Saturday, August 13, 2005

o_0 No way...
This thing wins every time, I swear.
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Friday, August 12, 2005

"Holy-crap-adorable!"
Me and a guy from my old school.

Ramsaur2 (11:00:02 PM): do you member that walter makes movies?


Jcook120 (11:00:11 PM): Yeah.
Ramsaur2 (11:00:38 PM): ok well now i do to, but ... i'm better than him now lol
Jcook120 (11:00:51 PM): Cool.
Jcook120 (11:00:55 PM): Does he agree?
Ramsaur2 (11:01:00 PM): no
Jcook120 (11:01:20 PM): Then what makes you certain that you're better?
Ramsaur2 (11:02:12 PM): the stuff i have that he does not have and he has not made a movie in like a long time i just an hr ago made one
Jcook120 (11:02:42 PM): So you've got more equipment and make movies more frequently?
Ramsaur2 (11:03:05 PM): yes , you want to know what i have and what he has?
Jcook120 (11:03:11 PM): What?
Ramsaur2 (11:04:39 PM): he has the iMac as usual on the mac he has iMovie (one the best programs for movie making) an old sony camera, and a canon ZR70 camcorder
Ramsaur2 (11:04:47 PM): but i have way more
Ramsaur2 (11:05:21 PM): like i have...
Ramsaur2 (11:07:17 PM): a PC with over $1,000.00 programs such as adobe after effects 6.5 and pro, adobe premier pro, adobe photoshop 7.0, and image ready 7.0 and i recently got a mac so i have that with iMovie and then a canon ZR100 4 times better than the 70
Jcook120 (11:07:50 PM): So because you've got more stuff means you're a better filmmaker?
Ramsaur2 (11:09:18 PM): ok well you could say better editer but it is right now kinda hard to decide cuz he is writing a movie and so am i
Ramsaur2 (11:09:24 PM): you got me lol
Jcook120 (11:10:36 PM): You still can't say you're a better editor, because you'd have to see what he could do with those programs if he had them.
Jcook120 (11:10:51 PM): You've got to level the playing field if you want to prove you're better.
Ramsaur2 (11:11:30 PM): well i have made a real star wars movie with visual effects, so i made real lightsabers move it's only a min long but took me 3 days lol
Jcook120 (11:12:17 PM): Yeah, but what if he had the same budget as you?
Jcook120 (11:12:23 PM): Perhaps he would do better.
“Ramsaur2” signed off at 11:13:38 PM.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

So I'm thinking about signing up for this Legionnaires thing, right?
And the last thing I want is for my character to end up like any of the other ones that've been posted, or that are usually posted in RPG's (especially since this one is being so loose with it's standards). I decided pretty quickly that I wanted my character to be relatively humorous, since trying to make him dark or edgy is both sorely overdone and very hard to do well.

But when I got started writing a signup, I was still completely blank on good ideas. I guess this is because creating a nonsensical character just to contrast all the stereotypical ones is a bit cliche in and of itself.

So I think what I'll do is to have a relatively normal character, but in relatively humorous circumstances. Specifically, he'll have done something which both resulted in his superpower(s) and somehow pissed off the Greek gods. So now, his life is constant agony because the gods have taken to hindering him and aggravating him at every chance. So for a normal, non-superhero example, he might be walking down the sidewalk, and as a car comes by, Poseidon would adjust a puddle of water in the street so that it would splash him right in the groin.

Of course, I can't make my posts just a big series of jokes, because it is a relatively serious RPG (and that'd get old quickly, anyway). So when things get tough, I'm thinking the gods may take a little pity and relent for a while. Perhaps they'll even give him a little assistance, who knows? I'll just have to keep things balanced.

Anyway, assuming I don't change my mind on that idea (I'm just sort of jotting it down for now) or decide not to sign up at all, I'll still have to think of a superpower.
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Monday, August 8, 2005

*Destroys vBulletin*
*Then destroys it again and again and again*



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Sunday, August 7, 2005

So I'm looking at buying a guitar, right?
And just because I can, I was searching eBay for one (an acoustic lefty, to be precise). Here's a screenshot of some results I got:

Really, I didn't even pay heed to those Johnsons until I saw the "free ship" notice. So I'm probably leaning towards that, depending on what kind of ship they mean. If it's an aircraft carrier or a spaceship, I'm in.

*rimshot*
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Thursday, August 4, 2005

Just got hooked up to the university's wireless network, so I finally have a consistent way to get my own computer online.

I also saw some screenshots of Windows Vista beta 1. Personally, I think it looks too pretty and glossy. I can only take so much of that at a time, y'know?

Other than that, it's nice enough. The pictures don't really reveal enough information, and I don't want to be bothered looking it up myself.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Comments on comments
Alan: Retract thy claws, lol. I guess it didn't come across as such, but I was trying to handle the post as jokingly as possible. I don't really even have too much of a problem with the computer.

But I still think I was right about the processor. I'm finding already that I have some problems running multiple programs, and often running just one at a time. I wouldn't care, but when you've got that much ram there's no reason to have a processor that small. (And I don't have any PC games from even the past ten years, most likely. Not by my will, of course, but nevertheless.)

And my point with the mouse wasn't that they didn't have it, but that they weren't willing to admit that even one thing Windows did was better than them. However, I was on apple.com and on the front page they're apparently advertising a two-button mouse that they just made. So yeah, I was wrong about that. Sorry.

