Thursday, June 19, 2008
Life is decent
well, except for the weather.
Bought tickets last week to see Nine Inch Nails in September, so I'm pretty stoked about that. Trent also put out a sampler of all the bands that are opening for him along the tour. I checked out their albums and I really like Does it Offend You, Yeah? (Yes that is their name) - kind of a mix between Klaxons, Bloc Party, Daft Punk, and Atari Teenage Riot. Haven't been able to find the album from Deerhunter, who is actually playing at the Oakland show I'm going to.
This weekend while Jen was gone (and I was bored) I reinstalled my MythTV computer with Mythbuntu, a MythTV-specific version of Ubuntu. I must they they did an impressive job on it, only took me about 3 hours to get the whole thing up and running.
Current Music: Does it Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars
Link of the Day: Download the newest NIN album - For Free (and legally)
Random Picture:
Bought tickets last week to see Nine Inch Nails in September, so I'm pretty stoked about that. Trent also put out a sampler of all the bands that are opening for him along the tour. I checked out their albums and I really like Does it Offend You, Yeah? (Yes that is their name) - kind of a mix between Klaxons, Bloc Party, Daft Punk, and Atari Teenage Riot. Haven't been able to find the album from Deerhunter, who is actually playing at the Oakland show I'm going to.
This weekend while Jen was gone (and I was bored) I reinstalled my MythTV computer with Mythbuntu, a MythTV-specific version of Ubuntu. I must they they did an impressive job on it, only took me about 3 hours to get the whole thing up and running.
Current Music: Does it Offend You, Yeah? - We Are Rockstars
Link of the Day: Download the newest NIN album - For Free (and legally)
Random Picture:
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Today I received this picture message
Your puppy
Checking for monsters, I guess. Or maybe he is a monster.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Busy busy busy
It's on.
Just finished our first round of registering for gifts at Bed Bath and Beyond (mostly the Beyond section) and Target. Registering is kind of like making a Christmas list combined with shopping. They give you a little hand scanner and you go around and scan everything you like. I registered for my sweet Kitchen Aid mixer, so after that I was set.
We finished our sweet "Save the Date" cards, so those should be going out some time this summer. However, I keep calling them "Saves the Day", because I've said that a lot more times than "Save the date".
Current Music: A Perfect Circle - Magdalena
Link of the Day: Our Awesome Wedding Site
Random Picture:
Just finished our first round of registering for gifts at Bed Bath and Beyond (mostly the Beyond section) and Target. Registering is kind of like making a Christmas list combined with shopping. They give you a little hand scanner and you go around and scan everything you like. I registered for my sweet Kitchen Aid mixer, so after that I was set.
We finished our sweet "Save the Date" cards, so those should be going out some time this summer. However, I keep calling them "Saves the Day", because I've said that a lot more times than "Save the date".
Current Music: A Perfect Circle - Magdalena
Link of the Day: Our Awesome Wedding Site
Random Picture:
Labels: wedding
Thursday, February 28, 2008
The Wedding Planning Machine begins to pick up steam
The planning! The reality! argh!
Not a whole lot of news- we're looking at maybe April-May 2009 time frame for the wedding, somewhere in San Luis Obispo county. Books have been bought. Preliminary guest lists have been made. We are so organized.
Current Music: Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
Links of the Day: Garfield Minus Garfield - This is such a better comic!
Random Picture: Sometimes xkcd echoes my life so accurately it scares me.
Not a whole lot of news- we're looking at maybe April-May 2009 time frame for the wedding, somewhere in San Luis Obispo county. Books have been bought. Preliminary guest lists have been made. We are so organized.
Current Music: Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
Links of the Day: Garfield Minus Garfield - This is such a better comic!
Random Picture: Sometimes xkcd echoes my life so accurately it scares me.
Labels: wedding
Monday, February 25, 2008
We're Engaged!
I swear, he's nice!
