January 2004
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Ah, my website: a receptacle for verse of currents and random garbage, kind of like my car. The only real exception in the rediculously striking similarities is that my website doesn't turn off as I'm driving it down the road and then refuse to start after I've finally managed to get it to pull over and stop with the power breaks and steering turned off. No, my website always starts when I tell it to. I don't have to tow it twice in two consecutive days and it rarely makes me four hours late for work. And you guys say my website is worthless. Ha!
And now I bring to you a conversation in Counter-Strike, pulled from memory and verified by no one (happened about a week ago and I just remembered it in a humorously nostalgic fashion):
Moron #1: wow got walls? [translation: I believe you are cheating by using a wallhack.]Remember, kids: no matter how skilled you are at the game, you're really not that good until you can repeatedly make idiots end conversations with "w/e."
Me: wow got frontal lobotomy?
Moron #1: w/e idiot u knew he was there behind the wall
Me: Idiot? Yeah, I knew he was there. It's pretty obvious when I can hear him shooting my team mate from there.
Moron #1: w/e hacker
Me: Are you fucking stupid?
Moron #2: roffle internet tough guy
Me: I don't recall making any threats. How exactly am I an "internet tough guy?"
Moron #1: (continues a steady pattern of LOLs and ROFLs thoughout the ordeal)
Moron #2: arguing over the internet
Me: Please explain to me the difference between arguing via text and arguing in person or by phone
Moron #2: u can't back anything up on the internet
Me: What is there to back up, the fact that you're an idiot? Do I really need to talk to you face-to-face to establish that when it's already obvious?
Moron #2: w/e
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From the referer logs:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Jam+sandwich+Stephen+Hawkings&btnG=Google+Search&meta= -> /
wtf?
01182K4
Added theice.clan.GamesNET.log.txt to the messenger archives section.
Did this today:
$80~ AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton oc'd to 2GHz with crappy air cooling
I'm using a Thermaltake Volcano 11 for air cooling, which is a pretty decent cooler but sucks for overclocking. I had no trouble getting this $80 cpu at 2ghz, though. At it's defualt speed and voltage it runs at about 30-32 degrees (Celsius), which isn't that great. It probably has something to do with me having three fans pulling away from the volcano fan so it doesn't have much air to push, but I'm not exactly sure about that. With it overclocked like this it runs at about 48 at full load, which isn't very good at all, but good enough to keep it running without stability issues. At first I just changed the voltage and timings on my memory (which, as you may already know, is the kind of memory that gives all the other memory modules nightmares) but didn't really notice much of a performance boost because I don't have anything that utilizes it that much, save for maybe Steam since it's such a RAM hog. So I upped the voltage a bit on my cpu and brought the multiplier up to 11 with the system clock at 185. It was about 48 degrees while idle, so I put it down to 183. Perfect. Defininte change in performance seeing as how I clicked the photoshop icon, blinked and missed the loading screen. I'll get a new heatsink+fan to replace this one when I hand it down to my brother, and then I'll see what kind of speeds I can squeez out of this small wad of cash.
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Hola, los negros. Look at this thing I just purchased: click. It cost me a bunch of money and I have about $2200 in bills to pay by next month. I must be fucking crazy. If you do the following things, you're probably crazy, too, mainly because you don't really do these things; you're just imagining that you do because your reality is a warped one, you whacked-out freak:
Here's something else I think is crazy - trendy bullshit sites like this: click. It's not really the design that I think is crazy, but rather the fact that people still use that style. This is the most recent one I've seen. They're popping up everywhere. This style was fresh about three years ago, but now it's tired, old and whored to no end by everyone and their grandmothers. I guess it's because it's so easy to do, because it's certainly not because it looks cool. Holy shit, do something original for once in your boring, trendy lives. The only site I've seen so far that's really pulled off the trendy look without making it look like every other fucking site I've seen linked from Spoono was tim-only.com, which is gone now. Tim (aka iowA) basically took the trendy look and made it his bitch, as if it were a satirical design. I'm sure this was unintentional, but it still looked good and, unlike most sites I see these days (and should have stopped seeing a few years ago), it was primarily original in concept. Maybe I'll remake this site in its image, just as a homage...or a blatant ripping. Not like anyone will recognize it now.. :D
Oh yeah, and check this out: click.
