Go away
I wish they would stop playing Audioslave on the radio.
floggings will continue until morale improves
Personality Report
Video games as "art"
Slashdot has an interesting discussion on “highbrow” video games today. There is an unusual amount of stupidity in the comments, but also some good insight as usual.
Selling my car
So I’m trying to sell my 1991 Mazda Miata for $2,500 with aftermarket hard top. I’ve had six or seven interested people, but everyone is turned off by the amount of rust it has. I would be willing to sell for significantly less, especially to a friend. Anyone interested?
Suckers!
There are two rules for success in life:
Rule 1 – Don’t tell people everything you know.
Projector fixed
To the anime-nighters: I finally got my projector working with 1368x768 with the 8762 nVidia driver on Ubuntu. I had to enable the ExactModeTimingsDVI option for some reason. So we’ll finally have widescreen again during anime night, yay! Sorry that took so long.
In other news, I cannot reboot yet because my computer is too busy deleting. :-D
“The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.”
—Edsger W. Dijkstra
Miscellaneous notes
- Emotions are stupid. Yesterday, I was in a fairly bad mood due to all the stuff I have on my plate, both at home and at work. Today, all of those same things are still hanging over my head, and I feel pretty great. Maybe it’s because my brother is awesome and is taking care of one of my biggest stress factors (bringing in my broken portable hard drive for data recovery). Or maybe it’s because I got 11 hours of sleep; who knows? But I have considered how nice it might be to be able to toggle emotions off, or even remove them completely (for you Deus people, Merlin Huntington felt the same way, believing his own conscience to be holding him back from maximal achievement, and so performed a little creative mental surgery on himself to eliminate it—part of me is envious).
- It seems my eye twitch is a permanent fact of life at this point. It hasn’t gotten much better or worse, but is still often present at work. Now the muscles in the right half of my face are a lot stronger than those in the left, which is odd. I can usually ignore it completely at this point, although it is still occasionally distracting.
- I hate Kid Rock so much. He was born in Michigan ; why the hell is he in love with the goddamn south? I think it’s hilarious that the Republicans canceled his performance at a pre-inauguration youth concert for President Bush due to the profanity and sexual innuendo in his lyrics (“pimpin’ Barbra Bush”).
- As of a few days ago, the Mountain Dew tower is complete. It took a while longer since I have been heavily cutting down.
- There was something else, but in the process of writing the above I have forgotten. I hope you have enjoyed me wasting your time!
OMGHORSE
After years of plotting and waiting, Sean has finally gotten his revenge. Apparently everyone except for me saw the thing on Sunday. Not only did Sean leave an indelible mark on the wedding, but I must also eternally bear the shame of being completely oblivious to the goings-on throughout the day. And to top it all off, I don’t even know what happened to the stupid thing afterwards—I guess Sean still has it.
Wedding, etc.
I want to thank everyone for their tremendous generosity and support over the past days and weeks. This past weekend was totally amazing. It was fantastic to see everyone, and I hope you all enjoyed yourselves. Big hugs!
You're gonna carry that weight
I feel compelled to give some concluding remarks after the past year’s wonderful ordeal that was Deus Ultionis. My mind is flooding over, and I have done my best to mention what I consider to be the most important themes of the campaign, but I have surely left out much. Feel free to leave a comment on anything about the campaign, and I’ll reply with my thoughts.
Deus
It’s been good… SO GOOD.
It was worth the pain just for the last three sessions.
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Choices
Sometimes I cry for the way things could have been. Not that I think it would have been better if things had gone differently, necessarily—just that it is impossible to choose both ways.
“The future is dumb, best to avoid it.”
—Lucas Lichte
Ubuntu rocks
Recently at work, I switched from Debian/KDE to Ubuntu/GNOME, and I must say I am very pleased. Ubuntu is far more usable than Debian, with all kinds of administration tools and utilities on par with Windows: device manager, application installer (not just synaptic, but a more user friendly one as well), user and group configuration, etc. But since Ubuntu is based on Debian (it basically is Debian, with some usability enhancements), all my knowledge acquired from running Debian is still applicable.
Life is awesome
There are so many good things! I am probably as happy as I have ever been.
Megaman anime series
Protoman: “Let’s see how fancy your powers are against me, Mega-jerk!”
Megaman: “I’m as good or better than you, Protoman!”
Also, without exception, every time Megaman absorbs a robot master’s powers, either the enemy robot exclaims, “No! Now you have my weapon!” or Megaman himself says, “Now I have your weapon!”
Lastly, there was a line by a guy in a helicopter radioing for assistance, beginning with “This is Captain Lee!” and his voice sounded suspiciously like Stan Lee’s. But would Lee really do a cameo for a Capcom animation? Unfortunately, I cannot find any evidence to support my crazy theory.
I was forced to post this
James demanded that I post a link to the proposed legislation to amend the Wisconsin constitution.
“Damn the world and its values which differ from mine.”
—Lucas Lichte
"...and this universe has a God"
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
—René Descartes
tektek.org
I enjoyed tektek.org’s avatar creator. Thanks to crazycatchickie and lordaristar for pointing it out.
I brake for no apparent reason.
An endless penchant for self-analysis
Your Five Factor Personality Profile
What does it mean?
I had a messed up dream last night, for the first time in years, really.