All in all it has been a good Christmas. Being into fitness lately I asked for and got one of those heart monitor watches which work pretty good. I noticed on the slopes a couple of weeks back that my phone can’t tell time when it dosn’t have a signal so when my parents asked what I wanted I told them I needed a watch and it would be nice if I could monitor my heart rate with it. I also got an ornamental mini Japanese sword, I guess you could call it a dagger, some clothes to update my wardrobe and a gift certificate to EMS so I can finally replace my climbing shoes which sport a huge hole in the left toe. I got tired of stubbing my toe on the climbing wall.
Gift giving was loads of fun this year because I was able to play some little games like wrapping up my parents old, broken TV and watching them look confused when they unwrapped the gift. Opening up the box reveled a card with a gift certificate to Best Buy so that they could buy a new TV. We also saved my brother’s iPod for last. He thought he wasn’t going to get one since my parents wern’t going to get it for him and we made it so it seemed he had already gotten a gift from my sister and I. It was great to see his eyes dim as I gave an iPod shaped box to my sister, “one last gift for you”, and then see his eye light up when she gave it to him, “oh wait this is for you”. Yep, I’m a devious one.
I’m going to start preparing to record my album tomorrow. I have a list of seven songs but in the short time I have to record them, I think it might be cut down to a three to five song demo album. The title is …at the intersection of Reason and Dream and has a nice little back story to it. I very much will consider it a work in progress and continue to add songs to it though I don’t know if I will have much time to record after this week.
Anyone in New York City on New Years may see me at some bar in the village. If anyone will be down there drop me an email.
–
J5
[read this post in:
ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]
Comments Off
Dude, your sister’s voice is amazing. I want to get a couple of those CD’s. One for me and one as a Christmas gift for my sister. She would love it. I always love hearing fresh sounds being a musician myself. It beats some of the stuff they play on the radio around here. I’m going into the studio myself to lay down a couple of my newer songs (newer being < 3 years old) though for me it is just a hobby.
Oh, ya, you mentioned you got a Damien Rice album. I sort of know their drummer, Tomo. He used to be a drummer with the band God Street Wine which I followed for years before they broke up. I had an in, in the form of being friends with their web master’s wife so I often got to go back stage to hang with the band (she was one of my Job refrences to for Red Hat). Anyway, the story is Tomo just up and left one day without telling anyone. He resurfaced sometime later in Ireland playing for Damien Rice. He never took any lessions and is yet one of the best drummers I have ever heard. Just a funny little story.
Tomo, Bevo, Aaron, Dan, Lo
Come on I’ll see you at the show
Ya, I’ll see you at the show
–
J5
[read this post in:
ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]
Comments Off
I caught a cold this weekend. It was a combination of running around in the cold on the Friday night getting food, getting beer and then getting to a party and then skiing on Sunday at Killington. Luckly I have a job where I can work from home every once in awhile instead of going in misserable and getting everyone else sick (which is what I used to do).
The weekend was a pretty social one. I met some people at the party and since I ski’ed alone I met a bunch of people on the mountain. I didn’t meet anyone I would say call up to have a beer with at some random point but it is always nice to be able to talk to people on topics other than computers. And, if I see them on the slopes or at a party sometime I’ll gladly have a drink with them.
Making Linux More Dynamic
I know I haven’t been blogging about technical stuff lately so on a more technical note I have a short slide presentation on making Linux more dynamic when it comes to service management. I was tasked with finding ways to make Fedora boot a bit quicker but since Davidz had the direct approch pretty much finished by the time I got around to looking at the boot process I decided to go off in this direction. It is basicly an expansion of the parallel boot process proposed by Seth a while back. A couple of differences are that there is no longer any need for a “Python Wrapper” around legacy services since the Service/Policy manager would “wrap” any service that did not export its own dbus api and my idea adds life cycle management. I don’t aggree that having a boatload of daemons running at once is a bad thing as long as they are all doing something useful and not just sitting around.
–
J5
[read this post in:
ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]
Comments Off