What's up?
Que Pasa?
Well, it's 4:20 as far as I'm concerned. Lately I picked up the Half-life series, original Half-Life, as it plays on my laptop okay (if you count using the software engine, 640x480 okay) 15-20 fps is about what it averages. Can't use DirectX because the glass isn't see-thru. Looks better otherwise and plays nicer, but not sure what the fps is because fraps doesn't work under the DirectX option. Works fine is software mode though.
So I got Blue Shift, counter Strike, and Half-Life Game of the year Edition. All brand new, all were cheap. Working CD keys, so I can play online without being a sneak. =)
Just what's up with these steam stuff? Crazy, and the update from inside the half-life games is broken. the newest version seems to be later then the version half-life thinks it needs, so you can't download anything directly, you have to go to a web site. of course, I end up at fileplanet, and wait in the damn que like an idiot. on top of that blunder, I grab 8 other files, and they all want to download at the same time, and it says, sure, no problem, a few hours, tops. sike! even when I decided to close all but the shortest (15 megs) and the Counter Strike update, I only got half way through the CS because the 2 hours took longer then 4 hours and I had to go. Today I got a little smarter and used gamespot, since they start their downloads pretty much right away, and this time I'm grabbing the 20 meg 1.4 --> 1.5 update. I also have steam updateing in the background. it doesn't seem to be going superfast unless it's downloading a ton. probably reading all my data and sending it out to the spammers who are lining their pockets with Valve's money...

whatever that means, I'm not really sure myself.

anyways, the point I wanted to rant on today is:
Meta Mod and me

I metamod like a mofo. everyday I log in and I'm meta Mod'n. I do it like I'd do the jury duty if I was called to do it (thank god they don't) seriously. But, I mean, who mod's the Meta? man! sorry, I wasn't being serious their.

I read the FAQ.

I meta mod so much that I wasn't getting asked to mod normally even though it said that people that meta mod regulerly would mod more. but after reading the//slashdot.org/faq/">FAQ

now your saying, look, the clever bitch can finally put a tag inside an a href. about bloody time.

funny, I never noticed this before:

URLs http://example.com/ will auto-link a URL

thats it, I quit...



...until next time, of course. oh, the sun, the sun! aaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhh

(I live in seattle, and well, the sun just appeared from behind overcast weather, imagine the shock... this being summer and all. oh, good, its back behind clouds...

Another holiday, unfortunetly, means my storage space is closed (actually, yesterday and today), which sucks, because I need to get into there. I need clean clothes, need to do my laundry, need to take out the P4 3ghz machine I haven't even booted up! It really sucks to have a nice machine, and by the time I get to use it, it no longer top class (and I guess we could argue it isn't top class now, but until intel actually gets some higher clocked chips out, i'll consider my 3ghz (did I mention it's 800mhz FSB chip? no? sorry) to be up towards the bottom of the top of the list. After all, how many people actually own and Extreme Edition P4? that's what I thought.

Anyways, I just have to say this, this girly-women (she's petite) is so fine. She sitting doing some writing. I'm at Cafe Vite instead of Bauhaus because it's wireless connection is usually way faster. But I have to be at the West end of the cafe because I don't hook up well on the East side. Sort of sucks, but not really. Good view today. Figures, when i stink and need to take shower, she'll probably want to talk or something. Probably not though, not like I'm some stud or not. I'm a geek after all.

Okay, enough of that.

What's up with all the modderation I am doing? Now a meta mod? What's up with that? Not that i mind though, it's just that I don't really understand the meta mod crap. okay, some of the seem obvious a bad call, but a lot of them I agree with the mods. and what's the point of taking away their names, then leaving the link so you can just click to see who left the post anyways? genius. Please, I'm not really complaining, I'm just not sure I understand completely. If I didn't want to mod, I wouldn't. What I'm think about doing is running a site using the code, so at least I get to see how it runs. =)

And what's up with the anti slashdot people? There's even a web site for them! I don't understand what some peoples obsessions with being lame is about. What, did these people feel snubbed because a post was modded down? who the fuck cares? I don't. matter of fact, I don't even read my posts after I post them. Not even to see if someone replied to them. Well, I did do that once, but I thought I had first post, which I didn't.

crap and crapola...

