Just-a-Computer-Geek

Console.WriteLine("Hello World!")

2010-09-16T11:14:00.000-06:00

Considering the fact that I have not posted anything here in almost two years, I will not be surprised if nobody checks this blog anymore. And that's perfectly fine if you don't, I wouldn't blame you!
That being said, if for some reason you have not given up on me, thank you! I am going to take another stab at this. I have modified the content of the page to reflect some of my new hobbies and new blogs that I follow. I do spend a lot of time on twitter so if you want to follow me, the link is on the right ->
I also post lots of Geeky stuff on my Tumblr, similarly positioned on the right ->
To quote a favorite movie: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it" Well sometimes it moves so fast you can't get out of the way and it runs you over! That is my current status, Life has mowed me down and left me bleeding on the side of the road. None of the injuries are life threatening by any means, but I will most likely be a long slow recovery! Some of you might understand what I mean, some may not. Don't worry if you don't, I am being cryptic intentionally.
I love you all and hope you are all well!
Thanks for reading.

Merry New Year!

2008-12-29T15:05:00.002-07:00

Ah the time has come to look back on our lives this past year in retrospect and think of ways to improve upon our performance in the coming year. I for one see so many things that I am at a loss as to where I should start (yes, updating my blog more often is one of them :P ). See you all next year!

I am SUCH a slacker!!

2008-09-30T16:45:00.007-06:00

Ok, I just can't let my blog go over a year without a post. I just cant! I have to apologize to anyone who has been waiting for me to update my blog. I suck at these! I guess I just don't have that much to say about myself. It has been a busy year full of ups and downs. Hopefully we will have an even better year in 2009. I will post more often hopefully :D

until then...
here is a random picture...

X-Treme Randomness

2007-09-30T23:51:00.002-06:00

... I am sitting on my bed at 11:28 on a Sunday night, everyone else in the house is sleeping (which is saying alot) browsing aimlessly through the web like there was a good reason or a purpose other that just to do it. My cell phone is beeping because I just got off of an hour long support call and I have the lyrics to an Ani DiFranco song running round and round in my head. Random thoughts are floating around intermingled with the lyrics... things like:

What was I in the middle of at work when I left on friday?
I have to wake up early to go to Les Schwab to get my valve replaced on my van tire
I really need to plug in my laptop before the battery dies.
...and my cell phone too so it will stop beeping at me!
I want to go pick out the parts to my new computer.
I can pick out the parts whenever I want
... there is no point to picking out parts because I cannot afford them
I only have 17% free battery space
what are they going to build in the lot between lonestar steakhouse and the range rover dealership?
and about a million other things even more strange and random than that!
....

goodnight...

"I open a fire-door to four lips, none of which were mine...kissing
tighten my belt around my hips... where your hands were missing
stepped out into the cold, collar high into the slate gray sky
the air was smoking the streets were dry
..and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye!"
Firedoor- Ani DiFranco

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More Programming humor nobody gets...

2007-09-06T20:26:00.000-06:00

Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless.
Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.
*
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it
harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
*
Programming is 10% science, 25% ingenuity and 65% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.
*
We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
*
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
*
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-Bill Gates, 1981
*
"To err is human. To really mess things up requires a computer"
- Unknown
*
Novice Users: People who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer.
Intermediate Users: People who don't know how to fix their computer after pressing a key that broke it.
Expert Users: People who break other people's computers.
*
Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
*

And finally, my new favorite:
"If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer."

Oh dear... good advise!?!

2007-08-29T14:00:00.000-06:00

So incase you have not read my lovely Meadows blog, She and I stumbled upon a web site called engrish.com and then we laughed... alot... to the point of belly laughs and little girl giggles. I highly recommend you give it a visit.

This also has made for an interesting conversation regarding the popularity of clothes and trinkets that have chinese and japanese writing on them. how do we know that the shirt we are wearing acutally says "peace" and not "This idiot paid way too much for this shirt" ? kinda makes you think...