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Ben gave me an old ass webcam. I was messing around with it over the weekend. Holy hell it sucks. Oh well. I took a few snapshots of stuff around my desk with it:
ATI remote and TT keyboard
Took this one by accident, but it was one of the few that didn't turn out like shit so I uploaded it. My ATI remote next to my Thermaltake keyboard.
Corsair Pro RAM lighting up
Here you can see the LEDs on my RAM light up.
Fender Stratocaster
Fender logo on my guitar.
The rest of the guitar
Here's my guitar. You can kind of make out my Audigy 2 Platinum external box in the background, sitting on my amp and subwoofer.
My computer's guts
My computer's insides, wires hanging out. Notice my beastly vga cooler hogging up 2 PCI slots.
Me
Out of about ten shots, this was the only one that wasn't blurred to hell. Unfortunately I was looking at my keyboard at the time.
Screenshot
Woo..picture in a picture in a picture in a picture...my old motherboard's box is sitting on top.
My mouse
My MX700 on my ratpadzGS. In the background you can see two of my speakers, and on the right you can see a bunch of wires.
Mountain of sodas
Here you can see our supply of sodas for the LANs. In the background is my exceptionally small kitchen.
Towers of sodas
Another shot of the sodas. Don't know why.
Cool all your life
Thermaltake's slogan on the right of my keyboard.
Maybe one of these days I'll get a real camera.
01112K4
Added verbalassualt 1 and 2 to the messenger archives. There was a lot more that would have been more suited for that section, including a very nice one by Josh, but they neglected to save the convos.
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Alright, it's just about finished. Took me a while to get all the content converted. What a pain in my ass.
This isn't nearly as cool as what I originally made for version 3. This is actually my links and logins page that's on my desktop for personal use. It's alright. I just need to do a few tweaks, like make the main content table wider so it's easier to read.
Removed a few sections, added one that's not finished yet and fixed a few things. Enjoy. Or don't. Fuck you.
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Yesterday I proposed to myself a sojourn for some hours on the web to buy myself a new motherboard so I could give Josh my current one, since his is going on four years old and can't handle the memory I was nice enough to hand down to him. Towards the end of a lengthy session of juggling phone calls, emails, google and ZZF I had decided on my initial choice prior to the day - The Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, which, opposed to most other Asus boards I've been accustomed to avoiding, was actually pretty damn good for the price. And being that at the time of pre-buying this I would probably upgrade to an AMD Athlon64 3400+ later anyway, I might as well get something under $120 but still decent. It was at that time that I remembered that my car is a rolling pile of loosely-bolted shit in immediate need of some crazy penny-dropping, and I value my transportation a bit over that of the pimposity of my computer. So, since this would probably be the last upgrade to my computer in a year at least, I went ahead and got the coolest motherboard I could find, which ended up being the pricey DFI LanParty NFII Ultra B, which appears to be the epitome of badass AMD XP motherboards. [H]ardOCP was kind enough to reassure me of this. Goddamn I'm tired of making hyperlinks. That's all you get.
I also liked the Chaintech 7NJS Zenith Ultra, which comes with a remote. But I have enough remotes cluttering my desk, and the box wasn't as cool as DFI's. That was really the only deciding factor.
The Abit NF7-S is probably the best low-priced board. Actually, I think it's more overclock friendly than the MSI and Asus boards. Just thought I'd throw that in.
My MX700 was delivered yesterday. Pretty damn slick. If you're in the market for a new mouse (or if you're not and you just like blowing your money on things of that sort) go buy it. If you don't like cordless mice because you're an ignorant simpleton who feeds off the moronic mob opinion that they suck for false reasons (like they lag or the batteries only last an hour), get the MX500. And if you're just a badass that doesn't mind spending $90 on a mouse, get the MX900.
