Another Sunday

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Title	Just another Saturday
Description	There should be only 1000 laws on the books at any one time. Every year we have to re-vote in the thousand laws we are governed by next year. Each law can only be 1000 words. That is 1,000,000 words. That sounds like enough to me. Rants!
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Of mice and network cables

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Title	Of mice and network cables
Description	Just another day in the life of a guy who has nothing better to do than video his day.
Tags	day work bus "mass transit" pedestrian walking cold vlog mice network cables anecdote issues "trouble shooting" Kdenlive Houston Texas "Canon Elph 300"
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Notes:

When it is love you will be satisfied with the cheap screwed together kitchen table and chairs. It will feel perfect.

The reason poor are mad at rich is because the political class doesn't want any of us mad at them. Well more than half of Americans believe that rich people got that way because they deserve it.

The Morphia is Italy's biggest bank. 178 billion dollars worth of "loans" per year.

Lunch conversation today consisted of talking about work for the most part. I cannot repeat any of it. We also spoke of motorcycle crashes and death threats.

There is a movie about Margarete Thatcher. I always thought she kicked ass. Not sure how you are going to get a review of the film from a crowd of reviewers who are all Marxists.

Had to order some new CAT5 cables. These are the standard Ethernet cables you find all over the place. Actually, they are CAT5e cables I think. Not sure how that works. No sooner do I ask for the order than six or seven long cables show up unused. That sort of thing never fails.

Notes:

What is the future of TV? In 5 years it is a 1.5 meter wide smart phone. What will it take to kill TV? If football and other sports wise up and make their own web pages for live broadcasts, they can quite literally write their own ticket. Two to five years after that, there will be no television industry as it stands today. This is not my prediction.

The company that does Twinkies is in trouble. Hostess is going down. Hopefully, they will slice Twinkies off and someone else will pick them up.

I had a chill this morning. I'm not sure if it is because I went back to bed after I got up and ready to go or if it is just because the air seemed thinner this morning. Today is warmer than yesterday. Tomorrow will be colder. It will keep getting colder until Friday. Then we will have a freeze they say. For the first couple hours this morning I wore my stocking cap. More than a couple people are walking around with their jackets on.

It isn't dark for blind folks. It is never dark.

Boom Boom troubles

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Title	Boom boom hiccup
Description	Boom boom behind my house has a fire code violation. Hopefully they think it is just not worth it. Also, there is an unboxing timelapse of 6 monitors in the background.
Tags	unbox monitors "time lapse" timelapse ViewSonic monitors LCD "boom boom" "loud music" "fire code violation" "Toshiba h30" Kdenlive Houston Texas "Harris County"
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Failing to get organized

Giving up on mRemote. It is a couple years out of date. It looks like the program has been taken commercial. Typically when this happens, someone continues working on the open source program and at least dealing with security issues. Not this time. Besides, It has issues with my multiple desktop program.

I'm looking in to Terminals. It is open source and there for more likely to be updated even after the people who created it give up on it.

Well, Terminals conflicts even worse with Finest, my multiple desktop program. It also does not appear to play nice with VNC on Linux. It requires a password be stored in the program to make SSH work apparently. I can't figure out folders. Can't get my X to point properly.

After playing with them, I'm giving up on them all. Using native apps and manual organization. That means I'm just running the individual programs and remembering the server information.

Hit the windows button, type in "putty" for SSH and "remote" for Remote desktop. Then, just type in the name of the server. For VNC I have to type in "tight" and run down to viewer. No biggy.

It amazes me how often I have to jump to another computer while doing everything all day long.

Notes:

Roles Royce is owned by Germans.

My father is off to the transplant doctor today. It would be so awesome if he got a kidney.

Yesterday's weather was pretty cool. Actually, today is colder, but we really needed the rain we got yesterday. It was intense rain that came down in sheets for kind of a long time. That and all day there was some amount of rain going on.

Do juicers do anything? Does the juice you get from smashing up vegetables and fruit really all that good for you?

One layer graphite is called graphene. Once you get down to the level of one molecule of material and smaller, you get interference of reality between paths of transference from one transistor to another. A transistor is a switch that allows a computer to make decisions and run programs. If you get interference, you loose the place of the little switches. Grapheme allows even thinner places in which to build multiple transistors. One more step closer to fictitious computers that do the work for us.

