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Happy new year everyone... I am home, I am tired, and I will probably be busy for awhile.
If you have seen my spoon is to big, this should be familiar... A little more tame, but hey think of the children
Cold Hands, warm heart music video
Yeah i go in spurts of watching tons of movies and then none at all. I have seen a lot of things that are out on DVD and all, but I am just so sick of everything about theaters i can't make myself go in one even for movies I want to see.
It costs so much that for 2 people you should just buy the DVD
People are always loud and talking
If you see anything remotely new the theaters are packed
Cell phones (even some of my lame friends txt message during movies, god i hate couples that cant leave each other alone for 2.5 hours)
Loud kids
If you want good seats you need to show up early
They run freaking TV commercials before the movie why would i ever pay for a tv commercial
The movie starts so late after the commercials and all the previews that seeing anything becomes a 2.5+ hour experience
Movie times never seems to work unless you plan way ahead
Food costs, i would like a lemonade that doesnt cost $2.95
So i just haven't been to the theater for such a long time. I just wait for things i want to see to come out on DVD and many times can buy it when it first comes out for 13 bucks from target or amazon.com. So even if the movie isn't that great it is still cheaper to buy it and check it out than see it in the theater with a friend. I also just buy used DVDs 2 for 10 bucks... can't be that.
Well it seems lately i have been slacking on my goals... I think a big part of that is because during my 2 weeks off i didnt do any work on my sites, art, programming, my job, and I really didnt accomplish anything really worth while. It was a good time, and it was great to see everyone, but it was just missing any sense of a great importance or a greater goal. It made me feel lazy and wonder what the point of it all was... no some of the thoughts on that topic are far to much and unsettled to go into here, but it did make me start to think of things I have set out to do and not finished. So I started trying to just take little baby steps and find some that I could accomplish in the next few days. So with that I finished one tonight. I finished Dave's Tattoo.
I dont even know how many months ago I started it, and for months it sat un touched... Then finally I picked it up again a few months ago and was planning on finishing it, and oddly enough Dave and Squared convinced me to quit on it that night to go see a move and then go to Dom and Nicole's party. So I will try to get some pictures of it up pretty soon. I can't right now cause I seem not to have my digital camera... hmmm the search will begin...
Anyways, after weeks off it has felt good at work to be using my brain again and get back to thinking. Tonight it felt good to finish a goal. I guess in the end I ended up with a pretty good gift to give a friend as well. So dave next time your around we can scan it in and play with some sizes contrasts and all that other stuff and see if you still want it perminately on your body... at the very least you will have a cool drawing.
peace,
Dan "Should i sign posts like i do emails man?" Man
I didnt like everything off this album, but I thought this was a pretty cool remix so if you like weezer or jay z check it out...
Well I have been back fro awhile I am fully recovered from my Vegas birthday/new years trip and I am getting back to work on a variety of things. Vegas was a good time as usual, and i gambled some, but after learning i could actually loose a few years ago i dint gamble much might have lost like 40 bucks (I was up $190 at one point but made a dumb move to go all in, in texas hold em). It was alot of fun running around seeing old friends and celebrating the new year. I was dead tired from basically running around and celebrating since Dec 21 when I returned home Jan 1st, I returned home to find my appartment that Shawn and Doc stayed in trashed... but in a fun way... Shawn was nice enough to make a little web page about it. So without anymore introductions here was my appartment when i returned and the process that got it that way.
So yippie for 6 or 7 bags of trash and having all my food labeled with my sharpie.
Well that will end the new years chatter from me, and now moving forward with new challenges... I am supposed to have a starter project out with Ben by late Feb... So keep your eyes peeled for that and best of luck and best wishes to everyone.
I hate it when it take over 2 1/2 to set up anything and tonight it took me over 2 1/2 hours to make ruby on rails work inside of apache server... Thank god it is working cause I was just about to give up.
So what hobbies do you have that you love, but at the same time frustrate and aggrivate you.
I love my computer but damn if painting and art isn't far more relaxing. Oh well I have knocked off about 30+ little mini goals since thursday last week. So what if this little goal took far longer than expected it is completed. Which puts me one step closer to working on some of the more fun goals on my seemingly endless list. Oh well, if you dont start you will never get done.
