Speaking of Yum

Search Engine: google.com
Search Words: "al yankovic" "fish heads" mp3

Someone with taste, if not knowledge...
Try searching Barnes & Barnes (Art & Artie Barnes, a/k/a Bill Mumy & Robert Haimer)

[current music: Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes]
...fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads, fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum...

Mmmm... Yum

Macbeth395 (9:02:04 AM): And this morning, I had the surprisingly satisfying breakfast of pepperoni and pickles.

Boy, this Atkins' Diet sure sounds like fun. I wish him luck.

On another note, Doghouse must've been crawled by Google recently. All of a sudden I'm drawing all the same search referrals that Puck You was. "Starry Night", "tNCt bargle nawdle zouss", "Mistress Riding", etc. That's what I get for citing someone else's referrals. *shrug* This one threw me: "sensitive male font"

Happy Birthday, Nick

Against my better judgement, the perfectionist in me decided to gift you with archive links that don't wrap. You can blame Pam for dragging me into a template-editing frenzy. Fortunately, I was able to pull myself under control before attacking my own. That's not to say I didn't spend time contemplating significant changes.

[current music: The Pusher - Steppenwolf]

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You are farking insane

u just can't deal with the idea of no hits to your site.

No, actually, I saw that I was still getting hits despite that fact that I was no longer producing. I figured: "what the hell, give them something to play with."

Things are going better for me already. Just changing a little frame of mind did wonders. I got much accomplished at work last week (though I'm far from being caught up yet). I also had some talks with my wife (though it was more like a panic/anxiety attack within her earshot). And I was semi-productive at home this weekend, too. I started cleaning up one of the rooms where we've just stored shit since we moved in. Boxes and boxes of papers were sorted through (paystubs and credit card statements from 3-4 years ago, bye-bye!) and all of a sudden the looming projects don't loom so high.

Thanks for putting up with me. See you around.

My name is Brian

...and I'm an internet addict.

Leaving a job is like leaving a relationship. You've given it your best, you've done your part, but lately it just isn't the same anymore. You know it's time to go when you begin to detect warning signs in your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

• Is this still the best opportunity for you given your career goals?
• Are you still doing the best possible job you can do, or at least giving it serious effort?
• Is it easy to maintain your patience at work succumbing to stress?
• Are you constantly thinking of other things you could be doing - related to your career or otherwise - while you are at work?

The company may send its own signals about when it's time to go. If your coworkers leave the company in greater numbers, the company starts cutting corners, or internal communications become strained, it often means a change would do you good.

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I have a handful of personal things to take care of. Things I've been avoiding. Things I've been procrastinating about. Things I've been hiding from by running away to that magical place online where everything is hunky-dory.

I'll be back when I get them straight, but in the meantime I need cut away some of the temptations.

You know where to find me if you need to: phydeaux(a)bigfoot.com is always open.

Life weighs heavy

I pulled in to Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "No" was all he said.

Lookee me, I'm posting lyrics. Bah. The search for meaningful content sucks. But then, if I were relegated to meaningful content, I would've been forced to abandon this pursuit many months ago. :-/

Ah, the Burning Ring of Fire. What to say, what to do? I've always considered this to be "Dusty's ring of Dusty's friends." That's the way it came about, that's the way I was made a part of it, that's the way it was explained to me when I said "wtf is this?", and that's the way I will always consider it. I appreciate that Dusty respects the rest of us enough to solicit our opinions going forward, but if it's all the same I'm going to abstain from any votes. Opinions I have plenty of, but votes I'll keep to myself. I will admit that I was a bit surprised to see Dayna reactivated so quickly. Not that I would argue against it; but it seems counter to past precedent. Of course, that would presume that Dusty were predictable. ;-)

You've all seen status updates on my latest javascript experiment. You're probably wondering "what the fuck is he doing that for?" I'm not really sure why I'm doing it. I'm lazy I guess: looking for a way to auto-magically update my color scheme, thereby keeping it fresh, without actually doing any work. The biorhythms are just a method to the madness. I suppose I could just setup a color randomizer, but I thought the subtle changes would be more aesthetically pleasing over time. I'm not even sure it will work when I'm all done. Can a write.document() be used to amend a style=""? Or, is it too late to set colors by the time a script gets parsed? We'll see, eventually. It's on hiatus while I get some stuff done around the office. :-(

So, Jody listens to The Band? I never would've expected that. Not in a million years. :-)

[current music: Soundtrack - Easy Rider]

Example usage of javascript date object

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Todays date is: Mon Feb 4 17:38:43 EST 2002
Target date is: Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 1970
There have been 11427 days since target date

So, I can do the date calc and I can turn it into a sine value. Now I have to figure out my display. I can do graphic bars where the length is based on the value. I can do a mood ring where the color intensity is based on the value. I can do text where I just print the value and calc a +/- for rising or falling.

Doing such a display, though, lends itself to an entire site overhaul. I don't just want to drop a little widget in, otherwise I could get an iMood. I want it to be integral, and even a bit subtle.

Per your request: tangledstring

munin09: hey could ya do me a flavor... post on yer blog my my new site addy... thats the best way to let every one know since i know everyone reads yer blog
BDHampel: hahahahah No one reads my blog, but I'll do it for you.
munin09: awwwww tankie

And, as long as I'm at it, Pam moved, too.

And, Dayna built a new site as well, but seems to have reverted back to puck you! anyway.

Happy Anniversary

3:59p - Superbowl is a bore...
...so I've gone surfing. Actually, I'm doing a little web site maintenance. I've found a site that'll help me keep an online journal. Theory is, visitors will be able to comment, too. We'll see.

One year blogging, and nothing significant to show for it. At least nothing that comes to mind. Ho-hum.

javascript date object

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So I'm sitting around thinking about stuff that you guys have said recently. Nick's peeking at his biorhythms. Dusty's on an emotional lull. Sabby's looking at cycles. And I'm thinking, what's a log for if not keeping track of stuff like this, right?

How hard could it be to write a little javascript function that reads the bloggerdatecode, matches against your birthday, calculates your bios, and then displays them next to the entry? Heck, the hardest part will probably be the display.

Physical - 23 day cycle
Emotional - 28 day cycle
Intellectual - 33 day cycle

How should it look? Graphical? Textual? Brief? Maximum Verbosity? Maybe just a single color, like a mood ring?

Hey, that sounds kinda cool actually. Three biorhythms, usually represented as red, green & blue sine curves: what if I convert them to hex and plop them down as an html color? Would subtle day-to-day changes be noticeable? Would color variations be a practical indicator, or merely just neato?

FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY

Hrm. We'll see.

We have the technology to rebuild him

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``After the monkey has done this task several times, we are able to determine, for the particular neuron, the different patterns of electrical activity when he is planning reaches in different directions,'' Meeker said.

Going one step further, her team then trained the monkey to simply think about a movement, without reaching out and touching the screen. A computer program, hooked up to the implanted electrodes, interpreted the monkey's thoughts by tracking flare-ups of brain cell activity. The computer then moved a cursor on the computer screen in accordance with the monkey's desires--left or right, up or down, wherever ``the electrical (brain) pattern tells us the monkey is planning to reach,'' according to Meeker.

Midguard look out... the Monkey doesn't need to be inhibited by keyboard or mouse any longer.