2007 November

So today we went to Lenscrafters and J and D pressured me into buying new glasses. Not a damn thing wrong with the old ones, but they insist I need to be more stylish.
So I go through the eye tests:
- They make me read letters. Okay, I knew that one was coming.
- They shoot air [...]

Some of you will recall the Compact Fridge I was planning to buy. Well, I bought one. It wasn’t one of the aforementioned models, but it’s close enough. I got a pretty decent deal at $125. I’ve placed it directly to my right, as you can see in the CGI image to the right (Pic [...]

Last time we spoke regarding my intermittent Internet connectivity issues through Comcast, we were waiting for an LMC escalation to occur from any of the Contact Line ASAP Customers on my Node. Lo and behold, I ended up being the one to complain.
I called Call Center Supervisor Kieth when my connection dropped this afternoon. In [...]

Man, I gotta come up with some better titles; that one sounded almost profane.
So, Google has done some serious revamping of their Webmasters’ tools. Used to be all I could see was which pages they had indexed and how many clicks they sent me. Hell, I could tell that with a quick Google query and [...]

So, today I watched a Korean movie called “The Host “. However, the Korean name translates to “Monster”… Why the name was changed when they did the voiceovers, I couldn’t tell you. From what I can tell, it was supposed to be a horror/comedy movie, but I think I’ll file this one under “Sci Fi” [...]

I ordered a sub yesterday from SS Subs, a popular sub sandwich restaurant that offers delivery until 2PM. Two things about this really bothered me - The first was, who stops delivering at 2PM? The greatest demand for delivered fast food is ~5PM-10PM, extending to 2AM on weekends.
I can’t count the number of times when [...]

This Thursday I’m planning to pick up a new mini-fridge for the lab; haven’t had one since two apartments ago. Currently I’m considering the Haier 2.7 cu ft Compact Combo Fridge for the low price of what I make in 2.8 hours.
Looks like it can hold nearly a week’s worth of Mountain dew, plus ice [...]

Sunday at 3AM, I finished some bugfixes and pushed code to test. Apparently Test was unprepared for it and flew off the handle as a result.
Tester Lead: “There was a code drop at 3 AM last night!”
Dev Mgr: “So?”
Tester Lead: “Don’t you think that’s a little unusual?”
Dev Mgr: “Well, try as I might, I just [...]

Last I heard from Comcast, I was being considered for Contact Line ASAP pending an escalation to LMC. There was to be some deliberation and I was to be contacted within 24-48 hours of Thursday 2PM.
48 Hours passed, and I called to check. No progress had been noted on the account. Finally today (Sunday at [...]

I came across this image from a link at Channel9, a popular Microsoft-hosted .NET programming forum. You can download it here, but be warned the picture measures 4096×4096 pixels.
Finally, an image large enough that I could scale it across my eight-foot-wide desktop without much pixelation. I cropped out a 4096×512px area over North America and [...]