The Mind Of OverlordTomala
All in an Overlord's day

Early Morning Open Thread

Well, didn’t go out as much as I had wanted to. The sun was out but there was too much damn wind. So I just chillax’d like a bawler and made some sushi for tomorrows bento box. Then I decided to play with some forum software called SMF. Experimentation with that has been going well so far. Don’t get me wrong, I was raised on phpBB but sometimes I need to look at other stuff and see if I’m missing out or not. SMF has some nice features with it (especially in mod form). I even imported my forum database with hardly any issues. Of course everything is a mere test right now. Nothing will be concrete until I play around with it enough to decide if I’ll keep it or not.

One of the features I like so far is an RSS bot poster. It lets you select an RSS feed and whoever you want on the forum to post it. That’s one thing I’ve been dying to get my hands on for phpBB3, but sadly every time I look for that one I find that it’s several versions old. Along with a shoutbox that my friends have been mawing at me about for years to the point of forgetting about it. Still, I want to be as thorough as possible before doing yet another jump. Although this time if I do no one will have to register another account. 😀

Are you fucking serious?

On the subject of smartphones.

You miiight want to keep an eye on yours.

Incidents of cellphone theft have been rising for several years and are fast becoming an epidemic. IDG News Service collected data on serious crimes in San Francisco from November to April and recorded 579 thefts of cellphones or tablets, accounting for 41 percent of all serious crime. On several days, like Feb. 27, the only serious crimes reported in the daily police log were cellphone thefts.

In just over half the incidents, victims were punched, kicked or otherwise physically intimidated for their phones, and in a quarter of robberies, users were threatened with guns or knives.

The most common demand among criminals is the iPhone. :P

Rants

Driving and texting surpasses drinking and driving deaths.

I’m sorry, but what the hell is with people who value texting over their own well being? Seriously, look at this study.

Texting while driving has now replaced drunk driving as the number one cause of teenage deaths on the road in the U.S., new research has found.

The study, performed by the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York, found that more than 300,000 teens are injured and more than 3,000 die each year as a result of sending SMS messages while behind the wheel.

My state has outlawed using a phone while driving, but it’s rarely ever enforced (around town anyway). I just don’t see what the big deal is about needing to text at all times. Day in and day out I see people texting while driving, walking, grocery shopping while pushing a cart (if I could count the amount of times I’ve been bruised because of these fuckwads), pushing baby strollers, hell even riding on a bike. Today I saw a little 5 year old girl in the neighborhood. She was trying to ride her bike and talk on a smartphone at the same time. I see teenagers around town doing the same thing. :roll:

I have to ask, are these called smartphones because they’re more intelligent than the majority using them? They might want to relabel.

All in an Overlord's day / Work

What the fuckmother.

Been another swamped day with last minute shoppers (on fucking mothers day!). Two of the most ridiculous customers I’ve had so far were two lazy teenagers using the electric carts (for the injured, but mostly used by fat people) with their dogs in them. Which aside from service animals is against health regulations that we don’t enforce because we have to make sure all of our customers are happy no matter how retarded they are.

Did I say that I was glad it was my Friday?

All in an Overlord's day / Work

Everybody’s working for the weekend (in America!)

One hour after going to bed they call me into work today. I didn’t get the call until I was about ready to go. 😛 No one called in sick, they just under scheduled for the weekend (as usual) and hoped I would come in at the last minute (as usual). Same shit, different weekend. Then they told me “I can’t believe it’s this busy!” Yeah!!! On a weekend no less! With it being mothers day tomorrow. I wonder why so many people are here?!?!?!?!?! /sarcasm

Other than that it hasn’t been too bad so far (currently on my break) other than I had two pushy bitchy women with valley girl accents who nearly trampled me to get to the up stairs clothes… One of them bumped into me, said “excuse me” while rolling her eyes, then bumped her purse into my side in an attempt to get in front of a bunch of other people while I had no other place to move. Oh, and she was talking on her cell phone at the same time. Totally not one of those self entitled twats at all.

All in an Overlord's day

Damn my TF2 addiction

Played that most of the night, guess I’ll try working on my video during my days off. I probably won’t have time tomorrow night.

But anyways, I’ve been making some easy pennies on robocrates, and someone even bought one of my regular crates for a penny the other day. Not sure what I’ll get on the market but I can save for now. 😛

Oh, and regarding the blog: I noticed that not all of my links were displaying. I fixed that. For whatever reason it was only showing places I enjoy, not the places that I just read, and the stuff I read so you won’t have to suffer. I had to weed through that last one a bit. Quite a lot of the ones I originally had there have gone the way of the dodo, and the rest are just dildos.

All in an Overlord's day

My lack of posts reflect how things have been.

Quiet, very quiet. Even for being a Friday everything has been rather quiet. I did some shopping tonight before coming home. Picked up some seafood for one of my days off. I’m thinking some Japanese cuisine.

Worked on another short review last night, will assemble it later (shouldn’t be too hard it’s another short one). For now I’m just catching up on my reading and sipping tea out of my new Aperture Science mug. Almost out of blueberry tea! :O

Oh, I guess I can share one bit of progress. Got my CS:GO server up and running finally. Tweaked it a bit yesterday so that the map randomizer would work properly. I still need to assign proper maps to proper modes so that people don’t get stuck in games with nothing but pistols, but overall I’m glad to have played some new maps with a proper muxture of deathmatch and demolition (and all the others, but those two are my current faves).

Now I need to figure out why my HL2DM server keeps queuing up for updates when it doesn’t require any. L4D1 is down too for the time being, it likes to randomly crash even if I pull out the addons folder. As for garrysmod that still likes to randomly segfault every other update. Oh well. If I’m feeling adventurous I could try finally building the Serious Sam BFE server I’ve been putting off for awhile. 😛