Sunday, December 31, 2006

End of the year!

So the end of the year went out with a bang! December has been one hell of a ride for me. Let me first start off with my birthday; December 4th.

Eric and I went to Fantasy Ranch on Tuesday, I know Tuesday is the 5th, but Eric and I had to work on the 4th. We get in, the lady at the front is like, "ID's and $5.00", I get my wallet it out and hand it to her. She goes, "Oh, Happy Birthday! I'm going to put you on the VIP list and let the girls know." So we walk to our own personal booth. Girls come and are all surrounding me and Eric. This one girl, Diana, stayed with me the whole time. We stayed till 2 AM when they closed. At the end of the day we had spent about $150 on alcohol alone. It just seems whenever me and my brother Eric go out, it's always better than if we take the whole crew with us.

As I posted earlier I was in the hospital on December 27th, yeah that sucked.

On December 29th Saddam Hussein was hung for crimes against humanity. I was actually at Joe's Crab Shack when I noticed it on CNN. It was "Hussein to be executed @ 10 PM EST." It was 8:57 PM CST, So I started doing the countdown. About 3 seconds after 9 PM hit, the lights started moving and changing colors and then the YMCA song came on really loud. All the servers, waiters and hostesses started doing the YMCA. I'm just thinking, that would fucking suck die knowing that all over the United States the people @ Joe's Crab Shack are doing the YMCA.

So now today is the 30th. My parents just bought a house, they got the keys today. So I've been conned into helping them move some how. So no sleeping late for me today. I have to get up about 8 AM to help unload this big ass 26 foot U-Haul they rented.

Oh, almost forgot, Alyssa, Eric, Jon, few other people and Me are going to this bad ass strip club in Dallas called The Clubhouse, it's owned by a band member of Pantera. I'll let you guys know how it goes.

+AllenG

Friday, December 29, 2006

Doctors Visit

So, I get woken up out of the dead of sleep to my woman complaining about it's hot in our room. So I'm like turn on the small fan, since the ceiling fan was already on. Not even thirty minutes later, I get woken up again. Same thing, so I open the window. Granted I'm sleeping next to the window. About 6 hours later, I wake up to being completely congested and unable to breathe out of my nose. I get up and move around, take a shower, get ready for work. At this point I'm feeling pretty good, not as congested. I get to work at 5:00 PM, everything was peachy. About 10:30 PM I start feeling very weird, I tell Eric that I want to leave because this just didn't feel right, he drove home. On the way I remember hearing weird things and seeing some odd lights. Eric said I kept saying a lot of really random things. We arrive at my house, he helps me to my room. I get into bed, shortly after I'm awakened by my Dad and Eric picking me up out of bed. They put me into the car and take me to the hospital. I do not remember the drive to the hospital at all.

I get helped out of the car at the ER. I go in and they sit me down. Then out of no where, I see what looked like Richard Petty walking from the examining rooms. Next thing I know the lady is calling me back to do the initial check up. My Dad helps me to the small examination room. They sit me down and attach this clip on my left index finger for my heart rate. Do the arm band for my blood pressure and then take my temperature. The little machine is going nuts, I'm thinking, I'm dying or something. She's like, your heart rate is 150 to 160, your blood pressure is above normal and your temperature is 103°F. So, that didn't help at all. They put me in some other little cubby hole.

The lights in the hospital are blinding, I had my dad turn the lights off in my room. So the Doctor comes in and he's all asking me weird ass questions like, "Have you done any drugs like, cocaine or speed in the past month?" He asked me about 5 times and I told him the same thing, "I don't do that shit.". So I had to do a urine test, x-ray of my lungs, EKG, flu swab and blood work. The flu swab sucks, they stick this huge q-tip up each of your nostrils. The thing that I hated the most was the damn IV they put in me to blood work and run fluids in me. This guy was like, "Alright which arm?", I say, "The left one." He pokes me in the left arm right in the inner-joint. "Oh, sorry I missed. Let me try again here." So he does another one in the forearm, "Oh, I'm so so sorry, I'm trying to get it." He sticks the whole damn needle in my arm, and then pulls it out all the way in less than a second. I was like, "What are you an RN or what?" He tells me he's a Paramedic. I'm sitting here thinking to myself, "I sure hope this guy doesn't have to save me one day, I'll die while he's trying to find a vein." He goes and gets an RN to do it, she does it in one try. After all that happend, I had to lay in a hospital room for 3 hours while they pumped 2 IV bags and one anti-biotics bag into my system. It totally sucked. The doctor said I didn't have the flu or any other diseases and that my white blood cell count was at it's peek. He said I may have an upper-respiratory infection.

They gave me 3 prescriptions and I'm feeling 100% better than I was.

+AllenG

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Last.fm Review

Last.fm is a social service that records what you listen to, and then presents you with an array of interesting things based upon your tastes — artists you might like, users with similar taste, personalized radio streams, charts, and much more.

When you create your account on Last.fm it will ask you to download the Last.fm software. If you have a player like Shock 3, you can skip this step since it has a built in plug-in. If you're using a player such as Winamp you must download this in order to obtain the correct plug-in.

The Last.fm software has a very easy step-by-step setup wizard that allows you to enter your Last.fm Username and Password. It will then search for supported media players already installed on your system. After that you can select which players you wish to use Scrobbler on.

