Thomas On Rails

Masters of Doom

Codejoy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:01:00 -0400

So it is rare I will admit that I read a book straight through, but I am pleased to announce I can add one more book to my list of "have reads" and that book is: "Masters of doom". It was a pretty good read and made me long for the days of creating a game in the garage with a few good friends. I was lucky enough to get a taste of this (Though it didn't yield any Ferraris) but it was fun and even got some notoriety out of it.

What I did this weekend...

Codejoy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:21:00 -0400

This isn't me, but its what I was upto this weekend, more to come...
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Acceptance...

Codejoy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:34:32 -0500

I poo poo this city I live in often. I come from a much bigger town so this little town doesn't have all the perks. I really get annoyed as to what I feel like are small town politics as well. I think though, its finally time to end that...I don't even know where all the hate comes from. I have an awesome job here (awesome for dman near anywhere in the country), I know nothing but great people here...and my daughter seems happy to be here. So I think its finally time to accept that I am now an official resident, damn near born and bred here. Its alright by me, sun, good community...surrounded by knowledge its pretty good. Oh and to my sister, another plus is, its not Houston :P

Silverlinings...

Codejoy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:41:00 -0500

I have had a whirlwind of a past few months, I won't detail the specifics but suffice to say I think I have things under control. I found out I suffer a great deal from anxiety (hey so does Donny Osmond and Scarlett Johanson). I cannot pinpoint how long I have had this. I know its gotten more severe over the years, but I can guess that I had this since the 5th grade at least. How do I know?

I went to Illinois to visit family my 5th grade year (I was what about 11?), it was a nice trip back east and it was during the summer. We made the usual rounds to family members and visited one uncle in particular. He happened to live in some small little town somewhere in Illinois..the visit was nice, though this was summer and a storm rolled in....

We are all standing out there, the clouds aren't looking good and we hear on the news there is a tornado warning for that county where that town is. The thing is, this town is little and has no storm shelters on the house we were in. I and my cousin start to freak out and my grandma, 80+ at the time I think, was tired and just decided during this crisis she will take a nap on the couch. Makes me chuckle now.

Anyway, after that trip when I got back to New Mexico, for over a year I was obsessed with the weather. It is well known in the late summers here we get some wicked thunderstorms and every time we had one I would freak out. In fact I realize my sixth grade year just starring out the school bus at the clouds, fretting about the weather, hoping it wouldn't bring something akin to a tornado. The worse part is, the worry would be in the back of my head playing or doing whatever. Its odd to me that to this day I can remember the exact feelings of worries i had, what I was thinking, concerned about and this many years ago, like 19 or so. Jeez.

Mental issues are difficult to deal with, it depends on the issue, the person, the context, the environment and you will really never know what its like unless its you. Anxiety is particularly horrible, cause the worries are perfectly logical to us, but totally unlogical and absurd to an outside observer

It was quite a while I fretted about the tornadoes and weather, but it finally just went away, and now the silver lining is, I chase storms, or want to...I love them. So I am at a new place, and hopefully better equipped now to control this rather vicious little issue that really degrades ones quality of life...time will tell, sooner or later time will tell.

Hi again!

Codejoy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:30:00 -0500

It isn't often I post I know, and I am sad I have no riviting post but somewhat of a tooting of my own horn. I haven't played around with my suggestr app in a while but given I got some new images with some new tags I figured why not. It was down and not working for some reason though but I seemed to got it up and running again, not sure how many flickr users read this but I have to say my suggestr app is a neat way for discovering new groups on flickr IF you tag your photos well! And run it multiple times at it only selects a random few tags to work off of :) So its here: http://www.thomasonrails.com/suggestr

Hmmmm

Codejoy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:56:56 -0400

"The 1st United States Congress voted to pay Washington a salary of $25,000 a year—a large sum in 1789. Washington, already wealthy, declined the salary, since he valued his image as a selfless public servant. At the urging of Congress, however, he ultimately accepted the payment, to avoid setting a precedent whereby the presidency would be perceived as limited only to independently wealthy individuals who could serve without any salary." - Wikipedia

Hard Times...

Codejoy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:32:00 -0400

You know, its like that time of year where all the fit-hits-the-shan so to speak and crap just goes to hell in a handbasket. Everyone has these times of year, perhaps sometimes even more than once a year unfortunately. Its just hard times I guess, and in such times I turn to things that make me happy. Like my beloved Seagull TLR camera.

The odd thing about it is, it was purchased off Ebay and I realize I have no clue who the person who sold this camera was, and why someone would sell such a fine camera. Then I wonder if it was that persons hard times, like did I inherit their hard times? Or help them by purchasing this lovely camera in their hard times? I dunno...just the random crap I think I guess.

You have been warned...

Codejoy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:23:00 -0400

Dear Blizzard,

If this isn't an announcement of diablo3 then I will come hunt your developers down where they sleep and beat them to death with their own shoes. You have been warned.

Live Music rocks

Codejoy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:54:00 -0400

Saw my favorite band Liquid Cheese tonight, and opening for them was a band called "6 pack deep" and well I liked them so much I got their cd. Even found some videos on youtube for ya'll

A good week

Codejoy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:32:00 -0400

you know its going to be a good week when you see this: The reboot has finished, well I think and I even got wind that I might get the phone number of a long lost friend soon...that makes me very excited.