Just Like (a) Human

• Well, I WAS going to play EVE. Apparently there's a nearly 100 person queue to log in. Did everyone get bored at the same time?! #
• Sweet! @Groupocity only needs 16 more heads to hit the 1000 followers mark. Can we get there tonight, Twitterverse? #
• OK YOU SLACKERS. 15 of you need to add @Groupocity in the next 45 minutes. SERIOUSLY. #
• added Bejeweled Blitz to their game list http://gamerdna.com/r/4SNU #
• played Lord of the Rings Online and Bejeweled Blitz yesterday http://gamerdna.com/r/4SXZ #
• added Bejeweled 2 to their game list http://gamerdna.com/r/4TDD #
• played Bejeweled 2 and N+ (1ach, +10gs) yesterday http://gamerdna.com/r/4TPJ #
• I should tweet moar. So, I will. I intend to go on a little vacation next month to visit a couple of old friends. Just hope there's no snow. #
• I hate people who outbid me by nine cents. Motherfucker, if you're going to outbid me, do it by the dollar, you lazy, cheap-assed poof. #
• Now I have to deal with an auction that is on oddly-numbered bids instead of smooth increments of half a dollar. Motherfucker. #
• played Ikaruga and Mirror's Edge yesterday http://gamerdna.com/r/4Ukc #
• To that #Tampa bitch that nearly ran me over, despite me being in my lane and ignoring my horn, I wish you had hit me. #
• You know… getting a little giraffe after a near-death experience makes the day a little smoother. #
• Ugh. Woke up with the burn of stomach acid in the back of my throat. Need more sleep. Wishing for a non-carbonated Drank. #
• played Lord of the Rings Online yesterday http://gamerdna.com/r/4V8H #
• Am I the only person left on this planet NOT having trouble with Steam? #
• Wake up, Dann. #
• shutdown -h #
• played Space Siege yesterday http://gamerdna.com/r/4VLL #
• Northbound, Detour on N. Nebraska at Sligh in #Tampa Police on the scene. Flares on the road. #
• Totally blew through that game. Didn't get Blazing Speed, but 224k isn't bad. http://yfrog.com/auiwinatbejblitzj #
• This is just awesome. ? http://blip.fm/~mapgs #
• Mellow out. It's Friday, baby. It's Friday. Shhhh… shhh… ? http://blip.fm/~mapz1 #
• Hi, #Pidgin Please, please stop crashing when you lose your connection to the internet, you unstable piece of fucking shit. Thank you. #
• Beautiful. It appears there's a peering issue with Level3 on my Bright House connection this morning. #
• Last Night's detour on Nebraska? (via TBO.com) Go-cart rider struck trying to cross Tampa street, police say – http://tr.im/rtfoag #
• I love my soap nuts, and all their efficiencies. o/` Boom de yada, Boom de yada o/` #
• rt @sekcheongchoi: Escape from Gasparilla tonight with Cafe Hey's GASP!-arilla. 7pm-round midnight. Free music and nosh. RT por favor! #
• Y'know, ramen's got to be a comfort food. I've caught my roomie's cold, and I feel better with this steaming bowl of ramen. I can smell it! #
• (and yet I can barely smell anything else around me. Dog Bless Ramen. :3) #
• played Lord of the Rings Online yesterday http://gamerdna.com/r/4Wsf #
• Maybe I should download stand-alone Prism for a few things… #
• god. I forgot how delicious a toasted peanut butter sandwich could be. <3 #
• added The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to their game list http://gamerdna.com/r/4WMn #
• Sad that @JetBlue doesn't fly to Michigan. Really wanted my first flight in a long time to be with them. #
• played Torchlight and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion yesterday http://gamerdna.com/r/4WYn #

I eventually got around to putting my WYSE Winterm WT9455XL in the living room to manage my IRC stuff.

It’s been running for nearly 28 days now, handling all my IRC traffic via ZNC while I shut my desktop off for 10 hours a day.

I think its power supply is a 30 watt supply, compared to the desktop’s 300 watt supply, which means that if I’m actually shutting off the desktop, I should expect a power savings, correct?

(By shutting off, I mean shutdown -h, which in Windows 7 causes the machine to enter hibernation, not a sleep state.)

With this happening, I should move my battery backup block out of my room and into the living room where the router and that box are, so as to actually protect them from power outages.

After all, It’d make more sense to put those on the backup than it does to put a desktop that’s off for 10 hours a day on it at that point, since I want it to be uninterrupted when I let it do my IRC work.

