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Last week, on the 23rd, I turned 33. We went out to eat at a restaurant in Elk Rapids, Michigan called the Siren House. The food was really good.
The restaurant was minimally decorated, but in the men’s bathroom was this cool picture of Jacque Cousteau. Does anyone know who the other guy is? Maybe he’s just an assistant or something.
A Polycom IP650 displaying my extension information using the new Switchvox 4.5 Feature Pack. Go to http://www.8774e4voip.com and I’ll help you be this cool!
Wall of Legos in every color of the rainbow.
Closeup of the Lego wall
Giant Lego dinosaur
I believe this is the Kremlin.
Spent the week of January 2nd thru 9th in Central Florida. One would expect that I was in for a nice warm, relaxing week in the Florida sun. Unfortunately it didn’t quite work out that way. We arrived during one of the coldest weather weeks in 30+ years. Luckily, although the weather didn’t cooperate we did have a good vacation.
We took it easy all week, but still managed to see the Atlantic Ocean, see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, visit the Orlando Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium, the Magic Kingdom, and Downtown Disney.
Below is a picture of me in Tomorrowland at Disney World. It was probably around 50F that afternoon. You’ll notice I’m sporting my Ubuntu stocking cap
Special mention goes out to the VoIP Users Conference, which I listen to live, but is available as a podcast. The live show starts at 12:00 pm EDT every Friday.
Any podcasts you’d like to recommend?
Current entertainment center setup. Click the picture to see notes on what is what.
This is a picture of the Webmin system information page on my Linux server. 65 days without a reboot.
I use to be one of those guys that didn’t play video games. Oh sure, I’d play a game once in awhile on the PC. I’ve always been a fan of the old Lucas Arts adventure games; the Monkey Island games, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacles, Full Throttle, etc. Maybe a couple times a year I’d fire up Civilization II.
My level of video game playing began to change a couple of Christmases ago when i got a Nintendo DS. There are a lot of fun games for the DS and I might have found a device for the DS that allowed one to play all the games as ROMS that were loaded on memory card. This device might have allowed one to play any DS game they wanted. That’s what I’ve heard at least. I mostly played the DS in bed, a lot of Soduko puzzles as I tried to slip off to the land of Nod.
Even with the DS, I’d still say my video game playing was very casual. At the end of last year we picked up a Nintendo Wii. It was fun, but the novelty of the Wii wore off quickly, within a month. Once again, it was a very casual experience.
Then back in March i picked up an Xbox 360. This is where everything began to change. I initially bought the 360 as a way to stream video and audio to the new HDTV we had recently picked up. I didn’t count on doing much gaming, but I figured the system’s ability to play games was a bonus, even if I didn’t use it much.
Wow, was I wrong this thing is great! I’ve had a lot of fun playing games. I have been surprised by the variety of games and the overall Xbox and Xbox Live experience. In the Xbox 360 there is the ability to download games, professional and amateur, and to watch streaming video, including Netflix, I have to say that Microsoft has really done something right with the Xbox 360
If you are on the Xbox 360, friend me. I’m Jasonwert there, as I am most places.
This site is pretty much back up and ready. Now it’s time to actually start posting to this sucker. I like the new layout/theme though. It still need to do some tweaking. I’m thinking of making a banner for the top. In a lot of ways I enjoy setting up and tweaking Wordpress more than I like to post, especially with Twitter being available for short, micro posts. It makes it easier to ghet something off my chest more quickly.
I imported all my posts from Livejournal into this site. I was shocked to see that I had made over 1200 posts on Livejournal. Importing those posts here makes it easier to centralize all things Jason. It’s also a lame attempt to make myself appear to be a more prolific writer. I see it as being akin to what one does when they start a checking account, artificially starting their check numbers at an inflated higher number.
I’d like to thank those of you that are still following this site, and therefore following me. I hope to be posting more often here.
