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The Office icon collection has finally been released, go get it now.

Notes has been sucking inordinate amounts of donkey cock for the last couple of months, so I’ve resorted to just posting on the really off-topic ones or just trolling people however/whenever I can… I’m bored, I need a new forum or something.

Presents opening people. I love it and want more.
+1 to that bit about menoras.

For some reason (FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK) my copy of Star Wars Republic Commando just went tits up one day and started giving some error in 6c707544, whatever that is. After looking around in google, I figured it was some sort of video issue so off I went to update my driver.

The thing is, nvidia is redesigning its driver download page every few months now, and every consecutive time makes it a little bit worse.

This is what the initial screen of their download page looks like. Notice how they always push the latest overpriced goods right in your face:

This is what it looks like after I’ve chosen my card model and OS language:

This is the result I get:

Read the caption, no further comment.

After much headdesking and even trying it out in IE, I decided to try the “Español - España” option which I had noticed before but dismissed as I don’t live in Spain, nor does my copy of winblows…

So why are they retards, exactly? Because they can’t seem to set up a measly fuckin redirect or something like that. It’s lazy too, so lazy it’s retarded.

P.S: As I was taking the screenshots for this post, I noticed that v163 driver which I downloaded just yesterday has now been replaced with v169 dated today! lol cache.

Rescato esto de un chat que tuve recientemente:

<zabrakk> decime cual cual cual es tu nombre
<zabrakk> que viejo soy
<Vidar> jajajaj
<Vidar> se nos va a notar la edad
<zabrakk> es que miraba a nico de chikito
<zabrakk> apenas tengo 31
<Vidar> no te molestaban esos que decían “mi nombre es josé de burzaco” onda, tu apellido es “de burzaco”? como es eso?
<zabrakk> clarooooo
<Vidar> decí josé y punto man
<zabrakk> se caso con Burzaco el chabón
<Vidar> cuando nico te pregunte (si es que te pregunta) de donde sos, ahí si “de burzaco”
<Vidar> “ay pero me llamo josé, no van a saber quien soy” ah, y te pensas que sos el único josé de burzaco? paparulo.
<Vidar> además querían seguir la cancioncita cuando contestaban, y decir “de burzaco” te cagaba todo el ritmo

Esto en realidad es algo que me jodió siempre que lo escuchaba en cualquier programa al que se podía llamar y participar de algun juego o algo asi.

Siguiendo con la televisión, que onda con la programación de i-sat? O sea, convengamos que nunca fue buena pero no paran un minuto de regodearse en su infinita pedorrez y cada vez que lo hacen se hunden todavía más. La última execrencia es que ahora se dedican a pasar sitcoms mediocres de mediados de los 90 que no solo pasaron sin pena ni gloria en su momento (y en sus respectivos canales, lease sony o warner) sino que además con doblajes a cual mas porongo. Posta les digo, que onda?

Otra que me molesta mucho de la tele son las propagandas de tampones, toallitas, y otros aditamentos cachufleteriles. No contentos con mostrar esos angulos invertidos de la srita. de turno estirando las gambas desmesuradamente para cruzar un charquito miserable, también proclaman que “los olores tampoco se escapan”. El único momento en el que a cualquiera le interesa a que huele una concha es al momento de chuparla, en cualquier otro momento no, simple y rotundamente no. Cortenlá, hijos de puta.

Podría seguir pero por ahora no se me ocurre más nada, y además recontra paja y eso. Mejor me voy a dormir.

In response to Chris’ video about Christmas traditions and such, here goes. And no, I will NOT record myself and upload it somewhere. My webcam is an old piece of crap and I don’t really have the time for directing today.

With that out of the way, let’s get started:
When I was a little kid, christmas was a really big deal because it meant toys. Lots of them. Mostly action figures, can’t go wrong with them. So since I was expecting lots of gifts, I was gonna need somewhere to keep them during dinner, which meant I would put up the (fake) tree almost entirely by myself, or at least try to help in some way if we were spending christmas eve (we open the presents on the night of the 24th here) at my grandma’s or some other relative’s place.

As I grew older, the meaning changed a bit. Suddenly, toys weren’t that important, but money was. There wasn’t much need for a tree when all you get are envelopes but I’d still put it up because it was nice and stuff. And by that time I could do it all by myself too so my parents would pretty much leave it to me every year.

With time, I stopped caring about putting the damn thing up mostly because I was lazy and starting to concentrate on booze and going out with my friends after dinner, and since my parents didn’t care much for it either, we’d do just fine without it.

For the last 6 years or so, we’ve been having christmas dinner over at my aunt’s who has a huge place, fit for all our family or at least those of us who would get together on such a night. She never was much for putting up a tree either (she’s lazy and hates messy things), but she’d gladly throw around some lights and tinsel on the bushes in her back yard. And as it’s always been, christmas for us is about eating, drinking, fireworks, and presents.

P.S: Chris, if you do read this, noticed how your eyes look in that video? Spice must flow.
Oh, and that carrousel thingy viddler (that’s my name, I should sue them or something) uses for their related videos is a pain in the ass, I could never get it to stop where I wanted to.

With the exception of the latest games and the ones for Wii, I’d say I’ve played every single game in that list at one point or another.
Does that mean I’m old or that these kinda things move too fast?

Since I have a birthday coming up, these last couple of weeks I’ve been in the market for slim laptop-style keyboards. The current offer is of moderate size but if you bear in mind that what I wanted was a full-size keyboard with a wrist rest you’ll find that this really narrows things down.

Let’s take a closer look at what I wanted:

• Flat keycaps, like the ones in laptop keyboards.
• Full board, not those extra tiny ones without numpad and everything else crammed in tight.
• Wrist rest.

The only keyboards who meet all 3 requirements are either the Genius ErgoMedia 700, or the Logitech DiNovo Edge.
So why didn’t I go for either of these? Simple, the DiNovo Edge costs almost $600! Not a chance in hell I’m paying that kind of money for a keyboard, especially when I can find perfectly decent ones ranging from $40 - $110. The one I finally bought only costed $67, and the Ergo 700 ranged from $95 to $110 depending where you got it.
As for the Ergo 700, it has more extra functions than I’ll ever use, and I know from someone who already owns one that the audio jacks make more noise than a badly tuned AM radio. So much for that.
There’s also the fact that both keyboards happen to be xbox-hueg. Not only do they have extra keys at the top, they also have them at the sides, which can be annoying if you’re like me and consider the left CTRL key to be the place where the board ends and the desk starts, the same goes for the numpad enter key. I don’t want to have to constantly keep in mind that I have all this extra stuff on both sides now so as to not press the wrong button or anything. Besides they probably wouldn’t fit in my desk anyway, which would make them even more of a hassle to use.

And so this narrows it down once again, or does it? As it turns out, there are plenty of standard size flat keyboards, but they dont come with a wrist rest.
“Where do I go from here?” I wondered. Not only are there plenty of options from Genius, but there’s also a whole bunch of Brand X slim keyboards.
The only problem with them is that while they may last you for a lifetime, they may also go tits up after 2 days of use. With that in mind, I decided to go for a Genius.

Now that we finally settled down on a brand, let’s talk models. Genius has two lines of slim keyboards: the SlimStar and the LuxeMate.
There are 9 SlimStar models (SlimStar, 100, 110, 250, 310, 330, 335, Pro, and 311) and only 2 LuxeMate (300 and Scroll) ones, all with pros and cons. I’m not gonna review them all, obviously, just my 2 favorite ones.
After much thought and weighing options and setups, I was torn between the LuxeMate Scroll, or the SlimStar 310.

