Another random stuff update

Yeah, I haven’t updated much recently. Again.

Saturday, we had a bunch of people over for shabu-shabu. Sunday, I went to Anime Destiny, the CAA-run one-day anime con, where I helped with karaoke, of course. (As a side note, this was the first con where we were entirely self-sufficent and used no rented equipment… although it was far from the ideal setup, it worked.) Last night, I unlocked my preloaded copy of Half-Life 2 and played it for a bit. It’s very pretty, but I need to tweak the graphics settings — it was stuttering a bit on the graphics-intensive areas. Tonight, I’m going to try and pick up Metroid Prime: Echoes… I’m going to be busy busy with those two for a while.

Parking here at work all of a sudden passed the saturation point again. They’ve been hiring so many people so quickly, then they just started a construction project putting security gates into the other parking lot. The construction office was set up over the weekend, and it’s taking up a good 10-15 spots, plus the spots that are lost because they’re roped off due to the construction — the lot is filling to capacity again, which prompted a nice long ranting thread on the non-serious tech email list.

Also, there’s a picture of me on the PlayOnline main page. (I’m right in the middle of the left shot of the Masquerade event… there’s a larger version of the picture in the slideshow inside the article.)

Okay, back to work.

[Inflammatory Subject Line]

[Mandatory gripe about presidential election]

[Enraged rhetoric about gay marriage banning]

[Pithy quote relevant to current liberal feelings]

[Depressed acknowlegment of 51% of the American people’s mental state]

[Profuse apology for overstepping bounds]

It will all be over soon… maybe.

I voted. Hooray. Now maybe we’ll have a decision in the normal span of time instead of like last time.

Also, it was him. He was at the table next to ours in the cafeteria today, and I overheard “you’re that guy with the website, aren’t you?”

Why I never shut down my Linux machine

We had a power outage today, which was very disorienting. It also trapped me in the house, as I was working from home, and could neither work, nor go to work (power garage door opener). So I read a book.

The power came back on in about two hours, and of course, the Linux machine came right up and didn’t work right. It took me a while to realize that it was missing the default route for some reason, and made note of the exact command I used to fix it, so I don’t have to think about it next time.

I just lost a two-year uptime, as well as a one-year idle IRC session. Stupid PG&E.

Okay, so that out of the way, what have I missed? WDW photos to come. Go Sox. That’s about it.

Kidnapped!

Went to Kennedy Space Center. Got kidnapped by Peti and Sharilyn to Canaveral national beach to get a passport stamp of some kind, but we couldn’t find the visitors center. So, we’re on our way back from the Atlantic coast, late and going to miss dinner.

Waiting for fantasmic

My feet don’t hurt as much today as they did yesterday. The crowd here just started doing the wave. Heard a parent say to a crying kid “you must be the only kid crying at Disney World.”