Archive for August, 2009

Oh, Apple. For once, it just doesn't "work".

Aug 27

Posted by Jeryes in Internet, Technology | 2 Comments

I’m a Mac.

Or, at least I use one primarily over my PC. And let me tell ya, my experiences with my Macbook have been most excellent so far. Had a few bumps along the way, but nothing that wasn’t easily fixed because of my own wrong doings. And it’s true! Apple really does make things easy so that anyone and their grandma, who has never touched a computer in her life, can operate one without any headaches. Granted you don’t eff anything up yourself.

Now, I’m not going to go into all the reasons on why I love my Mac. However, I did sign up for MobileMe. It’s a service through Apple in which they provide you with (in case you aren’t already familiar) a @me.com e-mail, give you 20 GB of online storage, also known as iDisk, and hosting for your iWeb website/blog. And that’s great, but let’s face it. Not everyone likes to use iWeb. At least I do not. Do you?

I’m really liking WordPress. I had been trying to build a website by myself using CSS & XHTML, and then I was trying to learn Javascript and I gave up on that. I also have a PHP & MySQL book still waiting to be opened. And I’ll get back to that point, but WordPress is going to make it easy. There are still a bunch of things I need to learn, but it’ll come.

Now, my problem is the fact that in order to host my WordPress website on my MobileMe account, it is ALMOST impossible. Almost I say, because I have seen it done, but to me, it just does not make any sense whatsoever. Perhaps it is simply due to the fact that I am still in the beginner stages of a WordPress blogger. And that is not something I will argue. But really, why can’t it be a little easier? MobileMe does not support databases for PHP and MySQL. That is at least my understanding on the subject. And that is what you need for this whole blogging business to work!

I have downloaded and installed MAMP [Macintosh Apache MySQL PHP (I think)] in order to have a server running on my computer, and downloaded and installed the WordPress package that you download from wordpress.org NOT to be confused with wordpress.com (as I have learned)! I’ve got that all set up and I’ve logged into the admin screen…but after that, I just don’t know what to do. I tried setting up the URL to my domain that I have hosted through MobileMe, but I just ended up getting a MobileMe error. What was I doing wrong? And then on top of that, finding something on Google to help me brought not resolution. I just gave up.

So here I am, complaining on my wordpress.com blog. I hope to get this up on www.jeryes.ca but I just don’t know when. I feel like I babbled on forever, but that’s just simply me expressing my frustration for the only thing that I do not appreciate from Apple. I’m paying for the service. Why not cater to my needs?! I’m sure I’m not the only one!

I think I’ll just go with GoDaddy. They have special bundles specifically for WordPress and it’s from them that I bought my domain. Not a bad idea, right? Excellent.

Tags: Apple, blog, GoDaddy, Jean Ryan Escalante, Jeryes, MAMP, MobileMe, wordpress, Yellowknife

Two Months Away from VFS

Aug 25

Posted by Jeryes in Random thoughts | No Comments

So, today marks the fact that I am two months away from attending my first day at Vancouver Film School. Or VFS for short. I cannot wait. It’s all boiled down to this. I think I will actually be pursuing my dream job for once. I will be done in two years time (hopefully) and will at that time return to Yellowknife with all that I will have learned.

Hoping to pursue a career in graphic design or game design. Can’t really know right now. I do know that I will have to share the story of Jeryes somehow. Whether it be in print or in a browser window or video game console, this must be done!

Top priority right now though: find a place to live! Haha. Hoping to find something downtown or in the Kitsilano area. Judy was right. The money that I will be saving in rent while living in Burnaby will only be spent on expensive commutes to downtown and back in taxi cabs. Might as well pay the extra for a decent location and travel convenience.

Two months is going to pass by so swiftly. Maybe I should start saying my goodbyes soon. I will definitely miss you, Yellowknife!

Tags: Digital Design, Foundation of Visual Arts & Design, Game Design, Jean Ryan Escalante, Jeryes, post-secondary, school, Vancouver, Vancouver Film School, VFS, Yellowknife

I love you, Rogers.

Aug 24

Posted by Jeryes in Technology | 1 Comment

I called Rogers Wireless today and was quite impressed.

First of all, I let him know that I live in Yellowknife, NT Canada and would soon be moving to Vancouver, BC. Someone had told me that Rogers wouldn’t send them an iPhone up to Yellowknife. I don’t remember the specifics of the conversation, but I thought I would ask the person on the other end of the line. They informed that I would be able to an iPhone 3G S sent to me up here in Yellowknife with a Vancouver number. Not too sure if that would be why. Obviously couldn’t give me an NT number seeing as how Rogers isn’t up here. At least, not yet. So sweet. I might just get that iPhone 3G S really soon. Not too worried about roaming charges. I’ll just use it less than I use my current phone. I hate texting. I only use my phone to tweet. And for $0.35 a minute for roaming charges, I really don’t think it’s that bad.

Next question, the HTC Hero. I was looking online today for the Hero (because I’m sure we all know I am absolutely in love with the look of it) and found a rumor that HTC Hero will be coming to North America in October. Rumor being either AT&T or Rogers. I’m rooting for Rogers, obviously. So I asked him. He replied by saying that he had heard the rumor as well but they probably wouldn’t know anything until mid-September if October is indeed the release month for this beautiful piece of hardware.

So there you have it. Rogers has made me happy already and I’m not even a paying customer yet. Now the heartbreak comes with having to choose between the two phones. I love everything Mac (obviously not the make-up line but they do have nice colours. LOL) and it would only make sense to have the iPhone 3G S considering I have a Macbook. Not to mention the fact that I am currently paying for MobileMe so why not have the iPhone 3G S? And if I were to lose my phone, no problem! Find My iPhone would take care of that for me!

The HTC Hero on the other hand is a Google Android phone. The UI looks simply amazing and it would be neat to try something completely new. The Hero will be the first phone to take advantage of HTC Sense. I won’t lie when I say I don’t fully understand what the pros of Sense are as I will have to conduct a bit more research. The shape of the phone really intrigues me. Lest we also forget that I love Heroes and have wanted to be a hero forever now (no lie) so why not have something whose name will give me some sort of ego boost? Haha.

Rogers. I love you. But I think I would love you more if you could just give me these phones for free.

Tags: cell phones, HTC Hero, HTC Sense, iPhone, Jean Ryan Escalante, Jeryes, love, Rogers, Vancouver, Yellowknife

Jeryes V Log 04 – Alone and Singing Hey Ya

Aug 23

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Tags: Bluenotes, Hey Ya, Jean Ryan Escalante, Jeryes, money, Obadiah Parker, school, Yellowknife

Saying goodbye. Again.

Aug 21

Posted by Jeryes in Friends | No Comments

No, no. This is not about my sister. She’s already gone, remember? I posted about that just the other day… At any rate!

My best friend left in the early morning today. We shall call her Ali, for that is her name. Well, nickname I suppose, as her actual name is Alexandra, but no one calls her that except for her parents!

It’s weird. It’s weird that she’s gone. We’ve ALMOST hung out every day this summer. Not so much in these past couple of weeks as I was busy at work and was either working overtime or too tired to stay out too late. I actually left her house early on Wednesday night because I couldn’t stay awake in order for us to watch Marley & Me. Sad. But she ended up painting me zebra print on a canvas with my acrylic paint. Haha! I love it!

Oh, Ali. You know I’ll miss you. We’ve been so extremely close for the past five years and here’s hoping for many more fives to come! Thanks for putting up with me when I was being impossible. Thanks for being there when I came out to my parents and I needed support. Thanks for being my chauffeur when I hated driving the truck or just hated driving. Period. Thanks for being the influence that made me buy Buddy and have my first very own pet. (His water doesn’t look like it got any clearer after cleaning his tank last night. Oh well.)

I know how you keep mentioning that we won’t be seeing each other for two years, but I like to think that we’ll each put a combined effort in seeing each other, despite the financial and geographical problems that we may encounter. Plus, when you really think about it, two years really isn’t all that long. Just promise me that you won’t change too much and I will do the same!

Ali. My best friend. It doesn’t really feel like you’re gone yet. I guess I’ll have to wait until I realize a new number is coming up on my cellphone. I think then the reality will really sink in. And at that time, I will need to eat Mama Escalante’s rice in order to fill in the void. lol

I miss you. Don’t know if this was gut-wrenching or not, but like I said, I don’t really feel that you’re gone yet. Come knock on my door tonight please?

Love you, best friend. Have fun in Red Deer. I’ll see you soon!

Tags: best friend, Jean Ryan Escalante, Jeryes, summer, Yellowknife

Saying goodbye.

Aug 20

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My sister left yesterday for school in the great TO. If you don’t know the place of which I am talking about, Toronto, ON, Canada. She will be attending her second year at Humber College, and not too sure what her program is anymore. I don’t think she will be sticking with the jazz thing, but it most definitely will be in the musical realm.

My sister, Lucy, you see, is extremely talented. She has been captivating our hearts with her voice for as long as I can remember. She is an aspiring songwriter, performer, music producer, blah blah blah, the list goes on! Her dance moves are influenced by none other than the late Michael Jackson, the soulful richness in her voice inspired by great vocalists such as Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, to name a couple. Her lyrics, although sometimes quite questionable in the “WTF, LUCY? LOL!” sense, well, who knows from where they transpire.

