Blog of Josh Hall

Alright party people, miss me? Just hung out at the apartment for christmas. ate some pizza, watched some movies, cleaned the apartment, cut my own hair…again, and becky came up to exchange gifts:) her rocking self got me a camera! so there should be a bunch of photos in the gallery from your’s truly.

Uncle Jay and Aunt Leslie are in for a bit, gunna hang out with them over the weekend, and hopefully uncle kenny and the family will give me a call too. Trying to catch Return of the King with bob tomaro, and maybe stop by Andy’s for a party. we will see how things go.

i got an email from my old advisor, Carlton, saying that he noticed i hadn’t done too well this semester, and wanted to know if i wanted to set up an appt. with him. I did. He rocks, my CS advisor blows hard, and i am going to change my major. Carlton says business isnt a good idea for me, since credits i have wont count for my major in business. So right now, i am thinking Philosophy, Communications, or some sort of English. probably in that order too.

i have been working my butt of over break. i should get a nice paycheck come end of january. Pitt sucks becuase we get paid once a month, at the end of the month, for the previous month. but oh well.

i have been working with Sil to get the site fully functional, and i think it is coming around. I just learned that the shoutbox was still being pulled from my server, and i am at work, and i cant change that from here, but it will be back later on. Still havent figured out the recent movies block. Kim Jenko pointed out that the high scores weren’t working, but those are fixed now, and if you see anything else buggy, let me know!

the keyboard layout that people use today is called “QWERTY” but it is not the most efficient layout that has been used, just the most popular. The Dvorak keyboard layout has many advantages over it, people see speed and accuracy increases, and less pain when using the keyboard. This isn’t a new idea though, it is acutally quite an old layout, but people didn’t want to learn something new, and manufactures couldn’t profit from something they couldn’t sell. So why don’t we use the Dvorak layout? I don’t know. It is similar situation to the Metric vs. English measurement system. We are just too lazy too make the switch. You can read more about the Dvorak layout here.

alrighty, i bought www.sixf00t4.com and www.JoshuaDHall.com so you can take your pick on which one to remember. sixf00t4.ath.cx will still work, it will just point you to sixf00t4.com

and with the new names, my friend SiliconJunkie was nice enough to host the site. His business is Metro-Host.com, be sure to recommend him to anyone, as I do.

With the new site, come some obstacles though… for the moment, the gallery can’t accept .gif images. and the latest movies block isn’t working, and the weather block isn’t displaying, but it still works if you click on weather on the menu to the left.

[yawn] my oh my, this weekend was full of exitement! I am so tired, and i slept so much today. so let’s see, Saturday i woke up about 12, went to the mall to get some shopping done, then i drove Keren and Deirdre around for their Christmas dance pregame events:) Deirdre took a kid that she went to 1st grade with, and has just recently met again, and Keren took a new found friend from school. Keren’s date was a pretty quiet and reserved guy, but he was alright. Deirdre’s date was a little more upbeat and with a moptop that Rooney would be jealous of. After driving them around for a bit, the rest of us played some Scene it? at home, pretty interesting game. then it was off to bed before Church on Sunday where Keren, Chris, and Deirdre did did a song together, it was pretty good. Then we openned presents, and ate some dinner, and my mom, Chris, and I went to see Deirdre in her chorus/choir/youth group thing. Saw some blasts from the past there. And that was pretty much my weekend. Now i am back at work all this week except Thursday.

Jeff, my boss, emailed me and said that Dec. 29th, we are putting an ad in the Senior Coalition’s magazine, which has a subscriber base of 520,000. So there should definitely be a call volume for me New Year’s Eve. Joy 🙁 but atleast we are getting some customers and I will be making some money.

I probably won’t be able to afford to keep the car in a few months. so back to the public transportation system for me. That was a luxury though, I should be able to manage with out it.

10. Faith No More
9. The Clash
8. Sound Garden
7. The Cardigans
6. Nirvana
5. Smashing Pumpkins
4. The Police
3. Presidents of the United States of America
2. Rage Against the Machine
1. Soul Coughing

This are pretty much in order. Ofcourse this is my opinion, please do not persecute me for not including led zepplin or the beatles, or Sublime.

I want to do stand up comedy. Like at an open mic night somewhere. just to do it, i probably wouldnt be too funny, but i would want to do it just to see how i would do.