End of 2015

The "partner meeting" call for the startup took 2 hour and 20 minutes tonight.  We only have 2 partners, including me.

We are, theoretically, close to making money.  I casually mentioned that if we haven't made money by the end of 2015, I'm out.  Thought that was reasonable, but she's all like...going crazy about it.  Won't let it go.  I'm not sure how to describe it.  Its like to her, it is unthinkable to have an amount of time or money that is your absolute limit regardless of circumstances.

So.  This is it.  If 2015 ends, and we don't have active subscriptions with revenue coming in, I am so definitely out.  I may quit before then...this is just an upper bound.

Finally Found It

There are plenty of "salsa club" websites in every city, and they usually suck.

http://www.salseek.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=434%3Atop-nyc-clubs-for-salsa-dancing&catid=40&Itemid=383

This list was put together by someone who knows how to make a website that doesnt look like shit, and they took the time to write a lot of words about each one, so we know this isn't a situation where a bunch of empty bars just got their names on a shitty ass list.

As soon as its convenient I intent to try out the clubs they talk about.

Ideally, I should have a go-to club for salsa for every night of the week, that I can just roll to without really thinking about it.


[Edit]
Although the real goal is to go to the little "lessons" they always do.

The Photo, Part 2

Today I threw out a photo.

TODO Maybe

http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-overall-diets

Missing Stays, Part 2

Ok so I also remembered that on Sunday I had dry hands and ended up using expired generic neosporin on them.  This shit was like older than the pepsi.  I don't know if that was the cause...I do know that I apparently have not gotten cut a whole lot in the past ten years.  So I have that going for me.

I am still stick...it might be going away except I accidentally bought some ginger ale to make my stomach feel better and forgot to check the expiration date until after I drank half of it.  And then I couldn't find the expiration date.  So...fingers crossed.

Anyway, the important thing is my new discovery.  You see normally I fight sinus infections with spicy foods.  Mexican, subway sandwich + jalopenos, wings, Indian.  Unfortunately, as you can see, whether its the gastric distress or the total calories or the cost, all of those foods are possibly not the best kind of food to overeat five times a day in an effort to end the mild discomfort of a sinus infection.  So I have it:  raw jalopenos.  I bought jalopenos and banana peppers.  I like banana peppers but they aren't quite strong enough for the reaction I'm looking for.

Jalopenos though...shit this is way easier.  They have the same effect as food twenty times their volume.  And, they come in a jar (expr. '17).  So all I have to do is pop these regularly until my tongue starts bleeding, and the sinus infection will be gone.

Missing Stays

Friday, I accidentally overdid it with the pre-gaming.  And then with the drinking.  I thought my bottle of captain had a few inches left, but after spending an hour or two trying to fine-tune a perfect buzz for going out (and therefore spending less cash on booze later) the captain was suddenly gone.

Saturday I had a wicked hangover and also experimentally verified what happens to the human digestive tract when you eat one and a half jar of pickles and also drink the juice, all in one sitting.  The hangover did go away, but without a control test I don't know how much the pickles contributed to my recovery.  I also stayed up nearly all night working on the startup.

Sunday I came down with a wicked cold.  I was sitting around working, when--all of a sudden it seemed--I could feel the lymph nodes in my neck swell, and shortly thereafter I experienced the worst sinus pain in my life, along with a really bad fever; bad enough that I didn't sleep much.  Monday was mostly manageable during the day but the fever was much worse over night, leaving me shivering under a pile of blankets.  Then it went away.  Then it came back.  Then it sort of went away.  Its back now.  Idk.  I fucking hate being sick.  I have a lot of shit to do and I just wasted a whole day.


[Edit]
Never buy "Cholula hot sauce."  This shit is so weak I've been drinking it straight from the bottle.  And I'm not one of those guys that can eat super spicy food.

[Edit]
The hot sauce was expired.  Which...led me to realize that the pepsi I drank on Sunday night was very much expired.  So that may have been what started this.  Holy fucking shit, man.  There's only two grocery stores in this neighborhood.  How fucking incompetent do you have to be to be unable to move soda?  Before it expires.  You know tonight I watched one of those military movies where everyone dies?  It was about a tank called Fury in World War II.  I think that's when this Pepsi was bottled.  Obviously I guess this is why I collect food poisoning stories while other people check expiration dates.

