Journal Journal: Almost done...
... with Noir. It has been quite an awesome series. Maybe i should start on Cowboy Bepop next?
... with Noir. It has been quite an awesome series. Maybe i should start on Cowboy Bepop next?
A long while ago(before fall began, i recall), i said that it was very likely that my family would be moving into a new house. Now, thanks to our shitty realtor, I don't know if that's going to happen anytime soon. She has done a really terrible job of trying to get people to come to the house as of lately, but she's played the cards right so we can't dump her for another realtor legally. Score another one for the fuckehead brigade.
On another note: farewell devin, and best of luck to you.
The cable modem is back on-line. Apparently the cable guy said the pole one of the poles by our house got fucked. We suspect our neighbors in front of us damaged it while they were trying to setup their directtv dish. What fuckheads.
Well, that settles it. I am absolutely definitely getting a playstation sometime around christmas time. I just hope they drop the price just a little bit before then. I don't know what games to get for it. I'd like to get Metal Gear Solid 2, but it's going to be sold out by the time i get around to buying it. I'm definately going to get Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance though. I don't know what else to get. Here are the candidates:
Grand Theft Auto 3(like)
Devil May Cry(maybe)
Capcom vs. SNK 2
Twisted Metal Black
FIFA Soccer 2002
I want 1 or 2 of the games listed above(in addition to BGDA). What do you all recommend?
Another modem update. Apparently the node for our modem is busted as well. Well, now we gotta wait for the damn cable guy to come. No, TC on wednesday...
It's not often I find a song that describes my current state of life completely.
Oh yeah, i'll probably buy a PS2 for christmas...
Here's why.
well, my dad found out that the cable modem is busted. So, we ordered a new one over the weekened and it should arrive sometime tomorrow. Hopefully it'll arrive before the registration begins for TC tomorrow. Ugh, the timing on this mishap could probably not be worse. Dialup really blows.
... fucking cable modem. Apparently my dad thinks the modem got busted somehow. Hopefully that means the problem will be solved by simply turning in the old one for a new one. And hopefully that means it'll be done soon and not by next thursday. The timing really fucking blows though. I've already missed 2 TC comps because of it.
Paul: Hopefully I'll get some work done on the "project".
My cable modem is down.
Cox said they would send someone next thursday.
god dammit.
Yesterday at about 11:00am(or so my sister tells me), the cable modem went down. It's now 2:00pm today and the cable modem is still not back up as of this writing. GGRRRRR! Fuck you Cox. Fuck you and your shitty service that goes down without warning.
As such my web page is inaccessible for the moment, and I cannot access my computer from work, with the latter annoying me quite a bit right now.
I had a lot of fun playing around with SDL today(thanks to the awesome book i got). It is a very impressive API. It takes all the ease of DirectX(and adds some) and then adds the greatness of portability. It has built in support for all kinds of graphic file formats, even JPGs and PNGs!! The only problems that I have been having for it is that there is no native 2D primitive graphic routines(you'd think a library that can display PNGs with ease would at least be able to make a colored rectangle??) and native font displaying. I found some code to do primitive functions(thereby saving me the trouble of having to write it myself), and I'm still looking for a good code for displaying fonts. Other than that this API has been quite a joy to work with. It won't replace OpenGL completely, but it's much better for doing 2d-related graphics programming. It even integrates itself with OpenGL somewhat, which is very cool, especially since i'd like to do a mix of 2d and 3d stuff. I don't think I'm going to even boot into win2k for the next few days(see my previous entry to know why)
IE is very annoying. Even though i set my default web browser to be Opera, IE still rears its ugly head every once and a while. You know, when i set something to be my default browser, I kinda expect nothing else to show up ever when I hit a link or something. Right Now, both outlook and AIM all open up IE when I hit a link there. It's getting really fucking annoying. It's like an ex-girlfriend that keeps on hounding you and hounding you to get back together again. Fuck off, IE. We broke up a long time ago and I have no intention of going back.
The weekends need to be longer. I propose the addition of another day to the weekend to alleviate this problem. Any suggestions for a name? I really don't give a shit if god made the world in 7 fucking days, i want my extra day for the weekend. That way, ppl won't bitch about a 4-day work week, and I can have my 3 day weekend every weekend, instead of just holidays.
Uva was fun. Me an pierce got to hang with dan. I saw return of the jedi again. Yay for nostalgia. We also went to patricia's place to hang with her and for some more movie nostalgia. Geez, i really could have used that extra day.
I haven't seen any of my friends for a long time(only my plush Tux is around to keep me company), and it was good to see some of them in person again. The only good news is that it's only 2 weeks before thanksgiving break, which means people will be home for that week(though i think i'll be working for most of it), and after thanksgiving it's only 3 weeks or so before the semester ends and everyone's home for winter. Then the weekends will be somewhat intersting.
Anyways, as for linux news(which is why i chose that icon for today), I've been reading Programming Linux Games by the people at Loki Software. 'Tis a fine book, and hopefully I'll be able to play with some of the stuff they talk about(most notably SDL and OpenAL. Horray for books.
It was cold on the way walking to work this morning from the metro. It better stay cold. I'm so sick of this fucking alternating hot and cold weather. Stay cold! I want snow!
I got my ssh server working. I can now play around with my computer at home from work. Still a few kinks to work out though. First off, i need to find away for my apache and my own account to have write access for my fat partition and then i need to see if i can secretly install a ssh telnet client on the computer i'm working on(though my boss hinted that he might buy a machine for me to use!)
I installed a xine from home today. Groovy!
Where there's a will, there's a relative.