Posted by roy at 01:40 AM on November 19, 2008 in Music.
a nice change of musical genres for me, at least.
here's the embed to listen:
robin thicke - dreamworld
I would be you, you would be me, we would be one, we would be just fine The ice caps wouldn't be melting and neither would I I would just drive my big old car and everything would be alright And energy would just fall down right from the sky
Words would fly right from out of my mind, out of my mind... into your heart... into your life And everything would sound just right, and no one would stop me from drinking my wine
That's my dreamworld, that's my dreamworld, it's more than a dream... Dreamworld, that's my dreamworld, and I wanna live in my dream
Oh, the real world just don't feel right I wouldn't spend my days searching for... searching for lost time I wouldn't be so damn sensitive, I'd let things go by No matter what the weather, I'd learn to change... I'd change with the time
And everytime I need a woman, she'd appear right by me she hold me tight, treat me right, and tell me that everything is gonna be, is gonna be alright... alright
That's my dreamworld, that's my dreamworld
I would tell Van Gogh that he was loved, there's no need to cry I would say, "Marvin Gaye, your father didn't want you to die" There would be no black and white, the world just treat my wife right We could walk down the Mississippi and no one would look at us twice
That's my dreamworld, that's my dreamworld, it's more than a dream... Dreamworld, that's my dreamworld, and I wanna live in my dream
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Posted by roy at 02:35 PM on November 16, 2008 in San Diego.
So the running joke at the office is that I live in the ghetto. It's not altogether false - there are a large number of vagrants and tattoo shops in my immediate vicinity (but things are slowly getting better - for example, a 7-11 just opened up underneath me! (It did make things seem less ghetto-y).
Anyways, I park my car a couple blocks to the east in a surface lot. It's not exactly the most uplifting place, and I knew I was gambling when moving away from my nice garage (who wanted $250/month!)
Well, much to my delight, when I got to my car today, the driver side window was smashed! Yay! I became yet another statistic as a victim of non-violent property crime!
Here's the rub: the car was obviously ransacked - the car's owner manual was strewn out on the driver seat, and the glove compartment was left open.
But reasons beyond my fathoming - they left behind a $50 gas gift card as well as my iPod. What? Is it 'cause it was a 3G iPod? They also left my prescription sunglasses on the seat - were they not good enough to steal?
All in all, they were pretty considerate criminals. They only busted up my driver side seat window and stole ... absolutely nothing.
I guess the only winners are the people coming to replace my car window tomorrow. Lovely!
Posted by roy at 10:22 PM on November 15, 2008 in Music.
i really like this one (i've embedded the song at the bottom of this post)
jimmy eat world - work
if you only once would let me only just one time then be happy with the consequence with whatever's gonna happen tonight don't think we're not serious when's it ever not? the love we make it's give and it's take i'm game to play along
all i can say i shouldn't say can we take a ride? get out of this place while we still have time?
all the best djs are saving the slowest song for last when the dance is through its me and you come on, would it really be so bad?
the things we think might be the same but i won't fight more its just not me to wear it on my sleeve count on the for sure
all i can say i shouldn't say can we take a ride? get out of this place while we still have time you wanna take a ride? get out of this place while we still have time yeah - we still have time
can't say i was never wrong but some blame rests on you work and play they're never ok to mix to mix the way we do
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Posted by roy at 09:36 PM on November 10, 2008 in Foolishness.
I figure it might go something like this: A room full of young, single hot women crowded around a HDTV while a noob plays "Livin' on a Prayer" on expert (Guitar Hero, World Tour). The song ends, and he fails to impress the ladies.
Calmly, our protagonist, steps up to the ring.
You can't deny the inner rockstar.
"What song are you going to play?" Without hesitation, our protagonist, without hesitation, picks Lenny Kravitz's "Are you gonna go my way?" On expert.
"Ooh, that's a tough one!" The young ladies swoon.
Our protagonist calmly then picks over to the controller. Confusion drifts through the crowd. Our protagonist calmly plugs in the default Microsoft™ headset. He then selects two players in co-op mode ...
