Just had a fun meeting for a change, talking about overhauling our protocol and making it more OSI-friendly. I will probably not be doing this work, which is good and bad. Good in the sense that I have tons of other shit to do, but bad in the sense that it seems like some really fun hacking… It’s ok though… And in reality, the guy who is doing the work (my boss, Pedro) is getting married this month and will be out of the office for a few weeks after the 13th. If he doesn’t get it done by then, it falls back to me… Which is good and bad… =)
After almost 2 months (but containing 2 major holidays) of planning, meetings, and other non-coding stuff, it is feeling nice to get my hands dirty yet again….
James and Amy came up to visit, but seperately. James arrived, and we were hanging out for awhile, and then a few minutes later Amy arrived. We couldn’t find parking around here, so I took a ride with her to a local mall, where we were going to park in the garage. For some reason, we parked outside in the lot, went into the building, and took the stairs to the 2nd floor. When we got to the 2nd floor, we then found the elevator and took it to the ground floor. Once on the ground floor, we took another set of stairs to the garage level. A security guard stopped us at the top of the stairs, asking to see our ticket. We explained to him that we were going to get a ticket so we could park, and he then let us by. Even in dreams, security guards are useless.
We got the ticket after waiting in line for awhile, and then we made our way back to the elevator. We pressed the button for the first floor; apparently you only needed to go through that weird sequence of floors going down. Some fat guy commented how this was a strangely shaped elevator. I agreed with him. The elevator was octagonal, with 4 doors (at 90 degrees from each other), and the walls were brushed metal. The door closed and suddenly the elevator started charging upwards at unbelivable speed. I looked at Amy, and then the fat guy, and we all were terrified. Suddenly, it either felt or sounded (or both) like something snapped, and we began to fall at a tremendous rate. I started to scream, and made my way over to Amy (screw the fat guy), but before I could grab onto her, the elevator crashed and I woke up in a panic.
I have taken up walking as a gateway to getting in shape… I know walking alone won’t get me there, but I am walking as a primer, to get remotely in shape to begin other forms of exercise. While I do alot of walking every day, this weekend I really started walking with a purpose. I walk at a decent clip, as anyone who has ever walked around town with me can attest to, but for these purposes I have been walking faster than my normal walking speed, but not enough to look like one of those power-walking douchebags.
Yesterday I walked down to the Star Market on Tappan St. and did some light shopping, then walked up Washington St., to Comm Ave, and along that back to my apartment. Today I walked back to Chestnut Hill Ave, down Winship, onto Cambridge St. to Harvard Ave, walked down that to Comm. Ave, and again I travelled home. While at the time these seemed like fairly benign “starter walks”, I am glad I really had no idea how far I was going. Looking at a map a few minutes ago, and using a cut piece of twist-tie to bend around the silly-ass curvy streets here, I measured that yesterday’s walk was a hair shy of 5 miles, and today’s walk clocked in around 9 miles. Somehow I probably would have been intimidated somehow if I knew exactly how long those trips were… :)
Now the trick will be to fit this into my weekday schedule… Something tells me I will be doing some late-night walking… :)
To avoid the “hearing-loss panic” that was induced by the last concert I attended, I have looked around for a good set of earplugs. I have decided to pick up a pair of ER-20 HI-FI earplugs from Etymotic Research which are designed to attenuate the sound by 20dB without coloring the sound. So, in theory, unlike most earplugs I have tried, they should simply reduce the volume of the music without making it sound like shit (unless it was shitty to start with :P). I placed an order for a pair (they were only 10 bucks) and will let you know how they work after the next concert.
I came across this company when looking for a new set of headphones, and read many good reviews of their ER-4P earphones. Supposedly these earphones are like a set of earplugs that also happen to have an amazing set of earphones integrated into them, so you not only don’t hear much background noise, but you also get great frequency response. They are a little out of my price range at \$330, but perhaps one day soon I will get a pair….
Pictures and even a little video from the Lovage show I attended last week are available here. I didn’t take them, but they will give you a good idea of what the show was like…
This is such a fantastic remix… In fact, Fixed is one of the best Nine Inch Nails remix cd’s. I think I am going to head out in an hour or so to get the new Nine Inch Nails CD/DVDs… While I wasn’t a huge fan of “The Fraggle”, there is still some really good music out there. I watched the MTV special last night and it got me salivating for the DVD, so I don’t think I can wait. :)
