I'm afraid I don't update this as much as I'd like to.
But for all my devoted readers, here is another picture of someone wearing a belt when it's clearly unnecassary
Maybe I have important links? Nope :(
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Slooow start
Off to a bit of a sloow start after such a long period away. (Excuse the terrible writing!)
LA hospitals are using homeless in an insurance fraud Scam Well done!
Kanye West says the word Fag is Disrespectful
I could have sworn I had more than 2 links. Slow start certainly isn't an understatement.
LA hospitals are using homeless in an insurance fraud Scam Well done!
Kanye West says the word Fag is Disrespectful
I could have sworn I had more than 2 links. Slow start certainly isn't an understatement.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Rumours of my death were greatly exaterated
Friday, May 23, 2008
Mostly irrelevant....
I haven't blogged in ages.
Here is an irrelevant link to an article about some guy who has sex with cars. I think it's a little bit unfair that only he gets the mentioned when there are entire forums for people who do it.
Here is an irrelevant link to an article about some guy who has sex with cars. I think it's a little bit unfair that only he gets the mentioned when there are entire forums for people who do it.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
What Technology I've been sleeping with lately
Everyone who knows me, knows that sometimes I like to sleep with electronic devices. Lately, I've been sleeping with this surge protector. I don't know very much about it. I haven't plugged it in. I imagine it would give me better surge protection than my existing surge protector (Which is about 16 years old)
Sadly, in order to use it. I would have to stop sleeping with it. If I stop sleeping with my surge protector, who will keep me from being lonely at night? :)
Monday, April 14, 2008
Untitled
Harder Bodies (Male Single version)
There's something about this video I like. I just can't put my finger on what it is.
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Sick day.....
The author is sick today. All the expected posts for today have been cancelled.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Conflicting views
I caught two articles from the Edmonton Journal in my RSS feed reader this morning. The articles themselves are not very interesting. I find it amusing that two articles posted at exactly the same time say opposite things about presumably the same event.
The second article has more details, so I'm going to guess that it's the more accurate one. The first article was likely hastiely made with a catchy headline to grab readers. Neither article is really worth reading. Why would they be speculating about the cause of the fire before the police even got a chance to investigate it? CHECK YOUR FACTS! No more sensational bullshit. The news is trying imply that growing pot will make your house light on fire and kill you.
The second article has more details, so I'm going to guess that it's the more accurate one. The first article was likely hastiely made with a catchy headline to grab readers. Neither article is really worth reading. Why would they be speculating about the cause of the fire before the police even got a chance to investigate it? CHECK YOUR FACTS! No more sensational bullshit. The news is trying imply that growing pot will make your house light on fire and kill you.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Content?!
Yes, I do on occassion write things in this blog. Unfortunately, I have nothing to write about. It looks like I'm just going to have to fake it.
Nope...
Not going to work.
Read this if you're bored.
Nope...
Not going to work.
Read this if you're bored.
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Saturday Link Round up!
Instead of creating some actual content, I'm just going to link to other articles that I thought were cool. That way I don't need to ever even produce anything.
DirecTV Contractor Demands Tip Before Starting Work, Storms Out When Faced With A Table
Whenever I read this title, I burst out laughing. The story really is that funny. Next time someone comes to your house, make sure to remove all your tables!!
Ticketmaster Charges 168% Of 3 Doors Down Ticket Price In Fees
Ticketmaster Always makes me really angry. It's not like I'm cheap or anything, it's just that I'd prefer it if they'd tell me what exactly the price is. I don't mind paying 3 thousand dollars for a concert ticket. (If that seems like a reasonable price.) Just tell me the price up front! Don't say the ticket is only $5 and then $2995 service fees!
In this case they're complaining that the ticket price is $5 and then the Ticket Master Fees make the ticket much more expensive. A little bit sly, isn't it?
