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Saturday, July 26, 2003
Its not so bad
Just got back from another great 15 hour day at the best amusement park ever. Actually, the rant before was just a combination of everything I hate about working there. Everyone has things they like and things they hate at a job. It's natural. When it's time to quit is when the bad things outweigh the good. Today I had to turn in my back-to-school form which changes me to a weekend only schedule starting August 25th. That's not so far away now. I've got so much to do.. Today I also cleaned up my first "biospill". Heh. Puke on the Serial Thriller. It wasn't too bad. I've seen some nasty ones. I always put way too much work into cleaning at night, but I think I'm getting noticed. I don't know why I do it, really. All my coworkers get really mad. I make them look bad. Well, I think I found my reason.So anyways, I heard swiftwulf was having a minilan, so I got a Open-4:30 schedule, but now he's not so I'm mad. I will either work open to close or if I can gather enough support, have a small one here or something. It depends. I will attempt to contact you all later tomorrow if I do the latter.
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Because no one else posted it
-JelOh
Thursday, August 07, 2003
Do I need a title?
Tim, my brother got his drivers license yesterday, so we celebrated it with a game of car tag. He had gone to pick up schultz and Yash and I had to hunt him down and catch him before he got back home. This wasn’t so hard for me, as I am a car ninja (see panel 1 of this mac hall comic). After picking up bob as well, we came back to my place and tested out some processor for schultz with an intensive match between Bob and Yash, with a victory by bob using pretty good technique. OMG! Bob not noob! Then out to dinner again, I think that was my third dinner that day, and also the second one at taco bell. I also got some work done on merkur.sytes.net/ipod but its still not ready yet. Oh, jo was planning on a minilan at his place on friday. Haven’t had a minilan there in a long time, so i hope he’s still up to it. I’ll leave you with one peice of advice: Healthy Choice Ice Cream sandwiches are nasty as fuck.
Friday, August 08, 2003
LanOhio Breakfast
Eclipse is drinking bawls at LanOhio LAN
Eclipse: Good morning, n00bie
Blackrazor: Good morning to you, n000000bieeee!
Eclipse: Your server went down, n00bie!
Mother fucking Toshiba Laptop is one crazy n00bie, n00bie!
Blackrazor: Damn! This Laptop is one unpredictable n00bie, N00bie!
Hey Ghetto! Whatcha doin' n00bie?
Ghetto: Your favorite, n00bie, BS and spam!
Eclipse and Blackrazor high-five
Blackrazor: Bitch! You ma numma one n00bie!
Ghetto: OH! Hold on my n00bies! Whats missing here?
Eclipse and Blackrazor: OH!
Eclipse: are we some dumbass n00bies or what?
Ghetto starts playing some ghetto rap music loud over speakers
Nebbish barges in
Nebbish: Hey! What are you doing?
Ghetto turns off music
Nebbish: Whats up, n00bies!
Everyone laughs
Blackrazor: Yo, nebbish, whats with all that crazy gear, n00bie?
Nebbish: Oh, I come here for rest of day. Anybody call for me, you tell them, this n00bie gone LANNin.
Nebbish turns around, on back of shirt is "n00bie gone LANNin"
Everyone laughs
<Exit Nebbish>
Airmack enters on phone
Airmack: Oh, really? Did you see the new Brad Pitt movie? He's so cute, gotta go.
Everyone stares at him
Airmack: What?
Eclipse: What? What? I tell you what. Your posts were taken down, n00bie.
Airmack: Its not so bad.
Eclipse: Not so bad? You posted everything but interesting stuff.
Blackrazor laughs
Airmack: So what? I can post whore anyways.
Eclipse: You can post whore? If n00bie post whores, n00bie no practice gaming. If n00bie no pracice gaming, n00bie no beat darkseed. If n00bie no beat darkseed, n00bie only wins second in tourney and gets no prize, n00bie!
<Airmack starts to cry>
Eclipse sighs and looks around
Eclipse: There, there, my little n00bie, its ok. It's ok
Airmack: I'm sorry, n00bie
Ghetto turns music back on
Everyone dances to it
Big ed: Yo! Did someone order a case of bawls?
Everyone: We did! N00bie!
