The Supremely Average Rants of a Geek

A Rare visit from the muse

2005-09-12T00:23:00.000-07:00

In the midst of singing along to CAKE and wondering what rejections await me from the fairer gender this year, I was struck by a bolt of inspiration; take the words to Short Skirt/Long Jacket and re-write them to reflect my own opinions. And so with out further delay I present my opus, that is until the RIAA drops the hammer on me.I want a girl with a kernel like a diamond I want a girl who knows

Pi!Pie!Cake!

2005-09-07T15:26:00.000-07:00

Last night Cake played The Crystal Ball Room. The show was... (wait for it) ... AWESOME. The opening band The Punk Group was, interesting in a strage sort of way. They are what I would imagine the bastard child of Devo (yeah the entire band) and Johny Knoxville would look like, the music was 'unique'. But they have no love of country music and made that clear in their lyrical stylings, and sang

I am THE google whore

2005-08-24T00:19:00.000-07:00

After an early leak of the server information and subsequent early stress test, which some would call a failed slashdotting, Google talk has gone live, and is damn cool indeed. The official windows client includes builtin voice support: point, click, talk. Given Google's recent push behind gAIM as part of the Summer of Code project, one can only hope to see versions of gAIM in the not to distant

Season 3: Now with 99% less politcal angst!

2005-08-15T18:49:00.000-07:00

With a new school year nearly upon us, and some provocation, I figured now would be a good time to make my return. I'm a geek, duh, while I was away from bloggger I established my self else where on the net. I'm going to be working up north in Portland another few weeks and then shipping out for Corvallis on the 14th of September. I start my new job in the inner circle (of hell or geekdom, only

A newer lower pit of OS Hell

2005-02-25T18:48:00.000-08:00

For a long time I was convinced that you couldn't possibly do worse than windows when designing an operating system... I was wrong... very wrong. Ubuntu is great for grandma, but horrible for power users. I was damn near stir crazy the second my feet hit the ground.Remember the Synaptic package manager I thought was so cool, it's great for INSTALLING packages, but if you want to remove them it

The art of sucking an elephant through a drinking straw and other such impossibilities

2005-02-25T15:05:00.000-08:00

I've finally gotten around to doing what I should have done ages ago, namely back up my laptop's hard drive. This wasn't really prompted by the fact that it's a good idea to keep an up-to-date backup at all times. I backed up my hard drive because I was going to mess with the my partition table, and really didn't want to foobar my entire system in one fell act of stupidity. I suppose I should

Math makes you stupid

2005-02-21T02:00:00.000-08:00

What on earth is wrong with Math majors? What sort of person would willingly take all manner of math classes that make no sense what so ever. I've got my second Math 232 (Descrete Math II) mid term looming and I can best sum up the last few sections as: the parts I understand make sense, the parts I don't understand I can apply most of the time, BUT FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD CAN SOMEONE

Living up to my end of the bargin

2005-02-14T19:40:00.000-08:00

Well I promised Nathan I'd get a post up not later than today, and I am I've still got about 4 hours to spare. College life has been good this last term and a half, I've met new and interesting people of all types.Today happens to be one of my favorite days of the year and for the 18th year running I am... *drum roll* ... still single. At this point I think it's fair to say it's all on me, I'm a

An Education of the Old School sort

2004-11-15T11:15:00.000-08:00

My roommate recently stumbled upon an old gem from the days of win 9x gaming (or OS 9 if you swing that way) The Incredible Machine 3. TIM3 has since spread to Me, and Nathan (Nathan would make an ideal pledge as a Tri-Delt, he's practically a taller Poindexter clone). Since then I've gone on and found more cool freeware and abandonware. In short abandonware is software that the publisher is no

A giant hamhock on a rope

2004-11-07T10:46:00.000-08:00

Return readers know about my tendency to rant about freedom and rights. I'll try and gripe without getting political, but I make no promises of how the comment thread my go on this one. The astute returnee will notice a new banner off to the right under the Mozilla banners. This was actually a big layout decision for me, I was originally going to put the banner way down at the bottom, even lower

RotG

2004-10-31T15:01:00.000-08:00

I told y'all I'd be back circa November if things were less hectic, well it's circa and things aren't less hectic. P->q, F->T is true, so I'm back mostly by popular demand. Classes have been pretty good so far. I've had mid-terms for most of my classes so far, and by and large I've done well on the ones I've gotten back. I've got a health mid-term on Thursday... at 8 am. By and large life in

Analogy

2004-09-09T07:19:00.000-07:00

I keep coming back on the slim hope that we aren't as doomed as I want to believe, on the hope that just maybe people might stop and save themselves from tyranny before it's too late. On September 10th 2001, if I told you that terrorism was a serious threat to the US you’d scoff at me and call me a conspiracy nut. If I said the same thing on September 12th 2001 you’d freak out and want to hunt

