almost 2 weeks later...
March 7, 2007 - 8:50
- office - Lost - Rome - Heroes
This is the first blog post from my office. The new iMac arrived today, and the data transfer between my old Mac Book Pro and this new monster concluded approxamitely 10 minutes ago. Needless to say, I am very excited about checking out everything this machine can do.
First thoughts:
-it appears all my old programs transferred great. I was wondering if I was going to have to reinstall any of the Adobe CS programs, but they appear to be working much faster than ever.
-24 inches is a ton of workspace, it's going to take a little getting used to.
...and that's it! like I said, I just started using it about 10 minutes ago!
Second Thoughts:
-AWESOME win today by SU vs uconn in the first round of the Big East tournament. I'm very excited for the rest of this toruny and then Selection Sunday.
-LOST: kind of slow the past 2 episodes. Honestly, when I see Hurley and Charlie in a van together, all I hope for is that black smoke to come and eat them. They just aren't even close to my favorite characters...however, I must say, I like them a ton more than the new characters the show is trying to introduce, who is that random dude and stray chick? Where were they the first few months after the crash? Well enough complaining about my favorite TV show...I am sure we will all be delighted in just under an hour when we get to see tonights episode!
-Rome: AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME... last weeks episode was great.
-Heroes: I've never mentioned NBC's "Heroes", which is a shame, because it is a very clever series. I just got all caught up last night via DVR. It takes the mutant idea from X-Men but adds an entirely fresh plot...can't go wrong there.
And in closing...
-I am about to wage war on my current domain name registrar, I have been laying low over the past two weeks, just waiting for everything to be complete with the office and now I am really, really mad at the fact that I can not pursue my efforts at uploading files via PHP because I can't get this domain transfer complete.
-but on a good note, I am VERY excited about all of the things I will be working on in the very near future. I have a few projects I am working on and there is a lot I have planned for this site.
Good night and enjoy LOST!
the Office
February 15, 2007 - 10:34
- Lost - office
I would have to say that NBC's "The Office" is one, if not the, funniest series I have ever watched. The things that happen are so outrageous, yet they still seem to remain in the realm of scenarios that you could almost see happening in a real office. I can't get enough of the way Jim messes with Dwight, as well as the way Michael is just living in his own world. My hat's off to the writers. I almost want to rent the BBC version, but I get just enough British accent in LOST (I know Desmond [Scottish] and Claire [Australian] don't have British accents, but for my TV viewing purposes, I can take the liberty of generalizing them all as "British")
In regard to LOST, I really enjoyed last nights episode. I'm going to jump right into what I think. There are many different hypothesises out there about what exactly is going on in LOST. I have yet to come up with any conclusions that I would bet on. One hypothesis that a coworker of mine told me a while back was that the island could be like purgatory, a place between life and afterlife. I have kept this hypothesis in the back of my head for a while, and as the seasons progress, I must say it does seem to hold steady. A few things off the top of my head are character's like Echo; fast forwarding to right before he died, he argued with his dead brother about whether or not he [Echo] has lead a good life or not. Once Echo proclaims he did in fact live a good life he is immediately "killed" by the mysterious black smoke (which could just be considered an extension of the island). Echo resolved his outstanding issue, rid himself of the skeleton in his closet, and was then taken away from the island. In an early episode, there is a lady that drowns while swimming. Boone tries to save her but ends up getting rescued by Jack. After the lady dies, one of the other characters goes into a little monologue about how the woman who drowned "wasn't supposed to be on the plane", apparently she had to depart a scuba diving trip early due to illness. This could be an example of someone who wasn't supposed to go through the trials of this purgatory. At the least, one has to wonder why the show felt the need to discuss how she was not supposed to be on the flight. If you take Jack, one of his skeletons is his father, there have been episodes showing Jack chasing his father around the island, as well as episodes showing the father tell Jack he doesn't have what it takes to be a great person. Jack is still alive, just as he hasn't shaken his past issues with his father. Then there's Desmond, last nights episode really revealed a ton about him, and about the island/reality they are all living in. To quickly sum up what I think of the whole future telling/being flung into the past thing: I think that when Desmond turned the key after the numbers weren't entered into the computer, he saved the entire world. The reward for completing such an unselfish act was that not only does he get rid of his skeleton (not proposing to Penny), he gets to go back in time and correct his mistake. Last night, he doesn't propose to Penny because, at the time, he thought he was going crazy. Later, once he realizes he really has "been there before", at that place in time, it's too late; he blew his chance, and is put back on the island (worthy to mention, he has been to the same place/time at least twice, the number of times he has saved Charlie thus far). There are more examples that can be applied to this hypothesis, but there are even more holes/issues that can be found with it. One is, we already have pretty solid evidence that the island is somewhere on Earth, remember to when we saw the crew of men at the north or south pole contact Penny after detecting the electromagnetic blast. It is odd that purgatory would be on Earth. There is really a ton up for individual interpretation, which is likely why the show is so successful. Needless to say, I am extremely excited for next weeks episode, where "3 of the islands biggest mysteries" are going to be answered...how exciting.