I didn't complain about any of the programs except some problems with the web browsers, and I even said that that could be attributed to a number of things. And the only reason I would even go near IE is because some websites don't show up in Firefox.

Sorry if I laid the sarcasm on a bit thick, lol. Didn't mean to. (and I've been trying to add you to my AIM buddy list so I could ask you some things about OSX, but it's been messing up. Could you add me and catch me when I'm on?)

Sara: At least I don't name my computer's colors after fruits. >=D

Rusty: I tried there yesterday. Couldn't find much of anything.

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EDIT: I'm going to try to get to the computer center at the university soon, so I can get my iBook configured to the wireless network here. I'm not sure if they'll let me, though, since I'm not a student.

Also, the small thrill of my 100th guestbook signature was pretty much ruined when I actually read it, lol. Maybe I should create some kind of spelling and grammar filter for it.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2005

The darkest day in my history with computers
Yes, indeed. I enrolled today and got my iBook G4.

The hardware:
30GB storage. 512MB ram with a laughable 1.07Ghz processor, so it's basically like a military-trained guard dog on a 2-foot chain.

Delightfully large mouse trackpad, with an unnecessarily and awkwardly large mouse button. (ONE BUTTON, in case you forgot.) Full-size keyboard.

The CD player is like what you would find in a car, where you just slide it in. Pretty cool, but whenever I insert or eject a CD, it makes a horrible crunching noise. I think one day it will succumb to temptation and devour one of my CD's as soon as I put it in, and when I eject it out will pop a filth-covered copy of U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb".

The OS:
I've never really made any serious stabs at OSX before, because I hadn't ever used it and I'd rather keep my hatred of Macintosh completely justified.

Those days, however, are over. I'm using 10.3 (the latest version, I'm told), and I haven't seen more back-to-back violations of common sense since... actually, I don't think anything tops OSX. The entire system is apparently based around trying to get as close to the functionality of Windows (i.e., not quite unbearable) as possible, while screwing it up enough that it's not noticeable.

My favorite (and most overused) example of this is the mouse button. They know that having two buttons is far superior, but they don't want to bow down and admit that they were wrong on even one issue. So they incorporate an alternate click, but you have to hold Ctrl+click to access it. Tried to do what Windows does, but made it suck enough that it's obscure.

The Software:
The only programs of much note that it came with were Microsoft Office: Mac Edition (once again...), Firefox, IE and iLife, which is the name that the balding, 40-year-old marketing executives at Macintosh came up with to describe iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, etc.

iTunes is actually a pretty decent program, from what I can tell so far. Nothing special, but decent.

GarageBand is also surprisingly good, once you get into it. It's a basic music creation tool that actually reveals its self to be fairly customisable. I'll probably be using it a good bit.

Firefox and IE seem to screw up a bit (in fact, IE won't even pull up), but that could be because of a number of things. I can't even log into myOtaku on there yet. Besides that, they're still made all the worse for being on a Mac.

And of course, I can't download hardly any other programs because nothing on the internet is Mac-compatible.

But hey, I'll still have my home computer as soon as it gets fixed. And speaking of, the guy who's fixing it says he's going to go ahead and upgrade it for us. Yay!
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come?
The weather over here is nuts. It was 103 degrees yesterday, and today it's about 70. It's all these stupid-ass plains that won't block any weather coming through.

So many people who come to Kansas just go nuts over all these plains, but I honestly can't stand them. I couldn't tell you quite why, but I think it has something to do with the fact that wherever I look I see miles upon miles of Kansas, inescapable by any means I have access to.

In other news, we're still trying to sell our house and buy one here (we'll probably just rent for a year). As it turns out, Fort Hays' (the university) food service program is in about twice as bad of financial condition as my dad's boss said it was. But that's ok, because as it happens, he (the boss) got his ass fired recently for unrelated reasons, and frankly, you can't get much worse than we were in Ottawa. XP

We also found out that we wouldn't have to move ourselves, because the company was going to hire movers for us. The. Biggest. Relief. Of the century. (We've got a lot of stuff, lol.)

Also, I'm on a small Soundgarden/311 spurt right now. *Can't believe how ripped off he got for not getting to grow up in the 90's*
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Spread the word around.
Yesterday I meant to mention that I went to a Blindside concert again last Sunday, but I obviously got a little sidetracked. ^_^;;

The show was awesome. They played some of the stuff from their new CD, and it's going to knock the pants off everything else they've done so far. I also picked up the new remastered version of their second album, A Thought Crushed My Mind.

But more importantly is the fact that this was my first time in a mosh pit (especially voluntarily). Man, it felt good to just let go of everything in there and feel the music, no matter how sore my neck was by the end of the night. XP

It could've been better, though. In fact, the pit turned out really weird. There weren't too many people on the outer half of it, but they were really going crazy. On the inner half, though, nobody seemed to have any desire to do much but stand there. Guess the ninnys didn't want to give up their spots by the stage or something. So what with the outside pushing in every direction, therefore including inwards, and the inside not pushing back, they all got more and more packed in like sardines, lol.

While I'm talking about music, I'll go ahead and mention that I am seriously amazed at how much I love the song "The Boys Are Back In Town". I mean, I loooves that song. I will have that and "Starman" (Bowie) played at my funeral.

And finally, cell phones are not lighters, you dipshits. If you can't take the time to stop by a gas station and spend a dollar on your way to a concert, then stay home.
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