| 2005-04-09 02:29:45 516 Richard Corey is not a good choice for Starkville Ward 4 Alderman. One of his main issues is the construction of bike paths to campus. I am seriously anti bike path, and I have used my bike as my main conveyance to campus since Jan 05. Four months of travelling to campus on my bike, and the most dangerous stretch is the bike path that is on campus. It has at least five cross intersections where cars blindly turn across it, whereas the main road, University, has one main intersection at the four way stop at the stadium. Yes the bike path makes it feel safer for the wusses who should not be on the road anyway on a bike, but once you are going 25 on a bike in a 20MPH zone where all of the cars are travelling at 30+, the cars should be ticketed. But the MSU police are a bunch of lazy people who ticket speeding very very infrequently. Terrible when you have to speed on a bike to miss the cars who are grossly infracting the speed limit. |
| 2005-04-08 21:17:08 515 The day has come. It is nearly impossible to put together a computer from parts and beat Dell's prices. At work, nearly every machine purchased is a Dell with a 2GHz+ processor and 2gig of RAM. I just put together a sweet OptiPlex GX280n with a 3GHz P4 and .5GB RAM for $505 with no OS. Later in the year RAM should come down and I just might have to get one. Poor Bill is a mere Athlon 900 w/768MB RAM and was a beast in late 2000 when I built him. Just imagine a 3 node Mosix cluster of GX280n's, that is a whole $1515 for 9GHz of sweet sweet clickety goodness. I rode a nice six mile loop after work today. Got home and got a shower and a nap. Emerged from the apartment and got KFC's three strip meal for $4. Yay grease! Most of the kids were at the baseball game so maybe something will be kicking off soon... |
| 2005-04-06 21:45:13 514 What is good about rainy days? I did not get any grease on my pants from the freaking chain on the bike. Oh well, yesterday I broke the 300 mile barrier on the odometer. I filled my car up on Monday, got a whole half of a tank of gas. It took me from the 14th of March to go through that half tank, and it was still freaking expensive. |
| 2005-04-03 21:41:59 513 Emily and I watched Sin City yesterday afternoon and it was great. I could go watch it five more times. |
| 2005-04-01 19:15:33 512 I just saw Roger interviewing Dr Leslie on a commercial on UPN... A letter that I should send... Dear Dr Lee, I heard that the university is facing a budget shortfall in the order of many millions. Please freeze spending instead of cutting jobs. Departments could easily get away with buying $2000 laptops instead of blowing $4500+ on a single laptop. Since we are approaching the end of the fiscal year, everyone is blowing tons of money on things that they really do not need, only so that they can get the same amount of money next year. I am not totally afraid of losing my position that I only started two weeks ago but one of my coworkers is transfering to another department leaving an empty position. Hopefully as a worst case, this empty position will be downsized instead of myself. Sincerely, Jim Sesser |
| 2005-03-29 23:23:14 511 FMA won a softball game, lost an ultimate game. But at least the other ultimate team had girls on it. Wait, that's bad. They could run. I am putting 50/50 on if I can walk in 6 hours, when I will be hopping on my bike to go down the road for age old tradition... |
| 2005-03-27 00:43:11 510 So when I am bored and searching Ebay for terms like Natchez in the middle of the night, I come across things that I did not know still existed. I found a "Follow me to Nellie's" shirt, and backtracked a bit to find out that the Under the Hill Saloon sells them. The guy on Ebay is using UPS to ship a freaking shirt and that would be $8+ to go from Natchez to Starkville. I guess I will just have to get one next time I go home. David would appreciate this, especially since over there they wear "Follow me to my sister's" shirts. |
| 2005-03-26 22:47:25 509 Things are strange. It is like I had two Saturdays in a row. At least it was a fun week. My job is still awesome. It was still tons of fun even though the traffic sucked from all of the students being back. David came up Thursday morning. He was only using me because his computer is broken. I am kidding, but the last time he came up here was with Brumfield in 2002. He had XP Home on his HP and it was not happy at all. I took his hard drive and put in another machine. Symantec freaked out but I was still able to get all of his 50+ page history papers off. I put XP Pro back on it with all of the updates and it seems to be pretty happy now. Thursday night we went to Lucky's and then to Muncie's. Muncie's was loads of fun. My mom sent me a whole ham and a lot of other food and it is all wonderful. David forgot his third of her pound cake so I have it all. I was a good brother