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.

ahh, isn’t it amazing how you can make things go your way when you know how the system works? well, i recently found this out again. yes, it is time again to look at the life of a womanless man and his toys. Continue reading “using the system - the trio” …

you know, as a single guy living alone in a house, you get a lot of time to think on your own. no wife to answer to, no girlfriend to sway your thoughts, a disobedient dog to frustrate you more. Yep, nothing but a massive TV, a room full of 20 computers, constant music throughout the house making you feel like your life really does have background music (except when in your car, because your amps are currently all jacked up). this, my friend, makes up the perfect combination for all sorts of thought provoking questions and amusements.

with all that said, have any of you found that putting thoughts on paper are more difficult knowing that friends and family are looking on? you watch what you say, you phrase things a little different than you typically would, you don’t delve too deep into many issues at all. this is all good as most of them most likely wouldn’t care to read all the garbage that falls out of your head onto a computer screen anyway, but it makes you think nonetheless.

does any of this mean that i have some things to say that i am not willing to write about out of fear that others would read it? no, but those others are not just others. they are people that have an opinion in my own personal life in a way that no stranger would. this of course makes things that come out a little more toned down. sure, there are thoughts that linger in my head for what seem like an eternity, but that tends to be fine by me.

why would it be easier to write on a blog to a lot of people that you don’t know? simple…judgement, or i guess, lack thereof. sure, even in this case, people would judge, but who cares? they don’t know you and you don’t know them. what’s the big deal? friends and family on the other hand are the ones that matter in these situations, but you simply would rather not put that kind of stuff out there for them to become participants in.

i guess that everyone has things on their minds that they feel would be better staying there, but once more, for a single guy living on his own, private time tends to allow the mind to process the activities of the day, the activities that have yet to come about, and anything and everything in between a bit more. however, i’m not going to lie, i love this. having been an introvert all my life, i tend to enjoy a private time much more than the next guy. to sit aside and just contemplate the “what if” questions that just so happen to wander into the open mind as you sit there, in a daze, staring at a screen that has no right in being as big as it is. oh well, life moves on. another day passes. another week, month, and year are yet to come.

when will it end? not anytime soon, but of that i am fine. a long life, lots of thoughts, constant music making your life a little bit more like that movie you love so much. step back, take a breath, and slowly move ahead.

I meant to write this in my last short post that pretty much told you nothing.

today is my brother’s birthday, so all that know him, wish him a good one.

happy birthday josh!