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Labragon
1/2 labrador, 1/2 dragon
I guess I haven't written a post about Riley, our dog, yet so to update anyone who we haven't told about him (or hasn't come over to our house and seen the awesomeness that is Riley), here goes:
In June we went to the SPCA to see what kinds of dogs they had. We had just moved up to Antelope and the one requirement for a place to rent was that we could have a dog. We didn't really intend to pick a dog that day, but I really liked Riley. He was a lab mix that was all black, but with a white belly, and white tips on his tail and paws. He was a big puppy still (6 months old and 60 lbs), but he was very cute and seemed to be very attentive and smart. He was already housetrained, so that was a bonus. We put a hold on him for a couple days to think about it. We went back later that weekend and decided to take him home. Unfortunately it wouldn't be for a few days because he had to go to the vet to get neutered.
Jen brought him home during my first week of work. He was pretty crazy around the house and made a lot of trouble. She wasn't working at the time, so she basically spent all day every day with him. After a week or so we decided to take him for a trip to the dog park in Roseville. He definitely loved it and was very social with all the other dogs. The only problem was that he didn't realize how big he was, so he would start playing with puppies that were smaller than him and their owners would freak out.
We went to the vet for the first time for a checkup- he said Riley looked very healthy. He said he wasn't sure what Riley was mixed with (definitely part lab), but that he didn't think he would be over 100 lbs. For the first couple months we would go to the dog park and try to figure out what other breed Riley was mixed with by looking for similar characteristics. In time it became obvious...
A local obedience trainer gave 1 free lesson to dogs from the SPCA, and we knew Riley definitely needed it. After about 12 lessons, he is great at sit, down, up, wait, stay, watch, drop it, leave it, come here, and walking on a leash. We also taught him to roll over, high-five (and ten), crawl, bow (Schaffhausen!), off, get out, and to bring us his bowl when it's time to eat (although now he brings us the bowl when HE thinks it's time to eat- which is always).
When he got to be about 9 months, we realized that he was quite a bit bigger than any labs we had seen at the dog park. His stomach also seemed a bit thinner (labs are usually pretty filled out). We started looking at breeds that were bigger than labs, and we found that there is a color pattern of great dane called a "mantle" that is all black, with a white chest, paws, and tail. We also found that "labradanes" (labrador/great dane) are a pretty popular hybrid breed. There is a purebred great dane named Max that goes to the dog park that is quite a bit bigger than him, but when we watch them play together they have a pretty similar body shape and gait. Riley's head is definitely labrador, but we're now pretty sure he's a labradane. He is over 100 lbs (silly vet), but we think he's pretty much done growing.
He just turned 1 year old this month, and he's starting to settle down a little (although he still gets pretty hyped up when people come over or when we go someplace new). He is smart- when we sit in the living room watching TV and he is outside, he tries to chew on the cable that runs down the outside of the house! He is awesome in the car- we drove 8 hours to Temecula for Thanksgiving and we had to stop more times so that Jen could go to the bathroom than for Riley. We're taking him to my parents' house for Christmas, so hopefully we'll have some cute pictures and no disasters.
Off to the dog park!
Current Music: Nothing in particular
Link of the Day: Space Dog
Random Picture:
This is not Riley. Sorry.
But this is!
I guess I haven't written a post about Riley, our dog, yet so to update anyone who we haven't told about him (or hasn't come over to our house and seen the awesomeness that is Riley), here goes:
In June we went to the SPCA to see what kinds of dogs they had. We had just moved up to Antelope and the one requirement for a place to rent was that we could have a dog. We didn't really intend to pick a dog that day, but I really liked Riley. He was a lab mix that was all black, but with a white belly, and white tips on his tail and paws. He was a big puppy still (6 months old and 60 lbs), but he was very cute and seemed to be very attentive and smart. He was already housetrained, so that was a bonus. We put a hold on him for a couple days to think about it. We went back later that weekend and decided to take him home. Unfortunately it wouldn't be for a few days because he had to go to the vet to get neutered.
Jen brought him home during my first week of work. He was pretty crazy around the house and made a lot of trouble. She wasn't working at the time, so she basically spent all day every day with him. After a week or so we decided to take him for a trip to the dog park in Roseville. He definitely loved it and was very social with all the other dogs. The only problem was that he didn't realize how big he was, so he would start playing with puppies that were smaller than him and their owners would freak out.
We went to the vet for the first time for a checkup- he said Riley looked very healthy. He said he wasn't sure what Riley was mixed with (definitely part lab), but that he didn't think he would be over 100 lbs. For the first couple months we would go to the dog park and try to figure out what other breed Riley was mixed with by looking for similar characteristics. In time it became obvious...
