• The door into work was shattered but still in place. Safety glass is neat, but it was making creaking sounds. http://yfrog.com/0hgkkj #

so yesterday was a busy day. i woke up earlier than i usually do to go help dardy move into his new place. this new place is 7 doors down from his old place! the floorplan is the same, so he said, wherever you pick up something from the old place, put it in the same spot in the new place.

i thought that dardy would have a ton of stuff to move, but i think there were about 15 people who came to help move him over. i think everything was done in around 2 hours.

i only stayed for the first hour because i had to go back home and meet up with christi and her family. we went to straits cafe (the first time, shockingly, for me). the garlic noodles there are to-die-for! the roti is pretty good too. i think i could have a full meal on just those two things.

after that we hung out at santana row for a little bit, looked around at borders and had yogurt at pinkberry. my first pinkberry experience was only so-so, but this time i had just the plain yogurt and it was pretty good. the line went out the door and we waited probably about ten minutes to get our yogurt, but it was pretty good. pinkberry has redeemed themselves as far as i’m concerned.

after that, the rest of the day, the night, and the very late night was spent working. i think i finally gave up around 2AM and went to bed. and now here i am, up earlier than i am usually on a work day at it again.

oh, and happy mother’s day everyone!

• It is far too early to be up on a Sunday, but I’m getting ready to help @choccobo movebinyo his new house…7 doors down from his old place #
• Why is it that everytime I tweet before 10am there are a ton of typos in my tweet? Clearly this is a sign that I ought not to be awake. #
• @choccobo you should keep your wireless router at your old place and see if you get coverage at your new place. in reply to choccobo #
• Spent the day fixing bugs. Still too many bugs left. Need industrial strength bug killer… #

• Virtually everyone in the office brings lunch in so I always forget to eat lunch at noon. Not today though, I had some great Thai food. #

• Was so excited to eat some cereal only to find out there’s no milk. There is orange juice though… #
• Just had lunch at 2:30. Tried not to eat too much because dinner is at 6:30 #

• tried to tell a guy on the freeway that his passenger side rear tire is flat. he flipped me off. loser. =P #
• @medeasin after that tweet, I had to look it up myself. That’s a rude way to say thank you. 😛 in reply to medeasin #
• It’s a muggy, overcast 77 degrees now. Guess I will have to get pearl tea before vball to cool myself off. #
• Pearl tea and fried chicken. What more could you ask for? http://twitpic.com/4ks52 #

• Something I ate yesterday didn’t agree with me. So eating leftovers today is a little scary…but I can’t let the pizza go to waste! #
• Christi tried out the new dog booties I ordered for koda. He lost two of the four while playing in the stream. #

there’s been something about castle that has been bothering me for a while and i couldn’t quite figure it out until now. the thing that bothers me is that detective kate beckett is too well dressed to be a detective on tv. it’s not that she is too attractive for the role, there are plenty of hot female detectives on tv. the one that immediately comes to mind is sarah shahi in life. i think that female detectives on tv usually just end up wearing very masculine clothes, but i think the wardrobe choices for kate beckett is much softer than her character is. i’m not sure if that bothers me, but it certainly has been something that has been in the back of my mind.

now that i’ve made the HTPC, i have been using pretty exclusively and it has been working out well. the big issue that i have come across is that the NAS is pretty slow when it is trying to navigate the list of content that i have.

it seems that many people are using a media center plugin called media browser which doesn’t have the latency that media center has. i think that media center is trying to make thumbnails and read other metadata that just takes forever over the network connection. i don’t know why, the NAS and the HTPC is connected over a gigabit connection, but oh well, media browser works quite well.

i have also looked at the iphone app, mediamote. it looks like it is a network based remote control for media center which seems to look pretty cool, but i have some issues with it running stably. the server component appears to keep crashing after a couple of hours or the client fails to connect to the server. not really sure what is going on there…

but the biggest problem for me is HD content. i like HD content but it is just SO big and takes up so much hard drive space. i can’t really tell the difference between the 720p vs HDTV encodings on the 46″ DLP TV, but it makes a huge difference on the projector. i would just suck it up, but streaming to the xbox upstairs is a problem as the xbox isn’t fast enough to decode HD streams.

i might install tveristy or something and have the media center act as a dlna server as well. that should solve that problem…

all in all, it’s starting to come together, though.

• Sprinkled a little this morning. It’s not April anymore, bring on the May flowers. #
• Oh wait. Need rain so the lawn I stopped watering gets some. #
• It’s what we can definite call raining now. No more sprinkles. Rain, go land on my lawn. #