Distractions

SLAM Celebration!

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Wow, I received some great news, my official invitation to my college’s literary magazine’s kickoff (SLAM)! Yays! I was so excited that I had some Avery Lane Cabernet Sauvignon with my toasted sandwich! I was so excited that I had some Stoli Shots! Then I had some more Stoli Shots! How many Stoli Shots can you get down? I had a total of 8 plus the vino! Oh mys!!!!

Have fun meh hearties!!!

>What I’ve been occupied with.

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I’ve upgraded my video card. Now I’ll be able to release L4D videos once again. Fraps works even better now. But the best part? When a Charger attacks I won’t lag! Everytime a Charger started to charge I would freeze for 4 seconds, then awaken to a friend or me being beaten to death. After getting tired of this I mostly played on my notebook since performance was flawless. But with this ATi Saphire HD 3850 it clears up that problem quite nicely!

I did run into some other problems though. 3 capacitors on my motherboard are about to pop. The good news is I found another motherboard for dirt cheap. It also looks like the latest drivers randomly cause the system to die. Not in game either mind you, only when I’m surfing the net. At first I thought maybe it was either the drivers or the new .NET framework. But uninstalling that caused the next lockup to generate a BSOD rather than just a black screen followed by a restart. I’ve rolled back 2 versions and so far everything is smooth.

I’d better get some sleep. I have gifts to mail to Princess Barbie before the post office closes this afternoon. Then I can finally email her about it. The weather plus work has done a good job of preventing me from getting much done…

>Open Thread

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Lets see, last night I went to bed at about 6 am… Woke up at 3:11 this afternoon, got a call from work asking if I could work a shift today at 4. So I took it and came home at 8. Tore into a laptop someone gave me to work on (they wanted it wiped and reinstalled), I ran the install last night after formatting the Hard Drive, did some tweaks to it today and found out that not all of the data for windows installed properly. All sorts of shit was missing like Internut Exploder, windoze update, defrag.exe… And services won’t execute properly or remember what values I enter.I must say this is an interesting puzzle I have. I’m guessing either the hard drive is going bad, or there is a boot sector virus.

So then I decided to take a break and finish portal (again) to see the new ending that was just added today. It’s real… Interesting. I have a feeling it will either be a sequel to portal, HL2 E3, or a crossover of the two.

>Salsa and Explosions!

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Today I didn’t really feel like doing much, other than playing in the kitchen. Made a nice omelet with spinach, onion, turkey bacon and colby jack cheese. Then some mango peach salsa and a regular fresh salsa. I’m a fiend for salsa and wanted to try making a couple of recipes from a cookbook. Turned out pretty nice!

Other than that it was a real calm day. Too calm in fact. So I decided to find more evil games to play so I can talk about how evil they are and why my community shouldn’t play them. For example, the HL2 beta. Yes… After a long search I came passed files from HL2 Source Engine 2 Build 4. And man… The stuff they left out was interesting, especially the jetski and the headcrab mommy. I’ll post pictures another time. But yeah, so many fun things like old dialogue and npc’s were fun to watch and listen to. These adventures may keep me busy for quite sometime, and who knows? I might even get clues as to what might pop up in HL2E3.

>The Overlord’s Battlecry

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Running over the wasteland, wielding a piece of chainlink fence, cometh GuildMaster Grand Poobah Emperoress Shogun Divine Saint Pharaoh Comrade Overlord Tomala Of The Guiding Light! And she gives a bloodthirsty bellow:

“For the love of beatings, I bring darkness and mayhem like a sentient bulldozer!”

http://chaz.bdmonkeys.net/battle.php