A local obedience trainer gave 1 free lesson to dogs from the SPCA, and we knew Riley definitely needed it. After about 12 lessons, he is great at sit, down, up, wait, stay, watch, drop it, leave it, come here, and walking on a leash. We also taught him to roll over, high-five (and ten), crawl, bow (Schaffhausen!), off, get out, and to bring us his bowl when it's time to eat (although now he brings us the bowl when HE thinks it's time to eat- which is always).
When he got to be about 9 months, we realized that he was quite a bit bigger than any labs we had seen at the dog park. His stomach also seemed a bit thinner (labs are usually pretty filled out). We started looking at breeds that were bigger than labs, and we found that there is a color pattern of great dane called a "mantle" that is all black, with a white chest, paws, and tail. We also found that "labradanes" (labrador/great dane) are a pretty popular hybrid breed. There is a purebred great dane named Max that goes to the dog park that is quite a bit bigger than him, but when we watch them play together they have a pretty similar body shape and gait. Riley's head is definitely labrador, but we're now pretty sure he's a labradane. He is over 100 lbs (silly vet), but we think he's pretty much done growing.
He just turned 1 year old this month, and he's starting to settle down a little (although he still gets pretty hyped up when people come over or when we go someplace new). He is smart- when we sit in the living room watching TV and he is outside, he tries to chew on the cable that runs down the outside of the house! He is awesome in the car- we drove 8 hours to Temecula for Thanksgiving and we had to stop more times so that Jen could go to the bathroom than for Riley. We're taking him to my parents' house for Christmas, so hopefully we'll have some cute pictures and no disasters.
Off to the dog park!
Current Music: Nothing in particular
Link of the Day: Space Dog
Random Picture:
This is not Riley. Sorry.
But this is!
Labels: beast, dog, labragon, riley
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
It's snowing!
At least it is here on my blog.
Just a post to update links on the left. Now go read xkcd. All of it. And make sure to read the mouseovers, they are often the best part.
Current Music: "Self-Conclusion" - The Spill Canvas
Links of the Day: This bug is why you often can't read the full mouseover text on xkcd without doing a right-click/properties. Sad how long it has taken to be fixed.
The origin of emoticons... everything comes from somewhere, I guess. :-)
Just a post to update links on the left. Now go read xkcd. All of it. And make sure to read the mouseovers, they are often the best part.
Current Music: "Self-Conclusion" - The Spill Canvas
Links of the Day: This bug is why you often can't read the full mouseover text on xkcd without doing a right-click/properties. Sad how long it has taken to be fixed.
The origin of emoticons... everything comes from somewhere, I guess. :-)
Labels: blog
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Yay work
nerd it up
Been doing some cool stuff at work lately. First have been learning how to script Ubuntu installations using Debian Installer preseeds. Pretty awesome stuff, and way better than Fedora. Also have been learning about profiling using OProfile and IBM's Visual Performance Analyzer. Very cool to be able to actually see where programs spend their time.
I just checked out Eclipse for the first time yesterday and I'm pretty impressed. I know a lot of Java people have been using it for years now, but since I really only did C programming in my upper-division CPE classes, I never had a need for much more than a text editor and a makefile. I loaded up the C and Ruby environments, and both seem pretty cool. I have usually avoided IDE's for programming because I always feel like they're getting in my way, but Eclipse seems to be a reasonable balance of useful tools and letting you do your work.
Have been testing out some really cool hardware lately, though can't go into too much detail. Most of the people on my team are software guys, so I'm happy to test out the cool, new hardware. :)
Other than that, just keeping busy playing ogame (3 attempts and still no moon!), reading the tale of 1337 on xkcd and trying not to miss anything major on osnews. Today Jen and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary. I brought home roses and we went to Del Taco. Man are we awesome or what?
Current Music: Cake - Love You Madly (stuck in my head)
Link of the Day: If I know you I'm sure you've already seen Kenya . Now see Brazil! Marcos says's that's pretty much how it is there. Forget Norway.
Random Picture:
Also awesome: (thanks for the link, Matt)
Been doing some cool stuff at work lately. First have been learning how to script Ubuntu installations using Debian Installer preseeds. Pretty awesome stuff, and way better than Fedora. Also have been learning about profiling using OProfile and IBM's Visual Performance Analyzer. Very cool to be able to actually see where programs spend their time.
