The blog (and plugins) are updated to the most recent versions, but it looks like there’s some issues with a couple. I’m sure that is akin to daggers in your little hearts. I’ve got lots of interesting (to me) stuff to rant about, just no time to actually put pen to paper. I’ll try to carve out some time real soon nah, but you know how that goes.
edit: The author of the last.fm widget (see right sidebar) is aware of the issue and it’s apparently a problem with the 2.8 version of the html/http api. He’s apparently got a ticket in with WordPress so it’ll be fixed soonish.
The hits on my Battle of the Sexes page have always been a little higher than nostalgia should rightly earn, but what can you say about a great thing? One thing leads to another, as things are prone to do and it looks like there might some throwback gaming in our future as a few folks have began gathering…
Nothing solid as of yet, but there’s enough people that we could have a fun little setup developing. As time permits I’ll be trying to finish the server VM I had prepped a while back and throw it on one of our lab boxes. The bandwidth here at work is … well, let’s just say “good” and move on.
If’n you’re interested check out the links and see what’s what – you’ll need a working Quake-2 installation and the files from my page (or others) to get started. The docs are actually pretty complete so you should be able to get the basics down without too much trouble.
Before you ask – no, I have not considered putting a team in the field to create TF2-BotS.
Well not strongly considered anyway.
edit: I’ve got a vm built with all the server stuff and have successfully installed/tested the Q2 install. Soon, my prettys, soon.
That in and of itself should be a sufficient post, really. So much said in so few words…
But that’s hardly my style now is it?
I was in a local Best Buy browsing what passes for their PC game section and this noxious wave overtakes me. I turn around to find the source it was this lumbering oaf of a child. He was, at best, 18 and easily 6′ high. As is the style of the times, his pants were a hair’s breath above his ankles, which is an entirely different rant.
So there’s this giant smelly cloud of child lumbering down the aisle oblivious to the presence of others. He apparently was pleading with his companion (a tiny, TINY girl I recognized as an employee of the aforementioned BBY) to trade him something for something and something so he could get some shitty game.
Anyway, I’m trying to read the back of some crap game that escapes me and he “bumped” into me not once, not twice, but FOUR times. How the fuck? I realize I’m not Gigantor the gigantic giant, but damnation, boy! Watch the fuck out!
As I write this it’s Friday night and I am still waiting for a server to finish virtualizing so I can proceed with the rest of the project plan and possibly get to sleep before sunrise. Given that I am prone to bouts of lazy and vigor of equal and epic measure I’ve been queuing up random posts for the last 2 hours and just setting a future publish date (or leaving them as drafts) so it looks like I’m all chatty. Twixsy hobbitses, am I rite?
Anyway, someone in my guild mentioned that he read my blog and has tried to comment in the past but didn’t have any luck. So after turned comments back on (no idea how that got fucked up) I also went ahead and linked up to Facebook. People hate logging in to <yet_another_website_001>. Options, we haz dem!* I actually got the idea from Lum’s blog, he did the same thing (although a different method) a few months back with great success.
The guide I followed was a pretty manual process, but once I got a handle on the nuance it was slick as could be.
So yeah. Fuck you WP-FacebookConnect. I’ve programmed professionally (briefly) and have no issues reading docs and hacking on PHP, but holy christ getting that shit to work right was a nightmare. I finally gave up and implemented the OpenID plugin. So there’s that at least. I installed 2 plugins and configured the shit and it was working. No them hax, no bullshit. It just worked.
A pleasant surprise indeed.
In other news, I just popped the newest version of the wp-armory plugin which features a 3D modeler. More shit on the sidebar? Yes. Yes it is. Suck it.
… On second thought, that’s horrible. It’s off now. Look right for proof. —————->
Aren’t you glad you asked?
edit: Let’s just go ahead and add the OpenID plugs to the FUCK YOU list. I leave this only as a signpost, to illustrate how far we have yet to go before all this stuff “just plain works”.
Like 5 or 6 (maybe) other people on Earth I’ve been watching Kings on NBC for the last month. I won’t go into a lot of blah blah blah about the show except to say that it’s good. It’s well penned, well acted and wonderfully shot. In the next week or two it’ll be moving from a horrible Sunday slot to a “half-step away from cancellation” Saturday time. I just don’t understand people. Sure, the TV execs are partially to blame here, but god damn people! What does it take to get you interested? Is it just me? I don’t give a rat’s ass about who can/can’t sing/dance/be fat.
I want REAL television, not reality television.
Dollhouse started iffy, but really started to come on strong in the last couple episodes. I’ve grown quite fond of the show at this point, so when it’s cancelled my nerdrage will know no bounds.
The Sarah Conner Chronicles ended on a great note. I was pretty into the last three episodes. I’m hoping that the synergy with Bale’s new movie this summer will keep it afloat for another season.
Supernatural has always been the stronger of the two, but Smallville is just plain nuts these days. The Unit has been weak, it’s apparently on the bubble this season and will not likely be renewed.
