Jay McGavren's Journal

The ad I posted in the Arizona Republic to sell my sofa has been out of the paper for nearly 2 weeks, yet I’m still getting calls. WTF?

Just woke up from a nap and remembered my dream quite clearly, which is a rarity, so I’ll recount it here.

I had several MP3s of Diana’s songs - not ones she’d downloaded, ones she’d recorded in a studio. But I had filed them under the wrong name, so I was moving them to their own folder.

In another part of the same dream, I owned some kind of futuristic jet that was parked in my driveway - it was reddish-orange and could do 30 knots per second (which is really fast, though that’s not how they measure the speed of planes). My youngest brother, John, was showing me how to activate the teleporter so I could leap into the pilot’s seat. (This was an instantaneous teleporter - not like that crappy Star Trek one.)

He was also showing me a Palm Pilot adventure game he’d written. It had cheesy 2D graphics on the Palm, but when he hooked it up to the XBox, it turned into an amazing VR game with theater-quality sound.

There are even more details than that, but they’re a bit hazy.

Anybody else notice that the title track from Enigma’s new Voyageur album has a sample from Tone Loc’s Funky Cold Medina? :)

Sweeeet...

I just got handed responsibility for Apollo, the biggest, nastiest database of the four we’re covering on this project. I’ll be handling “reverse engineering” of the existing program, design for the new version, and Java coding for this part.

Why am I happy about being handed such a huge mess? Because it’s the most important mess. As of now, this project cannot complete without me.

I wonder which desk I’ll get upstairs once I’m promoted? :)

Babbling...

This journal entry has been processed with babble.pl, a standalone program that does the same thing. The nice thing about my setup, though, is that I can pipe into it from files, or from the clipboard, or anything else with a quick command.

Er…

This journal entry has been processed with babble.pl, a simple script I wrote for scrambling text. Any text before it continues printing. The result is something that almost, but not quite, makes sense.

I based this off of Babble, a a simple script I wrote for scrambling text. Any text you give the script, it prints out, but at random points it will jump to another occurrence of the same word within the clipboard, or anything else with a quick command.

Er…

This journal entry has been processed with babble.pl, a simple script I wrote for scrambling text. Any text you give the script, it prints out, but at random points it will jump to another occurrence of the same word within the text before it continues printing. The result is something that almost, but not quite, makes sense.

I based this off of Babble, a standalone program that does the same thing. The nice thing about my setup, though, is that I can pipe into it from files, or from the clipboard, or anything else with a quick command.