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152 t turns out that the mayor of London asked the <span class="caps">RNC</span> to pay for the security costs of Bush coming to town…</p>
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154 <p><i>Ken Livingstone, the left-leaning mayor of London, had it just right when he asked the Republican National Committee to pay for what was certainly the most extensive security curtain dropped on London for any visitor — since it is for Bush’s political benefit. </i></p>
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156 <p>and Bush meets the Queen…</p>
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158 <p><i>In 1991, Bush famously appeared wearing cowboy boots at a White House dinner given by his father for the Queen and cheerily informed her of the inscription on the heels: “God save the Queen.” A frosty frown appeared on the royal brow, an eon passed, many feet shuffled all around. Convinced that understatement or sarcasm would be lost on the man standing before her, the Queen asked bluntly: “Are you the black sheep of your family?” Bush replied in the affirmative and shot back: “Who’s the black sheep in your family?”… </i></p>
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160 <p><a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/world_press/2003/11/25/bush_visit/index.html">Bush Visit in the World Press - Salon</a></p>
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162 <p>A good point from the British press, though…</p>
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164 <p><i>As for those protesters who toppled that papier-maché Bush in Trafalgar Square, they were made to look naive. The bombers, if they could, would happily slaughter them too. It is a delusion to think that all that is needed to make the world safe is a change to the occupants of the White House and Number 10. Charles Kennedy could be Prime Minister and Michael Moore might be President of the United States. Al-Qaida would carry on killing. Because, to them, freedom is an ugly thing. </i></p>
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166 <p>Again I want to call attention to Tracy Quan’s online novel, ‘Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl’… <a href="http://www.salon.com/sex/tracy_quan/">link</a> … Just get the Salon day pass and read em.</p>
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168 <p><a href="http://www.gencon.com/socalhome.aspx?file=socal">SoCal Gencon</a> is coming! Woo!</p>
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170 <p>FInally someone says something about the <span class="caps">A&F </span>Catalog, and more importantly, how incredibly white <span class="caps">A&F</span> is.<br />
171 <a href="http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/26/abercrombie/index.html"><b>Have yourself a horny little Christmas</b></a><br />
172 <i>Looking at the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog makes me want to buy their clothes, but I’m too exhausted from self-abuse. </p>
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174 <p>Nothing says “Christmas” like a good old-fashioned circle jerk by the fire. </p>
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176 <p>For all you squares who don’t know what a circle jerk is, turn to Page 88 of the Abercrombie & Fitch Quarterly, under the picture of wet, naked college kids and the heading “Group Sex.” (It’s difficult to figure out where you are in the book since most pages aren’t numbered.) It reads: “Sex, as we know, can involve one or two, but what about even more? … A pleasant and supersafe alternative to this is group masturbation.” </p>
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178 <p>The challenge for me, when masturbating with my friends to the nubile nudies in the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, is trying not to think about serious things like racial diversity; it tends to kill the mood.</i></p>
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180 <p>Stuff I was reading or going to comment on and didn’t get a chance before I left the lab</p>
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182 <p>http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mr99 <br />
183 http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61374,00.html<br />
184 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/11/25/slavery/index_np.html<br />
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318 <p><b><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,61342,00.html" title="Secrets of saliva revealed">Secrets of saliva revealed</a></b>: The natural defenses in the mouth could help prevent the transmission of <span class="caps">HIV,</span> a recent study found. </p>
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320 <p>In the early days of <span class="caps">HIV,</span> researchers wondered if the disease could be transmitted by kissing, dental treatment or biting. It soon became clear, though, that oral transmission of the virus is very rare. That’s not because <span class="caps">HIV</span> doesn’t make its way to the oral cavity — infected cells are actually present there in <span class="caps">HIV</span> patients. <span class="caps">AIDS</span> researchers agree there has to be another explanation, but they have never been certain what it is. </p>
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322 <p>However, researchers at Case Western Reserve University recently found that proteins called beta-defensins 2 and 3 might inhibit the oral transmission of <span class="caps">HIV. </span>They published their findings in the October 28 issue of the journal <span class="caps">AIDS. </span></p>
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324 <p>Because bacteria constantly attack the mouth, it has developed defenses against them, including these two types of beta-defensins. </p>
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548 dc:title="The trials and tribulations of making a cool weblog"
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550 dc:subject=""
551 dc:description="I need to toss my &#8220;webstuff.txt&#8221; file out of my computer before it hits a full gigabyte&#8230; or so it seems&#8230; More on my lists of todos or reminders for my site finish sides on site change layout totally? ;p..."
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575 <h3 class="title">The trials and tribulations of making a cool weblog</h3>
576
577 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
578 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
579 I</b>
580 </p>
581 </td></tr></table>
582 need to toss my “webstuff.txt” file out of my computer before it hits a full gigabyte… or so it seems…</p>
583
584 <p>More on my lists of todos or reminders for my site</p>
585
586 <p>finish sides on site<br />
587 change layout totally? ;p<br />
588 photo album dealio?<br />
589 rizwank 1.1 photoshop?<br />
590 http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/<br />
591 http://www.captcha.net/<br />
592 http://www.fultonchain.net/</p>
593
594 <p>http://www.perlservices.net/en/library.shtml<br />
595 turn on log referrs<br />
596 this has log viwer too</p>
597
598 <p>http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-pm.cgi<br />
599 http://blogstyles.com/<br />
600 What plugins for me tp post?<br />
601 deferredposts =><br />
602 http://twiki.tensegrity.net/bin/view/Main/MovableTypeTrickle<br />
603 wiki<br />
604 http://wiki.virtualvenus.org/<br />
605 blacklist<br />
606 http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist<br />
607 php foundations<br />
608 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/29<br />
609 restr access :<br />
610 rizwank 1.1 http://www.virtualvenus.org/archives/0310/restricted_portions_of_posts.php#more<br />
611 google entry point?<br />
612 top few are good :<br />
613 http://www.thegirliematters.com/tips/ incl : open links in new window with regex </p>
614
615 <p>mt ext<br />
616 http://www.nonplus.net/software/mt/</p>
617
618 <p>http://www.nonplus.net/software/mt/MT-Mail-Entry.htm</p>
619
620 <p>http://philringnalda.com/ does categories <span class="caps">WELL</span><br />
621 http://stupidevilbastard.com/<br />
622 http://www.bookmarklets.com/about/<br />
623 multiple theme approach<br />
624 Core functs<br />
625 My Life<br />
626 World Around?<br />
627 Magic<br />
628 Blogtech<br />
629 etc!</p>
630
631 rizwank 1.1 <p>http://stevenf.com/mt/archives/000397.php!!</p>
632
633 <p>z_groupdb_875 <br />
634 http://www.metzener.com/dave/archives/000127.php<br />
635 http://geekymedia.com/magic_prices.html<br />
636 Overlib doesn’t disappear<br />
637 http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/11/index.html#000236<br />
638 http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.metzener.com/dave/index.rdf<br />
639 Awesome buttonage on dave / http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2002/10/22/steal_these_buttons.html<br />
640 http://gtmcknight.com/buttons/index.php<br />
641 http://voisen.org/archives/projects/000239.php#more<br />
642 adding to beautifier<br />
643 add c++?<br />
644 http://www.bradchoate.com/tools/textile/</p>
645
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762 <h3 class="title">Bannings in Extended</h3>
763
764 <p><a title="Ban the Right Cards!, by Adrian Sullivan - a Magic: the Gathering Extended Article" href="http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/expandnews.php?Article=6227"> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
765 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
766 B</b>
767 </p>
768 </td></tr></table>
769 an the Right Cards!, by Adrian Sullivan - a Magic: the Gathering Extended Article</a></p>
770
771 <p>A very well written article pointing out something important.</p>
772
773 <p>WoTC is likely to ban the following cards<br />
774 * 1: <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Goblin%20Charbelcher%20')" title="Card Info on Goblin Charbelcher ">Goblin Charbelcher</a><br />
775 * 2: <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Tinker%20')" title="Card Info on Tinker ">Tinker</a><br />
776 * 3: <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Goblin%20Recruiter%20')" title="Card Info on Goblin Recruiter ">Goblin Recruiter</a><br />
777 * 4: <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Hermit%20Druid')" title="Card Info on Hermit Druid">Hermit Druid</a><br />
778 rizwank 1.1 * 5: <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Chrome%20Mox')" title="Card Info on Chrome Mox">Chrome Mox</a> (maybe)</p>
779
780 <p>The so-called Engine cards. Heres the thing… <span class="caps">WHY</span>? <br />
781 These cards might not be nearly as dangerous if we didn’t have the scepter of fast mana hanging over us. <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Hypnotic%20Specter%20')" title="Card Info on Hypnotic Specter ">Hypnotic Specter</a> was banned, as a Turn 1 Specter with <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Dark%20Ritual')" title="Card Info on Dark Ritual">Dark Ritual</a> was usually lethal… but if you didn’t have a ritual, a turn 3 specter was something that you could deal with…</p>
782
783 <p>Try banning<br />
784 * 1: <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Chrome%20Mox')" title="Card Info on Chrome Mox">Chrome Mox</a> <br />
785 * 2: <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Grim%20Monolith')" title="Card Info on Grim Monolith">Grim Monolith</a><br />
786 * 3: <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Ancient%20Tomb')" title="Card Info on Ancient Tomb">Ancient Tomb</a><br />
787 * 4: <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('City%20of%20Traitors')" title="Card Info on City of Traitors">City of Traitors</a></p>
788
789 <p>Let the fun decks still exist, and allow the format to slow down… thats why <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Llanowar%20Elves')" title="Card Info on Llanowar Elves">Llanowar Elves</a> and the Ice-Age painlands were removed from Standard….</p>
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855 $title = $row['title'];
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883 rizwank 1.1 dc:description="Tried to setup MySqlinks today but don&#8217;t have all the apps at the lab I need to make the temp files chmod 777 and create the mysql db ;p While reading up on it though, came across Fulton Chain The..."
