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Funny todo list written last night

Last night I wrote a todo list that I've been working on today. I recognize the value of making an overview, but I often slash usually submit to temptation of just diving in and tweaking/twonking/refactoring/rearranging code until I wake up all, "where da hell am I and how did it get to be so late?"

So even though it feels slower, I've been working on drawing out exactly how this program currently works (now just from the user/DB perspective; I'm not even touching the code/logic)

Anyway, the last item on the list is for Fred, written in honor of Swa'vet.

Jyasna

10:26am JST Wednesday 14 May 2008 (day 13930)

As I arrived in Shibuya, I happened to see Jyasna (sp) who was headed from Shibuya (actually from PB office?) to see the new ship set sail. Yahhhhh!!! I would love love love to see it!!!

Mouse wonked

10:27am JST Wednesday 14 May 2008 (day 13930)

Yahhhhh!! My mouse clicks are no longer responding! How do I reset the mouse on this 'pooter without using the mouse?

When I was a boy, the only mice we had were in our closets and pantries, eating our clothes and last bean!

Worked longly

9:23pm JST Wednesday 14 May 2008 (day 13930)

Just finishing work today; I ain't stayin' late tomorrow nor Friday. After attaching the survey section to the site (survey is in PostgreSQL while the main part is in mySQL), I was able to add the option of requiring users to take a survey after finishing their missions. Now today I just set it up so they can take *only* a survey and that be their mission. I'm assuming we'll never need to take a survey instead of a mission *and* take a survey about taking the survey.

Anyway, I know from experience at FSD, this is just the beginning. There are entire companies based on doing surveys; we can only do a single page survey with no saving halfway through, and no pages, etc. We *can* require certain questions to be filled-in, while allowing others to be skipped, but.

Tomorrow I'm going to add the admin part to evaluate the user's surveys. Basically, admin checks the survey and decides if it passes muster.

Now,

I also know from experience that most people don't write a lot in the textarea fields, which is the only thing the admin can realistically check mo' better than the computer. But, I'll add it just cause that basically matches the existing system here, but I may be more awake tomorrow and push back with my past experience in hand.

Anyway, we are not promising any kind of anonymity with the surveys, so whateva.

Writing for sake of writing

9:50pm JST Wednesday 14 May 2008 (day 13930)

Just arrived in my seat on Tokyu Toyoko line from Shibuya heading to my crib. Got UCow under the omputer kinda upside down between my legs.

Oh, I know.. I got a photo of a yong woman wearing a bright yellow jacket and one pink and one blue sock. I never saw her face, and chose not to stalk her into the Yamanote platform to try and get a pic of her with UCow; I can go wander around Shibuya... Hmmm speaking of which, I went a few days ago to the free hugs area to see if I could rustle up some pictures of shiny happy people hugging cow, but no huggers were there. I didn't think at the time to hold UCow up over my head, but I think the joke would be lost on the crowd. If there were a bunch of FREE HUGS signs, and a cow among them, then i think it would work, but.

Jen can touchtype on her phone. I was pretty shocked when i saw that, but I dunno why; I'm touch typing now (prolly with hella errors, but still). Sh was just tappin' away and I was like, "wtf?" and realized she wasn't just randomly hittin' buttons, but actually spellling words an shit.

Never seen anyone els do that.

Hey I think this is the same train I came to Shibuya on this morning. at least if it's not, then at least two trains have the exact same brand name advertised in *all* the advertising slots on the train.

I wonder how much it would cost to advertise a carriage worth on the train. I wonder if UCow would like to be advertised that way.

I think I'll just start with flyers in Pink Cow (no animal-entendre intended).

Speakin of flyers, the dude from Metropolis who I met a couple days ago is a graphic artist there, and when I asked him, he offered to make some postcard sized flyers. But then later he said he was too busy. Not too much later, but a day later. I was just in touch with Jimmy da Magnet via hearing the Beastie Boys line and already thinking of Jimmy yesterday, so I guess I should ask if *he* can do the flyer, but actually fuck dat; i can do it myself. I'm pretty sure alls I need to do is crop UCow out of a red background (used Ami's towel) which I imagine will be easy enough, once I figure out how to make The Gimp do it.

Once side of the card will show UCow jumping over Earth as taken from the moon, and on the other side of the card (the Japaense side), he'll be chillin' with some bamboo. (pic is already on his site). I'm pretty impressed with the idea. The English side will essentially reference The Cow Jumped Over the Moon, and the Japanese picture side is vertical, so I can write the kanji vertically in old Japanese style. Sweet. I'm thinkin' for now I'll make the postcards be just the same design as the business cards, but 4 times bigger.

I told my I-group that I'd get the proofs done and turned in to Kinko's by the next meeting, so I still have some time, but I need to allocate some to make this happen.

I think I'll do it tonight over a bowl of choco corn flakes. It couldn't be *that* hard to crop UCow out and blank out the background!

Oh, also today I downloaded Google Gears onto my Flock browser. Haven't "done" anything with it, but I have it. (Not supported on FF 3.0 yet)