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Random Teletech Journals

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:23:56 GMT

Started work at Teletech on 07/21/08 and training can get a bit on the boring side, so to keep me from gouging my eyes out I jot them down on my little notepad and date them so I can toss them in when I get home (since the cafeteria computers have LJ blocked) and backdate them. Guess I'll do that now.

Hydrogen Powered Yacht

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:30:24 GMT

Hydrogen Powered Yacht

--Fueling stations

Solar

Dye-sensitized solar cells
Traditional silicon-based solar cells

Wind
AC?

--Internet possibilities

--Location

--Frame Construction

Restore other Yacht
Modify other Yacht
Built from scratch?

--Engine construction

// December 06, 2007 - 2:36 AM - EST
// Had to get this typed out so I can sleep, if I didn't I would never get it
// off my mind... if all goes well I should be editing the hell out of this.
// Okays, going to try sleep again since I have to take off for work type stuffs
// in a couple hours.

Got the job;

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:10:02 GMT

Fourth day of training happens this morning, we're now going into details about our portfolio, we're as the last 3 days we've been doing foundations of credit, as well as intent and ability... Good stuff.

Living in St. Charles

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:16:50 GMT

I've been staying here for nearly two months now; and it's really eating away at me, growing up here I actually had friends in the town, but they've all since moved away. There's nothing to do here either... It's damn tiny... and mom doesn't like me driving anywhere because I don't have money to pay for gas... I can't wait to get out of here! >_<;

Unusual night out

Sun, 06 May 2007 03:13:13 GMT

Heading over to the Macs Milk tonight to play DS games with Pants McPants and just hang out with our friend Brandon who is working the night shift there. So Pants is bringing the lappy too, so we will have tunes. Then at 2am when they usually toss the hot dogs, theres supper hehe, should be fun.

Biking there, just over a km away. The Journy

Bad week

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:48:34 GMT

Alrighty, this week wasn't so good as far as attendance goes, I'm not doing so well as it is, missing nearly a week of school isn't going to help. I've only made it to Tuesday's class on time, just caught the end of Friday's, so I'm going to guess I'm not sleeping too well. Probably has something to do with me not using my CPAP machine for my Sleep Apnea. To add to these problems, I'm very unorganized, so by using my CPAP more and using a neat program.

I was thinking about a program that came with the office suit called OneNote, I'm not a fan of the Office suite. So I goto Wikipedia and find EverNote listed as a competitor. Its probably classified as Shareware, but the features it is lacking will not be missed on a desktop since they seem to be useful only on Tablet PCs anyways, have it installed, I hope I can stick too it!

Its very pretty.
EverNote takes its place beside Gmail Notifier.

Waiting for my test

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:06:40 GMT

I'm in our classroom waiting to be called into the lab room for my practical. I'm quite sure I don't know half the stuff I should, but I think I might be able to make it through this test. I'm looking over Emerson's site and found something ammusing.

Ten Commandments of Sysadmin
1) Thou shalt make regular and complete backups
2) Thou shalt establish absolute trust in thy servers
3) Thou shalt be the first to know when something goes down
4) Thou shalt keep server logs on everything
5) Thou shalt document complete and effective policies and procedures
6) Thou shalt know what cable goes where
7) Thou shalt use encryption for insecure services
8) Thou shalt not lose system logs when a server dies
9) Thou shalt know the openings into your servers
10)Thou shalt not waste time doing repetitive and mundane tasks
Theifed from http://cisco.canadorec.on.ca/ that was probably theifed from something else.

Friendship

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:26:31 GMT

What if the whole world turns against you? Well, hopefully your friends won't do that; but they could. I'm lucky enough to have one true friend that would never do that; I bet my life on it. Its a sure fire bet, and I know it through my whole being. I am the same to him, I've bailed him out of some sticky situations, all he needed to do was ask for help. I took my parents car and picked him up within an hour, brought him to my place to stay for a few days. Another time him, and some other people were trying to help me to NOT make a fool of myself, but I was determined, and wanted somebody to be on my drunken side; I asked him for help and he asked if its what I really wanted and he was there for me. This, is my true friend.

