Archive for April, 2009
I gotta admit there’s something magical about a one hundred inch tv being displayed by a beautiful korean woman. Maybe it’s something about their angular faces that really goes well with electronics… or I just read too many gadget blogs.
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Fightin Code Monkeys
I thought of this logo a really long time ago… I’m pretty sure I had some version of it from about 4 years ago.
I just got inspired the other day and threw it together. The text is temporary… but I just wanted it on there.
No commentsI got the converter boxes in the mail about a week ago and I thought that it would be easy to hook up the giant antenna that’s attached to the roof of our tiny homestead. But like everything in this house it’s not going to be easy.
I climbed up on the roof to check out the situation, which was rusty.
I’d seen that the cable from the antenna runs into the side of the house, but I couldn’t find where it came out. I looked in the front room, nothing. I went down to the root cellar… (this house is old)… nothing there. I crawled under the front room of the house to look for the cable… nothing. Then finally I went to the outside of the house and gave it a little pull… it came right out. Looks like nobody has used this thing in 30 years. then, thinking of my next step, I decided to see If I could re-route the wire into the window and use it instead of rewiring the antenna. But of course, nothing is easy in this house, the wire is glued into a hole that runs into the screened in porch. No problem, I’ll just dig it out a little with a screwdriver and everything will be peachy. So, after about 20 minutes of scraping of thick tar… the cable snaps and I’m stuck on the roof with only 6 feet of cable. Which barely reaches the window. So I test it out by taping the converter box to the outside of the window and hooking the busted cable into it. There’s nothing like having to point the remote out the window to get it to work, Ghetto style!
Bottom Line: It Works!
I’ll have to re wire the cable, but it’s not going to be that hard… right.
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I entered the Hugo award design contest today. I think I have a really strong design. But since it’s pretty publicized… screw it… my design is awesome.
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I finally got the DVDs to the post office yesterday. I shipped them “Media Mail” which apparently is some secret code for “Cheapest Shipping Possible”. I’d never heard of it and it wasn’t even listed on the “menu”. But when I said it out loud to the woman behind the counter looked at me like I said “Hey, ship this for me while I kick your puppy”. I didn’t have any tape to close the box so she made me buy some tape… which i didn’t really mind. But when I joked “I’m not spending enough to get free tape?” she replied “Basically”
It just made me think of how little I actually ship things and I hardly ever get anything worthwhile in the mail. I’d recomend using this service if you have any media to mail and you don’t mind being treated like you’re trying to pull a fast one.
Later!
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I had originally started out thinking that I was going to write a “Farewell to the house” post about how awesome it was to live there and all the good times I had, but then something happened. I started helping Jesse, Charlie, and Bobby move stuff out of the house and clean up and at first I was reminiscent about all the things that were just being thrown away. Thinking, we collected this stuff for a reason, isn’t somebody going to enjoy it. But then wave after wave of crap kept pouring out of the house. It really wears you down, they literally threw away a ton of stuff. couches, beds, tables, chairs, tvs, monitors, computers… it was all just too much. February 28th 2009 marked the end of an era.
That era was my extended adolescence. For real this time!
The rest of the guys are finally moving out of the house in Vienna. It’s like a going out of business sale, everything must go. All the stuff that I left behind there thinking someone would use is out the door. You know all that stuff that you thought would look great around the bar in the basement? It’s old and dusty now and nobody wants it. You remember the bar in the basement? It’s old and nobody wants it. You remember the basement? It’s dirty and nobody wants to live there. I don’t remember why we were keeping Brian’s mom’s microwave in the basement, but now you realize it’s so old that it has a dial for a timer and remember a dent in the top where people used to climb over it to get up onto his bed in the dorm room freshman year. Which… dear lord… was 2000.
What is it with my urge to remember everything that happens to me. Is it that I think my best times are behind me? I don’t! Maybe I just think that nobody else will remember these things. Nobody else will know that those plastic coconut cups in the basement came from the my engagement party. Those 10.000 beer caps that you were saving for some un-named project… it’s not going to happen. Do you know why on Cribs you don’t see a wall plastered with cardboard 6 pack boxes, because it smells like mildew and the tape pulls the paint off the wall. But where does this stuff go when the era ends? Who gets the beer pong table? Who gets the bar, the bar!… man! Well, the answer for most of this stuff, is to the trash or for a small percentage Freecycle and Unique Thrift Store. Conveniently where I will go in 10 years to buy it back when I’m in my midlife crisis.
There were a lot of good times the 4 years at the apartment in Fairfax and the 3 and a half years in the house Vienna. But it’s time to move on. We’re all moving on, in with our respective girlfriends. In my case it’s time to purge some of the crap in my life, so this era comes to an end at an opportune time.
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