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President Cat

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After much trial and error, I have successfully scripted all the Twitter notifications off of my friends page. Now, I just have to make the page "pretty" again.

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I playing around with the new S2 style system. As such, my uber geeky c++ them is missing . . .

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I have a few quick, little one-line notes to get out.

* The summer semester from hell finally ended today.

* Pool teams, especially the 9-ball team, continue to dominate.

* Birthday was mostly uneventful, and that's just the way I like it.

* Last Saturday was 2 years with Brandy.

* Tomorrow is Brandy's birthday.

* At work for my first night at Club Rush. Mostly observing this week, but I will be DJing and running light as of next week.

I guess that is all for now.

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Last Thursday, Brandy informed me, a week early, of my birthday present.

Unfortunately, it is still being made, and won't get here for roughly another nine months.

( Buh Wha? )

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So, looks like I'll be ceasing my smoking habit as soon as this summer semester has ended.

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Like I said last night, I broke another drum pedal last night. This lead me to go looking for replacement parts. That's when I stumbled upon this :

Roadie Pro Upgrade Double Bass Kit for ION Rocker Drum Set

It made me cry. I need basement cat so I can barter my soul . . .

We need to have a benefit Rock Band / Guitar Hero marathon so I can fund raise . . .

*still dreaming . . . keep dreaming*

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Well, shit. I broke another drum pedal...

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I just got a new LJ app for my Android phone. I am just testing to see how well it works.

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I finally passed the last test. I have now achieved the Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Design certification.

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I cannot stress how perfectly this comic expresses my exact feelings from watching the Nintendo Press Conference from E3.

Click on me, NOW!

Yes, both things mentioned on the strip were actual products announced during the press conference.

You should do what the link tells you . . .

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What do you call 6 hours in the emergency room? If you said a fun way to spend last night, then I am going to find you and beat you.

I can here you asking "Mr. tp, why were you in the emergency room last night?" The answer is simple. When you have large amounts of blood and pus suddenly erupt from your ass like Mt. Vesuvius, you decide that a quick trip to the ER is not such a bad idea.

We get there at about 9PM. I sign in, and proceed to sit and wait for roughly 3 hours. Can you spot the contradiction in that last sentence? I show up to the hospital with a broken ass, and the hospital put me squarely on it for 3 hours . . .

I finally get out of the waiting and shuffled into a room. I don the mandatory gown. I wait for another hour.

When the doctor finally showed up, he was able to quickly fix the problem in a personable manner. I guess it's natural to want to joke when you're cleaning pus out of some guy's ass. He informs me that the technical problem was an Anal Abscess.

The final part of the procedure involved, basically, shoving a piece of gauze in the rupture to catch the remaining drainage. This will have to be removed in 2 days. He then says that a nurse will show up soon to dress the wound and send me on my merry way.

After another hour, the nurse finally arrives. She puts 37 tons of gauze on my ass and tells me to "try to keep that clean and dry." She then hands me my prescriptions and sends me to discharge.

So, what do I get for all this. Two prescriptions for antibiotics to take for the next 10 days, and a prescription for Lorcet for pain, and 3 days of excused no work. Of course, we all know how that "don't work" thing will go.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go pick up my narcotics.

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Hello, good peoples. I have a few items that are going up on eBay sometime this evening. I figured I'd give the good people here a chance to make me a reasonable offer and avoid shipping charges first.

EDIT: There are currently offers on the Blackjack and the Zune. No money has changed hands, so I'm not striking them out, yet. However, I just wanted to give a fair heads up on those items.

1) AT&T HTC Fuze (Black) - This item is brand spanking new. The only reason the seal on the box is even broken was so I could verify the box contents.

2) AT&T Samsung Propel Pro (Silver) - This item has been slightly and lovingly used. I was part of an AT&T scavenger hunt that used the phone. I used the phone for about 2 hours, and won the exact phone that I used as the prize. As such, I can personally attest the the phone works well.

3) AT&T Blackjack II (Red) - This item is somewhere in that weird area of unused, but not new. I was standing in the right place at the right time when the AT&T rep released that they couldn't sell the demo units, so she gave it to me. It was plugged in and manhandled for a week, but it's never been owned or used.

4) 30GB Microsoft Zune (Black) - I love this device. I'm only selling it because I recently upgraded to one of the new 120GB models. I have babied this thing for 2 years now, and can assure you that it is in mint condition. If you ask nicely, I may even forget to wipe the full hard drive of un-drm'ed music from the drive . . .

I have prices in mind for the auction reserve and buy it now prices for eBay. However, I'm not listing them here because I'll take just about any reasonable offer if it mean I don't have to deal with eBay . . .

Cross posted to huntsville, uah and personal journal.