On an aside, getting Ubuntu to even install on that thing was a pain in my rear.
In retrospect, I could have solved it by downloading and installing the server edition instead of trying to reuse the desktop edition ISO that I had.

Now, if only I’d remember to shut my desktop off when I pass out…

• It's Half off, Half day, ALL kayak at http://groupocity.com/ – check out the deals @Groupocity #
• Chicken. Watermelon. Red Kool-Aid. Cooking Grease. Should hit the store now. #
• added Space Siege, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, Torchlight, and 5 other games to their game list http://gamerdna.com/r/4MsZ #
• Looking for data on how to mold things using medical grade silicone, and places to get supplies. Twitterverse, I am open to suggestions. #
• Good move. Happy to see McDonald's offer a smaller version of their Filet-O-Fish meal. Let's see other meals follow suit. #
• If my blog rocked out, this is how it'd sound: http://www.codeorgan.com/?url=pxnet.pixelechoes.net #codeorgan (via @missdestructo) #
• urgh. this is going to be an interesting day at work. throat reminds me that it's not in good condition. #
• Happy birthday, mom. We miss you. — Justin #
• What the hell could cause a computer to wake itself out of hibernation at the same time each day? Virus scan isn't it. No at jobs. Win 7. #
• Testing something with my machine. Powered it off, instead of hibernated. We'll see who wins. ¬.¬ #
• Fun times. ? http://blip.fm/~lqo5y #
• Tonight's been very interesting. Welcoming a bunch of family to Facebook tonight between blowing things up in EVE. #
• POTATO. #
• I have yet to go to bed. WTF. #
• I love this tune. ? http://blip.fm/~lvbq7 #
• Diet Dr Pepper OM NOM NOM NOM #
• Urgh. I hate posting on the FA forums. Oh well. It's done. #
• chocolate + peanut butter + cashews + raisins + oats + microwave = nom. will scale up chocolate used or back the peanut butter next time. #
• Zydrate comes in a little glass vial. ? http://blip.fm/~lvxtf #
• Tread to fear Angels. Where? ? http://blip.fm/~lvz1w #

Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there.

I’ve been having some issues with wireless around the house lately.
The roomie has resorted to running a Cat5 cable from the router in the living room to his room so he can actually connect, because he’s that frustrated with the lack of performance — his drops are worse and more frequent than mine, it appears.

I’ve noticed that my connection will vary: It’ll drop to dog slow and unusable, with horrible ping times while the roomie can’t connect wirelessly or it’s like business as usual.

Since he’s gone to the Cat5 solution, he’s been pretty damn stable. I’m considering doing the same thing, but I don’t really like the appearance of Cat5 strewn across the floor (an issue I noted in season 1 of Furnish Our Apartment), which might cost me my geek license in some circles. It could be because I tend to stumble over it, though.

I’d like to run as little cable as I can to get the job done, so I did a little snooping.

We’ve got coaxial cable run around the apartment (thanks to the previous tenants, I’d dare say), which should allow me to move the modem. However, I remember that the last time the modem was more than a short throw away from its wall mounted jack, I had problems with the modem itself getting and keeping a signal.

The router, on the other hand, would be free to move.

Therefore, it appears that my best option to fix the connectivity issues in the apartment would be as follows:
Leave the modem alone. Pick up 50 feet of Cat5 and a power extension cable. Run it as neatly as possible from where the modem is to one of the closets. From there, move my IRC terminal (a WYSE Winterm WT9455XL running Ubuntu headless) and the router to this new location. Get them spun up and ready to go. Once I’m sure the two work by poking them from the wireless, then I’ll re-run my roomie’s Cat5 cable to his room to eliminate the extended run, and run a Cat5 for myself from the router to my room.

Part of me wants to put holes in the wall for this, but it’s an apartment. I should ask my landlord what I can do with regard to the wiring, and see if he has a problem with us redoing some of it to be neater than it currently is (since some of it is really tacky and abysmal — holes punched in walls without plates covering the deal, and placed in a bad position). Maybe knock a little off the rent for a month to let us redo the wiring, or something…

As some may know, I am a smoker.

Not a heavy smoker, just a couple of smokes a day to keep from reaching out and choking someone to death, if even that.

At the top of the year, they changed how cigarettes are made and sold in my state, requiring all of the store-sold cigs to be capable of extinguishing themselves if left unattended (a gross over-simplification, I am aware).

I applaud the idea, but cannot stand the method used to reach this goal.

They added more chemicals to an already chemical-laden stick.
I didn’t know about this change until I lit one of my usual brand of smokes after taking a break from them for a bit, and noticed that it was the worst menthol stick I’ve ever had.

