My long nightmare of multiple five-day weeks has finally ended. Actually, it ended on Tuesday with the return of the guy I work with from his well-earned vacation. Fortunately, nothing too overwhelming crapped out on my watch and it’s really nice to not only have a few days off but to not have to carry my goddamn work phone around with me everywhere I go. The only real bummer id that I have to take Fritzi to the vet tomorrow morning for his Lyme booster and Lepto shot. Although I hate going, he’s at least pretty easy to handle and hopefully we’ll be in and out in a hurry and then I won’t have any vet trips to worry about for a while (as long as they all manage to avoid hurting each other to the point of breaking bones or needing stitches).<\/p>\n
Otherwise, I don’t have a lot going on. I tried to get some shit done yesterday, but didn’t get very far. I haven’t really been feeling that great, which makes it that much harder to overcome my natural state of inertia. It has<\/i><\/b> been warm enough to get in some pool time, so that’s nice. It’s about the only time I feel good – but it wears off fast. On the bright side, I’ve discovered a couple of good teevee-related things. <\/p>\n
If you’ve got Netflix, you’ve probably already heard of Sense8. It was created by J. Michael Straczynski (I guess if you’re a geek like me then you’ll know who that is, otherwise not so much) and the Wachowski brothers. It’s pretty hard to describe what this thing is about, so I won’t bother. But it’s pretty weird, which is right up my alley.<\/p>\n
Also right up my alley is a new show on USA – Mr. Robot. This one is kind of about a “white hat” hacker (though his hat isn’t all that white, so maybe “grey” hat would be better). It’s quite a bit more realistic than the other tech-related shit you’ll see out there, where the ability to hack seems to involve typing really fast and slapping in really cool-looking (and extraordinarily fake) graphics in post. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good (at least they use Linux). <\/p>\n
The other little project I’ve been working on is a new media device I got a deal on, and which shipped from Slovenia of all places (which I don’t know much about, but it looks like a really beautiful place from the pictures I’ve seen). In fact, it went from Slovenia to JFK to my house in two days (for free, even). That’s pretty good. So, anyhow, I replaced the OS it shipped with (OPENElec, if anybody cares) and loaded Android on it instead. So it thinks it’s a tablet tied to my Google account, so I have access to all my Android apps and Google content on it. It’s also got an SD card slot, so I have OPENElec loaded on that, and can boot to it if I want to. <\/p>\n
Not very exciting, I know, but if my life ever was<\/i><\/b> exciting (and, sadly, it never was), those days are long gone. <\/p>\n
Oh well, I reckon I’d better at least make an effort to get something done around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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