While the LuxeMate does have a bit of a wrist rest, it also has that annoying border, which doesn’t have many buttons but still adds something unnecessary to it. Additionally, the “Media Center” buttons (open music player, volume up and down, stop, play/pause) are in a rather odd location.
With that, I finally settled for the SlimStar 310. It has 14 extra keys: Word, Excel, Calculator, Email app. (greatly appreciated by my parents), the previously mentioned Media Center keys, Browser, Favorites (can be used for pretty much anything actually), IM app., IM custom state (apparently this only works with MSN Messenger, oh well), and Sleep. They’re all the way the top too, so they don’t get in the way of everyday typing. The only slightly annoying thing about it is having to install that silly driver to be able to use them.

That was pretty much it for me, Until I saw this little piece of rubber looking at me from a window:

Presto! Problem solved. Now all I need is a new mouse to replace the old Netscroll+ Eye. I suppose there’s always Christmas, heh.

Prices are in AR$ as of 2007-11-01. Images belong to their respective owners.

After watching episode 4 of The Guild, I remembered about the one time we arranged a meetup with the people I used to chat with on IRC… Was that a bad idea.

It wasn’t the fact that the “hot” or “pretty” girls looked like cave trolls (something I was already anticipating for), or how closely they resembled them. It wasn’t the fact that the guys looked like even bigger deadbeat versions of my deadbeat uncle, even if they were at the most 6 o 7 years older than me at that time either.
No, what really did it was that after about 30 minutes of idle chitchat, I discovered that other than their IRC personas there really wasn’t much to them. I then started to realize that all those lame jokes and retarded remarks and comments and overall bad taste to them were just jokes, comments, and taste.

I was horrified, because despite all that these people had at times shown glimmers of wit and intelligence. Had those been mistakes on their part? I was starting to think so.
A meetup with this lot would simply not do, in addition to being a waste of an otherwise perfectly good evening that could be spent getting shitfaced at the pub I used to frequent back during those days.

I had to bail somehow. Our designated meetup spot was the house of one of these people, from there we would go to a bar and get some food and drinks. To make matters even worse, said bar was in walking distance (around 10 or 12 blocks), I needed to come up with something and fast.
I finally made up some story about needing to call home for whatever reason. I kindly declined using their cellphones (I’d be damned if I was gonna let them get a hold of my home phone number) and told them I would use a payphone I’d seen a couple blocks back and that I would catch up with them when I was done. I turned around and started walking, I was home free. Needless to say, I never went back to the chatroom. Good riddance.

Those people probably couldn't spell CSS too and selling to them means I have to spell CSS for them.

Small Potato on the themes marketplace issue. Hear hear.

Acabo de volver del cumpleaños del único man de mi secundaria con el que sigo siendo amigo despues de todos estos años y, al mismo tiempo, de ver el estado deplorable en que se encuentran algunos de mis ex-compañeros.

Partamos de la base de que las megafiestas no existen o se dan en muy (pero muy) raras ocasiones. Así y todo, yo tuve mucha suerte y he podido asistir a un par de las llamadas “megafiestas”

1. Año Nuevo 1999-2000: Zarpada joda y bebida interminable en la casa del man ese que nunca supe quien era, pero que le afané 3 botellas de vodka antes de que nos fueramos todos. Buenisima noche.
2. La vez que fui a Sunset en algun momento del 2004 o 2005 con Daniel y un par mas y estábamos todos que nos caíamos del pedo macabro que teníamos
3. Por lo menos otras 2 ocasiones que no vienen a cuento ahora pero igual califican

Aun así, hay que entender que las recién mencionadas tampoco fueron la gran cosa por virtud propia sino por todo el clima que se habia generado alrededor de ellas. Con eso ya basta para ponerlas en otra categoría.
Pero lo que importa de todo esto es que no podes pretender a la edad que tenemos, seguir comportandote como un nene de 18 (o menos), toda esa historia ya pasó. No podes esperar que cada vez que vas a un boliche la noche se convierta en una experiencia única y cool y que todos bailen bien y esten vestidos como en un video de Jamiroquai porque la vida no es asi.

Todos fantaseamos con que cada fin de semana nos inviten a una joda en un lugar y que sea asi onda “La Fiesta Inolvidable” pero sin Peter Sellers haciendo pelotudeces y diciendo birdie num num (aunque a mi no me molestaría…). Mal que te pese, tenés que crecer y darte cuenta de que si bien la vida es una mierda, también esta en vos hacer que sea copada y todo eso.
Ponete media pila y planteate hacer un cambio para salir de la pendejez.

The business of blogging is mostly rubbish. I’ve been saying (or trying to say) this for a while now, but couldn’t find the right words to put it in. Amen, sister.

Jeff over at Equivocality writes that “People see what they want to see.”
I could not agree more.

The example he cites on his post reminded me of something that happened a while ago which further illustrates his point:

I was going out with this girl who was a bit headstrong and dense but not a bad person in any way. The thing is, arguing with her was useless because even if you did prove her wrong she’d still try to come out of it on top. The moment I figured this out, I started agreeing with her or ignoring her, depending on the case.

One time we were out on a date and I don’t remember why exactly but she started to make a point about why me going out with her just had to be out of pity because she was so ugly and this, that, and the other. When she finished rambling, she turned to me expecting an answer.

“Yes, you are pity fuck” I told her.
“I can’t believe you would say that!” And she went on and on about how I was a rude asshole that was objectifying her and didn’t think of her feelings and so on and so forth.
“You’re absolutely right” I replied. Why bother arguing? To her, everybody else obviously thought and saw the world the same way she did, I figured it would be better to just agree and see what happened.
“I hate you, I never want to see you again! Go away!”

Not 5 minutes later I realized how much better off I was without having to deal with such nonsense. I’ve found this method works all the time, since people like her only see what they want to see, why not show it to them?

Siempre que estoy o cansado, o con sueño, o muy muy aburrido (que generalmente es un producto de alguna de las 2 anteriores), me entran ganas de mandar a todo y a todos al carajo y borrar todo a la mierda y no pintar nunca mas por ninguno de los lugares que frecuento y que a todos les quede el culo lleno de preguntas con respecto a que pasó.

Igual despues duermo y se me pasa. Bah, generalmente se me pasa, a veces la cuestión dura por un par de días ponele. Afortunadamente creo que nunca duró una semana todo eso, y esperemos que nunca lo haga.

Por ejemplo ahora, mirá la hora de mierda que es (5 de la mañana) y todavía estoy despierto pelotudeando. Esta última semana y media estuve con los horarios completamente cambiados, durmiendo cuando me pinta (generalmente de día) y durante la noche haciendo esas páginas de mierda para el inútil ese que encima me paga poco (pero ya me va a escuchar), o jugando al Freelancer que la verdad ya se me esta haciendo un poco largo asi que probablemente lo deje de lado por un par de días.
Como agravante, tengo que cursar japonés hoy. Menos mal que es a las 6 (de la tarde), porque si no no se como haría.
Bueh, pinto ir a dormir o desconectarse de alguna forma, finalmente.

