the other night, i was sitting at home, listening to music, when i started to think about why i liked the kind of music that i like. now, my tastes in music vary drastically from rock, punk, and alternative to classical, contemporary, and operatic, but the one that tends to stand out the most in my car, home, and work falls on the genre of electronica.

when i speak of electronica, this breaks down into many more sub categories, including: trance, rave, house, trip-hop, down tempo, etc, etc. i will go further to say that i am purposely excluding techno and dance from my thought process here as they don’t fit into where i was thinking the origin of my tastes came from, but will provide a brief background as to why.

techno and dance came into my life when i lived over seas. this type of music was at every party and get together you could find. it was frequently on the local radio stations, and it didn’t take long for me to start liking techno, but at that time, i primarily saw it as dance music, not something to listen to on a regular basis. regardless, i loved techno and similar music i heard, but it wasn’t until later that i discovered a new genre that i could just sit and listen to for hours.

hackers. yes, the 1995 movie hackers was the starting point of my fascination with this style of music, but not because of the movie nor all of the music in the movie, but instead a single song from the movie just caught my interest from the first note.

the song: halcyon & on & on the artist: orbital

for those “legitimately” posting comments to my blog, please bare with me. if you receive some moderation page, just wait and i will get it published. i am in the process of finding the happy medium with the spam filters and can’t seem to find it. if i loosen it ever so slightly, i let in a massive amount of spam, if i tighten it, all legitimate comments are held for moderation.

hopefully i can have this resolved soon. thanks.

my day began yesterday in a much different way than most days. i woke up at 4:30am. 4:30am is early for most people, but 4:30 for me is a little on the extreme (pun fully intended) side in my opinion, but i figured this would be for a good cause. the cause? extreme makeover: home edition.

in the midst of the extreme makeover: home edition trek across all 50 states, they landed 20 minutes down the road from me. upon finding this out, i figured i could put in a lending hand. i have done habitat for humanity in the past and enjoyed it, so i figured this would be a good thing. the plan: meet at 6am for check-in, “the march” at 8am, demolition around 9am, etc. or so i thought. every step took significantly longer than planned. i also expected a lot of people to be there to lend a helping hand for anything that is needed. i was wrong about this as well.

as it turned out, about 70% of the people were women and about 70% of the women had one purpose, see ty. ty pennington of course is the star of the show and is one of these men that most women would love to meet. unfortunately, this meant that these women were not there to help out a needy family, but rather help out their lust for seeing the perfect man.

now, i will not make myself out to be a hypocrite and say i didn’t want a chance to see and possibly meet paige, but this was not my primary goal. the primary goal of the average person seems to center around themselves, whether it is to meet that one person, have a chance to be on television, be able to say they were a part of extreme makeover, or even the selfish desire to be able to say they “helped” build a house for a needy family. their need for any of this ranks higher than the desire to help a family that truly deserves it.

i had hopes for yesterday upon waking just to see them be ever so slightly disappointed. yes, the magic of the show disappears when you witness it in progress first hand, but it wasn’t really that. yes, the outgoing, fun nature, always friendly on television ty was very unapproachable (although i have no doubt how busy the man is, so to me it is justified), but that really wasn’t it. and yes, the self-centered average person is a little disappointing, but even this is expected. no, the thing that disappointed me was that i went out to this site to help. i am a relatively big guy, and i can help with any form of manual labor, but there was nothing for me to do.

ok, yesterday was devoted to heavy machinery, hauling in truck loads of dirt, and pouring the slab foundation. these are jobs that i fully understand are not for me as i specialize in none of them, but upon approaching some of the crew for the show, asking what i (a volunteer) can do, i was continually given a blank stare as if this had never been asked before.

from what i can gather, the building (the actual work to be done) is entirely done by the contractors and their people, which is fine, but the premise of the show tends to be a house built by this family’s community. i thought i was walking onto a site that i could help and build a home on, but i walked off feeling that all i had done was walk around and watch a house be destroyed.

it is truly a wonderful thing what abc and all these other companies do for these families, and i don’t want to take away from that one bit in what i am saying. i had simply hoped that my presence there would have be able to provide the help that i thought was needed. this was just to share my experiences on the site of a real live extreme makeover: home edition.

here’s to trying!

yes, this is an entry whose sole purpose is to discuss future posts. if you would rather wait for the future, go for it; otherwise read on.

the next few posts are ones that i will be making over the next few days that will cover several topics. why do i not just write about one right now? well, that my friend would be a good question. first, i frankly don’t feel like it. secondly, i have yet to figure out which topic to start out with. and third, i don’t feel like it. i think you may get the point.

until i decide on what to write about, here are the topics at hand.

i have recently bought a digital camera. it is a canon powershot s1 is, and this will be the topic of a couple of entries. i will cover the camera itself (both pros and cons) as well as cover a few topics i have waited on until i purchased a camera; the painted rooms, the house, and the digital entertainment room. if these topics do not interest you, move on, otherwise keep up to date over the next week or so.

also, this past weekend consisted of a camping trip with a few friends that i would like to put up as an entry. the hold up on this one is that i am waiting for barry to post pics of the event so that i may steal them and use them for the post.

