geek | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 5:24 PM So I went to the Zoo yesterday and what did I see, well this ...
geek | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 5:50 PM I'm going to see Phish tonight, leaving in a matter of minutes actually! I can't wait ... that is all. :)
Will post a follow up of the show later perhaps.
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Set 1: The Connection, Down with Disease > Sample in a Jar, Ocelot, Reba, Horn, Funky Bitch, Undermind, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, David Bowie
Set 2: Possum, Mike's Song > Simple > I Am the Walrus > Weekapaug Groove >Limb By Limb > Joy, Harry Hood > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: First Tube
Notes: This show featured the Phish debut of I Am The Walrus. Weekapaug was unfinished.
*setlist from Phish.net
You can grab the show here (Live Phish) if your interested. First "I am the Walrus" by Phish!
My Pictures:
Show Poster:
Nice Video of the I Am The Walrus
geek | Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 5:29 PM It looks like the wait is almost over, Phish comes to the big screen April 30th.
PHISH 3D - IN THEATERS APRIL 30TH from Phish on Vimeo.
Phish 3D, filmed at Festival 8 - the band’s three-day festival which took place on October 30th, 31st and November 1st at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California - will be in theatres nationwide in 3D on April 30th. The band performed 8 sets over the course of the weekend, including a special Acoustic Set on Sunday afternoon. Keeping the tradition of past Halloween shows, they donned a musical costume on Halloween night, covering The Rolling Stones’ album Exile On Main Street.
For complete ticketing and theater information, please visit http://www.phish3dmovie.com.
geek | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 9:21 PM If this isn't your favorite video I feel sad for you. :)
geek | Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 9:38 AM So I finally got to touch an iPad the other day, at work no-less. I originally thought the iPad was just going to be a larger iPod Touch, it's more then that.
Like with many Apple products is sleek and sexy, it's also really light. Since I only had a few minutes with the Jesus Pad I wanted to check as many things as I could out, before handing it back. First thing that came to mind was Safari, so I fired it up. I have to say that just the web page or two that I looked at look great on this thing. It's all the joy of touching around websites in the palm of your hand, only on a much larger scale with less pinching or double tapping to see things correctly. Sites also seemed a bit sharper then on my iPhone, no doubt due to the better screen on the iPad.
Next up was the iBook reader. So I launch it and find Winnie the Pooh for my reading pleasure. Again the words are nice and sharp and the work done to make it look like a book are pretty amazing. If you hold it up and down it makes it one larger page, tilt it and it becomes a sexy looking really book with a spine to divide your pages. I gotta say it blew me away a little. The app also included some basic controls you would expect; the ability to increase and decrease font size, and the ability to adjust contrast being the big two. I'm not sure about long term reading on it, but just the sexy factor have it looking so much nicer then most ebook readers.
The Google Maps app and Photos app also looked nice, but the above would be my main reasons for getting myself and iPad. Oh and the thing will run your iPhone/iTouch apps and you have the choice to run them full screen or original scale to maintain their proper resolution.
Anyways, even if your an iPad/Apple/Steve Jobs hater I think you owe it to yourself to stop by an Apple store (or Best Buy) and actually touch one of these bad boys.
Apple iPad
geek | Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 9:17 AM Thanks to Kevin Rose I've found perhaps a new addiction. Not being part of the whole FaceBook thing (as the guy in charge is evil and you basically give away everything about yourself) I've missed out on the phenomenon known as FarmVille. Anyways even better now, We Rule. I've only been playing for a bit but already hooked for some silly reason. :)
We Rule
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As of a few hours ago I've removed this app from my iPhone. It consumed to much of my time and it's constant notifications (I know they can be disabled but then you miss what it's alerting you of) kinda drove me crazy. :)
geek | Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 5:44 PM Just got around to changing a few things around on the site, you might not even notice if your only here to snatch the sad panda picture or just followed the link from Google images. Anyways I hope the few of you stopping by do like the new stuff. I hope to do some more layout changes soon, when I get the time.
layout, sad panda, site update in Site News geek | Posted on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 12:09 PM I have created something that I think even tops sad pandas. Yes, tops them! I would like everyone to meet "fat cat" and "little cat" at their new page - Fat Cat vs Little Cat.
I think you'll really enjoy them.
cats, fat cat, little cat, lol cats in Fat Cat vs Little Cat geek | Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 4:44 PM So, I've been working toward perhaps going back to school. I've now been excepted but before I can actually "enroll" I must first complete this stupid essay, the essay of doom. :( I have no idea why schools do things like this (an essay was part of the application also -- and I've been excepted so my writting can't be that bad).
I guess I just don't understand why schools choose to base things on an essay written on a subject nobody, I would guess, cares anything about. I see education as a way to better ones self, to learn new things that interest them. I feel the "system" is designed in a way that the result is much different. It's just a shame ...
I'm a sad panda
geek | Posted on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 2:53 PM This is a great clip, I wish more people were as straight forward with Jay as Jimmy is in this clip.