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7-Eleven pisses me off.
Everytime they get something that I love and get all my associates to love, they stop carrying it a month or two later.
First, it was Jones Soda at the 7-11 in Grand Island. I bought it one day because I have a collection of their first series of Wildstorm labels (unopened) and I was curious as to how it tasted. The cream soda was so fucking good I drove out there (about 25 miles, maybe more) everyday just to pick up a bottle or two. I got all my friends hooked on it, and they got their friends and their friends' friends to buy it. Then one day the fuckers decide to stop carrying it, and get some other garbage to replace it for no immediately obvious reason. The shit sold so well they had trouble keeping it on the shelves. So I got about 50 or so people to go on their website and file a complaint against the store. They kept two flavors of Jones on the Shelves for another month. And, as all of the people who signed it had promised, they never spent another penny in that store again. I know I haven't.
They built a 7-11 about ten minutes away from my house a year after that and my mom was the shift manager there, so I went there quite often (and still do). They didn't have Jones, but I didn't hold that against them. After a while they got a new kind of hotdog - the spicy Italian. Holy hell, it was good. It was damn good, especially with the marinara sauce they provided for it. Since we were all getting tired of the cheeseburger bites, everyone started getting the Italians instead. I had to start leaving work about 30 minutes earlier because when I got there at my usual time they were all sold out. A few months later, no more spicy Italian hotdogs. Instead we get these stupid bratwursts that taste like greasy slabs of shit.
One of my favorites at 7-11 was the roast beef sandwich. It was two slices of roast beef with cheese and lettuce on some kind of awesome rolls. I went in to get one one day and they no longer carried them. Instead, they had roasted turkey sandwiches. They taste like festering shit, and that's coming from a man who likes turkey. But I wasn't too upset because along with the turkey sandwich came the barbeque pork sandwich. I tried one and it was fan-fucking-tastic. They were almost addictive. The first day I saw them, there were maybe six on the shelf. Everyday after that I'd be lucky to see two sitting there because people were buying them like crazy (mainly my friends and I). So whenever I saw two I bought them both, saving one for later. Then a few weeks ago they stopped carrying them. What takes its place? A super shitty Buffalo chicken sub. The chicken has a texture that closely resembles that of rubber, and it tastes like mustard-coated cardboard with parsely between two microwaved Olive Garden breadsticks. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so, as everytime I go to the back there are at least five of them on the shelf. Fuckers need to get a clue.
So, at that point I was left with three things I regularly bought - hotdogs, cuban subs and Hank's soda (citrus or berry, depending on whatever's not sold out). I went there today for lunch and was going to get a hotdog and some Hank's, but I saw that they were now selling individual pizzas. I grabbed one and went to the back. They had three bottles of Hank's citrus soda left, and they had clearence stickers on them. So I went up to the counter and the girl turned to the manager and said, "Do these not ring up anymore?" He replied, "Nope. We're not ordering them anymore." I asked what the deal was. He said they were getting rid of them to make room for some new stuff. Great. One more reason for me to even bother going there. There's a Handy Way right next to my house that stays open until 11, and we can go to Wal-Mart after they've closed. The only thing I'd miss would be the cubans and the hotdogs. Now watch them get rid of those...
Oh, and the individual pizzas suck serious sour frog ass.
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I got pulled over this morning by a Mt. Dora cop because he thought I was drinking beer. I had a bottle of x drinx root beer. I pulled off on a side road and he came up to my window. I thought he was some asshole cop who was going to give me a ticket for doing 27 in a 25. Instead, he asked me, "Sir, are you aware that driving with an open container is illegal?" So I replied, "Yes, officer, I am, but thank you for reminding me. For your troubles, I would offer you some of this root beer, but this is the only bottle I have and it's almost empty." I held up the bottle so he could see the label on it. He shook his head and chuckled. "I'm sorry about that, sir." "No problem," I replied. Then he asked me for my license and registration. "Here ya go. Take your time with that. I don't have to be at work on time or anything." So he went back to his car and took about five minutes to make sure my car wasn't stolen and that there wasn't a warrant for my arrest. I showed up about six minutes late. Oh well.
