The Mike Jones Blog!: January 2008

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Talky Blog #6

Am I stoned?

P.S. I'm kind of whispering in this video because my neighbors were on their deck too and I was afraid they'd think I'm crazy and just talking to myself. Haha!

Monday, January 28, 2008

Geeky home theatres (link)

These AMAZING home theatres are why I need to win the lottery! The Star Trek TNG one is just.. I mean.. WOW! I... I'm speechless.

Hey! So, as I mentioned in the talky blog (below) I went out into the park and played with my camera. I took A LOT of pictures (like 240) and out of those, I uploaded 8 to my flickr account. Check um out!

Talky Blog #5

Hey guys! In this talky blog I chat about
- Eating out
- Other bloggers like David (TheCreativeOne) & Davey Wavey (breaktheillusion) and how they inspire me.
- My Day Off!! :)

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Hi!

I'm starting to feel a little bit buried. I graduate in 174 days, 23 hours & 26 minutes.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Talky Blog #4

Here's a new talky-blog. I've been kinda down lately so I'm not as energetic as usual haha. And for some reason the mic kept cutting out... it almost sounds like I was cussing and edited myself.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthwlM4PIUc&rel=1]

Since I recording this video I've figured out that my mouse just needed to be cleaned. It works now. Yay!

Monday, January 21, 2008

SO EXCITED!

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Photos on Flickr!

I've been interested in photography for a few years, but since starting grad school I've all but abandoned it. Well that's about to change!
I'm taking pictures again and I want to share them with you all, my friends. Uploading them onto Myspace/Facebook seems time consuming and impractical, so I decided to create a Flickr account. I uploaded some landscape shots I took while I was on tour as well as a couple headshots I've done for friends, a pic of Oph, etc. New pictures to come soon. :)
Here is the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/themikejones

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Quick Update

I'm in tech this week so I'm crazy busy. But I have SO MUCH to blog about! Stay tuned!

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Rehearsal

Hurry up and wait! :)

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

MacBook Woe

In August 2006 I started grad school, took out a student loan and bought my first mac. I went with the 13" MacBook with a few upgrades. It's not a bottom line model but it certainly doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the MacBook Pro has. For example, my MacBook has a plastic casing while the Pro has a metal casing. Overall I'm extremely happy with my Mac. It's far superior to my old Dell! It's faster. It runs smoother. It's overall just amazing. That being said, I do have a qualm. Remember when I said it has a plastic casing? (Of course you do, it was like 5 seconds ago.) The casing has developed a crack. Alack the day!! A Crack! A Crack! It started out as a hairline fracture on the edge of the casing where my right wrist rests. Now it's devloped into a crack that's just over an inch long and maybe a 16th of an inch wide. A quick google search has revealed that I'm not alone. This is apparently a common problem with the MacBook. It stil works fine but this crack is unsightly. I put tape on it but that looks even more ghetto. I should probably take it to a mac store and see if my warranty will cover this. But, of course, the closest mac store is hours away. Damn you Alabama!

Really, all of this makes me look longingly at the the metal MacBook Pro and check how much moola I have in my checking account. Hmm. No no-- I shouldn't buy a new computer just because mine has a tiny crack... right? I mean that's crazy!

Thoughts?

Youtube down :(

It appears that YouTube is down and that makes me sad. :(

UPDATE: Aaand we're back.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Talky Blog #3 (Ophelia, Technology, & flip cams!)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sg32Wf2FMU&rel=1]

my workspace

This blog inspired me to show you all a picture of my workspace. Note all the nerdy toys. :)

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Comments

Apparently I had the security settings to high and only members of blogger.com could leave comments on my blog entries. I changed the settings and now we should be good.
Peace!

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Vacation all I ever wanted...

I'm exhausted! I've been having trouble falling asleep at a decent hour. The last couple of nights I've gone to bed at 2 or 3 and then had to get up at like 9 and it's starting to catch up with me. I also need a vacation. Oh my god! Can you imagine a week with nothing to do but lounge by a pool and read?! I'd make sure to bring my laptop so I could blog about how awesome it is! Maybe I'll make this dream come true after graduation. Oh wait, that's when the unemployment/student loan payback period begins.
Ya know, I've never taken a vacation as an adult. Whenever I've have free time it's because I'm unemployed and thus poor. Hmmm. Maybe I should start a vacation savings account or something. In the mean time I just have to go to my happy place. Currently, my happy place (or the place I imagine when meditating) is a tropical beach at twilight on a cool night. It's really quite lovely. :)

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Quick Talky Blog

I had a minute before I had to go to work so I made a quick talky blog. Not really planned-- totally extemporaneous. Ramble ramble ramble. :)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0z0LkfHUVQ&rel=1]

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Wonder Woman just inspired me

I was listening to a random mix on my iPod and the Wonder Woman theme song came up. The following lyric really sang out to me. Maybe because I just watched After Stonewall.

"In your satin tights
Fighting for your rights!"

Best lyric in a super hero theme song EVER. There I said it. (Read the rest of the lyrics here).

R & J Logo Video

I made this video about my quest for a show logo for Romeo & Juliet. Now, this logo is just for the front of my binder-- not the real logo for the show. I think the video explains the rest. It's about a minute long and has no sound. :)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtoiVK8GRwA&rel=1&border=1]

Monday, January 7, 2008

Talky Blog?

So far I've only blogged about blogging! Here is my very first talky blog... this was mearly a test. Geez I sound like an idiot!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1FG9MPMOW8&rel=1]

Sunday, January 6, 2008

quick note

Sometimes I think about writing a blog about something but then I never actually get around to it-- for fear that I won't do the subject credit or that I'll get all caught up grammar. With ScribeFire, however (my God, I feel like a commercial) I'm one click away from making a quick one line comment or quote or something.

... that's all for now. ;)

Quotes of the Day

"OMG! Mercutio is dead! LOL"

"I'm going to sit here and eat chocolate while you act if you don't mind."

words words words

Well, it's 11:00am the next day and I have the new blog starring at me. Why did I create a blog at 2:17 in the morning? I've been here before. I love the idea of blogging but don't really follow thru. We'll see if this blog will be any different. I might keep it a secret for a while and only tell my friends about it once I've really written some things for them to read.

Ya know, Tommy once suggested that I do video blogs. I laughed at him then but now I'm honestly considering it. Maybe I'll try one on for size soon. I really like Ross The Intern's Blog and have recently started reading/watching www.breaktheillusion.com. They both make "talky blogs" look pretty cool and easy. I might end up looking like a dork though. Of course the first blog I ever started faithfully reading, Wil Wheaton Dot Net is still on my reading list and he doesn't do talky blogs.

Oh, you might notice that at the bottom of each entry on this blog it says "Powered by ScribeFire". This is a blog editting tool that makes blogging a little more convenient. It rides at the bottom of my Firefox window and whenever I want to blog I just click a little icon in the lower right hand corner and scribefire pops up ontop of whatever webpage I'm looking at and boom-- I'm blogging. Pretty cool actually.

A new blog

It's 2:17 in the morning and I have a full day ahead of me tomorrow. For some odd reason I've decided to create a new blog. I've grown board of my blog on myspace and am looking new territory! Wish me luck.