Monday, August 18, 2003
And so it begins
Now at the dorms again. This year its so much better. The room is a lot better, I can park on campus, Resnet is promising to be a lot of fun. I actually moved in yesterday, but as you all know, my website updates are spurratic, at best. I am done with my weekly schedules at Six Flags, but I will go back on the 30th and start working weekends there until they close or I get too pissed at them. I don’t have too much to report, I think. Oh, I am going to get a 17” LCD monitor soon. That will be fun. I’ll put up pictures of the room after it’s finished, maybe. Thought I had more to say this time, but oh well. It’s a free website.
Friday, August 29, 2003
Best Buy is noob!
Returned my old LCD today to Best Buy. It had a bright green dead pixel in the lower left section of the screen. Most LCD manufactorers don't accept returns unless it has 3 or more dead pixels, but Best Buy will...Good thing too, because the green was really annoying.
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Wearing out..
I didn't go to my physics class this morning. I tried to sleep in, which I haven't done in months. Missing the class today meant I missed turning in a large homework assignment, which I didn't even do. I couldn't sleep in though, because I woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep. I just laid in bed until it was too hot to stay. I might be too stressed out now. I'll admit it now. I've worked between 40 to 50 hours a week, even during school. I feel so tired all the time, but I can't go to sleep. I'm just in lingo and it's killing me inside, I can feel it now. I hate my classes. Every last one. Physics is every single day at 9:45 in the morning. When I'm in the class I understand everything, but when I try to do work on my own I get confused. Well, it's more like I don't know how to start. I try to make the problem more complicated than it is. Technical Writing is just a bullshit class. It tries to teach us how to write about technical aspects of things. I have to write papers about paper clips. It's all so very interesting. Macroeconomics is just boring. I have absolutely no interest in money. Sure, I enjoy making money and buying stuff, but I don't like money itself. Money corrupts people. It corrupted my family. That's all I will say on that. So I try to stay away from it as much as possible. I'd keep my money in a giant mattress if I could, but that's not the way the world works anymore. I don't work to make money, I don't even know why I work so hard anymore. Aviation Weather wouldn't be a bad class, but it's late at night, and everyone there seems so more advanced than me. My mom knows the directors of the program very well, so I've got a reputation to hold up, and it's destroying me. It wouldn't take me very long to get my license, but I hate that Commercail Aviation Company so much..they make me soo mad.Working at Six Flags is getting old, and it's hard to do with school. Vinnie and Chris have now gone back to school, so it's going to be either me or Mike Shteyngarts in charge of the Thriller area. I honestly don't know who they will pick, but if it isn't me I'm going to turn in my two weeks immediately.
Working at Resnet is fun, like always. I think I am much better at it this year, I think I am better at talking to the users. I was too shy last year, intimidated maybe. They all seemed to know everything and I was sometimes too shy to ask for help. This year I've tried to be nice to all the new hires so they won't feel that way. I hope I'm not being overbearing, but that so rarely happens. We've had a very busy opening year. Completely different than last year, but maybe equally as busy. Whereas last year was filled with resnet software problems, this year all the problems seem to be viruses. I like the way Kent has dealt with them more than Akron. KSU actually calls the users when we disable their ports, and we try to help them over the phone. Akron just disables them and waits for the users to bitch about it. Our way is much longer and harder on us, but it is better for them, I think.
The only other free time I have is taken up by the KSU Anime club on Friday nights. We haven't done hardly any advertising and we are getting 60+ people each night. Samantha and Eric are doing a lot of work towards the club, and as secretary, I want to help them. I've been trying to subtlely tell them, but they haven't asked yet. I love going out to eat with everyone afterwards, a tradition started by Yash and me. It's become a regular part of the club, so I feel I have contributed. Everything will turn out ok.