Alone in the Dark Delayed Until June | Game | Life from Wired.com
Sadness. I'm really looking forward to this game, but I realise that delays happen all the time. I'd rather the game was delayed for a very long time. If it meant that the game was very polished. The tech demo looks promising. I look forward Alone in the Dark. It looks very innovative (contrary to most EA titles) June isn't that far away anyway, and it's probably right around the time of year when I'll be looking for something to play.
Doctors never seem to be able to decide on what is and isn't healthy. The common myth that you needed to drink 8 glasses a day and the myth that Coffee is unhealthy for you have both been disproved. I hope that one day the doctors will be able to decide what is and isn't healthy.
Evangelion is really cool. Wired takes a look back at the trends the series has caused. They recently released a remake movie in japan. I can't wait to see it hit state side.
DVICE: Cup PC concept is a bit too high-tech Hi-tech coffee cup. You spill it onto the table to get your display. You pour it into another person's cup to exchange data. I want one. Too bad It's probably impossible with today's technology.
This interview with Ken Levine talks about System Shock 2 and how it was made. Apparently SS2 would have been pretty much exactly the same game without the SS licence. Atleast it wouldn't be a complete and utter rip off of about 7 other games like BioShock is.
That's all I have for today. Hopefully it can tide everyone over until I find some real content to post.
DirecTV Contractor Demands Tip Before Starting Work, Storms Out When Faced With A Table
Whenever I read this title, I burst out laughing. The story really is that funny. Next time someone comes to your house, make sure to remove all your tables!!
Ticketmaster Charges 168% Of 3 Doors Down Ticket Price In Fees
Ticketmaster Always makes me really angry. It's not like I'm cheap or anything, it's just that I'd prefer it if they'd tell me what exactly the price is. I don't mind paying 3 thousand dollars for a concert ticket. (If that seems like a reasonable price.) Just tell me the price up front! Don't say the ticket is only $5 and then $2995 service fees!
In this case they're complaining that the ticket price is $5 and then the Ticket Master Fees make the ticket much more expensive. A little bit sly, isn't it?
Alone in the Dark Delayed Until June | Game | Life from Wired.com
Sadness. I'm really looking forward to this game, but I realise that delays happen all the time. I'd rather the game was delayed for a very long time. If it meant that the game was very polished. The tech demo looks promising. I look forward Alone in the Dark. It looks very innovative (contrary to most EA titles) June isn't that far away anyway, and it's probably right around the time of year when I'll be looking for something to play.
Doctors never seem to be able to decide on what is and isn't healthy. The common myth that you needed to drink 8 glasses a day and the myth that Coffee is unhealthy for you have both been disproved. I hope that one day the doctors will be able to decide what is and isn't healthy.
Evangelion is really cool. Wired takes a look back at the trends the series has caused. They recently released a remake movie in japan. I can't wait to see it hit state side.
DVICE: Cup PC concept is a bit too high-tech Hi-tech coffee cup. You spill it onto the table to get your display. You pour it into another person's cup to exchange data. I want one. Too bad It's probably impossible with today's technology.
This interview with Ken Levine talks about System Shock 2 and how it was made. Apparently SS2 would have been pretty much exactly the same game without the SS licence. Atleast it wouldn't be a complete and utter rip off of about 7 other games like BioShock is.
That's all I have for today. Hopefully it can tide everyone over until I find some real content to post.
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Friday, April 4, 2008
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic The Sith Lords
I can finally play it.
After the 3 year wait to play it I finally have a computer that will run it. I've had a computer capable for over 2.5 years, but it's been a bunch of really silly bugs that have been preventing me from playing the game.
The initial problem was that I did not have access to a computer capable of running KOTOR:TSL at a consistent frame rate. My computer at the time was an aging P4 with an MX440 graphics card, which wasn't really suitable for anything really. (I did manage to play half-life 2 on it, which amazed me.) So I just didn't care. KOTOR didn't exist if I couldn't play it.