A couple of videos:
The Tetris Grandmaster, there’s a whole series of this guy though some look like they’re from other people.
The korean pen spinners, part of a series too. Great choice of background music.

Build a keep and dig a moat, the return of the Swollen Goat.

The new theme is released. It didnt take that long to code actually, but I spent the better part of the month fiddling around in Photoshop making mock-up after mock-up trying to decide what this would look like until it finally hit me: sideways logo!
The rest of the design came together easily, and I’m very thankful for that. Coding was a breeze as usual, just reuse parts from my previous theme and some of my older ones for reference and random bits here and there.

Most of the CSS is from Blueprint, the icons are Danish by Jonas Rask (be sure to check out his bonsai wallpapers). The RSS icon is from Zeusbox’s Feedicons 2… they should consider renaming the set as there’s already a Feedicons collection.

Soundtrack for the “finishing touches” was provided by Sensegenerate.fm.

I ran into this ex of mine today, she’s hot, normal but hot. After exchanging greetings, we got to talking and generally catching up, and all of a sudden she just says “do you wanna come over? i’m not doing anything right now”. I said “sure, what the hell”, after all its not every day I bump into a hot ex with a good disposition.
We’re at her place talking about whatever and then she just throws herself at me and starts kissing me, I was right in the middle of a sentence too. I pull her apart a bit and I’m all “whoa whats up with that? werent you going out with so and so?” “not anymore” she says. Score!
I wasnt gonna miss the chance, we went to her room and started getting really hot and bothered. I was all the more excited at the prospect of some nice no strings attached sex, which is always awesome.

As we continue kissing and petting and whatnot, our clothes start to come off one by one. And at some point in between all the oohs and aahs and me putting on a condom and all that stuff, we end up butt naked on top of each other and just as i’m about to slide it in my mom got scared and said, “You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.”

Via this note at 9rules

I got bit by the desk modding bug yet again and got to work as quick as possible. I wish other things would come as easily…

Anyway, here it is:

What you see is the Tiger visual style that comes with FlyakiteOSX + Avedesk + Rocketdock + Miranda IM. The icons, skins, weather thingy, and wallpaper are mostly from Deviantart and assorted internets.

Someone sent me a link to Pantone’s Colorstrology site thingy. Here’s what I got:

People love to be around your curiosity and intelligence. You can work a party or a social engagement like nobody’s business. Freedom and movement are very important for your well-being. You are a natural writer and communicator. Your personal color helps calm your restless nature. Wearing, meditating or surrounding yourself with Saxony Blue is both grounding and uplifting and helps you thrive in the moment.

Your Birthday: 11.30
Your Color: Saxony Blue - PANTONE® 18-4225
Explorer. Activist. Writer.

Riiight.
The first two sentences are terribly not me, mainly because I’m never the life of the party (or by contrast, the death of it) and that’s ok.
Freedom and movement, yes. Very important.
“Natural writer and communicator” really takes the cake here. Seriously, look around. Does any of this look like great writing to you? Its barely scribbling and I dont think it communicates much, but again that’s ok.

As for the rest of it, I find black to be a bit more soothing than blue, even though it is a very nice shade of it. “Restless nature” is pretty much the only thing they got right as I can be pretty impatient about things sometimes.

I’ve been thinking I may start writing stuff in a non-retard language (like spanish), for a change.
It’s something that popped into my mind just about half an hour ago, so there’s no telling if I’ll actually start doing it or what.

I suppose I could come up with some interesting stuff here and there, but I would have to work out a lot of details and stuff.

On a different note, I’m gonna be making some posts about cool games I’ve been playing lately.

Having recently finished the second period of Japanese language at the Centro Universitario de Idiomas (aka CUI. The place is a dependancy of the Universidad de Buenos Aires) and not having my teacher around to ask for my final exam grades, I was forced to used the Centro’s website.
The experience made me completely sick to my stomach and really really angry. These people need my services and they need them baaaaad.

Here’s the thing, in order to check grades and do a couple other things you have to log in. Since I never bothered to create an account, I had to create one now. As a sidenote, I think this is a completely unnecessary step, they shouldn’t require you to create an account with their site, one should be created automagically when you become a student there. Doesn’t really sound like a hard thing to do, but anyway.
So I go to the registration form, fill out all the relevant data and click register. Then I click again, and again, and again. Then I get a little peeved. Who’s the genius that made a button that doesnt click? A quick look at the source code reveals, much to my disgust, that the site is powered by VBScript. Sorry about that, didnt mean to make you throw up in your mouth a little there.
Cursing up a storm, I open up the site in Explorer to find that, as expected, the buttons work like they should there. So, end of the problem right? Wrong. Not only do I hate Explorer with a vengeance, I’m also terribly paranoid about using it for anything other than checking if a website looks ok.

Now that making an account is completely out of the question, I decide to give these guys a call and try to get my grades over the phone, so I start looking for their number in all the obvious places. Then, even more peeved, I go through the whole damn website and find absolutely no phone number.
Pissed off now, seeing as how I’m actually going to have to google their phone number, I do so. Luckily, the second result was all I needed.
I take a deep breath, count backwards from 10 and all that, and feeling much more calmed I give them a call. Here’s more or less how it went:

“Hi, I’d like to know what I scored on my Japanese finals, please.”
“That info is available on the website”
“…No way I can get it form you?”
“No, sorry.”
“Well, the website doesnt work for me”
“Can’t click on the buttons, right?”
Is she psychic? How did she know that? Wow! “…That’s right”
“Would you like me to make an account for you?”

So she creates the accout for me, I thank her, hang up, and then log in using Explorer. Ick.
But seriously, what the hell. Not only does their site look and work like crap, but its also updated spottily and irregularly, and vital info like a phone number isn’t even there. And dont get me started on the emails they send…
This whole process must have taken about 45 minutes, thats just plain wrong. It should be 10 at the most.

P.S: I passed, I’m starting third period this September.

I’ve been recently reading Evangelion: Angelic Days (also known as Girlfriend Of Steel 2) up till volume 3, and I must say that so far I’m pretty pleased with it.
It’s nice to read a manga where, for once, the characters are resolute and speak up instead of just waddling around insecurely having second thoughts about every single thing.
This manga is an offshoot of the anime and it’s based on that sort of parallel dimension seen in the final chapter where all the characters are happy and get along just fine.

Now, I’m not usually much for shojo manga or shojo-esque as it were, but I don’t mind a romantic comedy or a decent love story. Take I”s for instance, the main character is an idiot! Sure, I’ve read the manga from cover to cover but that doesnt make me like him any more. And the fact of the matter is, the female lead would also get on my nerves a bit, but still think it was a good story. And the secondary characters were very nice, but I digress.

Like I was saying, the characters here aren’t afraid to speak their minds. All of them, even Shinji who still is pretty confused about things, have backbones and no cold feet whatsoever.
Asuka is still her old self without all the self loathing and suicidal tendencies (at least as far as I’ve read). Kaworu is particularly creepy at times, even more so than in the anime where it looked like other than the elimination of the human race, his main interest was to get in Shinji’s pants.
Touji and Hikari manage to formalize (no big spoiler there) their relationship but they’re still as secondary as ever, and Kensuke seems to be of a little more relevance this time around.
Rei is actually an interesting character, but at times I still dont really know what to make of her. Her little spats with Kaworu are very interesting, and the one in volume 3 is a tasty morsel, I’m looking forward to see what happens next.

