Archive for June, 2009
Weekend Update, again
I had a really neat algorithm for the topic of this post, but it just didn’t work right in the url unfortunately. Didn’t really do much different this weekend than any other weekend. I did manage to go out to Evanston (Davis St.) and booze around for a minute while eating at Chili’s. After almost killing a few pricks at the train stop and laughing at all the gay bars (not because they’re gay, but because of all the flamboyancy – yes, thats a word), we managed to safely get back to base and crash out. According to Marchi, I’m going to get beaten in the gym for the next few weeks and hopefully get nice and swelled-up.
I did manage to get about fixing up Torrent Coil a bit, fixed a few bugs (there are still a handful that are major) as well as spruce up this site here. I added stats from my last.fm page using Recent Tracks widget and now they’re over on the right displaying proudly.
Whatpulse Stat API
I noticed that after I posted this article about my own personal api, the api itself actually sucked. So I went through the message boards and wrote one as close as possible to what the people wanted with the data that is currently provided (I’m still trying to convince wasted that there’s more data that should be displayed, and figure out a way of how to display it appropriately). The new api has the ability to display stats ranging from user, team, user+team, and team member format. You can check it out here: Whatpulse API.
This weekend I’ll be working on libble.com’s irc eggdrop and tying in the available modifications provided by the gazelle development team. We’re going to add a necessary ‘annoucement’ mod, as well as try and write our own ‘invite’ mod which will enable users to more simply invite awaiting members. We’ve also been toying around with a mixtape request page, which will not only allow the users to vote on what artists and singles to be included in the released mixtape, but the album art and other areas of the mixtape release.
I’ve also noticed that TorrentCoil has been suffering a bit of the bland-blues. After my little stint with Ajax and cheggit.net’s comment system (which so far is on hold) I figured it’d be neat to do a little sprucing up of my current sites. Since gortfm.net is permanently on hold, I decided that a few modifications to torrentcoil will be a nice addition, perhaps even fix a few existing issues.
Another boring weekend
Coming at you live from NAVSTA Great Lakes: boredom. I’d like to thank my fellow Sailors who are joining me this weekend in Duty Section 3’s duty weekend for this month, as well as everyone else who has done absolutely nothing remotely stupid in which keeping this weekend completely dull. I guess you can consider a boring weekend a weekend much better off than a weekend with people coming back with ARI’s (alcohol related incidences) and the likes. I’ve been chosen by some good-grace to come under the influence of a horrible flu-like virus started right after Sick Call hours were over so I’ve been left with some Arizona tea and tylenol sinus & allergy. Oh, and I have chow-relief 1000-1100 & 1600-1700 Sunday :/
Onto a more happy topic, I did manage to get my weekend steak (something I’ve tried to do instead of going out every weekend downtown Chicago and getting fucked up), I actually managed to get about $4 worth of beef tip steak (steak is steak man) and I ran into a few guys out on the smoke deck that had some left-over mesquite wood chips that they were happy to get rid of. According to Jessica, the visit to the GYN went well, she made a follow-up so that her lucky little butt can go and see the ultrasound, hear the baby’s heartbeat AND get a date for our child’s birth. I couldn’t be anymore jealous/excited/tripped-out than I am now, and it’ll probably only get even more overwhelming when she gets a hold of me Friday and tells me what she’s heard and shows me the ultrasounds. I know I still have to get the pictures up, and I’ll be doing that tomorrow (I finally un-fubar’d the phone this week), so watch out for those.