TH1ALB

lot a shit wen't down recently.
lets start with the bad news.
somewhere along my path, i bought something which i was suppost to pay for with my moms credit card. unfortunately i must have used my own credit card which had like no money on it.
so the bank takes $30 fee off right away. a week later i get a letter that they are taking off $10 every other day.
so now i owe them about $120 for something that originally cost me $5.
this sucks big time.

next thing that bothers me is the CAL league. they suspended my account because they think im steve.
a long time ago, i created an account for him because his ip was banned. i never created myself a new account since i joined SFH; and now they brought that up.
they seriously think i am him.
i might write more on that but its really not that big of a deal.

the really good news are. i finally got a job. i start may 7 (+/- 3 days). i wont state the name of the company because there is google.com and there are many bad things about me in this journal.
i can say that it is a really really good company and that i was hoping very very bad to get that job.

i am incredibly happy that i got it, you guys dont even know.
next i have to get my ex rommate a job there too, so we can both live together again and go to school for a bs degree in computer science.
the pay is also not bad at all. i get even more than i asked for :) (well i didnt really ask for much either).
you don't speak about money, you just have it. <=== ill stick with that.

o yeah, my car broke down. this time it's bad. shit, i just got it finally fixed like 2 weeks ago. now it's all fucked up.
the timing belt broke, so the cam shafts stopped spinning, therefore the valves just stopped.
this happened while the engine was running of course so i don't know how much damage there is.
if i get lucky the valves aren't bent. if i get unlucky, something caused the belt to break. either way, there is a good chance my engine is fucked. that might really be it for my impulse :(((((((((((((((((((((((

o yeah, there is one more really big thing im worried about. probably without reason, but i am.
for the job there will be a drug test. well, i really stopped smoking weed a long time ago.
but about a week ago or a little longer, i smoked this bowl with a 14 year old kid.
so i got high once, it shouldnt stay in my system long.

i should be clean by now already. but im not 100% sure which leaves a small worry to fail one of the biggest opportunities in my life so far.
damn, ill kill myself if i fuck up on that one.

ok, time to lock this lj again, before the employer finds it on google.

peace.

from the interview: if i don't hear from him by TODAY i should call him but i should definitely hear from him by then.


so yeah, ill call the person today and a huge decission for my life will be determend.
im honestly anxious.....

a lot of things are on my mind, which is ironically the reason that i haven't been updating my journal. it would be too much to write and/or i wouldnt even know where to start. maybe little by little i will add something here and there.
right now i am living at home with my parents and havent found a job yet. clearly thats pissing them off, which i don't blame them too much. however a lot of times, i feel like they are projecting on me. sometimes they yell at me (mostly my dad) for the most rediculous things or make really really gay comments to me.
on the one side, i am looking for jobs, on the other side i am spending my time on the computer for entertainment and educational things. my dad expects me to write about 20 resumes a day. i kinda gave up applying for jobs however that require a bachelors degree and/or some years of working experience, as i never get contacted by those employers. actually every blue moon i get an email back "this position requires a BA" or "this position has been filled". hm, basically what i was saying here is, that i am looking for jobs, but not as hard as i should or as my dad thinks i should. personally to me, i am doing good with the job search. there is a position at our local hospital as computer operator, which are just starting to go through the resumes. they are hiring 2 computer operators which i am actually over qualified for. i really hope to get this job. if i would go after my dads request with 20 resumes a day, i would maybe have a job right now somewhere in pittsburgh and would have to drive 2 hours every day with a car that might break down any minute.

