J. Poulakos II Blog » General http://redsatori.com/blog J. Poulakos II blog about programming and other related (or not) topics Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:09:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Busy, busy http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/01/busy-busy/ http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/01/busy-busy/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:12:16 +0000 admin http://redsatori.com/blog/?p=36 I have, unfortunately, been extremely busy of late. We had a lot of overtime this last week. Additionally, my honors creative writing class is starting to kick my ass. 

 

I will be posting some of my writing here to my blog as time permits. Additionally, I have to get some of my tutorials up here as well. I am hoping to at least get some things done prior to my birthday. We shall see. May not happen if we get more overtime, at least not right away.

]]> http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/01/busy-busy/feed/ 0 Marley and Me {Movie Review} http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/26/marley-and-me-movie-review/ http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/26/marley-and-me-movie-review/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:57:41 +0000 admin http://redsatori.com/blog/?p=34 This Christmas Day, I went to see a movie called Marley and Me. It features Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston. It is about a dog. It is about life. It was at times funny, and at times heart-wrenching. All-in-all a good movie to see. If you get the chance to, I definitely suggest seeing it in the theater. I felt it was worth the money to see it on the big screen (which is something I haven’t really been able to say for the last few movies I have gone to.)

It starts off on a very humorous tangent, and ends on a more personal level. The entire movie will have you thinking about the choices you make in your own life, for better or for worse. I think it helps to open your eyes to what you have going on around you a little bit more.

If you are looking for a feel-good movie, this one is for you. I give it a thumbs up rating.

]]> http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/26/marley-and-me-movie-review/feed/ 1 Finally http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/15/finally/ http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/15/finally/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:06:34 +0000 admin http://redsatori.com/blog/?p=32 Well, I finished moving to Oshkosh this weekend. I will hopefully have a bit more time to post now, as I am much closer to work, and thus able to get home far quicker.

I am shooting to have one tutorial completed per week, although I don’t know how well that is going to work come next session, as I am taking Honors Creative Writing and am expecting a pretty large workload there.

~Jim

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This afternoon while I was working, I noticed that one of my co-workers had been messing around with some of the lumber I had stacked up on one of my pallets. I also noticed that it looked vaguely familiar…

I then compared it to:

And then I realized that one of my co-workers was a new age expressionist. He thinks I was joking when I said I would blog about it, but alas, I never kid about such things. Hope you enjoy!

]]> http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/24/new-age-expressionism/feed/ 0 Nate the Snake http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/23/nate-the-snake/ http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/23/nate-the-snake/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:08:34 +0000 admin http://redsatori.com/blog/?p=10 I thought this story was quite funny. You should go read it because I said so:

http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=18654

]]> http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/23/nate-the-snake/feed/ 0 All the World’s a Palette http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/23/all-the-worlds-a-palette/ http://redsatori.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/23/all-the-worlds-a-palette/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:35:41 +0000 admin http://redsatori.com/blog/?p=6 The first thing I really need to figure out is a new color scheme and logo for Red Satori. I have a few ideas I have jotted down in my sketch book for the purpose of a logo. I should be getting to that in the next day or so. I want it to be fairly simple, while at the same time showing the complexity of both myself and what I do.

As to color schemes, since I have red in my site’s name, I am thinking of using a dark red color on the site. I am thinking that a black and dark red combination would be fairly useful, and it would allow me to change the entire look of what I am doing, without really having to change too much of the content to do so.

I will be rebuilding the forums from scratch as well, in order to make it easier to use from my perspective. This will most likely take some time, and I will be adding features to the forums as I deem it necessary. While using a pre-made forum solution will remove a lot of the headaches, I don’t have nearly as much control over what is going on with those that I would like to have.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all who are concerned.

~Jim

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Thanks,

Jim

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