Good 'ol livejournal. I don't know why I quit you.

Expect postings later. Right now I have an affiliate program to complete.

<3

I got laid off Tuesday. It's ok though, that job sucked anyways. I'm even sort of glad it happened, because the job made me gripe all the time and I'm sure Amy was just about sick of it. Kudos to Amy for putting up with it for this long <3

This is the plan now:

• Get a job quickly to pay the bills.
• Get a job that will let me go to school and work.
• Go back to school.

I took a practice college mathematics placement test and surprisingly got an 82. This leads me to believe that my prior hatred of math and subsequent ignorance of it were proportional to how bad my teachers were in public school. If you can't show an interest for what you're teaching, regardless of the subject, just don't do it. My Alabama History teacher was awesome, and that class was fucking stupid. Anyways, I'm going to take the prerequisite math courses for the calculus classes first, just to brush up on some stuff that I missed because I was bored out of my skull. It's going to be summer before I can get back in school so that should give me plenty of time to find a good job.

I was listening to Einstein's Relativity Audiobook last night as I fell asleep. I had some of the strangest dreams I've ever had. I won't go into too much detail, but I'll just say it involved bullets, spacetime, and anal sex. Even stranger than the dream I had the other night when Amy busted open my acoustic guitar and there was a twenty pack of Tyson chicken wings inside.

I'll be fine.

 Ruby. On Rails.

I've been hearing the buzz over this for nearly two whole years but I didn't see what all the fuss was about until I actually tried it.
Get this:

PHP
Make the database schema. Make a program and HTML form to put info in. Make a program that pulls it out and prints it. Make a program and HTML form to edit it. Make a program to delete it. Make a program and HTML form to change it.

RoR
Make new ruby application. Make database schema. Make model. Make Controller. Put in one line: scaffold :whatever.


That gets me to the exact same point in the application. That's it. Fully functional. Yeah. I can actually add a few more lines to validate the stuff entered into the form AND display errors if it gets the wrong stuff. YEAH.

I'm going to write my blog using ruby soon. I'm a noob to the whole framework but I'm shooting at one day to get the code working.

They gave Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize.

Suck on that, dubya.

I'm making lolcats. I am as retarded as the rest of the internet.

I've been hacking away at ADOdb all day. I've been trying to get it to connect to the mysql database that is on our shared hosting server. I don't know if it's ADOdb that sucks (not likely) or the stupid shared host's server. They are forcing me to name the database baycompu_<something>1 . WTF.

meh.

Beerfest tomorrow. This weekend is going to kick ass.

I've been working on an application for about three weeks. The disk this application (a brand new 80 gb seagate) is giving me segfaults. I didn't make a backup because I'm stupid. I want to die.

After reading this article, I started to think a lot about evolution of species on Earth, including our own. Panspermia, or the theory that "life began inside comets and then spread to habitable planets across the galaxy", while pretty far out - is actually a pretty good idea. It would answer a lot of questions that I have about evolution on our planet. Take into account the vast variety of lifeforms on this planet. Evolution over millions of years have given us a very wide array of creatures, yet not a one of them is sentient like we are. The generally accepted theory is that we evolved from apes. That's not too hard to believe I guess, but then why are there still apes in the world? Apes, biologically, are very similar to human beings, but what is holding them back? Why can't they talk and think for themselves? How is it that one creature evolved to think and act on something other than pure natural instinct by which all other life on this planet is restricted to? The BBC had an article earlier this year about Chimpanzees using spears to hunt other small primates. Chimpanzees are a perfect picture of evolution at work. They are using tools. Perhaps not long into the future they will utter words, communicate with each other with some kind of vocabulary, if they don't already. Those that would deny evolution are blind to it happening right under their noses.

Panspermia, would be that missing link that evolution needs to work for mankind. The idea that we did not originate on our lovely blue planet would not sit well with some, most religious people would scoff at the idea. I think another important thing to think about is whether we came naturally, in an asteriod as the theory suggests, or could it have not been merely chance, but a deliberate action that put us on this planet?

I feel like being left alone today but I'm being sent on service calls and that sucks. I have to go to some tool's apartment to look at his computer not work and bring it back to the shop. Normally I'd do this without complaining because I would charge his $95 for coming to get it but he's got this "1 free hour of service" coupon so really I'm just getting fucked out of gas money.

I just want to sit here and work on this code. Dealing with people is not cool.

I know you guys know everything about making a good OS ~snicker~, but you seem to have forgotten to include networking support in Vista! I'm sure I can call you and you would tell me to check my connection and stuff but it works because I am totally eljaying right now. The problem is that there are about four computers in this one workgroup that I have been using all day. Now they're gone!

:(

What a strange and wonderful life this is.

Conversation with Symantec Antivirus Support lady:

Me: Hi, I've installed this 5 User Business Pack Antivirus 10.0 and I need to download the key file but your website won't give it to me.

Her: Give me your license number and certificate number off the license certificate.

Me: Ummmm, I can give you a license number but I don't have a certificate number.

Her: The certificate number should be right in the middle of the page.

Me: I'm not seeing it.

Her: That's strange, every certificate has a number on it.

Me: Well mine doesn't.

Her: Ok let's just go back through the online registration together.

(Several steps that I've performed about twenty times to no avail, still no key file)

Her: Ok the number was a capital M -8-8-2-3...

Me: WAIT. Capital M?

Her: Yes, sir. The letters need to be capitalized.

(it works now)

Me: You need to tell your web developers to fix that.

Her: Excuse me?

Me: The people responsible for your website, tell them to validate that form field, it takes like ten seconds.

Her: We've Suggested that before, and they just redid the whole site, and they didn't include that.

Me: Well shoot those guys an email, if they would take care of that it would eliminate a lot of heartache.

Her: Thanks for calling, can I help you with anything else?

Me: No. Bye. <click>

Hey symantec! how's about some strtoupper(); plz? I hate you guys, your product is shitty and yellow is a dumb color.

Today has been super fun so far. Not.
Sallie Mae can go to hell. Fuck those guys.
E-surance is actually pretty cool, if you pretend that their tv commercials don't exist.
I don't know how BC/BS came up with their application but they should be strangled for it.
I miss her.

Monday is a very dangerous day!