Konstantin "Kisintin" Burlak Journal

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I am moving. Why I don't know. I've seen some of the people using blogspot. And I have decided to try them out. Almost no-one reads this anyway.

I feel like a ran a marathon, don't know why.

Hooray For Firemen!

It's easy to spot hometown heroes. We went grocery shopping. When we were returning a fire engine stood in the parking lot right by our car. I took my little one over to take a look at it. She likes fire tracks a lot, mostly of the red colors and shiny demeanor. A fireman was sitting in the car reading a book. When he a saw the little girl's eyes wide with wonder, he jumped down and showed her around. Even activated an automatic stair thing, which left yours truly to widen his eyes (i like shiny metal things a well, especially those that move). He didn't have to do it, and was clearly enjoying some free time. Just going out of his way to entertain a four-year-old for five minutes, deserves HUGE PROPS!

YAY, For GLENVIEW FIREMEN!

The Furniture Story.

This one is for the books. Three months ago we ordered furniture from a Russian store. They've promised about a month wait time, which was fine. A month has passed, they call us and tell us the set is on the backburner, and it come around in couple of week. We are waiting. In couple of weeks, which is already about 2 months, they call and tell us that the set has arrived, BUT they owned somebody the table, and it left before they even though about sending it to us, they've decided to remedy the situation by bringing us a temporary set. We've sold our old kitchen nook couple of weeks after the order, and put the patio furniture in the house.

So, they bring in the temp stuff. We are using it for two weeks, they are calling us telling the truck is on the way, and the set should be here soon. The truck delivers the wrong table! They apologize and overnight it again. I get a call on Friday, they say delivery scheduled for 11-2pm on Saturday, i was sleepy at that point and said ok. After i woke up i realized it's not a good time, called them a said: "NO WAY!" They say: "OK, 8 to 9 on Saturday", and i say: "FINE!" In about 15 minutes they are calling back, saying that they can't do it that early, because of the scheduling, and asking if they can do it in 30 minutes, and there's only one driver, so I gotta help him carry the table in. We have about 1 hour before we have to leave, but thankfully he makes it.

Batman

I saw Dark Night on Saturday. Very nice movie. Very entertaining, very dark, as any DC comic should be. Heath Ladger was awesome as the joker, but Dent's Two Face character could have been better developed. A bit on the long side too, i though it could have made it without fifteen minutes or so.

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Thank you to Random

And i've got nothing. Too busy.


Couple of days ago somebbody decided to hack my company's website. SQL Injection is a nasty little thing. I had to spend two days re-writing the code accessing stored procedures.

A big problem is that the stored procedure in question can not be found in the code. Sucks big time. I've addressed the problem by disabling the mother$%^&* and waiting to see who's going to scream that something's not working.

On a different matter, some infrustructure people installed a Fortinet on the DMZ, that disabled RSS Feed on the website and a webservice call. I spent a DAY trying to figure out what's wrong with the code, until I accidentely overheard them speaking about new proxy rules.

And it clicked all of sudden. Fortunately for them I was too tired to raise a ruckus, and just accepted that it was done. I was happy that it worked.

Sheesh.

Check this out, this is simply awesome.

Dr Horrible

Start with Act 1 of course.

Thank you very much to Shawn

I have to present two speeches today, and I am in the block.

Our writing profs tell us there's no such thing as a block, as long as you start doing something. Eventually, a thought or an idea will present itself, and you'll be able to explore it.

So here's the story.

Five scientists after patenting some NanoTech stuff decided to create a start-up. After convincing some VC's to invest, they created NanoGene. All of the founders decided to to go equal on the compensations, salary and equity alike.

Now, them being scientists they don't know much about business and how to run a start-up.
They have decided to hire a COO or VP of operations, who's helped them before. The nice lady got to negotiations with the CEO of the company, one of the founders, and asked for a reasonable compensation, as far as COO's go, BUT more than the founders get, plus an equal part of shares to the founders. The other founders started grumping about a none-founder getting a higher amount of comp.

Oh, What to do? What to do?

Thank you to Eric for this wonderfull article.

While I have always been stickler for details when it comes to movies and tv shows, driving my wife crazy by saying things like... this just couldn't have happened in "REAL LIFE".

