Today is Samantha’s 7th birthday and Sarah’s 5th birthday.
Happy Birthday girls, I love you.
I have to wonder, what’s going to happen to the hundreds of servers we’re leaving behind at our old data-center?
I can browse the web on my PS3, I can’t on the XBox 2. My PS3 sees my NAS in realtime and I can view all of my photos and videos, and I can listen to all of my music on my PS3. I can’t do all of that on my XBox 2.
My XBox 2 is full of ads, every screen has advertisements, AND I have to pay to play games online with other people. On my PS3 I don’t have to pay money to play games online, and the operating system’s UI isn’t sprinkled with ads everywhere.
So many of microsoft’s practices disgust me.
My PS3 is a more powerful machine, it doesn’t break down on me, it sees all the devices in my house, is standards based, is free to use online, displays web pages wonderfully including flash.
I really really hate the XBox 2. Or is it more that I hate microsoft?
So why then am I choosing to use my XBox 2 more often than my PS3?
I hate myself for loving the XBox2. I hate using it, I hate all the ads, I hate that everything costs money. But for some reason, even though I love my PS3 more, I’m using my XBox 2 more.
Why is that?
Going to learn about Cassandra and Mongo DB.
Should be fun.
Saturday morning, Sarah spoke. She came up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, and over about 15 seconds said,
“I want more“.
Each word took all of her strength and concentration, but she said them all in time, each word more wobbly than the one before it.
Of course, it was in Sarah speak, but I could understand her clearly, and she signed the words as she said them.
I am very proud of her, I had to write about it.
Nice detail, again Alien B800 bouncing off of the ceiling corner behind me.
Alien B800 behind me facing backwards hitting the corner of the room behind me, flower in hand, hand cropped out.
My boss bought these neat replicas for all of us who worked on RDR.
My Alien Bee B800 arrived last night, along with a light stand and an octabox.
Emma sits patiently while I capture the scene
Emma Portrait
Alien Bee set on Flickr
My baby is in the news! It brings a tear to my eye.
From: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/110/1103411p1.html
My E3 2010 set on Flickr, check it out!
360 is marketing for “we want to have a name that competes with the other 3rd generation consoles even though ours is only a second generation console”. I call it like it is, it’s an XBOX 2. Most of the original XBOX 2s have red-ringed by now. Here is a list of consoles that have never died on me.
- Atari 2600
- NES
- Sega Genesis
- Super NES
- N64
- PS1
- GameCube
- PS2
- Wii
- PS3
I bought my XBOX 2 the day it came out. I played it for a few hours here and there until early 2007. Between 2007 and 2010 I did not turn it on. In 2010 it looked lonely and i decided to turn it on. It didn’t turn on. Fuck you Microsoft. I was past the 3 year warranty.
To conclude, Microsoft makes real shitty console hardware. They can eat a bowl of dicks, or climb a wall of dicks.
Her only relief is the period after a large seizure when the diastat has knocked her out. She sleeps for hours and hours, dead to the world.
It only took me 3 years to get this posted, but what the hell. I’m in the process of moving valued posts from my aquarium blog over to this one. This particular post is dated from 3/11/2007. Of course if I set the publish date to that in WordPress, then no one would see it.
From my old reef tank journal March 2007 page..
03/11/2007
My friend Mike asked me to speak at the NCRMAS meeting Friday, so I scanned some old dive photos and got to work.
Below is the presentation, and a link to the viewer you will need to view it. I created it with Office 2007.
And for those of you that attended, below is a desktop pic for you in several sizes (I took this at the meeting).
This was taken with my Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 prime lens. This lens presents a beautiful bokeh, and is one of my most favorite fixed focal length lenses. Other than for size, these photos have not been modified, this is off of the camera.
I’ve switched to using Flickr exclusively for my photos now. You’ll only find the occasional cross post here.
Photograph of a wooden statue in my mother’s garage. Taken from outside the garage. Hit the jump for pics from the inside.
Emma is back from D.C. here is a photograph she took. Time to get her an SLR. I picked this shot to cross post here because I believe it is the best one she took. The composition could not be better. The rule of thirds is being obeyed, and the lines help lay out the image. We feel safe on the inside looking out at something much bigger. The blue channel was tweaked to correct the sky and the exposure was brought up a little.
Washington D.C. set on Flickr
As I watch my wife prepare for her yearly pilgrimage to her hometown, I am reminded of just how lonely I get when she and the children are gone.
The next week is going to suck. She hasn’t even left yet and I’m already lonely.
A local park was having an Easter holiday festival. Sarah got her face painted. I’m glad it looks nice, we stood in line 90 minutes for it.
Wish I had longer arms. This is with the DMC LX3 Leica.
This pic got over 1000 unique views within the first 2 hours after posting and also got me dozens of friend requests, all of which I had to deny. I don’t normally look this gay. This was for a mustache growing contest at work, which thankfully is long over.
Every morning, the girls sit on Emma’s bed getting each other ready for the day. The new day’s sun shines through the blinds and warms the room.
Behold my bananas! This is from a series where I was experimenting with a remote strobe. The uneven but soft lighting created an interesting look in my opinion.
GameSpy Beatdown 2010 in the house. Reward for winning TF2 tourney. Also came in second place in a 90 minute UT2004 endurance challenge. Got 864 frags in 90 minutes.
Macro shot of a zoanthid polyp in my reef tank.
