:: nothing in particular ::

:: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 ::

My phone beat up your Crackberry.

Yes, you heard me right. Unfortunately, over the past week, my PPC6600 cell phone/pda thing developed a crack in its digitizer (touch screen) that rendered it mostly useless. Thankfully I carry an equipment repair and replacement plan. I took it in to Sprint, and have been equipped with the new and improved UTStarcom PPC6700. The big upgrades on the 6700 include Windows Mobile 5, 1.3MP camera, EVDO (high-speed data), and WiFi. I know its hard understand, but yes, my phone has an 802.11b WiFi card.

So Crackberry users, bow to my alpha geek status and know that my gadgetry is better than yours.

:: Nick 6:38:00 AM [+] ::
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I think that calling my dad today to wish him a happy father's day was a mistake. There was actual adult conversation for about 2 minutes before he simply degenerated into "when are you graduating, what are you going to be, answer my questions" and so on and so forth. Same thing, all the time. Doesn't matter what I say. I try to converse but conversation always becomes interrogation. I've never been treated like an adult by him. In fact, usually I'm told *to my face* that I don't know what I'm talking about. Today it was when I tried to explain battery chemistry while figuring out why my family has destroyed yet another cordless phone. Nope, according to him, I know nothing of the subject. And that's just how it goes. I'm always the ignorant child, berated and belittled at every opportunity, while the hypocrite goes and tells all his friends how smart I am. Yeah, that's nice.

So to all you fathers out there that are decent and good family men, I commend you. And to those who are not, karma sucks.

"WHEN ARE YOU GRADUATING?...WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE?...ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!...DO WHAT I TELL YOU!...YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!...NO, YOU'RE WRONG!"

"Happy father's day."

*click*

No, I was right.

:: Nick 5:22:00 PM [+] ::
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Dear person clicking on the link to my blog from facebook,

WTF are you?

Sincerely,
Nick

Seriously, I've just had an enormous upsurge in visitors from facebook.

:: Nick 8:33:00 PM [+] ::
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The past few days have been well, slightly more strange than usual. Thursday night at Henry T's we had a special guest appearance by Dr. Colgren. That was fun. Friday, I drove the TALON robot around outside Learned and Eaton trying to figure out a problem with the drive system. I thought a gearbox had been chewed up or a motor wasn't working, but the bug seemed to work itself out. Sunday, we went back to drive it, and to our surprise it seemed as if someone had screwed around with the operator controller, because the screen had been smashed. We were VERY upset. Driving it around to make sure it was still driving right was harder without the cameras...just like playing with an $80,000 remote control car. Today I found out that UGS charges $500 to get a different OS version of their NX software, even if you've already paid umpteen thousands for the license. Boo. I also talked with someone else at UGS about Teamcenter, and after noticing I was in Lawrence, Kansas remarked that she went to Mizzou. I responded with, "I'm sorry." She said, "I said I went to Miz...OH!!!" That made my day. I downloaded the Windows Vista Beta 2 today, and I'm going to install it on either the Sun Ultra 20 or Ultra 40 that are coming my way to evaluate.

And it seems I have allowed Kyle's hatred of people to flow into me. Yup, you guessed it: I hate people.

:: Nick 7:36:00 PM [+] ::
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/me bangs head on wall

what did I just do?

:: Nick 12:12:00 AM [+] ::
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Kevin is buying a house here in Lawrence. Nice place, there will be plenty good times there I'm sure.

Geez, first Kyle goes house shopping, now Kevin. We're getting old.

:: Nick 9:01:00 PM [+] ::
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