Don't tell me I can't do it.

Okay so I'm not planning on mentioning names right now. Well I guess it wouldn't hurt but I don't know if this could ever get read by peoples I wouldn't want reading it.

Anyway, that trip to Detroit was not that exciting but the highlights are thus:

A) Succeeded in pissing off Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#1 by telling them about patent by podunk little interlock company that we don't like.
B) May have succeeded in pounding the concept into Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#2's head that we do not splice wires, nor do we plan to. This also made Competitor-#2 look horrendously bad.
C) Getting told that we can not ever tap into Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#2's CAN bus system in their minivans, in fact we have to use some third party gateway.
D) Nobody actually does any work in the united states anymore. It is all outsourcing, and thus nobody knows how anything works and it takes them forever to integrate it. Then they have to create rules that make our life harder because we know more about their system than they do. Except we're missing the full documentation so have to do things in convoluted ways.

Item C is the major peeve for me and a co-worker. See we've already done the majority of the work associated with said interface. In fact Big-Three-Auto-Maker-#2 doesn't plan on using it until the 2007 model year and we figure we can get it done in 6 months. In fact we feel so confident in our abilities we think we can kick out a gateway even faster than the third party we would have to buy one from.

Somebody should burn in hell.

Read this

Then join me in a moment of libertarian outrage.

I have no words to describe my feelings regarding this issue. Since when did the consitution grant the government the ability to legislate how one could provide a service or write their EULA?

$1790 for a ticket?

So some of you all probably know how much I absolutely adore sports. Yah there was a healthy dose of sarcasm there. So the story is I have to go to Detroit for an hour meeting with ford followed by a meeting with chrysler the very next day.

But lo and behold the pacers and pistons have a playoff game that night.



That purple line is 2.5 miles long.

Can you say madhouse?

Blah....

Sorry nothing exciting today. Just this:

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bryguyh is a radioactive squirrel!!

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From Go-Quiz.com

Sure that's what it means

So Cisco has released that they are currently working on a system to link together current high performance Cisco routers together to create massively paralleled routers that move data faster than ever before.

They've code-named the system HFR, supposedly standing for Huge Fast Router.

Anybody think "Fast" was the word the engineers were thinking of when they came up with the TLA?

I didn't think so either.

Dust to Dust....

So I read an acticle talking about how Microsoft wants to get in on the blogging thing. As I was reading this article I got to thinking that for me to get my work done I notice that I end up turning to the web-browser a lot. In fact Mozilla or IE can be pretty much the sole interface needed for a computer. Every tool you could think of can be found on the web. It harkens back to the day of the command prompt as your sole interface. Now it's the address bar.

I wonder what's next.

Sunday Sunday Sunday

So I got burned by the indiana blue laws again today. See I don't end up going grocery shopping until sunday it seems. So I'm planning on cooking myself some pasta and probably chicken parmasan and it would be really nice to have some wine to go with it. So I was at the store and picked out a nice merlot and was checking out when whammy the cashier reminded me that I live in Indiana.

In honor of that I'll post some of the things you can't do in Indiana:

It is unlawful to dispense alcoholic beverages on Christmas Day. It is also unlawful to dispense alcoholic beverages for "carry-out" on New Years Day. Furthermore, it is unlawful to dispense alcoholic beverages on Primary, General Election, or Special Election Days within the precincts where the special election is being conducted while the polls are open (see attached rule). (IC 7.1-5-10-1)

Monday - Saturday, the legal hours for the dispensing of alcoholic beverages are 7:00AM to 3:00AM (IC 7.1-3-1-14). Sunday sales begin at 12:00 noon and end at 12:30AM (for premises with Sunday permits) Those businesses possessing Sunday permits who are Hotels or have been ATC-approved for "Limited Separation" (IC 7.1-3-1-12(c)) may dispense alcoholic beverages on Sunday starting at 11:00AM and ending at 12:30AM (local prevailing time).
Retailer permittees may allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages for a period of thirty minutes after the legal dispensing hours only if the alcoholic beverages to be consumed were purchased and received by the consumer before the applicable times (see above hours) to stop the dispensing of alcoholic beverages. After this thirty minute period, all containers that have previously had alcoholic beverages in them must be cleared from the tables, counters, bars, etc. (905 IAC 1-10-1)