Last Call

2004-09-06T02:02:00.000-07:00

I realized that there is no way for me to make my point using conventional tactics, so I'm changing things up a bit. Open your minds and get your Bible's children it's scripture time! Let's start off with gay marriage, it hasn't been discussed before but it's a favorite of mine in terms of how people warp the word of God to justify bigotry. The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[

A "fair" system of "justice"

2004-08-21T16:18:00.000-07:00

There is evil in the world as much as some people want to deny it. Denial only benifits those who seek to do evil against the common man. I'm not here to discuss the law, I belive it's wrong for exactly the reasons presented here, I just want to point out that our "friends" the billionaire can and do abuse the legal system to their advantage. Microsoft has again gone for a patanet grab, they've

MOBILE!

2004-08-18T17:36:00.000-07:00

I've got good news, bad news, and more good news. The first bit of good news is that the new version of Portable Firefox supports extensions and themes, the bad news is the instructions for installing extnesions and themes given on the web site don't to work. But the second bit of good news is that with a minimal ammount of hacking (note this is the proper and pre-1990's usage of the word) you

Isn't it ironic...

2004-08-16T21:09:00.000-07:00

...the post that was supposed to burry the hatchet turned out to be the most vicous? I got to be a bit of a jerk I realize I went to far but I frimly believe in my ideals. Four of you and one of me, I bit off more than I could handle. Lets put our diffrences aside and stop fighting,I was wrong. I was too driven to try and make people understand it's a dangerous world and that trusting the powers

Lay off the negitive waves man

2004-08-13T12:53:00.000-07:00

I've been rather negitive the past week. It's become clear to me that the majority of people take their rights for granted and wouldn't care if you took most of them away. It's a sad state of affairs the American governemt was designed with a proactive public who would look out for themeselves, this is one of the big faillings of the current political system the fourth branch, the people, aren't

It's all in perception

2004-08-12T12:30:00.000-07:00

The last post drew an intersting parrarel between the political climate in the USA today WWII Germany. I'm sure that German "patriots" took great pride in what they did in the 1940's. People are easily manipulated, we must learn from history before we become history. The next world war is going to be about the same thing the last two have, stopping a facist state from taking over the world, I

A tinfoil flag

2004-08-11T19:45:00.000-07:00

I was browsing the mozilla plugins page the other day (Monday) when I found Enigmail. I had dabbled minorly in the win32 encryption API, so this caught my eye as something to check out. For those of you who wish to use Enigmail with Thunder bird you going to have to use one of the nightlies, as the "stable" don't seem to install on Thunderbird 0.7.x (despite what the download page says, trust me

Patch Fest 2004

2004-08-07T22:36:00.000-07:00

To day is a big day for patching for me. The new gAIM patch is out, I also picked up the Firefox 0.9.3 patch and the Thunderbird 0.7.3 patch. Before I get off the subject of Mozilla I'd like to take a second to pimp the AdBlock extension, it's great it removes page elements (scrips, frames,images,flash) by source address the set up process is really gratifying getting rid of all the ads and after

Nag, Nag, Nag

2004-07-31T23:38:00.000-07:00

Somebody wants a new post. My life has been rather mundane lately. I'm working 40 hours a week. I had an "interview" with the Gresham Outlook and by "interview" I mean they took pictures of the FBLA delegation that went to Denver. I was the last person to get there, I was even five minutes early, hopefully there was more of an interview before I got there. The big thrill today was I went and gave

I wonder what will happen when I toss this lit match in to a powder keg...

2004-07-22T17:35:00.000-07:00

I was browsing the last night when through a series of links (Slashdot -> Stardock.com -> The Poltical Machine Forums) I came across an intersting web quiz, the SelectSmart.com 2004 AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SELECTOR.Since we all have the exact same political opinions around here I'm sure this won't be very intersting. Unselect all the qualifers on #17 to include all the candidates (it's

Oregon FBLA National awards google page rank fluffing title

2004-07-18T14:04:00.000-07:00

I'm writing this post on the flight home from Denver. It's been a good week, a really good week, I'd go so far to say better than last year. As I said last night the Reynolds Entrepreneurship team took fourth place. On Saturday most of the crew (Nathan, Marty, Jason, Diana, and Neal from Pendleton) went to Water World in Denver, I stayed behind for a couple of reasons namely that it was

The number of the day is: 4

2004-07-17T21:52:00.001-07:00

We got fourth in Entrepenureship at Nationals, more news after dinner

And just who's idea was that?

2004-07-15T13:07:00.000-07:00

The Entrepenureship team took the preliminary test this morning. We troopped down to the confrence center where the events are being held. We got about half the way there when we ran in to Stern walking the other way. He told us that results wouldn't be posted until 8:00 centeral (7:00 pacific). So now we hang out and wait for the results.

