BigCat’s Blog of DOOM

My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.

Browsing Posts published in November, 2004

Wine is Good

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I like wine, but if you drink almost a whole bottle yourself, you don’t realize the effects until you stand up. Besides that, things are OK. I hung out at Calebs last night, I talked to Jeff a while. Got to tell him about my fun times with my folks, and my new ideas about [...]

Remember…

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When you reach into the empty toolbox you have to believe that you are going to pull out the right tool you need for the job…not because you found it, but because God gave it to you. Remember… Dream Big. Remember… You can’t call your family a bunch of fucking pricks to your parents face [...]

Thanksgiving!!!

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So tomorrow after I bust out of this joint, we’re heading to madison to crash at a nice econo lodge. Maybe connect with dwchang, then on to chicago. Anyone got some time to catch lunch with us, maybe at portillos. I know I need to phone wang, but what about you Rob? or anyone else? [...]

Thanksgiving!!!

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So tomorrow after I bust out of this joint, we’re heading to madison to crash at a nice econo lodge. Maybe connect with dwchang, then on to chicago. Anyone got some time to catch lunch with us, maybe at portillos. I know I need to phone wang, but what about you Rob? or anyone else? [...]

What to say???

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Database still broken…if you want to see why look at this and pay close attention to the database section, more specifically where it says DBD::SQLite, and notice the not installed part. I’m going to email the guy in charge and ask whats up, but I’m not holding my breath. They must have decided that SQLite [...]

What to say???

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Database still broken…if you want to see why look at this and pay close attention to the database section, more specifically where it says DBD::SQLite, and notice the not installed part. I’m going to email the guy in charge and ask whats up, but I’m not holding my breath. They must have decided that SQLite [...]

Ipod / ITunes / Broken Site

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Well, my site appears to be broken (at least for posting and commenting). It is nothing of my own doing this time, so I’m wondering if there are upgrades going on, or if someone hacked me using some vunerability in MT that I haven’t bothered to patch. So I’m writing here instead, cuz I feel [...]

Ipod / ITunes / Broken Site

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Well, my site appears to be broken (at least for posting and commenting). It is nothing of my own doing this time, so I’m wondering if there are upgrades going on, or if someone hacked me using some vunerability in MT that I haven’t bothered to patch. So I’m writing here instead, cuz I feel [...]

$275 Paypal instead of Ipod?!?!

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So today I found out instead of getting an Ipod / mini / IRiver / Rio Carbon from mp3players4free, they will send you $275 via Paypal, or a $275 Visa gift card. How Cool is that? They just added this thing to the list of “free gifts.” No hasseling with returning the thing to get [...]

Fire Alarms Suck

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Got home yesterday, Lauren was no where to be found. She magically appeared at 6:30 with groceries. Then she had me cook some thing that thinks olive oil and red wine vinegar are a proper sauce for pasta. It was good, but I’m thinking some chicken cooked in that red wine vinegar and olive oil [...]

First weekend without Lauren

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Lauren went the cause conference this weekend. So I decided I would occupy my time with a variety of things. Friday night I stopped off and found out I was in the wrong DMV to get a license if you are from out of state, then got some groceries at Sams, and went to a [...]

It’s friday, I’m getting left at home while everyone else goes to the church planting conference. So I am going to do one of two things. 1. Retreat into my own little world, read, play video games, and buy comics…perhaps write some. 2. Force myself to get out and try to meet as many people [...]

Working Blues

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Well I’m waiting to get something that looks like a task that involves selling things. I haven’ talked to customer yet, and I am only somewhat familiar with our quoting software. I work a lot helping build computers in the back, and I get paid like 2.5 times what I did at school to do [...]