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August 19, 2008 at 01:05 PM · Posted under rants
I remember being part of a newsgroup where the members would talk about their dreams and the possible meanings for those dreams. Of course we all knew each other, because talking about dreams with total strangers can be a little weird.
But why wouldn’t I talk about dreams, well, maybe I can spare you people from the gore details, and just throw some elements out there. Let me try this.
I had two dreams that kind of made it through the night, the first one was about an infestation of frogs in my house, little red frogs jumping and leaping all over the place. And the second one was sad, I watched a dog die with it’s neck broken, and that made me feel horrible, to the point of waking up in tears and all.
Kind of funny how people that can’t really sleep a lot can still have dreams that make them wake up in the middle of their short sleep.
Now back to the dreams, it seems that frogs are good omens, and that the color red is something that highlights important things in your dreams. And the injured dog thing, apparently, tells me to take good care of myself. And that I need to change something that is bothering me.
oh well, who knows that dreams mean anyways…
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August 11, 2008 at 01:48 PM · Posted under code monkey
I was listening to the Toy Doll’s version of Europe’s “the final countdown” – which is much much better than the cheesy original one, and it hit me – I want to make a time tracking application, but not one that you would take too seriously :D
I guess, I will start doing that soon, maybe one with the simplest interface possible, and just a few features. Hopefully I can make something that can be extended by other applications through some kind of API, since that is pretty much what I’m doing at work at the moment.
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August 05, 2008 at 10:47 AM · Posted under code monkey, rants
Working from home is nice and all, but it gets crazy pretty fast. Since I tend to work better within the silence of the night, I end up staying up all night long, and zombie’ing during the day.
For instance, “yesterday” I passed out on my keyboard at 5am, and someone woke me up at 8am… So I got up and started working again… or at least reading all the crap I read every day.
And why don’t you sleep during the day, you ask.
I can’t! Given that is really hard for me to fall asleep when I want to, and that people don’t remember you live in a different schedule, so they wake me up, they call me and they yell at me for being sleepy. And they say my life is easy…
I feel like a vampire being chased by hunters all the time, but not in the cool sexy way.. more like ARGH the light is killing me – live me alone stupid hunter, you can’t kill me.
Not to mention I eat a lot more… at least I haven’t smoked in weeks now. Kudos for me.
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July 29, 2008 at 02:12 PM · Posted under being late, rants
According to the
wikipedia
Insomnia is a symptom of a sleeping disorder characterized by persistent difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep despite the opportunity. It is typically followed by functional impairment while awake. Insomniacs have been known to complain about being unable to close their eyes or “rest their mind” for more than a few minutes at a time. Both organic and non-organic insomnia constitute a sleep disorder.
Eventually I’ll get hit with the stay-awake hammer, and I must say, it is a horrible thing. I am completely oblivious, and I am dead tired.
It’s like my brain has no RAM or swap to work with.
Last year that happened to me (I had several other problems to make this even worse), and I ended up taking some time off and/or working from home for quite some time… And I really didn’t want for that to start happening again. But lately I’ve been sleeping less every single day, specially with this dry weather and me coughing all the time.
And having the experience of how that looks to your co-workers, it is starting to really bother me again. I should probably tell them about this before it sounds like a weak excuse.
stupid sleep… or lack of it…
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July 28, 2008 at 01:30 PM · Posted under games, rants
That is definitely a term well known by wow players, specially now with the beta and all the information about the next expansion flooding every single website that talks about the game. Not that I don’t appreciate speculating about things that change every week, most people know I love and enjoy any kind of argument that goes both ways.
But the thing is, with theorycrafting, some just over do it, they take every single piece of information they get (even those that change in a weekly basis) and forget that no matter how much you speculate and theorize about something, reality isn’t always like that. But what does reality have to do with a MMO game, you ask? Well, spell rotations are mainly designed in a perfect environment, and reality presents an alternative scenario…
To me it is like solving a physics problem, you have your ideal world, sometimes with no gravity, sometimes in the vacuum. So, in an online game, you have something like that. Latency and hardware performance issues… That leads to a possible increase of reaction time in about 10% or even more. So sometimes you have to know that you need to adapt to those variables to perform accordingly.
They don’t get the fact that a player rolling at 400ms will never out perform an equally skilled player rolling at 20ms.
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July 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM · Posted under being late, rants
Today is a day that would make me believe in god, a god that hates me. Everything was going great, I woke up on time (what usually doesn’t happen), I made myself a salad (what I usually don’t do), I left early to work (something I usually can’t do), and I realized my car was low on gas, but the light was still off. So, I decided to play safe (what I usually don’t do either) and head to a gas station.
But my car decided that it didn’t have enough gas two blocks away from the gas station. -Lucky me
Anyone that meets me regularly, knows that I am definitely not in the best shape of my life, so pushing my car for 2 blocks by myself == woot, so I walked there and got one of those little disposables bags of gas. No harm done, now I have enough gas to get to the gas station.
Well, that happens, right? So I get to the gas station, to fill my car’s tank and all… and I go inside to buy some juice (to have with my salad!) and the guy that works there pokes me and say: – hey, your car key is broken. All that I could think at that moment was “WTF?!” -No, it’s not..
And he showed me the key. OMG! Apparently the key broke when he was trying to open the gas tank. Kudos for that guy. Well, at least they were nice enough to drive me back home to get a spare key. But alas, the spare key can’t open the tank lid, because there is half a key in there.
So yeah, I went back home with 1 gallon of gas, got the other car, and got to work, 1 hour later.
AMAZING.
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July 18, 2008 at 01:32 PM · Posted under code monkey
I just watched the peepcode #18 talking about rspecs’ stories, and I must say I am surprised. I wasn’t really expecting that much of this feature. Specially because I know how useful that would be for someone like me (I have focus issues). But, even for really large and boring projects, it’s like staying on track on rails haha (ok, I lol’d for a second, leave me alone).
