flickerbulb

soho zombie, slave to the man, code monkey, lover & hater, and, one downright good looking bastard.

Nov 21, 20080

vyvanse

so about six weeks ago (so early pxt 2008) I started a new ADHD med, after having gone off of sytattera in about April on an experiment in treating my symptoms with diet and exercise.

vyvanse is a stimulant, but has 24 hour coverage (ish) and less pronounced side effects than previous stim-based ADHD meds, in the sleep and appetite loss areas.

it also, I am pleased to report at the six week mark, kicks ass.

I have been more productive in the last six weeks than in my entire life to this point added up and squared.

(note: that was hyperbole)

it has made web development FUN again.

(well, jquery has helps in that regard, too)

Nov 7, 20082

new glasses

new glasses (!)

Oct 10, 20080

new shoes

today I got new shoes.

keens.

and they’re NOT sport sandles.

I didn’t even know keen made normal shows, but there they were at Marshall’s for $25 and I couldn’t pass them up.

Oct 1, 20080

Tyler Durden’s 8 Rules of Innovation

“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

Oh, yeah… don’t be afraid to make big mistakes. More importantly, don’t worry about everything going according to plan. In fact, if everything’s going according to plan, there’s a good chance nothing remarkable is getting done.

They say life is what happens while you’re making other plans. Innovation is what happens when you recognize when to change the plan and perhaps the entire game. Maybe your initial plan falls apart, or maybe you simply need to throw the current plan away.

Don’t let the plan restrict the freedom to have a game-changing idea, and act on it, at any time. Losing everything may be the best thing that ever happens to you.

Tyler Durden’s 8 Rules of Innovation | Lateral Action

Jul 1, 20081

this happens three or five times a day

the neighbor kid — 4 years old and super cute — has finally been trained not to ring the doorbell 4 or 6 times before we can even get to the door.

only, now he knocks constantly, till you get there.

worse still: he doesn’t take no for an answer.

Kid: CAN (J2) PLAY?
Me: No, Nelson*, sorry, we’re leaving soon.
Kid: BUT WHERE YALL GOIN?
Me: it doesnt matter, Nelson, we’re leaving soon — we’ll be back about 8 and (J2) can play then.
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: Like I just said — we’re leaving, and (J2) will be back later.
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: *sigh*
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: Good bye, Nelson.
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: I will see you later, okay kiddo?
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: *shuts door*
Kid, yelling through door: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Kid, yelling through door: MR CHRIS?
Kid, yelling through door: CAN (J2) PLAY?

*not his real name

Jun 8, 20080

you know, for listening to fruit on

so, whenever we go to pizza king, J2 always wants a couple quarters, so that he can play some music on the “juice box”

Jun 7, 20080

dark guns

…shoot “darks”, according to J2

Jun 6, 20080

OPEN ACCESSORY!!

so, that’s what J2 yells, instead of “open sesame” when we approach an automatically opening door.

Jun 5, 20081

you know what else is cool?

so, once, when he lived in arizona — a place so hot that they think 90 degrees f is “kinda nice out” — he was leaving his apartment with xbox under his arm, on his way to a LAN party.

(yes, he now works in IT)

anyway, outside his apartment, in the hallway, was an evangelist, a young one.

Kid in White TShirt: Is that an XBOX?
Jason: Yes.
Kid: Cool.
Jason: Thanks.
Kid: You know what else is cool?
Jason: *blink*
Kid: The Book of Mormon

Jun 4, 20080

naturally.

so i’m on line at the gas station, waiting to pre pay, and this 6 foot 7 black dood in a brown velvet track suit comes in, talking loudly on his cell phone

LISTEN MAN, I TOLD YOU — YOU CAN DO DAT SHIT, BUT DO NOT GET CAUGHT

I BE FUCKING ALL MY GIRL’S GUY FRIENDS, AND I AIN’T NEVER BEEN CAUGHT, CAUSE I ALWAYS RIDE OUT TO THE WEST SIDE TO DO IT

*blink*

all 10 of us in the place got real quiet at that point

he then goes on

YOU SHOULD READ MY BOOK, MAN, IT’LL TEACH YOU HOW TO DO THAT BUT NOT GET CAUGHT, LIKE I SAID

WON’T BE FRONT’IN OR NUFFIN

i paid and left

May 22, 20080

gen y must go

`They have trouble making decisions,’ sneered GrossBookSistah’s opening sentence. ‘They have few heroes, no anthems, no style to call their own … their anxious indecision creates a kind of ominous fog around them.’
GrossBookSistah stopped just short of accusing Generation X of hating rainbows. The article managed to throw us a couple of bones, complimenting our ‘realism’ and ‘good intentions,’ but GrossBookSistah’s meager praise came across as a transparent attempt to provide ‘balance’ in an article that essentially labeled Generation X as being pathetic.

Normally, I’d be content to let sleeping dogs lie—it has been nearly two decades, after all, since ‘Twentysomething’ was published. But an onslaught of press praising Millennials for the very things my generation was despised for has begun to emerge. The double standards have opened old wounds.

Features : Radar Online : Generation Slap

Mar 18, 20080

ncaa brackets

These are listed in game order

  1. N. Carolina
  2. Indiana
  3. Notre Dame
  4. Washton St
  5. Oklahoma
  6. Louisville
  7. Butler
  8. American
  9. Kansas
  10. Kent St
  11. Clemson
  12. Vanderbilt
  13. USC
  14. Wisconsin
  15. Davidson
  16. Georgetown
  17. Memphis
  18. Miss. St
  19. Michigan St
  20. Pittsburgh
  21. Marquette
  22. Stanford
  23. St Marys
  24. Texas
  25. UCLA
  26. BYU
  27. Drake
  28. Connecticut
  29. Purdue
  30. Xavier
  31. Arizona
  32. Belmont
  33. N. Carolina
  34. Notre Dame
  35. Louisville
  36. Butler
  37. Kansas
  38. Clemson
  39. Wisconsin
  40. Georgetown
  41. Memphis
  42. Michigan St
  43. Stanford
  44. Texas
  45. UCLA
  46. Drake
  47. Purdue
  48. Arizona
  49. Notre Dame
  50. Butler
  51. Kansas
  52. Georgetown
  53. Memphis
  54. Stanford
  55. UCLA
  56. Purdue
  57. Butler
  58. Kansas
  59. Stanford
  60. UCLA
  61. Kansas
  62. Stanford
  63. Stanford
  64. Tie Breaker: 112 points
Mar 10, 20080

new contacts!

i just ordered new contacts, and i am stoked.

i miss being able to see and wear sunglasses.

horray!

Feb 22, 20081

i am ready for srping

and i am ready to never have winter again.
:-(

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