My Dream

My Dream is to someday come across nudie pics of a chick I know, from high school, a co-worker, whatever. THat would be awesome.

Blug…blug…

Yeah, I’ve been lax on posting. I’m hammered with work right now.

I spent most of this weekend working, and there’s no sign of the load letting up for awhile. We’re moving the office this weekend, which is good, but just adds more fuel to the madness engine.

It’s a drag, man. Worst part is, in a shitty economy, you’re supposed to be thankful for a job at all, so all you can do is suck it up.

I just gotta make it to the end of July… must…hang…on….to….sanity…

More Code Cobblin’

I’m still working on my growing suite of Web Site tools (codename mTOOLS), which has served as my foray into object oriented programming.

At work we’re putting together a web-based file repository and a personnel directory- perfect fodder to become new classses for mTOOLS.

We looked a bit on PHP Classes, but everything I found was either overblown or a bit out-of-date. I grabbed the Gallery I had written just a bit earlier.

That piece begat a nice little Directory Lister widget. At work, Ingrid is putting together an administrative class to allow for directory creation and file uploads.

I stripped out some common functionality into a base class, and now both the gallery and directory lister share a common codebase.

Anyway, if anyone should care, here’s the tarballs:

DirectoryTools (Base Class)
Gallery
DirectoryLister

Big Mistake

I think I bought 2 pounds of decaf by accident. Either that, or I didn’t wake up at all, and dreamed the whole day.

In other news, I graduated from San Diego State University this weekend. Felix Tibs has the whole story over at eyunta.com

Vid Review – Zero: Dying to Live

This is a rad vid, gnarly as they get. I’ll be honest, Jamie Thomas is the shit, Welcome to Hell kicked ass, so I’ll watch anything he’s involved with. The bonus here is that the current Zero crew has John Rattray and Chris Cole, who are pretty freaking rad as well.

John Allie
Lots and lots of handrails. Kickflips into rails of all sorts. Slayer. FS Board El Toro, Noseblunt Hollywood High. This shit is gnar; why don’t I really care?

John Rattray
Steezy Brit. John skates a few lines, some tranny, parks, weird terrain, and raw sreet, all at 100 miles an hour. We get some lines too, which is really nice at breaking up the monotony.

Matt Mumford
Gotta admit, I’m not really a fan, but Matt’s park & pool stuff is just super fun to watch. On the street he’s a ripper too, but I could watch lip tricks in a pool all day. A couple of friends, and Queen on the audio, make it another solid part for the Aussie vet.

Ryan Bobier
Another rail-filled part, lots of hammers, but not much here to differentiate the kid from the other rippers.

Adrian Lopez
This guy is so underground, he’s chillin’ with earthworms. Finally, I get my street line fix. No hammer programs here, just street skating on all sorts of terrain. Techy, big, gaps, a little of everything. Short part, caps with a proper handrail bluntslide and a big half-cap railer down 20 or so.

Lindsey Robertson
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, here’s the suprise of the vid. All I can say is huge, massive gaps are the order the day. These are some real leg-breakers. Plus, he wears glasses, and the song is White Rabbit, so that’s cool.

Ryan Smith
This kid’s one of those Red Dragon goons. He’s pretty damn gnarly, but at this point in the vid, it’s really starting to get monotonous. Big rail crooks caps a short part.

Chris Cole
Style guy Chris is all casual, Appleyard stand-up flips and all, mach speeds, lots of variety in this part. Assorted nollie and flip-in maneuvers keep it interesting, capping with a tre flip down Rincon’s big 4. The Styx song has got to go.

Jamie Thomas
I’m like a little kid when big chief comes on. This guy defenitely brought huge street skating the forefront some years back. The best thing about JT is how he stomps his landings, everything is just 4-on-the-floor. Kinky rails galore, huge gaps.

Only complaint I have is the filming. The from-the-pop, nonstop hammers thing is seriously getting old. Can we see some pushing, please? Some lines? Some regular skating? Maybe a dork session? You just can’t get any sense of the style of a rider without some pushing about. Jamie himself filmed most of this, and his trademark is just sticking that death lens right in the middle of things.

Eat Steak

Eat steak, eat steak eat a big ol’ steer
Eat steak, eat steak do we have one dear?
Eat beef, eat beef it’s a mighty good food
It’s a grade A meal when I’m in the mood.

Cowpokes’ll come from a near and far
When you throw a few rib-eyes on the fire
Roberto Duran ate two before a fight
‘Cause it gave a mighty man awful lot of mighty might

Eat steak, eat steak eat a big ol’ steer
Eat steak, eat steak do we have one dear?
Eat beef, eat beef it’s a mighty good food
It’s a grade A meal when I’m in the mood.

Eat meat, eat meat, filet mignon
Eat meat, eat meat, eat it all day long
Eat a few T-bones till you get your fill
Eat a new york cut, hot off the grill

Eat steak, eat steak eat a big ol’ steer
Eat steak, eat steak do we have one dear?
Eat beef, eat beef it’s a mighty good food
It’s a grade A meal when I’m in the mood.

Eat a cow, eat a cow ’cause it’s good for you
Eat a cow, eat a cow it’s the thing that goes “Mooooo”

Look at all the cows in the slaughterhouse yeard
Gotta hit’em in the head, gotta hit’em real hard
First you gotta clean’em then the butcher cuts’em up
Throws it on a scale throws an eyeball in a cup

Saw a big Brangus Steer standing right over there
So I rustled up a fire cooked him medium rare
Bar-B-Q’ed his brisket, a roasted his rump
Fed my dog that ol’ Brangus Steer’s hump

Eat steak, eat steak eat a big ol’ steer
Eat steak, eat steak do we have one dear?
Eat beef, eat beef it’s a mighty good food
It’s a grade A meal when I’m in the mood

– Reverend Horton Heat

Just finished a ribeye myself, I did.

Hessian Hobbits

I’ve been reading Lord Of The Rings recently, and find it very enjoyable. One of the things I noticed straightaway was the connection to Led Zeppelin’s Ramble On:

Mine’s a tale that can’t be told,
My freedom I hold dear;
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air,
T’was in the darkest depth of Mordor
I met a girl so fair,
But Gollum, the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her.
Her, her….yea.
Ain’t nothing I can do, no.

More (mostly less convincing) connections here:
The Led Zeppelin and JRR Tolkien Home Page

I wonder what kind of Pipe-weed Robert Plant was smokin’, eh?