a cuppl days ago, my dad came in my room at about 11pm and told me to give him my computers. so there i was, with no computer (i'm writing from a different pc right now). well no computer sucks, considering i spent most of my day on it. i started playing around with lego pneumatics but unfortunately it is by far not as entertaining as it used to be. shit i even started to take a part the air cylinders and lubed them with cold-sore lip stuff (carmex i think it is called).
well this has been about a week ago, i still have no computer. i did another bag of heroin which was actually a lot better than the previous one. so i actually felt pretty good for a while. fortunately my car works now, so i can at least hang out with friends then. me, mike and josh have been hanging out at one of our friends appartment a lot lately. its so much fun every time. we just drink a lot of beer there and things get out of hand. i usually stay decendly sover while everybody else is trashed. yesterday we started throwing empty beer cans in the fan which flew through the room. it got funny when a cuppl half full ones came a long and it was raining beer all over the place. haha beer was dripping down from the fan it was great. mike threw a bag of dog food in it and it busted and all the little peaces came all down on bob. one time i was there, bob punched through his own window with his hand and cut him self half through the tenton of his pinky right where the knuckle is and was bleading like crazy. funny part is, that he was so drunk that he didn't even give a shit and blood was all over the place, litterly. doors, walls, couch, fridge, stove, FLOOR, tables, just to name a view. eventually we brought him to the hospital before he bled to death and he got stiched up right infront of us, was pretty cool to watch.
next time i was at his place, there was also a very fat chick which was drunk beyond. somehow the door of the fridge was blocked by something and wouldn't close. we kinda got her fired up while she was trying to fix it and she flipped out and threw a full bottle of sirup against the wall, which broke and sirup was all over the kitchen. people walking through it, it was shortly spread all over the floor. bob was kidding around with mike and kinda pushed him against a window which also broke. nobody got hurt, this time and hell, everybody was drunk, so what a fun party. bob started kicking the door of the fridge about 10 times until everything inside was a complete mess. the fat bitch started crying, locked herself in the bed room, where as bob destroyed the door to get in. somewhere a long the way she must have took her shirt of and it was so halarious. man, i wish i would have had a camera, i can't even put it in words. she got pretty depressed because nobody cared about her "according to argues between her, josh and the rest of us". she locked herself in the bathroom and there wen't another door. bobs other roomate started grabbing her by the throat, kinda shaking her and telling her to get the fuck out and never come back, cause she always causes shit. she was screaming/crying like an angry child with no shirt on, lol, so funny. eventually she left but cut both her wrists after that, which is pretty rediculous. actually i kinda saw it coming, as she already made like a remark in that way. don't worry, she is still alive.
actually i might go there again tonight. ill try to bring at least a camera or something. this could have made it on ebaumsworld guaranteed.

hm, for documentary purpose, i should mention that i smoked crack yesterday. i did crack like 3 times before, but only so little that i really didn't even feel anything. yesterday i actually got high of it. it was pretty nice. now i have a crack pipe hidden under my hood which i should probably get rid off asap. i just read up on it today, you could do up to 7 years in prison for possesion of crack or cocaine. hm, if i ever end up as a father, here is a reminder to me:

"don't take away your kids computer, thei'll find something else to entertain themselves with!".

About 3 month ago, the cv joint that has been growling since a cuppl weeks finally broke. in addition the bearing on that same wheel was extremely bad, so bad that the wheel could be rocked back and forth. so i wen't ahead and started taking things appart.

Chapter 1:

i soon realized that a bearing just doesnt come out, i had to go to a shop and have them press it out



while they were at it, they broke my rotor:







here is everything out, including axle:





old axle



here is the new axle





and the new rotor



new axle in the transmission



and here the stearing knuckle and hub spindle after the bearing was pressed out:

Chapter 2:

The first new bearing i got from autozone didn't fit. They ordered wrong part.
Second bearing from autozone didn't fit, same thing again but this time they ordered the right part (???).
They didn't have any other ones to offer me.
First new bearing at NAPA, didn't fit, same thing autozone gave me.
Second bearing from NAPA, almost fit, we are getting somewhere.
Third bearing NAPA, bingo.

