May 2008

I have been in the market for a new flash drive for a while now. I bought mine a few years ago when all I needed it for was school, but now I have work and Lep’s Lair so I need something bigger than a 256mb stick. I have been looking at Personalized flash drives, I could get one with my website or my name on it. It would be the perfect gift for those tech fathers out there for Father’s Day or a graduation gift. I am cannot collect on either one of those so I would need to purchase it for myself, but given the novelty of the item, they are really reasonably priced.

I need a change. I don’t know what kind of a change I need, but it needs to be something big. I feel like I am stuck. A few years ago I thought I would be going for my Bachelor’s in Computer Science in 2008. Now I am not doing that, but I am working in my field. I don’t think I need a change of work, I think I need a change of scenery I guess. I don’t know, I came down here to stay for a few months and I have been here for over two years. I just need a change. I can’t really explain it, there isn’t really much to explain I guess. How do you talk about something that you don’t really understand how you’re feeling? I suppose I just feel stuck and not moving forward with anything, but in reality I don’t know if that is the case at all.

I normally don’t think about it. I usually don’t have time, between working and playing video games, but I don’t have that mindless interaction so it is difficult not to think about it when I’m sitting here. Hopefully my 360 comes back soon so I can repress these feelings.

Wow, the Lost season finale was amazing. I’m almost positive that the end was actually the present and next season will continue along that timeline. Every season they seem to introduce something, after season 2 it was the Dharma stations and the Tailies, season 3 had the Others, season 4 introduced flash forwards and the Freighties, and season 5 looks to introduce life off the island, and possibly no need for flashbacks? The writers have said that there may be a time when flashing through time might not be needed, could they have been talking about after this season? I’d put my money on it.

America needs help. There is so much consumer debt in this country and a lack of jobs to pay it back. Luckily there are sites that are dedicated to helping you lower your debt. I think as time goes on and more people are desperate than more of these sites will be popping up with higher prices than what are there now. So if you are thinking about using one then you may want to do it soon, before the immatators come in and take your money and run. Knowing what you can do to lower your debt shouldn’t be a surprise, so go and check it out.

Tonight is the season finale of Lost. The season of Flashforwards will be coming to an end, which might make the flash forwards be the present in the next season. I think it will be interesting to see where things will be next season and where they end tonight. It will definitely be interesting to see, if your a fan of the show, then tune in tonight at 8PM EST for the three hour season finale.

I would like to eventually have an arsenal of replica airguns and rifles from movies and games that I enjoy. To go with these pieces of art, as I see them, it would be great to have rifle slings, in case I take it to a range and fire off a few rounds. Those are the same slings that police officers use, so I know that they are safe and probably won’t break when I am hauling my gun to the range.

Roosterteeth released the pilot episode of their newest series, Red Vs Blue: Reconstruction. It looks like it will be a continuation of Blood Gulch Chronicles while bringing in the characters from Recovery One. In the first episode they basically said they will be heading to Blood Gulch, but how long those characters will be seen is unknown. I would love it if Donut and Caboose were the scene stealers again, but so far it looks to have a serious tone, so I guess I will need to wait until episode 2 to really tell you more about the underlying tone of the new series.

I think we need some new Living Room Furniture. Don’t get me wrong, it was all nice back when it was new, but the years have been rough on the furniture. The glass table has a huge chunk missing, the springs in the couch are poking through and the chaise lounge is just about to break when you sit in it. Even if the furniture wasn’t that bad, having the same furniture for too long can be boring. Seeing the same same things in the same place for years can make someone go nuts. Even moving the furniture around doesn’t make much of a difference because you are still looking at the same furniture, and eventually you just need something new.

Living Room Furniture isn’t all that important if you look at it from a wider perspective, but people change, and if you aren’t the same person from when you bought the furniture, or even just have different taste now, then maybe it is time to upgrade.

I have been spending a lot of time on a server playing around with Unix. I began taking a course a few years ago in Unix, but I couldn’t complete it since I moved down here. Everything I learned in the first few weeks are really what I need to know, and I still have the book so anything I don’t know I can easily look up.

Knowing Unix also helps with the Mac because it is built on a Unix system. When it was messed up I was throwing Unix commands at it, not DOS. If only I could afford another Mac then I could get rid of Windows all together.

Krissy got a VistaPrint magazine today and I was flipping through it I came across personalized sticky notes. If you are working in an office with multiple people I suppose it is good, but for yourself leaving notes around, I have no idea why you would need sticky notes with your business on them. I love the idea of personalized stationary, but I don’t really see post it notes as something you give out to people, unless your giving out a bunch of them for people to use.

I would still buy pens and business cards from them, maybe even a tshirt. Anything that would get my business out there would be a good expense. They have so many ideas of what you could put your logo on, I would never have thought that so many things could be used to advertise your business. I mean I use folders for my programming jobs, but I never thought to have custom ones that I could hand out to clients. If your sending out invoices then send them in a custom envelope. The possibilities on what you can put your logo on are endless, and with VistaPrint they will help you every step of the way.

No surprise that when I called up the XBox support center they told me that they will send a box for it. I just need for the box to show up. The call went as expected, talked to an Indian guy whose name was Ben and had me troubleshoot the 360 and then told me that there was nothing he could do over the phone and he would send a box for it to be shipped to them in.

What surprised me was the automated message system that they had set up. The first thing that I heard was “Thank you for calling the Xbox support center. My name is Mac and I will be assisting you today.” Now this is a recording to help get you to the right person for your call, but in my head all I was thinking was “My name is PC and Vista is giving me problems.” If you don’t know what I am referring to than either you live outside the US or you just simply don’t watch television and have no idea what a Mac vs PC commercial is. If this is the case then I suggest you sit your tightly firmed buttox on the couch grab a back of chips and start channel surfing like the rest of America.

Somehow I have completely missed the DVD release of Alien v Predator : Requiem. I haven’t seen any of the Alien movies or the Predator series, but I did see the first Alien Vs Predator and I thought that it was pretty good. Ever since watching it I have been wanting to sit down and watch the whole series, but due to work I can’t really find the time. Maybe I will take a day off and lay in bed and watch the movies I have been meaning to watch for a while now. If I did that it would be Alien, then Predator, then the Alien vs Predator series.

A lot of people actually don’t like when two franchises team up, but I do. It puts to rest the questions of what wopuld happen if person A fought person B. Like with Freddy vs Jason, I thought it was great and I would have liked to see the Freddy vs Jason vs Ash sequel, but it doesn’t look like that is ever going to happen.