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BlogBack in 2007, I thought it was
pretty cold outside when it was -2.2ºF. Today was 3.8ºF colder at -6ºF (or less if you're like
EternalOne and don't trust my hippie
weather station). I prefer to think of it as 251.9ºKelvin and use it as yet another piece of evidence as to why Lisa needs to allow a move to Florida. Until then I'm carrying a lighter to unfreeze my nose hairs when I step outside.
| -6 °F at 08:50 on 16 January |
Two feet of snow was not enough to keep this years
special guest from the Jan LAN.
Stavos,
Excelcier, Chris and Tom rounded out the attendee list for a surprisingly enjoyable mix of 3 on 3 games. Chris was even able to get Left 4 Dead working on the PC successfully. A few games of Starcraft made for a nice break. As I'm sure you're just itching to have them, here is the
LAN Video from the
LAN CAM. Excelcier also had the foresight to bring his camera for some
embarrassing photos.
As someone who grew up obsessed with the
original Knight Rider series, I'm forced to watch the
new incarnation simply because they say a sufficient number of buzzwords such as "Knight Foundation" and "KITT" and "talking car." I say forced because it's physically painful for me to watch it. Instead of the Hoff as a lone gunman serving up justice in too-tight pants, they have a doofus with 50 some odd support people running around in circles at what looks like an abandoned aircraft hangar. The "one man can make a difference" mantra that made Knight Rider so great has been replaced with "many dorks accidentally solve problems." Worse yet, the constantly changing plot points and unbelievable chain of events makes me dizzy. It's like they're trying to cram 2 hours of unrelated none sense into an hour of unrelated nonsense. I'd like to say KITT is the one redeeming factor, and the eye candy is smack on, but the execution is all wrong.
Too often KITT is conveniently flawed for a useless plot development that I'm left wondering what it accomplished. Fortunately there is a
live blog written by someone who feels exactly the same way, and if you watch the episodes it's hilarious (click on each one for the synopsis). I think everyone who is a fan of the original series secretly hopes it will return to the lone gunman format, but as the creators have stressed many times it's targeted at a new audience and not supposed to be a remake so I can only assume we'll all be suffering for the remainder of it's existance.
A recent email from
Myrn prompted a trip to the vending machine for what I initially thought was counterfeit dew. The
official mountain dew site mentions nothing about the new logo, but a Google search reveals a
logo makeover in the works. It's
not limited to dew either, and there's already some
great parodies on the new Pepsi logo. The change can only be interpreted as another step closer to
Idiocracy.
95% of my eBay sales go off without a hitch, as is evidenced by my
feedback, but the 5% that go somewhere I would never have predicted provide the most entertainment. I decided to document the
most recent example for posterity and eagerly await his response, or at least hope it gets picked up on Google for his next vain Google search. As you can tell I get a bit animated when confronted with all the caps and excessive punctuation. Mix in arrogance and I become a full-on jerk. If he had sent a cordial complaint I probably would have offered a partial refund for the hassle, but thankfully he went the ass route and I was able to work off some frustration.
Waking up to beeping UPS batteries at 4:49am is not pleasant, especially when you look outside and see the bright flashing of light that signifies the death of multiple transformers (the capacitor type, not the transforming alien robots). The 17 hour outage that ensued has convinced me it's time to rig my furnace to accept generator power. Since the generator only needs to power the blower and circuit board, it should be sufficient. An initial check with my Kill-A-Watt will confirm my theory. If this is my last post you can assume I electrocuted myself during the attempt. Here's a breakdown of the outage in case you want to imagine how cold my house got.
4:49am - Power flickers and dies
5:17am - UPS powers down server
5:48pm - Power returns, server starts
5:52pm - Power dies again
5:55pm - UPS powers down server
9:09pm - Power returns, server starts
??:??? - Connectivity returns (when you read this)
Todays 60 degree weather melted the snow around Butt enough for him to pop out and say hello. It also handily removed the ice from my driveway. Unfortunately the sun decided to remain hidden, but a break from single digit temperatures was nice for a day.
The imperfect Earth, with it's snobbish rotation, scoffs at our proper time keepeing. Instead of rotating in a consistant manner, it has the nerve to slow down. We just
quietly add an extra second every 4 years or so depending on the Earths mood. Of course the slowing may mean the earth will completely stop in a billion or so years. This would extend the day to 6 months instead of 24 hours possibly creating two distinct nomadic societies that constantly travel the earth to either avoid or remain in the light. Your first thought might be Morlock and Eloi but you would be wrong! The correct future non-rotating earth societies would be vampires lead by
Riddick, and clones of Wesley Snipes lead by Blade. Throw some Waterworld references in as well since they seemed to be travelling a lot in that movie. Plus Waterworld sucked, so you'll get an idea of how 6 months of darkness feels. Or you could just move to Michigan and find out first hand.
Tigerbomb passed me
this link which has quickly became my favorite game. If they made an Xbox 360 port I'd pay whatever amount they wanted. Any game you can get 50 achievements in under 20 seconds is my kind of game.
Senator Kelley passed me
this link today of a 3400 x 1600 animated GIF radar loop of the entire United States. Definitely fun to watch the current snowstorm engulf the northeast in pretty blue green and yellow. If you look closely, you can also see me passing traffic in the oncoming lane right past a cop who couldn't catch me even if he tried. I love snow!
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