Working at Law Bulletin again.  Same place I was at two years ago.  Let's just hope that nothing else from two years ago comes back...

I really like this new theme.

I've finally got around to getting an HTML version of my resume up.  I think it looks good.  Ended up having to make a few formatting changes to make it look good on the web that I eventually carried over to the PDF version (linked on same page) because I like 'em so much.

I also disabled comments on posts older than fourteen days, since that seems to be where most of the spam is concentrated (actually, it's like eighty percent on one post from two or three years ago).

Update @ 05:21 06/04/09: Added more to the "About Me" section.  I will continue to tweak and play with that part until I am comfortable with it.  I may never be comfortable with it.  One of the things I strongly dislike is trying to sell myself.

Update (17:11 1/25/08): Becky and Aunt Marilyn have both come to me with website propositions.  If anything, I could just do one for the class project and then do the other ones over the summer or something (again, most likely for free since I would still be building my portfolio).  Thanks for the interest, guys!

Update (01:35 1/26/08 Happy Birthday too me): Add Linda's dad to the list as well.

The Request: Anyone need a website?  Or know someone that does?

For my ITM461 class we are going to be doing a big project throughout the course of the semester, adding to it as we learn new things, and the professor wants this project to be for someone or a group that needs either a presence on the web, or a better looking / more functional presence on the web.

During the semester, I will be learning:

• HTML and CSS
• Graphics, design, and navigation
• Javascript and AJAX, javascript frameworks
• Google web services, Search Engine Optimization , analytics
• Small amount of PHP
• "Other fun stuff" (I do not know what this means, but the professor really knows what she is doing so I don't doubt it will be useful and cool information)

The professor has said that if we are interested in something beyond the scope of the course and would like to try it out in our assignments or projects, that we would get the equivalent of bonus points (she doesn't have a grading scale, per se).  Personally, I'm interested in learning more than just a "small amount" of PHP, so that would definitely be one area I would be expanding upon (perhaps in relation to MySQL databases).  She has also stated that she would ensure us not only a functionally sound website, but also a well-designed (read: pretty; or handsome for those of you who don't like "pretty" things) website that will not turn off customers and clients alike.

What would the cost be to you, the client?  Zero dollars.  I am doing this as a class assignment, but more importantly this would be the first real piece upon which I would feel comfortable building a portfolio.  I do not feel it would be right to charge a customer money when they have no idea what the quality of my work will be (this website was not designed by me, it was a free theme I downloaded months and months ago; when I get more confident I will redo this to reflect my own abilities).  Besides, you, the customer, get a free website and I get a free addition to my portfolio.  It works out well for both of us.

There is only one "problem" that potential clients may have an issue with: The project will be completed somewhere around the end of April or the beginning of May.  Since this is a semester long project and we will be applying what we learn in class to the project, it is inappropriate to say that the project will be done before I have learned everything that I need to complete said project.

About me: I have been doing web design in bursts since I was roughly ten years old.  I am currently a twenty-one year old (well, I will be twenty-one two days after this is posted; it is just easier to round up at this point) junior at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.  Because I have been fooling with web design for so long, I am incredibly comfortable with playing around with various tools and technologies as well as trying new things.  I enjoy learning about new techniques on my own, but other aspects of my life have been pulling me away from web design, so this class is a great excuse to get back into it.  The way that my major and minor are taking me, I would most likely end up working in some sort of systems administration type role.  Systems administration does sound like a neat job: to be responsible for making sure possibly hundreds of machines and servers are not going to blow up just sounds fun; but to be able to freelance web design for clients on the side (or eventually as my main source of income) is my ultimate dream.  This is the kind of work that I love.

