Archive for Ramblings
April 27, 2010 at 11:34 am · Filed under Ramblings
April has been a busy month and posting has fallen to nothing. Figured I should get something up here before the month is over.
Finished building my computer, everything runs well.
Been on a little shopping spree. Finally picked up a shawl collar cardigan I’ve been wanting and it was on sale! Only $30.
Also picked up this BDG sweater at the same time, also on sale. Only $20!
Also picked up a madras shirt from J. Crew but I can’t find any good pictures of it online. It’ll be good for when the warm weather arrives. It’s been cooler than I care for.
March 26, 2010 at 12:34 pm · Filed under Ramblings
Started building a new computer, first one I’ve built since sometime in the mid to early 90s.
I think that makes me a noob again. I’ve been holding off on getting a new computer until closer towards the end of the year when the new SSDs were supposed to come out but Frys had an awesome deal on a processor/motherboard combo. I basically got the motherboard for free so I jumped on it and almost $800 later, my computer is almost done.
I booted it up for the first time yesterday, recognized everything, just need to install an OS and I should be good to go. I still need to redo the cabling, I’m awful at that kind of stuff but the case makes it pretty easy.
Stuff I got.
- Antec P183
- Core i5-750
- Gigabyte P55a-UD3
- 4GB ram
- Intel 80GB SSD
I already had a video card and power supply that I transferred over from my old machine. New machine should be blazing fast. It’ll be a good upgrade, old machine was about 4.5 years old already.
March 10, 2010 at 4:34 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I just picked up a pair of shoes on eBay and I’m selling something on there at the same time. First time seller here. I can see how people get addicted to eBay. It’s exciting! Waiting till the last seconds to bid on something. The anticipation of the seconds counting down and seeing if you’ve been outbid.
It’s also exciting selling something, watching bids, crafting your auction to get maximum exposure. I think I’m going to start selling more stuff on there.
March 6, 2010 at 10:53 pm · Filed under gadgets, Ramblings
Got the beta of Swype a couple of days ago for my G1 and I didn’t have huge hopes for it. Figured I would give it a try and then uninstall it.
I was pleasantly surprised, it’s really good! It’s fast, it’s easy to use. It’s the first time I’ve felt like maybe I could get used to typing on a touch screen keyboard and I’ve had my G1 for almost 1.5 years already.
I don’t think you can beat the tactile feel of a blackberry keyboard but Swype really brought up my typing speed on the G1 to a whole new level. It’s an amazing product and it actually makes me not hesitate to type out long responses on my phone.
February 28, 2010 at 10:17 pm · Filed under Ramblings
There’s an old joke about two campers in the woods. They see a bear approaching and one guy starts putting on his running shoes. The other guy goes, what are you crazy? You can’t outrun a bear. The guy with the running shoes replies, I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you.
It’s a silly joke but there’s a story there that I’m starting to realize. I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun the other guy.
Too often, I don’t start or do things because I don’t believe I can be the best or I set my goals too high. But reaching a smaller goal is better than reaching no goal and sometimes, just out running the other guy is good enough.
February 22, 2010 at 6:11 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I’m not sure when it happened but I’ve been getting into fashion lately and shoes specifically recently.
I’ve been looking for a pair of wingtips. So much I don’t know about shoes. I had to figure out what open vs closed lacing meant. Surprisingly, I found the answer on knol.
http://knol.google.com/k/open-and-closed-laced-men-s-dress-shoes
February 21, 2010 at 9:48 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I keep thinking about it every time I read the Sunday comics but I keep forgetting to post about it.
Why is Cathy the comic still around. I wonder what the demographic of the comic is and haven’t people gotten bored of it?
I’m sure there’s a better comic out there, how is Cathy still around?
February 9, 2010 at 11:06 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I’ve never been good with todo lists but I tend to do pretty well with checking emails and managing my life that way. I’ll send myself reminders to do stuff in email and leave it unread.
I’m trying out a new system for that though because I just had too many emails in my inbox. I’m gotten down to inbox zero and I’m looking into a 3 folder system or a 5 folder system.
Just having an empty inbox so far has been quite liberating and it was quite a fun exercise going through 6 years of old emails and archiving them. It was almost like looking at old pictures. Remembering what was happening at that point in my life and thinking about what has changed since.
February 8, 2010 at 6:39 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I’m usually not a fan of syntax highlighting. The colors just throw me off. But I spent about 30 minutes today hunting down a bug because I missed a quote.
It took me 30 seconds with emacs font-lock-mode on. So I’m turning it back on for now and I’m going to try to get used to it.
January 29, 2010 at 11:02 pm · Filed under Ramblings
I’ve been slipping back into old habits and that’s not a good thing. Been procrastinating and just generally wasting time.
I want to use the excuse that I’ve been really tired as well but I’m not sure how valid that is.
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