I couldn’t handle not having coffee any more and the coffee at work is horrible so I bought a French press from Amazon and it arrived yesterday. This morning was my first attempt at making French press coffee. It looked weak and it is a bit on the weak side, but it’s still pretty darn good. I’ll tweak the steps a bit for tomorrow – I think within a week I will have the recipe/ratios/steps figured out.
If you are not reading http://thesurfingpizza.com you should be. The first time I found the site, I read maybe 12 articles and laughed so hard I was crying. Unfortunately, I didn’t make note of the ones that made me LOL, so here are a few that are entertaining (but the PEZ story *did* make me LOL multiple times):
Much of his writing is LOL funny, but today he wrote this brilliant piece about being good at something (anything). Check it out.
I setup FreeNAS and it has a builtin UPnP server so I was looking for a way to view the videos (AVI/DIVX/XVID/MPG/etc) on my ipad. I finally found 8Player. Costs $5 but it streams all music, videos and pictures like a champ. Well worth the $5. I tried almost every other one I could find that did UPnP and this one was the best.
For some reason, teaching my Indian co-workers 80s rap lingo is hilarious to me.
Today:
(04:46:59 PM) COWORKER: Hey Brian
(04:47:07 PM) ME: word
(04:47:17 PM) COWORKER: ?
(04:47:47 PM) ME: heh
(04:48:01 PM) ME: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=word
1) well said
2) said in a agreement
3) can be used as a greeting, hey whats up
(04:48:10 PM) COWORKER: :)
(04:48:12 PM) COWORKER: ok..
(04:48:12 PM) ME: means "hey what's up" in 80s rap lingo :)
(04:48:16 PM) ME: word
(04:48:23 PM) COWORKER: cool..
and this was a month ago:
(02:38:52 PM) COWORKER: Hi Brian
(02:38:56 PM) ME: word
(02:40:10 PM) what's word ?
(02:40:42 PM) ME: word - an 80s rap greeting - also
synonymous with yes
(02:40:57 PM) COWORKER: ok
(02:41:23 PM) ME: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=word
(02:41:31 PM) ME: 1) well said
2)said in a agreement
3) can be used as a greeting, hey whats up
(02:42:01 PM) ME: I expect you to greet me with "word" next time I see you
(02:42:21 PM) COWORKER: word
Over the weekend I installed FreeNAS 7 (not the latest – 8) on a mini PC I was looking to sell. Nobody wanted to buy it and I had read recently on Lifehacker about FreeNAS. I’ve been wanting a central file server for a while now that could house MP3s and movies, etc and stream it to various devices (iphone, ipad, Xbox 360, XBMX, etc) and this sounded perfect. I got it all setup finally despite it being somewhat involved and non-intuitive. I wanted to plug in my 500GB USB HD into it but it says not to use NTFS with it so if I want to do that I’m going to have to copy all the data off of it (not sure I have ~300GB of extra space anywhere), format it for FreeNAS, then copy the stuff back. Maybe I’ll just get an internal drive for it instead and start fresh.