Passing of 2 more influences

I am saddened to learn that two more people, whom I have enjoyed the fruits of their labors, have died.  They are Harvey Korman and Alexander Courage.  I’m pretty sure you know of Harvey Korman the actor/comedian.  He was in the Herbie movies, The Carol Burnett Show, and performed next to Tim Conway.

Another death I heard about was the composer of the Star Trek Theme.  Although less known, his musical arrangement of Star Trek, on a deeper more subliminal level, drew my attention to Science, Science Fiction, and computers in general. Also, it is one of the first orchestra arrangements I can remember hearing as a young child, so he also influenced my love of just plain instrumental music.

Today I have a heavy, contemplative, heart. 

Good work guys.  Take a bow.

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LOST Theories part 1 of 2

Okay, so I have a couple of theories about LOST I would like to explore.

First is the possibility that they are all in a computer generated world similar to the worlds of TRON, The Thirteenth Floor, Vanilla Sky, Total Recall.  Did I forget any?  I know there were three previous TV shows that are similar that could have taken place in a computer, but were hazy in that they never revealed one way or the other wht the truth was.  Those three shows are: The Prisoner, Nowhere Man, and more recently: Life on Mars (BBC show being remade in USA)

With this type scenario, the smoky monster would be the antiviral application scanning people for possible removal.  The echos would be people in the room monitoring Flt815 and commenting.  Their audible voices could seep through into their reality and that’s how they perceive them.  The purpose of the virtual reality would be to allow the people with issues to work them out harmlessly and then once they “work out” their problems they are brought of the computer world. From the person waking up it’s just that.  From the perspective on the remaining people, it would look like they were killed.  Only issue I have with this scenario is that it could mentally screw up the people staying behind giving them more issues to work out.

I’ll have to post my second theory next blog entry.

July 15, 2007

Elsmere, Ky.  ->Fort Wright, Ky.  ->Cincinnati, Oh. ->Columbus, Oh.

 I had a semi-relaxing weekend.  I went to Northern Kentucky  to try to help my dad get his computer running.  I attempted to install Windows XP 4 times in a 1 day period.  Received several different errors. One was a memory management error with a blue screen of death.  There was a “out of the box” error saying XP couldn’t load onto the hardware.  While formating the hard drive, there was a grinding noise between the 1 and 2% completion bar.  So coming back, I brought his computer system with me.  Hopefully I can track the hardware problem down.

Being Green – Concerns, Kudos, & Projects

I’ve been studying the “Green” movement for some time now.  I frequent some of the more popular and some of the not so popular blogs that are on the internet.  For the most part, I feel like they are doing a good job a pulling people in by not being so combatant about issues.  I particular like before/after stories, how the author is doing it reports, and the forums that follow.  I also like how they tell of the joy of being “lighter”.

Being a born again Christian, I feel we have a responsibility to protect ourselves, our family, our neighborhood, and our country.  I do not feel we are “one world”.  There are forces out there that we are battling that are trying to wipe us out.  Both culturally and conventionally by war.  I also believe we will be individual countries at the end of time.  Read the book of Revelations.

My main concern is that this movement doesn’t turn into an “us vs them” fight. I’m also concerned that if these ideas (which I like if given the freedom to do what I want) make it into law that it will infringe on my rights.  This is a difficult thing to write because I agree with a lot. I want to do what I want to do even if harmful to myself or the environment.  It’s freedom.  Doesn’t mean I’d do it or that I’m even thinking of doing it, but I should be allowed to reap the consequences of my stupidity.  Anyway, that’s a long winded way of saying I have some concerns about the movement and politics being mingled together.

Lately I’ve been thinking about giving up television.  That’s the main thrust of  my main line of thinking.  I’ve been reading “No Impact Man” and “Kill Your Television” to glean ideas and maybe sketch out a project.  This will probably be the biggest/hardest thing I’ve ever done.  Simply because I am, admittedly, addicted to television.  I don’t remember a time when we didn’t have a television. The first cartoon I can remember watching was “Speed Racer”.  Television?  “Bewitched”  Back in the late 70s and early 80s I learned a lot of useless trivia, wasted time, and escaped from reality. There was some things, I learned.  I could have paid more attention to real people and learned the same things.

Now that I have two beautiful children.  I do not want them to become addicted to television either.  I’ve already on one occasion caught them staring wide-eyed at the television without blinking and nothing going on behind the glazed look.  Did *I* look like that growing up?  I have run up against some of the questions I have read about.  What do we do instead of television?

I should have a plan in place in the next couple of weeks.  If you have any ideas, please comment .  Thanks!

Some good news

Somethings have improved since my last blog entry. We are still looking for a home church. We do not want to get too attached because we have decided to move back to our home town area of Cincinnati, OH. We definitely have a church to go to if everything works out looking for a new job. If not, we will keep looking up here in Columbus, OH.

Some more good news: I still have my job. I found out that the client was under the impression that I was bringing back his PC in an hour. I never give my customers that narrow of an expectation. I usually leave it open ended. Like, “we will see what we can do. It’s typically an hour and a half unless we run into any unexpected problems (which we did with this customer) I get a call that my lead (JR) was called in to finish the call that night. However he worked it out with the client to work on it Saturday. Which the client agreed to. Customer was heading to Mexico on Sunday but never told my boss nor I. Looks like it will work out, but I’m holding my breath until after our monthly team meeting tomorrow.

