Dear Capcom,

You guys suck for making a game with an item that doubles the experience from an encounter every time you use one, but capping the amount of experience you can gain at an unsigned 16-bit number.

Screw you guys. Seriously.

-shippo

P.S. It would have been funny if someone had said, "Don't cross the streams!" in the dialog block before the final battle.

P.P.S. The final battle was boring.

Fun Facts:
1.) RHEL kinda blows. yum is functionally equivalent to apt if you squint really hard, but the lack of available software is annoying.

2.) WUXGA is 1920x1600 pixels, not 1900x1600 pixels.

3.) X.org will let you tell it that your monitor is any arbitrary resolution, and it will believe you. Unfortunately, if you specify the wrong resolution, it will look like someone smeared bacon grease all over your monitor. See #2.

4.) Claws Mail is much easier to compile on RHEL 5 than it is on a four year-old FreeBSD system with a ghetto-hacked GCC3.

5.) California drivers are assholes. It would be nice if the would not go out of their way to try to kill me.

6.) Funyuns are awesome.

I just finished watching King of Kong. Fun movie, but I don't think I ever want to play classic arcade games again. I was completely unaware that old games were such srs business.

Fun Fact: It's pretty easy to make the weird Model M keyboards intended for usage with AS/400 terminals work with a PC if you've got a little patience and the controller board from standard PS/2 one.

In other news, I now have a keyboard with weird keys that's almost old enough to drink.

In addition to excelling at being generally loathsome, Clinton is quite good at playing the expectations game. She was expected to trounce the black dude with the terrorist-sounding name by a large margin in Pennsylvania, and when she did this, it's suddenly a huge come-from-behind victory against the forces of old and evil. Maybe I should just ignore the Democrats and go back to hoping that McCain keels over from a stroke or something so I can vote for Huckabee for reals this time.

I'm normally not a fan of "library-based" music players because they generally suck at staying out of my way and just playing music. BMPx, however, wins my vote because it puts up a dialog box that says "Reticulating Splines" when it's scanning its internal db for updates.

One of the things I like about GTK is the "Emacs" keytheme, which adds support for ^H, ^W, and friends to regular edit fields so I can delete words and lines or whatever the same way that I do in the greatest text editor ever, Vim.

One of the annoying features of GAIM Pidgin is that it steals some of these keyboard shortcuts for its own nefarious purposes. Namely, Control+W becomes "close window" instead of the expected "delete the previous word". This leads to outbursts of profanity because I'll often close the conversation window while typing a message because I always forget that Pidigin hates me.

Fortunately, there's a way to fix this:
Lurking inside of ~/.purple there's a file called accels. If you add
(gtk_accel_path "

/Conversation/Close" "Escape")
to this file, and restart Pidgin, it will act like more well-behaved applications.

Oh boy! Pretty soon is that day where I just want to reach out and stab the entire Internet.

You know how some websites have those CAPTCHA images to prevent spammers from signing up for accounts or from posting blog spam? Allmusic.com took a particularly interesting approach to CAPTCHA on their blog site.

Take a look at the image below the cut and see if you can spot why their CAPTCHA scheme is awesome:
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Dear LJ,

Thank you for base64 encoding the subjects on some of the notifications that you send to me. I didn't really want my procmail recipes anyway.

Love,
shippo

Since the new "Expand" links feature on paid accounts broke the various GreaseMonkey scripts that expand collapsed threads and since I'm not tiread and I don't really have anything better to do, I hacked my Thread-o-Matic GM script to use LJ's built-in thread expanding functionality.

It's ugly, but what do you expect for 20 minutes of work?

Install (Requires Firefox, GreaseMonkey, and a paid account)

This is way funnier than it should be:

"Boston has never endorsed a political candidate, and will all due respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything Boston stands for," wrote Scholz, adding that he is supporting Democratic Sen. Barack Obama.

link

I was going to post this sometime last week, but I'm on strike lazy.

Anyways, thanks to atheny and shinyhappydeath for letting me stay at their place, and to wattshumphrey for driving all the way to Grafton (twice!!). I had a great time, even though someone smells like an open sewer filled with dead skunks and corpse flowers and moldy cheese and you get the idea (it's pretty stinky).

I miss u guyz.

OMG Merry Christmas, Internet!

One of the fun things about the Presidential election cycle is the innumerable web quizzes that ask a few questions on the "issues" and compare your answers to the lies that candidates have told to determine which candidate is most similar to you. I just took the USA Today one and my results were a bit puzzling.



WTF. I wouldn't even consider voting for 2/3 of the people in my result set.

Do you know how people who want to broadcast to the world their piety and how they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior put an ichthus magnet on their car bumper? I saw some dude on the highway with a Scientology one today.

Also, I am apparently supposed to announce to the Internet that atheny rocks (like a puma pouncing on a snake).

Yesterday, I learned that there's a Free replacement WAD for Doom available in Debian.

( Nerd junk; you probably want to skip this )

Hay Milwaukee people (namely Stinky and the two who don't reside in Milwaukee anymore),

Are we going to be doing anything for New Years?

I didn't know that Jeff Foxworthy was relevant enough to be able to license his likeness for a brand of beef jerky. Heck, I didn't even know that Jeff Foxworthy still existed. I had always figured that he had vanished at the turn of the century, along with America's Funniest Home Videos, those guys who did the Macarena, and the rest of the wreckage of 90's pop culture.

But no, he was right where we left him, at the local Safeway right by the beer.



Seriously, WTF?

Yeah, that eyeball thing on Grey's Anatomy was completely unnecessary.

Also, I received a postcard from Magic Marker Records letting me know that a new Tullycraft record is coming out in a couple of weeks. A hand-addressed postcard is quaint, but a surprisingly effective way to advertise to me. Now only if Crate and Barrel (apparently buying wedding gifts for people registering there means that I want to receive catalogs) and Victoria's Secret (apparently since they're addressed to Nancy Simpson or Current Resident, I'm stuck with them — god, the mailman is a dick) would get the memo.

Wow, I really don't have anything to write about, but since I haven't posted in, like, two months, I feel obligated to write something.

"Those guys were a pane in the glass."

Ugh. Worst. Pun. Ever.