Jimmy Kimmel, jay sucks, team Conan in Random geek | Posted on Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 3:46 PM So I've been slacking on my updates as of late. The largest factor contributing to this is of course my laziness, and then the fact that wordpress wanted me to update something non-stop.
In comes squarespace and sweeps me off my feet. It makes everything pretty simple, no updating unless I want to. Everything from themes, to widgets, to links are all handle with an easy interface that never takes you away from your site.
Anyways, enough plugging, I hope you like the new site as much as I'm going to like updating/using it myself. :)
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I hope all of you coming to my site for the sad panda pic are at least enjoying "the new site". The stats so far for those that are sad panda lovers are:
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geeky, site news, squarespace in Site News geek | Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 12:03 PM I've been a bit of slacker on post here as of late. I guess real life and the other site I'm working on take up 99% of my time. Nobody except the "sad panda" folks probably care though. :)
I'm really a sad panda about having to work this morning/today as now I'm going to miss the moe. show that I was hoping to make. :( I'm 100% sure it's going to be a killer show too. Oh well though I guess, at least I have a job.
geek | Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 1:47 PM So I grabbed an app that will let me post to my site from my phone. I know for most people this might be silly, but like McDonald's "I'm lovin' it".
geek | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:41 PM I've fixed a few things I found that broke in the site transition (I'm sure more remain but I'm lazy) but I'm busy. :) I've been working like crazy lately, which I guess with the unemployment rate so high is a good thing. On weekends it does make me a sad panda though. :(
sad weekend working panda :(
geek | Posted on Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 2:33 PM If you had an account on tehgeek.net your account should be transferred over now (minus profile stuff - sorry). Anyhoo, let me know if you have issues logging in or anything. :)
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Now that the site is on squarespace if you had an account before it's lost, sorry. :(
geek | Posted on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM I've closed tehgeek.net and I'm working on making this site a bit multi-user as well as moving users over. I've changed some things and some things doing go as smooth as I thought the would, some things are AWOL, but perhaps I can revive them. Anyways I should have everything ready to rock-n-roll soon so don't be sad pandas. :)
Site News geek | Posted on Monday, July 13, 2009 at 4:43 PM I was recently asked "what is their most famous song" when I mentioned I was going to the moe. show the other night. I wasn't sure what song to say as I know that at least in the Syracuse, NY area (where the show was) that the radio stations don't play moe. at all and I love most all of them.
For anyone wanting to get a taste of what moe. brings here is a track I really enjoy and was from the July 11th show I attended. The name of the track is Mexico.
As for the show it was GREAT! I had a really good time with some friends and my brother. As the band started to announce that they were going to hurry up with the encore the sky let loose and soaked everyone with a nice driving rain. :)
geek | Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 at 1:45 PM So by now everyone around the worlds has heard the news of Michael Jackson's death. If you turn on a TV it completely overshadows everything else going on in the world. I guess what I found most interesting is how this has effected the internet, news sites specifically. I just read over on Slashdot about how the average responsiveness of major news sites had dropped from 100% to 86%. Now thats an awful lot of traffic.
I know the guy made an awful lot of great selling music, but I had no idea people would be so crazy about his death. I guess I figured since you didn't hear any news of him in the US ,unless he was doing something crazy like hanging a baby over a railing, he was pretty much forgotten about. I stand corrected though.
geek | Posted on Friday, June 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM I've been a Netflix user for several years now anyways, and I've come to love the service like everyone else. Now as part of my service plan I also get to use their "watch now" feature that essentially allows you to stream to your computer an ever growing number of movies and TV shows. Now don't get me wrong this feature is wonderful, but sometimes you just want to watch it on your TV (in HD even).
Enter the Roku player. This little box, yes I do mean little, it's only 5" x 5" and only 1.75" high can be hidden most anywhere. On the back are most any audio/video connection you would need [Composite video, S-Video, Component video (Y/Pb/Pr), HDMI]. Also this little box will output in the following formats [16:9 HD (720p), 16:9 anamorphic (480p) , 4:3 standard (480i)] leaving out only the 1080i/p folks but most HD stations don't even broadcast in them anyways.
Once you've figured out how your going to connect the box to your TV you have to pick how you want to connect it o your network (Internet). The Roku player comes with 2 choices, wired or wireless. The wired is pretty straight forward, and the wireless lets you use Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) with WEP, WPA, and WPA2.
Once you have it connect you just follow the on screen directions and you'll be streaming Netflix "watch now" movies and TV on your TV in no time. As you add items to your "watch now" queue they show up in the list of available titles on the box almost immediately.
Overall I'm more then happy with it and would recommend it to anyone that likes the "watch now" feature of their Netflix subscription but has tired of watching them on the computer. Oh, and I forgot to mention that the picture quality even on my standard TV was as good if not better then the computer stream and didn't have to stop once to buffer.
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