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Question: What is room temperature?

My Answer: Where I grew up (in Pennsylvania) room temperature was 68 degrees. In Florida, I keep my A/C at 68 and everyone freezes. Apparently "room temperature" is about 76 down here. Who knew?

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I'm back. Sorry for being gone. I've got some cleaning up to do and some other things - bear with me. Categories and posts will be changing and flinging around. Sorry. It's all for the good. 🙂

Oh, and hey - my sister's getting married this Saturday! Eeeeks! I'm looking forward to the wedding. Open bar! Heh heh heh.

I sometimes think that I could be a weatherman extraordinaire. When I was 15, 16, and up I could accurately predict the weather - temperatures, rainfall, etc. for about 24 hours. I spent about ten hours a day at a golf course, though, so I simply chalked it up to familiarity.

I guess I'm becoming familiar with Florida, then. The normal 2 or 3pm rain came today at 1pm, and I predicted it as I sat eating my stromboli at a new pizza place Gabe discovered. He also told me that the sandwich place I've been meaning to try since last June has two cute Spanish gals working in it, giving me another reason - beyond my mother's recommendation - to go there.

I'm home instead of, well, instead of "not home" right now so I may go rock climbing later. I'm still waiting for an important phone call, and hopefully that will arrive before I have to decide whether I'm going to be spiderman again today. I predict a hot evening, which always makes rock climbing less enjoyable, but it's been - e gads! - a month since we last went. We really need to get down there again.

Spring is my favorite season. Odd that I just asked that question and now that's the sixty-second word thingy. Spring of course also has to do with physics, and physical springs. Sproing! That's one of my favorite onomotopoiea, really. I love that. Sproing! It's funnier if you do "sproi oi oi oi oi oi ing" really, but what's that got to do with birds chirping and flowers blooming?

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Question: What is your favorite movie?

My Answer: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Based on the Tom Stoppard play of the same name, this movie follows the hijinks of Rosencrantz, errr, Guildenstern, errr, the duo as they spend some time at Elsinore. It's intellectually funny, and raises a lot of philosophical questions that matter more in life than those posed in The Matrix.

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I think nearly every time I visit Hotmail (I have an MSN account to talk to all of two people) I misread the word "curmbox" in the URL to be something not so, uhhh, "PG."

http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/folders?r=12345&curmbox=A123456

Sometimes I name variables in code things like "exgf" - particularly if they're used in cases like exgf.cleave(); or something. I always batch rename them later, after I decide what their real purpose is, but it's fun for awhile. "Curmbox" is probably not such a "funny variable name" as I realize what it means… I dunno, maybe I just need to get my head out of the gutter. Yeah, that's it. 🙂

Question: What is your favorite season?

My Answer: Spring. I like rain, I like seeing things become green again. I like the feeling of hope, the warming temperatures. Fall has always been sad for me. I don't get depressed or anything. Summer is too hot. Winter is too cold. Then again, it's perpetual summer since I moved to Florida, so what do I know anyway?

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Today I unstuffed (several hundred megabytes) of data from .sit and .sitx archives and rearchived them as .dmg archives. StuffIt Deluxe offers one nice feature that Disk Copy doesn't: the ability to extract a single file without expanding the whole archive (similar to "mounting" the whole DMG). I won't always have StuffIt Deluxe and sometimes I'm not even sure why I have it now. Most of the time. And that percentage is rising.

The time for DropStuff/Deluxe has passed. I find myself using .tgz on the command line for files I know to be safe (i.e. those without resource forks). StuffIt Expander will continue to be useful for at least a little while, but for now, .dmg is the way I intend to go.

I don't write about some things because I consider them common sense. For example, a post detailing the effects of calling someone a bad name would be pretty silly.

Apparently, though, this qualifies as high thought in some circles. You know, those A-List circles. Tom Coates' article (linked to right before) is, to me, common sense. Anyone who's been blogging and visits more than four sites probably already knows what he's "espoused." He may think he's making one of those "major impact initial posts" but I think he's simply taking up space.

The only useful thing in the entire document is a mini-tutorial on using a few different features of OmniGraffle.

Question: What three ingredients are necessary for a good great party?

My Answer: Let's see here…

1. Great music.
2. Great friends.
3. Great conversation.

So it's true, my idea of a party is not quite the same as everyone else's. I'm very much a one-on-one, discussion-over-dancing kind of guy. Other notable exceptions include "booze," "hot chicks," and "at least one couch being set on fire."

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I watched West Wing just now and they played a song that haunted me, that gave me goosebumps. It was a Tori Amos remake of a song called "I Don't Like Mondays" and I may have never felt more touched watching standard television programming in my life. The song, her voice, and the storyline combined to crash down on my senses, my perception, my very existence in a way that shook me more than any episode of Survivor or Friends ever could.

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I walked out to my car after visiting Circuit City today as an old woman was getting out of her car next to me. She didn't see me (my car is taller than I am, from her angle anyway, and my glass is tinted). She didn't see me as she put the latest Circuit City newpaper insert into the windshield wiper well of my car. You know, because the nearest trash can was four feet out of her path to the door. She gave me a surprised look when she saw me sitting in my car (no doubt the sound of the door shutting clued her in) but left the flyer in my windshield. I rolled down my window, looked at her as she walked in, and said "You're stereotypically fond of calling my generation 'lazy' but that's been the single rudest, laziest thing I've seen this year." She continued walking into the store. I got out, grabbed the flyer, and threw it away.

Then as I left, I wanted to make a right at an intersection. The car in front of me, however, had other ideas, and simply refused to pull the two feet forward it would have been necessary for me to slip by. This light is excruciatingly annoying for about sixty seconds. Fortunately, I am able to let go of this angst quickly,but it remains quite frustrating while it's happening.

I was going to write more, but some other things came up today. I did learn that my downstairs neighbor was named "Brian." I think. He's a manager at Circuit City (I've known that for awhile).

Today I took a test that included a question similar to the one at right. I initially chose A and C, but then considered B. I think the question actually said "choose all correct answers."

Of course, then the thought struck me that, since these were checkboxes and not radio buttons, I should technically check every box, A, B, C, and D. Right?

So here I am, taking a test, and I get into a ten minute argument with myself over what choice is proper in this situation. In the end, I think I chose A and C only, but had B been correct, I'm quite sure I'd have spent another fifteen minutes (the time I had left at the end of the test) mulling the possibilities over in my mind.

Question: What testing experience stands out most in your mind (for whatever reason)?

My Answer: One time, waiting for homeroom (thus: my high school era) I found out from Stephanie that we had an experimental bio final that day. She'd studied for 25 hours! I, uhhh, I forgot we had a final that day and had yet to study. The test was 110 questions. I got a 103, and the next highest was an 87 (not Stephanie). She literally turned around and hit me when she found out that the curve had been set at 103 by the guy who hadn't studied. (The curve was later adjusted to 90 or something, netting me several useless bonus points.) I'm not sure why I remember this test the most - as proof of what you can do it if you don't put your mind to anything? 🙂

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Sail is something that goes on a boat, but sometimes people "sail" through life (it's a verb of course). Today I didn't quite "sail" through my test, and it wasn't a "breeze" either. I got a question or two more than I needed correct to pass, though the ones I didn't get right were all things I'll simply learn by doing - not a big deal. Many don't pass this test the first time. The next two weeks may sail, but I'm looking forward to them.

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