After getting 5 hours of sleep last night and being on my 14th hour of work so far today, jwz's diary from the early days at Netscape is very easy to relate to. jwz, however, kept his insane schedule for months. That's just freaky.
I took a little hike around SF today... Actually, it was a lot longer than that. I started out by walking to the Sony Metreon, then wandered down to Fisherman's Wharf, before climbing up to Coit Tower. If you take a look at this picture you'll see a flat building with a tower on it below the Bay Bridge. I walked from beyond there up to where the picture was taken, then back.
My feet are tired.
I'm now out in San Francisco. Even just from the little bit I've been here today, I already love it. Michigan, pale in comparison to anything else, doesn't even deserve comparisons with life out here.
Just one year left...
The worst part about getting ready to go on a trip is trying to remember all the little things I need to install or upgrade in order to be able to continue looking somewhat like I'm working while I'm away with my notebook.
I think I've got everything now, though, including two issues of Wired and one of Mobile Computing to read once my VAIO expends its measly supply of battery.
I'm the first one here at the office this morning... I have no clue why, it just sort of happened.
Definitely not something people should get used to...
I just saw on the Red Elvises tour dates page that they're going to be in Ann Arbor on July 4. If gas prices go down, you can bet that's where I'll be celebrating my 4th of July.
OPEC has a surprisingly useful article on their website explaining why high gas prices aren't their fault.
That still doesn't help the fact that right now regular unleaded here in Muskegon is $2.09 a gallon. That's up $0.15 since Friday, when it was a mere $1.94.
I really wish I lived in a city big enough to have decent public transportation. This is just crazy.
If you're ever looking for foreign cds you just can't seem to find in your area, I highly recommend Skivhugget. I've ordered two cds there now, and not only is their service great and very prompt, the price is also amazingly competitive with the US (even with shipping).
So go there and buy cds.
I wish I lived in a town that had a any kind of selection when it came to music. I really want to find a Red Elvises cd, but obviously no one would stock them here in the wasteland of midwest America.
I want to leave.
I have to say that Mission: Imp looks like it'll be hilarious. And June 12 is Monday... Muah haha...
My cameras are back. I re-wrote the whole architecture again. This one's a fun one, with a central camera server, cam clients, and images stored in a database. Click on the title to get a little more in-depth description.
This afternoon I played around a little with trying to write a script to save RealAudio files as they stream to the player by packet sniffing and then re-assembling the stream.
It didn't work. Perhaps if I actually understood what I was doing, instead of guessing how it should work...
I've always hated wearing headphones. They're just so annoying (they make my ears hurt), and the cords always get in my way.
I found a solution for the first part, though. A couple weeks ago I bought a pair of Sony MDR-G82 headphones that are incredibly comfortable. I can actualy wear them for a long time without my ears getting sore for once.
The second, though, still bugs me. I think I need my headphone cable (a 25' extension cable) to be suspended over me. That way I can't run over it. I think I'll have to work on that soon.
I've been trying to find a Sony DVMC-DA2 for the last few weeks, only to become convinced that there are none in the US.
Today I finally found a place (Builder's Choice Electronics) that has them in stock. Whew...
And I thought I was going to have to go tramping around LA looking for one.
Just for the fun of it (more in my "research" kick), I was playing around with MS Windows Media Player.
Interestingly, they happened to have the same Christina Aguilera video as Real was featuring in their Real 8.0 showcase. Obviously I had to put the two head to head...
I feel like the more code I write, the more code there is to write. Hopefully I'll wrap up eThreads 1.2 in the next couple weeks.
The only good thing about taking so long on devel? Holy cow has the new feature count gotten high.... The architecture rocks. I can do things I would never have thought possible.
Now back to re-writing code I hadn't even released since last time I re-wrote it.
The Life of Big J is a video short I filmed and edited for a couple friends. It's a liver cancer assignment they had to do for Advanced Biology. The video came out really funny, so I figured I would put it here.
It's encoded in RealMedia G2 with surestream up to 500Kb/sec.
Ok, so DNS might take a while to change... NetSol's got contact stuff so wacky I can't change my own domain for the life of me. For now just go to http://e.thegonzoproject.com. I'm not going to keep posting stuff here.
Ok, so DNS might take a while to change... NetSol's got contact stuff so wacky I can't change my own domain for the life of me. For now just go to http://e.thegonzoproject.com. I'm not going to keep posting stuff here.