and traded my Raleigh for his pre-1980 French bike. I spent most of Friday afternoon taking it apart. I got everything off of the frame except for the crank. My crank removal tool (Park Tool CWP-6) was just a little too small for them. Apparently 99% of all threaded cranks use 22mm thread and I end up with the one oddball Stronglight crank that uses 23.15mm thread. After beating and prying with everything I had, my elegant solution is to plastic wrap the crank and hope for the best. Emily helped me sand it down to the metal and I primed it. Today I got Emily to pick a color for it and she picked this nice teal blueish color. So now it needs a couple more touch ups of paint, would have gotten it except for the rain, and then I am going to put on a couple coats of clear coat. It was a frankenbike to begin with, Shimano Centeron stem mounted shifters, Stronglight crankset, Mafac Racer brakes (apparently these French brakes were state of the art in the '60s), Suntour Sprint front derailleur (first made in 1986), and a Suntour Superbe Pro rear derailleur (last made in 1985). I am planning on updating the brakes and brake levers to something newer in a Shimano flavor, and keeping everything else. Emily has already purchased some handlebar tape in a color she likes so I don't have to worry about that. If this all turns out good I might just have to ebay some more rusty hulks of bikes and do it again. I filled the Camry up on March 14th. I still have right under 3/4 of a tank and have only had to drive about 100 miles. That is what I get by just not driving to campus. |
| 2005-03-20 18:44:01 508 So in the week ending yesterday, I managed to travel 70.7 miles on the Trek. My count is going to be from Sunday to Saturday as my odometer at this point reads 170.7 and I have yet to make a mile today because my chin and legs have just said no. Maybe in a few weeks I can break 100 in a week, or even 25 in a day. |
| 2005-03-20 18:31:42 507 Duke sucks! Duke sucks! Duke sucks! At least I do not need Prozac now that I am not missing a Sweet 16 pep band trip... Just wait on Monta Ellis and I will have vacation time built up to go on the NCAA trip next year. Sadly now I will be cheering for Kentucky because they are the lone SEC team left in the NCAA. Yeah, go Duke since you beat MSU. |
| 2005-03-19 23:36:49 506 Thank you Wake Forest, screwed my bracket, had you in the final four. Oklahoma and Syracuse you suck too, but not as bad as Alabama and LSU. I hate them anyway, their suckiness just makes it easier. My poor poor Trek. I did not see it at first, but I pretty much ripped all of the handlebar tape off of the left side. There are a few nice rock gourges in the aluminum. Also the left side has about 10 more degrees of bend into the middle than it should. I am not sure what it would take to bend back or if it can be done anyway. I will just get used to it and not worry about it, just like the electrical tape I wrapped around the handlebar tape to fix it. |
| 2005-03-19 15:51:14 505 Bryan and I went to Mugshot's to watch the game last night. Turned out pretty good. Emily and Nathan showed up after a while too. Rosey Baby's has the most consistant terrible service of any place in Starkville. Several of us went there Thursday night and the server was awful. He would bring one thing to the table and then run away. We eventually just started flagging him down and making him get our orders. He would not even serve us with glasses, only sucky plastic cups. At least basketball was on the tv's. Apparently I am missing out on a lot by not being on the NCAA trip this year. There seems to be a free hotel bar for parts of the day and then Tommy Henry calls me in the AM with incoherent ramblings. Think I heard something about a strip club though.. Have to wait on a first hand account from somebody like Stefan who I am sure will be the sober one on this trip. I went on a long (for me) bike ride this morning. Everything went well, at about mile 16 I went by the office and rested. I got my second wind and wanted to hit 20 miles, so I looped through the neighborhood behind the apartment a few times. I had about 1.5 miles left to hit 20 so I was going to ride through the high school and back a few times. There was a car behind me so I cut the corner pretty quick by the baseball field and my bike kept going to the right and I ended up on the ground. My helmet did a great job and stayed on top of my head and let my chin take the brunt of the impact. I got up and pedaled the 200 yards back to the apartment bleeding. So I now have a pretty chin and my left elbow and knee have a little road rash. My jaw is sore and luckily I did not hurt my teeth. At least I learned the lesson that when the road is wet, go slow around corners, and then do the saftey dance. |
| 2005-03-17 10:22:38 504 The Widow by Mars Volta is a freaking awesome song. iTunes radio is loads of fun, listening to Radio.Wazee |
