Sluggish month.

Funny but for three days of jury duty it's messed my cycle up for a month now. Guess shifting my whole schedule by a 180 will do that as everything was done 12hrs opposite of normal for that span. Just getting to that point was fun but afterwards it's seemed like each cycle conflicts with each other and can't get back into a "normal" routine. Doesn't help the clocks swapped over so it's nice and dark a hour earlier and oh yeah weather starts to take a dump.
Oh well december is right around the corner with a new year 38 days give or take a few out now. So think I'll just veg out the rest of november and get going again on the 1st of the month.

On the other hand had a few bright spots during the month.

Amusing to say the least, Lucky me.

Little aside which I didn't think I'd post about it. But since I find it amusing I figured eh why not?
I usually do a scan/search depending on a viewpoint everyday for something. Yesterday was the first time in probably oh 5-6 months that I didn't. Well let me backtrack to say I have two searches, so if anything pops on the time based first I'll do the secondary one for a deeper result. I don't go through every single one since 95% of the time it's just bot induced spam words for craplinks to virii/malware sites so I can spot the legit from the bogus ones.
Anyways wanna take a bet as to what I'm going to say next? If you answered what I search for popped up yesterday after I did the first one with no returns well your right.
Guess it's like the old saying a watched pot never boils.

Oh well lucky me.

Why is it...... Q&A time

Q&A time

1. Why is it when I make a smoothie with the same mixture of ingredients as I'd order from a shop it never tastes the same?


2. Why is it I can remember the day of the week when I did something yet come the next year I miss it since I mixed up the dates for them?


3. Why is it I get tagged for jury duty on a month when I had things taken care of to set aside some me-time for once?


4. Why is it so hard to find a decent flip case for a Apple touch/phone to keep the screen covered?


5. Why is it Apple didn't design a flip cover onto it in the first place?


6. Why is it I drive better with a migraine than people "multitasking" in their car?


7. Why is it the editor here complains about code markup when it's supposed to be supported?


8. Why is it my hiking shoes survive going over rocks, sand, and other assorted ground clutter, yet they rip apart when I run for just a quarter mile after not wearing them for 2 months?


9. Why is it I'll design (model, paint, adjust etc)something, let it sit then come back to it and not have a clue how I did it in the first place?

Answers:

1. Same reason I'll load up on 2 cameras and go out yet won't take any pictures, just no reason.


2. Time's fluid


3. Because the universe likes to go "mmmmmmm no not yet"


4. It's the redheaded stepchild product that they threw together from stripped down components?


5. Because they'd rather design the nano to look like a roll of flattened toilet paper roll instead.


6. Too many flight sims in my youth? Moving in x/y is easy instead of x/y/z and knowing about apex driving?


7. Bad coding since this is just a evolved forum profile script?


8. Well sure probably prior stress put on them. But really doing something that simple?


9. Out with the old in with the new? Why try to recreate something just let that prior one be unique?

Ah lovely jury duty summons

Lovely just what I've been waiting for shows up in the mail today. My
favorite activity of sitting around waiting while totally screwing up
my schedule for next month.
No it couldn't be for my city where you'd just call to check the
night before if your needed the next day. Nope not that
but a full on county summons where you have to be there and twiddle
your thumbs for a week if you don't get impaneled.
Love it, now I'll need to readjust my schedule since I'm not a get up
and go person. I design best at night so getting there at 8am should
really screw me over since I'll usually sleep around 5-6am.
This should be interesting to say the least.

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Chrome + Gears makes a Android

Your future online is offline.  Interesting take in the article, I just did some wordplay for the title. Be interesting to see if it takes hold but I'm still waiting for something in a 4x6 or 5x7 touch interface tablet format instead of a crappy phone device with or without crappy chiclet sized keys.  When that is available then we'll talk.

Well was too good to be true

Well spoke too soon yesterday about the iTouch upgrade being a-ok
firmware wise. Still crashes if you mail and use safari right away.

Oh well maybe next patch.

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Good about time people wise up to the problems of DRM on software

Spore Backlash

Culture Buzz Spore fans are not happy with the game’s anti-piracy DRM, so they’ve taken their protest to Amazon.

About time people wake up to the so called anti-piracy cartels who try to tell people how and what should be installed on their own systems. Things like antivirus, anti-malware, or process explorers utilities also know as security programs are deemed bad programs by the hacks. Usually to install the crippling DRM schemes you need to shut them off, yes that's always best to do. Shut down your AV's, your firewalls so you get infected or turned into a botnode, don't worry about what is running on your system we know whats best for you. Now enjoy your treat and jump through the hoops to enjoy your legitimately purchased software. Remember use this serial number, verify it every 10 days and oh on top of it keep the cd/dvd in your drive to run it since we can't be certain the first 2 steps work.

