Monday, December 01, 2008

Just popped my Last.FM cherry.
Quick blurb on how to use the google.com/jsapi and jQuery. http://ping.fm/IAfLW
Playing with the google.com/jsapi for the Google-hosted AJAX libraries (specifically the 50MB Yahoo User Interface).

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Finishing up the content of the Warcrabs! manual before doing one final proof-read and edit.
Over a month's worth of 365 Challenge photos uploaded: http://ping.fm/0T6HG

Friday, November 28, 2008

It's like freaking Christmas here in the office. Just got a second monitor for my workstation *AND* we're getting Japanese for lunch.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Just completed a LaTeX source for the Warcrabs! manual. Now the community has something to build upon, in addition to the pre-existing Wiki.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Submitting a typo correction to the maintainer of a google labs page.
It has been a full day. Time to slip into unconsciousness.
I think I just made a friend at work. I call him "Firebug".
Setting up dotProject on my VBox here at work. Might be able to manage myself now!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Being multitalented. Watching Travelling Pants 2, working on the LUG site and drinking caffeinated beverages.
Setting up LaTeX to create a better Warcrabs! manual.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Today, and against my will, I am Wally: http://ping.fm/0wCgJ(Dilbert_character)
Reading up on Forgotten Realms and Baldur's Gate and sitting around waiting for the boss to show up because I've got nothing to do!
It has been a fun night of playing and learning. Note to self: Request actual admin to grant my user admin permissions for LUG forum.
Having fun setting up the LUG site. Configuring the favicon.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Flipping through Drupal themes. Looking for something that says, "I'm simple to navigate. Come learn something."

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Decorating our first Christmas tree
My PC is set up all awesome-like now. Time to do awesome things.
Why does windows have to take so long creating a 208GB NTFS partition? It's 3:09am and only 66% complete.
Reinstalled WinXP on a 15GB partition. The rest of the drive is for non-essential apps. Quicker defrag (jkdefrag anyone?) with smaller drive

Friday, November 21, 2008

I wasn't prepared for Vault 106. I thought my video card or monitor was about to kick the bucket.
Eating beans in molasses. Mmm. I like beans.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

How to set up Laconica on your GoDaddy hosting: http://ping.fm/QPCWu (It's easy!)
Cool. Setting up Laconica on a GoDaddy econ hosting wasn't very hard at all. Not after reading the Laconica README.
Just about to set up Laconica on my personal webserver. Then I can bypass Twitter and it's (oft-frequent) downtime.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

w00t! The Dragon Age Origins FAQ says the PC version is set for release in early 2009!!!
Recalling a chapter in the book "Masters of Doom". Well, this chapter of my life is going in my biography when I'm famous!
Rawking out to the album "A santa Cause 2: It's a Punk Rock Christmas"

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Looking for things to decorate my walls. Already printed off the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Caffeine Molecule. Any other resources?
Watching someone put up the City's Christmas decorations along the street lamps.
I feel like I was up all night. Could have sworn I was asleep shortly after midnight.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Daydreaming about being a ninja
Downloading DamnSmallLinux-4.3RC2 for configuration into a security tools distribution.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Playing NwN. Staying away from the girly party going on downstairs.
Installing a minimal Ubuntu 8.10 virtualbox with the mini.iso

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Playing NeverwinterNights from within Linux, without using Wine, and listening to the Linux Action Show. What could be better Saturday Night
Trying to put together a script to update Facebook from the command line. Not as easy as Twitter, it appears.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Kickin' it in Neverwinter Nights. Literally. I'm a monk. I do Kung-Fu.
Reading the Facebook API for setStatus() to complement my command-line social status updater.
Watching the snow fall outside. Saturday says there's no chance it's sticking around long. Take that, Old-Man Winter!
Rawking out like a mild-mannered superhero at work.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Chillin' like a villain. And stuff.
Wondering what the average age of a 5'8" 16 year old male is? http://ping.fm/62D6H
Power is out from a wind-storm last night. 30 minutes late at work.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Swung 10 votes Izaak's way.
Syncing my email addresses together. GMail makes it easy.
Done wasting time writing about command-line twittering. http://ping.fm/j6Zef

Monday, November 10, 2008

Like the rest of the world's geeks, I'm waiting on the Left4Dead open demo (a.k.a. Zombie Panic Spiffified) to go live.
Compiling TheGimp 2.6.2 because I hate the Ubuntu 8.10 layout of TheGimp. Here's hoping this one is different.

