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I’ve been inspired for another little fun project. Meet Jarvis.

Project Jarvis is a digital life assistant (DLA). He uses mainly human communications means such as Twitter, instant message, and voice to create a two way connection between me and my apartment, controlling lights and appliances, notify me of breaking news, Facebook notifications, personal finances, package tracking, netflix, bittorrenting, assist in cooking, check stock quotes, weather, and more.

Over the past few days, I’ve been toying with the basics of how Jarvis is built (applescript) and I’ve been inspired to try to build something similar. I shall call him Herman. More on the name later.

Well, I’ve managed to go an entire month [and then some] without even a thought of a post. I take that back, I’ve though of posting but I havent. A bit lame on My part.

The past month has kept me busy though. Still learning how to use Codeigniter and getting a lot more comfortable everyday. Oh, and I’ve decided to start a[nother] new site.

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So I’ve been working with Wordpress for a long time and dare I say I almost have an unhealthy relationship with it. Sure I’ve had fun dabbling with others, namely Drupal and Joomla, but somehow I always end up back at WP. Press, you’ve been a good friend, but now I think I need to start my own journey.
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I’m not sure where I’m going with this blog. I’d like to think that my life is interesting, but I haven’t really had much to post about my interesting life. After all, that was the whole point of this blog.

I’m not giving up on it. I refuse to this time. I just need some inspiration. It’ll get there.

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I’ve been in the new place for almost 3 weeks now. I love it. Did I mention I was moving?

I’M MOVING!!

Of course, Thats what I would have said a few weeks ago. Thats neither here nor there. Continue reading

It’s been almost a month and already I’m falling behind form my last post. I really do need to keep up with posting.

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The whole point of me keeping up with this blog is so that I can write more. I’ve been failing the past few days. I’ve felt that there isn’t much to write about, but I’m sure if I paid more attention, there would be plenty. I will keep this up, I promise!

Alright, so it isn’t really a show down situation, but I sure tried just for the humor in it.

While doing a scenic change yesterday I somehow clipped my left index finger on a carabiner that we use to hold up garland. Didn’t even realize it until I flung a bead of red blood at one of my coworkers. Obviously I cleaned it and bandaged it right up, but I certainly tried to convince my stage manager that I couldn’t press the Go button because my “Go Button Finger” was injured.

Just sayin’.

Sometime in September I was finally able to find people to go rock climbing with. It was so nice to be able to get back to climbing. So out of shape.

Over the past few months I’ve been going enough to warrant getting a membership at the gym. Now that it’s not costing me 15 bucks a go, I’m going more often and definitely getting better. I am, however, reaching a plateau and I need some technique classes to move on. This was proved to me today at the gym. By a 12 year old.

Theres no shame in being bested by a 12 year old. After working on a V7 for 15 minutes or so, this kid comes up with perfect technique and finishes the boulder problem like it was nothing. Grab, foot, foot, foot, switch, grab, foot, grab, switch, switch, done.

No worries, he’s been climbing since he was a little kid. Longer and more consistently than I have. So I try the problem a few more times and come to the conclusion that I need the fancy footwork. The core body strength will come too. I am out of shape.

Bouldering is funny in a way. You sit and stare at the problem more than you spend climbing it. You sit there, watching the wall. You look over and see other people wathcing the wall. Then you go back to watching wall. You notice other people watching you watch the wall. Then they notice you watching them watch you watch the wall that you’re not really watching anymore. Every now and again someone get up from the ground to try a problem. Sometimes they finish, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes someone falls and everyone feels the pain of the smack on to the ground.

And then the 12 year old gets up and kicks all our asses on a problem we’ve all tried. multiple times. No struggling. Tons of fancy footwork. He makes it look easy. He finishes and looks at all of us for approval [not that he needs it].

As proud and in awe we all are of him, I know I’m not the only one whose a bit jealous.

Have you ever been the right hand man to the right hand man of the president? What if that right hand man was Dan Aykroyd? And what if the president just so happened to be Abe Lincoln? Makes for one hell of a dream, not gonna lie.

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