The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Box it, ship it

| September 12, 2003

So, we got that project working. We got an extra couple days because someone is taking it on a plane to the show tomorrow. I have to say that aside from a few minor bugs, my code worked flawlessly – all the times that the machine was in the drink were mechanical problems, like misaligned [...]

Business model

| September 10, 2003

1.) Dream up a product that is a modification of an existing product, including some major design changes that were not in the original spec. 2.) Let the mechanical engineers spend three weeks desiging and building it. 3.) Let the parts people take another three weeks making the parts. 4.) Build up a mechanically working [...]

Busy couple days…

| September 10, 2003

Hear ye, hear ye: Thursday, Sept 11, begins the first meeting of the Tuesday Night Gaming Crew's roundtable discussion forum. This will be loosely based in the 193 Degrees coffeehouse in the URI Memorial Union, but we may wander around campus. Everyone of legal age is encouraged to bring your favorite libation in a covert [...]

Killer rabbits!!

| September 8, 2003

Warehouse 23 has killer rabbits in two sizes: Miniature and Jumbo. G/f Liz and Simon and I all went out to see Le Divorce last night. For some reason I expected it to be a comedy, kind of like French Kiss but really it ended up being more of a drama. There were some funny [...]

Lazy Sunday

| September 7, 2003

So I saw a new show this morning – “Newlyweds, Jessica and Nick”. Basically, it's Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey (he was a singer in 98 degrees) and they have just gotten married and this is the reality TV show about their life together. It's kind of annoying because he seems like this cool guy [...]

In today's news

| September 6, 2003

I hate Gilbert Gottfried. Hopefully the history channel will stop the “Tactical to Practical” ads with him in it soon. In the news (culled from /.) The RIAA wants to link pornography to Peer 2 Peer systems Of course. They can't get people excited about anyone being able to download any song without paying royalties. [...]

First Post

| September 5, 2003

Hot grits? For the statement of the obvious, this is my first LiveJournal post. Everyone else has a Weblog, I was starting to feel left out. Plus, I had time to kill – the company president came by my little cubicle in the world and told me that he would be bringing people by to [...]