La Mesa Train Station, originally uploaded by Surye.

I finally got my new camera! I've been playing around with mostly HDR, but I have a lot of unposted stuff I'm still sorting out. Got a Canon Rebel XSi, and I already want more lenses. I'll post mainly to Flickr as keeping all my social networking sites up to date would take waaaay too long.

[	mood	|	bored	]
[	music	|	Minus the Bear - Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!	]

• Started a big project at work, Ruby on Rails, and it's been putting me into overtime a lot, but without school, I've managed fine.
• I got accepted in to SDSU! I start in the Fall, cannot wait to get my schedule together.
• I started homebrewing beer. It's been a lot of fun, and I've got even more roommates in on it. So far brewed: Irish Stout, Hefeweizen, Irish Red, Apfelwein, Octarine Ale (Stone Vertical Epic 8.8.8 Clone), Nuke Ale (New Castle Clone), Mango Tango Ale, Vanilla Stout, and a BrIPA (IPA brewed for my friend Bri's birthday). Here is a calendar with the various steps: The Complex Brewery
• Been out and about a lot more, made a lot of new friends, been having a really good time. Glad to be able to take advantage of this break from school.
• Girls... I don't even know. Don't ask. :P
• Oh! And I built a kegerator for kegging our homebrew, we have the Hefe and the Red on tap currently. So yummy.

Originally published at Occasionally Interesting. Please leave any comments there.

I’ve been recently getting back into World of Warcraft (Thank you Nick, my free time will hate you again). But this prospect triggered a much better idea. There’s still no de facto guild management webapp. One that has all the features I suspect one would want. Couple this with the fact that I have struggled to find a good web application project that isn’t YAB (Yet Another Blog), even though I know I need the experience of the process. Thus, DKPy was born, out of professional necessity of experience, and personal interest in the outcome, I hope that these two driving forces will prevent the death that has faced so many of my projects before.

Of course this means less time playing, and more time developing, but honestly, that’s the way it should be. I can’t be sucked back into an MMO at the levels I used to, it’s to draining on my resources and time. So I’ve been brainstorming some features I would like to see make it into DKPy (which sort of stands for Dragons Kill Pythons, a play on Dragon Kill Points, and the fact that it’s written in Python). Here is what I have come up with so far:

• Generic MMORPG support
• Specific game support for features that make sense (WoW, WAR, etc) as plugins.
• One-to-Many mapping of Player to Characters.
• Friend Of The Guild support, in case your DKP system takes that into account, and to track loot.
• Interactive calendar system (With integration into in-game calendars where it applies).
• Customizable loot/DKP system, allowing it to conform to your guild’s rules. For anything more complex, implement as python plugins as well.
• Ability to track equipment per character, allowing for features like “Who needs x item most?”
• Integration with external item databases (Thott, Wowhead, etc).

Any ideas to add to this would be much appreciated.

This project will be managed from http://dev.datamachine.net/redmine/projects/show/dkpy. There’s little there now, but in the next week or two I expect to make some progress.

[	Tags	|	tv	]
[	mood	|	anxious	]
[	music	|	Muse - Map of the Problematique	]

• House
• Eureka
• It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
• Stargate Atlantis
• Heroes
• Prison Break (eh, we'll see)
• The Office
• Californication
• Dexter
• Chuck
• Pushing Daisies
• Numb3rs

[	Tags	|	music	]
[	mood	|	sleepy	]
[	music	|	Hot Chip - Shake a Fist	]

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[	Tags	|	booze, movies	]
[	mood	|	relaxed	]
[	music	|	Primus - Mama Didn't Raise No Fool	]

Went and saw Get Smart with Nicolee, Ant, Sam, and Nick, and I was pleasently surprised that it was really good. It was hillarious, but not stupid (in the way that Will Ferrel movies are, they have their place, but I'm glad this wasn't one of them), and it made a lot of references to the old series, which I loved :D Afterwards we loitered around for an hour at the theater till about 1am, and decided to all chill at my appartment and watch Doctor Who. And it turns out Doctor Who is difficult to follow after two double Gin and Tonics, but I could still make a mean Long Island Iced Tea for Nick. I don't know what to say about that. :P Though a Car Bomb turned out to be too much for my stomach, and I lost it shortly after drinking it, but it was so delicious on the way down :3 But it was one of those really quick vomits where you just feel better afterwards. Last time I threw up from drinking was maybe 4 months ago, and I passed out on a pile of dirty laundry in Phillip's bathroom. Oh the amount of Tequila we consumed that night, and the amount of Optimus Rhyme singing.

Hanging out with Ashleigh later today, but I needs to start working on my Django project. I've been kinda off and on with it. I also have some homework that should be done. I hate how short weekends are.