2007-08-10T16:23:00.000-06:00

I found this on the wayward weblog. pretty funny stuff (if you are a total geek like me anyway.
This is an interesting take on programming language. This new language is called the YODA programming language, I think you can all figure it out from there.

Instead of the cryptic c-like syntax below:

public void Main(string[] args) {

Console.WriteLine(“Hello World”);

}

We will now have eloquent YODA-like syntax:

(args of string many are they) Main is what they seek yet return they do not.

Brace you must

Written it is, the Console. “Hello World”

so at this point, if you are a geek (or a nerd) you are laughing or a least grinning however if you are not you are just confused and wondering who allowed such an idiot to have a blog and possibly even thinking that they should start regulating who is allowed ownership of a blog.
Either way, I don't care because I nearly fell out of my cushy chair after reading it on my second 20" widescreen.

Ear

2007-08-07T02:03:00.001-06:00

So maybe you are all sick of this, but then again maybe you are all nonexistent and nobody actually reads these and I am simply pandering to the collective void... hmm

These pictures were taken once again by my wonderful sister Ashley
I just had to post them because it is just so amazing to me.

This is taken the day Alton was due. (he was 3 weeks early)

And this one is one if my favorites. Just Alton cuddling with Meadow

I love the freckles and the hair.

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Dang he's cute!

2007-07-23T12:41:00.001-06:00

Time for more Alton photos!

So Awake!

Not happy so much...

This is by far my favorite!

Many thanks again to Ashley for these wonderful images.

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... Just the coolest music video...EVER

2007-07-22T13:31:00.001-06:00

OK, so these guys are called OK, GO and I happened upon this music video a while ago and it is still one of my favorite things. I even have it on my mp3 player right next to the ask a ninja videos... yeah.

Um... so yeah, there are no words...

2007-07-20T22:03:00.001-06:00

By Far the strangest thing I haver ever seen an all male (yes all male, but he does look good in that top...) group of 1,500 phillippino inmates do... how 'bout you?

Embedded Video

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He's finally here!!!

2007-07-13T01:02:00.001-06:00

Alton Perryn Jackson
born July 9th 2007 at 2:24 p.m.
6 lbs 14 oz and 19" long

He is amazing and beautiful and yet so frail and helpless. He does not cry, he squeaks. When I look at him I cannot help but kiss his little head and smile because I know that he is a part of me.

This Glorious picture was Taken by our Dear friend and adopted Sister Ashley. all credit and praise goes out to her for this work of art in picture form

Thank you to all of you who have supported us with love and prayer. It has not been unnoticed and the fact that he is here safe and mother and baby are fine shows that it has not been in vain.

Much love to all.

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The littlest Patriot

2007-07-06T01:10:00.001-06:00

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ok, so here's the update

2007-07-05T20:14:00.000-06:00

um, so a lot of you are probably wondering what the deal is with Meadow and the baby (Dani) so I thought I would part with some info. First, let me inform you that he is still very much entrenched within the safety of Meadows 'universe' as Teya once called her uterus.
here are the facts

1.We are having a little boy.

2.His name is Alton (secret middle name here) Jackson

3.He is due on 7.30.2007

4.We both think it would be cool if he was born on 07.07.07 (Saturday)

5.Regardless, if he is not born by Monday (the 9th) they will induce

6.We are both excited and a little freaked out that it is almost over

7.We will now officially have lots of kids!

8.Peanut Butter Twix are yummy!!!

...Holy Freaking Moly!!! He's posted!!!!

2007-07-05T01:23:00.000-06:00

Sad isn't it? I don't know what my issue is, but I always start one of these here blog thingies and then I just sort of disappear. Well not this time pal!!! I won't hear of it! I won't just fade away from your memory like the name of your kindergarten teacher... Mrs. um.... uh.... whatevertheheckhernamewas! I plan to at least give this here posting thing the 'ol college try' and see what happens. Of course I realize that anybody that may have ever even had a remote interest in reading this Rumpelstiltskin of a blog has long since forsaken it and given it up for dead. Aah well. at least this way I will no longer feel the burden of needing to sound intelligent or the desire to impart something of substance to validate theirs as well as my existence.