| 2005-03-17 07:41:21 503 My job is awesome so far. I have not been given too much responsibility but I have closed a couple tickets. The weather in the 39759 is still not so nice. A good thing since my Trek's rear wheel decided to dry rot and there is a cute bubble of tube sticking out of it. Luckily I will get some new bike stuff in today, including a wheel, so everything will be better, and the weather looks better for tomorrow so I might be able to ride to work. |
| 2005-03-13 22:12:52 502 Emily and I went and ate at Gentry's last night to celebrate my job coming through. Ate a big piece of cow and it was good. We went and watched Robots. It was pretty funny and I enjoyed it even though the place was full of kids. There was a super long preview for Episode Three and it was pretty good too. Makes it out that the movie is going to be pretty dark. Imagine that, the movie where Vader is created is dark. There was another preview for a movie called Zathura. The whole time I was thinking that it was such a rip of Jumanji. Turns out that it is the same writer. Poor guy cannot write a book unless it involves some kind of twisted board game that comes to life and scares little kids. Anyway there is part of the preview that bothers me. Actually two I guess. Kid rolls "meteor shower" and the poop hits the fan as these smoking hot meteorites crash through their sweet rich mommy and daddy house. Ok that is not too bad because someone could actually have that kind of crappy luck. The kicker comes when the kid opens the front door and realizes that the house is on a nice chunk of rock in the middle of space. A meteorite gets hot from friction against air. A house it the middle of space would not have enough gasses around it for this to happen. So this movie is going to be crap. If when the kid had opened the door he had been sucked out by the depressurization, froze in the cold of deep space, and shattered his head against an asteroid, I might go see this movie because that would be cool. So I should not be missing too much by not going to the NCAA this year. MSU vs Stanford might be a good game, but MSU vs Duke should be a beating. Hopefully we could pull a UAB on them. As long as we make it to Duke, we should get some nice "Duke sucks" mentions on Fark. Of course there is already the Official NCAA bracket Duke Sucks discussion thread. |
| 2005-03-13 21:38:04 501 Yay, post number 500! My first incarnation of blog material was way back on 12/8/1999 and it was posted from the drafting classroom in the votech in Natchez. So according to the date calculator it has been five years, three months, and five days to get to five hundred posts. That comes out to be 0.26 posts per day. Most of these posts, about 370, have been since January 2003 and assuming that, I have posted 0.625 posts per day since then. This was the best week ever. After applying for a job in ITS last December, I was finally offered the job Wednesday morning. I had to think long and hard about taking it, but I finally decided it was in my best interest to go for it. Actually I snatched a pen off the desk as soon as I saw the offer and signed it. So I was not good for anything as a student worker for the rest of the day. I got to get my staff ID and parking decal so that took a while. I went up the foodchain from my advisor to try to see if I could selectively drop some classes but it looks like I am going to have to withdraw for this semester. Atlanta was great. We got there pretty late Wednesday night. Stefan and I went to Hooter's which was not too far from the hotel. It closed at midnight and we went walking around and found the rest of the kids at the downtown Atlanta equivalent of a Waffle House. We kept walking around looking for something to do but everything closes early on weekdays apparently. The next morning Stefan and I got out of the hotel around 8:30 and went looking for something to do. We walked to the Underground from the hotel which was about two miles. Nothing opened until 11AM so we had to go back to the hotel. Stefan, Tommy, and I went and ate lunch at Dailey's when it opened at 11. It ended up being freaking gourmet. Tommy got the catch of the day that was some kind of trout and Stefan and I got the roasted stuffed chicken which according to the menu is "large breast of chicken stuffed with cheese, spinach, onions, and pine nuts, roasted and served over oven roasted new potatoes and green beans." It was so good. Then there was a basketball game. We got into our seats at halftime during the Ole Miss / South Carolina game. We were behind the South Carolina cheerleaders; they have a cheer like our Maroon and White except that theirs is Game and Cocks. Our great MSU pep band glady picked up the Cocks part of the cheer with glee. The game was pretty close and South Carolia got freaking robbed of a three point shot in the last