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[Apr. 25th, 2009|07:10 pm] |
If anyone ever wanted all of Half-Life 2 (original + both episodes so far), and Portal, and Team Fortress 2, the Orange Box is $9.99 this weekend only. Normally $29.99. Seriously if you have a remotely modern PC, they'll all run fine on it--they did on my machine that was kind of new in 2001. Portal is a nice fun waste of several hours. And TF2 is as good as any other multiplayer FPS you're likely to play.
Steam has a habit of not repeating these sales, so it's likely your best chance to get it quite -this- cheap.
Here. |
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| Anyone remember E-Sheep? |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|02:13 am] |
It went away a couple of years ago. I lost my archives... I liked my archives.
The sacriligious, if very literal, Apocamon--episodes 1 and 2:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031120114609/http://www.saturn5.com/~esheep/apocamon/APOCAMON_1.swf
http://web.archive.org/web/20050514134852/e-sheep.com/apocamon/APOCAMON_2.swf
(Episode 3 may be lost to time; it was behind a Bitpass thing for $0.25. Bitpass kicked the bucket. Shame, it was good stuff.)
The website used to be at e-sheep.com, and is supposed to be at electricsheepcomics.com as of this year, but that never came up online.
Nevermind. There is a LIVE mirror of E-Sheep floating around.
http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/main.shtml.htm
The main page is up here but is a little broken, you need to click the "main table of contents" text link (not flash link) to make that work. OH MY GOD FULLY FUNCTIONAL E-SHEEP I HAVE MISSED YOU.
Look guys, it's like this. EVERY story on that site is required reading. A very few of them are very offensive (Apocamon), several are slightly explicit, but they are all TREMENDOUSLY good. "The Jain's Death" is required reading. "Overheard at the Rave" was a feelgood classic. "The Guy I Almost Was" made me rethink my career path. "Spiders" should not under any circumstances be missed. Don't read "Saturnalia" from work, specifically, and be careful with most of the others. Or, you know, don't.
(Oh yeah, and there's another one by the same guy here: Don't Look Back)
E-Sheep had the first really genre-transcending WEBcomics. It is still unique on the internet today. Patrick Farley defined a big chunk of what webcomics could do. |
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| Life update |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|10:27 pm] |
I'm going to the gym again!
I haven't gained any weight in the months since last time I went, I'm still around 255. And that means I must have been losing muscle mass. I'm expecting to gain ~5lbs once I get back in the swing of things, even with the quasi-diet I'm starting now.
I was in -decent- shape before, even if I was a bit heavy, and now I can tell I'm at the far end of that. Still plenty good enough to successfully work out, though. I just need to kick my sugar addiction.
I'm coping with stuff okay. It's been rough, but life is on an upswing again. If you need to know, ask outside of LJ.
Work moved me into a different, noisier cube that is near the epicenter of nerf fights. I miss my nice quiet cube, near the far-more-professional engineers (instead of "professional services"). Around July is when my temp contract expires, and they look at taking me fulltime...either that or I book it up to Seattle. Well, who knows. |
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[Apr. 12th, 2009|06:19 am] |
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"We're going to Monday in a handbasket!" |
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| Cheap webhosting today only. |
[Apr. 1st, 2009|05:58 pm] |
http://dreamhost.com/
A domain name if you don't already have one, plus a full year of webhosting, for $9.24. Today only, IE for the next six hours...or less...who knows what timezone they use.
That's...kind of...really worth it. I adore their service, they're upfront, and their tech support is quite responsive. I paid ten times that for my domain name with 'em and it was worth every cent. And yeah their bandwidth and space really is unlimited, for as long as you actually run something resembling a website (and not, say, an enormous anonymous FTP server).
Get one. o.o |
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| Poking through my old portfolio... |
[Mar. 31st, 2009|02:17 am] |
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I'm doing some really fun web stuff (think Ajax) in my spare time. I'll have to unveil it at some later date. In the meantime though, I stumbled across this that I wrote early in my college career. It makes fun cellular-automata patterns in a Java applet! It doesn't do much, but it does it very well. |
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| Must remember to drink milk more often. |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|07:04 am] |
Because apparently if I don't drink milk for about a month or so, I become lactose intolerant, and going back to drinking it again is an extremely unpleasant experience that annihilates my digestive system for a couple days.
My life is JUST THAT INTERESTING. |
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| Computer be ALIVE! |
[Feb. 28th, 2009|10:30 pm] |
New hard drive, motherboard, processor, video card, and ram.
(The new hard drives made me get a new motherboard. And the new motherboard made me get the new everything else. Upside, my machine is now like 4x as fast! Woo!)
Still installing drivers. And Windows updates. |
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| Computer be ded, part II |
[Feb. 28th, 2009|05:17 pm] |
Update: Three dead motherboards, apparently, and weird dreams. One of the dead motherboards actually happened a few weeks back, and I'm only recognizing the symptoms now that I'm seeing it on my own machines. Will need new hardware, but not entirely sure what I need just yet.
