Saturday, March 07, 2009

Dancing with the Stars starts Monday. Am looking forward to seeing The Woz cut a rug.
Home from a great night of 5-player Killer Bunnies and 2-player "Dev Kit" and icecream cake for all.

Friday, March 06, 2009

Played with XBMC enough. Going to give MythTV a try now. It has vastly lower requirements.
Home now, recharging and getting ready for the WEEKEND. Killer Bunnies and icecream cake in 6 hours! w00t!
Sweet treat for a Friday afternoon. Given a curry chicken lunch and then sent home with pay :)
Mouth watering over the curry chicken some coworkers are cooking for the office. Hooray for Fridays.
Totally wicked, and awesome, Comic Book Reader that I'd buy if I had the cash. @BryanLAS gives us Radical Codex http://ping.fm/raR14
Loving TuxRadar. It's a powerhouse of helpful Linux user tips. http://ping.fm/XTEYX
Once again Canada gets the shaft. Still no Amazon MP3 store in Canada. Incredibad for $1.99? http://ping.fm/wXjnq

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Unfortunately, no midnight showing of The Watchmen here. I know my boss would understand if I slogged into work tomorrow.
Kickin' it with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Heh. Hot Topic at work today is Facebook trying to emulate Twitter. Hello, Facebook? How do think I'm updating my status this very moment?
Nifty-do! Unreal Tournament 3 free-play weekend on Steam. Starting now.
Thinking that since the snow/ice is almost gone that it might be nice to rejoin the UBC-O Aikikai Society.
Writing a review of the "Pink Godzilla Dev Kit". 4 of 5 stars. Great game. The missing star? That star is taken seriously >_<
Anxiously awaiting "Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne", by BioWare's David Gaider, to finally arrive at my local Coles bookstore.
Chair-rawking to Gob - Foot in Mouth Disease. Music to wake up to. (At work).

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Going to play a little "Earthbound" and head to sleep listening to "Coraline". I'm second in line now at the library for the book.
Dreading having to do my taxes. Taxes are like homework for adults and I never paid anyone to do my homework.
$32,000 in Canada could get you a Bachelor of Science. I read in Finland you can attend University for free.
My Wife has Oprah on the TV right now. How the crap can American's put up with a $160,000 price tag for a University degree?
I loved PuzzleQuest: Warlords. Really looking forward to PuzzleQuest: Galactrix.
My mistake. Turns out ReadAir does tell Google Reader what you've read... I just had another session open in a browser after ReadAir closed.
Whoops. An unfortunate FAIL to ReadAir is that it does't communicate to GoogleReader when an item has been read.
Whoa, ReadAir is nifty. It's a newsreader built on Adobe Air that feeds off GoogleReader.
@wilw tweet'd about playing Data in the new StarTrek, so that's pretty cool. @BrentSpiner confirms. Time for me to get some sleep. G'night.

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

This month's hi-res (and low-res) Linux Format magazine available free (torrent). http://ping.fm/bbHCb
The latest newstand issue of Linux Format magazine, available FREE for 24 hours, starting midnight tonight. http://ping.fm/bbHCb
Mucking about with file upload/database insertion. Zzz.
Happy Square Root Day!

Monday, March 02, 2009

Just registered two passes for PAX2009 (Penny Arcade Expo for Twitter tagging search purposes).
Seeing something like jClassicRPG makes me feel fuzzy inside. I still love Java. http://ping.fm/yUbWS
Planting another colony in Ikariam. I hope I'm doing this right. (Iota server).
Threw together a new welcome page http://n3wt0n.com/

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Just picked up "Just for Fun" from the library. It's a bio of Linus Torvalds. Excellent read.
(:Want MC Lars newest album & Rolling Doubles & Final Boss & Childs Play Charity CD :)
Drinking a Yellowtail merlot and kicking butt at QuakeLive.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Learning the ropes of Pink Godzilla "Dev Kit". Planning on bringing it to PAX.
After his shave, "Zero" (our Chihuahua/Maltese) looks like "Falkor" from "The NeverEnding Story" films.
Watching the Linux Action Show. http://ping.fm/USVhd
A quick upgrade to whatever the latest version of pmwiki is, problem solved.
Not having much luck setting up AuthUser with pmwiki.