Experimental Hangover Kit

The Lunatic in my Brain, Part 4

Ok.  I'm not blaming anyone.  I mean, its impossible to know who could possibly be at fault for this.  But, drinking and dancing may not have been as great as I thought it would be.

Plans

Previous Plans:

-jan: fix diet, salsa, vball
-feb:  personal trainer, spanish lessons



New Plans:

-jan, feb: continue gym, move salsa from practicing to clubs, vball, intense dayjob, get startup off the ground

-when I get around to it someday:  personal trainer

Coming on to Blow

yup

The Lunatic in My Brain, Part 2

voy a reir voy a bailar

vivir mi vida lalalala

--i dont actually know what that means

Ok, well, I wrote a long...something, and we worked everything out.

What's really important, though, is that the solution is drinking.  Can't believe I haven't though of--oh and dancing.  Drinking, and also dancing.  I think I need to write this out:

1. drinking
2. dancing

I will also accept the following, however it is not quite as efficient:

1. dancing
2. drinking

Some of you may have already met my friend the Captain.  This week we are going to hit the town.  Except for thursday.  And also saturday.  And sunday.  And wednesday is really only going to be a salsa class possibly followed by getting a grilled cheese from that awesome grilled cheese sandwhich--fuck I am so hungry.  So I'm just gonna to all of this week's drinking on friday.  According to my personal memories I become irresistibly charming and witty after drinking that much.

Shit man I need to stock up on pickles.



[edit]
Holy shit the lyrics to this song are all like "si duele una pena" -- does that mean what I think it means?

[edit]
It does not.

[coding] The Path

there is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path

--Morpheus

The Path of Java Enlightenment:

• variables / assignment
• all primitive variable types
• operators
• ---
• IF
• WHILE
• functions
• recursion
• stack vs heap
• all loops and recursive functions are interchangeable but some are just more fun
• ---
• basic classes / objects
• pointers / references / why java cant have std::swap
• primitive vs objects, auto boxing
• garbage collection

• ---
• exceptions
• ---
• arrays
• linked lists
• trees
• hash tables
• and the data structures no one cares about
• ---
• object oriented programming
• polymorphism
• inheritance
• encapsulation
• and the one I always forget:  abstraction
• single vs multiple inheritance, java interfaces
• 
  
• ---
• templates / generics
• ---
• leaks:
• java "memory leaks"
• closing IO resources
• Weak References
• ---
• advanced java bullshit:
• inner classes
• child classes
• anonymous classes, java's crappy alternative to:
• closures
• function pointers / delegates
• random stuff
• final, finalize, finally
• enums
• regex !!
• IO, STDIN, STDOUT, Streams
• Java EE bullshit like Servlets
• algorithms and runtime
• big o
• constant, logarithmic, linear, nlogn, polynomial, exponential
• bubble sort, quicksort, merge sort, and the one with the integers
• quicksort vs merge sort: difference between pure math and physical computers?
• fancy shit like djisktras stuff?
• comp sci graph theory?
• A.I.
• DFS
• BFS
• state machines
• design patterns
• design patterns are not a fucking fast food menu
• REST and the HTTP protocol
• good:  event shit, observer
• ok:  factory, builder
• immutability and concurrency
• mutability to avoid allocations
• antipattern:  god class, copy & paste
• popular:  MVC
• people who define new "antipatterns" on blogs are actually just assholes asserting ignorant opinions
• concurrency
• well, shit.
• security
• nothing is ever secure
• google:   "best practices [noun phrase]"
• coding practices
• premature optimization is bad
• java-specific optimization problems
• iterate with small changes over something that works
• source control: git
• important
• everyone on stack overflow is a fucking idiot

[coding] Make & Mend Day

I am ambivalent to report that I don't hate jQuery.  Sadly, the codecademy tutorials are not very bright and often think I've failed to solve a step simply because I used less code than they assumed, and I have to rewrite everything inefficiently in order to see that little green banner.  Nonetheless, I kinda like jQuery.

Html and CSS still suck though.  Look at this garbage:

    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 8px #FFD700;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 8px #FFD700;
    box-shadow: 0 0 8px #FFD700;

So whoever told me browser differences aren't a problem anymore was full of shit.  But I guess there is no sense in complaining;  I want WEB UI bullshit in my proverbial toolbox, so I'm gonna learn it again whether I like it or not.