I apologize for typos as it is very late, and I promise to update some more, as Jo has recently been posting way more than I have :D
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Halo Hell no
So the thing going around campus right now is the Halo beta from Microsoft. After playing this..game, I can say that I know why it is a good console game, but for PC it is the suck. My roommate and I were playing with some other people on campus and getting a lot of lag. Now I know it's still a beta, but netcode is a pretty big deal in a game which features it's multiplayer a lot. Netcode should be basically done in alpha stages, at least so it's smooth over LAN. We got our asses handed to us, but it was halo, so I don't feel ashamed. Plus, they had some dumb clan name in front of their names, so I am willing to bet they have played a lot of halo on xboxy. The movement in halo seems very consolish, still. Jumping is like you're on the moon or something. I bet it's part of the plot of halo (which I am unsure of) but the reason for it is so you can control your jump better on the gamepad. This feature just ends up slowing you down in PC, because you can point yourself easier. The weapons in the beta are also not up to par with PC games because they are still the exact same games in the console game. On PC it is just too simple to kill people because you can aim easier with a PC (Once you are used to the lag). On of the guns even shoots stuff that follows you, and then you die. And the rocket launcher is too overpowered, etc... People who know Halo in and out will own the multiplayer because they will find these guns and camp them. There is a lot of the classic "I shot him like fifty fucking times!", reminding me of the days of CS. The style of gameplay is different enough from other PC games to make it marketable, but I just don't find it appealing. Sorry to those Halo nuts, I'm still not going to play it with you. Maybe the final release will fix some things, but I can say right now that I will never pay money for this game. All in all, I think I will keep waiting for Half - Life 2.Halo Beta's Grade = C-
Thursday, September 18, 2003
Avoiding the subject
Well I'm trying to put off working as long as possible, so I'm playing with the website again. All my fans must have noticed my long neglect of this site. I want to play with it more, but I am still pretty busy. This Saturday determines a lot of what is going to happen for the next few weeks, so I'll know around then. I want to find a good way to do anime reviews and integrate them with the current anime page without the anime page becoming too complicated. You'll see...I installed a lot of my old games and some new ones, now that I have hdd space. I think this is all I have installed at the moment:
Quake III Arena
Unreal Tourney 2003
Flight Simulator 2004
Combat Flight Simulator 3
Crimson Skies
Battlefield 1942
Jedi Outcast
Jedi Academy Demo
Jedi Academy Beta
Halo Beta
Half - Life
Oni
Ghost Recon
MechWarrior 3
Wolfenstein:ET
Need For Speed: Porsche 2000
GTA 3
awww yeah!
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Status Update
Lately, it seems that I have been going through a creative-withdrawl. I cannot find the strength to sit down and write entries on my site. I've said it before, but I will say it again.. I'm worn out. I haven't had a day off in months. Luckily, JeloH is being held on the 18th of October. I am going to take that whole weekend off as a time to finally kick back and enjoy some quality stress-free time at the LAN. I also want to take the 19th off, and have some sort of minilan maybe. I demand comments about who's interested. Maybe another idea? Don't make me bored. Hmm...what else? Let's move onto current events:School: Getting good grades on tests, but I just don't have the willpower to do homework these days. I skipped 2 out of 3 classes today because I didn't have any homework done. It just piles up and I have to do it later, but for a few hours I am free again.
Fun: Hmm...Maybe I am getting a 12" Apple Powerbook soon, can't decide. On the one hand, they are hella cool, but I don't want to use Mac OS X really. I want to be able to use Direct X. And it's really expensive. I am completely torn apart on this idea.
Anime Society: Working with Office of Campus Life and Buisiness Administration to get us a new room to hold the meetings in. They demand to charge us $100 for the use of the projector. Yeah, right. Like we're going to break it or something. I don't think they realize that we have been using the Math Building's projector for years, and I work at Resnet, so we might be able to figure it out.
Website: Added the merkur.sytes.net header to the Archive and Comments pages. Also redid the search page form in merkur.sytes.net theme. Yeah, you like my dynamic website, don't you? That's what I thought. Anyways, these updates, small as they are, really bring the website together. One day I might even update the Feature pages. Maybe next semester.
Anime LAN: Wtf, no I'm not trying to run another LAN again. Too much stress, not enough time.
Other: I've started to watch Fruits Basket again, this will be my sixth time watching it start to finish. This is seriously the best show I've ever seen. Not without faults, of course, but it's not like anyone could have a good reason not to watch it. It's a real good mix between hilarious comedy and downright scary depressing drama. I'm going to buy the DVDs some soon, after i figure out the laptop thing. Then you'll see. You'll all see.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
HA! Owned
I knew it! Harbourt was my dorm hall last year and it sucked royally. Allyn Hall is infinately better.
