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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:25:00 +0000

The new Starcraft 2 Trailer dropped today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_E83GfWM-A next Tuesday seems so far away. #
Calcbot's out for iPhone so I got twitter app Socialite for Mac from MacHeist, $30 for free! get your own copy at http://bit.ly/calcapp #
Just got my iPhone 4 Bumper refund. I never had an issue with mine. But if you do you can check it out here. http://bit.ly/cuuTlO #
That was fast! Thanks apple. http://twitpic.com/27y3yv #
Did you know you can prevent yourself from crying while cutting onions by sucking on a metal spoon? Thanks google for knowing all. #

Testing out QR codes

Tristan Pipo — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:06:03 +0000

Created a qr code for my website thought I would test it out.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:25:00 +0000

I can't tell if it's me or if the universe is just odd so far this week. #
Just settled a bet for my sister. Hopefully she wins something. #
A girl was getting on the bus. She tripped while "another one bites the dust" started playing on my iPhone. Universe has a sense of humor. #
Going to have wisdom teeth removed this morning. Good times. Happy Friday to all. #
I think the worst part of having your wisdom teeth removed is the whole not being able to have solid foods. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:25:00 +0000

I think it's a worthwhile day to bust out the sunglasses for the journey home. #
How are you staying cool today? #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:25:00 +0000

Looks like the neighbors girlfriend is a screamer. With that note I am off to bed. #
Going to Costco with the lady. Time to up my patience level for dealing with society. #
Always a good day when a beer is brought to your desk. Cheers Everyone! #
Paseo's for lunch and then beerfest. Today is full of win. #
Had a great beerfest. Blew a .24 at the end of the day. My sister had a .38. Overall a kick ass day. So many happy people in one spot. #

Some new things

Tristan Pipo — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:29:14 +0000

So for my birthday I decided to cash in a couple gift cards I had received over the years to pickup a Wacom Table. I got the Bamboo Fun tablet which I must say was a nice upgrade in size. It’s especially nice when running dual monitors as each monitor is 1/2 of the tablet.

I’ve been using this table with a program called Pixelmator as it’s an alternative to photoshop for performing some touchup work. Lately I have been into creating black and white photos and then painting in only part of the color. I have an app do to this on my iPhone called Colorsplash. But using Pixelmator with the tablet is a bit more fun.

Since it is essentially a digital piece of paper I thought it would be cool to create a digital signature that I could put into an e-mail so my name actually looks like it was written by a real person. But I have really crappy handwriting. I am not really sure I should be doing something like that.

Here are 3 drafts I created on my tablet.

My handwriting looks like chicken scratch. But it could be the fact that I am still getting used to the tablet. I think this will requite a bit more trial and error. But so far I am loving this tablet.

Life has been treating me pretty well the past few months. I haven’t had much of a chance to update the blog. I did update the wordpress blogging software. Added a plugin that will grab all of my tweets and post them on the site.

But I hope everyone has a great 4th of July weekend. Would anyone want to read a review on the iPhone 4 or any other piece of technology that I own.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:25:00 +0000

Kinda cool that we can watch the Mirage Volcano explode from our suite. #
They sure use dam a lot at Hoover Dam. "Get in the theater we need to start the dam movie" or "Get in line for the dam tour you damn tourist #
Wifi on the plane. Not sure what I think about this. But it's a nice distraction from the crying babies in the back. #
So that's 3 years so far that my girlfriend has put up with me. I feel like a pretty lucky guy. #
Would like to send a thank you to the twitter universe for keeping me up to date on the current line for #iphone4 wait times at UVillage. #
Looks like I have lost my girlfriend for a few days to her new birthday present. #
This iPhone 4 is a thing of beauty. I am rather impressed with this device. #
Was having some major network drops. Went out got a new Wireless N router. Things have improved dramatically. #
Can't tell if it's this same bird. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x8-t0Qq-FE but a little over a year later it has returned. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:25:00 +0000

My girlfriend told me I was wrong today. She was right for once. #
Looks like we have arrived. (@ Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS) w/ 20 others) http://4sq.com/3VwSr0 #
My girlfriend is awesome. She greased the front desk check in guy. We got an upgraded suite for our stay in Vegas. Love her. #
Going to see the phantom of the opera tonight. Got some free tickets with our package. I bought some cirque tickets for tomorrow night. #
I don't get these people that bring children to Vegas. They are annoying because they are so bored. #
Just got out of The Beatles : Love by Cirque De Soleil. All I can say is that was totally amazing. We got seats 1 row back from the stage. #
I just got propositioned by a hooker. First time for everything I suppose. #
They sure use dam a lot at Hoover Dam. "Get in the theater we need to start the dam movie" or "Get in line for the dam tour you damn tourist #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-13