Then a few months later, I got a new computer with a graphics card, processor, and the right amount of ram to run Kotor. I tried to run the game, and I got a frame rate that was even worse than what I got with my old computer. How peculiar! (I later found out that there was a bug in the NVIDIA drivers that causes this.)
So, once again, KOTOR didn't exist to me. Now, I have a new computer. It's much much faster than my old one. Strangely enough, this one wont' run the game either. I think the graphics card driver is the culprit again. Either that or Windows Vista doesn't like it very much. I think it's a bit of both. I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong, but I believe Auroa Engine which Powers KOTOR and KOTOR2 uses openGL. I get random corruption all over the screen. I got sad, because I wouldn't be able to play this ancient game.
Then I had thought. "Woudln't it run perfectly fine on Linux?" Since OpenGL works great in linux. So I decided to fire up WINE and see how it works. In order to install it I had to download a PlayOnLinux which is a gui for configuring and installing software in wine. I got everything installed and was about to play to experience KOTOR, until, the game crashed as soon as I started it. For some reason WINE didn't like my graphics card either.
The Solution to this problem was a lot simpler than I thought it would be. When I installed my graphics card drivers, I only installed the 64bit drivers. Wine is a 32bit program, so it could not use the 64 bit drivers. I installed the 32bit compadability drivers and WINE works perfectly now.
It's ironic when games are more compatible with WINE than Vista isn't it? (Even if the real culprit may actually be NVIDIA)
After the 3 year wait to play it I finally have a computer that will run it. I've had a computer capable for over 2.5 years, but it's been a bunch of really silly bugs that have been preventing me from playing the game.
The initial problem was that I did not have access to a computer capable of running KOTOR:TSL at a consistent frame rate. My computer at the time was an aging P4 with an MX440 graphics card, which wasn't really suitable for anything really. (I did manage to play half-life 2 on it, which amazed me.) So I just didn't care. KOTOR didn't exist if I couldn't play it.
Then a few months later, I got a new computer with a graphics card, processor, and the right amount of ram to run Kotor. I tried to run the game, and I got a frame rate that was even worse than what I got with my old computer. How peculiar! (I later found out that there was a bug in the NVIDIA drivers that causes this.)
So, once again, KOTOR didn't exist to me. Now, I have a new computer. It's much much faster than my old one. Strangely enough, this one wont' run the game either. I think the graphics card driver is the culprit again. Either that or Windows Vista doesn't like it very much. I think it's a bit of both. I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong, but I believe Auroa Engine which Powers KOTOR and KOTOR2 uses openGL. I get random corruption all over the screen. I got sad, because I wouldn't be able to play this ancient game.
Then I had thought. "Woudln't it run perfectly fine on Linux?" Since OpenGL works great in linux. So I decided to fire up WINE and see how it works. In order to install it I had to download a PlayOnLinux which is a gui for configuring and installing software in wine. I got everything installed and was about to play to experience KOTOR, until, the game crashed as soon as I started it. For some reason WINE didn't like my graphics card either.
The Solution to this problem was a lot simpler than I thought it would be. When I installed my graphics card drivers, I only installed the 64bit drivers. Wine is a 32bit program, so it could not use the 64 bit drivers. I installed the 32bit compadability drivers and WINE works perfectly now.
It's ironic when games are more compatible with WINE than Vista isn't it? (Even if the real culprit may actually be NVIDIA)
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With great appologises.....
There is no blog entry today :(
I hope you all send me nasty comments.
I got a Haircut, but I guess since I don't have pictures it never happened. Damn rules of the internet!
I hope you all send me nasty comments.
I got a Haircut, but I guess since I don't have pictures it never happened. Damn rules of the internet!
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Tha Intranet!