So three months later the snow is gone and I can get back to my car.



the brand new axle already started to rust (lol)



The shop had to press the new bearing in again, but here we got a nice hub with a brand new bearing:
- - - - - -

after i reinstalled the hub with new rotor



getting the caliber on the new (thick) rotor was a bitch but here it is





time to start charging the battery



weee



me tightening the lug nuts



my favorite jacket



car is fixed and running like a charm

Chapter 3:

passing inspection (lol) coming soon

hm, i started writing this but now i erased it. i'll make a better entry soon.
what i was basically writing about was a really fucking awesome interview that i just had, with 2 really fucking awesome people.
it was my first real interview and it went so much better than i would have ever imagined. (one guy even talked about half-life and counter-strike lol)

o yeah, for the record. i was always told to wear either a gray or navy-blue SUIT for an interview.
well, i was wearing white dress pants, with a oldfashioned white dress-shirt which also had black stripes on it, a brown/black tie and a brown leather jacked. i was actually contemplating on wearing sneakers lol, but yeah, i wore dress shoes; but definitely no suit. (i think they liked it).

Click below:
Best Blonde Joke Ever!!!

i dont post to tell people about my feelings, i post to record things and events that happen in my life, more for the personal record.

well, about 30 minutes ago, i was at sheetz in my moms car buying a pack of cigarettes.
some guy inside asked me if i am waiting in line, i said "yeah, but im only buying a pack of cigarettes". he said i shouldnt smoke anyways. he was holding a gallon of milk and i told him he shouldnt be drinking milk. we both kinda laughed.
when i pulled out i hit his car, how about that.
he came out and was like "who hit my car?"....


OUCH....

it was actually his companies car. anyways, i just got off the phone with the insurance company. i have a feeling it's not gonna be all THAT bad, what can i say, im optimistic. better a fender bender than wrapping the car around a tree with myself in it right?

the only thing that will suck as usual is telling my parents, especially my dad.
he is probably gonna be a bitch about it. well, if he would have gave me money to buy the fucking bearing for my car, i would have drove my car in the first place. now this sounds like i'm blaming it on him. of course it's my fault, i understand that, even though the guy of the insurance company told me, according to policy they are at fault (just makes it sound really nice doesnt it).

so, i might add that the damage wasn't all that bad. 2 dented fenders and 2 scratched bumpers.

unbelievable how much time this is taking.

Time for an entry:

retrospect 2005

Last year, I was at a party in Derry, with many people who I have never met before and many preppy people that thought they were so cool and tough. One guy was your typical football player, that definitely wanted to impress girls with his toughness. I sensed the trouble, predicting his character. He was dumb and drunk, bad combination.
I'm gonna skip to the part, where he grabbed me by my shirt and told me not to hit on a certain girl. I told him, I wouldn't hit on any girls. He topped his show of by grabbing my beer, which was about empty and spilled it in my face. I had a this stupid reflex, thinking he is gonna hit me with it and I must have hit him in the eye a little with my hand... whoops.
I wen't outside, to prepare for my escape. I had my dads old Cadillac, which was parked in in the driveway. However, I was able to plan a route through the neighbors yard if it would come down to it. I even broke off branches from a tree to prevent scratches to the car. The keys were in the ignition, all the doors were locked, the driver door open. I was hoping for my friend and my brother to come outside, so that we could leave this party. A group of guys were standing in the driveway talking about the situation and asking were I went. I walked up to them, they said that this kid wouldn’t fuck with me any further. I remained skeptic and seconds later, he came outside yelling something like “where is this motherfucker, he hit me in the eye, im gonna kill him”. He walked towards us and I decided to gtfo before it is too late. I started running, he started chasing, by the time I jumped in the car, he was pretty fucking close and all I could think of, was not to miss the door handle while I grabbed for it. He was so close to the door with his hand when I closed it, omg. I was scared shittless, this dude was huge to, he could have crushed me…
I started the car, he tried different doors and was punching the windows, I was kinda surprised he didn’t break one. I spun out through the neighbors yard, while he was desperately trying to get me. I ran over a bush and apparently his foot, at least that’s what I was told later on.

