| Thursday, January 15th, 2009 |
| 4:11 pm |
Amusement
There's a thread on Something Awful about how terrible Ctrl+Alt+Del (webcomic) is, and part way through it largely turns into being about how creepy all XKCD's relationship themed comics are. I am entertained. The thread also pointed me at Truck Bearing Kibble, so that's a bonus. |
| Saturday, August 9th, 2008 |
| 7:47 pm |
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| Monday, July 28th, 2008 |
| 10:25 pm |
New glasses
I bought some new glasses, and they are in the style of the day, which is to say tiny. My eyes are sometimes irritated by my contacts, or sometimes I'm just too lazy to put them in, so I figured it was time to replace my glasses from high school, the pair I had from college having broken one PayPal push night. Since I can always go to the contacts when I want my full field of vision, I figured I'd go with socially acceptable frames rather than my usual old man/super dork frames. I think this was a mistake. Some of you have probably been told the dull tale of my insane visual field. It's pretty ridiculously large apparently. I tell my optometrists about it to aid them in the diagnostic process, and they never seem to believe me. Until they test me. It's really only thought their tests I know that my visual field is larger than normal as, really, how would one even know that. I was first made aware in the informal test where the optometrist asks you how far out you can see their hands, and I told them their arms were not long enough for the test. This was confirmed by the cold, hard logic of a machine when I moved to California, and I essentially buried the needle on the peripheral vision test. Whatever my range is, it's at least as wide as the test can cover. I have some anomaly in one iris that shows up on those optomap things that could normally be a problem, and one symptom is decreased peripheral vision, but in the words of the doctor "I'm not concerned about that at all, since you have eyes in the back of your head." The point of the above boring crap is that my new glasses are driving me nuts. I feel half blind. I'm constantly turning my head like a god damned owl to figure out what's going on around me. The side to side cut is actually pretty minimal though. It's the loss on the lower vertical that's causing real problems. I can't read a book at the angle I am accustomed too, and I keep having to decline my head to see what's at my feet. Seriously, how am I supposed to walk when I can't see my feet. Eating dinner was obnoxious, as I had to keep looking at my plate to cut my meat. They do look a lot cooler than my old glasses though. I'll have to post a pic. |
| Saturday, July 26th, 2008 |
| 2:50 am |
This is an example of a perfect first reply. |
| Thursday, June 12th, 2008 |
| 4:38 am |
Random late night thought
There's a minor location in LOTRO called Burzum Pushdug (there's something about the sound that makes it stick in my head), and watching the black speech scene during the Council of Elrond in the movie, I realized Burzum meant dark. A quick google search for "pushdug" suggests Burzum Pushdug is the Stinking Dark or Dark Cesspool or something along those lines. That game probably works on a whole different level for serious Tolkien lore geeks. Turbine has a staff member whose job is more or less knowing the various Tolkien languages(he probably does other stuff too). Another similar one would be the Ongburz orcs, but I don't know what an "ong" is. If I knew what a Carg was I could tell what sort of wraith the Carguls are (like Nazguls). |
| Saturday, May 31st, 2008 |
| 10:58 pm |
How the fuck do bulimics do it?
So, after eating a couple bites of something I considered dangerous due to a preparation error on my part ( Cut for gross )Seriously, how the fuck do bulimics do this all the time? It's just a colossal pain in the ass. Maybe it gets easier with repetition? |
| Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 |
| 11:38 pm |
Trader Joe's Produce
Yeah, I know I should get my produce elsewhere since the stuff there is usually craptastic, but, really... Oh good, there's a worm in my artichoke that I've been eating. Oh well, it happens. At least I have a second one. Oh, look, there's a worm in this one too. Delicious. I decided not to bother checking out the rest of the pack, but I'm guessing it's worm city. Trader Joe's, for all your worm ridden produce. |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
| 7:07 pm |
So, I tried out the free LOTRO weekend
It's really amazingly better in a lot of areas. The developers actually seem to be doing shit, which is a fucking shock for an MMO. On top of that, most of what they're doing is new content and fixing busted shit, rather than nerfing. It's as if they actually listen to their players. It's...baffling... The bad part is I'm just not sure it really matters. It's basically this situation.It also doesn't help that I think Andrew and I chose the crappiest server out there, in terms of player population and player competence. I'm thinking I may give it another try, on Brandywine instead. Nimrodel is just a fucking pit. |
| Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 |
| 10:17 pm |
Really? CMU? You can do better than that...
From Facebook Top Books in the Carnegie Mellon network. 1 Ender's Game 2 Harry Potter 3 Catch-22 4 1984 5 The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Ender's Game? Harry Potter? You sicken me. |
| Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 |
| 2:21 am |
Lost
Ah Michael, you know your strength, and you play to it. Unfortunately, your strength is unwavering idiocy. Should I respect that the writers are consistent? I think only if they reward me with his gruesome death. I think I should just stop watching. The stupidity of the characters is tiresome, and the overall plot is so far pointless. |
| Sunday, January 20th, 2008 |
| 2:09 am |
Err, Lost
I started watching this series this week, and just hit season 2. My greatest hope for the show at this point is that Michael dies. Soon. His whole deal with becoming an irrational fuckwit any time some matter comes up concerning his son is entirely obnoxious. Sure, about nine tenths of the characters are morons (Jin and San are tolerable, Sayid has his shit mostly together, Sawyer is reasonable within his own limited scope), but Michael is basically an animal that learned speech as a trick. (Like Fry! Like Fry!) I also hate Jack and Kate, but that's mostly because they're completely boring characters that get too much story. |
| Monday, January 7th, 2008 |
| 3:09 am |
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| Thursday, December 20th, 2007 |
| 12:38 am |
Hilarity
I guess they're still working on it...I love these bluesnews responses to "We plan to have a multi-platform release if possible." "I plan to win the lottery and sleep with Scarlett Johansson, if possible." "Well, yeah. When they haven't written any code yet, anything is possible." |
| Monday, December 17th, 2007 |
| 6:22 pm |
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| Sunday, December 16th, 2007 |
| 12:46 pm |
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| Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 |
| 2:30 pm |
Democracy!
This is why you don't ask the internet things. This has me wondering though, how many votes a year did Optimus Prime get for student government president at CMU? I know I was voting for him. |
| Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 |
| 4:46 pm |
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| 3:42 pm |
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| Monday, December 3rd, 2007 |
| 2:06 am |
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| Monday, November 26th, 2007 |
| 9:31 pm |
LJ feedback
I don't pay to see garbage like Snap Shots It's bad enough that you have this on your site, but when you start shoving it at paid accounts that's when you never see another dime from me. I don't care if there's a config value to turn it off. As a paid user I should never have seen it in the first place. Until your company gets its act together you deserve nothing. |
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