Saturday, November 08, 2008

Converting ammo into experience points at a very good exchange rate. Hooray, Fallout 3

Friday, November 07, 2008

Just got involved in the previously mentioned "Linux is a Toy" troll. Whoops. I could only ignore the bait for so long.
Putting on a show for some very important clients. I was made to replace my coffee-stained piece of paper I use for a coaster. It was art!

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Playing with Turtle Graphics. Turtle. Turtle!
Carefully excavating the top layer of beans, as I eat, so I don't plow through the Queen Bean Over-lard. I mean Overlord.
Poking my cursor around U of Calgary and Ohio State U's computer science dept. websites.
Printing off the Warcrabs! rulebook again. I intend to rework the PDF into a newer version.
Finally got around to setting up TortoiseSVN on my work PC.
Finished the Fallout 3 main story an hour ago. I'm sad to see there's no continuation after the finale. Have to start over or don't finish.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Waking up with the Linux Action Show at Jupiterbroadcasting.com
Could keep going all night. No time is a good time to put Fallout 3 away and go to sleep.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Heck yes! My "Zombie Survival Guide" just arrived. Undead, beware.
w00t. First snow up at Silver Star Mountain Resort. 3cm new snow, 0cm base. -1C. It can stay up there allllll winter, please.
Kickin' it oldschool
Still trucking through "Learning Perl", picking up good practices I may have missed from never reading the book.
Dead tired. Stayed up "just a little longer" to finish Sonic Chronicles last night. It has a satisfying conclusion.

Monday, November 03, 2008

I admit it, I'm looking forward to Animal Crossing on the Wii.
Addicted to Fallout 3 and the V.A.T.S.
Kiwi seeds are satisfyingly crunchy.
Daydreaming at work. Looking forward to a trip back to a Post-Apocalyptic Washington D.C.
Getting the feeling I'm almost at the end of the main quest for Fallout 3. Cool that Laim Neeson was cast.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Putting away Fallout3 after a 3 hour session. VATS FTW.

Friday, October 31, 2008

So many Tootsie rolls left over. Mmm, Tootsie rolls.
Breaking out the coconut rum and cola.
Being the crotchety old man, complaining to myself about kids and their firecrackers.
Helping the children of today become the diabetics of tomorrow.
Trick-or-treat'ing in the world of Medievia. You're never too old in Medievia.
Compounding interest on a $0.71 loan at 1/4% per second. Over 30 minutes later I'm currently owed $112 and counting.
Am looking forward to Pirates, Ninjas and Zombies (and Robots) tonight. Happy Day, everyone! Cheap candy starts tomorrow.
Pumpkins, carved: http://ping.fm/dFh1j

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Downloading, yet again, the NeverwinterNights Linux installation setup. Those disks go missing more often than socks in a dryer.
Wow! The "DarkRoom" theme in Ubuntu 8.10 actually looks good.
When I eat my smarties I do *not* eat the red ones last.
Succumbing to the temptation. Reading a flamewar on alt.linux: Linux is a Child's Toy. Asshats a-plenty.
Installing Ubuntu8.10 in a VM and the process is looking slick.
Happy twice-annually Ubuntu Day!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Kickin' it in Dead Space. And then stomping on it.
Carving pumpkins
A look into the (potential) decision of speed of turn base battles within BioWare's Sonic Chronicles. http://ping.fm/ntWrY
Contemplating Sonic the Hedgehog and where he fits in relation to the rest of the Peaceniks.
"Don't think of pink elephants"... the effect of a Usenet post with the contents "Please ignore". You just can't do it!
Finding that I don't use 4 of these 10 "essential applications included in Ubuntu 8.10".
A few hours into it and still trying to figure out how Far Cry 2 is a sequel to Far Cry 1.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Surprise! Flamethrower plus dry grass in FarCry2 = awesome! Whoa.
Sitting at work, wondering what it might be like to step into a post-apocalyptic world after a life from birth to 28 years living in a vault
Happy Fallout 3 day, everybody.
Cool. I've just been declared Master of Peggle.

Monday, October 27, 2008

It has taken a year but my bonsai potato has finally started to sprout upward. Pics to come soon.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

It's that time of the year again. Sitting down to watch Dead Alive (aka Braindead).

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