Happy 4th of July All.
Neighbors are tearing up the block with Fireworks tonight.
I sat at home watching Macy's 4th of July Celebration. Fun! Amazingly short though.
16 hours ago
Carry on Dancing MJ
All controversy aside, there is no denying that Michael Jackson was a great performer. In spite of what you heard or saw you enjoyed his music.
He influenced many, singers and dancers alike.
I'll admit that back in my younger years I was inspired towards dancing and choreography due to Michael Jackson, among others.
My sisters where always the inspiring singers, I myself was the dancer of the family. So many times my Mother ask me to dance for her friends. She found it to be so entertaining and fascinating.
It is something that I don't do so much anymore, I've levitated towards just blending in and not standing out these days. Nothing like a good dance routine though. When you are a dancer and it's your passion it's hard to describe the rush and enjoyment you overcome. Invigorating would be one word. It's definitely good cardio. exercise.
My sisters have asked on several occasions for me to dance for my teenage nieces and nephews to show them that "Uncle Todd" can dance just like they do on MTV. In which I begin to blush. haha. My nephews like all that Rap music and break dancing.
I've gotten off track here. But, do I still got it? Of course I do. Will I do it when people ask. Probably not, will just remain one of those hidden talents only seen by few.
Sad to lose such a worldly recognized Pop icon. He will be missed & still continue to inspire and influence people. Carry on dancing Michael. Rest in Peace.
Letter Who?
Oh Letterman!? I had forgotten all about him.
Let's all tune-in to see what he has to say next about Palin. NOT!
Whatever publicity stunt they come up with I still am not going to be swayed from watching The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Duh! Hello?!
Let's all tune-in to see what he has to say next about Palin. NOT!
Whatever publicity stunt they come up with I still am not going to be swayed from watching The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Duh! Hello?!
CNN Yummy-pants
Coopie is going to be on Ellen Show this Thursday.
I'm curious to see if he is going to get jiggy with it. Ellen couldn't get him to dance last time.
I'm curious to see if he is going to get jiggy with it. Ellen couldn't get him to dance last time.
Mothers Day 2009
It's that time again. Yes, Mother's day. Always a touch and go day for me. Some might remember my prior Mother's Day postings. (here and here) I must not have done one for 2008. Like I said it's touch and go with me. Trust me it's not a day that I can forget.
If you have looked at the links, specially the one for 2006 you will realize that I lost my mother in 2002 to Cancer. Well actually I don't think I ever mentioned how she died before. Well at least not in a Mother's day posting, You'd have to go deeper into all my postings to figure that one out.
Every Mother's day I choose to sit and listen to music that my Mother liked. Music that she totally wore me out on. It's definitely engraved into my memory forever. Hard to believe it's been this long, hard to believe she is even gone.
I have a few photographs to look back to. I have her voice and laugh in my head. Every so often she comes to visit me when I dream. She was the one who taught me how to waltz. Think we almost wore this cassette tape out listening to that song and dancing around the living room floor.
So here's to Mother's day.
Connie Francis - Tennessee Waltz
If you have looked at the links, specially the one for 2006 you will realize that I lost my mother in 2002 to Cancer. Well actually I don't think I ever mentioned how she died before. Well at least not in a Mother's day posting, You'd have to go deeper into all my postings to figure that one out.
Every Mother's day I choose to sit and listen to music that my Mother liked. Music that she totally wore me out on. It's definitely engraved into my memory forever. Hard to believe it's been this long, hard to believe she is even gone.
I have a few photographs to look back to. I have her voice and laugh in my head. Every so often she comes to visit me when I dream. She was the one who taught me how to waltz. Think we almost wore this cassette tape out listening to that song and dancing around the living room floor.
So here's to Mother's day.
Connie Francis - Tennessee Waltz
High School Obsession
I say obsession, cause that's what it was with a boy that was a year ahead of me in school. I know that now, If you would have asked me back then I would have said "crush". I think I know the difference now. Gosh, people who knew back then probably thought I was crazy!
