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Wow… all I can say is that Halo 3 is freaking awesome… It brings me back to the first days of Halo and Halo 2.

What gets me are all of the details…

Very very detailed multi-player AND campaign stats…

Even the loading screens give you the goosebumps…

The random Cortana messages are creepy…

The multi-player lobbies feel kind of slow… but the games are interesting.

The ability to save screenies, movies, maps, and game types up to Bungie. Rocks!

Yeah… so I’ve been obsessed at work… played a bit this morning even when I woke up.

I’m hooked

I couldn’t resist

I remember when Halo 2 came out… I got my copy and took the rest of the day off of work to go home and play… unfortunately I am not going to do that this time around… and my wonderful girlfriend has conveniently booked herself for the next 3 nights… yesssss!

Goodness! This season has been going very well so far! 2 more victories add to the record… 3-0, on top of the NFC North Division!

They took the Chargers 31-24…

Plus on top of that, Brett Favre tied Dan Marino for career touchdown passes at 420. Woooooooooooooo…

Way to go guys… let’s keep this up for the rest of the season.

These are quite possibly the best blueberry muffins I’ve ever had…

To Die For Blueberry Muffins

Recognize.

So now that I’m moving back to .Net development, I decided to fire up Parallels and try out Visual Studio 2008…

Loving this new feature:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace DevelopStuff.StoreStuff.Library
{
    public class Document
    {
        private string _name;
        private string _id;
        private string _content;
        private string _revision;
        private Database _database;

        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string ID { get; set; }
        public string Content { get; set; }
        public Database Database { get; set; }
        public string Revision { get; set; }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return this.Name;
        }
    }
}

Automagic properties… gotta love syntactic sugar.

So a lot of changes have been happening in my life lately. First of all, I have been in a very exciting and strong relationship with Becca. She’s been absolutely amazing and I love her dearly. With that has come a set of new adventures…

One of them being that she plans on attending grad school in Fort Worth, TX.

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Yeah… and guess what? That means that I will now be able to pursue my career in professional bull riding! YAWHOOOOOOOOOOOO…

Actually, scratch that… What is really going to happen to my career? Well… I made some changes and had some talks.

I am leaving space150 and am going back to Inetium to work remotely from Fort Worth.

So yeah! My time at space150 was freaking fantastic… working on large social networking sites likes YFly in Ruby on Rails. You can’t beat that. But yeah, I’m heading back to Inetium to be a full time Senior Consultant in .Net… wow the times have changed!

I still will be playing around with Ruby on Rails and Erlang… just not professionally for now. Who knows, that might change in the future… Inetium has some room to grow ;)

Here’s the timeline: Thursday, September 27th will be my last day at space150. Starting Inetium on Friday, September 28th. Moving down to Fort Worth, TX at the very end of October.

SO let’s recap:

• Being in an exciting relationship is really amazing.


• Moving down to Fort Worth will be an experience.


• Moving back to .Net development will be fun.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed.

Here’s how I got CouchDB to easily install on OS X.

Requirements: MacPorts installed.

1. sudo port install erlang
2. sudo port install icu
3. svn checkout http://couchdb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk couchdb && cd couchdb
4. export ERLANG_BIN_DIR=/opt/local/bin
5. export ERLANG_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/local/lib/erlang/usr/include/
6. export UNICODE_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/local/include
7. export UNICODE_LIB_DIR=/opt/local/lib
8. ./build.sh | tee build.log
9. sudo ./build.sh --install=/usr/local | tee install.log
10. sudo chown -R jake:jake /usr/local/couchdb/ ** NOTE: replace jake with your username
11. chmod +x /usr/local/couchdb/bin/couch_erl
12. /usr/local/couchdb/bin/startCouchDb.sh ** NOTE: you should see "CouchDb has started. Time to Relax."
13. visit: http://localhost:8888/
14. **BONUS!** edit .profile and add: alias couchdb="/usr/local/couchdb/bin/startCouchDb.sh"

Some resources I used to compile this:

evang.eli.st Building and Installing CouchDB on OS X

and

Sam Ruby: Building CouchDB

And for you shell script kiddies, I wrote a dead simple update shell that takes care of the above steps. It does steps 4-11 with an svn up.

WHOAMI=`whoami`
export WHOAMI
make clean
svn up
export ERLANG_BIN_DIR=/opt/local/bin
export ERLANG_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/local/lib/erlang/usr/include/
export UNICODE_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/local/include
export UNICODE_LIB_DIR=/opt/local/lib
./build.sh | tee build.log
sudo ./build.sh --install=/usr/local | tee install.log
sudo chown -R $WHOAMI:$WHOAMI /usr/local/couchdb/
chmod +x /usr/local/couchdb/bin/couch_erl

Save the above text into a file like mybuild.sh and do a ‘chmod +x mybuild.sh’… Place it in the couchdb directory where you checked out and Voila!

So I’ve been following the hype of CouchDB for a while now… and it’s new found fame has motivated me to write some toy code.

So here’s StoreStuff… a super simple C# wrapper around CouchDB. It’s using some .Net 3.5 features, so make sure you have that installed.

It has a super small WPF application browser as well… I’m going to work on porting it to the JSON version of CouchDB soon, just wanted to get some more code out there.

And yes, it is ugly, but I’m just playing around with it for now…

Updated

I pulled the source, it was old and stinky…

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I’ve been watching random episodes from Season 3 of The Office (NBC)… and it’s got me pumped for the new season!

September 27th, 9/8c … Season 4 starts! Mark it down on your calendars!

(and while you’re at it, check out Dunder Mifflin Paper)

What a close win… holy cow. It was an offensive no-show but I’m glad that the defense and special teams picked up the slack. 215 total yards… wow guys, pick it up!

Here’s ESPN’s recap of the game: link

Wow… a few seasons ago (on my old blog) I used to post pictures of naked women to celebrate a Packer’s victory! It happened more often than not (back then), but lately it’s been tough to do that… Well… with the lower win count but also due to me being in a relationship ;)

So… instead… to go along with our sub-par victory, some pictures from Britney Spears’ sub-par MTV VMA performance… Sorry, but I had to. I think I’ll post pictures that represent how the game goes… that way if we see Favre heat up, we’ll see some better stuff posted :)

So I’m about to turn over 9000 miles on my Honda Civic Si Sedan… and it’s still as beautiful and fast as when I first bought it…

I wrote about it once I hit 5000 miles and it doesn’t seem that long ago. But at any rate, my review still stands strong and the car is still looking hot! That’s what a 3 hour wash / wax does every month or so…

So I wanted an iPhone… yeah I know… there are lots of missing features, but it’s freaking sweet.

I wanted one… until today.

Apple announces new lineup of iPods…

I want one of the new iPod Touch thingies… It’s pretty much the iPhone with more storage, cheaper price, and no phone integration… But it has WIFI, WIFI iTunes Store, and much more… I seriously think this is my next iPod.

Tastey.

I’m not so sure that I should wear my bluetooth headset anymore.

For those who don’t understand…check out this map

UPDATE

So a few of us at space150 went over and checked out the scene… There were a few potential women there that could have been “her”… We’ll go there tomorrow to confirm a repeat visitor and snap some pictures. Total ninja style.