Dan Mayer's Blog

I thought of a hundred things to write about in my blog this weekend. I didn't end up writing any of my thoughts. It is to bad there were some interesting things floating around in my head. Anyways, I had a good relaxing weekend and caught up with some much needed sleep. I also took care of a ton of stuff of my todo list. So I guess sorry to my blog for not getting any attention from me, but I enjoyed some time away...

I have debated how long I walk to and from work each day, now I have a pretty good idea... Thanks to gmap-pedometer.

I walk 1.6688 miles every day to get to and from work.

Yippie for me, now I am going to go eat some deep fried ice cream stuffed waffles.

(note it is a little weird on the site you click to drag the map, say start recording. Then to add points you need to double click).

Call of the searches I found my wallet thanks for all your support through these difficult times...

Wow I am sick of applications, Ben is as well. We started on three applications last Saturday and have been writing a ton ever since then. As most of you know especially if you ever read this blog, writing is not my specialty. This means I have had to read and reread my paragraphs over and over with spell checks and grammar checks. Then since my writing is horrible anything I write has to go through Ben before it gets on the apps so it has to be even worse for him.

Anyways in writing we have more clearly defined our business plan, users, time line, strengths, weakness, and a whole lot more. So over all it was a good thing and we have learned a lot and feel more confident about our ideas, but when you want to start working on something and you want to code (we do have our first little bits of the program started) it is really hard to just focus on writing.

So yeah we were writing for 12 hours on Saturday and another 10 or so on Sunday but we are almost done with the applications which means soon we can get back to working on the actual project.

I also learned that the ads on my energy drink site have a CTR (Click Through Rate) that is 41.5 times better than the Facebook. I think that is something to be proud of, even if they are pulling in millions.

In calculated love...
Erin has asked for an equation of our relationship, (because I kept joking that the time she spent in Honduras didn't count towards our relationship) the first draft was completed but she is asking for some amendments, once finalize you will see it here, same Bat time same Bat channel.

Exciting News...
It is with great stress relief I look towards learning new things and working on interesting projects as I watch deadlines begin to slide by at work... Finalizing a contract... Started the first few lines of code for the company.

Clean freaks can keep it...
"Are you a slob? Do you pile papers on top of folders on top of game
boxes? Here's the thing that those anal neat people can't even
conceive of: you're more productive than they are. That's the
conclusion of "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder," by
Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness is
overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity."
-less creative clean freaks, extremetech.com

Taste the savings...
Our last energy bill - only $216. Much better than last month...

I guess I am getting old...
Erin Tuttle my first big high school crush suddenly got married over the weekend. Crazy.

A ton of really good and big news...

I put in my notice at work and I am on my way to start my own company, Pretheory.

Shawn, my bro, got in to all his top choices for residency (2 diff programs).

Erin got into Columbia for a masters program.

UPDATE: Dave just got into PA school.

These items were listed in order of occurrence... hehe

Anyways a bunch of exciting things are starting to happen...

Erin en Español para usted. S� que una de las razones que usted est� en Honduras debe mejorar su espa�ol. Soy seguro que usted est� aprendiendo mucho. Usted es uniforme fijando muchos t�tulos y comentarios en español. En mi esfuerzo de ayudar hacia fuera, le escribo esta nota. Soy seguro que ser� llenada de errores, pero esperanzadamente divertir� bastantes. Tendr� que comenzar a aprender un cierto espa�ol tambi�n. Le falto, te quiero, y espero que usted est� teniendo un rato maravilloso.

I don't really know if that says what I think it does. I tried to write simple and clear English. This was translated via babel fish. Mi no comprehendo!

MMMMmmmm Queso! Viva Honduras!

Read more to see what it looks like if you translate it to Spanish to English to Spanish to English (Amusing)...

I hate spam, but sometimes it is really funny... I got a spam email with the best title, it just made me laugh...

Title: "espionage walnut"

Be afraid of the walnut, be very afraid. "Thats Mr. Walnut to you!"

Well a quick note before I pass this town a quick goodbye and head away for a little while.

