my experience - 9/11 first responders benefit
my experience - 9/11 First Responders Benefit

I had the pleasure of going to New York City with my brother and father on Sunday to a benefit to support 9/11 First Responders (emergency response & rubble clean up teams). It turns out that many of the first responders are now terribly sick and dying from various respiratory problems (dust, asbestos, and more). To add insult to injury, Mayor Bloomberg is failing to assist those in need of workmen’s compensation. This is unacceptable especially since Christine Todd Whitman, the then Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency and former governor of NJ, declared on 9/18/2001 that the air was safe to breathe.
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Music Video Debut
I’ve made my Chinese Ping Pong Music Video debut. With footage spanning 2 years, my friend Ken painstakingly put together this extraordinary ping pong video complete with slow motion and custom animations!!!
Note: I am actually in this video… I understand that you may be frightened by hearing foreign languages. I appear within the first 1-2 minutes.
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Oh man I can’t believe how funny these sketch comedies are!!
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Printing PDFs from the Command Line
I’ve been struggling for a while to get PDFs to print correctly using Adobe Reader from the command line, so here’s how to do it from a batch file:
:: This is a DOS-Style path to the AcroRd32.exe, in this case Adobe Reader 7.0
SET PATHTOADOBE=C:\PROGRA~1\ADOBE\ACROBA~2.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe
:: This adds /h to tell Adobe Reader to minimize, and /p tells it to print the document to the default printer and close right after.
SET PRINTCMD=C:\PROGRA~1\ADOBE\ACROBA~2.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe /h /p
:: This will first launch Adobe Reader in a new process. NOTE: whatever directory you are in at this point,
:: Adobe Reader will only look for files here unless you supply full path file names.
call start /MIN %PATHTOADOBE% /h
:: ...
:: do stuff...
:: ...
:: Here is the actual call to print the PDF. Because Adobe Reader is already launched in its own process, the batch file will continue executing immediately after the command is invoked.
%PRINTCMD% "C:\myDocument.pdf"
:: Batch file will continue executing other commands
What Have I Been Watching?
Yeah I have a lot to say. I went to Japan and half my pictures got corrupted on my camera. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Dodgeball, other stuff. Really don’t feel like writing.
Here’s what I’ve rented since “Kamikaze Girls”. There are a lot of hidden gems here. I’m marking off my favorites with a pound sign. If it wasn’t my first time seeing it, I marked it with $.
Part 4
Love Liza, 2002 01/11/07
#Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, 2002 01/11/07
$The Cable Guy 01/11/07
Broken Flowers 01/11/07
Hellraiser 01/02/07
$Dumb and Dumber (Unrated) 01/02/07
#Secretary 12/14/06
The Virgin Suicides 11/28/06
Flightplan 11/21/06
#All the Real Girls 11/21/06
Johnny Dangerously 11/17/06
Better Off Dead 11/16/06
#Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny 11/10/06
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Hamlet 11/07/06
Carrie 11/03/06
#V for Vendetta 11/01/06
MADtv: Season 1: Disc 2 (6-Disc Series) 10/30/06
The Forgotten 10/24/06
MADtv: Season 1: Disc 1 (6-Disc Series) Series Disc 10/16/06
Whisper of the Heart 10/11/06
The Opposite of Sex 10/06/06
#$Addams Family Values 10/03/06
Kino’s Journey: Vol. 4: Not Without Reservations (4-Disc Series) 10/03/06
Kino’s Journey: Vol. 3: Warning! Curves Ahead (4-Disc Series) Series Disc 09/27/06
Kino’s Journey: Vol. 2: Emerging Lanes (4-Disc Series) Series Disc 09/27/06
#Corpse Bride 09/12/06
Steamboy 08/29/06
#Silent Hill 08/29/06
#$The Crow 08/24/06
House of Flying Daggers 08/21/06
Lost: Season 1: Disc 3 (7-Disc Series) 08/17/06
Ocean’s Twelve 08/15/06
Rambo: First Blood 08/10/06
Update from Phoenix
It takes two to tango; it only takes one to walk away.
It takes one to know one; but it takes two to play.
I’m writing to you in the comfort of my hotel room from Phoenix, Arizona. Its nice when you’re out for the day, and you come back to a made bed and replenished towels and soap. High speed internet access, a nice lounge chair, and high-speed internet. Yes, I could get used to “going away on business”.
The Lytec 007 VAR Summit is what brings me to Phoenix (actually held at the Hilton in Mesa). Its purpose is to bring resellers of Lytec, the Practice Management System for medical practices, together and demonstrate new product features and company goals. This year they have decided on a James Bond theme, because of the 007 in 2007.
All meals on thursday and friday (breakfast, lunch, dinner) are provided - very refreshing.
The summit will be over by Saturday at which point I’ll be going on an adventure to the Grand Canyon.
Its good to be a budding computer scientist and to be connected closely with physicians and practices - today alone I envisioned two possible software products (add-ons to what is already used) that could be quite beneficial and marketable to a range of customers. Whether I actually act upon those envisions and succeed later is anyone’s guess.
Palm trees all around.
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