Todd Hertzelle Blogging is for nerds, oh wait…

Old School Eiffel 65 Video! Good Times…

This single video brings back thousands of memories….Man, what good times and how much I miss the people surrounding the memories of this video.

Too Funny!

Oh Yeah: I’m giving my Twtter integration plugin another try, here is to hoping it worked!

Fat Friday

Recycling At Work

We are now recycling all of our trash, any misc trash will need to be put else where. This is nice, because we are recycling first of all. It’s also great because now I can feel good about throwing things away!

Inspiration Via Twitter

I don’t really tweet, however I’ve already made several applications that automatically tweet my status throughout the day / several applications that tweet Press Releases / Food Recalls. With that said, I found a little twitter bird icon this morning that I’m going to use on the new site I’m building. Which has inspired me to use Twitter and inspired my layout!

Talking with an old friend…

Today I was talking with an old friend Mike about Age of Empires 2…One of the best games ever created….Forget StarCraft…pssh! (Picture is kinda un-related, although it does show the conversation window pending!)

So tired, I think I’ll rest for just a moment:

Firefox 3.5 is out!

The title says it all!

Inspiration in the City!

I went down to one of our new locations today to check it out and understand the new concepts. It’s looking great so far, there is a lot of work to do now. But I’m quite inspired by the journey and I’m excited to get back to work tomorrow and start laying a template out. Eventually I’ll post more information about this site, but not until it’s finally released!

Our new location is located in the 9th Street Garage, I parked on the 8th floor today, but right before I left I took a few shots of the city skyline (from the 8th and then 14th floors):

I was just thinking a picture pointing down to the street level area would be great for tilt-shift. Dang-it!

Well hopefully I’ll be able to visit again sometime! Parking was $2 for an hour…Hopefully that will change for our customers!

Please mind the gap!

I don’t need any shoes to dance on the moon! — Today I made great progress on my interface at work. We will see in the long run, tomorrow, whether or not this is going to work out! I have a test tonight, there is still a lot of stuff to do yet!

Beats & Sweat of a Lazy Night

Just a nice boring day today! That was planned, this next week is going to busy! I’m still enjoying Club Test 02, Beats & Sweat (Extended Mix) is quite nifty!

Tree's shot through a window!

More to come tomorrow! Sorry for the boring update, just gotta keep the beats going!

Club Test 02 Now Available!

Bloom 06 has done it again, finally releasing these awesome tracks, which I have been listening to for quite awhile on MySpace music. (Now I have zero reasons again to go and visit MySpace, yeah!!)

Happy to say I downloaded this from iTunes US, thanks Bloom 06 for posting it over here this time!

Tracklist:

Beats & Sweat (Extended Mix)
Dancing On the Moonn (Dance Pop Radio Edit)
Move Your Body (Bloom 06 2009 LIve COncept)
Welcome to the Zoo (Bloom 06 vs Wender DJ Remix)

Man how I wish I could go to one of those Bloom 06 concerts, that would be a dream come true!

First Starbucks!

Vanilla Bean Frappachino! It was very awesome. I also tried the new Asian Chicken from Wendy’s, they dont give you that much, for the amount of money you have to spend for it. But it was still very good, none-the-less.

PS — The Frappachino tasted just like a Vanilla Puddying Pop, which are my favorite!

Killing Creativity

Today was rough in “The Kingdom of Hertzton”…After having a glorious encounter with DSSoS (”Democratic Society of Sights”), my inspiration / creativity levels started to peak. I was petitioned by this government to assist them in confidential matters. Immediately I began to work on this project, just because I felt it was very important to give it a high priority, as I wanted to make a great relationship mark with DSSoS!

With that said, I had to travel to the “Republic of Awesomeness” and utilize their technology they had developed to help DSSoS. I was caught in action in their territory, however I was not instantly rep-remanded, which I though to be a good sign. As a creative being my mood / attitude is a huge factor in design and development of my work and that is where our story continues….Shortly after I received a call to “Begone you murderous traitor, we do not wish to see you in our realm again!”. Please see the chart below on what this did to my creativity / inspiration levels:

As you can see half way through the day, I was pretty much dumb founded by the action that was taken agaisnt me, when I did in fact have permission from the *king* to venture into that territory. I’m really quite bummed about it. My whole weekend feels destroyed.

Tilt Shift Friday

Trying my luck at tilt shifting. What do you think? It’s suppose to look like micro machines!

Before Picture

After Picture

The Perfect KoolAid

First let me say, RIP Michael Jackson. Although I wasn’t do fond of his later work, or his later personality…The man knew music! He will be missed by many!

Anyway! Today’s fine topic is how to procure a high quality KoolAid.

1. Always Measure the Ingredients, this includes the water! 2 quarts = 8 cups, don’t forget that at least one of your cups needs to include ice. (To measure the ice, add some ice and then fill the rest with water until you get 2 cups!)
2. Add the water first, then add the mixed KoolAid power / Sugar and start stirring!

Rush the Morning

Today was great so far, because I got a ton of work done on a system at work. Only a little bit more to go and the phase i’m working on will be done. In other news, I have moved up in the world and I’m now using more advanced pens! Yes that is right, I upgraded pens. My previous pens, were getting stuck in the cap and I had enough!!!

In other news, I took this picture of the sky on my way into work this morning, something about it was very neat!

Always looking towards the sky!

There is so much to do yet…There is no reason for a negative outlook, times can be stressful and rough, but everything always works itself out.

I have quite a lot of things to do at work today (I’m working from home.). This morning was plagued by production problems that hopefully are completely resolved now. All I need to do is copy and paste about 375 recipes from word documents into a database and life will be so much easier! (More to come on this!!)

PS – WoW fans, it looks like Blizzard is going to be fixing Midsummer Fire festival….Great I have so much homework to do tonight too

A Day without Rain

Today was VERY hot, according to Dr. Jetta, the temperature outside was at least 100ºF! (Hot!)

Surprisingly it’s not really hot in my room today though, which is always a great thing!

A Postless Day

Please forgive me for the lack of postages today. Nothing really going on, honestly. Just clicking away on the computer and watching some movies.

A Moon-Lit Night

Look at that moon!

A little touch of boredom…

I got a little bored today and some how ended up digging my ancient Macintosh LC 575 out of the basement. I really wanted to get the internet working on it, but it doesnt seem to like *something*.

Initially the hard drive was sounding pretty bad, it was grinding a bit and if i’m not mistake I heard the head crash a bit. I didn’t think the computer would work after this. However I gave it a bit of a bump to the side in an effort to resurrect it and that seemed to do the trick. After running it for about an hour, the hard drive seems to be back to normal. I ran Disk First Aid and it said their were errors (no suprise!), and it apparently was able to fix the errors. (yay!)

Still no internet yet though. Oh well!
Updated: After working on it for almost an hour, the internet is just dead!

Toto – Africa

This is truly amazing:

Legendary Parking

I bet I could get into my car if I was about 10 inches smaller…I had to climb into the car via the passenger door. Good way to start the morning!

Oh yes, I have a picture:

There is a lot to be done today on a site that I’m working on, stay tuned for more Adventures of Todd, later on this afternoon!

Yo Yo, Dr. Picture Quality in the House?

I still feel completely stupid for uploading pictures this whole time on super-low-rez-mode. Oh well, everything from now on will have so many pixels, the images on these pages will look REAL!

It’s been really really hot today! I plated a thermometer outside and after I brought it inside it said 100º F ! However WolframAlpha say something completely different:

temperature | 93 deg F  (heat index:  106 deg F)
conditions | few clouds
relative humidity | 56%  (dew point: 75 deg F)
pressure | 1008 hPa  (29.77 inHg)
wind speed | 12 mph
wind direction | 230deg  SW
(54 minutes ago)

WolframAlpha hasn’t been very nice to me lately! When I say its 100º F, it’s 100 degrees! Anyway, here are some pictures of our lovely hot afternoon:

Get the Idiot away from the Camera!

Apparently I’ve been shooting in a very very low resolution…Now all my pictures should be at least 2-megapixel. Sorry!

Cooking with Ragnaros

Decided to make some Mac and Cheese today…It’s always quite tasty! I’ve gotten so much done during my work-from-home day today, I love it!

Apparently I’m making Oaties tonight for my mom’s trip. So I’ll have tons of pictures of how to do that since SuperD was interested at one point in seeing / learning how it’s done! Stay tuned.

Yeah, there will be a change!

I know this sounds stupid, but everyday I go home, I always look forward to driving down my “favorite” road. (You’ll see it’s awesome-ness after the jump!) Anyway, I find it very relaxing, rolling the windows down and letting nature take over while you can hear your tires zooming against the blacktop road. It’s a very empowering feeling.

These small pictures really don’t do it justice! Its amazing!

Postless Job

Here is my desk as of last night, prepped and ready for the early morning shift:

Everything went successful and I’m just a bit tired today from the late night start. I have huge plans for tomorrow though (work/code wise), it’s going to be a work-from-home day, in which I will be getting so much done!

I’m going to continue to post everyday, not going to let anything put my amazing blogging plans on hold! Stay tuned for more hot actions from the Adventures of Todd!

The Great and Powerful Todd has spoken!

Today was very busy. There is still so many questions not answered. However, good news is always good, I’ve captured a 80.9% on Exam 2 for my online class. Wootage! I’m taking the night off from raiding (the server is also down, wtf blizzard. — This is the second week in the row we have had downtime on Tuesday afternoon.)

In other news: We’ve had so much rain the past few days, the lake is completely topped off. Pictures after the break. On monday after the first rain storm, the entire lake was covered in lumber and other stuff.

Yes, these we taken while my vehicle was in motion, however I need to thank my mother for taking the camera and snapping some shots for me. Thanks Mom!

Finally, on our way home I saw this really neat looking “Jeep”, what is this?!:

Fixing the Roof!