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Sniffles . . . Check
Sneezing . . . Check
Fatigue . . . Check

FUCK, I may be getting a cold . . .

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It's sooooooo nice to know that, after I spend several hours pouring over the classes being offered over the summer to create a schedule, all the originally posted times got changed. This, of course, forces me to change my schedule at the last minute.

Fortunately, the two classes I have to take over the summer didn't conflict. Also, the first half of the summer managed to get a little easier for me. However, the second half now has to possibility to suck slightly more than before.

Now, I have Algebraic Structures for the whole summer, Ancient Philosophy for the 1st half, and Early British Lit and Speech for the second half.

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Hello good peoples of the internet.

I will be DJing a party to benefit the UAH Art Club this Saturday at Lowe Mill. The admission fee will be $5 for this 18+, BYOB event.

I know there will be oodles of things going on this weekend. I will be there from 8PM until roughly 2AM. I'm sure you can find some time to swing by and show some support during that time.

( Flyer behind the cut )

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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks for the Nintendo DS.

'nuff said

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It appears my schedule for graduation has changed. I still need the same classes, but I was advised to take the classes in a much different order. This is going to cause me to be absolutely, ape fucking shit insane over the summer.

I figured if I was going to have to be insane for one semester, it might as well be the 10 week semester.

Here is my new road to graduation :

Summer 09 :
PHL 301 ( Ancient Philosophy ) - First 5Wk
MA 442 ( Algebraic Structures ) - 10Wk
EH 301 ( Technical Writing ) - 10Wk
MU 100 ( Music Appreciation ) - Second 5Wk

Fall 09 :
PHL 395 ( Philosophy Seminar )
MA 452 ( Real Analysis )
CM 113 ( Speech )

Spring 10 :
EH 205 ( Early Western Lit )
MA 433 ( Geometry )
MA 450 ( Combinatorial Enumeration )

The good news is that the (Associate) Dean of Science finally signed my Bachelor's of Science Program of Study. This means that I can force the Math Department to offer whatever I need in the spring.

The bad news is that I MUST take PHL 395 in the fall, no matter what time it is offered. If it's offered at the same time as MA 452, then I'll have to switch MA 452 with EH 205. That will make the spring suck, albeit not as much as this summer.

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Step 1: Attempt to program something in JavaScript
Step 2: *headdesk*
Step 3: Return to Step 1

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I don't have much time before I need to go to class, but I wanted to get up a few of my initial impressions of the Rock Band Ion Drum Rocker kit. If you are not familiar with that name / product, the Drum Rocker is a full electronic drum kit that comes with a custom drum "brain" that acts like an Xbox 360 controller.

Let me start out by saying, first and foremost, that the kit is awesome. It plays well. It is very responsive. It's quieter than my old Rock Band 1, standard issue drum kit.

One very nice, and completely unexpected feature, of the custom brain is that it knows what you are hitting. The game give you a standard note chart of four colors. This causes a few of the colors to have split identities. For example, the green note represents both a floor tom and and crash cymbal. When you are playing an actual song in the game, it doesn't matter whether you hit the green pad or the green cymbal. You get credit for the hit, and the right note is played. However, during drum fills, fuck off time before and after a song and in the freestyle mode of the drum trainer, the game knows the difference between the two hits and plays the correct sound.

Not everything is perfect, though. My first complaint is that the kick pedal that comes with the set is horrible. I tried to use it for about 30 minutes. After that time, I gave up and used some patch cables to go back to my original Rock Band kit pedals. For those that know about electronic drum kits, the problem is that that kit comes with a pedal that is meant to be the pedal for a hi hat. Most drummers that use electronic drum kits use standard analog kick pedals that hit pads. Even the website for the product admits that you'd want to replace the pedal with a real pedal for use as a drum kit.

Next, the cymbal I current am using for the hi hat doesn't seem responsive enough. I'm not going to spend too much time on this fact, due to the fact that the crash cymbal is fine. I may just have a bad cymbal. After I swap around some things, I'll mention in the full review if the problem persists.

My final issue is one of personal preference. One of the great selling features for the product is the fact that you can reconfigure the pads and cymbals to any positioning that you find comfortable. Granted, in the 6 hours I played around with the thing last night, I think every single piece of that kit moved at least onces until I found my "sweet spots." However, I have not found a way to put the hi hat and crash cymbals exactly where I'd like. I would like to put them in the one place you can't put something; I'd like to put them exactly where the vertical poles for the stand are located. I'm sure I can find a way to get them to these positions, but it's not possible to do "out of the box."

Overall, I'm really looking forward to going in depth with this product. After my session last night, it's clear that I will have to reteach myself how to play the game. Fortunately, with a piece of equipment as solid as the Drum Rocker, I look forward to the challenge.

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