Today marks the 11th straight night I have worked at my job. The schedule had me working tomorrow. Earlier this morning, I spoke up and asked for tomorrow night off. While I am a professional and will do my job to the best of my abilities, I am aware that I am beginning to hit a certain point both mentally and emotionally where I can feel the ( Read more... )

CSI: NY S06/EP02
   Being a shade tree computer geek, I can enjoy the use of the computer and internet as a murder weapon. More importantly, its getting a chance to see a part of Mac Taylor's past that made him into the person he is today. Good episode all around, and why the New York branch is my favorite of the three.
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U.S. may need as much as $350 billion to extend broadband
   While listening to Geeknights last night, Rym brought up the subject that net neutrality might be more of a concern for the population in the long term than health care reform. Looking at the above article, he just might be right. Imagine if smaller towns had broadband access to make ( Read more... )

   I like to blog, and as often as possible. Sometimes, while an idea forms in my head for a blog post, I just can't seem to get motivated to do so. Part of this could be attributed to working at night, especially with events that are going on at work. Certain things that are stressing me out along with a bit of apathy can lead one to just be ( Read more... )

   If I may take a page from Penelope Trunk's blog, while we may try to do our best to be "professional" its hard to keep the social aspects out of it. When I came back from Atlanta Linux Fest I mentioned it had gotten me interested and motivated again to work towards a career in computers. Something else that has recently begun to motivate me are ( Read more... )

   I made a brief mention about this in my last blog post, but I felt I should explain it a bit more. One of the things I enjoyed about going to the Atlanta Linux Fest this past weekend was it brought back a desire to do something in the computer field that had become suppressed over the past few months. It's something I think happens to the best ( Read more... )

   With vacation time put in, I left Friday morning (after a Thursday detour to BIrmingham) for Atlanta to attend the Friday portion of the Anime Weekend Atlanta convention before and after checking into my hotel room. I enjoyed myself, but I think a combination of travel fatigue and stress from work gave me a different perspective of the ( Read more... )

   Working security at a hospital, you see your fair share of people either chemically (alcohol, drugs) or psychologically impaired. As such, these persons tend to use foul language as part of their vocabulary. For me, I see two differences in this. First, if the person is just cursing at nothing in particular, an attempt is made to have them ( Read more... )

Went to see G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra for a second time. This marks the second movie I've seen more than once in the past few months. The other one was Star Trek, and I think I know the reason why. With some movies, you can enjoy the performance of the actors and be able to draw yourself into the move. These two movies to me though seemed like ( Read more... )

Events in the past few weeks have had me looking internally a bit more than I normally do. One thing that has come up is a desire to have a hobby. While my wife has noted that computers seem my hobby, it is admittedly one that doesn't feed my artistic side. As such, I am starting to take an interest in drawing. My drawing skills are non-existent, ( Read more... )