Tuesday: March 9, 2010
- Daily Grind: Nerdy
Name: Vin (aka levelup+1)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Nerdy @ 2:55:41 PM
What Vin really wants today: Finish up remaining work tasks and attempt to get some time in playing a certain RPG video game that sounds vaguely similar to 'Shminal Shmantasy' at some point this evening. Insert traditional battle victory theme here.Music Stuck in Head: Call it Love / God Street Wine
Continuing the celebration of the recently announced GSW reunion. You can have a listen to this rare jazzy track over on archive.org.Stuff to do today:
- Purchase Final Fantasy XIII from semi-local NYC area Best Buy
- Semi-local = four subway stops from work location (meh)
- Ignore reviews complaining about PS3 versus Xbox 360 quality
- Finally post new photo to photoblog
- Photoblog: Sunshine Yellow
Another quick macro shot snapped up while doodling with the kids using an obvious assorted array of crayons. Taste the rainbow.
Location:Eastchester, New York
Monday: March 8, 2010
- Daily Grind: Fantastic
Name: Vin (aka hat tipper)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Fantastic @ 2:11:12 PM
What Vin really wants today: To continue absorption of certain programming material for a certain mobile platform in a certain amount of uncertain time.Music Stuck in Head: Electrocute / God Street Wine
Mostly in honor of the recent God Street Wine reunion announcement that was just recently posted. Must. Contain. Excitement. Link here for those interested.Stuff to do today:
- Continue containing excitement
- Attempt to purchase tickets to said reunion shows first
- Seems like it's a good week to be a fan of jambands past and present
- And by 'present' meaning this little Phish link that popped up this week
- Attend movie in full-on Avatar costume for giggles (since it will most likely be in 3D and all)
- Ben Stiller FTW - abandon previous to-do item
- Get back to iPhone development
Thursday: March 4, 2010
- Daily Grind: Crazed
Name: Vin (aka robot on the rampage)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Crazed @ 2:57:12 PM
What Vin really wants today: To note disappointment in lame attempt to get back on track with consistent daily grind posts. No sleep and no sleep makes Vincent something something.Music Stuck in Head: Cheap Utah Blues / God Street Wine
This absolutely made my day yesterday. I discovered a page on archive.org that had rare and unreleased tracks from one my favorite (and for the most part generally unknown) bands. Here is a link to said tracks for those who care.Stuff to do today:
- Research more methods on how to obtain sleep whilst parenting a child that does not like to sleep
- Commit to aggresive napping during strategic parts of the day
- Strategy is dumb and may lead to eventual work dismissal
- Continue researching new methods of data capture via strategically placed web tracking bus
- Translation: reverse engineer Google Analytics code snippet for fun
- More sleep is required to pull this one off
Monday: March 1, 2010
- Daily Grind: Motivated
Name: Vin (aka springy)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Motivated @ 8:55:44 AM
What Vin really wants today: To welcome everyone back into the world of daily grind posting after taking an entire month and a half off. What can I say, it's been a crazy past 45-50 days or so.Music Stuck in Head: New York City Traffic
Recently I've taken a break from listening to music on my morning commute into the city. These days I'm all about playing Scramble (free app) on the good old iPhone. Passes the time quite nicely.Stuff to do today:
- Attempt to post new photo to photoblog at some point today
- Continue achievement hunting through Ghostbusters: The Video Game for Xbox 360
- Some of these achievements are just ridiculous
- Mini review of game: mildly enjoyable, lots of wasted potential, flat voice acting (looking at you Bill Murray)
- Find time to watch Termination: Salvation
- Mini review of movie: wasn't all that bad, quite predictable but not overly terrible
Monday: January 11, 2010
- Daily Grind: Twitchy
Name: Vin (aka shakey mctwitchy)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Twitchy @ 1:38:25 PM
What Vin really wants today: More sleep. Also, more coffee but without the twitchy side effects. Attempt to lessen coffee intake as day progresses.Music Stuck in Head: Night Moves / Bog Seager
Disturbing yet fitting all at the same time.Stuff to do today:
- Launch a whole bunch of updates for work related tasks/projects/favors/requests
- Fix several stupid mistakes made due to lack of sleep
- Pat self on back for being smart enough to make backups first
- Yawn
- Prep house for ensuing pipework with chances of dirt/dust clouds that will begin shortly
- ...all of which should be just great for the sinuses
- Buy masks for family
Thursday: January 7, 2010
- Daily Grind: Efficient
Name: Vin (aka jimmy three-teeth)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Efficient @ 3:10:25 PM
What Vin really wants today: Give myself a round of applause for writing various scripts that condensed a boatload of work into a smaller buoy-sized amount of work.Music Stuck in Head: The Entertainer / Billy Joel
