Christy Moseley, the early years

Christy Moseley and her wife Marianne are two of my favorite people and best friends. (Sorry if I spelled your name wrong, Merryaanne’.) And once upon a time, like many of us, Christy was way young and a rockstar. This is how Christy used to rockstar.

The best part about this is all the good parts are still true only better. Christy is still awesome, still beautiful, still compassionate, and still cutting hair for rockstars. Only now she’s married, pregnant, and living in Key West. Plus a whole lot more. If anything, all the experiences between then and now have made Christy one of the most beautiful people we know. She’s even better looking now than she was as the teen rebel pictured below. (You can tell she’s a real gRRRR-rrrirl.) CHRISTY MOSELEY CUTS MY HAIR and we love you, Christy!

PS “Straight talk”? hahahaha

BUSINESS
Straight Talk
Christy Moseley

Photos by Erin Hurley

by Melody Williams
Richmond.com
Tuesday March 18, 2003

Christy Moseley, previously apprentice instructor and mentor at Nesbit The Complete Body Salon in Richmond, recently was promoted to educational director.

Title: Educational director
Organization: Nesbit The Complete Body Salon
Previous position: Apprentice instructor and mentor at Nesbit
Education: Bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1997; received Virginia Cosmetology license from Richmond Technical Center, 1991; received instructor’s license from Central Virginia College of Cosmetology, 2000
Career turning point: “When I started working at Nesbit.”

“The position for me solidifies what I’m doing at Nesbit. At Nesbit I’ve always been the type of person that just couldn’t be a stylist behind the chair. I’ve always been a go-getter, one to jump on board. So it makes me feel like I have direction.

“I’ve been in the industry for 12 years. The summer before college, before I started the AFO program, I worked as a shampoo assistant at a salon in Chesterfield. I liked it and went through an apprenticeship myself. So I learned to do hair the first year of college. It was great to earn extra money, but I found that when I was done [with the art degree], I still wanted to do hair. So I started full time at the salon I was in.

“What I found through my personal experience was that there wasn’t anybody checking behind to see if the apprentices were cutting hair correctly. Salons weren’t regulated through the state. With this new position I teach other stylists how to teach apprentices. I’m also the network educator for Bumble and Bumble at our salon. They offer a lot of workshops. I’ve traveled to Connecticut, San Francisco, D.C. and New York, all for education for Nesbit. I’ve fine-tuned all the questions that I had about hair, about color. Being an educator, I grew so much from that. Three of those trips were actually with a salon consultant firm called Strategies. They help to encourage a more team-based environment within hair salons. To help encourage that environment there has to be skill sets in place. I help write these skill sets. These help ensure that clients receive the highest quality of service and that everyone knows how to execute procedures.

“Also within this title I’m a salon team leader, which means I run team meetings for stylists. Within my meetings we exchange new ideas, brainstorm new fashion, hair. It all works together. I thank the owners Nesbit, Michael and the manager, Kathleen for our team-based environment.

“Because the owners are in tune to education, we’re overly trained almost. We’re busting out of our seams to learn what is new, and we stay up-to-date. I help make sure our salon doesn’t fall through the cracks. It’s also a pleasure for me to see people grow.

“I’m learning to be a leader right now and I’m learning how to really educate. Anybody can educate, but not everyone can inspire. What I do affects what they [students] do. Continuing to become more of a leader and to grow within that is a goal. I never want to get off the floor completely, because I don’t want to loose that creative aspect of my job.

“[Advice for someone entering the industry] would be to be aggressive about your education, embrace it and take it seriously. Seek out as much education as possible. For anything that you do in your life, just make sure you’re happy and you enjoy what you’re doing.”

Good Night

There’s a little bright star next to the moon. Can you see it?

Is BP at War with the US?

Is it? Is BP at war with the US?

There is anecdotal evidence galore.

Disaster may be worse than 9/11

BP planes attack Coast Guard with chemical weapons

BP’s police protection units

BP and EPA skirmish over dispersants

Let’s say that BP was at war with the US. If they did so openly, it would be a cause for international alarm. The US would engage the US military. As it stands presently, BP is using the US military in their operations.

By not declaring war on the US—and not being at war in a de facto sense, either—but rather “just” cleaning up a disaster, BP may be the first corporation to openly be at war with a nation.

Why is BP at war with the US? That’s another question. But the first step is to acknowledge that they are.

Sony Vaio VGN-CS190 assembly repair take-apart due to broken Intel® WiFi Link 5100AGN

A friend’s Sony Vaio VGN-CS190′s wireless card stopped working. I told him I could fix it. Mistake.

I could locate no take-apart guides or VGN-CS190 manuals online. Always a bad sign.

So I went for it anyhow. And I cracked open the case.

Here’s what I found: Nothing.

Well, pretty much. And I did find that it’s pretty simple to take apart the Sony Vaio VGN-CS190.

After I got the bottom off—the trick is to unsnap the plastic case hinges, which really just unsnap and then its open—inside was pretty obvious. All except for one thing. No visible Intel® WiFi Link 5100AGN.

I did NOT want to have to go further…sigh…

…so I contacted Sony’s customer service. You know, to kill time. I immediately started chatting with a customer service rep which was great. Very impressive, you know, how fast I was able to get a hold of Sony customer service and have them tell me that they don’t have that kind of information available because the way Sony Vaio’s are made is really special (“proprietary”) and that I should NOT take apart the laptop. And could I please confirm I got all that so the customer service rep could say that she/he answered my question? thank you.

