After screwing this guy over by declining to be manager on Monday and leaving me with a gigantic ball of server/conectivity problems and a phone queue as high as Methodman. It looks like the karma police have just slapped Myc with a mail servers down issue. Enjoy the call spike punk!!
Looks like some "pussy" couldn't handle the UF1 speeds of the office network today.
Being a big fan of the original Triple X, I've held back my opinion on the new XXX, solely due to the fact that anyone but The Disel in this movie is such a travesty as to warrant no mention or waste of my words. But then I read The Superficials take on the subject, and I whole heartedly agree with it, so I'll post the relevant quote, thusly:
...none of that explains to me how Ice Cube could be the new XXX. Keep in mind, XXX isn’t a title like 007. There’s no XXW or XXZ. It was XXX cause Diesel had XXX tatted on his fuckin neck. Apparently the producers didn’t bother to watch that movie either. But all I care about is that me writing XXX a thousand times is gonna help our placement on Google. XXX.
To clear things up, I did come into work today. I had no stress yesterday, seeing as how during my debriefing/evaluation I was told I did quite well under the crazy circumstances.
Obviously the ladies kept me up for far too long last night, and the causality of not getting to bed early enough was my sleeping in this morning.
Obviously the ladies kept me up for far too long last night, and the causality of not getting to bed early enough was my sleeping in this morning.
Paul informed me last night that the ComicCon was happening today. So after a short *gasp* I said "Lets do it". And off we went, earlier in the noon of this fine day.
The convention was pretty small and as the title suggest mainly Comic based, which is to say that the Toys we were insterested in finding were sparse and far between. In fact I got none, except for this nifty Mario "World 7-1" canon diorama.
But there was an awsome vendor who specializes in comic/fantasy/movie art books. I got the new HDI "Manga Manhwa Manhua" art book, the follow up to their "Japanese Comickers".
I also acquired artist Ashley Wood's compilation art book - "Grande Fanta v.2 - ashley wood artwork 2000-2004". Being a huge fan of his work, this book is most tasty to say the least.
The vendor had so many nice books I could barely walk away from it without wanting to rush to the ATM for a cash refill. But somehow I managed to walk away. But if he shows up at the Canadian National Expo this August as he said he would, well, I can't make any promises about my self control.
The convention was pretty small and as the title suggest mainly Comic based, which is to say that the Toys we were insterested in finding were sparse and far between. In fact I got none, except for this nifty Mario "World 7-1" canon diorama.
But there was an awsome vendor who specializes in comic/fantasy/movie art books. I got the new HDI "Manga Manhwa Manhua" art book, the follow up to their "Japanese Comickers".
I also acquired artist Ashley Wood's compilation art book - "Grande Fanta v.2 - ashley wood artwork 2000-2004". Being a huge fan of his work, this book is most tasty to say the least.
The vendor had so many nice books I could barely walk away from it without wanting to rush to the ATM for a cash refill. But somehow I managed to walk away. But if he shows up at the Canadian National Expo this August as he said he would, well, I can't make any promises about my self control.
I hear he's a bit of a tosser. Keep it under your hats.
My Kingdom for a Fishermans Friend
mood: Cranky
music playing: Rage Against The Machine - Bullet in the Head
My throat is closing up faster than a hot girls appointment book after being approached by Bashtard.
This is not good when your job involves speaking on the phone, I keep choking while speaking and this Tylenol Sinus is providing no throat congestion help. Which sucks. I'm cranky. This post is over.
This is not good when your job involves speaking on the phone, I keep choking while speaking and this Tylenol Sinus is providing no throat congestion help. Which sucks. I'm cranky. This post is over.
Adobe to acquire Macromedia
mood: meh
music playing: Mindless Self Indulgence - Hookers and an Eightball
I did a double take and had to check the date of the story to make sure it was not an April fools joke, but it looks legit!
Adobe are acquiring Macromedia for 3.4 billion
This is gigantic news for the graphics world.
All I hope for out of this transaction is that this means future Macromedia products will include the tabbed menus that had to be removed from their products after a law suit from Adobe. Because I despise the damn stacked menu pallets they had to use after said law suit.
Adobe are acquiring Macromedia for 3.4 billion
This is gigantic news for the graphics world.
All I hope for out of this transaction is that this means future Macromedia products will include the tabbed menus that had to be removed from their products after a law suit from Adobe. Because I despise the damn stacked menu pallets they had to use after said law suit.
