Daniel Tharp

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Dreamweaving Again

So the good news is I’ve gone longer without posting on here, but that’s like saying midget murder is more condonable because they’re about half a life. I’ve started on a new web project, and with the number of features I want to build out it stands to be my most ambitious project yet, and [...]

On The Love And Loss Of Friends

The holiday season is a trying time for most of us, for a whole variety of reasons. This year, many former coworkers of mine and friends had to deal with the suicide of Jon Vance, a guy that was as intelligent as he was sociable, and one who I never would have thought was capable [...]

PHP Lessons to my 16-year old self.

Over the past five days I’ve turned a sketch for a Basenotes March Madness site into a real, working application, and did it with efficiency, normalization and security in mind. Web design was something I started messing with when I was about 10 or 11 years old, with a little 64-page book that actually gave [...]

Chanel Platinum Egoiste – The Prophet Biggie Smalls

How does an early 90s aromatic fougère get street cred? “…easy, call em on the phone and Platinum Chanel cologne and I stay, dressed, to impress…” -Notorious B.I.G., Nasty Girl I’m fairly sure Platinum Egoiste is the only bottle in my collection that has been rapped about, but smelling it, it’s hard not to see [...]

Remembering August

Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated. This month has been the best, busiest and most life-changing month I’ve ever experienced. Let me bring you up to speed. Back in early August, Diana and I moved in together, which involved moving out of our respective cities and into a new town. We knew where we [...]

I thought I was following @BestBuyPaducah

Alright, I need to address this if I’m going to be posting on that particular Twitter account again. If you’re receiving this blog post via Facebook you’re more than welcome to ignore it. So from August last year to January this year you’ve been reading the Twitter feed from BestBuyPaducah, which has been my endeavor [...]

The Prophet Ice Cube

Today was a good day. Okay no that’s all I’ve got in relation to Ice Cube. Today just went about as well as I could ever hope for a day to go. Woke up with no pain or stiffness in my ankle, got out of bed refreshed and sat in front of the new 32″ [...]

I want a stamp.

We make stamps at work, I want one that says “I ASKED A STUPID QUESTION” in angry red letters.  And when someone…asks a stupid question, I will smash the stamp down on their stupid head.  And send them on their way slightly wiser for the experience.

The World of Badly Named OD Products, Vol. I

So I’m in lockup this morning getting some tasks taken care of. I stumble across the item you see to your left. It is a real item, I am not clever enough to make stuff like this up. Enter the i.Beat emo, a device that I assume is an MP3 player for people I loathe. [...]

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    I am comfortable enough in my masculinity to own some 50-odd bottles of cologne, and review them when the urge overcomes me. I am the first line of tech support for many small businesses in the Albuquerque region and do web development in PHP/MySQL.
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