October 2007
1 post
Radiohead is making people give their money away... →
Kinda weird seeing this in Digg’ s front page today.
Weekly Review
Sept 23 - 29 I’m still at the apartment. Today is going to be the last night we sleep in it. It’s been a little crazy. Right now there is a lot of clutter on the living room floor. I’m amazed of how many stuff we had a this tiny little apartment. In summation, what’s left is the heavy stuff. Things like the fridge(still thinking how we’re gonna pull that off cause...
September 2007
56 posts
Quick Post
Another one of those quick posts. Not that I’ve been super busy, but my sister and brother in law were here at the apartment. They needed to use the computer and access to the web. The moving plans are going smoothly. Early today I took out ad hoc stuff from the living room TV thingy. The TV is still here, at the floor. I’m still not prepared to watch in bed things like Miami Ink or...
Visual Music Criticism →
Interesting article about how an Ad for chocolates has made people think about music Criticism The drum moment in “In the Air Tonight” is, much like a gorilla sitting at a drumkit, incongruous and showy and absurd and powerful and violent and crude and pathetic, all at once. But if you had been a critic, writing about Phil Collins, and had said something like, “He smashes at...
Little Miscellaneous Thingys
I don’t have many stuff, but every tip written about decluttering always gets my attention. This happens because I understand the pack-rat mentality. I totally sympathize. When I started packing my books earlier today I found little miscellaneous things that I’ve been dragging with me for years. You know that you should throw it away, but you just can’t. Sometimes it’s some...
“Tasks must be immediately clear without needing interpretation. To use a geeky...”
– Ethan Shoonover at 43folders
Weekly Review
September 16-23 Not a good week in terms of sticking to commitments. Haven’t been able to do the daily runs and guitar practices. I’m not feeling bad about it or anything like it. It’s more about trying to answer why to the “failures” and learn about them. Overall this is about doing a Weekly Review my way. Instead of having a checklist about things to check, ja!,...
5 minute stream
My hard 3 day work week is over. This next week I’m supposed to be moving. Let’s see how that works out. There are some logistical issues needed to resolve, but like I said and wrote before, it’s going to be a breeze. This post is a totally random, time constraint, just to write post. It’s just to do it before 12:00am.
Banhart Album Review →
The easiest fix would have been for Banhart to restrict his tiresome love of genres. This cloying infatuation pops up on all of his albums, but he usually keeps it to a minimum, and often tweaks the clichés of the styles he apes. That’s actually what I love about him, however I still haven’t heard that album.
Techshop Highlights Vol 7
So you get to your job. A lot of the tech coworkers are all huddled together. Your manager is there. The Tech manager from another store is there. You’re the last person to know that the Tech manager from the other store is going to be the big guy in your store. The whole store. They been waiting for you. They’re having a meeting. They, the managers, discuss some serious issues. Issues...
Soup →
Watch out Tumblr, here comes Soup. Soup is an easy to use tumble blogging application that includes two killer features: social networking (kinda) and outside activity streams. It’s sort of a cross between Tumblr, Pownce, and a social activity aggregator.
Satellite Dishes, Roofs and Body Fat
Helped my brother in law unscrew two satellite dishes from the roof of our soon to be house. This made me realize I’m a little fat. I mean, I was already aware of my body weight, but when you stretch your legs and try to use your arm’s “strength”, and almost fall of a roof, the awareness level becomes more intense. It was raining when I did the walk/jog/run with my wife....
Paranoid Procrastinator
Been all morning and the rest of the afternoon dicking around and that’s fine and I shouldn’t even be describing it like that, dicking around. There’s no impending thing that I have to do or I die thing to do thing. The bills are paid, the car has gas, my hair is cut and I took a bath. I know basically everything that’s needed to be done about moving from the apartment. But...
Mac Vs Windows Stereotypes →
It seems that Windows users are 20% more interested in stories about religion than Mac users. Could it be that the occasional brush with a “blue screen of death” gives the Windows user a greater sense of their own mortality?
Landlords, Mindmaps and MacBooks
The moving plans are set in motion. I did a Mind Map with Freemind to brainstorm the plans. I think it is one of the best mind maps and project plans overall that I’ve have ever done. All this productivity reading is paying after all. Today I called my landlord so this will be the last month we will pay rent. The next is canceling the water and electricity accounts. It’s going to be a...
Weekly Review
Sept 9 - 16 Twitter is kind of interesting It’s self absorbing You can meet interesting people It gives you an overview of the stupid shit you do everyday Which really makes you think about how you waste time Waking up early every day is a hard to establish habit Got 4 hours overdue of Guitar Practice at RTM Missed like three days of the walk/jog/run I’m in Project House Moving Mode...
Halloween and Making it Alive Through the Week
Saw Halloween yesterday night. It was like Slipknot’s freaky masks collection galore fest. But really, I thought it was pretty good. The bad reviews are kinda harsh when they say that the movie loses the magic/scaryness because of showing who Michael Myers is. I think that makes it even more scary. There were some stupid jerks at the chairs behind us at the theater. They were laughing,...
