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| Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | | 8:19 pm |
A Sad Day
I hope there is a special place reserved up there for you, funny man | | Friday, May 23rd, 2008 | | 11:09 am |
| | Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 | | 10:57 am |
Splittin Inifitives gets independent review and.. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/298997Wow.. an independent reviewer just reviewed S/I on BGG.. and Jesus Mary McHotpants.. it's a STELLAR review.. *wow* *blown away* Current Mood:  ecstatic | | Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 | | 2:45 pm |
migrane
Tuesday, Oct 9 - Migrane, BAD one, somewhere 7-10, almost unbearable | | Friday, September 28th, 2007 | | 4:02 pm |
migrane
Today (Fri) Migrane, sadly - s'been really good for the past few days
Thursday - had a pretty sharp headache but I think I could say it was just a headache, because I had worked till like 7pm and so
Wednesday - headache after work, but I deserved it, I came home from work and started trying to get my amp working | | Friday, September 21st, 2007 | | 11:05 am |
Thursday: Migrane
Thursday: Migrane | | Thursday, September 20th, 2007 | | 1:17 pm |
Wednesady: Migrane | | Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 | | 2:39 pm |
Tuesday: Migrane | | Monday, September 17th, 2007 | | 10:56 am |
Migranes
My friends already know that I am getting a migrane every day, and have been for something like 5-6 weeks now. I also am not able to sleep properly anymore.
They also no I don't agree with LiveJournal, but I'm gonna use it to record the days I have migranes and sleep
Backlog:
Thursday: Migrane
Friday: Migrane
Saturday: Migrane
Sunday: Migrane, didn't sleep till 3 | | Monday, September 3rd, 2007 | | 12:43 pm |
Help kills....
Here is one for the books:
Upon return from Feral! I anticipated 2 days of rest before returning to work. I took a nap on my couch, and found my PC was swarmed with "Help" windows. There's a key on my rocketfish keyboard which summons help. Apparently, the key had been pushed down by something for a long time and opened thousands of help windows, so many in fact, that windows had begun to throw errors "Windows cannot open help, not enough memory 0x000015" The PC was uncontrollable, as these popups kept coming as fast as you could shut them, so I shut the PC down.
The PC now will not boot. It does the ASUS splash screen, then the hardware list, then beeps and starts over.
As I have many programs that took me months to setup and install, I didn't want to wipe the hard drive and start over, so I tried re-installing XP. Each time it would get to the "installing windows" GUI screen and say "Setup has found a fatal error, cannot continue: Incorrect Function"
On advice of friends, I tried removing memory sticks, trying others, removing all extraneous cards, and stripping the system down to its minimum. "Incorrect Function" I bought a brand new 500G hard drive, and tried installing onto that (and that only) "Incorrect Function."
The upshot of which, since I can't afford a new PC, is that I cannot continue.
Still, it's one for the history books ain't it.. "Help kills windows user?" | | Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 | | 12:07 pm |
A terrifying thought.. Have you ever considered the following: Let's say you play an online game (eg MMORPG) and you stop playing. They bill your credit card 6 months later saying you have been playing for the last 6 months. How do you prove you did not? There is NO paper trail on your end saying you cancelled your subscription. There is no evidence at all of the transactions that take place. The only records are on their game's website, in their database, which they could change at any time. In short, there is nothing to stop them. Current Mood:  scared | | Sunday, May 27th, 2007 | | 5:54 pm |
Adventures in Linux
When I am in the lab, working on commissions I often need to consult my DB system or to IM to customers, and I had this old laptop so I hooked it up, loaded up Win98, put a wireless card on it, and set it up in the lab.
The thing was, the laptop was JUST too plain slow. In the time it took me to reach a webpage, I had time to walk upstairs, load the page on my main machine, walk back downstairs. So, I shopped around for some cheap but better laptop. Well, needless to say there weren't any in the range *I* might have paid, so then I thought:
Why not try Linux?
Linux, after all, could do both of those things, is small, is fast, and could almost certainly run on the laptop faster and better than windows. I also have a sneaking love of linux, despite always winding up with a windows machine.
So, I asked around and people said: Ubuntu. I had Mandrake 8.0 tho, so I tried that first. Mandrake didn't do too badly. It couldn't find the graphic or sound drivers, and looked ok, but failed to find the wireless card.
Second, I tried Ubuntu. Ubunto did very badly.. It spent all night spinning-up and spinning-down the CD drive and didn't get anywhere. Sigh.
Mandrake seemed to have become Mandrive, so I also tried Mandrive. It spat out a pile of errors and died, so no hope there.
So much bandwidth and installaion later, I am trying simple redhat with fingers crossed. However, somebody told me that my wireless card, TrendNet TEW-421PC is *NOT* compatible with Linux.. so the whole exercise may have been for naughty. The same person told me that the problem might not BE windows, but the slowness of that card maybe at the core of all my troubles.
I dunno why but I still wish I coulda had a Linux machine :)
Current Mood: bargle | | Saturday, March 31st, 2007 | | 12:04 pm |
LightScribe
LightScribe??? JESUS!
People will pay money for toys like that??? | | Saturday, November 18th, 2006 | | 1:43 pm |
I give up
That's it, I give up. Art is closed.
Everybody, furries, everyone, totally loved computer-generated art. A line, click your magic wand, spray here, spray there.. take 10 minutes, if you make a mistake undo. 10 minutes later you have a pic that furries go GA GA over. Me? It tkaes me 3-4 hours to paint something.. does that matter to anybody? No. Quality matters nothing. Everybody just loves the pop fare, the crap, the instantly-produced poster-washed stuff. It takes no skill. Click magic wand, fill. WOW.. that was so hard.
