Thirteen

I just learned that I can embed YouTube videos in my blog. I'll prove it by showing you:



How cool is that?

I wonder if I can do it with other video services, such as Google Video. I'll find out later. For now this is good enough.

-Brian out

Cuban Cigar

Today I won Puerto Rico. I beat out Brad and Bair. I can't even remember the last time I won that game. It felt good.

Oh, and I might not be able to see the one acts perform because those days are blacked out at work. Maybe I should find a new job.

I'm going to bed. Goodnight.

-Brian out

I'm just so happy!

I just finished my first mission. I also just got my reward.

I was given three programs for free that I think I will actually use. I can't wait to try them out, but first I have to get food and go to work.

-Brian out

P.S.- yeah, I do know I'm a nerd.

The hype is killing me

So this Hubert thing is far deeper than I ever could have guessed. I think I got myself into a Mac style conspiracy. So far I have traced my first clue to two seperate websites. The first is one called MacHeist and the other is this. I have no idea what that means. MacHeist looks rather promising, but the other seems to be a long and hard game of hide and seek.

With MacHeist I have to perform tasks to get codes so I can unlock a safe. I don't know what is in the safe. I do know that the website is done in much the same way gmail was, very selective group by invite only. I did, however, manage to get in.

I am on the hunt for a program. I don't know what it is called. I don't know what it does. I don't know where to find it. I don't even know if it really exists, but I'm looking for it anyway.

I guess this is a modern, nerdy style quest.

-Brian out

I suck at money... ing

I have put off updating Quicken for a long time. As a result, I have no idea how much money I actually have. I plan on fixing that soon, maybe right after this post is done. Then again, I'm not one to do things like that.

I really don't want to talk about money right now.

I will be at Denny's tomorrow. I'll be tired, but I'll be there. It has been a long time (not counting last week) since I went to Denny's with the old crew. It's good to be back. I do miss sleeping in on Thursdays.

House music is weird.

Oh, I almost forgot. I finally finished that steadycam I said I was going to build. It is much bigger than the one Ryan(?) built. Almost three feet tall. It serves a different purpose then the smaller one Drama has.

I think I'm going to end this post for reasons not appropriate to put in my blog.

-Brian out

I miss food

Today was shaping up to really suck. It didn't, but that doesn't make me feel much better.

I also managed to get sidetracked for a long time. I was just trying to find out who Hubert is. There is a really big, and rather difficult game involved. I only have this clue so far.


That doesn't really give up too much info.

I thought I was going to write a nice long post about all kinds of stuff including, but not limited to: the weather, girls, other stuff, and stuff related to everything mentioned before.

-Brian out

Okay, this will be quick

I have decided to rid myself of what was known as 'Mobile Blog'.

I am not able to updated it at all with my cell phone so it has died long ago. I do hope to make a blog specifically for pictures, but not right now.

-Brian out


P.S.- Mandy, you are not the first to comment, to find the first comment you will have to go back many, many posts... and I don't know who it is.

I need to go find a tutor

I really shouldn't be here right now. I should be in a tutor session.

I don't want to go.

-Brian out

P.S.- I decided that I have to go, so I'm going

So. Many. Podcasts.

I think HCC updated their wifi. For as long as I can remember accessing the iTunes music store was impossible. It always timed out. Now I have surfed the store enough to subscribe to numerous podcasts. Right now I'm downloading 352 podcasts. Well, episodes at least. Most of them are really small so they don't take long to complete. 349. See, they don't take long at all.

I am almost finished with the steadycam I'm building for Drama. I also would like to build a boom mic for them, but that is much more expensive. Well, it is more expensive if I want to do it right. I do, of course, want to do it right. I'll ask if Drama could help with the cost, or even just pay for the steadycam. If not, then they might not get a boom mic. They are improvising some now, a broom handle and some duct tape. If it is getting the job done I can't really tell them not to do it. I improvised far more 'standard' things when I was in Drama. Heck, I remember editing a film by pointing a camera at a TV and recording the parts I wanted in the order I wanted. Now they just use fancy computers.

Wow, I think I just made myself old. Maybe I should have ended that story with '... and I walked to school uphill both ways in the snow...'

