summer time, what are you doing? [Archive]

phatlip12

06-18-2008, 05:13 AM

Heh, I just posted a long Pownce post explaining my summer project. I'll just go ahead and paste it here:

I've been doing a ton of reading so far this summer. I already finished "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML" and am about to finish "Head First Javascript" (probably sometime this week).

My goal is to do a little more with CSS and Javascript and then I'll move on to some Ajax. My goals to finish the summer up with some server side reading.

I just bought CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition by O'Rielly as I think it will be a nice follow up to the head first book. I won't really read this one page by page but I'll take a week or two to read some various thing in it. That and it will be a nice reference piece. Then, I want to do the same thing with a Javascript book (not sure which one yet)...THEN I'll move on to AJAX.

It's fun learning all of this web development as everything I've done so far as been application based programing (C/C++, Java, Visual Basic). I'm hoping I'll be able to apply everything I learned by the end of the summer to one of the many sites I've had in the back of my mind for such a long time.

Why did I post all this? Not sure, I'm lucky if anyone will read it. I was bored though, so thats my little summer project. :D

tokenuser

06-18-2008, 05:22 AM

Business trip to SoCal (next week)
Business trip to Atlanta (next month)
VoIP project for work (yay - connecting 3 North American sites to two development centers in India, plus remote staff in US, China, Japan, and India).
More integration liason work with clients/vendors.

Personal time? I had my 4 days vacation last month (Florida Keys). Might get away again for a couple of days early August before wife goes back to school.

Puppy training is the other big thing.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2564825450_b4a4dbbdab_m.jpg

Pick her up on Friday.

jessicaphan

06-18-2008, 07:47 AM

working every single day until july rolls around.

then my birthday and cali for comic-con!

stumpy

06-18-2008, 03:25 PM

Lets see;

I'm going on a four day Scout Camp today...

Then 4 days after that my family and I are heading to Northern California to my Grandpa's ranch for a week and a half...

Then a day after that, I'm going on my "Senior Trip" with some close friends to San Diego...

Then in August I'm going to a Cisco VoIP training in Denver for work...

That's about all I'm doing...

shiftaws

06-18-2008, 04:02 PM

Well im in school right now for a month. I dropped out of school about 6 months ago, got my ged and im in class right now at community college.

There are mad hardcore shows around boston that i go to with my friends.

jumping nazis

playing guitar in 3 bands.

taking care of my dog.

you know life.

mikec

06-18-2008, 04:56 PM

Like most adults, I will be working. I have gaps in my schedule when there is no work, but they occur all through the year. I will have a week off in the near future but there is no great vacation planned, just spending time with friends and riding my bike.

bani-banan

06-18-2008, 07:23 PM

Kick it in to gear and lose alot of weight.

Let's collab? share results, diets and exercising methods?

In a non gay way of course.

Loose weight, party and implementing and teaching various e-commerce things to various local companies. Oh, and trying to master php and RoR.

Jolly good fun :)

comhcinc

06-18-2008, 07:30 PM

notice people never ask you what you are doing this winter...........

autodas

06-18-2008, 07:52 PM

Most of us have time off during the summer, not winter:rolleyes:

masherscf

06-18-2008, 08:04 PM

These might be my last two months of sun here in the rainy state of Washington. I think I'll just be practicing lacrosse for the summer.

Get a job, hippy! (j/k)

For the amount you bitch about taxes, I figured you for a working man.

I have three more weeks of summer session. Then, I'll have about five-weeks summer break. I hate summer school, but the money is good.

BTW, most people don't have time off...unless they're unemployed.

autodas

06-18-2008, 08:13 PM

Keep political discussions out.

masherscf

06-18-2008, 08:19 PM

Keep political discussions out.

Nothin' political here, everyone hates taxes... except Walter Mondale.

comhcinc

06-18-2008, 08:27 PM

Keep political discussions out.
what ever dude.
I wish we had universal health care then everyone could get so-so treatment for an injury themselves they caused.
try following that rule yourself.