Things I enjoyed this week:
* Moving Erin's Dog in (part time) successfully
* Playing a bunch of volleyball with Erin's family
* sleeping naked
* phone calls catching up with people
* wends social networking night with Jesse
* sending friends weird emails during tv commercials
* dinner and doggie date with Dom and Nicole
* cold Riesling wine
* warm summer days with skies so blue you never want to go inside
* thinking like an entrepreneur
* Jesse's mom's cookies ('s)
* my lack of grammar
* walking

Things I will enjoy next week:
* California
* Cousin Katie's wedding
* Dancing
* San Fran
* chilling out on the 4th of July
* a 3 day work week
* more Riesling
* chocolate
* not being a father
* accomplishing various tasks
* Hersey's chocolate syrup

Things that have or will suck:
* Flying
* Security checks
* Only getting paid for a 3 day work week.
* Any transportation that isn't walking
* Missing friends birthday parties
* Not having a four post bed
* Not living in California
* paying rent, health insurance, and phone bills
* my friend Dave being hurt
* my friend Steve going to war
* cancer
* corporate lobbyist groups
* missing old friends
* being out of spaghetti

So it seems everything is just too exciting and moving too fast, there isn't enough time for it all. I am having a blast, but man I can't keep up with everything I need to do/should be doing.

Anyways authentication and struts display tiles, will have to wait, but here is an entry to keep up with everything... Erin is back in town it has been great to have her. She is currently trying to turn me on to sushi, good luck. I like going on walks around the city with her almost every night. I have yet to learn how to balance my time while she is around.

The world seems to be more plastic and fake each day that I look at it... Oh well I guess it is ok because I know what real things I am looking for.

It is so easy to put a smile on my face

Welll it is like we never learn from the past or, read any history in the last 100 years and see it reoccuring all the time through our minds in diferent situations.

I guess i guess i finished with my howard hughes stuff and i am on to something scarier... so read your history and change the future...

what do you really know?

as I had a very odd and vivid dream I decided that I would share it with everyone cause it is brief, and makes no logical sense to me... anyways here it is:

I was camping with Cara Ring and Doc, we were in black sleeping bags and trying to hid from something, but Cara and Doc kept fitting over the time to set the alarm either 9:00 am or 9:05 am and kept making me change it backa nd forth and I was getting angry. I told them it didnt matter and that it was just five minutes and they kept bickering finally after i had changed it back and forth a bunch they comprimised at 9:03 am when I sat up and got the top of myself out of the sleeping bag and to pick up the alarm I saw it, A velociraptor had seen me and was darting towards me, I used my last words to tell them, "damn you the time didn't matter", at which the velocaraptor bit me in two right above the hips... and ran off with my upper body.

i wish i could spell.... thoughts on my dream?

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.

Alright alot has happend lately so we will run through some quick updates:

Thursday night poker night with some work people, it was a good time, but it took far to long to get through a round... So we will change it up a bit next time. Also, I went out first (I think because i still felt the need to do some meet and greet and other hosting duties for awhile).

Friday: get off work early drive to boulder pick up car load of stuff.. Drive back to Denver get ready for concert. Pre party a bit off to see Flo Bots and Bop Skizzum (sp??). Great show lots of dancing and chilling with Jesse glad to see things going so well for his band. Walk home mildly lost and confused arrive around 3ish..

Saturday: up and atom... and I am off to boulder to pack stuff and move Dom and Nicole out and clean or old place in hopes of getting some deposit... Takes longer than expected. I get a call from a friend I haven't heard from forever. Then Dom and I party into the night while cleaning and run around doing crazy missions that involved stealth, percision, and silence.... which at that point we had little to none of the above, but it was a damn good time reminding me of havoc I caused once apon a time in yesteryear.

Sunday: Ouch my head hurts... to bad cause we are supposed to be out of the house in 1 1/2 hours... clean clean pack... Dave to the rescue (Key, thanks a ton Dave!) Brandon to the rescue (Truck, Thanks Brandon)... get hold exhausted later.. chill watch movies... Dom and Nicole move in for awhile... little crowded, but oh well. Asked out on a date...