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890 <h2 class="date">November 19, 2003</h2>
891
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908 <h3 class="title">A bit of editing</h3>
909
910 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
911 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
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913 </p>
914 </td></tr></table>
915 ried to setup MySqlinks today but don’t have all the apps at the lab I need to make the temp files chmod 777 and create the mysql db ;p</p>
916
917 <p>While reading up on it though, came across <br />
918 <a href="http://www.fultonchain.net/" title="Fulton Chain">Fulton Chain</a><br />
919 The interface is super cool, the way the site is divided is perfect, and this is what I want my site to look like at some point. (I’ll need to start shooting digital more to have something for a continious photolog)… Look at it, isn’t it nice! Seriously, I’m freaking out. I actually like the other links there. </p>
920
921 <p>Finding even more news feeds, as if I didnt have enough : <a href="http://www.feeddemon.com/feeddemon/index.asp" title="FeedDemon">FeedDemon</a></p>
922
923 <p>Oh, details on how ticketmaster and the like generate the human-readable/computer-notreadable text… <a href="http://www.captcha.net/" title="CAPTCHA"><span class="caps">CAPTCHA</span></a>. Details on breaking it are also available.</p>
924
925 rizwank 1.1 <p>Ooh, a <a href="http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/" title="new">new</a> Google applet…</p>
926
927 <p>A perfect font for <a href="http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/" title="code">code</a>.</p>
928
929 <p>I need to start posting my codebases for my projects… thats pretty high on the todo list now.</p>
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1048
1049 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
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1052 </p>
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1054 ts been an interesting few days. </p>
1055
1056 <p>Lets cover optimistic stuff first.</p>
1057
1058 <p>Simon and Garfunkel was amazing. I have few impressions that aren’t covered in HeatherW’s <a href="http://www.upsaid.com/dixie/index.php?action=viewcom&id=135" title="comments">comments</a>, and she does a much better job of it than I would. </p>
1059
1060 <p>I’ve always found it interesting how one can get excellent seats at a concert and still look up at the big <span class="caps">LED</span> screen instead of looking directly at the performers (I got some binoculars though, so I did watch them directly for a while)… Took my requisite nap just before ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, which was kinda annoying, but I needed my cat nap. (Phantom is the only theater show that I’ve ever been at that I didn’t drift into sleep, but my mind totally wandered during some of the group stuff @ Phantom)…</p>
1061
1062 <p>Half the excitement is having a story for the rest of your life… ‘I went to see Simon and Garfunkel’ … which is just cool. I was a bit disappointed that <i>Kodachrome, Under the African Skys, </i> or <i>Graceland</i> didn’t make an appearance, but it was <span class="caps">S&G,</span> not <span class="caps">S… </span></p>
1063
1064 <p>They were entertaining, Garfunkel looked similar to the way he looked when he was younger, Paul looked old… A group of folks I met there were telling me about a Simon + Dylan concert where the concert was covered in smoke half way through the concert, but there was no such fun here. HeatherW makes a good point about how the entire crowd actually <strong>sat down</strong> for the majority of the concert, which was a surprise to me… the average crowd age was quite a bit younger than expected, a number of 20 and 30-somethings mixed in with the older crowd.</p>
1065
1066 <p>Heather’s sisters and mum were at the concert, and hanging out with them after the concert was the most fun I’ve had in a while (which is saying alot) … Due to Heather’s insane secrecy policies, and whatever; suffice it to say that we had a blast, I met her youngest sister’s boy; (who is a dead ringer for Harry Potter, and quite possibly a more severe <span class="caps">ADHD</span> case than I), checked on the sisters to make sure that they were doing well, found out childhood stories about my Heather and had a good time. Drove like a madman, trying to keep from falling asleep to HeatherW’s where a futon with my name was waiting; she was kind enough to wait up to let me in, it only later occured to me that she normally sleep before 1 and that I did keep her up…. </p>
1067
1068 <p><hr>
1069 Theres a need for me to put some sort of disclaimer on my rants (or learn to proof-read them and check for validity of arguments)… treating this as an online journal has the up (and down)-side that people will actually see it and disorganized contradictory thoughts get noticed.<br />
1070 <hr></p>
1071
1072 rizwank 1.1 <p>I’m on Serena’s bad list right now, and I’m not sure what to do about it. Part of me feels righteous anger that she actually had the gall to yell at me at the Simon and Garfunkel concert; part of me wants to write off her behavior as insane; part of me can honestly understand her feelings (but not her anger) [that side was pretty much silenced for now by the being yelled at, however]; and part of me realizes that I could have avoided problems by making different decisions… the question is did I want to make those different choices…</p>
1073
1074 <p>I’m not going to go over it; my neighbors at the concert asked why I kept peering over to the far row to see if she was okay, and I didn’t tell them. I didn’t discuss it in detail with HeatherW (partially cause she was in pajamas and looked quite anxious to sleep), Heather only got part of the story and mum just got ‘we had a fight.’ You can read her blog if you want her side of the story, I point out that she doesn’t get out from work until five, (so I couldn’t have seen her at one if I wanted to), I’ve got advice from Heather and my common sense yelling ‘Take this friendship thing very slow,’ and, to be honest, I really really wanted to see Robin. I can understand how that might hurt, and I can see how she would feel hurt about that… </p>
1075
1076 <p>But threatening to never speak to me again? Allowing Shadiya to call me to berate me? (A funny thing is that Shad is hunting down Robin on campus to tell her what a heartbreaker and terrible guy I am. Robin found that concept very funny.) I’ll admit mistakes were made, but there was never malicious intent, but the other camp feels victimized and theres little I can do to change that. </p>
1077
1078 <p>I might be trapped by my own perceptions here, but I am who I am, and all that. Apparently Dan says I should be kept out of Serenas life, which is funny, because he seems to have had every opinion possible regarding me if you read through Serena’s blog.</p>
1079
1080 <p>What would HeatherW do if I had been late due to squeezing in a date with another girl? <span class="caps">A, I</span> have been late to see her due to squeezing in a date with another girl, with Serena. <span class="caps">B, </span>It wasn’t squeezing, we weren’t late to the concert by a long shot, it just didn’t leave time for a long formal dinner at Olive Garden…</p>
1081
1082 <p>And I have treated HeatherW like that, and I regret it cause I know its caused frustration on her part. I’m trying to do better. It isn’t usually <strong>someone</strong> else, its normally <strong>something</strong> else, not leaving the house in time generally. I’m bad with timing and too optimistic about ideal driving times…</p>
1083
1084 <p>Anyhow, I haven’t mentioned Robin here at all, have I? Theres a story to be told about meeting, scans of pictures we’ve taken to be posted, and me talking giggly about being a Smitten Kitten, but that can all wait. I don’t want to overdo or rush this, and part of me remembers feeling a similar way when I first met Serena… I don’t know when that changed…</p>
1085
1086 <p>We hit up Chinese and had a lovely meal… we both called it the most pleasant meal we’ve had in weeks, and attributed it to the food. ( The way to any girls heart is …) It was, of course, the company. Shes delightful to talk to, smiling often, easy to amuse, can keep track of my branching conversations and gently guides me back when necessary… Shes got the slight twinge of shyness that brings out the twinge of playfulness in me… Its a good match.</p>
1087
1088 <p>Anyhow, we saw <em>Love Actually</em>. Teriffic movie. Funny, super cute and everything a date movie could be. The only other movie that ever put me in souch a pent-up and romantic mood was <em>Chocolat</em>. Still have to see <em>Brother Bear</em>, I’ve got a date to see the next LoTR; and still need to see <em>Kill Bill</em>, <em>Intolerable Cruelty</em>, <em>Lost in Translation</em>, maybe <em>Under the Tuscan Sun</em>, <em>Out of Time</em>…. that being said, I’m likely to see maybe one or two of the entire lot … Nichole says that Robin is a real movie goer through, so maybe I’ll see more.</p>
1089
1090 <p>We still aren’t sure about <em>Cat in the Hat</em>, looks like it could be spectacularly bad. Avoiding <em>Elf</em> and <em>Master and Commander</em>, <em>School of Rock</em> is a definite (when I can get it on <span class="caps">DVD</span> or from the net), </p>
1091
1092 <p>We were considering hitting Descanso gardens, both to indulge my photographic needs and for a nice quiet time of talking, but she’s had <strong>bad</strong> early dates at gardens and keeps them for later times in a <em>relationship</em>… yes she used that word, and whats funny is that it didn’t scare me to hear, it made me giggly.</p>
1093 rizwank 1.1
1094 <p>Seriously, I giggle too much for a guy.</p>
1095
1096 <p>Shes an Aaron Sorkin fan. Shes short and small and cute. She doesn’t like being called cute until I redefined it for her. Shes an actress, and a good one. (Unlike (ex-gal) , who really couldn’t act at all, but really wanted to) Her performance in “Five Women in One Dress” (by Alan Ball) was quite good, and she brought a lot of charm to the quiet southern christian girl. Shes of vaguely Jewish descent, which I’ve always found oddly attractive, can accessorize, wearing a v. cute choker when we went out on Tuesday; has short hair (which I love), wears cute glasses (which I adore) … </p>
1097
1098 <p>Just very attractive, pleasant and intelligent. </p>
1099
1100 <p>Topic Break.</p>
1101
1102 <p>I’m debating whether to call shad back after class… Theres something honorable about her wanting to defend her sister, but I know a heated argument will ensure that wont actually come to any conclusion. I know I’d be as angry as she is if someone hurt my sister, but my sister <span class="caps">STOPS ME</span> from handling her problems… She acknowledges that I’m there for her and will always be, but no matter my anger, she tells me that its her problem and that she needs to deal with it, and I back off. Shes an adult, and I can’t fight her battles for her, just be there before and after them. </p>
1103
1104 <p>On top of which, I’ve seen Shad treat Serena terribly at times, and her yelling at me for mis-treating Serena (which I don’t acknowledge to be the case, I really don’t), seems kinda hypocritical. Of course, it reminds me of Sports Night : “No one hits my little brother but me,” so…</p>