Mostly because the synth effect in the intro and outro of the song. Reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons every time.Stuff to do today:
- Read up on all the happenings from CES over in Las Vegas
- Watch the Microsoft Keynote
- Boy, was that ever boring
- Find something more entertaining
- This YouTube video will suffice for now
- Wow, it's even got Reversi
Tuesday: January 5, 2010
- Daily Grind: Semi-productive
Name: Vin (aka workhorse)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Semiproductive @ 2:06:48 PM
What Vin really wants today: To be fully productive as opposed to just semi-productive which in turn would be quite swell but alas, I am only semi-productive today. Meh, I blame the cold medicine.Music Stuck in Head: Harpua / Phish
Yes, you too can enjoy a little Harpua on YouTube to make the day pass along just a wee bit quicker.Stuff to do today:
- Drag big clunky non-flatscreen television to curb this evening
- Call town to alert them of bulbous trash offering
- Prep dank basement for inspection
- Clear cobwebs and various giant insects
- Move on to topics with less dank, insects and cobwebs
- Hey look, Google's brand new Nexus One phone has been released today
- ...eh I'll stick with the iPhone thanks
- Read up on some more Apple tablet rumors
- Stop making giddy noises
Monday: January 4, 2010
- Daily Grind: Congested
Name: Vin (aka sinus doom)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Congested @ 12:58:11 PM
What Vin really wants today: Buy some kind of pill-type medicine, most likely a pill and most likely medicine, to get rid of this annoying sinus headache that has been plaguing me for the past three days. Seriously, go away.Music Stuck in Head: Season of the Witch / Donovan
Stating the original artist above but I'm a bigger fan of Al Kooper's interpretation of the tune.Stuff to do today:
- Figure out why my PC decided to stop running certain scheduled tasks
- Reboot, all better
- Find better explanation when time allows
- Watch Phish's NYE gag one more time on Vimeo
- A little kooky but fun nonetheless
- Try and get some more time in playing Brutal Legend
- Note that I am not a fan of the RTS elements but I will soldier on
- Zero Puntucation's review is pretty much spot on
- Oh, and Transformers 2 was horrible
Wednesday: December 30, 2009
- Daily Grind: Gross
Name: Vin (aka lozenge boy)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Gross @ 1:12:09 PM
What Vin really wants today: To go home and not breath on anything that happens to be a living thing. Seriously, enough with this cold/flu crap.Music Stuck in Head: Panama / Van Halen
I'm confused. Is this tune about a girl or a car? Or both? What does any of that have to do with Panama? Upon closer analysis, the song is actually about a car. Thank you Wikipedia.Stuff to do today:
- Take more DayQuil
- Break down and download Dragon's Lair app for iPhone
- Downloaded
- This is really quite a nostalgic journey back to the arcade
- Here's a video showing off most of Dirk's many demises on YouTube
- Find a copy of Mad Dog McRee next
Tuesday: December 29, 2009
- Daily Grind: Attractive
Name: Vin (aka influenza attractor)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Attractive @ 2:20:57 PM
What Vin really wants today: Yes, in between the times that I'm not coughing, wheezing, sneezing, and/or blowing mucus-infested nostrils I actually feel quite charming. Roar.Music Stuck in Head: Let's Get It On / Marvin Gaye
Aww yea. Hold these dirty tissues and let's toast some NyQuil together. Or not.Stuff to do today:
- Cough, sniffle, cough
- Finish up watching seventy minute Star Wars video review
- What video review you ask? This one. You'll either love it instantly or instantly hate it
- Snort, wheeze, sniffle
- Also finish watching new episode of TWID
- Elephant noise, cough, higaga
- Finish up work, go home and sleep
Monday: December 28, 2009
- Daily Grind: Slightly bored
Name: Vin (aka caulking madman)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Slightly bored @ 2:50:46 PM
What Vin really wants today: Go home right after slow workday finishes up and caulk things that don't necessarily need to be caulked because I want to label myself as a 'handy homeowner'. Also because my back patio door leaks when it rains (no, that's not code for something else).Music Stuck in Head: Stuck in the Middle With You / Stealers Wheel
I always thought this was a Dylan tune until I just looked it up on Wikipedia. Wow, Stealers Wheel? Really?Stuff to do today:
- Buy more caulk
- Start making New Year's resolutions for myself
- Make resolution to get back on track with daily grind posting
- ...starting today
- Its always good to start resolutions early
- Although it's a short a week so this little item may not kick off appropriately
- Try really hard
- Thank MacInquirer for rekindling my inspiration for making a new DotComic in the near future
- Also thank them for carefully reading the about page of GLM
Wednesday: December 9, 2009
- Daily Grind: Grumpy