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:25:00 +0000

Just finished installing iPhone OS GM (Beta 5) Not finding a huge difference between it and Beta 4. But it seems faster on my iPhone 3G. #
This sneezing episode of mythbusters is slightly disturbing. Green, Blue and Red sneezes. I usually love this show. #
Not sure if today should be described as odd or fubar. Or would that be fubared? #
Man people who drive Audi's onto the ferry are idiots. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-06

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:25:00 +0000

Got the BBC Edition of Life on Blu Ray yesterday. I couldn't stand the American version with Oprah as the narrator. David Attenborough FTW #
Running out of propane while in the middle of grilling sucks. #
Why do bees have to be such assholes. I think they are trying to mate with my earbuds. #
Some bum just got on the bus smelling like death. 8 of us moved as far away from him as possible. Bus drivers face is showing agony. #
I must say I really love to BBQ. Grilled for my sisters birthday party today. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-30

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:25:00 +0000

"I'm a Maug. Half-man, half-dog. I'm my own best friend." – Barf #
I don't get why the wii friend system is so annoying my wii is 5651 4193 4958 5574 or add me on xbox live gamertag TristanP. Epic Fail Wii #

Hello

Tristan Pipo — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:21:51 +0000

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:25:00 +0000

Autostich is a pretty cool app for the iPhone. Chilling in the park after work. http://yfrog.com/b9w0hj #
Kinda sad to think the last Crystal Pepsi was bottled 17 years ago. #
Has anyone ever thought about taking those "Business Reply Envelopes" and just filling them with random things and mailing them back? #
About to enjoy some fish tacos from my favorite taco truck. #

Happy Birthday to Me

Tristan Pipo — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:28:04 +0000

Well looks like I have made it to year 27. We shall see what it holds.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:25:00 +0000

I've kinda given up on Firefox. It's become this bloated annoying piece of software. I have really been enjoying Google Chrome. #
This is a twitter update from Ubuntu 10.04 can you tell the difference from my iPhone or the Web? #
I forgot iTunes had a visualizer. They have 5 now apparently. I remember WinAmp had like 100 million of them. Guess I never needed them. #
I bought the @shitmydadsays book. I must say a very comical read. I've always found blunt honesty to be comedic. But people around me don't. #
My frustration with safari on the mac is reaching my breaking point. The inital load is taking forever. The webkit browser has no issues. #
Just drove by Chica latte on holman road. Saw seattles finest getting some "coffee". #
Only in kitsap would some moron stop his truck and then throw his keys up on the roof of a movie theater. Almost feel bad for the guy. #
Well that was an interesting visit to the west side of the puget sound. Saw my sister and mom for an early mothers day. Party on. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:25:00 +0000

I didn't think it would be so challenging to find a BBQ sauce without corn syrup. #
I ordered some new socks today. Probably more then I should have. But I am going to ditch all my old socks. Not sure why anyone cares but me #
Downloading the Mac Beta for Starcraft 2. Kinda excited about it. #
Just downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 will see what it holds this weekend. I just realized how geeky that sounds. #
"Your mother was a hamster and your Father smelt of elderberries. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." -Frenchman Holy Grail #

The Digital Archive Project

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:16:53 +0000

Hey Loyal Readers. I was looking at the server logs and noticed I had 15 people active on the site that were not web robots. Which I thought was pretty darn cool considering I have been failing as a blogger lately.

Honestly I have just been feeling a bit overwhelmed and I just need to rearrange parts of my life to get into the swing of things. I really want to get back into the gym thing but life has made that hard. But lately I have been working on archiving the media that my family has created over the years. It can be a long process to watch a tape and sit there with a notepad and mark the parts of the recording that I need to fix later. So I do a tape or two a weekend and almost have all of the tapes recorded that are worth saving.

I am going to work on a bit of a clip show and post it on my personal blog. But again all of this requires time and I don’t find myself wanting to spend it on my laptop as much as I used to. So I will make a clip show a priority of mine.

I also would really like to get back into podcasting again. Get a few other guys or maybe some girl to get on Skype with some microphones and beat out a 30-40 minute show maybe twice a month. Doesn’t really have to be about by dating life as I have had a serious girlfriend for almost 3 years now. Again just more time.

So look forward to a clip show and will see about starting up a podcast again. I stopped at 12 episodes and recently just got delisted from iTunes. Sad times indeed. But please follow me on twitter if you want to keep up on the pulse of Tristan. http://www.twitter.com/tristanpipo

Hope to hear from you soon.

