don v2.0

Yesterday was a 9 hour work day. I finished enough work yesterday, thinking maybe, just maybe, today would be less hectic.

Haha. Well look at the timestamp of this post. Man it was crazy. We have a release to clients on Monday and there was an endless list of things to do. But luckily, it was chopped down to like 5 critical things, which 2 were big fixes. As I was finishing some off, I kept getting more work items pushed onto my plate. Around 5pm, (I usually leave work at 6:30) I finally started the big boy that would take me 8 hours to finish. I got in to work at 10 and didn't leave until 2:30am. Yes, 16 and half hours of work today, or 25 hours in the last 2 days. When I work so many hours, I start to get delirious. For example, check out my Candy Cabin:

 

 

I am tired and need to make up my sleep hours. 

I hope I get my tv tomorrow.

 

 

 

So what are you giving up for the 40 days and 40 nights of Lent? I admit I don't think I gave up last year, at least I don't remember. And if I don't remember, it probably wasn't much of a sacrafice.

This year, instead of giving up something, I decided to do something, I guess. For the next 40 days and 40 nights, I will try to be a friendly car on the road. If that sounds boring or simple, try driving in San Jose or 101 during rush hour! I have a small tolerence for bad drivers so this won't be that easy!

Look how smug that a-hole tries to be on a live talk show, trying to pick a fight. He must've forgotten he was out of the WWE studio and remained in character.

Work

School

Work

Broken car

Work

Argghh!

I hope I get a new tv tomorrow

//Update
Ok no tv today, but got a raincheck, which means nothing. At least there's a little hope. Got my car back. Life back on the normal road.

//Rant
I knew something was up with my car after I left the house today... it felt weak. About a mile down the road, it starts doing that hiccup thing, then slowly my the warning lights on my dash lights up. So I thought I better U-turn and take my mom's car to work, since I'll be too late for school now. My car starts to ignore me when I press on my gas pedal now and I'm stuck behind this red light, I couldn't get to the shoulder of the road. And once I stopped, my whole car stopped. No ignition, no windows, no radio, the brake was stuck so I couldn't push it to the side. So I called home to get my dad to pick me up but he already left for work early. My mom picks me up and we go to my uncle's car shop. He has one of his workers install a new car battery. Everything is roses and sunshine now. They bail me out again for the umpteenth time. I know it's a "guy thing" but I'm not really a car guy, I don't know much about cars.

When ever you take a picture with a digital camera, there is data embedded into the file you just took, called EXIF data. This holds the data of the time of the shot, ie:  Camera model, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, etc etc. You can look for yourself. Just navigate to a picture you shot, right click and do properties. Hit the  summary tab and click the Advanced button.

The lesson to be learned here is that the EXIF also saves the thumbnail of the original picture. So say you took a pic of you and your dog, you crop the dog out of it and post the pic on your blog. I can then save that pic, extract the EXIF data and see the thumbnail or the original file with the dog. Eh, doesn't sound important right?

Well some tech-geek hot chick from G4tv, Cat Shwartz, posted pics of herself on her blog:

 

Obviously she cropped out her boobs. But apparently some desperate kid saved these pics and as he went to retrieve them, he saw the topless pictures of her in the thumbnails.

No nudey pics here but they can be seen here, make sure you turn off the google filter: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=cat%20schwartz&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi. It's not that great, but hey, they're boobies.

I was checking my bank statement and lo-and-behold, I see a generous deposit from: 'US TREASURY TAX REFUND IRS' This was my first time doing taxes and it was pretty easy through TurboTax. I did the 1040EZ form but being the tax virgin I am, I should have done the 1040-NOT EZ so I could have claimed my CalTrain deductions. Oh well, next year.

I made sure I got a jump ahead of the rest of the crowd to get my taxes in, before I got a IOU from the government. So now I have a decent amount of money to stimulate the economy with . Right now, I am in the market for a new TV, around $600 range and 32''. I'm looking at something like a Vizio, Aquos, or a Samsung model. I finally want to take advantage of my PS3 and Blu Ray player. Hell, I can't even read the text when I game because it is blurry.

Anyone pick this gem yet? For PS3? I've had my PS3 since Christmas and the time I've spent on this game the last week probably exceeds the total time I've spent on it since then. This game is NOT a 3D fighting game as some gaming sites classify it. Games like Tekken, Soul Caliber and Battle Arena Toshinden are 3D fighting games. Anyway, this game is awesome. I was wondering how the network (multiplayer) mode would work, but it's pretty simple. I have no complaints. You can join or create a game. A game could be ranked or unranked. You can also challenge a player, but only in an unranked match. Each (ranked) match you earn or lose BP or battle points, which is what determines your rank. A very cool feature they built into the game is that you can turn on an auto-request fight on multiplayer while playing on Arcade mode. That is, you can play in arcade mode and the network will create a game for you for someone to join. As someone joins your game, you will get the "Here comes a new challenger" message and will take to the match.

I have a rant though. Lots of times players have a routine they like to do in a game, ie: jump, sweep, fireball, repeat. My main fighter is Balrog so if you ever want to fight (on PS3), leave a message.

Hello. This will be my new home. Hope you enjoy it.