2006

This years party compensated for last years, because it was awesome! Plenty of liquor, plenty of beer, many hot girls, many cool guys and lots of good music.
All the guys were getting along great, which is awesome. I even drank sparkling whine at midnight, hehe I don’t know if that is important or not. The only fight at the party was conducted by 2 girls, which made the night even greater. I have never seen girls fight so hard. The one girl had a cast and was hitting the other with it in the face, while the other was pulling a shit load of hair. I wish I wish I would have had the video camera or at least a photo. You should have seen all the hair, like 2 hands full. The girl that got it ripped out was bald on her side, it looked so bad. I would guess it was a 3 by 3 inch area which looked just white, with no hair left. That girl was flipping out, the guys were holding her back, while the other girl was so drunk, laying on the ground, mumbling stuff, making an ass out of her self. Two times I saw someone pour beer over her, it was funny.
I think it was around 3 o clock when we all drove back to Latrobe. There I laid in a bed and slept a little, while one of my “friends” broke into a house and stole 3 bottles of whine, he said a little girl came down when he was in the kitchen and asked him what he was doing and he just ran away lol. I was only half awake, 2 girls also went to bed (a different bed) and everyone else was having fun.
Me and my friend went to his house around 4 and went to sleep. I slept great, lol, he slept on the floor, I slept in his bed... it was his offer.
The next morning, I returned some stuff at wal mart for my friends buddy, (probably stolen stuff) and he wen’t and bought a bag of heroin, which he shot himself on the spot. He then drove me home. So now, here I am, working on my bumper:




I also made the hood 2 days ago and redid half of the fender the night before. Also the frame of the headlight is complete, just gotta add some lights into it.

The bumper is the hardest part so far, it’s so hard because it has so many curves and many vertexes, making it difficult to keep an overview when aligning stuff to create a smooth surface. I think its coming along nice though, it will probably look pretty sweet once done.

Now I wish everyone a happy year of 2006

After making the rim, I made the tire. Some how this whole modeling totally got me. I was always scared of the idea of modeling a car. today i thought, what the hell and tried to model something around the tire, what turned out to be a fender. somewhere i got stuck, because i didn't know how to design certain parts of it. then i started modeling a hood, so i could match the fender to it.
somewhere on the hood i got stuck, so i started the shape of a head light.

well, this is how far i am:



i'll probably update in a view hours again, just to document my progress

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And maybe tomorrow I will make a brake rotor...

Right now is a very very happy moment for me

I have been working on a rim that I just got done with (in terms of satisfaction).



I spend a view hours creating the model and as silly as it sounds, about twice as much time just creating/adjusting the lightning.

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didn't write here in a while, so its time to catch up.
just downloaded a pdf printer at http://www.primopdf.com/ which allows me to print to that and create pdf files.
also just installed ms office 2003, but only word, excel and access.
all this is basically for my resume, which im gonna have to get done very soon. it's almost time to apply for jobs, wish me luck hehe.
(shall i ever have a good job and come back to read this, i shall realize that a dream came true).

i started working on a math trainer for my little sister written in PHP, but didn't complete my previous project with the robot. kinda sad, i might still do it but on the other side, i am happy i graduated.
christmas is coming up and i have 0 presents and 0 $$$, which sucks.

i was just thinking about posting this or not, but wth, yesterday i got high again for the first time since i was evicted from the dorms. i am pretty sure if i just smoke one time after such a long time not smoking, it won't stay in my system very long. also, who knows when i would even have a job interview, it might even take up to a whole month.

yesterday, i infected my computer with a good amount of spyware. this happend while trying out different brute force tools, i guess thats almost inevitable. i however got it all cleaned up, thx to ad-aware, my favorite spyware remover. also avg (my favorite virus scanner) found a view things, i forgot what they were... just deleted them hehe.

i currently have 226 objects on my desktop, its crazy, its a mess... just like my room is. i have to clean it up today, my parents are really starting to get serious about that lol

my $200 ticket fine was due 2 days ago, i called them yesterday just to say that i didnt't forget it and that im coming to pay it (ugh).
also got pulled over a cuppl days ago in my moms car, but wasnt going to fast.

i just graduated from college.
right now i don't have any special feelings, weird. i bet i will feel awesome monday morning though :)

now i will update bradford.edu.tc, play a game for a little bit and then go to sleep.

