i just completed some quick research. according to my numbers here, on any given day of the week, theres 12-13 combined hours of er and law and order. just so you know, thats a lot of two shows. some days you have to be careful, and flip back and forth, because theres two [or three!] episodes at a time. but my numbers are counting blocks of programming. if they overlap, they arent counted twice. hell, if i did that, i'd be up near around 14-16 hours.
just, ye know, for if you really want to overdose on nbc's 10pm timeslots that arent dateline. [08.01.01@03:32]
i've been working quite a bit lately. part actual work, part fake stuff-i'm-doing-for-reasons-i-don't-understand. cam page, main-page, forum upgrades [did you see the forum upgrade? of course you didnt, thats because it was meant to be seamless], droid arena, sleep, max payne, etc. nothings finished [except max payne], but its getting there. i've really not had much time to just sit back and work here, because i've been spending all my time sitting back and chilling in #jedi-knight.
so instead of boring you all with more inane shite from the past few days, i'll just hand you this log from a few moments ago.
[BEGIN TRANSMISSION]
* inpheaux is now convinced that garlic doesnt really taste like anything. it just smells so incredibly strong, that you think the sensation is taste.
<King_Andy> Use an onion instead.
<inpheaux> onions work on much the same principle.
<inpheaux> actually, onions arent even smell.
<inpheaux> onions have an aura of onion-ness.
* King_Andy is 100% sure that onions have a strong taste to them.
<inpheaux> no no, the *reason* the taste is so strong is because there is no taste. their aura of onion-ness goes straight to your brane.
[END TRANSMISSION]
thankyou, and goodnight. [08.08.01@01:01]
its 0548 at the moment. i hadnt truly had a chance to listen to the version of like spinning plates thats been floating around. sure, i had heard it, but i didnt really have a chance to listen. so i just did. it truly is emotionally moving. i just turned it up, and fell apart. it took me a solid ten minutes to pull myself back together. i heartily endorse this product and/or service. [08.12.01@04:52]
no, you're not going crazy, i just changed the main font. and next week when microsoft releases ie6, you might end up getting to see a brand new font section. and if you're all really good, and perhaps give me a reason to care, i might actually churn out a new font or two. [08.12.01@05:15]
right. sencha is finally getting there. first a short history of sencha's name. sencha was the name of what became the male lead in The Game. well, you could argue that evan chan was the male lead, but he was dead the entire time. sencha showed up at the end, was a l33t hax0r, and just generally owned. he then lost it and ran away. some short research revealed that sencha is the name of a japanese tea, and means "common", which is nice since sencha 'ere is anything but common.
sencha built on 081601sencha was a bit of a bastard starting off. first the damn dragon orb 3 bit me rather badly [pictures after one day of healing], then i had to format twice due to massive driver errors, then my video buggered up when i installed dx8.0a, then there was some fighting between onboard sound and my sblive, and it was generally an unpleasant experience. but now everythings running, and my only complain is that it's a bit loud, but according to tom's hardware guide, loud fans merely come with the territory when you've got a machine this fast.
processor: 1.4ghz amd athlon [w/thermaltake dragon orb 3]
ram: 256mb pc2100 ddr [upgrading later]
motherboard: asus a7a266
video: creative tnt2 ultra [upgrading shortly]
monitor: viewsonic optiquest 17.5" [upgrading shortly]
hd 1: western digital 40.0gb
hd 2: western digital 12.7gb
cdrw: hp 9310i 10x/8x/32x
sound: sound blaster live
os: win98SE [upgrading to XP on oct. 25]
nic: generic 10/100 nic
fans: 4 [1 case fan, 2 psu fans, 1 hsf]
case: enlight en7237 [w/410W enermax psu]
others: wintv go tv tuner, creative videoblaster cam, optional extra 2 usb ports, logitech usb optical wheel-mouse, microsoft natural keyboard, and some swish altech lansing speakers
so, yeah, thats whats going on. i've still got a few things to install [newsbin pro, my whole 3 games, my emulation directory, psp7, and winrar], and the only things i *lost* were all of noir [i didnt care enough about it to back it up onto five cds] and scanfont. other than those, its all here.