I give up. What I am doing is valueless. No more. I havent' painted in months, and that will just be an end to it. | | Saturday, November 4th, 2006 | | 2:09 pm |
No more fish http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061102.wseafood1102/BNStory/Science/People read this, and move on, as I did, but it is a serious problem. In our society, responsability is divorced from decision. The CEO has a secretary to avoid phone calls and meetings he doesn't want to take, and she cannot help the people who call, no matter how they scream or beg. The people buying the fish do not have 3 dead fish drop at their feet, and the people bottom-trawling say "i'm doing my job..! ask the people buying!" I was pondering this this morning. If you collect a mob of people together, they behave in a way not any one of them would alone. Why is it people in an anonymous situation (online) or in a mob, act so badly? They are protected from consequences, and so are free to behave terribly. Sad but true, when people are held up to no standard, they behave their worst. People treat their friends far better than their lovers, for what goes on in love is private. The cardinal sin of our society is in the simple belief that we all have that we can do nothing. We're but one grain of sand/ in a vast beach, so the choices we make mean nothing, but it's not true. We are the driving force behind these terrible activites. Our $2.49 spent today on a brand of tuna that employs people in 3rd world countries that bottom-trawl, or our decision to shop at Wal*Mart to save 20 cents, despite what we know about their hideous business practices. The threads in a shirt are all tiny, all nothing. Pull any thread, it breaks, but all the threads working together, the shirt stays together. Each of us has the power, especially if we unify. Take the time to find out what is going on. Think about what you can do. You may think that not buying one brand over another, not shopping at one store instead of another, not voting for one politician is microscopic in the world, and you are right in a sense, but in another sense, you are the power and what you do does matter. If a 3rd world country is bottom-trawling, and we are sending them aid, then vote against the politicians doing it, and let them know why. If a fishing company is employing bottom-trawling, do not buy their tuna, and let others know why. The only sin is in believing there is no salvation, it was once said, and likewise, the great crime of which we are all guilty is the crime of believing that our small decisions are not great crimes, merely because "so many other people are doing it, so it doesn't matter." Do not join the selfish, thoughtless destructive mob. Perhaps only a microbe of the horror lands on each of us, but do not brush it away, as easy as that might be. Take the responsability, and choose. 100 pennies make a dollar. 10,000 threads make a shirt. Millions of people make a country. If enough of us choose right, the world changes. | | Friday, September 29th, 2006 | | 2:56 pm |
Looting the Corpse
A local game-store was closing, so I went and LOOTED the corpse.. tho it's hard to say which one died.. I laid down $300 (I must be NUTZ - or Z?) However, I DID get the cutting mat and other stuff I wanted from Omer Deserres, which is going to make producing S/I and all the other games that much easier.
However, on the way back, I had a hankering for pizza, and I got a slice from Da Giovanni.
Do you remember "Harold & Kumar?" - "that moment when a man gets just what he wants?" I swear, when pizza is fresh and the crust is not soggy and the topping is not congealed, it is a beautiful thing.
OH MAN did that hit the spot! | | Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 | | 11:00 am |
Word o Mouth
Huh! I just got a commission from somebody who works at the Jean-Coutu in NDG.. Now I wonder who that was? | | Monday, September 25th, 2006 | | 3:46 pm |
Con Report: This weekend was RoyalCon (RoyalCon.ca) - Montreal's Gaming Con (I.. can say that, right?) I went there to demo my two boardgames: Splittin Infinitives and Werewolves Castle. S/I has been in production a long time and is making sales, but Werewolves Castle is only just finished development. On Saturday, I demo'd WWCastle and it was a roaring hit. We even had a 10yr old playing it and loving it. The rest of the time we played Dragon Dice, which was fun. Foxx scored a game called Frag in the raffle, tho, and I got Zip! I Kill him and take his treasure! On Sunday, I demo'd S/I and again, it was well-met, tho a few tech-values may need revision. I can't help thinking about a 2nd edition with some streamlining, cause production-time for that one is a bitch. Nevertheless. Saturday the minis room was ALL Star Wars minis and Warmachine and one Confrontation, and I thought "Where's the WarHammer?" So when I went back Sunday I thought, "ok.. if my game doesn't get any interest, I'll go learn Confro and Warmachine.." but on SUNDAY the minis room was WALL TO WALL WARHAMMER. Woofy misses the boat! *SPLASH* Or as Stripes would say, Sroot! I wonder why WWC is such a charmer. The colorful artwork, the game itself, the humor? I hope part of it is that my skill as game designer is increasing and that my 3rd will be even more of a hit.. but we'll see :) Current Mood:  bouncyCurrent Music: Theme of Zelda | | Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 | | 2:32 pm |
Shooting at Dawson
I discovered I don't like to hear phone messages that begin "No, I'm not dead.."
Obviously, it's very good news, but.. | | Friday, September 8th, 2006 | | 4:31 pm |
Lucky Winner!
A number of months ago, I started a contest on the WOLFWARES site - Suggest a product you don't see here on Wolfwares. The idea was: If a few people suggested the same idea then I would select one and do it for free.
Two hilarious things: 1. No two people have suggested the same thing 2. 60% of the stuff I get is 'a custom plushie/drawing of my chr' - so I added a little link to the Commissions page for those people who didn't realize they could get those things today :)
Feral! con report should follow, if I can just put it into words.. |
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