The longest LAN in cdeath history ended this morning when Heath left. It started two days before Thanksgiving. My room is just downright atrocious. Last night I took out four 32 gallon bags of trash. Last week I took about six out and a trash can. I still have to sweep and mop, and get shit organized again. I think someone stole my Estwing hammer. Someone's getting an ass-beating.
Check out the specs on these systems.
Idle in #cdeath on gamesnet useast, fuckers.
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New stuff:
This ram: click
This mouse: click
This mousepad: click
This mousepad skin: click
This video card: click
This tuner card: click
:D
Still working on converting all of the content over. I knew all that simplistic, non-scripted and non-ssi shit would bite me in the ass someday.
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I spent my New Year's Eve and Day with local members of my clan, playing cstrike and watching the Korean get drunk. He was on Terry's computer and Josh was sending messages to him though Steam, typing what Albert (the Korean) was saying. Albert thought the computer was voice-activated. Then he went walking across the room, holding on to his shirt and dragging it across the floor. He tripped on it and said, "HEY! Who took my shirt off?!" While he was sitting on the floor, Heath started messing with his ears. He looked over at Josh and said, "Knock it off, Joosh!" He did some other really funny shit but I don't remember it all.
At one point Heath put Optix (a bulky backdoor with a lot of features) on Terry's computer and was messing with him while he was playing cstrike. I was sitting on the couch watching Ben play FFX. Terry turns around, looks at me and yells at me to stop doing it. Then once he realized how profoundly stupid it was to accuse me of doing it, he yelled at Ben to stop messing with him. Then he realized that there was no way Ben could be doing it, so he accused me again. Then he finally started questioning the people who were actually sitting at computers. He got up to go see if anyone was doing anything suspicious, so Albert got on his computer, wrote "I AM GAY" in MSPaint with the spray paint tool and set it as his wallpaper, and blamed it on the trojan. Then he went behind his computer and unplugged his ethernet cable, and it took Terry about 30 mins to find out why he didn't have connection. Finally Heath admitted to installing Optix and uninstalled it, and Albert was trying to convince us that he wasn't drunk. Terry punched him in the balls and Albert starting beating him in the forehead with his shoe. After a few minutes of that, Albert asked Terry how he got this mark on his forehead, and completely denied ever hitting him with the shoe. Then he remembered that Terry punched him in the balls so he started hitting him with the shoe again.
Albert and Ben convinced me to pick up FFX2. God, what a fairy game. The three main characters are Yuna, Rikku and some gothic dyke named Paine. Yuna traded in her staff for a pair of exceptionally weak pistols, Rikku still has the wrist blades and the dyke has a sword. In the beginning you have to attend a pop concert/fruitfest and beat some Yuna look-alike. Apparently they're pissed because the singer stole Yuna's wardrobe or something. And in the fight sequences, your attacks depend on what kind of dress you're wearing, and you have to do different dances. In fact, the characters - both playable and NPCs - dance at the most inappropriate times throughout the game. They'll just be standing there, and they catch fucking disco fever and rock out to the "Working at the Car Wash" beat playing in the background. After you get Yuna's wardrobe back, they do this stupid Charlie's Angels pose with Barbie-style name introduction lettering. You can feel your balls numbing and shrinking as you play this. At least Rikku's hot, and when Yuna's HP gets down to the yellow letters, she gets on her knees with her legs spread and starts masturbating. I guess she feels that if she's about to die she might as well go out happily. And when you're in Zanarkand you have to fight that bastard that does the photon attack again. I guess those types of bosses just grow on trees. Stupid game.
Site should be ready soon.