Posted 3 months ago
During the 4 hour drive back to Canton from Lansing, Michigan from the Great Lakes Ruby Bash I had a realization. Its been long past due, I couldn't even bring myself to guessing how long its been since I last booted to it. Its a waste of time, space and hurting my morals.
Step 1- Staring off positive...
Step 2 - A good song and it makes sense...you'll see
Step 3 - NTFS hrm wonder what that could be?
Step 4 - Ah, who cares!
It should be noted that I am so confident in my actions that I didn't even take the time to look through the files to see if I wanted anything on the file system...obviously its nothing important otherwise it would be on a journaled file system!
As reward for my accomplishment, I decided to subscribe to a
Twitter account.
Posted in General, Linux, Tech | Tags freedom, Microsoft, Windows, windows vista | no comments
Posted 4 months ago
The night started fine at Munson's in Canton, OH last night. Of course the early night is always ok at Munson's and its a great place to grab a bite to eat during the day. However unless you enjoy being shoulder to shoulder with the scum of the earth I advise avoiding the place during the later hours. Its nothing but another overcrowded dance floor/restaurant/bar crawling with the very people that make me ashamed to be an American and even further so of the human race. The kind of people that make you wonder if we can really be considered an advanced life form.
Anyway those thoughts are nothing new, I can't stand society these days its just that simple but lets leave that bridge uncrossed for now. What I really want to say is the security there is pretty shitty at best, a bunch of meat heads running around with XXL "SECURITY" t-shirts on does not replace an (at least) somewhat experienced security team. Guys just so you are aware a major part of your job as security is to DIFFUSE VIOLENCE NOT TO CREATE IT! Of course when half of your security team is there for the thrill ride and badge I'm pretty sure that constitutes conflict of interest.
So unfortunate, but I must say its the last time I will make the mistake of going out for the later hours to Munson's.
Posted in General | Tags bar, canton, Munsons, restaurant, Security, society, violence | no comments
Posted 10 months ago
My grandpa is fairly old school. Even when I drove junkers he would always make sure I was waxing the car. I would wax them every once in a while, but never gave it much attention, I just got the job done. Now I have a pretty nice car and pay more attention to detail. I also wax the car every few washes, probably about once a month. Waxing is not an easy job, once you've already cleaned the car, waxing just makes the work put into keeping your vehicle nice looking grow enormously. The work is rather tedious and exhausting.
One issue I constantly get into is getting wax on the plastic parts of cars and the rubber that seals the windows when they are up. I waxed my girlfriends car not too long ago and left some wax under the plastic bumper. Now her car is in good shape minus some paint and light body damage along the passenger side. So while getting the damage inspected, a body work professional told her the wax had soaked into the plastic from being in the sun and would need to be re-painted. Although I feel over the appropriate conditions this would happen I smelled bullshit. The bumper is mostly beneath the car and a good deal protected from the sun. I took a long soft bristled brush to the plastic and eventually got the wax off. It took some elbow grease and some persistence but it came off quite nicely.
I just finished washing and waxing my car today and did essentially the same with my rear bumper which is similarly protected from the sun. However, my side view mirrors also have the same pressed type of plastic around them and had previously had wax left on them. The car has seen a good deal of direct sunlight over a period of time. I took an old soft bristled tooth brush to the plastic and the wax came right out. Another great use for the good old used tooth brush, we keep them stashed in a junk drawer because they come in handy for a lot of different things.
Also make sure to avoid scrubbing the wax with water, it does not help at all and will keep the wax from breaking up and coming out of the plastic. I also do not recommend steel brushes or anything that could damage the plastic or surface of the paint on your car.
Update: Apparently the most common home remedy is peanut butter.
Off to drink a little more beer after a long weekend.
Posted in General | Tags car, plastic, toothbrush, wax | no comments
Posted 10 months ago
I am considering moving the site to Typo to replace the blog and using Flickr to manage the photo album. I am not sure what I will do about the Utilities. I need to see if I can easily extend Typo or not.
The main reason for this is simply that I end up spending more time managing code and adding new features than I do managing the content of the site. I have yet to dive into Typo and see what capabilities are there. Hopefully if I decide to make this migration, the change will cause me to upload more photos, write more blogs about stuff nobody cares about, and just improve the content of the site in general.
Sean
Posted in Website, General, Ruby on Rails, Tech | no comments
Posted about 1 year ago
An excerpt from Mailing List Etiquette on FreeBSD.
