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Dec 27, 2003
"The Wonders and Horrors of Myth TV" or "How to (and not to) Build Your Own TiVo Box."
I'll keep this entry somewhat short, mostly because there's
just too much to pack into one post, but basically here's the Jist. I
wanted to get TiVo for Sara for christmas, but was stopped by a few
things:
1.) The thing is just too damn expensive. It's OK if you just get the
machine, but if you want "service" as well, it's another $15-$20 a month.
The lifetime subscription is better, but you have to lay out a few hundred
up front for that, and if Tivo folds, you're screwed.
2.) We don't have a landline phone, which is the only way Tivo can
download the program guide. (That would be another $33 a month. Suck.)
3.) Although you can hack "DirectTV-Tivo" to work without a phone, it's a
pain in the ass, and my landlord won't let me hang a satellite outside the
building. Something about if it falls it's his liability. Whatever, he
should ban Air Conditioners too then. But I didn't feel like saying that
because I like my AC.
Anyway, the place made for one very happening birthday shindig. Check out
the pictures here. As near as I can tell, a great time was had by
all, and it was quite a turnout!
It was a night of oddities, that's for sure. We ended up next to the
least likely crew of people to ever call themselves a league bowling team.
It was watching the cast of "Mystery Men" go bowling. And man were they
SERIOUS about it. So, in homage to the weird cohesion of their team, I
give you detailed descriptions. And some names I just made up. Mind you, I
don't think anyone on their team bowled less than a 180.
Okay... So I remember going to college, and just about 3 days after I got
there, I stopped watching Television. Of course, with that, I stopped
watching that most influential station of our youth - MTV.
It didn't take long to find my first bit of trouble, all things considered. I knew that I was going to rustle some feathers with the stunt I had pulled to get outcity, and that my political grandstanding hadn't made me many friends even when I was incity. But at that point I was just a kid with an oldnet blog - by definition obsolete, reveling in my own lack of relevance to the very culture around me. I was pissing a few people off, sure, but I wasn't a threat.
For those of you just tuning in, I am in the process of writing a series
of short Vignettes from what is eventually to be a full length novel. See
the fiction
section for the other Vignettes.. Fair warning - depending on your
definition, these may not be work safe. I feel like slapping one of those
parental advisory stickers on here.
Oh wait.
There we go
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I awoke cradled in my new stripwear, comfortably nestled in its many arms, just outside the gigantic shining surface of the outside of a city node.
It's amazing how wakings can be so symbolic of change. I'd woken twice now unfamiliar settings in the outcity - both times in situations so far different from the staid life I'd lived until so recently. First inside the sleek, silver mobile doctor, feeling rebellious and anxious, and now here, in the waving grass and sun and wind of the wild, feeling calmer than I'd ever remembered feeling.
Well, for all my bitching, getting upstate by bus on Wednesday was pretty
damn easy. First off, Julie let me off early (you know that bit about the
coolest boss? Still right up there.) Then, Greyhound had about a billion
extra people working (or port authority did,) either way, the place was
working like clockwork for once.
Well, tomorrow we head to our respective homes for the Thanksgiving break,
and join the travelling masses once again. I forget how amazingly awesome
NYC's public transportation is until something like this comes along. Day
in and
day out I get to and from work without much of a thought. Sure, sometimes
the trains are delayed a bit, but really, I've been a lot more pissed off
sitting in traffic than I ever have been waiting for a train.
Now, granted, I will be sitting on a bus for this trip, but that's
actually what's got me worried. See, originally I had planned to check
with Greyhound and make sure that they were going to be running plenty of
extra buses and have someone at Greyhound reassure me that they do this
every year, and delays are expected but everyone eventually gets there. If
the customer service person laughed at me and asked what the hell I was
doing taking a bus the day before thanksgiving, I was going to suck it up
and pay the extra bit for the train.
Well, I found myself a bit sidetracked by life, and although incredibly
happy with the life stuff that occured in the time when I was supposed to
be doing all this travel planning, i've left myself with sold out trains
and the realization that customer service at greyhound bus is "claire,
your virtual service representitive."
