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Shot Theory

Sunday, May 29th, 2011 at 3:39 am

I said no drunken blogging tonight via Twitter…but well, I’m not drunk! So this is just…normal blogging :)

Let me explain the shot theory (and I have absolutely no idea if I explained it in a previous post).

When I went to Montreal, 2 weeks ago, my friend was telling me how he doesn’t drink beer. He doesn’t like the taste, he gets headaches and/or sleepy after. Basically, it described me exactly. He told me that he can do shots fine…but not beer. Shocked by this, I decided to test a theory tonight at a friend’s wedding. No beer. Some wine and champagne…but no beer. Just shots.

Let’s see what my tolerance is like when beer isn’t involved. To be honest, I was hoping to get trashed tonight. To earn my drunken puke. I drank whenever everyone else did, without holding back. Everytime I saw people I knew doing shots, I joined in. Unfortunately, even drinking as much as I could (with other people) was a bit of a let down. Overall tonight, I had 4 shots of whiskey…and an undetermined number of these cranberry shots. I would guess about…8 to 10 of them. But they were watered down…so let’s count that as 4 shots. Combine that with the 4 shots of whiskey and that’s 8. Now, as I write this, I feel relatively fine. To be honest, I’ve felt worse drinking 2 beers…but then again, my tolerance has been vastly improving lately. So…well, I dunno but the Shot Theory seemed like a success. It doesn’t seem to affect me like beer does. Though I’ve also done 5-7 Corona’s before, fairly recently, so it’s tough to say. That may have been an isolated, rare incident.

All I know is that I should have done more shots. You don’t just wanna get shots alone…and I honestly ran to the bar every time I saw people I knew doing shots, and tried to get in on it. We’ll have to test my alcohol/shot theory another time. I know that I’ve never had shots like this….never more than 2 or 3 in a night (with the exception of Montreal). It was good times but even trying my best to get smashed, wasn’t good enough. Next time there’s an open bar, I’m gonna shot my ass off.

SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT EVERYBODY SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SH-SHOT SHOT SHOT.
That was my theme tonight.

Oh yeah…also, I have no idea (and I’m slightly terrified) about going to sleep tonight…I predict I’ll be fine but maybe shots hit me later…I have no idea :S

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30 – 1 = OH GOD IM OLD

Friday, May 27th, 2011 at 12:21 am

When my friend turned 29 earlier this month, he “realized” that he had exactly one year left before hitting 30. He started thinking about what he wanted to accomplish in this upcoming year to fulfill whatever goals he wanted for that age.

As I hit 29, I’ve also been pondering what I want to do in this next year. What do I want to accomplish? Where do I want to be? What do I want to be doing?

It’s always good to take a step back from the road you’re on and think about where you want to be and how you want to get there.

As insightful as that might sound, as I reflect back on the past as well as look forward towards the future, the many answers to my questions are whispered to me with a resounding “I dunno…”.

I’m ~~perfectly~~ very happy with almost all aspects of my life with the exception of a couple. I don’t really feel motivated to do anything big or accomplish anything in the next year. I’m in a great place in my life right now, as I have been for years. My future looks promising. Not spectacular, but in no way a failure. There isn’t much I’m worried about…maybe money I guess. Not that I don’t have any but…well, it would always be useful to have more. I can do what I want when I want for most daily things but I can’t do a few things on my list such as: buy and move into a house. That’s the only thing I’m really wanting to do right now. Set up all my toys in nice shelves. On a smaller scale, I’d like to eventually buy a new car. And on an even smaller scale, I’d like to buy a nice camera. I’m 100% sure if I cut out my monthly shopping, I could afford one. Sigh…10 years ago I bought a Wacom tablet instead of a PS2 and I knew, after a few years, that this was a mistake. A few months in and I’m wondering if the Mac I’ve purchased could have better been used on a Camera. I still want to learn Mac stuff…but it’s just…hard to compete with the PC of which I’m so familiar with.

Anyways, got side tracked. The real want is the house. But I’m in no rush with that either. I like living in a condo, close to work…just north of the Toronto Downtown core. Even one such as I, a lazy, unmotivated computer hermit, can’t help but explore downtown by foot. And I’m at the perfect age and state for that. No kids…still relatively healthy. I like my condo. I just don’t have enough room with all my toys. Also, I want to put my toys up but I’m dying on shelf space.

