Thursday, February 28, 2008
The Wedding Planning Machine begins to pick up steam
The planning! The reality! argh!
Not a whole lot of news- we're looking at maybe April-May 2009 time frame for the wedding, somewhere in San Luis Obispo county. Books have been bought. Preliminary guest lists have been made. We are so organized.
Current Music: Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
Links of the Day: Garfield Minus Garfield - This is such a better comic!
Random Picture: Sometimes xkcd echoes my life so accurately it scares me.
Not a whole lot of news- we're looking at maybe April-May 2009 time frame for the wedding, somewhere in San Luis Obispo county. Books have been bought. Preliminary guest lists have been made. We are so organized.
Current Music: Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
Links of the Day: Garfield Minus Garfield - This is such a better comic!
Random Picture: Sometimes xkcd echoes my life so accurately it scares me.
Labels: wedding
Monday, February 25, 2008
We're Engaged!
I swear, he's nice!
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Labragon
1/2 labrador, 1/2 dragon
I guess I haven't written a post about Riley, our dog, yet so to update anyone who we haven't told about him (or hasn't come over to our house and seen the awesomeness that is Riley), here goes:
In June we went to the SPCA to see what kinds of dogs they had. We had just moved up to Antelope and the one requirement for a place to rent was that we could have a dog. We didn't really intend to pick a dog that day, but I really liked Riley. He was a lab mix that was all black, but with a white belly, and white tips on his tail and paws. He was a big puppy still (6 months old and 60 lbs), but he was very cute and seemed to be very attentive and smart. He was already housetrained, so that was a bonus. We put a hold on him for a couple days to think about it. We went back later that weekend and decided to take him home. Unfortunately it wouldn't be for a few days because he had to go to the vet to get neutered.
Jen brought him home during my first week of work. He was pretty crazy around the house and made a lot of trouble. She wasn't working at the time, so she basically spent all day every day with him. After a week or so we decided to take him for a trip to the dog park in Roseville. He definitely loved it and was very social with all the other dogs. The only problem was that he didn't realize how big he was, so he would start playing with puppies that were smaller than him and their owners would freak out.
We went to the vet for the first time for a checkup- he said Riley looked very healthy. He said he wasn't sure what Riley was mixed with (definitely part lab), but that he didn't think he would be over 100 lbs. For the first couple months we would go to the dog park and try to figure out what other breed Riley was mixed with by looking for similar characteristics. In time it became obvious...
A local obedience trainer gave 1 free lesson to dogs from the SPCA, and we knew Riley definitely needed it. After about 12 lessons, he is great at sit, down, up, wait, stay, watch, drop it, leave it, come here, and walking on a leash. We also taught him to roll over, high-five (and ten), crawl, bow (Schaffhausen!), off, get out, and to bring us his bowl when it's time to eat (although now he brings us the bowl when HE thinks it's time to eat- which is always).
When he got to be about 9 months, we realized that he was quite a bit bigger than any labs we had seen at the dog park. His stomach also seemed a bit thinner (labs are usually pretty filled out). We started looking at breeds that were bigger than labs, and we found that there is a color pattern of great dane called a "mantle" that is all black, with a white chest, paws, and tail. We also found that "labradanes" (labrador/great dane) are a pretty popular hybrid breed. There is a purebred great dane named Max that goes to the dog park that is quite a bit bigger than him, but when we watch them play together they have a pretty similar body shape and gait. Riley's head is definitely labrador, but we're now pretty sure he's a labradane. He is over 100 lbs (silly vet), but we think he's pretty much done growing.
He just turned 1 year old this month, and he's starting to settle down a little (although he still gets pretty hyped up when people come over or when we go someplace new). He is smart- when we sit in the living room watching TV and he is outside, he tries to chew on the cable that runs down the outside of the house! He is awesome in the car- we drove 8 hours to Temecula for Thanksgiving and we had to stop more times so that Jen could go to the bathroom than for Riley. We're taking him to my parents' house for Christmas, so hopefully we'll have some cute pictures and no disasters.
Off to the dog park!
Current Music: Nothing in particular
Link of the Day: Space Dog
Random Picture:
This is not Riley. Sorry.
But this is!
