Ryan's Place

Maybe I Should Write a Book

RyanHoye — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:20:26 +0000

So, I was bored today. I begun my epic adventure of today by getting up and getting breakfast at the omelettry on Granville, most excellent breakfast.

I visited the apple store and discovered their continuing lack of iPhone 4s. And then considered myself lucky I didn’t have to stand in line for hours.

I then decided to grab me my second coffee of the day at Starbucks, all while enjoying the literature of the adjacent chapters. In doing so I found that the quality of science fiction literature has sharply declined in variety. I remember days of looking at sci-fi titles with awkward names and somewhat interesting storylines. With the odd classic interspersed between current titles I wondered if anyone picked up things by Ian M. Banks anymore, or if anyone knew a thing about whales and flower pots, or dinners at the end of the universe.

If anyone missed those last two references, please for the love of everything holy, go wiki sregor beeblebrox.

Should this have been a realization for me now? Or should have I realized this a few years ago? I’m starting to wonder if all the sci-fi lit that is going to exist for the next few years is just going to be reiterations of existing properties? This both interests me and frightens me at the same time, and what brought me to the awkward title of this entry.

Writing a novel is going to be hard for someone who can’t both to update his blog on a regular basis….

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You Know What?

RyanHoye — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:36:52 +0000

So, I’m sitting sipping an intensely over sweetened mocha at the centre bar in Pacific Centre, thinking to myself;

“You know what Ryan? You haven’t blogged at all in a long time!”

I replied instantly with: “I know eh? I really should do something about that.”

The old woman at the opposite table looked at me pointedly like I was an idiot. I then realized I was talking to myself. Score one for the universe, big zero for the guy who hasn’t finished his coffee.

Truth be told, I just haven’t gotten back into writing all that much. I’m really starting to think I should be, but when one comes home completely unmotivated, it’s hard to do much of anything. I’m also starting to find blogging awkwardly self-serving, which is ironic considering my completely self-serving point of this blog. Such a vicious circle.

Sip. Gah. Note to self, cafe supreme is baad.

Anyways, I will endeavor to post more. I know I’ve said that before, but I promise I will do it this time!

Or at least maybe when the coffee improves…

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How to Kill Your 3G iPhone Battery in 5 Minutes

RyanHoye — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:52:05 +0000

Step 1. Install iOS4.
Step 2. Try opening iPod App.
Step 3. Retry opening iPod App after first attempt crashes.
Step 4. Retry opening iPod App hoping the 3rd time is the charm.
Step 5. Retry opening iPod App in the belief that willing it not to crash will solve the problem.
Step 6. Try opening the Mail App for a change of pace.
Step 7. Retry opening the Mail App.
Step 8. Try answering the Incoming Call that crashed the second opening of the Mail App.
Step 9. Try Calling back the person who called you were going to talk to when the Phone app Crashed.
Step 10. Turn off the phone after the Phone app crashes again.
Step 11. Turn on the phone.
Step 12. Wait 1 minute for the phone to boot up.
Step 13. Tap the Dismiss button on the 20% battery warning.
Step 14. Repeatedly Tap the dismiss button for 1 minute until the phone responds.
Step 15. Tap the Dismiss button on the 10% battery warning.
Step 16. Try calling back the person who called you earlier.
Step 17. Make a successful phone connection.
Step 18. Say “Hello”
Step 19. Find charging cable.
Step 20. Try charging and restarting phone in order to make phone call.

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It’s Been A While, and I know I Promised…

RyanHoye — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:30:58 +0000

… To blog more, I just haven’t taken the time to do it, I haven’t taken the time to do a lot of things lately, and I regret that.

I have a few excuses for that though and in my typical fashion I will list them out in Chronological Order.

After Chicago, I’ve been busy, but to recap: Chicago was Awesome, Lightspeed is an awesome Point of Sale product and should be used by anyone wanting to open a Mac-based boutique store of any kind. Except food/hospitality. I hope to go to the next Cert Camp in Montreal, but we will see.

Happy birthday to me; Officially 21 as of April 17th.

I Moved! So far I’m trying the Kits life and finding it very different than living in Yaletown. No drunken howlers. Yet. It’s been an experiment since May 1st.

