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Blog PostsHey... last post was in April. So, what's up? I had my house warming party a few days ago, overall it was pretty tame. I ended up waking up at 5:30 to start cooking the pork shoulder; by the time the party started I was ready for a nap. Anyway thanks for coming if you came by. One bad thing I've noticed about having a house is that it is a complete time black hole. You will never have enough time to fix everything in the house and do anything else. I had a car scare two days ago. I was driving out of my work parking lot to head home when I attempted to change gears from 1st to 2nd; somewhere in that time the bushing, which holds together the shifter to the linkage cable ( controls the transmission ), decided to break. My first reaction was to think that something was wrong with the clutch, as it seemed similar to what happened when it was the clutch. Thankfully the replacement part is only ~$10 it should be in the mail any day now. To keep you up to date on the television; The problem was with the power supply that feeds the led bulb, not the bulb itself. Unfortunately this means that the cost of service went up and ended up putting a $300 dent in my bank account. Are you all updated? good, I'm going back to work.
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With a down real estate market and a low interest rate, i really had no other choice. Why pay monthly on something you don't even own? The house is out by Kansas Expressway and Battlefield. The move has gone pretty smoothly and I would say that about 85% of our "stuff" has been moved. All we have left is the big stuff, the couch, television, washer and dryer, and my work bench. One thing we haven't been able to move is the contents of the refrigerator...The house didn't come with one so I'm stuck until i get a new one. Speaking of television, the led bulb went out on it yesterday...I thought they were supposed to be rated for 80,000 hours or something. hopefully the repair shop calls me back today to schedule an appointment. Anything else? Well, I have a lot of ideas floating around about mobile application development. Something I need to start up when I get done moving. I would like to make apps for many platforms but I think I'm going to start out with Android because a) I have an Android phone b) Apps are developed in Java, and the SDKs and Development tools are free A while ago I was given the idea to write an IPhone application, which I'm all for, The problem is that there is a somewhat large barrier to entry. First, barrier is that you need to have a Mac to develop on not a small fee. Second, I need to get myself associated with Objective C as a programming language. Third, it costs around 100 dollars/year to put your app on the app store itself. Anyways that's my monthly update :)
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HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS PHONE! The state of t-mobile's data service definitely leaves something to be desired. you'd think population wise that Springfield would already be taken care of as far as 3G is concerned, and you'd be wrong. As far as I can see on the coverage map, T-Mobile only covers Kansas City, St. Louis (obvious cities to cover), Columbia and Jefferson City. All bitching aside, the EDGE coverage is pretty universal and covers my typical data footprint pretty well. Based on some speed tests, I hover around 200kbit/s down and 130kbit/s up. More than enough to watch the occasional Youtube video, chat over google talk and handle pandora. Google Maps is a little slow(using edge) but the navigation works pretty well (got me to lee's summit in the middle of a spring-time-winter-weather-shit-storm from downtown KC) The most liked feature is the voice recognition search/texting. it works surprisingly well, granted yesterday it continued to think i was saying repo man instead of repo men, while i was searching for movie times. If you are in the market for phones I would definitely recommend it, especially because the ATT Version (different spectrum) was released recently. You'll be doing yourself a favor if you go ahead and spring for the unlocked version as you'll save a bunch on monthly payments.
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Those that know me well, know that I wasn't rooting for the Saints at all; In fact, It could be said that I hate the Saints and their success. This isn't entirely true, The only thing I've really hated was the link between the Saints football success and hurricane torn New Orleans. I often joked early on that they would probably make an inspirational movie based on the events of the Saints if they won the Super Bowl. Before the game even started, there were already a bunch of shitty mentionings about how much this meant for New Orleans blah blah and how the saints are so inspired because of it. A few facepalms later and I decided to skip the rest of the game to watch my newly purchased box set of The Sopranos. Please enjoy all of the inspirational crap that is sure to come in the future.
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Black Lips @ Mojo's on 4/6 or Japandroids @ Mojo's on 4/12 YOU DECIDE! poll on my site is up
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No, I don't want 3D televisions or 3d television programs, and fuck you for assuming so. Until the technology exists where I don't have to buy another television AND glasses I'm not going to buy it. Here is why. a) What if i want to have friends over to watch a movie (lets say a 3d movie) and more than 5 people show up... sorry extra guy that showed up you get to watch the blurry version of the movie. b) This model is very similar to that of consoles and the respective controllers. you are going to charge me $2000 for the TV and MAYBE 2 pair of glasses, then charge me 60 bucks for each additional pair...fucking ridiculous. And to content providers... I don't care how much money avatar made, I still haven't even seen it. There are still channels that aren't broadcasting in High Definition why would I expect you to be any faster at providing me with something that costs even more to produce and broadcast than High Definition? Seriously stop building hype on something that is going to fail. It is annoying, a waste of time and resources.
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A few days ago I ordered the webcam I planned on using for the beaglecam. Well it came in and i thought that the first order of business would be to test and see if it would run ok on linux. surprisingly the answer was yes. it was a simple plug and play experience, didn't have to install modules or anything! to test it out I browsed the web of a quick way of getting a frame off of the web cam and stumbled on this [code]mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:width=320:height=240:outfmt=rgb24 -frames 1 -vo jpeg[/code] Unfortunately, that did not work for me. first of all instead of v4l it needed to be changed to v4l2 as there was no compatibility layer for v4l1 (I guess). After i got that working, the image that was returned was a solid green jpg.... wtf! I should have known there was some start up time but you would assume when I want a frame I want the first frame after it is fully running. frustrated i decided to change the frames argument to return 10 frames and view the 10th image. combine all that and i ended up with this script for getting frames [code] cd /tmp/cam mplayer -msglevel all=-1 tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:width=640:height=480:outfmt=rgb24 -frames 10 -vo jpeg sleep 10 [/code] thats it! Put that shit in a loop and let it run and you have a new image every 10 seconds.
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If you think the top albums for 2009 are by Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, or Dirty Projectors. You are both Wrong and you read too much Pitchfork(or you write for them, either way you are wrong). That is all.
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There was a point of time last week where I wanted to get some coffee but I didn't want to be disappointed when I got there and there was not a drop left. wouldn't it be great if i could just check a website and see if there was coffee or not? I thought about it and decided that i could easily make a computer to do that. There was a problem though, I don't think people around the office would really want a somewhat large desktop computer in the break room cluttering up the area, so I needed something small. after searching for single board computers, I found them all to be a little too expensive for what I wanted to do. I remembered back a few months when i wanted this new handheld device that was completely community designed, ran linux, and was quite powerful, the Pandora. I also remembered that most of the development was done on beagleboards. For around $150 I got a relatively powerful computer packed into a 3"x3" form factor. So the idea rolled around in my head for a little bit longer and I decided to give it ago, difficulty wise I think it will be pretty low. As soon as i get my beagleboard (it is on backorder now) I'll have to get a linux install on it, make sure v4l modules are installed, then compile mplayer/ffmpeg. here is hoping I get it soon.
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We'll the server survived it's first hardware failure. on Monday my motherboard decided to crap out...I loved that little guy :( If I had to guess i would say that it died from just getting too damn hot... much of this was caused by having a nvidia 6600GT in there that wasn't being used (hell it was pretty much a headless server). not to mention me sticking it in a corner without the benefit of much air flow. anyways a new motherboard, and sata card later I think i got everything running the way i had it before. next on the list is getting the box ready to host another website, then it is script and web site designing for the foreseeable future... poop
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