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October 2006 Posts October 29, 2006
The bad day has become a bad weekend. Everything seems to be failing from possibly bad MB or bad Video Card or bad power supply. My computer has a faulty power connector causing problems with rebooting. It seems I am destined to abandon computers altogether, even for leisure use.
October 29 06 October 28, 2006
BLAAAAGH !! I hate when a day does not go as planned. As a personal BDay gift, I got two copies of WoW, hoping to try it out for the MMO fantasy RPG possibilities. I am not a Clan Raider type of personality so I imagine this will be a short lived game, which is OK when it comes to MMOs. I got myself three days off so I saw some fun happening. Anywayz, the install on my PC went OK but the install on Marmy's pooter caused a corruption of the HD. Took me nine reboots to get far enough to uninstall and delete the segments holding WoW. Checksys is failing but I can sure I can avoid those bad sectors until I get a new HD to reinstall her to. But then I noticed that the onboard sound is not functioning; in fact it's not even recognized that it is there. Reinstall the drivers from the CD that came with the MB? Sure, if I could only find the fucker. And now the drivers from the website are coming down at a speedy 32k. Gahhh.
October 28 06 October 24, 2006  Really, if these superheroe photos were not so lame they wouldn't give the best image of the average hero.
I tried playing with Line Rider but really, I didn't get and I sucked. But this video shows someone who really gets it. I have this sneaking suspicion that this exact statement describes me and life, in general.
October 22, 2006 Yeah, I meant to link to these a little while ago but I was too giggly describing them to Marmy. They are Nintendo Controller Panties and all I can say is that it could help her practice her Konami Code. And I mean the Elizabethan Her, not Marmy, cuz Marmy doesn't play Nintendo.
Everyday I lament the fact I don't see as many movies as I used to, that I don't relish the movies the way I used to, that they don't hold the same allure or at least I don't hold the same motivation I once had to see them. But I still like to read about movies like Jim Emerson's 'scanners', by a guy associated with my main movie man, Roger Ebert.
Last night's BSG was incredible, a fun (albeit rushed) ending for New Caprica and President Baltar. The show is now back on track with one battlestar seeking Earth. And having successfully survived two deadly confrontations with the Cylons, I think it's time the colonials celebrated a harvest festival and scare away their boogey monsters.
I was saying to Marmy yesterday about how naive I was as a kid "playing guns" with homemade wooden guns and shouting out "Bang!" Today, kids can actually attact each other with harmless projectile weapons or even a not so harmless LEGO Flamethrower. Pretend war could be hell.
Ummm, what more can I say? Muppet Wiki. Well, I can say how weird it is that I still have not watched my copy of the first season in it's entirety. Are our gen all about being interested in the nostalgia without actually being nostalgic? (via abada abada)
October 21, 2006 This is about the fourth time I have wandered this way but today I signed up for Second Life. I think it's required of me considering my fascination with cyber life but to be honest, I am not sure what's all WOW about it.
You know, it's not much of a masthead but I like knowing that Warren Ellis has a Treo as well. Actually, having spent a week on the sofa watching TV (CSI is on more the Star Trek) I have found that alot of TV people have Treos and that Jack Bauer's has more cool apps than mine.
In my extensive toast experience, I have found that restos focusing on toast in their name are not always that much about toast. They might have a nice french toast but not much else. My favourite toast related food item was actually found in a bubble tea shop and it was called coffee toast.
People think I am nuts when I say I want to get back to the Nine-to-Five. It's really just a matter of knowing when I am going to be done every day. I would sooo have a clock like this.
Hrrrm, I think I might make Moo-gnets and I must say that that is a scrumptious masthead at Meish. (note: oooops, it's revolving so you probably won't see what I saw)
October 16, 2006
Migawd i feel like crap. My back aches from tossing & turning in bed so much, my sinuses feel like I have the Hindenburg in there and my throat burns like a 10th level Fireball spell. Last night's dose of NiteTime medication (hoping to discover a single night's sleep in five so i can return to work) just gave me tossy-turny state of delusions and far too lucid dreams. i feel worse today than yesterday. marmy might be getting what I have having just eliminated a Norwalk like virus from her system. Unpleasant all around.
October 16 06 October 15, 2006 I just signed up for Pandora Internet Radio, another of the music suggestion services that works like a radio. The app is simple but I hate the way it just sits in the middle of the page like an abandoned popup.
Ask me about self-help, the kind of diatribe-y self-reflection and improvement written in books, and you will get me rolling my eyes. But for some reason I like the Discardian.
October 14, 2006 Heh. The co-worker who shadowed me to gain her experience is blogging her trip at Caroline’s African Adventure.
October 13, 2006 So let me get this right... drinking is evil, dancing is evil, video games are evil, smoking is evil, D&D is evil, art is evil, rock & roll is evil, sex is evil and now blogging is evil ? How many times can you go to Hell?
Sometimes when landing on a link, it's fun to trace the path back to how you ended up there. I asked myself, "Does the US have it's own loonie and how often do people use them?" I came to that question because I saw someone had a stack of dollar coins in their pick on the Engadget Flickr Group. I had recently joined in order to enter their digital camera contest -- it seems that until i actually can afford a real D-SLR, I wouldn't mind collecting P&S cams. I entered this contest because it was mentioned at the end of their xBox 360 Contest, which BTW, was really difficult to figure out how to actually enter -- you just add a comment to the stream; I am somewhere in the 3000s. I ended up at Engadget today because of the steampunk LT in the previous post.