For instance, take a look at this:
require 'rubygems'
require 'spec/story'
steps_for (:string_manipulation) do
# Given the string PeepCode
Given("the string $string") do |string|
@string = string
end
# When the string is reversed
When("the string is reversed") do
@string.reverse!
end
# Then the result should be edocpeeP
Then("the string should be $result") do |result|
@string.should == result
end
end
Isn’t that extremely cool? I liked it.
But it still feels weird to think of me making something like that before I start coding something.
It’s really annoying sometimes to start a project without any kind of organization like I did several times in the past, for several reasons, but it feels like such a hard evolution, like an embryo gaining multiple functionalities during weeks before it even takes shape. And getting fully ready months after that.
NIGHTMARE.
I think I lost too many brain cells to that, and to booze.
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July 16, 2008 at 07:16 PM
my nostromo n52te was shipped yesterday
and now all my thinkgeek t-shirts!
- 1up Mushroom – Charcoal
- Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script – Black
- I don’t work here. – Black
- more beer – Leaf
- meh – Black
- 2+2=5 – Black
- Shakespeare – Olive
- Schrödinger’s Cat – Black
- Enough Social Interaction – Charcoal
- Viva la Relativity! – Texas Orange
- I Failed the Turing Test – Black
- Johnny – Tan
:O
Now to get ready to pay taxes :(
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July 14, 2008 at 03:51 PM · Posted under rants
So, I’ve been thinking, what is the age range you should stick to, regarding relationships, is it really wrong to break the old rule of A = age / 2 + 7 ?
Following that line of thought I should only be “allowed” to date someone that is at least 21, not that this is a bad thing, it’s actually a wider range than one would expect.
I’m not trying to defend people that like children in that way… that is just wrong. Really wrong. Those who harm children should DIE.
Anyway, at least here, in Brazil, we can easily find some precocious 16 year old’s that act and look like they are a few years older, to say the least.
Who should draw that limit nowadays? is the current 18 year old limit still a barrier to be respected?
I mean, we get to vote at the age of 16, do you really mean that a 16 year old can pick a president, but cannot pick a lover or sex partner? I agree that in most cases they should be experiencing those things with people their own age, but is it really wrong if it’s not ill intended?
After all, I would consider the consequences to be far worse when teenagers are fooled by politicians than when they are fooled by someone interested in a one night stand.
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July 10, 2008 at 10:32 AM · Posted under rants
I hate taking sick days. I always feel guilty about taking them. I wish there was like a table that says if you are sick enough or if you are just being a wimp.
Update: I mean, if you think about it, unless you are actually dying in a hospital bed, you should be able to work, right? (depending to your line of work)
I know service positions like waiters, cooks and alike shouldn’t work even if they have a simple flu, but some do.
But what if you have something that might actually be annoying to the people around you… like a really bad case of sneezing or cough, something that would make you less focused and them too? Should you stay home for the greater good?
Or what if your condition is something that might cause embarassment, like diarrhea? I know I don’t like to work when I have to run to the potty every 20 minutes, and I have the chance to not get there fast enough in a public place, I just don’t feel comfortable – by the way, at home you can actually get a notebook and work from the bathroom! LOL.
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July 04, 2008 at 04:00 PM · Posted under rants
Is there anything else wrong with the internet connection in Brazil, or in São Paulo? It seems things are getting slower by the day. Is anyone else experiencing such slowness?
I think I have a svn commit starting for an hour now, and nothing really happens. Not to mention, SSH access on a slow connection is like torture – you type type type, wait wait wait, backspace backspace, type type…—you got the point.
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July 03, 2008 at 12:00 PM · Posted under being late
I love being late sooo much that I’ve decided to talk about the idiotic reasons that contribute to that. Hence the new section/area being late in the menu.
Well, I have a few stories to talk about, but let’s start with today.
I woke up late, because my stupid mobile is half-broken, like a depressive girl (it stops serving it’s purpose with basic mood swings). But nothing new about that, I usually wake up later than I should and I still manage to get to work fashionably late.
So, I do my thing, get my keys, and —OMFG, not again! Suddenly it strikes me, it’s Thursday, street fair right outside my house, and there is an idiot parking on my driveway. So be it, I walked to the bank to solve some other issues, but while walking back home my freaking pants gave up on me. At least they didn’t rip, I guess. Just a mere button loss, it definitely could be worse.
And yeah, walking home, holding my pants —great day!
Now I look like i was dressed by a color blind person…
PS: some other day I’ll write about the rabbit.
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July 02, 2008 at 11:35 AM · Posted under games
A friend of mine suggested that we could play LOTRO, I guess I’ve downloaded and installed the trial, and I’ll play it for the next 14 days for free. I must say, after playing it during the beta almost a year ago, I am kind of curious to see how it is now.
If anyone wants to join me, feel free, I’ll start tonight!
lotro website
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July 01, 2008 at 05:54 PM · Posted under code monkey, poetry
about relationships…
retries = 0
begin
# do your thing here
rescue
retries += 1
puts "shame on "+(retries == 1)? "me" : "you"
retry unless retries > 2
end
Ok, I know it is still kind of lame, but you get the point.
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June 30, 2008 at 04:15 PM · Posted under code monkey
I’ve never really tried to solve the logic puzzles google presents for this “tournament”, at least not until last week, when I signed in for the next one.
And trying the practice problems I realized a few things:
- I don’t remember basic math sometimes
- I have a lot to learn about algorithms
- I suck
I managed to solve one of the practice challenges, but I still don’t really feel I beat it… It was an ugly solution for a really “simple” problem.
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