TheSherpa is a blog of incoherent ramblings by me, TheSherpa. There is no real meaning behind the TheSherpa, the blog, except for me to laugh, opine and sometimes whine.
But, really, this is just a place for me to let my other personalities out of their dungeon to play a little. However, as hard as I try to try to respect others views and opinions, there is no guarantee. Feel free to feel offended. :]
I have been working on a pet project of mine for some time now and have finally done it. I have grasped the holy grail of the Apple TV… I have given mass storage over a wireless connection to it.
I have had a 160Gb Apple TV since they became available for purchase in June of 2007. I quickly filled it up. Then I began the task of filling up the hard drive on my Macbook Pro, slowing my work and causing applications to crash on a regular basis. I thought that there had to be a better way and started searching Google for the answer. Nothing. Just a lot of people in the same situation as me, too much media and not enough storage.
So I began designing a device solution that would fit the bill for me. I wanted to use iTunes for the management interface because, well, iTunes is the best media management application around. I Also wanted to make use of some kind of a raid system because if I was going to rip my entire DVD collection onto it and purchase movies and songs off of the iTunes Store, then I did not want to ever have to do it again. It costs too much time and money to do that twice. So I settled on the Drobo for now…
We all love the Internet. We love the personalities that have influenced our outlook on everything from unicorns named Charlie to Diet Coke. Weezer, one of my favorite bands have pulled together quite a few of the best and (not so) brightest from the tubes for their new music video Pork and Beans.
Have a gander, then go buy it! The world needs more people kicking back and listening to fun bands like Weezer… Life has gotten way to serious.
Over several months, one artist put roughly 40 hours of Illustrator drawing work into a piece called “Science Machine.” And over that time, he had his computer screencap the project every five seconds. The result, along with some B-roll and a soundtrack, is what you see in this video.
I thought you might like a screen cast I made of me working in Vista on Adobe Illustrator on a 40-hour project. It’s pretty much a music video as well. I’ve screwed with my install of Vista a lot, so I got some crashes and some BSODs, but obviously those were not captured. On the whole, I’ve been very happy with the OS, though.
Anyone who knows me knows that I spend most of my waking hours inside of a terminal window… When I was in elementary school, back in the early eighties, I taught myself Basic programming. The language, not to be confused with simple and definitely not the refined visual stuff the kiddies do today, the hard core, before the language had any real documentation, programming.
I read in a magazine that MIT had some students that were building and programming robots and they were using Assembly, Pascal and Basic to program them. I wanted to go to MIT and build robots too. Well, since I was only eight or nine at the time, I could not find anything on Pascal in the small town I grew up in and everything I asked for about assembly turned out to be about building something or other. So I chose Basic.
Anyway, to make a long pointless story short’er’, this music video is right up my alley, in fact, it might be in my top three music videos of all time list. Enjoy.