1105
1106 <p>It was nice seeing HeatherW for the few minutes I was able to and I remember how cool she is. I owe her a nice lunch and have to endevour to make that happen.</p>
1107
1108 <p>I need to start earning some money… dating anyone is always financially draining, even to some degree, and my savings are drying up. Oh, I’ve still got a bit of EQ money coming, leftover from ComedyWorld, so there are small amounts filtering in at times.</p>
1109
1110 <p>CS project time has returned, got a audio file generator on one hand, a weighted di-graph transversal on the other and a model for encoding <span class="caps">AAC</span> files on my lap. Gonna be a busy week.</p>
1111
1112 <p>Really need to get my pictures developed too ;p</p>
1113
1114 rizwank 1.1 <p>Oh, interesting.<br />
1115 <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61266,00.html" title="FedEx Delivers New Tech Lab">FedEx Delivers New Tech Lab</a></p>
1116
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1241 irst, I’m a smitten kitten with my new girl. Seeing her tomorrow, yay!</p>
1242
1243 <p>Second, <span class="caps">S&G</span> tonight, yay us! Serena and I are gonna have a blast and HeatherW says the seats are superb.</p>
1244
1245 <p>Also, a web based links management system so I can maybe move past blogrolling (and from missing hotlinks ;p)<br />
1246 <a href="http://freebies.wiccked.com/mysqlinks/" title="http://freebies.wiccked.com/mysqlinks/">http://freebies.wiccked.com/mysqlinks/</a><br />
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1374
1375 <p>Details on my date on Saturday soon; Serena’s got a boy like the day before I get a girl. Its really really funny.</p>
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1487 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (246, '$referer', '', $time)" );
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1494
1495 ?>
1496 <h3 class="title">The tragic coincidence that Rizwank = rizWank</h3>
1497
1498 <p>:::: Now talking in #mtgjudge<br />
1499 ———————————————————————————————————————————————<br />
1500 :::: Topic: .\agic: the Judging | <RuneH> RELs are a sham</p>
1501
1502 <p>( 13:24:34 ) « WonkoSane » I keep reading your name as Riz Wank instead of Rizwan K, btw. :-P<br />
1503 ( 13:26:23 ) « WonkoSane » Rizwan: could be worse, I suppose. your first name could be Isador.</p>
1504
1505 <p>« @Monkster » Like “If I twiddle a Sorceress Queen with an active Bone Flute in play, does she get pregnant?”</p>
1506
1507
1508
1509
1510
1511
1512 <div class="posted">
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1528 <?php
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1535
1536 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
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1539 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
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1596 dc:title="The weather loves me"
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1598 dc:subject=""
1599 dc:description="So its raining like nuts o'er here. Visit HeatherWs blog if you want a rant about how stupid and scared Californians are during the rain. left my last early cause I wanted to get on the road (just got my..."
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1605
1606 <h2 class="date">November 12, 2003</h2>
1607
1608
1609 <div class="blogbody">
1610 <a name="000245"></a>
1611 <?php
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1618 rizwank 1.1 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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1624 <h3 class="title">The weather loves me</h3>
1625
1626 <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1627 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1628 S</b>
1629 </p>
1630 </td></tr></table>
1631 o its raining like nuts o'er here. Visit HeatherWs blog if you want a rant about how stupid and scared Californians are during the rain.
1632
1633 left my last early cause I wanted to get on the road (just got my mt 54/55... Lost the point cause I wrote 150ma @180deg is same as -150ma @ 0 deg... He said that negative nums don't work in terms of current... I don't agree but whatever.
1634
1635 So I left and stood under bldg 9 startingat the phenomial lightning and guesstimated its distance with the fellow nerds there. Also speced on what would happen IF lightning hit a car or a freeway. Ducked into the next causeway to call friends and seeif they wanted to draft. Saw a cute girl watching the rain and chatted her up, ended up walking her to her car. Bulgarian EE major na.ed Yvonne. I didn't ask for the digits though, she ducked off quickly once we got to her car..
1636
1637
1638 I've noticed all the successful dates were the girls who were ANXIOUS for me to get their phone # or whatever, not the ones that I had to force... Granted means I might miss some shy people that can't be at all aggressive or responsive but the pct of uninteresteds is much greater than those of shy people in my exprerince, so I don't got for very long shots as much. Weget too used to many weeklong courships on TV with coy innuendo, indecision, shyness, self restraint, and being friends before dating... Either that's just untrue or untrue in my age group... Prolly the latter.
1639 rizwank 1.1
1640 I mean she wasn't amazing or aggreat conversationlistgor anything .. She was just sorta cute an d standing there... Sorta flirted on autopilot now that I think about it
1641
1642 anyjow the shy coy ones are outnumbered massively by the uninterested, and experienc (and friends) have told me changing an uninterested to interest requires common social/activity group and time... That isntgworth someone not supa special. Wonder if there's a point in life where girls automatically fit into the friend category and have to earn the "maybe worth dating" group instead of vice versa.
1643
1644 Another funny thing is that, as I talked to this girl, I visualized a first date, not sex or anything as pruient as that. Even after being deflowered my initial reaction hasn't changed. odd eh?
1645
1646
1647
1648
1649
1650
1651 <div class="posted">
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1664 </div>
1665
1666 </div>
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1678 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
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1683
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1738 dc:description="Been listening to Bill Bryson&#8217;s Down Under &#8230; I think the end of my audiobook got cut off though. Interesting enough tale, enough random Aussie factiods to make me interested (I lost interest after the Aussies I had met travelling,..."
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1744 rizwank 1.1
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1746
1747 <div class="blogbody">
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1762 <h3 class="title">Aussies</h3>
1763
1764 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
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1766 B</b>
1767 </p>
1768 </td></tr></table>
1769 een listening to Bill Bryson’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0754014975/qid=1068682526/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-5408891-0702452?v=glance&n=507846" title="Down Under">Down Under</a> … I think the end of my audiobook got cut off though.</p>
1770
1771 <p>Interesting enough tale, enough random Aussie factiods to make me interested (I lost interest after the Aussies I had met travelling, they just seemed annoying, xenophobic, etc. (Yes I know, you could call Americans the same thing)). </p>
1772
1773 <p>Australia lost more people, per capita, in <span class="caps">WWI</span> than any other nation.<br />
1774 An Australian Prime Minister went out for a swim in the 60s and never returned. Just like that.<br />
1775 There are more poisionous animals in Australia than there are in any part of the world. (That I actually knew before)<br />
1776 All the natives in Australia boated over up to 60,000 years ago, 58,000 years before the rest of the world started making voyages of similar length. </p>
1777
1778 <p>All I previously knew (besides experiences with the Aussies I met), was stuff I learned in a Nickelodon cartoon I watched decades ago. Then again, the Koalas talked so I can’t really say its very accurate. </p>
1779
1780 <p>Think I found a <span class="caps">FNM</span> deck I like. Lets see if I can use the power of <a href="http://www.teledyn.com/mt/docs/mtmanual_textile.html" title="Textile">Textile</a> to make it into a cool table.</p>
1781
1782 <p>(of course, the only metagame worth playing atm is Extended, both cause its so degenerate that this is probably the last time to play with insane <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Tinker')" title="Card Info on Tinker">Tinker</a> and <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Metalworker')" title="Card Info on Metalworker">Metalworker</a> decks, and cause <span class="caps">GP </span>Anahiem will be Extended and it might be fun to actually play)</p>
1783
1784 <p>The article is <a href="http://www.brainburst.com/db/article.asp?id=3485" title="here">here</a>. Two builds, I took the latter.</p>
1785
1786 rizwank 1.1 <table><tr><td>Mainboard</td><td>Number</td><td>Card</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Carrion%20Feeder')" title="Card Info on Carrion Feeder">Carrion Feeder</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>3</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Gempalm%20Polluter')" title="Card Info on Gempalm Polluter">Gempalm Polluter</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Graveborn%20Muse')" title="Card Info on Graveborn Muse">Graveborn Muse</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>3</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Grinning%20Demon')" title="Card Info on Grinning Demon">Grinning Demon</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Headhunter')" title="Card Info on Headhunter">Headhunter</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Hollow%20Specter')" title="Card Info on Hollow Specter">Hollow Specter</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Rotlung%20Reanimator')" title="Card Info on Rotlung Reanimator">Rotlung Reanimator</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Withered%20Wretch')" title="Card Info on Withered Wretch">Withered Wretch</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Terror')" title="Card Info on Terror">Terror</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>3</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Wail%20of%20the%20Nim')" title="Card Info on Wail of the Nim">Wail of the Nim</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Island')" title="Card Info on Island">Island</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Polluted%20Delta')" title="Card Info on Polluted Delta">Polluted Delta</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>15</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Swamp')" title="Card Info on Swamp">Swamp</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>3</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Unholy%20Grotto')" title="Card Info on Unholy Grotto">Unholy Grotto</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Sideboard</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>3</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Infest')" title="Card Info on Infest">Infest</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Mind%20Bend')" title="Card Info on Mind Bend">Mind Bend</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Smother')" title="Card Info on Smother">Smother</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>4</td><td><a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Stabilizer')" title="Card Info on Stabilizer">Stabilizer</a></td></tr></table><p><span class="caps">EDIT </span>: <span class="caps">YAY</span> the tables work and they look ok!</p>
