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The Past Few Months:

Surprisingly (though not to me), even though a fair few months have passed by, not much has happened.

Trips to see Ashley are the most frequent things that have happened. I went to prom with her, and saw her again for her birthday and stayed a little while, and at one point she came down here for 3 weeks around my birthday. My sister and her husband were also here for some of the time that Ashley was. That was a lot of fun, and Ashley finally got to meet more of my family. (No, this is not going to turn into one of those mushy posts about our relationship, either).

I also went to a family reunion (a Saturday and a Sunday) and took a trip to visit my sister and her husband (a Wednesday through a Monday).

The Next Few Months:

I’m resuming college again in late-August and am currently enrolled in 5 different classes (wish me luck!), and am planning on graduating with an Associate of Applied Science degree in May of next year.
I’ve gotten a lot more into different activities, especially while Ash was here. One of my favorite things we did (OH STOP thinking that!) was a canoe trip.  I’m planning on doing that again, and possibly as many times as circumstances allow (it is free, after all!).

Other than that, not a lot has gone on with me lately. I’m intending to either get into caring for fish again (been awhile) or into working with bonsai trees (something I’ve never done but have wanted to for awhile) or possibly both. I’m leaning more towards the bonsai trees (will post pictures if I can) as, if time restricts me, I can simply water and prune them a minimal amount, and move on until such time as I can take care of them more deservedly.

I’ve also thoroughly enjoyed the work I get to do for the community I’m a part of, wetalknation, and its subsect, vbirc. Some new developments are happening with them, and I’m excited to be a part of it, and to be learning more and more about the emerging product, XenForo. I highly recommend these past 3 links to anyone and everyone, at least give them a small glance, or bookmark for when you’ve got nothing better to do.

Again, wonderful speaking with you all again, and am hoping to start posting a lot more in the coming months, due to a want to be more on-top of things, and this gives me a goal, a log, and way to filter my thoughts out into the world!!!!!

This article is about using dropbox to sync most of your files to the rest of your computers, and only a few files on another one due to space restraints.

Ever have a secondary machine (like me) that doesn’t necessarily have a lot of hard-drive space (like me), but you still wanna be able to sync stuff to it from the rest of your computers (again: like me)?

Here’s the solution I decided to implement:

You all know about dropbox, right? If not, you ought to go check it out. It’s a great tool for syncing your files across computers, and even has a LAN sync for faster file transfers when your computers are on the same network at the same time.
There are many suggestions for uses of dropbox across the Internet that I’ve found; however, there’s just one that I thought of that I’ve yet to see written about.

Dropbox has this wonderful feature where you can privately share folders and files with other people. The solution for syncing a select set of files to a computer with limited space, and still have those files sync across the rest of the dropboxes you have on the rest of your machines is really simple.

1. Make a new dropbox account. This is the one that goes on your hard-drive space challenged machine. (No, you can’t link accounts so far as I know, but this is essential that you have a different account for this machine, and we’ll get to why in Step 2.)
2. Go into your regular dropbox, create a new folder (or find a current one(s)) that you want to sync to this other machine, and created a shared folder. You can do this on your local dropbox installation (2a), or on the website(2b). You make the folder, share it, enter the email address of your new dropbox account and start adding the files you want there.
   1. Find/Made the folder(s) you want to share with this other machine (i.e. your new dropbox account for it).
   2. Right-Click on it/them and go down to the ‘Dropbox option’, when it expands, click “Share this folder”. Dropbox should pop up in your browser.
   3. Enter the email address of your new dropbox account.
   1. Go to https://www.dropbox.com and log in with your typical account for most of your machines.
   2. Continue with option 2a to completion.

a. Local Dropbox Install

b. Website

3. Go to the computer with the new dropbox account on it.
   When dropbox opens and ensures that everything is synchronized, it should pop up to say that your regular dropbox account wants to share a folder with you (this may also show up in your email).
4. Accept it.
5. Enjoy still having your files synchronized to all of your chosen machines, and not have to worry about taking too much space up from this smaller machine you’ve acquired.

James Cameron. Omaticaya. Eywa.
If you’ve seen the movie Avatar, then chances are that those words bring up some memories.
Now, you might be saying, “Man, the previews for that sucked.” and they did! However, they do NOTHING to bring justice to this movie.
I’m not going to give you any spoilers in here, but it is quite the amazing experience. I’d recommend every cent of what it costs to see it, even in 3D. I’m actually hoping to go and see it in IMAX-3D decently soon. Holy. crap.
The movie is amazing. It really is. One review that I read said it is “the iPhone of the movie world”, and I believe it. The world is complete and so are each of the elements of it and the characters in it. Avatar tells of a world where the creatures that live in it are so connected and in tune with their surroundings that it pains them to see destruction without necessity. (Now if only we could convince the people on THIS planet to work alongside nature as well as that).
It also contains a very suggestive parallel with issues happening in the world as we know it today. No spoilers allowed (including in comments, by the way), so I will leave it at that.

GO SEE IT!

Yes you!
Now.
Stop reading!
Why are you still here!?