Figured I should keep up the blogging streak even though I don’t really say all that much, but if it wastes a few seconds of your time, my job is complete. =) I’m just sitting here at work twiddling my thumbs waiting for IT to come setup my new laptop, which is a very frustrating process. Ugh ugh ugh.

Actually, the main reason why I wanted to make this blog post is so I could throw up the lyrics at the end of it. But you’ll have to wait for the end to see that… did you just cheat? Cheater. I think I’m going to start throwing short lyric excerpts at the end of my posts cause they’re fun (and make people call me a fruit bag, which is fun too - being called a fruit bag, that is… not actually being one… uhhh…).

There are a lot of things I want to buy, but I need to stop my spending in hopes of actually saving money for a house or something like that. A few things… iPod nano (gotta wait for the next upgrade though)… then if I got the iPod nano, I’ll probably get sucked into getting a Nike+ eventually. I want a Dell 24” too… and have been slightly itching to upgrade my Mac mini, if only for the gigabit ethernet… haha. Anyways, I’m holding off pretty well on all of that right now, cause there’s no way I’m getting all of it. One thing I will definitely be getting though is Adobe Photoshop CS3 when it’s out and a universal binary. Mmmmm…

“Round, round, get around, I get around… yeah… wa ooooo…” - Beach Boys

I cooked some bacon for Chad and I yesterday and made a massive bacon cloud that filled the entire apartment. I had to finish off the rest of the bacon today so I did it again. =)

This all reminds me of that one commercial for those dog treats where the dog ran around with “BACOOON BACON BACON BACON BACON!!!!”… I did a brief search for that, but I couldn’t find it. Oh well. Haha…

After informing Nancy of my Nancy: why are always attracted to terrible things

Hehe, thanks Nancy.

So today was the fourth time in the last five days that I ran around Town Lake… it does feel good I suppose, haha… and I guess I gotta start curbing the diabetes onset sometime. =)

I finally got my new laptop at work, however, it wasn’t configured to log onto the Freescale intranet, so I was kinda stuck not being able to use it all day. Kinda stinks to have it just sitting there next to me and not be able to use it. I hate corporate bureaucracy. =)

“No mountain’s too high for you to climb.
All you have to do, is have some climbing faith, oh yeah.” - Celine Dion

That’s some wisdom there, folks. Haha… I’m just joking. ;)

Has anyone ever been to a dine-in Sonic? I went to my first one today and it was… weird. Haha…

I added an RSS feed of my YouTube videos so you can view the latest shenanigans I catch on video. Enjoy. =)

I started working on the new Vox Veniae site (linked site is a temp blog) on my desktop and had a strong urge to have multiple displays, so I took out my MacBook Pro, setup Synergy, and was off working on the new site with the ability to test with Firefox, IE, and Safari all with one keyboard/mouse! Yay! I had Photoshop running on the desktop cutting up the site design given to me by Karen, and smb mounted that directory on the MacBook Pro with two terminal sessions running vim open for the HTML page and the stylesheet. It was an enjoyable development session… ideas are churning in my head for OWeb ‘07. =) The only thing is that missing the “windows key” on this IBM Model M keyboard (which is otherwise awesome) is sometimes problematic… haha. Speaking of which, if anyone is looking for birthday gift ideas for me… cough ;) ;)

Edit:: Aaron asked me how I was recording the videos, and I just realized that I never really blogged about one of my latest purchases. I recently bought a Casio Exilim EX-Z750 almost exclusively based on its video-recording qualities. The photo quality is supposedly decent, but I honestly haven’t really tested it much. The really nice thing about it is that it encodes into MPEG4 instead of Motion JPEG, which results in 3x or 4x file size reductions… so instead of maxing out at around 10 minutes on a 1GB card, I can get over 30 minutes on the highest quality, which is nice. It records in VGA at 30fps… and looks significantly better than what you see on YouTube because they reencode it down to QVGA I think. I’ve been meaning to test if they reencode if I actually upload a video at their desired resolution (and thus have higher quality than what they do), but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. There are newer versions out of this Casio (like the Z850), which I think has improved photo-taking qualities, but Casio apparently gimped out the MPEG4 encoder settings and thus the quality isn’t as good as the one I got.

After I copy the MPEG4’s to my MacBook Pro, I use mencoder (well, with ffmpegX as the frontend) to reencode the MPEG4s into H.264, giving me another 3x to 4x file size reduction. It’s nice. =)

“Tonight, I’m gonna have myself a real good time… I feel alive…” -Queen

… so Chad buy big toy!

We have lots of fun with new toy!

Life just seems to get more demanding as you get older (then maybe less so after a certain time? like when all your kids are moved out? =), and I think the following is proof. I went to eat at Thomas’ Super Buffet today and got a fortune cookie that read:

You are capable, competent, creative, careful. Prove it.

WHAT?! Since when did I have to prove anything to a fortune cookie?! Jeez…

Ever wonder how good of a Green Lantern you’d make? Sometimes I think I’d make a pretty good one because I can be pretty stubborn and my will often overtakes my want. It’d be pretty cool to conjure up green glowing minions to battle the forces of the evil (or destroy fellow lanterns ;)… and there’s no doubt I’d be better than the black one. =) I’d love to will up many little bunnies to attack people or maybe a horde of Johnny Fives to drive someone insane by continuously and by the millions demand “more input.” No lame simple green beam for me. =)

Only thing is I’m not sure how well my will stands up to physical pain… I think I can handle a variety of pains rather well, but if some super-villian broke my arm, could I maintain a green cast to continue the fight? If I lost something I loved, would my enemies still “beware my power” “in brightest day, in blackest night?“ I would like to think so. =)

Oh, and I think it’d be funny to instantly throw up a brick wall in front of Flash. Haha, silly speedsters.

Happy moment of the day: Solving Rubik’s cube repeatedly listening to “I’m Your Angel” by Celine Dion and R. Kelly (yes, I believe Mark would call me a “fruit bag” for this).

Unhappy moment of the day: Losing sister while jogging.

I’ve known how to solve a Rubik’s cube for so long now that I think most of the algorithm has been stuffed into my subconscious and comes out whenever I’m bored to solve the thing. However, a few days ago, when I was pretty tired, Chad asked me how to do a certain move that I should have known how to do. It was like my subconscious realized it had been discovered and ran off across a bridge over a cliff, got to the other side and burned down the bridge so no one could follow because once I started to try to do the move to show Chad, I was totally blank despite having solved the cube at work a day or so before.

Anyways, I decided to let my mind sit on it for a while and maybe good ‘ole subconscious would come out and show me the tricks again, but that hasn’t happened. As a result, today I sat down on my bed for an hour or so and started fiddling with it and I triumphantly have found a new way to do the move I wanted to do (at least I’m fairly sure it’s not the same way I did it previously). I even found out a faster way to do things when certain patterns come up. Yayayayayayayay.

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Sometimes when I’m just sitting around, I wonder if in a few years I’ll remember that exact moment. It’s kinda like in those movies where you can freeze time and look around and examine things and try to commit that moment in time into memory. Most of the time, these moments are rather insignificant and just little things like random hang out times or even if I’m just by myself sitting and thinking. Will I remember my mood? How I’m feeling? What people are talking about? What my relationship with everyone in the room is like? The lighting, the sounds, the smells?

I guess it brings a sort of peace to me when I just stop and think about how things are going right this instant. How will this moment in time change my future? Will I remember what it was like writing this blog post? The thoughts running through my head that I don’t write down?

Probably not, but I like thinking about it.