Boredom

The other day, I went to log in at SecondLife.com, so I could download the software to my laptop for an experiment (Would I be able to run SL on the laptop I just recently bought? The answer was “Heh, not really.”).
I noticed that I had been gaining L$ (That is, Linden Dollars) at a rather steady rate since I went homeless, and I wasn’t sure how.

I checked carefully, and it seems that somehow, someone signs up with my Referral URL (which has been posted on numerous sites, including here, as part of my signature, among things), and they go for premium accounts. Those premium accounts turn into many L$ for me, and I can turn said L$ into USD$ legally.

I checked on the current conversion, and it seems that I’ll get USD$62 from the L$18100 I have, so I’m feeling pretty perky about that.

I have to leave for work in six hours. I can’t seem to sleep.

Instead, I’ve Rickrolled, Tayrolled, sought out lulz over the internet, Looked at my Nintendo DS, PLAYED my Nintendo DS, and still can’t get over sleep hill here.

I’m tempted to get up and go eat some spaghetti, since I never did eat my dinner when I came in, opting for a lighter bowl of cereal to try to get by on.

I’d like some barbecue ribs at the moment, though. I miss having mom and dad’s barbecue a lot right now. It’s just not the same going to a chain restaurant, where they ‘barbecue’ ribs and serve ‘em, after being used to putting the meat on the grill, watching it sizzle and burn.

Why do I like the taste of burnt flesh, anyway?
Maybe because it soothes something in me?
I’m an anti-vegetarian’s best friend — gimme a medium rare steak.

As I’m sure it’s been noticed, I don’t blog much lately.

It’s not that I don’t really want to, as much as it is that nothing interesting happens to me. I generally won’t blog if I can’t talk about something that DOES interest me. Given that my life has been one hundred percent dull and boring over the past few weeks, you can pretty much see that this entry alone is taking some kind of effort.

Very little is new in my life. I know that I need to lose weight, since I’m still hovering around the same spot. My insurance from work just kicked in, so I think I’ll see about getting my thyroid checked next week (as soon as I can find a doctor that’s close by), and probably check in with a nutritionist. I’d like to be under the 300 pound mark by the end of the year. Given that it’s only a goal of roughly 20 pounds, I do think I can reach that mark in the six months I am allotting myself.

I may want to consider prescription diet medicines, as well. Since my aunt could take a lot of weight off with her silly pills and no real exercise regime, I could do it too, with a far lower dosage pill, I’d wager. I just know that I weigh way too freakin’ much, and it bothers me.

We’ll see how it goes over the next few months, I guess.

It’s Monday. I feel supremely lazy, with only one thing to do (which is laundry, two loads) today.

I’d like Chipotle for lunch.
I’m being lazy, and not going to get it.

It’s just one of those days, with the weather see-sawing between sorta-clear, and sorta-rainy.
It’s nice to be lazy and get away with it, sometimes.

Oh, and gushi ? I did mention I would post my laptop specs for you, so:
Dell Latitude CPx H500GT, running on Intel® Pentium III at 500 MHz, ATI RAGE Mobility-M1 AGP2X at 1024 x 768 px, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB HD.
Internet access can be done in three ways: Samsung A900m as modem on USB, Xircom Ethernet card + Dialup Modem on Cardbus, and Realtek 802.11g card on Cardbus.

She’s not intended to go fast but she is intended to at least go.

I mustn’t run away.
I mustn’t run away.
I mustn’t run away!

I need to keep myself on budget, and it’s getting harder and harder to do, when I know I’m about to get paid again.
I like getting paid, I like spending money, but I have to hold out for now. D:

I’m getting tired of reading, and going for walks.

I need something to dooooooo.

It seems that the more perverse the name, the better the energy drink seems to work.

Case in Point:
Bawls and Dickens Cider.
Saying the names together, in public, might get you slapped by someone.

I generally don’t bother with the holiday, with all the expensive cards, expensive candy, and expensive (expletive deleted).

This Valentine’s day, just send me an electronic valentine or something.

Here, I’ll make it easy for you:

Get your own valentinr

I have been trying to get php5 up and running on my spare computer here (Pentium II, 400 MHz, 128 MB of PC-100, running FreeBSD 6) for the past two or three days now.

Unfortunately, it’s been a constantly uphill battle. I can’t get a damn thing done with it, due to the torrential amount of errors I’ve dealt with. As soon as I clear one batch of errors, another one appears.

I’ve become increasingly frustrated with trying to set this up, despite googling for answers (This includes using the special google.com/bsd search to focus my results a fair bit more).

Right now, all I want php5 for is to test Habari on my little box. Everything else that I’d like to play around with can probably be easily done from php4.

Instead, I get this:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/bz2.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/bz2.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/curl.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/curl.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/gettext.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/gettext.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/gmp.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/gmp.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/iconv.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/iconv.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/imap.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/imap.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/mbstring.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/mbstring.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/mcrypt.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/mcrypt.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/mhash.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/mhash.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/mysqli.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/mysqli.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/ncurses.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/ncurses.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/openssl.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/openssl.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/pdo.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/pdo.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/pgsql.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/pgsql.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/readline.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/readline.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/recode.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/recode.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/simplexml.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/simplexml.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/snmp.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/snmp.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sockets.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sockets.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sqlite.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sqlite.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sysvmsg.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sysvmsg.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sysvsem.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sysvsem.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sysvshm.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/sysvshm.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/dom.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/dom.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/xmlreader.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/xmlreader.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/xmlrpc.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/xmlrpc.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/xmlwriter.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/xmlwriter.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/xsl.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/xsl.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/zip.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/zip.so" in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: [tag]PHP[/tag] Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/calendar.so’ - Cannot open “/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/calendar.so” in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/dbase.so’ - Cannot open “/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/dbase.so” in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/fileinfo.so’ - Cannot open “/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/fileinfo.so” in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/ftp.so’ - Cannot open “/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/ftp.so” in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-[tag]debug[/tag]/gd.so’ - Cannot open “/usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/gd.so” in Unknown on line 0
I’m rebuilding the extensions at the moment to see what will happen, but right now, it’s doing all sorts of irritate-the-crap-out-of-me.

What I need at the moment is:
A solution to the [tag]segmentation fault[/tag]ing that php5 is doing (also, where the hell are the logs for this thing?)
A way to get [tag]php5[/tag] and php4 to coexist, so I can at least move forward on that front.

I also need a temporary job that I can commute to and from via the bus system, since my car is in serious need of repair or replacement.

This ain’t my week, baby.

Something to think about when you’re feeling homicidal:

1. Everything around you is a weapon. Even that glass of water.
2. Plan ahead to dispose of the corpses.
3. Have a plausible, concrete alibi to work with.
4. Don’t play Unreal Tournament or similar games if you’re bad at them, when you get these urges. They are likely to enrage you further.

If you can’t plan for numbers two or three, then don’t go on a homicidal killing spree.

Something to think about when you’re sharing a network with the family:

• Having access to their computer, and especially their [tag]HOSTS file[/tag] is EXTREMELY vital if you’re the network’s controller.
• Instantly add lads.[tag]myspace[/tag].com to a HOSTS file or to the router’s blocked list. HOSTS file is preferred, since it doesn’t seem obvious to those who are not computer savvy. This has the benefit of blocking the music that plays on MySpace, forcing the family to actually learn about other websites besides MySpace!
• Install every safe anti-spyware and anti-virus measure (eg: [tag]Spybot S&D[/tag] run in Advanced mode to add its custom HOSTS file definitions as well as its IE sanitizer, [tag]SpywareBlaster[/tag] to further innoculate the system, [tag]Avast! Antivirus[/tag] as one free option that is compatible with the newly released [tag]Windows Vista[/tag]) that you can before you allow them to touch the computer. It saves you from having to perform maintenance every four days on the computer.
• Consider a router with a bandwidth throttle. Whenever they manage to annoy you on your network, throttle them down to the speeds a dialup user gets. Classic example of disturbance is singing off-key while on the internet, watching music videos from sites you didn’t add to the HOSTS file.

For once, I’m pretty cranky, and it can’t be helped.

I made a comment on the PayPerPost forums recently, mentioning that all the good stuff to watch is all in Japan.

It might be because the rules binding television there aren’t as stupid as they are here in the United States.
For example, here in the states, I extremely doubt that they would ever air some of the comedy shows or game shows they air in Japan. I present one of my favorite examples, Hard Gay.

Here in America, it seems that they are slowly getting over their fear of the word “Gay”, with such (boring) shows as “Queer Eye”, but there’s no real humor in American makeover shows.

Hard Gay is definitely not a makeover show. The content is (mostly) safe enough to be viewed, though there is one questionable shot taken in Hard Gay - Ramen that you can tell was not really meant to be anything.

[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=igC4bPDp6cU[/video]

There’s also Gaki no Tsukai, which seems to be mostly based on a punishment game. If you laugh at the defined subject (be it a butchered English video, or at Karaoke), you are punished.

I suggest watching.

[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=jGKj_eYbBkQ[/video]

[tags]Hard Gay, Gaki no Tsukai, YouTube, Humor, Japan, Comedy Shows[/tags]

Well, I’ve been gone all morning, running around to the doctor’s office, to a couple of pharmacies, and other things. I’ve got plenty done for the day, save for one very necessary thing, because I haven’t been *home* to do it!

Well, I get home, and I see a green box sitting on my porch (wow, I have a porch now… this time last year, I didn’t. seriously…)
So, I approach it, and squeal with glee!

It’s a box from [tag]PayPerPost[/tag].com

I said to myself, “It can be one of two things. One is, Ted chose me for the HP Camera giveaway, and I can finally stop using my A640’s camera for everything :D, or two, it’s that box of schwag from when I won the puzzle back in October.”

It was the latter — All full of schwagness and stuff. :3
They included a foam finger, a fu-fu-fu-fumongous! PayPerPost Ink Pen, their mints, a few cards to check out [tag]Pingo[/tag] (more on that later), a discount code for [tag]FamilyRecRoom.com[/tag], and best of all… one highly compressed PayPerPost shirt. :3

However, a bit of bad news:

The finger was a bit of a rogue, holding me at dollar-point until I took its picture.
I was scared. Then it demanded me to deliver this message:
“Ted Murphy, you must choose this postie for a new HP Camera. I demand a higher quality image of my likeness.”

Demanding piece of foam. ~flail~

More to come.

This isn’t official by a long shot, but I’ve managed to get SimplePie with the Multifeeds addon to work inside of WordPress, as a sort of “LiveJournal Friends Page” clone.

Right now, it requires manual configuration, and isn’t the most complete thing, for what I want to do, but I can click on a link in my WP Admin console, and view these feeds from within WordPress.

I need to get the CSS isolated some more, and clean up the original MultiFeeds generated code, to make it display the way I’d like it to, but right now, I think it’d be something I can call “progress”.

I also would like to make a nice, clean interface that would allow a person to add up to, say, fifty feeds to the reader, and show up to one hundred (default of 30) items, threaded like you’d expect to see them on the LiveJournal Friends Page.

I did this last night, after getting frustrated with this one last test I need to take. The material was driving me nuts, so I went to take it out on that.

I’ll give that test one more try tonight, and then I’ll go back to work on my WordPress Plugin.
(Of course, I half-expect someone to pop in and say, “Justin, someone already made a plugin that does what you’re trying to do. You’re reinventing the wheel!” right about now. If you do, I won’t be mad at all, as long as it works. :))

So, I’m reading [tag]Doc Searls[/tag] this morning, and he posted a small batch of links. One of the links is to a video on Atom Films, entitled “[tag]My Name is Yu Ming[/tag]“, which is about a bored Chinese shopkeep who learns Gaelic, so he can move to Ireland. However, the effort he put into learning the language seems to be in vain — Everyone’s speaking English, and thinks he’s speaking Chinese.

I watched that movie, and could only smile. It was excellently executed, and makes you think about [tag]language barrier[/tag]s that others face, as well as ‘dead’ languages a little more. I think you should hop on over to Atom Films, and give this one a watch.

As for things to watch for, all I’m going to say is: [tag]Live Action Evangelion[/tag], and [tag]Rebuild of Evangelion[/tag]. I want them. Make them REAL.

[tags]Shin Seiki Evangelion, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shinji Ikari, Gendou Ikari, Evangelion Movie[/tags]

Will it Blend?: Marbles.
Will it Blend?: Pens

I want this blender. Can you imagine just how smooth the smoothies coming out of this thing would be?

Okay, some of you may have seen my blog entry on the “free” Nintendo Wii that I’m trying to earn.

I’m wondering if I’ll actually get the ten signups I need to earn this thing, so I’m sorta chronicling this thing here in my weblog, just to keep it in the eye of the public. I’ve always had doubts about things like this — wondering if people ever get their free doohickey or thingamabob from these companies offering them.

Part of me says that it could happen:

For example, the company offers a given object, and requires three offers to be completed, then requires five referrals, which also have to do the same.
One hundred people get in on the ground level, and aren’t referrals of each other.
Twenty-five of them complete their offers, and get their five referrals each.
The other seventy-five end up at various states along the road to completion, but never finish.
However, all of the other seventy-five on the first tier, for this argument’s sake, get one referral and two completed offers.
All 200 people on the second tier refer users and complete their offers, with 50% getting the five referrals (miracle numbers, I know). The rest on the second tier get three referrals, but also complete their offers.

The company responsible, therefore, rakes in money in a big way.
Let’s assume that each offer gets this company $5.
Let’s also just walk the completed branch for a moment.
$5 * 25 = $125. $125 * 3 = $375. First tier’s completions is worth $375, as a result.
$5 * 125 = $500. $500 * 3 = $1500. On the second tier, the initial group of people brought in by tier one is a total of 125 people. Each of them, multiplied by the $5 that goes to the company doing this is $500. Multiply that by the number of completes needed, and gained, this becomes $1500.

If that chain were to go out a step further, assuming that on the first branch, everyone gets their five referrals…
$5 * 500 = $2500. $2500 * 3 = $7500.
Another step out?
$5 * 2500 = $12,500. $12,500 * 3 = $37,500.

These companies are counting on the ‘on demand’ nature of us Americans to give up before we finish, though. This is how they make their money. If I had gone though, and iterated the OTHER tree, assuming a 66% completion all the way through, you’d see where the extra money comes in to them. This is how they cover their costs, pay their employees, and get the items they’re giving to you for ‘free’.

I don’t want to be that statistic, giving up my money for something, and not getting what I want in exchange.

Do me a favor.

If you don’t want to do it yourself, then pass my referral link off to a friend who would do it.
I want to be able to say at beginning of December, “Thank you to every single one of you who signed up and took a shot at it. I am finally caught up with the times, and have a modern gaming system.”

Back to my Dreamcast for now.

So, I’m sitting here, trying to get back to work on Dan’s project, and I’m adding music to a playlist.

If I were to make a soundtrack for my own life (a maximum of 15 songs) out of my playlist content, I do think it’d look something like this (do forgive the numerous incoming anime and video game references, but that’s about how it’d look), in no particular order:

[Breath of Fire 3] Overworld theme 2 / Akari Kaida, Yoshino Aoki
– Every nice guy has to have a cheery, upbeat, melodic tone that accompanies his day.

[Chrono Cross] Leaving the Body / Yasunori Mitsuda
– Sometimes, you feel like disconnecting from your consciousness. This song embodies that.

[Chrono Cross] The Star-Stealing Girl / Yasunori Mitsuda
– The slower melody of this song is harder to decide on. Would I use it on a somber moment, or for something depressing?

[Chrono Cross] Frozen Flame / Yasunori Mitsuda
– It has this mystical feel, like a building energy; Something that I’d use while scheming something.

[Final Fantasy 8] The Man With the Machine Gun / Nobuo Uematsu
– Break out those guns, ladies. It’s time to have a firefight!

[Final Fantasy 8] Mods de Chocobo / Nobuo Uematsu
– There’s that upbeat music again, but this would be more like a party theme for me.

[Legend of Mana] To the Sea / Yoko Shimomura
– Cheerful, upbeat, good for a long road trip.

[Final Fantasy 10] Aeon Battle / Junya Nakano
– Simply because this is like an overcharged version of the Song of Prayer from the series, which I actually enjoyed.

Song of Prayer:
Ieyui
Nobomenu
Renmiri
Yojuyogo
Hasatekanae
Kutamae
——
Pray, saviour
Dream, Child of Prayer
Forever and ever
Bring us peace

[Final Fantasy 10] In Zanarkand / Nobuo Uematsu
– It’s quite a pretty piano piece, which just about everyone needs.

[Blood on the Asphalt #06] Thank You, Dee Jay (Dee Jay Stage) / José the Bronx Rican
– I don’t dance. I just pull up my pants. … who am I kidding? I’d actually try to dance to this. It’d be a hot little number, too.

[sgxmusic.com] ICO - Save Me / SGX
– Also known as SuperGreenX on OverClocked Remixes, this guy has put together a rather catchy audio feast that lasts nine whole minutes. I’d use this for something high-energy. If only we had trapar…

[交響詩篇エウレカセブンOP4] Sakura / Nirgilis
– Cherry blossom, Cherry blossom. I like this song, with its heavy dipping into another song (Amazing Grace). For trivia’s sake, the album should read, “Koukyoshihen Eureka Seven OP4″, if my memory is accurate.

[Days #01] Days / Flow
– This song is almost my penultimate. It contains lots of energy and meaning for me.

[Ikaruga #08] Metempsychosis / Hiroshi Iuchi
– There is a hidden power in words. Metempsychosis is one of those words. Remember it. Metempsychosis is my penultimate. Nothing else completes me.

5: When I pick a lighter to sell to a customer, it has to match or compliment the person’s shirt. I do this almost subconsciously.
4: I can’t eat chocolate very much or very often, because I am single. It’s like an aphrodesiac to my system in large doses.
3: I prefer music that I can’t understand the lyrics to. I like the work of looking up just what it is that I’m humming along to.
2: I have entertained the thought that I am really a self-contained universe, and with my death, nothing will exist ever again.
1: When I sneeze, I often say ‘chicken!’ while sneezing. Initially, I did it to amuse my young cousins, and I grew into it. Now it happens all the time.

So, what’re your five odd facts?

I was pondering something.

I have a hispanic coworker (From the Dominican Republic, I believe he said) who is always joking that I should eat spicy food.
His comment on it was that most Spanish speaking people eat it because it makes them want to *ahem* do it.

I have no idea if spicy food really is an aphrodisiac or not, but every time he asks me if I’ve had something spicy, I really can’t help but laugh. It’s that funny to me.

I’m sorta surprised that no-one’s pushing chocolate on me — it has aphrodisiac qualities to it.

Then again, what the hell would I be doing with an aphrodisiac, anyway? I don’t have a local significant other.

(psst: payperpost is actually being run by the penguin mafia, who are in cahoots with the cloaca-cola soldiers. all their employees are paid in dense stacks of meat and Mr. Accessories, which they cash in for more meat. they sell their stacks of meat to IGE and others in exchange for cash, so they can afford their WoW subscriptions, which they use in turn for gold farming, which they cash in as well to afford the two cars in their driveway. just thought everyone should know that. p.s.: don’t tell anyone that I leaked this information, or they won’t pay me for talking about ads on blogs, okay? Dyspepsi Soldiers, unite! this message will self-destruct in 35 days…)

Man sells his wife’s box because his cock won’t fit.

It ain’t easy when you’re hung like a horse.

I need more time in a day.

Give me 48 hours in a day for my birthday.

That’s this Saturday.

I even went a whole day without going to BlogExplosion. This is pretty sad. ;(

Also, a request.
I need a banner of some sort for this blog.
Please feel free to generate one or more.
I accept most standard formats — buttons, 468 x 60 standards, the 120 px square ‘blog’, and even the skyscrapers.
Spanks.

Ever just imagine yourself floating sixty-two miles up, right at the edge of Terra and the empty unknown that Space can be?
Feeling like you’re falling, just drifting away as you watch the bluish marble swirl, catching you in her turbulent stream, tossing you around in the shooter’s solitude that is the edge?