Monday: Tired at work... some good progress... good progress on website work... Place falls apart alittle more due to the crowding... I get to play some video games with Dom haven't gotten to do that forever... sweet... and cue sleep.... zzzzzzzz

I am going to Matt's Bachelor party next thursday.. I have to have a bachelor party planned and put together by the 14th of next month. I have a family trip in the middle somewhere, and I have a job with basically no vacation time saved up. So where does this leave me, mildy stressed highly busy, learning new things, lacking all sorts of funs, never in the same place for 2 weekends in arow.

So the speed of things lately has me feeling like I am on a fast race that wont ever end, and I know it will, but when it will the next thing I will know is that a month has passed by and I haven't even had time to think about anything let alone pay attention to my own thoughts and life. Oh well I guess focusing on that doesnt do much of anything anyways.

So lets see how well I make it through seeing two of my best friends get married, which will change more things than I want it two I am sure. I can say it is weird and it makes me wonder where I am in my own life.

anyways I guess I am right her, trying to be a good groomsmen and have some fun while I am at it, too bad it seems neither of the brides is providing a sufficent amount of single cuties at the wedding, so if your a friend of mine who secretly loves weddings contact me cause I might just be needing someone to bring to some wedding... hehe

I’m in a slump
I’m such a chump
I should have known better than to let my dreams take hold.

It’s been to long
And I was wrong
The mistake was mine and I have to live with it
.....

That is all of that i will post. It continues on but shouldn't be this public. Anyways I recieved an email has twisted my thoughts. On the plus side i also recieved a different email from an old friend who is now back in contact.

Just in case anyone was starting to think i was a good guy with no flaws (ha) I am posting my current desktop.

You can't just take a break from life or you might just miss the whole thing.

I am pretty sure i just made that quote tonight. I am sure there is something similar but it has it all right.

I was taking an entire day for myself. I was enjoying and slowing it down so much in the afternoon i said i would take the entire next afternoon off as well. That changed as i was invited to multiple parties i turned down tonight, a friend dropping by that i turned away in order to take time alone, then my best buds calling in saying in the morning they wanted to see in down at the water park at nine in the morning. I guess i feel such a big huge urrrgg to be there to prove that i am getting out there. I am going for every oppertunity. Never shrinking or hidding away. But does that mean i can't ever just take a break for a day or two? I think it might, but i don't know i want to go for it all. Never fail, live the life and just keep on going. So can you party like a rockstar, cause i'm trying!

when should you be focused on what is best in the long runa nd when should you be focus on now. I have been more focused on the short term for about 6 months now i would say. I am starting to wonder if i need to start shifting my focus to long term goals. The only issue i switched to more short term to find some things that can only be found in the moment and then turn into something long term (ie a girlfriend). The issue is short term burns money doesn't help me get a job in the future that will pay as well. Leads me to not work on large more worthwhile projects but instead smaller quicket short term projects. Such as This blog and other things on my site that i have been working on and focusing on recently. So should i really start working hard a work and pushing people for a great internship next summer. Or should i be having the "time of my life" and buying toys, dinners, and nights out at the bar while slidding through my proffessional and educational life? Anyone out there with an opinion on the matter

I just bought a bunch of clothes dom is trying to make me pretty. Fun fun i wont look like trash now.

We got a cool ass hot tub. 8 person tube for 700. hell yeah!

Wireless is just really cool. Today in class i downloaded videos, art, and some news. Today the bbs went up on wastedbrains. There are no links to it yet but I will do that as soon as i get home. untlil then i believe you can get there from bbs.wastedbrains.com

peace from the road.

