| fuck! |
[Dec. 12th, 2008|12:28 am] |
| I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a Junky Whore |
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| Economic Bailout |
[Nov. 19th, 2008|04:18 pm] |
I'm generally an optimist, but my mom keeps asking if I am going to loose my job.
Things are going to be okay, stuff just goes up and down. I started consulting in 2000 and my industry took a nose dive in 2001.
I still feel okay about the future, and so should you. Things will go on, the world won't end, you don't have to learn hobo-signs (although I suspect a few of you would like that).
Here is a chart where I predict the future:
look at that. everything is pointing up at the end! except the music industry because they are generally bone-heads. |
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| Here's some pictures. |
[Nov. 14th, 2008|06:49 pm] |
I'm too lazy to write. so here are some pictures from this week:
Chillin with Puccini:
New Haircut today, I think this sweater is too small:
Almost broke my neck:
Gillian summoning her power animal:
Tonight I'm going to Providence to hang with Max, Mark, and Ed. Tomorrow: working? |
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| Eating right |
[Sep. 29th, 2008|02:16 am] |
Consumed today
- Cavendish Banana X 2
- Tap water - appx 60oz
- Stout Beer x 1
- Blonde Ale x 1
- India Pale Ale x 2
is this healthy? On one hand - it is a dramatic increase in the number of bananas eaten per usual day (0 x being typical). On the other hand - maybe bananas and beer is not a good long term strategy. |
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| couric |
[Sep. 26th, 2008|07:45 pm] |
I never thought I would be having so much fun watching Katie Couric interviews.
This clip is stunning, way worse than any of the others I have seen:
Ahhh Wolf, trying to remain so objective. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 26th, 2008|01:33 pm] |
Enjoy the rain, suckers! I'm at the beach...
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| American Airlines - I hate/love you |
[Aug. 26th, 2008|03:41 am] |
American Airline Weekend Round trip deals:
LA: $132
Miami: $142
San Francisco: $142
tempting.
Someone get on this.
rules:
- Depart 7:00 p.m. or later, Friday, September 5, 2008, or anytime Saturday, September 6, 2008.
- Return anytime the following Monday, September 8, 2008, or Tuesday, September 9, 2008.
- Tickets must be purchased by this Friday, August 29, 2008, 11:59 p.m. (CT). |
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| Mixed bag of a day |
[Jun. 1st, 2008|02:17 am] |
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I got a haircut this morning. Possibly the worst I have ever had. That's not true, but I wasn't happy with it at all. My usual guy is gone for a week and I needed one this weekend. Luckly it was more how he styled it that made it look bad than how it was cut.
 
I worked for a bit then met up with Gillian and my family for dinner at Pho Republique. That place is always so awesome. Afterwards, Gillian and I went to Finale for some tasty desert.
I came home just now to find my door unlocked, my lights on, and my windows open. It appears that someone took the liberty to come in and take some things from my apartment.
Here is what was taken:
- something from my bathroom closet, I can't tell what but I can just tell that something is missing. Maybe asprin or toilet paper, I guess I'll figure it out when I need it.
- One leather jacket. I never wear it, but have always been meaning to break it in
- Some button down shirts from my closet, I don't know what ones
- 3 large jars of coins. They took the coins but left the jars. I need to do laundry tomorrow and now I don't have any quarters
- One broken iBook laptop. I have two broken iBooks and they only took one. I guess that is all the broken laptop you need.
- I think I bottle of wine, but I don't know for sure.
I called gillian and had a good laugh about this silly random list of things and generally feeling pretty upbeat about the whole situation - after all they didn't take my wii, xbox, nintendo ds, television, stereo, or lcd monitor. My demeanor soured when Gill reminded me of what I brought home from the office the other day that was sitting on my coffee table this morning:- Nikon d80
- Nikon SB-800 Flash
- NIKKOR 60mm f/2.8D Lens
- NIKKOR 16-85 f/3.5 VR Lens
This really ruined my night. The above items cost somewhere around $3,000 and were all bought in the last month. We had just bought the d80 because one we had previously was stolen from a van in NJ towards the end of last year.
