Bob

Dunno if you have read the Song of Ice and Fire series but HBO just completed shooting a pilot for a possible series based upon it. There is some fantastic talent involved in this project including Sean Bean as Ned Stark and Peter Dinklage as Tyrion. Not to mention top notch FX and post production. The FX guy did the John Adams series, he did amazing stuff with CGI background in that series. HBO has put a lot of money into this pilot, they'd be insane to not pick this up for at least 2 seasons. This could be to fantasy episodic tv as LoTR was to fantasy films.

Potentially the full series of books could easily accommodate 7-8 seasons in a series..... In a lot of ways, think Lost in a fantasy setting with far more compelling characters........


I am so psyched! Just hope by 1/11 when the series would likely launch, that HBO has embraced IP content delivery. I haven't had cable for 2 years and don't want it, I get all my video just fine over the net, thank you very much :) But I would pay a sub fee to HBO for IP on demand to this series :)

The best place to see all about the series is http://www.winter-is-coming.blogspot.com/

If you haven't read the series yet, I highly recommend it. GRRM may be be slow writing his books but his plots and characters are so compelling.....


Winter is Coming!

:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPIs-S6zJAg&feature=player_embedded

This is just awesome.....And they couldn't have picked a better bunch of already......mmmm, unique people than at Dragon Con :)

Enjoy :)

http://otherworld.org/index.html

Teresa got a great write up in the Herald yesterday..... here's the linky :)

http://heraldnet.com/article/20090817/BIZ/708179957

I've finally put all my pics up at picasa :)here's my album page

http://picasaweb.google.com/home?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en&tab=wq

Some great kitty pics in there :) The Icicle album is a study I made over a week or so with the icicle on the corner of our roof during our long cold period this winter.....kinda cool to see how it changes.

The new comp album is my new baby.... A couple weeks ago I got home from work and turned on my comp, to have it die within seconds :( My vid card went out but my comp was too old to really replace it......so had to build a new one :)

E8500 C2D cpu @3.16GhZ
4GB Corsair XMS DDR2
GTS 250 GPU w/ 1GB GDDR3
750W Corsair PS w/ a single 12V rail :)
640 GB Sata3 HD
Antec 900 case

Nice machine, this baby is fast :) Helps to be running Win7 tho...

The other albums are just misc stuff I had on my camera, lot of great snow pics.

I hope anyway.... Gonna try giving up tobacco again, had the last of my "own" cigs this morning drive :) I have mixed feelings about this....Yes, I fully understand it is good for me to not smoke, any intelligent person knows that.

I do somewhat resent being somewhat forced to do so because of increasing taxes upon them. Not sure what date it hit, but new taxes here jumped packs almost $1.30. However bad smoking is for me, I would much rather be doing this because I truely wanted to, than having been forced to suddenly quit because of the economics of it....


Anyway, wish me luck all!

Omg! If you've never read the Otherworld series, I highly recommend it. It is right up there with LOTR for me in fave books :)

http://pc.ign.com/articles/915/915261p1.html

Granted this is just a first look and probly looking at 3 more years development...... But it looks promising and the fact that Tad Williams himself is heavily involved gives me hope ! Worth watching anyway :)

Pics of the new Caddy :)

http://picasaweb.google.com/Amsra1/Caddy#

Been some time since I posted about my life lately so here goes.....

Last April a company that I had worked temp for for a couple weeks called my temp agency and asked for me by name, within a month they bought out my temp contract and hired me full time in May. Last week they promoted me to Test Engineer with a healthy 3 buck an hour raise Smile Mind you I have no tech schooling and the position normally requires an AA electronics degree..... So the job is going well,errrr...., ok really well Smile A couple weeks ago my cheapshit car blew the head gasket so I had to buy a new car:( So well no biggie, my ex-wife has been out on medical leave due to an operation on her ankle that had her in bed for 8+ weeks so she graciously let me borrow her car for a couple weeks while I waited for a paycheck and looked for a new car. So last night I bought a new car......Now, I know you all have seen pics of me.....Picture me in a black 2 door Caddy Eldorado Smile Sweet car..... I almost feel decadent driving it Smile It was only 650 bucks and while it has some minor problems, it runs strong and gets surprisingly good gas mileage for a Caddy. The really funny thing about the car is I found it on Craigslist and when I showed up to look at it, discovered I knew the guy, lol. Hehe, Snohomish is truly a small town Smile

Anyway life is looking much better for me lately. 6 months ago I was collecting unemployment and now I have a great job with a very stable company that in it's 20 year history has done nothing but grow and has NEVER had to lay anyone off Smile


Feeling pretty good these days Smile


Edit: I'll take some pics of the car and post em Smile

AKA Pandora..... This is awesome! You just give it 1 band/song and it creates your own station based on similar songs/bands. They have basically broken music down into it's "genes" and do a very good job of playing music you will like :) The music is all commercial free.

check it out http://www.pandora.com

Here's a link to my profile http://www.pandora.com/people/amsra1 , so you can check out what I'm listening to :)

I would say a good time was had by all :) Here's the raw dump from my camera, haven't pruned em yet :)

http://picasaweb.google.com/Amsra1/Wedding

Oh and here is the "official" flickr stream......

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizandtedwedding/

I'll be sending my favorites to flickr once i go thru them :)

And may I say.....just wow :)


Enjoy!

So we have moved again....Teresa's shop down to a place just off the main drag in town. Should be very good with more potential walk in customers. And us personally into a very tiny apartment just a few blocks from her shop. So we have way more stuff than places to put it :) And still struggling to get my router to work with my dsl.....think I am gonna screw it and just put a switch in as opposed to a router. So right now, one of us can be online at a time :( bad for playing VG together. Hopefully a switch will work.....

Finally have my pics uploaded from the Faire, we had a blast :)

http://picasaweb.google.com/Amsra1/RennFaire2007

So I finally got a retail copy of Vista 64 and installed it this week. In only 4 days I got everything working right and my core apps re-installed :) I do always like a clean, full install tho, nice chance to try to reorganize my comp.

I'm back on swing shift again! Hopefully for more than 1 day this time :) Was so good this morning to just wake up without an alarm and have plenty of time before work. And to actually be really awake when I got to work, instead of half asleep for a couple, three hours. Oh and Teresa likes it too, morning cuddles are good!

Finally got around to uploading some of the screenies I've taken playing Vanguard. Not many yet, I tend to forget I can take screen shots :)

http://pics.livejournal.com/amsra/gallery/0000pz1b

Bad enough we are in a fucked up war, we should at least be taking care of our wounded....

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003579984_reed20.html

A little more pain today but managable, still no swelling and it definitely feels like it's healing up. My sleep sked is all screwed up tho, been napping during the day which keeps me up all night :) But hey, been playing a lot of Vanguard so all is good :)