Archive - November, 2005

Turkeys and onward

November 30, 2005 in Life with 0 Comments

Wednesday:
I went to my 8:30AM class and then went home around noon(skipping my 6:00PM class). At home I starting showing my Dad and brother the plans I had for a new bed I plan to build as soon as possible. Pretty uneventful.
Thursday:
Turkey is always good. This year was no exception to that. The meal was at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Jackson. I spent the time I wasn’t eating hanging out with my younger cousins playing GameCube. The interesting part was my cousin Keven was there, I haven’t seen him in a quite a few years. He hasn’t changed much. After all of the meal activities were over I followed my Grandfather back to his house to fix his computer, he has all kinds of problems with it because its just too complicated(bad Microsoft for giving users too many options) for him at times.
Friday:
This was the day of the bed. I was up pretty early, off to Home Depot to buy 2×4′s and plywood to begin work on my bed. The rest of the day was in the basement cutting the wood down to size with my Dad and brother. By the time that was all over I was pretty tired. So I went bowling with Dave, Andrea, Jen, and Joel at BrunswickZone in North Brunswick. I didn’t get home from that till around 2AM. All together an exhausting day.

Skip a few days..

Tuesday(Today):
Nigerian food with Moses. We went to this place in Newark(about 3/4 mile away) and I had Moses order food for me. I had goat meat, it was interesting. I’m not sure I’ll get the goat again. All in all it was a very unusual meal that left me feeling extremely full. Moses loved it, it reminds him of home. He ate all his food and like half of mine.

Maths of finance

November 29, 2005 in LJ Posts, Uncategorized with 0 Comments

One would call this an experimental post. Right now I am typing this out on my Blackberry while in math class.
We just spent around 48 minutes debating how to solve an annuity problem. I still don’t think my professor ever wrote the right anwser on the board.
Now that I have mentally checked out of the lecture she moves on to the next problem.
Just a mini-post. Turkey details later.

Web Browsing on my Mini

November 16, 2005 in LJ Posts, Software with 1 Comment

As always with computers I want things to be snappy. Unfortunately, snappy does not go hand in hand with a Mac Mini. While a very economical computer it is also slower than mud. I wish Apple would grow up and play with others so I can get fast and cheap hardware with OS X.
The point is, Safari is great but GMail does not work well in it(causes memory leaks). This means at any given moment I need at least w different browsers open, typically this has been Safari and Firefox. Unfortunately they are both big fat ugly memory pigs that quickly lead my Mac in to the realm of poor performance. This gets extremely frustrating when I have the need to open another large nasty application like Opera. Right now I am posting in it and it seems like its going to be an improvement. The only problem so far is page rendering issues which have appeared but not in a form that has caused me to need another browser. The good thing is that Opera has an RSS reader which I have grown to love using in Safari(Opera’s RSS reader is NOT nearly as nice as Safari’s).

New Speakers(Again…)

November 14, 2005 in Audio, LJ Posts with 0 Comments

My final pair of speakers has arrived. So far I’ve gone from Bose V201 speakers to Klipsch Synergy B-2′s and now finally to the Synergy B-3. I would most definitely say that 100$ difference was worth it. It continually blows my mind the sound difference between a 5.25″ woofer and a 6.5″. I doubt I’ll be getting any bookshelf speakers with 5.25″ woofers in them again.
I pity my suitemates, the first thing that happens when I get new speakers is I play stuff at rediculous volumes to get a feel for the capacity of the speaker.

Bluetooth Phone Software

November 14, 2005 in Software with 0 Comments

If you have a Mac with bluetooth along with a bluetooth capabable phone then you will probably like BluePhoneElite. It will let you SMS from your Mac through your BT cell phone, give you incoming call alerts(it ties in to the OS X address book so it can pop pictures of the incoming callers from your address book up on the screen). Overall its a pretty cool application but it costs money.
In the continual fight against paying for software while not committing piracy I discovered that before ReelIntelligence released BluePhoneElite they had a freeware application called BluePhoneMenu which does a lot of what BluePhoneElite does except its not nearly as clean.

Email Retention

November 11, 2005 in Software with 0 Comments

My day has been punctuated by questions about email retention. In the process of being nagged I discovered a few new solutions which I feel might be useful someday:

A new beginning

November 11, 2005 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

This post marks a transition from the days of LiveJournal to a new WordPress blog that I will host myself.
I’ve been fighting the idea of switching to my own blog system for a long time because of the easy of use that LiveJournal offers. This changed when I did some research to setup Andrea’s blog/site. I had first configured a Movable Type system but it seemed to complicated to just hand over to someone to use as a means to maintain a website. Then came WordPress, which I had actually glanced over in my first round of evaluations. On the second look I realized it was a pretty slick system that offered most of the features I needed.
After some hacking all my LiveJournal posts(sans comments) have been migrated over to this system for long-term preservation.

Joining the Flock

November 7, 2005 in LJ Posts with Comments Off

I’m just testing out Flock’s LJ capabilities. Anyway the drag stuff box doesn’t work…