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BlogAfter 15 long years of waiting, Starcraft 2 has
finally released. While the beta provided some temporary titillation, the
final ranking ladders give me a sense of purpose, and permanence. Having lost 4/5 of my placement matches, I was immediately placed in the "loser" league also know as bronze, while
Stavos gained entry into the "winner" league, also known as silver. My finely tuned strategy involving the
viking which was developed over the course of the
beta was quickly rendered useless, forcing me to fall back to the ever popular
MMM technique. While my dreams of being a Korean Starcraft superstar have been crushed, the co-op vs. AI is still my favorite, and gives me enough satisfaction to neglect my life-purpose Xbox.
4 years ago,
terrorists stole my credit card. I was fully reimbursed the $500+ stolen and moved on. Today,
nearly $8,000 was sucked out into hotels in St. Ignace, MI and Ketchum, ID. Apparently I'm a hot target for credit theft and need to avoid the shady cheap(er) deals on websites, which is the only way I can think the info was lifted. On the bright side, my never spending more than $300 on anything makes it pretty obvious I didn't spend a $5k vacation in beautiful Idaho. Honestly, of all places to use a stolen card why Idaho?
The
alien wasp is back on the Gnomecam today. Having personally smeared the previous perpetrator, I've narrowed the possibilities down to two.
1. The smeared alien wasp simply re-assembled itself at a molecular level and is thus unkillable.
2. The webcam is emitting a frequency that attracts wasps like Tiger Woods to an orgy.
3. There is no third possibility; I just wanted to apologize for making such a dated Tiger Woods joke.
The only course of action is to continue killing the wasps until I've accepted the alien invasion or run out of horny wasps within earshot of the webcam.
After the original Morlock encouraged my madness by
benchmarking his own RAID, it was decided we would re-bench using a new tool. Not satisfied with just a simple re-bench, I decided to install my latest
motherboard deal at the same time. While the controller on the
new motherboard actually
slowed down my
RAID setup, the increase in CPU and memory speed has me sold.
Sadly, there is no longer a
core for everyone since it was cheaper to put the old CPU back in the server and retask the 6 core beast to my new system. If it wasn't clear I just don't care about the people on this server, it should be now.
And of course, the
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The last few days of the
Gnomecam have featured a
blurry blob; which contrary to the hopes of
Enorym is not a sign of alien invasion, or so I initially thought. The "wasp" that was causing the blur seemed to be attracted by the infrared lights on the camera since there wasn't a nest or other wasp-related structure anywhere near it. Terrestrial wasps are unable to see in the infrared spectrum, so I can only assume this is from an alien planet where infrared is the predominant visual spectrum. Unfortunately for Enorym, the proof is now smeared across the bottom of my shoe.
Upon returning from Cougarfest, I found my mailbox
horizontal with no evidence to be found on the
Gnomecam. Knowing the
Morlock trained his dog to urinate on my yard; I concluded the acid pee from his crotch obsessed dog finally decomposed the wooden support to the point of collapse. That or the gay neighbors hit it during a recent drunken pedophile orgy.
My Cougarfest 2010 adventure began in Steeleville, IL for a visit to my
grandparents, followed by a stop in Washington, PA to visit Lisas
grandparents. Next was a visit to
Gettysburg for some civil war education before finally landing in Harrisburg, PA for
Cougarfest. Adding in the trip home, we managed to rack up a total of 2200 miles, something I advise against for anyone planning a vacation. Aside from driving, the 104+ degree temperatures made outside activities almost impossible before 6pm, so next time I decide to have a long distance vacation I'll just teleconference and save the miles.
On our way back from a round of disc golf in 85 degree heat, my neighbor and I decided to stop and check out the old
Northville Psychiatric Hospital. In high school I frequented it quite often daring my friends to enter and risking my life in the tunnels that connected it to adjacent hospitals in the area. Fortunately the worst I ever encountered was animals or the harmless type of homeless people. This time around my knowledge of the desperate homeless kept me from entering the building, but the outside was interesting enough. In the 12 years since I last visited, the deterioration had increased dramatically. The odd whiff of rotting drywall suggested the basement had become a flooded chemical cesspool. The huge swaths of grass suggested kids today are too busy playing video games to dare each other to visit the building and risk getting knifed. While I doubt it will be demolished any time soon, I'm glad I was able to tour it one last time. Maybe I'll go back with a few beers one day and actually enter it.
By popular request, here is my rant/rave post about the new Xbox 360 S. Fortunately I timed it with
the most detailed article about it to date, which takes the whole thing apart and reveals the inner workings. The hippie in me is happy standby power is only 0.6 watts (1/4 or more of past models) but the real kicker is its new, shiny, and Microsoft told me to buy it. So yes, I admit to having one on order for the outrageous $299 retail price. I'm not proud of it, especially since the only real upgrades to my existing console is more drive space and wireless; neither of which I need. Of course this is no surprise to anyone, but I thought I'd add the post to keep the universe in balance. As for Kinect, I'll try to fool myself I won't buy it on launch date but everyone knows the truth before I even try that reality shift.
My holdout for an SSD RAID died today after a sweet deal on 2
Velociraptors came across my deal feeds. With SSD prices staying well above $1/GB almost 2 years in, I don't see them falling to affordability anytime soon. Add to that my
power suck every time I turn on my 4 drive RAID array and you can see how spending $300 for 2 300GB
VelociRaptors makes sense. The power savings alone should have the upgrade paying for itself in 23.6 years! Having completed reality warp, it was time to
benchmark the upgrade and eliminate my buyer's remorse. Sustained read almost doubled from 126.1 MB/s to 236.9 MB/s with burst rate now a crazy 2,467 MB/s. I credit the 2005 era SATA 2.0 3Gb/s interface upgrade from my previous 2001 era SATA 1.0 1.5Gb/s. This means in 2015 I should finally be in position to afford a SATA 3.0 6Gb/s solid state RAID at which point I'll finally be able to extract all the porn on the internet in less than an hour.
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