October 13 06 I stil like the idea of an e-book, and I am currently reading the included copy of Last of the Mohicans on my Treo. The idea has kind of died but here is review of the Sony Reader.
October 12, 2006
Rannie got his Moo Cards and I got mine. They are incredible little mini business cards built from the photos in your Flickr account, VERY sharp and crisp and colourful considering the source material. I love them but I don't want to give them away as I only got 10 free ones and I cannot afford to get a full bunch.
I promised myself I wouldn't blog EVERYTHING i just found on the Paperforest site but I had to connect to Letterfu, a template to fold a sheet of paper you have written a letter on into an envelope to be mailed. I love this idea and have purchased a few packages in the past that did this but the format always gave the smallest writing space. This one seems to be maxmized. But I don't write as often. As a tangent, back in the days when I did write alot, I used to take posters and large format magazines and slice them into envelope shapes to house the letters I had to mail out -- I can remember dissecting a handful of envelopes in order to use them as templates.
October 12 06 October 11, 2006
LicketyShip is the new local (west coast local) small package delivery service that is web-based. I guess the only thing that makes this different than the dirty, rude and usually inebriated local couriers that go to The Store's backdoor for local package deliveries is that it is web-based. I also envision they are focused on picking things up for you at a grocery or convenience store and dropping it off to you at home. I guess most people just ask a taxi to get it for you. Or as they do in Quebec, you can call the dep and a guy on a bicycle (that seems made for this express purpose, excuse the pun) shows up at your door with your beer and cigarettes. My short time on the plateau told me that these guys usually brought beer and cigarettes, sometimes lottery tickets, sometimes dirty magazines -- not much else. So, here's what we do. We rent a couple of abandoned shops in major college areas of Toronto and buy/steal a bunch of cheap bikes. We install a server in one, a handful of PCs in the others and run a shop that delivers like a depanneur, works like a Likety Split. We create a new Toronto tradition.
October 11 06 October 10, 2006 Holy freeholey. Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion. So, was that a cashier's check or just a direct deposit?
Interesting. This short time alone has enabled me to determine a major thing. Well, more like solidify a suspicion. I am all about the power of potentials, about possibility. As long as I cannot see how something will turn out, I can think positively about it and enjoy it. As soon as I can pretty much predict something, I get blasé or downright pessimistic and begin to procrastinate. On day one of this freetime I was all about "the things I could do" given hours of free time to myself. A few days later I saw I had only filled that time in small amounts and all the potential disappeared. It's amazing how much time you can waste once you don't see yourself actually intending on doing anything productive with it. I am my own worst enemy.
I don't like platformer games very much and it's pretty much because I can far too easily toss myself into the game and get vertigo from scarily precarious edges. I am not afraid of heights just of edges. For example, the teaser for Limbo gets me gut queazy.
October 09, 2006 Yay! The Yellow Beast is my 500th photoblog shot. P said I find "art" in the strangest places; I found THIS one in the bathroom of the coffee shop where he said that :)
October 08, 2006
I believe the song goes, "The bed's too big without you..." Yes, the novelty of being a temporary bachelor has worn off.
October 08 06 Oooooo, someone has panography for sale at The Inevitable Goddamn Sellout. And they are from these sets of photos. Someday I will be bold enough to do one with actual printed photos.
October 07, 2006 And in the same genre, as in don't click it if you are offended by porn, I think I found the next world for Marmy's character to explore. Excuse me while she slaps me all the way from NS. *ow*
October 05, 2006
With the signing up of a Podcast Ready account I realized it's time to create a new personal paradigm. I mentioned recently that I have a alot of mediums that can play MP3s, the foremost being my iPod of course, but that my phone is probably the most practical. With the spat of "we own the word" from Apple I realized even more so that these things have to be seperated from the iPod, or at least the audio end of things.
These TTC Swag Suggestions are really cool. Whenever a friend or family member visits Toronto, the choices of memorabilia are embarrassing. These would do wonderfully !
Yesterday was Bachelor Day #1. Marmy has gone home for Thanksgiving leaving me alone with the two cats and a couple of days off. The actual first day was Tuesday but she was here when I left so that day didn't count. On Bachelor Day #1 I was supposed to be at work but a "migraine" afflicted me and I decided to sleep in and spend the day without the loud braying of customers. And I needed to accomplish. So, yesterday I finished framing, and hung, the little 4x6s for the bathroom. I have always liked art in the bathroom. I also drilled holes and suspended one of those Ikea lights-on-a-string dealies for the hall way. That way I can make that dim dark hallway into a mini gallery for mine and other people's art work. I also hung my triptych experiment as a ... experiment. I also picked up the entire apartment, putting away magazines and D&D and cat brushes and odds & ends. I ate leftovers and prepared for today's, which is a legitimate day off, task -- the kitchen. Oh yeah, I watched a ton of episodes of BSG 2.5 in preparation for Season 3 on Saturday night.
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