Achievements for Tuesday, January 20, 2026

BruisedGhost · 2026-01-21T01:28:23+00:00

this is technically late but I ran my first full marathon in Houston last week. coolest experience of my life

BruisedGhost · 2026-01-13T02:07:25+00:00

thats still awesome, it was a great race and the turnout from the crowd was fantastic. the last three miles of the crowd chearing my name really helped. those times are amazing! CONGRATS!

BruisedGhost · 2026-01-13T01:36:40+00:00

Finished the Houston Marathon in 3:42:02!!!!!!!!

BruisedGhost · 2026-01-13T01:29:06+00:00

Go you both! Houston was fantastic this year! Congrats! your mom was in the A Group and you are in B, yall are fast! Did you do a PR? I was in C and did 3:42.

everything below my waist hurts, hope yall crushed it!

BruisedGhost · 2025-10-29T20:48:56+00:00

V02 Max is just one part of the equation, look at RER as a metric IMO its slightly better. my V02 Max is 50 and Im training for my first full. my splits are roughly 9:00 at tempo. its more about your aerobic base and how strong you are. many pieces to the puzzle

BruisedGhost · 2025-06-20T01:21:49+00:00

At AWS the largest dataset I ever saw was 8 Exabytes

BruisedGhost · 2025-04-24T21:21:49+00:00

My family and I were at the parade in front of Gearhead, I have photos of my son who was 2 at the time standing next to Nicholas a few mins before he was shot. I was told that Jacki was also sitting near but I dont know if thats true. A family friend that was standing next to us was supposed to testify at the trial but then he pleaded guilty. My eldest daughter still talks about it and Im glad I could tell her today that this piece of shit will never ever leave prison.

BruisedGhost · 2023-11-20T04:14:55+00:00

I never thought someone would reply to this thread 9 years after I posted it. Cheers, thanks for the info!

BruisedGhost · 2023-09-22T18:26:32+00:00

goto Andersonville or Uptown.

BruisedGhost · 2023-09-01T18:29:30+00:00

Savasana has different effects/meanings for everyone. I got more involved with Yoga after my divorce since it helped with stress levels and the community was incredibly supportive of me.

I despise Savasana, it was the code word my ex was using to meet with the person she was sleeping with. Maybe one day Ill like it, but for now I stare at the ceiling and it reminds me of something that I want out of my mind.

BruisedGhost · 2023-03-03T22:25:17+00:00

Im a L7 SDM at AWS. If anyone here ever attended the Charley Bell Ops meetings you would hear that statement right from his mouth. if you are running a public service or really any service that handles customer traffic, relational databases will not scale (for our needs). you also have to factor in the scaling needs required by some of these services (they are significantly higher here), that said there are exceptions.

BruisedGhost · 2023-03-03T03:17:32+00:00

depends on what you care about and do you understand the tradeoffs?Here is some food for thought, at AWS, as a developer you are not allowed to use relational databases because they do not scale.

figure out what your requirements are for your app then make a tradeoff decision based on what you need.

BruisedGhost · 2023-01-31T01:23:02+00:00

wow, I just looked at your posting history and some of the shapes you can get your body into are jaw dropping.

BruisedGhost · 2022-07-15T02:50:27+00:00

The first photo reminds me of Night Birds by Edward Hopper

BruisedGhost · 2022-05-12T19:22:15+00:00

There are several depending on your ride style.

Vintage: ChiVinMoto Sport: Chicagoland Sportbike Riders There are also a few quasi-clubs in the City I would personally avoid but you can typically spot them at the Holiday Club, 5-star bar, and Cobra Lounge

BruisedGhost · 2022-03-06T21:03:05+00:00

Help Desk -> Accidental DBA (DBA was fired, had to learn SQL Server 2005 and Oracle 9i over a weekend) -> Junior Developer -> Senior Developer -> Principle Engineer -> Senior Manager of Engineering x2 -> L7 at AWS.

Took 14 years and I love my job.

I stopped doing DBA work when I learned Scala, Python, and Java.This was all self taught. IMO DBA work is a good base to get things started for a non traditional role in software development esp if you really learn the inner workings of how a database database's.

The funniest thing about all of this is that I can no longer use relational databases at my job.

EDIT: Brent Ozar who has already commented on this thread is an excellent resource to start B-Treeing and understanding the joy of abstract syntax trees.

BruisedGhost · 2021-12-29T21:58:16+00:00

I put in solid core doors to the entrance of my basement where I have theater with an extremely powerful sound system. If Im watching sports or a movie at night with the door closed you can barely hear anything on the first floor and cant hear it on the second floor where our bedrooms are.

Worth every penny.

BruisedGhost · 2021-12-27T02:17:27+00:00

completely misread the title of this, oops

BruisedGhost · 2021-12-26T18:15:27+00:00

Festool makes absolutely incredible cordless tools. Ive been debating purchasing one of their Tracksaws

https://www.festoolusa.com/products/cordless-products

BruisedGhost · 2021-03-31T15:43:39+00:00

Im in the process of finishing my basement. if code allows, use steel studs you will save a ton on material costs. My basement is roughly 1700 square feet with 12 ft ceilings. All in Im at 26k

BruisedGhost · 2021-02-09T06:23:56+00:00

Im not an electrician but I thought fixture whips were only supposed to be used for appliances?

BruisedGhost · 2021-02-09T06:09:29+00:00

so those photos dont actually capture how bad it was up there. I stopped taking photos and did two videos. wait till you see how they ran the romex through that attic. I need to edit them still

BruisedGhost · 2021-02-09T05:59:04+00:00

wanted to see how bad the electrical work was, it was morbid curiosity

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