I think insurance will cover most of it but I am really sad because I am leaving for NYC on Monday and was hoping to do some photography while I was there. I've been trying to shoot a roll of film (virtual film as it may be) every day. I didn't take it with me this morning because I was running late for my haircut and had to ride my bike.
I almost left my new Macbook Pro on my counter when I was running late but went back for it at the last minute. I'm thanking my stars for that because that has projects I am currently working on which can't be replaced with anything less than sweat and staying up late.
I am leaving for New York on Monday. We sublet an apartment on the east side below canal for the month of June.
I think our schedules for being in the city look like this:
6/2 - 6/11 - Tea
6/2 - 6/4 - Gillian
6/13 - 6/16 - Tea & Gillian - Renegade Craft Fair, Brooklyn
6/20 - 6/22 - Tea
6/23 - 6/30 - Gillian
This will probably change, but if you live in NYC, lets hang out.
In July we are doing the Renegade Craft Fair in San Fransisco. We are looking into renting an apartment or something for that too but haven't nailed down anything yet.
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| Evolution of Security |
[Feb. 8th, 2008|11:56 am] |
I gotta say. I am very skeptical whenever a company, disliked organization, or government agency creates a blog in an attempt to connect to and appease the public... but the TSA did it, and they did it right.
Their blog; Evolution of Security is well written, articulate, and very level headed. They do a great job of reading comments, and politely explaining their positions on screen procedures and issues.
I don't agree with them on every issue, but it is pretty nice to see that actual intelligent people are putting thoughts into the issues and generally trying to do what is best.
I wish every elected official and government agency had a blog that was as open as this. Like when your senator is going to vote for some crazy ass bill and they have to openly defend themselves or get buried under a sea of negative blog comments. |
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| 2008 eh? |
[Jan. 4th, 2008|04:34 pm] |
Assorted List:
- The older I get, the end of the year just makes me think of year end accounting and all the work I didn't get done all year.
- Christmas with the family was nice as usual. I got a cordless drill, a coffee maker, and a dartboard -- all of which are already improving my life greatly.
- I'm thinking about taking a vacation this year. Is it bad that my list of possible vacations includes technology conferences?
- This is my first full winter (since I was 16) where I don't own a car. My zip car bill last month was redik-ulous. I'm hoping I can get by walking in the cold more.
- I rode my bike 10 miles on NYE, that was pretty awesome.
- I'm trying to write at least once a week on another blog Wire Lust. So far it has just been pithy comments about things I pull my hair out over, but wordpress lets you save drafts so I have some longer articles in the works that I think are going to be pretty good. If anyone cares for high level geek crap (and it's okay if no one does), subscribe to the rss feed or something.
- Top technology things I'm working with and excited about:
- Top technology things I hope I will do less of this year:
- RedDot CMS
- ASP Classic
- Anything .NET (maybe an exception of silverlight)
- Ruby on Rails
- FoxPro (this one is definite, forever)
- Short Term Goals:
- Hang Doors on Offices
- Get Drapes on Windows
- Find and buy awesome carpet
- Build walls around server
- Finish Mame coffee-table
- Hang up artwork or something to make apartment non-boring
- Have party
- Here is an awesome picture of me bowling last week:
I think I am going to try to bowl more.
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| tech update |
[Oct. 17th, 2007|03:17 pm] |
looking for something in my office yesterday yielded 11 cards on my desk that were not in any computers. this is probably not good.
My order from Ultimarc came in. I am starting work on a DIY version of one of these, for about 1/10th of the price they charge. It probably won't look as sweet, or be as powerful, or run windows. but it will run ms pacman and that is all that really matters to me.
My big project for yesterday...
after much pain and frustration...
OSX on a Dell 4700!
I had a lot of issues with the video card and NIC but was able to swap them out with different ones from the pile in the first photo. It runs very fast since it has fast hard drives and a ton of ram. yay!