Testing Textmate

Tristan Pipo — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:57:37 +0000

Testing the blogging system from Textmate. Will see if this post goes live. Let’s see if I did this right.

Viva the Digital Overlords

Tristan Pipo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:11:35 +0000

I was sitting here at my desk working on building an HTML version of a digital scoreboard to show who is awesome at Air Hockey. I used to play with my coworker Greg and we both just got extremely busy at work. So we are going to start it back up again. When we left off I was ahead like 131 games to 126 I believe. We would play 3-5 games a day.

But the title of this blog post doesn’t really mean anything. I was listening to iTunes and had it on Random and Octopuses Garden came up on iTunes. For some reason it inspired me to open up MarsEdit and write a click little blurb.

I have been working on converting all of my families home video tapes to a digital format. I must say it has been a rather intensive process. A bit more expensive then I imagined.

The first expense was the Elgato Video Capture device. Scored that for $84 off Amazon with the free 2 day shipping ala Amazon Prime. Another expense was actually getting a VCR. My girlfriends mom had one to lend me. It works pretty well. It has some tracking issues so I ordered another VCR off ebay and now have two VCR’s on my desk.

I remember being a kid and thinking VCR’s could possibly be the coolest thing ever. Now they are just large annoying black boxes on my desk. I picked up the other VCR for $30 from eBay. The lady that was selling lied to me on its condition. But it works as expected.

Also I needed a place to save all of this video as most videos come up after compression to be 2-3GB of data. Then a DVD version ends up being another 4GB or so. Then I make 2 different formats m4v and Divx AVI. Not really sure how my family is taking this. But oh well I am happy to have digital copies of all the tapes. But this all takes up space so I now have 2 1TB Firewire 800 HDD. I have 2.5TB of data hooked up to my laptop for all of these home movies.

Good times. Well I better get back to work. Just thought I would blog some random thoughts.

Happy Valentines Day

Tristan Pipo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:20:16 +0000

So last night I had one of the better Valentines Days on record. My girlfriend told me she didn’t want any gifts or presents. I thought that was perfect. I had some flowers set to deliver to her work so I backed out of that. I later told her this and she was glad I didn’t send them. Sending them on some other day would mean more to her. She made an 8.5”x11” little collage of pictures of us. I will put that on my desk as soon as I can get some frame for it. But it was just a really lazy Sunday.

I slept in until 11am or so just as she was getting home from her errands. She had some doughnuts. We chilled out for a bit and then she went to take a nap. I watched the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. I had it on the TiVo. It was kinda crazy that it took up 22.7GB for 4hrs and 30 minutes. But overall it was okay. Not my cup of tea for an ultimate TV viewing experience.

But anyways that night was going to go meet up with my friend Preston and his lovely lady Mindee. We went to the Cheesecake factory in Southcenter. That place was a total hell hole. Driving around the parking lot with all of those idiots is rather nutty. Manners go out the window. Tempers rise. Good times.

So we get to the cheesecake factory and the wait on the Sunday was about 90 minutes. This seemed to shock and surprise people. But people are idiots and it made me laugh at their stupidity. One group came in wanting a table for 17. I think the hostess told them to piss off. But after much waiting we got a table and ordered some drinks and had a good time shooting the breeze and catching up.

I got a little drunkard and had a good time. They did make me the wrong entree. But that was quickly fixed and they ended up comping my dinner. I felt kinda bad about it and the manager asked if I wanted anything else. I said some mashed spuds sound pretty good instead of soup or salad. He was more then happy to hook that up. So a few minutes later I had a bowl of mashed potatoes. My girlfriend then asked me “Can I have some” not to be one to say no to a simple request I said “sure” or probably more like “sbhure” in the drunken state. She dips her fork into the hot potato mash. Part of my arm happens to be on the table. Some hot potato falls off and this is what happened.

Tristan: “Ouch, That is really hot. It’s burning”
Girlfriend Laughs
Tristan: “It’s Burning! It’s Hot”
Girlfriend Laughs

At this point I was like she isn’t going to take it off so I grabbed my napkin and took care of business. Typing it out makes it seem like it was incredibly rude sounding. But it was rather comical after all was said and done. Everyone at the table had a good laugh. Here is a badly painted diagram to show how it went down.

But the meal was delicious. Cheesecake was awesome. I hadn’t had cheesecake at the cheesecake factory in a very long while. That night went home and passed out from exhaustion and began Monday and then got incredibly busy and now we are here over a week later finally getting this post out.

Thanks again to Preston and Mindee for a fun evening out. Double dates have been incredibly enjoyable with old friends.