tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39689052024-02-28T16:32:19.289-06:00THE MISFIRING NEURONAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-81986712009889248332010-10-13T21:45:00.002-05:002010-10-13T22:11:07.158-05:00First day at the office was wonderful. It's probably just due to the fact that everything is different. I love the more modern looking office. I actually, for now, enjoy the nicer dress code. I love the opportunity to learn a lot in a short time frame, and a lack of distractions in the way.We haven't quite worked out all the Feng Shui of the office Josh and I share. I haven't figured out howAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-28720792001951166912010-10-12T22:07:00.003-05:002010-10-12T22:30:32.658-05:00Today I had an encounter with greatness. Not a life altering one, not God style greatness, just pragmatic and capitalistic greatness. I called Apple technical support.I've only had my Macbook Pro for about 1 month now, and for the first 3 weeks, it functioned flawlessly, as I had hoped. As I sit and type on it from home, it continues to amaze me in its simple, elegant functionality and beauty.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-52034855083696354832010-10-02T13:56:00.005-05:002010-10-05T21:53:25.588-05:00We went to see The Social Network this weekend with the 4's and Matty. This movie got me thinking, and reading, about the value of ideas. Jeff Atwood's post regarding this is one of my favorites. I feel like I agree, and although I probably suffer from at least a bit of the American obsession with coming up with "the next big idea", I think my priority right now needs to be on perfecting my Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-39246583780777057802010-09-29T18:56:00.003-05:002010-10-01T11:16:42.026-05:00So this week I've started the transition from the only job I've had since graduation to my first full time developer position. My job with MTSI has been awesome, and I've really enjoyed working with such a large group of friends, with flexibility and low stress for a majority of my stay.What I feel has been missing has been challenge and accountability. While I love the fact that my input Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-46824106506765877862010-09-23T22:00:00.002-05:002010-09-23T22:47:17.928-05:00Stack overflow had the first piece of the puzzle, one I'm still putting together one piece at a time. 32 bit to 64 bit conversion is proving to be quite difficult, especially since I was heavily relying on the class we downloaded to enumerate and connect to our HID. It's time spent learning, and working on code, which I always appreciate.I was also approached today, in regards to one of my Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-77720128738737762482010-09-22T19:20:00.002-05:002010-09-22T19:39:40.716-05:00A lot is happening, and yet there's a lot of waiting. Today was more of the same. I confirmed today that the USB panic button software is not working on 64-bit Windows, which is becoming a larger share of our clients with Windows 7, especially since most of our clients skipped Vista altogether. Late in the day I found a Stackoverflow question that seems to have the exact answer I need, though Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-15591728674574684382010-09-20T22:10:00.002-05:002010-09-20T22:21:12.809-05:00Ever since having Jacob, I've noticed I'm about a million times more sensitive to all the smarmy moments in movies and shows involving kids. Brooke and I have both noticed this, all the more ridiculous in the case of District 9, where the involved father and son were aliens. All the same, nearly cried. Don't remember being emotional about The Patriot until I saw it on tv again recently. His Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-35145081918681853882010-09-19T09:49:00.002-05:002010-09-19T10:05:17.029-05:00Months later, though I love my iPad, I have decided that I certainly can do some real work on the iPad, have had opportunity on a business trip to do so, and also that I most definitely do not want to. So I bought a MacBook Pro, with the full intent of using it primarily for .NET development.As with many of my stubborn ideas, this one also brings up quite a few questions, such as why on earth Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-79787725226042113652010-04-16T15:29:00.003-05:002010-04-16T15:45:20.548-05:00The more I work with the iPad, the more I'm impressed with it's capabilities. I've installed plants vs zombies, and I think it shows incredible promise as a gaming platform (all the better because Brooke is more addicted than me), and sketchpad HD shows it's also got great potential as an artistic tool, and could do wonders with basic photo editing and diagramming. Right now I'm contemplating Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-48365185562362726132010-04-12T21:59:00.002-05:002010-04-12T22:08:34.018-05:00New post from the iPad, my first attempt to type anything on the touch screen. It's annoying to have to change menus just to put in an apostrophe, but with the intelligent spell correction, it's not that hard to type much faster than on my iPod.To say that my motivations for getting the iPad were entirely practical would be a bit of a stretch, but so far I'm quite impressed with the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-92115856087256884382009-10-25T22:02:00.003-05:002009-10-25T22:25:30.197-05:00Linux changed my life todayI'm not even joking. This weekend was full of confusing thoughts and life evaluations. I went to work on a project with my life group (church people) to help renovate a room for an elderly couple who were friends with one of the newer members of our group. The project took about 15 hours, was one of the most grueling experiences of my life, and ended up being a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-10456022473871958252009-10-19T21:41:00.002-05:002009-10-19T21:56:15.812-05:00Coders At Work by Peter SeibelThis is an absolutely amazing book. I'm only about 100 pages in, and I'm hooked. It's a collection of interviews with 15 high profile programmers in recent history, and it's motivation to become a better programmer, and inspiration on the things I want my son to see and experience growing up. It's a great history lesson to hear how some of the great contributors Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-28345169770671100842009-05-22T10:29:00.005-05:002009-05-22T12:13:20.878-05:00It feels so good to finally finish the car project. When there's an overall feeling that life is out of your control, aided by a lawn that