I live a mediocre life. It’s average. Eventful and uneventful. Interesting and mundane. For one who needs balance….it is…well, what I’ve made of it thus far. And while some people may think my life has not been led to the fullest, and while others may think my life is too active for a self proclaimed social hermit, I find that everything is pretty much just right.

It’s definitely nice to reflect…and not be worried about anything. Though I wonder if my lack of motivation predicts future failure. Hopefully, as long as I keep busy and keep my mind relatively sharp, I will have a decent future. I haven’t painted myself into a corner just yet…

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ZOMG IT’S THE RAPTURE !

Monday, May 23rd, 2011 at 10:06 pm

Just some interesting shots from tonight…

Click the pics for a bigger version.

I really liked the contrast on the clouds in this shot.
Looked a lot better in real life tho…this camera didn’t do justice to it

This was another interesting shot…look at the contrast of clouds/fog, coming in from the right.
It’s like a natural disaster were looming just around to corner…
No photo manipulation here….just pretty interesting :)

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F. U., WordPress 3.1.2

Saturday, May 21st, 2011 at 10:52 pm

I upgraded my WordPress to 3.1.2 last night….my website was okay, and my WordPress seemed okay.

Since everything was okay, I decided to move my warrenshea.com site to worldofwarren.com. In theory, it should have been a smooth transition. It wasn’t. While my worldofwarren.com site rendered flawlessly (connecting to the database fine, etc), I couldn’t get back in to WordPress. I thought something broke when I migrated it over. I attempted to log in to my warrenshea.com WordPress, still on my domain. It didn’t work. I thought I crossed the wires somewhere…so I was trying hard to find out where.

I spent 8 hours today trying to figure out why I couldn’t log in (on either domain) to WordPress. I tried reinstalling WordPress…on BOTH domains and it wouldn’t work. I installed WordPress on a fresh, clean domain. AND IT DIDN’T WORK. WTF. I was getting pretty scared now, worried I might have to transfer all my table stuff over…but WTH, even fresh installs aren’t working. Could it be something on the server? I had even created brand new folders to put my stuff in….New folder + Fresh WP 3.1.2 didn’t work…seriously, WTF.

Anyways….I spent so much time looking at the domain problems because I thought it was all the migration. And after 8 hours, I found out it wasn’t. It was WordPress 3.1.2. Desperate, I decided to try WordPress 3.0.6 and viola, it worked instantly, perfectly, and as intended.

While I do believe the migration had been part of the problem, it seems WordPress 3.1.2 was the real culprit.

Man…I couldn’t log in no matter what I did. My login URL would simply redirect back to the login screen with a querystring of &reauth=1 added on the end. It was brutally annoying. Anyways…yeah, again, reverted back to 3.0.6 and there were no problems.

I think I’ll stick with 3.0.6 for a bit….I’m a bit afraid to upgrade now.

Note: With my PHP Proxy, I modified my warrenshea.com/?feed=rss2 so that everyone’s RSS feed did NOT break. Basically, if the ?feed=rss2 querystring exists, then it does a check on worldofwarren.com/?feed=rss2 and retrieves the XML results and outputs them. Hopefully it makes things seamless to those who link to my blog :)

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Site Updates – Secondary content boxes + WP 3.1.2 + GMAIL Theme

Saturday, May 21st, 2011 at 1:41 am

Apologies for repeated content…it’s better centralized in this post than the last

Secondary content boxes
Created a PHP Proxy to retrieve Cross-Domain XMLs (RSS Feeds).
Modified the AJAX Request to correctly retrieve various feeds.
With the help of my co-worker, implemented concurrent the AJAX Blog requests.
Boxes only show (with a jQuery fadein) when all the contents of that box have loaded.

Result: Rather than have WordPress load the RSS and have the site load and compile via PHP and render the HTML all at once, now the site will load first, and retrieve the RSS after/during load.

Upgraded to WP3.1.2
Haven’t updated my WordPress in a while…because when I do, I have to make code changes to the files WP changes.
With my recent blog changes, it actually eliminates much of the changes I have to do…updating WP is twice as easy.

GMAIL Theme
Google has changed the top of their page, as well as GMAIL’s top. I modified my site to mimic it. Nothing too fancy. Hover over the top links to see…

Timeout
I think I solved the timeout issue. Also, I know why I never got it…the issue was related. Anyways…let’s see how it goes but hopefully, it’s gone!
(this is like, my 5th time saying that…but maybe it’ll be true this time!)

Posts
I’ve been removing some of my…questionable posts. Well, just “Drafting” them. You will see why in a few weeks or months…

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