Author: Jordan

Earlier today I got a message from Nate on Virb asking if I was interested in a job opening they had, and even though I love Virb with all my heart, I am just not as experienced as they require and even though I love moving around, I don’t think I could handle relocating to Massachusetts.

Anyway, he gave me permission to go ahead and let qualified people know about this opportunity, so I figured I’d post it up here since I know a few people stalk my comments I love it other tech-savvy sites.

Virb Inc is a growing Boston based company that owns/runs and maintains several high-traffic internet properties. We are in search of a full-time linux system administrator.

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I finally saw Little Miss Sunshine last night and I’ve never loved a movie so much before.

When one of my contacts has this perpetual blurry spot that just won’t go away no matter how many times you squinch your eyelid, yawn to create tears, or blink to move it around. Yes, that’s right–I’m far too lazy to take out the contact to wash it. Though I have a feeling that this one has a “death is imminent” label stamped on it.

You see, I have this habit of wearing my contacts 24/7. I apparently don’t believe it taking them out before bed. My main thing is due to the fact that I hate waking up blind. My eyesight is currently a -5.00 (in both eyes.) This means that I cannot see far (nearsighted.) I even might have a slight astigmatism since both of my parents have this “problem.” Trust me, poor eyesight is prominent with both family genes. Literally every family member I have either wears glasses or contacts. I have a feeling that I might even get cataracts when I’m older.

I say that because my paternal grandma is starting to develop cataracts, and my maternal grandmother has already had this, as well as her sister (my great-aunt.)

April 2nd is going to be the first Ophthalmologist visit I’ve had since probably either 2003 or 2004. I’m not counting the time last year where I had to go because of pink eye. I have my eye on some new glasses, since I broke my pair last year when I had to wear them because of pink eye (and the fact that because of pink eye, I tossed out the ONLY pair of contacts I had. I’d have bought more but because places online require a doctor to approve of it against your prescription, I was more or less screwed.)

But these glasses. They’re cute. But they make me look like even more of a nerd. Sweet.

I know I didn’t until I had read an op about it online, and decided to go ahead and watch the video for it. I knew that such keys existed for cars, as I remember someone telling me this about a year ago. He had mentioned that you can actually go on ebay, and buy a “universal” key that would work with any car. Reason is that the shape of it doesn’t contain any of the edges that are usually unique to keylocks. I think this was brought up because the mechanic had a set of keys like this, and had used one on his car since he didn’t leave the mechanic his personal set of keys.

So it never really occurred to me that you can obtain these for houses. So anyway, I was watching the video for it over at Brickhouse Security and it’s honestly weird to think that if I wanted to get into any house I wanted, whether it be as a “hobby” (you’ll get that if you watch the video) or to break into the house. Hell, what’s to stop someone at houses? Why not a store?

Anyway, right now my house currently uses a keypad for our front door. I’ve been using one since I was about nine years old because I would constantly leave my house keys at school, or at home which obviously would be a problem for when I got home. After my parents moved out of their old house about a year ago, they still decided to keep it and even took it out of the old door, and replaced it with the standard deadbolt (the mechanism works with the deadbolt to unlock the door as opposed to a doorknob. We have the doorknob glued so that it doesn’t get locked on accident, which would screw us over.) So almost 11 years later and I still don’t rely on a house key. I had a key for our patio since I moved back home, but I ended up losing it along with my Aqua Teen Hunger Force lanyard (which I had for almost 4 years!) and now I resort to using the deadbolt.

But hello, I’d rather spend $200 and get a Biometric Door lock or a “Bump Proof Lock“, because it’s all about feeling super high-tech. Another reason why I bought a fingerprint reader from Microsoft for passwords.. Because I feel like James Bond. But on a more serious note, I’m definitely going to see what my friend Amy thinks about this. I know her house has been broken into a few times years back, and this might help out somewhat, though honestly in her case, it was more so their windows being broken as you can easily get into them since the house is just one story.

Even though this is a sponsored post, feel free to share your thoughts on it, I’m honestly interested to see what other people have to say.