Stephan Segraves

Well it’s been a while since I’ve updated this thing, so I guess it’s time to catch up.

Mostly I have been enjoying the break by either hanging with the family or in Pearland with Lyndsay. We had a Houston Christmas, you know, 80 degrees with 100% humidity… Some call it beautiful; I call it heat stroke. I received some nice things for Christmas which is listed below:

• Parents
1. Paring knife w/ sharpner (really needed one)
2. Poker chip spinning thingy set
3. “Bleachers” by John Grisham
4. “Flags of Our Fathers” by James Bradley
5. “Flyboys” by James Bradley
6. Finding Nemo
7. Windtalkers
8. Finding Forrester
9. Car Care Kit (this thing rules!
10. The Best of ELO CD
11. Robert Earl Keen – Walking Distance

All and all some really cool stuff…

• Lyndsay
1. This throw blanket that has feathers inside… all I can say is, two thumbs up.
2. Bruce Almighty (of course, awesome)
3. A big bag of peanut M&M’s, she knows I’m an M&M fanatic
4. and Lyndsay’s parents gave me a hoodie from Aeropostale, very nice.

So it was a good Christmas. The truck is running great (thanks to my parents) and all in all it’s been a good break from school.

Just so everyone knows, Lyndsay has entered the world of geekdom. A few weeks ago she used “Google” as a verb by telling me she “googled” something, haha!! Then I found out she knew what Linux was and now she has her own little blog. So welcome her to geekdom by flooding her blog with traffic!

In other news, Texas Tech is playing Navy in the EV1.net Houston Bowl. My mom got tickets so we are going to go support the Red Raiders as they wreck Navy!!! Speaking of which, a friend I grew up with plays football for Navy. Be watching for him on ESPN.

Well I am testing out the new database. I think I may have lost the ability to retrieve some of the old posts (I don’t know why) so that kind of sucks. But this new database should be a lot faster.

Well I decided I was tired of my host so I am moving to a different server to host this site… hopefully it will be faster and better than the current one. The site may be down for the next few days but it will be back soon.

People are so hard to understand for the reasons that they do or don’t do things. I just don’t get how people say one thing, then they act a different way, then they go back and change what they said. I don’t understand it and I don’t understand why someone would do it.

Well the official announcement was made today for the replacement of the World Trade Center. The new name will be ‘Freedom Tower’ and it will be the tallest in a series of buildings. The Master Site will be a conglomerate of buildings with the Freedom Tower standing above them all. Height really didn’t seem to be a big deal with the designers since they knew the building would be surpassed in height in a few years.

Magic Muffler sucks! On my way home from Lubbock the tail pipe weld out of the muffler broke, the girl following me saw it and told me. I pulled over, looked at it, and saw that the only thing holding the piping to truck was the “hanger” near the rear of the truck. I took the truck into the shop and told them about what had happened and they gave me a lame response (as usual)… The muffler only has a 12 month/12,000 mile warranty. Well isn’t that convenient?! These are the same people who didn’t tell me that they had tie-wrapped my brakeline up, and we all know how that ended (broken brakeline). Anyway, I took the truck to another place and they fixed all up for me, so I’m happy. I have to take the driveshaft off tonight so that we can get the dual u-joints fixed tomorrow morning…. Fun stuff.

Well I made it to Sugar Land alive tonight after another 10+ hours trip. I had a bunch of stuff go wrong and was lucky to get home (again). It’s good to be back, but I realized that I cannot stand the freeways here. People are like bats outta hell driving around here and it’s nerve racking. They need to realize that the speed limit is 70mph for a reason…

This morning on the way to work I was almost struck by a cop that was flying down the road. He didn’t have his siren or his lights on but he was going about 70 mph in a 45. He just about hit me from behind but he swirved and got in one lane over…. Then he gave me this look like I did something wrong, I just stared right back at him thinking to myself “I’m going 45 bud”.

I have come to the conclusion that the one thing that makes the internet great (information on demand) is the same thing that sometimes makes it a pain to use. I did a search for some stuff here at work and got a few good results. I went to the sites and the articles were what I was I looking for and as added bonus the articles had links to other resources. The problem was, none of the links worked!! Everytime I tried a link I got a “Page Not Found” error… Since websites move, site structures change, etc. nothing is constant. However, I think that a lot of websites are getting smart and starting to archive their content and make it available for longer amounts of time (some times infinitely). See I can go to the library, get a book and that book may have references to other books that I can look for. Now the book may not be available at that particular library which is why the internet is great, I can simply search for anything and no matter where it is, I can get it. So, as soon as the problem of keeping data in the same place is solved the internet will become a much better tool.

Well I finished my Economics final tonight and I am done with my third semester of college. The Economics exam wasn’t easy and I am not sure how I did (I’ll find out tomorrow). I am just glad to get this semester out of the way.

Some people brought up a good point a few days ago and I just noticed it yesterday… These McDonald’s commercials 1) suck 2) say that there is now white meat in their chicken nuggets… What in the world?! What was in them before!?!!?!? That song “I’m Loving It” has got to go. Never has a rap not made me want to eat something; Till now.