has grown to epic proportions while your garage looks like a car bomb went off, you're low on sleep and have a baby who just learned that crying beats sleeping 9 out of 10 times in a recent baby survey, just getting to check one thing off feels like maybe it Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-37238834806453114782009-05-20T09:46:00.003-05:002009-05-20T09:57:26.049-05:00The hard part is done! I took my time and used some silicone gasket maker stuff to put the rear housing onto the new transmission, greased all the appropriate bearings and surfaces, and figured why not try putting the thing up in there by myself.So I got out my floor jack, jack stands, and proceeded for nearly an hour to do it the half-right way (I'm supposing here the right way is to use a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-6719861882898500162009-05-19T08:10:00.003-05:002009-05-19T08:31:50.056-05:00After missing several autocross events due to having a baby and all that goes with it, I went ahead and put my new Dunlop Star Shines on in anticipation of the next event. This was a good thing as I had passed the wear bars and then some on all four of my Azenis, and inspection is due this month. On the way home I noticed some faint clicking sounds, leading me to believe the guy who put the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-53183622141189949872009-05-15T13:59:00.005-05:002009-05-15T16:35:01.550-05:00In an attempt to write more, and in so doing perhaps become better at it, I'm trying my hand at writing using my new toy, the iPod touch. I don't like the fact that I can't very easily add pictures since the iPod doesn't have a camera, but now that I've figured out that the iPod guesses what you're typing even when you fat finger it, I'm compelled to try writing on it.I've always loved gadgets Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-42832125872383388922009-01-22T22:01:00.002-06:002009-01-22T22:16:09.595-06:00Today was rather boring, which sounds bad to me right now because I feel like I should have somehow seized some opportunity and made it awesome. I had to wake up at like 4 to drive in to Connecticut to fly to Baltimore to drive to Hanover, PA. Which was all done by like 11 this morning, but like a loser, I hung out at a Starbucks in a mall fielding phone calls from work, and then took a nap at Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-35539742826994626932008-10-22T20:51:00.006-05:002008-10-22T21:54:07.992-05:00Lafayette was everything I'd hoped it'd be and more, which isn't saying much since I expected a po-dunk Louisiana town. The hotel was more of a disappointment than I'd expected, looking like something out of a horror movie, but with all the friendliness and charm of middle America.I enjoyed an early dinner thanks to the generosity of my boss sending me in early to enjoy the Cajun cuisine, and I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-30524817762610271862008-10-21T08:19:00.003-05:002008-10-21T10:48:30.268-05:00Lest there every be any confusion, I love dogs. I think I've always loved dogs, or at least always felt an affinity for them, and after bringing Dexter home, interacting with all the other dogs at the dog park, and seeing my wife become a dog lover, too, it's become part of who I am. We now watch every dog show that comes on TV, we recently made a trip to Tyler and stayed longer so we could go Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-4324564620396659212008-10-20T08:06:00.011-05:002008-10-20T11:02:08.760-05:00This weekend we had an amazing time, thanks largely to the efforts of Joy, Jackie, and Emily the party planners, as well as their co-operative husbands. Brooke's 30th, and last publicly acknowledged birthday until further notice, was a surprise vampire themed party, which she loved.There were elaborate and tasty foods, dancing with reckless abandon, and at one point a pit bull roaming the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-25687884791656383062008-10-18T18:44:00.003-05:002008-10-18T19:14:23.990-05:00There's a sick part of me that wants to see our economic system fall right now. I'm laying that out at the beginning, because it's the basic point of rambling to follow. To clarify, I know the bad things that would come with this fall, and I don't desire those. Starvation in lower economic nations, riots and wars coming along too. Unemployment in nations like our own, with families having to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-73756176414995046732008-10-13T08:22:00.004-05:002008-10-13T21:01:31.579-05:00Thoughts on FatherhoodThis weekend was rather eventful, usually leaving me more tired Monday morning than Friday afternoon, however this was really quite fun and relaxing. I got to see my precious little boy in more detail than I would have ever imagined!He's sticking his little hand in his mouth here, and holding relatively still. We got to spend well over an hour with Brooke's cousin Sunni Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-14101719130011479982008-10-01T10:06:00.003-05:002008-10-01T10:11:01.972-05:00A friend asked me what I thought of the IRS stance on church involvement, and also whether Biblical values should be primary criteria in selecting a candidate. There is a link to the video that promted the question, and below it is my response.ADF’s Pulpit InitiativeGood questions. I don't know how far the IRS goes, but on its website it states:In addition, it may not be an action organization,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-73847949434886727882008-08-01T14:18:00.001-05:002008-08-01T14:18:51.204-05:00My Letter to Sam JohnsonI want to express to you my disappointment in your recent yea vote on H.R. 4040. I understand that there is a lot of public fear regarding lead in children's toys, however this measure took that fear and used it to irresponsibly increase spending.As a republican I'm committed to the concept of limiting government. Equally as important is the idea of balancing our Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3968905.post-72919910516279021572008-08-01T08:15:00.002-05:002008-08-01T08:21:57.331-05:00Why we should fortify our houseMayor's Dogs Killed over mistaken weedThere may not be much that can be done to prevent it, but I can only envision how irate I'd be if some worked up cops showed up at my house and shot my dog because they thought some package of government(our new God)-forsaken weed was somehow connected to me. Then imagine them holding you in your underwear next to your mother Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10491222081957313356noreply@blogger.com0