that's like 2 days to get all my stuff finished in order to get my degree.
yesterday i pucked up my new bearing for my car. i shoveled the snow away from my car, got all ready to work on it and then the bearing didn't fit again. *crying*
it appeared to be the same size as the other one, just a different manufacturer.
i called autozone and they informed the manager about the situation. well, autozone is out of resources. this one, and the previous bearing were their only 2 options.
advanced auto parts doesnt even have any bearing for my car. i guess thats the downside of driving an "extremely" rare car (nearest impulse is 167 miles away -> http://frappr.com/thezone).

ok, im going back to work......

Well, since yesterday I was waiting for my bearing. Today i picked it up and it was 3mm to small on the inside diameter.

This is what the expert at isuzone.org said:

If it's too small for the hub spindle, they gave you a bearing for a base model Storm or Stylus SOHC. You need the bearings for a Lotus tuned car which has a bigger Inner Diameter on the bearing.
I cant tell the difference without side-by-side comaprision, or if I had a set of vernier calipers on it. So, basically, what you have in your pic looks about right, but if it dont fit...

I called them to invstigate this bullshit. He looked up the car in his book and found a different part than which was ordered. So the person that ordered the part fucked up. So now I have to wait until monday for the bearing. This sucks major, I was suppost to have my car running by now actually.

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I graduat next friday. That means after today, only 6 days left of school. Let's look at some threats and obsitcals:
1. No car, missed all week except monday of school.
2. I need to build a robot that plays Tic Tac Toe against a human, that uses a web cam to detect the humans moves. (Project 1)
3. I need to build a website that looks professional and features allot of scripts, which I still need to code. (Project 2)

So basically right now, im fucked. I have so much work and so less time.
I won't even sign on AIM, because everytime I do that, I get involved in conversations that take up my time. (Not that those are bad conversations).

first of all:
i have been working so much this entire week including last weekend, its sick!
today, i took a complete break from programming (see last posts) and dedicated all day to my car. i didn't even go to school, no time for school, imagine that.
so i wan't to appologize to johnna and matthias that i didn't have any time to talk to them. there are a bunch of other people that i owe an appology, but they don't use the internet.
bunch of missed calles only 2 returned. sorry society then.

I worked so hard on my car that I broke a wrench lol.
i took of the hub, because there was no way for me to get the bearing out. i drove it to a shop to have it pressed out.
then i drove to autozone to pick up my axle which i ordered yesterday. that was $70 by the way.
i also ordered the new bearings, which were $60 each (2 are needed for 1 wheel).
i went back to the shop ("Import Export" by the way, thats the name, so nobody go there anymore) and they broke my fucking rotor.
as soon as i walked in, the guy said that i need a new rotor. i thought, yeah right, they are just trying to make money. i asked him if they put it on already and he said no, which i was glad about. i told him that i will get a new rotor when the other one breaks. he told me that it was already broke. WTF! he said it was way too thin and shattered.
instead of an appology, he charged me $22 to get the bearing pressed out (which is like a 5 min job max).

back home, i called autozone to tell them that i need a new rotor. i told him the storry and he said i should have them pay for it. i told him, that they said it was too thin wereas he ment, that it doesnt matter, they broke it. sounds pretty good to me. so when i go there to get my bearing pressed in again, i will give them the option of doing that for free or paying for the rotor. will see how that goes. the rotor was $25 by the way, thats cheap as hell after paying all those other expenses.

