| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 |
| 5:36 pm |
I should update more often, but nothing ever happens worth writing about. Some girl asked me to roll a strike for her against her friends at the bowling alley, and she was even cute, but I was disappointed that she didn't try talking to me more after that. (I guess if you're surrounded by open bowlers during $1 a game specials rolling 180 average games, they think you're good or something.) |
| Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 |
| 7:34 pm |
A great article on piracy, if a little old... http://insomnia.ac/commentary/pc_game_piracy/The relative prices of games to average income in various countries is the most interesting part to look at, but the general attitude and stupidity of the industry as a whole are amusing as well. (To think I ran across this article trying to find a crack for a game... For the record, a game that I will buy a legal copy of when I next have spare money for it, whether or not I am able to find a crack now, which is the case for almost everything I pirate.) |
| Friday, May 8th, 2009 |
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| Friday, April 17th, 2009 |
| 1:02 am |
"Because the bible tells them to force their morality upon you. Which isbetter than islam, which says force your morality upon you and kill youdead if you refuse. Lol, people need to become atheists and a lot ofproblems would end. I don't see two people arguing and trying to killeach other over whose non-belief is more pure or more accurate." "I find it very curious how addiction studies focus mainly on male dominated activities. I am sure if females did it it would not be called an addiction. Shoe fetishism is rarely called an addiction but I have seen women who spend their whole selves looking for the ugliest shoes." "38% of US gamers are female, and some sources say as many as 2/3rds of MMORPG gamers are female. (Then again, how many of those are only pretending?)" "Many Men Online Role- Playing Girls" "Here's an attempted proof why playing as a female character is moremanly than playing a male character (assuming you're male, and not ahardcore RPer): You have to look at your character all the time. You dressthem up, you give them new stuff, you make them dance and do socials.You watch them beat the crap out of stuff and cast spells all day long.It makes more sense to me as a guy to be watching a hot femalecharacter do all those things rather than some buff, half-naked,hercules lookin fella." And people wonder why I play girl characters in games more than male characters. (And they overlook that I have the same male character in every game as well, in some form since the first use in TorilMUD in 1994. The nice part about the name Desirsar is that it's never taken anywhere - Google it sometime, all the hits are me. Actually, you probably shouldn't do that, I've signed up for some pretty weird sites and rarely use an alternative name...) |
| Thursday, April 9th, 2009 |
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| Saturday, March 28th, 2009 |
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| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 |
| 7:45 am |
I wasn't even going to plug the guitar in, but I popped the high E string tuning, so I had to restring and set the intonation, which needs the processor for the tuner. After that took forever, since the saddle for the low E string is all the way long and is still flat, and the high E string saddle is hanging onto the screw by one thread and is still sharp, I finally got started trying to memorize the guitar riff that I thought would be interesting to play at people. After deciding that one third speed was too fast, I halved it again at 25 bpm, and barely got the intro to Valleri by The Monkees memorized before my hand started to hurt. I need to practice more... |
| Thursday, March 12th, 2009 |
| 6:00 am |
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/11/2235202
"IMNAL- But, I was looking and frightened by this. Due to imlications for future trials, like in a rape case. I can easily seeing this being used as proof to validate the facebook profile being used against the victim. Look- she said she was feeling sexy and horny- *that* made it consensual. And on her myspace page she talks about promiscuity. Dangerous, Dangerous territory." |
| Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 |
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| Saturday, March 7th, 2009 |
| 11:43 pm |
I set myself up for disappointment by thinking these things will go differently than the time before. Charles is nice, but if he's the only person I'm talking to, I don't count it. I don't know why my personality changes when I'm around these people, but because it does, I'm not going to any ever again without Quentin or Adam with me. Everyone will be in for a good number of surprises... |
| Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 |
| 8:09 pm |
Immigration fun. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/03/2219256
