Bandwidth is a bitch. Due to the horrible horrible bandwidth here at the hotel I'm staying at the broadcast from USTREAM was a bust today, and after hours of trying to find any other way of doing it, I've just decided to make another run at it tomorrow. If I cannot do it tomorrow as well I'll just record a broadcast and post it here for all to see.

Sorry for that, and frankly you can blame the Army and their hotels.

Check it tomorrow.

Thank you all Browncoats!

I frankly loved the awesome turnout from all over the world regarding my FireFly article, and while it won't certainly be my last, this definitely won't be my only form of article posted to the site. I plan on posting as much as I can about a whole different range of topics, and as long as Military TDY doesn't put too much of a damper on it there shouldn't be too much of an issue at all. I just have a few things that I want to cover, really quick, I promise.

First, going back to the firefly article, I, too would like to appologize to Joss's Sister-in-law (even if she will probably never read this article); I shot out immediately against her in an earlier Facebook post, and after reading what she had to say I decided that I needed ...

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Special thanks to my heroes over the last few weeks, The fellows at helpnathanbuyfirefly.com. In what seemed like a dream come true or a movement worth of late-night news, ships came out of the night sky and pulled the community (at least the ones who wanted to come along) into a wild ride.

Nearly a day after opening up the facebook page, there were hundreds, thousands, soon tens of thousands of followers and the number kept climbing like an odometer; the odometer watching us roll. The mystery continued, tweets flying here and there, mysterious facebook posts, ideas of how to fund our idea . . . and not to mention all of the media coverage. Even though I had no part in the actual site, I felt honored to be pushing out the signal as far as I could.

In what seemed like a short hop-skip-and-jump, there was pledge ideas, more ideas ...

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It has been a while, and quite some time away from my website and I feel that this is a good time to just begin posting stuff now and to find a new groove since the funny stuff in my office has dried up. Here is my new posting, fresh from the web, and the fan movement www.helpnathanbuyfirefly.com.

So here you go guys and I'm not sure if anyone else did this, and frankly it was bugging me ever since the podcast came out on the 28th.

 http://www.nerdist.com/2011/02/nerdist-podcast-65-nathan-fillion/

I heard the recipe over and over and finally I decided to copy it down (and he gets friggin fast all of a sudden) and move to make them as soon as humanly possible. That, however is going to be hard for me since I'm in a low-budget hotel in Oklahoma at ...

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The differences in what I did yesterday versus today

YESTERDAY

5am -- wake up and think "Man, today is going to suck . . . again"

7am -- drive to work, passing all the local crazy slow drivers

8am -- arrive at work and get coffee, smoke cigarette

9-11am -- fixed several computer / network / copier problems

12-4pm -- on phone with customers fixing computer problems, while simultaneously solving a Rubik's cube (just one of my many talents)

5pm -- drive home, passing the local crazies . . . wait didn't I do that at 5am?

6pm -- arrive home and think about what I can do to amuse myself at work.

TODAY

5am -- Awake in a flash ready to put my plan in motion

7am -- drive to work exceptionally fast, must put plan in motion

8am -- arrive at break room, "Operation 'switch decaf with caffeinated' is a go"

8:45am -- some walks in . . . DRAT!! act natural  **whistle**

8:46am -- they talk ...

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Arthur C. Clarke's three laws apply to my everyday life: Here's how.

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong. 
   • When my boss says something is possible it means that I should do it immediately, When I  say it's impossible it means I'm just doing it wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
   • In this case when they can't find the possible the only way to push through the impossible is to break it and give it to me. Figuring things out is for losers and salesmen.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
   • In this case my personal cell phone must look like a fairy's fucking magic wand ...

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Recently my office has undergone a HUGE upgrade from BlackBerries to HTC Touch Pro 2's. Now while this is by no means an incredible technical advancement it has provided me with some funny instances of "can you tell me" syndrome, and "look-what-I-can-do-ology" from all of my Tech's that I support.

Like I said before this is by no means anything beyond technological advancements of the normal world, but for a bunch of 50-something technicians (some of them are in their 20's) getting all of this "new fangled" technology is both a god-send and torture in the most complete sense of the words (haha I said sense, which is the name of the user interface for the touch pro . . . no pun intended)

I have had everything in the past few days, funny and scary. Just about 3 hours ago I witnessed two of the older technicians showing off ...

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