Nothin' political here, everyone hates taxes... except Walter Mondale.
and me. i understand that taxes are a good thing.

bigshotprof

06-18-2008, 10:25 PM

Teaching college online and spending too much time doing stuff like this.

masherscf

06-18-2008, 10:33 PM

Teaching college online and spending too much time doing stuff like this.

I gotta teach an online class. Accept, most of my students would fail miserable online. :(

tokenuser

06-18-2008, 10:46 PM

Teaching college online and spending too much time doing stuff like this.My wife was asked to do this for one of her courses, but she has too much lab time integrated into her teaching plan for it to be effective.

She works on research projects over summer for her summer salary. Unfortunately that also means that most of the time she is working from home rather than school. Which means that my work day is interrupted by
"its 11:00 o'clock, shouldn't you have a shower?" (I shower mid afternoon most days - to cool off at the warmest part of the day and to give me an energy boost)
"its 12:00 o'clock, whats for lunch?" (subtle hint for me to go to supermarket/chinese/subway - I'll skip lunch, or eat later in afternoon)
"do you want to watch this?" (something on TV while we are having lunch - no I work over lunch, and I dont want to see another LAw & Order repeat)
"do you want a game of chess" (yes, I do, but do yo get the picture that I am at work)?
"can you put the washing/dishwasher on" (sure)
"the washer is awfully loud want to go up to <insert store> to buy <insert item>"
"can you shut your door - your phone calls are awfully loud." (yes, that is while I AM on the phone to a colleague/client, and the door is open because it gets stuffy in my office ... because for some reason its OK for you to run the AC downstairs, but upstairs me having it at 82F is "like an icebox").

LEAVE ME ALONE!!!! I DONT PARK MYSELF OUTSIDE YOUR OFFICE ALL DAY.

I am going to need a vacation when summer is over :(

popltree2

06-23-2008, 05:17 PM

I am working over the summer and also just lounging around the apartment, smacking the puppies when they need to be smacked. We also have a pool in the middle of our complex that I am going to try and visit more often.

ariastar

06-23-2008, 08:29 PM

Summer, summer...job hunting.

msmags

06-23-2008, 09:30 PM

My wife was asked to do this for one of her courses, but she has too much lab time integrated into her teaching plan for it to be effective.

She works on research projects over summer for her summer salary. Unfortunately that also means that most of the time she is working from home rather than school. Which means that my work day is interrupted by
"its 11:00 o'clock, shouldn't you have a shower?" (I shower mid afternoon most days - to cool off at the warmest part of the day and to give me an energy boost)
"its 12:00 o'clock, whats for lunch?" (subtle hint for me to go to supermarket/chinese/subway - I'll skip lunch, or eat later in afternoon)
"do you want to watch this?" (something on TV while we are having lunch - no I work over lunch, and I dont want to see another LAw & Order repeat)
"do you want a game of chess" (yes, I do, but do yo get the picture that I am at work)?
"can you put the washing/dishwasher on" (sure)
"the washer is awfully loud want to go up to <insert store> to buy <insert item>"
"can you shut your door - your phone calls are awfully loud." (yes, that is while I AM on the phone to a colleague/client, and the door is open because it gets stuffy in my office ... because for some reason its OK for you to run the AC downstairs, but upstairs me having it at 82F is "like an icebox").

LEAVE ME ALONE!!!! I DONT PARK MYSELF OUTSIDE YOUR OFFICE ALL DAY.

I am going to need a vacation when summer is over :(

LOL.....poor you. :(

tokenuser

06-23-2008, 09:58 PM

LOL.....poor you. :(Its not as bad as it sounds. Just the main gripe of a telecommuter - a lack of understanding by spouses that the fact you are always home doesn't mean you aren't working.