Water borne parasites, in grown hairs, what's the difference?

2004-07-14T21:25:00.000-07:00

After coming back from the Six Flag's water park, Marty reported finding "black things burrowed" in to his upper thighs. He went on to theorize that he picked them up in the Six Flags pool, the same we all swam in. Panic ensued, we all rushed to closed spaces to drop our pants and check our own legs for parasites. We didn't find any thank fully. This eventing after thinking for a bit and finding

When they say 800lb weight limit they aren't joking

2004-07-14T13:56:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we (Me, Nathan, Jason, Marty, and Diana) went to six flags. The non-me members of our delegation rode roller coasters and stuff from 10 to 12. After coasting and rolling we went on a couple of water rides, first a log ride on par with the one at the Enchanted Forest, and the second on was a white water rafting sort of ride . We were throughly wet from the ride so we went to the water

Dante's Inferno, and the aftermath there of

2004-07-13T07:30:00.000-07:00

We're in Denver, in the summer, four people in a hotel room, and personal electronics, but air conditioning keeps things nice and cool... or it would if we had a working air conditioner. The temperature around here was above 90 for most of the day, we called maintenance and got no response saying they'd be right up, but they didn't ever show up. So sweltered, finally about 9:30 pm Stern called

"Hey, you fucked up... you trusted us!"

2004-07-12T18:59:00.000-07:00

I left my Laptop in the room today to allow my cohorts Internet access, gaming, etc. Needless to say this was a bad idea, when I came back my desktop was Tubgirl, and my default web page was a naked picture of David Hasslehoff as a robot. Gattman was nice enough to install a spyware online casino so he could play poker. Furthering the problem was the fact I spent my day on a tour of Denver that

ph34r our 133tn3$$

2004-07-11T23:02:00.000-07:00

I've discovered the problems of being the Internet portal for a bunch of high school students, namely Gattman. I had to do a quick overhaul of my hostname tables, I've mapped all the bad garbage (goatse, tub girl, rotten.com, etc.) to google. This has kept less than technically adept Gattman at bay for the time being. On a note of hardware hackin' Nathan managed to jury rig the X-box to the TV,

I R AFK

2004-07-11T15:42:00.000-07:00

I'm in Colorado for FBLA nationals. I'll post about stuff as it happens. I watched 12 Kingdoms on the flight to Colorado. I met the Bartalis/Silverton crew at the airport rode to the hotel in the shuttle with them, and wandered around the mall by the hotel with them. After wandering a bit I got my room key and met up with the Reynolds folks. I went with the Reynolds crew and we went and saw the

"July 5, 1998 is coming. WILL YOU BE READY??"

2004-06-28T20:56:00.000-07:00

Yeah I've got nothing to say about these guys, the site speaks for itself. PDXLAN is Thursday, I'm excited are you? Hey Andy my good buddy, old pal, who is so much infinitly cooler than me becuase you own a car could I get a ride to PDXLAN with you? How about you Mikey, how are you getting there? Can I tag along?

A shout out to all my 'peeps

2004-06-22T17:33:00.000-07:00

yeah, yeah, yeah, cause you 'now w'a mean man. Farthing the bad precedent of dedicated posts, Charles this one's for you buddy. I've changed my template in case you didn't notice. It's a bit spiffier than the old one, I've incorporated some of the new blogger features, go ahead scroll on down to the recent posts links. In other news, I pulled the newest MegaMek CVS snapshot last night, the

Can you really say that tinfoil hat isn't justified?

2004-06-19T17:22:00.000-07:00

Lynsey this post is just for you, don't you feel special? The saintly US government is out to protect you even more. In fact they're really stepping things up the "wonderful" CIA wants to protect you from "terrorists" here on US soil by authorizing CIA agents to work undercover in the US, and question citizens with no oversight no requirement to disclose there government affiliation. Oh, over

Live From the news desk!

2004-06-18T12:43:00.000-07:00

The source of all the ails of the modern age have been found! But rest assured that your government is doing everything they can to stamp out these danger. What is this great menace I speak of? I must warn that you have these evil tools of destruction lurking in your own home, yes that's right I speak of VCRs. And now our senior law correspondent Susan Crawford. Additional links on /.

Meaty Doom

2004-06-14T17:47:00.000-07:00

I went a couple grad parties this weekend, and ate, and ate. The first grad party I went to was my friend Fat Dan's, he graduated from Central Catholic, and there was a buffet set out including meat, cheeses, rolls and fixings for making mini-sandwiches. The second grad party I went to was Nathan's when I got there people were loitering about the kitchen/living room area eating and watching

You know it might be time to buy a bomb shelter when....