Also, in apple news. They announced today that they will have an SDK for the iPhone in Feb. This may be enough to get me to buy one. I am tempted to start bringing some of my cocoa libs up to speed with 10.5 now so I can write apps when it comes out. I really want to get off of Windows CE for my phone and this could be awesome. But then again the Nokia N810 looks like it may be even way awesomer. I was kind of hoping Sun would have revived the SavaJe phone by now, but it looks like they are going to be slow and under deliver so I am not going to hold my breath.
In the nice to dream DIY category, there is a company in Australia that sells DIY laser tag kits. Basically they sell all of the electronics, you make the guns. It means that you can make a custom gun for about $300-$500 rather than pay the $3k-$4k for the other pro systems out there. The only problem is that even though I'm willing to pay that much for a gun, I don't know if enough other people would be willing to in order to get a proper game going. I would maybe even make two, but I think it takes six people at least to have a good game. I'll keep it in the back of my mind for next summer. |
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| Taunton weekend |
[Oct. 1st, 2007|05:44 pm] |
Saturday I worked in the garden in afternoon. I got my fence repaired and spent a long time talking with my very chatty garden neighbor. She gave me some flowers to put in the front corner where we get a good amount of light so that was nice.
Leaving the garden at 5:00 I was torn with what to do. I really wanted to go to the fluff festival, fly a kite, or go to Taunton. I decided to ride my bike to Taunton, which I knew full well was a bad idea since it would be getting dark soon.
I left Boston at 6:00, and made really awesome time. I was in Brockton by 7:30 and I think I would have made it to Taunton by 8:30 if Bridie hadn't insisted on driving up and picking me up there. I told her I would be home soon but she hasn't been home in a year so it is okay for her to be impatient.
All in all, it wasn't a bad bike ride, although I think I should stick to daytime rides when going down route 37.
Sunday I worked on the deck with Ed and my Dad.
Odd shot of the garage which is held up completely by trees.
Edmund horsing around:
Edmund bearing around:
On Saturday the 6th, we are having an afternoon -> night party at the house in Taunton for Bridie's birthday. If you are in the area, or can get to the area you should come. Email me for directions if needed. |
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| pirates |
[Sep. 19th, 2007|03:52 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | waltham | ] |
| [ | music |
| | office sounds. | ] |
I can't decide if this is awesome, or terrible.
This was in my email inbox this morning:
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| OSsssssss |
[Sep. 18th, 2007|05:01 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | distroy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Mens Recovery Project | ] |
In geek news. I just ordered a new desktop: core 2 duo, 4GB ram, big ass sata drives, nvidia something, etc... but.
I can't decide what OS to install on it.
I have never been in this position before, but there are actually now many more options than a few years ago all with their own positives and negatives. I was making a list for myself so I figured I might as well post it.
Mac OSX:
- my first choice
- not supported (maybe not legal) on non apple hardware
- will be very difficult to upgrade when 10.5 or any future version comes out
Linux (ubuntu):
- everyone and their tech cousin are using this now
- awesome tools for development
- free and potentially awesome
- could be a pain in the ass with some software (gimp vs photoshop yadda yadda)
Solaris 10:
- ZFS!!
- Great Java integration and development tools
- Intellij not officially supported, but should work
- will definitely be a pain in the ass with some software
Windows Vista Ultimate:
- comes pre-installed on machine
- 99% sure I will not leave as my primary os
- will run in some sort of virtualization for SQL server client tools.
Haiku:
- I wish
- Not a contender yet
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| I didn't even have to use my AK |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|01:48 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Bomb20 - Field Manual | ] |
I got a hair cut today! He left it long in the back this time so I can start transitioning to faux to mo. I immediately squished it with my bike helmet and didn't fix it before this picture was taken.
And for lunch, we walked down to beach street for yummy Vietnamese sandwiches.
And I usually don't post pictures of custom print work we do, but here are the shirts Gillian is making for Amalgam Digital. I think they are totally hot. The white parts glow in the dark turquoise.
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