get your geek on

god it's good to have my laptop back...

shit on you

there's something slightly comforting in eating a famous star and washing it down with some mike's hard lemonade. not a wonderful feeling per sae, but akin to wrapping oneself in a warm blanket and settling down for a nice nap. i'm going bowling in a couple hours and i thought i'd get nice and liquored beforehand. i've settled for the only thing that was cheap and plentiful in alcohol at the food4less - mike's. it's not bad in the slightest, but it's just not my normal weapon of choice. [see: bass, boddingtons, newcastle]

working for the weekend

"not takin' nothin' from no one, give 'em hell long as I'm breathin' / keep kickin' ass in the mornin, an' takin' names in the evening"

been looping the breeders "cannonball", underworld "cowgirl [irish pub in kyoto mix]" and busta rhymes "pass the courvoisier [part two]" all day. just those three songs. i'm babysitting a windows two.thousand install and getting some work wrapped up before i head out for bowling with the guys tonight and the orange street fair sunday. ought to be a fun time.

grumblefuck

yay! the power supply is kosher but my hard drive is beyond repair. i've lost a good couple hundred megs of data. mp3s, pictures, a webpage i was working on for megan, adapted scripts [unix and windows], writings i'd been working on - all of it, gone. so instead of heading home i'm at work reinstalling the os [windows xp. fuck those of you who're snickering.]. i hope to high hell that this doesn't happen again, or i'm going to have to get wicked violent.

hopefully installing xp will give me some filesystem stability since i'm using ntfs instead of fat32. i just hope it doesn't run like ass because my the lappy is slightly above the minimum system requirements for xp. well, cross your fingers - here goes nothing.

irc quote of the day

[noid] so what kind of spam did we get?
[noid] increase your penis size by refilling your own inkjet cartridges?

flatliners

i thought i had a dead power supply, turns out the tape that was used just wasn't friendly with the current that was going thru it. still, the second i get a paycheck i'm gonna ebay me a new power supply.

malpractice

well, the power supply just started smoking. and as we all know once the magic smoke escapes it's done for. looks like i'm going to have to head to ebay for a replacement one. this'll be my second in four months. *shakes head*

plastic surgery disasters

tim's playing doctor on my power supply. it'll look a little frankenstein, but i'll be able to use my laptop again!

0wn3d!

click for screenshot, courtesy of minor damage
i'm not normally a big fan of webpage hacks, but this one is rather ammusing. not only did the riaa's frontpage get hacked, but you could also download songs off their site. [more on guerrillanews]

webcam!

well, i finally followed thru with my threat of re-upping the webcam twenty.four/seven. hopefully it won't traumatize you too much.