Wooo Hoooo!

That is all....

March 12,2007 ultrasound 009

2007-03-13T13:23:00.001-06:00

March 12,2007 ultrasound 009
Originally uploaded by JustaJeeper.

by gum its a boy!!
we had the ultrasound and had our suspicions confirmed, its a boy!
we are over joyed.

Eadie's cold boonie

2006-12-10T12:57:00.000-07:00

So Eadie went to go take pictures with Ashley and the other kids yesterday.
While they were out there, Ash was trying to take a picture of Eadie in a tree.
While Ash was taking the pictures, Eadie told her that "her bum was cold". Evidently, when Ash had put Eadie up in the tree, the bark had caught on her pants and pulled them down a little. Ash was quick and snapped a pic and here it is in all it's glory.

Eadie

2006-09-19T20:58:00.000-06:00

I just coud not help but add this on to my blog. Eadie decided to sing me a litte song.

to the hecklers...

2006-08-23T22:50:00.000-06:00

So unbeknownst to me(yes that is how you spell it, I googled it I'm a geek remember?) I seem to be a bad father because I did not include my daughter Teya in that last post with the kids. I actually was half asleep when I posted it and just grabbed a few but who cares. Just to prove that I am not a terri-bibble person, here she is, the grumpy one.
(mostly just when she is tired, but then, oh MAN!!)

gesundheit

2006-08-22T21:28:00.000-06:00

So I just thought you all should know that I...am...a...GEEK!
and sadly enough I am perfectly comfortable with that fact and actually relish in it.
I am sitting her at my home pc and thinking (actually thinking to myself) that this 17" monitor is soooo tiny and feeling handicapped because at work my system has dual monitors so I can have things going on both screens. How spoiled am I. I am now sitting here thinking to myself..Waahh friggin waaaah (yes those actual words thank you.)
And to add to my supreme geekdom, I just spent the better part of an hour setting up the google search and ad's (that are not currently showing up until they index the sight) so that they would match the colors of my sight. uh...uh..aaahhhgeek... gesundheit...
p.s. I used a google search to find the spelling for gesundheit and then I copied and pasted because I am too good to type that whole big word. (yes I pasted it both times and the post title too so ha!)

Tiger Teeth

2006-08-19T23:52:00.000-06:00

I went to the zoo today. Zoos in the summer are sort of boring because the animals are all so hot they are just sitting around in the shade (which I wish I had been doing) The one cool thing that happened was that we were watching the tiger in it's new cage and it was wading into the pool there right next to the window and then someone took a picture and the flash seemed to spook it and it turned and growled and bared (all) it's teeth at us, which is definitely something to behold when you are only 5 feet away with nothing but plexiglass as a shield.... then it got out and left. Right after that a zoo keeper came and was asking us about what had happened. Turns out that was the first time ever that the tiger had gone into the water in the pool, it had been too afraid and would never go near it so we saw it go in for the first time, that also explains why it freaked out.

Ho Hum

2006-08-19T00:20:00.000-06:00

I promised myself that the best way to keep this blog moving was to make at least one post per day. We will see how long that lasts... I have such great confidence in myself.
I am sitting here in the dark and trying to think of some meaty morsel of information, some tiny tidbit of wisdom that I can share with the world, and my mind is absolutely blank... So here are some pictures...

Trying it again

2006-08-17T23:00:00.000-06:00

I have tried this blog thing several times and I have never been able to stick to it. I don't really know why but I am willing to try again. Plus, I cant let all of my friends have the fun with their blogs and not get a piece of the action.

First post

2006-08-17T00:01:00.000-06:00

k so I have to post or it won't let me preview so this is just a pre posting post ....