1787
1788 <p>The main attraction is that I’ve got most of the cards, except for the <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Polluted%20Delta')" title="Card Info on Polluted Delta">Deltas</a>, and it doesn’t cost a million dollars like <span class="caps">MBC</span> does. Also, <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Mind%20Bend')" title="Card Info on Mind Bend">Mind Bend</a>ing an opponents<a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Karma')" title="Card Info on Karma">Karma</a> just seems like a <span class="caps">MASSIVE</span> amount of fun. </p>
1789
1790 <p>Ooh, I kinda like <a href="http://www.teledyn.com/mt/" title="this">this</a> design.</p>
1791
1792
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797 <div class="posted">
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1851
1852 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1853 $query = '';
1854
1855 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
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1893 <div class="blogbody">
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1908 <h3 class="title">About Knack</h3>
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1910 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
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1912 rizwank 1.1 A</b>
1913 </p>
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1915 bout Knack</p>
1916
1917 <p>I don’t think I’ve ever done a spiel on Knack.</p>
1918
1919 <p>Its a massivley important word.</p>
1920
1921 <p>Theres a few words that have massive significance to me. The first and most important is charismatic. I’ve always wanted to be described as charismatic by someone. Don’t get me wrong, the other things I’ve been described as were (on the most part), complimentary, but they often were in things that I didn’t doubt myself as much as my social abilities. My experiences at the wedding might suggest its usage, or the way I flirt happily with waitresses (And they flirt back (and yes, I know they might just be smiling for a tip)), but I’d always wanted to word to be used without prompting. Just one of those things.</p>
1922
1923 <p>Another is eccentric, or … theres a third word but I can’t really remember it (haven’t been able to for the past few years actually)… some synonym of quirky. Eccentric doesn’t always have good connotations, but then again im not really worried about my normality so its more of a self-descriptor.</p>
1924
1925 <p>Then there is knack.</p>
1926
1927 <p>Back in High school, in the Honors/AP crowd, of the ones that succeeded (or had the potential to succeed), there were two groups. Those with knack, and those without. It varied by subject. I had a knack in Calculus, English, History, CompSci, Biology, Odyssey (my TV prod class), but had no knack whatsover in Physics, Chemistry, <span class="caps">PE, </span>Woodshop, English (Langugage vs. Literature, Lit was my good subj), and Spanish. I’m not just speaking of myself, and I’ve got a guy in mind when I describe this as my example (Since I plainly talk about myself too much anyhow).</p>
1928
1929 <p>Tim Lang. He was a pimply guy, about a year older than me, stereo-typical nerd with no-social skills whatsoever. He was from a poor family, and had a number of things working against him. He had friends, as did I, but they weren’t as much “lets hang out” friends but “well im sitting next to you and you are a nice enough guy…” (much was similiar for me). Tim didn’t have the knack. Not in Calculus, my sample subject. (Let it be said that he was a whiz at physical sciences and English, I’m not dissing the guy, hes nice enough and while we haven’t kept in touch, its more to him and I not being that close to begin with than anything else.) He did fine, B’s if i remember correctly. but there was a cost. He had to work his ass off. He was in class for tutoring constantly, after school every single day working on problems, sometimes just for practice, but often because he just didn’t get it. The mechanics could be figured out, but what they represent overall was difficult. </p>
1930
1931 <p>Have trouble “getting” that?<br />
1932 (departs, spending fifteen minutes finding a simple equation editor for the web)<br />
1933 rizwank 1.1 Do realize that I’m writing this without double checking, and I’m not exactly using a complicated concept, its just an illustration. <a href=”http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/5445/swift.html”Swift</a> is the best online math editor (for free) I’ve found so far, and it requires <span class="caps">JDK</span> to be installed, I’m at school and am not going to deal with the permissions nightmare thats gonna be.</p>
1934
1935 <p>So, plain text, baby!</p>
1936
1937 <p>Take something simple. The first and second derivatives of x^2. Some people could glance at that, or glance at the derivs and “know” what they described. Inflection points were natural and when they were explained in class, those students were happy to have a name for the concept they had already figured out. The reasons why the derivative of a function was the space undernearth the curve and how that related to 2d and 3d spaces was simple. For those that didnt get it, they could learn the formulas, and learn the exact examples, but it didn’t ‘click’. Another example is how integrating over a 2d surface with a third dimension gave you a volume of the spline rotated object. </p>
1938
1939 <p>Or something even more obvious. The six sided puzzle box, with numbers on it. There are six sides and you’ve got to be able to tell if it could fold up into a cube. (and for that matter which sides were on which). Its an important part of the IQ test, (im not sure why), and some need to physically wrap a piece of paper to imagine in while others can rotate the object in 3d space mentally with no problem.</p>
1940
1941 <p>My counter example, Ryan Thomas <strike>… can’t remember his last name</strike>. Didn’t work at all. Seriously. Got all the girls, assumedly had lots of sex, had every friend, was a star football or track or something player, had cheerleaders as girlfriends, skipped class, sweet talked teachers, aced midterms and didn’t study a lick.</p>
1942
1943 <p>Yeah, I hated him too. </p>
1944
1945 <p>Now, lets ignore the fact that most high schools in this nation, especially California, would pass a low-IQ simian. Even the Honors/AP programs weren’t some pinnacle of education, but at least you got to learn stuff without questions like “So who won World war <span class="caps">II,</span>” or “Wait, Juilius Caeser was actually a real guy?”. Those actually happened by the way. </p>
1946
1947 <p>Ryan didnt work at all. He didnt have to. He just showed up and did it. </p>
1948
1949 <p>Tim was Valedictorian, Ryan was Salutatorian. Ryan would have given an infinetly better speech, while Tim was scared shitless. (not that I blame him)</p>
1950
1951 <p>Interesting side note. People were floored when they realized I wasn’t Valedictorian. (No, I was 9 spots away, and I’m not bragging here, just telling a strange story). I had a reputation carried on from legends in Elementary. I was the guy with the pocketprotector and a tie, I Was the won who raised his hands to answer all questions, including rhetorical ones; I was the one who helped teachers grade papers, corrected mistakes, helped out peers, etc. I <strong>acted</strong> the smartest, and I let everyone know that. Thats why they thought that, Ryan had other things to do than to impress everyone, and I’m not sure Tim had the social skills to be that well known. I had powerful friends and that carried me a long way, and I did start to grow and be able to talk to people by Junior year. Back to the point, its interesting how much perception can vary from reality.</p>
1952
1953 <p>Back to the point, Ryan and Tim were opposite sides of the coin. If we look at high school as simply the grades equalling success, Tim won. If you include social life etc, then its debateable. But the hard work can and did (in many ways) win over the knack.</p>
1954 rizwank 1.1
1955 <p>Reason this came up was that I was in Algorithms today. I walked in late, had missed the past, like, four lectures, and was seeing him explaining the last part of a slide on optimal binary search trees. He asked a question, “Would having the highest probability guarantee an element is at the root” … I said “No.”. Everyone else said “yes.”. Now I didnt know this material as well as them, and if I had to go through teh routine of creating the tree (which ill have to do later), I wouldn’t have known the math or steps without reading it, but I knew that. Just cause I knew it. Past experience plus understanding of the basic rules <span class="caps">BEHIND</span> all of this told me no. Granted, only a few people in the class said “Yes” and most people don’t answer profs when they ask questions in class, but the point stands. I got a 95 on the project (super happy about that) when I did it the day before. It was a trivial answer, its not a big deal, he looked at me for a sec, smiled, and continued, but I understood it and it wasn’t something I “knew” to write down but just “felt”. Thats what I call knack.</p>
1956
1957 <p>And then I was on the other side of the fence. I’d sit in Chemistry, reading about shapes of molecules (degrees between etc.) and <span class="caps">I JUST DIDN’T GET IT. I</span> memorized the answers to particular problems and a algorithm for determining which answer to write, but I didnt get it. Same thing with the upper-mathematics and physics I’ve been taking. All that I knew about Gaussian fields left my brain the day after the final. I couldn’t tell you the determinate of a subspace (if that even exists) for the life of me without running to a text book), Intergration by parts is still a nightmare for me (three years after doing it), and I still use my calculator to verify if sqrt(x/y)=sqrt(x)/sqrt(y), just because the only way I knew it was memorization. I get pythagoreans and the quadratic eqation cause I can derive them. (I’m not bragging, thats 8th grade stuff, but its an example) I saw a latenight program on <span class="caps">PBS</span> that showed lines and triangles moving around and it just clicked. Its the same thing with some CS stuff, heavy pointer stuff, parsing, functors etc are the kind of things that I just look at old code of mine to re use it, but I could never write them by scratch.</p>
1958
