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larence32: Hey queer how do I get music off this shit?
shad: you have music on your shit?
larence32: My shit is very melodic.
shad: then eat less fiber
larence32: Tune filled turds
larence32: You make a mockery of our fun
larence32: I there a way for us to send music over this?
shad: You have no idea who you’re talking to, do you
shad: You don’t know who I am…
larence32: Is this Shad at OneVenice way
shad: Nope
larence32: Sorry Peace
shad: later

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KnoxD08: was good?
Shad: Who’s this?
KnoxD08:This Is Dari…U Dont know me?
shad: No..and you don’t know me either. You have the wrong person
KnoxD08:Is this Rashad?
shad: No
KnoxD08: who is this?
shad: Shad
KnoxD08: wats ur last name
KnoxD08: jus wondering not stalkin or nothin like that
shad: Why do you care what my last name is? you don’t know me YOU DIRTY DIAPER PUS BAG
shad: Christ
shad: sorry about that
shad: I have a weird form of Tourettes
KnoxD08: um chill out im jus tryin to figure out who dis is thats all
shad: I know, I know - sorry. It doesn’t happen often, promise.
shad: you SOGGY WET TOILET WAD
shad: God! sorry about that - some days are worse than others…
KnoxD08: um ok…
shad: As I said, my name is Shad, not Rashad
KnoxD08: ooh okay mah bad
KnoxD08: and wats tourettes?
Shad: it’s a neurological disorder. It makes me twitchy and I spontaneously shout (or type) phrases like the diaper bag one. Usually they’re crass and obscene, but like I said, I have a weird form of it, so it’s not so drastic
KnoxD08: damn, thats sum freaky shit
KnoxD08: u do that all the time?
Shad: Well, it comes and goes YOU USED UP KLEENEX and sometimes I can go weeks without it happening.
Shad: half the time I don’t notice it right away, but I see I just called you a kleenex. Sorry.
KnoxD08: ur a trip
Shad: yeah, it can be weird if you’re not used to it.
Shad: SCRUFFY GOAT NASTY HAIR CAUGHT IN THE DRAIN COFFEE DREGS GROSS EAR WAX ON A Q-TIP PIECE OF CHEWED UP BUBBLE GUM!!
Shad: geez - sorry, I’m really having a bad episode, I’d better go…
KnoxD08: its straight i understand that completely
KnoxD08: mah fault for botheriing u

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Watched the debate last night. I think it’s the first full debate I’ve sat through. I don’t see how you can see those two men sitting there, explaining their policies and think that McCain is the right choice. Watching McCain sitting there, flustered and agitated and go on the offense, while Obama sat composed and collected (and admittedly, a bit on the defense at first), it makes me wonder how soon McCain would suffer a stroke from the pressure if elected President.

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There’s two words that should strike fear into the hearts of not only Americans, but world-wide: President Palin.

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Received a newsletter from a group downstairs that they wanted posted on the internal website. Took a half-hour and structured it properly. The result was 289 lines of code. Took the same document and did a “Save as HTML” in Microsoft Word. That came up to 3865 lines of code. I consider that a half-hour well spent.

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Two Bodies of Mass Cannot Occupy the Same Spot #1: To the lady driving the SUV while on her cell phone and brushing her hair; do me a favor and check your mirrors, look over your shoulder, anything to make sure I’m not in the spot you’re currently trying to occupy.

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For those Windows users that want to switch to Mac but are tied to expensive programs (namely Adobe’s Creative Suite), Adobe now has a competitive cross-upgrade program that lets you upgrade from Windows CS3 to Mac CS4.  They don’t seem to advertise the cross-upgrades that much and they’re only available when purchasing the upgrades over the phone (800-833-6687). But if you’ve been wanting to go to Mac, why not go and upgrade to CS4 (Aside from the obvious cost!)? via TUAW

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Kung-fu bicycle fight. This is what the intertubes were made for.

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I’ve been researching CMS’s for work. Which means ASP/NET based CMS’s, as opposed to PHP, which I’m used to. There are a lot more free/low-cost PHP-based CMS’s than ASP (at least that I’m familiar with). And some of those ASP solutions cost as much as $90,000. For that much money, it better design and program itself, follow up on sales leads, integrate seamlessly with the CRM system, never crash, and get me coffee.

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Two Bodies of Mass Cannot Occupy the Same Spot #2: Don’t scowl at me because I almost hit you on your bicycle. You’re supposed to stop at stop signs just like the rest of traffic. If you’re going to ride in traffic, obey the rules!

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Evernote is a cool little app -  I used it to capture some of these thoughts so I wouldn’t forget them

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Fall is here! Great riding weather, and hopefully, if I get off my ass, great picture taking opportunities. The wife’s been bugging me again about more pictures.

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Best example of a tange getting all tongueled up: “A fresh of breath air” - from McCain at last night’s debate.

And that’s it for now!

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/35/31_35_mm_bjs_reaction.html

I bring this up because I dropped the ball on a project that was due this past Wednesday. Thankfully the marketing manager I was supposed to do this for wasn’t concerned about the date (in fact, he left me voice mail last night stating he had changes to the web pages he wanted to make), but it still grates that I missed this. I was in the middle of doing “urgent updates” to the website for another department that was launching a product today. Because it didn’t get in the production schedule, I really wasn’t supposed to be doing it. As a result, it’s going to be late, along with a couple of other projects.

I foresee a late night tonight, especially if I’m sitting here writing journal entries rather than cranking out the work.

Ah well…

So yeah, I haven’t posted anything meaningful. Oh well

In truth, I have been busy. It seems like when it rains it pours. Work has been crazy, but even more so is after work stuff. Not only am I coaching Sarah’s soccer team again, with practices two nights a week, but I’m on the office softball team as well. And on top of that, I have 4 freelancing clients I’m doing side work for, and they all decided they needed stuff done at the same time.

So that’s where I’ve been

I can’t promise to write more. I can promise I’ll probably change the Wordpress theme more often than I should.

I honestly think it’s faster to design and build a new site, than to tweak it into working across platforms nowadays.

This bothers me. I feel like there’s no valid reason for me to have to show my license unless I’ve specifically broken the law. As I was not being pulled over for speeding or some other moving violation, I felt as if they had no right to ask me for my license. I asked before handing it over what the purpose was, and was simply told “To make sure you have a valid license.”

It seems too much like a bad movie when you see the KGB (or Nazi’s or some other facisct police state) asking to see your papers. “Prove you’re a citizen and you can be on your way. If you have nothing to worry about, you shouldn’t have a problem showing us your papers!”

Am I wrong to feel this way?