• What is TheSherpa?

    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. :]
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Requiem for a day off

No explanation necessary on this one.

VF Country Death Song

I love the Violent Femmes. They are my favorite band of all time. Why? “Because you cannot **** with the Violent Femmes, you cannot **** with this band.” I came across this well done animation of their Country Death Song. So, sit back and enjoy the darkness of this song and all of its visual pleasure.

Finally a mass storage solution for the Apple TV!

Apple TV

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…

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The Pork and Beans

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.

40 Hours Of Illustrator, Time-Lapsed

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.

Content unabashedly stolen from Gizmodo.

You can purchase a copy of Science Machine from The Big Pugh