Jay McGavren's Journal

2004-12-14

So the program blew up when we tried to install it Monday. Now I have to worry about fixing the bugs, whether they’ll can the project, and whether they’ll lay me off if they do so. I can’t sit down and think about it because I’ve also got last minute shopping and preparations for the trip to worry about. I didn’t get to sleep until 2 AM for the last two nights in a row. I am not happy.

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2004-12-10

How long before PayPal is the national currency?

Evidently Salvation Army bell-ringers in Arizona can now take donations by credit card. They’ve got little machines with them they can use to ring you up.

Monetary Endangered Species List: -Personal checks -$100 and $50 bills -Dollar coins -Cash in general (Added Dec. 2004)

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2004-12-10

Get... the evil... out!!!!

I’ve got one of the tunes from Lenny’s stupid (stupid, stupid, stupid!) cell phone toy in my head… It consists of the synthesized voice of a cat, meowing out “Pop Goes the Weasel”.

Do you think that if I stuck a red hot poker in the right part of my brain, I could burn away all memory of that song?

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2004-12-10

Did anyone else realize you could close a tab in FireFox just by middle-clicking it? That may not seem like a big deal, but it’s gonna make my browsing experience a whole lot better all by itself… Bless you, Mozilla Foundation!

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2004-12-10

God, I love Amon Tobin. His music is just so WICKED.

(By the way, Drum and Bass and caffeine are a very dangerous combination.)

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