1959 <p>Another example is Comedy. I’d sit with the Mike and Ben people and be convinced I was in the presence of Gods. I could be funny, but I have to work at it. They just were funny. Everything they did was comical, they could write stuff for television that worked (while my best idea needed two writers to make into a good segment). Vivek just knew how to edit. The flow of a story and the visual appeal worked for him. Adrian too (I need to talk more about those two) … especially Adrian. Adrian stopped me from considering gfx design or video editing as a career. I saw him work at it and he <span class="caps">KNEW</span> what looked good. IT might have just been experience, but I really want to be one of the best in whatever I do, and I don’t like entering with a handicap. He made brilliant funny ads that knocked your socks off. That took talent. My edits showed technical competency, not artistic. Its the same with my photographs, I capture whats there, I never create anything. I don’t get models to pose, both because I’m nervous to, and because I wouldn’t know what the fuck they should do. My pics are decent cause I understand the ‘rules’ of composition and balance and have a quick trigger finger and (amazingly) the patience to wait for <span class="caps">JUST</span> the right moment, but my pictures don’t make you laugh or cry. They are … just there.</p>
1960
1961 <p>The thought occured to me that a massive amount of experience leads to knack, but practical experience, not rote experience. (in my experience) Tim didn’t understand the topics better because he had done the hw problems a million times, he just understood how to do those problems. I understood the topics of the cs problem because a similar point had occured to me while doing a huffman encoding problem months before, and that rule there applied here too. </p>
1962
1963 <p>I used to get 90s on essay for my GE courses (that were written in 4 hrs), while others wrote essays taking 20 hrs and doing marignally better, or even worse than me. That essay example could easily be an example of writing, knowing what the professor would be looking for, i.e. the grading critera. My essay may not have had as good of a flow as I would have wanted, but I did what was asked for. The following problem (connected with the next few paragraphs) kinda illustrates how the better looking, but less complete essay would be liked more than the complete essay.</p>
1964
1965 <p>A problem with people with Knacks, often there are accountability problems. There are tons of things to mention, from over-confidence, to under-documentation, to smugness, to know-it-allness. The one example that comes to mind is when I was working at Comedyworld. The cheif Video Engneer, Don James, wasn’t an amazing guy by any means. He was a big guy, not that well kept, inadequate social or management skills, but he <span class="caps">DID</span> know the Trinity box. (The one that we used in the studio). He helped design it. If you needed help with the software or with the box itself, he was your man, but the second you left the box itself, he was nearly useless. Thankfully, the box was like most boxes, it worked. We didnt pull out caps and replace them or anything, so his expertise wasn’t as needed, but he could still handle growth to our studio complex (while doing things that made absolutely no sense to me). It came down to one day, my boss, Aaron Lockhart, handed us a job. We were adding another camera and trying to get a D1 signal converted to YcbCr and back with the least loss or something. Not a trivial job, but not exactly rocket science either. </p>
1966
1967 <p>Now heres the thing with me at comedyworld. I was told ‘Hey we need an archiving system to archive all of our content that auto stores’ or ’ I need a PC/Mac dual format drive for the Fibershare recording systems that will automatically dump everything on it onto a Windows share so the fibershare users can dump to the office computers’, etc. Then they’d say get back to work. And I’d work on totally unrelated things. Fixing network problems, implementing some solution, working on my crown jewel at <span class="caps">CW </span>(the MasterControl/onAirbooth/Producer/Screener communications system with extra features!), etc.’ </p>
1968
1969 <p>Then a week would pass, and Aaron or Barry </p>
1970
1971 <p>(the best boss I’ve ever had, Barry Thomas, a brillian engineer who wouldn’t lavish me with praise when I didnt need it, threatened to fire me when I showed up late, who, along with Aaron, signed over some of their shares of Comedyworld to me in protest of ComedyWorld skipping me during allocation time, etc. Hes a great guy… he often told me about his childhood and how at a particular radio station, he was the “Rizwan” of that station… made me think. Hes the first person I respected to the degree that I was like, If I was where he was, knowing what he did, and doign what he did, I would be happy. Hes not a multi-millionare, but hes a great guy, and a great manager. Aaron handed me off to him after a) my roles changed, b) Micromanaging me became too hard for Aaron, not that I blame him. He knew more about <span class="caps">ADHD</span> than he should have which always surprised me, and was the <span class="caps">BIGGEST</span> advocate of me finishing school, because he knew what opportunities he lost by not getting an engineering degree. And the guy was <span class="caps">SMART. </span>We’d just sit in his room for hours, him with a black marker on a whiteboard, as I learned a ton about transmission or <span class="caps">ISDN</span> or whatever. There were other amazing people there, Mitchell, Chuck, Jessica, Jay, Terry, Melichar, Putty; but thats another six blog entries right there.)</p>
1972
1973 <p>Anyhow, Barry was/is awesome. I’d be terribly happy to work for him again. He gave me the respect I deserved, the bitchslapping I deserved, said what he meant, meant what he said and all that. He still says that he knows exactly the kind of girl I need…, and of course he didn’t say anything about what she was like, I’ve got to find it out myself I guess. There are five or six mentors in my life (not counting my parents who are the core of my being and who I am today) and Barry sits proudly in that list. Aaron too. I need to write more about Aaron, he comes out bad in this blog entry, and hes much cooler than that.</p>
1974
1975 rizwank 1.1 <p>Okay, back to the previous thought.</p>
1976
1977 <p>Aaron or Barry would ask me what I thought of the problem they gave me. And I had a solution. It was just there. Thinking while driving, showering, sleeping whatever. But there was an answer. It was really odd and I couldn’t describe how it happened but it was usually an answer that made them think, Great Idea! (Or, you can’t make that, we want stuff here to be off the shelf, not something you threw together)</p>
1978
1979 <p>Again stepping back. So I got asked to do this and Don was asked. I don’t think it was intentional, just was mentioned to me and Don, not as a test to either of us or something.</p>
1980
1981 <p>I had a solution the next day. Three pages with estimated costs, a “management summary,” CAD drawn drafts on how it would be designed and implemented, etc. I had to stay late for the extra work but whatever.</p>
1982
1983 <p>Don turned in a napkin. Three days later. I swear.</p>
1984
1985 <p>Now I can’t compare his and my methods, I’ll be darned if I remember if one was better than the other. I just know how mine was recieved and how his was. He wasn’t working there two months later (for entirely different reasons). I stayed there and ended up taking his responsibilities. Now Don is a nice guy. He just didn’t know how to present himself. </p>
1986
1987 <p>Its sorta like selling ones self, and thats what starts to make me nervous. Normally those with medicore skills are those that can sell themselves and make it into management etc. The really bright ones tend not to be able to express themselves at all and stay where they are, being the gods of their product, but not being able to make any decisions. </p>
1988
1989 <p>So I knew how to present a proposal. When I wanted to add equipment, I wrote it up. When equipment failed at 4am and I was called in, after I fixed it, I wrote a summary describing the problem and what I did to fix it and a management summary; the bosses came in seeing a memo that calmed their nerves (and kept them from needing to awake me, sleeping at my desk). I was/am a paperwork magnate. And I normally am not like that. I overcomment my code often b enough because I prefer it that way but there are major gaps in the way I present my work. (Never doing homework is a good example.)</p>
1990
1991 <p>And it brings me to this point.</p>
1992
1993 <p><I>“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”<BR>-<B>Andrew Carnegie</B></i><br></p>
1994
1995 <p>The hardworkers do well. Probably better than those with the knack (per capita). Its easier for those with knack, often they end up in do-nothing jobs but with massive personal projects that they do for themselves instead, because that inspires them (but not work.) <br />
1996 rizwank 1.1 You can subsititue ‘motivate’ for ‘promote’, ‘educate’, ‘advance’, ‘work hard’ or a number of other things.</p>
1997
1998 <p>This entire blog entry might sound like a lot of self-ego flattering. I really didn’t mean it as such, thats why I abstrcted the convo about knack. And if it was, so be it; I’m human and its my website. But theres a dire point here, directed squarely at me.</p>
1999
2000 <p>Those who work hard do better than those with knack. Being in both categories is the place to be.</p>
2001
2002 <p>I didn’t write this to flatter myself, I swear. Theres enough lousy stuff about me out on the web and even in this message for me to <span class="caps">PLAN</span> to use this website as a “riz is cool forum”. At this point, I only know that Serena reads regularly, and the rest may have stopped reading or given up at the length of this entry of my innane rants. Its just… I want to know what people think about this. <br />
2003 * Do you believe in knack?<br />
2004 * If not, maybe under another word? Talent? Ingenuity? Experience?<br />
2005 * What do you have a knack in?<br />
2006 * Are you good in your chosen field cause you work hard or because you just get it?<br />
2007 * Where do you have unused knack?<br />
2008 * Do you think there are people who just … aren’t good at anything?<br />
2009 * Do you have any peers that are hard working but dont get it? Or vice versa?</p>
2010
2011 <p><span class="caps">EDIT </span>: I should really get a spell checker or just start re-reading my entries before I post em.</p>
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2137 he experiment has failed.</p>
2138
2139 <p><span class="caps">FFXI</span> has been put back into its box, tape re-applied and ready for return at Walmart.</p>
2140
2141 <p>Vital statistics. <span class="caps">FFXI</span> has been installed for about 22 hours. 6 hours were spent online in play. At least 4 hrs was spent in the “Tetracard” online game (ala <span class="caps">FFIX</span>), at least an hour was set aside for researching classes.</p>
2142
2143 rizwank 1.1 <p>I can’t do it.</p>
2144
2145 <p>At least I made the decision today instead of devoting months of time and <strong>then</strong> deciding that school is more important and that I can’t handle the responsibility of leaving an online game. I could have gone to see my friends today, I didn’t. I rationalized reasons for leaving for school later and later and later (up to your imagination whether I actually went or not). </p>
