* 1+1=3 = Successfully in progress

* At work, we're going gangbusters. It's really a blessing to work somewhere where I know there's a job waiting for me in the morning every day. I wish I could hire all of you. 🙂 (well, maybe not ALL of you, heh)

* My APRS IGate is running strong. I just got a bunch of copper pipe to make a jpole for the dedicated igate hardware so I can return my expensive ham radio to normal use rather than a really, really nice 2 meter radio. 🙂

* My car sucks but still works just fine. My TM-D700A is working great with the new power supply for the GPS that Dan M sent me last year and I finally hacked in the last month.

* I finally got the tiles i tore off the ceiling in the basement the day we moved in cleaned up. That was harder work than it looked, and required a respirator due to all the dust. It only took 2.5 years. Go me! Yay!

* I finally got the Tripplite RMA back. Thanks to Becky for finally shipping the goddamn thing out for me, after 6 months of me procrastinating. Thanks also to Tripplite for being pretty chill about the fact I RMAed a product, and took 6 months to ship the damn thing.

* It's been a great run recently. I'm hoping desperately it continues.

Summer's coming up guys – we should have a cookout or some shit. Am I right?

http://smithfamilyfuneralhome.com/Visitations/View.php?id=955

Dankaye's dad passed away.

The Rev. Daniel M. “Dan” Kivel, 58 of Algonac, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 in Mt.Clemens Regional Medical Center. He was born to Ronald and Helen Kivel on August 12, 1950 in Port Huron, attended the Port Huron schools, and graduated from Port Huron High School in 1968. Dan then went on to receive his BA degree from Oakland University in 1978 and then his MA in Social Work from Wayne State University. He was a long-time adhesives chemist for Evans-St. Clair, also worked for C.T.I. Corp. in Detroit, and worked as a consultant on various other projects. He was a life-long spiritual seeker & teacher, and was a former President of the Autism Society of Michigan. Dan is survived by his wife, Margie; three children, Charon (Gaston) Nogues of Los Angeles, CA, Shelley (Eric) Schmidt of Madison Heights, and Brian Kivel of Clarkston; a grandson, Jude Nogues; ten brothers & sisters, Rhonda Kivel of Grand Rapids, Gary Kivel of Port Huron, Linda (Dwayne) Beem of Port Huron, Steven (Wendy) Kivel of St. Clair, Nancy (Michael) Pinkster of Kalamazoo, Brenda (Mark) Privette of Port Huron, Theresa Leneway of New Baltimore, David Kivel of FL, John (Frances) Kivel of Dexter, & Jeffrey Kivel of Port Huron; and several nieces & nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and a son, Daniel M. Kivel II in May of 2007. The funeral service will be at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 27, 2009 in Smith Family Funeral Home-South preceded by one hour of visitation. Contributions may be made in Dan’s memory to the Autism Society of Michigan. To send condolences, please visit smithfamilyfuneralhome.com A memorial service in Dan’s memory will take place in the future. For information regarding this service, please contact Debbie Aliya at 616/475-0059 or e-mail daaliya@aol.com

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I declare victory on my project of installing a whole house humidifier i embarked on at 8pm today after finding out they sold them with kits that had all the necessary parts at home depot.

There's a few rough edges still, but it's working and you can feel the air getting more moist. Kickass.

http://net.gop.com/ThankYou/

Don't forget to sign President Bush's Thank You card. Wouldn't want him to not realize how much he's appreciated.

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You know, these constant posts of worthless crap from twitter infesting my friends page as of late is some serious bullshit.

13:23 @randomperson: ya it's great isn't it
12:03 i just shat myself hardcore
93:21 #someotherdong: lolololol ya <3
23:19 dude i love twitter for whatever reason
00:39 man my iphone is awesome i want steve job's kids
02:23 i hate life and my job sucks wwwwwaaaaahhh
34:04 @otherperson: yea i like it in the butt you know other randomperson 
does too. DUDE I CAN MAKE THIS BULLCRAP APPEAR IN FACEBOOK NOW TOO YAY!
03:34 HALLO FACEBOOK I HOOKED UP MY TWITTER TO FB FOR MAX WIN

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That stuff is fucking irritating and worthless. I mean, a lot of shit on livejournal was just shit before, but it's like someone said "take the same worthless shit you'd bitch about on livejournal, and make it fit in 160 characters. Do this several times a day. It's how to be cool on the internet now."

Horseshit. Content or GTFO. You people are part of the reason I only read LJ like once a week now. (I'm also busy and stuff)

On that note, I got an Arduino board and I've been having some fun messing with it. I've made a 300 baud modem that my homeboy Brad and I are working on a demodulator for, and it's working rather well. If you are thinking "dude i know C and i would love to write some embedded shit" but are also thinking "DUDE requiring a $90 dongle to program shit and dealing with resistors and TTL serial is seriously shitty!" and also "fuck basicstamp it's an expensive toy" then Arduino is the board you've been waiting for. All you need is a USB port and random crap to hook to a microcontroller and you're in business. It powers itself on the USB port if you get the right model. The IDE is java and is so-so but the code you write is in fact compiled instead of tokenized like the basicstamp. It's like writing for the AVR but with convenient ways of getting your code on and off the chip. Epic win.

At work I got finished writing this fucking beautiful work of art that downloads files from AT&T's Z/OS MVS mainframe over dialup, does a bunch of comparisons to see if the file is different than the one I downloaded yesterday (see why?!!?!?!) and then try sending it to our intercarrier compensation billing company. If all that works, kick out an email telling everyone it worked. Otherwise, do nothing and let the humans figure out what went wrong. It worked today, the first time I left it unsupervised. Kickass.

I'm also writing an advanced tollfree routing system to build upon some neat features I've seen elsewhere, and give even more flexibility. Woo.

What's up, livejournal?

Becky,

Thanks for putting up with my ass for 10 years.

Love,

Paul

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