Tired...

Well 22 hours later the L'Anse Class of 1994's Senior Video is re-edited and posted on You Tube Here. After stumbling over my lost collection of VHS tapes in the garage last week I decided I should get them into digital format before they die. I'm not sure whom all, if anyone, has a copy of the video. I felt it was my responsibility to get it in a format that I can share with everyone.

The good news is that the first part is done. Now even more work needs to get done. I decided that I can easily pop all this and a bunch more onto a DVD and ship it out to anyone and everyone that wants a copy. So I'm starting to compile a list of things that should be on the DVD. I already am working on pictures, but I really need content. So if anyone is from the Class of 1994 and your reading this, email the Costoda the scoop if you have some pictures, video, or just want to bitch about something.

Oh I can hear the commits now: "Why did you put so much video of this person or that person? Why ain't I in the video more?"

Remember folks, if you loved the camera, you got tons of time on it, and if you told me to buzz off, well then I just said screw you and went and shot someone else. Where simple rules back then, still simple rules today...

I found out several things about my classmates from 13 years ago:

1.) They all know how to use their middle finger

2.) Most of them know how to say LaBeau get out of here, or LaBeau turn that thing off

3.) The guys know how to flex

4.) The girls were always easy to deal with

Looking through the videos was like walking in to the past. A dangerous place indeed. I enjoy knowing that the past made me the person I am today, but in no shape or form will I ever wish to go back there, or fix any mistakes I ever made. The past is what it is, and the Costoda is whom he is. No one can fix that now...

-Costoda

The second coming of the MacBook Pro

For the second time in the past 3 years I'm the owner of a MacBook Pro. This wonderful 17" notebook is amazing. It's got power, beauty, and Mac OS X on it. It is using a Intel Dual Core processor, and it's rather fast. I'm not too bothered by the heat. The last MacBook Pro I had, the first generation of MacBook Pro 15" was like typing on an oven. I think they have gotten better over time.

I'm using VMWare Fusion in order to run Windows and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. I'm also running the new Beta of SQL Server 2008 Dev. It's a pretty nice product and I'm excited to see the final release next year. Visual Studio 2008 is also pretty nice, but really the GUI hasn't changed at all from 2005.

My side project while I do homework today is to take a bunch of old video's I had on VHS and transfer them to DVD. That should be cool. I ran into a bunch of Anthony and Katie at the water park back in 1999. Man do I look different, and do they back then. So many things have changed. But it's fun to watch again. I also ran into the now famous Tease Rain videos from the Youth Center back in 1994. Man does Rock Star Chris look VERY young. I'm going to post the video's to my My Space site. I'm also working on remastering the 1994 Senior Video to DVD. I'll probably post that on a seperate My Space site.

Yes, the Costoda is still very busy as you can see. Should get back to homework.

-Costoda

More VB vs VB.NET vs C#/Java/C++

Well I loved last nights class. I got into a heated discussion with a few VB 6 programmers taking the VB.NET programming class. They were talking about a bunch of terms that I didn't understand. I love how Microsoft made up a bunch of terms for VB programmers, then decided to bring VB into the true OOP world, and thus, had to change the vocabulary so it matched other languages. Now why the didn't do this in the first place totally pisses me off.

My favorite is that they were talking about how they could just start up objects using a Property Bag. I'm like WTF is a Property Bag and they are like, oh you must not be a OOP guru because it's in all languages. This was the first time I've ever heard the exact term Property Bag, so I was getting fusterated. Well it turns out that is what VB used to call Serialization, a feature I've used in Java over 8 years ago to write the state of an object to disk and read it back in at a later time. More information is here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa289514(VS.71).aspx

What I also love is that they hide the code behind files in VB.NET. WTF is up with this? So I ask my professor, and he is like "Oh no one ever needs to go into that file". I'm like WHAT??!! Are you kidding? I couldn't even process that. VB.NET assumes programmers are dumb or something, because they just hide way too many things from people.

I now know I will never be a true VB programmer. I would have to forget too much stuff I already know...

-Costoda

Vista Home 64-bit woes

Well it has been a fun filled holiday weekend. Heck yeah, what's better than reinstalling Windows Vista 64-bit on your main PC? Nothing I can think of. It was a regular party of sorts.

I found a great bug where the ntfs.sys file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\ becomes corrupt. After that, you can't even stinking repair the installation. I tried everything minus standing on my head and clapping my hands at the same time. Needless to say Friday and Saturday were spent re-installing the OS and all my apps. Now Visters is back to normal, and a bit faster since I decided to format the drives different this time.

So I've been playing Bioshock a bit in my free time (which I have none of). Anyone that is a gamer and hasn't been playing this game before is cheating themselves. This game has some of the best graphics the Costoda has ever seen, period. Very early in the game you have to make a tough decision: do you help the little sisters, or do you harvest the Adam from them at the cost of there lives? Scientists have modified them, they are no longer little girls. Now they are zombies with parasites living inside them. So which decision did the Costoda take? Do you even have to ask? It's all about the Costoda, so I'm going to harvest them. Damn straight. Before I start hearing people asking me if I'm a sicko, remember people, it's only a GAME!! Man I've read blog posts where people are pissed about this part of the game. I myself can tell the difference between reality and a game. I won't be going out killing zombies and looking for parasites inside of them. So rest assure little zombie girls of the real world, the Costoda doesn't give two craps about you.

Today is homework day. Tons of reading, tons of other crap that must get done. I hope you all enjoy your last day of freedom before life comes and takes you back to your twisted world they call reality...

-Costoda