Although I’m not posting anything work related (and never will), I can’t help but notice the crunch sound as people walk on top of our roof to fix it. The recent rains granted us a new discovery, the roof isn’t quite as solid as we might have thought.

Not raiding tonight in game, going to be doing my math, trying to get ahead again. Also we are some changes to implement at work tomorrow at 4:00am! (I love early mornings!)

PS- the lights are white in our building, so why they show up on camera as pink ripples, I do not know. The picture of the lights remind me of the light at a dentist office.

Rain The Movie :: Part 2

Another day of rain, I sure hope the tree’s are happy about this!

Real Life Que

Wowzers! What a crazy and busy day this has been! I’m so tired…Yet there is still so many unanswered questions in the world! (Mostly about TLS/SSL, mind you!)

Everything is ready for tomorrow. I’m tired and I’m ready for the sleep of a whole six hours. I was trying to Google some stats really quick on the average rate of sleep compared to tired-ness percentage throughout the day…and I found: SRS (Sleep Research Society), where and when can I join?

All qued up for tomorrow!

Testation!

Testing in progress…

Testation Music: Welcome To The Zoo, Bloom 06 vs Wender

The end of the work day…

Still trying to figure out the epic battle: Todd vs SSL/TLS …So far I’m losing, horribly and on top of everything, I have so much more stuff to do apart of this project, that as a result, of all my time being consumed by Todd vs SSL/TLS — Nothing is getting done.

I’ve got a huge test to do. Please wish me luck!

Lunch and the Umbrella Cane…

The cafeteria is in the other building…I’m going to venture through the rain to get me a sandwich!

This Umbrella Cane just reminds me of the “Singing in the Rain” Umbrella…although I’ve only seen the movie once before…

Another Rainy Day

The earth is trying to flood us away…Another week of rain to come!

Updates will be small today, I have so much to do and there is just never enough time to do everything! I’m really not happy that it’s raining again, driving to work or from work in any type of “stupid” weather generally sucks.

The Last Sunday Post (for today!)

So i’ve started on my homework, I’m giving myself till around 6pm to have it completed. Hopefully I’ll make that goal!

Test is tomorrow! Argh!

Update: Shit! I’ve been doing the wrong sections of homework…So technically I haven’t done anything now…I was about to say…I’ve never seen any of this stuff! *sigh*

Gourmet Lunch (with leftovers)

Wanted to have fun with my lunch this afternoon. I decided to “plate” some left-overs…I really should get started on this homework! This is Southwest Chicken w/ Soy Sauce and Broccoli, really just threw something together and took a picture of it at an interesting angle. It was actually pretty good with a little bit of ranch dressing.

Twitter Intergration

I’ve updated my wordpress to Intergrate with Twitter, hopefully now I’ll never have to “tweet” ever again!

Sunday Morning

Going to be a busy day today. I’ve yet to do any of my homework and I’m still in that, “I don’t want to do my homework now or ever again” mood. I’m not sure if this mood is ever going to go away, perhaps it’s just apart of getting older, homework seems just more and more pointless. I went outside to try and chill out and relax, I’m so glad it’s not raining non-stop like it was a few weeks ago:

previous week: fog: 18.5% (1.3 days)   |  rain: 8% (13.4 hours)   |  thunderstorm: 1.1% (1.8 hours)
WolframAlpha

Also this new hobby of trying to take at least one picture of something everyday is actually pretty fun. However being bored and not doing much prevents me from capturing a “good” photo. I’ve been moving around the house trying to think of something to take a picture of on one of my off-days (today). So this is where the weather comes in!

I’ve always liked the different names of cloud types. From what I can tell these are Altocumulus clouds. I remember seeing a chat like this one here , in which you see the different levels of clouds in our troposphere. Maybe I’ll make my Sundays RnD day for cloud types until I’ve seen them all.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire!

As its stands tomorrow (Sunday, June 14, 2009), Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince will be out in theaters in about 32 days! This means that in 32 days, SuperD and Dean will be eating popcorn watching its amazing-ness! So why are you reading HPGoF? Well basically, I’ve had a ritual that every time a new movie comes out for the series, I read the entire series all the way up to the book that is coming out in the movies. So for this movie, I will read up to OoP and then after I watch the movie, I’ll read the movie book followed by the rest of the books. (Just because I can’t stop, right?)

I read all of them pretty slowly, considering I spend maybe ten to fifteen minutes every other night trying to make progression. Is anyone else reading these as often as I do? I think this is my third time reading the series.

Should be doing Homework…

…instead I’m playing team fortress!

Back to Blog!

Ok, Ok…We’ve heard it before…The blog thing, yes I know, I know! I’ve done this all before. Now I will resume to tell you that I will be blogging more often, doing all sorts of things. This time I really mean it!

I’ve got the Flickr account all setup now and everything, a decent theme, because I’m too busy to make my own at the moment.

Today I spent a large majority of my time running around. We stopped by The Home Depo and I saw these really neat shades of green, almost like a green screen color, check them out:

I’ve got to get use to using my camera, going to try and post photo’s almost any day I can.

Thanks for stopping by!