Bad memory

I do have a feeling of writing something today but I just cannot recall what to write, bad memory, indeed.

Could be one of these couple of things:

• Avatar, idiot story, excellent special effect
• CouchDB, still far away from what I want
• Cassandra, it’s running way too many threads so it should be able to utilize multi-cores
• Desktop development, starting using VC++ Express again, it’s 2010 beta now

Will post after I can recall what to say.

Foggy morning

It was really foggy on all my way to office this morning, I just wish it comes with rain afterward.

Switching to DirectTV

Comcast has a $69.99 promotion for Internet and cable bundle, but they refused to give me the price as I’m their subscriber already, so I ordered DirectTV and get things installed.

Internet is way harder – AT&T does not provide service in my area, and all other providers (satellite) are way too expensive. Luckily, while I chat online with Comcast representative for canceling my cable service, he gave me a $29.99 offer (vs. current ~$50), so I accepted the offer, and stopped looking around.

I have to look at this again after 6 months, I don’t think anything will be changed then, I may take a look at wireless provider (AT&T or Verizon), at least make it a backup plan, so that I can cancel Comcast for some days and then subscribe again as a new customer.

Frankly speaking, I think maintaining TV subscription is a waste to me, since I seldom watch TV …

Interesting

I was thinking of uninstalling QQ on my machine as for months (at least weeks) there was nobody pinged me.

Then … someone pinged me, asking me if I can help getting a part-time job, this is interesting .

I will leave QQ running there for sometime, and will uninstall it if nobody pings me for, say 3 months.

Near-bald haircut

Got hair cut to near bald.

Short hair makes me feel good, I no longer have to worry about losing hair as it seems nothing to lose .

I will keep this length for sometime.

They finished construction work, partly

It seems they finished construction work on I680, though partly – the highway between Washington and Mission Blvd., it becomes 5 lanes now.

It seems Californian still has money to build I680, the construction work didn’t get any impact from this economy crisis, good to know.

I wish things can be better day by day.

Reading python books

I just finished A Byte of Python, planning to read it again and then turn to Dive into Python, I’ve done some simple Python programs while I was reading, everything seems fine so far.

A little girl though A Byte of Python is a scary book, she thought I mis-spelled “bite”, so the book I read becomes “a bite of a big snake”, I know it’s scary . It took me sometime to got her understood Python is a computer programming language, I just wish I made it but anyway she stopped talking about the book and go back calling me “lobster killer”.

Yes, I cooked another lobster for the last day of Thanks Giving holiday.

Shopping list

What I’ve bought in the past couple of days, all under the name of “Thanks Giving shopping”:

• A Sony HandyCam, now I can formally retire my Casio Exim
• A set of JA Hanckels knives for kitchen … you will be cut even just look at it
• Mario Kart for my Wii! Yes, I like racing game for all the time, even if it is childish

will play with these stuffs for sometime, having fun, and enjoying life.

Lobster killer!!!

Somebody heard it from “Julie and Julia”, and because I cooked a lobster for Thanks Giving, now I’m called “lobster killer” for all the time.

BTW, this year’s lobster tasted good, one more to come for this weekend.

Cat fighting

Alright, this should be named as fighting cat.

I believe it’s a cat, a wild cat. I said “I believe” because I never saw it – it comes in night only.

I’m not a cat-hater, but it left feces on my tree EVERY NIGHT, this becomes annoying whenever I clean up my backyard during the weekend, as it becomes a lot.

I’m loser in this case so far – I tried put something smelled really bad over there, obviously it doesn’t care, then I tried to put water that since cat scares, obvious it’s a brave cat. My most recent try is buying 4 rat traps, putting them there on the tree – I don’t meant to catch the cat, but just want to scare it so never come again.

I was happy yesterday morning while I found nothing there other than my rat traps, but bad news for this morning – one rat trap got triggered (but something you know, shi*t), and seems the cat didn’t get hurt at all, actually I was almost hurt by those rat traps whenever I was pulling them down and re-set.

OK, now I lost my idea, I’m going to search online for some serious solution. Things in my mind include: poisoned bait (again I don’t want to kill the cat), electric fence, and what else? Also I will try to set motion detected camera to see if I can catch the scene or not, maybe it’s not a cat at all …