“My cup is still half full, but if it spills we’ll get through it.”

Thanks,you’re the best :)

So the reason I haven’t posted in a few days is because I’m slowly becoming deathly ill. I think it all started last Wednesday night when I was at work till 2 AM. I’m usually pretty impervious to the little buggers, but when I fail to get sleep, that’s when the defenses fail.Friday was TReND Bowling2003 … in Norristown of all places. Once I set aside the white-trashy stigma, Ihad a pretty good time. This decision probably coincided with the finishing of mysecond beer. If I could meet the inventor of beer, I’d thank him for his wonderfulanalgesic and it’s abilities to make certain situations exponentially more bearable.Thinking back, I’m left wondering if I should be worried that my HR Manager told meI spend more time “shaking my booty” than bowling. I guess at the moment I found thoseswanky bowling shoes really good for dancing. The ball was also a nice accessory;It was like my uber-glowstick. One disappointing part of the day was the way my picturescame out. I’m not sure what was going on, but every single one of them turned outterrible. Maybe it was the lighting, maybe it was the beer. I’m not sure which, butsomething or someone was affecting my acuity in taking pictures that day. It justsucks that a $200 digital camera still doesn’t compare to the $11 throwaway you canbuy at Wal-Mart. Oh! Which reminds me of a joke … Did you hear that all the Wal-Mart’sand K-Marts were closing in Iraq? They’re all becoming Targets. hehe. But I digress… I’d use the $11 cheapo camera, but then I feel like a sweatshop child scanningpictures for hours on end. Plus that whole “development” routine is a pain. So nowI’m gonna crawl back to bed. Have a good day. I’ll be dreaming of chicken noodle soupand a masseuse.

Never let it be said that I suppress dissenting opinions …

Her: You area little stinker! Her: Your new posting plays the games you always play (editor’snote: see below) Me: what game is that? Her: You had not one individual in mindrather you played that card to see what would happen. UGH! You may not want me topost a comment. Me: wait, how does that relate to “the games I always play”? Her:I may need some time to deliberate, and time to prove my theory that there are manygirls out there that think they are the “one”. UGh again Me: what!? Me: I’m not thatcalculating. charming maybe, but not calculating. :) Her: Soooooo calculating. Me:No, it’s obvious to anyone that it was catch all.

somehow i think thisextends outside the boundaries of my website. intriguing (in my little world).

You. You know who you are. The one who checks the site everyday without fail … I dare you to post a comment.

In a conversation with my brother last night:

Me: dude, what happened toHammie? Him: hammie ran on his wheel toward the light

So apparently mybrother’s hamster died. I wanted to share with you his touching memorial:

Itis my regret to inform all of you of the passing of my dear lil friend, Hammie. Hammiewill no longer be confined to cage alone, but rather frolic freely with all of hisother furry lil friends. - May u run in the wheels of heaven, and recline amidst thecedar chips of the ever graceful God. R. I. P. March 25, 2003 (u wont be forgotten)

Andhe also adapted this classic BarryManilow song to honor Hammie:

Morning, just another day, Happy furryfriends pass away, Looking in their eyes, I see a memory, I never realized, how happyyou made me oh Hammie Well you came and you gave without taking, but I sent you away,oh Hammie, well you bit me and made me start shaking but, I need you today, oh Hammie

AlthoughI never actually saw hammie other than his nose sticking out of his hut, I’m surehe was very nice. Rest in peace hammie, sorry for your loss bro.

I asked Uday earlier to clean up some of the debris lying around thebunker, but has he? No! He just stays in that chair, slumped against the wall. Ifit weren’t for the duct tape holding him upright, he’d be srawled all over the floor.

Anexcerpt from Saddam “No Nukes Here” Hussein’s weblog. Funny stuff :)

I put up a new site style last night. If you click the link that says “tiny” on the right hand side, it will change the way the site looks. While not very creative or colorful, this first one is just to make the text a little smaller.

I just found out that if you goto MSN and search for “MTV’s I’m a street racer”, my site comes up #1 in the results. How crazy is that? I make one mention of the show and I’m in the top 10 search results.