I love this video. It was orginally posted a few years ago on Google Video back before they bought out Youtube. It's hillarious when they explain emoticons. However, I remember when I first started using the internet as a little boy, the concepts of emoticons were completely foreign to me. I had to ask someone what "lol" or "
$200 seems very cheap! That's less than $10 a month. (Compared to the $40+ that most ISPs charge. I wonder if that fee is just for basic access or it's what the average user actually paid? I remember back in those days, most ISPs would charge per an hour. So you'd be paying like $10 or so a month but you'd only get a few free hours, once you went over that you were screwed and the ISP started gouging you to use their pipe.
So maybe paying over forty dollars for "unlimited" internet is cheaper. I put unlimited in quotations, because although they sell it as unlimited, there are hidden arbitrary limits and hidden throttling. Once you download or upload more than a certain amount of bits, ISPs may charge you extra or drop your service all together. Certain ISPs are starting to slow down traffic that they don't want on their network. Doesn't sound very "unlimited" to me.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
REGULAR CONTENT!!!
Believe it or not, I'm doing more than one update in two days. Exciting?
I subscribe to about a million feeds. Quickly glance at everything. If something is interesting I bookmark it. Flock automatically uploads it to del.ico.us. I read all my bookmarks and then I write a, hopefully, interesting blog post for about 1 person to read. Quite the exciting method.
This video is really funny. If you get all the web 2.0 humour. It's funny to take something like the web 2.0 world and apply it to a groccery store, where everything is free, as long as you take the cookie.
I subscribe to about a million feeds. Quickly glance at everything. If something is interesting I bookmark it. Flock automatically uploads it to del.ico.us. I read all my bookmarks and then I write a, hopefully, interesting blog post for about 1 person to read. Quite the exciting method.
This video is really funny. If you get all the web 2.0 humour. It's funny to take something like the web 2.0 world and apply it to a groccery store, where everything is free, as long as you take the cookie.
Driver fee would help fight warming
This is an intersting article. I don't really think that making people pay more money to polute is really going to help the environment. Really it makes things more expensive rather than promoting more environmentally friendly ways. I imagine it'll help to raise a lot of money so that when the government is willing to actually try and fight environmental damage .Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Haruhi Videos
Browser Based World
I'm writing this blog within the blog editor built into Flock. Interesting? I can upload photos, check facebook, upload blog entries, check RSS feeds, and do all the cool stuff I did before. Now it's just a few clicks. Saves me a lot of time.
It's not like using facebook or youtube was that hard to begin with. Just type in the address. Hit enter and I'm there. I can blog just by pressing a button.
I'll see if I can use flock for longer than a week before I make my final decision.
It's not like using facebook or youtube was that hard to begin with. Just type in the address. Hit enter and I'm there. I can blog just by pressing a button.
I'll see if I can use flock for longer than a week before I make my final decision.
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
The end of an era
Or is it just an upgrade?
My old computer has been dead for several months now. I was going to try and put some money together to buy a new one, but I thought, why not just make a new computer? So I went to Memory Express's website, and put together a computer. Initially it was only going to be a few extra parts, but then in the end I bought pretty much and entire computer minus the harddrive, monitor Keyboard/mouse, and speakers.
Assembling a computer you learn to appreciate how complex it can be. It's not impossible, but I feel that it is not something for the un-technically-savy to accomplish. Or maybe I'm just bad at it? I spent about 15 minutes trying to open the case. Every little task took hours and hours!
Finally I built the computer. Upon turning it on, I remembered that I forgot to screw the motherboard down properly, so it was really noisy. There were a few other problems, but I solved them.
I'm going to install linux on my new computer! Then I can dual boot! It'll be exciting.
My old computer has been dead for several months now. I was going to try and put some money together to buy a new one, but I thought, why not just make a new computer? So I went to Memory Express's website, and put together a computer. Initially it was only going to be a few extra parts, but then in the end I bought pretty much and entire computer minus the harddrive, monitor Keyboard/mouse, and speakers.
Assembling a computer you learn to appreciate how complex it can be. It's not impossible, but I feel that it is not something for the un-technically-savy to accomplish. Or maybe I'm just bad at it? I spent about 15 minutes trying to open the case. Every little task took hours and hours!