I have no problem putting on a load of washing or runnign the dishwasher - infact it frees up time on the weekends when we can spend time together ... but the other things get a little annoying :)

rabidbadger

06-24-2008, 01:05 AM

rehab. maybe. still trying to decide.

phatlip12

06-24-2008, 01:57 AM

rehab. maybe. still trying to decide.

Way to go dude. Glad you're getting better. You do what you feel is best. We support you all the way. :)

tokenuser

06-24-2008, 02:00 AM

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masherscf

06-24-2008, 02:09 AM

I have about three weeks for summer school left. Any suggestions?

tokenuser

06-24-2008, 02:11 AM

I have about three weeks for summer school left. Any suggestions?Become the object of my complete and utter jealousy?

rabidbadger

06-24-2008, 02:12 AM

prepare for fall classes, maybe...

masherscf

06-24-2008, 02:13 AM

Become the object of my complete and utter jealousy?

Well, you actually get paid for 12-months for 12-months work. Imagine if your job laid you off for four month of the year but hid the fact by deferring your salary to fill the gaps. But, I have no complaints, I could earn an extra $20,000 by working full time the entire summer. I think my wife wants me to put on a full schedule for the next two summers in order to bank the extra money for a down-payment.

comhcinc

06-24-2008, 02:18 AM

I have about three weeks for summer school left. Any suggestions?

http://www.spacecamp.com/museum/

masherscf

06-24-2008, 02:19 AM

http://www.spacecamp.com/museum/

I'd love that! Too bad gas is such a bitch.

comhcinc

06-24-2008, 02:23 AM

I'd love that! Too bad gas is such a bitch.

not really a problem (http://www.hsvairport.org/)

rabidbadger

06-24-2008, 02:25 AM

===[ Thread rewind. Flame retardent starting to smoke ... where were we again? ]===

LOVE this new feature! Should use it more often instead of closing otherwis good threads.

tokenuser

06-24-2008, 02:30 AM

LOVE this new feature! Should use it more often instead of closing otherwis good threads.Unfortunately it is manual ... and gets the person executing the rewind accused of being the jackboot of corporate suppression and censorship :( ... whatever. I'll get over it.

We took our summer vacation early this year, and since we now have a puppy in tow, we can't really go away without putting her in boarding kennel. If she is behaving herself in a months time, we might do that ... and go away to Washington for the weekend, and do the Smithsonians again. Its been over 10 years, and I want to see the new Space and Flight museum. The old one rocked, so the new one has got to be a bajillion times better.

masherscf

06-24-2008, 02:37 AM

not really a problem (http://www.hsvairport.org/)

Airline tickets for four, plus traveling by airline w/ toddlers... no thank you.

comhcinc

06-24-2008, 02:43 AM

Airline tickets for four, plus traveling by airline w/ toddlers... no thank you.
i think you are just making excuses now better? (http://www.greyhound.com/home/)

masherscf

06-24-2008, 02:47 AM

i think you are just making excuses now better? (http://www.greyhound.com/home/)

I was thinking about this (http://www.amtrak.com), myself.

comhcinc

06-24-2008, 02:48 AM

I was thinking about this (http://www.amtrak.com), myself.
doesn't come through huntsville. but yes that does rock

skyz

06-24-2008, 11:45 PM

i'm going to lie around and relax

i've been thinking too hard :)

i'm going to read a lot of books and watch a lot of movies

and eat lots of fruit

tokenuser

06-24-2008, 11:59 PM

and eat lots of fruitI like mine as a pie. In Florida, it has to be key lime (which ironically is better made with Persian limes).

techliveadmin

06-25-2008, 12:49 AM

Well I am officially out from school as off last week Thursday. I am free for at least 10 weeks.

