So as for new year resolutions, here we go:

1. Lose my last 30 lbs for sure, try for the 15 additional pounds after that
2. Bike all the way from Jacksonville to Piedmont on the Chief Ladiga Trail
3. Continue living a healthier lifestyle
4. Read “Fight Club”
5. Write to my dad
6. Continue blogging!
7. Go somewhere I’ve never been
8. Watch as many of IMDB’s top 250 movies I possibly can (that I havent alreaady seen)
9. Try to learn how to create a Wordpress Theme (keep wishing for this one)
10. Take a course on Photography
11. Create a tangible art piece
12. Jog 5 miles
13. Get my cholesterol back to normal, and hopefully get off some of my medications this year!

Alicia’s Resolutions are:

1. Lose my last 9lbs, try for 10 more after that
2. Bike all the way from Jacksonville to Piedmont on the Chief Ladiga Trail
3. Continue living a healthier lifestyle
4. Read 10+ books this year
5. Go somewhere I’ve never been
6. Stop biting my nails
7. Pay off debt
8. Be more organized

I hope that everyone has a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve tonight, and a prosperous, healthy, and happy 2010!

I’m totally jacking this concept from Tiphanie Brooke (Antigirl) but I wanted to recap some key things that happened throughout 2009.

Things I Did in 2009

- started off the year worrying about finances due to Alicia’s layoff, but now she works for a new great company, TaxBreak
- saw Nine Inch Nails perform for their possible last tour (ever)
- attended a reunion concert for Blink 182
- took my sister to her first ever rock concert, Poison / Cheap Trick / Def Leppard
- took my nephew Camden to his first ever concert, Green Day
- met Sid Haig
- became lead designer of a startup web firm in Gadsden, AL
- celebrated our first wedding anniversary in Gatlingburg, TN
- took Soph on her first ever road trip / vacation
- made the decision to lose weight and stick to it (currently at 48 lbs lost, and Alicia is at 25, w00t!)
- got HTTD to train Sophie
- developed an addiction to Netflix Instant Streaming television shows
- found a new love for biking, even worked up to biking 20 miles at a time
- dropped a whole pants and shirt size
- i haven’t been sick (bronchitis / pneumonia) since I quit smoking in April ‘08
- successfully have dropped my (bad) cholesterol 200 points and it’s still dropping
- finally got some artwork from Antigirl (thank you baby! excellent anniversary gift!)
- found a love for Dexter / Californiacation / Man Vs. Food
- lost a former classmate

I’m probably leaving some things out, but it’s just a general overview off of the top of my head. I’m really looking forward to what 2010 will bring, and I’m hoping that things will continue to improve on the side of work and finances. 2010 will be a new year, new beginnings, and the start of a brand new decade. Here’s hoping that the 10’s will be better than the 00’s.

Hope you all have an absolutely wonderful Christmas! Enjoy this time with friends and family, and be safe in all your travels!

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I think that I’ve said this about 4,000,000 times already on Twitter, but last night’s show was absolutely amazing! Since Trent so graciously worked out a lax camera policy for this tour, I was able to capture the whole hour-and-a-half performance with our Sony Handycam. The video is a bit shaky in parts, but I tried to hold the camera as steady as I possibly could for that long, heh. There are also a couple of songs that were incomplete because I had to get some douches in front of me to move since they were trying to take some other people’s seats. All in all though, I thought the video turned out awesome for a amateur quality camcorder! The sound is clear and the video is pretty decent quality too. Either way, we have a video of the entire Atlanta show, and possibly the last live performance I’ll ever see by Nine Inch Nails *sad*. No matter what the quality, I’m glad to have a copy!

As for distributing all of these video clips to the people that asked me last night at the show — the total file size of the video captured last night was 6.47 GB. Due to the huge file size, I’ve decided to distribute the files through bittorrent. I think that I’m going to make two different torrents too — one that contains ONLY the raw video files, and a second torrent that contains a pre-made DVD image file that I’m going to put together for myself (and you’re welcome to grab a copy too) will contain a 1-File version of the entire show in chronological order, complete with transitions between each of the clips

I’ll try to get these edited and ready for you to download as soon as possible, but its probably going to take me a few days.  Also, if you could send me a link to the photos you guys took, I’d greatly appreciate it! My email address is josh@twentytwomedia.net

Here’s a couple of shots from the videos for you to see what you’ll be getting:

Street Sweeper (Only filmed a few short clips)

Nine Inch Nails

Jane’s Addiction (“Mountain Song” & only part of “Been Caught Stealing”)

*UPDATE**
I’ve decided to not create a DVD image (I may be a web/graphic designer, but I am no pro-video editor by any means) for everyone to download, but instead I’ll create torrents of 2 different packages of the videos. One package will be a folder of all individual video files, zipped into one pack, ready to be used to make your own DVD of the show — the other will be a 1-File version of the entire show in chronological order, complete with transitions between each of the clips.

Jason’s gotten me back into watching South Park again, so I decided to use the South Park Studio maker thingy to make all of the images for my contacts since I didn’t have photos of everyone to use. First off, try to pick out who is who (its really not that hard, lol) and leave a comment with the number and name of the person. People to choose from: Jason, Jeff, Daryl, Megan H, Megan M, Brandon, Alicia, Daniel Bryant, and Myself.