So, consider me officially hooked. I haven’t been this interested in a manga for a while now. I’m glad I found this at this time as I’m dangerously short on reading material.
I understand that so far 6 volumes have come out, is that all of it? I hope not.

<twidget> You should all know I’m currently eating baked beans
<twidget> I might send everyone running screaming out of the channel
<twidget> I think someone should find a way to send odors over the Internet
<Vidar> why?
<twidget> Well, we send sights and sounds, why not touch and smell?
<twidget> I’d like a holographic Internet
<twidget> porn would be fantastic!
<Vidar> no it wouldnt!
<twidget> No?
<Vidar> the only bad thing about porn is the smell
<twidget> Well, it’d be in the browser preferences
<twidget> you could turn it down or off
<Vidar> do you have any idea how sweaty can 2 people get having rough sex under all the lights required for shooting a movie?
<twidget> if I said, “yes”, would that mean my secret’s out?
<Vidar> not really
<Vidar> now if you told me you liked it…
<twidget> I liked the money I got paid for it
<twidget> oops!
<Vidar> besides, a person’s diet pretty much determines what their bodily fluids will smell like
<twidget> what would pizza, fast food and soft drinks smell like, I wonder?
<Vidar> so unless you’re into wearing used underwear as ninja masks, smell in a porn flick would be a major buzz kill.

I dont know when did this happen but the W3C Validator has gone web 2.0, and not in a bad way either.
A quick look at their source code reveals they’re using a little bit of AJAX to make everything work AND look pretty.
Props to them for making everything be 10 times nicer than before.

A more thorough look reveals a couple of new options like “Group Error Messages by type” and “Clean up Markup with HTML Tidy”.
The results page has been changed too. It now has a much cleaner look and is finally rid of that outdated tips section, and last but not least, more “valid” icons

Additionally, the CSS Validator has been given a new look too.

Snow isnt very common in the city I live in, so when it snowed last July 9 everyone was in awe, myself included. Other parts of the country see snow on a fairly regular basis, but it hasnt happened here since 1918.

After almost a century, the entire city was blanketed in a thin layer of tiny little snowflakes. The snow even lasted for a couple of days in the outskirts and neighboring areas, while here it melted pretty quickly during the wee hours of the 11th.

Of course, I took a couple of pictures. You can see them at my 23hq account.
There’s a lot more in Flickr, and there’s videos too.

That’s right, I am. Like never before, I am trying to write. There is no particular subject, I just blurt out stuff as it comes to mind.
Admittedly it’s a lot harder than it sounds, but I’m doing my best to stick through with it, in hopes that I’ll get better at it.
I’m not doing this to improve my style or anything but in hopes that this will help me with this problem I seem to have whenever I want to write a post.
I have the idea and a general outline of what I want to write, but getting the actual thing done turns out to be incredibly hard for me. Everyday, I open up notepad and just type away until the vertical scrollbar makes its first appearance. I’m even using notepad fullscreen to get a little extra kick out of it.
It may not help me get more concise or whatever, but maybe it will help me to get stuff out quicker.

I just realized, this whole entry is rather poorly worded and very confusing. Looks like its back to notepad for me.

No OOXML is an online petition voting against Microsoft’s Office OpenXML or OOXML format becoming an ISO standard.
In the site, you’ll find a number of reasons as to why this format shouldnt become a standard, namely there’s already an open document format that is an ISO standard, there’s no proven implementation of the OOXML spec, and many others.

Most of them seem to be rather technical reasons, but good ones at that. But I think a reason most of us can relate to is that we shouldn’t let M$ impose yet another piece of faulty software on us.

Does chkdsk analyze one of your HDs/partitions every time you start or reboot the computer? It could very well be that said unit has become “dirty”.
A volume becomes dirty if the file system is unstable. This could be caused by a power loss, a faulty partition or HD sector, or a hard shutdown while the affected disk was being read.

Unless the unit is physically screwed up, this is relatively easy to fix. What you need to do is go to Start and choose Run. Type cmd in the box and hit ok.
Once the command prompt comes up write “fsutil dirty query *:” without the quotes, where * is the letter of the drive you want to check. Windows will then tell you that the drive is either dirty or NOT dirty.
Next thing to do is type “chkdsk /f /r *:” again, no quotes and * is the drive letter. Now go do something else because this could take a while.
After this is done, check if the dirty bit is still there by using fsutil dirty query on the drive again.
If all went well the answer should be NOT dirty. Do a reboot just to double check, Windows shouldn’t run chkdsk this time around.

Another thing you can do is, in the command prompt, type “chkntfs /x *:”. What this does is tell windows to not check the faulty drive during the next reboot, but that’s all, it’s not a fix.

Sources: MS knowledge base, Techguy Forums, and assorted internets.

Or to just about any other piece of text. It’s really easy, all you need is the icon (duh) and some CSS.

Just create a class (so you can reuse it as many times as you want in the same page) like this one:

.icon {
	padding: 2px 0 2px 20px;
	background: url('icon.png') left center no-repeat;
	}

Of course, you can name it whatever you want and use a different image type. Then just add the class to the element you wish to “iconize”, whether it’s a link or a list item or a heading. You can use it anywhere you like.

Size does matter when you’re creating the class. The one in the example works great when the icon you’re adding is no bigger than 16×16, which may sound like it’s really small, but for most uses it’s just the right size.
If you want to use a bigger icon just change the value of the padding, making it more than 20 pixels.

Does it work? You bet. Just look at the little navigation area beside my logo, I’m using this very same technique on the <li>’s in that list. Only difference is I’m using IDs instead of classes because each icon is unique.

Be unique, be interesting, be positive and alive, be everything you aren't in real life!

What the hell?
This comes from a list of tips to people aspiring to join a certain online community. This community says its for “sharing life experiences” amongst other things.
So which is it? Do you wanna hear about me or would you rather I just make up some exciting load of bullshit? Should I throw in a car chase and witty one-liners as well?.

This also reminds me of something else I read last month completely by chance as I was googling for a tutorial on how to create an “Old torn scroll” effect on Photoshop. It was something about how in order to get plenty of visits to a personal website (like this one) you either had to lie about everything or just start your life over so whatever you write will be entertaining to your readers. Bread and Circuses anyone?
To me, this is the kind of attitude that makes any kind of site a steaming pile of crap.

Part 2 in the Retarded series it seems…

Canon PhotoStitch is one of the programs that came with my father’s brand new camera which, as its name implies, stitches photos. Panoramic ones, particularly.
Not only does the final result get some sort of fisheye effect added to it, but it also has rather visible seams and get this: there’s no undo. NO UNDO WHATSOEVER.
Luckily, the software doesnt overwrite any of the photos used in the composition.
But seriously though, no undo? What the hell?

We’re currently in search of another program that will piece together panoramic photos that isnt so stupid.

My aunt asked me if I could make a vcd out some stuff she recorded. I told her “sure, no problem”. Wrong!
I start looking around in Nero for a way to get the job done. As it turns out, you need another Nero application called Vision, not just the burning one. Not a problem, just install it and thats it, right? Wrong again.
I had the latest Nero installer in a cd along with other stuff, so I pop in the cd and just as I’m about to install this Vision thingy, the installer tells me that it doesnt have the files because the original media is lost or something like that.

I gotta tell you, thats a first for me. An installer that wont install because apparently it doesnt have the files it claims to have. Way to go.

