Old computer

The other night my friends and I found an old Mac computer in the basement. We have no idea who it belongs to, so we decided to try it out. It looks like it's from the mid 90's. It's one of those Macs with the color monitor, when they were manufacturing the multicolor Mac computers. So, we hook it up and there's just under six gigabytes of hard drive space. But, to my surprise, it runs very well. I was shocked. It looks like it has been down there for a long time. We wanted to check the hard drive to make sure there wasn't anything inappropriate on it. Luckilly, we did not have to turn the ten year old Mac computer into the authorities. Success.

The Garage Band Thing

I'm sitting in the SINC site right now at a Mac computer. I'm messing with Garage Band right now, since I can't do it at home because I don't have a Mac. I'm getting some funky beats going, ya know, feelin' good. I kind of want to do a rant right now, like what we were doing in class the other day. The only problem is that I am in the middle of the SINC site. What am I gonna do? I can't start ranting in the middle of the SINC site. People are going to think I'm bat shit crazy. I'm not downloading Acid either. Not only because you have to pay for it, but because I don't know how well it's going to run on my laptop. My laptop is four years old and has a total hard drive space of 49GB. So, I'm a little reluctant to pay for software that I put put on my computer. In the meantime, I'm going to funkify myself with some gnarly beats in Garage Band and, unfortunatley, do it without my voice over work.

New Computer

This weekend my PC crashed =[

Luckily I had an external hard drive, but I had't updated it for the past month. I lost about 200 songs, videos, pictures, and most importantly files and assignments for all of my classes. Now I have to work 3x as hard to catch up in data heavy classes like THR 216.

I decided to go with a Mac Book Pro to prevent this from happening again, but I'm the antithesis of a slow learner. The conversion process is going better than I thought, but it's still an upward journey.

sketch up

... wow i had no idea that the computer had so much skill .. i am not very into computers and the most advanced of my skills is finding something i'm looking for on google .. i have absolutely minimal skills with programs like this. but i looking forward to this course and broadening my computer skills.
so i've been playing with sketchup for a lil now and i have found that allot of the 3D warehouse is in chinese .. the tools are very cool and interesting .. theres is an actually camera tool where u can look inside the building you are creating and see form a person's perspective inside the building.. all and all it seems like a good program for people who are interested in architecture or stuff like that to use .. i like it :) its a little difficult for me but i know with some more practice ill be able to use it with good results.

.... i just tried to put an image of my future home i built in sketch up on this and my computer totally bugged out n i ended up with the beach ball of death for 20 minutes and some kind of crazy chinese calligraphy on my screen .. something i need to work on i guess lol

the sex life of computers: a novel

Friday evening, in a fit of stupidity, I broke my phone. Good job.
Despite God's best intentions to quell my social life, I have been relying on my amazing(!) friends and significant other to organize and keep me up to date on gatherings that otherwise would be texted to my phone. I'm so lucky to have people who care about me and take care of me when my motivation is lacking.

Being phoneless has also made me realize just "hooked into machines" we are. We have wires leading from our pockets to our ears, "crackberries" glued to our hands like an extra digit and cameras in our back pockets. We converse back and forth through an alternate reality and forget about the moment in front of us and the friends beside us. Besides portable computers and palm-pilots, universities and cities are littered with places to plop down and hook into cyberspace. I am currently using a computer, owned by Stony Brook university, and I can't walk a mile without discovering another "sinc site" where I can update this blog.

Phenomena like facebook, once a mildly frivolous "professional tool" is now a far reaching extension of our social lives. If a subject is interesting, make sure to get it on the F-Book by taking a picture, or broadcasting it as your status. In the "about me" section, you can list yourself in a relationship with one option being "It's complicated." Though quite often in conversation I hear "it's complicated," when inquiring about someone's love life, I never ever heard it before facebook became so widely used. It seems to me that facebook has dictated new social norms and redefined what is okay/not okay in the dating world, simply because there is an option other than "In a relationship with _____." What exactly listing myself in an "It's complicated," entails, I'm not sure.

However I have no more time to blog, I have to check facebook. I know that there were pictures of me from this weekend uploaded, and I have to untag the nasties! Who knows what awful, incriminating photographs made their way to my friends' photo "albums" and I don't want my reputation tarnished. Keeping it nice and squeaky clean.

just keeping it real.
Eli.