Exciting times for computers. hehe I have unlimited wireless which fills my head with millions of wireless ideas. So i want to program all these really dumb wireless applications right now. Which is fun hehe. I also want to set up my server to reduce audio files and stream them. Then i could just listen to my mp3's from anywhere how cool would that be. Anyways i am not supposed to geek it out on computer to hard this summer. I am instead supposed to finish my movie. So i am going to try to work on that a bunch this weekend and see what kind of progress i make. Also with fun computer news we will be adding a nice big new feature to wastedbrains in the next couple days so stay tuned.
Oh i was hit on by a gay guy today that was humorous and made me realize that i am more attractive to men than women. Oh well at least someone is trying to sleep with me. hehe
Also i have been reading about Konspire lately. I don't quite know what it is. It does seem intresting though so i figure that i might as well check it out and see if perhaps it would be a good way to distrute content for the site. I need to come up with a better way to get bandwidth for letting users download my videos. If i put them all up on a peer to peer network i want to have a wasted brains intro attached tot hem or something. Anyways i will see what it is soon since i have just downloaded it.
Tonight i might just kill a few brain cells and see how that makes me feel. I need to get some extra sleep so i think i will also make it a early night. Do any of you know what helps make me sleep? I do hehe

Poetry sucks. This is what i have come to after being in my modern lit class for the past couple days. First any poem we read in hte class is quickly ruined by over analysing it for like a hour. Then i have learned that with enough stupidity and belief for some idea you can make any poem about some personal belief. Such as a kid in the class that thinks ever single poem we have read is somehow really about the industrial revolution or modernisation of our society. Also people don't really look at a poem with its own words and search for the meaning of the author they have their own beleifs and just fit them onto the poem. I guess it is fine to interperate poetry as what it means to you in your relevant beleifs and such. I just dont want to hear 20 college kids talking about how some poem clearly meant this or that. I think that the poet is dead and therefor you dont know and we should leave it alone. Whatever grrr to annoying dumb kids that took a poem stating that the character gets nervous while trying to talk to women. This turned into things about dying and GOD that seems to make a appearance in every single poem. Just becuase no doubt will there be a least one person that thinks some item reffers to god.

I hate poetry.
Kick the dog in the head.
poems are so shitty.
I wish i were dead.

A kid in my class at some point or another would declare that the dog was a refrence to god because dog spelled backwards is god. That i must be angry with god so i said that i would like to kick god. I am angry with my creator, poetry is creative so i am actually not angry with poetry at all but i am extremely upset with my creation by god. This interpretation would surely occur after about 2 minutes of class discussion and someone would consider themselves extremely deep for it.

So i had to pick a poem to talk about for 20 minutes... I am considering saying that interpretations are made worthless by idiots that will draw insane conclusions about simple things. Then i will spend the rest of the time giving like 5 different interpretations that are all well thought out and well argued but all entirely contradictory... The only problem i see with this is that no doubt my teach will dislike me and i will get a bad grade. So instead i will make up worthless dribble and spout it out for an easy A and take a bow as I amaze the simpletons around me. God do i hate poetry.

A quote to show the stupidity:
"the essential gaudiness of poetry."
Wallace Stevens (some noted poet)

Yes yes today i know i am talking all high and mighty.

Today i was walking towards my first day of classes. I had good music playing on in my headphones. I was signing lyrics that have never before been written except in my mind. I saw blue skies with big puffy clouds. I saw green grass and trees shooting up out of the earth. I saw a huge hope for the future. It is always a new begining every day for those who always just keep trying. There is so much out on the world. So much to explore... So many looking for love, truth, happiness, glory, respect, inovation, and more. So i dream of one day being able to touch all the people out there seeking and searching. All the people that might be fighting or working though something hard but just keep working through. All the people that haven't lost hope. All the people the seek love, have love, and have never given up on love. All those that think the world can still be a beautiful and trustworthy place. These are people i wish to touch because all of them still out there fighting have touched me. They all give me hope. They give me the drive to succeseed. Dreams are not just to entertain us in our sleep. They are to inspire, create, and change the world. So for all of the people that have had dreams in the past, and all the people that hold dreams for the future... I say that i still dream and fight on to. Dream on world because one day a dream may just come true.

