Month: April 2005
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pop, pop, pop, like x86 popcorn
Project Stack: Last night I got the LCD working, with essentially zero memory requirements (okay, 80 colums * 25-ish lines = 2000 bytes…even a PIC has that much) …whee, realtime character generator in software. Stick-On-Fridge Server Monitor, here we go :-) Also mostly-built the ghetto-blastification boxsubwoofer enclosure I mentioned in…well, the early days of this…
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Ouching^999, self-defenestration, and things not to say to a nurse
I went down about 11-something tonight to pick up a friend from the emergency room. Anyway, it turns out that if you’re a patient, and say something about being in so much pain you wanna jump out the window, even if you don’t mean it, you’re not leaving anytime soon. Out at 4-ish with a…
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Dude, Joe, you are needing therapy.
Session Start (AIM – Me:TheAssWhosBeenHarassingMeForThreeYears): Wed Apr 27 23:12:58 2005 [23:12] TAWBHMFTY: u fucking cock [23:13] TAWBHMFTY: i should beat ur ass [23:13] Me: who the fuck might this be? [23:13] *** Me wants to directly connect. [23:13] *** TAWBHMFTY declines request; no connection was made. [23:14] TAWBHMFTY: u can call me Murderous-Maximus [23:14] Me:…
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TTCI, pt2
(There was somethin’ in the city that he said he couldn’t breathe And there was somethin’ in the country that he said he couldn’t leave) As laid-back and beautiful as it was, it also seemed kind of.. too small, dead-end and going nowhere fast. I don’t know why I’m thinking in the context of Places…
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The air in the lab was filled with stars and spirals and crudely-drawn ringed planets and exclamation points.
I’m in the cheapest motel in Pueblo, sprawled out lazily on a bed enjoying some free wireless and pounding out some perl scripts to analyze and reduce some gigs’ worth data I don’t have yet, with some random sporting event on the TV in the background and my roommate sawing steel logs on the other…
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A surreal day…
Today in the life of Tim: At work, my PM guy abruptly resigned, making me a project manager as of 4:45pm today. Yeeks. I’m going to be managing people, handing out Things To Do and specifications and timelines, and be the guy chewing peoples’ asses when it doesn’t get done. Me + responsibility = a…