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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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1:07 pm - Serena Joelle Dunkle
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The LJ is the last thing to get updated about things, so this is a week late, sorry.
Serena Joelle Dunkle was born on April 5th, 2008, at 1:10PM, she weighed 4 lbs, 14.5 oz, 18" long. Small, but healthy.
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| Monday, March 31st, 2008
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11:02 pm - Have you seen me lately?
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| Saturday, December 1st, 2007
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1:39 pm - Burning Rangers
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I finally found the memory cart for my Sega Saturn, and thus can now continue to play some of the games that I've downloaded for it.
And I must say that Burning Rangers is a very overrated game, I can't believe that so many people were fucking praising this title back when it came out. You follow the directions on what to do when you hear the whistling noise that indicates that an explosion is about to happen, and you still fucking die, over and over again. And this is just on the first level, which I cannot get past. It makes Super Mario Galaxy seem like an easy game. The graphics are most of the reason, the polygons are so fucking sloppy, you're lucky to be able to tell which blob your main character is.
The pretentious pricks at Sonic Team needed to stick to what they were named after, Sonic the Hedgehog games, of which the Saturn never did receive a proper title.
Back to Super Mario Galaxy and SNES Super Metroid.
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| Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
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10:18 pm - OS
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Choosing what operating system to run on a computer on any particular day, is like asking yourself "How much do I want to be punished just for using my fucking computer today?"
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| Monday, October 29th, 2007
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9:57 am - Job Stuff
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| Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
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10:42 pm - Classic gaming
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10:40 pm - iPhone
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| Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
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2:18 pm - Windows Vista, revisited
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So I finally got Windows Vista installed on my work machine, and have been using it for about 3 weeks now.
For those curious, the problem with being unable to install it previously, was due to the boot flag not being set correctly on the XP partition. It was a clean install, although I did successfully move over all of my junk using their transfer wizard thingy.
( so what's it like? )
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| Monday, June 4th, 2007
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12:06 pm - Windows Vista
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First, just let me say, Windows Vista sucks. At least I think it might, anyway, if I actually got to try the damned thing.
Got it from Dell's Express Upgrade thing. The machine arrived in January with Windows XP, with a coupon for a free $10 upgrade to Vista. We finally got the Vista DVD sometime last week, as it was on my desk when I came in to work this morning.
( computer geekery follows, you've been warned )
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| Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
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7:58 pm - Phrase of the week
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| Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
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2:49 pm - I need a hobby
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So I'm finally starting to take notice how I really don't do a hell of a lot anymore aside from working, sleeping, eating, yelling at kids, partying, and teh seckz. Sure, there's probably a few things that need done around the house, but nothing too pressing, or it's things that I don't quite have the know-how to accomplish, the ambition to just tear into and learn, or the money.
I'm thinking, maybe this is why I sometimes have trouble sleeping. I didn't blog about it, but on at least 3 occasions in a 2-week period, I was unable to sleep, on work-nights. It boggled my mind, since there wasn't anything I was particularly worried about. At first, I blamed it on too much caffeine, or napping too long in the evenings. But the last two times, that didn't apply, since I had been careful not to drink tea, or nap. After reading around some on the subject, and listening to others, I've come to the conclusion that it's due to inactivity. I'm fucking bored. And I've been incredibly and embarrassingly lazy for quite some time as well.
So as a stopgap measure to help out the problem, I go over my hobbies, and immediately start to realize, that everything that I list as a hobby, are things that I haven't been active in for quite a long time. It's kind of like a list that you keep in your head, as answers to questions that you may be asked every so often, not remembering to *update* the said lists as life changes.
( so I felt it was time to do something )
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| Friday, January 12th, 2007
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3:52 pm - haha
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| Sunday, December 10th, 2006
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7:44 pm - I'm a loser!
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I just got my ass handed to me at Monopoly.
...by a 9-year-old.
Well, to be fair, my wife took over when it came time for our daughter to take her bath. But it wouldn't have mattered, she had the game more or less set up to conquer by the time my wife took over.
I think it's the first time in a long, long time that I've ever played by the official rules, with none of the Free Parking Bonus junk thrown in. It's only been in recent years that I figured out that that just makes an already-long game take even longer. About the only official rule we didn't stick to, was the auctioning of properties when the person who landed on it decides not to buy it. Aside from various video-game versions I've played over the years, I don't think I've ever played Monopoly with the auctioning thing. I do see, though, how it could make the game more interesting.
How do you play Monopoly?
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| Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
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12:19 pm - Lesson for the day (well, yesterday)
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| Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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9:33 pm - The weather today
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The weather today, was quite awesome. And I'm not being sarcastic.
It was drizzly, warmish, and dreary. There's just something about this kind of weather that I love. The soft, calm, steady drizzle. The thick smell of autumn in the air. The temperature not being too warm or too cold, yet cool enough to wear a jacket comfortably. The colors; dull, drab, yet soothing.
I love it. It's... comfortable. I could handle many more days like this.
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| Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
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10:52 am - State of the Band
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In a nutshell, the band thing is going fine. Probably about 2 months away from playing out, providing our practice schedule gets... back on schedule.
There are annoyances. Nothing that I feel the need to suddenly flip out about at a practice and cause lots of drama, nor bring up with any member of the band, but annoyances nonetheless.
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current music: TT7622 (Tunefitune.com Radio ! (100% Reggae - Original 6") )
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10:05 am - The Scary Signs
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I made an... um... 'important' discovery today, regarding the "radar signs".
For those not in the know, we have these portable signs along selected places on the highways around here, that have some sort of radar gun attached to them. They prominently display how fast you are going as you approach them.
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current music: TT042 (Tunefitune.com Radio ! (100% Reggae - Original 6") )
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| Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
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9:03 pm - I <3 viruses!
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| Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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6:22 am - Lesson of the day
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File under "things you just don't do"
Never tell the Pan Newsreader to download all headers for alt.binaries.movies.divx.
Seriously.
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| Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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7:54 pm - And now for something completely different!
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This probably won't be of much interest to most of you, as it involves my home town, and it's sort of a "you had to be there" kind of thing, to really appreciate it. And it's long, very long. (At least that's what they tell me! WOOOOO!)
*ahem*
So anyway, without further ado, I proudly present...
( A History of Video Games in Everett, PA )
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