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I’m not used to big arena rock shows, but last night was awesome.

I have an xbox360, which I use netflix on.  I wanted to stream music from itunes to my xbox….. and I found Connect360.  It’s awesome…game changer

I got a bunch of cool stuff this year.  My favorite is probably the GPS my fiance got me.. I get lost very easily.  My expected favorite is the Drobo, my un-expected favorite is my caliper.  2008 was interesting..

• Got a job at a media giant, that is somewhat sinking.
• Got enganged
• Picked up ruby and python (python is winning)
• Built a CCNA lab
• Got into microprocessors
• Started to brew beer
• Got more networking experience than ever before
• xbox with netflix changed my life.

Best Tech Things of the Year / Found Out About this Year (to me.. in all seriousness)

1. Adafruit Industries ( actually useful kits)
2. Ponoko ( next best thing to owning a laser cutter)
3. SlugPower (seriously my favorite hack of the year, it’s not hard to control a relay over serial.. but the integration and thought is awesome)
4. Netgate (for the diy router/firewall maker)
5. Drobo ( I’m allowed to say that.. I’ve built almost a dozen different NAS’s)

Here’s some stuff I got:

It’s time for the best holiday ever… haloween!  I’ve seen some pretty sophisticated pumpkins carved out so far this year.  I’ve decided to ditch the freestyle and make a stencil for my pumpkin this year.  I found a couple of music related stencils but I didn’t care for them.  Anthrax has a little cartoon character that they use all over the place so I decided to use him, and plus it already looks like a jack-o-lantern.

1. Took a picture of the guy off one of my shirts

2. Did some touch up in photoshop

3. Layered it with clear packing tape and cut out the stencil

4. Placed the stencil on the pumpkin and outlined the design, then cut it out.

I think next year I’m going to get an electric pumpkin jigsaw… because.

I remember when the only picture editor I had was mspaint.  I did EVERYTHING in it, from logos to letterheads.  An online community’s members drew their favorite album covers in mspaint… this is awesome.

http://www.publiccollectors.org/MSPaintAlbumCovers.htm