29th
i’m such a geek
though i think i’m late to the party these days. there was a time i was on the edge of things trying out new tools and programs. i had the latest gadgets or tried to but three kids later and well my budget is a bit short.
i got a macbook from work. it’s great. i mean really great. between vmware at work and fusion on the macbook, i’ve woken up again. i’m trying new things, reaching out into areas i hadn’t bothered before. i’m really getting my head out of the IT sand. maybe i’ll never be the super hacker some guys are but i’m not too bad for old guy.
i stood up tversity on old laptop i had hanging around. it’s an IBM G40 with a gig of RAM and a 40 gig hard drive. it’s enough to power for what i want to do. i am serving up some files to my xbox360 over wireless.
what I would really like to do is mod my old xbox and use it to its full potential. there seems to be a lot of options if you have the right combination of firmware and mod chip. i bought the xbox to play with though i told the wife i wanted it to play those games that the 360 wouldn’t. i had inadvertently purchased a few so it was not much of a stretch.
if you like anime, may i recommend bleach and my daughter says deathnote is another great anime, though i cannot get into it.
honestly i watch anime to do something with my daughter. it’s a way she and i connect. we are so opposite in many ways it is tough to find things in common. she loves horses. i love technology. she likes to be outside, i like to stay indoors. you get the picture. as long as the anime is not too cartoonish then i’ll watch it but cross that line and i’m no longer interested.
something to be thankful for: macs, anime and hugs from my kiddos.
-j.
