Three Saints

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Okinawa Big Bear Club
Saturday, May 23, 2009

The new Okianwa Big Bear Club website is up and running.  Check it out.

Better with Bacon
Sunday, January 11, 2009

Our website can now be viewed with bacon.  This is for our 15 year old bacon lover demographic.  Add bacon by going to the link below:

http://bacolicio.us/http://www.three-saints.com

End of 2008 Album
Saturday, December 20, 2008

I decided to just dump a bunch of our recently taken photos.  Check out the newest album after signing in.

Chrome is Cool
Thursday, September 04, 2008

I tried out the new google browser chrome.  It has a lot of cool new features.  Sad for me, I didn't get it working until I found a fix that calls for adding "--no-sandbox" to the run command.  I have no clue what this is or why my computer doesn't like sandboxes but I was glad to get it working and try out the new features.  Looks like it recognizes a lot of style rules just like firefox and goes a bit further with some elements.  Much to my shagrin, a bunch of my must have sites don't function completely right with chrome.  I even had to write this blog entry in firefox because chrome didn't recognize my custom wysiwig text box.  It's still cool and fast to boot.  So give it a look.  You could look at the two new member albums I added with it.
Apathy and Army Data Management
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

A couple months back I started a project to create an Army company operations web enable database system.  It was a sky high effort with a goal to save the Army billions among other benefits.  This has been tried in a few less successful and less comprehensive systems.  Access database is a common approach and in some cases is actually useful.  The problem with access is availability.  It's hard to secure and hard to share with the massive amount of personnel needing access leading to the few servicing the many or massive leaks of sensitive data.  This is all fine and great but finding the motivation to sit and code in processes that are complicated even in paper form is no easy task.  Although, I haven't been help to myself in this area.  I've been wasting time baking bread, reading large books (Ike) and doing generally worthwhile but not world changing activities.

Self gratification is hard to beat with self sacrificing work.  Especially when I plan to give away this system for free and in contrast I have the option to do part time work for fast cash instead (which I'm doing now).  Delayed gratification may be a attribute long lost to my generation and it may be quite a while before it makes a reappearance.  The end choice will be whether I want to be a part of that reappearance or drown with the flow.


Newborn Pictures
Sunday, June 29, 2008

Our newborn is here and so is the pictures.  Weight and other info can be seen by clicking the picture below.


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New Album
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Added a new album for members.  100 high quality pics.



Karama Islands Dive
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Went diving at the Karama Islands on the memorial day weekend.  I took some photos, not the greatest shots but I'm just glad my camera worked.  There's also a video posted.



Crazy Chick Fights
Friday, April 11, 2008

I thought this was cool, I posted the first one a while back.
 
BioShock and Objectivism
Sunday, April 06, 2008

So between classes about the differences between risc and cisc, I've managed to complete BioShock.  It was boring at first, although the concept of Rapture was quite interesting.  Initially I was disappointed with the lack of true objectivism the game bouts as you enter into a lone lighthouse and read "no Gods or Kings.  Only Man."  I jumped into the game with a glimmer of hope but found that the reality of the make believe world was a far fetch from the traditional Ayn Rand sense of objectivism.  It was a shame too because several cracks, like a police force and blatant use of violence by its creator, made it obvious that it wasn't objectivism that failed but the people that failed objectivism.  The shame as I said of it all is that objectivism should of been viewed as it is, as A is A so to say, because objectivism in its true form is as flawed as any scenario could perceive it.  I wouldn't jump to say that its without any successes of philosophy but it and it alone is a breakdown of humanity as I see it.

Actually, the most intersting part was the most trivial one.  It wasn't a deep understanding of anything or any radical ideology but just some good old fashion drama.  Some of which you might find in about two thirds of every good academic triumph of literature.  I suppose everyone needs their guilty pleasures fed.