If you follow my blog at all you might notice that I completely missed September, hereby officially ending the "Holy Crap, It Is" series of blogs. If you enjoyed these I am quite sorry. This past month I do not even remember much of. Been mostly busy, and when I was not busy I was tired. Somtimes I am even both tired and busy at the same time.
Anyway, I would like to talk about one of my favourite features of the iPhone now - the maps. Picture this: it is early evening, I am alone (usually (ok, actually always) true), tired, and hell hungry. I cannot be arsed to cook so I think I'll order carry out. Chicken sounds good...
So I hit up the iPhone maps and do a local search for "buffalo wild wings".
It drops pins on all the matching restaurants in the area (and then some). From experience I know that the pin closest to me is not really Buffalo Wild Wings, just some "Buffalo Wings" place.
I tap the second to nearest pin, which then presents me with information about this location.
I tap the number and the bloody thing actually calls the number right then and there without asking if I am sure (or maybe if I want to just mark it in my address book or something). In this case I roll with it and order my chicken. Bucket of 24 boneless wings with Asian Zing sauce. That should last me a few days. The girl on the other end (who happens to sound fairly cute) tells me my order will be ready in 10 minutes.
When the call ends the device takes me back to the info screen about the location I selected on the map, which also happens to present me with a button to get directions. Since it would be nice to know how to get there, I tap it.
It is going to take me 10 minutes to get there? Kick ass that is perfect timing.
So I get in my car and go. I'm the blue dot. Woo, about to drive under the highway. I always enjoy that part of the trip.
And here I am at Buffalo Wild Wings. I figured I would take a photo so that I can set it as the icon when I add Buffalo Wild Wings to my phonebook. The girl at the counter did end up being fairly cute (and quite unavailable).
So now I am enjoying my boneless chicken. I love boneless chicken. It is just like normal chicken but without the bones.
And yes that was a picture of my cat on the phone lock screen. If you think that is sad (and are female) feel free to send me your photos and I will feature them on my iPhone wallpaper. I will even let you let me take you out for dinner and a movie - now that is a deal.
OK, seriously. At this point I do not even notice the passage of time anymore. My boss told me I should take it easy this weekend, and I think she was probably right in suggesting that. So I slept in till 10 and decided to use the XBox 360 for playing actual games rather than a giant expensive MP3 player today.
I hit up the Live downloads and found the Geometry Wars Evolved^2 trial, downloaded it, and quit playing before finishing it and bought the full version. I played a game like this awhile ago called Gridwars, and I remember that said it was a clone of this... but this is 10x better and in HD!
I got my first real credit card this past week to use and help establish credit. First thing I bought with it was a new wallet to hold all the random crap I have. Thought that was sort of ironic later on.
We went and saw step brothers last night... that movie... OMG funny. That movie and the love guru are top on my list of funniest movies of the year so far.
To continue on with my current theme of postings, living in a real city is awesome. However I have not found too much to do in terms of making friends outside of the office. There is a fair going on down here this week, I went one day but it was hell boring without having any friends of the female sort around so I went home, after first leaving and walking around downtown Fort Wayne for a while that is.
I need to go back with my good digital camera and retake some of these photos I took... lots of cool city shots and plenty of urban exploration that I didn't even bother with without my good camera in hand.
I also found a cool pizza place that I marked in my phone GPS as a place to check out later called 816 Pint And Slice. I'm in love with the historical district, I will be checking that area out for apartments when my current lease is about to expire for sure.
While on the topic of my phone, I enabled unlimited text messaging and data transfer for the plan, so if you were wanting to text me now is the time. The navigation on the phone is great because I can (and do) get lost easy. Once I give up I can just tell the phone to take me home and away we go.
O.K. so bored out of my mind at 2AM I go to Meijer and wonder "what can I waste money on?" and for some reason I walk out with a Nerf gun. Then the next day I take it to work and get the bright idea to shoot the girl I get to work with from across office and nail her right in the face... and then she yells at me without even looking to see who had done it! Yeah well, guilty as charged. I hadn't even realized our other programmer was recording this, he is pretty fast with the Macbook camera when he thinks something funny is about to happen apparently.
