me talking out loud

Today I will hopefully take the last step to being a true grown up - buying a house. Only took me more the *grumble* years to do it. While all of these things are not *needed* perse to be a grown up. To me they are stepping stones along the way. Let me know if I missed anything on my checklist for it.

1) pass 18yrs old
2) have a car that runs regularly
3) have a career rather then a job
4) married
5) kids
6) buy a house
7) owing more then you make in a year

In the latest PHP Abstract Podcast with Davey Shafik on Web Services, I actually got a mention because of the book we worked on together. Woot!

As for the podcast - Davey I love the accent. So very hot.

Can you actually beleive they gave me a trading card this year at zend con?! crazy people. Looks nothing like I do now - back when I was young and cute - but hey a girl can remember. Anyway - here it is:

Woot - found the some episodes of new season for IT crowd on youtube! Funny as hell. Anyway if you want to see the first episode - check it out here

Second episode is here

I need to get this book. Just reading the Web entry for “Socially Awkward/Possibly Deep Computer Geek (Cyberdorkus perpetuum)” had me just about ready to cry from laughter. It seems to be an old book - but I can handle that.

I have a couple of comics that I read pretty regularly online - one of which is “Working Daze“. anyway - they are currently running a series on “You know you are a geek when… ” that has had me busting up every time. Since so many of you are like me - I thought you would enjoy them as well.

• comic 1
• comic 2
• comic 3
• comic 4

This is for my family (though I admit i doubt they will get it) since most of my friends already know about this comic. I have to admit - even I don’t understand some of them but these two bust me up every time.

From the xkcd comic strip:

I have the IT Crowd intro as my cellphone ringtone and got to wondering when and if there will be a season 2. Started checking around and found this, which says a new episode should be showing on Jan. 5th. Supposedly there will be 8 more episodes.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Try taking this quiz and see how well you know your holiday specials. I thought I knew them pretty well but I guess not. Only got 17/36 correct. Have to pay closer attention next year.

And just to have it PHP related - the site uses the .php extension.

So what is your score?

A friend of mine showed me this today (it is based off of an older version found here). Now sexism aside I have to say it was pretty dang funny. PHP’s write up:

PHP - Slick and slim lady. Very portable. Does nice and amazing things with her small body. Very good in aerobics. Not very sexy but intact. She is the kind of women that most men are happy to wed, though she will need a house maid because she is unable to carry heavy workload.

Was just cruising around on the Yahoo! job listings for the farts and giggles of it when I came across this job announcement. What caught my eye was the job title - MySQL Geek

I would apply for it if I was even remotely qualified just to have that on my desk and business card!

Oh and FYI - there where pages and pages of jobs when you searched using PHP as the keyword.

Found this from sofia’s blog (she is a member at phpwomen) and busted up laughing. Check it out.

Life Lessons:

1. Life is not fair; get used to it.
2. The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
3. You will not make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.
4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
6. If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
7. Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation, try “delousing” the closet in your own room.
8. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
9. Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
10. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

This has to be one of my favorite blogs to read. It is Hysterical. Just wish the evil system admin posted more often, but he is definately worth the wait.

From bash.org

argentius: I fell asleep again in class today…
darkersun: that sucks man, what did the teacher do?
argentius: I am the teacher >.<

Found the basis for this on Bash.org… pretty sure it is actually an old thing - but I still like it:

Girls = Time x Money
Time = Money
Girls = Money x Money = (Money)2
Money = root(evil)
Girls = (root(evil)2)
Girls = Evil
Or…
you can say girls = (root(evil)2), so girls = |evil|
or girls = absolute evil

I can live with that.

Greenpeace to pay fine for damaging reef

Does anyone other then me see the incredable irony in this?

Saw this on bash.org and laughed my ass off

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in an accident”.

“OH DEAR GOD NO!!!” George W. Bush exclaims. “That’s terrible!!” His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the president sits, head in hands. Finally, the President, devastated, looks up and asks………. “How many is a Brazillion??!”

I found this on accident and found it funny as hell. Amazing! Might even get the T-shirt.

Results from IQ Test. Completely worthless but pretty cool none the less. Yeah - I’m a geek.

“lig, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

Like a meticulous collector, you’ve fed your brain a unique set of facts and figures over the years. Words, numbers, you’ve got it all. That’s what makes you a Facts Curator.

Whether or not you intend to absorb every piece of information that comes your way, your mind has certain steel-trap qualities to it. You are a knowledge sponge. You have almost enough words in your head to fill a dictionary, and you’re equally adept when it comes to manipulating numbers. You can also detect important patterns in number sequences, and probably remember the mnemonic devices you were taught in your early school years.”

How my score “stacks up”.