The Mind Of OverlordTomala

Someone give me a trout. I need to slap our ISP with it.

The internet has been an absolute dicknose lately. We had an outage a bit ago but that’s not the worst of it. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been having connection issues with steam. Every time I view their forum or the rest of the community it will either timeout, partly load with broken html and very rarely load correctly. I’ve done a tracert and it consistently dies at the 13th hop out, qwest.

I know that it’s not just me either, others in places like Grants Pass and even parts of California have issues routing through that one point (the rest of the net works fine). Of course despite all of the complaints over here, our corporate internet overlords claim that we’re all imagining it… I’m sick and tired of having to load something again, and again, and again or to be in a game like L4D or L4D2 and suddenly have the connection randomly timeout. It’s bullshit.

Great to be here!!!

Thank you for the warm introduction, Overlord TomalaTram! It’s a real honor and privilege to be blogging here!

As our Overlord mentioned, I am the founder of the Guild of Loud Farters! I am still hoping that we will be able to host our Enchirito, Prune Juice, and Margarita Social, but Open Source doesn’t appear to be opening anytime soon! There is some missing code or summin – Oh noes!!!

I am really excited to be a Guest Blogger! I can blog about some of meh favorite topics, such as Bordeaux and Fromage! Sparkling Wine and Microwave Popcorn! Beaujolais Nouveau and Peanut Butter Sandwiches!!! These are a few of meh Favorite Things!

I also enjoy being a Ranger in Guild Wars! I am working on meh Incorrigible Alehound Title. I’m about halfway there with 5000 Drunken Minutes!!! Wheees!!! I will work on meh Party Animal Titles next for fun! Guild Wars II should be funz toos!!!

Congratulations, Prchrtram, for finishing Prophecies in Guild Wars!!! Amazing!!! You are wayyy ahead of meh!!!

My hobbies including listening to Metallica, Pachelbel, skinny dipping in glacial runoff, yoga, and Deep Woods Photography!

Thank you very much for reading meh blog, and have a great Saturday Night!! Drink Up Meh Hearties and haz lots of funz! Wheees!!!

Short night tonight.

Probably won’t be spotted much tonight. I have an early Sunday. Would have posted something last night but was too tired.

On another topic I see valve has broken my L4D2 server (yet again). Once again I am no longer able to make a lobby with it. The first time this happened was because we added our IP address to the run line, then it was because we weren’t using 27015, now I have no idea what the fuck it is. Looks like tomorrow night I’ll have my work cut out for me.

The iPhone. So easy a 2 year old can use it

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/01/preschoolers-better-at-navigating-iphone-than-tying-their-shoes.ars

I remember growing up I didn’t have a reason to own a cell phone (in fact I still don’t). When I got into my teens I saw 8 year olds with cellphones. I’ll just die if I see a 5 year old with their own iPhone.