winbind
I got to work with my fav guy to work with at work today. Whenever I work with him I learn a ton of new stuff.
We finally got all the linux servers we need to obey the reality of the Windows domain accounts and groups and keep the freakin uid across each server. This makes getting all my programmers onto the internal dev boxes in their proper groups and managing who has access a breeze. It is now all tied into their actual employee account.
New Shifts
They also are talking about moving to 4 ten hour days. Or 4 8 hour days plus one 8 hour work from home day. Not sure how I feel about either. When I was at Canisius I worked 10 hour days and while they make the week fly by, they are long.
For me I think the ideal would be four 8 hour days at work with 2 hour after dinner/gym work times from home. I mean I already do that most days anyways.
dancing
Today at the gym I found myself thinking I would have rather been dancing.
boxerboi - 07/23/08 16:40 (e:tinypliny) and I are trying to do the 7am-3pm thing. 4 day workweek sounds good to me, even if they are 10 hour days.
iriesara - 07/23/08 11:12 "Today at the gym I found myself thinking I would have rather been dancing"...
It's comments like this that make me wonder how it took us so long (including you) to figure out you were gay. Love you!
james - 07/23/08 00:32 The beats command us. A smack of us should go dancing real soon.
tinypliny - 07/22/08 23:41 The 8-hour workday at home sounds like a dream to me. I'd much rather work at home and get things done than float about aimlessly through the day at office. Though, I think things are going to change for the better from tomorrow, for me. My office moved and it's a new beginning. :)
tinypliny - 07/22/08 23:36 Isn't it an awesome feeling when you get home or audit the day and feel that you consistently learn interesting new things with someone you work with? I love that feeling. Every time I meet with my advisor, I feel like I am over the moon. She has that effect on me. I always come away with new ideas. It's almost as it she injects new life into me without access to an intravenous line! I need to meet with her more often...
Ah. The reality of windows domains need to be obeyed. Corporate compliance at work? ;-) And it sounds kind of odd that linux servers are doing the actual dirty work of making things obey, of all things, windows domains!
Yeah, dancing is waaaay more fun than exercising. Seriously considering taking the leap and joining (e:Felly)/(e:Lauren)'s Wednesday hip-hop sessions...
07/21/2008 11:19 #45089
WEMF 2008 more videos from youtube Category: music
As I said before, to me, Andy C was the best DJ at WEMF 2008. His opening set was so crazy. We were laying down in our tent netx to the stage and at that point and ran out to dance for the rest of his 3 hour set.
I love these kind of moments. They are few and far between when I have full suspension of disbelief and just dance like there is nothing else going on in the world
This one shows the crowd a little more
The sound on this video is so muffled out and is obviously missing a whole range of the sound plus the feeling of the bass shaking the ground but try and imagine this on the speakers shown in the pic on from my last journal (e:paul,45082)
Oh, and here is the original flyer
tinypliny - 07/21/08 22:29 Can't! I meant it can't reproduce those frequencies!
tinypliny - 07/21/08 22:27 Wow - that is Mp3 is awesome! My headphone can reproduce those bass frequencies! But I can only imagine what it might have felt like!
Damn, I need a really good pair of speakers to rock out!
07/20/2008 16:20 #45082
Wemf 2008 was insane Category: music
It was such an amazing time at a campsite right outside of Algonquin park in Canada. The music was awesome - I have never danced so hard in my life. I think the pinnacle was listening to Andy C of Saturday night. They are going to post recordings from WEMF 2008 at sometime next week. Until then, and before I put up some pictures, he is a video with Andy C's music. Try and imagine this playing on 2 sets of speakers that were 2 stories tall and 2 stories wide. And a while giant row of bass speakers.
There are notes you just can't hear on this recording, not to mention the ground sharking for about a mile around. And that was only one of four main stages not to mention the 5 other renegade stages. The secondary main stage was similar in size.
We got to swim in a lake near by. The weather was amazing. In fact it was a little to amazing and we had to hide in our tent for a while on Saturday.
I don't know how I am going to feel tomorrow considering I slept for about 4 hours this whole weekend and spent a lot of time stuck in traffic. Might be the recipe for a sick day.
It took us a whiel to get there becaue we hit standstill traffic from Toronto to Barre. I took this picture, just as we were hitting the traffic jam.
Once we got there it was another hour waiting to have our car searched.
He is a small section of the tent village. I would say there were at least 5000 people. (e:terry) thought more.
This was the best cotume I saw. not that many people were outside saturday afternoon. The weather was just too hot and too sunny. I even got a little sunburned.
Here ares some other videos taken at the event I found on youtube. This was at the 4x4 stage which was where Dr. Trance, OS/2 and anabolic frolic played back to back, just before Stoneface and Terminal which is what this video is of. It was so nostaglic.