I also ran 2 miles today... whoopie for trying to get in better shape for skiing.
"So get busy living or get busy dying..." -Shawshank Redemption
If you know me you know my true animal weakness... (No I haven't bought the DVD yet, and yes I know I should have it already.) But this is still up there on the adorably cute factor... Yes it is cute little baby bears... See how one is licking the bubble trying to like the peoples faces. I want one, everyone has dogs or cats. I want a little bear cub or a spider monkey.
Hehe I love the cute little fella's man I wish these were real and not cartoons...
29 healthiest foods on the planet
Well i am proud to say i eat many of these, but I am going to try to start adding more fruit to my diet. So as I just finished iwth some carrots and pinto beans, I am about to eat my cup of low fat strawberry yogurt... later in the day to be followed by a cup of pears... I guess today is a healthy eating day... hooray for being healthy for 1 day. I am also happy to see there is nothing but fruits, veggies, and fish on the list so take that beef eaters. I guess i now have a good reason to eat more crab, yippie...
How did you do on the list? (Difficulty: Dom hates Carrots, Nicole must mix chrunchy and soft)
Here is my list of the healthy foods I eat in order of my favorites
It must be great to be an animal, because you always get to see all the other animals naked. You get to see the goods, before you make a move...
Well I know no one cares, but i spent ovwer an hour and a half trying to configure apache2 to work with tomcat 5.5, which sucked. I got it all working, what does this mean to all of you my friends? Probably nothing, it means that finally all the content on wastedbrains will start being indexed properly cause it has relied on some very ugly and fake page forwarding that search engines normally associate with pretty shady sites. It also means when your at a page it will say the url so you can email it to people instead of always being at www.wastedbrains.com no matter where you are on the site. So the full switch isn't done yet, but now all the technology is acting appropriately so it shouldnt take long to make the small page rewrites to reflect the new url mappings. Congradulations to myself cause I have been meaning to do this for over a year... just never got to it. If your having the same problem How to integrate apache2 with tomcat 5.5 (thats for google friends not really you).
yippie one step closer towards Ben and I's little practice project launch. So who is bored out of there mind? Anyone? Anyone even reading it this far?
Many internet people crack me up, somewhere apparently found the video on wasted and linked it up, and now the most popular video on my site is GemSweat. The statistics on my websites crack me up, just wait till i do a post about the top searches that end people up at my sites, some make sense like energy drinks, bands, and other intrests but others I have NO IDEA how they end up at my site, one example, "how can a man make his breast grow real big like a womans?", someone typed that into google... and somehow ended up on my server.. What the hell??? If you have seen it you know how bad it is, if you haven't go watch the worlds worst music video:
GemSweat - worst music video ever
Could you even finish watching it? It did make me laugh though, and that is always good. It has been downloaded over 425 just so far this month!
I have been trying to do this off and on for over a year and a half and every time i run into problems and I get pissed and quit. I have found hundreds of pages that all say different ways of how to solve the problem of integrating tomcat 5.5 with apache2. Non of them worked for me, but after combining tips from various install guides I can show you what finally worked for me. After wasting over all the time hours and hours... here is all that I did small changes to the apache configure file and small ones to tomcats... restart both of there servers and WHOOPIE it just works. Apache2 with Tomcat 5.5 on a windows server.
httpdconf changes:
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
ServerName special.myname.com
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs"
ProxyRequests On
ProxyPass /cool http://66.***.***.**3:8082/your/webapp/rootdir/
#
# these are comments on the dir
#C:\Program Files\Apache\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\you\webapp\rootdir\
# if anyone was confused to how that would map to windows tomcat stuff
#
ProxyPass /*.jsp http://66.***.***.**3:8082
tomcat's server.xml:
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000"
proxyPort="80" disableUploadTimeout="true" />
thats it... you might have to change some of your jsps for how they find local directories and get all the lookups for the local directories to match your mapping, but you got it... it should all work now. Congradulations... if that didnt work for you here are some sites I was looking at for help:
best of luck post comments here and i can try to help you if they are problems i have run into before.
