Archives for November 2007
no rest for wickedness
20 November 2007 | life, music, wordpress | No Responses
Fall is officially fading away now that snow begins to fall and the new holiday season is about to begin. Halloween out, thanksgiving in. As always, I am not ready for this winter to begin, but what are you going to do? This is michigan. There is so much anticipation leading up to christmas and the new year, then once its over, its cold and dreary for the next three months or so. But this year’s going to be different. I got work to do this holiday season with a couple of big things on the horizon. I am older, wiser, more married, and probably less motivated, but its good to set goals.
First, I think I am getting sick of joef.org‘s design and maybe its time for a change up. Its been over two years now and while coming. In that comes a couple of things. First – new content management system. I built the current one from scratch when I first finished school and have to say I like it, but wordpress is eon’s beyond it and will all the plug ins available, I have to be a fool to think I can implement the ones I want with ease. I already have it running as the cms for the lab and like it. My plan is to integrate it as much as possible with all my other social networking endevours (facebook, myspace, jaiku, etc). I love the idea of blog once, post everywhere. Also, I think I am going to merge both this site and the lab’s. I thought it would be a better idea to run a separate one but its just a part of my personal life as this site and I suppose that’s what the tags in wordpress are for.
I also plan to write more posts once this thing’s in order. I guess I really enjoy it. Its one good outlet other than music. Which brings me to my other big thing on the horizon. I want to finish a demo come the first of the year. I will do my best to document it, but no guarantees. I should take a page from the bomb the music industry guy. I’ll be damned if that’s dude’s not a true inspiration. Maybe I should quit shaving and haircuts to see if it gives me any incentive.
Enough talk already, time to get to work.
joe
keep your head up
12 November 2007 | hockey | No Responses
I read today the announcement for the latest additions to the Hockey Hall of Fame. I can’t disagree with these choices. They have all certainly earned their spot in the Hall of Fame. So I guess the news isnt that exciting other than the fact that it makes me feel a bit old. I grew up watching four out of five of these players and saw the span of most of thier careers.
My agreements exist in the following form:
Mark Messier – for being one of the most clutch players
Al MacInnis – for having the fastest/hardest shot
Scott Stevens – for executing the hardest hits ever witnessed on cable television
Ron Francis – for being the best Hartford Whaler to put on the jersey
I guess I could never understand the pronunciation of Mark Messier’s name. It must be a canadian thing. In the mist of learning how to read and get these french-canadian hockey players name’s tossed into your vocabulary….talk about a curve ball – pun not intended.
I also just realized I made two posts about hockey already this year. Maybe that’s telling me something. Maybe its time to invest in the dish network and get the Versus. I dont know, its just too darn much. The new and final season of The Wire is coming up, so there is no way I can ditch the HBO now. Maybe the Showtime? I suppose its just too early to tell.
joe
Oh Canada
11 November 2007 | digg, hockey | No Responses
So, Eric Lindros decides to retire huh? Wow, if this guy wasn’t one of the biggest disappointments of the 90′s I don’t know what was. I remember when he was a junior, I was growing up playing hockey, and there was so much hype around him. He was on the cover of every hockey publication with people claiming he was gonna be the next great one.
So this idiot gets drafted by the Quebec Nordiques and refuses to play for them. For a guy who didn’t play a single minute int the NHL that’s a pretty god damn arrogant move if you ask me. Go ahead, ask me. (on a site not, I find it amusing that a short time after, the team moved to Colorado and became one of the most dominant team in the NHL during the nineties). According to Wikipedia, his parents had a hand in this career move. Which makes me believe that this whole parent being his agent thing seems like it was not helping his career at all. Someone should have advised him to cut the umbilical cord already, jesus, you’re an adult. Then the whole thing with Bobby Clarke arose that also seemed to have something to do with his parents. I mean it’s Bobby fucking Clarke. He didn’t get to where he is because he was a shitty hockey player. When someone like that gives you advise, you should probably drop the ego for a moment listen.
So where does all of this lead him. To retire at 34 with a half-ass career and 6 concussions. Granted, he certainly had his moments and racked up a surprisingly decent number of points. But a player that was labeled so “dominant” makes me believe he forgot the number one rule in hockey – Keep Your Head Up! I just hope players like Syndney Crosbey read this chapter of hockey history and take a turn at the fork in the road. Or for that matter turn around and go in the opposite direction.
joe
P. S. I was reading through the comments on digg for the submission of this story and the topic of the Hall of fame came up for him and here are a couple of responses that I found quite amusing:
If there is a Hall of Fame category for being Scott Steven’s bitch, then, by all means, put him in. If Dino Cicerelli ain’t in, Lindros ain’t in either.
He won’t go to the Hall, but his helmet will, right next to Cap’n Crunch’s elbow and shoulder pads.
This message will self destruct
6 November 2007 | dell server, lab, music | No Responses
Mission accomplished! Well, for the most part anyway. I finally got ssh functioning properly on the server. Apparently my router has a built in function that does port forwarding for ssh when I was trying to do it manually. Also, it has the same functionality for the ftp protocol, so that was a snap as well.
My next step is subversion. Now I have two issues with this. First, I have set this up before at work and it was a real pain is the ass. Two, for security’s sake, I probably shouldn’t have anything like that accessible from the web. I don’t think anyone would try to hack my home server and steal anything, but you never know. And I think I am just getting bored with this and I want more than one excuse to not do it. So for the time being, I am going to bag the idea of subversion and if worse comes to worse I can just install it on my development box because the reason for it would be versioning and not really a backup which is truly my reason for it.
I also inherited an old PC from work. I think its the the target for a file-sharing server and/or quite possibly a MythTV box. That would really be sweet. Stream all music and video from it across my home network. I’m thinking yes. But I would first like to see what kind of music production (if any) I can do with it. It seems the the ideal candidate. That or the mini, but I don’t have iLife installed on it, so it would be a large pain to get everything working anyway I swing it.
Speaking of music production, I recorded some music last weekend. I have a few things I would like to clean up and the birth of secondberg will began. Totally stoked.
joe