2146
2147 <p>I’m proud of myself, in that I made the decision, boxed up the game, gave away all the gear on my Lvl 5 Redmage “Rizzyk” (Rizwank has the unfortunate <em>wank</em> in it, and most curse word filters nowadays flag it.) </p>
2148
2149 <p>I’m annoyed that today disappeared, I’ve got to explain to my prof why I missed lab, and do extra work tomorrow. The reason I boxed it up tonight? If I didn’t, Tuesday would go, and I’ve got a midterm I <em>need</em> to study for on Wednesday.</p>
2150
2151 <p>As far as the game? It was fine. Gameplay and leveling seemed a bit more rational than <span class="caps">EQ,</span> not sure how they handle large encoutners and guilds though. Thing is, is that in <span class="caps">EQ I</span> had friends in the same room with a loan of 500plat, all my spells, occasional power-leveling, a fully stocked <a href="http://everquest.allakhazam.com/" title="Alla">Alla</a>’s with every piece of data imagineable. This was … more lonely. And I could see myself making friends and starting the whole fucking cycle again. </p>
2152
2153 <p>The graphics, at least at the initial setting, were sub-EQ, but the game played a <strong>lot</strong> smoother than <span class="caps">EQ. I</span>‘m annoyed at various shortcuts and accelerators that are available in EQ that aren’t in <span class="caps">FFXI</span> but thats just a matter of getting used to it. I found myself getting really annoyed at the many players who <strike>where</strike> were ‘I no speak English’, and I had to restrain myself from the American attitude of “Why dont you speak English, fuckers?” … the game <span class="caps">WAS</span> created in Japan for crying out loud.</p>
2154
2155 <p>So I’ve got <span class="caps">MOO3</span> for unhealthy habits. Actually, if I win once, I dont see myself playing it again, so my 1000 ship battlefleet had better haul some ass. </p>
2156
2157 <p>I was again amazed at my ability to rationalize stupid decisions. I should run for some public office! (Ignores the groans from HeatherW and gang).</p>
2158
2159 <p>So, coding, midterm, labs and labmakeup tomorrow. I should sleep early, for a change.</p>
2160
2161 <p><span class="caps">EDIT</span>:<br />
2162 Serena kissed a boy. Or, he kissed her. And there was hand holding… etc.<br />
2163 I want to be terribly offended. I want to be hurt beyond measure. I dont <em>want</em> my brain to logic away the feelings of “how dare someone else make her happy… <em>I</em> was making her happy (well sorta)” … but it does. I’m slightly annoyed, knowing that I’ve not chatted up people I might have out of respect of just having broken up with Serena, but thats a self-imposed thing and really is kinda dumb. She seems to be moving on more, her blogs are a lot less me-centric, and …. well… she sounds happy. Since I gave her the domain, shes had a project to work on, and our discussions about social lives may have pushed her into going out more, joining an RP group, etc. </p>
2164 rizwank 1.1
2165 <p>But yes, there is a part of me that screams in anger that someone else is touching my woman. </p>
2166
2167 <p>Then again, she isn’t my woman. And I chose that. And I don’t think it was a wrong choice. Its just … odd. She sounded happy about it though and that makes me happy. Reminds me slightly of a Sports Night quote that I loved… it isn’t directly relevant but its worth keeping in mind anyhow…</p>
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2169
2170 <ul>
2171 <li>A famous monk once said, ‘I don’t always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think that the fact that I want to please you, pleases you.’</li>
2172 </ul>
2173
2174 <p>On the upside, shes playing <span class="caps">FF </span>Tactics, and that is good.</p>
2175
2176 <p><a href="http://www.upsaid.com/timiat/" title="Heather">Heather</a> has got some interesting comments re:her and atheism. However, upsaid seems to be down for the moment.</p>
2177
2178
2179
2180
2181
2182
2183 <div class="posted">
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2209
2210 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2211 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2212 $title = $row['title'];
2213 $count = $row['count'];
2214 $search = $row['search'];
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2232 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
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2238 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2239 $query = '';
2240
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2243 $count = $row['count'];
2244 $search = $row['search'];
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2267 dc:title="Arriving home"
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2269 rizwank 1.1 dc:subject=""
2270 dc:description="Arrived at the airpoirt, and after telling mum and dad that I arrived, I picked up my phone to call the people in LA that I would need to tell. There aren&#8217;t any. I dont mean that there are people..."
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2275
2276
2277 <h2 class="date">November 10, 2003</h2>
2278
2279
2280 <div class="blogbody">
2281 <a name="000241"></a>
2282 <?php
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2284 // record the referer
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2288
2289 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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2295 <h3 class="title">Arriving home</h3>
2296
2297 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2298 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2299 A</b>
2300 </p>
2301 </td></tr></table>
2302 rrived at the airpoirt, and after telling mum and dad that I arrived, I picked up my phone to call the people in LA that I would need to tell.<br />
2303 There aren’t any.</p>
2304
2305 <p>I dont mean that there are people that wouldn’t like to hear from me, or wouldn’t mind getting a phone call. Its just… I dont have to call anyone. I dont <strong>have</strong> to call Serena, Heather is out of town, and didnt even know that I was gone, my VV friends knew I was gone and weren’t actively missing me or anything.</p>
2306
2307 <p>Just slightly depressing.</p>
2308
2309 <p>Whats more depressing is that I bought <span class="caps">FF XI. </span>Its like I’m trying to test myself to see how strong my newfound love of school is. <strong>sighs</strong>. Im AT the bloody WalMart saying to a friend that I ran into, I really shouldn’t buy this. And I bought it.</p>
2310
2311 rizwank 1.1 <p>Atlanta was cool, more details on it later. All I saw in Atlanta was the “World of Coke” and I’m already annoyed at myself that I didnt see the ad for an exhibition of Escher paintings until after my soft-drink experience. The Coke tour pales in comparison to the Guiness tour in Dublin, btw. Oh, its always interesting when I remember that our modern image of Santa Claus is massively influenced by the Coke ads of the time.</p>
2312
2313 <p>Anyhow, booting up <span class="caps">FF XI</span> right now, giving myself a half hour to play before I hit the sack for classes. </p>
2314
2315 <p>After setting up my PlayOnline id and all the extra stuff that comes with that, a message comes up.</p>
2316
2317 <p><i>
2318 Exploring Vana’diel is a thrilling experience.<br />
2319 During yoru time here, you will be able to talk, join, and adventure with many other individuals in an experience that is unique to online games.</p>
2320
2321 <p>That being said, we have no desire to see your real life suffer as a consequence. <br />
2322 Don’t forget your family, your friends, your school, or your work.<br />
2323 </i></p>
2324
2325 <p>Its like they met me in advance.<br />
2326 And the fact that they thought to put in this message makes one hope that the game is also made with casual gamers in mind. <br />
2327 And its a dire warning.</p>
2328
2329
2330
2331
2332 rizwank 1.1
2333
2334 <div class="posted">
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2349 </div>
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2351
2352 // display the list of referers
2353 rizwank 1.1 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
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2355
2356 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=241 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2357
2358 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2359 $n = 0;
2360
2361 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2362 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2363 $title = $row['title'];
2364 $count = $row['count'];
2365 $search = $row['search'];
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2386 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
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2388
2389 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2390 $query = '';
2391
2392 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2393 $title = $row['title'];
2394 $count = $row['count'];
2395 rizwank 1.1 $search = $row['search'];
2396
2397 if ($search == 1) {
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2410
2411 <!--
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2418 dc:title="Dancing Queen"
2419 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/11/index.html#000240"
2420 dc:subject=""
2421 dc:description="I forgot how much I like dancing. I don't like to dance at clubs, I can't dance to pick up girls for my life, even when Heather tried to teach me to bump and grind, I proved my incompetence... But..."
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2426
2427
2428 <h2 class="date">November 09, 2003</h2>
2429
2430
2431 <div class="blogbody">
2432 <a name="000240"></a>
2433 <?php
2434
2435 // record the referer
2436 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2437 rizwank 1.1 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (240, '$referer', '', $time)" );
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2439
2440 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2441 $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=240' );
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2446 <h3 class="title">Dancing Queen</h3>
2447
2448 <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2449 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2450 I</b>
2451 </p>
2452 </td></tr></table>
2453 forgot how much I like dancing. I don't like to dance at clubs, I can't dance to pick up girls for my life, even when Heather tried to teach me to bump and grind, I proved my incompetence... But at indian gatherinfs, surrounded with family, uncles and aunties, 5yr olds and 95 year olds, and with no girls that I can possibly convince myself that I *must* flirt with: I love to dance. Singing along to bolloywood classic, dragging in people instead of being dragged in... Damn that was fun. Psuedo bangra/just flailing my hands, dancing with the rents, fake flirting with women twice my age... THat brought a massive smile to my face.
2454
2455
2456 The fact that I wore a new suit and was quite aware that I looked good in it :) always helped. Really cute set, took a lot of pics of it.
2457
2458 rizwank 1.1 Obviously I enjoyed the wedding.
