Archived News starting from 10-25-2006 and earlier
BlogLunchtime for me typically involves two work associates. It would be more appropriate to call them something other than associates, but for the sake of simplicity I'm going to stick with associates. Yesterday
Duane's
hacked video camera rode along and the resulting shenanigans were recorded. Now you can
experience first hand what it's like to be an associate, through the eyes of someone about to receive a shenanigan.
With winter right around the corner, it's time to regress into a large group of pale hunchbacks and scream "Camper!" together. The November LAN is forthcoming and instead of setting a date and demanding attendance I thought I'd offer up the entire month of November to choose from.
Pick your Saturday for this years annual event, most popular wins. Some options may be removed as Lisa informs me of my prior obligations for this month, but as of now it's wide open.
Apparently the I'm not the only one who took the subspecies prediction article to heart. A recent jump to
Something Awful yielded this
political story starring the popular split species. I'm glad the article references the original movie, the second one wasn't nearly as involved with the storyline, plus the old morlocks looked cooler. Guess I finally have to chain Lisa down and make her watch it so she can appreciate the recent references.
After months of thinking about it, I finally found a good enough
deal to go through with my dream of a
terabyte. And yes, it uses
perpendicular recording. Between my
server,
main computer and
media machine I probably had more than a terabyte of storage already, but now I have it all on one (spanned) drive. It feels good to throw 30 gigs at a drive and barely see it register at all. Having that same amount taken up by partition information (by each drive) is disappointing though. Of my two 400GB drives and 320GB drive I only get 1,044GB of the 1,120GB available as
usable space, even with the allocation size set to the 4096 maximum. I'm sure in less than a year terabytes will become common, but for now I can stick my tongue out at (most of) you while I figure out exactly what I'm going to do with it. Wondering what a terabyte looks like?
Behold.
Slashdot posted an
article that predicts humanity will
divide into two subspecies in the far future. Ironically, the link was sent to me by
MorlockPrime, one of the two Morlocks who form my
slumlord empire that has already realized this subspecies separation. The modern-day Morlocks aren't squat or of lower intelligence, in fact they both hold computer-related job. They do have blue skin and glowing eyes though, most likely due to living or having lived in my basement with little to no light. They also avoid the sunlight and prefer the indoors, but the original Morlock now spends a good deal of his time above the surface, and MorlockPrime has been known to venture out from time to time. Fortunately neither of them have shown indications of the cannibalistic habit yet, so Lisa and I continue to live the life of the Eloi.
Today at 3:17pm marked the end of my
Snappy powered
Gnome Cam and the beginning of my .NET powered one. The Snappy worked great for over 4½ years, but parallel port video capture just isn't cool anymore. The recent addition of
Gnome Cam Live was already providing me with a video source so I decided it was time to make the switch. Now that I control the entire image creation process I can put a temperature/wind speed text overlay on the captures, or network/frag stats during LAN parties, or a Florida/Michigan locator for
Joseph when he goes savage from the cold weather.
The Hitachi marketing department paid good money for
this jewel, and if I could justify the money I'd
buy one just because of the video.
School House Rockish characters should be used to explain all technology advancements.
It's too early for this already. The snow today actually set a
new record for early snow. My initial thought is that, once again, Michigan hates me, but after reading the news article, it seems Canada is to blame. By the ever useful transitive property this means
Ron is to blame.
.jpg)
Working with
Visual Studio 2005 almost exclusively during my 8-10 hour workdays has me staring at two animated icons frequently. For my larger projects, I stare at each of them for up to 10 seconds at a time. The animations represent a process that will end in either accomplishment or more work to be done. I watch these icons with eager anticipation, hoping for the accomplishment outcome but more often than not receiving more work. They are such prominent icons in my world I felt the need to share them with everyone.
Build: "dots to box" -
Represents the lines of code I labor on being compiled into
MSIL in preparation for deployment.
Publish: "world to squares" -
Represents the deployment of my MSIL to the waiting server(s), where it will undergo it's
second compilation.
I enjoy my italicized names so much I'll frequently reply with "world to squares" when asked if a project has been pushed yet, or "dots to box" when a project won't compile. The reaction from coworkers is always confusion and I rarely explain myself. Probably another indicator of spending entirely too much time on a computer.
Since Lisa has
claimed me as her groom, we trekked out to
Pennsylvania this weekend to meet her grandparents. I was subsequently examined and approved by all four grandparents. My Welsh name and quick wit sufficiently compensated for my balding head. Additional approval by both of Lisa's parental units prior to our Pennsylvania trip means I am now 60% complete with the pre-marriage approval process. Lisa lags behind at 20% having been approved by my paternal unit and one grandfather. Final approval is scheduled to be completed before August 2008, the earliest wedding date currently being considered.
Hosted Domains
AtomicInternet
AtomicDetroit Forums
Web Applications
Photo Collection
Solar Generation
Weather Station
Gnome Webcam
Mower Status
Farmer Status
Outdoor Lights
Upload Box
Home Inventory
AtomicDetroit Forums
System Info
System Statistics
Proton System
System Uptime
ASP.net Version
Vehicle Info
1999 Mercury Cougar
2017 Ford Focus ST
2017 Ford Focus RS
2013 Kawasaki Ninja
Search 1549 News Articles
Comment Statistics
