Learn about waves with mario

this is nice.

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Additions

I forgot to tell that friend who’s been fighting with his wife: Hope everything gets better and there aren’t any more cloudy days for you.
Especially since it’s summer.

now, to business:
Star wars related comic strip # 1

Star wars related comic strip # 2

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Frustration

My work is frustrating me.
I had my weekly convertasion with my boss today and it was an hour full of complains about my work.
Irrelevant, stupid comments about stuff like the fonts i used in my documents that i write, and that I seem to not have read some of the documents before the meetings, which i have.
I was also deined the participation in a conferance about storage which I wanted to attend.
I am not the only one who feels stepped on in the company. There is talk about quitting. I know for sure one of the better programmers here, and one of my friends here is leaving in a month or two.
Ever since the new VP of RND arrived at the company things been going downhill. I’ve seen it once too many, in one too many companies that no longer exists.

This job was suppose to be a nice cushie job in a small company, and instead it have becase nerve wrecking, in a big company, plus, instead of promoting people, the company decided to hire a lot of managerial stuff who has no clue about the company’s product, have no experience in the company’s line of work, and some are pretty incompetant regardless.

I fear I have no power over my work, and I havn’t spend too much time here in the company, so it will appear in my CV so i can leave before I find a new job.

now on to another story, one of my friends (who is one of the readers of this blog) had a huge fight with his wife and left home as a result. Thier fight was about… yes, you can guess.. about money.
99% of all fights end up with the money issues.

Everything is about money issues.
If i didn’t have money issues to begin with i wouldn’t work at this crappy job i have, right ?
And if money wasn’t an issue, i’m sure you’d be seeing more fun games out there, because then they’ll be making games that are good, rather then games that SELL good.

I’m frustrated that i’m not one of those rich kids who’s parents are millionaires, nor that i’m one of those people who were at the right place at the right time and got tons of money, and not because they’re super talented or anything. I envy those people, and I wish i could just do whatever i want, and not be chained down and have this boring and worthless day time .

On another note, i made this:
http://www.odedsharon.com/shows/

it tells me what shows are aired this week.
It’s open sourced, of course, and i’ll post a link to the source code someday, after i’ll do some more modifications. If anyone wants the code in the mean time, i’ll be happy to send you the code.

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Better but not 100% ok

Lee is better today, she’s fuzzy, and blurry, and very confused about stuff.
I hope she’ll get through it fast.
She gave me quite a scare last night. I was the truly most frightening moment of my life.

LOVE YOU CHOOKIT.

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Shocked.

Lee nearly died today.
Or so it seems in my mind.

One minute we’re talking, the next she faints and falls on the floor hitting her head with a very loud thump.
Then she was unconsience for a few moments, I don’t know if it was more then a minute or not, but morbid thought went through my head.
I could find her pulse and I started worrying that I don’t remember CPR, but then her eyes got widen again, and she because responsive of my histerical shouts.
Leechook ! CAN YOU HEAR ME ?!?!?!
Leechook !
WAKE UP !!
ANSWER ME !!!
CAN YOU HEAR ME ?!??!?!?

no.

WHAT ?! YOU CAN HEAR ME !!

We went to an emercengy clinique, and the doctor said it might have been a temporary drop of blood pressure..

I’m worried out of my mind
Don’t know if i’ll be able to sleep

I LOVE YOU CHOOKIT !

I’m so afraid to lose you

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New and Improved

WOW !
Have you noticed how fast does odedsharon.com loads ?
(and the rest of the sites hosted by the same computer: blog.soundcat.org and Soledad’s Blog)

The old pentium 133mhz with 32MB ram was replaced with a new and fast Pentium 2, 333mhz ! with a whole 64MB of RAM !!

WOW !
Ahh… technology at play !

I’ll remind you Douglas Adams’s definition of technology:
Anything that’s new and therefore doesn’t really work yet.

and i’m always reminded of:
this bbspot article when i think of new RAM.