few seconds and lost the game. Watching replays later, it really looks like the shot should have counted as a three instead of a two. So then we played Georgia. At least the first half was interesting, but Stans pretty much put in our high school recruits in the second half. According to JP Sports, we upset Georgia. They were only the lowest seed in the east and we were the third in the west. Must be that crazy JP financial math. After the game about ten of us went and ate at Steak and Ale. It looked like they had to kill a medium sized cow, a pig, and a half a dozen lobsters to feed us all. Afterward we went back to the hotel and had more milk and cookies. Kentucky's pep band showed up on the floor below so we went to meet them. After a while several of us made the long trek back out to the Underground. It was dead and not that much fun so we did not spend too long there. Seems like we spent more time walking there. The next day, now knowing that nothing opened until 11, we got up later and ate at that great establishment known as McDonalds. Afterward on the way back to the hotel, Stefan and I went to the downstairs martini bar part of Dailey's for some more refreshment. Made it to the game and it ended up being a Florida shootout. Wah, at least our favorite search engine knows that Walsh sucks. He sat behind us before the game with his faggoty earrings on. Matt Walsh is so gay. We at at good ole Hooter's again that night. We were as castaways in the middle of retarded blue wearing Kentucky fans who were at Hooter's while the Kentucky game was going on. Freaking idiots. We did not go out anywhere that night, just bitched about JP and how we went from a seven seed to a bubble team losing to a team seeded higher than us. The lebian Kentucky fans down a couple rooms from us had a cardboard cutout of Tubby in the window of their room. One of the percussion guys had a video camera and him and Tommy interviewed Tubby. At one point Tommy fed Tubby pizza through the glass. It takes engineers to feed someone through glass, especially when they are made of cardboard. Needless to say, our lesbian Kentucky friends took Tubby down a few minutes later. Loaded the bus at the crack of Eastern timezone dawn and headed back to Starkvegas. The sweetest thing about riding an official MSU bus is that we have this wonderful 1998 technology now installed called the DVD player. We watched the Water Boy and was about four episodes into Family Guy when we got back. All in all it was a great trip. There was a lot more fun to be had in Orlando last year so this trip gets a distant second place finish in the grand scheme of things. Sadly it will most likely be my last MSU band trip ever unless I take vacation next year and go to the tourney... |
| 2005-03-11 10:02:51 500 "What is a four letter word for the state bird of Minnesota?" - Mike "Whip-poor-will." - the official Maroon Band wildlife guru wannabe Jim Muncie |
| 2005-03-11 09:43:21 499 "I just want to walk down the street with it in my mouth and suck it." "I just like the bone..." - Tommy Henry Atlanta rules. As of yet there have been no casualties in the band, even having lightweights like TJ around makes that surprising. Apparently there was a shooting this morning at the courthouse, a guy killed two people and got away on foot. The Kentucky pep band is in our hotel, one floor down. They are a bunch of cool people, even have several Sinfonians with them. Three tequila shots later, we had a pretty good night at the Atlanta Underground. The best thing is that they hate Matt Walsh too and all of the KY fans should be cheering for us against Florida. |
| 2005-03-05 11:26:22 498 My new most favorite google search term: weather 39759 So apparently a french horn cannot make the SEC tourney. I went and worked on Mrs Ferrow's computer and Mrs Lance told me that I could go to the SEC and NCAA tournaments now. Thank you Wilson... Apparently I have not been eating enough for as much as I have been riding my bike. Not eating lunch has been killing me. I ate a whole bunch last night because I felt so bad yesterday afternnon. Gotta cut the weight loss back to a pound a week, not a pound a day. I imagine the beer diet coming up on the tournament trips will help out a bunch. |
| 2005-03-04 00:14:20 497 So I was sitting in my room watching the women's game, and I heard this big whoosh like an air hose had exploded. Turns out it was my back tire which somehow blew out a pin sized hole just sitting there. I took it off and patched it. Well at least tried to patch it. The patches keep coming off, so I read that you should cut them down and that is what is on there now. In the meantime I wanted to see if I could take my freewheel sprocket off. Did not manage that either, I just kept taking things apart until a couple bearings fell out. That was scary so I cleaned the old grease out, put new in, and put it all back together. I just hope the patch holds when I air up in the morning. If not I guess I will just have to use my only new tube. |