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Trouble Ahead
Just got the inside word that Trancender’s web drive has a possibility of failing. The Hard Drive is due for replacement, but there will be downtime, and a small possiblity of the site becoming broken. Any accident should be recoverable, but this is a warning. The database is stored on a different drive, so in a worst case scenerio I should still be able to rebuild it. We have the technology. This warning is also valid for all the other users on the server.
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
The thousand dollar day
Sunday, October 12, 2003
56k Warning
Went to the animation show on Friday with Jo, Yash, Tim, and Will.Got to play with Will's powerbook. Oh hell yeah I'm getting one.
More details when I'm not late for work...
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Source picture released soon. Still some cleaning and resizing for final version
Monday, October 13, 2003
ITS LIKE I CAN ACTUALLY TOUCH YOU!!
Just got back from a long 3 days.Friday-
Spent most of Friday filling out a scholarship application. It is from Stow-Kiwanis-something and it awards $1000 to an aviation major who graduated from Stow High School and does community service. Thank you Service Learning! You finally come in handy! This should help with that damn medical fee and my flight insurance, should I get it. I think I am the only one who applied for it. This took me most of the day, and had me running back and forth across the entire campus like 5 times. Good thing 6 flags has put me in pretty good shape. I decided to go to the animation show with Jo, Yash, Will, and Tim after this, blowing off the anime club. I decided that it had been a long time since I had done something with them, so I would have fun there. Arriving at Jo's place was, let's say, less than welcoming. He completely ignored us for at least a half an hour. I know he was having a hard time with his dad on the phone, but he didn't even look at us, and we were right behind him the whole time. I was halfway on my way out the door to go back to kent as he hung up the phone. Oh well, time cures everything and we went out to the animation show (presented by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt) at Case Western. Will brought his 12" Powerbook (the saem one I am looking at buying). Granted, it can't do directx, but it is one hell of a cool laptop. And it's virtually the only 12" laptop that has a built in dvdrom. So expect me to buy one later. The animation show was awesome, with fucking awesome and new Don Hertzfeldt movies. (You have to see them to understand the title of this post) And I'm making a wallpaper out of the flyer for the show. (See yesterdays post)
Damn! out of time, will update this post later
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Blah
Computer decided my D Drive, which housed all my music, backup files, and documents was bad, and corrupted the partition while it formatted the other drive. Great, Just great. No more files for me. All the anime should be ok. Computer also decided Ti4200's are bad, as it just corrupts the desktop and makes the screen cut out a lot when the drivers are installed. Oh, and Microsoft says I have activated Windows too many times...So I bought a mac:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3435906290
Saturday, October 18, 2003
Care to explain?
Eclipse: not at work?Someone: SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
Eclipse: whoa
Someone: so...
Someone: what's up?
Eclipse: um
Eclipse: whoa
Eclipse: ET is very fun
Someone: should I take this conversation as being over already?
Eclipse: wolfenstein, not the alien
Someone: I'll take that as a yes
Someone: minimize
Eclipse: wooooooooooooooooow
Sunday, October 19, 2003
localhost saves the day
i am bobomega: so aparentlyi coulda renamed that base folder the pmachine2.3 to somthing else?Eclipse278: yeah
i am bobomega: grr
Eclipse278: like http://darkmercury.net/gaming
i am bobomega: hmmm
i am bobomega: but your main page comes up with all the hell
Eclipse278: yeah, thats cause i was inexpirienced at the time
Eclipse278: i'll fix it eventually
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Eclipse278: fixed yet?
i am bobomega:nope
i am bobomega: even made a new database and a new user
i am bobomega: something is amiss
Eclipse278: try setting the host name to 127.0.0.1
i am bobomega: it would be nice if vnc would refresh as i did things
Eclipse278: oh, and you will have to change $redirect_method to 1
i am bobomega: ?
Eclipse278: if its a windows server
Eclipse278: its one of the variables near the bottom
i am bobomega: oh
Eclipse278: of config.php
i am bobomega: OMG
i am bobomega: 127.0.0.1
Eclipse278: worked?
i am bobomega: did it
Eclipse278: heh
i am bobomega: plus that other thing
i am bobomega: woot
Eclipse278: glad to help
i am bobomega: OH no its ohn fire!Q!!!!
Eclipse278: !!!!
Eclipse278: ?
i am bobomega: heh
Eclipse278: heh