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For those of you that know about it There is a podcast called pghcast that covers topics of interst for the Pittsburgh regions. Well on Monday they did a show on the Super Bowl win (well no shocker there) but they said that they would cover the Pens next week. So I thought I would send in my thoughts on the Pens, note in the show they said they were also at the Thursday Feb 2, 2006 game. I wonder what they will do, will the talk about the rant I went on about the slots? Will they ignore my comment in the show, or what. I am thinking that since I am one of the hyper few that are against the slots in the Pittsburgh region, that maybe they will have a good laugh at my comments and pass by it, but oh well, see my email to them below.
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I was also at that Game last Thursday, and all I can say was ouch!! But
I did get some good pictures check out
http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=49 I also got pics
of the points that the Pens made. Also I was on Bigolow also with that
car, pritty funny, but after the police left and every one surge at the
car, I retreated I really did not want to be part of it, but here are
some pictures from that night
http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=50
Also comments on keeping the Pens in the ‘burgh. I am all for that heck
I have no problem with a new arena for them, but I have a MAJOR problem
with them getting slot revenue, I know I will sound odd here, but I
have a MAJOR problem with gambling and I believe that no good will come
of it. I love the Pens but I refuse to do business with any company
(and a sports team is a form of a company) that is supported by the
slots, it will be hard but I would be force (for moral reasons) to pick
a new team, or forced to stop watching hockey, I HATE many of the new
rules anyways, this shoot out stupidity has no place in hockey, of all
the games I watched this year I have not watched a shoot out, I have
turned off the TV at those points (I have the NHL center ice on my cable
so I get plenty of games), and if I am ever at a game with one I will
walk out before the shot out.
But back to the game on Thursday, I was so happy I love hockey fights,
and we got some good ones, the last one was great. Lets hope the Pens
do better next year.
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Also you can see my post on the pens game at http://blog.mikeoconnor.net/?postid=876
And my posts about the Super Bowl pictures.
Here about the first thoughts about the party in Oakland
And here where I posted the pictures, and talked about what I heard on the Police scanner
And here for more about what I heard on the Police scanner
Leave in the comments your favorit Programming language and your top 4 favorit Refernce Books for it.
Here are my ansers
Language: C++
Books:
The C++ Programming Language:Special Edition (by Bjarne Stroustrup)
Beginning Linux Programming (by Alan Cox) A great book for POSIX stuff
Object-Orinted Programming in C++:2nd edition
C how to program (by Deitel & Deitel)
So for any one that reads my blog what are your ansers.
Well I asked my friend before if there would be a problem if I set up auto disabled comments after a set amount of time. Well I been getting so much spam today, and my friends said it was not a problem to have auto disabled after some a set of time. So I have set all posts before Jan 5, 2006 to have comments disabled, and set all posts after that date to auto expire comments after 90 days from now, and that will be the default amount of time I will use normally in the future. I hope this will cut down on some of the spam I get on my blog.
Some guy in Seattle, Dave Fox’s Outbursts does not seam to think there is much to be happy about in Pittsburgh. I would say go over there and tell him what you love about Pittsburgh.
First I saw Rob over at unspace state that he saw a jump in the amount of spam on his blog, and today, I been getting about 10 to 20 spam messages a every 10 minutes.
Well when I went to work today (I work at CMU) it felt empty, there was almost no one there, and a bit lonly with no one around. Oh well.
Well I am listening to the Police scanner since I am wondering what the riots are doing, the thing that I am hearing is that the riots are contained to the Oakland section of the city, and inside of that contained on the Pitt campus and where the Pitt undergrads live, that is assuming I am hearing it correctly. Just goes to show you over all Pittsburgh is a level headed city, it is just the collage students that are going nuts.
There are plenty of car crashes but that is due to the snow on the roads.
Also it is very quite where I am, no noise, no honking no one parting in the streets here, which for me is nice, assuming if I can get to sleep tonight, I don’t have to worry about some one waking me with noise.
The pictures are now up. Also if you see the picture of the car that was overturned, I just heard on the police scanner that the car has been set on fire, I am so glad that I came home when I did, that has got to be dangerous, and I do not want to be a part of a riot, that is just dangerous, and I don’t want to deal with any of the repercussions of one.
Well after the game I went with some friends down to Pitt. It was good at first, but after we where there for a bit, some of the students flipped a car over. I did get some pictures of it, I will post the pictures later. But when the police left the care, they are standing around the car protecting it for a bit, and the students there surged at the car me and my friends were being pushed at the car, but we did not want to be part of that, so we backed off, then we regrouped on the lawn of the Pitt Student Union, and decided to head home since we did not want to be part of it at all, as we were leaving the Pittsburgh Swat team showed up. I am glad we decided to 1) not be a part of the stupidity, and 2) that we left when we did. I don’t understand why people would do something like that, yes it is great that the Steelers won the Super Bowl, but to destroy someone’s car is just not right, I would hate to be the owner of the car.
Yes this non-football fan is watching the Super Bowl, I am because I am at my churches Super Bowl Party. And this is cool we are leading 7 to 3. Also check out Robs site unspace.net he has alot of Super Bowl Links.
