Rollingskull

I’m addicted to Massive Multi Player online games. No longer do I find simple gaming pleasure in playing a game alone in my office… No I now find the greatest amount of joy for a game in when I play with others in real time. No longer am I confined to the the areas of what has been loaded onto a disk. No now I’m off exploring whole new worlds that are brought to me as if by magic.

Of course this is all over the internet so it’s about as close to magic as one can get before they have to go to Hogwarts to really know whats going on with the whole magic or not thing.

I love how in Star Wars I play a wookiee and there are others who play their characters. They don’t break character it’s like we are in all a movie.

I love how the entire dynamic of a battle in Planet side can change with the addition or removal of one piece of armor or just a couple of soldiers on the ground.

I love how ever is not a traditional role playing game. It’s a real time strategey more akin to chess then dungeons and dragons.

My name is Tom and I’m addicted to MMO’s and I’m proud of it.

Serenity Movie Trailer

If you have questions go rent this….

Rent Disk 1 of 4 at Blockbuster.com

It’s a 4 disk set so you will need to get it queued up now. Or if you live in Hell you can borrow my copy.

It’s going to be a good summer for us Sci-Fi geeks.

Slashdot has had some very intersting articles recently with regards to space. And seeing as how some of you may not even know what slashdot is I’m going to help you out and link to everything. So you to may become a space nurd.

Nasa Return To Flight: You need a broadband connection to really make this work effectivley but it gets the job done. Hosted by none other the Scott Bakula (aka: Capt. Johnathan Archer). This sight is NASA’s offical return to flight page. As goverment webpages go this is really a good site and should be on your short list of sites to see today.

Computers in space: This nifty site goes throug the comptuers that are found in modern space craft and how they are constructed. Things of intersting note are; The latest model Ariane and Delta V heavy lift rockets have less power in their computers then a Nintendo DS. The Mars rovers have INTEL inside. The space shuttles are still using the same flight computers from the 70’s today.

So there you have it kids… now go to these sites, learn all there is to learn and impress your friends with your space nurdiness!

So lets recap the day… It started with my computer at working taking a nose dive… then my computer at work took another nose dive. Then the report I “fixed” yesterday took a nose dive… and then it was 9am.

2 hour respit… Then the internet takes a dive. It’s not just the internet it’s the whole freaking T1. Stupid frontier…

By the time I left computer hadn’t taken a nose dive in a few hours and the T1 was still working for as much as I could tell.

At least I didn’t kill anyone.

Somone tell me again why I have this god forsaken urge and desire to work in I.T.? I really just don’t understand. And don’t tell it’s for the money and chics… I’ve got lots of neither.

I must enjoy a challenge in some sort of sick masochistic way.

I don’t know where the hell these titles come from, but I’m pretty hip on them. Even if they don’t really have anything to do with my mood or what ever the hell it is that I’m writing about.

In tonight’s episode… Tom tries to explain the significance of quantum physics and the future of the common microprocessor… but Tom just got bored writing that sentence.

LOOK A DISTRACTION!!

/runaway

Funny thing about just randomly pointing and going “Look a distraction” is that people just look at you funny and go “you are the distraction you dork” Meanwhile Cutis goes “Look a Unicorn” and people look everytime! I know it’s stupid but it’s true and what’s more they almost always look.

I don’t know for that little trick Cutis gets the “Tom Shiny Foil Ball” award so now Curtis truly does a distratction to try and get people to look away with. If nothing else it’s a shiny foil ball that he can have hours of fun with.

I received a rather strange email today… and I shall quote it for you now;

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Subject = Music Piracy Paper

Dear Tom, I just read your paper and I thought it was wondeful. You explained everything from the history to your own suggestions on what shoud be done. I’m writing a paper for one of my classes and I’m using your paper as a reference because i think its the most thorough explanation I could find on music Piracy without all the legal mumbo jumbo. Thanks, Nitzalis Cora

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So I don’t know if I should be flattered or just down right scared that some one thinks that my random ramblings on a random blog on a random server on a random planet in a random universe is worthy of quoting.

Well someone things my work is worth quoting. I guess this brings up a pretty interesting question what is the Academic stand on blogs as reference source for research and information? Some blogs (like the ones at IBM or Google) are of a very technical nature and can be used to actually do some good for the world. Then there are blogs like this that are just mindless drivel… no really I’m about 2 steps away from drooling on my self most days.

And after a couple of beers I’m really close.

After a few beers I’m past drooling on myself and have moved on to drooling on other people.

I know that is a lovely thought and mental picture isn’t it? Which may go a long way to explaining why I like to drink alone so much.

In the end though I do get the warm and fuzzies knowing that I’m helping someone actually figure out the screwed up world that is digital media rights in a information age.

As I’ve written here many times I play a game called “Star Wars Galaxies: A Empire Divided”. In case you can’t tell by the name the game is based on “Star Wars” and in this game I play a Wookiee… A Imperial Wookiee. Ok I can see my non geek readers already wondering why this is significant.

I’m going to break it down for you real quick. Wookiee’s are a slave race of the Empire. So in most all of the fan fiction and sanctioned fiction Wookiee’s always work for the “Rebels”.

Already I’m playing against type… but that is not the point of this post (as if there ever is).

Ok now get over that… And lets get to the point of the post. In the “Star Wars” movie’s the “Good guys” are the “Rebels” and until very recently I just took this as fact. Then about 3 years ago (read as I saw “Attack of the Clones”) I got to thinking… You know I bet that life for the average citizen of the republic/Empire didn’t change that much. So why would I cheer for a terroist organization?

I’ve probally just ruined “Star Wars” for several people.

You will get over it… I did.

Of course when Lucas wrote the original movies he may have using the “Rebels” as a allegory (God John Kitts would be so proud of me right now) for the counter culture folks in California. The “Empire” as the existing government of California who was “oppressing” the “Rebels” in the late 60’s and early 70’s.

I don’t know “Revenge of the Sith” comes out in 5 weeks and I’m ready. I want to see Anakin go medieval on Obi’wan. Mostly though I just to see Yoda do his impression of a super bouncy ball again.

Ahh Everyone’s favorite Zabrack

If you don’t get the title don’t worry only one reader maybe two will get it. Lets just say it’s a sought after item in SWG that is never around when you need it.

Much like a life… never around when you need it but when you busy with work. BAM! all of your friends come out of the woodwork wanting to do something. Ok that is not really true. My friends don’t come out of the woodwork. They are the woodwork.

Anyway… I came across a intersting statistic this week. The city of Kingman should be prepared to provide services for 110,000 people by 2007. We currently have 30,000 people in Kingman proper and close to 60,000 people with butler and golden valley thrown in for fun. I guess my big question is WHY? What is here the people want to live here. It’s not the cheap rents, typical house is now 145k in a decent part of town. Ok maybe if they are coming out of Californa that is a good reason. It’s not the job market. The last big influx of jobs we got was Super Wal-Mart… yeah thats a real reason to come to Kingman. It’s not the weather either… hot in the summer not so bad in the winter but there are nicer places.

It really just baffles my mind that people would come here WILLINGLY! Mean while I’m sitting over here trying to figure out my escape plan.

On the upside though we are getting a EB games… so now instead of the gaming geeks just being teased and tormented in private they can be teased and tormented in public too. Ahh sweet progress.

Ok someone explain to the logic of this one… I can mail a police “night stick” (you know a batton that police officers use) in the mail but I can not mail said item via UPS or Fed EX to a PO Box because the USPS does not allow for drop off at their PO boxes.

The second part I’m fine with it’s the whole sending things that can kill people in the mail with no problem that I’m trying to comprehend.

Maybe it’s just me I don’t know…

Also I want my old wal-mart back, I never thought I would utter those words in my life. I can’t find crap in this new mega monstrosity that we have now. It’s just not right, of course wal-mart is just not natural in the sense that it’s workers should have revolted a long time ago. But again that is just the easter choclate talking.

Internet radio is a wonderful thing… At least it is on a broadband connection. I remember my first experience with “internet radio” back in 98 I was on a 56k dial up and it chocked my connection and the sound quality was something akin to a piece of string and two cans. Now flash forward 7 years and a much better connection. It actually sounds good and doesn’t affect my connection. Which as we all know is very important to me since I’m forever playing SWG and Planetside.

Anyway my two current favorite are www.racketradio.com a mix of just about everything out there, as I’m writing this the songs playing have been hard rock / heavy metal and a bit of Depeche Mode and Weird all thrown in for good measure. I wonder who requested those **looks off into distance**

The other favorite is sputnik7 It’s a mix of mainly heavy stuff. Since I’m already pretty pissed off at work I don’t listen to it as much at home.

Remember kids Gammawaves carry more cooking energy then microwaves, which is why nuclear weapons have such a nasty reputation.