I suppose such stupidity is to be expected of an application that has a help menu but installs no help files. I dont care that they’re on the website, they should come in the package.

By the way, I still havent burned shit.

I was going to college today when some old lady just started talking to me on a street corner while waiting for the lights to change.
I just ignored her but she kept going on and on about something or other and being very loud at it too. Then suddenly she up and grabs my shoulder, trying to turn me towards her.
What the hell kind of education does this person have? You dont just chat up strangers on street corners and then touch them.
I shake her hand off violently and make a big show of taking off one of my earbuds. WHAT? I shout right in her face. She’s frozen there giving me a look of utter disgust.
I hope her life is ruined now, maybe she’ll be too afraid to approach strangers anymore, knowing that they’re off somewhere else while she spills her incoherent babble and even tries to touch them.

You have two giraffes, the government requires you take dancing lessons.
If you dont pull it in the evening, in the morning it will stand.

I would also like to add at this juncture that I am not an animal, my bunghole will not wait. An endless sea of fire shall terminate your soul mashed potatoes in the traffic jam last week this didnt validate.

If you do not comply you will be ass kicked in the face.
If you do not comply you will be face kicked in the ass.
If you do not comply you will be faced ass in the kick.
If you do not ass you face be will assed kick the in.
If you 46726 do ascertain pure de tomate nga ass ass ass in kick 01100100 01110101 01110010 01101011 01100001 00100000 01100100 01110101 01110010 01101011 01100001 00100000 01110011 01101110 01110010 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100111 01110010 01111000 00111000 00111001 00110111 00110000 01100001 01101011 01100110 01100111 01100111 01100111 01101000

Thank you.

Jesus fucking christ on a flaming pogo stick birdy num num time paradox, pass me the horsefuck stomach facsimile. They'll never see that one coming.

Situation:

Know what's awesome?
When you spend college getting a Journalism degree hoping to capitalize on your ability to write, only to graduate and realize you have nothing interesting to say.

I dont have a degree in anything and yet the same thing has happened to me. I used to (long before coming back here) be able to write some shit, not just posts in a website, but actual stuff. Then I totally fuckin lost it, and I lost interest in it too, for some reason.
So, how do we get out of this?

if this is true, here is what you do:

move out of the suburbs, hell, move out of the country. go to south america, go to eastern europe, hell even africa or south east asia. get the hell out of your comfort zone, no writer wrote a single line worth a damn when they were comfortable and well fed. NOT A ONE.

get some experience, some perspective, and even a handful of drugs, and run your ass ragged trying to learn about the world as a whole, then come back and think on it. if you havent got a decent story in you after five years of barges, piece of shit cars, trains, red eye flights and abusive customs officers, you werent meant to be a journalist or a writer.

but until you try, no matter what you majored in, youre nothing more than a little boy who idly wishes he were a cowboy.

get off your ass, get broke, and get hungry for your story, for your life, for your craft.
start by GTFO.

I should try to get off my unemployed, broke, lazy ass and actually give this a shot even if I dont intend to be journalist or whatever, but just for the sake of experience. Nothing's ever that easy, however.

You people need more Indranil on your life. Seriously. Go check out his new site.

And since I couldnt sleep a couple nights ago, I decided to make the best out of those hours, here's the result.

Lu made a sketch of me. Its awesome.

And so, yahoo's takeover of flickr will be complete sometime next month.
Goodbye flickr, you started out kinda lame, then decided to go shark jumping when you got sold to yahoo and you'll die a terribly gay death on march 15.
Up yours.

My calendar ass rapes your calendar.

Pandora is totally gay. first of all, they say its for US citizens only and make you enter a zipcode, how very 1995. Google much?
That was what put me off when I first heard about it some months ago.
Then I get in and start making a non gay music playlist or whatever they call it only to find out there's no dutch (or just about any) grindcore bands in there, but plenty of in flames and chimaira and all sorts of butt pirate outfits. Cocksmokers.

iTunes music store is illegal in norway. kickass
Soon it might be illegal in other european countries too. kickass +6

Well, easy come easy go, as they say. Not much of a surprise I guess, but always a bit of a dissapointment you know?.
Its funny.

I fucking HATE this weather. I can tell you for a fact that summers and winters were nowhere near this hot 5 to 10 years ago.

You know what else is weird? I've been waiting, with bated breath I might add, for things to happen all year and then between the 29th and 30th absolutely EVERYTHING happened all at once.
I'm really happy about it but seriously WTF? I know I'm to blame for at least a part of it, but still. Its like life in a moment...

Anyway, happy new year and shit.

With every passing day, I become increasingly happier with the fact that I no longer use wordpress...

I just remembered one of the posts I was gonna make some time ago was about ABA Games. The website has plenty of asskicking free games.
My personal favorites are Torus Trooper, Titanion, Mu-Cade and rRootage.

Goodbye Blue Sky...

Hello, I thought I'd just drop by and see how things are going. I meant to post some stuff a while ago but I got really really lazy and then forgot all about it.
Later

Friend of mine showed me a game called Chiller the other day, its from 1986. It kicks major ass.
Some screenshots:

Before...


After!

The dungeon level (the racks work!)

Not only can you shoot the people to pieces, there's also plenty of unlockables that give you a bonus if you get them all before you run out of time. And you can interact with the enviroment, which is way cool.
I give it 10 reeks of putrefaction, a must have.

Like I always say, what every site needs is some titties.

I've lived too.
And my lives go on to this day.

Is now!
November already... damn.

This year has been kind of a waste, oh well.

iTunes 7 has been fixed, but I still think its completely retarded that you need an iTunes store account to use the covers thingy.
Why pay for something you can get off google images?

I was gonna make a whole bunch of posts about stuff I've been doing this week, but spaced out and completely forgot about it.

Listen to me.
You have their power.

You can make things happen
by will alone..

The world can be
what you make it.

but you must act

NOW.

It was raining this morning, not 2 hours ago. I hadnt seen rain in a long time...

Fucking October man, the shit is gonna hit the fan pretty soon... Fuck.

iTunes 7 is messed up, dont use it.

I've been saying this was the next obvious step for quite a while. Glad someone actually listened.

A friend of mine has the King Kong game in his cellphone, it kicks major ass.
Its like a mix between Pitfall, PoP Sands Of Time, and Rampage.

I woke up at a complete stranger's house today.
It was kinda like that part in trainspotting where Mark is at that girl's place and has breakfast with her parents, this was just like that except there was no breakfast, or parents, or girl...

But she came back about 10 minutes later, I said goodbye and went home. I still dont know her name

It's initals are THC
Dont that just beat all?

Beat this:

The game is Grid Wars, found here.
I played on the second biggest grid using my PS1 dual shock joystick, works like a charm and makes playing the game a lot easier.