Friday, February 27, 2009

w00t w00t! The Pink Godzilla Dev Kit has arrived. http://ping.fm/YhGcS
Waiting wearily with weak workaday wont while wasting work with wonderment. Wait. Did I just repeat myself?
Putting together a travel plan for "Okanagan Valley" to PAX09. http://ping.fm/XWT3X
It's colder than a witch's titty outside. (Currently -14C ~ 6.8F)
Sweet merciful lords of merchandise. Just when I was thinking of canceling my Astro Boy order, it ships!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Pre-Ordered Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne (available March 3). Gonna get my read on even harder!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Playing "Dyson" while waiting in line for Quake Live. I highly recommend Dyson (legally free game).
10,000th in line for Quake Live and 7 minutes left updating Team Fortress 2. What's a gamer to do?
Upgrading the LUG to today's release of Drupal.
Rawking it at work. I LOVE Mocha flavoured coffee creamer! >_<

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Loving the new "achievements" in Quake Live.
Making dinner. Steak and sweet potato with salad.
Big plans to vacuum the house and jump back in to QuakeLive after work (and before my wife gets home from work).
5 hours until QuakeLive opens up to the rest of the world.
Looking forward to playing with the rest of the world in Quake Live. Maybe now the ***holes will be fewer and further between.

Monday, February 23, 2009

McCain's Rising Crust Pizza makes my mouth happy.
Looking for a lighter-weight window manager that I haven't tried. Compiling Enlightenment at the moment.
Using my public library for the first time in ages. It's like using NetFlix, with a queue and everything :D
Listening to Neil Gaiman read Coraline (Chapter 9).

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Watching "Quarantine" today. Watched "Rec" (the original) yesterday. Drawing comparisons (almost identical).
Upgrading my local LUG's software.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Dang! That's a great weekend deal on SteamPowered. Too bad I've already bought three of those titles. I just want Eets. And maybe Gravitron.
To those who never wanted to Quake with me: You missed the boat on the QLive invite. It's open for all Feb 24.
Attempting to learn Vi.
Looks like I'm still on for PAX'09. Pre-Registration is open now, too.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Playing Ikariam. It's like Civilization but through the browser. http://ikariam.org/
Converting coffee and birthday cake into javascript debugging fuel.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Downloading "TribesNext". Tribes 2 was awesome back in the day. I played it for the vehicles.
Just arrived at the realization that my Dad's 50th birthday coincides with PAX'09. Looks like I've got to miss PAX :-S
Feeling good. Just donated USD $5 to Helios/Lobby4Linux. Been reading for a long time now. You should donate, too!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Just picked up the Violet Deck for Killer Bunnies. All the carrots are mine, now! Bwahaha.
Cool! Quarantine is out on DVD today. I hope it's as good as Rec (the original) was.
Politely requesting assistance from Pink Godzilla Games in regard to ordering Dev Kit. $50 shipping? Must be a mistake.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Frustrated at work. There's got to be a name for the phenomenon that's going on. Bloat? Not quite... maybe close enough.
Tappy Tappy Tappy all day long. All day long I sing this song. Tappy Tappy Tap...

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Double-Fun Horror Night is over. Watched "Hellraiser" and "Event Horizon". Heading to bed now.
Just finished reading "The Thief of Always" by Clive Barker. Now I'm in the mood for a good horror movie. Hellraiser? Event Horizon? Mmm :)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Heading to bed. Going to listen to another couple chapters of Neil Gaiman's "Coraline" and then fall asleep. Missing my wife.

Friday, February 13, 2009

About to start a Mass Effect campaign on Insanity difficulty.
Kicking some serious digital-butt with the tutorials tonight. XBMC with IR support! http://ping.fm/e8bU0
Configuring my XBMC Lircmap.xml file to respond to the IR remote button presses.
Configuring LIRC to work with Ubuntu. http://ping.fm/E43Bm
Happy 1234567890 unix timestamp, everyone!
Exercising an ASS-load of self-restraint in not purchasing Left4Dead when it's 50 freaking percent off
Work + boredom = ? on a Friday afternoon.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

It appears my first review of the 42LG55 didn't pass thesource.ca censorship. Writing a second review now.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Almost done "The Thief of Always". Almost time for sleep, too.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Listening to NiN and reading Clive Barker's "The Thief of Always"
Sitting at work, thinking of my wife. Hang in there, Tiger.
Reading the http://aigamedev.com essay on bot creation in Introversion Software's game "DefCon".
Fiddling with menus or "dialogues", creating them in Javascript. Getting the transfer of data from one dialogue to another.
w00t :) Introversion Software, to whom I attribute the inspiration to my Twitter background, found me on Twitter.

Monday, February 09, 2009

Cool. NCIX finally has a Nite-Owl special. It has been a long time.
Currently at 6+ battery hours of RockBox usage on a 5G iPod. Albeit, minimum volume while amplifying audio through desktop speakers.
At work, confusing my Mom with my tweets. Sorry Mom :) http://ping.fm/MFLNy
The Woz is on this season of Dancing With the Stars? I'm going to have to watch the series while he's on it!

Sunday, February 08, 2009

Reading up on the status of "Keith" Henson. I had lunch with him once and he was a really nice guy.
Just read Enders Game for the first time. What a great story.

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