3 years, 11 months ago

Whats up with Dan?

Things I’ve been doing/up to lately.

Working on C++ code for CIS 41 (late, ugh). It is amazing what a single stupid default constructor argument can do to make your code SIGABRT. So stupid. Must remember not to fall into that trap again.

Went to the cast & crew screening for the Surge of Power movie. Turned out even funnier then I thought it would end up being. One or two scenes had a soft focus issue but considering the budget we were working in and the limitations we had I think we did really amazing.

Unfortunately I got my days mixed up in my schedule and totally missed the damn wrap party for the film on Saturday! ARRRRGH! Bloody Hell. There were people there I wanted to hang out with.

Apparently I’m the only person in SoCal who didn’t go to stinkin Inland Invasion. Perhaps next time I’ll have to money to be able to do it. It sounds like it was fun for those who went.

Ctrl-Alt-Delete is my comedy relief for the weekends disapponitments at least:

Spent the week tweaking my resume and sending it out to various job openings. No word back from anyone so far which is disappointing. Going to try Blizzard, they have some openings that look like good fits for my skills which is a shock. Would be nice if that happened. Applied to Google Labs, not sure if I am a fit for them here in LA but I hope to hear something back.

No news to report on the dating front because I’m basically broke and going out hasn’t been in the budget, not to mention I haven’t really met any new women or anything like that so no new potentials to check out.

Did manage to go see Sky Capatain and the World of Tomorrow on Friday night (sorry folks but Garden State just sounded weak to me since no one could remember what the movie was supposed to be about) with CHS, Angie, and Jim.

Made some new friends in LA over the week, that might turn out nicely. Met up in LA on Friday with Chip and CHS and had philly cheesesteaks at South Station…oh god so goood!

Decided to help out the poor guy who got Slashdotted earlier this weekend who wrote a book on how to save energy. Basically the guy who submitted the story to Slashdot decided it would be a smart idea to directly link to a 5MB PDF file. What a freaking idiot! Anyways I talked to the guy who wrote the book and made a BitTorrent file for him to use to distribute the PDF to people who wanted it. You can get it here if you’re interested (this means you sheer) :

http://demonoid.com/download/21737/Saving_Energy.torrent

Still trying to deal with creditors and work out this debt issue and see if I can reduce the load I have/owe somehow.



About the Author

Daniel Spisak

Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

This blog is one of the main locations where I do my writing, which is then automatically sent to my LiveJournal, VOX, and MySpace accounts. I can also be found on a variety of social networking and microblogging sites like Pownce, Twitter, Brightkite, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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