/EXISTENCE
Lately I've had a general desire to slack off when I get home from work. This comes from the fact that work is actually quite draining and the fact that I'm now working 40 hours a week. As much as I dislike working 40 hours a week, I know it is a necessary at this point while I look for other opportunities and pay off my school loans. But I can't help wish I had a bit more time for my own pursuits.
Those who know me might assume this purely involves gaming and as much as I love video games, this isn't entirely true. In truth I even have a lot of things outside of technology I wish to pursue. My "bucket list" if you will, has things on it like visiting Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, India, the Canary Islands, most of Europe, learning Japanese, living on another continent for a while, and even more things that I can't think of right now. It is an incredibly ambitious list and perhaps I should refine it a bit.
But admittedly I fall back on gaming and general slacking off most of the time. It doesn't help that a couple games I've been looking forward to recently came out (Borderlands 2 and Torchlight II) and several more are coming out in the next few months (Okami HD and The Banner Saga). There are 3 more that I have no idea when they are released coming as well that I have already invested in (Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland 2, & Auditorium Duet) or just have a general love for (another Ratchet & Clank game).
/TECH
It is honestly hard for me to pry myself away from the distraction of gaming. But there are a few things that have managed to capture my attention away: namely working on Doppelganger and getting new things set up. In fact just this evening I finally decided I would attempt to set up a media server using Ubuntu Linux and Plex Media Server. And to my great surprise it was pretty easy. After creating a new container, it was a short process of adding another source to the sources list, updating apt-get, and installing "plexmediaserver" with all of it's dependencies. Not much longer after that I had Samba working and some files transferring to test it out.
I'm pleased to announce, it worked fantastic. Not only is Plex Media Server easy to install, it detected the files I uploaded easily, downloaded artwork for the TV show, and even played the theme song while I was choosing the episode I wanted to watch. I experienced this using the Plex Media Center client which was equally easy to install and use.
/PHILOSOPHY
So I watched a couple episodes of Top Gear tonight and as I was watching their star in a reasonably priced car go around the track, I thought about one of the parts of the lap: the follow through. If you haven't seen the show, the follow through is a section of the lap where the driver is supposed to keep the gas pedal to the floor. And it's made me think about how I should approach my bucket list. Is it wise to go flat out through life, the universe, and everything? I think I have that answer in my sign off. So...
Until next time:
Work hard. Play harder.
Lately I've had a general desire to slack off when I get home from work. This comes from the fact that work is actually quite draining and the fact that I'm now working 40 hours a week. As much as I dislike working 40 hours a week, I know it is a necessary at this point while I look for other opportunities and pay off my school loans. But I can't help wish I had a bit more time for my own pursuits.
Those who know me might assume this purely involves gaming and as much as I love video games, this isn't entirely true. In truth I even have a lot of things outside of technology I wish to pursue. My "bucket list" if you will, has things on it like visiting Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, India, the Canary Islands, most of Europe, learning Japanese, living on another continent for a while, and even more things that I can't think of right now. It is an incredibly ambitious list and perhaps I should refine it a bit.
But admittedly I fall back on gaming and general slacking off most of the time. It doesn't help that a couple games I've been looking forward to recently came out (Borderlands 2 and Torchlight II) and several more are coming out in the next few months (Okami HD and The Banner Saga). There are 3 more that I have no idea when they are released coming as well that I have already invested in (Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland 2, & Auditorium Duet) or just have a general love for (another Ratchet & Clank game).
/TECH
It is honestly hard for me to pry myself away from the distraction of gaming. But there are a few things that have managed to capture my attention away: namely working on Doppelganger and getting new things set up. In fact just this evening I finally decided I would attempt to set up a media server using Ubuntu Linux and Plex Media Server. And to my great surprise it was pretty easy. After creating a new container, it was a short process of adding another source to the sources list, updating apt-get, and installing "plexmediaserver" with all of it's dependencies. Not much longer after that I had Samba working and some files transferring to test it out.
I'm pleased to announce, it worked fantastic. Not only is Plex Media Server easy to install, it detected the files I uploaded easily, downloaded artwork for the TV show, and even played the theme song while I was choosing the episode I wanted to watch. I experienced this using the Plex Media Center client which was equally easy to install and use.
/PHILOSOPHY
So I watched a couple episodes of Top Gear tonight and as I was watching their star in a reasonably priced car go around the track, I thought about one of the parts of the lap: the follow through. If you haven't seen the show, the follow through is a section of the lap where the driver is supposed to keep the gas pedal to the floor. And it's made me think about how I should approach my bucket list. Is it wise to go flat out through life, the universe, and everything? I think I have that answer in my sign off. So...
Until next time:
Work hard. Play harder.