Techshop Highlights Vol 6
Some people will never understand how computers work. And I mean just the basics, like the hardware and software abstraction. I always thought that with patience and kindness you could explain to anybody about memory, hard disks and operating systems. Hell, this morning on PBS there was a show explaining how a hard drive works for kids show. I don’t know, maybe their to old and it’s a...
Techshop Highlights Vol 5
How to deal with angry client calls. Let them ramble and don’t speak a word. Most of the time they just want to spill their anger out at someone who “represents” the store. Once their finished, they realize that there isn’t shit than can be done at the moment by the phone. You have to lie if you want your work up to date. This one goes somewhat against the one above, but...
Pitchforkmedia Reviews Music(Not the Madonna Song) →
“Coming in at an exhausting 7,000 years long, music is weighed down by a few too many mid- tempo tunes, most notably ‘Liebesträume No. 3 in A flat’ by Franz Liszt and ‘Closing Time’ by ’90s alt-rock group Semisonic,” Schreiber wrote. “In the end, though music can be brilliant at times, the whole medium comes off as derivative of Pavement.”
Freak Folk, Weird America and House Ownership
Me and my wife have decided that owning and living in a bigger house is better and something actually quite smart. It’s gonna be tough in the economically speaking, but in the end we will be like happy little lolCats. Mi sis is supposedly moving by the end of the month, so we will be at this new place probably by October. It’s two streets from were I live. I’ve been heavily...
Most Ridiculous Similes in Music History →
#9 Poison - Every Rose has it’s Thorn Offending Lyric: “Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song/Every rose has its thorn” First of all, everyone knows (read: we just learned on Wikipedia) that roses don’t even have thorns, they have prickles.
Will the rotating mechanical spindle hard drive... →
Mr. Parkin thinks he is poised to bring about another breakthrough that could increase the amount of data stored on a chip or a hard drive by a factor of a hundred. If he proves successful in his quest, he will create a “universal” computer memory, one that can potentially replace dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, and flash memory chips, and even make a “disk drive on a chip” possible.
Long Week
I’m getting ready for this long week. It’s been a long freaking time that I’ve worked for 5 days. The weird thing is that I’m looking forward to this. They really killed me this last month giving me just three days a week. Thank god/the entity/or the, karma that I stopped smoking, cause I’ll be right now with overdue bills. The walking/jogging/running thing is getting...
Watch1966 prediction of computers in 1999. People will have like a home post office.
Weekly Review
September 2 - 8 Finished with Vista Inside Out Saw the Future Sex Love Show on Labor Day I thought it was awesome My manager gave me 37.5 hours next I’m running on a consistent basis Which is making me develop more resistance I have made a more effective Guitar Practice Routine It’s still not perfect, but I got a little kernel guide We ran out of gas for the the kitchen stove Created...
Techshop Highlights Vol 4
Ok, so this lady starts explaining her “problem”. I’m trying to understand, but it feels as if I’m taking notes in a quantum physics class. Although what she’s saying isn’t something you could consider dificult in a intellectual way. No, it’s something dificult because of the nature of assuming that someone who owns a computer, will know how to open...
Radiohead Finished Recording →
The one that may very well feature children and will allegedly not come out this year.
Bands
It’s official. This Sunday I’m jamming with some dudes that I haven’t even seen yet, but I’m psyched. Good thing I’ve been getting my “groove” back with the guitar. Hope this time it goes a little farther than the practicing room. Maybe like playing at a place were there are other people.
Search Results - Forgot →
Google and Wikipedia concurred on Forgot about Dre, the 90’s Gangsta Rap Album. Wikipedia even gives it a 100% relevancy
Forgot
I’m trying to remember something funny that happened today at the tech-shop. It was something totally random. The stress disappears the fluttering good times.
Are Books Passé? Web Giants Envision the Next... →
Technology evangelists have predicted the emergence of electronic books for as long as they have envisioned flying cars and video phones. It is an idea that has never caught on with mainstream book buyers.
Classic
It has been established. i-Pod’s have reached the Coca Cola level. No matter what, people are always gonna love it’s classic flavor. I’m really digging the 160gb version.
Mammoth Book
I finally finished reading the Vista Inside Out book. It is a mammoth of a book. There’s still like 4 appendixes left to read, but who cares, I finished with the core of the book. It took me more than a month. Overall, it’s a very good book, very in depth and one the best I read so far about a Windows OS. It’s definitely not a book for n00bies. It’s written with the...
Impulse Buys, Malls and Groceries
Today I paid my phone bill at AT&T and had this funny thought. I like the way AT&T slowly but gently ate Cingular away. The way the blue colors quietly ate away at the orange colors. Something happened in my mind that doesn’t make me longer confused that my network is AT&T and used to be Cingular. There was a 50% discount at everything at Hot Topic. That’s that store for...