Green eyes, black hair and the body - Dee-licious! I knew almost everything about this boy. Everything that I could figure out without actually speaking to him. I even marked by body because of it. It's minimal though, no one has even asked about it that has seen me shirtless.
The other day I was telling the story to a buddy. Oddly enough they had the same name. I have yet to date anyone that shared the same name. At least that way the letter on my upper arm could serve as another purpose. Now it just serves as a reminder to my foolish teenage obsession. It's like a scar, they all have stories and forever with you.
I was always curious as to what happened to him. I discovered him recently on Myspace. Men are easier to find, their names don't change if they happen to get married.
Time can be cruel sometimes on the aging process. I think I have closure to now to "Whatever happened to so and so". I'm not saying time has riddled him unattractive. I always thought he was that unobtainable creature that was inferior to me in the looks department. Time has done him no favors. I have closure now and time has been easier on me. I'm no longer the shy nerdy gay boy I was in high school. Thank goodness for that!
Green eyes, black hair and the body - Dee-licious! I knew almost everything about this boy. Everything that I could figure out without actually speaking to him. I even marked by body because of it. It's minimal though, no one has even asked about it that has seen me shirtless.
The other day I was telling the story to a buddy. Oddly enough they had the same name. I have yet to date anyone that shared the same name. At least that way the letter on my upper arm could serve as another purpose. Now it just serves as a reminder to my foolish teenage obsession. It's like a scar, they all have stories and forever with you.
I was always curious as to what happened to him. I discovered him recently on Myspace. Men are easier to find, their names don't change if they happen to get married.
Time can be cruel sometimes on the aging process. I think I have closure to now to "Whatever happened to so and so". I'm not saying time has riddled him unattractive. I always thought he was that unobtainable creature that was inferior to me in the looks department. Time has done him no favors. I have closure now and time has been easier on me. I'm no longer the shy nerdy gay boy I was in high school. Thank goodness for that!
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For the longest time I have had been meaning to catalog all my DIVX format movies. DivX format is pretty great. The quality is very close to DVD. Plus, the size of the movies are lowered considerably. Generally 1 movie is close to 4 gigs in size. A DivX format Avi movie runs around 700 MB. I can get 6 movies to a DVD that way. Saving on blank DVD's.
So one night I sat on my bed with my laptop and typed all 600 of them into DVD database software. (Movie Collector)
Didn't realize how many I had until you get them all typed out into a database. I am going to do away with DVD's though. I will keep them for backup purposes only.
I've decided to build a HTPC. (Home Theater PC) I am only going to use it for playback of my movies and probably a bit of music listening. In the future I will put in a TV tuner so I can use it to capture/record HD television.
I just thought it would be nice to be able to sit down and scroll through all the movies I have via my big HD Plasma TV, see one you want to watch and click, it starts. Thought that would be cool, to be able to see the DVD front cover image and the movie description.
I've never built a HTPC before, I have built desktop computers though. There really isn't much difference. They both are capable of doing the same thing. Specially a gaming PC. This HTPC will also have internet access, so guest can veg on the couch watch movies, surf the internet, check their mail, etc. Plus I will be able to download my movies directly to it. The part I am dreading is the time it will take to load all the movies I have on DVD to the hard drive.
The hardest part so far was finding the right HTPC Case. Which is the chassis that would hold all the components. Roughly you want it to be slimline desktop case. On the lines of a FM Receiver that you would have for a Home Entertainment Center. HTPC popularity seems to be picking up speed and these cases aren't cheap, a nice one anyway. I managed to get one for $62 that came with a power supply. That was another hard one, finding one that came with a power supply.
I ordered the rest of the parts last evening and should arrive somewhere around April 15th. I just hope this all turns out the way I would like it to. Since this is my first attempt at a HTPC I'm not sure how the video play back is going to be or the Audio. We'll find out soon enough.
