Archive for October, 2008
Let that be enough…
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Spirituality | No Comments
let me know that You hear me
let me know Your touch
let me know that You love me
let that be enough…
The Best Toy a Guy Could Want
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 | Rants | 1 Comment
I’m a geek. I’ll admit it, it’s true. I like adapters for various wire and cable types, I like network switches, hubs, and routers. I like VNC clients and Virtual Private Networks. I love tinkering with websites, but most of all; I love video games.
I always have loved video games. When I think back on my childhood, I have strong nostalgic feelings for the days of the Nintendo (or Intendo as some of my younger friends called it). It wasn’t until 3 months before the Nintendo 64 came out that I owned a Super Nintendo Entertainment system because my failure to manage, let alone save, money inhibited me from obtaining the money to purchase one.
Ok, enough back-story. I bought an Xbox 360 in November of last year, and as some of you know, this pretty much invalidates an original Xbox. Well, I am happy to say I have revived, no no, re-invigorated my Xbox. It is now more powerful than ever before, and can do so, so much more.
By using a handy software modification, I was able to transform this waste of space to a fully funcional entertainment center. Where before it only played Xbox games, it now re-lives the days of my youth. Here’s what it did before the mod:
- Play Xbox games (and DVDs with a remote).
After upgrading the hard drive to 200GB, here’s what it can now do:
- Copy Xbox games to the hard drive for play without the disk.
- Emulate the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/CD/Master System, Nintendo 64, Playstation (one), NeoGeo, You name Atari System it can play it, Intellivision, Vectrex, older PC engines, and don’t forget Multiple Arcade Machines/Games.
- Play *just about* any digital video format.
- Store and View Pictures
- Store and Play music / Rip Music from CDs (even accessing CDDB).
- Play DVDs (without the remote)
- And so much more that I haven’t even figured out yet.
So, now I’m knee deep in nostalgia, and really enjoying video games in new and different ways — and I’ll tell you this: Good graphics alone do not a good game make. I’ll end with this: Contra seems HARDER than it was when I was a kid, and Tetris never gets old.
More Pictures from my office
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 | Family | 1 Comment
The view from my desk:
Farther Back:
Tim’s desk:
View from tim’s desk:
The coffee shop downstairs:
The pizza shop across the street:
Misc office pictures:
My New Cool Job
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Today was my first day at out:think. To start the day, Tim and I moved in to our new office on the 10th floor of the Bank of the James building (downtown L-Burg). It’s freakin’ sweet. Not only am I doing what I’ve wanted to do for, I don’t know, 5 years, but I’m working Downtown.
I had forgotten how cool our downtown is. Granted, it’s not New York City or anything, but it feels fresh, and old at the same time — the air this time of year is crisp too, which makes it even more invigorating. We started the day with coffee from the little coffee shop in our building, and had lunch at the pizza place across the street. I’ll post a picture of the view from my office below.
Stay tuned; there’s more to come soon!