My IT job has its perks...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
fyi 10:41 AM
I updated my profile on here and kinda went crazy on the favorite movies section. I guess you can only input 2,000 characters!!
I gritted my teeth and rashly condensed the list to a few top favorites.
Here was my full list for the sake of my sanity:
"Fight Club, V for Vendetta, Sunshine, Full Metal Jacket, The Matrix, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Devils Rejects, The Fountain, ID4, Young Guns, Equilibrium, Vanilla Sky, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, The Goonies, Rambo I/II, Terminator I,II, Alien(s), Back to the Future, A clockwork Orange, Predator, Pan's Labrynth, The Labrynth, The Descent, Die Hard, LotR, Braveheart, The Count of Monte Cristo, 300, Serenity, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi (stupid Ewoks, give me Wookies on Kashyyyk!!!), Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Aladdin, The Lion King, Dawn of the Dead (The new one, sorry loyal fanboys), Sphere, Apocalypse Now, Moon, Kick Ass, Boondocks Saints, Taken, The Town, Law Abiding Citizen, Mission Impossible, Knight and Day, Catch Me if you Can, ExistenZ, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Tremors I/II, Jurassic Park, Let the Right One In, Let Me In, Underworld (Because Selene is something to behold), A Knights Tale, Inglourious Basterds, Leaves of Grass, se7en, TMNT I/II, The Fall, Goldeneye, District B13, American Beauty, Eurotrip, Hot Rod, Inside Man, Orange County, Observe and Report, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Star Trek (New and old), The Mist, Feast, Falling Down, Amélie, Haute tension, The Negotiator, The Siege, Deep Blue Sea, Cube, Tombstone, The Untouchables, The Rock, What Happens in Vegas, The Waitress (yeah, I know..), The Bourne Identity, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Zoolander, A Nightmare on Elmstreet (1,2, and 3 I think, The remake was really good too) Halloween (Cannot remember which ones, didn't care for Rob Zombies version particularly, but it wasn't bad), Can't Hardly Wait, American Pie, Lucky Number S7even, American Psycho (New one), Saving Private Ryan, The Terminal, Forest Gump, The Mechanic, I am Number 4, Toy Soldiers, Cutthroat Island, The Island, Bandits, The Shawshank Redemption, The Last Samurai, Indiana Jones, The Usual Suspects, Leon: The Professional, Back to the Future, The Green Mile, Gladiator, No Country For Old men, Donnie Darko, Scarface, Blow, District 9, The Thing, The Princess Bride, The Social Network (I know I am forgetting a lot...)"
Monday, June 13, 2011
life... (part deux) 12:48 PM
It has been a little while since I have posted on here. I hope my fans haven't given up on me. lol
My last blag past was supposed to include details about my life, but I was sorely distracted. So I am just going to spit it out as fast as I can on this post so that doesn't happen again.
I moved down to cello because of a truly Awesome job offer at the Lisbon Mine. Believe it or not those miners use computers, and they have a moderate sized network that needs my Tender Loving Care. They offered me a salary of more that 2x what I am used to making, and to be honest...closer to what I feel my time is worth! :) Also my own office with a breathtaking view of the dry barren desert called Lisbon Valley. I could not turn down such a lucrative opportunity so I pretty much had to abandon my life in Orem in order to take this large step. I cant say that I particularly cared for 'Happy Valley', but there are some people there that made it my home, and made it a place that I will miss dearly. By 'people', I mostly mean Maddie. Despite the near perfect opportunity this new job has given me, I am having a very hard time enjoying it without her around. I miss you Maddie, and I also miss your awesome family. If I didn't have such an amazing family myself, I don't think I could ever leave Happy Valley.
Well there I went off on another tangent. I am going to post pictures of my new life on the next post, because I am new to this, and rusty on my HTML I am not certain how this will turn out.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
life... 8:54 AM
Hello world!
Yes, this is my blog. I am new to this, and I really don't care whether anybody reads this. For those of you that do (for whatever reason). You hereby agree that I am not to be held responsible or liable for any damages caused; whether psychological, neurological, emotional, spiritual or physical.
Now that I have the legalities out of the way, I would like to get on with my blogging now.
life...
I recently moved to my wonderful hometown of Monticello. Really it is not that wonderful of a place at all, but it is home I guess. There are no movie theaters, no bars, not even a WalMart. Everything closes at 5pm, and good luck doing anything on a god-forbidden Sunday. But above all things, the absolute worst is that I cannot pay any amount of money to connect to the interwebz faster than 3Mbps.
Many people that I speak with do not understand my frustration here. And I have found that many people are confused how speed is measured on the internet.
You may jump onto SpeedTest.net to measure the speed of your connection.
In data storage 1MB = 1,024 KB, and 1 KB = 1,024 Bytes and 1 Byte = 8 bits.
Bandwidth is measured a bit differently (no pun intended)
1Mbps = 1,000 Kbps, and 1 Kbps = 1,000 bits per second.
So if you want to convert your internet connection into something more tangible (like the speed your internet browser measures your downloads in) all you do is multiply your Mbps speed by 1000 to convert it to Kbps. Then divide that number by 8 and then divide the sum by 1024 to come up with your maximum download speed.
Speedtest tells me that I am connecting at about 3Mbps.
3Mbps x 1000 = 3,000 Kbps
3,000 Kbps / 8 = 375 bytes
375 bytes / 1,024 = 366 Kilobytes per second (or 366 KB/s)
366 KB per second is the fastest I can download any file off of the internet. Of course that all depends on the upload speed of the host.
That was a lot harder to explain than I could have ever imagined. So if I made some kind of error in the math, feel free to enlighten me.
I somehow went off on a serious tangent there. I will blog more about my life later...