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TLAs

I’ve got a little thing I do to keep my mind occupied when I’m driving: I look at the license plates of the cars as they drive by and look for recognizable three letter acronyms. (For those of you non-California folks, CA, license plates are typically of the form 1ABC234, for non-trucks, at least.) I had a weird thought the other day, that there are a bunch of TLAs from FFXI, specifically: STR, DEX, VIT, AGI, INT, MND, CHR, WAR, THF, BLM, WHM, RDM, MNK, BST, SMN, BRD, RNG, NIN, SAM, DRK, PLD1. I wondered how long it would take for me to find a license plate that had one of these in them. Mathematically, each plate has a 21/17576 chance (about .11% or 1 in 837) of being one of these, so it shouldn’t take long.

I saw a “RDM” plate in the Yahoo! parking lot yesterday morning.

For those of you who are interested, my own license is “RTV”, which I couldn’t think of a good acronym for when I first got it. Then, a few years ago, popular culture created one for me.

Yes, my car is now “Reality Television”

1 In order: strength, dexterity, vitality, agility, intelligence, mind, charisma, warrior, thief, black mage, white mage, red mage, monk, beast master, summoner, bard, ranger, ninja, samurai, dark knight, and paladin.

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I am not Dom

Yesterday, not once, but twice I was mistaken for Dom in FFXI. I got the typical fanboyish messages from random dudes who thought that my stick figure drawings were really cool and all. I can’t imagine what it must be like for him.

Yes, it’s true, yesterday I got a taste of being Dom.

That’s odd, it tasted like garlic…

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Bored bored bored

I’ve been putting off this process at work for too long, but now something happened that made me have to do it… the process of migrating from an NFS-mounted /usr/local to an actually local /usr/local. It’s an automated process… I just didn’t know it would take over two hours… and it’s still going. So while it was going, I decided I’d pull out my laptop and the “karaoke machine” a.k.a. my FireWire hard drive…

…which is now refusing to be recognized by any of the computers I plug it in to. WTF!? It just decided randomly to stop working. I have to wait until I get home, then I can try the USB port… and if that doesn’t work, I might have to try directly installing it into my laptop to see if it was the hard drive or the enclosure. At this point, I don’t know which I’d rather it be… the enclosure, I guess, then I won’t have to reinstall all the stuff onto the hard drive.

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Another day…

*gets a bit bored at work*

*browses friends of friends page*

*refrains from commenting on spelling and grammar errors in random people’s journals… barely*

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By default… an entry

Because it’s been a week since an entry, and almost….. *scans down my recent entries page* ….. errr, okay, it’s been a while since any “real” content, hasn’t it?

Well, I’ve been playing a lot of Final Fantasy XI. I finally got in to the Shirt Ninjas linkshell, after being on the waiting list forever and getting “nepotized” in by meeting Greg Dean at Reccacon last weekend. (I have a feeling I would have gotten in soon anyway, as they were finally getting around to processing the waitlist.1) Speaking of Reccacon, I helped out with Karaoke as well, and recently finalized that I would be on karaoke staff for Fanime and Anime Expo as well. I’ve been working on re-doing the karaoke computer setup to work on a mac, which was mostly easy, as it was for Linux before, with PHP and MySQL and all sorts of fun things that port right over to OS X, the only hard part is changing the weird XMMS/pipe infrastructure that plays the songs into an iTunes/AppleScript architecture, which I’ve got mostly solved. It also lets us make the “karaoke computer” be an external firewire drive that can been booted off of, making any recent Apple computer into the server.

So… hmmm… what else….

Meh, I’m drawing a blank, here.

1There’s a waiting list because you can only have a certain number of people online with any given linkshell equipped at once, and they were hitting that limit. As people stop playing as much, they can slowly add more people.

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Mmmmm enchiladas!

I have now had enchiladas in one form or another for the last five meals.

I’m also very sleepy at work now, but I think that’s completely unrelated to the enchiladas.