| stop making people |
[May. 14th, 2007|12:06 pm]
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| [ | Current Location |
| | The Burning Sea | ] |
| [ | music |
| | VNV Nation - 'Requiem QCN' | ] |
BEAR-STRONAUTS!!! |
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| Semagic |
[Apr. 11th, 2007|01:58 pm]
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| [ | Current Location |
| | The Burning Sea | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  okay | ] |
| [ | music |
| | VNV Nation - 'Solitary' | ] |
WTF happened to the old default windows LJ client? All the current options for windows clients have horrible interfaces.
Oh, and hello again, Livejournal.  fraxl said I should post more, so I'll try.. |
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| LJ's RSS aggregator is still dumb |
[Jun. 27th, 2006|05:23 pm]
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.. and it listens to dates in the RSS now, but still spams your friendslist if it thinks the RSS feed is different. So, to anyone subscribed to  nilretain, sorry it spammed you today. :P |
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| To SN/NR mail users |
[Feb. 27th, 2006|04:51 pm]
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For those of you about to post to your LJ that you can't read mail, here's an update:
My hosting provider switched the server over to a more stable line, but that meant a new IP for the box. Everything transferred over just fine, and the machine is up, but there was a slight DNS snafu on my part, which means that the DNS should still be propagating now. Once your local DNS servers forget the old address for the machine, they'll look up the new one and everything should be honkey-dorey. |
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| zomg |
[Feb. 24th, 2006|11:07 am]
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| |  amused | ] |
Best. Headline. Ever.
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| OMG BUY NOW |
[Feb. 14th, 2006|05:48 pm]
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| [ | Tags | | | humor, work | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Ministry - 'So What (Live)' (Greatest Fits) | ] |
You all really need to go check out this ebay auction. This was posted by my coworker, and if I hadn't already.. erm.. disassembled mine, I'd be following suit... |
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| Shit that gets you all sloppy |
[Feb. 13th, 2006|05:07 pm]
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| [ | Tags | | | humor | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Tool - 'H.' (Ænima) | ] |
GIMPing courtesy of witten of torsion.org fame. |
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| because hunting accidents are totally all about the lulz |
[Feb. 13th, 2006|11:42 am]
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overheard on irc:
katsu: arrhghghgh!
justinian: ahh! zombie katsu!
* justinian gets the shotgun
justinian: don't make me go all dick cheney on you! |
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| WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
[Jan. 28th, 2006|02:00 pm]
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In the U.S. zomg!
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| 10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong |
[Jan. 4th, 2006|09:21 pm]
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- Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
- Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
- Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
- Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
- Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
- Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
- Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
- Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
- Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
- Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
Re-post this if you believe love makes a marriage. (I found it on the best of craigslist) |
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| Self-serving vanity via several media |
[Nov. 18th, 2005|09:28 pm]
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| [ | music |
| | Apoptygma Berzerk - 'All Tomorrows Parties' | ] |
So I finally re-bleached my hair tonight, after a botched attempt last night that left my hair a color that could only be described as "ginger." Having already lightened it last night, it got pretty light tonight. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, though just being blond again at all is a relief. My hair is so much nicer after it's been bleached. It does more of what I want, and less of.. well, less of the curling.
I also came up with a new title graphic for nilretain.org (nilretain ) that I actually like. My skills in the visual arts are dismally lacking, so I must say that, while simple, I'm proud it's at least good enough to make a title graphic. And no, it's not a picture of a combination lock.
Off to the Vogue by myself tonight; looking forward to a night of introversion and stompy dancing, like the old old days at ze club. Now, what to wear? |
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| Run away, with your impeccable kin... |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|02:28 pm]
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| [ | music |
| | NightWish - 'The Kinslayer' (Wishmaster) | ] |
In honor of Tom and of course, lordmookie, I'm totally rocking out on the Nightwish today...
Oh yes.. feeeeeel the geeking. |
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[Oct. 29th, 2005|12:03 pm]
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Well, since I don't generally like to get birthday presents1, fraxl subverted the restriction and got me my first ever virtual present. The great and powerful Zafrax got Moloc just what he had always wanted: a little kitten to follow him around and be his pet. It was even wrapped up in wrapping paper with a blue ribbon! (Fortunately, this is ok to do to virtual cats.) Of course.. I still have to go get that birthday talent point I promised myself. Addicted? No....