Sometime soon, my Twitter feed count will surpass my blog count. I'm not worried, just noticing a trend.

Buddy of mine

A buddy of mine is in this video. He is the one being harassed by cops. His name is Lance. He is one of the coolest people I've ever met.

Notes:

Made it in to work just in time to miss the majority of the rain.

Helped a user this morning. She needed a piece of software installed. We have many of our systems set up so users cannot install on their own boxes. This is to nip virum in the bud and prevent spreading as much as possible. Not sure how effective this strategy is, but it does lower the calls to the help desk. People can't just install every little thing on the internet, any of which can cause problems with standard software.

Kodak is in trouble. It was once a giant. Now, it is falling below the level that stock exchanges will even run it on the big board. Kodak invented digital cameras. Talk about blowing an opportunity. There are 38,000 retirees. That is less than the number of employees. Retirement issues is a 2.5 billion liability for Kodak. I learned how to develop film in High School.

Lunch conversation: We had a new guy and a good lunch at a Mexican restaurant. It was fun if wet. We spoke of many things, but the subject stayed on Television and moves. I should have written down some of the names of shows that people said were good. Many went by that were bad. Some of the folks say they don't watch TV much any more. I'm with them. I just want to watch the frigging shows and get on with my life.

I listen to radio dramas online. Go to www.shoutcast.com and search for something like "old time radio". There are more if you keep looking. One funny thing that I come across occasionally is the redo scream. Many of these shows were done live and recorded just as things happened. The earlier ones particularly. I've not mastered the art of identifying who is screaming in these shows. There is some imagination required. I wonder if people from this era learned to identify who is uttering a scream.

Sunday morning

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Title	Sunday morning
Description	Sunday morning and a club foot.
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Elle dancing

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Title	9 year old dancing to LMFAO Party Rock
Description	Yippeeeee. This is for those who wonder why kids are so skinny.
Tags	"party rock shuffle" "LMFAO Party Rock" kid child dancing home Houston Texas "Canon Elph 300" Kdenlive
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Time lapse comparison

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Title	Time laps comparison
Description	Intro interrupted four times, but here it is. This is two time laps videos. One shot and put up straight off the Toshiba H30 and the other shot as a video and sped up the same amount of time in Kdenlive post production.
Tags	time lapse "straight off camera" "post production" interruptions garage studio family fun technical compare "Toshiba H30" "Canon Elph 300" Kdenlive
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Lunch conversation

We went to the Chinese place. We do most Thursdays. This is the place we all sit at a big round table and order on mass. Everyone announces a number, rice preference, and soup preference. The ordeal of 18 people is done in a minute sometimes. One of the things that came up today was my desire to capture this on video for the internet.

We made it through lunch in just about an hour. This includes confusion over where people were when we were leaving and getting across Westheimer in more than one group. Nearly got squashed on the way back.

• Past employees. One was on hand to defend the entire ilk.
• DND and who has been showing up and who has not.
• Work
• Spare drives and locations.
• Customers
• Support stories. Wish I could elaborate.
• How long we have been using this restaurant. A cricket had been in someone's meal many years ago. We came back.
• Video games.
• Star Wars New Empire bugs. Something about dancing and your enemies can't touch you.
• Neither the other IT guy or myself have really played video games for many years.
• Rice is the poster child of starch.
• What I've been doing to stay busy. This is both on the job and for fun, from two different people.
• There are holes in the sidewalk on the way to this restaurant. The guy from Europe said the local counsel would have been sued over them. I told him they have been like this for years.

Houston is anti-pedestrian. Not related to the bullet above.

Work

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Title	Work work work
Description	5 minutes of goofing off at work. Didn't get 5 minutes to myself the whole rest of the day.
Tags	work "goofing off" fun friends coworkers Houston Texas "Fujitsu H30" Kdenlive
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Day

Items in brackets are censored.

Hours	Description
1	Renew [url]
1	Odd even week issue for payroll.
1	Diagnose [name] machine firewall issues.
1	Setup [server name] with RHEL 5.5
1	Get [employee] a laptop and UPS. Setup email.
1	Imaging [name] prepare and image. [name] imaging.
3	Misc License meeting. Printer hookup for a user. (Why is this so time consuming?) New RFID card for [user]. Learn new Exchange from [IT]. Help [user] hunt down a server for development. Help a user with email password glitch. Semantic setup on a laptop for a user. Recover old equipment from [user]. Organize image drives. Touch up dd imaging doc. Approve several emails. Help some folks move.

