“Oh, but I do know you, Joe,” he somehow managed to whisper in my ear from across the train, “I know you better than you could possibly imagine.” How the hell did he know my name? I don’t recall anybody talking to me. I was not wearing a name tag…. Continue reading
So, I haven’t talked about Bitcoin in a while. I was mining it with my graphics card, but then the ASICs started shipping and my hash rate wasn’t worth the time it was taking to leave it running. But I ordered an ASIC way back in May, and it finally… Continue reading
The whole train rattled as we hummed down the tracks. There was the sound of a tired blower motor buzzing away in the HVAC unit, a slight metallic ring as it pumped warm air onto the morning commuters. Nobody noticed it over the rattle of the windows, as they shook… Continue reading
“Excuse me, what time is it?” the gentleman asked me as we stood at the light rail stop waiting for the train to arrive. I glanced down at my wrist. Damn. Battery’s dead. I looked at him for a moment my eyes apologizing for the delay in responding. This damn… Continue reading
I realized that nobody can register for the site because I haven’t got email configured on my server. I will attempt to deal with that in the future, but for now, just email me fireyice01 at hotmail. I will set up an account for you to log in with so… Continue reading
I’ve always been an avid reader. I used to go through chapter books in hours, not days. When I got older, I started reading magazines, and I would read every article, cover to cover. I loved the articles in Men’s Journal. People hopping in rafts and rafting down rivers in… Continue reading
Because we weren’t wasting enough money on bombing Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan? Now we also need to bomb Syria? Here’s a better idea. Lets stay the fuck out of it. “Oh, but they have chemical weapons,” you say. Is that like Iraq’s WMDs? Did Obama just take another page… Continue reading
So, let me just start off by saying VROOM! My buddy has been getting pretty intensely sucked in to the world of auto racing. A few months ago he went to the Nascar race at Sonoma raceway and was completely hooked. Last month he brought me along for an NHRA… Continue reading
Oh yea. I almost forgot, with all this sadness and drama going on in my life, that I went through foundation ITIL training at work last week, and completed the test. Got my results yesterday, and I passed with 88%. So, now I’m ITIL Foundation Certified. Now I just have… Continue reading
So, we recently had a super moon. That’s a semi-annual event where the moon comes around to the closest point in it’s orbit and coincides with a full moon. So, being as it’s the best view we get of the moon, I thought I’d take a picture. It’s tricky, getting… Continue reading
So, a ham and cheese sandwich walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a beer. Without hesitation the bartender responds back, “I’m sorry, we don’t serve food at this bar.”
So, I noticed this trend. I never see people picking their nose. Except when I’m driving. All the fricken time. It actually seems like there’s something about driving that causes people to unconsciously pick their nose. I don’t know what else to say about that… it was just something I… Continue reading
I think that there should be a transparent system for targeted data gathering. You say, “Hey Mr. Judge, I need to investigate this guy. I need to know everything I can about him because… ” And then you provide a probable cause to investigate. The judge, knowing that his decision… Continue reading
Cloud Computing is a terrible idea. There, I said it. It’s not that it’s not a nice concept. The logistics are the problem. See, first there’s the whole cloud itself. That’s gotta be a system (or systems) housed in a secure location with redundant power. Then once you’ve got this… Continue reading
I was pondering this thought on the way home from work today. We, as human beings, tend to believe that once things reach a certain scale, they can’t possibly fail. Case in point, the financial and auto industries in the USA. Here’s another one that was too big to fail… Continue reading
So I waited before freaking out about the latest leaks from the NSA. I wanted to let my feelings settle down and mull over what is actually going on before I reacted emotionally and without reason. But I am pissed. And at the same time, very let down. I talked… Continue reading
So, as I mentioned recently, my interest in BitCoin has been piqued. I’m curious how it’s going to pan out in the future. It seems to me like one of two things is likely to happen. Either BitCoin will flop, lose all value, and become a nerd’s plaything. All theoretical… Continue reading
Last time I told you all about my first eclipse. But, that car wasn’t ever really mine. It was like a temporary loan, or a really good test drive. I never even got the oil changed before they took it back. So this is the real story of my first… Continue reading
So, I may have lied about the little part. This is actually a pretty damn long story. It starts one day way back in 2004 when I found my first Eclipse. Actually… no, it starts even before that… lets go even further back… to the real first eclipse. The one… Continue reading
So, this is just a short post. I will probably be following up this weekend, but I am reading this Forbes Article by Kashmir Hill about living for a week on BitCoin. It’s interesting to me, because it seems like this might actually become a very viable currency. If you’re… Continue reading
So, I moved to a new house last month, and with that got a reasonably functional internet connection. As such, the site is able to broadcast to the rest of the world again. I will be updating you in the coming days/weeks/months with my activities, but currently I’m just getting… Continue reading
Well, I have to be honest, I haven’t been keeping up on my programming lessons. I ended up getting really absorbed into the software that we use at work, called Remedy, and the week before last, I went to a conference in San Jose for a week. The WWRUG (World… Continue reading
This is the first post on my new third post from my imported WordPress site. I hope that this is just the beginning of an insightful, educational and most of all, entertaining blog. Right now, I am just configuring the basic settings. This site is being hosted on the same… Continue reading
So, some time back in the beginning of June (or maybe July), I subscribed to this new iTunes U class, Coding Together: Apps for iPhone and iPad, which apparently presumes you to have more programming experience than I actually do (it talks about pointers, and other big words that I’m… Continue reading
It’s interesting that the title of this post was Hello World. Not really interesting, but appropriate, I guess, as I was going to write about my experiences learning to write Metro style apps for Windows 8, and it just so happens that Hello World was the name of that very… Continue reading