Tonight I was stuck at work trying to get my capistrano deployments working and I was listening to game 5 of the World Series. I couldn’t watch it and the Cards were quickly moving towards winning the game and The Series. However, with no TV nearby I couldn’t watch it. And everyone knows (you know. you really do) that you can’t just listen to the game when it finally ends and the winner is announced. What was I to do?
I realized that at some point in the past I’d downloaded this lovely piece of software called TVUplayer. It’s TV over the web but not like you’re used to hearing about it. They’re clever about how you receive the data. Kind of like how BitTorrent is a large mesh of users sharing data so that the speed can be very high, same here. Many users are watching the channel I want to watch so the datarate is better. Less users, the crappier the channel will look. Lifehacker may have described a little better than me.
Long story short. I got to WATCH the end of the game… sitting at my desk at work!!!
Isn’t technology wonderful? heh. Oh… and BTW - CONGRATULATIONS St. Louis!!!
If you’re not hosted by Verio then move along. These are not the droids you’re looking for. (there ya go mom. the quote you were thinking of. heh)
NTS: Use “vedituser” when changing the shell for a user in a Verio VPS. You can’t just vi /etc/passwd to make the change. The change won’t resolve. Dunno what it does in the backend with vedituser that vi doesn’t accomplish but I’m sure it’s something that I don’t need to know how to do. 
From the life of Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert. He has something called “Spasmodic Dysphonia”. It’s a loss of the ability to speak… but only in a certain way. Sometimes you can sing… sometimes you can speak to large groups… it depends. NO ONE has ever beaten it…
Until Scott did. At least for a bit.
Read an really great story and smile today. Happy things DO happen. I’ve known it for more than a year now.
Cathy needs this so she can show off all the gorgeous “wheating” around the band on her engagement ring. If only I knew Japanese… or could even see the characters on the website…
Does someone have an option for something like this in the US? Thinkgeek.com doesn’t have anything.
Oooh. I just did a search on Amazon for a “loupe” and I got all SORTS of great options. Never mind. go about your business. nothing to see here.
Last Friday Cath and I were at the third and deciding game (as it turned out) of the ALDS series between the Oakland A’s and the Minnesota Twins. I’m proud to say that I had a hand in their win. I found a penny on the ground, heads up of course, and made a wish that they’d win that day. Whaddayaknow! Wishes do come true.
As is our way, we love to take pictures and that day was no different. I took some pictures I really like. Here are some of my favorites. Click the images to go to their Flickr page where you can see larger versions…
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You know what? The acronym for “Yonder Mountain String Band“, an AWESOME bluegrass band is YMSB. It’s awfully close to YSMB. What’s that an acronym for?
You Sunk My Battleship
Yup. These are the thoughts that go through my head when I’m driving home from work.
Why did I get to see this advertisement when reading my mail the other day?
I’ve uploaded a bigger version of the first image to Flickr.
Now, not that I don’t appreciate a good stripper pole. And not that I haven’t thought of having one installed. And not that I don’t have someone I’d like to see using it. And not that she hasn’t ever used one….
Umm…. What was my point? I got distracted.
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