FriedCircuit

“I’ve never trusted virtual reality, and I never will.”

I rode motion rides before, Back to the Future the Ride, Star Tours, Spiderman at Universal, the Virtual Ride gimmicks at arcades… Some of them made me feel like I wanted to hurl. Some didn’t, some gave me headaches for days. I could stand the Playstation VR a good 5 minutes… then migraines started. “VR just isn’t for me. ” are my thoughts. I could see all the pixels on the screen and any sense of displacement just turned into pure nausea.

A few months ago when Apple announced the Vision Pro. “Meh.” I thought initially. The price press wasn’t convincing me it could change my perception on VR headsets. Until I saw a couple of you-tubers out making content with it after they left the Apple Store… doing stuff. Walking around and interacting in real life with it. There was something about seeing people out in the wild playing with these things started to change my perception. so I immediately caved. I got one. I paid for it up front, not even aware if it would make me vomit day one. I took the risk, bought into the hype and with little convincing after two weeks I hadn’t returned them. I early adopted.

I never spent more than an hour at a time using them. But in those first critical 5 or 6 hours I was thoroughly impressed. I only once had a nausea moment with them on and that was from seeing a lo res video. As expected, Apple got the VR experience of it right.

But Apple isn’t selling a VR headset. They’re basically selling an iPad you control with your eyes. And charging your right eyeball for it. But it’s capability is so much more. Only time will tell if enough real world application is out there to set it mainstream. Eventually we’ll get there. Perhaps I will have buyers remorse a few years down the road when the next revision will drop in price.  Until then, I’m good.

If this movie is not nominated for at least one Oscar for special effects, then in fact, the queen bee of Hollywood hath spawned a bad offspring, and only Adam Clay can save us from utter corruption. Spawning phrases that are certain to be household jargon shortly after its streaming release, this glorious stream of digital luminance will be the envy of other streaming services lacking this title in their catalog. After the riots at Dollar General stores everywhere after the physical release of this gem, the DVD format will experience a brief resurgence of will be ridden. Enjoy the ride while it lasts. B-Keeper 2 will make its debut. Ink dyed beards will return.

It’s a good way to skip levels. IYKYK

Things have been going pretty well as of late. I’m trying to come up with some topics for new content. I might as well use this platform to help document things I’ve learned. Right now its probably boring stuff.

Lucene Queries on an elastic database for Grafana are a pain. There, I said it.

When rebuilding a web server, some things are missing from reinstallations. Duly noted.

I also learned today google domains is getting discontinued. And sites are going to be managed by squarespace. So where will I transfer my domains too now?

Clearly, I didn’t post a lot this year. Let’s get an overview of all the things I hadn’t posted about: Want to hear it? Here it goes!

At the beginning of the year, this was not on my list of things to do, but by mid year, I decided to go ahead and finish Grad School. I completed my classwork in October and by mid-December I was able to officially announce my graduation. Completing my Masters of Business Administration with a focus on Information Technology Management – Done. I know have a bit (a lot actually) of time to reallocate to other interests.

Speaking of Interests, one of my goals in 2022 was to upgrade my HAM ticket to a General Class license. Not only did I accomplish that – I went ahead and took the Amateur Extra License too! I studied and yes I did in fact learn a thing or two by upgrading my license. I still have a lot to learn and experience with radio and I plan to get a little more active in the hobby, in particular with POTA (Parks On The Air).

I’ve accomplished a few health goals this year too. Without going into the long details, I know what the cause of the symptoms are and what I can do to address them. I still have some limitations to what I can and cannot do (don’t expect me to complete a triathlon this year) – the important thing is that I know I am fixable and am on the mend. I can make progress on my own in that regard.

I got to do a little traveling this year too. I’ve added two NL East stadiums to my visited list – New York Mets and Washington Nationals – now I still have to go back and check out the AL clubs. Perhaps now may be a better time to plan some baseball trips instead of waiting until the last minute. I travelled to New York in May – it was an awesome trip. I also knocked off the last intact Space Shuttle to take a selfie in front of – Enterprise, parked at the USS Intrepid museum. My second trip within a year to Washington, DC took place in September – treated myself to a Birthday Braves Away game! I’ve got plenty of more ballparks to visit and the new MLB schedule may allow for more of those trips to be legit Braves away games.

Last, but certainly not least, my day to day job is changing. I am super excited about the schedule change – but I know there are challenges and lessons to be learned ahead. I am looking forward to the future!

I may be able to be a little more social now. We shall see how I fit back into the fold.

And who knows – I may take the time to rebuild this web server, the site – and work on the content that I wanted to do to start with.

Good Times!

I never used you anyway. If I have anything to say I can say it here.

It’s quite possible a majority of my blog posts this year have been submitted from a plane. considering this is only the second post of the year, that is strange. ooooh Biscoff Cookies!

Later!

Today I have passed the Amateur Extra License Exam!

I am looking forward to getting on the air soon with Amateur Extra privileges! It was not an easy test, but with a little but of studying – it can be passed with flying colors!

Be you.

Be Creative.

Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.

Be Well.