Author: Joe

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Adventure

Phillies Game

Went to the Phillies vs Astros game last night with some co-workers. It was actually my first trip to Citizens Bank Park. I’ve heard many good things about it, and was glad that it lived up to the hype. Sooooo much nicer than the Vet that it replaced.

We carpooled up there which was cool. I got the night off from driving since my back seat is quite cramped and Geneva Convention laws  prohibit 2 individuals for such a journey. Also, being cramped in car you do learn a lot from these people I work with but only seem to interact with in a work environment. Oh yeah, and carpooling is good for the environment too.

Scumbag got us free parking, and free is always very good. When we got in and figured out where our seats were I got a chance to walk around a bit and check out the different stuff at the park. Sadly only kids are allowed to run the bases, that’s so unfair.

Scumbag had to say hi to a ballgirl, so I said “hi” too. Then then gave us a free hot dog and soda ticket and we got them to sign their baseball cards to give to Geoff. So that was cool, he seemed to really appreciate the gifts.

The Phils went on to win the game, I don’t recall the score but it was fairly exciting. A grand slam, some home runs, good stuff.

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Sports

Lost a Good Frisbee Today

Today was a sad day for me today as I had to bid adieu to a fine frisbee today. She was an orange Innova Leopard fairway driver to be exact. She’s served me well over the past year or so, I only wish I could say I was as kind in return with my with throws that lead her into a direct course with too many a trees than she deserved to strike.

As I picked her up on my way to the 5th basket, I noticed it was split almost completely in half. This shocked and saddened me a great deal. By no means was this a the most violent of throws I’ve had with it, but I guess it was an accumulation of the numerous tosses we’ve had together (my wild arm has been known to strike many a tree).

We gave her a proper send off out to sea (a lake actually) where she can now rest with all the other fine frisbees that dwell upon the floor of the lake.

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Adventure

Saw a Guy Appear From the Brush at Lunch

Wow, I just witnessed the most amazing thing on lunch today! While dining at Moe’s (my favorite lunch spot) the person sitting across from me witnessed a man in a suit just walk out of the bushes. It’s like he just appeared from nowhere.

He was amazing. He continued to walk by us and around the shopping center. This extremely strange act on his part has lead to much giggling on my behalf. I can’t help but randomly giggle for the rest of the day now, it was that amazing of a site!

One theory has him leaving Volcanic Eruptions. Is that place even open during the day?

Another theory consists of him being spawned from the earth itself. Honestly I’m leaning towards this one. He just seemed to strange and out of place to accept a more logical theory.

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Development

Project Hosting on Google Code

I finally got around to hosting a project on Google Code. I’ve used countless projects that have been hosted on the service over the past few years, but strangely, never went through the process to host one of my own.

Setup was a breeze, just navigate to Project Hosting on Google Code, then login with your Google account. If you’re one of the 5 people online without a Google account, sign up is free and takes a few seconds to do.

I’ve found it to be a great spot to host an open source project. It’s simple and free. I downloaded ZigVersion to manage my Subversion on OS X. After a few minutes I had that all setup and synced with my hosting.

I’d also like to play around with GitHub more as well, to compare the 2 services.

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Books

Dead Until Dark

Upstairs at work we’ve started a little unofficial book club. Apparently the first book that are super cool club (though I may’ve been kicked out already) is reading is Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. This book is the basis of the True Blood series on HBO.

I’ve seen a couple of the episodes so most of the characters were familiar to me already. The book was very well written but I think it was a bit too girly for me. I don’t exactly fantasize about being swept off my feet by some vampire dude, so wasn’t really relating to many parts. But I did manage to read through it in just 2 or 3 days.

I’m pretty sure that the rest of the book club plans to read the additional books in this series, but I’m not sure if I will be. Hence why I think I may’ve been thrown out after our inaugural meeting.

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Books

Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Just finished reading the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. It was some of the finer reading I’ve done it quite some time. It pretty much is Greek mythology taking place in present day. I’ve always been kinda into the whole mythology thing, especially growing up (some cool monsters there) and always been a sucker for the whole good vs evil fight.

The series spans 5 action packed books, with my favorite being the final book The Last Olympian. It was pretty much some non-stop against impossible odds fighting for the world going on stuff. Much sacrifices made for the noble cause, some fine demi-gods were lost in the epic battle.

The books are geared toward a younger crowd, probably on par with the Harry Potter series. They’re also coming out with films, so I’ll have to show up opening night dressed as a minotaur or Ares or something like that.

Excellent series and highly recommended.