tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237088492011-07-28T14:52:00.172-04:00the lunatic is in my head...jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-79397861334606133822011-04-21T14:38:00.006-04:002011-05-06T17:53:22.235-04:00

When I purchased the super-cool limited edition MVC3 Fightstick TE for my 360, I had envisioned it of course being useful for at least MVC3 and SF4, but-- I had a alternative motive in the purchase; MAME.Sadly, even with using the OS X driver for Xbox 360 controllers, it refused to work with my OS. I could get it to work with Microsoft's driver on Windows 7, but I don't use Windows and I wanted

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-90652757675387125832011-02-28T22:29:00.001-05:002011-02-28T22:31:01.499-05:00

I've had this blog for what? 5 years? and I never knew until this very moment that anyone ever posted a comments on my blog posts. Boy do I feel like a dick.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-69935910161125588852009-06-01T12:50:00.000-04:002009-06-01T13:48:02.207-04:00

Testing some iPhone blogging apps. First up, iBlogger, while nice looking, don't do landscape editing. Very disappointing. Seems stable in it's features and editing abilities. Landscape isn't a total deal breaker but it would sure help me liking it. Of course, the $9.99 price tag kills this, Mail.app does this type of blogging, and it's built into the OS. iBlogger does offer nice editing of

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-7055082556547334812009-03-13T01:54:00.001-04:002009-03-13T01:56:25.957-04:00

can you be a debt free 30 year old man and still fail a credit check to move into a bigger home. Only in America, folks.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-58062386245715139872008-12-01T18:25:00.002-05:002008-12-01T18:36:42.036-05:00

Today I got sick of looking at this battery sitting on my table, which no longer worked for my laptop. So I decided to put it back into the battery slot on the MacBook, and decided I'd run through the Apple tests one more time for shits and giggles (this being the umteenth time doing so). Low and behold, after 10 months of owning this computer, and about 4 of them passed by waiting to afford a

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-25868587025224674472008-09-29T01:16:00.002-04:002008-09-29T01:26:24.451-04:00

I just wanted to send a blog from my new iPod just to see if it works. If you got the money for one of these, do yourself a favor and buy one!

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-39754451994732514552008-02-12T12:53:00.001-05:002008-02-12T13:10:57.009-05:00

These two things can stress one out pretty good. Add in two kids, a girlfriend, and life itself, and you get one hell of a mess.My car, which is well past personally considered to be junk, needed some repairs. Since I just got my tax return I could afford some repairs (but not a decent new vehicle) so I decided to get the car (now in my possession for the past nine years) to the shop today. It

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-45271604573011698482007-06-23T11:42:00.000-04:002007-06-23T11:49:54.315-04:00

If I had the time, I would most surely write down all the weird and crazy things I do here and keep some kind of personal archive of information so I don't forget all this stuff myself. But, I don't. I do plan on doing a few "article" type updates to this blog, or at least I would if I found the time and the will to do them. The most important change is the coming of my second child. Due to

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-65654390429678965332007-02-17T22:43:00.001-05:002007-02-17T22:43:40.660-05:00

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-25781458614885381042007-02-13T18:55:00.000-05:002007-01-22T14:45:10.503-05:00

This Valentine's Day, I had planned a nice evening at a hotel with a hot tub for Krissy and I. Unfortunately, that isn't going as planned this weekend. Hopefully I can accomplish this in the next few weeks, before the holiday gets away from me. Got to love all the babysitters in this world.I really didn't plan any other gift for her this year. Previously, I've got her clothes, jewelry,

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-56723087689702773562007-01-22T14:30:00.000-05:002007-01-22T14:45:10.645-05:00

I'm sure someone would say "You Got Served" is a great movie. Today, I'm using it as a pun because I got served court papers. I'm being sued for something like $822 for moving out of a leased apartment I had. Some may recall me living in Lincoln Park a while back, and some shady shit was going on with the apartment complex. Not to mention Krissy got pregnant and the landlords there did

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-21113386734383916772007-01-08T00:08:00.000-05:002007-01-08T00:10:29.047-05:00

My mom got me a digital camera for Christmas. So with the introduction of that into my life comes a place to put all the pics I can now take with it. Introducing, my flickr account, go check out my photos of the family and post some comments on them too!