Finally I built the computer. Upon turning it on, I remembered that I forgot to screw the motherboard down properly, so it was really noisy. There were a few other problems, but I solved them.
I'm going to install linux on my new computer! Then I can dual boot! It'll be exciting.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Linux is a DISEASE!!!
Well, maybe not, but that's what some people seem to think.
I had to do a presentation today in one of my classes. I brought my laptop to show some slides in Openoffice.org impress. (I told everyone it was powerpoint so they wouldn't get so confused. It was really just reading a powerpoint file, nothing else.)
Everything was all ready and prepared. Until!!! I had to set it up! I tried hooking up the laptop to the projector and it wouldn't work. I blame the projector, because as far as I know, I did everything right. I opened up the nvidia-settings program and changed the xorg.conf settings. Then I restarted X, and for some reason it didnt' work. D the computer expert went to the fron to fix things, I told him I was running "Fedora", and he just looked at me like I had a disease and said "I don't touch that." Maybe it would have worked if I was running Ubuntu? I really doubt the distribution makes that much difference. I preffer having the up to date software that Fedora offers. Maybe I'm making a big deal about nothing?
So then the instructor asked "why isn't it working?"
Someone says "he's running fedora"
The intsructor looks puzzled. "You're not running windows?"
"Yes" I replied.
She didn't say anything more, maybe she's heard of linux?
I had a terminal open, and someone said "There's something wrong with his computer!!"
Eventually we just got a windows laptop and just used that instead.
Fedora is like this weird freaky thing on my laptop. Everyone asks me if I'm running vista when they see it. Then I do the spinny cube thing and everyone has the exact same suprised expression. Today Y almost fell out of her chair. She said it moved so fast. Are computers supposed to be slow? I don't really know.
Anyways, the presentation was only a slight bit of train wreck. Hopefully next time things work out better.
UPDATE: I got an A in that class
I had to do a presentation today in one of my classes. I brought my laptop to show some slides in Openoffice.org impress. (I told everyone it was powerpoint so they wouldn't get so confused. It was really just reading a powerpoint file, nothing else.)
Everything was all ready and prepared. Until!!! I had to set it up! I tried hooking up the laptop to the projector and it wouldn't work. I blame the projector, because as far as I know, I did everything right. I opened up the nvidia-settings program and changed the xorg.conf settings. Then I restarted X, and for some reason it didnt' work. D the computer expert went to the fron to fix things, I told him I was running "Fedora", and he just looked at me like I had a disease and said "I don't touch that." Maybe it would have worked if I was running Ubuntu? I really doubt the distribution makes that much difference. I preffer having the up to date software that Fedora offers. Maybe I'm making a big deal about nothing?
So then the instructor asked "why isn't it working?"
Someone says "he's running fedora"
The intsructor looks puzzled. "You're not running windows?"
"Yes" I replied.
She didn't say anything more, maybe she's heard of linux?
I had a terminal open, and someone said "There's something wrong with his computer!!"
Eventually we just got a windows laptop and just used that instead.
Fedora is like this weird freaky thing on my laptop. Everyone asks me if I'm running vista when they see it. Then I do the spinny cube thing and everyone has the exact same suprised expression. Today Y almost fell out of her chair. She said it moved so fast. Are computers supposed to be slow? I don't really know.
Anyways, the presentation was only a slight bit of train wreck. Hopefully next time things work out better.
UPDATE: I got an A in that class
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Fancy pants?
I've been planning on writing another blog entry for a while. I even have a little postcard next to my computer with lots of ideas! A lot of that stuff happened a while ago, but still think I can make a blog post about it. Hopefully I can produce something more than about 4 lines.