"No, it couldn't be!" Gasps ripple through the observers.
Yes, it is. Our protagonist will not only play the guitar part, but he'll also sing the vocals.
Our protagonist absolutely shreds the guitar part. And not only that, but he belts out the vocals with the richness that only a man as virile as a puma could achieve.
This performance would be (rightfully) considered the best rock performance ever.
As the song ends (the game somehow knows how to give our protagonist a six-star performance), panties come flying off from every direction. They assault our protagonist, who revels in his awesomeness.
. . .
At least that's how I imagined it. The reality is that the Microsoft™ default headset is horrible for singing. I could blame my vocals (which sound like the wailings of a dying duck), but jeez, I was in the boys choir! How could it be me?
But yes, I did put 2 + 2 together this past weekend and tried to do the guitar parts and the vocals at the same time.
Posted by roy at 03:46 PM on November 9, 2008 in Ramblings.
hao, i have started biking with some regularity again. this should bring you much excitement, as i recall you would compliment the firmness of my ass whenever we went biking.
Posted by roy at 12:56 AM on November 9, 2008 in Ramblings.
had a good saturday - got up early (the streak continues!) and went biking. after about a year of being lazy and not replacing my flat, i got the bike fixed and tuned up last weekend. so now i'm being unlazy and starting to bike again.
i miss the nc trails tremendously - being downtown, the options for biking trails are limited. there are decent trails at balboa, but they're not technically difficult. although being in a desert environment, veering off the trail means i end up in a brush of cacti, so that's always interesting.
came back, and continued ironing out the fingering in the revolutionary etude. cleaned up my place, and worked a little bit on tabulas (on user deletion / banning at a system level to defeat those damn spammers).
having no plans for thanksgiving, i figured it would be a good time to figure out what to do. i started looking at the feasibility of a peru trip, but decided against it. after doing some research, i really want to do the inca trail hike (it's a 4 day hike into maccu piccu), which would require a two-week trip (gotta get acclimatized to the higher altitudes). if you do the hike, you get into maccu piccu by sunrise, which beats the rest of the tourists (who come in at 10am) by a nice 4 hours.
instead, i decided to just take a road trip up to carmel by the sea, which would take me through big sur (and the world-famous Route 1). should be a nice trip.
still gotta figure out what to do for christmas, but it was a pretty good saturday, all in all.
I made it to the finish line: Friday! This week was a black-eye week - one of our professional service contracts just unraveled at its seams. Building out a professional services arm is hard. Besides the inherent difficulty of working with customers, there's an added difficulty when you're working with a complex product like Deki, which can be tasked to do many different things. The important lesson learned: understand what your customer is trying to achieve, rather than framing the project based on what Deki does well.
For me, the hardest part of building out this team has been just the number of context-switches I have to do per day. Factoring in engineering/product decisions, I have to constantly shift between different mindsets - this customer project, that customer project, (trying to) drive the next release, etc. I'm still trying to serve double duty by making sure things run smoothly on the development side ... it's made it very difficult for me to focus - I've had to relegate activities which require my attention span for longer than fifteen minute bursts at home (piano).
On a personal note, I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but I cannot stay asleep anymore. I keep waking up at ridiculously early hours (like 7am), regardless of when I went to bed the night before. I've been physiologically unable to sleep-in, even on the weekends. I originally thought it was the East Coast time difference, but it's stuck. I've also lost my appetite as of late - my meals have been tiny (a couple of bites, and that's it).
But life is good. So I don't understand it. I'm guessing there's some latent stress (as much as I try not to be) from work. Fortunately, many of our smaller professional services projects are wrapping up, so we can focus on a huge whopper of a deal we're working through. All these projects wrap up at the end of November, so that should bring a huge relief to me.
Like so many other times, I find myself looking hopefully to the immediate future for respite. But unlike other times, this time I'm cautiously optimistic (but that's probably for other reasons).