I know claire... I know her all too
well. I've unleashed my fury on Sprint's "claire" many a time and
needless to say, we're not on speaking terms.
So, seeing that I'm a web geek by trade, I did what any self respecting
nerd would do and scoured the Greyhound site for
any sign of preparation on their part. What I found instead was a digitial
"go screw yourself if you're travelling tomorrow." The site basically
says, if your bus is sold out, get on the next one if there are seats,
but that one's sold out too, oh, and the one after that, and by the way,
we're still selling tickets for said sold out busses, so it may be till,
oh, maybe saturday before we can get you there. By the way, no refunds or
exchanges. Suck it, and have a nice day.
This post basically one long digital sigh of relief.
Last night was the first time I've gotten a full nights sleep in a
long
time.
A month ago, Sara and I took on the task of renovating the apartment
across the hall, and since that day, it's been night after late night of
moving the old tenants crap out and down, organizing and moving our stuff,
painting the new place, spackling, caulking, and doing TONS of minor
repairs.
Beyond that, there were also some major renovations to be done, including
replacing the bathroom vanity, the entire kitchen floor, the kitchen
faucet, and scrubbing down what must have been a decade of filth from
every surface in the apartment.
As of last night, we're officially done with all the hard stuff. All
that's left now is a minor leak under the sink in the kitchen and some
cleanup. We wish we'd taken some before pictures, but the "after" will
have to do for now. Excuse the mess - We're still putting out stuff in and
getting it where we want it to be!
See the
renovations
You may notice some minor changes around here as I finally start to do
more than just use basic blosxom and a stock theme. In particular, check
out the Friends and Linkage sections on the left. More to come...
Never tell buyer you're going to give them free upgrade to express
shipping because of their outstanding bid. It will cost you more
money than you expect.
Well, I've officially been selected as an alternate for a Jury. I'm
sure it violates about 4 million laws if I post anything about the
contents of the trial here, but suffice to say, the experience isn't
all that bad, it's just horribly timed - I've got e-bay
sales to ship out today! Damn democratic republic.
Well, I hadn't planned on moving us into the new apartment until
thursday, but here I find myself sitting over in the new place typing
away early in the wednesday AM... How did we get here you ask? I'll tell
you
I had originally planned to do one room a night - that seems simple
enough, except for the fact that our new place has more rooms - and a lot
of the stuff was moving from the bedroom in our old place to the living
room here. Especially the carpet. Of course, I wanted to put the carpet
down first in the new living room, so I set about trying to pull it up.
Never - Ever - do that unless you plan to move everything that is also ON
TOP of said carpet. Around 10PM, I finally cried uncle, told Sara I'd
screwed up, and decided just to move the whole bed (which was now in
pieces and all over the old apartment).
We got the bed and carpet moved over, and Sara went to sleep over here,
and I began the task I'd set out to complete so many hours ago - complete
one room tonight. I brought the entire entertainment center and my
computer and desk over, and just for the hell of it, plugged it all in to
the cable that was there. Next thing you know, the cable box has the
correct time on it. I was puzzled and excited - maybe the cable was STILL
ON from the old tenant, and he just happened to have the same exact RCN
service we did? What are the odds of that?
Well, whatever the odds, you're reading this, which means that I got all
of our internet and computer stuff hooked up and it just happened to work
on the cable that's in here. I even have the same freaking IP address.
Hat's off to RCN. Now tomorow all I have to do it call and tell them where
to send the new bill.
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Tearsong found a remarkable new site today - it's called The Political
Compass, and basically, it measures a bunch of your political viewpoints
and places you on a map along with other notable politicians.
This would be neat enough on it's own, but the authors of the site have
gone a step further and abolished the traditional left-right scale and
replaced it with a 2D left-Right x Authoritarian-libertarian matrix. It's
pretty uncanny in it's accuracy, and my results certainly shocked me a
bit! So much for being left-middle!
