Ian Moffitt. Web Programmer.: Archive

In pursuit of a dream job

When I was first hired at Expedient Communications, I had a feeling of excitement, and uncertainty. I had absolutely no idea what I was in for, and I had relatively little experience in the corporate world. I had worked at United States Steel for about 3 months as an intern, but I hated that experience because I was literally given nothing to do except for bits and scraps of projects. I mostly ran...

May 28th

How to send a command to a screen on Unix

Hopefully the SEO magic of my title will help some other people searching for this. I spent the last day or two looking for a solution to send a command to a screen in unix. A screen is basically a backgrounded session that you can run programs in. It’s a shoddy explanation, so go google what it REALLY is. Anyway, a really simple way to send a command to a screen is this: First, create...

Mar 28th

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What was wrong with my car

This all started with my catalytic converter. I ended up getting that replaced for free, but there were numerous other things fixed. Here’s what they did: Something involving my brakes (it says “BRAKES F 8B R 3B TIRES 2/32”) Replaced the rear wheel cylinders Replaced both tie rod ends Replaced the front control arm bushings Multipoint inspection PA State Safety...

Dec 17th

My car can go kill itself.

 For the sake of my rage, Hyundai is run by somewhat-british people now.
Mechanic 1: Hello Nigel!
Nigel: Hello Jerry!
Jerry: What's the to-do today?
Nigel: I thought we'd spend some quality time designing that fantastic new car, the Hyundai Elantra. 2003 edition, of course.
Jerry: Splendid idea, chap!
Nigel: Indeed.
Jerry: Hmm.
Nigel: Yes.
Jerry: Indeed.
Nigel: Quite.
Jerry: Yes.
Jerry: Where shall we begin?
Nigel: I had an idea.
Jerry: Oh?
Nigel: Concerning the location of...
Jerry: Go on!
Nigel: The headlight sockets.
Jerry: Ooh, and where shall they go?
Nigel: BEHIND FUCKING EVERYTHING!!! HAHAHAHAHA
Jerry: But then nobody will be able to install the headlights in an easy manner, especially Ian Moffitt!
Nigel: IAN MOFFITT CAN EAT MY SHIT.

Nov 10th

Never pay student loans early.

So, last Thursday, I decided that with my paycheck, I would be a good little borrower and pay my student loans early this month. NOPE. According to the ancient machinery that runs my lender, they don’t bill your bank account automatically because your bill is due. They do it because the calendar says so. On the lighter side of things, I will pay off my loans a month earlier than...

Sep 13th

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I hate cake competition shows.

I’ve come to the conclusion that I hate all the shows on the food network that follow this formula: 1. Three head bakers from three bakeries around the country. 2. Two judges that are the best in their “cake field”, sometimes a third judge, and the client. 3. They have 6 - 9 hours to make one cake themed a certain way. I think this formula is BULLSHIT. I highly doubt that...

Sep 10th

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I have four words for you.

Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers.* * I love this company YEAAAAAAAAAAH

Sep 9th

The Mac Lab Podcast Prayer

Our Dave, who art in podcast, hallowed be thy intro. Thy edits done, exporting one, to osx from garageband. give us this day our usual sound clips, and forgive us of swear words, as we are not marked explicit in iTunes. And lead us not beyond one hour, but give us some topics, for thine is the itunes store, and the website, and the subscribe link forever. Steve has friends.

Sep 7th

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Anyone else uninterested in owning their own...

I see more and more on Forrst all these youngins that start up companies while still in middle school, and people who quit their jobs to work from their bedroom. I love the web, but I’ve honestly never been interested in doing any sort of freelance or independent work whatsoever. I’ve only ever done web projects or work while being employed by someone, and have every intention of...

Aug 18th

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I give up.

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to design myself a decent looking blog. So, I’ve decided to do a couple things. 1. Redirect the home page of nessthehero.com to my Tumblr blog. 2. Completely eradicate my wordpress. 3. Use the theme I have set up right now, but modify it to my liking. I plan on writing some neat code tidbits to spiff up my pages and show off my programming...

Aug 18th

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Aug 3rd

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“I will have the police take you to jail if you don’t get over here right...”

– (overheard) A woman to her infant child

Aug 3rd

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“I like to tell myself lies.”

– Steve Ventura

Jul 30th

tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Jul 27th

Watch

boagworld: Why I have moved from Posterous to Tumblr Paul Boag recently moved from Posterous to Tumblr. This made me consider whether posterous was really worth it. Recently, they’ve started this sort-of “egotistical” campaign where they take a blogging service and compare 2 features they share and 3 features they have that the others don’t. To me, it seems...

Jul 27th

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Tumblr

Today I made a tumblr blog. Seeing how it compares to Posterous in terms of posting everywhere else.

Oct 29th