Finally, the best news of all. I have no food allergies!!!!! I can eat nuts again and even shrimp. I’m having a little hard time adjusting to my new-found freedom. I don’t want to overdo it, but I’m excited about the possibilities and I usually have problems with a lot of excitement (yes, I’m on Paxil).

Thoughts and prayers, please.

My family would appreciate prayer. We are going through a financially hard time. A garnishment of $7000 for a car that doesn’t run is starting either this payday on June 6 or the next cycle on June 20th. We tried negotiations, we tried begging, and have done everything we know of for mercy.

We are not saying we don’t owe the money, we do, but the payment per month is going to be double what our loan payment was. We are not sure at this point if we will have enough to pay rent, eat, and pay for the other car let alone electricity, gas, etc.

A second job is probably out of the question since my wife would have to wake the kids to come get me where-ever I ended up working. Plus my body doesn’t handle extremely long days (16 hour shifts) for long periods of time (10 months). I will probably have to go that route if we can overcome the transportation problem.

Any prayers would be GREATLY appreciated. I know that God works miracles and that is what we need now. If you have any creative comments or suggestions, that would be appreciated too.

Jerry Falwell

For those that haven’t heard the news, Jerry Falwell – Pastor passed away today. I for one found the news sad. Did I agree with 100% of what he said? No. At the points that mattered most, that Jesus is Lord and Savior and you need to accept his sacrifice and offer of eternal life, he was dead on (no pun intended). This is also what we will be judged on. We will also be judged according to every word that comes out of our mouths (either idle or productive) so he, I, and you will be judged accordingly.

Jerry did make an impact in our family. He was one of my dad’s favorite preachers. I personally don’t remember too much of specifics or sermons, just impressions mainly. Enough to know he was sincere it what he preached.

I lost some respect over the teletubbies comment and even more about the 911 comment. I am wondering what has happened to our trusted evangelical preachers lately. I don’t believe they truly set out to deceive or make such strange claims. Could this be part of end times prophecy? I don’t know and I don’t want to judge them either as I don’t relish being put in a position of being judged either. All I can really do is be vigilint and careful of what I listen too and filter out that which is not Godly.

In closing, I pray and hope that Jerry was right with God/Jesus and that I will meet him in heaven some day and have a conversation with him. He’s run his race and now he’s on the other side of eternity.

3:30AM Acid Reflux

Yes, I am up at 3:30am with acid reflux and hating every excruciatingly painful minute of it. I’ve been up for about a 1/2 hour now and it’s starting to subside. Before heading back to bed, I’ll be taking some Advil to try and deaden the pain in my throat. Actually, Carrie suggested I try some cough medication to releave the irritation as I was having some severe coughing fits. I also took my reflux medication that THAT I FORGOT TO TAKE THE LAST TWO DAYS,

This time it was pretty rough. Had some difficulty breathing and there was a lot of stuff happening in my esophagus. I won’t go any further than that as it would be T.M.I (too much information). As I wrap up this post before heading to bed, things have quieted down. There is just a little wheezing in my breathing. Other than that, and the pain in my throat, I am feeling much better.

I know, not my best post. Not even something I sure you want to read, but that’s who I am..

On a side note (and later post) I have Kubuntu install and it is running well. I will evaluate it and report back what I think.

Until next time……..

PC Coma Part 2

Well, the home computer is up and running once again.  XP was a bust.  Tried 2 different install CDs and the OS would load and run, but no matter what I tried, the network card would not connect to the network.  Drivers were working fine, test ran fine.

Long story short, I went back to Ubuntu and everything is running well.  I notice computer games aren’t as important as they once was, so I don’t mind run Linux instead of Windows until we get a new PC.  At that point we’ll have to decide which PC to choose (Mac vs Windows)

We wont have to worry about that for a long time.  We will not have any money to do anything for at least a year.  I may even have to take up a 2nd job. That’s another story altogether.  All we ask is you pray that my health holds out and God will bless us with the finances to resolve the issues we are facing.

PC Coma

Well everyone,  my home PC is in a coma.  I decided to switch back to XP after finding my install CD.

Installation started out normally and it appeared to have installed correctly until the first reboot.  When I rebooted, I tried to go out onto the net and download updated drivers for all my hardware.  I was unable to connect.  I’m thinking “great,  just need to do a release and renew on the ipconfig command and everything will be fine”.  Well everything is not fine.  I think it has a lot to do with the Compaq Bios.  It wont recognize the drives unless I set them for Unix style and the second time the image install it would lock up with no graphics even in “safe mode”.  It’s never done that before.

I have a few options.  When I get home I will try to physically disconnect the secondary hard drive.  I will also check and clean the CD.  I know it has a little stain from when I wrote the information on the CD and it hadn’t dried yet.  I am also going to see if my old system’s problem might be the power supply and not the motherboard.  I would love to have that system back. It may have a slower processor, but the 133mhz vs  66mhz ram speed would make up for that.

Beyond that, I will just have to play around and hope that the image “catches” and works correctly.  I will write again if and when I have been successful or admit defeat.