My Score:
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62
Basically what that means is that I'm a hard line lefty as far as
economics go (industry must be regulated, corporations will NOT do the
right thing if left to themselves, etc...) BUT i'm very libertarian
when in comes to the personal freedoms of the individual - basically,
if you're not hurting someone else, it's none of my, or the
government's business. Some of my more radical views about the well
off individual's responsibility to help those lost in the generational
cycle of poverty landed me way in the corner of this little graph.
Well, pretty much because I have the coolest boss on the face of the planet, I have a
new Palm Tungsten E today, and I'm sure I'll be posting here about the ridiculous things
you can now do on a Palm well into the future.
Not half a year into our lease at our new apartment, and we're already moving again! This time, luckily, there's no stairs involved. - we're moving from apartment 3C to 3A.
The previous occupant had been in there for years, and seemingly never cleaned the place while he was in there. We're taking layers of filth off of everything and painting and spackling everything that stands still.
As for the stuff that we can move, we're doing exactly that, hopefully through craigslist, ebay, and tag sales. You can see the stuff in /photos and if there's anything you want, name your price. Literally. We just want to get this stuff out of here without throwing it all in the trash, and hopefully help our landlord make up some of the lost rent.
In other news, we're getting excited for Halloween! We're going to a "Celebrity Death" shindig on friday, and Mortalis, Nepthys, and Tearsong are coming up for Saturday at batcave! It's going to be a long, great weekend, and a nice and needed break from working on the new place!
Ping-pong meets The Matrix meets Jim Henson ala "The Labrynth" (link)
We've seen it happen over the past decade. The visual effects of the movies we loved - Star Wars (orig. trilogy), The Labrynth, The first Jurassic Park (at least the big t-rex) and others like them have been replaced with ever more prevalent computer generated effects. While often not superior, these effects are cheaper to mass produce, and put very few limits on the director's vision. What hollywood has failed to realize is that the real art of the last generation of films came about when movie makers found creative and new ways around those limits: new ways to look at the scenes they'd invisioned, or maybe even allowing the audience to use it's imagination. In CG effects, it seems there's only two ways around limits - throw money at it, or accept sub-standard quality. The audience is slowly becoming aware of the lack of artistry involved in this new medium, and as shown by the dismal reaction to star wars Ep II and other SFX orgys of late.
There are so many people hidden in the cement pillars of this town... it's amazing when we all pour and splash out into the streets, flowing like water into any available space. There were some amazing images to capture thursday. I didn't get all of them, but I got a few
Well, Thanks to the email connections of Sara's friends (THANKS!!) I've officially moved from blogger to moblogger (flashmob weblogger)... We participated in our first flash mob tonight. It was, for lack of a better description, freaking fantastic.
Imagine you're a shopper, casually strolling through the HUGE toys r' us in times square. Suddenly, from seemingly out of nowhere, 600ish people materialize and then drop to their knees, cowering front of the giant animatronic T-REX.... They pray to the lizard, and scream in terror, arms outstrectched, as it roars.
Many times, geeky gadgets seem cool to me, but I hold off on buying
them because I don't see need they fulfill or a problem they solve, at
least for
me. I'll put them on the occasional wishlist, but more often than not,
my technolust goes unfulfilled. Because I tend to look at gadgets with
this pragmatic, slightly cynical view, I've surprised myself with this
review of the Stowboard.
Well, we're in Sunny old VA, soaking up the rays on the beach.
I'm proud to say I'm not sunburned yet! When we get back, I should hopefully have
lex 5, a review of the stowboard,
and pictures from the trip... I've got 200 pictures left on my 64 meg
card... Let's see how much I can use up!
"i know... Let's go fix that."
my words echoed strangely in my ears, maybe because of the perfectly smooth,
curved walls of the inside of the doctor, or maybe the last of the quicksed
was still wearing off.
either way, the words sounded... Prickley.
Like my skin felt, naked and free of my harness for the first time in my post
pubescent life.