Right after that was Mark EG who also played a fantastic set. Sorry they are all dark but I didn't take them. Thanks to wheover did, (e:terry) and I were busy danicng our butts off during this.
UPdate from septmeber 2008 - I found the best recording of the Andy C on youtube recently, here it is:
drew - 07/21/08 08:54 If you look at the sign where it some drum&bassarena too quickly it looks like it might say "dumbass arena."
paul - 07/21/08 08:31 Sadly, it was the last WEMF ever. I went to their first 3-day party called the World Trace Festival back in 1995 and now this last one. Here is the wikipedia page for it :::link:::
dcoffee - 07/20/08 22:54 Wow, that sounds awesome, aside from the traffic jams of course. I'd love to go to something like that, totally jealous.
tinypliny - 07/20/08 21:20 That's Über cool! Lovin' that Andy C tune you posted. \m/
jon - 07/20/08 18:44 sounds like you had a ton of fun! =)
07/18/2008 13:33 #45064
Last post in America
Seriously, coop. $20.99 for almond butter . Is thee some almond
shortagebecause I bought them before and I certainly did not pay that.
fellyconnelly - 07/19/08 07:43 that must be some damn tasty almond butter!
tinypliny - 07/18/08 21:07 Strangely ironic that your last post in America is about the one ridiculously over-expensive coop and arbitrary pricing. I think they just get up every morning and pick random stuff to mark up even more beyond the regular mark-up! COME ON! How long can you use the excuse that everything is organic and that you are paying for the building?? At this rate, they should have made enough to buy the damn thing out.
metalpeter - 07/18/08 17:17 four things that factor into that price. When things are labeled healthy they can cost more. Elmwood is more exspensive then say tops or someplace. The co-0p is more expensive, hey they have to pay for the new building, and 4th is that organic makes things more pricey.
james - 07/18/08 16:44 no, you are just shopping in the co-op.
I am hpoing to find plenty of tasty sea food up north. I imagine the lakes are cleaner ther and the fish is yummy. Today after the gym I settled for mussels to build muscles. I like them but they are also kind of second rate compared to clams. Those suckers are seirous protein, not as much as calamari but close. I am getting closer and closer to deciding that a seafood smoothy would be good. What about cold with some lime juice and salt, or horse radish. Kind of like cerviche.
Those pickles are Bubbies pickles I know silly name but they are so good and are naturally fermented instead of with vinegar. I get them at the coop but feel right has them too sometimes. Totally worth it, they are so freakin tasty.
fellyconnelly - 07/19/08 07:45 i don't know as i would have ever put a baked potato, lettuce, cherries and pickle on the same plate but that all looks amazing...
james - 07/18/08 00:26 You have set a high bar for yummy pics on this journal Paul.
paul - 07/18/08 00:11 Oh I had a protein drink, a sucker and fresh plum, bilberry juice and like 20 other cherries. I just thought they were to boring to qualify and yummies and get a pic.
bailey - 07/17/08 23:23 Hmm...I love clams. Never had a muscle, though. I just recently has my first steamed clam. At first, its texture sort of through me off, but after a few chews, I was all for them. Hope you have a safe trip!
james - 07/17/08 23:16 Pardon me for being a smart ass. But you should bring a piece of fruit and some protein powder to the gym. A big part of recovery is restoring glycogen levels. The best way to do that is to have a sugary piece of fruit. Liquid protein also helps heal the microtrauma in the muscles, which means healed/bigger muscles faster. It is most effective to have both within 20 minutes of ending your workout.
(e:tinypliny) and I are trying to do the 7am-3pm thing. 4 day workweek sounds good to me, even if they are 10 hour days.
"Today at the gym I found myself thinking I would have rather been dancing"...
It's comments like this that make me wonder how it took us so long (including you) to figure out you were gay. Love you!
The beats command us. A smack of us should go dancing real soon.
The 8-hour workday at home sounds like a dream to me. I'd much rather work at home and get things done than float about aimlessly through the day at office. Though, I think things are going to change for the better from tomorrow, for me. My office moved and it's a new beginning. :)
Isn't it an awesome feeling when you get home or audit the day and feel that you consistently learn interesting new things with someone you work with? I love that feeling. Every time I meet with my advisor, I feel like I am over the moon. She has that effect on me. I always come away with new ideas. It's almost as it she injects new life into me without access to an intravenous line! I need to meet with her more often...
Ah. The reality of windows domains need to be obeyed. Corporate compliance at work? ;-) And it sounds kind of odd that linux servers are doing the actual dirty work of making things obey, of all things, windows domains!
Yeah, dancing is waaaay more fun than exercising. Seriously considering taking the leap and joining (e:Felly)/(e:Lauren)'s Wednesday hip-hop sessions...