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Why?

Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 3:28 am

My life revolves around this.

Why is something the way it is. I love to figure out the why.

I didn’t apply this question to math, figuring why a formula or theorem was true (other than the quadratic formula…but that was easy). minus b plus minus root b squared minus four a c over 2a DUH!

I apply this to people. Why is someone like this.
I love to analyze people. But I’m pretty awkward with them. Maybe that’s where my fascination comes from.

I love to take gadgets apart and figure out why something is like this.
But I find reading and researching that same information incredibly boring and difficult to retain. Where’s the fun if all the information is just presented to you.

I think one of my greatest strengths is figuring out the why of someone, why someone might do something or why someone acted some way. But I’m somewhat oblivious to noticing very apparent things….because without the question of “why?”, something doesn’t matter to me.

I don’t know how to explain it. I swear this post sounded so good in my head as I started to write, but as it’s 2:30am now, and I’m mentally exhausted….I guess I’ll stop.

I just wanted to write that the most important and influential question to me is “Why?”. I guess I figured it out when I asked myself “Why am I like this?”. But then there’s this circular, inception type logic that is BLOWING MY MIND RIGHT NOW.

Okay. Good night.

Category: Daily Randomness indeed.

Connect 4 Tournament

Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 3:19 am

Alas, I did not with my 32-person Connect 4 Tournament :( 2nd place….boourns.

The 6 games went down like this:
Warren, Ackley, Ackley, Warren, Draw, Ackley
A draw in Connect 4 is somewhat rare, especially if two people are fairly skilled and try to trap each other.

Here is my post-game photo

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^ reminded me of

I have a more pouty face…but I held back a bit since that picture went all over my department :/

Next tournament, I shall not attempt to win…because I had to deal with a lot of unwanted attention….i hate attention focused around me…*cringe* and *sigh*

Tiny Tower is the new World of Warcraft

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 11:53 pm

Since Friday night…I’ve been playing Tiny Towers on the iPhone….

…and I’m pretty addicted.

It’s not exactly like my World of Warcraft addiction. You can play Tiny Towers while you do other stuff….
Basically, during my (2) vacation days…I spent my time playing Tiny Towers and watching One Tree Hill….instead of working on warrenshea.com….or anything else. Oops.

I promise this is temporary.

Part of it is the friends who are playing with me, who started around the same time. Damn my competitive edge. Same thing happened with Farmville. Figure out how to beat people, surpass them despite their early advantage…and then move on to something else :)

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OH MAN. I have my Connect 4 Finals tomorrow. 32 person tournament. I hope to win. I hope to play an amazing match. You can’t have an amazing match with only 1 person, which is why I dislike playing the computer…especially when the computer sucks. I hope to play a few skilled people tomorrow for warm up tomorrow :) It won’t be easy but I hope I can win.

Accomplishments – February 2012 Edition

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 11:59 pm
What I accomplished in December

Shows / Movies
Glee S1-S3E10 [S1-S2 Rewatched] – Complete
The Glee Project S1E01-S1E10 – Complete
Up in the Air – Complete
The Godfather Part III – Complete
Currently watching: Glee, Young Justice, Big Bang Theory, The Office, How I Met Your Mother, House, Thundercats – In Progress

Books & Manga

worldofwarren.com
Removed Portfolio section, changed Resume section to point to warrenshea.com
Added Facebook Status and Comments section
My …in two years… post, a followup to …in one year… post.

warrenshea.com

Gaming
Zelda: Skyward Sword [3DS] – 100% – Done

Web Development and Design

Other

Notes
Finishing Zelda, as well as the progress on warrenshea.com are the highlight of my month. :D

What I want to accomplish in January

Shows / Movies
One Tree Hill [Rewatch] – In Progress
Misfits S3 – In Progress
Pushing Daisies
Dawson’s Creek

Books & Manga
Steve Jobs

worldofwarren.com

warrenshea.com
Finish this! Getting close…

Gaming
No plans at the moment to start/finish anything.

Web Development and Design

Other
Research DSLR Cameras
Research Cars

Notes
I WILL finish warrenshea.com this month.
Also, I WILL start another web project. Maybe Kotobukiya.

Source Control? No thanks.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 11:59 pm

I prefer to live life DANGEROUSLY.

I’ve never been a fan of source control, checking things in and out, locked files, merging files, etc. I always found it more tedious than beneficial. After all, I make my own backups during project milestones. And I was one of the 5 or so developers that didn’t properly use Source Control at my work when they tried to implement it, and if one person doesn’t use it, the whole thing crashes down. LOL so basically, I ruined it for everyone else /flex. And no, I don’t feel bad, our team still got along great without it.

I know I’m playing devil’s advocate here. I know Source Control is good. There are few drawbacks and using a few seconds here and there can save hours if something goes wrong.

I think it’s basically just that I’m arrogant, so arrogant in fact that I don’t believe I’d ever make such ridiculous mistakes. After all, I’m perfect. Or at least close to it. Or…more accurately I just try to be. But I guess WE ALL make mistakes…..and when those mistakes happen (as they have in the past), I won’t be ready cuz I’m too arrogant to have used Source Control. Sorry, that was some kind of cyclical argument. Basically, I admit I’m flawed and my arrogance is one of my downfalls.

I was in a meeting last Friday and wrote down “Source Control” and “Arrogance” (beside my doodle of Cyclops from the X-Men) I guess as something to blog about. So here it is. :/

/just wanted to write something