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Dream

7:25am CST Friday 17 November 2000

(dream)

At my dad's work, actually I drove up onto a parking garage to meet him, and he was using a laptop for work and I updated a batch login file, but couldn't use all of the editor commands, to delete two semicolons from the text, I asked my dad to log in and I told him what needed to be deleted. He asked me what the code was doing so I explained it to him and as best I knew how.

I left and was riding a mountain bike and bicycled away from the city toward Memorial Park bicycle trails and on the way past a girl and her family. I had met the girl before from my Castle of Dreams days, but I didn't really know her all that well. She and I said HI, but didn't have much else to say. As I bicycled away from her, I carefully listened to her relaying a story that she "knew" about me.

"He was driving a car with a cooking pot that had a non-stick surface because that helped him get better speed and his girlfriend didn't want to have it in the house because the surface was a bit cracked. I don't really know his name - it's like Tretcher or something and I don't know what kind of name that is."

I was amused by the story that was based in reality, but pretty much otherwise inaccurate in the details. I determined that I would send her an email to say I had overheard her and to correct the details. The name is "Thunder" not "Tretcher" and stuff like that.

I arrived at the muddy woods in Memorial Park and the first down ramp was ridiculously steep and stair stepped all at once. I was all "No way am I going down that," so I began to ride just through the muddy (but flat) trail. The wheel literally was just spinning out and I joked that I was on a stationary bike, which I apparently was. Some other guys were bicycling through a different part of the trail, so I began to follow them and was actually able to ride, but the mud certainly made it more difficult. We rode, yelling to increase adrenaline and power, turning, riding, push pushing through the trees until our legs burned with soreness and we were drenched with sweat. My new friend grabbed a tall container of chilled water to drink and I warned him that he shouldn't drink super cold water when he was super hot. But he did it anyway. and was apparently fine.

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angels

11:21pm CST Friday 17 November 2000

Special super wonderful thanks to Maggie for buying dinner and Charlie's Angels tickets for all of us tonight!! Will, Molly, Maggie, me, and Wende all met at Denny's for some dinner before watching Charlie's Angels. We loved it! Wende and I still loved it even the second time, and Will and the twins loved it as much as we did.

After the movie we played "Who would you take a shower with?" game. The winner for Wende was Lyle Lovett. For Will was Lucy Liu (though he said it could change tomorrow). For me we didn't quit playing once they got to Carrie Anne Moss (Trinity from The Matrix). We of course started with same gender people. For Will it was Brad Pitt. Wende was recent Madonna for a while and I don't remember who past that. For me they couldn't think of any guy I'd choose over Michael Jordan.

Right now, for me I would definitely choose Drew Barrymore.

Right now for real, it's bedtime.

(Thanks everyone for such a great fun night!!!)

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flyCode

4:34pm Friday 17 November 2000

I am the greatest programmer who ever lived. Check this out:

This week I wrote a little perl ditty that calculates how many days old a body is, and today I finished coding the preliminary version into my website: here

I'm pretty happy with it now, except for a few obvious things that need to be fixed:

1. Don't hardcode the dates into the text fields
2. Get the stop date from system time
3. Fix the fonts and text some

Not so obvious enhancements:

1. store cookie on user's machine that will be their birthdate
2. allow for timezones (this one is exceedingly unlikely to happen soon)

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At work, I have done the most amazing thing for our productivity. Remember the Ritz Project over which I agonized hours and days and weeks? Well, we just got Part II of the project, and I wrote the original project so well that Part II has been a breeze to set up. Now I just have to create the question dataset and the ratings dataset to hold the answers to the questions. Awww yeah. It used to be that setting up the question and ratings datasets took the shortest amount of time for a project, but this time, everything else in the project took 30 minutes to do. Setting up the questions and ratings dataset will probably take a full day.

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Okay, so these accomplishments may not prove I'm the greatest programmer in the world, but I think all programmers should repeat that mantra.

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