So I guess irony is rearing its ugly head. After my last post discussing Coldplay, I received a call this past week offering me two tickets that are absolutely fabulous seats to the Coldplay concert here in Philly. I’m looking forward to it and hopefully my mind will change about their latest sound.
I’m also planning on hitting up the Counting Crows/Maroon 5 when they hit Philly later this year. Counting Crows has to be one of my favorite bands to see in concert so my level of excitement is rising as the concert approaches.
Work has been keeping me busy. Its gone very well and I am definitely looking forward to working with this client in the future.
I snagged a copy of the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade before its official release late last week and have been spending way too much time playing with different applications. I was able to miss the iTunes server crash on Friday by installing early and some of the attorneys in court on Friday appeared to be a bit jealous.
I’ve been debating for a while whether or not to do a custom entertainment system throughout my house. After talking with one of my friends this weekend, I have pretty much decided to start the planning for it and to look into what I will need to begin development. My plans are pretty grandiose but I figured that I might as well go all out while things haven’t even been developed. I want to make a system with speakers in every room in the house connected to both a central server as well as individual sources in each room. So in essence, I could start playing music in one room and have the sound follow me into another. At the moment, I’m planning on incorporating some location finding equipment so I can do a follow function for the audio depending on where the controller is located.
The controller/remote is going to be a large portion of my development efforts. I want to design and build a custom touch interface remote with its own operating system. I know already that I’ll be duplicating a lot of existing functionality but I know there’s already open source projects that do similar things and I want to be able to add some interesting functionality into the remote. Hopefully when I’m done, I’ll be able to watch/listen to media through the remote itself. I also want to plan for eventual expansion into some smart house technology.
So, that’s my geeky plan for the present. I’ll wait and see how it actually progresses.
On another note, Jules has given me the idea to start looking into reading well reviewed books again. I’ve been on a science fiction kick of late so I figure this might be a nice change of pace. Here’s the list of stories I want to read next in no particular order:
People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Keynes
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
You Can’t Be Neutral On a Moving Train by Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn On War by Howard Zinn
A decent amount of Howard Zinn due to the current political climate and posturing of politicians regarding Iran, some older scientific works just out of plain curiousity and some older works that I’ve been meaning to read. Oh, and The Power and the Glory because I haven’t read it in the last couple years and its a fabulous book.
So anyway, after that fun little rant, I’m off to bed to relax and get ready for work. Another week of fun and all that jazz. Hopefully, I can get started reading my list at some point.