I was going to buy the game but with the "copy protection" on it and all future EA titles I'm skipping it any any others. But it's really not about copy protection as legitimate users are the ones who get the shaft, it's all about your ability to resell the program once you bore of it. What happens if say 5-6 years down the line you decide to reinstall the software and had used up your limit of installs? Wait EA is out of business, somehow, then what do you do? Unlike how I can go back and install Sims without a problem still or any of the other old software I own without incident.

I've been using computers for 20 years and there is no way I'd disable any security software even while running a hardware firewall with always on connections nowadays. Seriously just because some "security" company foists a protection scheme onto software publishers legitimate users are just expected to rollover because a mechanism is faulty by design? A Steam or MMO type of login is a better alternative than to have various hidden files and callhome routines unknowningly installed onto your system.

Stunned! No safari crash on my touch

So I decided to do the firmware upgrade on release day this time
around for the hell of it. Cleared everything that was available as a
playlist and let it back my 100 some notes and misc data on here,my
Touch, up and upgrade. Smooth without a hitch ad usual. Finally fired
up safari and was stunned, no crash on even a simple site so I'll
leave it be for now.
Too bad iTunes 8 is sluggish as now it would be my first upgrade
without a complaint.

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New touch and nano impressions

Umm no. I like the original Touch/phone styling far more than this one. Volume buttons on the side just throws the whole thing off and the full steel cover/back bleed around just screams tacky. And the nano well said it from leaks before but looks like a crushed up used up toilet paper roll. The prior gen design was far better size wise to carry the tag of nano, you know to be smaller?
Of course they slimmed the touch also as it was bad enough it is the redhaired step child, just try to find a decent covered case for it, now they changed the dimensions. Just be cheaper to get a replacement now I suppose.
Battery time increased? Suuuuure and I have a bridge for sale too.

PR/Marketing on the Apple store needs to copy check a bit more. Of course the Red Nano is a Apple exclusive. I know I know they are aiming for Apple Store Exclusive but still how they wrote it sounds like yeah we're the only ones with a Apple Nano.

And as always will someone buy him some new clothes already?

Mindwipe Or I love looking at a blank screen

Uggghh.... I hate when I get like this every so often, I'll just sit and stare at a blank screen since I can't come up with anything to design.   Realized the last real thing I did was almost two months ago now as I shifted gears to work on some other things at the time.  Now for the first time in those two months I can't even come up with a simple image to start from which usually will take me many many layers into a completed one at some point.  

My problem is I don't approach it from a illustration or painting viewpoint, I'll just start on something and when I see that right point I'll work it from there.  I do treat it like painting though, I never do the same process or design type twice since quite frankly I don't know how I end up with the last designed image anyways.  I can look back at the last image I did two months ago and go ok how did I do this?  I'll see something at somepoint and go done and walk away from it.  

I could always go back to some previously started images that at the time I couldn't come up with anything to see if I can see anything now.  Figures this hits on a late saturday early sunday night after I already had been to a Borders earlier today.  If it hit sooner I could have thumbed through some art or design books/magazines instead of just going to pick up a language book to try and learn one.  

Oh well..

GooChrome First Impressions

Well went and grabbed it when I got home tonight after dinner and working out.  Like it so far but can't stand the blue look of it too much default winXP install look and I nuked that right away after a reinstall.  Problably can go look but haven't noticed or found any UI tweaks to be done yet.  But really haven't gone looking at the files in it's dir yet.  

Pages load smooth and liked that it pulled my Firefox hotbar and such in as is instead of rearranging them.

For now though I'll just use it to hit my own sites as I have FF in lockdown mode compared to this a nice new open building as it were.  It just needs more to be my fulltime browser things like a firebug, noscript, flashgot, a and a more robust web developer plugin. 

Since it's a webkit backend I probably won't need to bother with Safari anymore to check coding for it.

It like Safari suffers from the not hiding the interface when you goto fullscreen also, would be nice if those tweaks were added like FireFox does.

So I buy a new battery and clean up my old SLR.

So I pulled my old SLR out the other day and noticed I still had some film left in it but the battery was dead so couldn't get to. Finally got around to buying a new battery yesterday after the previous day when I stopped but somehow everything lined up as to the only one in the whole store was already opened up. Seriously one dam 2cr5 in the whole store and it was already opened up, nice. So waited another day and tried another store later on at night after running some errands so couldn't use it until today. Popped it in everything functioned so went about and cleaned the lenses and body as it sat for probably 4 years. Still had some frames left on the roll of film so that was pretty much why I bought the battery to atleast get that out and developed.