a funny story from monday:
my friend george (johntown) picked me up at my house (latrobe) and then we went to pick up brie (latrobe) in order to drive to school (pittsburgh).
out of my drive way, you can go left or right. both ways go to bries house, left is faster but rough. half of it is like my favorite rally course. right is slightly longer but all road.
george picks left and it goes way up the hill. on top of the hill, the sides of the road had snow on them and i found that george was going slightly too fast. i was more worried about him damaging his car than safety (our speed was nothing more than fender bender potential). i told him that he should probably slow down a lititle and even pointed out 2 turns in which i had lost my controll previously (due to snow/ice or just going too fast). when we drove over the last hill, I told him that the road after the hill will probably not be plowed.
just like i said, the good road made a 90 degree bend and our road kept going straight, downhill and was completely white. this is where the main rally starts (hehe). he drove down the hill wayy to fast and i told him that there is a very sharp turn coming up, which he is not going to make at this speed. "yeah i got it"-type of reply, turn coming up. steering wheel turned, car keeps kinda going straight and george locks up the brakes (i dont know if they really locked up - didnt matter, we went straight anyways). fortunately he didn't hit anything but he pushed the tire back so far, that all the air went out instantly. he backed out of the snow/mud/whatever stuff and realized that the car wont go anywhere until the tire started to smoke. to make a long storry short:
is wrench wrench thing sucked and he couldnt get the tire of. someone finally stopped and gave him a better one. he got the spare tire on and we continued our trip.

I am out of time right now, because I have to do a research paper, since Eileen ripped me off.
But this is how far I got with my algorithm today:
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I am programming something and came accross some math thinking. After solving my issue, I thought this might be a good puzzle:
The format of the following table is

a

b

c

where a and b are 2 variables that resolve in c.
I will give you 4 sets of variables and their outcome (c).

3	3	2889
5	5	4815
100	100	96300
235	315	226545

At this point, I just asked my dad, he didn't even really try to solve it. So I need to provide more information where those values are coming from:
a and b represent coordinates on a web cam, that is 320x240 pixels resolution. In this case, a represents the Y-coordinate and b the X-coordinate.

Any further info might make this too easy, so you need to highlight it to see it:

More info:	All information about the entire picture frame coming from the cam is stored in 1 big array of type integer.
And more:	c is a single field in the arry, that gives me an integer value.
More again:	Every c value represents the red value of a pixel (0 to 255). c+1 gives me the green and c+2 the blue. (c+3 is technically illegal as it would give me the red value of the next pixel)

Hmm, maybe I should give a view more sets just to be sure it's not impossible to solve, or for you to be sure that your math is right:
(I have hidden the c values in case you want to try it the hard way, otherwise highlight)

80	80	77040
81	81	78003
80	81	77043
81	80	78000

Ok, now whats my algorithm?

i made somewhat progress with my personal project today.

i finally managed to create a class that would have controll over the "input" and "output" at "the same time". the quotes because it doesnt work perfect yet, despite how slobby it looks.

originally i was trying to code the algorythm, that would recognize the tic tac toe board and split it up in its 6 fields. anything i code needs constant debugging. i have never coded anytyhing like this before and came to realize that i need more than just a view numbers for debugging.
i am creating a second image with my class now, (a picture speaks a 1000 words in this case).


here you can see a very simple algorythm, that recognizes red parts of the original image.

you can now see very percise what parts of the image the algorythm recognizes, rather than before where it just used to draw 1 box around all red objects together.

i wish i could dedicate every night to this kinda stuff, too bad that i am forced to sleep... what a waste of time.
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maybe 2 weeks ago, i explained my psychology teacher how to refill windshield wiper fluid.
today i come out of wal-mart, there is a guy with his hood open asking me if i could help him out and show him where the fluid goes in.
i showed him, he thanked me and started talking about god. he gave me a flyer too.
i told him that i am not religious and don't believe in god, he just kept telling me that jesus loves me.
i asked him if he actually needed to refill his windshield wiper fluid and he was like "o yeah, yeah, thank you".

i walked to my car, shifted in reverse, got about 1 foot and bam, cv-joint breaks. wtf hacks

What's old: Still didn't pass my inspection because of the dissasembled instrument cluster.
What's current: Just took a 40mg oxy cotton and im feeling awesome.
What's new: It has been 19 days since my last ticket and it's not payed yet (an arrest warrant is issued after 10 days).

(next day) EDIT: Just called them, the ticket isn't even in the computer yet. I'm still good :-P

...but I modeled an egg: