At 22 and Too old to think that I am too old to go to school…. nah…just playing. Yep thats right I am going to school this August 25 2008. Aleast its only part-time 8 credits for my certification classes for Cisco CCNA. You gotta Love it! So I hope all is well. and I am ready for this time.

New items: clingster.com

catchy name! eh? Well what you think about the name? Well…..I and  A group of friends are creating a site with FREE tutorials. The main purpose is people driven tutorials. We don’t need fancy-hard to read directions. We are using geeklog cms for the portal…. it will include a forum and user login. Registered user will be able to post tutorials and with approval of the tutorial team….it will be indexed into the site for searchable content. ALL user input and All FREE!

So if you want to start adding tutorials to our site… goto: www.clingster.com

Register and post……. The site is in owner beta phase. But please Register

Thank you….

Mr. Geek

So I am a Database geek; tables, data, and relationships. I recently finished a sub project for my boss, adding a book inventory within the same database. It is amazing what you can do with data. I am used to writing code from the ground up and then mending out the bumps. FileMaker 9 is a database alternate to Microsoft Access, which I am MOS certified in, FileMaker 9 is made up differently but works the same jiffs. I am not a FileMaker Guru but I am a Geek that can figure out many things out. This Project was just off an idea, people at my job whine about not having certain data for grant writing, co-workers running and hunting for the hard copies. You can see the stress polluting the airways. So I have designed and programmed a registration, Daily Sign-In log, and a book inventory system. The first phase was unworking for a user, then added color and nice-to-see interface, used many scripts and layouts to automate some things, then scripted all the loose ends so user can not mess up…..so now we have a user-friendly database with a nice Interface. so the next time someone need a report……bingo.. I got you an automated report. it took me less than 5 minutes to send the report to upper-management. Presto…. you got a happy employee and an employer. Guys have a great  day

Am I just a Geek or am I more than I think I am? Today in my Culture, it is like “What you see is what you get”. But I feel that we has humans are more than just “What you see” and Sometimes “You get more then the eyes meet”. Take this for example, Have you have ever climbed a hill by foot or car? You thought to yourself, Wow, thats awesome scenery, before you hit to the top of the hill. You look up and Bam! You see a valley of prettiness. You get more than you bargain, so back about me. I sometimes get to a point where I feel that I have awesome Skills, Being a geek, and being an artist of all sorts. I build websites, design Techy Documents, Teach Computer Skills, I make Resumes, I Play Music and lots more. BUT sometimes I don’t use the best of my skills, I slide a little bit and coast. But I know that I can go at it Full Speed. and Possible that I am more than I think I am? I  Know I can do More!

You are asking yourself, how can a Geek love another Geek? It seem though maybe its like a robot trying to cry. But either way sooner or later, something will happen, just like when Humans will never be able to reach to the moon, it did happen! Just Like I was saying that Geeks loves other Geeks. How and Why? Well you for beginners, Geeks are not just Geeks, there is a sub-genre of Geeks - to name a few - Band Geeks, Pyro Geeks, Car Geeks, Food Geeks, Math Geeks, etc… but the types of Geeks I am trying to reach is Net Geeks or Computer Software Geeks. and all in between….and of course you don’t need to be a geek for my blog….So in my title “Geek Love: Using Open Source Software”. Lets sorts things out:

What is Love?

Taken from Urban Dictionary ”

Love can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end. Love is intense,and passionate. Everything seems brighter, happier and more wonderful when you’re in love. If you find it, don’t let it go. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:

That word is love. ”

What is a Geek?

Taken from Urban Dictionary ”

What is open Source?

Taken from Urban Dictionary ”

Beware of the trap of being addicted to social feedings.

You can’t have enough information of other people’s lives.

I can’t believe I can say I read way to much on people daily lives. twitter and rss feeds are addictive. Here I said it! the 12 step program, Do you really thing I was going to give you guys a 12 step program for IT addicts? Sure I am not. I belong to about 13 forums and I read about 17 blogs daily. It is like a inlet for me because sometimes I have an introverted part of me, just like I have an outrovertiness about myself. Do you know what I am trying to say? I mean that I don’t talk to people sometimes, and I like that. Don’t get me wrong but I do like talking to people about a lot of things. Why do I  read a blog and read a forum post? Well, persay maybe its a way for me to have a conversion with a person without the body language or the fear of rejection of my disability. When I read blogs I know that that person via they way they type or what the topic was. So, I really talk with the person daily, I at least comment on thier blog post, is that enough? A forum is a little different, there is multiple people talking about someone’s thought or feeling about a situation! What do you guys think about types of ways to communicate, we all know about email, but what other things, like Facebook, myspace, or any bother SN (Social networks). What do you guy think about a universal Network? like Create a bridge of all SN’s into one pot?

Big Johnny-B-Goode: MrGeeK, when do we stop our Education Progress?
MrGeeK : Well Big John, We don’t stop learning, you just need to B-Goode!

Hear me out fellow geek and geeknettes:

Do you ever get the feeling of being old, not the sense of age but the learning process in Technical advances. Seems in my world that when I decide to write a note to my co-worker or write a real genuine thank you letter, I feel like the web has left me, I am hopping on one foot try to cross a lava land hoping that I will reach to the end of the race at least in last place. I think it is my attitude really. Knowledge is a powerful thing, to much will land you in jail and not enough will land you in politics. So Balance your knowhow.

What are saying buddy, you are all over the page. I am sure of that. The truth is that you are never too old to learn, if only if your mindset isn’t. I am just recapping my feelings of my week at work. Stressed? Yes. Ready for the next week? Yes. Why? Because natural ability to related your senses through your feelings and outputting them into functional emotions is very awesome!

WHAT!

Well, I had a client that is 73 years of age. He is one of my Microsoft Office class students. he has this vast positive attitude. He started out not able to started the PC period! I introduce him with the idea, you tell the computer what to do to achieve your goal, he love that! Then Typing Skills, Basic Computer Skills, and Micro$oft Office. To my surprise, He learned how to setup a free email account! Without my assistance! and behold theres more, HTML, thats right. HTML He had ask me! “Ya-Know how them computers have the internet, well how-ya go about making them googles papers” I was all most in a orgy of laughter when he said that! so I proceeded teaching the core of html in notepad, yah rah for notepad.exe!!!!!!! He is now learning some basic css and id/name/class references.

This type of wave of emotion is just fine and dandy. I love to Instruct, Lead, and help my clients to achieve there goals, whatever they choose, well almost all

Have a great weekend Bloggers and readers

Ring Ding–ding-ssss- *What the, it’s 6:30am again*

The First Thing you thing of when you wake…eh, trying to wake up! is that your Alarm is EVIL. Lets look at this, It seems though that you don’t praise your Alarm clock when it wakes you normally but the moment that you reset it, and you know it is very important day tomorrow! The Alarm Clock Knows too! Because what happens? Your Alarm does not go OFF! Better yet, it makes you think that your dumb, your very own alarm like to flip from AM to PM.

Your Just Nuts Mr. Geek, well I rather be nuts than be an alarm clock! So You are now laying in bed Fighting for your Life, In your Mind, *Well, I got 5 Minutes* *Oh I don’t need to make Coffee, I can sleep just little more*

Any Hands here? or I am just delusional.

You softly “Rest your Eyes”, and in your heart, you know you will wake within Five minutes. 45 minutes flies by and your like….*Oh snot, fling out of bed, jump and fly into the shower, do the 7 second Nascar Rinse and Jump out and……..

So the Morning Blahs…goes on! Here are tips for Fighting the Morning Blahs!:

1. Plan your time, make a Plan to sleep, eat, dream, work, play, laugh, grow etc…
2. Go to bed early!
3. Set up multiple Alarms in 5 minute intervals like 3-4 of them
4. Don’t drink fluids in evenings, so you don’t have to pee in the middle of the night
5. Exercise before going to bed
6. NO TV in the bedroom after dinner! if its on use will watch it!
7. Drink Water or Juice to *wake up the brain*
8. Put the Alarm clocks away from the bed! Across the room!

Hopefully this will help you Some other Things

Here fatty fatty,

I am a Geek, thats Mr. Geek to you! Mr. Geek is about 300 pounds around a month ago! Mr. Geek is now around 285!

So, the topic is losing weight. And No I am not tell you how to slim down, the magic DIEt or do the purfect weight lose program. What I doing is telling you how I am losing weight. You must wonder why or how this topic relates to my Edublog? I am a computer guy, the fat computer instructor, the programmer, and  a digital chef of Art. There are many other thing that I am , face it, I am ME. and to relate that, you are YOU! Food is important, it is part of learning, have you heard the term “Feed the Mind” yes, I know just learning a lot of stuff but really, it means that the food you eat is the fuel for learning! In comparison, what you eat is how you would learn.

How about losing those pounds? Well, you can’t just lose them, it is not like you clear the buffer and poof the memory is gone. Losing weight is math! here are the variables ax=Intake, qw=What rate of burning the intake, ct=How much intake burned, sg=End Result. ml=Your Body

So CALC this:                 (ax*qw)-ct=sq=sq-ml

Sum this up……If you burn more then your intake, you WILL Start losing weight

Well, Mr. Geek thats just fine and dandy but how do I keep myself from eating more than I can burn? Its your Will! Have faith that you will lose weight! Here are some Tips for losing weight, It was for me

1. Plan: Know what, where, and how much your going to eat!
a. Calendar style
b. Do Research- what is good/bad for your body
c. Eat many times a day in small chunks
d. Make a Goal, A Goal that you can achieve
2. Cut the Pop: Your Fabby Gut is from your sugar intake!
a. You can drink teas
b. Flavor water

3. Exercise: How much? I hiked a good hour everyday

4. Small: It’s proven that you’ll eat less from a small source then more then a large Source
a. Cut half or quarter size of your intake

5. Water: Drink Twice or triple amount of your current water intake (Cold)

6. Fast Food: you can cut fast food, not really needed, just make smart choices

7. Attitude: Important, “I am losing weight because I want to, not because I have too!”

What ever you do don’t shake it cause you haven’t tried it! This is a choice for myself and I need to give it some time.  Six days ain’t going to work, try 3 weeks. Don’t force yourself! Make A Change through a challenge, if you succeed, reward yourself with knowing your weight lost, not with more food! I wish you the best in A Geek Life: Lose those pounds!

Aslo check out a cool book about Techology and Weight loss. The Hacker’s Diet 

How do you handle stress? Is it the Chocolate FactorX, Praying, Exercising or a Good Foot massage? Well I tend to regulate my stress pretty well and I sometimes….well lets face…WE ALL Get Stressed out! Your Boss, your Kids, Students, Hubby or Wife and all above give and receive stress! I have some Tips to relieving the nastly stress bug.

1. Realize: you have stress, go outside! WALK and Close your Eyes!
2. Hot Bath: A nice Bath is great for the tension on the shoulders caused by stres.
3. Eat Right: NO Junk food for food, you can have that for minor snacks.
4. H2O Intake: Drink more water then coffee or soda!
5. Plan: When you will Take Breaks. What Tasks are Improtant NOW!
6. Help: Your Co-workers are not just CW, they are part of your Team!
7. Take Time: You have Sick Days, Use them or you will Lose them!
8. Have Fun: Take Family out, enjoy a Nice meal then watch a movie!

There is many other ideas and Tips for reducing your stress level. Just Remember one thing, Balance them!