Good times and redundant fiber lie ahead…

	Proposed Route Note the orange markings showing existing fiber. It's going to be a little close for the directional boring guys…
	Proposed dual entrance route – Building Penetration They're going to get in there with a bobcat and dig down, then drill a hole in the side of the building to shove the fiber through.

I am doing this now that I have a camera that is easier to carry.

My weekend behind the lj-cut:
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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12484

Not bad for only having used libss7 with asterisk for about 5 hours. It's a really easy library to mess with. chan_zap is pretty easy too.

(The patch adds caller id with name support to asterisk's ss7 library)

My thoughts exactly.

(note that I signed up to get mail from both political parties because it's entertaining to watch them both spin the same events in completely different directions)

Edit – new URL: http://www.demoparty.us/2008/releases/3-STREAMING_MUSIC/911_-_Paul_Timmins/

It didn't get last place. Woo!

Check out the oggfile. If you are running windows, winamp can play ogg files.

This was my first attempt at entering a demo contest of any sort.

All the tones in the song meet spec. The backbeat is mf tones, and the weird tweeting component in there is me typing "LOL" on a TDD. The intro is what an MF 2 stage dial would sound like to 911 from my cell phone. All the voice recordings are from intercepts on our switch, the touchtones are the conference organizer's cell phone number, and the FSK burst near the end is a caller id burst of me calling my home phone from my cell phone.

You are missing notacon
Originally uploaded by Paul Timmins.

Bacon
Originally uploaded by Paul Timmins.

Furnace is shitting fire.

Can't use it.

Have home warranty.

Still going to have to pay $1300 out of pocket. (though it beats the cost of not having the home warranty)

Fuck!

Also, my post on April 1 was for serious, that really happened. I didn't realize I was posting on 4/1 and people might not think it was serious

So anyway I found out an old friend from way, way back, who ended up being my best friend from the age of 13-16 or so died on Saturday.

I had been meaning to catch up with him. 🙁

Usually I try to live my life so that I never have to regret not doing something, but this was a notable exception.

I wish I could have gotten more sleep last night. I felt like a stuffed up, sore and tired zombie at his visitation today.

What frustrates me about it is that he spent his last year of highschool in Detroit, 180 miles away from where we lived.

Wait, isn't that where I live now?

Yes.

I've spent 8 years within probably 30 miles of him and couldn't find him. Admittedly, I wasn't tearing the city apart looking, but I expended a reasonable amount of effort doing so. I mean, I could have ran into him at a gas station, or passed him on a freeway, and not known. That's what I hate about big cities. Where i grew up, it was by no means a 1 horse town, but I knew the cars of my friends and I just don't think it would have been possible to not run into someone after all that time where I grew up. I don't know. I like where I live and all, it's just frustrating.

The crazy part is how he died. I mean, you'd expect maybe someone around my age might die for a number of reasons, mostly stupid. If it were that, I could probably deal.

The real story is downright terrifying. (and it's second hand and my memory sucks, so the details might be a bit off) He was having shoulder pain. He thought it was a broken bone or something. He went to see a doctor, who told him to go straight to the hospital. At the hospital, they found out it was a large tumor, and admitted him. This was on valentines day, I think. Then they did various things. He ended up dying from the tumor on Saturday. He went in on valentines day with shoulder pain, and NEVER CAME BACK OUT. If that doesn't seem particularly terrifying, nothing will. I mean, how do you deal with that? Shit. Makes you wonder if a pain you have is really as benign as it seems.

Anyway, that's what I've been dealing with in my mind since Sunday when I found out.

Rest in peace, Michael Chamberlain.