{"id":87614114,"date":"2006-11-12T01:06:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T09:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614114"},"modified":"2006-11-12T01:06:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T09:06:27","slug":"a-day-in-the-lack-of-life-of-zen-render","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614114","title":{"rendered":"A day in the (lack of) life of Zen Render"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I:<\/b>
\nGot up with the kids (why can’t four year olds sleep in on Saturdays?).
\nWatched some tv (see the above).
\nWent back to bed for an hour (hooray for French class)
\nBumbered around, not really connecting my brain to anything.
\nBought some new jeans at The Gap.
\nWatched the IMAX Galapagos DVD<\/a> with Ripley
\nPlayed a whole bunch of Mario Kart on the Nintendo DS(es) with Ripley (and then with Arwen).
\nSaw Shitoshi for a few minutes while we walked through Supervalu (sic).
\nAte some killer natchos.
\nPut Tate to bed.
\nUploaded Tate scooting around<\/a> to YouTube.<\/p>\n

Surfed around on the following things (a tiny sampling):<\/b>
\nMy friends on LiveJournal<\/a>
\nMy friends on Vox<\/a>
\nCircuit Bending<\/a>
\nBreakdancing
\nFurby modification<\/a>
\nTurntable modification with optical mice<\/a>
\nThe domain that bears my full name, which has this to say about me:<\/p>\n

ACCUMULATES cases without pressure build-up (someone tell my work-self)
\nELIMINATES “jack-knifing” without dependence on start-stop controls (is it something to do with getting outta bed?)
\nTURNS CORNERS, rises, descends-with only one motor and drive! (imagine if I had TWO?)
\nNO GRAVITY HANG-UPS on corners … cases are powered over every foot of travel (Positive Action!)
\nFOLLOWS virtually any layout – around columns, over aisles, up and down; floor level or overhead – with
\noff-the-shelf components (I like the mental image I get on “or overhead”)
\nEASY MAINTENANCE -continuously, automatically lubricated; no belts to stretch or replace; no rollers to maintain; easily adjustable to new cases (Not true – I do have a belt).
\nCONTROLS pressure of cases infeeding to palletizer or shrink wrap machine (Kinky!)
\nCOSTS LESS due to design simplicity. Saves installation time – modules bolt together (that’s me – design simplicity)
\n<\/sub><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Things I didn’t do (but keep wanting to have already done<\/i>):
\n<\/b>
\nMake some music<\/a>.
\nWrite something (Arwen’s<\/a> doing a NaNoWriMo<\/a>, but I’m more likely to complete a paragraph in a week, at the rate I’m going).
\nReorganize all of my music on my server<\/a> after really hooping myself with this program that moved everything into folders by GENRE (what the hell was *I* thinking?)<\/p>\n

Brainfart Section:<\/b>
\nThe Retroencabulator<\/a> site is a fun little read. I dropped off the document on a co-worker’s desk, with a post-it note attached that said simply “We have to install one of these by end of Quarter, please discuss with me.” (See also: The Video<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Been singing\/humming a lot of music back and forth with my co-worker, Dr. Device. Between random technical questions (mostly me asking), he and I quote things back and forth. We quickly moved beyond the handshake Monty Python stuff into the slightly more obscure Little Britain<\/a>, and now we’re mostly into seeing who can stump the other with the shortest impression or snippet of theme song. This one<\/a> came up the other day, and I think we’re almost the only two in the department who’re the right age\/mindset to enjoy it. Something about the vibe of Barney Miller seems to suit our brains when we’re working in Nerf-chucking proximity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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