it is finished

finished bonus features for new site widget. i am a better programmer than i remember. javascript and php can still blow me.
been doing a lot of stuff for random games lately, both larp and tabletop. i feel dirty.
ideally will be caught up with errands and bullshit by tonight. just the idea of that is pleasing to me.

"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing." - cormac mccarthy

next time, just call the fuckin ghostbusters

the boss lit some herb nonsense to ward off evil spirits in the office yesterday, and walked around smoking all the offices and rooms. today it still smells like cigars and superstition, although slightly less oppressive.
i am pleased to report that my office apparently required three applications of magic anti evil smoke.

tech wizardry

finished a new app this morning. spent the last 3 days working on the motherfucker of all datasets and abusing everything i ever learned about algorithm optimization.
and now, our site has a widget that renders several other websites obsolete. there are two companies that i know of who have teams of people busy working on equivalent applications, and they charge a lot of money for access to them.
i knocked this thing out in a couple days, by myself, and ours works harder, better, faster, and stronger. also, it's going to be just another free feature on our site.
this is why i am such an arrogant dickhead about my job.

porch 101

the last week has cemented it: my front porch is about the most educational place in milwaukee. if you've wandered by in the last week, there were discussions / lectures on general relativity, probability, firearms, property management, comparitive religions, literary analysis, logic, foreign policy, and rock history.
i am pleased to have a diverse set of lunatics regularly holding forth on advanced topics while drinking, as it provides a nice contrast to the bros in our building who just get wasted and toss beanbags.