Graftark Game design enthusiast and all around nerd/geek.

8Oct/080

Damn, I missed one already.

Alright folks, I promised myself that I would write something every day and immediately missed the day after making that proclamation. Awesome! With that being said, I can move on to my post.

First up, I really want to play with gOS. It looks like a tight little Linux distro that I might enjoy. A co-worker of mine ended up trying the gOS live cd in an attempt to breathe a little life into his laptop. He found that the laptop took an install of the gOS on the hard drive, something that Windows has been crashing on for a while now (tried multiple install disks as well as a couple hard drives). Seems odd that he could install this operating system and not Windows but such is life with computers at least he now has a laptop that is operable. I dig the widget engine and all that, plus being built on top of Ubuntu doesn't hurt either. Burning image to disk right now.

Man, I have a ton of Linux discs scattered around my computer room... weird, I still keep using Windows primarily. Too many games I guess, that and I have to share my systems and MS makes the comfortable product that people are used to.

I also thought a bit about last nights debate. I want to state that I have found NPR's political twitter stream extremely handy during the debate as well as the race. If only for the fact checking, the feed is totally worth following. Here is the feed! I have to say that my mind is already made up and I know who I will cast my vote for never-the-less I watch and follow the progress of the campaigns. The most troublesome issue for me was John McCain's treatment of Barack Obama's support of a bill, which did not pass, that would allocate $3 million towards a new projector for the Adler planetarium. McCain called it an 'overhead' projector which takes away a substantial amount of the meaning of projector when it comes to a planetarium's projector. We all know what and overhead projector looks like and well all know that there is no way on of those things could display the features of the night sky. In digging a bit deeper one finds that the cost to replace the projector was a lot more that they asked for and the planetarium was also seeking out the rest of the funds to cover the additional cost from private investors.
The big deal about this is that it shows just how anti-science and anti-thought that these people are. Seriously, what's wrong with learning? These are the same people who think people and dinosaurs co-existed! Granted it works for Barney and Fred bur there is no way primitive man could survive!

There is more but I just woke up from being passed out from being tired.

6Oct/080

Too busy to blog?

I am always coming back to my blog saying that I need to write more often. I find that I just never get around to it, this happens to be a bit painful to my persona as I am the kind of guy that really likes this medium. I ask myself, should I do this every day? Cut out a little time each day to put forth a thought or two about what is going on in life. Then I think to myself, what are you going to write about? The answer is simple now, as I reflect upon it, write whatever! It does not matter what you say or who reads it, it matters that you do it. I put too much thought into what I should be about rather than what I am about, therefore I need to just let this sludge flow forth out onto the screen.

So that´s it... I will write something, daily, no matter how trivial. Just like today´s rant of a post. Sounds good to me.

14Mar/080

What radio?

Holy crap! I am old?

I was just thinking about the question posed by Leo Laporte; "Is radio dead?"

Yup, he asked that right here on the Pownce but that is not what I'm thinking about. What has me writing this wordy diatribe is what I wrote for a response. I apparently have an affinity for talk radio, makes sense due to the amount of podcasts I listen to. Really though I listen to more people babble on than I do to good ol' music.

Seriously, my commute to work has me listening to Thom Hartmann, who I must say is one of the most brilliant people I have heard on the radio. It is a show that is in stark contrast to the show I listen to on the ride home which happens to be Coast to Coast AM hosted by George Noory.

Is it the fact that I am older now or just the fact that I do not enjoy the auditory feces people call music these days. I know I'm being a bit harsh but on occasion I feel that way especially when you can just get on the internet and discover and download music you do like. Which makes me want to mention www.archive.org mainly because what I do listen to tends to be bands that allow tapers and many of their live shows are posted there. Good times.

Well that's about it. I think it's just a matter of where you are in life and at this point I would rather listen to people blabbing.

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4Jan/080

Resolutions

Now that the new year has arrived people begin to ask about what your resolutions are for the new year. I never really paid attention to the resolution thing until this year. There are a few things that I need to have happen and I figure that this will be the year to get on that road.

First things first, the obvious; lose weight. That is a very typical thing to 'resolve' for the new year but in my case it is imperative. I need to get myself into the habit of exercise and putting down the damn candy ;) So I'm looking at wanting to lose 60 pounds, at the minimum... I really let myself go.

With regards to my presence here on the Internet, I have always wanted to get into tech writing and reviewing and I believe that I can do just that I need to focus in on that. There is also Nervous Reflex, the site that is ever changing due to the fact that I can never really get it to what I think it should be in my head. I want it to be a user drive content site for gamers, modders, and developers. I have a few things to deal with before I actually open the site to users. I need to take measures against comment spam and blog spam (since the site is a multi-user version of WordPress spammers are able to create spam blogs).

The Nervous Reflex podcast is also coming back, I don't know if it will keep the same name but I am currently shopping for a good microphone to unleash my terrible sounding voice on to the world with. I also received a new video camera for Christmas (many thanks to my loving wife), which I intend to use in order to create video content. 

Basically, what I need is FOCUS... I need to keep my eye on the prize this year. What's the prize? Well, the prize will ultimately be myself not feeling like I waste my free time doing stuff that I don't find enjoyable.

Right now I have to focus on getting my ass to work... thanks for reading and stick around... Focus, focus, focus!

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10Oct/070

eBay crap-fest.

So, I have this laptop that I am looking to find a new home for. this is the type of thing that goes on all the time at eBay, right?

Apparently not, it seems that the hallowed halls of eBay have become a haven for scammers. I have put this laptop up for auction seven times now each time the winning bid has come in from a scammer and eBay has taken down the listing. These people put in last second bids making it damn near impossible to use the function eBay gives you to remove bidders. I grow weary of this re-occurring and am now looking to sell the thing through other means. Craigslist comes to mind as does the paper.

I wonder if all this activity has anything to do with the recent hack of eBay. I sold my X-Box smoothly and without issue a while back and was pleased with the whole operation. Now I have doubts as to whether I'll use eBay ever again. I don't like the idea of putting something up for sale so many times.

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