Eh

Not much is going on over here in my world right now. Well, actually that's a bunch of bull. It seems a lot is going on now, but I don't want to write about it until I've got something more substantial than just a quick "Today this trivial event occurred. More tomorrow!" Now, I'm one to read way too much into something. One of my friends just last week shut me up in the middle of a worrisome rant to tell me I'm an overanalyzing motherfucker. Point taken. Let's just say that I really, really don't understand the women in my life. I know what you're thinking - How could the guy who constantly makes shameless generalizations about all Japanese men and women being racist/smelly/stupid/insert-own-negative-trait be having difficulty with Japanese women? It boggles my mind too, so you're in good company.

Recently I've been shirking my job duties to do some skill-building of my own. I figure my work is absolutely raping my qualifications to work in any technical field, in the way that if you always practice low-level mediocre shit, you'll wake up one day knowing only how to do that. In my case, I now have a rock solid foundation in easy C and Assembly, and I've forgotten everything I ever knew about Java, C++, and object-oriented programming in general. In my own eyes, I'm not marketable to other companies.

So I've started dabbling in things I find interesting that also seem to have a future in the tech field. To wit, I'm fiddling around with the Japan-born OO interpreted language Ruby, as well as some Java. In fact, I'm working with the i-mode API and a bit of source code to develop some mini applications I can download onto my own phone. I do this at work in my "spare" time. I'm going to talk to the president some time this week or next about getting the hell out of hardware so that the next couple months before I quit are that much nicer (as well as beneficial to my resume).

Right now I'm working on modifying some existing code for a freeware game I downloaded. It's slow as nuts and has about 0 features, so I hate playing it myself, but once I'm finished (like next year) I'll go ahead and put it up here if anybody wants to download it. It's GPL, so knock yourselves out.

That's about it on this front. If you happen to be involved in software development, then disregard everything I just said about forgetting OOP and not doing my job right now, and hire my pasty ass. As long as I don't have to teach ingrateful snots about 2's complement and flip flops, I'll stick with your company for at least 18 months. I operate best when I'm doing something interesting and the business model survives assault by a reasonably intelligent 5 year old.