12:20 pm - Image of the Day
Current Mood: bwahahahahaha
Current Music: Blue Man Group - Exhibit 13
Been in hospial, hopefully I'll get out before the end of the month.Miss you guys. :(
It's the old story of "guy goes to con, guy catches con crud, con crud mutates into full-blown pneumonia & proceeds to kick guy's ass all over town." So... yeah.
Normal service will resume as soon as possible.
I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE SHITHEEL
this morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US department of agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the food and drug administration.
At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the national institute of standards and technology and the US naval observatory, I get into my national highway traffic safety administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the environmental protection agency, using legal tender issued by the federal reserve bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US postal service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the department of labor and the occupational safety and health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it's valuables thanks to the local police department.
I then log on to the internet which was developed by the defense advanced research projects administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right
*notation of continued engeezering*
*obscenity*
http://www.scifi.com/warehouse13/
Premise: After saving the life of the President, two Secret Service agents find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 --a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. The Warehouse’s caretaker Artie (Saul Rubinek) charges Pete (EddieMcClintock) and Myka (Joanne Kelly) with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects to cache at the Warehouse, as well as helping him to control the warehouse itself.
My thoughts, in rough order:
1) This looks vaguely interesting, I might be compelled to check it out.
2) I wonder if Steve Jackson & Co. have heard about this yet, and how pissed they are?
3) Neat, one of my fictional personas is screaming at me.
It's that time of the decade, which means that Discordian Sky has had another makeover. Goodies include a cleaner layout (or at least I think so), some new artwork in the Art section including a raft of 2d stuff, since that's been my focus for a good while, and couple old/new projects in Discordian Sky Press.
Things that need to change: At some point I need to figure out a way to reduce the footprint on MalWiki and (especially) FenWiki. Setting up a small wikifarm *might* be the answer, but I can't tell 'cause all the documentation on wikifarming goes right over my poor english-major head. :P Research continues, though.
Oh, of some small note, I got paid for a web dev project! It was small and (too) cheap, but what the hell, money's money, yeah? Here's the site if you want to feast on the glory of my cheapass CSS skillz.
Look at this shit:
This makes Armageddon look scientifically accurate. Dear Xenu, I want to strangle everybody involved with this project.
Sean Breen, Thank you for ordering tickets from MovieTickets.com!
Your Movie: ........... Star Trek: The IMAX Experience (PG-13)
Showtime: ............. 7:00pm, the evening of Thursday, May 07, 2009
Theater: .............. AMC Highlands Ranch 24
103 W Centennial Blvd.
Highlands Ranch, CO 80129Anybody know of a good used bookstore in the general Littleton/Centennial/Greenwood V./Highlands Ranch area? I've got around 100-150 lbs of books I need to unload.
Does it hurt my atheist street cred if "Jesus Christ Superstar" is the only Andrew Lloyd Webber musical I actually like?
KASF 90.0 FM was housed in a shitty little adobe building that had been squatting on the east side of Richardson Ave. since time began, where it might've been housing for the terminally broke-ass student once but was quickly repurposed to house the campus rentacops and the radio station. The building showed its age: the floors were wooden, and probably would've rotted in a wetter climate if not for the micron-thin layer of varnish the builders stuck on. The walls were all stucco and cheap paint, covered with decades worth of promotional stickers from the radio station and generations of lousy independent bands. The broadcast booth itself was a tiny addition to the back of the original building, without any functioning heat or A/C and the broadcast tower stuck in the ground less than three feet outside the studio window.
Picture this: It's midnight Saturday in December in Alamosa. The San Luis Valley is by nature a pretty dry place, rain falls on the San Juans or the Sangre range to the west and east, so it doesn't get much snow. It does get cold, though, cold like only a high plateau in the Rockies can get. All the sane people are in bed or in the bar en route to going to bed. And there I am, on the station's porch bundled up like Scott of the Antarctic hammering on the door and waiting for the DJ ahead of me to remember that there's another guy in the booth after him & open the freaking door.
And there I am, effectively all alone in this shitty adobe building with only the transmitter to keep me company or keep me warm, blasting out vocal trance and bad Japanese pop into the frozen aether. I do this for four hours, then before the break of dawn I sign off, shut down the transmitter and retreat to the lobby to catch some sleep before my next program, the Sunday morning blasphemy hour. (No, really. I never officially called it that, but mildly satanic hair metal and recordings of pagan rites, right in the middle of services.) The shitty adobe building had one thing going for it: in the lobby was The Most Comfortable Couch in the Universe. It started out as a normal couch, but years of tired college students flopping on it had turned it into the perfect place to catch a couple hours of sleep at 4am on a Sunday morning so you didn't sound like a complete retard on air later and/or cause an incident with the FCC. I'd be mostly asleep for a few hours, then about half-awake for two hours when the whitest white kids on campus would come in to do their Christian rock show from 6 to 8. That was something burned vividly into my skull, if only because I'd swear that one time they played a Christian rap song that used clips from the infamous anti-abortion movie "Silent Scream." I don't remember any of the lyrics, all I can recall is hearing a backbeat, somebody screaming in falsetto, and the sound of a vacuum cleaner. I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate it.
