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City: Dallas
State/Province: TX
Country: US
Age:
34
Height:
5' 10"
Weight:
145 lbs.
Hair Color:
Dark Brown
Eye Color:
Hazel
Body Type:
Average
Ethnicity:
White
Occupation:
Professional Geek
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aboutMaxHedrm
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LOOKING FOR A ROOMMATE! :^) Let me know if you want more info.
Adventurous Versa-Top. Professional Geek & student @ UTD. Like playing with cars, boys, tools, electronics.
If you don't have a face pic, don't bother. I prefer to see a guy before meeting.
I'm bored, looking for cute, young(-ish) guys to hang out & have fun with or maybe date. What fun means just depends on the person & my mood.
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Live & Direct from Nowhere in Particular...
A blog focusing on Politics, Cars, Gay/Queer Interests, Music, Arts, Travel, Quotes, Religion...and anything else that comes to mind.
- Instantly hooked... (11/7/09) [View | Hide]
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A while ago this popped up over on LifeHacker (among other places)…
So I told Netflix I had a PS3 & wanted to sign up. I got an email yesterday saying I would get my PS3 Instant Streaming disc today. Basically, you put in the special Blu-ray they send you, select it under Video on the PlayStation 3, then you enter the code it gives you into your Netflix account to enable it as a device, just like you would with a Roku or other Netflix enabled box. After it Authorizes (took mine just a few seconds) it pulls up your Instant Watch queue & away you go.
I’ve used Instant Watch before using both the old Flash client & the new Silverlight version on my MacBook Pro, but it either involved a long DVI / HDMI cable to the TV and a long optical cable to the stereo or watching it on my laptop. Both of which weren’t really worth it, so I rarely used it. I think that’s gonna change.
Watching on the PS3 is much better. It’s easier for one, slap in the disc & away you go. I can also continue to use my computer. Whereas, when watching on the computer, if I use full screen mode, I can’t do anything else. It won’t even keep full screen if I use it on a second monitor. It also seems to be higher quality and I had no problem with lag or delays. I’m guessing they are taking advantage of the Cell processors in the PS3 to do a bit better compression. Of course this might help too…
I even streamed a little HD content and it seemed quite good too. Most of what I watched tonight wasn’t HD though. I watched the entire 1st season of Coupling. And an episode of Series 3 of Chef! (crap compared to Series 1 & 2).
All in all, I’m pretty impressed and will probably use it a lot more.
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- Why's he so angry? (10/16/09) [View | Hide]
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Shouldn’t he be enjoying that?
Perhaps he would prefer a warlock.
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- Just some homework... (9/9/09) [View | Hide]
- Spacetime (7/10/09) [View | Hide]
- Midlife crisis... (6/28/09) [View | Hide]
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I just realized, I’m considering a station wagon for my midlife crisis car. I’ll turn 35 in November, & life expectancy for people born in 1974 was 72 years, but I’m male, so it’s probably a bit lower. So this year is time for my midlife crisis.  I suppose since my second car was a wagon (when I was 18) it almost makes sense. 
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- Shopping (6/27/09) [View | Hide]
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I decided Friday that I would go look at some cars this weekend. Since the TT is getting a bit tired in its old age, I was considering getting something under warranty for a daily driver. So, in the past 27 hours I have visited 3 car dealerships. I drove 1 car. So, this is more a review of the dealerships than the cars. I do seem to have a talent for ending up with the good looking younger sales guys. I guess they kinda self segregate by age (or at least appearance of age, since I think the last 2 were pretty significantly younger than me - I did get carded last weekend, after all).
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- Why does this stuff always seem to line up? (6/23/09) [View | Hide]
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I don’t tend to put a lot of stock in new age mumbo jumbo. But recently when I’ve been down or whatever, I’ve taken to checking my biorhythm. And somehow it always seems to line up. Peculiar.
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- For the Horde! ...or something... (6/14/09) [View | Hide]
I need to go out & track down some of this stuff. I got my little WoW BattleBot pet from them though.  Now to win an Alienware laptop. 
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- Floats like a Buick, Stings like a School Bus (6/2/09) [View | Hide]
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While my car was having a sensor replaced I ended up with a Chevrolet Aveo LT rental. I was a bit surprised to find out that it wasn’t actually the base model. I was also a bit surprised to find the one I had specs out to about $15,745. It’s been a while since I’ve been in a car without power windows or locks. Or ABS. Which brings me to the good. It has very responsive brakes. Of course without ABS, I’m not sure that counts as good.
The interior was bigger than I expected, but I never did find a good position for the seat & wheel. It was the 4 door & had almost useable back seats, I never got back there, but there was room for legs with the front seats in normal positions, so it might have been tolerable. It had the MP3 capable CD player, which thankfully had an Aux In jack. Though it sounded worse than my crackly 8 year old speakers in the TT. The sound was just sort of muffled and flat, no matter how it was adjusted.