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-49878379996830094502007-01-04T20:16:00.000-05:002007-01-04T20:28:13.995-05:00

and not a moment too soon! Christmas has gone by, Krissy's birthday and New Years has come and gone. Now it's time to go back to normal life again. I go back to midnights monday and I can't wait. It'll give me some time to sit around and play my Zelda game and just relax and hopefully get some other things done around the house. Maybe I'll even get to watch all these movies I keep getting

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-73141272968177694662006-12-09T22:06:00.000-05:002006-12-09T22:11:13.112-05:00

I finally scanned Rae'Anne's new pictures today and put them online. They had been in my wallet and some of the edges look a little messed up but, you get what you get, come visit instead of staring at pictures of us all online.That ones my favorite. The other two are here and here.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-91529213911670468772006-12-09T21:55:00.000-05:002006-12-09T22:15:11.017-05:00

Yea, my birthday was about six days ago now. It's been a long week of working and such so I haven't had the time to update this lonely little place. Things of interest that I received would be a copy of Sin City on DVD. The awesome two disk edition, which comes complete with the first Sin City graphic novel, which is very cool, as I never got to read it before. And a second disk with the uncut

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-66427205066886060682006-11-29T17:15:00.000-05:002006-11-29T17:16:55.699-05:00

We finally got the new baby pictues back today. I'll take them to my mom's tomorrow and run them through the scanner so I can put up some new pics for the world to see of my beautiful baby girl.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-40660186810782083492006-11-29T17:12:00.000-05:002006-11-29T17:14:27.421-05:00

Well, that new DS Lite I bought the other day with the dead pixel... I took it back. I got a new one, with another dead pixel. Well that makes three DS models I've owned now and each and every one came with a dead pixel, all in random places. I guess I'm stuck with a dead pixel no matter what.That sucks.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-71013512199826218292006-11-29T17:07:00.000-05:002006-11-29T17:09:45.317-05:00

Those SDLMAME builds I posted the other day sure enough did need rebuilds. So if you were one of the unlucky ones who actually went and got those... go get them again!

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-71893634555288891882006-11-27T05:48:00.000-05:002006-11-27T05:54:38.492-05:00

Updated my G4 builds to the current mainline changes today. SDLMAME hasn't officially been updated, so these builds might need rebuilding in a day pending any official changes. But they are current as of now.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-75589500524714494782006-11-25T20:57:00.000-05:002006-11-25T21:11:54.131-05:00

I bought a Nintendo DS Lite today so I could play my to-be Christmas present of Final Fantasy III from my girlfriend on it. I had originally owned a DS but didn't like how ugly and bulky it was so I ended up selling it. With the release of FFIII and the redesigned DS out, I decided to give it another shot. I am very impressed with the sleekness of the device. It no longer feels like I have a

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-70394094998669532122006-11-20T17:54:00.000-05:002006-11-20T17:59:52.447-05:00

When I log out of my blogger.com account, since it's connected to my google account, it logs me out of all my google stuff too. This includes my google homepage, gmail, and um.. well that's it. But, fuck it's annoying. I definitely think the cookies should be separate. I want to always be logged into my google homepage but I do not always want to be logged into blogger.com. They should stay

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-54368335847339565342006-11-19T15:30:00.000-05:002006-11-19T15:37:49.589-05:00

I updated my compiles of SDLMAME for us old G4 Mac users on my site yesterday. I think the only new features in this update worth note is the ability to play DDR. Oh boy. Lemme go get that one right now, it's all I ever wanted to play. Go get my compiles here and go play some pacman instead.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-31270801685944843352006-11-16T16:33:00.000-05:002006-11-16T18:31:10.694-05:00

Apparently, using a SSL-enabled version of subversion requires using a little more then what is included in the subversion-deps package. Of course, one needs to get OpenSSL themselves, but neon which is the piece of the puzzle one needs to connect all three together (and is included in the deps package) isn't the version one needs to use the SSL feature. To use SSL connections with subversion,

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-17874317477035415062006-11-16T05:50:00.000-05:002006-11-16T16:49:12.421-05:00

I could have swore the Wii was to be launched today, now everywhere claims it comes out this Sunday. I've heard reports that games are already for sale at stores across the nation and they even started pirating them already. huh. Go figure ;)

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-54566805764623726462006-11-16T05:33:00.000-05:002006-11-16T16:47:03.500-05:00

I moved to a new layout, playing a bit with the blogger beta features. I haven't been updating this thing much... life and World of Warcraft got in the way. I've got so many things I'd like to write down somewhere for no one to hear too... oh well maybe another day.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-39647647805164912592006-08-28T19:54:00.000-04:002006-08-28T20:03:03.612-04:00

