Got my new office

For those of you who haven't heard yet, I moved into my new office about 2 weeks ago!



Just got my sign on the door the other day.

Tinkering with expensive electronics, again

For some time my receiver's been taking its sweet time finding a signal from any source, and lately it's been getting worse. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes or more for it to produce a picture. A little internet research revealed this is a common problem with this model and many people have fixed the problem by replacing 5 specific capacitors on the HDMI daughterboard. I was prepared to take the risk.

The dying receiver

The damages

Success!

Late February

Who is going to be around the last weekend in February? I am going to be down in Florida for a district retreat, but I am thinking of sticking around for the weekend (like the 25th t0 the 2zth), so if people are going to be around. If people are around, definitely want to see everyone.

COLD!

So in case any of you guys are thinking of moving up north, when I drove to work this morning, my car said it was 22 degrees below zero outside. I am amazed my car actually started!

Gasparilla

This coming weekend is the Gasparilla parade on Saturday starting around 2PM I think. As of now the plan is to get out there early and setup a spot on the street and just hang out and watch the festivities. Assuming the weather is nice it should be a great time so anybody who want's to come up should. We plan on just bringing some folding chairs and coolers and making a whole day out of it. Let me know if anybody is interested!

Also, Josh and Amanda let me know if you guys have plans or have been before, because none of us have. We plan on walking from Danny and Gina's place as of right now....

Peace be the journey...

Nick D

Black Ops DLC Out Feb 1st

[L] GS to offer Facebook to only Foreign Investors

So it looks like the SEC scrutiny has taken one of the most popular products of this century and forced it to be owned internationally. And this is helping America how?

J E T S JETS JETS JETS!!!

Thats all I have to say. And hey, now maybe Tom Brady can forget about football and catch another musical on Broadway next Saturday.

New Toy

I Just picked up a new piece of hardware. I purchased a Korg Padkontrol which is a beat pad for music making. Still installing software and learning how to use it but it is definitely a cool tech toy and i got it half price cause it was open box.... SCORE!

[L] So, I'm a Sagittarius now?

You guys hear about this? I've never been one to obsess over my horoscope, but I did always fit surprisingly well with the Capricorn personality description. Apparently now I'm going to have an identity crisis :)

[L] and this surprised absolutely nobody

Well Alex, it was great while it lasted. Pick predictions anyone?

Official Amanda Day

Happy Birthday Amanda!! Have a good one. Maybe one day we will trip it over to St. Pete to pay you a visit :)

Faith Versus Facts

I stumbled upon this article, read it, loved it. stimulating to say the least.

Iphone comes to Verizon

Well we all know that the best all-in-one phone is the Iphone. I say we all, because even if you hate the iphone it's for one of two reasons. The first, you have a phone that is a shitty copy of the iphone. Or, two you don't want to switch to AT&T because of there spotty coverage, outrageous pricing and hostage like situations in which you sign your life away to own one of god's gifts. But alas the iphone is now available "soon" on the Verizon network.

My response to this is... Fuck you Apple! I was happy living in the only state that has good AT&T coverage. And i wasn't getting tired of being mortally superior to anybody with a Droid or HTC. Now I have to spend the next year listening to everybody say the Iphone 4 for Verizon is better than the AT&T Iphone 4. Erroneous! The point is AT&T had the world by the balls, similar to bill gates or that creepy bastard from the social network. But they bitched out, opting not to pay more money to keep the Iphone exclusively AT&T sold. Which maybe the only reason I would ever use AT&T. Yes the Iphone will still be sold at AT&T stores but it has lost its mystique. Mark Zuckerberg had the idea that exclusivity would draw the masses to facebook. This worked well, he had people giving him terabytes of data that he then used against his facebook minons. Same as apple, you buy an Iphone fueling their R&D then they in return release another phone shortly after you purchased your first. This angers the child inside of you. The testosterone in your body drops when you realize you have been outdated. So to regain your manhood and technological foot up, you must purchase another new Iphone. Which then starts the cycle again.

this Is how AT&T should keep handling there business, but unfortunately for its' stockholders the gravy train is running out of rue. There will soon be nothing left but hardened bacon fat stuck to the empty pot that Was the AT&T empire. But if you act like a pig someone's gonna roast you. So Thumbs up to Verizon, your not the retarded kid picking his nose anymore, you have become a gourmet chef whom just prepared himself a feast. It took a while but that's what happens when your handicapped.

No offense to handicapped people, muslims, facebook users or anyone else that may feel alienated by this post.

The Shooting

By now I'm sure everyone has heard about the shooting in Tucson this past weekend. For everyone's info this happened on the other side of town from where we live.

I have to admit I didn't expect the media to grab onto this story as hard and fast as they did. The President is going to be visiting UofA today.

The event is tragic there is no doubt about that. But it seems like people are shot every day all around the country; is it *this* much more important that one of the people was a congresswoman?

Maybe I'm just callous, but I would rather see this airtime devoted to some of the other victims especially the little girl who will never have the chance to grow up and become a congresswoman herself.

Congrats

To Alex and the Auburn Tigers. It was truly a good game to watch on TV and I am sure in person. I can't say I am surprised that the defenses kind of stepped up, but I thought both teams would definitely be over 20. Either way Alex I hope to hear more about it this weekend as I should be in Btown a bit. Enjoy it my friend I am definitely a little jealous!

Puppy Love