"If you don't draw strength from your friends, there not really your friends, they are just acquaintances." This is something I kind of live by now, It was adapted from a mix of a couple things. One of them was Fur-piled Page 120. The other was the song "Love is like oxygen" by Sweet; Its an old, kind of up beet tune, it suggests that when you get a lot of love, you get too high. I find that pretty amusing, because I've been there; high on love, feel like your walking on a cloud, but something like that rarely lasts. The latter lyric is if you don't get enough "not enough and your gonna die". I'm sure most have felt like dieing one time or another for something like this. I haven't had a significant other for a while, so I get the love I need to live off my friends (platonic love), and I dare say I can live fairly well off it. Anyways, its a really good song, and Fur-piled is a really good comic.

Then there are friends I wish I was there for more then I am. Sometimes I can't be there for the friends that need me, hopefully I can be there for them in the future. Most of the time I help by listening, witch is good most of the time, not always very good when giving advice, or being sympathetic. Well anyways, such is life. --Blackthorn

Cool Anthro stuffs

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:04:52 GMT

A few friends of mine in #toronto-furry we're throwing links at each other like we do sometimes, and I got to the "There she is" series done by amalloc of SamBakZa.net, then found "Hot fish" also done by amalloc for another SamBakZa member, Sogong's comic of the same title. Hot fish is really cool but unfortunately it was taken down due to copyright issues for the song used. Luckily I downloaded a copy the first time I saw it because I found it very moving. Also because I was on dial-up at the time and don't like to download the same thing twice. Anyways, I'd like to post the links to some cool anthropomorphic works that I enjoy.

Ddautta: There she is
Cake Dance: There she is step two
Hot fish Done as an opening to a web comic (unofficially hosted)
Everyone else has had more sex then me - Tism
I should really be a bird - Kurrel The Raven
Shii's song
Fur-piled - Very well done web-comic done by Arthur Husky.

Mark's Wedding

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:09:25 GMT

Just got back from a Wedding just outside Ottawa where my cousin Mark, and his new wife Christal have gotten married.
I'm happy for Mark & Christal, they look like a pretty happy couple. We get to the church RIGHT on time, run past the brides maids and shuffle into the nearest seat. The ceremony was pretty good, aside from the religious stuffs. The priest was actually a pretty cool guy, had a good sense of humor and for the most part, it wasn't as dry as my other cousin's wedding that was just before September in 2006. I humored most of it by bowing my head when everyone else did, but skipped the "Ah men" parts, and most of the stuff when the priest told us to repeat something. Well after that we wandered around to find a pre-reception meeting deelie, so we went to a mall to get some stuff. I stayed in the car and listened too CHEZ 106.1, sweet station, similar to North Bay's "The Fox". Any-who, stayed there for a bit over an hour, and finally family people came back and we eventually found the place for the reception. I had a rum and coke because one of my cousin's at my table had one and yeah, he was pressuring me to drink that night, since I brag that I can drink. The bar was really expensive there, a beer was $5.25, so a few cousin's took off to the LCBO and snuck in some drinks. A few hours latter, I was poured a glass of whisky and a glass of vodka. I reached out and poured a mug full of the complimentary wine . Everyone starts cheering haha, so I down the whisky, go to down the vodka, but I inhaled, throwing off my groove, after a moment I regained my composure and downed the glass of vodka, then the wine. It tasted bad, but not as bad as the other stuff. The man of the night, Mark came over just after when I ask them to server me up again. They pour me two clear drinks this time, one must be vodka, the other, I don't know. Not wanting to look bad in front of mark I down 'em both anyways and drink someones cooler as a chaser. After finishing that I'm starting to feel the last one and get up saying "I'm going to go get a bear". Didn't want to tip anyone off that I was feeling sick-ish. I try not to eat much when I know I'm going to drink, I didn't know I was going to be drinking so I did it a fair bit. So I walked over to the bar and asked for a glass of water. A few glasses of water and a few hugs and goodbyes I was on my way back to the motel. I managed to show them up, and get out of the building under my own power. I call that a victory!

LJ has been setup (kinda)

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:14:17 GMT

Yeah! I set this up so I could comment on a blog deelie... Not maybe I'll post things, and have people read them... Or I'll just read other people's stuffs. Either way, Blackthorn has finally got on LJ. The picture there is from when I made an RPG deelie in RPGM2K. I thought it would be a very original "Game Over" screen, your game over music was also the mid from Gato's song when you are talking with him, it's a good tune!