Mister T, the Aussie Snickers mascot.
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Category Archives: blah
Mr. T plus product placement pain
25-Jul-08
observations / comments:
- it would be impossible for middle class mid-western family to move to CA
- biggest observed contrast: what’s up with wyoming home prices?!
- need a salary heat map to round out the comparisons!
animated gif friday ii
20-Jun-08
previously, knight rider turbo punch!!
attack of the terrible error msg
22-May-08Error: Error occurred while rendering portlet - see provider log file for details
no link, no nothing but an obsecure-tech riddled message with zero indication of how to remedy the issue. WTF?!
…never a good msg to get upon resetting one’s password for the HR company that handles all my personal info.
on the plus side, it appears to have worked regardless… smooth as sandpaper!
damn you rhapsody, give me death cab
15-May-08or should I say damn you Atlantic? who’s holding out here?!
new Death Cab for Cutie and I can’t listen to it…
(ok, ok, I get 30secs of each song. nothxfubai.)
update 5/16:
got a hold of the album; one “word” review: ehhh..
how to annoy complete strangers
12-May-08in a major chain retail store, on a major everybody-generally-celebrates-this-holiday, be non-shalant-friendly yet shushed as if giving-away-a-well-kept-secret-but-I-like-your-face kind of deal, say “hey, say that stuff is for your mom and you’ll get a discount (!)” to everyone you see.
thanks guy, for your non-tip resulting in a dirty-no-there-is-no-such-discount-you’re-a-jerk-for-asking-look, ass.
hard at work, demonstrating skill
05-May-08
another tough (fri)day at the office…
thanks, justin!
WARNING: painful to watch, worse to hear; bleeding of the ears may occur…
this is the kind of overproduced trash that makes me cringe at the possibility of microsoft absorbing yahoo… (I can’t imagine yahoo allowing something as awful as this vid - not to mention Y!’s “ecosystem” is entirely contrary to microsoft’s) - it’s so bad… it’s not even funny.
first of all, wow… I can’t help but imagine how I would have handled such an experience. after going batshit crazy for a number of hours, I imagine a spiritual awakening (of sorts) and a heck of a lot of praying. I hope he was a bad man who deserved it, got his come-uppins or karma, and is changed for the better.
secondly, what the fuck?! how does this even happen today - what with a) emergency elevator-phones b) a SECURITY CAMERA; no one checks at all? c) cell phones - granted the guy was on a cig break, must not have had it on him… sheesh!
TRAPPED - The New Yorker
[ via waxy.org ]
as observed in this Hate Rises - washingtonpost article
(technically, RI also has “none”, but that ruins my title, and honestly how accurate can this really be?)
downtime blows
10-Mar-08thanks to some fairly major electrical issues over at my host, the day I had actually planned on posting a bunchastuff was lost (and no, I didn’t feel like posting in some lame-ol’ word processor to post later on…) so no kittykat posts yet, that little photogenic brat isn’t very inspiring to write about.
One of our largest MySQL servers lost three drives from a four-drive RAID in the past 24 hours. I just don’t know what they were doing with the electricity in there.
how the hell does that happen? srsly. there must have been like sparks, smoke and maybe even fire (fire fire! heheh.)
on fiesta, and getting burned out…
30-Nov-07I haven’t played in over a week! maybe it’s that my guild is on avg, nearly 10 lvls higher than I (the elven archer of yore), and not all that in a hurry to help me out (they have a pretty consistent group of ppl… I’m not one of them) and my other char (27 fighter) isn’t as fun to play… nor is as rich.
I can trace this burned-outness to two sources: a long thanksgiving weekend without playing and the fact that I put my two mains on two different servers (Teva and Bijou) … MISTAKE! can’t pool my resources, nor associate with my contacts made on both servers.
If outspark enacted the STORE to actually sell useful things like character transfer, I’d be all over it. and although I understand the server imbalance risks in a character transfer feature… it CAN work. oh well… seems doubtful as outspark is slow moving with anything all that useful.
and now random screenshot time:
Fiesta level 30 … money woes continue
06-Oct-07when you reach 30, you are thrown into a realm of uber spending, especially if your skills are backlogged.
I’m up to ~25s, and basically need another 10s to buy everything I need to catch up to my level.
the main disadvantage of the Fiesta economy over WoW’s is the lack of an offline ability to make money. in order to sell to other players in Fiesta, you must be logged in and in “vendor” mode. in which you are allowed to sell *5* different types of items (some are stackable, such as mats(materials).) this is pretty inconvenient for most people.
the best tip I can give is gather up what you want to sell and leave it on over night. there are plenty of players in different timezones such that you will have people buying, if your price is right, and there is some demand for what you’re sellin’.
tonight I sell Tier2 mats — hopefully I will make a couple of silver.
old habits die hard
20-Sep-07I’m tired, blurry eyed, yawning, yet the mind is relentlessly seeking “accomplishment.” my project TLH is nearly ready for public consumption. I’m uneasy, because I am having trouble squelching perfectionistic urges. everything must be in it’s place. all features. blah. is the taste window too small?!? shit, maybe I should redo it. man this time ago generating thing is annoying, I *know* I don’t have to write it by hand but I can’t seem to find a proven and modular solution. ok, that’s enough random jibbajabbah. nightnight.
enhancement woes
11-Sep-07outspark’s fiesta draws you in by displaying cutesy animey pretty 3d worlds and characters along with many shiney weapons and armors. but as for the latter-est, do not try if you are prone to depression.
I earned the clever title “Unlucky enhancer” after losing my 4th piece of equipment.. OK, that’s fine, most of those were extra. but, as if I hadn’t had enough, I try again this morning, for enhancing something of great value to me - my pristine shiney, overly expensive to replace steel crossbow. with yet another “LUCKY ELRUE” obtained I considered, hey, lucky, no way it’ll do the worst case scenario…. not only did the enhancement fail w/the so-called lucky elrue on the very first try, but I lost the item.
instead of quitting on the spot, I’ve been playing most of the morning hoping that with the bad, comes the good. no such fracking luck. 2nd MARA KQ with an empty chest bullshit.
