March 2007 Archives
Comment and I will:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with a song/film.
3. Tell a random fact about you.
4. Tell a first memory about you.
5. Associate you with a character/pairing.
6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours [if it pertains].
8. In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ [or blog].
How to tell an Irishman as has twelve pints:
Hey Ass-
You might be the same kid who did this before and maybe not. Either, you really showed those two guys at the 7-11 by punching in my windshield. I mean, I'm sure they're feeling it tonight. I had a fun drive back home. For future reference, you should probably make sure the windshield you destroy belongs to the people you're actually mad at (why you were mad at them was anyone's guess).
As before, karma's a bitch so don't go whining to someone when the shit hits the fan for you. I know growing up on the "streets" in Petaluma is hard. If what the guy that ran the store says is true about you needing food, but not having money, maybe you should think twice before dropping $35 on a t-shirt. That Famous Stars and Straps shit ain't cheap and could probably get you a cartload of ramen.
Still, this is the second time in as many months that my windshield's been destroyed by someone like you and, really, I'm getting kind of tired of it. Maybe insurance will cover it, maybe not. And what I'm about to suggest is far from the high road, but, hey, let's be honest: you left the far road behind when you felt you were entitled to something.
Here's what I suggest.You know what I look like. If you don't, your fucking friends sure as hell do, so find out. Because if you see me anywhere, day or night, you turn the fuck around and walk the fuck away because if I find you, I will destroy you. And that doesn't just mean physically. I'm a big enough guy that I could take your ass out, all $1.30 of it. But I'm smarter than that. I'm smarter than you. And while that may sound like big words from a small guy over the internet, trust me, they're not. I can ruin you in ways you don't even think are important now. But they will be.
So piss off. Yeah, you may not be the same kid who did this the first time, but I know your motivation for it because I was there. I saw you. You did it "just because." As a way of lashing out to define your place in a society that, likely, will never care about, nor miss, you. No, that last one isn't a threat. Just a simple statement. Remember it when what goes around comes around.
To those of you who read this and would like to help, anything would be appreciated. I'm going to have to dip into my vacation money to pay for this unless my insurance covers all of it. You know how to get in touch with me. Looks like I'm out $250. Does anyone know if your premium goes up because a douchebag punched your car?
First update in a while and, guess what, it's nerdy as hell. I'm spending the first few days of this week at the 360Flex conference in San Jose with coworker and fellow trouble-maker Jeff, UI-Guy extraordinaire.
To save you time, Flex is an IDE that builds Flash applications for you. I think the TLA (three-letter acronym) they've been using is RIA, or rich internet application, but that's just retarded. Anyway, Flex is an IDE that allows you to quickly and easily build complex applications. You do coding in either ActionScript3 or MXML, which feels kinda like Struts in that you define some crap in XML and the IDE makes an application out of it. In short, you do less coding, the IDE does the grunt work of making everything play nice.
One exciting side not is the addition of E4X to the ECMAScript (Javascript, ActionScript, etc...) standard. E4X, ECMAScript for XML, basically makes XML a new primitive making it easier to handle XML in *Script applications and offering a new way to parse XML (besides DOM). E4X variables use an XPath-like method of accessing elements and values. Neat stuff.
So, where does this leave us? Well, it leaves me still at this conference on the eBay campus. However, even though I attended the 101 (read: beginner) classes yesterday, I spent a good amount of time modifying the sample application from the first session for a couple reasons. First, I wanted to see what I could do with Flex and how easy it would be. Second, I really was excited about the software. You can access my little app here.
Instructions: Enter some comma separated tags into the text box and hit "Search." The app goes to Flickr, gets some matching pictures and tiles them in the list window. Click on the thumbnail to blow up the image. Image windows can be dragged by clicking on the title bar (where the title is displayed). To close the image, click the "X" in the image window.
I built that in about 4 hours with no prior knowledge of Flex (but prior programming experience).
NOTES: The last picture selected will be opened each time you click the mouse button on the slider controls (up- and down-buttons as well as slider bar). This is a known bug. Try using the arrow keys on your keyboard in the meantime.