The ride around town was ok. It absorbed big stuff pretty well, though I could still feel the small stuff. It was pretty floaty overall, lots of lean, lots of drift. I guess the softness is probably part of what made it seem like it had good brakes & probably also made it feel less slow than it was, since squat & dive was quite prominent. The little 1.6L Ecotec 4 cylinder sounded decent. Being paired with a 4 speed automatic didn’t help it deliver much in the way of acceleration, hence the school bus reference. I think I would have lost to one at a stoplight drag. I’m guessing that despite the 34mpg highway rating, I’m guessing I get better mileage in my TT than the Aveo, since I practically used the accelerator as an on/off switch.
This car is a product of GM’s absorption of Daewoo’s assets when they failed. Perhaps that should have been the first warning to those watching GM’s future.
Did I mention you can buy a Honda Fit for about this price? I haven’t driven one, but it can’t possibly be worse.
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- Flatbed update... (5/31/09) [View | Hide]
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I forgot to do an update yesterday. Even though it started yesterday morning, I decided to flatbed it to the dealer just incase it died on the way. Well, I guess I should have called first. Even though no one ever answers. They don’t have the part & had no loaners. 
So, I drove it back home, made it fine. But I’ve been avoiding driving it. Walked to KFC for lunch yesterday & made Ismael drive me to the party last night (which was fun, by the way). Though right now I’m hungry, so I’m not sure where I’m gonna walk to for lunch. I really need to go grocery-ing.
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- Ain't it purdy? (5/30/09) [View | Hide]
The lily bloomed, so I grabbed a shot. This is the first photo I’ve messed with (adjusted, cropped, etc) out of the new camera. The others, I just shot & uploaded.
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- Flatbed Club ... again. (5/30/09) [View | Hide]
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Got back to the car after dinner & it wouldn’t start. It would just turn & turn but not catch, like it was getting no fuel. First thought, cam position sensor. I waited around for the flatbed, wandering Snider Plaza for a bit. When he got there, I was able to impress the driver with my mad tow hook skillz. ;^)
When we got the car back to my place I pulled out my Palm & pulled the codes with VAD VAGMobile. Also, for grins I tried to start it up (after the truck had left of course) & it fired right up. My guess was close, but not quite. There were 3 codes. 2 I already knew about, the 3rd is:
16706 P0322 035 Engine speed sender-G28: No signal
So, it looks like I’m getting up early tomorrow to hope it’ll start again & make it to the dealer. Otherwise, another flatbed ride is in my future. At the moment, I’m just not in the mood to try to fix it myself. 
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- My first Rebellious "roll" (5/27/09) [View | Hide]
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http://maxhedrm.montebellopark.com/Galleries/v/Schtuff/1stRoll/
I got the new toy today and took a few shots before dark. The big lens is fun to play with. & the kit lens is way wider than I am used to. Which is good. These shots were just quickies for the most part, I need to play with it a lot more. I am really looking forward to fiddling with some HDR shots. Yeah, I know it’s gimmicky, but some of the results are pretty cool.
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- Counterproductive... (5/26/09) [View | Hide]
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So, I was using some of that pre-foamed soap from the new dispensers they just installed @ work today and realized something. That stuff may actually make you do a worse job of washing your hands. Previously, I would get my hands wet, and soap, rub them together until I had a good hearty lather, then rinse. With the new stuff I start out with foam, so I find myself rinsing my hands way sooner than I would otherwise. I realize that the foam dispensers probably use less soap & stuff, & I kind of like the foam, but I think the law of unintended consequences is definitely at play.
(And for those from facebook, this isn’t the post I wanted to research first.  )
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- I wonder how I get on this list... (5/20/09) [View | Hide]
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Back in February there was an entry on the GoogleBlog about a cool new Google Gadget called Google PowerMeter. I thought it was pretty cool at the time, but didn’t think much of it, since I doubted it would make it this way for a while. But according to this recent post it looks like it might. TXU is one of Google’s partners in it. I already have the fancy schmancy digital meter, so now I just need to get on the list. & maybe switch back to TXU (though I hope not - I’m hoping it’s just based on your electric delivery company).
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- It will be mine! (5/20/09) [View | Hide]
- Spring 2009 Grades (5/17/09) [View | Hide]
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My grades are finally up. I wasn’t expecting much this term, but was pleasantly surprised for both classes. I’ve known the Virtual Environments grade for about a week, I figured I would end up with a B or something in there, but I guess I showed enough progress to make him happy. The C++ grade that just posted is even more of a surprise. I was prepared to be thrilled if I just passed. I didn’t invest nearly enough work into that class. I guess I did pretty well on the final.
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CS-3335-501 |
C and C++ |
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B |
3.00 |
9.00 |
3.00 |
ATEC-3365-501 |
Virtual Environments |
A |
A |
3.00 |
12.00 |
4.00 |
My current cumulative GPA for UTD is 3.737. A bit lower cos of the B.
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saboi00
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Comment left on: 2/28/09 10:35 PM
lick
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nae
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Comment left on: 4/26/08 11:05 PM
your pic scares me ;)
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a little bit ago as I tend to do randomly. I keep a few items I eventually want to buy in my cart, because they will tell you when the price goes down when you view your cart. I’ve had a 
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