And Now it’s June, and I’ve been busy at work, I’ve also been testing out some Beats Tours by Dr. Dre to see how they sound, I’ll have an update on them soon. And I will have a review for my new laptop bag: http://www.chromebagsstore.com/bags/laptop-bags/soma.html

Oh and to note that I was paying attention today: New Mac Mini: OMGHDMI.

I should have some stories to share, and stuff to talk about soon.

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Goin’ to Chicago!

RyanHoye — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:53:17 +0000

Well, I guess I should post this as I’m officially going now.

I’m headed to Chicago for some certified training for xSilva Lightspeed! This should get me Lightspeed 3.0 Certified and off to doing many an onsite for upgrades to 3.0 in Vancouver.

So if any of you out there know anything about Lightspeed and want to know more, shoot me an email, or leave a comment for me, and I’ll see about getting you in on the action. Else, if you want to start with the basics, check out the xSilva site.

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New Stuff: Apple Gear

RyanHoye — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:00:58 +0000

Since “Ryan Help!” was someone’s favourite set of words for a year, I thought I might include some tips, tricks, and tools for those of us who are now addicted to the apple gear.

The one that I want to focus on this time is a little website called MacHesit.

MacHeist is more or less a community of developers, users, consumers and apple geeks who want to use, like to use, and help make applications for Mac OS X. In turn, MacHeist tends to put on either sales, or quick runs of free sales of applications they’re trying to promote. Since I’ve known of MacHeist (which hasn’t been very long; 6 months) they’ve released two nanoBundles. In each of these they’ve either given away gear for free, or they’ve donated money to charity. All for a bunch of mac apps that help make things easier.

So, as about the blog post from the 3rd, I’m using MacJournal to write this now, and I just used Clips to paste the links into this posting. MacJournal is the most interesting, because as long as you manage your blog on or with one of the major blogging services, you can feasibly publish your journal entries to your blog, quick and easy, just like I have here. I can even import my blog postings into my journal.

As you can see the program is relatively simple, and even allows you to insert photos for upload to your blog. Best part is that it saves everything as you write it.

I will see if I can wrap my head around Daylite enough to give everyone a quick run down of Daylite next week.

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Well, You asked for it Danny

RyanHoye — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:43:56 +0000

Due to the massive amount of feedback I received for my last blog, I’ve decided to write a follow up.

I also wanted to spite Danny by including a photo of where I’m currently sitting.

Please see the attached.

On a more serious note, while I was sitting here and nearly accosted by 20 exercising momas with strollers, my piegion friends and I have been silently discussing the meaning of life and considering my options. As well as my use of run on sentences.

For the past month or so I’ve been thinking about my current situation, maybe a little too much. By now, most of you might already know that I made it to the second round of interviews for an apple genius position. Only to be bested by one of my senior co-workers. All in all, it was more of a learning experience than a disapointment, and I’m happy for my friend.

So what does this have to do with the current situation? Well my pigeon friends asked me the same question. I didn’t have an answer for them either. Maybe they were just hungry.

All in all, the opportunity I had could have been lucrative to the point of exceeding what any of us may have expected graduating from what we did. And now I’m not any further ahead of anywhere I’ve been, and hunting for opportunities regardless of field.

So what to do? Well that’s the thing, I don’t know yet, and some of it is fueled by plotting opportunities where I am now, and finding that there could be something there, something just as, if not more valuable than what I could had. The issue? Making it work.

So I will keep making the best out of what I’ve got, to such point that I will end up doing what I did best in school, make friends, work it out, and try my damnedest not to screw it all up.

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Time to Update

RyanHoye — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:06:11 +0000

Well, I’ve decided to play with a few things on the site, and update a few things.

I’ve also decided that I feel like playing with a few tools that might make it easier for me to do some blog updates. Namely, I’m using MacJournal to write this post.

So if I post this and it works, I have only one thing to say.

OM NOMNOMNOMNOM

That is all.

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Can I Just Say: More Awesome?

RyanHoye — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:24:22 +0000

Check out this Link.

I think he may have become more awesome than he was before….

Just don’t ask me to spell his last name.

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Some Days I Wish I Never Existed….

RyanHoye — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:31:15 +0000

But at least the Chili is good.

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