> grimm: http://...css%20experiments/photo%20menu%20-%20sisley/sisley02.html
> bashtard: the w3 would be all over ur ass with these %20 's :p
> grimm: how little you know, they are part of the uri encoding standard
> bashtard: well... as far as esthetics
> grimm: "octets may be encoded by a character triplet consisting of the character "%" followed by the two hexadecimal digits (from "0123456789ABCDEF") which forming the hexadecimal value of the octet. (The characters "abcdef" may also be used in hexadecimal encodings.)" - RFC 1738
After 10 fabulous years on the road, my car has finally died. Left side suspension and shocks are gone.
When I got it checked out yesterday, I thought it was just my breaks turns out the grinding sound was the car getting ready to collapse.
Not without a sense of dramatic irony, this happens just as the TTC goes on strike.
When I got it checked out yesterday, I thought it was just my breaks turns out the grinding sound was the car getting ready to collapse.
Not without a sense of dramatic irony, this happens just as the TTC goes on strike.
While one gleaming type ends, another begins. The cycle of gleam if you will.
We (and by "we", I mean, DC and myself, sans that brickwaller Bashtard[he was "too tired", apparently that cushy desk job of his is very taxing on the body]) went out on the Parklawn trail, bladed up to Front and Spadina, and then made our way back. It was a bit windy out there and some of the trails down there sure do need some spring cleaning, because of the obscene amount of rocks and dirt and other crap all over them. But aside from that we had a great gleam.
DC can vouch for the fact that I went from the bridge to the legion without stoping once. A mighty good feat if you know my stopping habits, and considering it was the first gleam of the year it seems even more impressive. Who knows, maybe after a few more runs I'll go from the bridge to Bloor without stops : )
We (and by "we", I mean, DC and myself, sans that brickwaller Bashtard[he was "too tired", apparently that cushy desk job of his is very taxing on the body]) went out on the Parklawn trail, bladed up to Front and Spadina, and then made our way back. It was a bit windy out there and some of the trails down there sure do need some spring cleaning, because of the obscene amount of rocks and dirt and other crap all over them. But aside from that we had a great gleam.
DC can vouch for the fact that I went from the bridge to the legion without stoping once. A mighty good feat if you know my stopping habits, and considering it was the first gleam of the year it seems even more impressive. Who knows, maybe after a few more runs I'll go from the bridge to Bloor without stops : )
I'm quite jelous of Sinneds mobile web browsing contraption.
Molson have a new commercial out. As is expected of beer commercials, it prominently features pretty ladies in questionably tight clothing. That of course I have no problems with, and in fact whole heartedly encourage such displays.
My problem with the whole thing is that the song they play throughout the commercial is Fatboy Slims "Right Here, Right Now". A fine song mind you, but so god damn catchy that I find my self not being able to get it out of my head any time I hear it, and as such that track is now nearing the top of the Most Played tracks on the iPod.
My problem with the whole thing is that the song they play throughout the commercial is Fatboy Slims "Right Here, Right Now". A fine song mind you, but so god damn catchy that I find my self not being able to get it out of my head any time I hear it, and as such that track is now nearing the top of the Most Played tracks on the iPod.
My XP install is FUCKED. I've not been able to fix it since last night, when it didn't boot up after a reboot at 5am or some time around then. I stayed up till 7am working on it, and had no luck.
In a foolish fleeting moment, I asked people at work if they had any idea how to fix the perticular problem I was having.
No one knew of any solution to the problem, but despite their existances complete lack of usefulness to me, some people still attempted to pipe in with the ever useful "Windows? you should use Linux" comments.
After beating them to death with a rusty mallet. I explained to their still twitching corpses, that unlike them, I have more pressing computing needs then just running the latest version of nmap. So Linux, as cute as it is at running Apache, would just not cut it for my needs.
To wrap this story up, I'll just say that I've yet to repair XP, and the though of doing a clean install has me crying because it is roughly a three day process for me to get XP and all of my programs reinstalled and reconfigured to the way I need them.
Now read diveintomarks ammusing account of his XP reinstall.
In a foolish fleeting moment, I asked people at work if they had any idea how to fix the perticular problem I was having.
No one knew of any solution to the problem, but despite their existances complete lack of usefulness to me, some people still attempted to pipe in with the ever useful "Windows? you should use Linux" comments.
After beating them to death with a rusty mallet. I explained to their still twitching corpses, that unlike them, I have more pressing computing needs then just running the latest version of nmap. So Linux, as cute as it is at running Apache, would just not cut it for my needs.
To wrap this story up, I'll just say that I've yet to repair XP, and the though of doing a clean install has me crying because it is roughly a three day process for me to get XP and all of my programs reinstalled and reconfigured to the way I need them.
Now read diveintomarks ammusing account of his XP reinstall.
Its just one of those days
When you don't wanna wake up
Everything is fucked
Everybody sucks
You don't really know why
But wanna justify
Rippin' someone's head off
No human contact
And if you interact
Your life is on contract
Your best bet is to stay away motherfucker