How does it work?

When you play a song either 50% or 120 seconds without seeking, the song is entered into a submission queue. At the submission interval, usually 1 minute, the queue is then posted on your Last.fm profile.

Why should I use Last.fm?

Like I mentioned above, you get a lot of neat personal stats like, Weekly Top Artists, Overall Top Artists, Overall Top Tracks, similar artists you may like, people with similar taste even personalized radio streams. It also has community charts for Top artists and Top Tracks.

The service also provides an array of data feeds (RSS, XML, etc) for you to use on your personal blogs/websites (look on the bottom right of my page for an example).

You can also create customized graphical charts for your website.

If you have an iPod you can use a program named iSproggler (Win32) or iScrobbler (Mac) to scrobble tracks you play on your iPod.

The Last.fm social service is just amazing for music lovers. It has almost an endless amount functions that you can use to your advantage. I've been using Last.fm for 2 years now. Back then it was AudioScrobbler.com. Ever since the change to Last.fm the website has blown up to be bigger than any of the developers could have imagined. If I'm not mistaken I believe the website was originally a school project. Pays off to do your homework I suppose.

View pioneer's Last.fm profile.

+AllenG

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

InterfaceLIFT Wallpapers

I found this high-resolution widescreen wallpaper site about 30 minutes ago. It has over 1,000 wallpapers in various resolutions ranging from 2560x1600 to 1024x768. I went through about 400 of these wallpapers so far and every page I see two or three wallpapers that I absolutely love.

My favorite wallpaper so far is the macro view of the twenty dollar bill with Andrew Jackson. I've posted a few that I liked below, click the thumbnail to visit the actual website and download the resolution you want.

Jackson
Grass
vista


+AllenG

Monday, December 11, 2006

Jessica Alba

I've had these wallpapers for awhile now. I seem to always go back to them if I change it to something else. I hope you guys will enjoy them as much as me.

 

I'll post some different girls from time to time,

+AllenG

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Needed some change

I've transfered the http://p-soft.org website over to my blog. This way people can leave comments and be better informed what's going on at different times. Doing it this way is alot more organized, you can subscribe to this blog by clicking here (Atom). I'm not done with transferring all the items over, but it should be done in a few days.

If you're lost, click Products on the top right hand corner. If you need help click Support.

Let me know what you think about the change by leaving a comment.

+AllenG

Support Desk

Need Help?

Contact support by emailing support@getshock.net. Please wait 24 to 72 hours for a reply, we're very busy.

Only download my software from the following domains for your own saftey:

  • http://p-soft.blogspot.com
  • http://getshock.net

Downloads

These are links to files that applications on this website may require to work properly.

Shock 3 .NET Framework

Media player with Internet Stream capabilities such as SHOUTCast, it also includes a plug-in for AOL 4-9, Last.fm and much more!


Shock 3

System Requirements:

  • Windows 98 or newer
  • 233 Mhz or higher Processor
  • 64 MB or more RAM

Software Requirements:


+AllenG

Shock.p3

Warning: This version of Shock.p3 is outdated please use the new version Shock 3.

Shock.p3 is a Chat Command program and a media player for America Online versions 4.0 through 9.0.

System Requirements:

  • Windows NT; Windows 2000; Windows ME; Windows XP; or newer
  • 233 Mhz or higher Processor
  • 64 MB or more RAM

Software Requirements:


+AllenG

eCapture .NET Framework

eCapture is a screen capture tool for Windows that allows you to save a screen shot in various file formats including jpeg, png, gif and bmp.

System Requirements:

  • Windows 98 or newer
  • 233 Mhz or higher Processor
  • 64 MB or more RAM

Software Requirements:


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Audio File Renamer .NET Framework

Audio File Renamer simplifies the tedious operation of removing all those ignorant tags and underscores. You can also change the Case type of the file names, including, Proper case, Upper case and Lower case.

System Requirements:

  • Windows 98 or newer
  • 233 Mhz or higher Processor
  • 64 MB or more RAM

Software Requirements:


+AllenG

Winamp Remote (Obsolete?)

Winamp Remote allows you to program hot keys to control Nullsoft's Winamp software. Great for use when using a program or game that is in full screen mode. This only works with Winamp 2.x and Winamp 5.x.

System Requirements:

  • Windows NT; Windows 2000; Windows ME; Windows XP; or newer
  • 233 Mhz or higher Processor
  • 64 MB or more RAM

Software Requirements:


+AllenG

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Working Sorta

Been @ work since 9:30 PM. It's been cake. I didn't have to come in, but since SPM Flow Control, Inc. has unlimited overtime; why not? We've tested about 50-60 pieces so far, we've already smashed 1st shift's measily 23 pieces in 8 hours and we still have 3 hours to go. I don't get why the 1st and 3rd shift don't get more done. On 1st shift they have 3 people who test and on 3rd they have 2. The 3rd shift is 12 hours, 1st is 8 hours. We have 2 people @ 12 hours and we can completely whoop their ass in production with both of their shifts combined.

I've been up since 9:00 AM. I had to take my brother Eric to his interview he did pretty damn well. Not even 6 hours after he had his interview they were calling him to come take his Drug test. My boss Morgan let put him on the same shift as me so that is a huge plus. I worked with Eric before at my other job, lots of good times there.



+AllenG