Well, since I want to uphold the “Man of the Year” status, I created a MySpace music page. I also signed up for YouTube – maybe I’ll make a video of me playing – wouldn’t that just be exciting 🙂 – Add me on your MySpace! You can even play my songs on your profile if you have nothing better to do!!! 🙂
http://www.myspace.com/stevenovoselac
December 20th is the anniversary of Carl Sagan‘s death. 10 years. hehe, from his “myspace”
 Hi, there. I’m Carl Edward Sagan, an American astronomer. Some have claimed that I have pioneered exobiology (an interdisciplinary field, combining aspects of astronomy, biology and geology, which considers the origin of life on Earth and elsewhere) and promoted the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, but really, I’m just a normal guy who likes stargazing.
He was such a great thinker. If you have never seen the “Cosmos” series, you should. Last year, the Science Channel re-ran the series in its entirety. I watched and DVR’ed them all. What else did Carl Sagan do (besides main scientist type things) – well, if you know about the Voyager 1 and 2 missions, you might have heard about the “golden record”
Also, He also wrote the novel Contact, which was made into a movie later on starring Jodie Foster.
I’d have to say, he is probably the most popular author in my library. Currently I’m reading Broca’s Brain and I have six other books of his on the shelf which I have read three so far.
Like I said earlier, he has some great ideas and ways of thinking. Seriously if you want to open your mind and think outside the box, and are also interested in science in general, I think you should check his stuff out.
I know everyone has been talking and blogging about this, but does anyone remember this? I think I need to get one of these mirrors.
Everything!
Man, the more I think about it, the more stuff I could use. Another 19 inch LCD would be sweet! Some Microsoft Points for my Xbox Live account would be killer. There are few dvd’s that I could watch as well. Seasons 2-5 of 24 anyone? Still clamoring for a Nintendo Wii as well. With all my geek toys, a USB hub would really tie the room together. Or wait, wasn’t that the rug I wanted? – dude, it would really tie the room together. How about some new kicks – if anyone can find me a cool pair of size 14’s – that would be a present in itself! How about a year supply of frozen pizza 🙂 – or even the 311 Day DVD that I would totally dig. See, ton’s of stuff I want. There are even some books and other things on my Amazon wishlist. Just call me up, and I’ll even go shopping with you so you know what to get 🙂
Well, maybe the best thing to have for xmas would be, snow!
If (and thats a big IF) I ever get married, this would be the way.
Well, Friday was the anniversary of John Lennon’s death. He is still missed. It makes you wonder what he would be doing right now if he was still around. Fighting for peace. I have the mp3 of Imagine up from last year, but it’s on guitar. I have played the song on piano, but the music I have incorporates the lyrics and stuff in the upper clef (I hate that!!) – Anyways, this weekend I took some time and actually figured it out the right way. I recorded it, but my voice is really bad (sick), so I’m not posting it. Maybe I’ll re-record it once I can actually sing. I think I have played the song on piano about 100 times this weekend – and going through it, really learning the lyrics correctly. I think you just listen to the lyrics, they make sense.
1) Live for today – don’t worry about where you are going to go when you die – take a hold of today.
2) No borders – just think if we didn’t have countries, or we just actually lived together as “the earth” – you take away something to fight about.
3) Greed, hunger, religion – lumped together – corporations that could be making food, instead worry about their pockets, too many hungry people in the world. And religion, supposedly the savior of all, doesn’t really help, but give a false sense of happiness – in my opinion it causes far too much violence and hate to be worth much. And with fighting, if you take away religion, its one less thing for people to fight about.
4) Possessions – materialistic society – we are judged by how big our house is, or how nice our car is, or how many things we own- not by our achievements or other things we have (love, compassion, giving, caring, etc) – also, back to the fighting, if you take away allot of the materialistic things, one less thing to fight about. No one should own the rivers, lakes, woods, air, etc
5) And now, you might say I’m a dreamer – yeah, there will be the people that say, well if you take away all those things, then people will just find other things to argue about. Right, but I’d rather see people arguing/debating about healthcare, well being, human rights – not things that we fight about now. Let’s see a war on injustice instead of a war on terror. Take away the things to fight about, and there should be less fighting. We should be able to see eye to eye on things, debate and talk about them in a civilized manner, without violence.
6) I hope someday you will join us – yeah you – there are too many people who don’t even think about these kinds of things. They are too involved in reality TV, instead of plain old reality. Governments should worry more about how their citizens are doing than building bombs.
Well, that’s my take on it anyways. The lyrics have a pretty good meaning. Just a great song. I think even in 25 years, John will still be missed, because unless there is some radical changes, I don’t see society getting any better.
So, tonight I was cleaning up my hard drive, and windows.old folder from the Vista upgrade was sitting there, 25 GB. So I decide to delete, and it removes everything but one file. The file won’t delete because it says the path is too long. I cant rename it or move it because the path is too long. I had to open cmd prompt and CD to that directory and delete the file using the command line. What a debacle 🙂
Last week, I had the pleasure of “guest lecturing” at SCSU (my alma mater) – To the BCIS .NET Class. The first class, was ASP.NET Basics. The second was extending ASP.NET to connect to a database, which we created a mock employee directory in about 40 minutes. The experience was good for me and hopefully the students as well. I kind of got to see how they are doing things in BCIS (I am a CSCI grad), and also they got to ask questions and go through some real world situations and learn from me. Hopefully they take something away with them they can use in the future.
I have just started to play with Windows Media Center on Vista, first off, because it found my 360 and wanted to set up the extender, so I just did that. The music interface is much better than the WMC on XP. I will have to route my TV into my computer so I can play with that as well. I know in the past I have read some reviews on WMC on beta versions of Vista, and they weren’t so good, but I am really liking it so far.
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