Name: Vin (aka nitpicker)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Grumpy @ 2:53:50 PM
What Vin really wants today: To stop agonizing over Photoshop mockups for work and over-analyzing pixel placement. Yes, I'm a little thorough.Music Stuck in Head: L.A. Woman / The Doors
Mostly because I love shouting gibberish whilst doing a poor Jim Morrison impression. It's comedy gold.Stuff to do today:
- Download finale for Tales of Monkey Island
- Find time to play said finale
- Attempt to get more holiday shopping done
- Continue threats of embroidered Snuggie blanket for other half
- Find potentially worse gift than that of the Snuggie
- Look around for litter of robotic hamsters
Monday: December 7, 2009
- Daily Grind: Slightly grouchy
Name: Vin (aka wet blanket)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Slightly grouchy @ 2:28:30 PM
What Vin really wants today: Get back in the swing of things from being off last week (took a vacation - sorry for the lack of notice or posting).Music Stuck in Head: Christmas Music
It's everywhere.Stuff to do today:
- Get some additional holiday shopping / decorating in order before holidays actually arrive
- Try not to break neck this year installing lights in trees surrounding house
- Opt for alternative low-altitude holiday decorations
- Get siked up for season finale of Tales of Monkey Island
- ...of which arrives tomorrow online
- Continue catching up on work, make time for games later
Friday: November 20, 2009
- Daily Grind: Cloudy
Name: Vin (aka dayquil daytripper)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Cloudy @ 2:39:23 PM
What Vin really wants today: To shake off yet another strain of this cold/flu business prior to my upcoming (and much-needed) vacation.Music Stuck in Head: Only a Dream / Phish
I'm very curious as to why they decided to leave this off the new album and stick it on the bonus disc (which most people still haven't received). This tune is better than most of the songs on 'Joy'.Stuff to do today:
- Clean up GeekLikeMe footer and paging (scroll to the bottom of the site)
- Test new code additions in multiple browsers, particularly Internet Explorer
- ...of which I highly reccomend this tool to all of my fellow web nerds: IETester
- Cross that item off the list
- Fix rupture in space time continuum for crossing off crossed off item on daily grind to do list
- Wish a certain member of the Michnay family a happy birthday
- Apologize for lack of a daily grind post in what... two weeks?
- Get back on track next week now that server mess is all cleaned up
Friday: October 30, 2009
- Daily Grind: Laid back
Name: Vin (aka notmyjorb)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Laid back @ 3:56:00 PM
What Vin really wants today: For this day to be over so I can get to some important Halloween activities which consist mainly of eating copious amounts of candy until I explode.Music Stuck in Head: Run this Town / The Apples
Discovered some great new music while listening to The Bunny. This is really good stuff, you can find it on iTunes.Stuff to do today:
- Finalize 'costume' for Halloween trick or treating candy grab
- Costume is in quotes because there is no costume actually prepared
- Go as BookFace
- Sign up for Sirius /XM trial so I can listen in on Festival 8 this weekend
- Find time to play new chapter of Tales from Monkey Island as well
- When it finally becomes available
Wednesday: October 28, 2009
- Daily Grind: Systematic
Name: Vin (aka worky mcworksalot)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Systematic @ 1:46:00 PM
What Vin really wants today: Continue plugging away at work-related projects and tasks then try to make time for actually working on things that are not work-related. All work and non-work play makes Vin uh... something something.Music Stuck in Head: Another Disaster / The Samples
Mostly because of the gloomy weather. Blah.Stuff to do today:
- Fix work issue number one
- Backup code and all iterative versions of said code
- Make some time for self to watch Treehouse of Horror on Hulu
- Watch other Halloween-related shows for good measure
- Wired has a handy list in case you need further inspiration
- Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin is still a personal fav
- Nobody cares about my personal favs
Tuesday: October 27, 2009
- Daily Grind: Adventurous
Name: Vin (aka mr fixit)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Adventurous @ 1:56:00 PM
What Vin really wants today: To fix my household plumbing problems without actually calling in a plumber. Update: fixed one problem and created another as I am a plumbing terror.Music Stuck in Head: Siamese Cat Song / Lady and the Tramp
Mostly due to the fact that I had to watch this flick multiple times during the course of my three old's bout with the flu. Go on, have a look - it'll be stuck in your head too afterward.Stuff to do today:
- Debate whether or not to get flu shot despite being sick with flu-like symptoms last week
- Previous item is understatement as entire household was sick with flu-like symptons
- Flu shot = added protection?
