thoughts to blog

but Ryan and Ted decided that my “no partying”thought was whack...

Joining us was Stevo, Cleather, Lisa, and her friend Alesandra... hit up quite a fewplaces... definitely one of the better nights out!!!

Who would have thought that a girl would come onto me?!?! +1 for the geeks

time to sleep it off... i need some motivation..

finally... some awesome news...

Sakaguchi joins the xbox game development crowd... w00t! (He created Final Fantasy...pivotal in Square-Enix success)

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000473033324/

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000403033229/

so I'm feeling quite l337 lately... but I had to post this...

Thanks goes out to the few of you who showed up this weekend, it was awesome going barhopping with you all... Great times!

Brothers -> Drink! -> Bar Fly -> Ricks... w00t w00t it felt like old timesback in Cedar Falls (except with better bars :)) ...

...

I think I'm going to lay off the partying for a few months... not necessarily sayingthat I won't have an occasional drink or anything, but after 4 weekends in a row of goingout on Friday and Saturday, it's getting to be quite expensive and tiresome. It suckswhen you are up during the day and can't focus 110% because it takes you 2 seconds toblink... or you catch yourself staring at the ugly pattern on your cube...

but alas, it was a damn good time and hopefully next year (plan ahead) will be evenmore adventurous...

10 years wiser? doubtful... but I now know what it feels like to be 24...

almost half way to 30 (from 20) ... w00t!

our party is now being referred to as a “celebration of life”... accordingto Gregory Ryan Peck...

thanks to Microsoft... I now know what it means when my kid says that...

d00d I pwN3d j00... j00 n00b h4x0r rox0rs phe@r

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx

So it's been a while since I last posted... been quite busy... here are somehighlights...

• Friday - Mau's birthday party.. w00t w00t! crazy night thats for sure (3rd weekend ina row drinking heavily :: shrugs :: )
• Danced with some 50 year old at the bar... I'm a Jake of all trades, she liked how Iswing :)
• Hoppers Mardis Gras party.. not bad at all
• Slept the rest of the weekend...
• My girl Jackie got accepted into OSU Optometry school... I'm so proud of her!!!
• Got my raise this week... w00t w00t! and not a bad one that's for sure
• Watched plenty of movies - including Ray and The Grudge
• Bought a few things last night: Donnie Darko Directors Cut, Saw, Final Fantasy I& II Dawn of Souls (GBA) , and WarioWare Touched (DS)

this weekend looks to be weekend #4 of crazy partying... after this, I will pullanother no-drinking stunt (reminiscent of my 5 month one I did last year)...

Ohh.. and in case you didn't see... here's your invite to the party:)

well... in case you didn't... go HERE and watchit... then come back here

it turns out.. that the girl is Candice Michelle from WWE

(27 years old)

and she used to do Skinemax stuff...

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A legitimate email sent to me...

I came across your resume while searching our database or one of the online jobboards.

The project will entail:

Wal-Mart Key locks replacement on self checkout lanes. Record asset information. Scriptwill be provided

Date of project:
2/09/05 3-6 hours <- take note, I got this yesterday

WILL PAY FOR TRAVEL......

Pay will be $ 16.50 per hour

Requirements:

Minimum 6 months Technology experience preferred
Reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license
Excellent customer service skills.
Phillips head screw driver

Visual Studio .Net Keyboard Shortcuts...

http://safari.oreilly.com/?XmlId=0-596-00360-9/mastvsnet-APP-C

The ONE thing that I remember most out of anything during my CS classes atschool...

All instance variables (fields in .Net lingo) should be private... (more on this in aminute)

Which brings me to a blog post that Isaw this morning from Avonelle

“The last thing I need to do is to step through a bunch of dumb propertystatements, especially on a routine with lots of arguments. It is no wonder some peoplegive up on object-oriented programming - it drives me nuts!”

Not to pick on Avonelle as a person or a software developer.. but this statementmakes zero sense...

1. Stepping through dump property statements can be rememdied by using F10 in VisualStudio (step over) ... while in the debugger... (which I'm sure she knows)
2. Dumb property statements is not always the case, there could be logic within thestatements... you should know where your data is coming from...
3. There is no connection between properties (C# language syntax) and object-orientedprogramming/design other than it being a means to an end...
4. Sometimes giving up on an idea comes from not fully understanding the idea in thefirst place... (not to say she doesn't)

< cue stealthy, sneaky, spy music >
In object oriented programming, one must encapsulate the information in such a way sothat the user of the object need not to know the internals. One way to enforceencapsulation is to make all of your instance variables (internal data) private... thusallowing the object to decide who gets to see what and how they get to see it. In theJava world, you write accessors (methods that retrieve and set the data in the waythat you want to). This ensures encapsulation and allows the developer to more easilywrite validation logic, data processing logic, and other types of code. In C# theequivalent is properties, they make exposing your fields easy... and in fact, propertiesare just syntactic sugar for accessor methods GET and SET. This I would imagine, isdefinitely a MUST KNOW type of knowledge for any object oriented programmer.

In short, once again I'll state.. all instance variables should be private.. useaccessors or properties to get to the state of your object.

Ok so everyone should know by now that the Patriots won... they had a shaky firsthalf, but they collected and did what they had to do. I don't know if it's inexperienceor just plain bad play calling, but the Eagle's sure wasted a lot of time at the end...no such thing as a “hurry up” offense I guess.

With that said, the more interesting aspect was definitely the Super Bowlcommercials.

Things I noticed:

• There were a lot of repeats
• There were a lot of commercials we've already seen.
• The careerbuilder.com commercials were quite interesting
• I knew they wouldn't like the godaddy.com commercials, but I likedthem... (straight from a guy at the top of godaddy.com)
• The Ameriquest - Cat Killer ad was hilarious...
• Emerald Nuts ad was awesome.
• I thought I saw the Ford Mustang commercial 5 or 6 times... big no no
• I like how McDonald's played on the Virgin Mary Grilled CheeseSandwich with their Lincoln fry ad(nobody got that one)
• Gladys Knight playing rugby? no... sorry
• I think the FedEx commercial was quite interesting, but not entertaining... I likehow they played it out..

If you don't know what I'm talking about or want to see them again... you can go here and see all of the Super Bowl adsfor free...

peacefully working on my project in Visual Studio 2003... and I get this (no shit)

wtf... I'm scared... the delegate mongrels are going to eat me