Notes:

Does fracking cause earthquakes? It is apparently cheap and effective. Some people are very much against it. France bans it for the time being. France uses a huge amount of nuclear for energy. That money is knocking.

Someone in California is suing over the 50 miles per gallon claim of a Honda Civic. It is about frigging time. There needs to be a hard standard on which to base comparisons. The federal standards are based on complete bullshit. When the government says 54 MPG, but in reality, it is more like 33 MPG. The idea is to not stomp on the gas or break. Drive like a grandmother and you will save gas. make a car that drives like a grandmother for people and you save gas.

I've found myself abandoning some lame Twitter feeds. It gets to the point you just don't care what someone has to say any more. One of the Vloggers only Tweeted when he had a new video. This is how I treat Tumblr. I don't have any followers on Tumblr.

Did you know this is an odd number week year? I do, now. This bit us in the but because we pay every other week with some employees. We will have to switch back next year.

There is a new conspiracy theory that says the world really screwed up by having all those nuclear tests in the 1950s and 60s. Some say it has caused a permanent mutation level blip in all genomes across the world. Below ground tests tend to be more contained.

Several podcasts had Christmas specials. I didn't listen to them until the first week of the new year. They all just got blown away. I tis depressing to linger on Christmas. We have still not taken down the tree at home, but work hasn't taken down the tree either.

The new camera works. I really like not having to worry about the ten minute crap of my other HD camera. The quality is lower. I have to run "normalize" on all the audio. I don't care. I may just start using it for the vlogging because I don't have to make multiple clips to get the job done. Just go and cut. Need wider angle, of course. I'm never satisfied to be honest.

The Commodore 64 is thirty years old. Judged from the introduction date, not ship date. I had three. They died from power surges.

China is digging tunnels for everything. They have thousands of miles of tunnels to hide nuclear missiles. They have dual use missiles for nukes and conventional warheads. The commentator didn't get the idea of dual use missiles. He kept saying if someone gets attacked we would have to retaliate with nukes. But, the expert tried to explain that they could be either nuke or conventional which means the Chinese have more options in intercontinental warfare than we do. The treaties between the U. S. and Russia don't really apply anymore if China is not going to sign in.

Notes:

I would rather have no theory than the wrong theory.

We are hiring another IT person at work. Starting to sweat.

Didn't have five minutes to myself today. Didn't get anything shot for a video. Work is not the place for it to be honest.

Donuts in the Unimog

This is what farmer hill billies do in Germany.

TV Shows

Tera Nova

Tera Nova is, wait for it, a science fiction show. Finally. The world needs more. However, the society that they use reminds me of Fascism. I've heard from more than one place that it is a show about dinosaurs with too few dinosaurs. Need to check it out.

Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire appears to have cost a lot of money. Good acting, blah. Not sure what the draw is with it. Going to have to check it out one of these days.

Homeland

Homeland just doesn't sound like the kind of show I like. It sounds for all the world like a "did he or didn't he" kind of show. I'm just not looking for a laundry list of did and didn't to follow.

Walking Dead

Walking Dead is a show about zombies and the obvious break down of civilization. It is a liberal vent point for gun control and the idea that no sacrifice is worth upsetting the current values of liberal media. Not enough zombie killing. Too many debates about moralities.

I've watched all seven episodes made so far. Something like that. Not sure why, but there is just not a motivated production of this show.

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad is a TV show about a guy who finds out he has cancer and, having the knowhow, becomes a methamphetamine cook. That is pretty much it. He becomes a killer. He becomes a very bad man. He was already intelligent and now uses his brains to keep one step ahead of the other bad guys and his brother inlaw who just happens to work for the DEA.

I've watched this show up through season four. I'm not sure where they are going to go with next season. Some say it is the last season. Surely the protagonist becomes the king pin or is taken out or both.

First sunrise of 2012

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Title	First sunrise of 2012
Description	Not the most spectacular sunrise, but it happened. Good sign for the year, right? Sunshine ver 2 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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