May 31, 2009

Typing this mess on my dad's freshly repaired computer. It is now running Ubuntu 9.xx. Code name Jaunty Jackalope. Funny name :P

Woo I get paid tomorrow! I do need the money. Gas is terrible and I need to pay for the cruise I am going on with the fam and significant others. Merh.

BAH the shift key is really hard to press on this keyboard. It like sticks in the up position so I have a hard time pushing it down. Maybe I should utilize my right hand and use that shift key, but then again, it takes too much effort lol. It would be one of those things I would have to concentrate about to do.

Right now I am working on my cousin's PC. (bah this whole keyboard sticks.) They were complaining about slowness, so I took it home and found several viruses/trojans/security threats/etc etc. So now it is getting the update treatment after I cleared out the malware.

Well I have work tomorrow. It will be another ordinary day of learning the in's and out's of the shop and tasks that need to be done.

Oh on a side note about work, the building I used to work at used to be a hospital. So we work in the basement and there is a storage closet we call the morgue. Well wouldn't ya know, that "the morgue" used to be the actual morgue.....The whole slidey drawer body tray things are still in the wall and there is drain coming out of the wall and into a drain on the ground. It stores old gym equipment and computer parts now. It kinda looks like that picture, but not really. The drawers are horizontal and stacked on top of each other. Bah don't look up morgue on Google images. That was rather gross.


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That is where I work. Great thing is, that it is now dorms for the honors students :)

Well I am off to the tele or something. Bye world

Musical Posting

Pete Bjorn and John:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN_oOtHIe7c
I wish I had his moves.

They always have some catchy music. Even though a lot of it consists of whistling, not this one!

ComaR:
A rather cool mash up of Justice and the Jackson 5


Lady Gaga:
Her music is usually really catchy and tops the charts. Quite a different sound that what is usually heard on the radio.

Will and Bear Team Up

So I can't embed it due to it being disabled, but follow through to the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=453WwRG265I

A Life Update

So I am currently in my brother's room because some people who live in Cali and North Carolina are here at the moment and my room was commandeered to be a room they stay in. Ugh. The comforter in my brother's room stinks. I'll just be wearing a hoodie for tonight I suppose.

Anyways, Memorial Weekend I went to Lake Anna to spend time with Steph because she was visiting her family. We hung out in the common area of the neighborhood and made those slow shutter pics with the Olympus camera I got. I never used the bulb setting before so it was a good experiment. Also we watched Meet the Robinsons. That was a funny movie. "I have a big head and little arms." Haha oh T-Rexs. I went home Monday morning and just napped most of the day away.

I started working at HAStech at VCU on Wednesday. So far it has been ok. Doesn't really seem like work to me. It is pretty slow paced. So far I have just delivered fixed stuff and set up printers and networked them. Set up a few work stations and such. Going to learn how to image computers and yeah....Oh I did get to destory a camcorder to get the tape out. That was exciting lol. I got my own set of keys and everything to work at HAStech. Yay. That last sentence kinda just jumps topics so quickly :P.

And now I am here. Typing away at the computer when I should be sleeping. I will probably pass out after this post.

I started to try out Hulu Desktop. It is kinda like Windows Media Center, but only for Hulu. So far it is pretty cool. I will try hooking it up to my big tv and see how things go. Hopefully it won't be too pixelated.

Umm what else do I want to share to the world. I am not quite sure. Not too much goes on in my life. Other than I wish I took more pictures, I don't have much.

Suppose I will go to bed.

Night world.

Photos Fotos

Random posting of photos:

Ukrop's Picnic and Oven Baked Fried Chicken

So today was the annual Ukrop's Picnic on the Ukrop Ranch. It was awfully chilly and there was a slight drizzle on and off. The food kind of downgraded. I remember it went from shrimp on the menu to now it is BBQ sandwiches and hot dogs and the sides. It is still a fun thing though. So many Ukrop people. There was a giant inflatable slide, a dunking booth, an ice cream truck full of Nestle and Briars novelty frozen treats, the usual sports competitions, and of course the food. The highlight of the food is usually the watermelon and loads of it. The picnic was fun despite me being cold.


Afterwards I went to Steph's, went to Kroger (ironic lol), and had some din. She made oven bake fried chicken and mashed potatoes. I shucked and boiled the corn :P. It was qutie delicious and now we are relaxing at my house.

Nused Camera

My uncle sent me another camera (Olympus Camedia E-10) he does not know how to use. It is an intermediate camera. Lens isn't interchangeable, but has separate focus and zoom rings. It has a nice wide zoom lens on it (9-36mm) with f stops form 2.0 - 11. ISO speeds are weirdly numbers and low. I think the max is 320. So no low light, no flash photos there, or very limited. Live view LCD, but is not the greatest quality. It conveniently pops out though for those odd angles. I haven't really had time to play with it since it is exams week, but I'll try to post some samples. The camera also came with a wide angle converter also. I forget the specs on it. So we shall see how this 4MP wide angle lens camera works for me.

Some of the pluses it has over the Powershot Pro 1 he gave me before are:
Bulb mode
Extremely wide angle
Runs on AA batteries (Easy power source to find)
Optical viewfinder
Separate zoom and focus rings
3x zoom lens adds an extra 4 pounds for a whopping 108mm zoom.

Some cons:
Weird button placement (I am used to Canon's setup)
Very sensitive shutter release
LCD screen for live view is not very crisp
Runs on AA batteries (Kills them fast. Need rechargeables)
White balance is measured in K instead of the user friendly Sunny, Cloudy, etc etc
Low ISO speeds

I can't think of much more at the moment. I need to get back to studying. I'll update on Thursday or Friday.