Random Ramblings from the King of Skeletons

10:46am: Great...
http://www.cfl.ca/article/mistake-costs-roughriders-the-cup

Now we'll be enduring jokes like 'People from Saskatchewan have trouble counting to twelve' for an entire year...

1:27pm: Three Five
Which just means five more until the big four-o...

But after all, you're only as old as you feel...right? Right??? Please??? :P

2:59pm: When in doubt, hit it?
Situation:

Upgrading a Lenovo T61 from Vista to Windows 7. After installing Windows 7, I'm met with this:

Error 2110 HDD0 (can not read hard drive)

Thought process:

1. This is bad.
2. Why the hell would the hard drive fail now?
3. This isn't so bad - I've already backed up everything that needed to be transferred.
4. I don't have time for this.
5. What time is it anyway?
6. Google to the rescue. (http://www.somelifeblog.com/2007/12/lenovo-hdd0-2100-error-hard-drive.html)
7. Ooh, firmware update.
8. That didn't work.
9. Re-seat the hard drive? Somehow I doubt that.
10. Maybe if I just lift it up an inch and let it drop?
11. *BONK*
12. Yay it's working!!

Conclusion:

I do not condone physical violence toward electronic devices, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do!

11:19am: Torchlight
http://www.torchlightgame.com

A steal for twenty bucks.

Except that my graphics card keeps dying every other level. It's not that the game has huge requirements (far from it - the game will run on a netbook), but that I've got this stupid ASUS AH2600PRO that hasn't had a driver update in 2 years and possibly is also taxing my power supply.

...maybe I should just buy a whole new computer.

Anyway. Torchlight good. You buy, yes?

11:20am: Oh, calculus, how I <3 thee.
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first goes up to the bartender and says, "I'll have a pint of lager, please." The next one says, "and I'll have half of what he's having." The bartender says, "You're all idiots," and pulls two pints.

1:46pm: Also
If you haven't played Agricola, you should.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricola_(board_game)

Carry on.

9:34am: Soon to be a Manic Monday?
WoW update: We've been on Vashj for a month. She should be dead soon. The patch is coming out and we really want to get BT attuned before they remove it. On principle.

( Now that that's out of the way... )
Yeah, I'm a big sap. Everyone knows that anyway. I miss all of you, and thanks for reading.

4:21pm: Dear SPSS
You know, when you release a Hotfix for Windows Vista, it would be nice if it actually fixed the fucking program. I'm happy your tech support is aware of the known issue that "Clicking on a SPSS file might not open the file." Now that we're all aware, could you see to it that it gets solved? Just maybe, since I imagine oh, 100 fucking percent of your user base expects to open files that way? And I wasn't aware that 'Uninstall' actually means 'Remove the program but leave behind enough crap that reinstalling won't fix the problem that you are having - resulting in a tedious jaunt through the good old registry to change things that even as an IT support specialist I'm not entirely sure I should be changing - but at this point it's better than rebuilding the entire system from scratch for the third time.'

Kyla once remarked that when I use punctuation it means I'm angry. I put it to you, the viewer, that when I resort to dashes it means I've gone way past angry and am solidly rounding the bend to furious, with the finish line of really god damn motherfucking pissed off in sight.

In conclusion, someone at SPSS Inc owes me an entire afternoon. The shipping costs alone are going to be a fortune.

2:44pm: Here there be giants
( The bigger they are... )

5:39pm: Update
First, the obligatory we killed something new in WoW image:

( Image the first )

Second, we all got drunk in Zul'Aman on New Years' Eve:

( Image the second )

And lastly, but foremostly, and I don't know why it's taken me eight months (holy crap it's already been eight months?) to post about it, but I'm in love. And next weekend she'll be visiting again.

Which makes me wonder why I can't stop listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_mhpRz0liA ...

Happy New Year to everyone :)

3:33pm: ( I love my job! )

12:41am: RIDERS WIN!!!
I hereby declare my intentions to be insufferable until the next CFL season.

11:18am: Early birthday wishes to Jason, Teddy, Lucy and Vanessa (some earlier than others). Because I'll forget :P

( And for the WoW inclined, we finally killed something new )

6:48pm: By popular demand
A picture of me and a new friend. Haven't thought of a name yet :P
( Clicky )

11:13pm: Smashy Smashy!
Magtheridon dead, screenshot to come later.

( Edit: Screenshot )

1:16pm: WTF??
Um...wow?

9:22am: Rawr!
Happy Birthday, kdkickass!

*hugs*

9:56pm: Woo!
( Fillet of Lurker )

3:12pm: R.I.P. Checkers
http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=8608

3:59pm: Needs more posting.
Yeah, I'm still here.

11:21pm: Rawr
( Zoya )

3:35pm: LC vs Aran
http://www.liquid-courage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2992

3:40pm: Sig-tastic

11:32am: Calm...for now
http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2007/fastfacts.php

1:08pm: :)
I need to tidy my house for this weekend.