Notes from Jeff Running

Song Lyrics

While I'm working on a database this morning I'm listening to a few random CDs from my basement. I just came across what has to be one of my favorite rap lines.

"You make me sick, like strawberry Quik"

From House of Pain
Shamrocks and Shenanigans

New hiking boots

I'm breaking in a new pair of hiking boots for my trip to Costa Rica. It's actually really nice to have shoes that have padding. My current main pairs of sneakers are old ones that I've had since the beginning of college. One of them is actually a pair of my brother’s old shoes.

My new comfortable shoes:

E-mail virus

So, it looks like there's a new virus going around the internet. The most surprising thing is that the RunningInk.com team is on top of it. Wait a minute, I'm the team. Have I been replaced?

Email text of virus found below. It's actually set-up very well. Except for the infected attachment.

Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Dear user of e-mail server "Runningink.com",

Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days,
to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free
auto-forwarding service.

Please, read the attach for further details.

Best wishes,
The Runningink.com team http://www.runningink.com


Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="first_part.pif"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="first_part.pif"

Update - Air Miles for Magazines

So last night I ended up deciding to trade in my miles for a selection of magazines. We ended up selecting six magazines. So, in 6-8 weeks I should begin receiving TV Guide, Time, Smart Money, Maxim, Wired, and Organic Living. Reading all of these should take up any free time I was planning to have during the next year. So, even if you only fly an airline once, it appears that there is a value to signing up for their mileage card. Thanks, Delta.

Doodle #12

Doodle twelve elicits a kind of ink blot type feel. It must say something important about my psyche.

Car Mileage

The other day my car finally made it to 123456 miles. It's one of those odd numbers that doesn't really mean anything but seems like it should. I wonder how many miles my Saturn will make before I trade it in?

Doodle #11

Here's doodle number eleven:

Net Worth update

My net worth after exactly 90 days of playing is $8,955,662.24.

As always, keep in mind that this is a stock game and has no reflection on real life.

Air Miles for Magazines

I have about 6,500 Delta airlines miles that it looks like I may never use. Yesterday, I received an offer to trade them in for magazine subscriptions. Has anyone ever done this? Is this usually a good deal?

From poking around on the web I've found that each mile is worth about 1.5 cents, or so. The trade in value for the magazines varies from 400 - 3,200 points for a yearly subscription. Some of the selections are Maxim, TV Guide, Smart Money, Cigar Aficionado, and Wired.

Happy Birthday Brett

Happy Birthday Brett. In case you've forgotten you're 22 today. Unfortunately, this means that I'm 26.

Doodle #10

Even though this doodle seems to lack content I feel that it means something.

Here's doodle number ten:

Net Worth Update

My net worth at this moment is $7,420,670.69. Here's a graph of my net worth after two months and three weeks.

I'm well past my goal of 6 million by May 9th. I might have to revisit my current goals. Here's a quick chart of my current progress.

As always, keep in mind that this is a stock game and has no reflection on real life.

Doodle #9

Here's doodle number nine:

Doodle #8

Here's doodle number eight. This one isn't too complex.

Cube moves

Facilities is currently resizing and moving cube walls. I have this sneaking suspicion that they are actually trying to box us in so that we can't leave.

Doodle #7

And now for week number three of doodles.

Here's number seven (a landscape):