2004-06-09T22:12:00.000-07:00

I feel more a part of the world community and more afraid for the human race right now. I had assumed that police state dictators were out to screw people and relieve them of there rights, then GWB proved through idiocy, greed, and by inciting fear the same could be done in a democracy, but I had assumed that this was largely a case of circumstance, and smoke and mirrors. Oh how wrong I was, the

Forged in the fires of Mount Doom

2004-06-03T19:08:00.000-07:00

... well not really. I was inspecting the games section on Source Forge when I came across a few projects of note. The first is Scorched3D, a 3D clone of the classic turn based artillery game Scorched Earth. I played around with it a bit it's really well polished for a cross platform OSS game, I dare say on par with some games people try to pass off as commercial software. The game as the same

It just never gets old

2004-05-28T17:26:00.000-07:00

I'm finally done with High School, huzzah. Today was my first day off, and I enjoyed it. I spent the morning on a few minor bit of house keeping, I relinquished my admin key for the RHS mail server, I got the last details of next years mail accounts set up, and then got on to the important business of enjoying my time off. The two big highlights of my day were finally getting some time to play

Party Animal

2004-05-23T00:20:00.000-07:00

Right so I'm listening to Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek for the 20th time but that's not the point. I started my morning off at the Youth Light Year-end/Kristi Grad party. The big events of the get together were: Playing ping-pong outside in the wind, eating burgers, giving Paul a hard time for being late, playing SNES games, and swapping conspiracy theories about Disney movies. After this I

Where are we going again? and why are we in this hand basket?

2004-05-21T00:43:00.000-07:00

Gotta love them slash dot sigs, from whence we get such gems as this: Danger!: Idiots with Technology I'm I the only one who thinks we're screwed? On a side note, I went on a raid to Borders and picked up the following swag: Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, Book 1) Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, Book 2) The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, Book 3) Lord of Light Switchfoot - The Beautiful Letdown (CD)

Obligitory

2004-05-16T14:46:00.000-07:00

Today is my 18th birthday, yay for me, rejoice, etc. And I'm feeling bad for the odd google users passing through so I'll hook you up with some links. Juuni Kokki [Japanese] 12 Kingdoms [English] The Nimo Codec Pack And for all you arbivita folks the correct spelling is arborvitae.

"Your friend is quite the mercenary. I wonder if he really cares about anything... or anybody."

2004-05-09T17:27:00.000-07:00

This post is a shameless plug for the Slash Dot bid to win the SEO contest because everybody knows that the slash dot boys have the best nigritude ultramarine page on the internet. *zombie moan* Join the slash bots link to the article on your blog, drive up the article's page rank, with enough bloggers and slash bots we could win CowboyNeal a shiny new iPod. Come on do it for CowboyNeal! On a

Queue the music

2004-05-04T19:57:00.000-07:00

Keep commenting on Prom! If you haven't seen my pictures take a gander Roll the music The last few days have been how shall we say... AWSOME. Prom was great in case that need's to be reiterated. Then tack on to that I've been asked to present my Senior Portfolio to the school board. I spent my morning scrubbing viruses and spyware off a teacher's home computer, that was pretty fun, I love

Who put their hands where!?

2004-05-02T02:18:00.000-07:00

Geez, minds out of the gutter right now! I said now! The who in this case being God, and the where being from RHS and beginning of my search for a prom date up, until prom it self at the Crystal Ballroom. Taking a quick gander at ye olde archives will show that getting a date to prom was no easy path, I got turned down six times (I'd just like to take a moment to call out a certain Sophomore

INSANITY, THY NAME IS[ENTER SEARCH TERMS HERE]

2004-05-01T01:34:00.000-07:00

What can I say? I'm shameless, I didn't even retype it, straight copy and past for 'ya. On to my point I've been in inundated with people looking for fairly rare stuff on the internet, namely Juuni Kokki (mentioned here). I'm sure this post is only going to drive my google page rank higher. Google Italy has me ranked 10th for Juuni Kokki Torrent. Any bloggers passing through who get intersting/

Lynsey

2004-04-26T22:48:00.000-07:00

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It's no fun doing it the easy way

2004-04-24T16:34:00.000-07:00

I've recently been introduced to the world of video codecs, what a messed up mire of formats. I recently acquired all 44 episodes of Juuni Kokki [Japanese] (12 Kingdoms [English]) from Charles. I wasn't told what the encoding for any of the files was which left me to guess what codec(s) I needed. I downloaded the Nimo Codec Pack. The Nimo Divx codec was just what I needed for episode 1 -9. I

WOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2004-04-19T23:05:00.000-07:00

FLASH! From the news desk! Ladies and Gentlemen, Lynsey has a date with Brad. I'm a bit sketchy on the details but apperntly Lynsey and Stash were having some girl talk, and Brad was discussed, phone calls were made, and then Lynsey had a date with Brad. More news at 11:00...oh wait it is 11:00, more details care of Stash

Bring out your dead

2004-04-19T01:17:00.000-07:00

It's 1 Am and I have insomnia.