Well, guess i've been a little lazy. See i've had to get one of my harddrives ready to sell to a friend and I had to decide which one I wanted to hold on to. I have grown very attached to the dell. It's screen is great, it's body is compact and sleek and solid. It had a battery that worked. It did 1024x768. But even though the hp screen is a dual scan 800x600, and it's in bad shape, the more ram and faster processor really won out. The keyboard has already started to die, I guess. The G, H, '/", backspace, and last, but not least, the esc key stopped working. I thought it had something to do with switching wireless cards around (i'm currently using this encore 22mbps thingy, tried to put in a linksys b/g pccard, but it didn't want to work with something, i'm forget what right now) because when I switched them back, the keys were working again. but the next time I booted, the keys weren't working, and I even booted a msdos 6.22 floppy, and they still didn't work. So i guess it's hardware, since I don't have a battery, so there's no juice keeping anything alive...

Luckly I have a Logitech keyboard that came with a contoller that fit around it for the playstation 2. it has a super long cord, like 4 or 5 feet, usb. it's actually smaller then the keyboad in the laptop. it fits over the touch pad (I use an external ps2 otipcal mouse) and the first row of keys (spacebar row) but doesn't press any of them down. so I guess I got a working keyboard, and I can still get into bios with the other, unless other keys flake out.

anyways, since the cops took my cell phone, and since I finally got my irs refund check, I went to Sprint and they said that all I had to pay for a deposit was $125. I said cool, bought a Samsung Vi660 phone, and get 2 months free internet on it. signed up for the developer stuff and i'm in heaven. Got something that needs better apps for, badly...

Gives me something to do since I don't have a job.

Well, it's almost 10pm, time to get a game in, warcraft3 I think (I can play it on my 650mhz celeron mobile chip, S3 Savage IX 4 meg some 3D AGP

slayer Decade of AGgression is what i've been listening to. not that you care, but you do need to know.

I'm so pissed off today, it's driving me crazy.

It started a few weeks ago. See, I'm currently jobless and homeless. I manage to get a little work fixing peoples computer, mostly word of mouth, but I do put fliers up around and get work from that. I have a prepaid cellur phone. Well, a few weeks ago, after I got done being paid for some work I did, I went strolling down broadway (I live in Seattle), to do some shopping. I was walking down the street when 2 of Seattle shittiest, I mean, fineist, police told me I was reportedly doing suspicious narcotic activities. Okay, i'm on methadone, and I smoke weed. I'm Urine Tested at least once a month, and needless to say, they are clean. And I know they weren't talking about me smoking weed somewhere, because when they emptied my pockets (which by the way, they just started to right away, didn't ask or anything) and found my weed pipe, and my small bowl of weed, they didn't say anything about that being the "narcotics" I was doing. So, I get the usual 3rd degree from these people, I tell them the truth because I have nothing to hide. They don't believe me. They are sure I'm there person because supposedly I was ID'd. I ended up having a warrent from Nov 2003, some court date that I didn't get in the mail (which was returned, when I went to court, they said it had got returned and then release me on PR). So I keep asking what this is about, since I was dong any "suspious narcotic activities" like they claim. They said it was my stupidy. really, that's why Seattle police department requires an IQ of 32.

an Office Curtis Gerry tells me that I can't smoke weed and me on methadone, that it's against they're rules and that he's going to get me kicked off. I told him which clinic I went to so he would be sure to get it right.

Anyways, in the car on the way to the East Precinct, one of the cops told me it was about arson. "That I was doing drugs behind someones house, they came out and yelled and chased me away, I got revenge by burning down his truck."
That they have the matched with my fingerprints on it. I just started laughing. They wanted to know what was so funny. first, I said, I don't ever use matches for anything, and second, you people are so stupid that it amazes me you can hold a job. I then asked what time this happened at, which he said 11:30. Since from 11:20 to 12:00 I was at a computer shop, chatting with the workers there (it's where I met the person I did work for at). So I told lame-ass, I mean, office Gerry to call.

So I'm in a waiting cell for about an hour, before they come to take me down to the jail. The officer Gerry said, I guess you were right, they don't care if you smoke weed at the methadone clinc. The loser tried to get me kicked off the program, can you believe that? Here is a guy who's suppose to protect the public, and he's trying to get someone who's getting their life together after having some bad times, trying to get me kicked off the one program that is doing me good.
But on top of that, they kept my cell phone, and decided to put it in evidence. It's either in under Narcotics investiagtion, or under investigation of stolen computer. I've been told both by different people at the police department.