Ug, the hard drive on my Linux box seems to be having some major problems, Bad sectors and all. So what I am trying to do, is since it only is happening on the /home partion, and that partion is 100Gb large and I only have 30Gb of data on it, and the problem seems to be at the beginning of the partion, I backed up the data, then did the /home partion to partion out the bad block area from the file system. When I finish formating the new /home partion, I will restore my files. But till then my Linux box is a bit down :-(. The partion will be will finish formating soon (I run the badblock check on it as I format) then I will get the data to restore, it should be finished by the time I get back from my churches Super Bowl party.
Well this was funny today. First before I get into what I found funny, I will admit I am 1 of the 5 non-football fans in Pittsburgh, yes there are about 5 of us in the city, please please don’t hunt us down and kill us ;-). Also I have a friend that lives in Findly Ohio, Trish, who is a big football fan I remember some time before last years season her calling me up all excited to tell me that the Steelers drafted Ben Roethlisberger, I responded “Who is he? and is that good?” She in an exasperated voice says “MIKE!” Then goes on to tell me about him apparently he was a big star when he was in High School in Findly, Ohio — as most of Pittsburghers probably already know. So today I was talking with Trish on IM and the following conversation went down.
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(22:32:56) PrgLnx: Hi, how are you, question for you, I keep hearing that there is some sort of sporting event tomorrow, did you hear about it? 😉
(22:35:09) xxxxx: very funny and yes, it is a Super Bowl.
(22:35:14) xxxxx: Go Ben!
(22:35:26) PrgLnx: I know, so you hoping for the “One for the Thumb”
(22:36:32) xxxxx: What does that mean?
(22:37:09) PrgLnx: “One for the Thumb” = the Steelers have in the past won 4 Super Bowls, so that is one for the Little Ring, Middle, and Index finger
(22:37:21) PrgLnx: so the 5th is the “One for the Thumb”
(22:37:34) xxxxx: oh
(22:38:02) PrgLnx: You should have known that you are a football fan, and I am one of the 5 in the city of Pittsburgh that does not follow football
(22:39:47) xxxxx: LOL, but remember, your QB is from my neck of the woods.
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Note I have x’ed her IM name out for her privacy. But I was kind of shocked a Football fan that is following Ben Roethlisberger big time did not know the phrase, “One for the Thumb” even I some one that has only seen 4 football games in his entire life knows that phrase. Yes I have only seen 4 football games, 2 when I was in High School, my High Schools Team, The Crusaders, of Canevin Catholic High School (yes I did feel out of place there as a Lutheran, also I was a computer geek back then so that even put me further out of place) and 2 Super Bowls at the Super Bowl parties at my church for the last 2 years, this year will mark the 5 foot ball game I ever watched. When I was in high school I will admit I did not understand the game, it was not till 2 years ago when I went to the Super Bowl party at my church that some one told me what was going on, I still don’t like foot ball but I now know the rules.
Yes PrgLnx is my IM name. And that probably was a very bad joke I did about only hearing about some sporting event, that one is almost bound to get me killed here in Pittsburgh — “A drinking town with a football problem.”
And finally I probably should put this in “Here we go Steelers, Here we go” I do hope they win tomorrow, and humiliate the seahawk, I hope they do to the seahawks what the Seanators did to the Penguins on Thursday night ;-).
I bet if the Steelers win (which they will) that Feb 5 will be declared a Pittsburgh Holoday.
I have 2 domains that I am not using right now and wondering from my friends what should I do with them. The first is congeek.com and the other is geeksforlife.org Right now their is nothing up there, I want to do something with them, so I ask my friends what should I do with them.
I have been taged by Small But Disorganized so I guess I should anser it
[b]Four Jobs I’ve Had[/b]
1. Computer Programmer (CMU and current)
2. Computer Operator (CMU)
3. Undergrad Teaching Assistance (at Pitt)
4. Software installer (for my old high school, well it was installing Windows 95 on some computers so not really Software per say)
[b]Four Movies I Watch Over and Over Again[/b]
1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Passion of the Christ
3. Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy
4. Tron
[b]Four Places I’ve Lived (only 3)[/b]
1. Hunting Ridge (just outside of Bridgeville), PA
2. Oakland section of Pittsburgh, PA
3. Shady Side section of Pittsburgh, PA
4. (that is a compleate list)
[b]Four TV Shows I Watch[/b]
1. Simpsons
2. South Park
3. O’Reilly Factor
4. FuterRama
[b]Four Places I’ve Vacationed (I got to travel when I was younger)[/b]
1. Townsville, Austrilia
2. London
3. Tokyo, Japan
4. The Red Center of Austrilia
[b]Four Websites I visit daily[/b]
1. http://www.unspace.net/
2. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/
3. http://www.pghbloggers.org
4. http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/
[b]Four of My Favorite Foods[/b]
1. Manicotti
2. Cheese Burger
3. Taco
4. Lasagna
[b]Four Places I’d like to be right now[/b]
1. A nice long bike trail
2. Diving
3. Townsville (see above)
4. Well I would like to visit my sister in Modling Austria
[b]Four Folks Now Tagged With This Meme[/b]
1. Rob at unspace
2. PowerBall
3. SimDan
4. Russell Lucas
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