About the Internet

2004-04-17T14:37:00.000-07:00

Just a few minor housekeeping details. I've reached 1000 unique hits, I feel loved. Apparently blogger has been having trouble with it's subdomains but if you tack a "www." on the front of the url things appear to shape right up, I've changed all my links to reflect this, you may wish to look in to such matters if you have a blog. I also got my tux reserved for Prom. And lastly Mikey has been

Reinforcements

2004-04-14T16:24:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm back on for Prom. I ended up falling back on the old, I'll go with you if nobody else will ticket. As it stands I'm going to be accompanied by Stash. It's better to go with friends than not at all, I'm hoping/pretty sure a good time will be had by all. Now if ya'll could strong arm Mikey in to producing the limo promised all would be well in the world. Hmmm I suppose I better get a tux,

Flanking Manuvers

2004-04-13T21:57:00.000-07:00

I have committed the highest sin of a geek and invoked the greatest curse upon myself; I declared victory with out adequate testing. I in fact do not have a prom date. With just 17 days until prom I am scrambling for a date. Things with girls and me just never seem to turn out right.

Operation: World Domination

2004-04-11T00:09:00.000-07:00

Woo! After four years "Operation: World Domination", AKA Pete gets a prom date, has come to a close. I asked Alexis to prom tonight and she said yes. Things went down something like this... 6:00 Worship at East Hill with Mikey, Tiff, and Kristen. After this we (Mikey, Tiff, and I) hiked over to Wallstreet Pizza, where Alexis was working. In truly suave style, Mike ordered a pizza, Tiff order a

Gone and wandered off

2004-04-07T23:51:00.000-07:00

Andy and Brad have both referred to the fact that our blogs tend to mooch off each other, in fact I'd have linked to the specific posts if I could remember when they were. But I digress this current nugget of goodness was liberated from only the highest quality source, namely Charles. I read the Asimov short story he linked to, yeah it was pretty friggin' cool. This ignited a hankering in me for

Ad-hoc LAN paty

2004-04-07T16:09:00.000-07:00

I spent Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday at the Oregon FBLA State Skills competition, yeah you read that right I got of school for two days, and of course I spent it in the most productive way possible. I got to the "Fabulous" Janzen Beach Double Tree at about 1:30 on Sunday (only an hour early, oh well worse things have happened to better people), hung out with people for a bit as people assembled.

if(normal==good)

2004-03-30T22:25:00.000-08:00

{ I have hung out with Mikey and Co. and Jared and folks I'm starting to wonder about "conventional" teen life. I've spent most of my life to date living in the subculture of the nerd/geek/gamer. The idea of just hanging out is foreign, just radomly going places and doing things on the spur of the moment seems so odd. I'm used to being in groups where more than two people can come to an

No I haven't gone gothic

2004-03-29T20:21:00.000-08:00

I've joined the ranks of bloggers protesting the Chinese Government's campaign of internet censorship. Read more here.

LAN PARTY!!!!!!!!!1

2004-03-27T13:56:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I made a brief stop at home for about 3 hours during which I wrote up the last post, showered, and started some laundry. Then I was off to another event, Friday's shindig was a LAN party with Ian, Mikey, Andy, and the group Ian describes as "the only gamers at MHCC". I LANned from 5:00 to 8:30 this was Halo for the most part. At 8:30 Mike and I left for East Hill church for a "downtown

The Twilight Zone

2004-03-26T13:30:00.000-08:00

... Woah, I just got back from my friend Jared's house, I haven't seen him in three years, it was like an episode of the twilight zone. It seem like every one I met was the evil doppelganger of one of my friends. First there was Dwyne, the anti-Mikey with a dash of Otis thrown in for good measure. He's greasy annoying and seem do derive worldly pleasure from pissing other people off by saying/

Uncle Sam's Xbox

2004-03-24T10:56:00.000-08:00

I feel white trashish, I gotted my federal tax an' I spents it. I bought an Xbox yesterday; finally, right now I only have one controller, Brute Force, and Knights of the Old Republic. Those should keep me busy for a while, and beyond that I've got cool friends who'll let me burrow a few games till I get some money/a job, right? Mikey and I trekked down to Game Crazy, I brought along my back pack

The good, the bad, and the ugly

2004-03-19T16:22:00.000-08:00

This morning I had to trek down to MHCC to get my math 112 registration cleared up. During the misadventure I ran in to the soul-less avatar of Japaneseness commonly called Casey Clewer. When I talked to him this morning he was planning to spend his day "harassing poor middle schoolers". He had some grunt level job at a middle school orchestra competition. I also saw "Queen" Gwen working this

DHTML!

