Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

Resetting an OSX admin password

Resetting an OSX admin password without an original Mac install disk


http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/
thank you Apple Blog! I wasted some time looking for an actual disk when this was all I neded to do. Cheers!

To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you need to enter terminal and create a new admin account:

1.Reboot
2.Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
3.When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
1.mount -uw /
2.rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
3.shutdown -h now
4.After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!

Saturday, October 09, 2010

To you know who! yes you!

Thanks and Love to all who came out to celebrate my 30th with me and for everyone who wished me well this past week in real life and on facebook! thanks for buying me all those dericious drinks and mountains of amazing Korean food and watermelon Soju at Pocha32. I am glad you all hung in with me for the decision to hit up Deity in Brooklyn for DJ Spinna. He absolutely blew the roof off. We closed the place up in style and many a vicious dance move were thrown down. 1000x thanks you's and you all know I am lucky to have you in my life. I made a blog post years ago with a list of the people I felt gratitude for and I urge you all to look yourselves up. I am adding to that list mentally all the time. Number one on that list for the past 3 years is my girlfriend Heather Martin. I love you heaps and am so grateful for all of your love and presence in my life.

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and i'm better because you are there.

Love

RJ

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Jeff Spencer and Stacy Thompson wedding flight itineraries.



Thu, Sep 16, 2010
New York La Guardia Airport, (LGA) to Chicago O'Hare International Airport, (ORD)
Flight: United Flight 681 (on Airbus A319)
Depart: 01:00 PM, New York, NY (LGA)
Arrive: 02:30 PM, Chicago, IL (ORD)

Mon, Sep 20, 2010
Chicago O'Hare International Airport, (ORD) to New York La Guardia Airport, (LGA)

Flight: United Flight 682 (on Airbus A319)
Depart: 01:06 PM, Chicago, IL (ORD)
Arrive: 04:13 PM, New York, NY (LGA)


September 17 11:35 a.m.
12:46 p.m. PORTLAND ME, ME to
NEW YORK JFK, NY 603
Alicia Lorraine Tholl
18A


September 17 3:59 p.m.
5:50 p.m. NEW YORK JFK, NY to
CHICAGO OHARE, IL 917
Alicia Lorraine Tholl
22F
5

September 20 6:35 p.m.
9:52 p.m. CHICAGO OHARE, IL to
NEW YORK JFK, NY 918
Alicia Lorraine Tholl
22D
2

September 20 10:35 p.m.
11:52 p.m. NEW YORK JFK, NY to
PORTLAND ME, ME 608
Alicia Lorraine Tholl
17D

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Friday, August 27, 2010

Long night




Great weather this morning, 77 and sunny.

Woke up late after having been at work until 2:00 AM dealing with a connectivity mystery for our Tribeca office. First I was surprised by the fancy new paint job that had been splashed up since the night before. Our entrance way is a bright turquoise blue with navy accents on the art deco-ish designs that were seemingly hidden until this new makeover. *edit It's pretty garish, and it's no wonder when I returned from the casino this weekend one of my fellow 688'ers has put up a sign stating "WINNER Ugliest paint job in Hell's Kitchen" I have a feeling they might send the painter back do a touch up soon with some new colors.

Cleo and I stopped at Sullivan bakery to grab a slice of zuchini pizza and a peach bombolini. Both were out of this world delicious. I inquired what oil the Italian donut was fried in because it was so rich, turned out to be corn oil. Sullivan Bakery is one of my favorite neighborhood spots to get a real loaf of bread or a quick bite. Amy's Bread has more variety but each of Sullivan's items is well executed. My taste for bread was nurtured over the past decade by my friend Norton West, and by Stephen Lanzalotta. Stephen owned a little bakery called Sophia's next to Post office Park In Portland Maine. Previous to meeting these two guru's I would say I was "bread deprived" eating sliced wheat bread not knowing what a wonderful world of baking awaited me. Here is a link to Stephen's new spot and some background on him and his new spot at Micucci's grocery on India St. Portland ME.

http://www.mainetoday.com/diningreview.html?id=1011

Tonight I'll be traveling wth Mr. Fish and a slew of other friends for a weekend at Mohegan/Foxwoods. I've never been before and am looking forward to some debauchery with mah homies.

wish us luck!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

attempting a consistent mini diary



August 25- Sept 5.

August 25,

rainy and 66 as of this writing.

observed people cleaning up the Amtrak tracks underneath 48th street overpass while walking Cleo. Cleo as is typical when it rains wanted nothing to do with being outside. I woke up with Heather early and started attempting to finish of a work project that involved talking to Verizon and sitting on hold for 30 minutes for the same issue I thought was solved yesterday. Verizon FAIL. I cooked some red potatoes on the stove hash brown style with MAGGI chicken stock, black pepper and lots of red pepper, onions, garlic, and some water to keep it from burning and to spread the stock tablet. It was delicious.

We found a banana so rotten that it was leaking down the refrigerator from a tiny hole in the end opposite of the stem. *(Cleo later dug through the trash and brought it into our bed.) thanks Cleo... you always know just the right stuff to haul into my sleeping area to gnaw on.


Lunch, Bahn Mi thanks to Sarah Cho. Thanks Sarah! it was fantastic and extra spicey.

rode bike to Tribeca, rode bike back to Noho, then rode home!