lastly, although a lot of recent posts have been about the personal life, i have been meaning to do a quick write-up on the new ipod. i have purchased the 60GB model of the video ipod and have some pros and cons i would like to put down on the site.

until then, allow me to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving an hour and a half prior to the date (CST).

i’m out.

two entries of lyrics in a row. I know, i really need to post something more, but oh well, just deal. music and words say more than most people would know how to put on paper.

as for inspiration. i wouldn’t call anything causing inspiration in putting up this song other than i love the group, and the song is great. although having a girl and being in this type of a scenario would be hell, i felt that i should put this up as i can understand personally what the lyrics mean. “Think Twice”

When all is said and done And dead does he love you The way that I do Breathing in lightning Tonight’s for fighting I feel the hurt so physical

Think twice before you touch my girl Come around I’ll let you feel the burn Think twice before you touch my girl Come around come around no more Think twice before you touch my girl Come around I’ll let you feel the burn Think twice before you touch my girl Come around no more

She spreads her love She burns me up I can’t let go I can’t get out I’ve said enough Enough by now I can’t let go I can’t get out

Wait till the day you finally see I’ve been here waiting patiently Crossing my fingers and my t’s She cried on my shoulder begging please

Think twice before you touch my girl Come around I’ll let you feel the burn Think twice before you touch my girl Come around come around no more Think twice before you touch my girl Come around I’ll let you feel the burn Think twice before you touch my girl Come around no more

She spreads her love She burns me up I can’t let go I can’t get out I’ve said enough Enough by now I can’t let go I can’t get out

What is it you really want I’m tired of asking You’re gone I’m wasted

When I showed up and he was there I tried my best to grin and bare And took the stairs but didn’t stop at the street And as we speak I’m going down

Cause she spread her love And burnt me up I can’t let go I can’t get out I’ve said enough Enough by now I can’t let go I can’t get out

Think twice before you touch my girl Come around I’ll let you feel the burn Think twice before you touch my girl Come around come around no more Think twice before you touch my girl Come around I’ll let you feel the burn Think twice before you touch my girl Come around no more

-eve 6-

rather than just posting the lyrics to this song, i decided to say where the inspiration came from to post it. i heard it about a week ago on a commercial that a friend had forwarded to me. it is a sony bravia commercial from the uk, and is absolutely amazing. although i know that the commercial had to have been computer generated in most of its aspects, it is just cool to see so many bouncy balls. here are the links to the extended quicktime versions of the commercial. watch it. trust me, you will like it.

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“Heartbeats”

One night to be confused one night to speed up truth we had a promise made four hands and then away

both under influence we had devine scent to know what to say mind is a razorblade

to call for hands of above to lean on wouldn’t be good enough for me, no

one night of magic rush the start a simple touch one night to push and scream and then relief

ten days of perfect tunes the colors red and blue we had a promise made we were in love

to call for hands of above to lean on wouldn’t be good enough for me, no

to call for hands of above to lean on wouldn’t be good enough

and you, you knew the hands of the devil and you, kept us awake with wolves teeths sharing different heartbeats in one night

to call for hands of above to lean on wouldn’t be good enough for me, no

to call for hands of above to lean on wouldn’t be good enough for me, no

-jose gonzalez-

awhile back, i wrote a small post talking about installing linux on an old powerbook 1400 i have had since college. I even put together a pretty lengthy, although incomplete, guide on how i went about doing it. since then, i have not done much more, and actually removed the linux os in place of mac os 9 due to the fact that there was no support for the g3 upgrade cards in linux at the time. a couple of days ago, i decided to swing over to the nubus powermac sourceforge site on a whim to see what has happened in the past year and a half.

as it turns out, quite a bit has evolved from since i installed debian (woody) on mine. looking further, it appears that the guide i wrote (that was linked to on the site) has been labeled as the “outdated method.” this perked a little interest and so i decided to dig some more. as i found out, the nubus powermac linux scene has had some major improvements on getting things up and running a bit easier and faster through the use of a bootable iso image with miboot on it with a kernel to boot to the debian (sarge) distro, as well as the 2.4.27 kernel to boot up with once sarge is installed. all of this is thanks to Tobias Netzel. not only that, but there is now support for g3 upgrade cards, better pcmcia support, and full media bay support for the 1400 (and most likely the 5300).

i have once again installed linux on my 1400 running a Sonnet Crescendo 400Mhz G3 card, a Agere Silver 802.11b card, with an upgraded 10GB hard drive. i am still installing several items, and by the end of the weekend, plan on having x windows up and running. once done, i will sit down and write up a new guide to the “new method” since i have yet to find one out there. yes, the new method is pretty easy and straight forward, but a guide that says, “do this” is always of help to anyone looking.

i have run linux on many machines before, including a powermac 8100, 9500, and g4 to name a few, but the main machine i wanted up and running with some form of *nix distro was the 1400. the 1400 is a 10 year old machine that is still capable of a whole lot. yes, the ram maxes out at 64MB, yes it does not support cardbus and therefore will never have usb connectivity, but it works, and works well; especially with an upgraded processor.

i thought i would just jot down these few things before writing up a guide, but once the guide is done, i will certainly post it along with any config files i use for my install. also, any credit will be given to those where credit is due.