<Vidar> speaking of suckage, the latest prince of persia game uses starforce
* Libertus never forgave the original Prince of Persia for the "leap of faith"
<Vidar> really?
<Libertus> Aw c'mon... having to figure out that the way to go forward is by jumping onto a platform that *isn't there* is just lame
<Vidar> haha
<Libertus> It's like Jet Set Willy - impossible to complete
<Vidar> i finished prince plenty of times
<Vidar> besides there were cheats if you got stuck
<Libertus> Mind you, JSW being unfinishable was a bug, not a design feature
<Vidar> i remember shoplifting the old prince of persia
<Vidar> i was but a little boy
<Libertus> Oh my... I did that with "Thrusta"
<Libertus> Shite game as well... my mistake
<Vidar> so little i could squeeze by unnoticed
<Vidar> good thing that place didnt have security cameras
<Vidar> and they hadnt tagged the pc games to trigger the alarm
<Libertus> I probably did the store a favour - they likely wrote it off rather than having it sit around unsold for years :)
<Libertus> "How many copies of Thrusta have we sold?" ... "None... but the entire stock has been nicked." ... "Excellent. We should never have bought in that shit in the first place."
<Libertus> "Damned good idea to put the display next to the door."
<Libertus> Ahh... the good old days...
<Vidar> heh, my case was a bit different though
<Libertus> Before security cameras, shoplifting was an artform. Now it's a profession.
<Vidar> yup
<Vidar> i had mounted quite the operation and was only like uh, 7 or 8 years old
<Libertus> See! Imagination. Strategy. Planning.
<Vidar> i relied it on to another kid in my block who used it to nick golden axe
<Vidar> which sadly didnt run well on my paleolithic computer
<Libertus> Golden Axe sucked a fair amount of money off me in the arcade. Great fun to play.
<Vidar> yup
<Libertus> Dwarf?
<Vidar> actually i used the chick
<Vidar> because of the dragon and shit
<Libertus> Ooooh... yeah... cool magic
<Vidar> everyone was "you fag, you play with the chick" i told em "check this out!"
<Libertus> Those pink armoured buggers near the end were hard, unless you were sitting on the dinosaur
<Vidar> i still have it on mame
<Libertus> Likewise
<Libertus> I still have a soft spot for Galaxian
<Vidar> digdug
* Libertus sighs with nostalgia
<Vidar> and then there was that new machine that had newer versions of digdug and rally x
<Libertus> Old games never die, they just get emulated
<MellerTime> that's catchy
<MellerTime> set that to music, right away
<Libertus> "Old games... never die... they just get... e... mulated..."

Maybe some other time I'll tell you how I pulled that Prince of Persia job... Or maybe not.

<MarkJaquith> dang! My battery isn't eligible for the recall.
<MarkJaquith> I WANT AN EXPLODING BATTERY! >:-(
<Vidar> dell laptop style
<technosailor> Ha
<technosailor> I've got a box of them at work
<technosailor> I'll ship you one
<MarkJaquith> Why do you have that?
<technosailor> Because we have chosen to use Dell as our provider
<technosailor> stupidheads
<MarkJaquith> heh
<Vidar> technosailor, send me one!
<Vidar> hell send me 5
<technosailor> Vidar: I have to send them back to Dell!
<Vidar> no way man
<technosailor> lol
<technosailor> Sure, they'll just charge my AMEX card. No problem!
<Vidar> send me a few, i wanna keep one as memento and blow up the others when i'm high with my friends
<technosailor> sheesh
<Vidar> you got money, dont be a stingy bitch
<technosailor> haha

<darkfate_> wonder what the timeline for 2.1 is
<Vidar> 2067
<apex> but at least it's soon
<Vidar> thats the year the first 2.1 will be up in SVN
<darkfate_> i thought you were talking about revision numbers

Firefox Crop Circle

FF Sidewalk

Firefox Weather Ballon

On the other hand, IE7 has a nice promotion campaign too...

The internet is a real drag lately.
I'm going to bed

This is me 40 years from now:

Spellsword

55% Combativeness, 46% Sneakiness, 67% Intellect, 27% Spirituality

Aggressive, but with the brains to back it up: You are a Spellsword!
Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken after you've fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you're an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn't.
Spellswords combine arcane might with combat know-how. They're much tougher than mages, like to wear armor, and can cast spells through their weapons. They're very, very, good at doing lots of damage to a single target very quickly, and while not quite as tough as most fighters, are still pretty hard to kill.
You're both smart and aggressive, which means that you're probably pretty dangerous when pissed off. You also tend to be somewhat straightforward, which is nice, and don't have much use for spirituality or mysticism.

Link: The RPG Class Test

Ha! If only you knew...

None of this really surprises me though. For me WP has jumped the shark with the first 2.x version, good thing there's still 1.5.3 (I wonder how long will that last...).
The first comment by Alan is spot on. I could say the same thing except I did use a modded kubrick once (back in 1.2.x) and more recently I used a modded tarski (which looked lovely).

The new OSX Leopard, apart from bugfixes and all that will introduce an application called Time Machine. This, in a nutshell, is like Wincrap's restore points with the difference that Time Machine will actually work like its supposed to.

And now, for your (and my) masturbatory delight, I give you the inside of the brand spanking new MacPro:

The most basic configuration will feature the following:

• 2 64bit 2Ghz Intel Xeon Dual Core expandable to 3Ghz each
• 1GB RAM expandable to 16GB
• 160GB Hard drive. You can add more HDs to have a maximum of 2TB
• For graphics you can choose between a single 256mb PCI-E card or up to 4 512mb PCI-E (Quad SLI, motherfucker) which can support two 30" screens

Need a box of tissues to clean up that mess? So do I. The whole package is around US$ 15000, and 2500 for the bare bones config with no screen.

Here's one for the road

Picked this up on some forum...

Mizuguchi is a fucking hack. That being said, stop making your shitty zomg almost progressive music slash puzzle games and give me Rez 2 you piece of shit.

I fucking love the Rez soundtrack.

And thats it. The site ends mainly visually...
I can do fuck all to get the other 2 or 3 entries I posted before xmgfree went jewshit and since I didnt bother to reapply I'm back here.

Bitches

After a week of digging through ancient crap stashed in the dark corners of my room I finally found some old shades I had been looking for for quite a while.
The only problem is my head has gotten somewhat bigger since the time I bought them so they dont look as cool.

"Rock 'n roll can save the world"? "The chicks are great"? I sound like a dick!

"So what?" We come off like amateurs... some average band... trying to come to grips, jealous and fighting and breaking up - we're buffoons!

Completely by chance as I was zapping last night, I caught Metallica's "Some Kinda Monster" on mtv. Now, I made a solemn vow never to watch mtv again, but I figured it would be ok just this once since I have also sworn I wouldnt buy another Metallica album or any band merchandise again, so yeah, lesser of two evils and all that.

This documental thing is kinda longish, but figures it would be, it spans around 2 years...
When I first heard about this thing coming out and reading an outline of what it would be like, my first impression was "This is gonna be so fucking lame". I was right and then some, so lets get down and dirty with it.

First of all, what's Dave Mustaine doing in it? I mean, come on, you cant possibly be still moping around because you were a drunken asshole when you were a kid. Get the fuck over it, it happened like 20something years ago, move on. Or if you want the media exposure, you too could hire some guy for 40k a month and make a dvd called "boo hoo I suck"

Then there's Lars, fuck him. Always saying and doing stupid shit. There's him saying "I felt left out" or "I felt really hurt" or something like that when he and Bob Rock go see Jason's new band Echobrain, and he (Jason) leaves after the gig is done, giving everyone else the cold shoulder. Well fuck you man, thats what you get for being so high and mighty and acting like he should be thanking you or something.

James, uh... He should have gone straight home after the rehab and become a family man. And no more bear shooting please, if you wanna shoot something Lars is standing right over there.

Kirk, to me, comes off as the "I came here for the want ad" guy even now after like 25 years. Whatever.