Well, we've finally gotten the new place in Astoria livable, and
there's
quite a few "stories to tell" regarding the trials and tribulations of the
move... But I'll leave those for later. In the meantime, take a look at
the pictures!
Put more correctly, she became perfectly aware while still asleep - much like a lucid dream.
She'd only had one or two of those before, yet she knew something was profoundly different this time. she'd never been this aware that she was dreaming. the world around her lacked definition - not that it was a blank white canvas, just undefined.
As soon as she began to look around her, her mind began to fill in the
blanks. she must have been mistaken. She was in her room all along. of
course. Dreamlogic was beginning to fill in the logical gaps as
well.
I can't help but wonder how many times she's caught me staring at her.
I know theres been two times i can think of... Other than just now of course. This is the first time she's said anything though.
actually, I think this is the first time she's spoken to me period.
Her eyes opened to pure feedback. It was that blinding type of white which washes out everything else. She brought her hand to her face, pure white, as if the contrast on the world was up too high. Finally, as she moved her slender fingers in front of her groggy eyes she was able to make out the edges of her hand.
instinctively, lex reached up to run her hands through her long black hair.
The amplified sensation of her hand on her bare scalp woke lex from the remaining haze of the quicksed which had put her out.
she closed her eyes and rubbed her naked scalp, luxuriating in the intensity of the feeling.
She began a tactile exploration of her body, searching for the telltale signs of post-op.
her fingers traced down to the metal plate behind her left ear, then to the ear itself. 1 2 3 4 5 piercing. Big gauge impracticalities which would render all the standard earpieces useless.
She didn't care...
Well, I'm finally making the jump off of free open diary. I'll probably
convert all of my old entries there and place them here for posterity, but
it's just driving me crazy that I don't have any control over my own blog.
1. You should already have the latest version of blosxom (2.0 rc2) installed and running plus the following plug-ins: categories, calendar, writebacks, file, and breadcrumbs.
2. Download the photoblosxom flavor pack and unzip it.
3. Contained inside the data_directory folder are files to be placed within the $datadir specified in your blosxom script (content_type.phblox, date.phblox, head.phblox, story.phblox, foot.phblox, content_type.wrb, date.wrb, head.wrb, story.wrb, foot.wrb, writeback.wrb, head.trackback). Before uploading these files to your server you’ll need to edit and customize a few of them.
4. Open both the head.phblox and the head.wrb files in your favorite text editor. The first thing you’ll need to change is the location of your stylesheet(s) and, if you wish, change the default. Find the line which reads: and replace “http://yoursite/” with the absolute path to the location where you will be storing your stylesheet(s). Do the same for each of the alternate stylesheet links. If you wish to change the default stylesheet to phblox2.css or phblox3.css, now would be a good time to do so. Make sure that you change both head.phblox and head.wrb.
5. Again, for both head.phblox and head.wrb, find those lines which contain $file::filename and replace “filename” with the name of the file containing the appropriate text.
6. You can now upload the files contained within data_directory to your Blosxom $datadir.
7. The files contained within the document_root folder can be placed within any web addressable directory, but it must be the same directory that you used in step 4. I suggest that you place these files in the root of your server’s document directory (eg, /htdocs).
8. Try it out by pointing your browser at “http://yoursite/path/to/weblog/index.phblox”.
9. Finally, if you wish to make the phblox flavor your default you can either 1.) change the default flavor in your blosxom script, or 2.) rename all of the *.phblox files to *.html. You shouldn’t need to rename the *.wrb files.
Licensing and Such::
Basically, there is none. I’m releasing the stylesheets, the flavor templates, and the associated images into the public domain, so feel free to do whatever you would like with them. Use them as is, modify them beyond recognition, pass them along to your friends, or keep them to yourself. It’s certainly not a requirement, but I’d appreciate it if you would leave a comment here letting me know that you’re using one of my designs. And a link might be nice.
I'll keep this entry somewhat short, mostly because there's
just too much to pack into one post, but basically here's the Jist. I
wanted to get TiVo for Sara for christmas, but was stopped by a few
things:
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