Allow me this rant.

Life, Rants

So I’ve noticed that my day goes by much quicker and I’m in a better mood when I listen to music all day. Why is that? Mostly because I don’t have to listen to the idiotic rantings of my slovenly cube-neighbor. He is a grade-A dork. Not only does he write bad code and yet constantly complain about others code (mostly because of formatting of all things) But he claims things are done when they are obviously not even close, which makes more work for me when I have to come in at the last minute and fix things before they go to system test and make more work for someone else.

AND HE PROBABLY MAKES TWICE WHAT I DO.

I try not to be overtly mean to him. I try to think of what my mother would do, she being the nicest person in the world. But it so hard when he punctuates every sentence with annoying staccato laughter and keeps talking long after you’ve made it clear that you’re not interested anymore.

I think he should be my main argument for a raise. I put up with this guy more than anyone else does… give me more money.

Later!
Mark

Like teeth on a chalkboard

Life, Rants

I know this blog isn’t the best designed thing in the world, I try. But it does have a lot of CSS on the back end that I understand fairly well. When I’m at work I design the front end of our application, I try. I spend all day trying to get all the buttons to move one pixel to the right while still getting the error messages to float to the left. It’s been interesting day to say the least.

So then I come across a page in the system that another developer has been working on. I can tell from the screen that it needs some cleanup. (even though he says It’s almost done!). As I’m going through it I find this.

& #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160 & #160

which is the java equivalent of “&nbsp” which is a space. I’m spending all day writing css styles to move things one pixel and this guy is aligning things by hitting the space bar 150 times.

AHHHHHHHHH.

Guitar Hands…

Entertainment, Random

Since we got the Guitar Hero for the 360 we’ve been playing it non stop. I took off work a little early so that I could get home early and have some time by myself. I started my own band so I can keep track of my progress. Chuck Norris Tears will be tearing up the charts in no time. When the roomies get home its on to some intense battles. Since we only have to one guitar right now we just take turns playing the same songs and the one with the highest percentage gets to pick the next song. It’s not the best plan, but it’ll have to do until we find the second guitar.

But now when I type I’m expecting an off chord when I hit the delete key.

Later!
Mark

There’s a difference between a want and a need.

Entertainment, Random

I saw this link and then suddenly I had money in my hands and I was throwing it at the screen in hopes that I would have this in my hands sooner. My geek side says that I must have this. But my other geek side says that I still have to pay for the softball league and kickball league. I must not give in the the dark side.


Powerful it is…

Mini Remote Control R2-D2

Later!
Mark

New thoughts on my greatest enemy

Life, Randomness

Well not enemy per say, but something I think is unnecessary in most cases. The paper ass-gasket found in public restrooms. I was thinking about it again today and another good point crossed my mind. Our restroom at the office has those automatic flushers that do make things more sanitary. The less I have to touch things in there the better. But here’s the beef.

They go off pretty easily, like when a shadow crosses in front of them. So you’re standing there positioning your ass-gasket just right and you get blasted in the face with a mist of toilet water multiple times before you even sit down. Because as we all know the toilet flush can spread fecal matter all around the room. If this doesn’t seem like a fun time, just sit down and take it like a man.

Later!
Mark

The Loop… another in the line.

Entertainment, Random

After finding out Sunday night that “The Loop” season one was finally out on DVD I immediatley put in on the top of my Blockbuster Que. It arrived yesterday… oh the glory! For those of you that don’t know, The Loop, is legend around the Sausage. Even though it was on Fox last summer, no one seems to know about it. I mean my group of friends are the perfect target for the show and even most of us have never heard of it. But everyone I show it to loves it. Unfortunatley it’s either been cancelled or cut short or something. I think it was originally scheduled to air this January, but was pushed back until summer where it can drown in a sea of other half promoted shows.

But that’s not worrying me. I figured we would never have any more episodes anyway so this is a bonus. Just put this in the long line of great shows that I have liked that were cancelled too early… Firefly, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, The Zak Galifinakis Show. But I guess that’s better than going on too long and ruining it? right?

I’ll be looking forward to watching what I’m going to call “The Encore Season” June 10th at 9:30.

“When I was your age I was knee deep in Krauts trying to stab Johnny with a longknife”