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posting woes

January 16, 2015 / / 4 Comments

It has been quite a while since I have posted on here.  I don’t know why exactly, just life got in the way, or I just didn’t have the desire.  I finally came up with a solution to some registrar problems and that is why my URL has slightly changed.  I worked quite a while last night on getting links changed and things working correctly on my blog here, and it is mostly fixed.  The podcasts are still a mess, another issue with Amazon S3 that we wont get into.  Here is the thing that I found the most strange after all of this, I got everything set up because I wanted to post something again.  Then, I got into a blank post editor and I didn’t know what I wanted to do.  I have looked at this screen off and on for about 9 hours now, and I am finally writing something.  I am kind of confused because I did want to post.  Bring a little of that old cathartic magic back, but when it was time to step up and do it, I drew a blank.  I didn’t want to write.  I guess I was just content to let the site lie.  I don’t know how many people are actually reading this blog anymore, I don’t really care.  There are so many blogs out there, who can keep track of them all?  When I started in this adventure, there were many but not overly flooded like there is now.  I started podcasting because it was cool, and I really wanted to have my own private radio station.  Now the market is so flooded that I don’t know that I should bother.  I think I will stick to writing and maybe have a Talk Like a Pirate Day podcast and that is all.  I just don’t know what to do for sure.  Write, put it out there and hope that there is someone who googles for just the right thing to bring them to some profound post that I have written.  Even the Stay at Home Dad market seems to be flooded and we are not such a novelty anymore.  Bah.  I am just going to rant for a while and post.  I need the discipline of writing often and well so that I can finish my book by the end of the year.  That is the goal, the resolution, the ultimatum from the wife.  We will see what happens.  Comment down below if you feel so inclined, if not, no worries.  Just know you were here for the first post of the reboot…

Later

-Justin

Cassette Tapes

July 9, 2014 / / 2 Comments
A heap of old and unwanted cassette tapes.
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Were any of you like me, laden with a huge bag full of cassette tapes?  Did you ever hit a point where you got rid of the outer cases because you figured out that you could put 2 tapes top to bottom in the same space as one in a case?

Ahh cassettes.  I grew up with cassettes and walkmans.  I used to record my record so that I could take them everywhere and still listen.  I would record those brand new cd’s onto cassette so that I could listen to them in my car.  Do you remember the places where the tape got stretched and had a few seconds of higher pitched music?

Do you remember exactly where the breaks were at the end of the tape?  Did it piss you off when the CD of your favorite album came out on CD and the songs were in a different order!?!?  (I am talking to you EMI with Queen’s Greatest Hits)

Or how about the points where you had to unscrew the shell and retape together the broken ends.  Inevitably it would skip right there and become more of the charm of the tape.  Did you stay up all night Sunday nights to record Dr. Demento so that you could listen to him all week?  Did you ever long for a double deck system so that you could dub tapes because holding a headphone of your Walkman up to the microphone of another set just didn’t have the same, well any quality?

Now we have cd’s and I don’t know of many cassette players around.  I don’t have one in either of my cars, my old Walkman has given up, my old stereo doesn’t play them anymore, it just eats them.

I did find a whole bunch of my old tapes the other day in the case that I used to haul around in my truck.  I opened it up and saw some of my old compilation tapes that I had made, and some of the old Dr. Demento tapes.  I can’t quite remember all of the songs that are on those tapes now, but I can remember which ones were the good ones, the ones I would listen to for hours.

I am sure that most of them would sound like crap if I cranked them up today.  I know that I keep meaning to get rid of them, I have for the 4 years since we moved.  I just haven’t done it yet.  Somewhere in the back of my mind I think I will get an old player and hook the thing into my computer and record off those old songs that I loved all of those years ago.

Come to think of it, my daughters new stereo has a cassette player in it….

I would love to hear your stories of times with your Cassettes.  Stories about the one that broke and got replaced the next day, stories about the ones you got for Christmas that never got side B played because side A was so good.

Please regale me and the rest of us with your stories in the Comments section as well as digg, stumble, facebook, linked in and twitter!

Thanks for reading!

Justin

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Cyber Monday?!? The Holiday Horror Continues…

July 9, 2014 / / 0 Comments
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Today is now known as Cyber Monday.  It sounds ominous and it probably should, you couldn’t possibly shop online any other time of the year.  So why do they insist on getting your cash today??  The only explanation I can think of is so the online retailers can get in on some of that Black Friday cash.

It is not like anyone shops online for Black Friday anyway.  You should, many of the same deals in the stores are available online at the same time.  And you don’t have to stand out in the cold or deal with crowds, out of stock items and people in general.

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Are you Cheating on Me????

July 9, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Well hello!  I don’t know if I have paointed out enough times the computer problems I have had the past few weeks.  I picked up a virus on my laptop that ended up wiping out most of my OS.  I have been using my laptop for most everything in running my business for the past couple of years.

I spent way too much time working on it until I was able to migrate much of my data to my older desktop and use that.  Now the desktop is a decent computer, same OS and almost as fast s it was ok, just a pain in the rear end.  I used it and it worked fine for  while until I was able to get the factory discs to restore the laptop.

It was only then I found my hard drive was messed up by this same virus.  Ok this is not just a sob story, I have everything sorted out now and I am ok with everything.  I just had a funny thought that inspired this post.

Through all of this, I felt like I was cheating on my laptop with my desktop.  I just hope that, now the laptop is back, the desktop won’t be too pissed.  The desktop knew with wouldn’t last.  It was only a matter of time.  It should be happy I am using it as a server to spool printing and run the wireless network.

Yet, if I ever find the guy who wrote that virus I will personally carve a chuck out of him for every byte of info that I lost, and another chunk for every hour I spent working on it, and yet another chunk for the money I spent fixing it.  Then maybe another for the money I lost while the computer was down.  I would go to court and my defense would be, “But he wrote a virus that I got and it wiped out my system.”  Judge frowns at pile of bloody chunks.  “Case Dismissed, Justifiable Homicde.”

It is funny to put computers in the place of people in a soap opera.  I am just glad it is easier to juggle computers and data than people.  I am continuously intrigued with the people douchebags who cheat on their spouses and how they can live 2 lives like that.  I couldn’t.  I don’t want to.

I will stick to jealous computers.

What you you guys think?

-Justin

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