Have you ever wanted to just reach out, and find out what it is that’s up there for you?

I’m just having one of those moments right now. Got my music cranked up as loud as I can tolerate it.

I desire change, and I desire inner peace from my own past.
I do miss my father, and I’m trying not to let it get to me like it used to, in the beginning.

… Still love you, Dad.

There’s so much on my mind, sometimes, and I find that I can’t get it all out.

So, let’s just cover a bunch of it here.

I’ve been following Meebo rather loosely since their launch.
They’re the guys with the AJAX instant messenger that I recommend to you all for various reasons. I do have reasons to not switch, though, with the main one being “I’m at home. I don’t need an IM client on a tab. I’m fine with Gaim, and that’s that.” However, if I were not home, and I needed to use a client, Meebo’s where I’ll be going quickly.
So, I was following their blog, and one of the bugs they found in Meebo was rather amusing to me. I’ll cite it from this post in their blog:

We thought before we end this entry, we’d tell you about a funny bug we had. Sandy was testing the emoticons one by one, and discovered that when she typed “(lol)”, the entire browser died a horrible death. At 3am, this seemed HIGHLY amusing. We’ve had a lot of bad bugs, but we never thought a little emoticon could bring down an entire browser…

I wish I had audioblogging ability. Someone ought to offer a service that allows me to do just this, and have my posts end up in this blog, with proper XHTML. Of course, the service would either record only to Vorbis Audio, or allow one to switch to it without a hassle. And, of course, they would offer phone numbers that I can call, preferably without needing long distance, making the concept of blogging at a payphone a whole lot more palatable.

It seems that Yahoo! is offering domain registration for an unbelievable $2.99 per year, and you can register the domain for up to five years in one go. You don’t even have to take their hosting package to get the deal. Sounds pretty nice, and if I could afford to do it, I’d be taking advantage of it.

I’m still trying to either pick up a second job, or find a primary that will pay me more than I get now. I really can use the funds, and perhaps some health insurance, so I can afford a doctor’s visit. I still have the sinus polyps, and would like to get them out of my head before they can’t do a damn thing, and I have to die. Yeah. I’m afraid of how serious this could turn out to be.

I want to do something different with my life, and give it some sense of purpose beyond “pay bills, pay bills, pay bills, tolerate dramas.”

Oh, and sign up for second life, blah blah blah, you’ll help me out, mmhmm, yeah yeah, and you don’t have to spend a cent if you’ve never tried it before, uh-huh.

Lah.

I may be a bit naïve when it comes to things like this, but I really have to throw this one out to the readers:

What is it with people who wear thongs constantly?
By thongs, I refer to undergarments, not the other nickname for flip-flops.

I don’t think I can agree with the “comfortable” argument on thongs, either.

Is there someone out there that can explain to me *why* someone would wear a thong?

Commenting is open; registered users are less likely to be screwed by the system on their comments.

Okay. So everyone’s been ranting and raving about Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children.

I have a bit of advice for the crowd that is very non-keen on Squaresoft (now Square-Enix):
Before you judge this movie, go and watch it as if you were under these conditions:

• You have never seen The Matrix.
• You enjoy high-action anime.
• Neither Dragon Ball Z, Matrix Reloaded, nor Matrix Revolutions ever existed. (Original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT may exist.)
• You have at least a basic grasp on key points of the storyline presented in Final Fantasy VII, a Playstation only title by the company then known as Squaresoft.
• You ABSOLUTELY DO NOT go with:
  • Anyone that is a Square or Enix fanboi.
  • Someone who has seen the movie, in its entirety, at least twice.
  • Someone who goes into drooling fits at the mere mention of the trailer, never mind the movie itself.

You may find that your money to see this movie will be well spent.
Yes. I said money.
I do intend to actually visit a theatre, and watch this in English.
I do, also, hope that they don’t screw the everloving hell out of the Americans with shoddy voice acting.
No grating voices, please (And heh, RedXIII’s Japanese voice acting seemed to have a bit of a … homosexual? overtone to it).

Other than that… enjoyable flick.

Aren’t you amazed? Not a single definitive spoiler in my gloss-over, lah!

Seems the value of the Linden Dollar is dropping further and further.

However, IGE is here to make the day pretty funny.

<@Xial> Hey, one of you try to make sense of this:
<@Xial> source: ige.com, a site based around trading game money for cash, or one game’s money for another game
<@Xial> You give: Second Life Linden: L$5000 (about USD$17 or so)
<@Xial> You get: Anarchy Online Credits: 48,000,000
<@Xial> You give: Anarchy Online Credits: 100,000,000
<@Xial> You get: Second Life Linden: L$3000 (about USD$10 or so)
<@Xial> Does anyone see anything going on in this picture?
<@Xial> Notes: The minimum you can give is SLL$5000; AO CRED 100,000,000.

Is it just me, or am I just missing the key to this whole thing?
(Also of note: The page, when you test the exchange pool reads as “3K L$”, which I take as L$3000, as it’s the only thing that makes sense.)

If I weren’t juggling my bills right now, I’d consider the conversion, so I can actually afford things in AO.

I got bored today, so I got my lazy ass into the kitchen.
The result was this:
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Something I noticed about GitS:SAC is the obvious lack of HERF guns and HPM weaponry.

You’d think that some overbearing bastard who wanted to shut Motoko and crew down permanently would try whacking ‘em with one of these, but it doesn’t happen.
Nor, by the way, does anyone stage some sort of stunt, threatening to seriously fuck something up with one shot.

Are they in possession of shielding that protects against a HERF shot, which could also explain why a prosthetic body weighs about 1000 lbs? Or, are they somehow immune to the effects of a high energy blast of radio frequencies?
Or, perhaps, Mr. Shirow and crew were unaware of HERF / HPM weaponry when GitS and GitS:SAC were written?

Since I noticed that the world they live in is quite comparable to ours, with a more natural progression in weaponry — No laser rifles, but lots of progression in prosthetics to the point that they can replace entire bodies if needed, though it’d be expensive — You would figure that a nasty little bugger like a HERF or HPM weapon would show up.

Maybe that’s in Second Gig or something.

Mmkay. I signed up at PhoneHog a couple of days ago, so I could earn a few minutes through them. Seems they give out a referral link when you sign up, and if you get people to sign up and complete one offer, you get 10 minutes added to your account.

If you’ve got a throwaway email address, would you mind signing up and helping me earn a few minutes so I can place a phone call or two?

There’re a couple of offers that only require a zip code. You don’t have to finish the signup, it seems; As long as they get the zip code, they’re happy.

So, uh, yeah.
I love disposable addresses.

I woke up at 0600 on 25 June, after feeling nauseated all day prior to that, choking on my own vomit.

I’m too scared to sleep now.

Heh…

Ever just feel unsatisfied with your current career?

I feel like that right now.

If anyone within a 10 mile radius of 33611 is looking for someone for clerical work, perhaps 20 to 40 hours a week for at least $7.50 an hour… o_o;

斑鳩 is love.

I guess I should announce that I’ve written a script for the Greasemonkey extension.

For those of you who follow FChan, you’re probably quite aware that in general, the discussion threads are where you can find all the images, but conversely, that’s where much of the drama is. “Wah wah, do not post, blah blah blah, whatever”. Right.

FapChannel is designed for you to just pop in the thread, and see ONLY the thumbnails of images, which you may click to pass to another tab and look at the image, enhancing the ‘fappability’ of F(ap)Chan.

Have a look in the Spoogemonkey directory to see what’s going on, or install it by right-clicking this link and choosing ‘install user script’.

Easy enough, right?

To turn it off, just click the monkey in your status bar and refresh the page.

Well, while digging through those accidentally tagged comments, I ran across an ‘old flame‘, so to speak.

Posted in the weblog was this bit of text (quoting this bit of text).

Of course, as I found it highly amusing whilst sitting at my computer and humming along to [Welcome to Earth], Track 3: Eclipse / Apoptygma Berzerk, trying to go to bed after a gallon of Pepsi, I had to repost the posted.

First, the most important part here:
I’m trying out the Blacklist Peering Plugin for WordPress.
However, after having gone back over older comments with the retrospam function, I did notice that it tagged 30 comments that are not spam as suspected spam.
Commenters beware: I may have to manually approve your comment.
I, therefore, need to also go through and manually check that list, since there’re some things that should’ve not been in that list, but since I’m *sharing* my list with someone that is not me…

The second part:
I figured out how to revive my old theme from the older WordPress days, and I feel stupid for not doing it earlier. The fix made itself very known to me once the default theme was changed by Matt and company to Kubrick.
Copy *.php from wp-classic to seabird, and all was well. Now all I have to do is figure out a way to have my archives in a dropdown list, but not have a visible submit button. I’ll prolly rip it out of vBulletin or off a9.

Instructions for atoning for transgressions done upon a Bastard Operator From Hell:

Make yourself readily available for vigorous application of the LART.
Back up hourly for a week before calling your local BOFH, and ship copies of your backups all over the world to make travel to each one too expensive for the BOFH to hunt down and destroy while he’s hosing your gear.
Prepare to buy yourself brand new equipment.
Prepare to buy the BOFH several pints, brand new equipment that you must sell your children to afford, and a prosthetic body.

Alternately, It’s better than the halon extinguishers, I’m sure.

It’s a secret to everybody, mmhmm.

You’re kidding me to everything, lately.
You’re all I need; You smiled at me and said,
Don’t get me wrong — I love you, but does that I mean I have to meet your father?
When you’re older, you’ll understand what I meant when I said “No”. And don’t think that life is quite that simple…

When you walk away,
You don’t hear me say,
Please, oh baby (don’t go)…

Simple and Clean is the way that you’re making me feel tonight — It’s hard to let go.

Hold me! — Whatever lies beyond this morning is a little later on;
Regardless of warnings, the future doesn’t scare me at allllll!
Nothing’s like before…

Hold me! — Whatever lies beyond this morning is a little later on;
Regardless of warnings, the future doesn’t scare me at allllll!
Nothing’s like before!

– Simple and Clean -PLANITb Remix- (Short Edit), by 宇多田ヒカル (Utada Hikaru).
Featured as the opening music for Kingdom Hearts (PS2).

Avoid Dehydration at all costs.

Remind your employer from time to time that you need a drink to prevent dehydration.

Suggest to your employer in a group that they allow all of you to at least keep a water bottle at your cash register if you are a cashier. This saves you the time of having to run to the water fountain here and there, and makes your lane look like it’s always open. This also makes it much easier to talk to the endless stream of customers, since you probably can’t chew gum or eat a piece of candy while you’re working.

Remember that being properly hydrated is a benefit to your health. Not only are you getting the liquids your body needs, but if you’re drinking only water at the registers, you’re also helping to flush some of the excess stuff out of your system. This helps your kidneys.

Just a random tip.

Something I’ve noticed is…
In the weblogging community — That is, the blogosphere — there are mechanisms that let us let everybody know “HI! I’VE UPDATED, COME LOOK!”

Whether it be Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, or any of the specialized services, there’s a place we can poke, say we’ve updated, and run like hell.

No such creature exists in the artistic world, and especially not for furry artists. Why hasn’t someone taken this idea, and run with it? Yeah, it’d require some money to pay for hosting for the pinging site, but all it’d take beyond that is:

* Artists procuring software that could send a ping (For example, we can actually take a copy of WordPress, add the ping server to the list here in the admin center, and make our usual posts. In fact, you’d probably just want to add one plugin that’s designed to make it easier on uploading, and maybe a ‘read more’ plugin of some sort, so the pictures don’t have to be loaded).
* (Optional) A program that any user on any platform can run that will allow them to make a similar ping, just in case they’re hosted somewhere that won’t allow them to run server-side scripts (php, perl, python, etc).
* A server with a script like what would be used at Weblogs.com or somewhere else. One that generates an RSS feed and an Atom feed.
* Categories to ping to.
** Why categories? Simple: Not everyone likes the same kind of stuff. Using scripts, and maybe even subdomains if necessary, it should be fairly easy. Probably standardize a set of keywords: male-male, male-female, female-female, herm-*, etc (I’ll detail this more later, perhaps), and have a user ping with this. Generate feeds with the resulting pings, and allow users to subscribe to the feeds. As it stands, one can already subscribe to a WordPress blog’s feed, should they find an artist using WP for their posting.

In fact… why not do something like this for pinging:
Let’s use one of my cheap domains for the idea: hermvixen.info is mine.
//artping.hermvixen.info/?genders=______&contents=______
I’m sure that, using case sensitivity, 26 letters ought to be enough to cover most couplings and fetishes and whatnot.
I mean, ?genders=mM should be obvious enough: Younger male, Adult male.
And ?contents=aoc could be easy, too - anal, oral, cumshot.

I’ll detail this sometime later. Right now, I need sleep.

Remember saying something about my previous post?

As long as it’s just some random person saying “I have learned exclusively”, I wouldn’t put too much trust in that.

Well…
news for you, or,

We’ve got verification.
TIMES TWO.
Fuck it, TIMES THREE.

You all…
have been SOLD.

Time to break out the backup tools, and do it right.

Okay. I know some of you post things.
Some of you might even post stuff because I’ve posted stuff.
Livejournal does not offer Pingbacks or Trackbacks to you.
I am. Meet the solitude.dk Pingback Client.
It’s simple to operate:
“Send a manual pingback” to target “whatever entry of mine that you are discussing” from source “whatever post of yours talks about my entry”.

I might have to look into writing my own pingback or trackback plugin of some sort, though.
Make it even easier for you: You click a link here, enter your URL, and submit. It’d be interesting, at least.

I’ve been working a lot lately. Working, sleeping when I get a chance, and being generically bored without my ‘cube and PSO. I’ve stopped playing my GBA, because all I have is Megaman Battle Network 2 and 3 White, and I’m sick of them.

I’ve just about completely given up on trying to get out with the local furs here. They don’t seem to understand a “Can we have a couple of meets during the week, instead of Saturday and Sunday only? I’m always working then.” So screw it, I don’t really care.

I’m going to start eating more often. I have a nasty habit of eating one or two times daily.
The guy at GNC said that this is why I have nearly no metabolism, and I should try eating 4 or 5 small meals a day to help raise it. I know he’s right, too.
I’m amazed that he didn’t try to sell me a miracle pill to fix it all.

I’m going back onto my Melatonin regiment, starting this evening. My sleep pattern is all shot to hell, and what little sleep I get leaves me even more tired than I was before sleeping.

I curse myself, because I can’t meet my own deadlines on a commission.

I’m going to go eat once — something not-McDonalds for once — and come back, to see what I can do on mousran-who-now-posts’ commish.

See “Ads”,
Click one if it says I get paid,
Then click a link there.

Let page load.

It’s not much, but it’s a little extra cash I could use.

And if you know anyone looking to buy one of those loopy domains, they are for sale.
Yey.

Night.

Sighted at forsolei.

