled. So I love those slick deal things. I was reading on lifehacker a few weeks back and he mentioned a new one that I had never heard of. It looks like slickdeals gets theirs from this guy. The best part is that they are all RSSable.
ELDPs at the Lighthouse:
Total found out that we are taking a trip down to VA Beach in October to tour our Center for Innovation. It should rule. We got very large hotel rooms. Mark (Bark) says that he was able to get the room with the "Romance" package. Should be hot. I and a few others got the view. Nirav got the "Deluxe" which is just bigger. Which is just an invitation for people to be at his place late at night. HA! Awesome.
FF:
New Strategy with Fantasy Football. I think I am going to look at individual players and based on stats and playing history, I am going to pick the best for the job. So far I am making a list of who to pick. Should be good.
Drumcorps:
How could I forget. Finals is on ESPN2 tonight.
Soaps:
Gotta love slickdeals. Kathy and I went out and got 5 Soap Dispenser things for $0...NO REBATE!! That basically ruled. So I love those slick deal things. I was reading on lifehacker a few weeks back and he mentioned a new one that I had never heard of. It looks like slickdeals gets theirs from this guy. The best part is that they are all RSSable.
ELDPs at the Lighthouse:
Total found out that we are taking a trip down to VA Beach in October to tour our Center for Innovation. It should rule. We got very large hotel rooms. Mark (Bark) says that he was able to get the room with the "Romance" package. Should be hot. I and a few others got the view. Nirav got the "Deluxe" which is just bigger. Which is just an invitation for people to be at his place late at night. HA! Awesome.
FF:
New Strategy with Fantasy Football. I think I am going to look at individual players and based on stats and playing history, I am going to pick the best for the job. So far I am making a list of who to pick. Should be good.
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