November 2006

I don’t want to go to work.

I don’t make enough there.

Someone hook me up with a phat job somewhere I’ll be happy.

I strangely like customers.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my visitors celebrating today.

See y’all after work.

When I was 16, I got my first Windows based PC.
I learned shortly thereafter about Emulation — that is, making one thing behave as if it were something else.
I got started with NES emulation about eight years ago, making my computer pretend it was a Nintendo, so I could play classic games all evening, much to the chagrin of my parents and my teachers (who never saw homework from me again).

Shortly after my father died in 2000, I dug deeper into the video game emulation community, and got to watch a LOT of different emulators try to grow in the highly competitive soil of perfected emulation. I’ve watched emulators for nearly every non-Sony console pop up in many different languages. Some of these systems never became popular here in the states, which saddens me — there were a lot of good games that ended up as import only.

Incidentally, I even remember a NES emulator written in Java, called Nescafe. It had a lot of growing to do when I had seen it a bit back.

Today, while looking for free online games to play, I ran into Nescafe again, over at Excessively.net

You can emulate some of the classic games online, in your browser, using their copy of Nescafe. All you need is to have Java installed (and unless you’re running something before Windows 2000, it is very likely that you already have that in place), a keyboard (:)) and a mouse (or other pointing device) to get you going.

Fun times ahead for me.

It looks like the WP OpenID plugin is getting a little better. It’s not completely eating WordPress, but you can’t log in with it either, which is pretty depressing.

Perhaps in a few more iterations, Fatal error: Cannot use object of type Services_Yadis_Manager as array in ..../Services/Yadis/Manager.php on line 220 will be fixed (though, I thought that it was using a self-contained version of the JanRain OpenID server This occurs with both versions of the Yadis code — the one included with the plugin, and the pear installed version (__uri/Auth_OpenID)).

If it ever works, then you LiveJournalers can use your LJ URI to log in here, and therefore be able to comment more readily.

Vuru

So, I go to see who’s at the door. One of my cousins is coming through the door with a box, and hands it to me, saying “It was on the porch”.

It was my order of vitamins from Vuru, the vitamin guru service.

As you can see, the packaging is very clear to identify, so it doesn’t feel like a mystery box or bag that some companies send you when you order medecine online. This pleases me.

In the box are four resealable pouches, each containing seven smaller resealable pouches that are pre-measured with pills for each day, as well as a printed, color listing of what all is in the box to help you identify each pill. (Of humor: One of these pills also contains Extra Virgin Olive Oil. :P)

I’ll be starting my vitamin regimen today, and we’ll see how I progress from there.

I got around to registering a domain for my other self, where I can say things that I mean, and have them attached to myself.

I can finally vent and kvetch about stuff that bugs me, and it feels pretty damn good, to be honest. A lot of it is heavier than some of you are used to seeing from me, but that’s why it’s not here.

What I need to do is go design the secret project’s homepage, and work on its weblog some more.

I should go work on that now, since I slept most of the day.