Saturday, July 17, 2004

yeah see it's y'all what be clogging up the works with the world wide fortress domination. maybe we could get a bunch of the WWJD overruns and make them say WWFD with a sharpie or something.

so how is apartment hunting going, mark? how's that knee going, martin? i want one of the GBASPs that look like the NES controller so badly. mmm. hot.

brad i was thinking about absentmind.net the other day myself. mainly how fuckingly rad it was. you need to rewrite it, stat. i bought another domain which i do absolutely nothing with (so far): boozecouncil.org. chris lumens and i are gonna start writing the official gazette of the north american booze council, both a print version and one online. or something. i'm sure we'll get working on that real soon now in our ample free time.

mikex0r how is the carsio wordbank g50 treating you? does it translate real good from engrish to slope and back again?

So Rich bought a fish. that is pretty cool, i guess. frankly, though, fish are pretty lame. they just sort of swim. and have mouths that go moom moom moom. whatever. time to suck dick now.

man alive we have some incredibly good food in chicago. mm. the other night we had twinkie wiener sammiches. delicious.

i tried to use excel at work to go through a bunch of tedious-assed calculations for our two-slot floor anchor weld stress analysis, but lo and behold it failed mightily because excel is a piece of ass. i tried to bootleg nikki's version of matlab but to no avail. they tried to foist mathcad on me but i gave it two days before deciding to pitch that piece of shit. so i need a programming language that'll let me do what i need, namely playing good with vectors, having a non-stupid syntax, ability to do matrix operations both vector-style and element-by-element, for/while/iterative loops. nothing major. it would take me all of a few hours, maximum, to do what i need to do in matlab. i started looking at APL which is now known as J and it seems straightforward enough. also at work they bought a fish. that is pretty cool, i guess. frankly, though, fish are pretty lame. they just sort of swim. and have mouths that go moom moom moom. whatever.

i also called and asked how much a copy of matlab would run. without simulink or any of the fancy add-on packages, it was something like $1200/seat. that's just for vanilla uncaffienated matlab.

holy carp i'm rambling. we also had to get some barcodes affixed to some straps we're leasing to a railroad company. i mentioned that i worked for a barcode place for the 4 months previous to my gainful employment. our purchasing guy wanted to know who i worked for, since he deals with a company in california to get it done, to which i was all 'oh hell no, those folks are assholes. complete dickheads. don't waste your time.'

track 5 on the new dillinger escape plan album reminds me a lot of fragile-era nine inch nails. good stuff.

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