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Now that’s a TV!
For Christmas everyone pitched in and got me a 27″ Sony Wega. With about 1/2″ to spare I slid it into our entertainment center the other night. We warmed it up by watching “Serenity” and playing 8 hours of Katamari on the PS2. I’m so happy to have that silly switcher box off the top of my TV, and to hear things in STEREO *gasp. I lived with a 19″ bubble TV for 10 years – it was about time…
We have some friends coming over for a New Years Day – Rally Marathon party. I can’t wait!
Thanks Mom, Dad, Joyce and Don!
Work standing up?
I started my career as a field service tech. Besides the hours of McDonalds behind the wheel of a 1984 Ford LTD – I was mobile; Climbing stairs, lugging monitors, and other physical activity. I then worked in a computer repair shop. On my feet all day – at the workbench. Even at my last few jobs with corporate America, I tried to stay mobile. Taking stairs, working calls, etc. My current job requires no such ambulatory motion. I connect to remote servers and call customers from my fat cushy desk chair. Inside my boring cubicle.
This morning I dropped my leather sofa sized office chair off at the empty cube beside me. I plunked down about 10 pounds of scrap wood, and began lifting my monitors 18″ off the surface of the desk. “What the hell are you doing?” asked some. “Kook!” scoffed others. I had at least mentioned this to management in the past – how it would be nice to pull the monitors up and be able to stand at my desk. “Are you going to stand up all day?” – “Yes,” I replied. “All day… Get it out of your system.”
I built an 18″ stand out of 2 pieces of scrap plywood and some leftover poplar. It took me like an hour to design and build over the weekend. Pictures to follow…
It has certainly been a string of ‘office space’ moments all morning.
My top 5 reasons to stand up while you work:
#1. Health.
Keeps the blood flowing to the feet and legs – heart gets more of a workout.
#2. Productivity
I usually want to snooze at 2:30 in the sofa chair.
#3. Originality
My office mates mock me – because they want to BE me. My personality can’t sleep in a chair. I think that if everyone was able to customize their cube, we’d see more out of the box thinking.
#4. Mobility
When the 9.0 quake hits Irvine or the brush fire spreads – I’m out the door!
#5. Stamina
Being on your feet all day isn’t as bad as slouching to death in a sleepy leather chair.
Break conformity!
I also want to give props to the guys at Pixar for giving me the ‘Eureka’ moment:
Check out this behind the scenes look at Pixar – by “Ain’t It Cool News”
Update? nah…
I’ve mentioned this before. If you want to know what I’ve been up to – hit up rallynotes.com
Oh, and it’s raining in Southern California…
Someone called the local radio station and suggested that people slow down and take it easy on the highway.
I called and suggested that they leave their bald tire, bad brake, cracked windshield, no clue how to drive in rain – fat ass – at home. Leave the rally driving to me…
Define the term overkill…
They closed one lane here. ONE Lane. A lane that ends in a merge 50 feet up the road. This is so they can add one more lane going up to the new UCI parking structure. There you have it…
I’ve seen runways with less signage.
I was probably on the internet before you.
rec.aviation.ultralight newsgroup post I did. Found on google. Dated November 13th 1995.
Christine passed her PreQualifingExam today! w00t! We went out to celebrate and she told me about a conversation she had with one of the organizers. “Wasn’t this supposed to be two full weeks after finals?” She asked. “Where did you read that?!” The organizer asked. “On the programs UCI website…” “Oh, no one ever read that… Until your class.”
I suggested that Tine let them know that from now on, all of their students had access to the Internet in High School. So they should consider what they put up on their site and consider keeping it current.
I wrote a script to port FirstClass BBS messages back and forth from usenet – I have a strong feeling that was sent from my BBS. No search for ‘PCMacNet’ turned up anyhting relevent. Brake out the Hayes Accura 14.4, we’re using WinSock to make a PPP connection to the World Wide Web!