If you or anyone you know are interested, please contact me via one of the following methods:

• Email: satoshi@sugardeath.net
• AOL Instant Messenger: itstonylol
• Google Talk: satoshi1@gmail.com (this should work no problem, since I log onto Google Talk with Pidgin using the Jabber protocol (since it's the same thing in the end), but I've never actually talked to anyone on Google Talk :razz: )
• Jabber/XMPP: satoshi@sugardeath.net

Pulled another all-nighter.  My weekend sleep schedule got so screwed up.  I was getting like three or four hours of sleep each night last week due to talking to Jacki every night.  I'm.. I got four hours of sleep Thursday night, got up around seven or so on Friday to go to work, and then stayed up until... seven or eight or so on Saturday talking to Jacki.  Fell asleep around.. nine?  Slept until.. nine.  Stayed up with Jacki until about six or seven again.  This time I slept from noon until eight, which is a decidedly more normal duration, just not quite during the right time of the day.  So to fix that, because there was no way I could've fallen asleep again until it was too late, I am pulling an all nighter.  Probably the.. third time thanks to this girl?  Fourth?  I'd do it every night if sleep deprivation didn't cause hallucinations and death and stuff. 

One of the early episodes in season two of the X-Files deals with this squad from... the Vietnam War? whose members were surgically and medically altered so that they never required sleep.  It was really neat.  I've been on an X-Files binge lately.  Started season one Thursday night, watched a bunch Friday night and Saturday morning, then again Sunday morning and more Sunday night.  The reason I had stayed up until noon Sunday morning was that I had reached the end of season one and wanted to start season two right away.  I believe I am on.. episode..  eight or nine of season two?  I don't know.  At the rate I am going, I figure I could get to the first movie (between seasons five and six, I believe?) in a week or two, and then finish up season nine maybe a few weeks after that, and then finally be able to watch the new movie that just came out.  I don't know what started me on this..  Back in the winter and early spring I would go to Sci-Fi every night and watch, in order, an hour of Twilight zone and then two hours of the X-Files.  It was good stuff.  Most of the episodes stand alone quite well, so I never really felt lost or anything while watching it on Sci-Fi.  Paul said that quite a few episodes in the early seasons sucked balls, but I'm not of the same belief.  While there have been some episodes that don't quite stand out as well as other ones, I still think they've all been pretty good. 

I got some really nasty bites on my feet sometime last week.  Thursday or so?  Probably..  Got them after wearing a pair of white socks that I must not have washed in forever..  Bet there was something living in them.. kinda disgusting..  The bites are terrible because when I'm bare foot my pants rub on the top of my foot (where they are), and, since I work everyday, I have to wear my tight-fitting dress shoes.  Can you say painful?  I actually haven't worn my regular tennis shoes in quite some time...  It's.. going to be.. comfortable, you could say, to wear my looser fitting tennis shoes again.  It'll be great. 

I've five more days of work, including today (since it's just started).

There's less than five days until Jacki's plane touches down at Midway.  It'll be four days come 5PM. 

9:41

My breakfast this morning consisted of.. chips and salsa, at like six-thirty or so in the morning.  I meant to not eat my muffin last night and save it for the morning, but that didn't happen. 

I recall Theresa, one of the awesome Center Court ladies, stating that this past Saturday was the last day Center Court was open.  I went to put money on my card for laundry and saw that I have a brand new eight-some bonus points on my account.  If I've got these bonus points but no Center Court to spend them on..  I am going to be very unhappy. 

I moved into my new room last Wednesday and Thursday afternoon/nights.  It was.. fun...  I hate moving so much, and I just went from one hall to another.  Going from one place of residence to another place of residence with a completely different address will suck even more, I imagine.  Hopefully I find an apartment or something near IIT.  Assuming I can find an apartment.  I think I said this way back, but that's my next major goal in life, get an apartment.  Shouldn't it be something like.. oh.. I dunno, do well in school?  Get a good job? etc.  Yeah, I guess, but that's not what it is, so.. yeah.

I believe about half my clothes were clean, but I threw them all in the laundry at once anyway, bed sheets/blankets and all.  All together it was four washers and four dryers worth of stuff.  I don't know of washer nine was being stupid, but I put my two blankets in there and they were still soaking after an hour and a half cycle.  Granted, they WERE abnormally wet coming out of the washer, but..  hm..  I don't know what could have caused either situation.  The crayon blanket seemed the wettest, so I stuck that one in washer eight which had proved itself earlier with my dress cltohes, and put an hour on it.  About four hours later (I forgot about it while talking to Jacki), it was perfect.  Because I didn't have enough money on my card to put the binary blanket in a separate dryer (I was afraid washing them together would turn out not well again), and because the TechCash site didn't seem to have the "Make a Deposit" button at the moment (I don't understand?), I ended up draping that blanket over Tim's clothes rack and putting a pot under the corner of the blanket that was dripping the most.  Hoepfully it's done drying by the time I get home...

