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Pretty much done ripping all the blu-rays that I have now, they look pretty good on the appletv, too. Ripping a few more dvds that I found, still building up my collection. Starting to look pretty good, definitely time for me to start acquiring movies en masse again now that I can store them in a more permanent manner without having to leave them out.

Also, I was hoping to get the shelving up in the office this weekend, but I did not. Instead, we mounted a new door to the upstairs bedroom over the garage which goes to a deck that doesn’t exist right now, but will hopefully by summer. We did end up getting all the shelving cut (but not fitted yet) so at least 50% of the work on the shelves is done… I did arrange the office somewhat this weekend however, so it wasn’t a total wash finishing up the office…

Saw my friend Ben last night which was pretty cool – he lives up near New Hampshire so it was quite a trek for him to make it down to the house yesterday. We talked about projects and future projects and various things that have definitely got my brain spinning – I think there may be some free software coming out of some talking we had. Starting to get the itch to do a new project software-wise, so that’s probably good for everybody

In other news – I’m going to be out of town in Pittsburgh next weekend / early next week during YAPC so I will probably not do much on the house for another week or two, since I have to go to Long Island the following weekend.

As you can see from the pictures I finally moved into my office, or started to anyways. still have a little bit of tweaking to do, but I’ve got the main part set up… and now I’m sitting here rebuilding the computer that is ultimately going to rip blurays for me. just going to take some time. new desk setup however is freakin awesome. I love it.

Well – the office should be ‘done’ tomorrow – the bathroom mirror is hung now, the second coat of stain is down on the floor, the slate tile in the bathroom has seal on it, and everything is just starting to look done. I’m hoping to move in on like thursday or so, and the pics of my desk area should be pretty slick I think.

I finished all the regular dvd ripping over the weekend, now I’m up to 1.2 terabytes of stored media. Now that I have the media system kinda working I will not feel bad buying new media. I have a new bluray / hddvd combo player that I plan on ripping the rest of my media with, but I have not gotten around to actually getting it going yet. Was thinking I’d get to that over the weekend, but I didn’t. Definitely by this weekend, I think.

And one last thing – valgrind for OSX has made it into the trunk. With dtrace, valgrind, and Snow Leopard (10.6) – I think OS X has finally become a serious developer platform… Now if only we could do something about the shitty window manager! I know I’m picky having spent years writing my own custom setup in the past, but this is pretty terribad. I have some osx hacks I use to get something almost like sloppy focus, but it breaks a lot. One day maybe I’ll get around to replacing Finder I wonder how much work that would be.

Man… 1.1 terabytes of digitizing media later and still I’m not quite done yet. Still 1 more box to rip this weekend, followed by the blu-rays and hd-dvds I’ve collected. I got a SATA hddvd/bluray combo drive that I will hook up to a box this weekend and test that. 55 tv shows (604 total episodes), 245 movies down, who knows how many to go… Plus I have 4 seasons worth of tv still in the queue to get meta tags and enter the library. Fun stuff, but lots of work to go. Good news though, it all looks good on the AppleTV.

Speaking of television – I finally got the TV hung in the office. This mount is freakin’ sweet. I cannot sing enough praise about the quality of this mount, which now has my 52″ Sharp Aquos TV mounted a couple feet away from the wall. Once I get the desk put in place it will look pretty nice – but I still have to get another coat of stain and a coat of polyurethane on the floor before I can even think about moving the desk in there yet…  then I’m also gonna build some bookshelves into the wall next to the entrance.  Getting pretty close to completed though.

Also – this past Tuesday I got my copy of Infamous for the PS3… I know Penny Arcade didn’t like it as much as I do apparently, but I am really enjoying this game. I have been having a good time running around as a good guy, and I know I will have just as much fun running around as a bad guy when I get around to playing the game a second time. Prototype comes out in a couple weeks, which should be a very similar game I think, too. I gotta say infamous looks really good in 1080p glory. I think I ordered prototype for the x360, so we’ll see how that compares to the PS3/Infamous experience.