Me? I intend to kill the innocent and torture the future of the world, until everyone fears me ;)

Nothing out of the usual for now.

rabidbadger

06-25-2008, 01:01 AM

techlive. I'm gonna publicly say this. You have grown up a lot lately. You have learned sarcasm, responsible adult interaction, and a good sense of humor. Good for you. I repped you yesterday, so can't again so soon. Just... Good job young man
GET THOSE INFIDELS!

rabidbadger

06-25-2008, 01:04 AM

Oh, wait, that would be me. And me first being an atheist gay westerner. Ok. I show you my throat. show me your blade...

techliveadmin

06-25-2008, 01:33 AM

Oh, wait, that would be me. And me first being an atheist gay westerner. Ok. I show you my throat. show me your blade...

Atheist - hmmm thats 10 points
Westerner - 20 points
Gay - 50 points.

Kill ya? Heck yea, i'll be a legend!!!! :P

rabidbadger

06-25-2008, 01:37 AM

not did I just LOL, I sqeeled like a little gurl. (and scared the neighbors)

rabidbadger

06-25-2008, 01:38 AM

wait, what? gay beats athiest 5 fold? Crazy.

ariastar

06-25-2008, 01:57 AM

I like mine as a pie. In Florida, it has to be key lime (which ironically is better made with Persian limes).

Depends. My recipe is best with fresh-squeezed Key lime juice and fresh zest. Which...now I must go to the store to get, I think.

rabidbadger

06-25-2008, 01:59 AM

MMMMMM. Key lime pie. salivate*

msmags

06-25-2008, 06:33 PM

I am going to pick some fresh, local strawberries this weekend. YUM! :D

Maybe I'll make a strawberry cobbler, or a strawberry crisp, or just have tons of strawberries with whipped cream.

Or maybe I'll just roll around in whipped cream while eating strawberries. You never know. ;)

tokenuser

06-25-2008, 07:16 PM

Or maybe I'll just roll around in whipped cream while eating strawberries. You never know. ;)Pics or it didn't happen :)

I love strawberry lemonade - even just a tin of minute maid frozen lemonade concentrate made up with crushed strawberries in it that are allowed to soak for awhile.

Also enjoy them sliced, sprinkled with sugar, and soaked in Cointreau.

But, for something different, try cracking some fresh black pepper on the berry then eating it. It really enhances the sweetness.

msmags

06-25-2008, 07:25 PM

But, for something different, try cracking some fresh black pepper on the berry then eating it. It really enhances the sweetness.

Ohh, I'l have to try that! Thx for the tip. :D

Bohemian_Beauty

06-25-2008, 07:30 PM

Or maybe I'll just roll around in whipped cream while eating strawberries. You never know. ;)

LOL... What a tease. :P

msmags

06-25-2008, 09:33 PM

LOL... What a tease. :P

I like to play....what can I say? Hey, I'm a poet and didn't know it. :p

-jedibitch-

06-26-2008, 01:12 PM

Speaking of strawberries...

I once had this amazing salad... it was mixed greens with honeyed pine nuts and strawberries. It had a balsamic vinaigrette. Yummers.

Great strawberry combinations:

Strawberries and Amaretto
Strawberries marinated in balsamic
Strawberries with cream (classic and simple)

I really want strawberries right now....

heyseuss

06-26-2008, 05:06 PM

I'm weird, I don't eat strawberries. Or kiwi, mango, apricot, peach, plum, pear, etc.

Had a mango tree in australia the size of a house, but if you went near it at night, a fruitbat would take off from within the branches and scare the crap out of you, as happened to me when it flew into my head as a child.

BTW, I don't think american ppl realise, but every single evening, growing up in Australia, at dusk, the sky was full of millions of big fruitbats (I'm talkin 4 foot wingspans) flying to their feeding area. Ya take it for granted aftr a while, and if you have fruit trees they will find it and cause problems, and possibly fly into your head and scare the bejeebus out of you . . .. . .. but now I miss it.

tokenuser

06-26-2008, 05:15 PM

BTW, I don't think american ppl realise, but every single evening, growing up in Australia, at dusk, the sky was full of millions of big fruitbats (I'm talkin 4 foot wingspans) flying to their feeding area. Ya take it for granted aftr a while, and if you have fruit trees they will find it and cause problems, and possibly fly into your head and scare the bejeebus out of you . . .. . .. but now I miss it.Bats are on the endanered list in Australia, mainly due to declining natural habitates, and drought issues. Not that you'd know living in Sydney, where - as you said - you see thousands flying to feeding grounds (Botanical Gardens in Sydney at Mrs Maquaries Chair is popular with bats because of the date palms).