It's POSSIBLE that it's actually a power supply issue, but, meh. In any case the machines won't post...everything is powered okay, but no monitor display, no beep, etc. The monitor and power supply work on my old machine, but it might not be delivering enough current. However it's a 450W power supply and this board says it wants 300W for a fully configured machine, so, ???
Options: New motherboard + chip, or, install different (old) hard drives as a temporary measure and THEN get a new motherboard + chip later. |
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| Computer be ded. |
[Feb. 27th, 2009|07:05 pm] |
So my computer died a couple nights ago. Two hard drives dead in the space of a month or so. Getting some new hardware tonight, don't know when I'll be back online proper--I might be able to salvage my important hard drive (I stopped fussing with it the first time it refused to boot), or I might be rebuilding from scratch.
So that's why I'm not around! |
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| Because I'm working hard, darnit. |
[Feb. 24th, 2009|02:27 am] |
http://img93.imageshack.us/my.php?image=itworks4.png
The models and model textures are courtesy of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) maskedretriever, but they're intentionally quick little prototypes and not supposed to be good. (I still like them.)
This is two days into a game project written in XNA (C#). It uses the Quake 3 BSP map format to render the bridge of your ship (through a handy little rendering library), with my own little custom entities on the map to say where the control panels go. The models are rendered in their own little ways. There's a fun little system where your bridge and outer space (out the window) are rendered completely different... Anyway, it's barely even recognizable as a ship's bridge now, but I'm quite happy with the way it's coming along. I have until March 29th to finish this... My eventual goal is to be like Puzzle Pirates in space, with little minigames and stuff. But with substantially less awesome (but still present) online multiplayer. Expect more posts as time goes on. |
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| whee engagement! |
[Feb. 23rd, 2009|12:45 am] |
Me and Grace got ENGAGED on Saturday :D
We are looking at sometime in October!
I am the happiest thing ever. I am stealing from the cookie jar or something.
Also, I'm taking part in a TIGSource indie game competition. Which is also making me extraordinarily happy (it's going really well). So I'm kind of overloaded on happy right now. |
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[Feb. 20th, 2009|12:06 am] |
witchesgrace: I have the Folgers theme stuck in my head
witchesgrace: the best part of waking up!
witchesgrace: is yotes in your cuuuup!
soweluww: XDXDXD
witchesgrace: you have to admit, getting your face bitten every time you took a sip WOULD wake you up pretty damn fast!
witchesgrace: *sipNOMF* |
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[Feb. 4th, 2009|12:29 am] |
So I've been seeing these banner ads on msnbc, fark, webcomics, just about all sorts of random other sites too. Ads for a diet program. And they're starting to weird me out. It's the ones that say 2 Flat Stomach Rules: (Obey).
It's REALLY CREEPY to see that 'Obey' part floating around. They can't seem to decide if it's 2 flat stomach rules, or 1 simple rule, but 'Obey' is always there. What the fuck. It's almost like they're fnord trying some bizarre form of hypnotism.
In happier news, apparently some people are starting a university with the specific purpose of bringing on the Singularity. What strange times. |
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| Negotiating rent... |
[Jan. 29th, 2009|09:18 am] |
Ok, so I could use some advice:
A month or two after we moved into this house, they had to start doing some construction work. Legally mandated due to previous construction screw-ups that impacted other houses here. As part of this work, they had to tear out our backyard (a little 10x10 plot that was kind of walled in, no grass but nice stonework), seal up our backyard, and seal off our deck (above the backyard and no longer structurally sound, according to city inspectors). This gives us no private "outdoors" places we can go to. They also tore out our driveway and even our front porch for a couple weeks...that's better now, but the missing backyard and deck is still an issue for who knows how long.
It's a three story townhouse, I think 3 bed 2.75 bath. Rent's around $1400. What I want to figure out is, what's a reasonable amount to try and get the rent lowered by? What's a tiny-little-backyard and a deck generally worth? I really have no guidelines for this kind of thing. The owner (well, PM) sounds like he's willing to talk--he didn't even know about this beforehand--but I want to have some idea before I go in. |
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| News and stuff! |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|12:39 am] |
First off: I have a !
I'm working for Click Commerce as a junior programmer, doing stuff with Javascript and C#. The basic gist is that our software makes a lot of the paperwork surrounding human and animal research a lot more transparent, so it's both easier to complete, and easier for hospitals/universities/etc to make sure they're following regulations.
It's a substantial pay cut from my last place, but it pays the bills, it's stable, and it's five minutes away from home. Atmosphere sounds relaxed, people are friendly. This is a job that won't burn me out. Thank goodness.
Second: At some point soon I'm getting engaged to snowcoma. Spent the last few days up by Seattle having her meet my family. It went really well, life is wonderful.
Third: I've been asked to link to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) pdx_therians by werewolf_shaman. We're going to try and do local stuff of all shapes and sizes. So join the community and say hi! |
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