I do not look forward to folding all of my clothes or making my bed.  I should really be writing this documentation for my scripts as well as trying to figure out why the script aborted when I ran the thing Friday night..

9:53

I finally shaved my mustache...  I think it's been like two months?  It was getting pretty bad... and itchy..

Itchy itchy tasty..  I wanna play Resident Evil again..

I ordered a new mousepad from Newegg Thursday night.  I forgot to order the video cables for my laptop at the same time.  The laptop uses standard vga (dvi, maybe?), but doesn't have S-Video out or anything else common, instead it's got a nice little mini-RCA jack that does video and stereo sound together.  It would be great if I had this cable, because then I could stream movies off of AndrAIa and play them on any TV on campus.

10:01

How palindromic!

10:12

I will receive a paycheck for $745 a week from Wednesday, on the twentieth.  The day that Jacki leaves Chicago.  The day before classes.  The day before Phil's twenty-first birthday.  That's a fair amount of money that will be nice because I'm sure I'm going to spend a lot of money while Jacki is here.  It'll be worth it.

10:27

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10:34

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12:32

1976: Lakeside Mall opens with four anchor stores: Hudson's, Lord & Taylor, Sears, and J.C. Penney. The mall also features a movie theater and ice rink, the latter of which was eventually replaced with a water slide.

..water slide?

Re: Sterling Heights

As of the census of 2000, there were 124,471 people, 46,319 households, and 33,395 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,397.0 per square mile (1,311.6/km²). There were 47,547 housing units at an average density of 1,297.6/sq mi (501.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 90.70% White, 1.30% African American, 0.21% Native American, 4.92% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.34% from other races, and 2.50% from two or more races. 1.34% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Ancestries: Polish (19.0%), German (14.4%), Italian (12.5%), Irish (5.7%), English (5.0%), Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac (4.8%), and American/US (4.0%).

Jacki and I were bemoaning the.. prevalance and nature of Chaldeans this morning ('cause we're racists fucks like that).  Granted, it's been eight years since the census, so a lot could have changed since then. 

WHAT!  Didn't Mr. Suggs get promoted to Principal of.. crap, what elementary did Paul get transferred to (it started with a 'C'?)?  Wiki says that UCS operates twenty-nine elementary schools, but only lists eight...  Browning isn't on there.. but apparently Mr. Suggs is currently the principal of Bruce Collins Elementary. 

I'm pretty sure Beacon Tree is that stupid huge one..  Bigger than Ford, if I recall correctly?

12:44

Why does MALOW get its own wiki page when none of the other junior highs do?  At least all of the highschools have wiki pages.

The summer of 2008, demolition took place in the school to fix the walls and outdated classrooms to better the learning experience.

Many of these same modifications have taken place at the school’s sister school, Dwight D. Eisenhower high school, which was dedicated in 1972 and has the same floor plan. The buildings are so alike, in fact, that in the early 70s, the same lockers in both buildings had interchangeable combinations.

Interchangeable coms!?  Hahaha, Wikipedia, I love you.

Hah, Stevenson calls Ford's pool home.  Take that.

In 2004, the school’s locally-famous circle drive was modified to make way for construction on the new Performing arts center on the Clinton River Road front of the school. The performing arts center dramatically modifies the aesthetic front of the school. It officially opened in the Fall of the 2007-2008 school year and holds 800 patrons featuring modern touches and state of the art lighting and sound systems. The new center debuted officially with the musical, Into the Woods, in the December 2007.

Locally famous, eh?  Perhaps for the end-of-the-year senior circle that would back up traffic on Clinton River.. =P

Nicknames

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Henry Ford II High School was known locally as "Suicide High". Although the name is fading, October 22nd 2007 marked the 10th anniversary of a series of 5 suicides that took place between June and October of 1997. on October 22nd 1997, A 15 year old freshman was the last to take her life.