well, i'm going to go pass out on the couch now. cause thats what i do. [08.17.01@16:03]
i really need to stop listening to such depressing music. [08.19.01@01:30]
i got bored a few hours ago. so i did this. kthxbye. [08.20.01@04:29]
i've been working. i feel pretty much like utter shite, though. i mean, i have every reason to be happy, but i just have yet another icky tangled set of emotions, swirling around due to all kinds of dilemmas i've been having as of late regarding popularity, the state of the universe, how the internet is working right now, and how to move on. people should never have to make decisions like this. i have to, though. its my job. i'm supposed to make big important decisions like this. its what i get for running a community. i never thought about popularity when this all started. it was just about us. it was about making a place to be. now its growing at a rate i can't handle. i had plans for september to be our month for expansion, the *right* kind of expansion. spreading the concept of the site by word of mouth, the only kind of advertising i believe in. i just have some jealousy issues to work out. also some issues with appreciation.
but the appreciation bits are hard to fix myself. i either have to stop caring, or learn to love what appreciation i do get, even if its just an occasional "good job, jeff" when i blatantly announce that i've done something. otherwise, would anything be noticed? if i just silently made major rennovations, and didnt say "look, i'm proud of what i've done here", would anyone say anything back to me? would anyone care enough to thank me for hosting them when i wasnt actively doing something for them like re-writing a script, or fixing file permissions, or moving files around, or adding accounts, or adding colourschemes, or fixing e-mail accounts. but of course, if something screws up, please bitch at jeff immediately.
cause, you know, i don't pay enough attention to how everything's working at skizzers.
thanks, jeff. thanks for spending hours of the day doing stuff you shouldnt have to. thanks for providing tech support for when i screw something up. thanks for doing this out of your own pocket. thanks for giving me somewhere to exist. thanks for not concerning me with issues like cost. thanks for upgrading stuff constantly, and innovating for no discernable reason. thanks for trying to cater to everyone's needs, as opposed to just a select few. thanks for distributing music when its readily available through channels you talk about frequently. thanks for being online from 16 to 20 hours a day, so things can be fixed immediately after they screw up. and thanks for thanking yourself, so i don't have to. [08.25.01@04:27]
i apologize for the tirade below. i've really been having trouble lately. my family feels like it's dissolving. my network of friends is now spread across the world, and now all my nice plans have been shoved into the absolute last minute, and i still don't feel as well as i should. people have said the transition was somewhat difficult, but i can't imagine it being this bad for everyone. on a daily basis i'm having to do everything myself, and when i take a break someone starts bitching at me. in any account, i'm shipping sencha up to andy tomorrow, so he'll have it ready to deliver to me on sunday or monday. the only thing i really value in this machine that i couldn't replace would be d:\. but alas, its a risk i have to take, because i just can't back it all up. oh. shit. i have to make my return-of-flight-2510-mix prior to shipping. cause, yeah, it'd be my last chance to do so. well. its nearing 0600 now. and i should probably head down to my room before people start waking up. i have to leave today at around 0830 to go get some breakfast, then go see the doctor and have them say that no the tb test didnt kill me, then go present this $900 project to a group of people who wont be using it, and then pack up sencha, and then build my mom's computer and then and then and then and then [08.27.01@04:57]
well, i'm all backed up now, and ready to put sencha into the hands of fedex. today didnt go nearly as well as i had hoped, but it worked halfway decent after i remembered i had friends in the new computer department at ids. tomorrow i get to install the rest of everything, and hopefully squeeze some money out of the lot of them. now, i've got to pack up sencha and build my mom's new computer. because of this, the only e-mail i'll be accessing will be jgeorge@cs.uml.edu, through putty. as for the e-mails i had around, i forwarded them to jgeorge@cs.uml.edu, and will respond to them during some down-time tonight. i'll be around on icq, though, with my whole user list. so. yeah. off i go. [08.27.01@14:52]