I like this one a lot:

It is a criminal offense to sell or furnish alcoholic beverages to an intoxicated person. In addition, the provider may experience cival liabilities if death or injury, even to a third party, occurs as a result of the act. (IC 7.1-5-10-15)

War III

So I was playing a little warcraft III on battle.net tonight and I came across something very sleazy. So there was this dude (RNu-LordZeebler if you want to beat him up too) that after a very very failed peon rush on my base (I very nearly have my undead sequence perfect for the first oh 5 minutes) he would pause the game, claiming that his dad wanted him to mow the lawn.

First problem, I'm on a us-east server. It was 11pm Chicago time meaning that the sun was well down. So I figure he's trying to get the win by me getting annoyed and leaving. So I hit resume, he yells at me saying he needs to mow the lawn...oh and get gas with his dad. At this point in time I was getting really annoyed and there was no way I was going to give up the win just so I wouldn't have to deal with the turd. I proceeded to tell him what I thought he was up to. He's like no dude I wouldn't do anything like that at all. So I told him that in 15 minutes if didn't say anything I was going to resume the game and nuke him.

So he's still trying to pretend to need to mow the lawn and 15 minutes go by at which point he comes back and asks if I'm around. I of course know what he's thinking so I don't respond. He asks again, resumes the game then quickly repauses. He asks if I'm around again and then a fourth time. He then resumes again and starts moving troops towards my base. He of course just burned his three timeouts so I came up from behind his base and proceeded to lay waste to it while he was protesting how cheap the tactic was despite me informing him that he resumed the game when I wasn't around.

Dweeb.

I felt righteous in my smiteage.

Phases

Okay so I seriously think I have a problem with one of the phases the power company has hooked up to my house since only a couple circuits from time to time stop working. However now my dryer doesn't work and the phase hasn't come back in several hours. So I guess I'll finally be getting my ass in gear and upgrading to 200A service this next week.

(Cause the breaker box looks awfull and instead of having them come see it I'll just have them disconnect, then I'll do all the wiring and when 'they hook it back up if I still have a phase missing then it means the problem is up at the transformer)

*Update*

Turns out that the wires feeding my breaker pannel are like a hop and a jump away from totally coroding away and why the one phase is going out is because it is loose in the terminal block. Very uncool, so taking an insulated screwdriver to tighten things up just seemed to break off little bits of wire and shoot sparks everywhere....very very ummmmmm.... cool for a spectator, but I'm not a fan of sparks. So while I've been meaning to do it for a while, I could very well end up upgrading that monday.

...never there

Why do I see your face behind the wheel of every car?
Why do I see you in every person I see out of the corner of my eye?

Awesomeness

New Computer!!!!! New Computer!!!!! New Computer!!!!! New Computer!!!!!


More information will be provided tomorrow when I'm done with the IPC-A-610 Training CRAP!

Welcome to Hell

Okay so I thought last week sucked. This week is so going to suck worse.

BBQ

Okay I haven't posted any of my favorite lyrics recently so I don't feel bad about this post. This song is by the 2 Skinnee J's and is called BBQ. Actually they played my school once, my friend's band Citizen's Arrest openned for them. But for some reason summer made me think of it.

Lets get this party started,
I've got the gas grilled started.
I wanna see your weenie shrivel
I wanna see your burgers burnt .
I wanna see you toast your buns,
toast your buns on my deck tonight.
I've got the gas grilled started
so lets get this party started.

Pump up the gas grill
pump it up,
while the flame is jumping.
Pump up the gas grill
pump it up,
BLUE FLAME.

Outside in the backyard,
underneath the trees,
We're gonna grill it up
cuz we've got burgers
we've got weenies.
We got the Aunt May
and the Uncle Bob
we've got
the green peas
and the corn on the cob,
yes the line, the line,
the line is very long
and my brother,
my brother he's a slob.

