Rinsefirst

Monday Morning is going to prove if I’m ready for the real world. We launch one of more important client sites monday. I have my last college presentation to make. I have a homework assignment due that night.

And as of right now… Saturday: I’m not ready for any of them.

Let’s make it worse: I supposed to fix someone’s computer tomorrow, do a few things at MSA, go for a walk on sunday, watch Nascar on Sunday, and take Amber to the MOA tomorrow night. It’s not looking good.

I know though, I can do it. I just need to stay focused. If I throw a few slides together I can wing the presentation. Working today lead to most of the websites being done. And after assessing the computer I’m going to visist tomorrow, I can figure out if I want to format it then, or later. It’s all about priorities.

I feel a little shitty that I didn’t do anything fun with anyone tonight. I probably should have made an appearance at John’s party. I probably should have headed up to church for movie night. I probably should have gone to H2G2 with Richard, or Blaine and Jon, or PK. I probably should have spent the entire night with my honey either watching a movie or attending one of the things I just mentioned. Instead, I spent most of it working, so for those of you who may have been offended by my choice of friday activity, I apologize. Wait 2 weeks, do it again, and I’ll be there (unless you all decided to schedule on the same night again).

A lifetime of freedom from school is only 2 weeks away. Alex likes to ask me what it feels like… I don’t know yet, but I’m starting to feel like I’m going to be lost. Maybe not when school is out. Maybe not right away. I think when school roles around for everyone that is in my life… That’s when things might get weird. We’ll see. I’m not worried. If I was, I would just go back again ;-). That’s called freedom.

I’ve been impressed with myself and my streak of updates. I’m starting to believe it’s the lack of monitor. I’m not sure why either. I used to blog daily when I was still working on a my old pentium 200 box. Then I got the new box with the pretty monitor. Now I’m back on the old monitor, but new box, and I’m updating every night. It’s strange. Maybe I’m drawn to the radiation. I seem to recall some jokes about that.

Well, life beckons me to slow down for a few hours, so that’s what I’m going to go do. Night all.

Well, the Earth has blown up. That’s right, it’s 3:00 AM and I have just returned from my viewing of H2G2 the movie. Way to go Douglas on this amazing feat. For those of you who have read the book, or know the story, this has been something like 26 years in the making, and I can only imagine why (the book isn’t really designed for movies).

So how was it? Was it as bad as the reviews were saying? Was it good? Did it follow the story? Should I go see it? I will try to get to all of these and more.

Let me start off the same way the BBC did: DON’T PANIC. The movie isn’t all that bad. It’s not a Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, but it’s not horrible. The movie was about 75% from the book, 25% not. Some bits were taken from the other books and added in earlier, some were extensions of things that were in the original book but never part of the plot. Some were… just different. This isn’t a bad different though.

Like I said before, without this difference, I don’t know how you turn this book into a movie. The book has a hard enough plot to imagine, let alone put in film so that it would flow properly. The point was there in more ways than one, which is more than I could say for H2G2 the book. If someone knows what the point of the book is, please inform me.

Marvin was spectacular.

As for the cast, well that’s simple. Take the cast from Love Actually and put them in this movie. That’s pretty much it. It felt like it got off to a rough start with the acting, but things seem to work there way out in the end.

As far as things that were upsetting: For those of you who love detail and live to know the book, you will notice that the movie says something from the book that is very very wrong. The odds of surviving getting thrown out of an airlock is not a 10 digit phone number. It’s a 7 digit phone number. In fact, it’s 2^276709. I don’t even have to look it up. I wanted to yell, YOUR WRONG to the movie, but I felt it might ruin the mood. The only other thing I was a tad dissappointed with was the editing of some of the funnier book scenes. IE: deep thought, the airlock, the beginning. Oh well.

As far as things that were awesome: At least 10 people (2 from my party) showed up with a towel to see the movie. They had all the key references that make appearances in the book (IE: the references to star wars, star trek, and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series (Encloypedia Galatica). The Guide itself was well done in my mind. Graphics were wonderful. Marvin was.. Marvin. It was definently random. It was worth seeing in my mind.

Read the book first.

Well on that note, I don’t want to ruin any of the plot changes, or any of the cool factor any more than I might have already. Thank you to Rob, Amber, John, and my sister for attending with me. Special thanks to Rob as well for coming with a Towel. You know, I’m hungry… Restaurant at the End of the Universe… Here I come.

In less than 7 hours, the Earth will be plowed over for an interstellar highway, A dead man’s dream will come true and the book’s prophecy about being a movie fufilled.