I head outside to take some closeup macro shots of flowers just to blow the frames off on. Boy I'll tell you I had forgotten how easy it was to take pictures since it's such a basic skill compared to creating a digital painting or 3d model. Seriously a photo is of something that is just there at that moment, otherwise if your physically or digitally painting, sculpting, modeling, designing something it's so much more involved.

May as well delve deeper into that by saying look at it this way a artist gets one chance with a piece of paper, parchment, canvas, fabric, metal, rock, clay, glass , etc to make something right? There are usually 12-36+ frames of film in rolls, talking 35mm ones. Whats that tell you? Oh you can screw up 11-35 times as long as 1 is alright. What are the others shots then gold stars for effort?

So here I framed the few shots of decent flowers around and blew the shots off. Clicked to shoot the last one and listened as it ratcheted as it respooled back into the cassette and popped it out.

Ah but wait that was too easy as everything lately it piles on. At that point I noticed it was a roll of B&W film so pretty much all the shots of nice vibrant flowers were wasted on it. Oh well not even sure any will develop so no loss.

Two ideas written up, both need funding one benefits me other benefits everyone what to do?

So here I sit with two business ideas jotted down, one requires a large engineering and or physics background to have it looked over to see if the concept would work and if the technologies are available to advance it. If the theory is sound just a matter of fully designing a worthwhile system. Thought of it one day after some events and thought is it such a simple concept would it work but then started projecting possible vectors for it I wondered if it was something worthwhile to brainstorm with. This would benefit everyone in certain regions.

On the other side of the ledger sits one that would benefit me, frankly don't care but it might act as a infusion of capital to attempt to startup the other idea. So win/win either way just a matter of which comes first the horse or the cart? The second concept is more inline of what I know so the technicalities and difficulties would be easier to project and amend but just needs polished and revised in structure with some details worked out. I theorized enough of it upto a point but some other background management would be needed.

Oh well

Horoscopes be damned. Venting some steam post.

Yeah sure act on impulse that lead to a mix up I still haven't been able to resolve since June now after 2 more mailings/messagings.

Fun? going into meltdown wondering if you've screwd up is always fun
But shoot lets pile on even more since I've formulated another plan but will let this one sit on the backburner for a few months hopefully to refocus.

It's true though I did figure out what to do but would cause me to go back on my word which is something I don't want to do.

I read what the screens say and what I wrote and realize I work better understress. Not stressed I just start to go into meltdown mode.

Love it, hosting co down on the night I need it

Karma?

So tonight I sent a message out about some code/images/designs to be looked over. Go to check my old gaming guilds site for whatever is going on lately and none of my pics are displaying. So decide to check the hosting interface and nothing. Go to pull my main blog up and nadda there. Hey nice support forum says your server is down.
Bang up job. Last week sql was down for a portion of a night, couple of nights email was out. So the natural endpoint is lets have the whole server crap out.

Figures it was tonight the server decides to blow apart after I held off a day for sending a message out yesterday since I wasn't fully ready to do it.

Rumored new Nano design = flattened toilet paper roll

Thought of it from looking at the first rumored pics and now as I keep looking at them and case designs for it. I hope this isn't the design they are going with if this product revision goes through. Just looks looks like somebody sat on a used/empty roll of toilet paper and decided eh lets mail this one in and see if they bite at it. Honestly if there is a redesigned nano coming just ditch the wheel and go all touch screen in a 2x2 or 3x3 square as the current design is nice as it is.

Funny horoscope syncs with my day later on

Had a good laugh after reading it as the last line syncs up with
something I finished typing up a few minutes before reading it.

Some days you just need to wonder.

Rest in pieces #24

Dude! You can tell that one is totally on fire.

Great episode for season 3 Venture Bros finale.

Spoiler vid below for Venture Bros season 3 finale. Well is it really a spoiler if it's posted online by the channel that shows it? Depends if your like me who usually waits for the 1130 sunday night broadcast of it it'll be so your warned.

Didn't want to start on a image just yet so ended up watching the season 3 finale of Venture Bros. on adultswim streaming for the first time this season. Great wrapup to the season overall.

Worst kept secret ? Or whiny people who aren't the story

It was funny seeing threads or tweets of people whining once this
broke around midnite/1am'ish of why didn't I get my email or txt msg??

Yes your the center of the story so whine away you didn't get the
message before real news outlets did.

I mean it's their job to get the story with multi-million dollar
budgets as their profession. Not babies who think they are special
needing their egos stroked by receiving a email.

It's these two mens moment not yours deal with it.

