Dan Mayer's Blog

well i had a good weekend with lots of food and some nice conversation. I even got to go to estees park and hike around for awhile which I haven't gotten to do lately. Anyways all is well and I am tired yet again. I am trying to just do my work and read some stuff about programming this week and not worry about much else. Perhaps if I find some spare time I should get my hair cut as it is starting to look really bad.

My main computer is dieing and I dont know why. I thought it was the harddrive, but i ran some tests and ran a live OS (a os that runs from CD and memory) and it still crapped out... So I am thinking that it must be my motherboard, processor, or memory... the problem is, if it is any one of those things it is still rather hard to figure out which unless you have spares of the other parts... and since computers hardware just doesnt play nice together i have plenty of all the pieces but they are all incompatible... I have extra memory, processors, and motherboards... just only really one set of each that would fit together... This leaves me with no truly good solutions.

LEarned about some Junit stuff today seems pretty sweet, I guess I will have to learn more... that is when i have the time, which seems that whenever i think i am about to get more time something happens to make it dissappear... oh well I guess if your busy you stay out of trouble right?

Flobots This saturday be there or be somewhere else that is way crappier...

i had plans for friday but they fell through cause my friend sucks...

Anyways if you aren't up to anything give me a call or I will be forced to be bored.

Well alot of stuff has been happening lately. So here is some of the little points...

I got an unexpected call from a friend that i hadn't seen recently with free tickets to see NIN (nine inch nails), but the doors were already opening and I was still at work... hehe run run and straight to the show, home late, straight back to work, fun but tiring.

I have been pounded at work with some schedules that just don't seem feasible... luckily apparently no one thinks it is feasable... So I just ahve to work harder and more, and maybe we will get close enough...

Dom and Nicole... always for a crazy time when we get together partied with them pretty hard friday night... pretty sure they dont remember us getting home that night... I wonder if they remember that we were going to start a horrible band and have a least 3 songs to play live on a crappy bar stage... hehe fun little dreams..

Saturday was the Flobots, CD release party and it went well the place was pretty packed... Good for them I hope they sold lots of CDs... I got to chill and hang out with all of them and some of my friends Dom^2 and Dave came.

and now it is snowing... I really do like the changes of the seasons. I mean some good things and some bad things come out of it. Overall it should be nice to have winter and I will probably get to ski a bunch with Matt and Jesse at vail.... I do however truly hate the holidays now... they just bring stress... old memories and an overall sense of cold lonelyness....

On the bright side, I tend to get alot of work done during the winter just cause it isn't that nice out and nothing else is really going on.

lastly the new years trip is coming and going and falling and fading... I honestly have no idea if this is going to happen... I would like it to, but at the same time i have some issues with it as well... what a suprise me having issues with something... call the news... hehe

I enjoyed reading and chilling out last night as the snow and rain pounded against my windows... it something i enjoy and i picture being in a small cabin by a frozen over lake with a hot fire crackling in the fireplace as I read through a book and write about my thoughts... nice huh...

HELP i seriously have no idea what to be for halloween. I want to do something fun, but not expensive. I want it to be humourus, but not upset people.. i want it to be something that will make women come up to me and talk to me / ask me questions.

SO HELP give me some ideas and suggestions... and no I wont go as Dave, cause i did that last weekend for fun.

peace,
Dan "I am on an island somewhere.. at least in my head" Man

sometimes things work out well and sometimes timing is everything and it all just falls apart... but hey you cant have it all and long as you can live past those times and still smile another day i guess all is well....

that said while timing might have been off... Today I got tickets for new years it was hard to call where to go and we ended up screwing those that were having money issues, but we will try to make it up to them while we are there... so anyways Our new years group will be rocking out the closed down and fireworked up las vegas strip this new years. It is the 100th anniversary of vegas, and we will be there with some of our closest friends people we grew up with and we will have one hell of a toast and one hell of a celebration. So raise your glass and shake your ass, cause it is time for a new years to add another memory of a year gone by and memories of the past... I love these people and i will truly be said the year we cant manage to pull this off at all.

peace, love, and mother Beeping Party,
Dan "vegas" Man

I was about to celebrate a different milestone, but vegas set that back a bit, but i think it will be worth it but keep it posted in the coming months cause it will be an exciting moment.

i still haven't found something well enough to my liking/simplicity that i feel like going for it... Any other ideas?

also I feel like i need to learn years more of the wrong stuff just to get to the right stuff... I guess that is the same in most professions, but it is annoying and it would be best if I just could have it dealt with for me, but i guess that is to hard or my whole profession would be simpler.

I got the batman begins dvd yesterday (well it sat in the package room for a bit), and i watched that movie again last night. It rocks buy this movie help support the best comic movie ever made the more money it makes the more likely they will be to make better more realistic comic movies. Instead of making kiddy pieces of crap like catwoman, daredevil, or the power rangers... hehe through that last one in just to see if your paying attention.

So Batman Begins is sweet...

tonight i am going out with a bunch of people from the office for a bunch of co workers birthdays... yippie... it hsould be a good time, but i am tired... i need to run some errants this weekend and figure out the halloween costume...

I like strawberry yogurt... it is the best yogurt.

I think sports are a stupid and cheap way to keep the average joe from looking at the fact that the top 1% has been screwing the rest of us for centuries...

that is all for now with my short lunch time announcement... Thanks for listening...

RIP my last damn computer only lasted from sometime junior year, until about 2 months ago when it started dieing i believe because of a failed disk. Anyways, I will somehow fix and revive it as a development machine (or so is the plan), and now I have a new computer, a media center, meaning I plug my cable in and my computer can figure out what shows are on when and record them for me while i do other stuff or sleep or smoke crack. So it will be kinda nice to have the media center edition, and maybe it will finally motivate me to set up my projector and my sound system (british accent, not bloody likely!)...

Anyways after setting up my computer it need 11 security patches that caused reboots before having a stable working and relatively safe enviroment. I shall celebrate, by taking my new media center edition on a spin with the hardest to process and biggest games I have to throw at it... Well a new rein of my computer king, and a much simpler way for me to work with and edit video, which means another video project should be just around the corner...

Maybe it is a bad thing that I am mostly attracted to only really smart women...

Education makes it harder for women to have orgasms

Well halloween wasn't near as cool this year. It was ok a fun night out at the bars, but last year we had a amazing time. I guess Denver just doesnt get into it like Boulder does, so for future refrence and fun have your halloweens in college towns... Last year we saw some people that had hand made some of the most amazing costumes I have ever seen. In denver we saw a bunch of crap, not good costumes, nothing impressive...

Oh well still a good time. I went as some sort of axe weidling guy in a cape... I like capes... hehe

We gained an hour of sleep today and that is awesome it makes me happy.

So i was working on some website stuff and got a PHP editor set up that allows some friends running sites on my server to update there materials easily without me... Yippie... I need to do a couple more things like that then i can get on with learning Ruby or automating my other site updates...

It puts the lotion on its skin... It puts the lotion on its skin...

I have nothing valid to say right now I should probably just not make an entry but what the hell. I think I am pregnant.

I am going to go eat chips.