What’s this mean?

I probably won’t update tonight because I am in fact at the movie theatre watching this tale unfold, with my towel.

In other news, productivy in my life is relatively through the loop. I have managed to attend meetings, code across multiple sites (some of which is quite cool code might I add), and do some homework, all without forgetting to do anything or skipping my classes.

The Lori Project is coming along nicely as well. We are going to be pushing a deadline pretty hard, but we do what we can. We got 3 days til they go live, I guess that’s the most important part. Bugs, are not an option.

I think just in case, I’m going to dump a backup of oxwaf to one of the secondary servers with the code we’ve written so that no matter what happens, the data stays with us.

In other news… I have no other news. Oh 4 more days of school, 4 more days of finals. Giving me 8 more days til the real world.

At the moment, I’m working on figuring out the drivers for this weekend’s Nascar race at Talladega. I’m currently in 5th out of 6 place. Not to good. In fact, even Nikki is beating me, the girl who isn’t even trying to win.

But if you look deeper at the numbers than that, you’ll notice something is wrong with this. Something so very wrong that it makes you wonder how stats like this come around. Let’s start off by talking about baseball.

Imagine a team if you will, that won half it’s games. They probably wouldn’t be in first (depending on the league) but they would be doing pretty well. No imagine that team, when they won, scored 20 points. Not only that, but imagine the other team didn’t score any. The games they lost were all near ties. Who’s got the better team in the league? The team that has won more games or the team that either creams or ties an opponent? I tend to go with the team that creams or ties, and that’s the boat I seem to be in.

Right now, I have 3 winds, 5 losses. I have 2890 points for, meaning that I’ve managed to earn. That is second in the league with the only person that is higher being Richard (thanks to Jimmy and his streak of top 10’s). In the points against category I am again second, only to John.

It would seem, that the games I lost, either the opponent managed that week to have an up week, or I managed to have a down week by these numbers. It seems, that it would be luck.

Well. I’m sure you all enjoyed that detail into numbers, but I have to get back to some other numbers now… Mainly, some code.

I’ve started to get really task oriented with the timeline of some of the projects we have with JR as well as upcoming homework deadlines and finals. I’m finding this is being pretty effective in keeping me focused on what needs to get done to make sure it all gets done on time. Time is of course not something that should be wasted.

Of course the term "Time Management" is a joke. No one in there right mind can control time. It sadly seems to move at a steady rate into the future, and leaves the past at the exact same rate. We are always stuck in the present making it impossible to understand what is about to happen to us. We can predict. We just can’t know. That is of course, unless your outside the scope of known reality.

I don’t know anyone like that.

My math homework has proven strangely difficult the last few weeks. Not sure why. The math at the beginning of the semester was a breeze, although I lost a lot of point on stupid little problems. Eh, maybe one day I will understand it. Until then, I will just continue to push on and try to solve these math problems that someone obviously has already solved. Where is the fun in that. I suppose that’s learning though. I also suppose that if you solve some problem that hasn’t been solved, then this will only result in you teaching, and the people you teach, teaching others.

Problems are infact a future type object. Solutions are the present. Results are the past. Strange how we can draw these conclusions with minds that are thinking outside the box.

Did I mention that H2G2 is less than 48 hours away? Pending something relatively bad happening of course…

Well, bye!

I find the amount of junk mail I get on the average day to be quite high the last few years of my life. In this particular case, I’m not referring to my email, but my snail mail. Starting in 10th grade, it was college’s. They’d send me mail every day saying come to my school. I’m sure you can all relate to that.

It started to slow my senior year, about the same time credit card offers started to come. Now, I’d say this is a common experience for all of you, and I’m sure most of you are getting them at the rate of about one a week, I however am probably averaging 1 a day. Most of them are for business credit cards. I wonder why the Minnesota feels the need to publish my business information to other businesses. I love free advertising, but I don’t want to be getting junk mail from companies who I never really intend to buy a product from.

Which makes me wonder how much money they could save on postage if they would just mail to the people who they knew were shopping for a credit card. Maybe if I got a credit card for the company they would all go away. I’m not entirely sure.

I’m not sure why I’m writing about this, other than to say I am annoyed by it. It sometimes causes me to miss the mail I want to get. I suppose this is true about my regular email as well. What can you do though? Change addresses? Not the easiest thing in the world to do.

Well, today has been good. Coming up on the last 3 weeks of school now. Just have to finish a lot of stuff. Fair winds for now.