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This Past Weekend

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Ugh, it happened again. I keep over-writing. Keeping it short.

Good thing I have Twitter and all the past tweets of this weekend, because I don’t quite fully remember what happened this past weekend. Being up for at least 36 hours is never a good thing, although, somehow, I found the strength to keep going. (Her name is Caffeine. Our relationship was complicated, and now, it’s about to get broken.)

This past weekend was weird. I was up for at least 36 hours, doing such tasks like:

  • Drinking wayyy too much caffeine.
  • 44 oz MD + 32 oz Coke + Guru + Brain Toniq. Yeah, wired.
  • Scanning Bills and Receipts for preparations for the 1040′s. Hooray for Yep.
  • Works awesome with my scanner since Canon CanoScan LiDE25 software is a piece of crap: Awesome blog post on circumventing the idiocy.
  • Finding out that my MacBook Pro doesn’t like the 4 GB update. Should have read this, and all the Apple Support Forum stuff first.
  • I believe I got to crash #7 until I realized that it was the RAM.
  • To tell you the truth, I don’t think it’s the load on the processor. I’ve had mine crash when I had just Skype open. There’s something really wrong in the firmware or something.
  • Although, I did crash once after I replaced my old ones back in. It hasn’t since Sunday, so I guess this is a good thing.
  • Installed Windows
  • Kinda annoyed at the Samsung SC-MX20 issue with not being able to properly flag 16:9 videos.
  • This took the most time on Sunday. If I can get this done, I vow to make a donationware product through HanMeta for the other SC-MX20 users to enjoy (on the Mac… there seems to be a possible solution for PC users, but I can’t cling onto that). But that’s… we’ll see. So… much… hacking…
  • Learning that caffeine doesn’t actually help indigestion.

But the whole point of this post is not to talk about what I did this weekend, but what I realized I had to do. And I know, it was January, 11th… let’s keep that out of here as we talk about world domination plans.

I finally continued reading Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely. What came next was not caused by what I actually read, but what I took to heart while reading it. I don’t even remember what it was about… something to do with Bill Gates.

The realization was to be even more ruthless with my time. Even more so than I am. My ways of overthinking needs to end. A testament to this new way of life was how I went about writing this post. I just kept whittling it down and down until this post happened.

It must be because of prepping for a trip to Seattle this weekend, but I feel the need to accomplish something before then. Today has been a throwaway day because… I’m still recovering from the mess of this weekend.

But seriously, I need to blog more short posts. Make more things into multi-part blot posts, or something.

3 Weeks Remain

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The long four day weekend was mostly spent on one of two things: Rock Band 2 and setting up for projects. And the Rock Band 2 stopped as soon as I completed the game in solo guitar mode. And no, I didn’t count the Endless Setlist… unless I can get 3 other kids to go all out for hours and hours on end.

This weekend was a blur. I don’t remember much of it. A lot of late night talks with Dean didn’t help the project progress, but was beneficial. As a sidenote, he’s my third impromptu roommate after I started living solo (I guess I should count that Jong-Sun kid, because he was over constantly, so four).

Moving on, I’m hoping to get the whole development environments set up tonight. It seems like my forearms aren’t even happy about my typing this entry. We’ll see if I’ll sleep happy or not.

Summary Of Said Weekend

I have these artifacts as evidence to the caffeinated stupor I was in.

The Six Cans of the Apocalypse

Remember, the green one’s the most tasty.

But yeah, working ’til the week hours of the night/morning, I popped on the sysadmin hat and rocked out. Finally after having installed MediaWiki (it’s a little slow, I need something faster… any suggestions?), I started to document the insanity.

I bought a new”er” slice at slicehost. I love how close to the metal all of the insanity is. I finally got to see how Derek worked his magic during the days of StatusFix… er… more like I copied and pasted commands, all the while man paging everything that went past my eyes. Lots to learn and screw up on so that I’ll learn even more.

Still need to work on Capistrano deployment from the git repository. Hoping to get this done tonight. Still not sure where I should be developing… should I be using my computer for both dev and test? Hmm.

Lots to chew this week. But indeed, only three weeks remain.