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Diary of a Madman
13 October 2007 @ 02:25 pm
Well, that's so much better...
13 October 2007 @ 01:51 pm
Sigh... I never do well at these things.
( It's the forehead, isn't it? )
It would help if I could get a headshot where I didn't look like ... well, me.
12 October 2007 @ 02:00 am
Changing priorities
"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Marilyn Manson/Eminem - Just Lose the New Shit [ Industrial Murder Mix]
06 September 2007 @ 05:08 pm
So it goes.
01 September 2007 @ 01:33 am
Thoughts upon Modern Media
Resident Evil is an excellent film. Take it as a comic book in video form, and don't ask more than it can offer. It kicks ass.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse kicks that exact same ass over again. This is a good thing. If something feels good, I cannot object to doing it twice.
Resident Evil: Extinction will probably be more of the same. I'll probably enjoy it just as much as the previous offerings.
(And, as a side note, both of the previous films have Milla Jovovich dressed in little more than a sheet of paper at some point. Really how can you top that? I have more thoughts about Milla, but they're all pornographic so I'll keep them to myself.)
Are there any good ((semi)modern) westerns that do not star Clint Eastwood?
Resident Evil: Apocalypse kicks that exact same ass over again. This is a good thing. If something feels good, I cannot object to doing it twice.
Resident Evil: Extinction will probably be more of the same. I'll probably enjoy it just as much as the previous offerings.
(And, as a side note, both of the previous films have Milla Jovovich dressed in little more than a sheet of paper at some point. Really how can you top that? I have more thoughts about Milla, but they're all pornographic so I'll keep them to myself.)
Are there any good ((semi)modern) westerns that do not star Clint Eastwood?
16 November 2006 @ 10:49 pm
For the record...
29 July 2006 @ 11:33 pm
Oh. My. God.
Wait...
I have a son.
His name is Seth.
And, as weird as this is to say... I kinda think he's really kinda fascinating.
Holy fuck! Holy Fuck!
This is so cool!
I have a son.
His name is Seth.
And, as weird as this is to say... I kinda think he's really kinda fascinating.
Holy fuck! Holy Fuck!
This is so cool!
Current Mood: indescribable
Current Music: Kundalini Rising - Kayomani
28 July 2006 @ 03:20 pm
New Horizons
Sometimes you do things that you simply cannot imagine doing until they are done.
Sabina Blue and I would like you to join us in welcoming Seth Joseph to the world.
Mother and baby are both doing very well...
Sabina Blue and I would like you to join us in welcoming Seth Joseph to the world.Mother and baby are both doing very well...
Current Mood: exhausted
01 April 2006 @ 11:57 am
Educated Horses
Just picked up the new Rob Zombie album... sigh. It's crap. Thank god it was on sale for 9.98$ - any more and I'd be truly pissed instead of just annoyed.
Current Mood: annoyed
05 March 2006 @ 02:11 pm
The first prototype was a complete success.
I just finished F.E.A.R.
This game was truly excellent. Top to bottom, beginning to end... Every time that something was just starting to get on my nerves, the game would change and it wouldn't be a problem anymore. Everything looked good, sounded good and fought well.
It's such a relief to play a game that didn't suck after the disappointments of Ultimate Spiderman and God of War...
This game was truly excellent. Top to bottom, beginning to end... Every time that something was just starting to get on my nerves, the game would change and it wouldn't be a problem anymore. Everything looked good, sounded good and fought well.
It's such a relief to play a game that didn't suck after the disappointments of Ultimate Spiderman and God of War...
Current Mood: pleased
21 February 2006 @ 10:51 pm
An Important Fact
Nothing makes you sober up quite so fast as being shot at.
Current Mood: drunk
28 January 2006 @ 01:59 am
Platform Games
I despise them. I've never understood why so many people find them to be the thing... I guess that it comes down to I don't really like games that literally rely on my reflexes more than my brain. Yeah, a good fighting game has a lot to do with the hands, but if you play that kind of game reflexively, you're always on the defensive and that means you're going to lose. If you want to win, you need to be thinking about the fight as well as fighting.
