I don’t like sports.

Yea, when i was younger, i played JV Soccer, Baseball, JV Basketball, but when i got into music i left that all behind. I think it taught me some important stuff, but whatever.

WHY AM I ADDICTED TO WATCHING THE OLYMPICS?

It’s not just because there’s nothing else on all night, cause i still haven’t watched Dr. horrible. It’s not because I’m bored cause there’s adult swim and 100+ other channels. Yea i also do a LOT of work at night too. It’s not that it makes me feel good about myself, because my torso sure as shit doesn’t look like Michael Phelps.

Yet somehow i found myself getting pumped over the women’s soccer match earlier this week and staying at work for an additional 50 mins to see the women’s volleyball team kick ass.

I guess i like seeing exceptional people do normal things exceptionally well.

The only thing i can think of is that there must be an underground olympics a la “Beerfest” that is cooler than what i am watching.

Time to kick the skank ass ho to the curb.

After calling multiple times on my connection issues, no one returned my call. They told me i was going to get a dispatch, never called. fuck you too then.

My new internet is getting installed today. ADSL2+yo.

We’re going to make do with no TV and see if we can function without reality TV and G4 for a month.

However i’ve been researching legit tv progs. Here’s what i like in order from least to best.

5. TidalTV

The closest thing to actual TV online. Has a few channels, i hope they get more.

4. Hulu

http://www.paulyanez.com/labs/mymediaplayer/ — this makes hulu better.

3.  VeohTV

Incorporates lots of hulu videos with tons of online vids and a good search. The best thing about this prog is the interface.

2. Netflix Watch Now

If you have a subscription, theres tons of tv in their watch now sections. Quality is awesome.

1. Slingbox

Well it’s just tv. So its a complete replacement. Granted i’m just stealing my dad’s TV, its the best. Quality is decent, damn stable. Why isn’t there a port of this to XBMC / PS3 yet?

The whole point of this is to not watch tv and do stuff like work out, so we’ll see. There’s really nothing thats totally blew my mind yet.

*and there is always nbc.com / abc.com for that sitcom kinda stuff.

So tonight i pretty much spent all night reconstructing my eeepc and i think im almost done.

I first installed the default eeeXubuntu build found here. I didn’t want to use the internal 4g drive, so i used the 8g SD card i have as the main storage.

I didn’t mess around with many of the modifications, my wireless pretty much worked right out of the box so i didn’t mess with it. The eeeXubuntu isn’t 8.04 and i wasn’t ok with that.

I wasn’t able to upgrade to 8.04 on the internal 4g drive, maybe because of space, doesn’t matter.

Prior to upgrading, i decided to not fuck myself and actually research something that involves me doing lots of stuff that i don’t completely understand, so i found this script to fix lots of things.

I just updated as you would normally through the update manager, it took a hell of a long  time, like 3 hrs. Maybe my connection…the SD card doesn’t appear to be slow at all.

Oh, and yea, i installed off a 1g usb stick, guided the whole 8g sd card and let it do it’s swap thing. Pretty much just left that alone, defaults. No probs yet.

Upon reboot, the wireless was a goner, so i tried the script. Didn’t seem to do anything so i rebooted and tried it again. (Like it would matter..) nothing. So i found where the script was extracting the madwifi drivers to and did a make && make install and rebooted. Upon reboot my hotkeys worked and the wireless was ready to roll.  Sweeet.

I enabled community sources and grabbed the basics: compiz, emerald, nmap, cryptcat, wireshark, gnome-do, pork, awn, wine, and conky. I dig my conky config. It’s pretty standard, but it looks sweet. I spent a lot of time last week trying to get pork to exec or execp in conky, but i eventually decided to just have it auto start with the xfce4-terminal window fully transparent, no menu, no slider, no borders. Looks like it’s a part of conky. If i would have figured out how to do it i would have called it porky. Damn. So good. I made it autostart with a little batch script to sleep past compiz loading. standard stuff.

I like adobe air apps so i installed the prog by following the following instructions.

I get my emerald/beryl themes and wallpapers here.

Cranked the fonts down to Sans size 7, and made my launcher as small as i could and hide at the top and awn hide at the bottom.  (I only pretty much use it for the terminal launcher) Shortcutted the term to launch with crtl+z. Downloaded flash and made sure my orb was streaming stuff from home properly, yup yup.

Turn off snap. God thats annoying on a little screen. I guess thats pretty much it. If i have the energy, i’ll try to get slingbox and joost working with wine. Also need to get songbird on there and figure out why my cruzer won’t mount. Last.fm as well. Phew.

The 100 dollar question, will it suspend and resume properly? Answer is YES.

I’ve been awake since 8am yesterday.

If you want to know how good a band truely is, look at their 2nd commercial album. The first album doesn’t really count because they’ve had their entire lives to write it. 97% of the time the band has been touring their asses off and gets thrown in the studio immediately to record their 2nd album.

30 Seconds to Mars = EPIC
From Zero = EPIC FAIL

Not sure how common this is, but at least 2 people at my work have them (Matrix / LOTR).

When i need to focus and study I put the Back to the Future Trilogy on and go to town.

Doesn’t get much better than that. Not sure why. Kinda weird.

In my quest to stop being a fat guy i decided this morning to find out exactly how bad my favorite foods are.

We had Red Robin this weekend, i had the whiskey river bbq chicken wrap, which by itself doesnt turn out horrible. Sodium seems a little astronomical, but everything else looked ok. Good for a end of the week reward.

Calories - 379

Next up we have one of my all time favorites, Panda Express - 2x Orange Chicken with Chow Mein.

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Apparently there are a bunch of feeds you can get from your netflix account to use however you want.

http://www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds?lnkctr=mfRSS.

Yay more feeds.

http://exams.googletoad.com/

If you need to ask, you dont need to know.

Yeah, i figured out the other day that since i started working in IT, i’ve went from weighing 198 to 236 in the span of a few years. Granted, i got married and we have a fond taste for fast food, but no more. We have a vacation in 2 months to the beach and i am not screwing around anymore.

These are the key things i’m doing:

Exercise as much as possible, at least 30 min per day (cardio 4x a week, weights 2x a week)
Eat as little carbs as possible.
I’m using CalorieKing to track my eating., trying to stay under 1000 calories a day in addition to working out.
A gallon of lime water a day, no soda.
Tons of fruit.
Caffeine as needed.
No pills or diet meds.

This is pretty much the only area in my life that i feel i am really just plain lazy in, and its enough.

In the words of legendary Anchorman Ron Burgandy…“Oh i’ll be there, and I’m going to look good.”

So i woke up this morning and my internet was out.

As someone who has spent years working ISP help desk and managing them, this is the worst way to start off a day. I may as well woke up with dog shit on my chest.

Checked all the normal things, reset everything, the tv worked so i figured they either found me torrenting again, or they found my alliance network. Sigh.

“What seems to be the problem today?”

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