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Friends, and their lack of

For 4 years, a bunch of friends would come over every friday night and watch enterprise with us. We’d tell everyone to come at 22:00, only about an hour or so before, and our apartment would be full of joyful people who liked watching Star Trek together. The participants varied, some left, some new ones joined. And sometimes, and much more often near the end, we didn’t even have to call anyone, they’d call us and ask what we were doing.

For the past month, every friday and saturday night looks the same !
We pick up the phone, call a whole bunch of people, but none come.
The amount of excuses are huge !
I’m not in town, i’m not in hte country, i’m tired, i’m studying for a test, i have a paper to submit, i don’t feel like gonig out, i have an early shift tommorow, my wife fell asleep, i’m doing reserve duty, I already took a movie from the DVD machine, I am going out with friends, We have to go to a family dinner in another city, we don’t live near you anymore so it’s a long ride.
I believe that was only a small fraction of the excuses, and i can methematically prove it
using the Pigeonhole theorem :
we call more people then there aer excuses listed here, and we did it already for the past 6 weeks, so if 6 * the number of people we call < number of exuces the it's a small fraction.
Q.E.D

There are actually a lot more people on my phone’s list that I don’t call.
Some because I already know they won’t come. Some because I havn’t talk to them in ages. Some because Lee don’t like some of our friends, some just because.

I’m putting some food in the the oven, since i’m starving from running around and squirting water at people in Rabin’s Square:

mobile clubbing
and
pharsh

Ynet

maybe one of our many friends will change his mind and come.

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Funny because it’s true

From Penny Arcade:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2005-06-27&res=h

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eBay

Al lowe sends this in his daily cyberjoke newsletter:

a wonderful case of revenge by a DJ’s wife who sold Lotus on eBay after she heard him brag about cheating on her.
Note the description on the item :

I need to get rid of this car immediately – ideally in the next 2-3 hours before my cheating arsehole husband gets home to find it gone and all his belongings in the street.

I am the registered owner and I have the log book. Please only buy if you can pick up tonight.

The 90,000$ car was sold for 0.50$
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2192&item=4556985749&rd=1

And while you’re at eBay, check out this guy.
Vinnie Santiago sent in this auction from a guy who took Weird Al’s song “I Bought It On Ebay” and made an auction out of it. He’s selling the rights to the domain www.IBoughtItOnEbay.com, plus a “mystery gift.”
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5784471762&fromMakeTrack=true

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SW: Kotor 2 summery

Here are some of my views regarding Star Wars : Knight Of The Old Republic II

If you remember a post from a year and a half ago about SW:KOTOR 1, I was debating if it was the best game of the year.
I cannot say anything like that about KOTOR 2.
KOTOR 2 Is dull, repetative, uninovative, confusing, and generally boring.

I have heared games on the game market being categorized by the number of game play hours the run. There’s one thing for your game to have a long game play, 5 hours, 10 hours, 100 hours, but i’d rather have a fun 2 hour game then a long and tedious 100 hour game.
It’s not fun fighting the same groups of sith assasins about a 100 times. I got the point the first 20 times…

And talk about BAD game balance, on one hand, it takes two skill uses to kill a group of 10 sith lord. and about 2 seconds of that.
then after you went all around the dungeon and killed all the 100 group of the 10 sith lords you get to fight the final “boss” of the game, and he’s like impossible to beat, unless you cheat and exploit bugs the game’s AI to hide from her.

Not to mention plot holes the size of planets !
one moment you’re here, next moment you’re there no explanation why or how !
Oh yeah, thanks, you give me a nice cinematic of my ship taking off and then after 3 minutes of loading i see a cinematic of the ship landing. now THAT explains why my main characted went to his ship and went to the other planet. YEAH, sure !

And talk about loading times, I belive i’ve spent 60% of all the 100 game play hours on watching either the “saving” or “loading” screens !
And each save game takes 25-50 MBs !!
Come on !!!
Didn’t you hire some PROGRAMMERS to do some optimizatoins while you were making your game ?

My conclusion :
Bioware ROCKS
Obsedian SUCKS

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