Henry Ford II High School also has many novelty nicknames, such as "H.F. Two" and "H.F. Deuce", which are variations of namesake Henry Ford II

HAHA WHAT I remember when that.. Brian? kid took his life in October of 2002, my freshman year.  That was a pretty weird day.

OH MAN!  The school's website has barely changed from when I used to work on it!  And... the opening flash has a picture of..  !!  Is that Poop-Pants?!  Her name was.. Rachel something or other, I'd have to break out a yearbook but they're all at home.  Anyway, story has it that she pooped her pants at a party or something and thus transferred schools for a year or two...  RACHEL SPICA HAHAHA I just remembered. =P And then Brittney from S.O. is in another picture.  Weird...  I think the girl sitting next to Poop-Pants is.. Erin Glaros?  Looks kinda like her.  Haha, I remember when she first transferred to Browning Elementary and David Shirley had the biggest crush on "Elmo Girl" as he called her, due to her Elmo backpack, I think?  Oh, the good ol' days, eh?

Oof.. not feeling too well after eating this turkey pita sandwich thing..  The hunger I felt did feel kind of off... but.. still..  I'd rather have food in me than not..  I just hope it stays in me..  I really need to get to bed early tonight..  If only to feel well..

Going to the bike shop today after work with Casey to get a new chain for my bike.  Old chain was rusted fairly nicely, so..  off it goes.  Next I need to borrow Joy's bike pump and inflate my tires.  Then perhaps I could ride to the lake and such!

14:06

Linux-ts is really slow today for some reason.  Makes my tests take a lto longer than they should..  I've even had to stick afew more delays in the one..  I am so tired right now it's not even funny..  I've done this before and it's never been this bad...  Right after the bikeshop I need to fold laundry, make my bed, and go to sleep right away.  If Jacki's on I should apologize to her.. maybe giber her one of the things I wrote?  Probably.  Definitely.  She deserves something for me skirting (?) out like this...

It iwll be nice to have a new chain for my bike, but will I ever actually use my bike?  Hopefully someone organizes like bike rides or something, that would be pretty awesome.

14:26

I just gotta keep myself doing something for the next two hours and twenty minuntes.  I hope these last days of work go by quickly.  Half the reason I'm falling asleep here is because there's nothing to do. 

I'm actually writing this out by hand at the moment.  I've got AutoTester running through both scripts and that should take some time.  I'm writing on the back of the Race Judicata information packet.

Besides, when linux-ts is slow, these scripts work flawlessly.  I whipped up some quick documentation earlier today and that is just about done too...

14:36

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14:46

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14:56

Oh god, did I just get all poetic?  I haven't done that since... oh.. the eighth grade.

This is keeping me up pretty well, physical pen on paper action.  It's good stuff it is.

So this whole eight hours a day thing definitely ain't that bad once ya get used to it.  I could easily see this week flying (and it damn well better).

But the day may come when you got something to lose
And just when you think you're done payin' dues
You say to yourself "dear god what have I done"
And hope it's not too late 'cause tomorrow may never come
Reach for the Sky
'cause tomorrow may never come

15:09

Ah it's been too long since I've written.. like old-fashioned pen and paper.  It's a good feeling.  I feel much more expressive (albeit slower..) this way.  Too bad it's all going to get typed up anyway.

For some reason half these 'search' buttons are being hit...  They get focused, but not hit or activated I guess the word would be.  This is temporarily remedied by my hitting enter, but since this script is supposed to be automated while no one's here, this is going to be a problem.

15:47

One more hour.

16:40

I think...  I think I spent the last hour eighty-percent asleep.. 

I have received a total of four emails today.  Two PNNs at ten, and then another two at eleven-thirty.  I.. have basically finished my second AutoTester script.  A lot earlier than I had planned.. 

13:18

About seventeen minutes for the second script.. twelve for the first?  I SHOULD RUN THEM BACK TO BACK CONSTANTLY

About four hours left..  Meaning four are gone already..

