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Here are some summer viewing recommendations from yours truly….
Metal: A Headbangers Journey
Restrepo
Touching The Void
Iron Maiden: Flight 666
Blood into Wine
Azorian: The raising of K-129
All movies are best watched with a mind open to learning… and in the case of Iron Maiden… the volume turned to no less then 12.
Where did it all go wrong…..
My guess is 30 years ago today…. only to be confirmed by the radio in Kingman today… at the top of every hour.
Honest to god this was on the radio in Kingman all day today…..
You ever wonder what the annual fee on a Black Card is?
Well it’s $495 for the account per year… $195 for each additional user.
All of a sudden my $19.95 rewards program seems like a steal…
I got this picture in a happy thanksgiving email… and immediately I thought of Eve (the woman not the game)…
I have no idea why I would think such a thing
At any rate have a good Thanksgiving all… hopefully it won’t be to terribly poop filled!
– NASCAR isn’t just popular… it’s a freaking way of life out here…. I thought Arizona drivers were aggressive, we have nothing on drivers from the Carolinas!
– Rain is not a localized event… or short in duration. It’s a days long event that is over a very broad area and it doesn’t stop anything. Not construction nothing!
– Umbrella’s suck for keeping anything other then your head dry.
– Your shoes will always be soaked
– BBQ is a way of life.
– Banjos sound way better in person, and are easy to play!
OK this one is a technology puzzle… if you don’t like the techno babble tune out now and come back after the next post.
So about a month ago we got a new VPN appliance at work and for “security” reasons we don’t use a client less model for hooking into the vpn… it’s not a secure https connection it’s called a “smart tunnel” and works with either a active x control or a java applet. The general concept is you put in your credentials into the website which authenticates you in and starts the “smart tunnel” and then you can launch a approved application for connecting in.. In this case the approved application is Remote Desktop Connection.
That is how it is supposed to work, and it does work well in a Windows 32 bit environment. If your using Mac OS X or 64 bit Windows your screwed. And that is not the point of this post it’s a technical limitation of the device the vendor has not addressed but could be taken care of by the usage of a vpn client… oh wait we can’t use those for “security” reasons.
So since my two main OS of choice at home are Mac OS X and Vista 64 (in that order) I’ve been trying to figure out a way around all of this. My current best method is to use my work laptop (XP 32 bit) as a “gateway” I remote desktop to it and then from there jump to work. Now this works mostly ok, it’s not very elegant and if I leave my laptop at work I’m screwed. So as a direct result I’ve been trying to come up with a better method.
I landed on the idea of using VMWare Fusion w/ my Mac this morning.
I’m using OS 10.5.6 running vmware 2.0.2 and XP 32 SP3 is the guest OS.
Now here is the weird part when I try to initiate a connection in “Unity” mode the “smart tunnel” hooks up or looks like it hooks up per usual and then the Remote Desktop Connection times out on me. When I do the connection in it’s own dedicated window I have no problems!
Explain that one to me… unity mode is running on a VM in the background it just has the window hidden. For as far as I can tell it’s using all of the same virtual interfaces. It just seems odd to me.
So as you all know I work in I.T. for hospital system in Phoenix… and as a rule I don’t talk about work. Well tonight your in luck… I’m going to talk about work!
To bad for you it’s going to be about nothing cool and will actually be a conversation I had at work yesterday over instant messenger
Me: Hey can you go to the Kidz clinic after you finish in the womens center they are having a problem with outside CD’s
Nathan: Where’s the kids clinic
Me: First floor next to the day spa and caddy corner from the marble fountain
Nathan: ok
Yes the hospital is in the North East valley but after almost 4 years I still find the day spa a little odd.
And we only had Vegas Radio… I present to you now the best of the music (for the bad NIN rip off crap it was)… the videos themselves don’t hold up real well.
I’m sorry I have to apolgize I can’t help myself…
And the better of the two songs… (extra points if you can name the orginal artist and album… extra extra points if you get the irony)
Of course this one makes the other two look like fricken classics…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xkUhaeY4qY
I would do more but I’ve made you suffer enough….
The friendly folks at Google Analytics tell me that I have a fair number of Mac using readers in one town just outside Boulder Colorado. Now I visited these loyal readers some months ago. While I did find their state of Big Mountains, big trees, and big Elk most pleasing. I couldn’t help but notice that their terrestrial radio sucks…
So this post is for my amigos in Colorado, and the rest of you can just consider this post the fullfillment of a Tom Hat Trick of posts today.
First up, a new video from a very old song… Utah Saints “Something so good” The song was orginally released in ’92 and this is not the orginal video.
Now if you want the video I saw in 1992 before the internet, cable modems, and when MTV actually played videos….
Speaking of when MTV used to play videos… how about this gem from 1997…
And I don’t know where the hell this comes in at, but hey what the heck
And I know you aren’t getting any of this up there…. and you need to keep up your metal content.
So my snowbound friends… I hope you enjoy a little something different… as for the rest of you, quit slacking and get back to work.