| 2005-03-03 20:21:41 496 Yay, just heard the women's pep band go into long Hail State followed by Hail State at the tourney on TV. I would imagine that during the commercial break it will go into MSU 2K followed by 4&4 back into Go State topped off by Hail State played through three times with singing during the middle. |
| 2005-02-27 23:02:27 495 Q: Who is Lance Armstrong? A: Lance Armstrong was the first guy to land on the Moon! He was also a good trumpet player. |
| 2005-02-26 21:26:54 494 it's like an orgy, just not as much fun |
| 2005-02-26 10:39:12 493 So as I was cruising down University on my bike yesterday morning on the way to class, I heard the nice little ping of a piece of metal hitting the road. I thought I had ran over a scrap of metal in the road so I continued pedaling. A couple seconds later my rear derailleur went crazy, grinding and shifting up and down. Then I looked down and saw that the lower pulley gear on the derailleur was completely gone. I locked the bike to a light pole and went back to find the pulley. The gear was about a hundred feet back up the road, but I could not find the screw that holds it on. It was time for class so I walked the half mile to Butler. After class, I had work to do in Hunter Henry so I walked almost back off campus, and then the walk to the office from Hunter Henry is another mile. Seriously, it is one entire mile from Hunter Henry to our office behind Rice. After a while I got Sesti broken away from dowloading every sound ever composed on Napster and we went and got my bike. The screw was nowhere to be found. After a while I went to the bike shop to see if I could find a replacement. The guy there did not have anything that would work because my derailleur is just old enough that he did not have any spare parts. I ended up buying from handlebar tape from him anyway. The derailleur on my Raleigh is an even older Shimano. The screws on it are the right length and thread, but the heads are a bolt pattern instead of Allen and they are not beveled. One of them *would* work, but I would run the danger of it unscrewing itself again. So I put the older derailleur on my Trek not thinking that it would work. At first it completely put the chain in a bind until I adjusted it, and now it shifts even better than the broken one because its index adjustment is in good shape. The only thing though is that it is a six speed derailleur where I have a seven speed sprocket. I cannot shift into the biggest sprocket on the rear, but it is a granny gear anyway so I do not really need it. After all of that I took my pseudo aero bars off and retaped the handlebars. It makes the whole bike look so much prettier. This morning I went for a ride with my old derailleur. I went out downtown to Reed Road, and then down Garrard to Montgomery. Stopped at the AmSouth ATM to get my new ATM card activated, then I looped through campus and the vet school and came home on Locksley Way. So in 49 minutes, I went 11.49 miles averaging 13.8 mph. My max speed was 32 and I hit that coming down the hill on Locksley. So far since Monday when I got my cyclocomputer up and running, I have been 38.9 miles, but that does not include when I rode a couple miles in the rain and a time or two when I forgot to put it back on my bike on campus. So maybe next week I can log 50+ miles. |
| 2005-02-24 22:45:18 492 106 lines of code and Lab 1 for Algorithms is somewhere approaching 33% completion. Luckily that is not completely right as all I really have left is to implement functions for merge and quick sorts and get my output file writing up and running. C++ is hard to write when you have been writing PHP. I keep wanting to put $'s everywhere. It is freaking complicated to return an array from a function in C++. I swear PHP lets any object be set to any other object with no complaints. It rained yesterday afternoon. I rode home in it. My bike got washed off. I have ridden about 25 miles so far this week just to and from campus and what little riding I do at work. |
| 2005-02-22 00:19:00 491 Bill is stable. I have proof: uptime 00:15:22 up 71 days, 12:02, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.09, 0.16 last -1 reboot reboot system boot 2.6.9Y Sun Dec 12 12:26 The crackhouse is open. |
| 2005-02-15 23:37:53 490 Welcome to the Fark.com Duke Sucks Center! Ok, guess that needs a little explanation, look here. |