But thanks so much to all of you for the birthday wishes. Y'all always make me feel dumb for ever doing the "no one likes me" mope.. ;)
1 Of course, we're also going to Portland for the weekend next weekend, so don't think I'm not getting anything for my birthday.. ;) |
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[Oct. 27th, 2005|02:10 pm]
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Writing C# for WinCE: The tiny memory footprint and loading speed of Python, combined with the application development speed of C++! |
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| Ok, fine.. |
[Oct. 25th, 2005|03:43 pm]
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| [ | Tags | | | meme | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Jesus & Mary Chain - 'Come On' (21 Singles) | ] |
Ok, ok.. I've responded to enough of these, I guess I should follow the instructions..
Leave one memory of you and me together. It doesn't matter if I know you a little or a lot, anything you remember! Next, post this in your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. |
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| Giving them drugs, taking their lives away |
[Sep. 27th, 2005|10:44 am]
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So, a question to those of you who (whether by choice or by consequence of situation) use Windows in your daily life:
I'm currently getting the windows side of my desktop machine dusted off, as I've started using it again - most regularly for GuildWars, WoW (which runs smoother there than on my less-beefy Mac), and the Neverwinter Nights toolset.
As I've been finding myself more and more out of the comforts of my Gentoo installation, I'm curious.. what have the rest of you done to make Windows more bearable?
So far, I've installed:
- WindowShade, as I can't live without rolling up my windows. Has anyone seen a free version of this?
- Putty, whose pagent app rivals any GUI implementation of ssh-agent. Simple and elegant.
- MinGW for GCC and the other GNU build tools. I've also installed Dev-C++ as a front end, but I think i might just stick to...
- Vim 6.3... duh.
One thing I'd love is a better shell, as the standard "DOS Prompt" makes me want to slit my wrists. I know i could install Cygwin, but honestly, it's not THAT much better. I've often had problems with Cygwin's rxvt, and the way cygwin hides the rest of the machine in an invisible path like /cygdrive/blah makes it hard to use it with the rest of the system. If I want to use a posix-like environment that's mostly isolated from my Windows system, I'll boot into Linux.
So... suggestions? |
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| hermitty .. um.. hermittatude. |
[Aug. 30th, 2005|12:12 pm]
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So I've been mostly a code hermit for the last week or so. With good reason, but that'll come at a later date. For now.. I'll tell you all about how I'm working on freeReign... again. This time I'm just trying to take small steps, an almost exteme/agile programming approach.
A week of code hermititude will do good things for a project, but it's not at the first server milestone yet. We'll see how it goes, I'm still fighting really hard to track down a bug somewhere in a thread, and just finally got GDB playing nicely with pthreads last night. I've got some leads, but I'm still not sure.
Anyways, I'm using trac for the project, which can be seen here. |
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| Well if JACK'S gonna do it |
[Aug. 19th, 2005|09:09 am]
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1. Go here.
2. Pass it on.
( my answersCollapse ) |
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| 2 * pant |
[Aug. 16th, 2005|02:21 pm]
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I don't quite know why, and I don't necessarily agree with it.. but wearing a pair of nice, well-fitting jeans, when they're just a little snug... makes me want to be wearing a pair of cowboy boots with them.
...? |
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| Crap, i think i've got the bug. |
[Aug. 15th, 2005|11:14 am]
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| [ | Tags | | | games | ] |
| [ | mood |
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So, as edg helpfully recommended, I picked up the free WoW 14-day trial in Computer Gamer, and am trying it out. It's pretty cool, I'm impressed with their workarounds for the standard MMO complaints like level-grinding kiddies, etc.
One thing I have noticed is that people aren't asshats in general.. If i'm having a tough time getting thugged by 3 enemies of higher level, people will stop and help. I didn't expect that at all. Though I've still never joined a party... I suspect that group play is most of the fun of the game, given that it's MMO.
So, I'm on the Stormrage server (edg, I tried to get on Dragonblight, but it wasn't on the list of ones it offered me...) If any of you are on that server (or are on a server where you think I'd be allowed to make a character) and are around PST evenings, let me know. (mrboboto, I know you said you're on Stormrage.. what's your character name?)
