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BlogTypically, the only gaming achievements I care about are my
Xbox achievements. Without them, my satisfaction of accomplishment would not exist and I simply would not play games. The points have no purpose other than bragging rights, but that's the only value needed for an obsessive compulsive nerd such as myself.
EternalOne likes to tell me Steam came out with achievements before Xbox, and tries to tempt me into playing, but his lies do not fool me. Today he finally gave up trying to get me to play, and instead made the smart move of offering up Marco to get them for me. The temptation was sufficient to surrender my account credentials and now I can say I have an achievement farming operation
in progress.
After reading various praises about
Seafoam, and watching their Pepridge Farms themed
how-to video, I decided to spend the $7 and give it a shot. My constantly excited neighbor decided to join me in the test for maximum smokification. While I'm not sure how well it actually cleaned my engine or did any of the other magic things it claims, it did make a nice
smoke show for the whole neighborhood to enjoy.
After years of crafting the perfect comment to crash my famously robust Microsoft Access database,
Stavos finally found the right combination to
bring it to it's knees yesterday. There's some debate if my file transfer for the last update completed properly since the
error points to file permissions, but the comment posted by the senator unquestionably brought down the corporate empire that is my website. For up to 5 minutes, I was unable to spew my rants into the interweb tubes, and there was peace in the world. Fortunately I was able to turn it back on and order was restored.
Enorym and I came up with a
technical brief attempting to describe how totally awesome this upcoming engine technology is. I wait patiently for my 2012
Focus RS.
With my
weather station losing first it's
thermo-hygrometer sensor, then the rain gauge, coupled with
last Wednesdays Gnome Cam outage, both of which occurred on 9/11, I can only assume I'm being targeted by terrorists. The gradual crippling of my outside measurement devices and webcam is intended to keep me in the dark since they know I don't look out windows. It's a race against time to get my new weather sensor (ironically
delayed by bad weather) up and running before I have to give in to their demands, most likely to stop transmitting my pirate weather signal to the world, so they can control the world through weather.com.
After
Jaird and Melanies Reception, the Schwartz's, Kelleys and Kendziors stopped by for some
more Rock Band in the torrential downpour leftovers of Hurricane Ike. "Green Grass and High Tides" by the Outlaws on Medium difficulty had a few of us ready to murder the band for creating such a difficult song. We took a break and made Schwartz
Hulahoop on the Wii Fit for our entertainment, which ended with the
classic shake from Lisa. Re-energized from watching Schwartz rotate her hips suggestively, we finally conquered the song with Lisa doing an impressive job on
medium difficulty drums while the guitarists timed their overdrives to keep everyone in the green.
An online collaboration last night with Jaird on Rock Band necessitated creating an
Xbox LIVE account for Lisa. After completing the sign up, all her achievement points from playing locally immediately transferred to her new
online gamer card, effectively ending my point farming scheme I had her locked into. Now that she can get her own gamerpoints, all hope of catching up with
Whineyho is gone, and my lead over Jaird is in jeopardy. On the plus side, online multi player Rock Band was more entertaining than I thought it would be.
Last night,
Stavos,
Lisa,
Robbie and I decided to knock out the "Hall of Fame" 8 song set list on Rock Band. Little did we know, it represented the end of the game, or something similar to it. The
mixed reactions reflected our confusion, as there were still plenty of other venues to play at, but we were treated to end credits complete with programmer snapshots and multiple exciting swipes and dissolves, and a "Hall of Fame Inductee" achievement. After a slight pause, we continued on our quest to finish all the venues before Rock Band 2
comes out.
My desperate rush to upgrade and reload my home server before the LHC ended the world was a great success. I now have
three terabytes of goodness, double the memory and cpu speed, for ever faster backups
and media serving. Since Joseph has frequently commented about how excited he is reading about my upgrades, I decided to post
a full system rundown to show off my x86-64 diversity:
I just realized (and had to share) the fact that there is no threat of a black hole from the
LHC. Since the LHC spans both Switzerland and France, the particle
will have to stop at customs each half-rotation and therefore never get up to full speed. I'm shocked nobody discovered this yet.
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