Too many accounts that I forgot about this. maybe I'll use and restyle this blog soon.

Too many accounts that I forgot about this. maybe I'll use and restyle
this blog soon.

today is my chill out day so that's not happening today.

Think I'll watch The Constant Lost episode to break this migraine
apart so I can think clearly.

Simply put really? or It just is.

My horoscopes said I should

1. be genuine
2. reach out and tell em
   how you really feel inside
3. that I'll have no trouble finding the right words and once I start it'll be easier than I thought and
4. to be myself today and yesterday.

It's funny to say the least as they say a day late and dollar short when taken all as one. The points come up as late since it pretty much sums up what I did last year, something which I held off doing for far too long. It also at times applies since from time to time I update something while following the points as it's pretty much the only way I can be.

Writing this just came to be as it's coming up on a month ago now I had finished a update that had just come out of the blue after a image had popped up. At the time I didn't intend to have anything for a few months but it seemed to just be "right" as the prior one I finished back in January, once I looked it over lacked something, but needed to be up by a date. At the time I was still in a winter funk and couldn't come up with what should have been, but something needed to be up. One of these days I'd like to eventually go back and edit them all together, but once I finish a image and update up I can't recall how I did them so for now they remain pieces. Honestly there are only two days a year when I'd like to have a update up, but at times others just seem to pop up as if saying yeah go on give it a go.

So I do.

Galactica Finale initial thoughts.

Beautiful. Perfect. It wrapped up through a weaving in of myths, legends and theories all in one efficient story overall. It's a shame people couldn't see the series beyond the sci-fi tagging that relegated it to being seen as a go sit at the kids table at a family gathering type. But instead they would have seen it for what it was a human story drama. Thats' their loss and as the series final minutes played out they are none the wiser as they scurry about their daily lives.

Three shorts

1)Workout buddy
So today I'm outside working out before going out for the night. Going through my usual rotation I do before getting into everything else I'm standing there with the sun in my face. Had my eyes closed and just listening to everything. Heard the usual dry leaves that survived the winter blowing around on the driveway but heard something else. Started to look around and not 2 or 3 feet in front of me, and still closing on the grass, was a fat squirrel foraging around. He/She stops as I look at it and gives me that look saying "Hey your in my area bud whatcha doing?" Figured alright little fatty you made it through the winter so I'll get you some fresh nuts instead of whatever you have buried around. Went inside grabbed a handful and came back out. He's still looking around in the same spot then goes back a bit as I came forward again. Stops with that look again and I toss the nuts maybe 3 feet to the right of it and again gives me that look. "What nuts again?" I was going to throw him some fresh lettuce but didn't have it open and wasn't sure it would still be around by time I pulled it out so went with the usual nuts. So I get back to my routine and watch/hear it chewing away for a couple of minutes until it ran back to it's tree.

2)Doh a deer
I took a detour along the way out instead of going the usual way since I hadn't been along a stretch of road for a bit. Had to make a stop on the way out so no avoiding it since at the time I figured I wouldn't be near this one store. Now driving along I see a few things down in the distance running across the 4-5 lanes of traffic. Come up on it and was 3 deers, does(?), standing on the side of the road. Now this was past some ahhh strip clubs before the entrance ramps. So I figured yeah on their way to/from a stag party at one of them....Or some people who really love animals were in one of the establishments and the "talent" was late. To top it off I could have avoided the whole area since I ended up going past the store I detoured for in its' usual location.

3)Do not attempt disclaimers.
Had to chuckle after watching a commercial for some washer/driers that popped this disclaimer up. Happened to come up since for some reason they aligned 20ish units in 2 rows for a monster truck to drive over. So yeah don't attempt that at home since I'm sure everyone has 20 washer/driers and a monster truck sitting around to come up with the idea of wow why didn't I think of that before?
Really? Seriously? I mean I've seen some bad commercials that are just plain stupid but to have to toss a disclaimer up such as that one would need to be a moron in their own little world. And I thought ones that have people walking around with whole unopened boxes of X product were bad.

Chef time no really I can cook

Take 1 chicken breast, cut it to stuff or butterfly. Add a mixture of some pink salt, parsley, onion and lemon pepper into the cavity or interior exposed cut area if it's butterflied. Basically rub it into the interior graining of the meat.
Take 2 thin or medium pieces of dried mango and stuff it inside also. Flatten it then grill it with a coating of olive oil and optional cherry syrup from a bottle of cherries. Cherries are part of the desert mixed with some fresh mango and blackberries otherwise skip the cherry syrup part. Serve with some Pav Bhaji for some extra flavor.

I don't measure or anything so your mileage varies. Something comes out right it comes out right, otherwise I keep refining it. Made this mustard sauce a bit ago I still haven't recreated that was very good for porks or chicken dishes. Might have carried it over a couple of days and started from a base that I don't remember so that might be the issue.

Ha seems right today

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.

Sent from my iTouch

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.

Sent from my iTouch

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.

Sent from my iTouch

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.