| 2005-02-08 21:59:07 489 I love my favorite search engine. Plus the other ones are cool too because these are the leading search terms in order here as of today in Feb. inces incest ncest -- no idea lisa crissey -- old boss radiohead bear -- I like Radiohead, and had a bear pic somewhere around sesser -- that is my name, imagine that creep -- a Radiohead song little cheerleaders -- took pictures of cheerleaders in Albuquerque penny arcade comic -- linked to some comics brewski's starkville -- I worked there, it sucked, their crawfish kills people crissey empire -- old bosses, they are terrible to their employees ellen fleiss -- chick who switched to a Mac falter starkville band -- Falter completely sucks im000312.jpg filetype:jpg -- no idea monica guitar -- there was a party with Monica and some dude playing guitar /usr/lib/apache2/extramodules/libphp4.so -- I had this error in gentoo's portage apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files -- had a problem with this too auburn phi mu -- no idea except it is getting confused with Phi Mu Alpha and Auburn Sucks! bannana republic -- bought some clothes there one time window display -- wtf mate ? bear radiohead -- once again, have a pic somewhere cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/extramodules/libphp4.so into serve -- that crazy error college amatures -- wtf again? disney 50 -- Disney makes sense, but 50? dissipated eight creep acapella -- a sweet vocal group sings Creep, wrote about it long ago. friend finders for oral sex in mainewomen -- WTF? gentoo apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuratio -- yet another problem I had girl make out -- I hooked up with a load of girls a while ago... hoap.net -- no idea http://www.swingingcouples.biz/swingers/nebraska-sex-personals -- another no idea im000430.jpg filetype:jpg -- yet another no idea isip where to stay starkville -- I used to work at ISIP and they had conferences, maybe? mako's orlando -- Mako's in Orlando was so sweet! Just ask Stefan or Muncie. matt walsh sucks -- yeah he sucks, we beat the hell out of Florida! muncie mardi gras -- Muncie had fun in New Orleans a couple years ago. opengl tls data -- had an error dealing with this our cheerleaders -- MSU has nice cheerleaders? patty plenty pin up -- what? rent-a-cop -- security in Albuquerque? sealab 2021 episode 42 torrent -- I love Sealab!!! senior prom -- I took a college chick, Erin Smith, to my senior prom. Did you? sesser elementary school website -- There is this place called Sesser up north. sesti -- Andrew's last name. swampy bridge -- the Noxubee forest is swampy? take hologram off of georgia license -- fake license's are cool! taller sister -- Nicole's sister is sooooooo tall!! too friendly -- I am too friendly? trees sky -- I can take pictures of the sky and like them why walsh sucks florida basketball -- Just because he sucks! Matt Walsh sucks! |
| 2005-02-08 21:04:14 488 Taxes! I actually have to pay the Fed $10 this year. I have always got a couple hundred dollar refund but not this time. My interview is in 13 hours so I will hope to not worry about this for too long... |
| 2005-02-07 18:22:14 487 So I won this sweet sweet Trek 1400 road bike on ebay for practically nothing because the guy selling it had a terrible listing. It ended when I was going to be in class so thank you Sesti for bidding on it for me at the last minute. It is enormous, sized just right for me. I spent most of Friday evening cleaning it up. The only thing majorly wrong with it is that the crank has a hairline fracture in it. Luckily I have a nearly brand new identical replacement on its way from ebayland for $10. I put my Raleigh's seat down low and it fits Emily pretty well so we went on a loop through downtown and campus on Saturday. Afterward, I rode west and made the loop around Avalon. This morning I rode to school in the light light rain. After I got out of class there was no rain and I rode across campus to work. On my way back to George Hall to look at a computer, the cable from my front derailer came completely off. I had been messing with it trying to get the derailer set right and the cable was not happy from the pliers I had been pulling it with. There were no Allen wrenches that I could get to so I just moved the adjusting screws so that the the derailer is stuck out on the big sprocket. So I went to work on the computer, and a couple hours Russ came to help me because it was not happy. By the time we got ready to leave it was pouring outside. Decided it would be fun to ride back across campus so we went for it. Around the back side of Allen, he got ahead of me because I had to go to a ramp to get off of the sidewalk. I ended up having to try to stop for a car on the little slope into the road in front of McComas. My brakes did not like being wet and neither did my slick tires. The bike went sideways and I let it go and hopped off. The handlebar had a nice bang on the ground and that was it. I made it back to the office and got Emily to come to campus and pick me up. So my bike is there but it is supposed to rain tomorrow morning so I would not be able to ride anyway. My other good news of the semester is that I have finally gotten an interview for a full time ITS position and it will be on Wednesday. |