Archive for July, 2009
5,000 edits later
Incredible the amount of time it takes to edit a video if you want to blur out a face on a head which is moving. Only a high end product like Premiere Pro can do it apparently. It’s harder when the part you want to blur starts halfway thru the video. From now on I am only going to video tape my face if it is stationary. Frankly, I did such a bad job that people who know me will be able to tell. This defeats the whole purpose but I dont have the patience to spend 12 more hours redoing it. I still havent heard anything about this job. In the meantime I am biding my time working on other things. Basically all of these things on my blog. It’s very inefficient and slow to be working on a laptop but at least the keyboard is a decent size. Not sure when my next post will be.
Historical Stock Market SQL Server 2005 Database
I have been working on getting my sql database uploaded and published with Amazon Web Services. They have finally come thru so I am going publish the link here in a post rather than taking up more real estate on this site. The stock database pretty much ties in with my other references to stock market indicators and documents on “Scribd.com” which I reference on the right sidebar of the blog. I extracted three tables from my gigantic sql database in order to create this subset database. I am still debating whether or not to continue working on my original plan to build an OLAP based financial application and to use my large database as the foundation for the OLAP cube. This was the basis for me building the olaptrader website. I guess it all depends on how things pan out for me in the coming months. It’s very difficult and inefficient to work on these types of projects without a proper office and broadband connection. This post is pretty much oriented to those people who have stumbled upon this blog due to the search engine spiders picking up the financial references here. Even though the post isnt quite in line with my usual musings, I think this is the best place to put this link. Historical Stock Market SQL Server 2005 Database
Exchanges and Symbols:
Amex – 567 symbols
Nasdaq – 5993 symbols
Nyse – 3127 symbols
Otcbb – 2121 symbols
Columns include: Ticker, Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, Sector, Industry, Company Name and Exchange.
There are 22 million rows in the main table. The historical data is from 1988-2008
All those moments will be lost in time…like tears in the rain
- Title quote is from the movie Bladerunner
Fly in Amber
I have spent almost the entire day in my car due to the dreary weather. As usual, I found a wireless connection to tap into and have been working on one of my projects in the Amazon Cloud building custom machine images (AMIs). I try not to drive my car very far or very hard since I need it to keep running but I don’t like to be sedentary. I figure that since I have so much time on my hands I should at least check out a few things that always interested me but didn’t have the time. For instance, a few weeks ago I drove down to Sayreville to look for this somewhat secret amber mine. I was always fascinated by the thought of seeing insects that had been trapped in a lump of amber tens of millions of years old. Incredible!!! I wasn’t able to find the exact spot but there was a rock shop on the way there in which I bought a nice, polished piece of amber with a couple of fly’s inside. Only cost about $5.00. Here is a good Wiki article on amber—HERE.
I took some photos of it afterward and they came out quite well. In the 2nd one I was able to capture the fly in good detail. I held the camera lens up to a small magnifying glass which I still have. You can see the same fly in the first photo towards the right side of the lump. There is also some prehistoric plant matter.
Will try to sleep now and not get rousted out of a slumber by some security guard.
I took some photos of it afterward and they came out quite well. In the 2nd one I was able to capture the fly in good detail. I held the camera lens up to a small magnifying glass which I still have. You can see the same fly in the first photo towards the right side of the lump. There is also some prehistoric plant matter.
Will try to sleep now and not get rousted out of a slumber by some security guard.
Forgot
I forgot mention that I would welcome any feedback regarding the layout of this blog. I haven’t created a blog before and don’t know if it is actually meant to be read in this order. In other words, newest to oldest, and from bottom to top. Unless someone were reading every post of mine; in order for them to get up to speed they would have to start several pages back and read each page from bottom to top and work their way back to the present. Is this normal?
Lazy
I haven’t been online too much in the past few days and frankly, haven’t been in the mood to do much. I may have an interview later in the week which is good. It would be my first one in a couple of months. I keep my suit in the trunk of the car so I will find someplace to shower and shave, put on the zoot suit, and try to wow (sp) them with my portfolio!
Needless to say I cannot mention this as one of my websites but, no matter. The resume and other sites and projects should help me. This could be false optimism because I had these same feelings prior to the other interviews and felt that I did very well on them. When they ask for what rate I am looking for I have been giving a figure somewhat lower than what I used to make. If I go too low I will appear desperate I think. Either that or they say to themselves, “gee, with his background, one would think he would ask for more money. Maybe he doesn’t think too much of himself”. Frankly, I just don’t know. Interviewers are notoriously inconsistent and often read too deeply into things. Some wont look at more than a one page resume. Others will think one page isn’t long enough. Well, we shall see this time. I will take some photos and maybe some video and give my observations after it is over. Oh, I am blogging from a Barnes & Noble tonight. —->HERE
Needless to say I cannot mention this as one of my websites but, no matter. The resume and other sites and projects should help me. This could be false optimism because I had these same feelings prior to the other interviews and felt that I did very well on them. When they ask for what rate I am looking for I have been giving a figure somewhat lower than what I used to make. If I go too low I will appear desperate I think. Either that or they say to themselves, “gee, with his background, one would think he would ask for more money. Maybe he doesn’t think too much of himself”. Frankly, I just don’t know. Interviewers are notoriously inconsistent and often read too deeply into things. Some wont look at more than a one page resume. Others will think one page isn’t long enough. Well, we shall see this time. I will take some photos and maybe some video and give my observations after it is over. Oh, I am blogging from a Barnes & Noble tonight. —->HERE
"Life" Painting
This is my favorite painting. The more you look at it the more symbolism you find. This is something you find less and less of as the years go by.
Link to first blog post