As far as the specs. go for the geeks out there:
Motherboard:
Asus M3A78-CM Motherboard - AMD780V, Socket AM2/AM2+, MicroATX, Audio, Video, Hybrix CrossFire, DVI, DP, VGA, Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0, Serial ATA, RAID
Processor:
AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition Processor AD775ZWCGHBOX - 2.70GHz Dual Core
Hard Drive:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 32MB cache
Memory:
Kingston 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory (2 Gig)
DVD Burner:
LG DVD Burner - 22x DVD+R, 8X DVD+RW, 22x DVD-R, 6x DVD-RW, 16x DVD-ROM
I am still in limbo on getting a separate video and audio card until I have it put together. I am going to see how the onboard Video and Audio does first. So far I have spent $359. Which will go up if I have to get independent video and audio cards.
I will be running Windows Vista Ultimate. Ultimate comes with Windows Media Center.
I'll provide pictures and maybe video of how it all turns out. Wish I would have thought of one of these sooner.
Wikipedia for HTPC Check it out, you might be interested in one yourself :) The quality of video playback of a HTPC is far more superior than any stand alone DVD player you could buy. Even the top end expensive ones. Blu-Ray and HD DVD's. It also has other great benefits and capabilities I didn't mention.
Seems to be expensive at my price of $359 (so far). But when you think of all it can do and does, It's worth it.
So one night I sat on my bed with my laptop and typed all 600 of them into DVD database software. (Movie Collector)
Didn't realize how many I had until you get them all typed out into a database. I am going to do away with DVD's though. I will keep them for backup purposes only.
I've decided to build a HTPC. (Home Theater PC) I am only going to use it for playback of my movies and probably a bit of music listening. In the future I will put in a TV tuner so I can use it to capture/record HD television.
I just thought it would be nice to be able to sit down and scroll through all the movies I have via my big HD Plasma TV, see one you want to watch and click, it starts. Thought that would be cool, to be able to see the DVD front cover image and the movie description.
I've never built a HTPC before, I have built desktop computers though. There really isn't much difference. They both are capable of doing the same thing. Specially a gaming PC. This HTPC will also have internet access, so guest can veg on the couch watch movies, surf the internet, check their mail, etc. Plus I will be able to download my movies directly to it. The part I am dreading is the time it will take to load all the movies I have on DVD to the hard drive.
The hardest part so far was finding the right HTPC Case. Which is the chassis that would hold all the components. Roughly you want it to be slimline desktop case. On the lines of a FM Receiver that you would have for a Home Entertainment Center. HTPC popularity seems to be picking up speed and these cases aren't cheap, a nice one anyway. I managed to get one for $62 that came with a power supply. That was another hard one, finding one that came with a power supply.
I ordered the rest of the parts last evening and should arrive somewhere around April 15th. I just hope this all turns out the way I would like it to. Since this is my first attempt at a HTPC I'm not sure how the video play back is going to be or the Audio. We'll find out soon enough.
As far as the specs. go for the geeks out there:
Motherboard:
Asus M3A78-CM Motherboard - AMD780V, Socket AM2/AM2+, MicroATX, Audio, Video, Hybrix CrossFire, DVI, DP, VGA, Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0, Serial ATA, RAID
Processor:
AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition Processor AD775ZWCGHBOX - 2.70GHz Dual Core
Hard Drive:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 32MB cache
Memory:
Kingston 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory (2 Gig)
DVD Burner:
LG DVD Burner - 22x DVD+R, 8X DVD+RW, 22x DVD-R, 6x DVD-RW, 16x DVD-ROM
I am still in limbo on getting a separate video and audio card until I have it put together. I am going to see how the onboard Video and Audio does first. So far I have spent $359. Which will go up if I have to get independent video and audio cards.
I will be running Windows Vista Ultimate. Ultimate comes with Windows Media Center.
I'll provide pictures and maybe video of how it all turns out. Wish I would have thought of one of these sooner.
Wikipedia for HTPC Check it out, you might be interested in one yourself :) The quality of video playback of a HTPC is far more superior than any stand alone DVD player you could buy. Even the top end expensive ones. Blu-Ray and HD DVD's. It also has other great benefits and capabilities I didn't mention.
Seems to be expensive at my price of $359 (so far). But when you think of all it can do and does, It's worth it.
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