As far as Robert Trujillo, I really dont have an opinion on him as I dont know much about his previous work. Good for him though, getting the spot.
The thing that bugs me though, is this whole "charade" for lack of a better word for this whole "find a bass player in 5 minutes ago"
"You guys! MTV needs our help! we gotta become a band again"
"Ok, lets do it!"
cue in Power Rangers music as they transform into the mighty MetallicA! and off they go, to boldly save the world of mainstream and other such shit

I think I can kinda relate to Jason however. The way I see it, it was like he was going to work at Metallica and then when he got home back from this dayjob of sorts, he could just chill at home and maybe play a little bass.

The only "cool" character in all of this cheesy afternoon melodrama is the psychiatrist guy. "I think this relationship could last longer you know, because blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and I still havent finished my beach house so..."

Then, as for the actual process of recording St. Anger... Seriously, what the fuck? Randomly cutting and pasting bits and pieces from several hours of jam sessions in rehearsal rooms and turning that into songs?
Asking friends, family, and media what they think and what they would change about the album? No wonder it sucked balls.
It only remains to see whats gonna happen now that Bob Rock is gone. Hopefully something good, but I dont think so.

I totally realize that all of this stuff I wrote is way OLD news but who cares

I'm bored and stoned, playing really loud humppa.

Also, name generators:
Wrestler: Baby Assassin
Stoner Chat Name: Goblin Bongz

I was gonna make a bitchy whiny ranty post but then I realized I was just tired so I refrained.
Also, I made a comment on Miguel's site today so I should be getting a shitload of traffic anytime soon, like I care about such things.
I've said it before and I'll say it one more time: if I want to see traffic I go to a big avenue during rush hour.

I've been reading some sites here and there but didnt find anything worth posting about, just the usual rants and raves about "design this" and "design that" and "I'm not worthy" and those bloody trends, they're so depressing... Knock it off!

Instead of that I''ll have you know that RauteMusik may be in german but its club radio is pretty cool.
Also, I got the new RHCP album Stadium Arcadium. I may write a small review sometime soon, if I remember to.

My Stun Runner tshirt isnt here yet, I wonder what's taking so long...

I sent it in anyway, will I get a reply?

I woke this morning and felt like listening to those old cds I havent played since I was kid.

This is terribly old but I''m bored and wanted to post something so I figured I''d take it one more time and post it (again).
If I were a NetHack monster, I would be a dwarf. I enjoy using expensive, high-quality equipment, and I''m not afraid to work hard to get it.
In the past I''ve gotten other results such as the Acid Blob and the Leprechaun, which are still parts of my nature in some way.

On a totally different note, some girl I've been sleeping around with told me I was "kinda boring"... Where do you get off saying that? We only get together for drinks and fucking so whats the deal?
Doesnt worry me too much either way, I give it 4 more days until she calls it quits heheh

I like the OpenBSD crowd a lot more now that I know they're into humppa, and even have set up a radio.

Here it is, I give you the one and only no-nonsense no-bullshit all-trendwhore end all be all of this whole web 2.0 shit: FauxJAX - an AJAX Framework for Idiots

Three neat facts, two births and one death on Nov. 30, from Wikipedia...

• 1786: Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
• 1979: Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.
• 1982: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street. Meanwhile, on the other side of the World, it was my birthday.

• 1945: Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
• 1667: Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist

And the death goes to 1935: Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet

I got me one of these today. Now my poor battered keyboard can take a vacation

People actually pay for this?

This sunday I decided to go out for a bike ride which left my body terribly sore. But before heading back home I dropped in on a friend and stayed at his place for while.
So we're talking about this and that and he tells me there's gonna be a silent hill movie...
"Great, just fucking great. You know they're gonna ruin it" I tell him, but he disagrees ever so optimiscally. So we go check out imdb for any data on the movie, only to find out that Harry is played by the same second line actor that portrayed Boromir in the first LOTR movie AND he's also a secondary character, that the little girl's name is Sharon (not Cheryl like its supposed to be), and many many other things.
"I told you they would ruin it, didnt I?" So I was right.
Any doubts about it, watch the trailer if you havent already.

On the brighter side, he also showed me the Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer which completely rocked my ass. Please go see it, if you havent already. The introductory sequence is awesome, just as you're wondering "wtf, is this metal gear or the new battlefield" you get the answer smashed in your face.

Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character?.
I scored 30.

Will I ever go back to Wordpress?

I might... Then again, I might use a fork that does away with all the functions I dont plan on using, like search and categories.
Will this be happening any time soon? Maybe.

Time will tell.

I had some kickass chinese while listening to some tunes, working on some stuff...

Let the good times roll. Stick some of this in my magic flute. Call their name and they will come.
At first everything was normal and going smoothly, but slowly they did come. The dolphins man, the freakin dolphins. Now I'm not talking about some flipper looking soon-to-be-catfood worthless piece of fish but these celestial otherwordly beings, but I digress.

I return home from the mountain and munchatron is waiting in my room. Goodbye chinese leftovers. And then fight club was on.

That lovely intoxcating smell

Its a whole set of reasons and different factors but I enjoy myself a lot more now than those bong hits as a 16 year old blockhead. Yay for growing up.

This is my Johari window

Green is good

Dont spare the green love

The World is coming to an end

I'm cuming too

Thats why

Lets all get laid

Coming as the World does

Good thing i'm not an asian girl.
Can we get any more tables?

Earlier, 35 °C. Too hot, fuck off. Ant on my monitor.
Leave home, take music. Find inviting cold haven
But I did.

Walk inside and order 2 pints of their darkest thickest beer and slowly travel underneath the fuckin waves.
Outside...
Streets on fire, the mob goes Wild Wild Wild!

But inside we plan. Everybody move to Canada and smoke lots of pot, everybody move to Canada right now.
Drink some more and dream with the feathers of angels stuffed beneath your head.
In here its safe. But those outside have totally lost all composure, they will wither from exposure beneath the sun. Try not to become one of them when its your time.

Hundreds of us inside see an image of a Guinness drinking choir. We join for another toast, its good. and the feast inside silently goes on.

My feet slowly touch the ground, I must leave. I dont want to.
Slowly I do, I step outside. Too hot, fuck off.

I let the dolphins take me home

<skeltoac> How about a new word: insorup
<skeltoac> wp_insorup_post
<Vidar> insorup
<Vidar> hmmm
<Vidar> what does it mean?
<masquerade> Vidar, insert or update

New words can be cool at times.

<Vidar> sounds like a medicine name
<Vidar> 5 mg of insorup
<masquerade> Vidar, 5mg? that's a wussy dose, I take 2g at a time!
<masquerade> I'm tripping on insorup
<Vidar> you junkie
<BigJibby> say no to insurop
<Vidar> its good, just dont abuse it
<masquerade> BigJibby, you must be on some insorup, you spelled it wrong!
<Vidar> he's so far gone he cant even type
<masquerade> poor BigJibby
<masquerade> he'll be addicted for life
<masquerade> physical dependancy, its worse than crack
* BigJibby does another line
<Vidar> sure is
<BigJibby> purple haze up in the sky
<Vidar> its not that kinda drug

I'm really glad I only use clean fresh pot. anything else is just wrong. very wrong.

Done with Spell with Flickr, a great way to kill their yahoo powered servers.
All the other editing done by me of course, I didnt want parts of the name timing out or something like that.