Plenty of entertaining quotes in the comments, I picked this because it's the last one I read. (Ran out of time before needing to do other stuff.) "I think a lot of Americans don't realize why America became the superpower it is. For thousands and thousands of years, the way to increase your nation's power was to go and invade the other nation, subjugate them, and take their stuff. The problem is that's a pretty expensive way of going about things. The answer? Immigration! Why fight through the world subjugating people when you can just open up the gates of immigration and the best, brightest and hardest working of the other nation's populace will voluntarily and at their own expense subjugate themselves? Much cheaper and more effective than invasion!" As far as the actual article is concerned, after reading the discussion, I've decided that there should be no H1-B visas. Instead, we should simply issue green cards and offer permanent residency, and in much greater numbers. (Anyone who knows me knows I already wanted to increase immigration, I'm just only figuring out that H1-B is bad and should simply be replaced with less restrictions.) |
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| Monday, March 2nd, 2009 |
| 8:29 am |
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| Saturday, February 28th, 2009 |
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| Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 |
| 8:57 pm |
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/18/1653245
"As a former high school teacher and technology coordinator/sysadmin, I've seen firsthand what cell phone addiction does. During the administration of a standardized achievement test, there was a very strict rule: no cell phones--not just for distraction, but also to keep students from leaking test material out of the exam room. Sure enough, a small handful of students had to go "use the bathroom", and as soon as they set foot into the hallway, out came their phones. They were quickly confiscated and given to me, so I could testify that they were not trying to leak test material. Of course they weren't; they just wanted to text and chat with their friends. The school's policy on cell phones was simple: outside only, inside with staff permission. In the freaking LIBRARY, I grabbed a countless number of phones, that students then had to retrieve from an assistant principal. Half the time, they were on the phone with their parents. My personal favorite was one morning when the water chiller didn't start in time. The massive 1930s WPA building had 12' ceilings and the air conditioning took a while to do its thing. The chiller was typically started around 0500 to get the classrooms down to 78F when students and staff showed up. This one morning, some classrooms were as warm as 82F--it was dropping, but the chiller hadn't been started until around 0630. Students were calling their parents from class to complain about it--and parents were CHECKING THEIR CHILDREN OUT of school for the day because of four degrees Fahrenheit. The damn school didn't have air conditioning until 1982; how did the first 46 years of students get anything done?A local high school student recently died running her car off the road. Turns out she racked up around 15,000 texts per month in the summer. That's one text every 2 minutes, 16 hours a day, nonstop, for a whole month. I never remember being that addicted to BBSs when I was in high school. Rant over. :-)" |
| Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 |
| 3:55 pm |
"ROME – Italian police on Tuesday arrested mobsters, businessmen and local politicians who allegedly used corrupt practices and bribes to gain control of a project to build wind farms in Sicily." Recycle or Guido and Tony will find you... |
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| Monday, February 16th, 2009 |
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| Friday, February 13th, 2009 |
| 9:52 am |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrGNw9aHFOQ&feature=subscriptionMargaret Cho is silly. Also, "I've never been at a party and like, 'Yo, Tony, leave Rob alone. He's been smoking way too much weed, he might snap.'" I'd just assume people do neither, but I definitely agree that marijuana is generally safer than alcohol... |
| Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 |
| 10:28 am |
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| Monday, February 9th, 2009 |
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| Saturday, February 7th, 2009 |
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| Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 |
| 11:25 pm |
Two Truths And A Lie
I was inspired by a Youtube video, so I'll post this and see if I can get everyone doing it. The idea is that you make three statements, two of which are true, one of which is a lie, and people have to figure out which is which. I own a Nintendo Wii. I'm good at sewing, and I can make almost any stuffed animal or article of clothing by hand or with a machine. I would rather play sports eight hours a day than video games eight hours a day. |
| Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 |
| 5:58 am |
This article reminds me of someone...
