Category: Geekery

  • “A new (in)famous game using VORBIS!!!”

    So I’m sitting at home last night poring through the email, and I see

    “Private Dancer” – the world’s first pole-dancing game for the PC…

    on the Ogg Vorbis mailing list.

    Naturally, I had to respond.

    *laughter* Um. Um. Where to start? Let’s see…

    “Well, it’s about damned time!”

    “Aren’t the terms ‘private’ and ‘pole-dancing’ sort of mutually exclusive?”

    “Boy, this will sure raise the credibility of Ogg Vorbis in the gaming
    community. Where porn leads, others are sure to follow.”

    “And the objective of the game would be… what, exactly?”

    “How long will we have to wait for a Mac or Linux port of THIS game?”

    “What’s their target audience? Lonely guys with cash to burn who can’t
    work up the nerve to visit their local strip bar?”

    “Soundtrack by Tina Turner! Or, not.”

    “Finally, a game that can fully utilize the scroll wheel on my Logitech
    mouse!”

    “Just what the world needs: Ogg-ified strip-club music.”

    “Giving the term ‘DirectX’ all new meaning.”

    “I can’t wait for this to be mindlessly copied by game publishers
    everywhere, just like they did with Doom.”

    “It may be out of character for me to take a stand against computer
    gaming, but on this one I have to say: GET A LIFE!”

    A dozen ought to do, yeah. For starters.


    And for my efforts, I received

    8-DDD

    You’re a treat, man.


    And that’s what it’s all about. The adoration of… well, one person out in the far distance. You betcha.

  • It’s good for your Windows PC.

    Spybot Search & Destroy is and does exactly what its name claims. It hunts down and kills all of that damned adware, spyware and other related malware that finds its way onto Windows desktops.

    And once you’re done being appalled at how much crap has taken over your computer, you might want to go find an alternative web browser since Internet Explorer seems to be a nearly-open conduit for intrusive and annoying garbage. (Yes, that can be prevented. We both know that in most cases the end-user is uninterested in taking the appropriate steps. We’re talking about the real world, here.)

    I used to rely on Ad-Aware, but when it’s almost half a year between reference file updates it’s hard to justify the bother of running it. (Yes, I know they just came out with a new version. Sorry guys, too late. And Spybot doesn’t want my money for a full-featured version.)

    And if you’re not sure what all of the fuss is about, I recommend a little light reading.

  • Two geeky tidbits for Thursday

    I left work at noon today so I could watch the kids while Wendi does important-type stuff like “job-related activities.” Her schedule is less flexible than mine.

    The titular tidbits (gee, that sounds naughty!):

    1) The T1 switchover happened, and I didn’t feel a thing. Yay, Qwest. I’m sorry I didn’t update this morning when it was over. Eep.

    2) I’m now using two of the tools found at Textism: The Referer Page tool and the Google Hilite tool. Now when visitors arrive here via Google they should see their search terms highlighted on the page. Nifty, wot?

    If I wasn’t so deeply attached to Monaural Jerk I might give Dean Allen’s Textpattern a spin when it comes out. There are some very, very interesting things (to me) in that system. Maybe I’ll use that the next time I decide to host another journal site…

  • Downtime Advisory, 23 Jan 2003

    It’s not as though hordes of websurfers visit this site at 7:30am Pacific time, but at about that time tomorrow morning Pacifier/Northwest Link/Europa/whoever will have US West… er, Qwest moving our T1 from the Vancouver office to the downtown Portland office. We may be “offline” for up to half an hour. We may be offline longer, actually, but everyone involved insists it should only take five minutes.

    By the way, this also means Entercom’s main website will be unavailable for exactly the same period of time. The good news? The line costs are supposed to go down once the move is complete, and we should be entirely routed through the “new” Pacifier networking structure. Hopefully that translates to “fewer outtages,” but you won’t catch me holding my breath.

    UPDATE: Yes, that means Mari and Wendi will be unavailable as well as Newsradio WORD. And webmail, for all three of us who get email on this machine.
    Pacifier

  • Thank God It’s Tuesday

    Today I’m getting things done. I completed the next-to-last of the PD Streaming machines. I did some administrivia and maintenance. I even have plans to do some more… things.

    Yesterday, not so much. It was one of those crazy, never a moment’s rest kind of days. Only small fires, but there were an awful lot of them.

    And that was just at work.

    The hard drive in what we call The Big Computer at home went click-of-death Sunday night, so I went home yesterday to face the task of completely rebuilding the box. No stress, it’s only the sole Internet access computer in the house. This time I went with Windows 2000 Pro instead of the venerable (and finicky) Windows 98 SE. In the process I discovered that the DVD-ROM drive and the (crappy Acer) CD-RW drive refuse to peacefully coexist. So we’ve gone from two hard drives and two CD drives in that computer to one of each. Bleah.

    Oh yeah, and half an hour into the process my back went out. It went out in a big, bad, hurtful way. It’s now 18 hours later and my shoulder’s still twinging. Ouch.

    So I’m glad it’s Tuesday and not Monday The Thirteenth anymore. The only good to come out of yesterday was dinner at Chang’s with Wendi. Yum.

    On a completely unrelated note, I’ve picked out my camera. It’s only a month away…

  • You found me HOW?

    Every so often I check my “referrers” page to see how people are finding me. I wasn’t prepared for this, though.

    A Google UK search for “latex kilt.”

    Those are two words that just don’t go together, you know?

    I don’t think I’ve ever talked about spanking or being spanked by a coworker. Nor am I aware of a “duck sex song.” Sorry, websearchers.

    And for the record, I don’t have any pics of Aeka or Ryoko naked. (Of course, saying that just guarantees that I’ll get more “aeka naked” and “ryoko naked” Google searches. Oh well.) I could get my hands on some “cartoon females with weapons,” though, if that’s what you’re into. Dirty Pair, anyone?