6/18/07

Today was a good day I suppose. I will start with my day, but if that doesn't matter to you, scroll down to some format war news. Ok, I woke up to find that my family had left to my mom's sisters son's 6 year old birthday. So I had the house to myself all day, which was nice. I went down, made a Stouffer's casserole thing in the microwave, and ate that. Then I went upstairs, took a shower, and then I went down to the treadmill and fell asleep power walking. Not literally of coarse. I had my eyes shut and held on adjust kept walking. I got in 3 miles, and burned 350 calories. I Got my heart rate up to 209. It was fun. So I finished that, I started some homework. I did about 15 minutes of homework and then I got a call from my mom telling me that she was bringing me some steak from the party, and asked me to get bo ready for a walk. I said yes, and put my homework away. When she got home we walked bo, I rode alongside her on my bike. About 50 feet from my house, I decided to do a fishtail in a sandpit, and I did, and then when I went to pull out of it, the chain slipped off, so I had to walk out of the sand and walk the bike home. The bike is a nice one, it is only two years old. It has disc breaks and everything. It is not the first time this has happened either. So I am a little upset at Mongoose for building such a bad bike. But that was cool, cause I really don't care and have a hundred other bikes all over my garage. So I went in, ate the steak my mom brought me, and then I got back to homework. I did homework until like 20 minutes ago while talking t Derek. Then I took the MacBook to were I am sitting right now and pulled up Google Reader. Not much struck my eye until I found out that Blockbuster chose Blu-Ray as the HD disc format they will be marketing. This angers me because Blu-Ray players cost more, and it has been what, 8 months that you can purchase a Blu-Ray disc? And the coating on them is beginning to rust already. I like Blu-Ray more in theory, and I was on the side of Blu-Ray for a while, it has more capacity, has a cooler name, and Microsoft doesn't like them, whats not to love? Well, the players. They cost too much. An HD-DVD player is almost 50% cheaper. Half the capacity, meant you have to package your movies with 2 discs if it comes down to it. I am just mad because Blockbuster deciding to go with Blu-Ray is a pretty big punch in the face for HD-DVD. I hope the producers have chosen one of the two by the holidays, because my family is planning to upgrade out TV, out Player, and our sound system. And I don't want to have to old off because the effing producers are still throwing baby fits about why this is better, or this is better. Just shut the fuck up and choose one! If Blu-Ray does become the standard, I would hope that Sony is able to build a quality Blu-Ray player that is not lacking in features and is affordable. If Sony is unable to do this, I will not be buying, I will just stick with the HD on-demand Comcast movies for the time being. I used www.urltea.com today, and I like it much better than www.tinyurl.com. It is prettier, but it seems faster and more reliable. Plus, it automatically copies the shortened url to your clipboard.

Good Night All,

-Ryan

5/16/07

I tried to make a vlog today, i was a little too tired, out of it, and appeared like i was high. So it didnt work out. But I must say, I am very VERY proud of mary and derek for not only making a twitter, but keeping up with it. They rock. I added tom merrit as my friend, and ryan block to my twitter friends. Two famous people that most people i know have never heard of. But they are famous to me. They are podcasters and journalists. I would add leo but he is a jaiku person, not a twitterer. I love twitter, but i might get a jaiku just to have one. Who knows. I will never stop loving twitter i would use my twitter account with jaiku. I have some homework. I don't know if Mrs. Go will check if I did it, (cause I leave for aroura the second i get to school pretty much) but if she does, i need good points that day. I am going to the west campus to shadow. So yea. ttyal,


-Ryan

4/8/07

Goodness, my blog got away from me again. I guess I will start up from what I remember from a few days ago, and today. A few days ago, I figured out that I will be shadowing at the west campus (my high school) on the 18th of this month. I also was informed that there is a major rivalry between all the staff at my current school. Apparently, my homeroom teacher is a Nazi, according to another staff member. And everyone just hates everyone. I am was unaware of that. I mean I knew they hated each other, but I assumed they were mature enough to keep it to them selves. So that was extremely interesting. I had to walk laps in gym last week, around the building, which is no fun, being as lazy as I am. I dug deeper into that guy that added me as a friend on twitter. It turns out he lives in the same metro area as I, and he listens to Buzz Out Loud. He likes awesome cars, and he sent me a Joost Beta invite. Joost is cooler than I expected it to be. All of its programing is watchable and fun, and it works with my Apple Remote. So it is like having on demand comedy central and Laguna Beach and everything else at my fingertips. Easter was today. But I guess I should start with 2 nights ago. I snuck into the storage room and I saw my wireless adapter I asked for fr my laptop. I brought my mother's MacBook pro up to my room and used it's built in wireless all night because I was not aloud downstairs. I was watching Joost and playing around with it into the night. I eventually shut down and went to bed. Then this morning, my mother came in and told me it was time to wake up, Lauren wanted to go downstairs. So I got up, went down, ate a peep while looking at the PC card. Then I put it in, and set up the connection. It works great. So I am happy. That makes 3 of 4 or our Internet connected computers wireless. My father does not trust it for reasons unknown. So he will not let me set it up on his Dell, which has it built in. The card is not as bulky as expected, and it seems to be doing just fine. It is not flimsy, but the gauges are upside down because my PC card slot is on the left of my computer so I had to flip it. Oh well, now I can take this anywhere so I am happy. Then I got in the car and my dad and I just drove west. We drove a little past the Belvedere Assembly Plant (makes the jeep compass and the dodge caliber) and then came home in time for ham in the dining room. This is were my mother said she would like to do a vacation to Colorado and make it completely outdoors. Camping, skiing, biking, hiking. My idea of a nightmare in a nut shell. So have to talk her out of that now. I am hoping visiting the Grand Canyon will be a good compromise. Anyway, I am going to haul my seven pound laptop up to my room now, wish me luck, I may fall on the stairs it is so heavy. Anyway, that was my day. ttyl,


-Ryan