I guess I haven't written a post about Riley, our dog, yet so to update anyone who we haven't told about him (or hasn't come over to our house and seen the awesomeness that is Riley), here goes:
In June we went to the SPCA to see what kinds of dogs they had. We had just moved up to Antelope and the one requirement for a place to rent was that we could have a dog. We didn't really intend to pick a dog that day, but I really liked Riley. He was a lab mix that was all black, but with a white belly, and white tips on his tail and paws. He was a big puppy still (6 months old and 60 lbs), but he was very cute and seemed to be very attentive and smart. He was already housetrained, so that was a bonus. We put a hold on him for a couple days to think about it. We went back later that weekend and decided to take him home. Unfortunately it wouldn't be for a few days because he had to go to the vet to get neutered.
Jen brought him home during my first week of work. He was pretty crazy around the house and made a lot of trouble. She wasn't working at the time, so she basically spent all day every day with him. After a week or so we decided to take him for a trip to the dog park in Roseville. He definitely loved it and was very social with all the other dogs. The only problem was that he didn't realize how big he was, so he would start playing with puppies that were smaller than him and their owners would freak out.
We went to the vet for the first time for a checkup- he said Riley looked very healthy. He said he wasn't sure what Riley was mixed with (definitely part lab), but that he didn't think he would be over 100 lbs. For the first couple months we would go to the dog park and try to figure out what other breed Riley was mixed with by looking for similar characteristics. In time it became obvious...
A local obedience trainer gave 1 free lesson to dogs from the SPCA, and we knew Riley definitely needed it. After about 12 lessons, he is great at sit, down, up, wait, stay, watch, drop it, leave it, come here, and walking on a leash. We also taught him to roll over, high-five (and ten), crawl, bow (Schaffhausen!), off, get out, and to bring us his bowl when it's time to eat (although now he brings us the bowl when HE thinks it's time to eat- which is always).
When he got to be about 9 months, we realized that he was quite a bit bigger than any labs we had seen at the dog park. His stomach also seemed a bit thinner (labs are usually pretty filled out). We started looking at breeds that were bigger than labs, and we found that there is a color pattern of great dane called a "mantle" that is all black, with a white chest, paws, and tail. We also found that "labradanes" (labrador/great dane) are a pretty popular hybrid breed. There is a purebred great dane named Max that goes to the dog park that is quite a bit bigger than him, but when we watch them play together they have a pretty similar body shape and gait. Riley's head is definitely labrador, but we're now pretty sure he's a labradane. He is over 100 lbs (silly vet), but we think he's pretty much done growing.
He just turned 1 year old this month, and he's starting to settle down a little (although he still gets pretty hyped up when people come over or when we go someplace new). He is smart- when we sit in the living room watching TV and he is outside, he tries to chew on the cable that runs down the outside of the house! He is awesome in the car- we drove 8 hours to Temecula for Thanksgiving and we had to stop more times so that Jen could go to the bathroom than for Riley. We're taking him to my parents' house for Christmas, so hopefully we'll have some cute pictures and no disasters.
Off to the dog park!
Current Music: Nothing in particular
Link of the Day: Space Dog
Random Picture:
This is not Riley. Sorry.
But this is!
Labels: beast, dog, labragon, riley
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
It's snowing!
At least it is here on my blog.
Just a post to update links on the left. Now go read xkcd. All of it. And make sure to read the mouseovers, they are often the best part.
Current Music: "Self-Conclusion" - The Spill Canvas
Links of the Day: This bug is why you often can't read the full mouseover text on xkcd without doing a right-click/properties. Sad how long it has taken to be fixed.
The origin of emoticons... everything comes from somewhere, I guess. :-)
Just a post to update links on the left. Now go read xkcd. All of it. And make sure to read the mouseovers, they are often the best part.
Current Music: "Self-Conclusion" - The Spill Canvas
Links of the Day: This bug is why you often can't read the full mouseover text on xkcd without doing a right-click/properties. Sad how long it has taken to be fixed.
The origin of emoticons... everything comes from somewhere, I guess. :-)
Labels: blog
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Yay work
nerd it up
Been doing some cool stuff at work lately. First have been learning how to script Ubuntu installations using Debian Installer preseeds. Pretty awesome stuff, and way better than Fedora. Also have been learning about profiling using OProfile and IBM's Visual Performance Analyzer. Very cool to be able to actually see where programs spend their time.
I just checked out Eclipse for the first time yesterday and I'm pretty impressed. I know a lot of Java people have been using it for years now, but since I really only did C programming in my upper-division CPE classes, I never had a need for much more than a text editor and a makefile. I loaded up the C and Ruby environments, and both seem pretty cool. I have usually avoided IDE's for programming because I always feel like they're getting in my way, but Eclipse seems to be a reasonable balance of useful tools and letting you do your work.