I use that phone to take money, legally. And i'm really screwed because I have to get the officer to release it and i'm not sure what to do. What is my legal rights? Not to mention i'm poor and homeless who'd love to get a lawyer and sue, sue, sue, or at least just get my property back.

So i'm stuck trying to figure out what exactly to do. if anyone reads this, and defiently knows an answer, please comment back.

If anyone has a job for me, I'd love it.
I know my way around computers, hardware mainly, software very good.

later.

I keep hearing how firefox is so good, mozilla is so good. they got tabs, they got popup stoppers, they got the kitchen sink. Well, I just can't seem to like them. I found MyIE2, it has everything that is needed, plus it uses the ie rendering engine, so I rarely (but does happen) need to load pages up with IE, like I usually have to do with the others at times.

I'm updating Windows 2k, so much fun. that means I get to do a little blog'n, little NEWS reading, probably use my MOD powers (2 points left!)

Just waiting to play some more Diablo II, LOD 1.10 ya baby. this time, though, i'm instead of direct draw on the neomagic, it's Direct3D on S3 piece of crap ola, that is on a agp 2x bus. I guess the question really is, is it better then an Intel 810? 'cause that's a chipset i'm familiar with, unfortunetly.

Picked up a few 12mb 3DFX vodoo monster boards, and a bunch of Mpeg decoders (hopefully mpeg 2), and a few other boards. I love to get these old cards. I build old systems for a friends relatives (nieces and nephews in mexico), so I try to find these decent old cards. I want them to have the 3l33t systems...

It is very hot today in Seattle. It's been raining for most of last week, and now I guess it decided to act like it's summer (though officially I think thats still a week away). anyways, testing out this other laptop. it's faster cpu, more ram, but the screen is a Dual Scan, 800x600 max! It has a better vid chip, but then a way shitty screen. and I mean the screen is in a bad way, I guess. it's messed up at 16bit mode. don't know what's up with that, but it's better in 32bit mode. hopefully that won't be when it's in a directx mode, or I guess i won't be keeping this (I have a friend who needs a laptop, so...

Need to reboot.

Be seeing you...

man, I sure am loved. mod points again.

oh, and so I think I get first post. so what to post? so I sat there, stoned, stupid, and by the time I typed a lame post, i was 8th. At least someone thought it was insightful. Anyways, need to get back to what I'm doing, finaly getting a copy hopefully of something i've wanted, but need to let it download and probably got to take off. (i'm landlined into my friends router with my laptop)

you know, sometimes you just need to sit back and get stoned. I am doing what I do most days, and that is sit in a Cafe, with Free (an in doesn't cost any money to use, but you need to supply the tools to use it) WiFi Access. Been playing Half-Life. See, this laptop is a 400 mhz PII, sigh a NeoMagic 256 vidchip, 2.3 megs. Not very powerful in the games department, but good enough to browse on. See, I got 2 decent machines for gaming (well, only 1 decent vid card though, and it's getting on now, it's a Ati 9600 Pro w/128 megs mem. I also have a geforce FX 5600 (asus 9650) and Geforce FX 5200 (forget card type) both 128 megs ram. like I said, crap. at east compared to my ati it is.

Anyways, freelancers done installing, but I think it won't work on this anyone ways. so if anyone wants to donate a laptop to me, something better then what I have would be very nice.

thanks

Growing up I first noticed that I had a few dreams that repeated 2 or 3 times. I also noticed that I was aware in my dream that I had been in that same dream before. Around the time I was 12 I realised that I had some sort of control of my consious self while I was dreaming. if I was in a circumstance I didn't like, I could wake myself up. I also learned that I could control the reality a little, such as fly to get myself away from a gang of people (actual dream), but would usually wake up soon after. At first, I would notice real places I had been to in dreams, but as far as I know, never been there in reality. Then as the years pass I started to realise something. I have a couple types of dreams. My main dreams is what I'm discussing here. This type of dream was about Seattle area, but in the future, a different sort of Seattle. See, the weird part is, some of those dreams, well, the dreams aren't coming true, but the buildings, that landscape, is.

Whats it mean? that I have some cool dreams. At least, I think so.

I used to think that maybe it was another reality. That dreams were glimpse's into other "you". And maybe some of my dreams are, but I started to understand what I always felt Deja Vu alot. Because I had been there before, in my dreams!