Someone that would support a draft but would fight tooth and nail about anyone in their family being drafted. Someone that supports laws that are inconvenient for members of any religion other than their own, and get angry over any religion other than their own being publicly visible or practiced or even studied (privately or otherwise) in schools. Someone that would think this law is a good idea but has never read 1984, and would be genuinely surprised that they were affected by their world turning into one like the story. I'll leave it to anyone who reads this to figure out who I'm reminded of... http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/26/1846209 |
| 5:37 am |
Newsworthy news.
http://www.wnem.com/news/18566890/detail.htmlIn case anyone reading this in Lincoln wonders, I don't know the time periods involved or the temperature range, but for some set period after the temperature goes below a certain number, or if the temperature is forecast to go below that number within a certain period of time (presumably the same amount of time in either direction), neither gas nor electricity can cut you off. Someone here had the foresight to prevent Lincoln from making national news this way... |
| Monday, January 26th, 2009 |
| 3:17 pm |
An interesting dream...
It started out somewhat related to Chowder, presumably because I've been atching it a lot and it was on the TV while I was sleeping. I don't remember much of the early detail, but it centered around some new girl that didn't look like anyone I remember seeing. hat's somewhat strange, since every character generally is a copy from somewhere. The house across the street from where I usually live (a very complicated story in which the house is always empty or nearly empty of furniture or anything else, really) gets converted into a restaurant, and this girl ends up working there. There's a scene in the middle where a lot of my family are over watching basketball on TV when something only remote interesting happens at the restaurant and I don't remember it clearly. Eventually a competing chain restaurant buys it and the employees are all out of a job. The particular girl ends up working at the new one, and it turns out to be owned by a crime organization. I don't remember what it was initially I try to do to help, although I remember it involving digging under the building from a sewer system. The detailed part ends just after doing something to save the girl from being killed. Somehow it involves lying to her and she finds out, and she refuses to speak to me afterward even though it saves her. I go to the boss of the crime organization, who is still in the restaurant, and ask them something. I didn't like the answer, and stab him some twenty times with a pair of scissors, and then explain to him why I killed him before he dies. I then go outside and start smashing up his cars with a stop sign (I'm much stronger in my dreams, I got the stop sign by ripping the pole out of the ground) until some of his lieutenants show up. I tell them that if they come near me, their faces will look like the windows I'm in the process of smashing out. They do, of course, so I club all of them with the sign and go back to the cars. A less interesting one from the same night involved some woman in an apartment building that would wait for people to put clothes in a washing machine and leave, and then take theirs out and put in her own stuff for the cycle instead. I waited around after the first time and watched, and caught her trying to sneak in. I followed her all the way back to her door swearing creatively and berating her. At some point she rushes out with a broom but attacks a little girl and some other woman (I think it was the girl's mother) instead. I end up tackling her, beating her head into the ground a few times (think King's takedown and punch move from the Tekken series) before ripping out a bunch of organs. |
| Sunday, January 11th, 2009 |
| 10:37 pm |
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| Saturday, January 10th, 2009 |
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| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 |
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| Sunday, December 28th, 2008 |
| 5:27 am |
Wart removal on your feet...