2459
2460
2461
2462
2463
2464
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2479 rizwank 1.1
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2481 <?php
2482
2483 // display the list of referers
2484 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
2485 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
2486
2487 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=240 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2488
2489 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2490 $n = 0;
2491
2492 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2493 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2494 $title = $row['title'];
2495 $count = $row['count'];
2496 $search = $row['search'];
2497
2498 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2499 $n++;
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2504
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2515 echo "<div class='side'>";
2516
2517 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2518 $n = 0;
2519
2520 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2521 rizwank 1.1 $query = '';
2522
2523 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2524 $title = $row['title'];
2525 $count = $row['count'];
2526 $search = $row['search'];
2527
2528 if ($search == 1) {
2529 $n++;
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2540
2541
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2550 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/11/index.html#000239"
2551 dc:subject=""
2552 dc:description="Final Fantasy XI sounds soooooo cool. Anyone playing it yet? (remembrs eq... BaaAaad mmorpgs!)..."
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2557
2558
2559 <h2 class="date">November 08, 2003</h2>
2560
2561
2562 <div class="blogbody">
2563 rizwank 1.1 <a name="000239"></a>
2564 <?php
2565
2566 // record the referer
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2568 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (239, '$referer', '', $time)" );
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2570
2571 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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2573 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2574 $hits = $row[0];
2575
2576 ?>
2577 <h3 class="title">Ff xi</h3>
2578
2579 <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2580 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2581 F</b>
2582 </p>
2583 </td></tr></table>
2584 rizwank 1.1 inal Fantasy XI sounds soooooo cool. Anyone playing it yet? (remembrs eq... BaaAaad mmorpgs!)
2585
2586
2587
2588
2589
2590
2591 <div class="posted">
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2614
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2617
2618 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2619 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2620 $title = $row['title'];
2621 $count = $row['count'];
2622 $search = $row['search'];
2623
2624 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
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2640 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
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2642
2643 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
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2645
2646 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2647 rizwank 1.1 $query = '';
2648
2649 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2650 $title = $row['title'];
2651 $count = $row['count'];
2652 $search = $row['search'];
2653
2654 if ($search == 1) {
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2666
2667
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2683
2684
2685
2686
2687 <div class="blogbody">
2688 <a name="000238"></a>
2689 rizwank 1.1 <?php
2690
2691 // record the referer
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2693 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (238, '$referer', '', $time)" );
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2695
2696 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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2700
2701 ?>
2702 <h3 class="title">Shopping for bras</h3>
2703
2704 <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2705 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2706 I</b>
2707 </p>
2708 </td></tr></table>
2709 'm in Birmingham, AL... The wedding has been going fine. I've pretty much decided to be thetroublemaker this weekend and I'm being well received as such. Its nicer being at the age where you ARE'NT Discounted as a young'n and can actually be funny and silly by your own voilition and not just because you don't know any better. Two uncles (in the indian way, males 15+ yrs older, family friends or distant relatives) told me yesterday that I should have gone into journalisim... They were floored by the way I talked and give attention to everyone in the room... He said I owned the conversations. I didn't stutter once, all my jokes hit home. I think, as it has been all my life, I'm at my best with people 1/2 to 1 generation than me. If thet are my age, I stumble, get nervous and generallyact doofus like. My excellent responses at the wedding back this up...
2710 rizwank 1.1
2711 More details of wedding pranks later, I'm blogging on my pilot.
2712
2713 So I'm chilling with distant cousins (who actually think I'm pretty cool tto, even though theyare +/- 3 yrs of me) and we end up shipping for a bra that can stay hidden underneath their dress clothes. Being an advisor of my sister helped, bras, pads, and other girly things can be mentioned without me turning red, or making lewdish jokes. I always seem the need to mention (ex-gf2) 's bra size whenever women shop for bras in my presence, and their surprise is always a bit of an ego-booster... No idea why, its not like they are my breasts...
2714
2715 Talked a bit about exes and Serena, of course, came up. Explaining why we split up is kinda hard, well without giving a half hour of background. What's odd is that they all assumed shebroke my heart not vice versa. Makes sense that they'd take my side but its still funny.
2716
2717 just went shopping at hat shack for another kanga cap... Not like I really have expendable money :p its fun out at this mall though, slightly southern people but not as much as you'd expect. I won't get much of a feel for the south on my short visit here sadly. One interesting note, whereever you'd expect a mexican to be working in LA, that person is black here. Seems the psuedo-racial classlines remain and that's depressing.
2718
2719 Indian weddings are wayyyy too long if you are part of the family, IMO... Four days of random crap ceremonies.
2720
2721 I'm trying to emulate my crazy cousins on mymums side, Shabbir and Ghalib, as far as wedding pranks go. Some of the stuff in shorthand, dressing up as a woman and joining the procession line where dowry/gifts are handed down, breaking into song (totally irrelevant religious song at that) whenever we do anything...
2722
2723 just got a haircut in the mall o'er here...
2724 It was that, or at Walmart. Its 1.5 sizes too small... Yowzer (with the actual wedding tonight. Grow hair, grow!)
2725
2726 Girl entered my $2 tip into the computer as a $4 tip... Tsk on dishonesty.
2727
2728
2729
2730
2731 rizwank 1.1
2732
2733 <div class="posted">
2734 <div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script> at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/11/index.html#000238" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">01:28 PM</a><?php
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2748 </div>
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2750
2751 // display the list of referers
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2755 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=238 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2756
2757 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
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2759
2760 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2761 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2762 $title = $row['title'];
2763 $count = $row['count'];
2764 $search = $row['search'];
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2766 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
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2782 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
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2785 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
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2788 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2789 $query = '';
2790
2791 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2792 $title = $row['title'];
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2795
2796 if ($search == 1) {
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2825
2826
2827 <h2 class="date">November 05, 2003</h2>
2828
2829
2830 <div class="blogbody">
2831 <a name="000237"></a>
2832 <?php
2833
2834 // record the referer
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2839 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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2841 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
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2843
2844 ?>
2845 <h3 class="title">Books</h3>
2846
2847 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2848 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2849 K</b>
2850 </p>
2851 </td></tr></table>
2852 icked ass on two midterms today. Turned in my CS project a day late, and turned in the first incomplete project I’ve turned in in my college career…. with that being said, not a single person turned in a complete project. That made me feel better.</p>
2853
2854 <p>Damn Master of the Orion 3 … its an addictive game. </p>
2855
2856 <p>Reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786911700/qid=1068086480/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0216730-4610359?v=glance&n=507846" title="The Brothers War">The Brothers War</a>. Damn good book. Too bad no one I know has the sequel, Planeswalker, (and it wasn’t rated that well) … the third sequel, Time Streams sounds good though.</p>
2857 rizwank 1.1
2858 <p>The author has written a lot of books, including books from the Ice Age cycle, novels about Starcraft..D&D supplements…</p>
2859
2860 <p>Going to see Matrix 3 today with my friends. Leaving for Atlanta for a wedding first thing tomorrow, will be out of town until Sunday evening. I’m taking advantage of the time to do past labs, study in the class I haven’t been attending ,actually read my notes and code my second Algorithm project.</p>
2861
2862 <p>I hope theres someplace I can draft Thursday night there ;p</p>
2863
2864 <p>Well, we are flying into Atlanta, going to Birmingham, <span class="caps">AL.</span></p>
2865
2866
2867
2868
2869
2870
2871 <div class="posted">
2872 <div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script> at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/11/index.html#000237" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">06:47 PM</a><?php
2873 if ($hits) {
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2880 | <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=237" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (0)</a>
2881
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2883
2884 </div>
2885
2886 </div>
2887 <?php
2888
2889 // display the list of referers
2890 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
2891 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
2892
2893 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=237 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2894
2895 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2896 $n = 0;
2897
2898 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2899 rizwank 1.1 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2900 $title = $row['title'];
2901 $count = $row['count'];
2902 $search = $row['search'];
2903
2904 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2905 $n++;
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2907 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
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2910
2911 if (!($n)) {
2912 echo "No referrals yet<br />";
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2914 else {
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2916 echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
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2919
2920 rizwank 1.1 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2921 echo "<div class='side'>";
2922
2923 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2924 $n = 0;
2925
2926 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2927 $query = '';
2928
2929 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2930 $title = $row['title'];
2931 $count = $row['count'];
2932 $search = $row['search'];
2933
2934 if ($search == 1) {
