Published on October 17, 2007
in Memes.
TAGGED!
Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, facts, habits, or goals about yourself. At the end choose 10 people to be tagged, listing their names and why you chose them. Don’t forget to leave them a comment (you’re it) and to read your blog. You can’t tag the person who tagged you. Since you can’t tag me back, let me know when you’ve posted your blog so I can see your answers.
- I still write music now and then.
- I have a blue-tip (almost full blue) belt in TKD. I can kick your ass in Korean and English ;).
- My favorite music has bag-pipes.
- I’m the founder of the Berkshire Linux Users Group.
- I live in MA but am still a 3 hour drive from Boston (Mind boggling, isn’t it?).
- I’ve named all my personal computers after various gods of dischord, chaos, and change: Loki, Pan, Eris, Tyr, Enki, and Coyote.
All my employer’s servers are named after Final Fantasy summons: Asura, Shiva, Ifrit, Ramuh, Valfor, Phoenix, Firebird, Titan, Hydra (ok not a summon, but it’s really ten machines acting like one, so the name fit), Golem, and Carbunkle.
- I really love to play Go, even though I’m not that great at it (19 kyu).
I’m part of the Northern Berkshire Game (Design) Group (link). We play and make up games. It’s cool!
- Books that have changed me: Recently: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance by Robert Pirsig and Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman. When I was a kid: Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini.
- I work from my home for a bunch of bodybuilders. Sortof ;)
- I’m working on getting Italian citizenship jure sanguinis. That means because my Great-Grandparents were born there they’ll recognize I’m still Italian (hopefully). I’m waiting on some very slow searches to finish, but then once the paperwork is done I’ll be a Dual Citizen.
The next victims of this malicious meme:
- Jen - Because I love to share the love
- Sarah and
- Rachael - Because even though you’re my sisters, I still don’t know enough about you :)
- Pip - Because I’ve lost track of him, and want to know what’s up
- Seth - Because he’s hilarious
- Jeff - Because I really don’t talk to my friends enough
- Joe - Did I mention I don’t talk enough?
- Neal - Because even though I know he won’t do it, I had to try ;)
- Brannon - Because he never blogs about himself
- Bryan - Because he seems a likely target for meme crossfire ;)
Published on January 20, 2005
in Computar.
So I spent way too much time last night trying to fix my inlaws’ computer. In the process I managed to break my desktop. I’m pretty pissed and annoyed overall. I hope blug can help us out with some testers / spare parts or something. I’m probably going to have to buy a new CPU for our computer. Maybe an ATX power supply tester too. We’ll see. :P
I don’t know why, but today was a total burnout. I did manage to finish the promotions engine though, so yay. I’m not looking forward to bitching at the Blug member tonight, but it will be nice to leave the house :)
Sometimes looking at other people’s lists of accomplishments motivates me. Other times it really depresses me thinking I could never catch up. Today was the latter.
Trying to organize the Berkshire Linux Expo is really hard when members don’t get off their butts and work. I’m pretty upset about one lug member’s failure to send the notes he took on to the list, like I ensured he knew was important during the meeting. Due to his failure to cooperate, we’ve now lost 2 valuable advertising weeks, and might have to push back the Expo. Moreover, far too much hinges on this one member’s follow through. He controls access to the building, and (as of last week) he is supposed to give one of the two vital presentations.
Certainly he won’t be secretary again. He’s consistently failed to perform his duties as required. I’m going to see how things work out tonight as to whether or not he’ll still do the presentation.
Finally got my server back on line, now with new hardware and a working serial cable connection! Also, powercycling now dosen’t leave the machine in an ‘off’ state, so it should be safe to leave there. Knock on wood though.
Work is going ok, trying to finish this new store by the end of the week, but the longish weekend in MD has thrown me off track. As of now, I need to finish the promotions engine, then do the standard actions to fill in the jsp pages. After that, I’ll get into testing. Hopefully that will go well (more knocking), then I’ll release it to dev. Matt can then test, then (again, assuming things work) we’ll finally publish the damn thing. I’ll be able to move onto more exciting things! woo! and we’ll have a working, maintainable, non-crashing store! yay.
Next (big thing) up on work agenda is learning actionscript. I’m looking forward to this, and I have a pretty neat idea of a project to get up to speed with - there was this game we played last week at game group that I think would be simple enough to implement. Its original title was ‘42′ but we subsequently renamed it ‘mondrian’ and then ‘gerrymander’. You’ll see why if I ever put it together :).
Anyway, enough procrastinating. Better hunker down back to work.
