June 2009

I am shamelessly addicted to infomercials, I want everything from the New Wave Oven to the Shamwows. Usually if I do pick something up I do it from an As Seen on TV cart in the mall, or from Walgreens. My favorite television pitchman was Billy Mays, he was always so excited about everything he sold, it made me want it that much more.

With all the deaths in recent weeks, this one probably hurts the most, seeing as how I hated Michael Jackson’s music, wasn’t a fan of Charlie’s Angels, and never won a million dollars, but Billy Mays I saw everyday on my television, and he made me want so many different products. Rest in Peace Billy, hope you get a great deal, because you gave others so many others a good deal.

Michael Jackson died this week. Now personally I didn’t really like his music, and I think the best thing he ever did was the Thriller music video, but that isn’t important. What is important is the way I found out Michael Jackson died. I knew he went into the hospital from CNN, but when I was on Twitter I kept seeing RIP MJ trends, so I looked into it and TMZ was reporting that he had died. CNN wasn’t even reporting it. It’s amazing that blogs and social media are traveling faster than the news can.

Will we ever get to the point where the news will be useless all together? I believe so. In Iran journalists are banned from recording the abuse going on, meanwhile people with cellphone cameras are recording the things going on. If it weren’t for these ordinary citizens then the world would have no idea. Social media is still a relatively new concept that only emerged in the last few years, but with sites like Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, and so many others out there, I think that the future of the media is the people. Cellphones are getting higher resolution everyday, and I think the higher resolution they get, it will only lead to the more people who will use it to show the world around them.

I am trying to install FFMPEG and a whole bunch of other stuff on my server, but so far it isn’t working. Hopefully I get it figured out soon. As of right now I am removing everything I just did and I’m going to try another tutorial either tonight or tomorrow. I need a good three hours to try and do this it seems, so I will probably try again tomorrow.

I decided to suspend my acceptance to NYIT and go to Nassau Community College instead. I can save money this way, and going to a major university after being out of school for three years is crazy. I signed up last week and I will be going in the Spring of 2010, so between now and then I just have work to worry about.

Other than that nothing has been up, gotten a few clients here and there, I’ve been managing to pay the bills and then some. Hopefully I will be able to get a big client soon.

During the summer months there is nothing on television and it is really too hot to do anything, plus, I need to wait for Krissy to come home from work before we really can do anything. That is why I usually look forward to E3 and Comic Con San Diego. Video games may be time wasters as a lot of people call it, but it is really the only thing that I can do to relax, that and comic books, so it is no wonder why I wait for the two biggest things in my life to come to fruition in the coming months.

E3 just ended and Comic Con is still a few weeks away. Now I will admit that I have never been to either one of these, but I am hoping one day I will get to go, either because of my job, or otherwise. Of course Comic Con isn’t closed to the public, I just need to be in California, but that can’t be possible right now, so I simply wait until the day I can be in California for either E3 or Comic Con. It would be amazing to be there for both in one year though.