I wanted to do another blog entry linking to news articles. Unfortunatly I went a day or so without reading my blogs, so I had about a 3000 post backlog. Not exactly something I'm going to read in one sitting. It was just too impossible to make a dent, so I decided to just mark everything as read and forget about it. Hopefully nothing seriously important has happened within the last 10 days, otherwise I might have missed it.
So, for your viewing entertainment, more links!
I haven't actually read this story, but the headline is entertaining
(photo thrillwnc)
Sunday, January 20, 2008
My mom's adventures in decorating
So my mom's been using her new found Feng Shui skills to decorate her house. She put up an ugly plastic chandelier, some curtains, and those bead things that you put infront of doors.
None of the colours match.
She has native american art, Japanese decorations, Chinese decorations, and east indian inspired curtains. None of which matches with the paint.
Beautiful!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Hillarious
From the Article
"A provincial food inspection official said dropping one's pants behind a restaurant counter is a health-code violation."
Teens goof off a work! I'm suprised this is news worthy. Stupid kids put videos up on facebook.
It's pretty retarded to make a video of yourself doing something retarded. Posting the video on the internet is even more retarded. Will the kids ever learn?
From the Article
"A provincial food inspection official said dropping one's pants behind a restaurant counter is a health-code violation."
Teens goof off a work! I'm suprised this is news worthy. Stupid kids put videos up on facebook.
It's pretty retarded to make a video of yourself doing something retarded. Posting the video on the internet is even more retarded. Will the kids ever learn?
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Links links links links
Because I can't create any new content.
Learn English from someone dressed up as an anime character
All the good English writers write dialouge for anime. If this trend continues I think we can see the quality of english speaking japanese people increase exponentially!
Sega opens a themepark in countries that don't care
Middle east? Sonic? Sega has really gone down hill in the past few years. Hopefully one day Sega will just close their doors and fire everyone.
Visa Saves the Day
I wonder how his PS3 got so dusty in the first place? I think I'll just save myself the whole problem and not buy crappy systems that break.
I really like this shower
Everything is better made in lego
These kind of protestors always seem to be very retarded
Can't spell. Idiots.
I don't know how this could ever give you a tactical advantage
When I go on my killer rampage, I want one of these.
This is all I have for today! Hope it's enough to keep you all interested!!
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Today's links of note :O!!!
I only have two links today :( Sorry everyone!!!!
Very Endowed man say it's a "curse" (Yes, there's a picture.)
Wow 13"!!! Maybe he replied to too many of those enlargment emails? Who really knows? This one is just too easy to comment on. Read the article and laugh.
"He's huge!!!!" - Posh Spice (referring to her husband's Endowment)
David Beckham is very well endowed? I wonder if it's as fake as Posh's Breasts? Seriously. No one cares about you Posh, get a life.
The sun is always a quality source of news
I'm glad that he made a complaint!! They ought to make those mannequins more crazed sex maniac friendly. Imagine what it would be like if they had to amputate?
First actual content post of the blog. Comments are greatly welcomed. I can only get worse if you don't tell me what you don't like!!
Very Endowed man say it's a "curse" (Yes, there's a picture.)
Wow 13"!!! Maybe he replied to too many of those enlargment emails? Who really knows? This one is just too easy to comment on. Read the article and laugh.
"He's huge!!!!" - Posh Spice (referring to her husband's Endowment)
David Beckham is very well endowed? I wonder if it's as fake as Posh's Breasts? Seriously. No one cares about you Posh, get a life.
The sun is always a quality source of news
I'm glad that he made a complaint!! They ought to make those mannequins more crazed sex maniac friendly. Imagine what it would be like if they had to amputate?
First actual content post of the blog. Comments are greatly welcomed. I can only get worse if you don't tell me what you don't like!!
Obligatory animal post
I once read in John Scalzi's blog that there is a law that within 24 hours of a blog being created or restarted or whatever, a picture of a cat *must* be posted. I don't have any cat pictures so here is a picture of a japanese chin. A cat she is not. She is however, quite cute.
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