Have been testing out some really cool hardware lately, though can't go into too much detail. Most of the people on my team are software guys, so I'm happy to test out the cool, new hardware. :)
Other than that, just keeping busy playing ogame (3 attempts and still no moon!), reading the tale of 1337 on xkcd and trying not to miss anything major on osnews. Today Jen and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary. I brought home roses and we went to Del Taco. Man are we awesome or what?
Current Music: Cake - Love You Madly (stuck in my head)
Link of the Day: If I know you I'm sure you've already seen Kenya . Now see Brazil! Marcos says's that's pretty much how it is there. Forget Norway.
Random Picture:
Also awesome: (thanks for the link, Matt)
Been doing some cool stuff at work lately. First have been learning how to script Ubuntu installations using Debian Installer preseeds. Pretty awesome stuff, and way better than Fedora. Also have been learning about profiling using OProfile and IBM's Visual Performance Analyzer. Very cool to be able to actually see where programs spend their time.
I just checked out Eclipse for the first time yesterday and I'm pretty impressed. I know a lot of Java people have been using it for years now, but since I really only did C programming in my upper-division CPE classes, I never had a need for much more than a text editor and a makefile. I loaded up the C and Ruby environments, and both seem pretty cool. I have usually avoided IDE's for programming because I always feel like they're getting in my way, but Eclipse seems to be a reasonable balance of useful tools and letting you do your work.
Have been testing out some really cool hardware lately, though can't go into too much detail. Most of the people on my team are software guys, so I'm happy to test out the cool, new hardware. :)
Other than that, just keeping busy playing ogame (3 attempts and still no moon!), reading the tale of 1337 on xkcd and trying not to miss anything major on osnews. Today Jen and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary. I brought home roses and we went to Del Taco. Man are we awesome or what?
Current Music: Cake - Love You Madly (stuck in my head)
Link of the Day: If I know you I'm sure you've already seen Kenya . Now see Brazil! Marcos says's that's pretty much how it is there. Forget Norway.
Random Picture:
Also awesome: (thanks for the link, Matt)
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
I am now an old man
It's probably about time for a quarter-life crisis...
I kinda forgot about the whole having-a-blog thing, and the idea of how you're supposed to update it. Perhaps I'll go through a phase of updating again. We shall see. I had to figure out what the heck my FTP upload account info was again (thanks Jeff for keeping the site up and around) and figure out how to convert my Blogger account to use my *Google Account* (oooh, shiny)
Anyway, it was my birthday a couple days ago- thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday via Facebook! I know it reminds you that my birthday is coming up, but it's better than a kick in the ass. Or nobody wishing you happy birthday. :) Speaking of Facebook I suppose I should get back on that... Jen and a bunch of people are on a trivia team and I am slacking off- the only points I have are those that Jen earned while signed in as me...
My new job at ProCurve is going really well and my job is definitely really interesting. It's way different than being at a small company, but everyone is really friendly and easygoing. Jen is interviewing with a couple places in the area, so she's pretty excited about that. Riley (our dog, I guess I haven't written about him here yet) is doing pretty well... he is getting better about listening to us, although he is still pretty hyper sometimes. Fortunately the 110+ degree weather of summer is over and most days it's in the 70's or so.
Well anyway... enough for now, I'm off to play some Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on my DS (Thanks Jen!)
Random Quote: A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire (seen on a random Slashdot sig)
Current Music: Ratatat - Remixes Volume II
Link of the Day: ogame.org - A text-based space sim game. I like it because you can log in like once or twice a day, do stuff for 10 minutes, then let things build/research/etc for several hours.
Random Picture:
I kinda forgot about the whole having-a-blog thing, and the idea of how you're supposed to update it. Perhaps I'll go through a phase of updating again. We shall see. I had to figure out what the heck my FTP upload account info was again (thanks Jeff for keeping the site up and around) and figure out how to convert my Blogger account to use my *Google Account* (oooh, shiny)
Anyway, it was my birthday a couple days ago- thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday via Facebook! I know it reminds you that my birthday is coming up, but it's better than a kick in the ass. Or nobody wishing you happy birthday. :) Speaking of Facebook I suppose I should get back on that... Jen and a bunch of people are on a trivia team and I am slacking off- the only points I have are those that Jen earned while signed in as me...