2935 $n++;
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2945
2946
2947
2948 <!--
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2963
2964
2965
2966
2967 <div class="blogbody">
2968 <a name="000236"></a>
2969 <?php
2970
2971 // record the referer
2972 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2973 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (236, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2974 }
2975
2976 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2977 $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=236' );
2978 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2979 $hits = $row[0];
2980
2981 ?>
2982 <h3 class="title">Look Mom!</h3>
2983 rizwank 1.1
2984 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2985 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2986 S</b>
2987 </p>
2988 </td></tr></table>
2989 ee what I’ve done?</p>
2990
2991 <p>The side bars (just left for now) are collapsable, and not in the stupid way that the blogrolling is collapsable… It actually doesn’t transmit the data if it doesn’t need to, meaning an even quicker download for you modem users. </p>
2992
2993 <p>You can change the order as you please, and its stored on a local cookie so it stays with you. I’m going to add some borders to pretty it up when its ‘scrunched’ and find an icon for the scrunched mode instead of the tragic “Move this item to the top” nonsense. I wanted to left align the titles so the minimize/maximize icons can be left aligned… its didn’t look that great though. Code was from <a href="http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/001449.php" title="Scriptygoddess">Scriptygoddess</a>, with some changes of my own. Its been made so that the same cookie can hold left and right values, so as soon as I recode the right side to collapse, you should be able to even move items from left to right! (Not easily, but its doable)</p>
2994
2995 <p>A demo of <a href="http://www.scriptygoddess.com/testarea/showHideGadgetsv2.php" title="ShowHideGadgets">ShowHideGadgets</a>… its pretty and colorful.</p>
2996
2997 <p><a href="http://www.scriptygoddess.com/" title="ScriptyGoddess">ScriptyGoddess</a> is pretty cool, I found like six hours worth of coding to add to my blog!</p>
2998
2999 <p><a href="http://www.bradchoate.com/" title="Brad Choate">Brad Choate</a> is amazing.</p>
3000
3001 <p>Also installed Brad’s <a href="http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mttextile.php#001439" title="Textile">Textile</a> plugin, a Moveable type implementation of a super-cool plaintext formatting language called <a href="http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/" title="Textile">Textile</a>. I like it because it is (supposed) to have code blocks (although I haven’t found it yet) so when I post C++ code, it’ll be properly formatted… Also cool are the indented lists, like below. Check out Textile, I think its nifty.</p>
3002
3003 <p>The <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/" title="SmartPants">SmartPants</a> smart punctuation generator was updated.</p>
3004 rizwank 1.1
3005 <p>Other stuff I’m planning to add.</p>
3006
3007
3008 <ol>
3009 <li><strike>Counters to track the number of time <strong>each</strong> blog entry is read.<br />
3010 <a href="http://www.nibbleguru.com/php/creating_a_multipage_text_counter_phpmysql_7.php" title="Creating a MultiPage Text Counter (PHP/MySQL)">Creating a MultiPage Text Counter (PHP/MySQL)</a></strike></li>
3011 <li><strike>Add more <a href="http://www.richarderiksson.com/movableblog/archives/custom_tag_buttons_in_edit_entry_screen1123.php" title="buttons">buttons</a> to my entry edit screen.</strike></li>
3012 <li><strike>Install Brad’s <a href="http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mtperlscript.php" title="PerlScript">PerlScript</a> Plugin.</strike></li>
3013 <li><strike>Install the <a href="http://www.bradchoate.com/past/001653.php#001653" title="Textile 2">Textile 2</a> Beta update, when I both a) <a href="http://bradchoate.com/past/mttextile.php" title="Learn">Learn</a> how to use Textile 1, b) Feel the beta is stable enough… Its got inline table formatting though, which, <span class="caps">IMHO</span> is super cool.</strike></li>
3014 <li>Get linked to more often by people. This isn’t really a technical advancement, but I’d kinda like some traffic. (Writing interesting things would help that along also.) I’ve got like ten blog entries on the trials and tribulations of my past two CS projects and coding advice, in the hope that others don’t make the same damned stupid mistakes. :)</li>
3015 <li>Update my <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/mypictures.output/" title="photogallery">photogallery</a>. Its in desperate need of update, both because I’ve got (some) of the Uzbekistan pictures developed, and that I’m not sure how much I like the current interface. Some <a href="http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/003530.php" title="external">external</a> ideas… I really need to finish developing the rest of the Uzbek pics though… Also, seeing pics of (ex-gf2) popping up in the random picture window is starting to annoy me.</li>
3016 <li>Submit some of the little scripts I’ve written to <a href="http://www.scriptygoddess.com/guestpostform.php" title="ScriptyGoddess">ScriptyGoddess</a>, including the quote and image randomizer.</li>
3017 <li>Start using <a href="http://wizbangblog.com/archives/000453.php" title="extended entries">extended entries</a>, especially when I start talking about <a href="http://www.aaronandstacia.com/archives/000087.php" title="coding">coding</a>, etc. My initial worry was the cost as far as annoying people when the page has to reload because they want to read the rest of the entry, but as my new ‘gadgets’ on the sidebars force reloads anyway…</li>
3018 <li>Get MTAmazon working someday, so I can just write an Amazon tag and then a book name and have a link autocreated…</li>
3019 <li><strike>Start using the <em>strike</em> tag whenever I change something in a blog, to keep the old stuff for posterity. <strike>See how it works?</strike></strike></li>
3020 <li>Add the htmlArea code for expanding the built in formatting window to something really cool… more options, built in color etc. I added a Magic card script, an expanded <span class="caps">URL</span> link script, and a Google button to my bar, but this might be something worth adding… Of course, you all won’t actually see the entry window…</li>
3021 <li><strike>Get back on top of the Google search for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Rizwan%20Kassim%22" >“Rizwan Kassim”</a>… the old bitter site about me and Mike&Ben is back to first place since I renamed the site to “This American Life”…</strike></li>
3022 <li>Learn <a href="http://simon.incutio.com/categories/csstutorial/" title="CSS"><span class="caps">CSS</span></a> and <a href="http://www.developer.com/lang/php/article.php/1472701" title="PHP"><span class="caps">PHP</span></a> better.</li>
3023 <li><strike>Finally put a mailto:me link here, without having to worry about spammers picking it up, thanks to <a href="http://hiveware.com/enkoder_form.php" title="Hiveware Enkoder">Hiveware Enkoder</a>. </strike></li>
3024 <li><strike>Start <a href="http://www.tbotcotw.com/archives/001159.php" title="collecting">collecting</a> (better) referrer data on what sites are linking to me, </strike>and see how the linked site does extended entries and the <a href="http://mt-stuff.fanworks.net/plugin/quick_code_version_10.phtml" title="code">code</a> tag that is implemented.</li>
3025 rizwank 1.1 <li><strike>Get an email when <a href="http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/004032.php" title="Google">Google</a> visits my site.</strike></li>
3026 <li>Setup <a href="http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/006625" title="Winamp Trackbacking">Winamp Trackbacking</a> … Tell everyone what I’m listening to as soon as they hit my site. That being said, I dont think it interfaces with iTunes…. That’d mean switching back to Winamp, and while I love Winamp, iTunes does what it does fine, albiet a bit slower. </li>
3027 <li>Browse through the other <span class="caps">CSS</span> styles at the <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/" title="CSS Zen Garden"><span class="caps">CSS </span>Zen Garden</a>, be amazed at the flexibility of <span class="caps">CSS,</span> try to think up a new color/formatting scheme that isn’t directly ripped from <a href="http://www.geekandproud.net" title="Geek And Proud">Geek And Proud</a>. I’ve always liked <a href="http://www.antipixel.com/blog/" title="Antipixel's">Antipixel’s</a> look, and <a href="http://www.geekychick.net/blog/" title="geekychick's">geekychick’s</a> isn’t half bad either. I need something brighter, more whitespace, simplier themes. Oh, btw, to get your mind blown, go to the <a href="http://www.csszengarden.com/" title="Zen Garden index">Zen Garden index</a> page and click on one of the links on the side… you’ll see an <span class="caps">ENTIRELY</span> different layout for the exact same html page. <span class="caps">CSS</span> is amazing.</li>
3028 <li><strike>Become a total geek and consider making a <a href="http://www.geekandproud.net/archives/000313.php" title="photo/moblog">photo/moblog</a>.</strike></li>
3029 <li><strike>Fix my archive and <span class="caps">PDA</span> templates so they actually contain the same data (and look similar) to the index page.</strike></li>
3030 </ol>
3031
3032 <p>Oh, as far as useful tools…</p>
3033
3034
3035 <ul>
3036 <li><a href="http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/color_toy_fr.htm" title="Color finding toy">Color finding toy.</a></li>
3037 <li><a href="http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/003834.php" title="Validate my HTML.">Validate my <span class="caps">HTML.</span></a></li>
3038 <li>Tell everyone about the coolness of <a href="http://www.stcassociates.com/lab/fontbrowser.html" title="FontBrowser">FontBrowser</a>, a Flash font previewing app.</li>
3039 <li><a href="http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/" title="Color Blender.">Color Blender.</a></li>
3040 </ul>
3041
3042 <p>Oh, I want a <a href="http://www.treocentral.com/content/Stories/286-1.htm" title="Treo 600">Treo 600</a>. Anyone got one? ;p</p>
3043
3044 <p>I could talk about me at this point, but its either talk about me, and go to my midterm or get lunch and go to my midterm. Guess which won.</p>
3045
3046 rizwank 1.1
3047
3048
3049
3050
3051 <div class="posted">
3052 <div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script> at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/11/index.html#000236" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">03:27 PM</a><?php
3053 if ($hits) {
3054 print " | Read ";
3055 echo "$hits";
3056 print " time";
3057 if($hits != 1) echo 's';
3058 }
3059 ?>
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3061
3062 | <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&entry_id=236" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
3063
3064 </div>
3065
3066 </div>
3067 rizwank 1.1 <?php
3068
3069 // display the list of referers
3070 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3071 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
3072
3073 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=236 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
3074
3075 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3076 $n = 0;
3077
3078 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3079 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3080 $title = $row['title'];
3081 $count = $row['count'];
3082 $search = $row['search'];
3083
3084 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3085 $n++;
3086 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3087 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
3088 rizwank 1.1 }
3089 }
3090
3091 if (!($n)) {
3092 echo "No referrals yet<br />";
3093 }
3094 else {
3095 echo "<br />\n";
3096 echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
3097 }
3098 echo '</div>';
3099
3100 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3101 echo "<div class='side'>";
3102
3103 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3104 $n = 0;
3105
3106 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3107 $query = '';
3108
3109 rizwank 1.1 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3110 $title = $row['title'];
3111 $count = $row['count'];
3112 $search = $row['search'];
3113
3114 if ($search == 1) {
3115 $n++;
3116 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3117 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
3118 }
3119 }
3120
3121 if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
3122 else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
3123 echo "</div>";
3124 ?>
3125
3126
3127
3128 </div>
3129 </div>
3130 rizwank 1.1 <?php
3131 //Change the following to your email address
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