Its Quandary, not quandry

Off to battle they go.
That grass sure does move fast, and I have some insane munchies right now.

ehehe, right on

"Arugula", also known as "rocket", "rughetta", "roquette" or "rucola", is a type of leaf vegetable. Scientifically, it consists of three species: "Eruca sativa", "Diplotaxis tenuifolia" and "Diplotaxis muralis". Arugula was grown as a vegetable in the Mediterranean area since the Roman times; it was considered to be an aphrodisiac. Still, it was not really cultivated and not scientifically researched until the 1990s. It was usually collected in the wild. Nowadays it is cultivated in various places, especially in Veneto, and available in all of Europe. Arugula is especially used in salads, but also cooked as a vegetable with pasta or dry meat. In Italy its use for pizzas is also common; in this case it is added only after the baking. It is rich in vitamin C and iron.

My friend Max owns this ride

+
Deep Purple, old Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Motorhead, etc.
+
long, empty stretch of road
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full tank
+
roaring engine
+
a couple of beers
+
"what's the next song?... Burn!"
=
Road Fever

I was diggin around the fridge, looking for stuff to make a sandwich and was very pleased to see I still had plenty of spicy ketchup to go around.
But then it hit me, how come I hadn't seen it before? I checked the expiration date... it read 2005-05-24, bugger all.

I hate being out of ketchup.

Little Billy always ate his vegetables, did his chores and his homework, got good grades, and was an overall well behaved kid. His parents loved him for it.
Then one day they caught him jerking off and they didn't love him anymore, so he ran outside the house in tears and got hit by a bus.
Needless to say, he forever burns in hell.

Moral of the story: Veggies breed sin.

A cardiologist died and was given an elaborate funeral.
A huge heart covered in flowers stood behind the casket during the service.

Following the eulogy, the heart opened, and the casket rolled inside. The heart then closed, sealing the doctor in the beautiful heart forever.

At that point, one of the mourners burst into laughter. When all eyes stared at him, he said, "I'm sorry, I was just thinking of my own funeral... I'm a gynecologist."
The proctologist fainted.

One day a teacher had a taste test with her students.
She picked a little boy to do the first test. She blindfolded him, put A Hershey kiss in his mouth and asked, "Do you know what it is?"
"No, I don't," said the little boy.
"Okay, I'll give you a clue. It's the thing your daddy wants from your Mom before he goes to work."
Suddenly, a little girl at the back of the room yells.......
"Spit it out! It's a piece of ass!"

A female police officer arrests a man for drunk driving.
The female officer tells the man, "Sir, you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be held against you..."
The drunk replies; "Tits."

I believe that all people of any race other than my own are inferior to me in every way. They're even inferior at being inferior, which tells you a lot about how much I hate them. They aren't worth the bullet I'd like to put in each and every one of their foreheads.

Furthermore, gay people should be burned at the stake or at least stabbed on site. I am sexually aroused by rubber boots and cream cheese. The only thing I hate more than old people is babies, because they may some day grow into old people. Therefore I would like to nominate myself for presidency of the "Kill Everybody Except Me" club.

USA is the biggest shitheap excuse for a country this world will ever see and if given the chance I would happily set it on fire. Everybody from USA is by association an idiot and not worthy of the time of the guy whose job it is to tell people whether or not they are worthy of my time.

Telemarketing fraud is only possible because there are people stupid enough to fall for it. If people would stop believing almost everything upon hearing it and actually start realizing that giving out personal information concerning your goddamn MONEY over the phone is a stupid idea then telemarketing fraud couldn't exist, now could it? Until then I'm glad you got suckered out of US$ 400.

Finally decided to take one of the very few quizzes out there that are worth the 2 minutes..

:: how jedi are you? ::

Mandy?... I think not. *Force choke*

<Vidar> Bitch Make Me A Sandwich
<Hari> Vidar: I just sent that link to this feminist-like chick.
<Vidar> you still talk to her?
<Hari> Only when I need a laugh.
<Vidar> heh
<Hari> I think she's hungover.
<Vidar> not very feministic of her
<Hari> Her mother thinks she's a lesbian.
<Hari> She stopped talking to me for a week because I called her one.
<Vidar> she's probably in denial
<Hari> She's talking now, and I keep randomly telling her to go make me a sandwich.
<Vidar> dont forget to ask for a beer
<Hari> She's 17 and she's just discovered alcohol..
<Vidar> and she calls herself a feminist
<Hari> No, she doesn't, everyone else does.
<Vidar> what a joke
<Hari> A friend of mine described her as "alergic to cock"
<Vidar> hahah
<Vidar> might as well face it you're allergic to cock
<Hari> Hahaha, some punk-goth-emo-something chick kept giving her vodka and telling her it was flavoured water.
<Vidar> thats even beyond words

Bye / Die
by Pain
album: Dancing With The Dead (2004)

Tell me
What do you see when you see yourself?
I don't really get it
How do you make it through the day without killing yourself

Bye bye, why don't you go and
Die die, I'll fuck you up
You want me on my knees
But I'm not going down

Bye bye, leave me alone or
Die die, it is your choice
No time for games, so just leave me the fuck alone

Do you know, you're all the same
Got to play these stupid games
You're getting on my nerves, so just stay the fuck away
Who died and made you god
This time you've gone too far
I think it's time for you to understand: this is war

There's nothing to see here, I don't wanna be here
Get me out of here right now
I can not sit around and wait for you to drive me insane

Bye bye, why don't you go and
Die die, I'll fuck you up
You want me on my knees
But I'm not going down

Bye bye, leave me alone or
Die die, it is your choice
No time for games, so just leave me the fuck alone

So you think I'm unreasonable
Do you really think I am a toy that you can kick around
Don't come here, you're a waste of time
Some people never know when it's time to back away
It will come back at you and slap you in the face

There's nothing to see here, I don't wanna be here
Get me out of here right now
I can not sit around and wait for ou to drive me insane

I don't have the patience so what are you after
Do you want me to snap right now?
Some things will never ever change, like you and your ugly face

Bye bye, why don't you and
Die die, I'll fuck you up
You want me on my knees but I'm not going down

Bye bye, leave me alone or
Die die, it is your choice
No time for games so just leave me the fuck alone

Bye bye, it's your choice
Die die, I'll fuck you up
Bye bye, why don't you go and
Die die, leave me alone

Usually, I wouldnt give a second listen to a band like Pain, but they've really put it together with this album so what the hell

Crown me King Idiot. Get a load of this:
Last monday I went to this photography place to have my mugshot taken for some documentation and afterwards started to ask around for batteries for my digicam.
Its all nice and good and I buy some rechargables and leave the place.
2 days later, I try to use the batteries but the camera wasnt starting up! I'm all "wtf did I get stifled?" so later that day I go back to the store to see whats up...
Turns out rechargable batteries are sold "empty" by default... Doh!

Now this right here is a beauty. I had one of these myself, got it in 1993 one month after it was released into the market and it stopped working 2 days after Jan. 1st 2000. Thats almost 7 years of non stop use, you couldnt get that out of a PC with all the overclocking in the world.
And all I ever did to it was add a little more RAM (16 MB) and a 4x CD Reader (the Apple 600e).

Here's some specs:

Check that shit, I used to wipe the asses of Pentium II's all over with my unbridal 25 mhz of processor speed and the great SoftwareFPU.
Best computer I've ever used. Ever.