On other notes, I got my camera, and the ping pong table is finally assembled. The latter had a much longer duration of time between opening and using, as the table took a considerable amount of time to assemble. I would much rather put together a web site than a ping pong table. There has been a considerable amount of snow fall in my neck of the woods. I had to travel down to Queens yesterday via Amtrak, and my 10 mile drive home from the train station took almost as long as the 90+ mile train ride to the station. I would have to say that peoples inexperience or pure stupidity contributed to the road travel issues as much as the actual snow accumulation. Oh well, maybe I will take some nice pictures of bad drivers.
I'm tired. Good night.
an office
January 29, 2007 - 8:34
- life - office
For a while now, as I try to fall asleep at night, I often find myself building the perfect office in my head. I'm not quite sure why I have this unquenchable desire for a super decked out office, but I do. As time would have it, I find myself at an interesting spot right now in life, specifically speaking in regards to my options of creating an office. An event as significant as it is tragic has recently happened in my life, and as I try to put the pieces back together, I think I can fit a super decked out office somewhere in this puzzle called life. The event I speak of is obviously the departure of my very good friend and comrade Bard. Our joint venture of the ownership of the three family house I call home is quickly coming to an end. The exceptionally smart and athletic Bard decided to pursue a life of slow talkin, slow walkin, slow thinkin, and slow drinkin southern sweaty style, holla. The day to day Bardisms I have enjoyed over the past while will obviously be greatly missed, and as sad as his departure is, I am happy with the confidence that I find in us remaining good friends forever. All of these changes have spurred big changes to occur on the homefront, as we prepare to close on my buy-out of the house. These changes have have helped to give me the option of creating a super decked out office. I say only helped, because if it wasn't for the past months of hard work and studying I have done on some of the various technology topics, I would feel very guilty spending the type of money this office is going to require.
I have a loose 3-4 week time line of how I imagine everything panning out. This past Saturday, I picked out the desks that I am going to use, I choose a nice natural cherry /graphite gray style from the Bush Westfield line of office furniture. The two desks will for an "L" in one of the rectangle offices corners. Each end will extend approximately 6 feet. The same day, I purchased a much over-due multi-function printer. I have done a good amount of research on multi-function printers, and the HP C6180 was a very close fit to my ideal printer. It has built in wireless which I appreciate more now than I expected, it's great just plugging it into the wall anywhere and being able to start printing from anywhere. It has a separate 4x6 photo tray and exceptional print quality. It also has a 50 sheet feeder for scanning and copying, a necessity for my plan to lead a "paperless" life. It has a nice LCD screen on it, a bunch of flashy button, and unfortunately a fax machine that requires something called a "phone line"????. So that's how far the ball has started rolling thus far on the super decked out office. It would start rolling incredibly fast if I wasn't worried about a decently sized Apple announcement for February. I am anticipating a super bowl commercial announcement involving the Beatles, as well as another announcement (hopefully involving Leopard) around February 20th. These are just guesses, but if by any chance Leopard does come out soon, i want the new machine to have it already on it. Depending on what kind of unexpected hardware announcements get made in February, I am strongly leaning towards getting a juiced up iMac 24'. If I upgrade the memory and video, I have faith in it's ability to rock any resource intensive projects I will be working on. We will see what happens, the idea of an unannounced 8-core Pro workstation is as scary as it is enticing. I already have a cart at the Apple store filled with every accessory who's purchase I could justify to myself for buying. Luckily I talked my self into getting some crazy stuff, so I'm very excited. Additionally, the office will contain a top notch 7.1 audio system, a comfy couch, cool lighting, weird/dorky posters, and possibly a rug, ionic vaporizer, and space heater. I will call this Office 1.0, as it is a very early rendering of the ultimate office I will build for myself in just a few minutes as I try to get to bed at a decent time, as I have to catch the 6:55 train to Penn Station, which will begin, what I hope turn out to be a short day of work at Civil Queens. Good night from the inside.