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Self-induced WTF Moments

dylan — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:24:55 +0000

Occasionally, as I close my browser tabs, I wonder why the hell I was reading a particular thing. Such as when a wikipedia tab jumps out (right before being closed) that says, for instance, a header that reads “Bringing the Messiah”.

The particular history on that one, I think, is as follows:

That is all.

On being a Father

dylan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:10:25 +0000

In other news, I’ve been walking TJ (my step-son) to school (kindergarten) in the morning. This has been rewarding, as I am more viscerally aware that I really am a… father… figure. It feels weird-good when TJ introduces me to his friends saying “this is my dad”.

one year anniversary

dylan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:06:31 +0000

Spoony and I have been married for more than a year now, as of Feb 28th/March 1st. Take your pick.

Additionally, spoony and I will have known each other for 4 years on April 12th this year. Time flies!

THERE ARE TIME FLIES IN MY COMPUTER!

I mean, hi.

We pretty much celebrated on the 28th, which also coincided with MegaCon. You can guess where we went for our anniversary. And yes, we ate the top part of the cake, which had been saved in the mother-in-law’s fridge.

I can’t help but remember that I am a terrible person that hasn’t given his groomsmen a gift. I am now over a year late in this. :-/

New Job

dylan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:36:00 +0000

Just in case the previous post did not make it obvious, I (was) job hunting. I never really talked about my job at R-Stream (not because it was bad, but) because I was working a lot. It was fun. My co-workers were great. Two of them friends I had met outside of work. My (former?) supervisor is a great guy, and work was challenging.

I suppose that all good things must come to pass, as I was informed two weeks ago that my last paycheck would be January 16th of this year. The reason being entirely financial… This is rather disturbing news to get around Christmas, and I went into a frenzy of job-hunting, as is hinted at in my previous post.

I believe it paid off, as I was offered a job at Infinity Interactive, working with some brilliant people that I’ve become familiar with in the #moose channel on magnet. :)

Overview of Recent Events

dylan — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:30:36 +0000

Life here has been very busy as of late. Back in December my dad was hospitalized due to a bacterial infection. While he was hospitalized, the company he worked for, Titan Products was sold by its owner. At the time, my father was reassured his job would be safe. However, it turns out that his position was eliminated by the acquisition…

At about the same time, I got a job offer to work at a company called R-Stream. This was a really great oppurtunity, but it was a difficult choice becase my employer at the time was really nice. My choice was made for me, however, as my then-employer, Vici Marketing, decided my position wasn’t needed.

So, since late December I’ve been working at R-Stream as the lead programmer on their Point-of-Sale software. This has been really fun. Sure, the code base is crufty, but it’s written in perl, uses postgresql.

Working at R-Stream is all the more fun because they hired two of my friends — Possum (Dan LeWarne) and Jonathon Conte. Both of whom are people I met via SLUG. Of course,

My other co-workers also very cool people.

S-A-N-T-A

dylan — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:01:34 +0000

So, we spent the weekend at one of spoony’s aunts’.

They had these stocking hangers over the fireplace that spelled out SANTA…

At spoony’s encouraging, I re-arranged them to spell something else. Nobody noticed for a day, until spoony’s mom exclaimed: “Why does that spell SATAN!!?”.

Updates and stuff

dylan — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:03:43 +0000

Wheew. It’s been a busy two weeks.

I didn’t mention this until now, but we (Spoony and I) had to move rather quickly, as our landlord lost his mortgage. This ended up being a good thing, as we found a house (rather than a duplex) with the same monthly rent. We have a bit more space, and rather big front and back yards.

This past weekend we also visited Spoony’s family, which was (as usual) pleasant.

I really wish I had more to write about, but I’ve not had much time to do anything fun.

New job

dylan — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:53:59 +0000

I have a new job as a perl programmer for a call center / telemarketing place. Yeah, that’s kind of eew, but the environment there is a lot more open.

I do indeed mean open; both their in-house asterix dialing program and their HR system are on source forge.

Late-night fun with the neighbors

dylan — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:55:10 +0000

So, last night spoony woke me up because someone was knocking on the front door.

I got up, and sure enough there was someone there. I forget his name, but he lives in the other half of the duplex with Jason (the landlord’s brother). He said: “Jason’s unconscious! I need to call 911! do you have a phone?” I gave him spoony’s phone, since mine was near dead.

While he’s on the phone with the 911 emergency operators, Jason stumbles out, saying “I’m okay. Are you calling 911? here, gimme” and Jason proceeds to tell the 911 he’s fine.

The only other part I heard was something about him accidentally taking epinephrine.

Strange night. (Actually, it was 3 AM or so)

Odin downtime

dylan — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:36:37 +0000

It seems the server I keep at my parent’s house, odin, is having disk corruption. I shut it down yesterday, and sometime today or tomorrow I should attempt data rescue. I don’t think anything would be lost even if the disk is totally trashed, but it’s the principal of the thing…

This effects the cosine sine server, since it ran on odin.