I think I am going to nap so hard when I get home.  I've been staying up way too late lately, but.. you know, I ain't complaining.  I need to grab Corey's TV from Joy and stick it somewhere in my room...  I need to put all my shit somewhere...  I'm taking up the entire room, and I'll have a roommate in a week... 

14:28

It just took twenty minute this time.

14:58

From: Hogan, Jon
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:43PM
To: Testing(SQA)
Subject: RE: RE: Tutorial

Tony:

I'm dissapointed, you're just being too nice. Think harder, there must be something wrong. Think like a tester! Besides, you're a short-timer anyway, what have you got to lose?

PS: All in jest, thanks for the review!

-----Original Message-----
From: Lademan, Anthony
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:18 PM
To: Testing (SQA)
Subject: RE: RE: Tutorial

That looks very good, I couldn't find anything wrong with it or think of any suggestions.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Rashid, Mustafa
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:12 PM
To: Testing (SQA)
Subject: RE: Tutorial

Hello Everybody,

I just finished with a tutorial for creating a new work request. Please have a look at it. As always, any and every suggestion is most welcome.
Thank You.

<\\Dhcp\42-InfoTech\SQA\Testing> - SharedFiles\New WR Tutorial\New WR.htm

...what?

I apologize, it's the end of the week, I'm awfully tired, I might write more next week.  Probably not.

15:21

Sweet dreams are made of these
who am I to disagree?

15:51

An hour ten. 

16:44

The start timestamp on the first test says "4:15:31 PM" and the end timestamp on the second test says "4:44:20 PM."

This thing runs for half an hour.  That's pretty awesome. 

I guess that means it's documentation time, tomorrow?

I'm mostly moved into my new room.  The hall smells like wet mop, there's no screen on my window (is this the room that was burglarized earlier this month?), I can't use the bathroom on my floor because there are still some girls living here (summer orientation?), the water from the second south showers smells.. musty (and thus leaves a musty smell on me..  plus my palms seem really dry, but just my palms, I don't know if that's related).  I got all the essential stuff set up yesterday, gotta grab the rest of the miscellaneous stuff today.  I wonder how I am going to hold on to two fridges and a TV..  That will be fun.. 

I am going to be so lonely in here!  My roommate comes in in a week and a few days, so I've got a week alone.  That'll be fun.  Going to/from work from/to an empty room.  I'm really not looking forward to moving the rest of my stuff..  I am so lazy...

9:53

I came into work this morning and had a single email: the four o'clock PNN email that I forgot to mark as read the night before..  While testing my script I remembered back to my first couple of weeks here where I would just read cases and outcomes in Jury Verdict to pass the time.  I might start doing that again.  I wonder if my boss will notice if I start spending half an hour less each day on this stupid automation work request (we have to log our time spent on each Work Request in the timesheet application).  I have six (seven including today) days left, that's NOT enough time to start another full-fledged script such as this.  I guess I could start another small one and leave it for someone else to finish?  I dunno..  It's just that I've spent basically the last.. three? weeks on this.  However long it's been since we were on the fifth floor.  To do another such script would require maybe a few days shy of the same time frame (the few days were dedicated to learning the software, which was easy as hell to learn). 

Last night I went to ask the RA (didn't know he was the RA at the time) whether we could use the bathroom or not while the girls were still on the floor and came out of it twenty minutes later with a potential internship for the.. forseeable future, really (that would also develop into an actual job thing if I do well enough).  It would only be about fifteen to twenty hours a week, so that should be doable with school.  Though if I get this, I'll probably not be able to work at the reg. office, either at all or very much..  I hope the internship is paid o_O

I am excited.  Totally did not expect that.  He was all "say, do you know linux?" "I run it on my laptop and desktop.." "ok, how would you make something start up at runtime?" "put it in /etc/init.d/rc.local" "cool cool"

...wat o_o

This would be really cool as it sounds like mostly linux system and server administation and management.  Zac, the RA, says that they mostly deal with hardware from Dell and HP (and not IBM), and often have to make special requests for hardware without a framebuffer, as they do all of their stuff on the commandline.  I am comfortable on the commandline, but there is still a ton I need to learn.