It's no secret, I need to upgrade my Mac. But I'm currently torn between waiting until Apple decides to release something better in my price range, or just buying a Mac mini. I could get another iMac eventually, and maybe I will. But I don't have the money for those things right now. The G4 Mac mini's are going for $350 out the door at many places, and they are 42% faster than my current Mac.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-24266470978609460222006-08-20T11:54:00.000-04:002006-08-20T11:57:09.137-04:00

11.0 final is near. I fixed up some missing files on my ftp, cleaned up the entire thing and I'm ready for 11.0 to drop now, are you? ;)

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1155554436163842032006-08-14T07:17:00.000-04:002006-11-16T16:50:05.146-05:00

Today marks the new Slackware's first release candidate. There have been so many improvements in the distro since the 10.2 release, and its finally coming to a stable point here now. If you use linux, I'd highly recommend getting this. Maybe you'd like to get it from my very own ftp mirror? ;)

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1154286936168227222006-07-30T15:14:00.000-04:002006-07-30T15:15:36.180-04:00

Is it me or has Gmail been hammered lately with all kinds of new and crazy spam? Fuck, I hate email.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1150004090176369682006-06-11T01:31:00.000-04:002006-06-11T01:34:50.203-04:00

Well after fiddling around in the iPod debug menu, I finally made some progress. I got the thing to boot into disk mode after entering a "FW TEST" mode and updated the firmware from there. It appears to be slowly copying my 4000+ song collection back to its hard disk and we'll see from there if it works correctly. The drive makes some funky noises which could be a result of me throwing it on

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1149999557035488822006-06-11T00:14:00.000-04:002006-06-11T00:19:17.046-04:00

I have been searching for a way to fix my seemingly un-repairable iPod for months now. I had assumed it just needed to be charged from a real electrical outlet. Wrong. Apparently, the problem which my iPod suffers from, is caused by a bad flash of the firmware. There is a secret debug menu hidden which I can access by holding down the Rewind, Forward, and "Enter" keys upon booting. I cannot

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1149279985379812902006-06-02T16:23:00.000-04:002006-06-02T16:26:25.390-04:00

You know it's a sad day when I'm seriously considering the Xbox 360 as my next console purchase. I think Nintendo got it wrong with the Wii, I don't really want to have to jump around and shit to play video games. And Sony, with the PS3, I just don't trust their products anymore after my PS2 shit out on me after 2 years...Jay buying a Microsoft product??!!?? It's almost unheard of. Of course I

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1149199044622200992006-06-01T17:37:00.000-04:002006-06-01T18:02:32.900-04:00

I have some interest in the continued development in the now open source Quake 3 source code. So I began looking around online for projects that may be looking for help in a OSX specific area. I found one (according to their website). icculus.org/quake3, as they call it. I noticed they had some files up and a svn repository for the source. The OSX binary they had on thier site was out-of-date

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1147873671303129042006-05-17T09:46:00.000-04:002006-05-17T09:47:51.313-04:00

Krissy and the baby are home now. The slow road to her recovery begins. It's good to have my family back.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1147713047395038062006-05-15T12:58:00.000-04:002006-05-15T13:10:47.406-04:00

It begins friday night at about 1:30am, Krissy wakes up with heartburn. Nothing new, she's gotten heartburn quite frequently while pregnant, so I didn't think much of it. After she took medicine and it didn't go away and was still hurting in the morning, was when we decided something was wrong.We went to the doctors early saturday to see what the problem was. He prescribed her some kind of

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1147440065146748552006-05-12T09:08:00.000-04:002006-05-13T00:13:58.336-04:00

So I have found what I need to fix my iMac. The SuperDrive which is broken in mine is apparently a hard item to come by. I have seen it listed for anywhere from $250-$300. Definately not worth the purchase. The cheapest one I've found is for sale here at about $100. Guess I need to start saving my pennies. While I'm in there fixing that, I'll need to re-apply thermal paste too, so I can't

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1145510140520956442006-04-20T01:12:00.000-04:002006-04-20T01:15:40.526-04:00

Sounding a bit different, definately not like they are getting old tho.  I like it, from what I've heard so far.  What's not to like about tool?