2004-03-15T20:46:00.000-08:00

If the changing images haven't caught your eye already take a glance down at the webcomic link section of the side bar. I wrote a bit of DHTML java script to make the images rotate on a timer. What do you think? I think it's pretty spiffy.

Kinda like a LAN party... only different

2004-03-13T21:40:00.000-08:00

I just finished my first 30 hour famine, and it was easily the coolest thing I have ever done. The big differences between the 30 hour famine and a LAN part are:There was no foodThere were no computersThere were girlsLAN parties can't be described as "inspirational"We started our odyssey off with a video scavenger hunt. I rode in the Kristi-mobile along with Andrew (not Andy but Schmidty),

Fresh off the wire from the Spynet aka Ockham's Razor Vs Cinematic Effect round #2

2004-03-11T20:24:00.000-08:00

"I had suggested (in all seriousness) that she [Diana] should go with you [to prom] a while ago and she didn't seem to want to. she said she liked being friends with you and it would've been weird to go to a dance together" Hmm I guess that this is the end of that idea, eh? oh well. Final ruling: Ockham's Razor wins! I'm still looking for a date, I guess... Stash? Lyndsey? Random Female Reader?

"Oh that's reassuring"

2004-03-11T15:11:00.000-08:00

Given all the 'fun' of the last few days Stern tried to give me a pep talk this morning to the effect that I'm a good person, that my virtues, including always being ready and willing to do stuff with a smile, were of value. Further more high school cliques are BS, student government means nothing, and being an Admin holds more weight. I was feeling some what better, but then on the heels of this

Gangsta' Incarnate aka Ockham's Razor Vs Cinematic Effect round #1.5

2004-03-11T00:06:00.000-08:00

I would just like to give due credit to Charles basically for being a good friend and talking me out of my misery and dispair. Through a patented blend of mockery and odd ball ideas he coaxed me back to good spirits. I'm going to ask Diana to prom tomorrow on the grounds that: "Charles: it's a lot of un Charles: *fun" Thanks dude you rock!

You know who cares, really?

2004-03-10T23:06:00.000-08:00

I've become terribly disenchanted with the whole idea, it means nothing it's a school dance whoop de do! This issue when you get right down to it isn't have a date to some status event, it's about feeling a connection to someone on a deeper level. I've met some cool people some that have inspired me to feel loved (and then for the most part stomped on my heart) right now I can't think of any one

Ockham's Razor Vs Cinematic Effect round #1

2004-03-10T21:47:00.000-08:00

Over the last few days there has been more prom related drama. After a few bouts of wussdom, a madcap plan involving a mass skipping of class, and an all night AIM council of war, I asked Jessica if she would go to prom with me today. And her answer was no. The madcap plan to skip class en mass failed when I bailed, I'm a senior and I still haven't ever skipped class. Then during lunch I was

Trust me, I know what I'm doing, I'm a professional

2004-03-06T22:27:00.000-08:00

Good news, bad news. Good news, we're pretty sure that the "hacker" who's been harassing us is actually a worm. The bad news is our security policy is badly out of date, as near as I can tell it goes something like this "hope the MESD firewall takes care of it". One of the measures we decided to implement was to do port filtering at the NIC level. We white listed all the ports we needed, and

I'm the center of the internet and you know it!

2004-03-06T12:15:00.000-08:00

Check out this spiffy bit of entertainment: A dynamic map of the web. You're going to need java 1.3 to use it, but you know what? If you don't have java you need some, and get adobe acrobat while your at it.

P0rN!!!!!!!!1!!!!!11one

2004-03-03T21:29:00.000-08:00

For those you out there who don't read slash dot I'd like to do a little demo: Porn Not Porn Thank you for your time. **Edit** I Suppose if you don't read slash dot I should probably explain XFree86. XFree86 is the X-Windows Linux user interface. **Edit, agin** It's really sad that I have to explain this. MSN "pornography filters" prevent you from searching for XFree86 (see the "porn" link).

DUDE! GIVE UP AND GO HOME!

2004-03-03T19:54:00.000-08:00

The guy who's been trying to hack the RSD student mail server lately just doesn't unerstand the concept give up and go home. As near as can be sermised he telnets in to the http portion of the server and tries to get command line access from there. He appears to be no small fry either he's got proxies all over the the world. We haven't been able to find any signs that he's ever sucessfully gotten

Rumors, and Smacktards

2004-03-03T08:40:00.000-08:00

Fine I cave, there are two news worth items but at this time I am publishing neither. After the hacker affair is cleared up and there's no risk of further damage I'll relate the whole bit. As for the second item I am as yet unclear on the details and I see no reason to spread rumors.

