1,1,2,3,5,8,13

Mmm, I love me some Fibonacci numbers (scratch that, Proofs class makes them suck)

So I’m officially 21 (as of Friday). Went out to Olive Garden with Brittany and her boyfriend. Let’s just say that, although their Birthday song rhymes, it makes no sense. I think the only thing that related to birthdays was them saying the word at the beginning to try and make it seem like it was a Birthday song.

DMV’s are closed on Fridays … >:( (which means my license is expired right now) and the place where you are supposed to be able to renew it online, straight up denied me without much of an explanation as to why.

I recently revamped the codebase at thespiffylife.com, moving to a more CMS-based approach as apposed to a ton of random php scripts all over the damned place. Once I finish the admin section and knock some kinks out I may make the code public. I’m not sure if anyone would use it… I know a LOT of people use the ComicPress addition to WordPress, which is nice and enables a buttload of plugins for you simply because it runs on top of WordPress but I felt that that is a bit overkill for just tossing up images with a title. I tend to be more of a do-it-yourself type of person. If there’s on tiny piece of something that bothers me, I usually end up redoing it all myself. Customizing things is fun too .

Right now it runs on MySQL and PHP 5.1+. I’m considering making it work without the MySQL server, but I’m not sure how that would affect performance (whether or not it would be worth the effort, because it might turn out really effing slow to rummage through arrays, because right now a page will load uncached in under a tenth of a second). If I did that I’m sure more people would be interested because, although MySQL server’s are easy to come by, some people just don’t have access to them (or they prefer something else, which, I suppose could be included in my database class).

I finally got around to fixing our Facebook application, and will probably add some more features to it during the break. Their API is slightly confusing and, even though it’s got a lot of documentation, I find a lot of it is out of date for the new site design / API. Which makes it “fun” to try and mess with. Plus the fact that I forgot to remove people from the database when they deleted the app, that didn’t make things any easier either.

Thanksgiving is Thursday! No class for two days + turkey in my belly = WOOT . That and the fact that next week is “dead week” makes me excited. Of course I do have two tests on Wednesday, one being Proofs, which sucks. But once that’s over it’ll be grrrreat.

If I Could Just See You

… everything would be alright.

This is a great song by Lifehouse:

I find myself thinking … really thinking … about my mom less and less and the months pass by. Before I know it a year and a half will have gone by since the wretched phone call at 2:30 in the morning. I tend to bring her up nonchalantly in conversation on occasion, but I rarely spend much time making sure I don’t forget her anymore. It’s no less strange to wake up and her not be there today than it was when it happened. I guess it’s good that it’s not completely beating me up on the inside these days, although part of me wish it was (masochism?). I haven’t talked to my sister in months … I haven’t seen her since we went to see my mom’s grave on Mother’s Day. I wish I could say the same for my dad, but he just won’t accept the fact that I want nothing to do with his sorry self. He makes it easier to hate him as each day goes on. And as “un-Christian” I know it is, I like hating him. I like feeling like he’s epitome of what a father should not be and that he will have is own special level of hell to answer for all the pain and suffering he’s caused and continues to cause for all those around him.

Meh.

Finished setting up the server (for Guy) at Vanderbilt. Oh how I do not miss Pentium 3’s. Fedora installed pretty nicely on it … although I’m still partial to a Debian based Linux but there was some retarded backup program that Vandy required to be on there that they only provide in a rpm package, so everyone (but myself) thought Fedora was the only way to go … sigh. I still think rsync setup the right way would have been better, faster, and easier. But no one asked me, huh? (even though they really should have)

I’m really happy Apple released the 2.0.1 iPhone update. Before, I could be typing (or trying to type) on the keyboard and it would have like a 3 or more second delay. That wouldn’t be such a pain if it were real keyboard and you knew you were hitting the right keys. When you have to pretty much rely on the predictive spelling feature, having to wait for it to catch up and see the sentence you just wrote that is so illegible you want to shoot the person sitting next to you … yeah. It seems a little peppier all around now, although 1.1.4 (jailbroken at that) was a lot nicer in many ways minus a couple of the legitimate apps that are out now.

I’m considering redesigning the layout for TheSpiffyLife, but I pretty much loathe doing designs. I don’t mind the programming aspect of websites, but I really don’t have the creative touch that some people do. I’d be fine without any styles as long as it worked (I doubt the rest of the world feels the same :/ lol).

Looking forward to going to California for a week. I just hope I don’t cook like a french fry the first day :’( … sunburns are a real pain (hah) and I seem predisposed to becoming as red as a beet. Yay plane ride!

Not looking forward to the Fall Semester,
-josh