- Consult with nurse before getting said shot
- Buy more plumbing supplies
Thursday: September 24, 2009
- Daily Grind: Relaxed
Name: Vin (aka jim lookalike)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Relaxed @ 2:16:00 PM
What Vin really wants today: Breathe easier now that meetings went semi-well this morning. Make time for a haircut this weekend so people can stop saying I look like Jim from The Office (keep the smug attitude in check though).Music Stuck in Head: Yesterday / Guns n' Roses
Take a stroll down memory lane and watch the video on YouTube. I remember someone telling me that they used a stand-in for Slash at the time. You be the judge.Stuff to do today:
- Stop making baseless accusations about Slash's appearance in certain GnR videos
- Dig up old tapes of college band playing a calypso version of Sweet Child of Mine
- On second thought, keep tapes buried and hope they are never found again
- Note that this may be the first week in a long time where a daily grind entry has been posted every day for the span of the week
- But the week ain't over yet
Tuesday: September 22, 2009
- Daily Grind: Frenetic
Name: Vin (aka refresher)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Frenetic @ 2:40:00 PM
What Vin really wants today: So much work to do and only so much time to do it in. Although, it would probably help if I didn't volunteer unnecessary work for myself. Note to self: stop talking.Music Stuck in Head: Bring Back the News / God Street Wine
This helps.Stuff to do today:
- Continue plugging away at overdue work projects
- Attempt to post new photo to photoblog before the day is out
- Thank Alpha for showing me the Internet phenomenon that is longcat
- ...whats that you say? You don't know what that is?
- Longcat is well, loooooooooooooooong
- Get back to work
Thursday: September 10, 2009
- Daily Grind: So tired
Name: Vin (aka sleepwalker)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: So tired @ 9:17:00 AM
What Vin really wants today: Sleep - just one night of uninterrupted sleep. Oh, and to thank my coffee maker for deciding to take a giant leak all over my kitchen counter top. Was my coffee really that bad?Music Stuck in Head: Rocky Raccoon / The Beatles
Yes, Beatlemania is everywhere, even on GLM.Stuff to do today:
- Note: due to lack of sleep and some pesky work projects posting to GLM has been limited as of late
- As I'm sure you've all probably noticed
- Hopefully posting will be back on track next week
- Play around with new version of iTunes that was released yesterday
- The little interface tweaks make the player look really slick overall
- Research some more about that interesting new home share feature
- Finish up these work projects so I can get some more sleep
Thursday: August 13, 2009
- Daily Grind: Slightly productive
Name: Vin (aka tweaker)
Occupation: Webmaster / Procrastinator / Dad
How Vin feels today: Slightly productive @ 1:17:00 PM
What Vin really wants today: Take care of some work projects, prep for this weekend's road trip extravaganza (Phish @ Hartford).Music Stuck in Head: I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas
Make it stop. Make it stop. Make it stop. And yes, that annoying Miley Cyrus song from those goddamn Wal-Mart commercials takes second place. Stop that as well.Stuff to do today:
- Make small cosmetic changes to GLM
- Add popular tags call on the right hand side (scroll down)
- Post new photo to photoblog
- Burn some CDs for tomorrow's CT road trip
- Mostly because I don't feel like futzing with an iPod for two hours
- Bring camera, snap off some photos of Phish lot scene in all it's wook splendor
- Share said photos with GLM readers
Wednesday: August 5, 2009
- You are officially reading the 20,000th weekdaily link posted to GLM.
Here's to another 20,000 more! More fun stats are at the bottom right of this page.