The food is piping hot,
the beer is icy cold,
the coleslaw’s from the deli
and the Jell-O’s in the mold
Dip your chip in my dip, dip
Dip your chip in my dip,
Dip your chip in my
Dip your chip in my
Dip your chip in my dip, dip

Pump up the gas grill,
get it going ya,
gotta get the propane full
the coals are hot
the mother fucker grills so
pump up the gas grill, get it goin

The citronellas burning,
the refrigerators stocked
and the bug zapper is zapping
So this BBQ will ROCK

all in line
for the beanies and the weenies
yes the line is long
but the portions ain't teeny all
in line for the beanies and the weenies
yes the line is long but the portions ain't teeny

Come on, kick it,
grill it,
I don't care if you spill it cuz we're outside,
we're outside, we're OUTSIDE!

Got the rip ripple chips,
and onion dip
Got the rip ripple chips,
and onion dip
Got the rip ripple chips,
and onion dip
Got the rip ripple chips,
and onion dip
Pump up the gas grill
pump up the gas grill
Toast your buns on my deck tonight
Toast your buns on my deck tonight
Toast your buns on my
Toast your buns on my
Toast your buns on my deck tonight

Weekly Conclusion

So to elaborate on my Tuesday post. This week majorly sucked. But I don't particularly feel up to describing the entire week. I think I may come back and visit this post when I do. I just thought I'd make sure I gave some kind of closure to it.

Space Credits

So lets say you started to mine asteroids and built a shipyard in space to produce spacecraft. What do you do about an economy? Does it need to be Earth based? How do you prevent your company from ending up being like the coal mining or railroad companies of our history?

Email A Letter

You know what's really sad?

I'd be willing to spend 50 cents to send a letter if all I had to do was go to a website, type in a letter, and hit send.

Such a website would be majorly cool, and especially useful for folks like me who find it impossible to keep up handwritten correspondence.

Dear Lord....

Its tuesday? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

This week sucks.

I think it's going to get worse.

I think my brain is going to need to be de-fraged after it.

My computer hasn't shipped yet, so I'm sad.

My $65k student loan payments start this month.

I need to write stuff up for the lawyers to read over to make sure what I'm working on at work is okay.

My registration on my vehicles is up this month.

Oh damn! I just remembered half yearly property taxes are due this month, I hope everything is taken care of in escrow.

I need to find a dry-cleaners I can trust before the end of the month.

1 year, 9 months, and 29 days before it's too late.

Ah... The great outdoors

Bunus points if you know where that quote is from.

So I bought a new computer today, so that way I can play warcraft III more effectively. And where did I purchase said computer? TigerDirect? Buy.com? Dell? Gateway?

The Home Shopping Network

Thats right I bought it from HSN.com. Why? Becuase it was $600 less than Gateway was going to sell it to me for on their site. And it came with a 15" LCD and Lexmark Color printer/scanner. So there is about $300 worth of stuff to sell off which would get me close to paying half price, which is awesome.

What did I get?

A Gateway 901 Media PC

Processor:
3.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 800 Mhz, 512k level 2 cache and hyper-threading technology

Hard Drive:
120 GB Ultra ATA100 7200 rpm hard drive

Memory:
512 MB DDR SD-RAM memory

Optical Drive:
DVD+/-RW +/-R/CD-R/RW recorder all-in-one combo drive (DVD Burner/CD Burner combo drive)

Operating System:
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition

Additional Features & Specifications:

Integrated TV tuner, media center IR remote and receiver
6-in-1 memory card reader for Compact Flash I and II, Multimedia (MMC), Secure Digital (SD), Smart Media and Sony Memory Stick formats
128 MB NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200G with TV output graphics accelerator
4 USB 2.0 (2 in front and 2 in back), 4 IEEE 1394 FireWire, and 1 each 7.1 line out and SPDIFF optical out external ports
Integrated 10/100 ethernet
56K PCI data/fax modem
Gyration wireless keyboard and mouse