Anyway.
That graveyard shift at KASF is something I'll remember fondly for the rest of my life. The combination of the booth, the cold, and the Most Comfortable Couch iin the Universe were something special.
Yesterday, as I heard from a friend and another former KASF DJ, the old KASF building was torn down. The shitty little adobe building where I spent so many weekend nights my junior and senior years is no more. The radio station still exists as far as I can tell. Even back during my senior year they were making noises about moving the studio to a location somewhere in the student center, so that comes as no surprise. Losing the old building is a bit sad, though. Everything changes, and the college isn't the same place it was when I left.
Hope they saved the couch. Everything changes, but some things shouldn't be thrown out.
Here's the latest staus update:
Since the Geforce card is close to melting, I've pulled it and am running on the video card native to the mainboard. It's not at omgwtfbbq super as a proper video card, but for what I want it ain't so bad. In the meantime, experimenting with my super-duper SATA-USB adapter cable has given me a little insight into the problem. It appears that my G: drive is unhappy and doesn't want to play well with others for some reason. The connection is at best intermittent; sometimes it'll load without problems while other times it just sits there sucking power.
The good news is, that drive isn't super-critical or anything, and pulling it off the mainboard seems to clear up the slow booting issue. The bad news is, it's my media drive with ~100GB worth of stuff (mostly mp3s) on it, and I'd rather not lose all of that data.
Not sure where to go from here, suggestions welcome, etc. I can safely say the box is ~75% unbricked at this point. Now if I could just get my iTunes library back.
Forward progress is being made! We're not sure how or why, but it's being made regardless.
The Professionals poked at it & didn't know what the fuck, but for whatever reason its now booting. Okay, fine. Whatever. On deeper inspection it turns out that the Geforce 7300 video card I have in there is overheating like crazy, so no more constant uptime until I can get it fixed or replaced.
Also, and of more immediate concern, I seem to be having silly bugger issues with the SATA ports on the mainboard. Specifically, I have 3 SATA drives attached, and only 2 of them are showing up. Totally not sure what's going on here. Could be heat bleeding off the video card, could be death rays from Mars.
Any thoughts on how to bludgeon SATA 2, 3 & 4 back into commission on an Asus mb would be appreciated.
After consulting the oracles, and some suggestions from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
tangaroa (thanks Tang, btw) I've done some modifications to my computer and it is still bricked. Thinking it was a hardware conflict I pulled all the cards off my system one by one with no change. Windows and Ubuntu still refuse to boot, Ubuntu giving me the same error messages as from the last entry, Windows remaining stubbornly silent on the issue.
Suggestions from the peanut gallery? 'Cause right now, I've got *nothing* except maybe "replace motherboard," and that's not in the cards.
ETA: So I've finally decided to give in & take the silly bugger in for a Professional to look at. I can afford to let some tech-support monkey poke at it & tell he he don't know what the fuck. That's about all I can afford, but whatever.
In other news, my mother got a shiny new iMac. I am manfully resisting jealousy.
So my computer seems to have bricked on me. Crashed hard at first (everything locked up, no BSoD), then on reboot it tries to go through the XP bootup sequence, but it locks up after the first boot screen & before it gives me a mouse cursor or a Welcome screen.
Tried booting from a liveCD (Ubuntu v. 14.xx IIRC) thinking this was a HD problem, only that didn't work either. Trying to load the linux kernel gave me these two errors:
[17179569.792000] MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC.
[17179570.180000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:14.0
...considering that's the most OS data I've gotten out of multiple tries to reset the BIOS and reboot, any of the million tech zealots on my friends list have any suggestions? I've gotta figure that the problems are connected somehow.
From this New York Times column:
"If you really want to see a strange line of attack, take a look at the wolf ad. It cuts from Palin’s face to Obama’s to packs of wolves prowling through the forest, presumably in search of vice-presidential prey. Then comes the text claiming that as Barack drops in the polls,“he’ll try to destroy her.” Given Palin’s affection for shooting wolves from airplanes with high-powered rifles, it’d be more appropriate to have them cowering in their dens while she aims her machine gun from a diving Cessna."
Sarah Palin is John McCain's pick for the Vice President of the United States. Now, you can help him vet her for the job!
Let us spread this wonderful site hither and yon, across all our friendslists.
So. Barack Obama.
It's gonna be a hell of a fight, because McCain and the GOP braintrust won't go down quietly and they'll play as mean and dirty as they can. But I think he's gonna do it. I think he's gonna be President.
This feeling of "shit, maybe we aren't irrevocably fucked" is strange and offputting. But on the whole, I think I could get used to this thing they call hope.
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