At least I didn’t have to wait long to be unhelped so professionally well.

[to be continued...]

Linksys Wireless-N Gigabit Router WRT310N

After installing two of these, I have to give credit to Linksys for providing such an easy-to-understand install for the Linksys Wireless-N Gigabit Router WRT310N.

Wireless routers can be tricky. They don’t have to be but they generally are. In fact, some are often nearly impossible. (Hello D-Link.) So when a wireless install is 1) simple, and 2) works, its noteworthy.

Of course, if the router stank that would be a bummer. However, this router is awesome. How awesome? In a 8000-sq.ft., two-story private residence it reached to nearly every spot upwards as well as outwards. And that was using the “g-protocol.” Using the “n-protocol” (and a genuine gigabit switch and new cat-6 cabling) was outrageous in its range and speed even though only described as a mid-range wireless router.

Plus, it is perhaps the most attractive (non-apple) router I have installed.

I have installed two WRT310N’s so far, and I look to install more in the future.

MGMT—Electric Feel

MGMT – Electric Feel from albi on Vimeo.

MGMT – Electric Feel
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How to use HP Recovery CD/DVD Creator

It is presently common practice for computer manufacturers to (what I consider) fail to include recovery CDs or DVDs, claiming it adds to the bottom line. In any case, here is something important to know about HP’s Recovery CD/DVD Creator software: In order for the software to work and for recovery disks to be created, DVD+Rs must be used.

DVD+R. Not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R. Not DVD+RW. Not DVD-RW. Exclusively and only DVD+Rs. Here is the reference at HP. It is less clear than one would hope (particularly to those of us with only limited experience with blank DVD media).

ALSO: It is worth nothing that 1) the Recovery CD/DVD Creator creates only one single set of recovery disks—be they the 18 CDs or the 3 DVD+Rs—and 2) that if the creation process is stopped mid-stream it will not restart at the beginning but at where it was left off. In other words, one shot is all you get.

larytta – souvenir de chine

Adaware

For goodness sake, use adaware!

There are alternatives, yes, and some even work. But for every minute I have spent using adaware preemptively, I have saved hours of clean-up and recovery. Installing and running adaware is the first thing I do after creating a system restore point on a new client’s computer.

The free version has to be run manually, and that’s all it takes to have one of the best guards against malicious software being installed on your computer.

Somethings I have noticed about adaware. One, after installing you should check for updates even after it says it has updated the program. That’s important. Then run it for the most current version and use of spyware definitions.

Next, on the average, I find about 300 “infections” are discovered on the average first run. The lowest I have discovered is around 8 for a first running of adaware. The most is over 3000. (It took 45 minutes just to boot that computer—the price of free porn being available on a 24-hr basis to 23-year old males.) Yet for the most part, these so-called infections are just cookies. It is the “critical items” which are more worriesome.

Critical items are genuine threats to a computers functioning and well-being. I’d say the number one I come across is MyWebSearch. I love seeing adaware pick that off. And getting rid of MyWebSearch is by far one of the most satisfying quick-fixes I know of. It’s like a miniature version of the awesomely troubling AOL software. (Getting rid of AOL software is no small task. Of course, it’s nothing compared to getting rid of McAfee anti-virus software. That’s practically Herculean.)

Lastly, when you check off the items for adaware to get rid off, some items will be declared to be in need of a computer restart to completely eradicate. So when you finish, it will appear they are still in place. Restart the computer. If you want, rerun adaware again. They’ll be gone.

Computers, Astronauts, Key West and you (and me)

It’s only been three years since I started HowToRockstar but much has changed. For one, I am in Key West full-time now though I have branched out to Jamaica recently. Next, I work on computers full-time, as well. Lastly, Humannaires has taken off into the most natural direction possible, meaning it was that astronautics and working with developing human beings (ie kids) was the right direction for me to go in.

All this means is that it was long past due time to change H2RS.

Since I live eat and breathe cpus and networks now I have to write about them. There is so much I do not understand but everyday there are one or two thing I discover that were a bear to discover recover or find and from which others might benefit.

My coding skills are bare minimal I understand enough to listen and that’s about it. My google skills however are formidable. People pay to Google, that’s how I look at it.

Since I spend so much time with Peter Downie (aka DJ Peter Worth) you would think I’d be into DJing more. But the whole dj thing seems played out. I seem more like and EJ—electric jockey: Electricity and sounds electrical in nature, and showcasing these, this keeps me interested. And making happy noises!

When I arrived in Key West in 1965, who knew that even while I had left at an early age (before I was 2) the region would imprint upon my open and impressionable soul. Yet it did. Subsequently, this is where I am from. This is who I am.

I am glad we left then, and I am glad I came back. But in truth, in the end in order to be true to myself I had no choice: My soul literally screamed for this saltwater backcountry, these shores, and this side of the Gulf of Mexico. It had for as long as I can remember remembering.

(Undoubtedly this was at least partially because the entire time I was here, as first-born I had my (then-ecstatically) happy new mother and her mother—my adoring Nana—entirely to myself. My first memories are all of the two of them and I on the seashore of Marathon and the lower-Florida Keys. )

So I’m here, it’s good, and I have things to say. At the end of the day, this is HowToRockstar.