Black: PEOPLE SUCK THE WORLD SUCKS EVERYBODY SHOULD BE KILLED AND BLEED TO DEATH TILL THE COLD EARTH SOAKS IN BLOOD. Well, you’re angry at the world. For reasons who knows, but you definately hate life.
Made by Sara

Learn semantic XHTML, and get your own damn sense of web design, you fuck. If I see another one of those cookie-cutter “click here to launch my site” layouts that usually pop up a new window, filled with size motherfucking EIGHT PIXEL font, I’m going to personally abuse the designer by email.

Useless prats.

In other words, the color seems to suit me.

I’ve noticed a few hits here that claim to belong to the Federal Express / Kinkos range, so I’d like to simply say the following, if there really is a person behind the hits, perhaps trawling (or trolling, in one deleted case) the Internet to get a feel for how their company is being accepted.

20 cents a minute plus tax, while restricting access to personal media such as USB stick drives, and forcing people to either use Internet Explorer, or using this ARCHAIC version of Netscape (4.79, I must say, was a bad vintage) at the same time…
This is bad.
Very bad.
I can understand 10 or 15 cents a minute with those restrictions, but $1.07 for 5 minutes is really not a fair price.
If I’m going to pay out the nose to use a computer, I damn well better have the ability to access my media at the same time. What am I supposed to do, otherwise?
Use Floppy Disks?
Don’t make me laugh. You know, I know, the rest of the Internet knows, Floppy Disks are becoming a thing of the past. Companies are skipping the installation of one of those critters on some of their new PCs, because they’re not used for much.
In an age where a blank CD or a USB keychain drive can be had, byte for byte, at a far cheaper rate than a floppy (You do the math: 700 MB CD, 1.44 MB floppy, various sizes for USB sticks, usually in increments of 2^2 (ie: 8, 16, 32, 64, 128…). Subtract any and all overhead associated with writing to the disk (Which isn’t too much), and there’s your total available space. Now, calculate the cost for one piece of media from a standard pack of this media, and finish your math up here), people are switching.
Files are getting bigger, and harder to carry on a floppy.
Who has time to split files, and wait for them to be written to a floppy that can fail without telling you?
Who wants to remember the dreaded Track 0 Error with one paragraph left on their midterm thesis from hell?

I don’t know too many who would dig this.

Pass this along to your high caliber muckity-mucks:
Lower the costs, or give access to more removable media choices.

Just my two cents.
Feel free to reply, or even email.

I’ll put this behind the cut. ;P

Much credits to Bob Morris for creating this image, because it’s made on factual data. Not some BS tossout. It’s actually a bit amusing to look at for a moment.

Gonna copy offa cnipur here, and do the little “Reply to this entry and I’ll tell you what I think of you” thing that’s been floating around.

So, yeah, yeah, reply. :p

p.s.: For those of you whimpering about ‘But you ask for my email address wahwahwah’, WordPress doesn’t even show your email address to anyone but me. And if I’m not worthy enough to have your email address, then I go cry now.

Check the list.
Seabird has been added, though it is in even more of a beta state than Salty Sea Chronicles.
I just need to figure out how to make excessively long <a> wrap, not go on and on, and add something that 1.2 doesn’t do by default to it (automatically make the ‘filed under: blah, blah2′ stuff as an inline(?) list), and then I can call it complete.

Now to ping Technorati and claim my own blog.

Okay. I’ve got to pimp these people, because not only do they use WordPress, but they do it in one of the most awesome ways ever.

blogthing has WordPress setup so automated that it’s hilariously funny to do.

All you need to do is hit the signup link, enter an email address that you can access, and they send you a link. The link will let you choose a subdomain, and then run WordPress setup as soon as you click it. The result is, you are given an admin password right there. Memorize it!!! because, as with every WordPress install, that password is randomly generated (unlike Em Tee), and can’t be recovered by normal means.

Enter the admin user/pass, and log in on the next page.
Feel free to create users for yourself or anyone else you wish to have blogging (I believe you can add plugins, to add features such as mobile blogging (blogging with pictures from a keitai), and using a separate account for that would be recommended…)), and enjoy the service!

I’m gonna give it a bit of a spin soon, using this account.

I’m already impressed with it, as well. Sure, they have ads, but the ads mostly fit in on the right side.

While my dialup connection is sucking badly, I’ve been using alternatives to my own email account here on Gushi Systems (because Juno and Netzero act bloody stupid to my pop3 and IMAP attempts), which means I’ve been using webmail, mostly.

As much as I love my host’s services, webmail for me is really slow here. I’m so used to pop3 while on DSL that I’m having trouble coping.

So I’ve used my GMail account a little, and decided… I’m going to give away this invite I’m holding on to here, but at a bit of a cost.

So, here is the proposition.

What I would like is a nice little XHTML 1.0 Transitional or better template for WordPress. The default template is really… lacking, at times, for customization, but it’s okay.
I would prefer it if you followed the rules for tables: Tables are for data, not for presentation.

Hell, you can even use the default WP template from CVS (grab a nightly from wordpress.org ;)), and simply rewrite the CSS to something functional and pretty.

I’ll leave this offer up for a couple of weeks, and recommend that you simply comment to this entry, with an email address (which is never displayed on the blog: the email address is simply given to me-and-only-me with your comments, which makes it easier for me to follow up via email).

So, er, get cracking?
To hell with the invite offer. I hacked up something that I like for a template.