the kitchen sink

I’m at my girlfriend’s parents house. Best Thanksgiving in a long time. I hope yours is going well, too!

My laptop battery is my sleep timer. “battery is almost dead, go to sleep.” Thank you battery, I think I will!

Dear TKS,

I woke up this morning, early, to go and vote in this election. Its a right given in this country and I like to flex it when I can. As such, I got ready, went to go outside and lo and behold, its raining. Is it a good or bad omen to have rain on election day? Normally when I leave in the morning a spot of sunshine follows me around all day every day, but not today. For today my inverted Eeyore was turned around and I got to experience the joy of walking and driving in the rain. Yes as I’m elated about waiting outside in the rain for an hour to vote, I find out that the voting booths have been moved deeper inside so we can all wait in the foyer of city hall. Alas, my adventure was not be.

Although, I quickly found out another adventure was planned for me: for the first time I had to wait in a line to vote. Never in any other election did I have to wait in a line. I got to my polling place around 6:50am, the poling place didn’t open up until about 7:05am. At that point the line was about 120 to 150 people long, with that in mind it actually went quite quickly only taking about an hour to get the front of the line and cast my votes.

No matter the outcome, I’m glad I got to vote and I’m glad so many people came out to vote. How was your day TKS?

Have fun!
-pyro

Speaking of WoW Minis, if anyone wants to help me with my “wowhead for minis” project I could use some help gathering data on some minis and their abilities.

http://darrgotek.com/wow_minis/index.php (for the security minded, you can use this link, just add an exception)

Yes, you’ll need to create an account, but it does allow you to edit minis and their abilities and keep a checklist going of what you do (and don’t) have. Right now it really needs the ability data. The ability creation section is fairly straight forward, I recommend looking through a few of the abilities in there if something isn’t clear though (Specifically Flash of Light and Flight). In theory, the actual mini’s input are laid out just like their cards. If the input for minis or abilities isn’t clear please let me know and I’ll try to explain it. And yes, the plus and minus signs in the checklist do work.

This is a side project to my side projects and I tend to only do development and push patches Saturday and Monday. That said the goal is to have this up and running as “soon” as I can. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me or leave a comment here!

So, I played Fable II over the weekend, and got some time to sit down and finish it last night. That was one quick story. A little let down by the last “boss” but then I remember that this isn’t Chrono (Trigger|Cross) so my expectations should be low, and that make me feel better. I’m really hoping that the “open ended-ness” kicks in now and I can go around and start basically buying out cities…

While the story was very short, it makes for some fairly high replayability it would seem. I could go back this weekend and bust out a game and be evil this time, or go be a full magic user with horrible physical attributes (although I’d probably still put as many points as I could into health). More likely I will play the next game as a sniper, or even more likely a thief sniper and try to sneak around everywhere. That is, assuming I can put up with the paper thin story again…

xkcd is getting updated everyday this week, starting with this post: http://xkcd.com/494/

This is gonna be awesome.

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/security/spring-security-samples-ldap/

Bookmarking for myself as much as anything else!

How do you explain to someone that grew up in one of the most financially successful decades America has ever seen what money really means and how to handle money? Or better yet defining success, what family means, and what nationalism actually means. Then again, I wonder how many people don’t understand what being a patriot means vs being a nationalist…

BlizzCon and WoW Mini’s followup stories are to come “shortly” after I get some time

Here’s a run down of this last week:

10/10 – BlizzCon
10/11 – BlizzCon
10/12 – Leveling my Druid
10/13 – Hitting 70
10/14 – WoW Patch, getting Epic Mount
10/15 – Killing Illidan (2 days after hitting 70!)
10/16 – Rehearsal
10/17 – Girlfriend’s Grandparent’s birthday
10/18 – Bones West & Hanging out with my Grandma
10/19 – Church & ????

I’ve had 0 time to write or program. So it looks like Sunday will be the day to get caught up…

Edit: Missed Bones West and Church. But my Druid got the trash mace from Hyjal and I got quite a bit of programing done. I might even have new projects to showcase soon! Assuming I don’t do another raid tonight, since I haven’t really raided at all this year its nice to do it just as a fun thing.

So, I’m archiving and starting over. No one has visited many of the files on my web server in a very, very long time. As such, I’m archiving and deleting everything save my blogs. That includes old forums and projects that I’ve abandoned. Hopeful this will allow me to refocus my efforts and go back to creating products with actual quality and meaning.

The first of these projects is iPhoto for the web named “H1.R0″ that will allow me to show of my kitty (for whom the projects is names) much quicker and easier.

This should be followed by “The Game Checklist” and hopefully some UI upgrades around the site.

Update: I’m in the processes of starting over.