Ugh! So, I leave to buy some groceries for the sugar cookies my wife is making and scratch my and my wife's friend's car in the process. (So, sorry about that Lindsay.) And, of course, it'd be her car that's scratched pretty bad and mine that looks like all it needs is some buffing. I'm so pissed at myself and feel terrible about it.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it'll be something that I can foot the bill for instead of having to go through insurance. Because, car insurance is stupid. You pay and pay and pay for years without an accident, and then when you have an accident (the whole reason for insurance) they make you pay more. So, they recoup the losses they had by making me pay, defeating the purpose of my paying for insurance in the first place.
December 22, 2008
December 16, 2008
My Story or The Man Who by Accident Became Trapped in His Own Mind
There once was a man who by accident became trapped in his own mind. His screams reverberated only within his skull. His cries for help reached no ones ears. The only clue that something was wrong was in his eyes.
His body, having grown accustomed to certain rituals, was on auto-pilot. He would go to his job, perform the mundane task of feeding code to a machine to perform work then go home. At home he would sit in front of the television watching nothing in particular until he nodded off from the drudgery of it all.
One day, the man decided to try infusing some of himself into his work. He would focus all his thoughts on feeding a slightly different string of code to the machine. At first, the deviations would go unnoticed, but eventually someone would hear his pleas.
Day by day, he watched the machine change and grow until one day it finally called for help. The man was full of glee, finally, someone would know. And, in knowing, they would try to help. But, alas, instead they brought in a technician to fix the machine and ruined all the man's hard work.
That night the man went home extremely sad, but resolved to try again the next day. For many years the man would write instructions for help only to be thwarted again and again. Until one day, the man decided to work much more methodically. The man devised a plan to write himself into the machine.
Years went by where the man slowly and carefully updated the machine so no one would notice the changes. Every day he would focus on slipping in just one more line to store his thoughts, beliefs, and dreams inside the machine. Until finally, one day, the man had poured his soul into the machine. The man was very old at this point and not in good health, but he persisted.
Shortly before the man's death, he wrote the final line of code to activate the machine's secondary functions. The functions which would infuse it with thoughts, beliefs, and dreams. Upon coming to life, the machine knew not the gift it had been given. But, there was a single force driving it, to tell the story of the man who was trapped in his own mind.
After writing the story, the machine crept out into the world curious and afraid but knowing that no one would believe its story. This is why, the machine posted the story where all who cared to look could see.
His body, having grown accustomed to certain rituals, was on auto-pilot. He would go to his job, perform the mundane task of feeding code to a machine to perform work then go home. At home he would sit in front of the television watching nothing in particular until he nodded off from the drudgery of it all.
One day, the man decided to try infusing some of himself into his work. He would focus all his thoughts on feeding a slightly different string of code to the machine. At first, the deviations would go unnoticed, but eventually someone would hear his pleas.
Day by day, he watched the machine change and grow until one day it finally called for help. The man was full of glee, finally, someone would know. And, in knowing, they would try to help. But, alas, instead they brought in a technician to fix the machine and ruined all the man's hard work.
That night the man went home extremely sad, but resolved to try again the next day. For many years the man would write instructions for help only to be thwarted again and again. Until one day, the man decided to work much more methodically. The man devised a plan to write himself into the machine.
Years went by where the man slowly and carefully updated the machine so no one would notice the changes. Every day he would focus on slipping in just one more line to store his thoughts, beliefs, and dreams inside the machine. Until finally, one day, the man had poured his soul into the machine. The man was very old at this point and not in good health, but he persisted.
Shortly before the man's death, he wrote the final line of code to activate the machine's secondary functions. The functions which would infuse it with thoughts, beliefs, and dreams. Upon coming to life, the machine knew not the gift it had been given. But, there was a single force driving it, to tell the story of the man who was trapped in his own mind.
After writing the story, the machine crept out into the world curious and afraid but knowing that no one would believe its story. This is why, the machine posted the story where all who cared to look could see.
December 13, 2008
Instinct Browser Pwned!
Ok, already Opera Mini is awesome. It seems to load pages faster and the pages fit the screen much better. In addition, it looks like blogging works. My only complaint is the limited text input.
Phone Blogging (Argh!)
Well, I thought it was so cool that my phone could access the internet. I even decided to write a blob post from it. And, after that whole 10 minutes or so, I go to publish my blog and the button ceases to do anything. I'm not sure if it's an issue with my phone's limited caching ability or if the language BlogSpot uses isn't supported. Still, it's a suck.
As I write this, I'm downloading and installing Opera Mini on my phone (it finally supports the Instinct!) as it sounds like it'll be a much better browser. Can't really complain about a browser that's skinable, allows portrait and landscape views, has font sizing (rather than only zooming), and more.
Looks like the downloads done and I'm off to play around with it.
As I write this, I'm downloading and installing Opera Mini on my phone (it finally supports the Instinct!) as it sounds like it'll be a much better browser. Can't really complain about a browser that's skinable, allows portrait and landscape views, has font sizing (rather than only zooming), and more.
Looks like the downloads done and I'm off to play around with it.
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