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BlogThe 3 people who read this blog may notice my recent trumpeting about an upgrade to Server 2008 no longer exists. Censored you ask? Never. A glitch in Access you ask? No, I moved on to SQL 2K8 a while ago, but the Access jokes need not stop. It was, in fact, a stubborn OCX file. Everything was going according to plan until my
FreeWx weather software (which you can see is now a squatter site) stated "xTFTP.OCX not registered properly." Google searches yielded only more squatter and phishing sites, but
EternalOne mentioned
dependency walker which will be the only useful bit of information you might gain from this. After replacing and registering 5 conflicting dependent OCX and DLL files even the mighty dependency walker was stumped. Without a way to share weather data with the world, I'm stuck in 2003 for the foreseeable future.
The
2011 Jan LAN was a BFBC2 exclusive, and surprisingly the 8 participants had no lag issues despite the lack of a local game server. The addition of now famous "Robbie the neighbor" set the tone for excessive shenanigans and by the end of the night my lungs hurt from laughing so much.
Tigerbomb consumed excessive amounts of bourbon and performed various russian and italian comedy routines which brought me that much closer to an aneurism. TomTom spiked some baby bottles from the
baby shower and contributed inappropriate poses throughout the evening. The
Senator, James, and Jeffords being the only sober players dominated the games. While missing several key veteran LAN attendees, Robbie, Ryan and James took up the slack and survived their first LAN party. Only time will tell if the Senators prediction that this is the last LAN party comes true.
Webcam and
timelapse to excite your loins.
Having missed the annual pilgramiage to NAIAS last year due to
Lisas illness, I was determined to
attend this year. Of particular importance was the presence of the Ford Focus ST, my next vehicle purchase and object of masturbation until it's (and my) release next year. The senator was very accommodating, allowing me to pine over my dream car unhindered for almost an hour before I decided I could take a 30 minute break to see the rest of the show. After harassing some models (of the vehicular and female variety) we made our way downstairs and experienced our first ride in a Chevy Volt. The Senator fired 3.0Ghz questions at our 733Mhz driver resulting in a hard lock that left us without any answers, but a better understanding of silent transportation. Realizing my shakes were coming back, I returned to the Focus ST for another fix. This time a metro looking young man offered to take interior photos for me, but refused to let me sit inside despite a tempting offer of a blow job. Having exhausted all means of making physical contact with the car, I left defeated, but hopeful.
Now that I once again have
all achievements in BFBC2 (thanks to the piloting skills of
Stavos) I can safely try the PC version of the game. It's immediately clear that a new Xbox console is overdue, as the graphics cranked to full on a 1680x1050 monitor blew me away. At one point I just walked around a chopper looking at all the detail. After some fiddling with toggle vs hold on the zoom and crouch controls it wasn't that hard of a switch either, as is evidenced by my
complete domination of my first round. Everything did seem slower though, PC running feels like console walking but I'm not sure if that's real or imagined. Nevertheless, until another achievement-laden expansion arrives for the game I'm available on both platforms for war orgy.
Michigan finally got some of the famous 2011 snowstorm today, albeit only a fraction of what the east coast got. It was however; sufficient to
anger the morlock and every Facebook friend I know that works in Detroit. While they were stuck in traffic I was home happily snowblowing mine and my neighbors driveway to the tune of "
Downtown" by Petula Clark. While I'm sure I'd quickly go homicidal if I had a long commute, it's good to enjoy the simple things while you can.
Earlier this year, I discovered Canadians stocked caffeine free Mountain Dew thanks to some obscure law about not adding caffeine to beverages invented before the full moon of azeroth was in bloom. This titillated me greatly, and
Excelcier and I quickly setup a cross-border smuggling operation where I provided the caffeinated stuff in exchange for the decaf. Last week, he sent me
this photo taken from a local Meijer. It seemed too good to be true. Did my illegal smuggling operation make PepsiCo reconsider it's Canada-only policy? With great expectations I visited my local store and after some frantic searching, found
the holy grale. In the future, when everyone is getting brain replacements, I'll laugh and say "liver only thank you." I now fully expect no less than 25 comments referencing Canada in obscure ways.
While enjoying my morning evacuation, a
Morlock contacted me with news of his machinery not co-operating. I knew the Eloi race was in some serious trouble, an unhappy Morlock means double the normal Eloi consumption. Determined to keep Eloi loss at it's minimum, I agreed to assist with the repair, which involved a jump start. The
rescue was a success, although I theorize the underlying issue was old spark plugs. Happy again, the Morlock continued his trek to Morlock central: Detroit.
After a long evening of
BFBC2:V I commanded
Stavos create an homage to the Myrn love tunnel, a popular location to defend in our all-consuming FPS. The image turned out
better than I could have ever hoped, successfully capturing the intense feelings we all share for the virtual location. The photo reminds me why I fight the war, and what happens if we let the tunnel fall into the wrong hands.
After sleeping through New Years, I awoke to a 50 degree day. An excellent first impression for 2011. I took the opportunity to
release my Cougar from it’s tomb. Before storing it, a trip to Whineyhos house set the factory alarm to military mode and no amount of battery resets would cure it. I wound up pulling the fuse for the alarm horn just to get home without forming a parade. Today I was able to re-learn the
Excelcier Manuver and force a diagnostic reset to finally cure the virus which was most likely planted by Whineyho himself. Foiled again!
My recent acquisition of a
wireless-only WinPhone7 might end up on eBay sooner than I anticipated. A
"leaked" app on the marketplace hopefully means Verizon support is coming soon. I'll finally be able to
party with Bill Gates even without a wifi signal nearby.
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