Church Of The Geek

RadioRaheem’s Story

Jay — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:37:02 +0000

Let me tell you the story of “Right Hand, Left Hand.” It’s a tale of good and evil. Hate: It was with this hand that Cane iced his brother. Love: These five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: Static. One hand is always fighting the other hand; and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand, Love, is finished. But, hold on, stop the presses, the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes, now, that’s right. Ooh, it’s the devastating right and Hate is hurt, he’s down. Left-Hand Hate K.O.ed by Love.

- RadioRaheem, from Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing

CONAN IZ CRAZY KAT

Jay — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:51:36 +0000

I finally made one. I’ve spent enough time laughing at other lolcats already online it was bound to happen sooner or later.

That’s my wife’s favorite cat, Conan, hanging out in an Optimus Prime box.

Fun with Trucks at DC3

Jay — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:05:52 +0000

Whenever people ask me why I like my employer so much from now on I’ll just point them at this video.

Ford Ranger Destruction from Matthew Hill on Vimeo.

Happy Sysadmin Day!

Jay — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:09:36 +0000

Woot! It’s Sysadmin Day!

Best Birthday Cake Ever - Mario Bros

Jay — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:34:15 +0000

Jen and Seth made me the best birthday cake I’ve ever received last night. Yes, yesterday was my birthday, and it was largely uneventful but this made the whole night great.

Radiohead’s House of Cards Video

Jay — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:35:53 +0000

From the description:

In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

Be sure to check out the interactive manipulator hosted at Google.

Also, here is a behind the scenes video if you’d like to learn more.

Aidan Walking!!!

Jay — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:57:13 +0000

Aidan Walking! from Jason Allen on Vimeo.

Aidan’s First Birthday Pictures

Jay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:36:33 +0000

Pics from Aidan’s first birthday party can be found on his site, aidanallen.com.

Here is a direct link to the set.

NicePlayer Finally Updated

Jay — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:02:35 +0000

There there blog, I know I’ve neglected you. I’ve been super busy and … yes, yes ok I know excuses won’t cut it here. You’re pissed. I’m sorry.

Here is a peace offering instead: My favorite (and default) video player for OS X, NicePlayer, has finally been updated in the form of a preview build. This preview includes the return of remote control support, something which has been broken since 10.5 originally came out. Yes, that is quite a long time now and yes, I did wonder up until the moment I found this preview build if the application was dead in the water.

Enjoy!

Site Reformat

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:26:24 +0000

When I originally set this site up I used fantastico, a frontend that installs a lot of commonly used web software. I used this method mostly because I wanted to see how well fantastico worked and also to glean a little insight into a regular customer’s experience.

Sadly fantastico is not always kept regularly up to date, and I grew tired of waiting for them to push out the WordPress 2.5.1 update. I decided to reinstall the site using a manual WordPress installation method.

Please hang in there while I get everything back to normal