I know one day that she will make it big in the musical industry, and I simply cannot wait. I will be there at her concerts leading the cheering, perhaps even the crying as well, along with my wonderful loving parents who have pushed her all the way to be the very best that she can be.

I miss her a lot already. I called her yesterday. She had just arrived at the airport, was picking up her baggage and going to search/wait for her friend Allison. They’ll be great roommates, I’m sure! Walked into her empty room last night after hanging out with friends, mostly my best friend. I guess I had hoped she would have left something behind so that I would have been able to phone her and call her dummy. She did leave something behind, however not anything crucial. The Link from the Legend of Zelda series. A plush doll. Perhaps I’ll send it down to her before I leave for school.

I love you, Lucy. If ever you read this, just know that you make me very proud. Our goodbye wasn’t quite nearly as sufficient as I would have liked, but we’ve said goodbye so many times in the past, that we’re probably used to it by now. Perhaps we should be saying, “See you later!”

I encourage everyone to purchase her album once it hits stores, which is hopefully very soon! Make it happen, Lucy!

Jeryes out.

P.S. My best friend leaves tomorrow in the early morning. I’ll only be able to see her tonight. This week sucks.

Tags: college, goodbye, Jean Ryan Escalante, Jeryes, love, music, sister, talent, Yellowknife

Sunday.

Aug 16

Posted by Jeryes in Random thoughts | No Comments

Sundays are great.

Why is that? To a great number of people out there, it is the Sabbath day, a day of rest. For me, it’s a day to get things done. Whether it be hanging out with friends, working on a mini-project, or tidying up my room, etc. It is never really a day of rest. I’m sure this is the same for a lot of you folks out there!

Today, I hope to do something productive. I’m going to start drawing again. And this time I mean it. I don’t know what I’ll end up drawing. I’m thinking I’m going to start storyboarding my graphic novel idea. Maybe I’ll talk about the idea behind it in another post. I can’t think of the proper wording right now. Still waking up. Haha.

But Sundays… Man, I love Sundays.

Draw, young Jeryes. Draw.

Tags: drawing, Jean Ryan Escalante, Jeryes, relax, Sunday, Yellowknife

Negativity

Aug 15

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Today, I saw Julie & Julia and District 9 back to back. After seeing J&J however, it got me thinking. I was so envious of the fact that these two women found something that they were absolutely passionate about, started their project, and then didn’t stop until it was over. This is a trait that I so dearly wish to possess. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been having these great ambitions of wanting to write a novel, or a graphic novel, or a video game, but for some reason I just end up giving up, either because I believe I am a horrible writer because I have a very minimal vocabulary, or the fact that every time I go to draw or paint or digitally compose a masterpiece, I look at what I’ve done in the first ten minutes, think it looks like absolute garbage and give up. Look at www.jeryes.ca! I HAVEN’T TOUCHED IT IN WEEKS! MAYBE MONTHS!

I have an enormous problem with self-confidence. Rarely do I ever think that I’m actually good at something that I do. I mean, jeepers, I don’t even think I’m all that great at video games anymore, and they used to be my one true passion! I don’t believe in myself so then I don’t apply myself. Maybe that’s why I dropped out of university. I just didn’t get it, but maybe I just had my doubts all along.

Tonight a friend of mine linked me to a page on Wikipedia about “inferiority complex”. I mentioned I’ve been visiting that page every time I doubt myself for the past year, it seems. And it’s true. I really don’t think I’m “good enough”. A good enough brother, son, friend, blah blah blah. Then add all the stuff I want to be like artist, writer, storyteller, whatever. I’m not even sure if this whole post makes sense or if I even know what I’m saying or reading anymore. Ugh. I could go back and re-read this before I click “publish” but why would I? This way it’s raw, it’s fresh, it’s me.

Anyway, at least I feel that if I talk about this somewhere, I’m releasing some of this negative energy. I’m not usually this moody, simply because I don’t do the stuff I don’t think I’m good at often.

I’ll get over this. I’ll just sleep it off. Tomorrow, I blog, because I think that might be the only thing I’ll be really good at. Sharing my thoughts. My ideas. My life. Heck, isn’t that why I’m on Twitter, Facebook, Dailybooth, YouTube, etc?

Tomorrow, I come out. I share my story. Good night, world. Be ready for me.

Tags: inferiority complex, Jean Ryan Escalante, Jeryes, negative, not good enough, Yellowknife