Posting from Wii
AndrAIa dead. Feldspar no X (few sites work well with links), flaky stolen wifi.
Ordered Ophiuchus. I hope. Money I need for rent.. newegg/Charter One constantly declining my card. Newegg claims C1's fault; C1 newegg.
CMC still hasn't approved resume. Cannot upload files (to monster.com) from Wii.
Dumb.
I miss Sarah.
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I'M MOVING INTO MY APARTMENT
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Beans at Six
Assignment three for this class consists majorly of learning how to develop Java Beans and minorly of learning NetBeans and JSP. Once I figured out what I was doing, the first two parts were easy. The second two parts look to be as well, I just really wish to get to sleep right about now, but it looks like Sarah has taken the whole bed :/
Based on how I go about it, our one month is on Wednesday (the 29th to the 29th). Her point of view is that our one month is four weeks after the 29th of March. Either way, we ended up celebrating (I guess?) today (Saturday) because doing things on a Wednesday is just kinda lame, since there's school all over the place during the week.
She was alerted to this ice cream place on the north side by the name of iCream by (a friend | TechNews | I don't know for sure, I should pay more attention). The main reason we were eager to check it out was that they offer soy ice cream in addition to regular milk based ice cream. They also offer soy and regular based pudding, yogurt, and sorbet (dunno if the last two have soy variants?). Basically, you pick your base (ice cream, etc.), your flavorings (banana and vanilla for her, mint and vanilla for me), your toppings (she: blueberries, me: oreos), and the color you want (she got green, I forgot to ask for purple). Then you can watch them inject the flavoring extract into the liquid base, stick it in a mixing bowl, and LIQUID NITROGEN. Shit was delicious. Hers tasted like some sort of candy, mine was exactly what I expected, but that does not detract from it at all.
We came back and hung out in my room and watched Firefly and talked and stuff. When she started getting really sleepy I started working on my Java.
I really don't like my writing style in this post. I blame it on general tiredness not having written in a while.
Besides some school stuff here and there.. life is fantastic.
Nicole and I move into the apartment in two weeks. That is going to be hectic and wonderful at the same time.
When did I last update? April 20th? Hawking got better.
Last real update? March 26th? Exactly one month ago? Damn.
I bought two new pairs of jeans at Target the other week. They're both size 28/30, yet one is slightly looser than the other. They're the same brand, even. These are the first pairs of pants that sit at my waist without the aid of a belt. I have always warn 30/30s in the past, often with a belt, but it was never really required. It feels better to just have them sit naturally at my waist, though. It's weird, I like it. I also really really really like the cut of the jeans, the legs look and feel a lot better on me than my other jeans' do. I think I'm finally starting to look decent with these new jeans and my small shirts (instead of baggy khakis and large shirts). I've heard several times that if one is skinny, one should wears clothes that show this, but not in a gross way (i.e. tight pants, skin-tight shirts). I like the direction my wardrobe is taking. It's neat.
Break Things, Please!
I posted this in my status on Facebook, but crossposting yields wider audiences. Amber conscripted me to build a simple submission and voting script for an upcoming Doctor Who fanvideo contest. I think I'm mostly done with it, which means that there's a ton of bugs to be fixed, naturally. I've already gotten the obvious SQL injection one (look at one of the submissions on the vote page, it has a drop table statement in it that should've cleared all the submissions) and Richard already helped me fix one that came up if the page was open in two different tabs or browsers (just a simple check fixed it; a stupid one, but simple), but I want people to keep trying to break it. Amber doesn't need it until the end of April or so, so I've got plenty of time to beef it up if anything is found.
So, go for it. Try all your stupid little user tricks, things I would never have thought of as the programmer (such as the multiple tab thing Richard showed me).
This project was really fun. I got to learn some more php, expand upon my sql, learn how to use sql within php, and probably most fun of all: learn how to use ajax. Since voters are to vote on multiple categories, I did not want to have to reload the page every time they voted in one category, that would be a waste of the voter's time. Especially when the page gets to be pretty long with a ton of submissions (I'm assuming it will get long (there's twenty-nine categories after all), and that there will be a ton of submissions). So, instead, when they vote on a category, it'll just collapse the form in that category into a "Thank you for voting!" message and the voter can go on unabated. I like it, it's really cool :razz:
The thing logs based on IP address, so of course if you go to another computer and try to vote again, you'll succeed. And of course if you use a proxy, etc. etc.
--A dude just walked past my window and freaked me the hell out. Looks like he was checking something on the outside of the buildings.--
Amber said that the people who will be participating are unlikely to go about vote stuffing in this manner since... well, they're generally fourteen year old fangirls who know shit about computers (though they can kick my ass at video editing, that's for sure).
But yeah, try anything, everything. And if you break it or find something that you think might be broken, just leave a comment on this post.
Also, yes. It is intentionally ugly (this is Corey's big issue for some reason, and yet his IPRO site looks like it was made in frontpage). I plan to just php include() them into Amber's site later on and CSS the hell out of them.
I watched A Dog's Breakfast before going to bed last night. It was surprisingly good. It stars David Hewlett (Rodney McKay, Stargate: Atlantis), his sister Kate Hewlett (Jeannie Miller, Mckay's sister, Stargate: Atlantis), and Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson Beckett, Stargate: Atlantis; Young Dr. Ernest Littlefield, Stargate: SG-1 "The Torment of Tantalus"). The Hewletts again play siblings, with McGillion as Kate's actor fiancé. It started out a little.. slowish for me, but then just took a turn for the awesome. Especially the cameo by Christopher Judge (Teal'c, Stargate: SG-1). Holy hell. He plays such a serious character on SG-1, and while I knew he was a funny guy, I didn't realize just how awesome he could be. He really needs more comedy jobs. It's a small cast, and it's basically all Stargate regulars, but it's so refreshing to see them all outside of the Sci-Fi genre doing some good ol' comedy.
I recommend the movie, even if you aren't a fan of Stargate. David Hewlett's performance is top-notch and his chemistry with Kate is perfect (which probably has something to do with the fact that, you know, they're siblings and all). McGillion is great too (one of my all time favorite actors on Atlantis).
The Prometheus ship set/stage also makes an appearance, as McGillion's character is an actor on a really bad Sci-Fi show (where Rachel Lutrell, also of Atlantis fame, makes a cameo) that seemingly takes place aboard an advanced space ship.