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12 years ago
Hey Everybody!
I guess it's been a fair while since I last wrote a decent journal up here. Life has been pretty busy in general with work and attempting to find the time occasionally to have a personal life. It's been a pretty crazy year, and next year is looking to be just as busy!
Right now I'm actually in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas (I've been here for a few days) doing some software systems support (for stuff that I wrote and deployed earlier this week). We won't talk about how much I've been working lately, but suffice to say it's been a lot! On the plus side, things have been going smoothly with the rollout *knocks on wood* so hopefully it stays that way.
Next week I'll be in Williamsburg, Virginia and then the week after that is San Diego, California. Afterwards I'll be in various places around Florida for two weeks, and then up to Pennsylvania for a week. After that, it's Thanksgiving with various people visiting.
In any case, it's been pretty busy! Had a birthday a week ago which just so happened to coincide with a Mercedes SLK-Class car meet that we did out at the Cape. I'm so glad
twile puts up with me, he's such a trooper. He doesn't care about cars at all so I'm sure it's not the most fun time for him, but I certainly had a good time. There's a video below if someone wants to listen/see what my car can be like when under heavy throttle. Definitely watch in 720p/1080p with some decent headphones or speakers though! Also, some pictures below it since it's difficult to tell that there was some fair amounts of rubber-smoke (don't breathe this!) generated.
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On the tech front, I've still been wearing Google Glass most everywhere. It's quite often that I get comments on it (sometimes it's annoying, but most of the time I don't mind giving the occasional tech demo). I'd say 95% of people that ask about it seem truly interested/stoked, and the few people I've let try it out have generally thought it was pretty fantastic. I still haven't gotten around to programming for it since life has been a bit busy lately. Navigation is still the killer feature for me, it's just so convenient! I'll admit that occasionally I don't use it on Glass just for fear of battery issues (I get through a whole day with no problems normally, it's just when traveling and using Navigation that it doesn't last long enough). At least doing it that way and not on the phone, the phone has no problems...hell, most of the time when I put my HTC One on the charger at night it's usually > 45% remaining!
Waiting on a new laptop since my poor Vaio Z took a bad spill a couple months ago and there are large amounts of dead pixels on the screen. Have a Samsung Ativ 9 Book Plus (seriously, WTF is up with that name Samsung?) on order (i7/8GB/256GB SSD) with a 3200x1800 pixel 13" display...had to one up the Vaio Z's 1080p 13" display! Can't wait, hope that it gets delivered soon (supposed to be November).
Otherwise, on the life front I've been trying my hand at cooking a lot more. I'd say I cook at least 6 times a week, and have been trying to get better at it. I haven't killed Twile yet so I must not be terrible at it. x3
Anyway, I need to go get ready to head out to the site. Hope Everyone else is doin' okay! <3
I guess it's been a fair while since I last wrote a decent journal up here. Life has been pretty busy in general with work and attempting to find the time occasionally to have a personal life. It's been a pretty crazy year, and next year is looking to be just as busy!
Right now I'm actually in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas (I've been here for a few days) doing some software systems support (for stuff that I wrote and deployed earlier this week). We won't talk about how much I've been working lately, but suffice to say it's been a lot! On the plus side, things have been going smoothly with the rollout *knocks on wood* so hopefully it stays that way.
Next week I'll be in Williamsburg, Virginia and then the week after that is San Diego, California. Afterwards I'll be in various places around Florida for two weeks, and then up to Pennsylvania for a week. After that, it's Thanksgiving with various people visiting.
In any case, it's been pretty busy! Had a birthday a week ago which just so happened to coincide with a Mercedes SLK-Class car meet that we did out at the Cape. I'm so glad
twile puts up with me, he's such a trooper. He doesn't care about cars at all so I'm sure it's not the most fun time for him, but I certainly had a good time. There's a video below if someone wants to listen/see what my car can be like when under heavy throttle. Definitely watch in 720p/1080p with some decent headphones or speakers though! Also, some pictures below it since it's difficult to tell that there was some fair amounts of rubber-smoke (don't breathe this!) generated.Ready
GO
VROOM
On the tech front, I've still been wearing Google Glass most everywhere. It's quite often that I get comments on it (sometimes it's annoying, but most of the time I don't mind giving the occasional tech demo). I'd say 95% of people that ask about it seem truly interested/stoked, and the few people I've let try it out have generally thought it was pretty fantastic. I still haven't gotten around to programming for it since life has been a bit busy lately. Navigation is still the killer feature for me, it's just so convenient! I'll admit that occasionally I don't use it on Glass just for fear of battery issues (I get through a whole day with no problems normally, it's just when traveling and using Navigation that it doesn't last long enough). At least doing it that way and not on the phone, the phone has no problems...hell, most of the time when I put my HTC One on the charger at night it's usually > 45% remaining!
Waiting on a new laptop since my poor Vaio Z took a bad spill a couple months ago and there are large amounts of dead pixels on the screen. Have a Samsung Ativ 9 Book Plus (seriously, WTF is up with that name Samsung?) on order (i7/8GB/256GB SSD) with a 3200x1800 pixel 13" display...had to one up the Vaio Z's 1080p 13" display! Can't wait, hope that it gets delivered soon (supposed to be November).
Otherwise, on the life front I've been trying my hand at cooking a lot more. I'd say I cook at least 6 times a week, and have been trying to get better at it. I haven't killed Twile yet so I must not be terrible at it. x3
Anyway, I need to go get ready to head out to the site. Hope Everyone else is doin' okay! <3
But yeah, this one is much nicer and way faster. I've done 0-62 in 4.4s myself!