Otis

2004-02-29T22:16:00.000-08:00

If you.nickname <> "Otis" then TakeAction("Ignore this post") else TakeAction("Shut up!") End if

0wnage

2004-02-29T11:54:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was just plain long, I rolled out of bed at 5:30 (am) for mock trail. When to school, met up with the team and we then proceeded caravan style to the Clackamas County Court House. I had the "honor" of riding in the "awesome" Sternmobile to the courthouse. I was so honored as Stern wanted to work on my cross-examination questions some more, I was literally writing new questions on the

Coming soon

2004-02-28T21:59:00.000-08:00

Today was chalked full of stuff, I'll tell you about it later. Right now I have more pressing things to do than blog such as playing some Tides of Blood. I have a request to make, could you kindly LAY OFF THE JOKES! MOCK SOMEBODY ELSE! I'VE TAKEN IT IN STRIDE AS THE COST OF HAVING FRIENDS, NO MORE! I DON'T NEED THIS FROM PEOPLE WHO DISLIKE ME, I DON'T NEED THSI FROM MY SO CALL FRIENDS. I REALIZE

Operation [RAR]

2004-02-26T18:33:00.000-08:00

I've officially joined the ut2k4 [RAR] clan, official being a very loose term here. I put in my registration fee for PDX LAN 2004 today hopefully it will be processed by tomorrow and I'll be able to sign up for a seating location tomorrow. I'm planning on making my residence at table G with the rest of the [RAR] boys. I heartily encourage ya'll to sign up.

I'm a code monkey! oh! oh! oh!

2004-02-22T22:01:00.000-08:00

I was roused from bed this morning at the early early hour of 9:30 and told my to call my dad at work (read: code monkey work). So I showered and called the old man, lo and be hold who called it? He wanted me to do some spreadsheet work from him. It wasn't too bad I just had to make a summary updating macro for a work book. This took longer than it should have, a good portion was that just as I

And three hours to spare too

2004-02-19T19:00:00.000-08:00

After four days of madness I got my Academic All Stars portfolio submitted. In the last few days I could feel my hair getting grayer and my life span shortening. Here's a day by day break down of the madness: Monday: I woke up lounged about until about 9:00. At about 9:00 I had a startling revelation: "Ok my portfolio is due Thursday... Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday... THAT'S FOUR DAYS!

Soap Boxes, Fortune Cookies, and Mrs Robinson

2004-02-16T21:13:00.000-08:00

First all it would appear that I need climb on my soap box and edumacate the masses. Today I had yet another encounter with a PDF ignorant person. PDF stands for Portable Document Format the idea is that any computer in the world regardless of OS, or hardware can read a PDF. Please I beg of you download Acrobat Reader if you don't know what acrobat reader is or if you have a copy then you need a

An Act of desperation

2004-02-12T22:16:00.000-08:00

Single white male age 17 seeking female Prom date, must be at least a high school freshman, and no older than 20. A geek, nerd, or gamer would be nice but at this point all I ask is two legs and two arms (preferably in the standard configuration). I am willing to pay for dinner and other expenses (but not the dress). I’m in Portland, Oregon. I’m sorry to all the lucky ladies that live too far

The word of the day is "Banana"

2004-02-10T21:44:00.000-08:00

Straight from the mouth of quote master Andy to me, to you Andy: i've taken this banana crap from you long enough Andy: no more, b*tch Peter: can I quote you on that? Andy: yes And so I am.

Things to do when bored

2004-02-08T00:26:00.000-08:00

Take any random hunk of text and translate it in to German, then the German in to French, and finally that back to English. The more slang and the worse the grammar the funnier, hence my blog turned out to be far funnier after being run through this process. Es gibt einen angerydachs in meinen Hosen

The Word of the Day is "Freshman"

2004-02-07T22:30:00.000-08:00

Well apparently 5 days is too long to go with out posting or so the local Blog Gestapo says. The connection to the title here being she's about as tall a freshman, and on a tangent: her mom says that she's "special" (Am I the only one who sees similarities between a full size van and a short bus?). (This set of carriage returns and line feeds is just for you Brad, so enjoy it) On to the meat

A day late and a dollar short, just as promised

2004-02-02T18:07:00.000-08:00

I told you all in my second post that things would be days late (at best), and I'm sticking by my word. This weekend was FBLA District Skills competition. Things went quite well, there was much slacking, eating, and 0wning to be done. Much to my annoyance I had to get up really early to meet to catch the bus. Said bus hauled us en mass to Concordia University. We picked up our folder thingys and

Just in case you forgot

2004-01-30T22:16:00.000-08:00

I was out wandering the Internet as I'm so prone to do listening to Mc Frontalot. I'm sure all the regulars have heard these songs, but I'm the write here so I can post what ever I want. Firstly is the Penny Arcade theme song, as for the real meat of this post I'd like to draw your attention to the Front Masta's tribute to G.W Bush. Oh, and FBLA districts is tomorrow, more news on that tomorrow.

Blackmail, eh?