I also did family contacts and some people from work too Here they are as well:

Listen to me talking like the system is 100% ready for launch — sadly, it is not…yet. And it will only be available to Myself, Alicia, Jason, Megan H. Daryl, Brandon, and Megzirra (that’s how I’ve kept the 2 Megan’s seperated in my database lol). Anyway, I know that the system isn’t quite ready yet, but the desire to work on an iPhone web app was killing me, so I decided to start it anyway. That task was actually a lot easier than the main site, so it went along pretty quickly. I’ve taken some screens for you to see it, and no it’s not all fancy AJAX and stuff, but I think it turned out pretty nice. If there are any other features you think need to be implemented, please give me your feedback.

Keep in mind, the whole point of this lil web app is to allow you to have a “checklist” of a game’s achievements in front of you while you’re playing the game.

Ok, on to the screen shots.

This is the first screen you come to after you log in, it's the full list of all the games you have marked that you are playing. If no games are showing up in this list, just click on "Manage Your Games" to see the whole list of any game I have in my system (screens for this are a few images down).

Once you click a game, you're taken to the list of achievements for that game. When you unlock an achievement, just tap on the gray achievement point box on the right of that achievement to mark it as unlocked.

Once you've unlocked an achievement, they will go to the bottom of the page, with a different style applied to them to stand out from the rest of the achievements in your list. And if you accidentally clicked an achievement you didn't have, just scroll down to the bottom and click on the green box to turn it back into an achievement you haven't unlocked yet.

I have also given a way to toggle between only seeing achievements that are for "Online" and "Offline" or for seeing All Achievements for a game. Notice the circled area, when under the Online Setting, it shows that there are 14 achievements, and I've unlocked 50 out of the 140 achievement points available in online play.

Same thing goes for the Offline Setting. It shows the amount of points you've gotten out of the total offline achievements for that game.

Up above, I mentioned that once you log in, if there are no games showing up in your list, or if you're looking for a specific game that isn't appearing in that list, you can go to Manage games. When you click the link to manage games it takes you to a list of every game that's in my system. Just click on a game's title, and then you can click the checkbox on the right of that game to toggle it on/off. Once you "Return to Your Game List", that/those games will show up in your list. Might be a little confusing (I'm in no way the best person to explain things...), but since I can't pull from the XBL API, this is the only way I can do this : ( Anyway, the next 2 screens show the toggling checkbox.

Unchecked, this game isn't showing up in your list

Checked, and now it's showing up in your list.

I’ve been a Nine Inch Nails fan since I was in the 5th grade (like 14 years) so I’ve always thought Trent Reznor was an amazing artist and a very very smart businessman, but I have to say that after everything he’s done, he is the one and only artist that has earned this much respect from me. He takes care of his fans like no other musician does, and seems to truly be in it for the love of what he does, moreso than just for the money. I really do hope that more musicians follow in his footsteps. It’s nice to see someone has our back.

Metallica completely blew it for me with the whole Napster thing. I used to LOVE me some Metallica — now I feel “meh” when I hear them. I mean their whole deal with the Napster thing back in the day completely baffled me because it was a straight up attack on their fans. I mean it wasn’t in any way diplomatic at all, it was just “YOU KEPT US FROM GETTING MORE MONEY, WE WILL SUE YOU NOW!” I know that the whole digital music thing back then was a brand new concept, but the mentality of “ignore it (and just sue) and it will go away” instead of trying to understand and adapt to the new technology, blows me away. I remember reading an article (I believe it was in Rolling Stone) that said the RIAA executives didn’t even really know what the internet was and was just blindsided by the Napster situation. Really? You’re the head of the entire United States recording industry and you’re not trying to stay up with technology? Wow. You can tell their “higher ups” are old, old, old people. If I were the US Government, I would have put an end to the insane amount of STUPID lawsuit cases the RIAA has been involved with for the last 9 years. It’s ridiculous. Their actions make me WANT to steal music…and on that note, an awesome Diggnation clip on that exact statement:

This next one was taken while we were walking around in Waikiki heh. We saw it on Tuesday, and it was still sitting there after we were about to leave a week and a half later. Guess they never figured out how to get it inside, lol

 
Aside from those, I wanted to post a few of my favorite lol pics I’ve come across over the years. I’m sure you’ve all seen them, but I came across the folder that I saved these in and wanted to post them  

HO-LEE-CRAP, check this out! Trent from Nine Inch Nails had a blog entry not too long ago about wanting to make a Live DVD for the Lights In the Sky Tour from this past year — long story short, things didn’t work out the way he wanted to, and there was no way he could get the DVD produced before the tour ended….so he just posted this on the Nine Inch Nails website:

Your gift… 

The internet is full of surprises these days. 
I was contacted by a mysterious, shadowy group of subversives who SOMEHOW managed to film a substantial amount (over 400 GB!) of raw, unedited HD footage from three separate complete shows of our Lights in the Sky tour. Security must have been lacking at these shows because the quality of the footage is excellent. 

If any of you could find a LINK to that footage I’ll bet some enterprising fans could assemble something pretty cool. 

Oh yeah, you didn’t hear this from me.

Anyway, hope everyone’s having a great first full week of ‘09. And once again, Happy Birthday to my nephew Ethan, and also to Jason!