tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51213532024-09-05T17:25:53.165-04:00Insights into how I am who I amAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01601473004541728861noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121353.post-42285564345214568342014-01-20T09:47:00.003-05:002014-01-20T09:48:49.153-05:00

It's-a me! Mario! ...no, that's not quite right. but I am blogging again. To start things off, have a survey that one of my friends took that's all about getting to know me: 1. What time did you get up this morning? 8:20 2. How do you like your steak? Medium to Medium Well 3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Probably Captain America, I’ve been meaning to go for a

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Been sleeping odd times the last few days, but had what I consider a socially normal night's sleep between 11pm and 8am. Did my usual blog/website sweep with my coffee, then made a ham McMuffin for breakfast. Instead of my usual pattern of continued web surfing and/or streaming tv watching, I got some of my round to-its done this morning; first, I vacuumed the car out, along with wiping out the

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The Dish Last night for dinner the family tried a new recipe I found in the New Doubleday Cookbook:  chicken-fried steak, which is a fried, breaded round steak,  that dad was able to cook. Additionally, we had sides of mashed potatoes and pickled beets. A little additional Google-Fu found me a McCormick mix of country gravy, which was a lovely white gravy with lots of pepper in

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I'm going to attempt to blog here, again; this time using my adventures in the kitchen as a step stone into my life in its entirety. You see, I really enjoy cooking, but don't do it very often. Hopefully, sharing my experiences in the kitchen will keep me motivated to cook, and blog as well. I'm taking a good bit of inspiration from The Pioneer Woman, both by using her recipes and

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Actual fortunes from cookies served with recent take-out Chinese food."All the darkness in the world cannot put out a single candle."

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Actual fortunes from cookies served with recent take-out Chinese food."The time is always right to do what is right."

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Rules:1 - Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 - Go to “Random quotations” or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. 3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”

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I've been playing Half-Life 2 lately. When the game first came out a few years ago, my computer wasn't up to the task of displaying the graphics, or even loading levels in an un-agrivating amount of time, so I only played probably the first 25% of the game. Now that I've got my brother's pc, which is a few years newer than mine was, I'm able to enjoy the full experience. Lately, though, I've

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Now that I'm updating this blog again, I think it's time to give it a new name. Back when I started it, in 2003 (wow!), the Matrix movies were big, and I was trying to reinvent myself as a philosopher, so that worked for a title. Now I'm just being me, and don't necessarily want to tie myself to a pseudonym.Any suggestions for a new blog title are graciously accepted.ThanksMatt

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Part Three: Saturday – Hockey ReduxSaturday was a pretty lazy day, spent mostly in front of the two glowing picture boxes. I was being torn in a few directions at once. Part of me needed some time on my own to chill out after seeing everyone at my reunion, while another part of me wanted to go to the Otters hockey game that evening. Another part of me wanted to save up my cash for less

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Friday - 10-Year Reunion Most of Friday before the reunion was spent in bed with achy joints, from napping on too-short couches, though I did manage to crawl out of bed after having sufficient levels of pain-killers in the afternoon. Had a second TG dinner, from all the leftovers, and got all dressed up for the Reunion. When I first heard about the reunion this summer, I was 85% certain I’d go,

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I’ve been looking forward to this weekend for a while; I enjoy the pageantry of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, helping dad prepare the feast, and sharing that feast with my family, then going to the hockey game that evening, getting together with friends over the long weekend. This year would be extra special, with my 10-year high-school reunion held Friday night. Part the first: ThursdayI

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I've been meaning to get to a Seawolves game all summer, but either they've been out of town when I had the time to go, or I was busy with other things, or I just let time go by without thinking of going to a game. So, since this week was the last games of the season I made a concerted effort to get to a game. When I checked their website to see what promotions were coming up, I discovered that

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I've been thinking lately that I need to have more things to do during the week that are me-time, to give me a break from the seemingly always-on-call nature of taking care of mom during the day. My initial thoughts were toward doing things in the evening, after my shift, so to speak. But looking around the kitchen today, searching out some lunch, my prospects weren't that great, so I pondered

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Saturday, July 19th was Justin and Sally's wedding. Since Andrew was his roommate at Behrend for so long, he got to be one of the groomsmen. Leading up to the wedding day, I wasn't specifically invited, so I wasn't sure if I would be able to attend the wedding and reception. I wanted to go since I'd gotten to know Justin a bit through seeing him when I'd visit Andrew, and also at church.

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When I picked up my cap and gown, and graduation announcements at school today, it finally began to sink in that I’ll be graduating in eight days. I mean, yes, I saw the days of the term ticking down on the calendar, and yes, I knew when graduation was, but holding the wrapped and folded gown in my hands was a tangible sign that the graduation is almost here, it’s not just a day on the calendar.

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I got to go to the Penn State game against Minnesota on Oct. 1. Now that it’s been over two weeks since the event, I thought I’d better get to writing about it, since I had such a great time. Things didn’t get started too smoothly, but everything worked out in the end.Thursday morning, my mom woke up with trouble breathing, and the symptoms of high blood pressure. She went to the emergency room

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There’s lots to talk about, relatively speaking. I’ve started my final semester at EBC, and begun working as a computer lab monitor there in the evenings. The Otters’ season began last weekend on the road. This weekend’s the home opener; that Saturday, I’ll also be attending my first ever Penn State Nittany Lions football game in Happy Valley. You can’t imagine how excited I am about that. I’m

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Went for a walk with the dog as the sun was setting this evening. As I was standing at the bluff, admiring the colorful glow that remained after the orb of the sun crossed the horizon, the firefighters from the station a few blocks away drove up in their pumper. Four men got out to view the fiery sky. Shortly thereafter, a family of mom, dad, infant son and grandmother reached us. I walked

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At 5 am on Monday, February 28th, I was woken up by my mother, whereupon she said that she was having difficulty breathing and dad would be taking her to the emergency room to get checked out. The initial thought at the er was that fluid had built up and dialysis would help settle things. In the course of coming to this decision, a CAT scan was taken, and after mom finished dialysis at the

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I can't wait for the movie to come out. Must go to theater and stand in line... now...

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Yeah. It's official. I'll talk about it after a self-imposed cooling off period has elapsed.

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The expression “Couldn’t see the forest for the trees” may be clichéd, but it’s certainly accurate, and can be used in the reverse. Especially when you’re a beginning VB programmer and you’ve been asked to find and fix an error in a code sample. Two weeks ago, I was given a program that had a number of errors involving the logic used to navigate an array to display the array’s records. One of

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EA corrupting game industry - Washington Square News Reading news like this concerns me about working in the game industry, but it also is a call to arms, to do my best as a programmer, and try to fight the good fight against the big quasi-monopolies like Electronic Arts. Companies like Cyan, which created the Myst series of games, began as a small entity, and changed the way people thought

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The past week and a half to two weeks have been exciting on the weather front, with temperatures dropping into the single digits, heavy snow and winds dumping a good bit of snow, and when it wasn’t snowing, one day I woke up to freezing rain and a serious layer of ice to scrape off the car. Having the sun out and temps in the twenties for a change helped clear the roads quite a bit, so I’m ok

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