Mythbusters which is currently my favorite show... has some cool outtakes and such online.
Interview on slashdot with mythbusters
Oddly, I like watching the show trying to find faults in failures, in their tests, and reasons they could have performed better at some of the attempted myths, and ways to make others wehre they succeeded far more realistic and simpler.
Alot of Junit docs and faq tells you that have bad design if your trying to extend test suite so that there is only one setUp() and testDown() for a whole sweet of tests, but that just isnt true when your trying to tests proper order of state changes each transaction should change the state of the server dpending on its current state, if the server is started up new for each test your only testing the start up state... my single unit tests have dependencies on previous tests that has cuased the server to be in its current state... So no where gives good documentation on how to do this the faq is un usefully short showing how to extend testSuite but not how to use it... so here is the best page for how to actually use it just ignore hte Turbine2 stuff:
16. Q: How can I setup Turbine once for my JUnit Test cases?
And remember that Junit executes your tests in order alphabetically and numerically after the intial keyword test.
ie
TestA will run before TestB so if you running tests in order for state make sure that you have your tests named appropriately to be sure they will run in the expected order.
hope this helps someone running into problems running Juint with a single setUp across a suite of tests.
A great article about loving work and how to get there, Ben pointed this out to me...
I am hoping that i am working in the right direction to make it to the point where i do just love everything i get to do... I am sure it will take awhile and alot of struggles, but hey at least I have an idea.
I know what projects I want to be working on and make happening, but I need to be better about Good and Bad Procrastination.
I think the best advice is work on the little things that can turn into big things, because nothing makes you keep working at something harder than seeing and idea become a success. That is why i try to many times break down big projects to a bunch of small tasks because one day i will sit down and say i can get a few of these tasks done and often, I just finish the whole thing right then.
interesting article about many of the myths surrounding video games in our current culture.
I have heard all about all sides of the video game debates for a long time, and I think it is interesting to read this take on it all. Overall i think some people can get addicted aand to into games, but people have found ways to abuse anything and become addicted to anything so i dont think punishing everyone for those that abuse something is right. Anyways, very cool piece to see what some of the actual current research says, versus what some of the proposed laws claim or assume.
long as were on that topic, if you have always wanted to find smaller more personal ways to help charities by throughing some money at the MADD and other orginizations of the world, this might actually make more of a difference and drop less of the money in the multi million dollar salaries of many charity organizations executives.
Sometimes things just are't as simple as you would think, you can try to catch and deal with all the angles. Sometimes you miss a couple, sometimes you see something as safe and go for the risk. Anyways, I guess you can't always be ready for everything or have the foresight on every issue.
Well it will be a busy couple of weeks... Oh well I guess you always rise to the challenge.
The guys that got hired to act and write on SNL the stuff that got them the job...
Great Before they were stars comedy
some very funny stuff watch the short stand up to see if it is your thing then if it is watch awesome town their pilot and the episodes before it... great stuff and great fun... I always hoped to do something like this durring college but it takes alot mroe work than people give credit for especially when you have other classes...
Oh yeah some old school fun:
Springfield Crew Fun video
The top 10 most censored news of 2005 yeah I am scare and yes you can hold me.
Some i found obvious like closing more and more of the ability for public scrutiny in the government, what a suprise. Others scared me more like more about the oil for food scandal, using the tsunami to strengthen military, and others... go read and leave your thoughts here...
How many rights and freedoms should be taken or reduced to protect us? Are we safe enough? I say yes because we still kill ourselves far more often than others kill us intentionally.
if your running out of Java Heap space memory while running ant you probably just need to increase the memory size for ant when it is running to do this you set the enviroment variable ANT_OPTS.
ANT_OPTS=-Xmx128M
in windows you right click my computer go to properties, and then click advanced then set new enviroment variable name ANT_OPTS value -Xmx128M. If your running cygwin you must close current instances and reopen them to get the new settings to take effect, after opening up cygwin again try >echo $ANT_OPTS which should output your setting. If you still receive the error you can go higher with your memory. I have never had to go higher than 256.