My sister is a volunteer with a group called WIRES on the NSW north coast in Australia that does wildlife rescue and recuperation. Her specialty is bats and she has an aviary out back of her house where she raises bats whose mothers have been killed until they are old enough to go to the main site for repopulation. Fruit bats (flying foxes) are kinda cute when they are young - looking like small puppies.

Bohemian_Beauty

06-26-2008, 05:16 PM

heyseuss

06-26-2008, 06:01 PM

Bats are on the endanered list in Australia, mainly due to declining natural habitates, and drought issues. Not that you'd know living in Sydney, where - as you said - you see thousands flying to feeding grounds (Botanical Gardens in Sydney at Mrs Maquaries Chair is popular with bats because of the date palms).

I had a mangrove swamp nearby.

Fruit bats (flying foxes) are kinda cute when they are young - looking like small puppies.

They are indeed. Furry aren't they, and they don't have the ability to spread the sinewy skeletal wings out in your face. Adult ones though....

What I never knew was, America does have bats, even Texas has bats. Attenborough's Life Of Mammals shows a cave in Texas with over 20 million bats in it. They also showed a skunk in a cave walking around on the floor watching baby bats get born above him and then drop to the ground, where he would grab them and munch on their heads - and they had great audio, at that moment. Ew. However, that particular disc of Life Of Mammals also had a nasty viscious ape gang beating that brought me to tears.

Serisouly ppl, get Life Of Mammals if you haven't seen it. You don't get to see a whale having sex with a 12 foot dick every day. .... or do you ?

rabidbadger

06-26-2008, 09:29 PM

heyseuss

06-27-2008, 05:21 AM

Dang, I don't remember Bats in australia at all. And I have this weird huge memory of Australia that my older brother doesn't. I mean, no bats in my memory until I moved back to upstate NY, and we freaked out when our first apt had a ton of bats in the attic.

Not a big thing in the inner city. They were certainly there in the inner cities, (smaller ones maybe individuals or pairs, who would hit up our banana and papaya and mango trees), but I was specifically referencing my edge of suburbia home. Every night for 2-3 hrs, as far as you could see, all flying in the same direction. What was very weird was, I never saw a single one flying back, or in any other direction for that matter, ever.

Look to the right and zoom if you want. Big field and lil river behind my old place.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=80+peter+st+strathpine+brisbane+queensland+austr alia&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=69.738802,107.402344&ie=UTF8&ll=-27.29552,152.994661&spn=0.039205,0.052443&t=h&z=14&lci=lmc:panoramio

There were cows in the field. Everyday, the cows (60-80) would walk in a single file line perpendicular towards my house, then turn, and walk parallel, down field, slowly grazing. Because of this practice, the field itself was made of rows of tiny hills about 2 feet high. Running as fast as you could across them was a trip. _/\_/\_/\_/\_ Like that. Anyway, because of the regularity of them coming from the river towards my house in a single file line and then starting the grazing, my friends and I decided that the phrase "til the cows come home" referred to 6:15 pm.

EDIT - Wow, I did some zooming and you can actually see the lines and the single file line cutting perpindicular to my old place !!!!

esophagus

06-27-2008, 07:36 AM

Atheist - hmmm thats 10 points
Westerner - 20 points
Gay - 50 points.

Kill ya? Heck yea, i'll be a legend!!!! :P
I plan to slaughter as many bunnies as I can this summer. No one knows for sure if they're gay or atheist, so I'll just say they are and rack up the points. +10 of course, for being an adorable woodland creature. I think I'll win.