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lulzy ticket + GoDaddy coupon = New Blog!

GBJazzMan| July 11, 2009 7:42 pm

Internet!

We had a ticket the other day with the hilarious engrish farewell of “I Hope Solution”. A coworker discovered that the domain ihopesolution.com was available. I registered the domain just for the lulz, but we decided to make a Sysadmin tip and trick blog out of the domain. The blog’s been live for about a week, go and check it out!

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So I have this blog

GBJazzMan| June 29, 2009 9:15 pm

Why hello there Internet. I haven’t forgetten about you. Infact, I’ve been thinking about you a lot. I realized I have this blog, and I’ve been thinking about posting again. In fact, I’ve got several ideas for blog posts that I will writing in next few days.

Until then, Internet, excelsior!

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hai2u

GBJazzMan| October 22, 2008 11:34 pm

Just wanted to remind everyone that I’m alive. I’ll probably have a real post in a while. Probably not, but I talk a good fight. Also, holy crap do I need spell check some of the old posts. For realz.

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A quick note

GBJazzMan| August 23, 2008 7:24 pm

I’m about to bring this site down so I can migrate it to the new host. Hopefully this shouldn’t take very long.

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It’s August 6, time to check my progress

GBJazzMan| August 5, 2008 4:13 pm

So as I said before, I’ve set a series of goals for myself and I gave myself until the 6th of August to complete 2 for the goals. Let’s see where I stand.

Get through atleast two of the books I’ve got sitting on my desk – Success! I read through two books this month, which is good because I’m generally really bad about that kinda things. I read Making Comics by Scott McCloud and Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress. As many of you may know, I am working on a webcomic right now (in my mind, more a graphic novel than a gag strip) and I’ve been looking to books for inspiration and ideas on how to make this comic better than all of my aborted attempts. I’ve read through both but I have not done all of the exercises in both. I think I’ll work on the exercises in the coming months.
Get that old Toshiba laptop converted into a digital picture frame – Failure. I really didn’t work on this at all. Part of the problem is getting a PCMCIA wired ethernet card for the aging laptop (I’m afraid Wifi won’t work, or I’d use one of the Wireless cards I have).
Get my room cleaned up. I mean, seriously – Failure. It’s actually gotten worse -_-
Get my desktop upgraded to 8.04 – Success, after fighting with it for a week. – So I do a apt-get distupgrade like I normally do, and it worked, but Gnome system aps segfaulted and /var/log/messages didn’t provide me with anything useful to work off of. I installed Fluxbox and KDE, and they both worked fine and I actually grew to like Fluxbox after a while. I ended up just doing a fresh install because my OS was technically unusable. I haven’t had any problems with the new install yet. Serisously, tho, Ubuntu. 7.04 and 7.10 were rock sold and 8.04, your LTS, has been buggy.
Get a colo setup at work and Build a new Windows box – On Hold – With me moving in probably less than a month, I need to put all unnecessary expenditures on hold. I maybe able to scavenge a temp colo, but that’d be it.
Maybe do something not computer related? – Success! I’ve been on a transitional diet for the last week or so and I started exercising today!

So I did obtain two of the goals I set for myself. Go me! And now for some more goals!

Read two more books from the stack – I’ve put my book spending on hold, but there are still a few there to get through. Here’s hoping I can get two of them read this month.
Complete one of the two hacks on my list – I’ve mentioned the laptop digital picture frame, but I’ve also dusted off the Xbox Linux hack from back in the day. I’d like to get one of these two hacks done by the end of the month.
Get an apartment – Pretty self explainatory, since I’m going to be moving Lansing sooner than later.
Get that ergo keyboard for work – To prevent Zumayaequese injuries in the future.
Stay on the workout plan – Seriously.
Get onto a real diet – For Great Justice.
Spend an afternoon and clear some stuff out of my room, for it is a mess.
Post on this thing atleast 12 times in the next month.

That’s about it for now, Matt-fans. I did get bumped to second shift for my job. Beyond that, everything’s good. I was going to make a somewhat meaningful post, but I lost it. Next time, I guess.

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This should make Rob happy

GBJazzMan| July 14, 2008 2:20 am

Quick post before I goto bed, real post tomorrow. I’m working on a new comic project that I’m actually excited to work on. Got an interesting group of characters and neat setting, still no idea on plot (story of my life)

Anyway, here’s some prelim artwork. enjoy.

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Long time no post

GBJazzMan| July 6, 2008 11:02 pm

So I was planning on posting this at the beginning of the month, but life got in the way. Things are going as normal in Matt Land right now. Works good even though commute is painful. School’s good and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Still single but here’s hoping I can turn that around at some point.

Last night was booze and Rock Band at Brad’s. Lots of fun, even if I gave myself repetitive stress injury.

Anyway, the point of this post is to come up with a to do list of things that I want to get done this month. Since I’m posting this late, I will give myself until August 6 to get these tasks done. And whenever I get a task finished, I will post here.

Get through atleast two of the books I’ve got sitting on my desk – I’ve been buying more books lately, and I’ve only gotten through one of them. I would like to get more than two of them read, but I’ll settle for just two.
Get that old Toshiba laptop converted into a digital picture frame – John gave me an old Toshiba laptop a couple of years ago. I really don’t have a use for it but I have found a way to convert it into a digital picture frame and I think I’m gonna do it.
Get my room cleaned up. I mean, seriously.
Get my desktop upgraded to 8.04.
Get a colo setup at work.
Build a new Windows box.
Maybe do something not computer related?

I’d love to post more but apparently my Joel Zumayaesque injury is start to flare up again. More next time Matt-Fans.

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lolblog

GBJazzMan| May 24, 2008 12:42 pm

Hello Internets, it’s been a while. I wish I could say I had some grandeous adventure to South America or somesuch, but in reality I’ve been spliting my time between Flint and Lansing. Which is most defently not South America. Anyway, Internets, I will answer your questions as to what has been happening in the Amazing World of Matt.

Matt, what’s up with Lansing?

Well, Internets, it’s the Capital of Michigan and one of it’s largest cities. It’s home of Michigan State University and the Lansing Lugnuts minor league baseball team. More specifically, it’s home to my new job. Like always, I’ll be vague with it so I won’t be “roflfired”. It is an IT job where I get to use Linux on a daily basis. It is also a “real” job with benefits and everything. I have a 401k. I feel like such an adult.

How’s school been going?

School’s good. I’m also done with it, although the quarter that starts in a couple of weeks is going to be hell. I’ll have 3 core classes, one of which is Capstone. If I see a little bit more stressed out than normal until like August, that is why.

What have you been doing besides work and school?

Not a whole lot. I’ve been drawing again, thanks to the Stimulus Package purchased WACOM tablet. Thanks Federal Government! I’m working on coloring an old pencil right now, and I am really happy with how it is turning out. I’ve also been reading a little bit, nothing too interesting. That is unless you find books on bash shell scripting interesting. There has been some video games, also, but that goes without saying.

Matt, how would you fix the Detroit Tigers?

Fire Chuck Hernandez. The team’s not pitching, therefore, he’s to blame. The pitching has gotten progressively worse since he took over with the same guys for the most part. And with exception of Rogers and Jones, the pitching staff is fairly young. Can Hernandez and bring in the guy from Toledo to be the pitching coach.

Matt, do you have any predictions for the Stanley Cup Finals?

Red Wings in Six