Chuck has been fine, not as good as it’s early stuff, but tolerable. The season finale looks good, there’s been some decent build-up with Quantum Leaper and Chevy.We’ll see what we see. It has the air of “re-tooling” about it though, which never bodes well.
Heroes has been horrid, I’m not sure I even want it back at this point. Don’t argue. You know it’s been riding the failcopter.
Numb3rs, Reaper and Flashpoint are all average at best this go-round. Another unfortunate victim of “OMFG RATINGS!” and the inability for network people to understand that their entire paradigm is changing. Are you counting Hulu views? DVRs? OnDemands? There are shows that by their very nature play really well everywhere but a Neilson home.
Eli Stone and Pushing Daises are already done, they’ve each got 2 or 3 episodes left to air, but after that it’s over. Both good shows with interesting characters and good writing and we certainly can’t have that on network TV. What’s really odd is that ABCs upfronts are chock full of MORE quirky shows that will likely be fun and well-written and never find an audience. Do we give them points for trying? Dunno.
I’ve become a bit of a fan of The Mentalist. When I saw the initial promos I panned it as a “dramatic” rip-off of Psych, a truly awesome show, and gave it the big pooity-poo. Mea culpa? I suppose so…
Fringe is horrid… but the cast is great. As long as they keep that going I guess I can ignore the rest. How can you not love John Noble as an insane mad scientist?
Teh Tudors just started up, I think there’s been two or three episodes now. Still a wonderful show, but I miss Natalie Dormer. Upside is Mary’s back at court this season, and she’s absolutely enchanting. I’m a sucker for pretty much any era of English histo-drama.
The best for last? Maybe. Lie to Me is great. Tim Roth is great. Kelli Williams is great. The title sequence is GREAT. What happened to titles anyway? Whatever marketing dickbag out there decided that it was “more cinematic” for shows to not have title sequences needs to just give it the fuck up. You, sir, are an idiot. Shows are that much more memorable with an opening number, just do it already! Short, visually interesting yet simple, no “clips” and a catchy musical track (Brand New Day by Ryan Star) behind it all. Perfection. Also, while I’m at it – fuck you no-embedding youtube gestapo!
So I’m sitting here waiting for this server to finish converting into a new handy-dandy VM and figured it’d be a good time to purge out the ol’ DVR. I haven’t moved to uVerse quite yet so I’m stuck with the anemic HD in Charter’s Moxi. Where was I again? Oh yes, Mythbusters was on from this week – it’s the “Alaska Special 2″ for reference. The kids were testing some myth about a car being clove in twain by one of those big plows. Blah blah blah, we’re going to Wisconsin. Well then, I should look at the screen for 30 seconds or something. More blah blah and some scenes of snow and crap and all of the suddon I see this small white plow with the words “Burke” scrawled across it… “That looks familiar,” I say to no one in particular.
So yeah, I was apparently in a coma while my beloved Kari was 2 miles down the road testing a snowplow myth. I’m assuming they filmed that this winter, which was incredibly mild by all accounts, yet all three of them were bundled up like they were adrift off the coast of the Antarctica.
After 2 days of battling the 1st Ulduar boss (the instance server) we finally managed to get IN the damned zone with 20-some. Flame Leviathan was a blast and, like most guilds, dropped it on our first run.
For the last couple hours of the day today the leadership and I had been discussing what to do about the legendary du jour if and when our first fragment dropped. Some things were discussed, not really things I liked, but it was a good discussion to have. My parting shot before I left work was “think about it over the weekend, we’ll vote on Monday”. I guess my assumption was that we’d get, at most, 2 bosses down tonight and that there’s no possible way we’d see this rare item.
“Ooops?”
So we had a quick meeting and voted on the course of action we thought best for the time being. not really something I was looking for, but such is life in a republic… or reasonable facsimile thereof.
Regardless, a big G-rats to my homeskillet Liandroa on his first fragment. Only 29 more to go!
Just for the sake of argument, let’s pretend that April Fool’s day “stories” on the internets were funny at one point. No matter how generous your definition of that date may be it’s still “a long fucking time ago”.
I was on my way to a customer site today when the Cranberries “Linger” started playing.
On TWO stations.
Thanks ClearChannel! We sure owe you one…
How is it that the FCC can spend so much energy keeping nipples and profanity off the air, but when it comes to something that’s actually profane they’re nowhere to be found? It’s not even that I’m offended by the Cranberries. I like Linger just fine, really. It’s the fact that a company, any company, can simply OWN the entirety of something public. It’s like if Chevy owned every bus in town. It’s not about what they DO, it’s about what they COULD DO. It’s a horrible precedent. I’m no fan of making ethereal slippery slope arguments, but … fuck, man. Why do people put up with this shit?
Wake up sheeple?
Oh well, maybe in B-Rock’s second term he’ll have time to tackle that bunch of hapless ninnies.
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