Anyhow God of War... jesus, this game has a lot going for it. It looks great. It plays great. The story is cool. So why the fuck do they have to go and stick fucking jumping puzzles in the middle of it? Timed moving wall traps? Spiked conveyor belts? Each one sucks a little more enjoyment out of the game until I hit the point of ... well, right about now. I suppose that in the long run, this is less frustrating than Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where I'd finished 90% of the game before the annoyance factor outweighed the enjoyment. This time I'm only 40 or 50% of the way through. For some reason that I can't explain very well, I'd feel more cheated if I was further along.
And thus the new rule - no platforms. None. Not. A. Single. Fucking. One. (Well, except for Kingdom Hearts 2... but that's a whole different animal.)
What a waste... Kratos, laid low by the ghost of Mario.
Anyhow God of War... jesus, this game has a lot going for it. It looks great. It plays great. The story is cool. So why the fuck do they have to go and stick fucking jumping puzzles in the middle of it? Timed moving wall traps? Spiked conveyor belts? Each one sucks a little more enjoyment out of the game until I hit the point of ... well, right about now. I suppose that in the long run, this is less frustrating than Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where I'd finished 90% of the game before the annoyance factor outweighed the enjoyment. This time I'm only 40 or 50% of the way through. For some reason that I can't explain very well, I'd feel more cheated if I was further along.
And thus the new rule - no platforms. None. Not. A. Single. Fucking. One. (Well, except for Kingdom Hearts 2... but that's a whole different animal.)
What a waste... Kratos, laid low by the ghost of Mario.
Current Mood: disappointed
17 January 2006 @ 12:52 am
New Toys
So I did two major things over this long weekend...
1) I finally gave in and installed Talisman on my WRT54G. We had issues in the house with the wireless connections signal strength. With Talisman, it was a simple thing to boost the transmit power by a factor of 10. All the wireless links are rock solid now.
2) I built myself a new computer... I given Sabina a G4 a little while ago and we got Ace a tricked out Dell Dimension e510 for Christmas so I was definitely feeling the envy. Jamethial was built in the fall of 1999 and hadn't had any kind of upgrade since 2002. That was simply to go from a 16M to 32M video board. I'd been wanting to build a new system for a while and I was really waiting for a sweet spot in the price performance curve. I found one. My cost in parts works out to be just under 1G$, but I can play F.E.A.R. at maximum visuals comfortably...
Now my biggest question is which to play first - F.E.A.R. or Halflife 2?
On the console gaming side, I finally played God of War and this game rocks! There is nothing in the world like whirling flaming swords attached to your wrists to launch an air juggle/Poseidon's Rage combo for 232 hits.... unless its getting a Brutal Kill on a Cyclops, ripping its brain out through its mouth... or maybe beating down a Minotaur until you can pin it down and drive your blades through its mouth into the floor below. This game makes you feel like the most Bad Ass Mother Fucker to ever walk the Earth and I haven't even gotten to the whole killing a god part.
1) I finally gave in and installed Talisman on my WRT54G. We had issues in the house with the wireless connections signal strength. With Talisman, it was a simple thing to boost the transmit power by a factor of 10. All the wireless links are rock solid now.
2) I built myself a new computer... I given Sabina a G4 a little while ago and we got Ace a tricked out Dell Dimension e510 for Christmas so I was definitely feeling the envy. Jamethial was built in the fall of 1999 and hadn't had any kind of upgrade since 2002. That was simply to go from a 16M to 32M video board. I'd been wanting to build a new system for a while and I was really waiting for a sweet spot in the price performance curve. I found one. My cost in parts works out to be just under 1G$, but I can play F.E.A.R. at maximum visuals comfortably...
Now my biggest question is which to play first - F.E.A.R. or Halflife 2?
