I know every last one of you was worried about the server problems we were having, but rest assured they’ve been fixed. You can now proceed to mend your basically ruined day, as I’m sure major problems stemmed from this unfortunate and regrettable technical difficulty. Together, we can move forward and put this behind us.
The Internet itself hasn’t gone away. Hundreds of millions of people around the world continue to bend it to their own ends, in chaotic, unstable and unpredictable ways. As a generator of instant wealth, the Net may now be a big bust; as a generator of instant ideas, it keeps thrumming along.
Finally, someone puts into words what I’ve been thinking all along.. Via Camworld.
Andromedia is a new way to stream your digital media – to yourself.
Content-streaming conglomerates have a new enemy, and his name is Scott.
Scott Matthews’ Andromeda is streaming software that’s secure, works on OS X, Microsoft and Unix platforms and lets you browse your media library using any web browser, sans advertisements. It’s dead simple to install and the free version is robust. And unlike other home broadcast technologies such as ShoutCAST, Andromeda is pull-based: You choose the songs or videos you want to hear or see.
It’s basically a PHP/ASP app that runs on your internet-connected, web-server-installed home computer. If you’re on OSX, fire up Apache/PHP, and Windows can use the built-in ASP support under PWS. Just when I was about to transfer a hard-drive’s worth of MP3s by doing just that – transporting the hard drive, I found a new solution to help keep me from having to manage 2 sets of MP3 collections. Of course as soon as I buy Tai’s iPod, this will all be relatively moot.
So yesterday was Tai’s birthday. Happy 28th.
Ahem. So I got hired today.
Happy dance.
…Then I’ll tell you story of my life…
Listening to Morrissey tonight and looking at old pictures. What an extreme example of ‘bittersweet.’
So this EMT thing is happening fast. Wasn’t it just like last week that I was doing my little dance of joy for having a title? Well now the jobbyjob has happened, and like most medical shenanigans, its weird. I’m workin’ for Medcor. They staff such famous San Diego stalwarts as the Zoo, the Wild Animal Park, and the newfangled Legoland. You get hurt there, and you’re stuck with me. Mwa ha ha *continue evil genius laugh ad infinitum*
The thing is, this is my first *real* job. Well, I guess I mean traditional job. I’ve been a writer. I’ve given resumes and writing samples. I’ve very rarely filled out applications for things, especially not seriously. And definitely without checkboxes for “Have you been vaccinated for Hepatitis-B?” I’m 22 and I’ve never really dealt with shifts and stuff like that. Most people deal with that in high school. I just never had that kind of job. So its a scary paradigm shift.
Though the scariest thing is that I’ll generally be working alone. So if five people have heart attacks at once, I’m screwed. But I get to try and become awesome at treating kids before I get a “real” EMT job. We’ll see. All I know is that I’d best be getting some free Legos, or else the streets of Legoland shall run red. Stackable red.
This search should not take so long to render… 🙂
…I thought I might use Alternate for what it might as well be: a weblog.
If you don’t know, Denver has 2 great bookstore, a chain called ‘Tattered Cover.’ And despite its weathered-sounding name, the books are all new. Since I’ve been trying to make my own Mexian food recently and have had moderate success, I figured I’d learn from someone on PBS and buy Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen, and on the way to the register, I happened to see Myself When I Am Real, a biography of Charles Mingus. Satisfied that I correctly used that title for a self-given assignment about Mingus, I bought it.
So who wants chipotle shrimp and the best jazz on the planet, ever? I’m thinking of having a party.
