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Archive for March, 2009

I went on a Bob Dylan jag this afternoon.   His playlists on my compressed version of my iTunes library consists of very few artists, those in which I most admire obviously went back onto my library first(since my recent crash of multimedia on my hard drive).    I decided to explore Dylan on YouTube, something I haven’t done in a while, and I stumbled across these.

Figured I’d share what is the most influential musician of the last 50 years.

Hi Folks,

Recently I completed this brochure.  Just figured I’d share….

Let me know what you think!

Outdoor Enthusiasts,

Now’s the time! Bring your gear into the OAP all this week!

We are (as you know) located in the MUB room G002, next to the Keweenaw Commons food mall. 

Remember, there is no cost to put something into the swap. If it sells, we’ll hand you an envelope full of money (you set the price), if it doesn’t sell then you can pick it up the week after. It’s the only risk free way to make money you’ll find in today‘s economy. 

If you have any questions at all, please contact us:

oap@mtu.edu
487-2290

See you Saturday!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=63471819600&ref=ts
www.oap.mtu.edu

www.oap.mtu.edu 

Today, I was looking to add Boxee back onto my AppleTV.   When Apple released their last update, it cleared my AppleTV of anything that I had installed on it.   This was frustrating enough, as you would think that Apple would be willing to let others make their product better.   Long story short, you have to use a flash drive to install any software onto an AppleTV.   This involves partitioning the flashdrive.  I think you can see where this is going.

Since I have have done this before, I was just flying through the process of getting the files assembled into a folder on my desktop.   I hit the installation button and the partioning begins.   I noticed this process was taking entirely too long.   Then, it hit me.   I partitioned my external hard drive.   No, not the one with all my Time Machine Backups.   I partitioned the one with all my media: photographs, 90 gigs of music, and a bunch of movies that I converted to MPEG4.    I was close to having a mental breakdown.   Technology did not fail me, I failed technology.

So now over the next few weeks, perhaps months, I have to regather everything.  Luckily, I had about a third of my music backed up on DVD-Rs, the other two thirds is on CD-Rs or CDs.   My work/school files I have regathered from the servers at work, saving me some valuable time.  I can only begin to imagine that after I regather everything, I’ll also find that I’ve lost something else.

This has quite literally been the most difficult year for my technological dependency.   I’ve had computers crash multiple times, and have been able to get back up and running in a short period of time.  Well, not this tiem.   I’ve had terrible luck, and its almost all been my fault, not the wonderful world of technology.   Looks like I might be purchasing a Time Capsule for my Time Machine, that way I can have two media hard drives, one as a backup.   This is ridiculous.

Moral of the story, if you’re going to install things onto a jailbroken device, make sure Karma is on your side, and take the extra time to pay attention to what you are doing.   Taking that extra time to go over the installation process could save you a lot more time in the end.

For my first post on my new blog, I’m going to talk about a class assignment.  I know…I’m a nerd.

So for my documentary class, we have to make a film of about 7 minutes in length. Our group decided to cover the student employees that work for Public Safety, Michigan Tech’s police department(yes, they are deputized state police).

Public safety

Usually you see these student employees with winter hats on, low profile jackets, looking to hide their profession from the general public. After all, if you see a person putting a 20 dollar ticket on your car(or a friends), you are probably going to associate them with a negative connotation, even though they are simply doing their job. It’s one of those jobs where people get pissed at you for what they did wrong.

We met with the good folks from Public Safety today. Thinking they were going to be hesitant in giving us any sort of information, we immediately pitched ourselves as looking at “The Ticket Guy” in a different light. It turned out that they were much more willing to talk with us about this matter, provide us statistics, so on and so forth. In fact, we will be meeting with them next week to interview them on camera and include them in our documentary.

I’ll post this short documentary (Vimeo/Youtube) once we complete the project. I think we have a good vision for where we want this to go.  I can honestly say I have never been this excited to do a class project.   In the same regard, spring is on its way and my ambition will decline.

Have a good one folks.

Engaged!

It is official, Stacy and I are engaged. Here are a few photos…

More about the trip coming later… until then, visit http://www.bryantandstacy.com for our wedding website.

The Rolling Stones