Domino's delivery for dinner. Cinna sticks, breadsticks and two regular pizzas. The most intersting part of this meal was the way it was delivered, by a terribly confused Côte d'Ivoirian who only moved to new york 2 months prior. He kept calling me on the phone to ask me if I lived at SIX EIGHT EIGHT. I kept replying yes and then he would hang up and call me again asking the same question. This went on for about 4 tries and then I saw him riding on a bike going the wrong way down 10th ave on the opposite side of the street so I flagged him down. He looked like he had just learned to ride a bike and was practicing on the most treacherous roads possible. Poor guy. It's got to be a rough life for an immigrant in New York these days. Which reminds me of the big new piece of graffiti across the street from our apartment sprayed above the amtrak tunnel overpass exclaiming "Illegal = OUT".

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

various

Do gif's work on blogger?

Tylers graduation day

Graduation day

May your life be a peice of cake

And sweet

Dale walks alone

Always walking the road less traveled.

summer kids ice cream and bubbles

Jackman, mom and some randoms

EseJ Shif

Messing about with fish

Thursday, April 29, 2010

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STL and carefully chosen sounds.


There was a time when I started buying loop records and sound compilations and would get really attached to very tiny pieces of music. I guess sound selection can be taken, and must be taken very seriously for the technology of sound to be taken further and further. Since going to mutek, I have been introduced to lots of really fantastic dub techno. Seeing Rhythm and Sound live in 2006 was what drove me back to reach into the vaults of artists like maurizio of basic channel. A special thanks to B. Sharpe for giving me a great back catalogue of great music last year at mutek as well. One of the gem producers in that lot of music he dumped on me was the Dubbyman "Dubtroit EP". Thanks Mr. Sharpe

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1184http://www.discogs.com/reviews?artist=Stephan+Laubner
The same goes for Laubner, whose dance floor-orientated music seems to do the same thing—with minute variations—over and over again. A drum loop, a murky piece of melody, set things to autopilot and watch things develop. As any electronic musician can tell you, however, finding those loops is hard work. Echospace's Rod Modell will famously listen to something around the house all day long, and if it starts to lose its luster before hour eight, he'll throw it away and begin anew. These are snatches of music that need to somehow take on new forms the longer you live with them, all within the span of a few seconds.

Monday, April 26, 2010

quicklist of some great companies/restaurants in NYC




J&R Music and Computers - retail location near chambers street. EVERyTHING tech you could ever need.

http://www.jr.com/information/directions.jsp

Computer-Hospital 2087 Amsterdam Ave. This store is a mish mash of audio and computer parts/ computer graveyard as some of the hospital's patients sometimes die... but the good part is that they donate their organs! If I needed a random part for an older laptop I would call this place first. It is the type of place that takes a good look at you and then decides how much to charge so you have to know how to play the game. Cut yourself a deal or pay full price!

Cables and Chips - near chambers street as well, for last minute needs like 75 ohm RG59 734 cables without having to mail order at 6:00PM on a Friday, they are the go to place!

http://www.cablesandchipsinc.com/

Vynl restaurant in midtown. Great menu's soundtrack, prices, and fun factor make this a go to spot.

http://www.menupages.com/restaurants/vynl/

Tulcingo Del Valle - more of a full service mexican restaurant. Even sells lots of hard to find smoked chiles. Guajillo, Anaheim, etc etc. On 10th ave in Hells Kitchen

Tehuitzingo - Cheap roadside mexican taco joint on 10th ave in Hells Kitchen as well (between 47th and 48th st.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

quebec's finest Poutine

 


Stopped here on the ride back from a Montreal Depeche Mode concert in July, I WILL return. Belle Geule! I dont think that actually works but "pretty mouth" was how I felt eating those fresh cheese curds no doubt gleaned that day from a cow down the street.
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thanks for the tickets Dave Brushett!

 
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Fan Pier - giant pvc pipe

 
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Haymarket

 


I'm missing my cheap produce fix, I would walk down the hill saturday morning and buy veggies and fruits in bulk at Haymarket square.
box of 10 Mango's for $3
box of 10 Avocados $5
25 Lb bag og onions for 6$

I'll find something similar here in NYC but I haven't yet. There is an interesting Tarp covered tent on 52nd called Stiles farmers market which looks more like factory farm produce but I've yet to buy anything there yet.

Stiles Farmers Market
Neighborhoods: Theater District, Hell's Kitchen
352 W 52nd St
New York, NY 10019
(212) 582-3088
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Sandy and Dale's garden

 



Summer of 2009 economic stimulus garden.
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love you Jack!

 
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heather martin's the prettiest of all.

 
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android apps

 
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can you name that cubs fan?

 
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Monday, February 22, 2010

hero of the day - James Howard Kunstler




http://www.kunstler.com/index.php

Watch this Ted Talk and prepare for the coming civic design future that looks alot more like Europe and less like Tucson. He calls out Boston in this Ted Talk for having the WORST city hall and one of the least civically desirable common areas imaginable surrounding it. I walked through the city hall property DAILY for 6 months and completely agree with his summation. I have however seen it as a workable space for large events such as community concerts and ice cream tasting festivals. Other than that it looks like a great place for the inner party to broadcast the "two minutes hate". Boston city hall is actually the first picture displayed in the wikipedia entry as the poster child for the architectural movement known as Brutalism.

TED TALK by Kunstler

http://www.kunstler.com/bio.html