It’s Friday! Which means its time for the FridayFive! Five crappy ways to waste your life away. 1. If you had the chance tomeet someone you’ve never met, from the past or present, who would it be? Ahh,there are so many. Aside from the obvious, (Jesus) I think I’d put in a request tomeet my soul mate. That would make things so much easier, wouldn’t it? 2. If youhad to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be? My firstthought was that I would love to see the future, but inevitably that would make meobsolete. Circa 2100: “What do you mean you don’t program with punch cards anymore?” 3.If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be? Japan. After beingdefeated by their psycho work ethic, I’d relax in Hawaii. 4. If you had to be afictional character, who would it be? I’d be Dawson, go get Joey, and live happilyever after. If that wasn’t meant to be, then I’d choose to be Captain Jean Luc Picardof the Starship Enterprise. 5. If you had to live with having someone else’s faceas your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be? Uh … on this body?Justin Timberlake, Colin Farrell, Brad Pitt? I don’t know.

Wow, thisis pretty amazing … it’s the weblog of a guy in Baghdad who is giving his descriptionof what it’s like to be in the middle of a war. It will be interesting to see howlong he has power and internet access before things start to get bad. Also, here’sa photo-weblog froma journalist in Northern Iraq. It’s refreshing to see a personal account of the newsas opposed to the same old standardized media coverage seen everywhere.

Although I’ll probably only be on after 5PM ESTAlso, I’m workin on a new stylesheet … I know the site design sucks.

Don’t pull the thang out, unless you plan to bangBombs over Baghdad!Yeah! Ha ha yeah!Don’t even bang unless you plan to hit somethingBombs over Baghdad!Yeah! Uhh-huhUno, dos, tres it’s onOutKast - Bombs Over Baghdad

Disclaimer: The following post will probably only make sense to a few people. If you don’t know the difference between a method and property, avert your eyes.Yesterday I set out on a mission to programmatically list my weblog on Weblogs.com afterevery time it was updated. Normally this would be very easy if I was using a webloggingtool, but alas for some reason I try to complicate my life by doing everything myself.So, with that in mind, I read up on the specs andsaid to myself “ahh, it can’t be that hard to send an XML-RPC request via .NET, right?”Wrong. Wrong because for the life of me I couldn’t seem to find the WSDL file so thatI could easily create a proxy class to work with. Wrong mostly because Dave Winerprobably enjoys being a pain in my ass. In an InfoWorld article he says “WSDL (WebServices Description Language) was invented in such a way that it will only work inJava and .Net environments.” Thus, I guess he decided not to create one. My argumentis that it wouldn’t hurt to have one. Anyway, giving up on the 5-minute solution thatthe WSDL would have provided, I decided to try and create the actual SOAP requestmyself. (I’d do this before messing with XML-RPC) I was going to try to create a SOAPenvelope, but later found out that practically no one is doing this past ASP and VB6.(reason being because of the advent of .NET web services and the trusty WSDL file).So that meant I couldn’t find any code samples and couldn’t figure it out. Finally,after realizing that I couldn’t be the only one with this problem, I searched forsomeone who had the bright idea to write a WSDL themselves. Success.After mating the WSDL with WSDL.EXE, I had a shiny new proxy class to interface withweblogs.com :) Needless to say, the actual coding took less than 5 minutes.

I ran into this guy at a party tonight that I’ve met once before …Him: yo, JKMe: yeah?Him: D.Y.S.?Me: D.Y.S.?Him: D.Y.S.Me: uh … D.Y.S. at 4:20?Him: yeah, M.A.D. N.U.G.Me: what the F are you talking about?Him: dude, do you want to chill?Him: I.N. C.A.R.Later that night …Him: dude, I’ll pay you cash to crash hereMe: I got work tomorrow … uh … I mean I got stuff to do tomorrow.Even later: …Him: dude, F.O.CMe: F.O.C.? free of charge?Him: yeah dude, the world needs to learn how to give a little.Me: yeah, I gotta get going.So long story short, guess who’s waiting at my car with a bag of pot FOC?craziness.