I just checked out Eclipse for the first time yesterday and I'm pretty impressed. I know a lot of Java people have been using it for years now, but since I really only did C programming in my upper-division CPE classes, I never had a need for much more than a text editor and a makefile. I loaded up the C and Ruby environments, and both seem pretty cool. I have usually avoided IDE's for programming because I always feel like they're getting in my way, but Eclipse seems to be a reasonable balance of useful tools and letting you do your work.
Have been testing out some really cool hardware lately, though can't go into too much detail. Most of the people on my team are software guys, so I'm happy to test out the cool, new hardware. :)
Other than that, just keeping busy playing ogame (3 attempts and still no moon!), reading the tale of 1337 on xkcd and trying not to miss anything major on osnews. Today Jen and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary. I brought home roses and we went to Del Taco. Man are we awesome or what?
Current Music: Cake - Love You Madly (stuck in my head)
Link of the Day: If I know you I'm sure you've already seen Kenya . Now see Brazil! Marcos says's that's pretty much how it is there. Forget Norway.
Random Picture:
Also awesome: (thanks for the link, Matt)
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
I am now an old man
It's probably about time for a quarter-life crisis...
I kinda forgot about the whole having-a-blog thing, and the idea of how you're supposed to update it. Perhaps I'll go through a phase of updating again. We shall see. I had to figure out what the heck my FTP upload account info was again (thanks Jeff for keeping the site up and around) and figure out how to convert my Blogger account to use my *Google Account* (oooh, shiny)
Anyway, it was my birthday a couple days ago- thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday via Facebook! I know it reminds you that my birthday is coming up, but it's better than a kick in the ass. Or nobody wishing you happy birthday. :) Speaking of Facebook I suppose I should get back on that... Jen and a bunch of people are on a trivia team and I am slacking off- the only points I have are those that Jen earned while signed in as me...
My new job at ProCurve is going really well and my job is definitely really interesting. It's way different than being at a small company, but everyone is really friendly and easygoing. Jen is interviewing with a couple places in the area, so she's pretty excited about that. Riley (our dog, I guess I haven't written about him here yet) is doing pretty well... he is getting better about listening to us, although he is still pretty hyper sometimes. Fortunately the 110+ degree weather of summer is over and most days it's in the 70's or so.
Well anyway... enough for now, I'm off to play some Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on my DS (Thanks Jen!)
Random Quote: A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire (seen on a random Slashdot sig)
Current Music: Ratatat - Remixes Volume II
Link of the Day: ogame.org - A text-based space sim game. I like it because you can log in like once or twice a day, do stuff for 10 minutes, then let things build/research/etc for several hours.
Random Picture:
I kinda forgot about the whole having-a-blog thing, and the idea of how you're supposed to update it. Perhaps I'll go through a phase of updating again. We shall see. I had to figure out what the heck my FTP upload account info was again (thanks Jeff for keeping the site up and around) and figure out how to convert my Blogger account to use my *Google Account* (oooh, shiny)
Anyway, it was my birthday a couple days ago- thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday via Facebook! I know it reminds you that my birthday is coming up, but it's better than a kick in the ass. Or nobody wishing you happy birthday. :) Speaking of Facebook I suppose I should get back on that... Jen and a bunch of people are on a trivia team and I am slacking off- the only points I have are those that Jen earned while signed in as me...
My new job at ProCurve is going really well and my job is definitely really interesting. It's way different than being at a small company, but everyone is really friendly and easygoing. Jen is interviewing with a couple places in the area, so she's pretty excited about that. Riley (our dog, I guess I haven't written about him here yet) is doing pretty well... he is getting better about listening to us, although he is still pretty hyper sometimes. Fortunately the 110+ degree weather of summer is over and most days it's in the 70's or so.
Well anyway... enough for now, I'm off to play some Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on my DS (Thanks Jen!)
Random Quote: A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire (seen on a random Slashdot sig)
Current Music: Ratatat - Remixes Volume II
Link of the Day: ogame.org - A text-based space sim game. I like it because you can log in like once or twice a day, do stuff for 10 minutes, then let things build/research/etc for several hours.
Random Picture:
