Rollingskull

Since I’ve moved from Geocities to blogger I’ve been trying to figure out why the hell my XML feed wasn’t working. Well turns out I didn’t have the right address marked… DOH! and I’m supposed to be a computer guy… So once I figured out how to get the RSS/XML stuff going I’ve been all impressed I have my own little RSS feed for this here blog. If you use firefox… and I know you do because IT IS A SUPERIOR BROWSER! Then there should be this orange looking thing in the bottom right corner of your screen. You can “live bookmark” me there.

The real reason why I love firefox though is because firefox is truly the first cross platform application that is pretty much “mass market”. I’ve used a lot of Operating systems I’m very good with Windows (doesn’t take a monkey to do that well), versed in Linux (I can actually have a workable Linux in about 30 minutes depending on how much configuring the desktop takes), Mac OS (I’ve used it enough to know my way around and make it work like I want it I’m by no means a expert). Firefox works the same on all of them. I think the two killer things for me about firefox is the tabbed browsing and the previously mentioned live bookmarks.

Back in 1996 I was the rebel… I used Internet Explorer all of my friends used Netscape 3.x, now adays I’m still the rebel (Linux, firefox, and where I can sneak it in Thunderbird). My entire family is still stuck on internet explorer. I did finally get my parents to Thunderbird. Though I tend to think that is more of a pyric victory then anything else.

I remember the first time I say a actual reference to the internet in a television show. It was the x-files in 1995.. Scully was using a laptop and did a search on something and she used a Unix like command to execute the search on the internet. I remember thinking it was very cool… it was only later that I would figure out in the days before mosaic (the first internet browser) that all you had to navigate the internet was a command line for a Unix machine. BASH!

Your Famous Blogger Twin is Wil Wheaton

You’re a friendly, funny guy (or girl) next door With more than a touch of geekiness

6. Why does every culture SG-1 encounters speak English?

Practical reasons that come with television production. The time contraints of an hour-long episode mean that it would become a major hinderance to the story each week if SG-1 had to spend the first 10 minutes of each episode learning to communicate with a new species.



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Taken from the Stargate SG-1 FAQ… you know that is a answer that actually works for me.

Walking through the parking lot at work today I saw a license plate frame at that said and I quote “silly faggot, dicks are for chicks”. Ok now I’m a pretty open minded guy but I found this disturbing… Not because it was derogatory or anything like that. Rather I couldn’t decide if I was offended or not… And suddenly the P.C. police score another victory. On the other side this particular license plate frame was on a ricer and it was all to hell… No paint, mis matched body panels, no rims.

Anyway I’ve installed Ubuntu Linux onto my laptop… ya know I like it. It’s fast (like LINUX isn’t fast) I’m able to do just about everything that I want to do with my laptop and I’m using LINUX. Ubuntu is a free distro that is meant to be regional easily (first LINUX distro in Swahili). I like it because I don’t have to screw around with packages. It includes a package manager called synaptics that takes all the pain and misery out of downloading most of the packages for me.

And it’s debian based I don’t know what that means but it seems like all the good distro’s for general purpose use are based off of debian. Of course I’ve been scoring “Debian Linux” on that stupid what is your operating system personality test for years.

Now I’m trying to decide if I will leave this on my laptop for a while or go back to windows. Dual boot is not a option with the laptop since I only have a 30 gig Hard drive and I likes my games. I have thought about doing the Cedega thing and trying my games on my laptop… But I know SWG and EVE would not work at all.

The one thing that I have always liked about any LINUX/Unix distro is the multiple desktops that you have. I don’t understand why Microsoft doesn’t make this native in Windows… Then again given the average mental capacity of the average windows user maybe the great Satan is more intelligent then we all thought.

If your still reading at this point you are either really bored, really interested, or trying to figure out what the hell I’m talking about.

If you are just plain confused you now know how most of my family feels 99% of the time when I’m around.

Is it bad that the background on my Windows Mobile 2003 PDA is a LINUX penguin?

Now if only my iPod would work correctly under LINUX… I would be set on the laptop.

How sad… I’m playing both of my characters in star wars galaxies tonight… and I have my laptop up so I can check the web and look stuff up in game.

I would like to say that is a freak occurence… but it’s not.

I have seen the end of the world and it looks like this. I thought think geek was bad but this almost takes the cake… and on top of it all google is not supposed be evil.. thats their corporate motto “don’t be evil”. Well I guess a company has to make a buck somehow.

Current music “A Perfect Circle”

So how was everyone’s new years? I for the second year in a row spent my new years under the weather and in bed by 9:30 but of course I felt better the next day… I hate those things that attack and then don’t even have the common courtesy to stay for a full 24 hours.

A while back everyone’s favorite super gay park ranger stated that he had seen the movie supersize me… as a direct result of that movie A.j. gave up fast food almost totally and started exercising. I saw this movie today. Never before has a movie motivated me to 1. Actually go to the gym on a regular basis. 2. Really look at what I’m eating and actually try to eat healthy. 3. Scare the living daylights out of me. I think my favorite part of the movie was 3 weeks into this guys experiment he visits his doctors. And all the doctors tell him that he needs to stop and stop NOW! Otherwise he will die. That was after just 3 weeks of nothing but McDonald’s.. Seriously this guy was in really good shape at the start of the movie and by the end you could see the difference. It was really quite dramatic.

OK I don’t know about dramatic but it was enough to motivate me to get off my butt and actually exercise more then I already do.

So as stated before in this very blog type thingy I’m addicted to blogs… I like to read other people’s blogs and bring attention to those that I think are interesting or funny. So for the last week or so I have been actively looking for blogs that I thought were funny, interesting, strange, or in any way just not what you expect to find on the internet (granted you can find just about anything on the internet). Well I can tell you after a week of looking most blogs are of the following subjects.

1. Bush is a retard

2. People who think Bush is a retard are retarded

3. What I did today

4. What I did today and why doesn’t anyone come here and read my blog

5. People rambling about inane things but it’s something to do.

In case you haven’t figured it out my blog thingy works into number 5 pretty nicely. Then again like I’ve always said your the sad sons of bitches reading this drivel I’m just on the one writing it.

Happy new year 🙂

Yah know…Ever since Brandi said I come up with the most interesting titles for my blog entries I’ve been what I consider on a real down hill slide… I know it’s not a big deal but dammit I want to have witty titles… I think at this point I would just settle for something to in the title bar.

So far that is the only downside of blogger…

P.S. my day sucked…

Yeah, we saw rain, wind, more wind, 60mph wind, and yet more rain this morning. It blew one of our wireless antenna’s we use to connect a remote site over… So Mike and I spent the better part of the day trying to get the new wireless system running and fixing the existing one…

WE were both cold wet and cranky when the day was done with… But the wireless got fixed thanks to the guys down in plant ops.

Yes I know I just violated my whole no work talking on blog rule… Don’t care… It’s not your blog and anyway the only person that comes here is Blair… I think I don’t know probally my whole department comes here who knows. All I know is I’m still cold at least I’m not cold and wet that would suck beyond all recognition.

Been playing Half-Life 2 quite a bit… I’m really thinking that this is the single best game I’ve played in a long long long time. Doom3 was good.. Far Cry has it’s moments. Half-Life 2 really is the shit. Of course you need to have a pretty good system and even more awesome video card to run it right now (don’t worry kids I’m sure it will work with your video card in a year or two). If you have not bought this game do so.

Ever been in a mood and you know you want to listen to music but you don’t know what kind of music because you are all punked out… heavy metal is to heavy… Tool makes you think harder then you want to, and Pearl Jam is just annoying? Yeah that mood, so of course I’m listenting to Pearl Jam at the moment but it’s just one song a whole list of songs… so it will pass.

EVE… Good game.. if nothing else it will keep you occupied in trying to figure out what the hell you want to do with your character after some 30 million hours of playing… the game is that big.

Ya know I think Curtis was on to something when he said “I want to play a game where the only resource I have to worry about is ammo” Well said Curtis well said indeed.

Well the new year is quickly approaching us… And I guess it’s time for a new years resolution.

I know I know I never make one… I actually did make one last year… I resolved to stop drinking coke at home and cut down at work… Well I’m now down to 1 cup a day at work and nothing at home 99% of the time. I’m doing pretty well on that one if I do say so myself.

I thought about doing the whole no caffeine thing.. But yeah that would just make me crankier then I already am and really lets face it if you can’t have coffee in the morning there really is just no reason to be getting out of bed. So I’m making a resolution that I’m pretty sure I can keep. Yes I’m going to drink more beer!

Hey don’t laugh at least I have new years resolution.

So I found this on Yahoo tonight when I got in from church…

[21:37] thevampire_kain: Here I am again…tired from not sleeping…Sad from not loving. I feel miserable again…here on this plane…Here on this earth. I’ve done it again…I stayed out all night. I feel it again…I dred this flight. Why? Because I’m sick…Sick of being owned… I write because I’m sick…Sick of being known. If I was normal…Would she like me the same? If I was just a stock boy…Would she still enjoy my name? I’d like to think she does and would…I believe in her and believe in me she should. I’m gonna lean my head against this window…Close my eyes and go to sleep. I’ll wake up in the next town…With thoughts beyond deep. The days will go by as I will just act. As the days go by I can only look back…At the good times…the fun. At the bad times…the fun

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How come all the weirdo’s use yahoo and why do they message me?

Friends theme song…

Curtis– Ghost riders in the sky; Johnny Cash

Kristina — Judith; A Perfect Circle

Matt — Refused are fucking dead; Refused

Kristi — High Hopes; Pink Floyd

Scott (lil brother) — Battle with out honor; Tomoyasu Hotei

Brandi — Holiday in Cambodia; Richard Cheese

Clint — First cool hive; Moby

Aaron — I believe in miracles; Ramones

Andrea — I believe in miracles; Pearl Jam

Shawn — They call me tater salad; Ron White

Ada — Ireland & Health; Lewis Black

in no particular order.. not represintive of the person just what seems to go through my mind when I see them or for some reason associate this particular piece of whatever with them

All files can be purchased on iTunes… just in case you are curious.