Oh, there's the ten o'clock PNN getting my hopes up that maybe I have a new WR or something..

But yeah, this is a really cool oppourtunity, I really hope it works out. 

10:06

I guess I could make a little script that runs through a bunch of searches and stuff trying to trigger as many billing codes as possible?  The only problem with AutoTester is that it can't really pull data from a spreadsheet, which is how Golden32 outputs the SQL data from the server.. :/ The script could just run through the searches and then the tester could load up Golden32 and look for the proper codes at the right times (the script would leave a log file that would tell the tester what to look for).  Actually, the script could launch Golden32 and put in the proper query after the search is done so that the tester only has to sit down and compare the log to the SQL output...  HMMM!  This might work.

I am excited that my last week hear has a chance of not being completely boring.

FLASH! aaahhaaaa Savior of the universe!
FLASH! aaahhaaaa He'll save everyone one of us!
FLASH! aaahhaaaa He's a miracle!
FLASH! aaahhaaaa King of the impossible! (???)

Now I want to watch the 1980s (?) Flash Gordon. 

10:26

This makes me laugh.

There doesn't seem to be a way to concatenate text variables in this thing... this will be fun.

10:43

Looks this will provide me with hours of activity.  Hopefully a week's worth of hours.

11:39

I just love it when programs freeze while I'm using them and I don't remember the last time I saved my work.  Goddamnit.

Why.. do some of these Chrono Trigger remixes sound.. vastly different that I remember them sounding?  It's weird...

12:12

So many different lunches smell so good right now..  And here I am stuck with my turkey deli sandwich from Center Court..  I am tempted to go to Chipotle again.. those burritos are delicious AND filling.  And lord knows I could go for something filling right about now.

12:29

Or a burger.  A burger sounds really good too.  Too bad I don't know of any good burger places around here..

13:13

OH THAT BURRITO TOTALLY HIT THE SPOT YUMYUMYUM

13:39

King PoppelDoppelous led the PoppelDoppelonians from PoppelDoppelopolis, the capital of PoppelDoppelonia.

14:52

About an hour after that burrito.. I was hit with a major sleep wave...

15:12

Huh.  Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb) is on a late July This Week in Tech.  He seems like a pretty cool guy, not trying to sell Microsoft at every word.  It's.. kind of refreshing.  It's a neat discussion about the recent E3 (which was widely regarded as a failure..).

I put like two hours into this new script and then.. I crashed.  Crashed as in lost desire to work on it some more. 

16:15

Oh wow..  This new script is already up to about fifteen minutes of runtime... at about 60% the lines of code (including white space) of the other script.  That's... scary.  Though I guess it makes sense, most of the time is spent on SLJ right now, and SLJ is slow as balls.  Searching overall is slow, but especially on SLJ.  With some of these apps... I could easily see the script reaching twenty minutes of runtime...  Holy crap..  These are probably the longest runtimes of... anything that I've ever built.  No, they ARE the longest runtimes of anything I've ever built.  Previously the most would've been a minute or two on some poorly code Java app sometime freshman year or maybe during sophomore fall semester...

Ya get your money for nothing
Your chicks for free
(look at that! look at that!)
Ya get your money for nothing
Your chicks for free
(I want my.. I want my.. I want my MTV...)

One good thing about this script is that it dosn't open any extra windows and then alt+f4 them... though when it's supposed to press the search button it seems to press enter while notepad is focused, even though I didn't tell it to press enter to trigger the search... :/

16:30

"Come Down" (The Pillows) started playing as I tilted my head back to look at the ceiling.  There are cracks and stuff all up there.  I briefly thought it'd be awesome if the ceiling fell.  Then I remembered I'm still under it.

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This script is twelve minutes when it fails on the last search.  I'm betting that last search will add at least another minute to it... so... wow.  This one is going to get huge.  That's all I should do on my last day is just run both scripts back to back, all day, "making sure they work." 

For some reason this script keeps failing to wait for the page to load on the last search.  Whatever, that's tomorrow's quest.

!! I completely forgot!  HAHAHA.

..I'm beginning to log into my site with 'alademan' instead of 'satoshi'..  This is bothersome.