On the console gaming side, I finally played God of War and this game rocks! There is nothing in the world like whirling flaming swords attached to your wrists to launch an air juggle/Poseidon's Rage combo for 232 hits.... unless its getting a Brutal Kill on a Cyclops, ripping its brain out through its mouth... or maybe beating down a Minotaur until you can pin it down and drive your blades through its mouth into the floor below. This game makes you feel like the most Bad Ass Mother Fucker to ever walk the Earth and I haven't even gotten to the whole killing a god part.
Current Mood: tired
16 January 2006 @ 01:39 am
Branding
Not the hot iron kind... I'm amused by the fact that when you buy new cpus and motherboards, they now come with those one inch square logo stickers for your case. I guess it is meant to hit that same rice boy mindset that covers their car with manufacturer decals. For me, I'd want one that just had an omega on it. After all, I may have bought the parts but I'm the one who put them all together into the thing of beauty that other people see. A Frank Lloyd Wright building isn't any less 'his' just because he didn't manufacture the raw materials or build it himself.
15 January 2006 @ 11:10 pm
final resolution
Honestly, if this was a regular broadcast event, I'd have turned it off after the screwjob on Team 3D. I know that heels are supposed to cheat ... that's why they are heels - but it gets to be a bit much when every match ends with a ref bump and a screwjob. I guess that's the best part about Samoa Joe right now - he's a heel, but he's also a legit monster.
I'd have more to say if I wasn't so damn frustrated with the storylines.
I'd have more to say if I wasn't so damn frustrated with the storylines.
Current Mood: annoyed
03 January 2006 @ 11:39 pm
the problem remains
I rarely have anything that is worth posting that I can post. I'm still just trying to make a habit of it.
Spartan: Total Warrior is an unfortunate disappointment. if you're anywhere near any kind of obstruction when you pull out the bow, the camera will get stuck and you'll be totally unable to aim. This is especially annoying when you've got timers on the ammo that basically mean you get a single chance to shoot before you have to start the process over. Oh yeah, and it's just as easy to blow up yourself or your allies as it is the enemy, and in fact is far more likely. I'm damn picky about my gaming - if I hit something in the first 15 minutes that I'm not happy with, I'm very likely to stop right there.
And just for a yardstick, I think Kingdom Hearts, Jade Empire and Katamari Damacy are the best console games I've ever played. Shining the Holy Ark and Powerstone are quite possibly numbers four and five.
Spartan: Total Warrior is an unfortunate disappointment. if you're anywhere near any kind of obstruction when you pull out the bow, the camera will get stuck and you'll be totally unable to aim. This is especially annoying when you've got timers on the ammo that basically mean you get a single chance to shoot before you have to start the process over. Oh yeah, and it's just as easy to blow up yourself or your allies as it is the enemy, and in fact is far more likely. I'm damn picky about my gaming - if I hit something in the first 15 minutes that I'm not happy with, I'm very likely to stop right there.
And just for a yardstick, I think Kingdom Hearts, Jade Empire and Katamari Damacy are the best console games I've ever played. Shining the Holy Ark and Powerstone are quite possibly numbers four and five.
Current Mood: annoyed
02 January 2006 @ 11:40 pm
You've got to know if the juice is worth the squeeze...
For a long time, I've been using a very customized version of yabbob for 'Diary of a Madman'... it worked really quite well and did pretty much everything you could ask for from blogware. When I moved hosts though, I ended up switching from php4 to php5 and turns out the customized code wasn't v5 friendly. I spent a while picking at it in an attempt to get it to work but as I did, I asked myself if it was worth the effort. The code is old and crufty. It works pretty well, but making changes was really a lot of effort. I just didn't want to spend the time.
So I thought about all the things that I wanted from my blogware... and looking around, it turns out the livejournal codebase was the best fit. Egads. Let us just sum this up by saying that while the documentation makes it look simple... it ain't. So once again I ask the question and the answer is no.
