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JMKelvin
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Name: Ben
Birthday: 9/19/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Jesus Christ, science fiction, music, video games
Expertise: Computer related junk. Currently I am learning software engineering and network administration and I work in Information Technology.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Computers (Software)
Message: message me
AIM:  JMKelvin
MSN: benjaminpkelley@hotmail.com
Member Since:
1/27/2005
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| Hmm , I never post on this thing anymore, do I?
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| Well, I'm currently unemployed. My internship was done last week
and my IT job doesn't resume until next Wednesday. IT did have a
spot open for random extra help, but sombody else took it.
Bastard. Now maybe I'll finally get to read the new Harry Potter
book...
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| I want to play a LOT of Ultimate (aka Ultimate Frisbee) this
coming schoolyear. Several reasons: 1) It's fun 2) It's a
good workout 3) It's not baseball, basketball, soccer, or all of
those other overplayed sports (no offense to anyone who likes
them) and 4) I'm now obsessed with it. The guys at work
play during lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays, regardless of the weather
(or sprinklers... we play right through 'em). I've been playing
too the last few weeks, and though they still kick my ass, I'm getting
better.
Also, if we had enough people who were feeling ambitious enough, there
are other competetive college teams in the area. Ones I know
about include Linfield, Reed, OSU, and U of O. Most of them are
probably out of our league (U of O played in the Ultimate College
Championships last year), but, honsestly, who can resist the chance to
thrash on Linfield?
PS: I've wanted to do this for the last two years, but sometime, we
REALLY need to go paintballing. I know for a fact there are MANY
people on campus who have in the past or still do play and would like
to come... but this would require coordination, for which I am not well
renowned.
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| Annoying Thing About Where I Work #317 :
The bathroom is really, really, REALLY quiet. There's no fan or
anything. You could literally hear a pin drop.
Unfortunately, it's not usually PINS that are doing the dropping in
this bathroom, especially since it's the only bathroom on the floor,
and there's 80 people on the floor, and it's a high-tech company so
most of them are men, and they generelly don't eat very healthy food
(I'm almost tempted to use the Ladies room sometimes... I mean,
seriously, it never gets used!). Everyone who happens to be in
there with you can hear EVERYTHING you do, every sound you make.
So you end up trying to poop silently (like a stealthy ninja :D ),
which, needless to say, does not work too well.
What ends up happening is that I sit in my cubicle and "camp" the
bathroom, calculating my entry perfectly so that I know nobody else
will be there. See, when the door is pulled open it makes this
obnoxious clicking noise (Annoying Thing #170), so I know when someone
has gone in. Then if I wait five minutes and make a dash for it,
I'm usually alright. Until the next time, of course...
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| Hmm, I guess I haven't updated in a while, have I? Well, here goes.
I'm currently working an internship at Synopsys, which is a super
hi-tech firm in Hillsboro. It's the biggest company in its
industry (its sales are over $1 billion per year). Basically they
design software that helps silicon manufacturing companies (such as
AMD, ATI, Texas Instruments, etc) design their chips faster, which
translates to more profits.
But what I do isn't really much related to that. Basically I'm
helping test the advanced functions of Serial ATA hard drives in order
to eventually implement Serial ATA device drivers for the Linux
operating system.... I think.... Actually, half the time I don't really
know what I'm doing. I get a task to do, I learn how to do it
(since I've usually never even heard of it), and ... do it! For
example, in the first week I was there, I learned C. That's
it. My boss told me "Write this program in C." I had never
written a line of C code in my life, but I learned it and wrote it, and
it worked quite well.
Umm, what else have I been doing? Not a whole lot, really.
The job is in Hillsboro, which is a 40 (or more) minute drive each
way. So by the time I get home and eat dinner, it's already 7
PM. This, plus the fact that I have to go to bed by 11 (I
reeeeeealy need 8 or more hours of sleep, since I have to use my brain
for 8 hours each day), PLUS the fact that very few of my chums are in
town (most of my GFU chums have gone home, and most of my Newberg chums
are still away at school... stupid state schools) make evenings during
the week pretty much suck. Typically I play video games until
going to bed. Yes, I know, it's lame, but who flippin' cares;
it's the summer, I'm SUPPOSED to be lame.
Sometimes on weekends I go places. I visited my friend at OSU a
couple weeks ago, and I've also visited Ramie and Lisa and Adam at
their current residences in Gresham. Umm, aside from that, my
life is pretty freaking uneventful right now. I'm settling into
the grind of work. The novelty has worn off and it is quickly
losing it's luster. Crap.
Oh yeah, and on top of that, I was a moron and committed to helping a
graduate student at GFU complete a psychology testing program using
Macromedia Authorware 7 (there's a post about it somewhere down
below...). I really, really, REALLY don't want to do that damn
project. Why, oh WHY did I sign up for this? *sigh*....
more later. For now, I'm flippin' tired.
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