My roomie leaned around the corner and asked me what that noise was. In my disgust, I made a rather loud exclamation.

He pointed out the change in cigarettes to me. It made sense — the cigarette I was used to went from tolerable to disgusting. I couldn’t enjoy my nicotine. Every pack of smokes I’ve seen since the top of the year are stamped with “FSC” to indicate their compliance with this new regulation.

It makes me wonder: where the hell was I if they had to vote to make this a requirement for all cigarettes sold in the state to have these noxious additions to them? What the hell is really in the retardation juice they’ve added? Why do these give me a headache?

(and perhaps, most importantly, why is it so damn hard to get my hands on something other than these? I’d probably fare well with an e-cig kit at this point, since I really just do it for the nicotine.)

• This is rare: I actually joined a Facebook group fan thingy solely to help these yams get more fans than Lady Gaga. http://to./p69 Go Yams! #
• Dear Twitter. I don't ask for much. I just want some friends for @Groupocity. I'd like to get 'em to 951 friends by Friday 'cause they rock. #
• Hooray for dual displays. I kind of want to hook two more up to this computer for some daft reason, but then I'd need a monitor rack. #
• Arright. Guess I should head to work here. It's not too bad. Just a little sleepy, is all. #
• Just as I get settled in to what I do 4 work, looks like I'll be doing something different. I welcome my new queue overlords, or something. #
• Furnish Our Apartment returns for season 2! http://furnishourapartment.com/ #
• Sitting at @sohopitapit and having dinner, thanks to @Groupocity. #
• Best Buy ruins an out of box experience for my cousin, who bought a laptop there. Thanks for the 32bit Norton on 64bit Windows. #
• Since I've been talking about Wip3out, this has been echoing in my head. Enjoy. ? http://blip.fm/~lc9b4 #
• AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
  That is all. #
• rt @missdestructo: Please Help Save Elizabeth Chalker’s Life! http://is.gd/8LNVi #urgent (via @johnraser) #
• Just watching the video is amusing. ? http://blip.fm/~ldwg3 #
• Old things creep into new playlists. Enjoy. ? http://blip.fm/~ldwwx #
• I am the only person who wishes jpegoptim were run on every jpeg that @FurAffinity serves. Just needs a –strip-all, and exif tag reinserts. #
• http://twitpic.com/14jofh – Could use a trim… #
• played Frontlines: Fuel of War and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare yesterday http://gamerdna.com/r/4Mg3 #
• … great. Maybe not, EVE. #
• Need to burn those Urban Cantina calories? You're on a boat^Wkayak with this afternoon's deal from @Groupocity! http://groupocity.com #
• Would you believe me if I said a custom playlist could keep EVE from starting? #

• ls #
• … ahaha. *dork* I forgot to focus my shell. enjoy an ls, everybody. #
• There's something seriously catchy about Now On. Need more like this. ? http://blip.fm/~kk3j0 #
• This song is dirty. ? http://blip.fm/~kklf1 #
• My scooter is fixed. Yay. I'm too broke to pick it up. Aw. #
• God. I love Suncoast Schools FCU. I'm feeling so relieved that I could cry right now. I should be able to scoot to work Tomorrow. #
• I wonder if there's an IM BNC like there is an IRC BNC… #
• Ooh. @Groupocity has an awesome deal for #Tampa today with smoothies from Xtreme Juice. Makes me wish I didn't have priorities. #
• Sometimes, my credit union makes me cry tears of joy. Should be reunited with my scooter in 20 minutes, thanks to them. #
• Wow. the #FloridaStateFair just lost my respect. Turning away motorcycle riding club members because of their club patches? #That #039;sStupid. #
• Whistling the Street Fighter II attract and inserting "Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant" for the last half hour. #
• OOPS THERE GOES ANOTHER RUBBER TREE PLANT! xD #
• #Tampa doggone it, PAY ATTENTION to motorcycles and bikes while you're driving today! I don't appreciate being run over. Thanks. #
• Sleeping under Win7 is largely useless, it seems. Reboot time. #
• "How do you like my three pound chub?" and "Do you really want to see me walk around with a five pound chub?" — Two lines I didn't expect. #
• Broadcast from root (14:28:00 UTC): Going down in 2 minutes (Hardware upgrades – new video card, yay!) #
• Mac 'n Cheese, with Tuna. It's not perfect, but it's inexpensive and helps fill. #
• I would rather pay for a damn pizza and be able to order it online than be able to pick up a phone and order it for free. #SadButTrue #
• Is there a term for deriving fear and pain from the act of verbally ordering something over a telephone? #