Chromecast

I've been playing around with chromecast, the $35 HDMI video-player dongle. Connecting to the device in android, adds  icon to a number of apps to fling video to your TV. As well as chrome browser on a PC. These screenshots are from Youtube, Netflix, Plex media server, and LocalCast (media on the tablet) apps. 

      

         

         

Moving - Final Log - The Non-Pensive Version

I spent this last week establishing my apartment in Denver. I re-bought the necessary furniture (bed, couch, computer chair) and never want to purchase anything ever again (a lie). I have fully everything I need for living, thankfully.

Reluctantly, due to how full my car was, I left my books and other choice possessions to Phil in Charleston to do as he pleases. I quickly heard my friends went to reading my books immediately made me feel great about that choice. Unfortunately my ereader (1st gen nook) broke... it was mission critical! So it was immediately replaced with a nexus 7 tablet which I pretty much can't put down. Finally I can read manga in a sensible way and watch Archer on the toilet. Which by the way, if you ever wanted a cheap way to wirelessly sling video to a TV, check out chromecast and plex is kickass. This tablet rocks, I have a dumb phone because I don't care much for that bill.

I did go with Joseph out to the garden of the gods, no photos yet (his phone died), but it was incredible. Other than that, seeing as I start working this week, I pretty much haven't stopped reading on my new couch other than to begin playing Fallout: New Vegas. I game on a bit of a lag sometimes. It's been relaxing.

Time for sleep, I've got work in the morning. :)

Moving Log #3 - Arrival

People speak of past lives and ghosts in silly ways sometimes. I'm no less peculiar. When I think of my past self, it can feel like I'm catching glimpses of a ghost. It is a pensive peering into a comparison of my past and present self. It's often unnecessary, but when revisiting certain locations and people such fleeting glimpses are bound to occur. And I certainly had to drive through ghosts to get to here.

I visited with family and many friends driving through Tennessee on my way to Colorado. Countless memories flooded back from places I've lived, visited, and people I knew.

These ghosts, or thoughts of me in the past, aren't any less myself, nor where they frightening or anything like that. These are just thoughts imagining what I'd be doing if I woke up one week ago. Or one year. Or five, ten, twenty years ago. These are remnants and recollections of what was important and relevant at that time. To revisit such times can be haunting or tranquil. Obviously, I left such places long ago, but my impression stayed. Impressions being anything from breaking off a tree branch you were climbing as a kid to influencing those around me. I'm not saying for good or for bad, right or wrong, I only speaking of what is. There are places I've been and am known and the way that I was and the way that I am are both different and still... me.

Once I drove west out of Tennessee, this me became uncharted territory.

The present is at a cusp of blazing a new path. Far removed from past locales and influences, yet equally as far from the future where this environment is familiar and homey. Things don't remain new or unknown for very long which is why when they are that way, they're so exciting to me. Right know is fantastic and was unimagined a month ago. I love seeing where this is all heading. I know the future I've been chasing after for quite some time. But that's what I'm trying to say. It's no longer the future, it is now.

That 24+ hour drive to Colorado, this photograph, that worry, that's a memory now.