Back from Vacation...

I got back from vacation yesterday. Victoria, her sister, sister's boyfriend, grandmother, and I spent the last five days on Dataw Island, South Carolina (about an hour from Savannah, GA). It rained alot, but we still had lots of fun. For me it was just nice to get away for a few days.

No laptop, limited Internet access. In other words, for those of you who follow the blog to read about my progress on LinuxTV, there essentially was none. But I got back in the groove last night and am hoping to have more to write about this week.

I'm looking at the list of crap people are asking for, and it seems pretty clear I need an apprentice or something. Alot of this stuff is pretty straightforward but too time consuming to keep on top of by myself. Stuff like fixing em28xx board profiles and writing firmware extract scripts. None of this is rocket science but I just don't have the cycles to keep up. If I had someone to help with the small stuff, it would make it easier for me to focus on the larger projects that require more advanced debugging and analysis.

Unfortunately, it seems like there are too many users and not many developers willing to help support the project.

Asbury Park Casino

I was getting my coffee this morning on the way to work and happened to notice a picture of the Casino on the front page of USA Today.



Here is the online version of the article.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-10-asbury-park_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Small world...

Another weekend...

Victoria came to New York this weekend. Things were pretty quiet. Had some pretty good Indian food on Saturday night over on 28th street. Today we drove to New Jersey and Victoria visited her aunt while I visited mine. The train back to New York seemed to take *forever*. Got home a little after 9pm.

On Tuesday night I am flying to South Carolina with Victoria and her grandmother. Her sister and sister's boyfriend are already there. Should be nice to get away for a few days.

Various things still moving forward with LinuxTV work. Spent Friday night analyzing how VBI works on my cx88 card, so I can determine what is required for making VBI work under em28xx.

My fiance knows me so well

My fiance sent me the following image along with the message, "this is you this is you!!!".



From: http://xkcd.com/619/

Tuesday evening

Today was pretty uneventful at work. When I got home I worked some more on the PCTV 340e i2c issue, as well as more on em28xx VBI support.

Spent the rest of the evening putting together the new dresser which arrived unassembled from Target.com. It's pretty much done except for attaching the back, which requires sixty nails and I don't want to disturb my neighbors at midnight with the banging.

Have to be at the allergist at 8:30am, so I'm going to be early. TTFN.

Alumna sues college because she hasn't found a job

Check this out:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/new.york.jobless.graduate/

I read about this story yesterday and found it only slightly funny. Then this morning I happen to read the CNN version and was laughing my ass off at this part:

As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. But Monroe's career-services department has put forth insufficient effort to help her secure employment, she claims.

"They're supposed to say, 'I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right -- can you interview this person?' They're not doing that," she said.

Yeah, a 2.7 GPA and she's not getting employers beating down her door in this economy? Shock! I have to give CNN some credit here for the tongue-in-cheek factor.

Wedding Weekend

Victoria and I drove out to Reading, PA with Nicole and Dave for one of her classmate's wedding.

From Ephesians 5:22

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

You should have seen the look she shot at me as the minister gave the above reading. I think it's pretty safe to assume that no such things will be said at our wedding.

The reception was nice though. The cake was delicious.