I went and grabbed the final volume of the Addams family on DVD, so now I have the complete set of the original TV series, which is still an awesome show. I also impulse bought the Invader Zim series, which is the best cartoon ever made. A friend let me borrow the first three seasons of Stargate Atlantis, and another gave me a copy of the Battlestar Galatica. Atlantis I already knew was awesome.
Battlestar however I pretty much hate. I will continue watching it since it was given to me, but I cannot stand how there is no humour in it at all, and the blond Viper pilot I hate her so much I wish she would die already. However the blond Cylon in that one guy's head, she is awesome - and blonds are not even my usual thing. Another thing that pisses me off is that after all the flashbacks about what happened in the previous episode, there are flashforwards of what is going to happen in the current episode. It is even more annoying as that one series of CSI that flashes the scene they end on at the next commercial break at the start of that segment.
As much as it pains me to say it, Ubuntu has finally started to shape into a usable distribution for me. For the longest time I saw it as this newbie piece of crap (which it still is) however now this 8.04.1, since the wireless works fresh off the CD on my Mac Powerbook G4 800mhz PPC, I have decided to tolerate it. The fact that it uses Gnome makes my life a little easier too since I do a lot of GTK2 programming, and that my usual desktop is Xfdesktop+Compiz, so it works rather similar to how I expect. I tried OpenSUSE at the recommendation of an IRC friend and while it has the nicest looking non-LiveCD installer I have seen, nothing in it worked and KDE4 was unusable.
Hah, horray for having a life... sort of. Several times in the past few months I have thought "I should probably post and update or something, in case someone does actually care" and never did anything about it. But holy crap, it is already June? I sort of remember May passing by, though I did not even take notice. Been pretty busy at work and stuff.
Discovered a bowling alley down here in Fort Wayne that has $1 games and $1 shoes, it rocks. I think I will be spending a lot of time there to see if I end up being any good at bowling. There is something about chucking a large heavy object at a pile of other objects and watching them hit.
The Disturbed concert I mentioned two months go ended up being awesome. I thought about going to the Filter and 10 Years show here this past Thursday but didn't because 1) don't really like 10 Years that much 2) figured it might be good to try and save some money for once.
It only took six years of me bitching about it (not just me, either) but finally, OpenOffice places the page in the centre of the window. I can now actually attempt to use OpenOffice for real now. That was the one thing that pissed me off so much.
After playing XBox on my compuer widescreen LCD for so long, playing it on a normal TV is really hard to do. Not enough details and the small things like the icons on the map in GTA4 are hard to read. Think I will be getting one of the giant Dell flat screens to be a normal TV... the thing is I just have to convince myself to allow an entire paycheque to be sunk like that, hahah.
Oh how time flies when I don't pay attention to it. So here is what is new with me.
Got a new job, PHP programming down in Fort Wayne, it is pretty awesome, I get to do a lot of neat stuff on the Internet there. Got a cool desk too. My car got hit by another car while driving home from work one day (not my fault I swear), got a rental while my car is in queue for all the insurance crap... a Kia Rio (also crap).
Got tickets to the Disturbed and Five Finger Death Punch show here at Piere's on May 15th. Ran my cellphone batteries full dead twice. Got the entire Stargate SG-1 Season One DVD set (I swear Teal`c always looks like he is about to cry...). Helped a friend work on his Jeep which involved a lot more standing around watching him do it than actually helping. Oh, got an old eMac that the college was selling... it has voice recognition so it is now my new best friend because she talks back to me and I can even program what she says.
My one true love quit visiting our PHP IRC channel so now I have nobody to make dirty jokes with except aforementioned eMac. I almost never get to see Star Trek or Kim Possible anymore because I am at work or I fall asleep when I get home. For some reason I am the only person I have met thus far that thinks the woman doctor whats-her-name from SG1, is cute. I like her, agree or STFU.
Did you see that episode where the female Goa`uld had the men under a spell and all the women (including this doctor) on base had to fight to save the day? That episode was win.
I broke my XP virtual PC and I gave up fixing it for now since I have like no time anyway. I installed Vista on a spare hard drive and I still like it, I still believe it runs decent and is cool to use after disabling those main four things (expect an article about my Vista experience to explain that in the near future).
I think that pretty much sums up my past month.
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