My new job at ProCurve is going really well and my job is definitely really interesting. It's way different than being at a small company, but everyone is really friendly and easygoing. Jen is interviewing with a couple places in the area, so she's pretty excited about that. Riley (our dog, I guess I haven't written about him here yet) is doing pretty well... he is getting better about listening to us, although he is still pretty hyper sometimes. Fortunately the 110+ degree weather of summer is over and most days it's in the 70's or so.
Well anyway... enough for now, I'm off to play some Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on my DS (Thanks Jen!)
Random Quote: A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire (seen on a random Slashdot sig)
Current Music: Ratatat - Remixes Volume II
Link of the Day: ogame.org - A text-based space sim game. I like it because you can log in like once or twice a day, do stuff for 10 minutes, then let things build/research/etc for several hours.
Random Picture:
Saturday, September 16, 2006
I am now a published nerd
Monday, April 03, 2006
Update on Life
Graduating in June!?
Yeah, holy crap. It's crazy.
I asked Jen how she would describe Boston in two words. She said "Very cold"
Boston was sweet. So much good food. I made my pilgrimage to Nerd Mecca (MIT), and we checked out quite a bit of the city. Also, I experienced Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in it's best form - A laser show!
I have been crowned King of the Nerds
Clark Turner, a Software Engineering professor was sitting behind me in Computer Security today. He noticed I was taking notes in LaTeX and thought that was pretty hardcore.
"I thought I was king of the nerds, but it seems I have to hand my crown over to you."
pwned.
Nothing makes you feel old like your little brother facebooking you.
Bryan is coming to Cal Poly next year, so apparently he somehow got his email account set up already. I check my email only to find that he has facebooked me!
Current Music: Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Purple Stain
Link of the Day: OMG Ponies!!!
Yeah, holy crap. It's crazy.
I asked Jen how she would describe Boston in two words. She said "Very cold"
Boston was sweet. So much good food. I made my pilgrimage to Nerd Mecca (MIT), and we checked out quite a bit of the city. Also, I experienced Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in it's best form - A laser show!
I have been crowned King of the Nerds
Clark Turner, a Software Engineering professor was sitting behind me in Computer Security today. He noticed I was taking notes in LaTeX and thought that was pretty hardcore.
"I thought I was king of the nerds, but it seems I have to hand my crown over to you."
pwned.
Nothing makes you feel old like your little brother facebooking you.
Bryan is coming to Cal Poly next year, so apparently he somehow got his email account set up already. I check my email only to find that he has facebooked me!
Current Music: Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Purple Stain
Link of the Day: OMG Ponies!!!
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Sony Ericsson w600
AKA the beast phone
After a bit of searching, I decided on a new phone. The Sony Ericsson w600. No gadget has been this cool since I got my iPod.
Sweet features:
+ Full Bluetooth support (headset, file transfer, even HID- meaning you can use the phone as a mouse for your computer)
+ 256MB of memory which holds about 50 (full-length, full-sized) mp3's
+ Includes USB cable that you can attach and access as a USB storage device
+ Built in mp3 player with COMFORTABLE in-ear headphones!
+ Headphones double as handsfree device
+ My car has an audio-in jack that allows me to connect a headphone cable to listen to music
+ When someone calls and my car stereo is plugged in, the person's voice comes over the stereo and the mic picks you up
+ Nice, loud speaker on the phone
Few changes that would be nice
- Expandable memory (oh well, I have an iPod...)
- Can't use my phone as a bluetooth modem (I suspect Cingular wanting money has something to do with this)
- Weird default orange color (fortunately it comes with a nice dark blue one, too)
Current Distraction: Scrubs
After a bit of searching, I decided on a new phone. The Sony Ericsson w600. No gadget has been this cool since I got my iPod.
Sweet features:
+ Full Bluetooth support (headset, file transfer, even HID- meaning you can use the phone as a mouse for your computer)
+ 256MB of memory which holds about 50 (full-length, full-sized) mp3's
+ Includes USB cable that you can attach and access as a USB storage device
+ Built in mp3 player with COMFORTABLE in-ear headphones!
+ Headphones double as handsfree device
+ My car has an audio-in jack that allows me to connect a headphone cable to listen to music
+ When someone calls and my car stereo is plugged in, the person's voice comes over the stereo and the mic picks you up
+ Nice, loud speaker on the phone
Few changes that would be nice
- Expandable memory (oh well, I have an iPod...)
- Can't use my phone as a bluetooth modem (I suspect Cingular wanting money has something to do with this)
- Weird default orange color (fortunately it comes with a nice dark blue one, too)
Current Distraction: Scrubs
Labels: nerd