So far, I'm a 7th level human Warlock named Morcuru. I'm thinking of making a warrior-type character for the Horde, too. But come find me if you're on.. :) |
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| The truckers'll tell you it stands for "Whip 'em out Wednesday" |
[Aug. 12th, 2005|02:01 pm]
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The more I hear about World of Warcraft, the more I want to play. I dunno, I've always been wary of MMO's, since the days that I got out of MUSHing. But it at least seems like it doesn't cater to 15-year-olds with too much time on their hands and a penchant for PKing, unlike the old days of my text-only experiences. How many of you out there play it? Another thing is that the price seems pretty steep.. i mean, $40 up front for a game you can't use unless you pay $15/mo? Lame. But I dunno, I haven't found anything that's interested me in a long time.. maybe I should look into open-source MMO's first to see if I even remotely enjoy the concept. Yes, I understand that WoW is immensely superior in quality.. you don't need to tell me that. But I'm sure it's also immensely superior in annoying-kiddie-count. There's gotta be millions of them on there by now.
I've been poking around the source for Thousand Parsec and considering it as an alternative to doing a web-based emperor. Who knows. Interestingly, the main client seems to be written in wxPython, so there's a plus. But it segfaults on my mac and linux machines, so.. um. |
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| web crap |
[Aug. 1st, 2005|12:00 pm]
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| [ | Tags | | | nilretain, weblogs | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  geeky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Fatboy Slim - 'Ya Mama' (Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars) | ] |
I want to write more on nilretain.org, but I still haven't found a piece of software that does quite what I want. Of course, I'm picky. I refuse to install crappy MySQL; it has to use PostgreSQL or SQLite. I want something with the categorization of Blosxom, and the ease of managment and features of wordpress.
I know there's a wordpress-pg port, but it seems like a hack that hasn't been updated. Why are all web developers idiots that don't understand simple design patterns, like abstracting out your data layer, so it's not tied to one DB? Looks like it's back to that old "goddamn, I'll do it myself" developer mentality. Another project for the pile that'll never get done. |
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| Manray |
[Jul. 30th, 2005|10:27 pm]
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I'm getting all mopey reading all of your posts about Manray's last night. (Note to Seattleites: no, not that manray. This manray.) I'm sure there are those of you who are glad I wasn't there, though. I spent the night.. alone at the Merc. Someone approached me at one point in the night, and the subject of Boston came up. "I've been to Boston! Did you ever go to Manray?" she asked. Heh. Suddenly I was all nostalgic and feeling down.
Hope you all enjoyed the last hurrah for me. |
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| Cooking |
[Jul. 29th, 2005|11:03 am]
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All of you actual cooks, skip this entry.
Last night, I found this recipe in fraxl's ReadyMade Magazine and decided to try it. I added plenty of hot sauce and cayenne, and I think it turned out pretty tasty. I haven't actually cooked something other than stir-fry for months, so I was pretty happy with it.
It makes me remember that I really like cooking, and that "throw random veggies-du-jour and marinated chicken into wok" doesn't really count after the 10th time in a row. |
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| One step closer to here |
[Jul. 28th, 2005|10:55 am]
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I'm finally officially a Washingtonian now, almost a year after moving here. Or at least in the eyes of the DOL1. Unfortunately, I got there an hour before they opened, as the website reads "Mon-Fri: 8:30-4:30", and then under that says "Thursday: 9:30-4:30". Silly me for just reading the line labeled "Mon-Fri" and thinking that Thursday was included.
1 And I thought Massachusetts was dumb for having an RMV instead of a DMV, like every other state. No, Washington has a DOL. There really should be a standard RFC on state department naming conventions.
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| HAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
[Jul. 22nd, 2005|01:41 pm]
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( Oh how i miss it sometimes...Collapse ) |
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| Meh |
[Jul. 12th, 2005|11:01 am]
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Meh. Lack of motivation lately. But trying to keep up.
I've been trying to whittle down the number of code projects I'm currently working on lately. I'm down to SilMaster and the web conversion of Emperor lately. Everything else is frozen. I've also been fighting with windows ever since I re-installed it on my desktop. Stronghold 2 has been my recent reason to boot into something other than Linux lately.. not that Windows actually runs long enough to play more than a short sitting of the game. Frustration with that.
New icon. Not sure what to use it for yet, but I wanted to be the first.
Meh. |
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| SilMaster again |
[Jul. 1st, 2005|09:58 am]
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| [ | mood |
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| [ | music |
| | The Chemical Brothers - 'Block Rockin' Beats' (Dig Your Own Hole) | ] |
I just updated SilMaster again, now labeled 0.9 beta to sound even better than the last one.
Get it here.
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