I'm a code monkey and I've been writing web code for over twelve years. People often think that because I work on the Web that I can fix their broken computers. Sure, I probably know how to fix them, but I would really rather not because I know that most people suck. MONKEYS RULE!
I'm hoping that something happened to the email server last night. There's no possible way I could have that many emails come in over night. I'm not that popular or infamous.
For the last few weeks, a plot for a conspiracy story has been brewing in my head.
Last night, I tried out my story idea with one of my friends. He told me that my story would probably make a good movie and that he was insterested in taking a stab at writing the screenplay for it. So, if you see a movie about hackers manipulating the stock market to destroy a country, check the credits and see if my name shows up. (I'm not going to post details about my story here since I know there are people out there who would steal it without thinking twice). For the mean time, I will work on writing it as a novel and see how that goes.
Today at work, I pitched my idea for our company's image commercial. So far, the boss thinks there's potential and doesn't hate it. Other people that I soft-pitched too seem receptive and gave positive comments, but I wasn't sure if they were just trying to be nice. So now, it goes up to the big boss for his critique. If it survives that gauntlet and it gets approved for production, then I may actually have just put together my first television commercial. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope it goes through with little revision.
Lately, my brain has been buzzing with way too many ideas. I've been having a hard time falling asleep and I usually end up writing or drawing things in my notebook, or playing puzzle-type video games. I have also been refurbishing a couple of old video game consoles for fun, which usually leads me to lose track of time and go on without much sleep.
So something is definately making my brain synapses go into over drive. Whatever is going on, I just hope I don't burn out.
After watching RunAwayBox's "The Great Office War", I was inspired to initiate a covert game of Nerf Office Tag.
We haven't finalized the rules, but I have taken the liberty of issuing everyone their weapons. Toys-R-Us's Exclusive Nerf N-Strike Attack Unit/6-pack was perfect for this occassion.
Sometime after 2PM in my office, my mind went into "wacky-mode." (It was probably the Subway sub sandwich that I ate for lunch.)
Around that moment, I realized that the building that I work in is relatively new. It wasn't there when Elvis was alive. Its walls had never heard his ballads and songs.
So, I decided to remedy this by blasting Elvis from my iPod through a speaker amp that I found in the storage room when I first started working here. I played it so loud that a coworker came to close my office door.
I find Elvis very useful when installing Linux on a old computers to salvage them. I think his voice has the miraculous ability to bring back dead computers and give them new life. When I play his music, I run into very little problems installing Linux as compared to when I don't. I think I'll petition for him to become a saint for geriatric computers. He's like a Jesus for computers!
Well, I had to delete the post that was here before this one. The music that it autoloaded was driving me crazy. If you're looking for the monkey game that was here, then click here.
I don't know if this video is real or staged, but if this is true then someone must've moved this monkey's banana too many times.
If you want to see this video from another perspective, click here. That is taken on a cell phone camera so quality isn't good, but at least there is some sound.
What does it take to make people quit disrupting me while I watch a movie on my iPod at work? If this keeps up, I'll never finish watching Charlie's Angels; Full Throttle and start Dead or Alive.
You would be surprised at how fast a work day made up mostly of writing code goes by when you have a movie playing in the background.
By the way, Demi Moore is one tough evil mother in CA:FT. (Yeah, I know. I'm a bit behind at watching my movies).
After always being left out from getting any company event shirts, I decided that the only way I that I was ever going to get one was if I made one myself. So, I did and wore it to work today.
As I am a one-man web department, I decided to design the shirt with that in mind. So, I took the company logo and put "web development team" on it. (I can't put a picture here because I'm sure my company would not be happy about that).
The funny thing is that everyone wanted to know where I got the shirt. Some asked me how they could get one. I told them that they have to be part of the web development team to get these shirts. If only they knew the power of CafePress.com.