Truth be told, Drama just didn't have the budget for such things back then. They didn't start actually making money from shows until my junior year or so. My senior year we did get a computer to do editing and such. That particular aspect of the class has evolved to be something much more than and short film lesson and project. Now there is talk of a class dedicated to only film.

Sometimes I feel like I was in high school at the wrong time.

Hindsight is 20/20. If I look back on my life, there are is a very large number of things I should have done, or not done. I'm not alone on that either.

Oh, today just so happens to be Halloween. It doesn't mean anything for me, but at least I remembered.

I'm done typing now.

-Brian out

I really want a Helio

If money wasn't stopping me I would have a Helio by now. It is very much overkill, but those thinks are really cool. They will even work around here because they are CDMA phones, Heilo partnered with Sprint, and to a lesser extent, Verizon. Too bad I'm poor.

Okay, here is a quick story about my computer. When I came home last night I plugged in my computer so I could do some book keeping, listen to some music and maybe play a game. Okay, I really wanted to play a game. When I went to listen to some music I only got sound out of the right speakers. Now, I had my computer plugged into some external speakers, so I assumed that the problem was with that setup. I'm far to 'cool' to have computer speakers, I have a 600 watt power amp paired with some nice speakers. The sound quality is great. But I digress. I started to check every wire that connects my computer to the power amp and then from the power amp to the speakers. I couldn't find anything wrong. Then I checked my computer. The left channel of my headphones jack wasn't putting out any sound. The left built-in speaker didn't work either. I finally gave up and called Apple to try and fix the problem. They told me that I would have to send in my computer. I would have to give them my computer for almost a week.

That is only the beginning. I think I could live without my computer for a week. I wouldn't want to, but I could. The rough part is that he (the tech support guy) told me to back up everything because they might wipe my drive and reinstall OS X. I freaked. I don't have any way of backing up my hard disk because I have been saving for a host powered external hard drive. I was planning on just finding one that would work and suffer with it.

I then had an epiphany. What if I accidentally changed a setting on my computer. I gave it a shot. In fact I had changed the balance slider to be as far right as it would go. I felt dumb. I still feel dumb. I called Apple back and told them I wasn't sending in my computer after all.

That was my morning, it was not fun.

I'm tired, so I'll make this quick.

I want to host a podcast
I'm building Drama a steadycam
I wish I could still do those film projects

-Brian out

P.S.- I don't wish I was in high school again, I'm glad I'm out. I do miss parts of it though, Drama mostly. I think I may be able to become more involved in the future, that should be the best of both worlds.

Who knew?

There are a bunch of paths in the woods behind HCC. I thought they would just be short things into clearing of some sort. Nope, they are really long. Numerous too, they kept on branching off.

How I found these paths is a completely different story. A beautiful story that I am not able to put into words on paper, or a website. Not because I don't want to tell the story but rather because I need to do so in person.

In an obvious attempt to change the subject, I will now talk about The O.C. Supertones.

I have loved the Supertones for quite some time. Yesterday, however, I got a new album from Tallon. Revenge Of The O.C. Supertones is by far the best one yet. It is also their newest one (I think). It is a shame that they broke up.

Thus endith postith the second...ith.

-Brian out

Is it too late?

Today I managed to get up almost an hour late. I then missed my first class because I got up an hour late. That sucks.

I also forgot to write my rough draft for English. I can't even think of what to write about.

Maybe I could write about CCD and CMOS. They are both sensor types for digital cameras. I don't really know too much about them. Comparing CDMA and GSM cell phone networks is also possibable. I run into the problem of keeping it interesting for both of them.

This shouldn't be the hard part.

I'll make an outline for both and write the one that will be easier.

-Brian out

P.S.- nerve is really hard to find, anyone have some I can borrow?

Build a better breakfast

I don't really want to work two shifts today. I need the money though.

I could just skip, they would never know. Well, they would know, but they wouldn't care. As long as I'm there by seven, I'm good.

I also don't want to spend money on food. I don't really have a choice though. Actually, that is a lie. I could just not eat before work. Work would then suck more than usual.

Speaking of money, I got payed today. Direct deposit finally kicked in. I no longer have to rush out Saturday mornings to get money.

I'm tired, and soon to be late for work.

-Brian out