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Life : I Hate Drugs

Posted by Compubomb On Aug 06, 2008 @ 6:32 pm | Visited ( 64 )

So, now that I'm over this kidney stone, after having taken some order of magnitude i think 10+ or so pills of vicodin in a 50 hour period i seem to have developed some kind of acetaminophen tolerance. Herein lies the problem, I normally take Tylenol Arthritis for my ankle during the day to help alleviate pain in my ankle and use Ibuprofen to work down the swelling as an anti-inflammatory. Now Tylenol is no longer working, and i fear it's because the dosage of the vicodin from the acetaminophen. I normally take only 1 to 2 doses per day, totaling like 700mg of acetaminophen, and roughly the same of ibuprofen. So.. Who knows, maybe I'm just in a bit more pain than normal. Drug abuse is one of those things i don't take lightly which is something i avoid as much as humanly possible. I'd rather push through it then numb it.

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Life : Kidney Stones are fun!

Posted by Compubomb On Aug 04, 2008 @ 2:38 am | Visited ( 19 )

So, earlier today, I passed a kidney stone the size of a small pebble. You wouldn't imagine something so small would wreak havoc on your kidney but your kidney is designed to excrete fluids, not solids. The process took me a whopping 50 or so hours during which I was mostly medicated on 5mg/500mg Vicodin. And no, I only took 1 at a time, totaling 10 pills during 50 hours, so roughly 1 pill every 5 hours or so. Vicodin sure does have a way of making you constipated, that is definately for sure. Anyways, that was fun, now I'm hopping the next time it happens is when I'm in a grave. At least then, I probably won't feel it.

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Site Updates : REST & Jquery

Posted by Compubomb On Jul 19, 2008 @ 7:43 am | Visited ( 51 )

So, I've implemented REST urls & implemented a Jquery menu for Links, Category, and Archive. All the urls now look like so url.com/controller/arg1/val1/arg2/val2 It's pretty nifty.

Correction: I guess i didn't actually implement REST, i only made my urls friendly. Either way, i find it nifty.

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Personal : After School & Summer

Posted by Compubomb On Jun 13, 2008 @ 5:31 pm | Visited ( 76 )

So, I've finished school for the semester, now already out of class for almost 2 weeks and getting bored. I finished the semester with 3 A's and 1 B: Differential Equations 4th Semester Calculus [A], Physics 202 Electricity & Magnetism [B], Java2 [A], Data Structures & Algorithms [A]. I felt pretty good about the semester. I did however feel as though I learned nothing though in my software courses as my Math & Physics class I believed were quite demanding on my brain. I guess when you have to deal with complicated subjects your brain puts to the side other complicated subjects and you start to realize you cannot enjoy them all with the same enthusiasm. Now all I have to do is take Linear Algebra to transfer to 4 year university.

I've decided that I will try to attempt to learn the programing language Python, and while I'm at it, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 64bit as to keep me more focused on my objectives. When I run windows, I don't know, it keeps me from programing as much as I'd like to. It's as if windows XP is distracting me so much that I don't want to do anything. Who knows, maybe the whole OS stifles innovation in how much it keeps you from doing things. So now I'm running Ubuntu and I've figured out how to configure most of the things I want.

As of late, I've been playing around with Komodo Edit 4.2--I couldn't find a 64bit 4.3 version--and ...

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Politics : Amen to that!

Posted by Compubomb On Apr 07, 2008 @ 1:23 am | Visited ( 136 )

This article over at the site The National Expositor. I just can't get enough of his last paragraph which states

There is no one in the Bush administration with enough integrity to resign. It is a government devoid of truth, morality, decency and honor. The Bush administration is a blight upon America and upon the world.

I Say Amen Brother! I consider myself a patriot, but these people are fascists. Mussolini the dictator of Italy during WWII supposedly from somewhere i read online tried to rename fascism to Corporatism. If you have kept up with your current events, you will notice one key event during the bush administration, that being lobbyists get what they want. Lobbyists work for corporations, they have the deepest of pockets, and their pockets circumvent the obligations of the Democratic Republic to serve their constituency--that is the people of this great nation.

One of the primary reasons this country had a revolutionary war was because the British Colonies experienced a disbanding of their own governing institution and the saying resignates even today, "Taxation without representation" and in our current government status, it is rampant. The most frightening thing about all of this is they no longer conspire behind closed doors, but you hear about it in the newspaper the next day they publish how the captured government entities have sided with corporate interests over civilian interests.

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Politics : Disappointment

Posted by Compubomb On Jan 09, 2008 @ 9:52 am | Visited ( 134 )

I'm extremely interested in politics lately. My new found hero is Ron Paul. Unfortunately the people in New Hampshire the state which the saying goes, "Live Free or Die" seems to not understand that the current running Republicans and Democrats other than Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are all Warmongering Lunatics. Not to mention that they think we can sustain a war and add public funded health care system at the same time. I'm praying--and i'm not a religious person--that our country in the other 48 states have some reason and will eventually give Ron Paul the support he needs to get elected.

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Ranting : Note to Keith Olbermann

Posted by Compubomb On Dec 26, 2007 @ 1:30 am | Visited ( 189 )

His Youtube Video Commentary
I just wanted to thank you for giving that commentary. What a way to dress down a president than to use a good ole fashioned cut throat argument which you supported like a bullet. My suggestion to you is to seriously look into Ron Paul. My guess is you are a Democrat, but he is one of the only men, and the strongest candidate to run on an honest ticket, who by trade runs transparent on everything he does. His voting record is a mirrored reflection on his dedication to the constitution and as you are always lambasting the president for overlooking his job to uphold the constitution; all other candidates are status quo with horse blinders as their advisers tell them everything. Exceptions exist. Dennis Kucinich, who actually relies on his own brain and on that of which he reads. He is truly connected with the world and the internet as he doesn't brush everything off as a conspiracy. Let those who speak the truth and those who will uphold all that this great country has to offer that of which is the constitution be our leaders. Not the jock in highschool who rewards loyalty over morality and principle.

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School : I finished!

Posted by Compubomb On Dec 23, 2007 @ 4:57 pm | Visited ( 173 )

Well, not quite, but i did manage to get through my 3rd semester Multivariable Calculus course with an A and my Physics 201 w/ calculus course with a B. So overall I'm pretty happy. Next semester Diff Eq or 4th Semester of Calculus here i come! I also have to take Physics 202 w/ Calculus. Hopefully it will be less difficult than the first semester. Oh, BTW, I'm an avid supporter of Ron Paul.

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