2004-01-27T19:20:00.000-08:00

You see Lynsey has been dead set on blackmailling me for the last few days. You may be asking yourself just what dirt she has on me? Well I'll tell ya: in her barrage of online personality test she included this gem: "What kind of girl friend are you?". And if anybody cares I'm "the perfect girl friend". Now with the threat of blackmail removed I have important mockery to resume.

A non-Linux Post!

2004-01-25T13:05:00.000-08:00

I know wipe the shock and disbelief off your face. I've found a new habit to pour all my time in to. I've had broadband internet for nearly a year now, and I just now finally got around to getting a B net account. I've begun operating out of the Lorderon (Us West) Gateway under the alias ProSlacker. I've stuck mostly to custom games to date, the main two being Tides of Blood (99m3 beta), and

Groan If it's not one thing it's another

2004-01-21T15:02:00.000-08:00

I would just like to point out that the end of the semster is really stressful. I was stressed about my GPA untill I did some math to figure out that as long as I get two A's (which I have) my GPA won't slip below 3.26, so I'm less stressed about that, but... that stupid computer is going to kill me, I'm going to have an anyerism and I'm going die. ProFTPd can now find itself, the thing just flat

The Return of the King Cat

2004-01-20T20:19:00.000-08:00

I came, I saw, I Konquered. After much trouble, I managed to learn how to use the Linux command line text editor (VIM). I found a tutorial on how to configure Xwindows from the command line, changed my resolution, and got my nice pretty GUI back. I feel much more confident about my Linux Command line skills, but at heart I still need my GUI. Someday though, someday my Unix scripts will take over

Like I said "I am root!"

2004-01-19T01:01:00.000-08:00

In addition to that I'm an idiot. I learned about a funtastic quirk of Xwindows the hard way, you see Xwindows will run at 1280 X 1024 but it won't boot to that resolution. So as it stands Lynx is semi-catatonic (command Line only) as I don't know enough Linux to get my GUI back. The computer fun doesn't end there, the Lynsey's Family's computer aka Lynsey's computer final died (R.I.P 1999-2004).

I AM ROOT!

2004-01-16T14:00:00.000-08:00

I finally got the Lynx webserver built and running. It's running Mandrake Linux 9.2 with an Apache webserver. I plan on rolling the bulk of my blog over to Lynx after I get a static IP from Verizon, or shell out the bucks for a DDNS entry and a Domain. If anybody knows anything about either of these methods pipe up and let me know.

Ahh identity crisis!

2004-01-16T00:02:00.000-08:00

I just can't picture a church going hacker gamer real estate mogul college student. Which means I definitely can't pull it off.

An End to The Myth

2004-01-14T22:00:00.000-08:00

The last few days have been somewhat jarring to my view of the social hierarchy of Reynolds High School. I found myself conversing with a with a student body officer. For the first three years of my time at RHS any one who could wield enough popularity to be elected to student government was far too important to talk to the likes of me. With majority of Senior Mock Trial folks from last year

Live From the Lab it's Monday Morning

2004-01-12T08:55:00.000-08:00

I came to inspect the "massive damage" which, it turned out, was located solely in C-5. The C-1 Lab is fine except that the plan to dry the building is to bake C-1 and let the heat radiate to the other rooms in the hall. It's down right oppressive in here right now. IT BURNS!

RAWR! Stupid weather!

2004-01-09T16:24:00.000-08:00

The weather around here was been really cold, and really messed up. We had some snow last week from which I built my igloo (see below posts). Then I went camping in Washington by the Lewis river, in the snow. This was a good trip, we played firsbe in the snow it was quite the spectical, nobody could stay on there feet. Later that evening after the sun when down we played football in the dark wit

Groan

2004-01-05T08:06:00.000-08:00

I have to go back to school today, and quite frankly I really don't want to. School really cuts in to my sleeping and chatting/gaming time. Not to mention that it's really cold outside, really cold (Last I checked it was 23 degrees outside). Even with all this cold it's not snowing, sleeting, or freezing rain. Any of those things would prevent me from going to school, but no it's just really cold

I'm Alive!

2004-01-02T07:22:00.000-08:00

I slept outside lastnight, and it didn't go as well I had planned, the main problem was the fact that it had rained, and started melting my igloo around me. Everything was fine untill sometime around midnight when the stakes holding my door shut came loose because of melted snow around them. There wasn't much I could do about it as I would get wet if I got out of my sleeping bag to do anything

Snow, Sleep, and the combination there of

2004-01-01T18:22:00.000-08:00

It snowed again. I looked outside at my sister's feeble attempt at a snow fort, it was a little wall about 6 inches high and maybe a foot long, and said to myself, I can do better than that. So I put on my new wool pants and some fleece and set out to build a snow fort worthy of such a title. I got a recycling bin and started making some bricks. In turn my father looked at my attempt a snow fort