So, my AC stopped working last night. I live in Central Florida, and it’s August, which means I was in hell. Melissa and I tried to fix the issue, but eventually accepted that we needed a professional to repair the system. A mechanical engineering friend of mine recommended Gembecki Mechanical, so I gave them a call. I was quite pleased.
Melissa had called me yesterday morning to let me know something was up with the AC system. I was really busy at work, and hoped she was just crazy. I forgot about the problem, went to the CoLab Orlando open house and came home. When I got home, I learned quite quickly, that Melissa was not crazy at all. Read the rest of this entry »
So, my buddy Alex, a Web Developer in Melbourne, came up with the idea to aggregate news to a single site: ucfinsider.com. It’s a killer site with a ton of information from a variety of sources about UCF sports. I’m not sure what gave him the idea, but I think it might have something to do with the lackluster reporting of UCF sports from the local paper, the Orlando Sentinel.
Yeah, so UCF Insider rocks, and you should check it out.
So, I was watching RoboCop last night, and I noticed something a little peculiar. During the scenes where RoboCop is being tested before use, his prompt screen shows some MS-DOS like boot sequences. Here, check this out:
For those of you who don’t immediately see what I’m talking about, look at the lines on the screen ‘command.com’, ‘config.sys’, ‘bio.com’, ‘comspec.exe’, and ‘memory.dat’. Those are all very MS-DOS like files that run under typically Windows operating systems.
Seems appropriate, I suppose. Just think about it: “Police states of the future choose Microsoft!”
Some of you might not be aware of this; but I play the guitar. I’m not bad either. I’ve been playing for a really long time. My buddy, Austin, is an amazing drummer. Problem is, he lives in West Palm Beach, and I live in Orlando. What’s worse, he’s gonna move to San Deigo. That doesn’t make it easy to get together to play.
So, below I’ve attached a video of me playing the guitar. If you’re into Death Metal, and you also play, hit me up.
Last week, Melissa and I went on a vacation with her family to Swan Quarter, NC for her family reunion. Her family has a reunion every 2 years during the summer at some location in the US. The last time we went, the reunion was in St. George, Utah. Her family is pretty cool, so it’s usually a good time.
The Drive There.
Did I mention, we decided to rent an E-150 8 passenger van to get us up there? Well, that was the transportation idea. It seemed like a good idea at the time. There were 6 of us going up there from Melissa’s immediate family (parents, sister, sister’s boyfriend, and us).
We left Thursday evening, around 6:30 from Altamonte Springs, heading to Savannah, GA for an overnight stay on the way up to NC. That was probably the most fun the drive was the entire time. We played the alphabet game on the way, and that’s always awesome (Thanks Molly for introducing me to it).
I’ve done some massive modifications of some of the older sites I’ve built in the past. Those sites, oconnorandtaylor.com, socons.com, and tradeproconstructionservices.com (go ahead and catch your breath), have taken up a substantial part of my life in the last couple weeks.
There’s not much coding going on in those sites. I built them on Drupal, so most of my work revolved around configuring the CMS, and getting everything setup in remote subversion. The task consuming all my time though, is the designing.
When I design a site, especially one that I’m getting paid a nominal fee for, I usually base the design off of some template, or theme to one of the more popular CMS packages. I know Drupal pretty well, so It’s not too much to hack a Wordpress or Joomla theme and make it work for Drupal.
The interesting thing about all of this however, is my keen interest in Flash. It’s funny to me, since I’ve been pretty anti-flash for a while. Actionscript 3 really provides a framework that I can get comfy in. I’ve yet to actually put anything out there that uses some of the more OO type patterns (observer being a quite common implementation). I suspect I will in the coming months though.
Anyways, I’m not a designer, so I’d like any feedback on the sites mentioned above. Some of y’all are pretty good at that kind of thing, and I could use the advice.