Today one of my best friends turns 21. That is right the year you can drink legally... After so many years of drinking in the shawdows, behind buildings, under cars, and in caves deep within afganistan. So finally we are going to the bars and i shall buy him a drink. Then another one and so on and so forth until said friend can't stand anymore. It is a fun coming of age for everyone. I didn't actually do that much on my birthday i only had a few drinks and went to a couple bars with my parents... None of my friends were old enough and i was home visiting for xmas break so that really limits where to go to bars.. Oh well Tonight we shall party once again like it is 1994. hehe
I am deathly afraid of the virgin spider. The spiders that haven't gotten any are by far the most likely to bite you and try to suck out your blood. I am sure that most of the common world knows that spiders are not born they are just humans that had all their blood sucked out by spiders. This turns them into a spider themselves. This is why i cant sleep at night because the spiders are out to get me.
What the hell am i talking about who knows and who cares. I had my final today for my summer school class so i am allowed some freedom. I also get to celebrate the fact that i think i got an A after staying up till 3:30 in the morning drinking. I also asked out a girl yesterday so that is something to celebrated... She had a boyfriend. So girls suck they all of them have boyfriends that is ok I will kill every boy and then rule the world.

Getting back to coding... Ah after doing all sorts of paper work and advertising and such I am about to really get back to coding at my job. I found a wonderfull package that should do about everything i need. Now all i need to do is learn how to use the package and to add in all the features i want. Open source is truely amazing i mean the code i found is just perfect for what i wanted to do. So thanks to the open source community and thanks to everyone out there that puts their source code out on the web after they have finished so the next person that comes along can learn or stand on the shoulders of giants and find the next thing for themselves.

So how often should a blog update. I mean if it changes to often you can't even catch all the information. Sites like slashdot you have to visit multiple times a day or you miss some of the things on the site. This can be a good thing though because it is always fresh. It is frequently updated and it is always interesting. In something like this is a daily post even usefull. I guess i don't always have something to say. Then again i can type a funny away message on AIM multiple times a day sometimes i think they are so good i keep them up for a long time to make sure people will see them. So perhaps i should just write funny tidbits now and then here and make it nothing. Anyways that is just a little bit of whatever blah blah... I am now going to hit white balls into the woods and call it a sport... Go Golf...

Well finals done and school is out. Although i return back to school tomorrow. Stupid summer school. Either way i can say i am done with everything for now and i should have time to start updating everything frequently again. Sorry that for awhile school owned me.

What rituals does everyone develop. I mean they are useless and dumb, but they are fun and form some sort of wierd bond. My friends and I back home have a ritual of making new years eve the biggest party night where we all go out of our way to see each other. Here after the last of our group is done with finals we all order pizza and start taking shots. Should we really celebrate the end of a section of education by trying to do the dumbest things we possibly can. I think so i mean life can't all be learning and self improvement. Why are we improving ourselves anyways. It is so we can enjoy life and eventually work in a job we will enjoy. So if we aren't enjoying any of the days working towards that goal is there really a point? So yeah i am not alays going to work my hardest. I am not going to try in all the classes that i see no reason to take in the first place. I am not going to work for straight A's. I need a life. I need to have fun shit i will work hard when i have a job I care about. Projects that i care about i will put all the time and effort into. Sometimes we still need to get out and socialize. We are social animals. I see so many of the geeks that forget how to socialize. I am a big geek but i am not going to forget how to talk to my fellow non geek friends. I mean they are still a big part of my life. One day i will meet someone and get married and I hope she isn't a computer geek. I hope we have something much more interesting to talk about and share our opinions on. Computers are wonderfull but in the scheme of the world they aren't that important. So get out there and talk, dance, drink, smoke, and whatever just to get away from your day to day routine for awhile.

Well shit, finals are around the damn corner. I guess that means i should spend time updating and adding new things to my site. Yeah apparently having to work hard for me isn't a problem. It is just working hard on something i am supposed to work on. I can waste a whole bunch of time setting things up on my server and writting a program to wirelessly update my blog. My new thing, I am going around advertising my sites again. I decided that they are decent enough that they should get some traffic. Anyways this a worthless post. But i am new and so are you so you must have been born inside of my mind. What the hell am i talking about... well get the hell up and fight like you have some shit. That aint nothing. I could blow through you like you were a child during nap time.