technology: November 2005 archives


Media

[ rakaur on Mon Nov 28 at 01:45 PM // category: technology, web ]

I ripped off Steve and added a new Media section. I’ll expand on it later.

Enjoy.

-- rakaur // 2005.11.28 @ 01:45 PM

Help Computer

[ rakaur on Wed Nov 16 at 08:59 PM // category: eastgate, life, technology, work ]

Sorry about the downtime, but my modem/cable lines/something pooped out on me.

I started noticing sub dialup speeds last Friday or so. Didn’t get a call to Charter until Sunday, and they didn’t get a tech out until today. My downstream SNR was really, really low and kept jumping about. He fiddled with lines for a while (actually replacing every line in my house with new coax) and gave me a new modem. It’s about the size of my iPod. I’m far too lazy to update the desk pictures just because it’s different now, but whatever. I don’t know what fixed it, but it’s fixed now.

In the time off from the Internet I had, I came up with a really cool writing project. It’s huge (like, a lifetime long thing) and I doubt I have the energy or talent to pull off. It’d be pretty cool though. If anything actually happens I’ll post more about it in the future.

I’m pretty pissed off about work right now. My new manager promised to promote me, which isn’t happening. So he promised to train me in booth (projection booth/film work), but instead Caleb got trained. Now this weekend (Harry Potter) I’m stuck closing concession the first night, being there for 11 hours Saturday, and pretty much all day Sunday as well. What’s Caleb get to do? USH Booth. That roughly translates to “nothing.” He gets to start movies, and wander around occasionally cleaning. Such fucking bullshit it’s not even fucking funny. He has like ten more hours than me, and he gets to do fucking nothing.

I just about gave my two weeks notice when I saw the schedule.

-- rakaur // 2005.11.16 @ 08:59 PM

There Once Was a Man From East Alton

[ rakaur on Wed Nov 09 at 11:51 PM // category: technology, web ]

Magoo.

-- rakaur // 2005.11.09 @ 11:51 PM

Just New Toys

[ rakaur on Wed Nov 09 at 07:32 PM // category: hardware, life, technology ]

Okay.

So apparently that whole Freya bit and 292451 comments to the previous post was a big, hilarious misunderstanding.

Freya was apparently tanka’s exgirlfriend. She thought I was him. Someone want to tell me the odds of some girl stumbling upon my site that mistakes me for her exboyfriend whom I actually know?

Anyway, I deleted it all. I have no idea who “Hank” is. His IP address resolves to a local Charter account though, so there’s actually been like three different stories going on here. It’s pretty funny, if you ask me.

Pretty damn funny.

In other news I updated my Toys section with new pictures and new specs on my new desktop/desk. Check out the sexiness.

-- rakaur // 2005.11.09 @ 07:32 PM

Who Art Thou?

[ rakaur on Wed Nov 09 at 12:10 AM // category: technology, web ]

I apparently have no idea who reads the crap-I-occasionally-spew-out-late-at-night-on-a-Website-known-as-my-blog anymore.

I get random replies from random handles all the time. Usually, they’re assholes from ruby-talk that have no lives and continue to berate me.

I’ve had a lot of comments (well, not so much comments on my blog as on IRC or IM) on my previous post. It was a story. I’ve been writing nothing but English essays for the last few months. I wanted to do some creative writing. I miss it. Just suffice it to say it’s based on a true story.

In the spirit of the census, I’d like anyone that actually reads my blog to leave a comment to this post using

  1. A handle/nickname I know you by;
  2. A real name I know you by, or;
  3. A handle/nickname I don’t know you by, with a mention of who you are.

It’d be swell, thanks.

-- rakaur // 2005.11.09 @ 12:10 AM

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