Please use a standards-compliant Mail User Agent (MUA). A lot of badly formatted messages come from bad mailers or badly configured mailers. The following mailers are known to send out badly formatted messages without you finding out about them:
- * cc:Mail
- * Eudora� (older versions)
- * exmh
- * Microsoft� Exchange
- * Microsoft Internet Mail
- * Microsoft Outlook�
- * Netscape� (older versions)
As you can see, the mailers in the Microsoft world are frequent offenders. If at all possible, use a UNIX� mailer. If you must use a mailer under Microsoft environments, make sure it is set up correctly. Try not to use MIME: a lot of people use mailers which do not get on very well with MIME.
I just find this hilarious. I mean what exactly defines user friendly? Software that has shiny buttons or that formats its data in a way that complies with standards and is compatible with other users *standard compliant* software?!
Sean
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Posted about 1 year ago
Michael Jackson is dead. So sorry to the die hard fans. He was an amazing entertainer. He certainly had an enormous impact on the music industry.
You know what though, he hasn't done anything since then but cause trouble, molest children and add to the ugly side of our nation. Many will miss him and more will not.
Sean
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Posted about 1 year ago
Been so long since my last blog, half of the routes for my admin are broken and I have not had time to fix them.
Anyway, I bought a new vehicle, finally got out of my rusty 1990 Honda Accord which was falling apart. I bought a 2006 Mercury Milan Premier from Downtown Ford in Canton. The car is black with black leather interior, heated seats, 6 speaker sound system, the whole deal, except for a moon roof.
I was looking at a charcoal Ford Fusion that was also loaded with a moon roof but some other jerk beat me to the punch! I am thrilled with my new car though, its going to be a pain in the ass to keep clean but I love black cars. I might look into getting the windows tinted a little as well.
So I would like to mention how well I was taken care of by Downtown Ford. There is a reason they sell a lot of vehicles. I was lucky enough to know the daughter of a saleswoman there. Regardless of this, it was a pleasure dealing with her. I don't want to make this sound like an advertisement but I would recommend to anyone looking for a new car to check out Downtown Ford.
Aside from my new car I also have a new woman in my life. Did I miss the pearly gates?! She is beautiful, sweet, can and likes to cook, it is an understatement to say that I am ecstatic about my social life right now. I do have a lot of stress from work and some other things but that is just a part of life.
Well thats enough I am going to go call my girlie and watch Heat
Sean
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Posted about 1 year ago
It would seem to be MIA again. Work is super busy and with warm weather on its way I have been working out more. I managed to put my heavy bag back up a couple weeks ago! Getting back on the bag is a really good feeling. Maybe if things die down at work soon I will make a trip to the gym in Akron assuming its still around.
I'm going to go write some code. I would love to go back and clean up some of the code I wrote for this site. It would probably be good for me to code on a recreational level tonight. Well whatever my eyes are already bothering me so I better go make the best of the next half hour. I am trying to get off the computer as much as possible after work and into bed around 10PM. I really need to regain control of my mornings and what time I wake up. It's pretty sad that it requires 3 alarms to get me up...
Sean
Posted in General, Boxing | no comments
Posted about 1 year ago
Its cold and snowing outside, with the Hatton vs Pacquiao fight just on the horizon and warm weather around the corner the fire is burning inside me again. I have to go run today, and I just can't wait until its warm enough to put my heavy bag back up. Shadowboxing and working out at the local gym just isn't enough anymore. There are no heavy bags, speed bags, sparring sessions. It is too clean and just can not provide the same environment as a boxing gym. There is nothing like it, the trash talk, the fight just nothing that can compare. Enough talk, I'm going to go suit up and hit the road. I'm going to try to wrap my left ankle and see if that helps out. It has still been bothering me, and I probably shouldn't be running on it but whatever. I'm thinking the damage has been done and is permanent so I think I'll just go with it. I think Kelly Pavlik has a fight coming up as well, which also has me pumped. Sean
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Posted about 1 year ago
I just finished watching Into the Wild. Directed by Sean Penn, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) leaves society to live out in the wild. What am amazing movie.
I recently caught up with a childhood friend. Through the ever powerful Facebook. Maybe some day when I get some more time to hack at the site I will keep my website up to date with my Facebook status…or maybe it should be the other way around? Who knows, who cares. My eyes are burned up today and I suspect the rest of this week to be a long and intense one.
Sean
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