Which reminded me of a story when we went to see the first Spider Man. As we were watching, me who always likes to follow timelines and stories of comic book heroes mentioned to her:

"This is not how it REALLY happened", which has resulted in her smirking for the rest of the movie, and reminding me about this every time i pull a "SPIDER MAN".

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Before the little one came to be, we have frequented the Ravinia music fest every other weekend or so. I have really enjoyed listen to the classical music, while having a picnic and a sip of wine on the lawn.

It has changed, the logistics with a baby are horrific.

Last weekend we've decided to try and go there. The experiment was a success, as far as going somewhere with a 4 year old and asking her to be quiet for 2 hours.

My personal enjoyment was less so, we went to see Lyle Lovitt, who I never listened to, but enjoyed the music that was posted on youtube. The lawn however was busy and loud, which as wife pointed out would be normal for a concert like that. Live music was not enjoyable, as I couldn't concentrate on listening to. Near us were two parties, where the women, as well as some men were balbbering non-stop and loudly.

I have decided not to correct them in any way, wasn't worth it.

Enjoy the music here.

As part of the pre-work assignment I have to choose a public speaker and discuss why I admire this person. I have never admired the speaking skills of most politicians. Out of the politicians on this century only in my opionion would qualify as great speakers, Franklin Roosevelt, with his "..We have nothing to fear, but fear itself..", and unofortunately Hitler and Lenin, for their ability to rise whole nations to do their dirty and evil work.

So I have decided to go to a fictional character, Darth Vader to be exact. Everybody listens when Darth speaks. After all, in my mind there's no difference between a good actor delivering a movie script monologue, or politicians doing the same with their speeches.

Then i realized that DV does not speak that much in the movies, and chose George Carlin, who I admire a lot. His style and delivery, his whole budy language, when he delivered a monologue made you listen to him.

Now all of sudden that I actually have a great speaker who I can talk about, Al Pacino, who I will forever admire as an actor. Every time he delivers a monologue, I can not turn away, everything is always delivered pitch perfect.

We'll see how it goes.

Took an IQ test here IQ TEST


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I scored 134 :) Man, why does it always have to be a competition for me :) Little Brother Complex? Uncle Freud would have a field day with me.

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My little girl knows the word America only as a part of a Rammstein song. Before the 4th of July, we have taken up a task of educating her about the U.S. and Independence Day and why it's important to us.

Unfortunately, after a rather long lecture, the answer to the simple question "So honey, where do we live?", my almost-4-year-old respnded "Home, silly!"

On the other hand we've spend a fully patriotic weekend, which I am ashamed to admin I've never done before. In the morning we went to see a local parade, which was quite impressive to a pair of kids, but hardly impressive to me, who is used to see ICBMs being pulled across Red Square in Moscow during the Victory Parade.

Later on had a full-blown American barbeque, with me discovering that zucchinis cooked on a grill are quite delicious.

At the end of the day we went to see our tax money being blown up in smoke, by a very impressive (on a scale of a local township) fireworks display.

Today is back into the grind, as I start school again, for the next 5 weeks.

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Мой ребенок выдал фразу пару дней назад:

"Папа, надо закрыть дверь чтоб мухарики (в голове моего ребёнка синтез мухи и комара) не залетели!"

Which Star Wars Character Are You?
	You are part C-3PO. You are dedicated to others and will do anything for them- even if you don't think they have the best plan. You contain a wealth of information and have a very serious nature. You would jump in front of a speeding truck if it meant protecting someone you cared about from harm. You can take the world a bit too literally, and should probably loosen up just a little! You are a great friend and people know that they can always trust you.
	You are part Luke Skywalker. You are adventurous and love to be where the action is. Your curiosity runs wild and you have to seek out the answers to all your questions or else you will not be at peace. People see you as a great leader, although you are uncomfortable with this because you don't see yourself the same way. You just believe in being honest and focusing on the good in the world. You are sweet and lovable and have many friends that would be lost without you.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

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create your own personalized map of the USA

The states that I have been are shown in red

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My golf career is at all time high...

At least playing Tiger Woods Golf 08. My personal all time high today as I finished playing a Invitational at The National Shootout. Finished with -21 under par, with 5 eagles and 11 birdies.

Tiger, EAT YOUR HEART OUT! :)

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Watch the video.

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