That brings me to right now. I'm making Lj my 'real' journal, and thats something I never thought I'd do.
I know that none of you really care about any of this. I'm just posting because I can.
So I thought about all the things that I wanted from my blogware... and looking around, it turns out the livejournal codebase was the best fit. Egads. Let us just sum this up by saying that while the documentation makes it look simple... it ain't. So once again I ask the question and the answer is no.
That brings me to right now. I'm making Lj my 'real' journal, and thats something I never thought I'd do.
I know that none of you really care about any of this. I'm just posting because I can.
Current Mood: tired
18 November 2005 @ 12:00 pm
Just imagine that I said something witty, ok?
There's a lot to cover so let's get going...
RIP Eddy. There's nothing to say that others haven't said better, so I won't try...
I hate being sick, but I kinda like the feeling the day you realize that you've beaten it. Frank Sinatra once said "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that is as good as they'll feel all day long." The day after being sick is kinda like a supercharged version of the afternoon after a good hard drunk. Its all about the contrasts, baby.
Some may have noticed (and probably fewer cared) that arboc.net dropped out of the world a couple weeks ago. The machine that hosted it seemed to suffer a catastrophic hardware failure and I really had no time to deal with it. Well, slowly but surely I've had the chance to recover the hardware, do the research and figure it out. It was the ATA Controller card (the original mobo the machine built on didn't support ATA-100). The machine had been having issues quite some time and over the summer, I even went so far as to install a hardware watchdog card. The idea was that as the machine was remote from me, even frequent restarts were preferable to a halted box. When I continued to have lockups, this meant that it was one of two things - extended power outages or a failure that would lock the pci bus to the point where even the watchdog wouldn't be able to activate... Anyhow, I reconstructed the machine one part at a time and even without drives attached, with the Hotrod Pro installed, the box would hardlock after about 2 hours. The reset button wouldn't even work - which explained why the watchdog was failing to restart it.
Now came the scary part - how much damage had the drives taken from the failing controller? I reconnected the boot volume and brought it up in single user mode. After a rather lengthy fsck, and the removal of some damaged inodes, it came up. I turned off virtually every piece of 'server' functionality and shut it down. I mounted the jukebox - once again, a long fsck resulted in a mounted clean disk. I mounted the video storage - success again. Finally, the web volume (which I was pretty sure was gone) - it took 90 minutes to fsck 60G, but it too came up. There was some damage this time but it was confined to a set of redundant trees I kept for backup. I lucked out big time.
So what about those services? Well, arboc.net is slowly coming back online - this time, being hosted out of ev1servers.net because that way the hardware is someone else's problem. DNS and mail will be the first things back online, and should be mostly complete as of this point. The web sites are a different issue because I haven't decided where I'll be hosting them yet.
All of that leads to this - Thunderbird is a great stinking, steaming turd. I really am feeling betrayed by an ( utterly moronic error ) enough that I'm seriously considering paying for The Bat!, which is truly slick in its latest incarnation.
Or possibly making Outlook XP my default email client... How scary is that?
23 October 2005 @ 11:04 pm
Bound For Glory [whatever...]
18 October 2005 @ 01:04 pm
Ultimate Spiderman [whatever...]
After some hours I've got to revise my opinion of the Ultimate Spiderman for XBox. Unfortunately it isn't for the better. While the free-roaming aspect of the game is great, and the city events are mostly interesting little slices of being a low-power hero in the big city, the story events are complete crap. Each one requires a specific tactic - use that and it seems trivially easy; anything else and its endless frustration. Maybe this doesn't bother other folks but when I'm inside a free roam game, I think I'm being encouraged to find my own solutions to the battles and not just follow a specific pattern. There are more things that I could take issue with but this is enough for me to cut the score from a 9/10 to 5/10... which is a shame. This had all the makings of another truly great game.
[cloned from Diary Of A Madman]