I look like a dork! Oh wait, I am a dork!
So life has been somewhat hectic for a bit, but for the better. After finishing finals, I had to pack up quickly and kick myself out of my apartment before they kicked me out to get up to San Jose (Milpitas) by Sunday the 13th. Started work at Cisco Monday the 14th. Had to go get my Mazda fixed (arg!) because of a broken bearing that chewed up the wheel hub as well. Then I had to rush to look at the M Roadster I'm eyeing because the seller is leaving soon. Between all that and moving in and getting my bearings at work, it's been almost confusing...but not quite.
Work at Cisco started out slow (as it does anywhere) but is picking up. I'm a lowly student coop so I'm not shipping anything or revamping the net but I am learning. Whipped out a quick renaming tool with visual C# (so much easier than MFC!) for internal purposes that basicall takes a look at a comma delimited file (code,translation) and renames all the files in a directory from code-blah to translation-blah. I'm sure there are tools out there already that could be coaxed to do exactly this (and a lot better than mine) but hey, I'm learnin'.
I do get a project of sorts to myself fixing up some big SQL mess or something. Time to get down and dirty with massive SQL tables and long queries. Understanding a previous person's work tends to be difficult and sometimes even frustrating depending on how good he/she was about documentation so that's my first big project. Making sense of ms_sql_repl_translation_id_code is, if not fun, quite necessary. (At least it's not a stupid name like data_time_when).
All of this is a grrrrrrrreat (says Tony the Tiger) change from academics though. I am still supposed to write a paper this summer but at least I have work and a car as a foil. Instead of defaulting to the library and working/coding for fun, I get to default to work/code and read music theory for fun. Variety is good.
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Hey Luke, congrats at the Cisco gig! I worked there for a bit back in the day, and basically if you make yourself useful, they'll let you work on just about any project you want. Good luck!
Hey, btw, can you hook me up with a gmail invite? :)
cya
f.
Posted by: fc at June 22, 2004 07:01 PM
Hi Luke,
Do you have any more gmail invites? I promise I will use it for a good cause. :)
By the way good luck in Cisco and don't worry about the panasonic home theater. Wireless speakers are not as great as they are hyped up to be. I admit they look really cool though.
Ilker
Posted by: Ilker at June 22, 2004 07:46 PM
damn... ate my email in favor of url. *g*
f.
Posted by: fc at June 22, 2004 08:18 PM
OK, see, I assumed nobody but my friends (I have friends?) reads this thing. But I guess I should have expected a spate of gmail wanting people to comment here. For future reference, commenting on any part of the blog (therefore letting me know none too subtly that you actually read this verbal diarrhea I put out) is not a necessary condition of getting gmail ;) ...though I did mean any more friends want gmail originally but oh well. Can't go back on my word there...
Posted by: Luke at June 22, 2004 08:34 PM
Hey, you don't know me, but I happened upon this website, noticing that you said you had "lots" of gmail invites!
As a fellow geek, I implore you to graciously bestow one upon me! Why, because you're a dork, I'm a dork, everyone's a dork... dork.
Perhaps some bonding? I've driven a mazda before, and I would have taken Cisco in high school had they not dropped the class.
Um, please!
Hoping I get a gmail account,
Robert
rla128@gamebox.net
Posted by: Robert Anderson at June 22, 2004 10:50 PM
Well I'm about to drop the Mazda faster than you can say Zoom zoom in favor of a bimmer and I also wasn't aware that Cisco could be taken as a class in high school (?!?). Do they teach you Cisco hardware? Isn't that a bit corporate-biased for a high school class? I'm intrigued. If none of my friends want the invites, tell me about this Cisco class in high school and I'll give you an invite. Lates!
Posted by: Luke at June 22, 2004 11:56 PM
Hi Luke ,
I would truly appreciate a GMAIL invite. To overcome the e-mail limitations, I ended up having 6 or 7 different e-mail accounts and I waste lots of precious time just managing and joggling these accounts.
Professionally, I was an IBMer for 17 years (1981 -1998) and I quit to work as a freelancer consultant. Lots of stuff, reports, white papers, ... etc so I do just dream of the 1GB disk space ...
Thanks in advance
thiab
Posted by: thiab at June 23, 2004 11:06 AM
Hey Luke, sorry to bother you (well obviously I'm not really that sorry because here I am continuing to bother you) Anyway I stumbled upon your site because of the whole gmail invite thing. I have no noble reason that I should deserve a gmail account invite over someone else, But here are my pleas. I signed up for the beta at gmail.google.com on 4/1/04 - the day it was announced. And my name is also Luke! Does that matter? probably not but it is all I got. Other than that if you are ever in Dallas, OR come by the house and I will will share some homebrew beer with you (if you drink beer, otherwise you will have to have some whiskey and coke with my wife)
Posted by: Luke at June 23, 2004 05:31 PM
Cool weblog. But as you have probably guessed, the reason I am here is for a GMail invite! :-S Do you have any going spare and if you do I wouldnb't mind one for my friend aswell!
Thanks very much,
Chris
Posted by: Chris at June 24, 2004 09:23 AM
P.S. My e-mail is christopher.morton@tesco.net
Posted by: Chris at June 24, 2004 09:25 AM
Well, they used to teach CISCO at our high school. Pretty much, I believe it was mostly an online course, however. There might have been some hands-on, I'm not sure. So, mostly, either you could really work hard and actually learn all the stuff, even becoming cisco certified, or you could just goof around the whole time.
For reasons unknown to me, they dropped the class. Now, they're offering A+, which is some microsoft class in which we'll "learn" about computer hardware, and SOME networking. Sounds like a dumbed down version of cisco.
Well, there you have it, anyway.
rla128@gamebox.net
Posted by: Robert Anderson at June 25, 2004 11:34 AM
Well what did they teach you in "CISCO" is what I'm intrigued by. Did you have to learn how a router works? Switches? Software end? Implementing TCP/IP (dear lord that would be something). Cisco is huge (not Hitachi huge but huge) so learning "Cisco" seems to me like leanring, oh, say, "THE INTERNET" which is no small task...hardware? software? RFCs/Protocols? Where do you start?
Posted by: Luke at June 25, 2004 05:34 PM