Note to self just buy decent discs when you find them

So after the problem with the spindle of dvd's the other day I ended up buying just a spindle of 15 I found. They were Fuji packaged and dirt cheap and had used the brand before so figured why not? Just as emergency ones until I can find a decent supply of ones I liked. Popped them open and they read 16x in my main burner so figured ok back in business for some quick file dumps. Did a quick backup of the past few dumps off my CF card that were sitting on one of the drives. I usually burn slower anyways just to be safe so the disc finished without a problem.
So here it is I waited until tonight to dump some files off my older system which is just a basic dvr with a older burner in it that is maybe 6 mo's behind the one I use in my main. So probably identical drives or one generation behind but really the same. Popped a disc in and queue up some of the video files to backup. Hit the final burn page and oh whats this they'll only do 2.4x in this one. Lovely. Hosed for another night of doing a backup so it's back to get another stack tomorrow.

What a excited couple : deconstructing a ad.

Wow such chemistry. Seriously a psychic isn't in order for these two.
Atleast stage the ad with people who can feign interest to atleast
make it slightly legit. Sadly I've seen roadkill looking happier.

ESPN Eyes Rights to Games in 2014 and 2016

Heaven help us if the "no sports existed before us" network gets them.

“We serve sports fans. " Really? with miniature golf, poker, darts, eat contests? Thats' sports? You'd be able to show them non-delayed because you have shows such as those that are called filler for your day.

Or better yet some of their on-air "talent" calling events?

Thousands audition for 'American Idol' at the Meadowlands

And none will have any talent to make the final 16 next season yet you'll have the headcases who think they can sing become public embarrasments on the audition shows.

Why do I say this? It's so predictable that its' not even funny.

Guess they'll be printing money in Kiwie land. Jackson and company sign onto the Hobbit

'Lord' fellowship signs on for 'Hobbit'

Jackson, Walsh, Boyens onboard for film

Along with Del toro directing? Figured it would be good just from him helming it but adding the rest of them thats a cherry ontop of the sundae.

Currently listening to pic enclosed

Just trying something for now. Forgot to setup a playlist and this
might work.

So I walk into best buy to return the bad discs and the rep says

So I went and returned the spindle of underspeed discs today and the clerk goes do you want to exchange or return them?

Thinking in my head its' like going back to a restaurant after you get food poisoning the day before and going sure lemme have some more of that good stuff that caused me to sit on the porcelin altar for X hours. Figure if one spindle is this way the whole batch sitting on your shelves are the same so no thanks just let me have my money back.

Lovely night

First the stupid dvd's I bought for a backup won't run at their listed speed in 2 different burners. They were supposed to be 16x but only show up as 4x. Nice.
So that was a wasted night so decided to do some blog maint on here and on the main. Well I posted about the dvd's there but noticed the categories weren't showing up. Went to do something else then noticed the tags wouldn't show up. So figured alright backup and upgrade tonight instead of getting actual work done, yeah great plan. Seems the host is messed up on drive space atm which lately there seems to be issues with the servers every night anymore.

Oh I'm really loving the 2.0 firmware.

Oh I'm really loving the 2.0 firmware try to scroll to read a page and
it's back to a black screen before anything reloads on a home screen.

Oh well off to watch venture bros as it's starting now.

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Love the iPhone kill switch

Works great too. The must have one of those bobbing waterfilled birds
on the switch marked safari as much as it crashes just on simple pages.

Oh well bring on firmware 2.0.2+ then.

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Nite away from coding a mockup site

Just putzing around with some adjustments since I decided to take a
nite off from working on a layout demo that I'd like to get sent out
at the end of the week or start of the week after.

Might fire up the old 3d editor to work on a low poly model just to
keep the mind sharp.

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iPhone/Touch needs note syncing

Still holding out hope that in a update notes can be synced from this
touch since it's pretty much all I use it for.

Think when I have a bit of freetime I'll tweak this template more.
Fits decently in mobile safari but could use some adjustments still.
Did all of the changes on the fly earlier.

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Love when hosting sites go down

Really I do. But then I realize dig around and find postings from users who setup 4 seperate blogs on one site instead of just having one with categories. I mean why would one do that? Just better to run 4 seperate scripts always. Really topper is it's always nice that it goes down right in the middle of transfering site updates so as it's overwriting the configs it doesn't know what to do so your just sitting there looking at a unformated page dump.Really nice....

As they say day late and a dollar short

As they say day late and a dollar short

Every hear the saying a day late a dollar short? Well lets rephrase it a month late and egg on your face..

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I really should break my iTouch

Surely I should since it couldn't hardlock or crash on safari as much
as with 2.0 & 2.0.1 sofar. Atleast .1 is a little more stable but man
it's still sluggish.

Well forgot I set this one up

When you decide to change some facets of yourself in your haste you forget some parts of it at times. Completely forgot I signed up to make a blog here instead of just my main one that I use semi occasionally.

iPod submission

Well let's give it a go.

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