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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
5:20 pm	Blockbuster - and an appology Notes from the trenches: It was Thanksgivig today and I spent the morning at Blockbuster. Again. At least now I get to go see my wife and her family and have a propper Thanksgiving dinner. I spent today answering the phone "Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for calling Blockbuster in Brookline - open 'till midnight. This is Andrew - how can I help you?" And, yes, every single person I said that to immediately asked "Are you open?" Nobody ever listens to me. And now a follow-up to yesterday's rant: ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
9:01 pm	Mental health Thoughts on mental "health" ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
6:48 pm	3D gaming I saw an article online the other day that Sony is going to introduce liquid crystal stereoscopic shutter glasses support to the PS3 via a firmware update soon! Is this going to be the 3D gamechanger I spoke about after seeing Coraline in the theaters? Or is it going to be a curiosity used by a few people and then discarded? I know that if they start producing 3D blu-ray versions of movies like Coraline and Up it will finally convince me to make the leap from DVD. Of course I will be required to purchase a compatible HD television first - but that has been on my shopping list for some time. I would postulate that by this time next year I will be enjoying stereoscopic gaming and movies in the comfort of my own home. addendum: I need advice from my friends list. I am making an X-mas mix for playing in the store during the holiday season. It will include songs from The Bobs' "Too Many Santas" and the "Nightmare Before Christmas" anniversary tribute album. My question is should I also include "Christmas at Ground Zero," "The Night Sants Went Crazy," and "Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo" or do those cross the line into inapropriate for play in a professional retail environment? Please discuss. Posted via LiveJournal.app. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
5:35 pm	iPodage I am happy. For a while I've been concerned that my iPod was on the blink. For some reason the headphone jack was shorting out. It started with me losing the left-hand audio signal. I had music playing through both of my headphones, but it was only half of the stereo audio track. (Which can be disorienting and irritating, since in many songs half the vocal track, or half the instrumets, will be in the missing audio. It's very odd to hear only half a song.) I found for a while that if I pushed latteraly on the headphone jack the audio would fix itself. At first I assumed this meant that the headphones I was using were shorting out, but the problem persisted when I bought new headphones, so that couldn't be it. And over time it got worse. In the last couple weeks it reached the point where that trick of pushing on the headphones no longer worked. And I began to get a crackling and static, as though the headphones were losing contact altogether. I could still play music fine through an iPod dock - so it was definately a hardware issue with the input. I theorized that I had carried my iPod in my trouser pocket with the headphones plugged in that the jack had been shoved sideways and begun to come loose from the housing, and that I was going to loose the ability to use headphones at all. (I've had the same problem with Walkmans and once with one of my Atari Lynxes.). But then on Sunday during my lunch break I noticed something. I noticed that my headphones were not going into the jack all the way. And with a little digging around using a paper clip I extracted about a millimeter sized slug of pocket lint. Lo - now my iPod is completely fixed! I had been worried that I needed to buy an all new iPod and am so overjoyed that this is not the case. Now my only problem is the lack of storage space. I have two full movies, all three webisodes of Dr. Horrible, three games, and a mess of music crammed into the tiny 8 megs of memory that my iPod offers, and have no room for anything more. I wonder how long until I will have the space in my portable media device to contain the entirety of my CD and DVD collection. I estimate that this would take at least 500 megabytes - and that it would probably be better to have a round terrabyte. Right now the largest solid-state memory option is around 100 megabytes I think. (That being the larger SD cards) so it's only a power of ten away. So probably large enough memory sticks will be available within three or four years (assuming that capacity doubles every year or so) but will Apple integrate such large memory stores in their iPod and iPhone products? Will I even. be using an iPod at that time any more or will some new technology supplant it? I look forward to finding out. Posted via LiveJournal.app. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
4:30 pm	Games! Too many games! ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
8:26 pm	Where the Wild Things Are Where the Wild Things Are ( As usual cut for length, but also for spoilers. ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
7:11 pm	Daily thoughts Being an evolutionary dead-end ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
8:04 pm	The grind The daily grind ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
9:58 pm	The self - thoughts The notion of self. In the computer afterlife. ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Friday, October 16th, 2009
9:50 pm	Chemicals and brains Emotions - the problem with using meat to think. ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
7:16 pm	Dreams and ponderings Dreams and ponderings. ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
9:58 pm	A resolution If I ever run my own company and have my own office I have resolved that I will not have a chair in my office. I had a day off today and I accomplished very little. Which is generally the way my days off go. I have so few days off that I usually have a large backlog of time wasting that I haven't had a chance to undergo during the weeks of constant business. I wasted my day today primarily with two games: Overlord II and Stuntman Ignition. But I kind of feel that I have trouble thinking without being on my feet. I pace when I'm thinking. I feel my brain turning over when I'm standing around cooking or working at the register.. and it just turns to mush when I'm sitting around online or playing games. So, yeah, I'll have chairs in my conference room for guests to sit in, but I want to spend all my time in my office standing up. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
5:02 pm	Thoughts about thought On the workings of my mind- ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Monday, October 12th, 2009
7:11 pm	Belief Belief and science ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
3:41 pm	A less philosophical post For today's update I'm going to take a break from the more philosophical wanderings and give more of a news update for those who check my journal to see what's up in my life rather than what's going on between my ears: ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
8:59 pm	Cheating and rule breaking Playing by the rules. ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 9th, 2009
10:31 pm	A few contradictory truths Some truths I believe in and live by. ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
6:14 pm	Daily thoughts: morality Thoughts today revolve around my notions of morality. ( As usual cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
6:33 pm	More thinkings Regarding how we influence the shape of the multiverse: ( cut for length ) Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
11:08 pm	Thinking thoughts I spend about two hours a day commuting to and from work these days, so I've been looking for ways to kill the time. Today I downloaded a livejournal app for my iPod, so here's a note I wrote up in my iPod's notepad this morning. Hopefully it's coherent - I haven't had much experience typing entirely with my thumbs. And part of this was written during slow moments in the store so who knows if it works as a whole. ------- Some notes on the nature of reality: ( text ) ETA: fixed reference to facebook at the top of this post (it should have said Livejournal) and pit long Tex behind a cut. Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)