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1144704894571579272006-04-10T17:32:00.000-04:002006-04-10T17:34:54.580-04:00

So today my dvd drive on my mac decided to eat a dvd and then die.  That fucking sucks.  Now I need to buy a new computer cuz the drive is built into this thing :( on top of that-- my iPod decided to take a shit on me and die too... talk about a bad day.  I don't have money for new computers right now :(

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1143598025906470152006-03-28T20:59:00.000-05:002006-03-29T19:37:29.886-05:00

That be my baby. Isn't she the most beautiful little girl in the world? I know; she is. View the rest of the pictures here.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1143342120214209082006-03-25T21:54:00.000-05:002006-03-27T06:32:59.863-05:00

My daughter has been born after over 19 hours of intense action. The details:- date: March 25th 2006- time: 7:46pm- weight: 7lbs 14oz- length: 20 1/2 inchesI have to get food and get back to the hospital and I haven't slept in two days but, Krissy did a great job delivering the most beautiful baby girl in the world. I love you both. This is the best day of my life.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1143280513931854782006-03-25T04:53:00.000-05:002006-03-27T06:33:19.056-05:00

We are at the hospital in labor with our child right now! It seems I spoke too soon with my previous post. Gotta go now.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1143248434355155782006-03-24T19:44:00.000-05:002006-03-24T20:00:34.366-05:00

Well yesterday was my daughters expected due date but of course, she hasn't been born yet. Actually not much has changed since the last doctors office visit. Krissy is still dilated to one, but her cervix is starting to thin out. Wee've tried everything to move this process along... walks, swinging, eating pineapple, and my favorite-- sex. Nothing has worked. Today at about 8:30am while I

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1142562306708792762006-03-16T21:21:00.000-05:002006-03-16T21:25:06.710-05:00

Just a little side note here for historical purposes...The baby is due in exactly one week from today (3/23), Krissy is still not dillated to my knowledge. The doctor could tell us different tomorrow, I guess we will find out then.I'm getting very impatient, I want my baby now!Anyone like to place bets on when the baby will be born? ;)

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1142561020275242672006-03-16T21:02:00.000-05:002006-03-16T21:03:40.293-05:00

Technology these days has enabled me the almost completely backwards use of some things.  For instance, I now listen to mp3s in the car on my iPod completely ignoring the cars built-in feature of a AM/FM radio.  Yet, on the computer, I use the internet to listen to local radio stations.  Why is technology such a waste?

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1142273240490421502006-03-13T13:05:00.000-05:002006-03-13T13:07:20.496-05:00

Good news today.  I have been working at Guardian Industries as a temporary worker for the past few months and they called me today to enquire if I would like to become a permanent full-time employee!  Tomorrow I will be taking my physical and drug screen test and after that my training will begin in a few weeks.  Then I have to survive for 90 days without a incident before becoming a normal

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1142037026328728252006-03-10T19:29:00.000-05:002006-03-10T19:33:51.713-05:00

What a obnoxiously long day at work.Well, I arrived home to silence today. I thought Krissy would be here, guess she had to work today... I miss my baby. Updated some things here and I'm going to post a link to this on myspace. I'm probably not going to visit that site much anymore, I feel much to childish using that site. I can't customize it how I'd like and it really annoyes me. I like

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1141934494718423982006-03-09T15:00:00.000-05:002006-03-09T15:01:34.723-05:00

Just got back from the doctors office.  Todays report is that she isn't dillated yet, so that means there's no baby yet.  duh.  The doctor suggests she go for walks to help the process along.  We celebrated the doctor visit with coney dogs and onion rings afterward.  14 days until the due date, I guess we'll see what happens.  I can't wait for my baby girl to come out and play with me! ;)

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1141928424924780092006-03-09T13:19:00.000-05:002006-03-09T13:20:24.926-05:00

Well, encoding is now a breeze.  I'm understanding things a bit more, file sizes, video dimensions, audio playback, and more...  I've encoded my favorite scene from Pulp Fiction, but I noticed the audio volume is very low, and the option to normalize audio output is greyed out... hrm... more annoyances.

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1141917863284048022006-03-09T10:23:00.000-05:002006-03-09T13:11:40.453-05:00

Today I have been experimenting with ffmpegX which is a video/audio movie encoder supporting many formats for OS X. I have noticed some of the recommended options which the author suggests on the site, produce undesired effects on the video. Not a good thing. I wasted hours of good encoding time, making a bad copy of a video. Thank you. Now, I'm experimenting with scenes from movies instead

jlanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011712010178713073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23708849.post-1141881765475994912006-03-09T00:21:00.000-05:002006-03-09T00:22:45.486-05:00

Yes, I have decided to chronicle the days of my life and the thoughts in my mind in a blog.  With a baby coming in the next few weeks, and the events that will follow with the birth of children, I figured now is as good a time as any to create my own blog.  The topic here will change daily dependant on my mood or what I'm doing that day.So maybe you all should register and read my blog and stuff

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