I wasted two years worth of Compund W gel trying to get rid of the same warts. When my mom came here just before Christmas (not the actual Christmas visit), she bought me a vial of salicylic acid (labeled Liquid Wart Remover, generic brand.) Two weeks later, I have a pretty good crater in the skin of one foot because of the dissolved tissue, but the wart is mostly gone. So are the other three, but they don't even have craters, they're smooth over the surface and just gone. Just make sure to either peel the dead tissue or file it with an emery board (probably prevents the craters that way) before you apply, and it works perfectly if you do it twice a day. |
| Friday, December 26th, 2008 |
| 2:27 pm |
Hooray
I am now an ordained minister and can immediately begin marrying people in Nebraska. Let me know if you want to get married, I'm sure I can beat any offered rate. I'm totally going to buy a purple pimp outfit and make everyone call me Reverend from now on... |
| Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 |
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| Saturday, December 20th, 2008 |
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| Monday, December 15th, 2008 |
| 5:45 am |
You're in a giant wheel inside a cage. You paid $50 for the wheel, and it costs you $15 a month to rent the cage it's in. Alongsideyou are other wheels inside other cages, and attached to each wheel isa pulley system which connects to a hook, dangling a bucket of food.You run forward and the pulley moves and the bucket drops, and youreach inside and grab some food and eat it. But now the bucket islighter, and so it swings back up on the arm it's attached to, and it'sa bit higher than it was before. You just ate, but since you'rerunning so much in this wheel, you're hungry too, so you run a bitfaster and sure enough the pulley turns and eventually the bucket comesback down and you eat some food. You feel a bit stronger now. Hey,that guy in the wheel next to you has already eaten three times. You'dbetter run faster to keep up. There... now you're not hungry any more.But again, all that running to get the food has made you hungry again.And that bucket is higher now, almost out of reach. You'd better runfaster to get it down here so you can eat again. Maybe some day you can pay for a new wheel that faces a different direction. That would be AWESOME. P.S. Also there's some pictures of elves or something on the wall in front of you. Maybe space. |
| 4:12 am |
So I type into Google, "how long does ice cream last in the freezer". Toward the top of the search results : How long does breastmilk stay good? FunAdvice.com |
| Saturday, December 13th, 2008 |
| 11:06 pm |
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| Thursday, December 11th, 2008 |
| 8:42 am |
I find it hard to believe that anyone can still think that being gay is contagious. If it were, I'd run out and get infected so I could be more fashionable with no effort. |
| Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 |
| 10:57 pm |
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| Sunday, November 30th, 2008 |
| 7:21 pm |
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| Monday, November 24th, 2008 |
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| Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 |
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| Thursday, November 20th, 2008 |
| 9:22 pm |
I cry like this when my favorites don't win the Morning Musume auditions. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1891237Okay, not really. But I always wonder what Tsunku is thinking when he picks girls that will turn out better later over girls that are decent enough now when they're not selling now putting the "later" in jeapordy of not existing at all. |
| Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 |
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| Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 |
| 3:37 am |
"During the first week of class, my geography professor told us, incomplete seriousness, that Japanese business men all wear cowboyoutfits to work.
It was pretty hard to take anything in that class seriously after that. Christ, that was a long semester." |
| Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 |
| 7:10 am |
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| Monday, October 27th, 2008 |
| 8:46 pm |
The segments on Raw in the past few weeks with both Santino Marella and Charlie Haas have been awesome, what a great way to combine them this week. I think I can safely blame Freddie Prinze Jr. for these, there's no way any of their stale older writers could come up with anything this good. |
| Thursday, October 16th, 2008 |
| 7:45 am |
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desirsar's journal
You're in a giant wheel inside a cage. You paid $50 for the wheel, and it costs you $15 a month to rent the cage it's in.
Alongsideyou are other wheels inside other cages, and attached to each wheel isa pulley system which connects to a hook, dangling a bucket of food.You run forward and the pulley moves and the bucket drops, and youreach inside and grab some food and eat it. But now the bucket islighter, and so it swings back up on the arm it's attached to, and it'sa bit higher than it was before.
You just ate, but since you'rerunning so much in this wheel, you're hungry too, so you run a bitfaster and sure enough the pulley turns and eventually the bucket comesback down and you eat some food. You feel a bit stronger now.
Hey,that guy in the wheel next to you has already eaten three times. You'dbetter run faster to keep up. There... now you're not hungry any more.But again, all that running to get the food has made you hungry again.And that bucket is higher now, almost out of reach. You'd better runfaster to get it down here so you can eat again.
Maybe some day you can pay for a new wheel that faces a different direction. That would be AWESOME.
P.S. Also there's some pictures of elves or something on the wall in front of you. Maybe space.