The Life and Good Times of Mister Chris
New Addition to the Network
Mar 1st
After being very impressed with how fast I received my tax refund back, the first purchase I made was a NETGEAR – Home Media 1TB Network Storage System.
The fact it stores two drives for mirroring my back ups was my first love. Then when I learned I can use it as my networked My Documents and Pictures folder I was hooked. Oh yeah.. and I can store all of my iTunes Music on there too.. That’s going to be epic…
Not so sure about the movies yet but we shall see..
I saw the latest preview for WAR FOR CYBERTRON… as I posted on my facebook.. I am stoked.. that game looks pretty bad ass.. In my opinion the final couple of clips of this trailer shows enough fail for the decepticons how can you not want to play this game.
Time to shit…
My Nerdism grows at a rapid pace….
Feb 14th
The second machine with the dual monitors is gone. The USB adapter which allows you to have said dual monitors is junk. I will be returning it promptly before my 30 days is up.
I finally have my home theater PC working the way I wanted. *thumbs up* I can now successfully play my MAME Roms on the TV. Over the last few days I have been playing Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Street Fighter 2, and Final Fight.
Plus I can listen to my XM station now with out some jerry rigged crap. It’s quite nice. My recommendation is to use a blue tooth KB and mouse on a HTPC as opposed to a wireless. Wireless just doesn’t seem to get good enough range.
I also found an app which would allow me to control the mouse and key board of the HPC with my Samsung Moment. I run an application on the computer load the app on my cel phone and I can control the computer wirelessly using my network.
It’s a pretty cool feature all though it does take some time to get used to the keyboard commands. There isn’t a week that goes by where I find more shit I can do with the android os on my phone. I heart google..
I set up a forum for my peers who play Modern Warfare 2 on PS3. I used to have a forum years ago but it started to fade pretty quick. I don’t know but the guys I showed it to at work seemed to dig it so we shall see. Fortunately since I have been hosted on the same server for several years and I have little restrictions the forums should remain up if the interest and there is activity from the “Clan”
Some of them seemed to really like it so we shall see what happens.
I know I am forgetting something but I can’t put my finger on it at the moment.
I could easily get wrapped up in spending the entire day nerding out even more. However it is Valentine’s Day and more importantly our wedding anniversary so I am sure to catch shit if I disappeared into my office, etc.
One last thing.. Happy Valentines Day to all the hoes out there…
Memba When?
Feb 3rd
Remember when MTV was cool? I know like well over ten years ago.. before it was filled with Toxic waste such as Jersey Shore, etc.. (ok the Snooki getting punched in the face is on my YouTube saved list)
Let me get to the point.. Beavis and Butthead and Liquid Television.
Now if I could find a good copy of Liquid Television to watch I would be a happy man…
Is there a point to all of this?
no
More Duals…
Jan 30th
I am sure I mentioned on here in recent past how I have two monitors on my main desktop. I decided to redo the server and replace Windows Server 2003 with Windows Seven Ultimate.
Since I have moved out of my running an actual server in my house phase, decided to have more fun on the multi media side of things.
Both of my desktops have dual monitors now.. yes.. both of them.. it is crazy cool! Why do I have dual monitors? Because I can.. isn’t that the reason why any geek does things?
The downfall to is all is I have to now redo all the crap on my desk. I have too much crap on my desk, it is a sad but true fact.
It would seem that I have gotten myself into more trouble being a geek as a profession then I have in previous positions or jobs.
I did see a multi TV set up which was pretty bad ass. I am unsure if the wife would go for that yet.. *smirks*
Is it five yet?
Jan 27th
Everytime I have to attend an all day work related meeting I start checking my watch from the time the meeting starts until it ends.
Is it five yet? Most of these meetings are mind numbing and I would rather stab myself in the eye with a pen then sit through these fuckin things.
What makes it more frustrating for me is the topics which cover my job or department could be done in two hours or less.
Oh well part of my job… doesn’t mean I have to like it.
End of rant…
Changed some things up a bit.. and stuffs….
Jan 13th
I changed the theme once again .. I fixed the google wave link … and the about page.. and a forum has been added..
Not too sure about the forum tho.. I only put it up on the off change my PSN MW2 Group wants to post stats and shit.. but we shall see..
If I haven’t already mentioned this, subsonic is the best way to stream music from your house to another computer, or to your phone. This holds true especially if you have an android phone.
I have been playing around with this for over a couple of weeks and I must tell you I have had minimal problems with streaming, or accessing my music over the internet.
I enjoyed Pulp Tunes, but subsonic bridges the gap needed to stream to the phone. Tried Orb and all I can say is Orb is shit.. period..
I finally mounted my second monitor on the wall. The desk looks less cluttered. I was going to post a picture, but the desk is still kind of trashed from everything getting scatted when I mounted the monitor. I am considering purchasing a second wall mount for my main monitor.. it does look pretty good..
If you do have dual monitors and want to have separate screen savers, and or desktops I would stress checking out Ultramon.. it’s pretty hot.
I moved my server located on the opposite side of the office to my desk. It made more sense for what I was wanting to do with it. Besides remote desktop is cool and I could roll to the other side of the office. Both options sucked.
The wife is finally on facebook! After two years of her giving me a hard time about it and calling me a facebook whore she finally has a facebook account. She signed up for one so she could…. play farmville. *laughs*
I am not going to be any more pleasant on there then I was before. Anyone who is following me on fb or twitter knows how raunchy I can get. Not much different in person so why shield it from the wife on the internet.
TV …
FINALLY MORE CHUCK! After months and months of anticipation of the new season we get THREE EPISODES in TWO NIGHTS! All three of them were solid.
I feel good about this season thus far. I anticipate more surprises along the way. It is almost time for more Burn Notice, White Collar, and Leverage..
I hooked up one of my external hdd’s to the PS3 so I could store all of these shows on there instead of swapping out the DVD’s all the time. It is highly recommended if you use your PS3 to steam or view video on.
I think I am finished rambling for now…
Modern Warfare 2… is theraputic…
Jan 8th
So.. I had a grumpy daybat work today so I spent some time in cod land this evening, getting my kill on. I wooped some serious ass this evening and cracked some of the scariest laughter while taking out the other team.
I fucking love that game, I though smackdown vs raw was theraputic. I still enjoy that series but this.. this is so much better!
Critics say Modern Warfare is bad… *chuckles* I say fuck that… get a ps3 .. pick up mw2 and get it on!
Posting from the pot!
Jan 3rd
I was greeted this morning by more snow falling making it harder to drive to work and even more difficult to keep myself busy at work.
Fortunately with little convincing I was able to go home early so I could occupy my time with some more entertaining like mess with folder permission crap on my server.
The roads on the way home were not near as bad as they were going to work. Does not change the fact I am still tired of driving in the snow.
Beh.. this is a pretty lame post.. but it was something to do while I was taking a shit.
*smiles*
Good Bye 2009 and the last ten years..
Dec 31st
This will be my last post on this site for the rest of the year… yes the rest of the year.. yeah I know .. that’s only a little over two hours away .. (In central time anyway).
What year it has been.. what a ride it has been.. what a crazy decade it has been.. glad it is all over .. I can really say I am happy where I ended up, but the ride to get here was not the best ways.. but whatever.
I hope the rest of you have a good new years .. personally I am sitting at home with the wife watching TV. I might even have a Crown and Coke, but that is the extent of it.
My new years resolution? Simple, have more fun and continue to eliminate the unnecessary bullshit.
I wish the rest of you the same.. see you back here next year!