area 51 strikes back.

las vegas has it's own anomaly. evidently people with key less entry systems on their cars were left in the lurch on friday. see what yucca mountain can do?

go here for vintage pr0n.

geektitude

ok, no cheating now:

geek hierarchy

ok, i promise i'll write more soon, but i've been trying to set up my new machine, and i just haven't had the time to devote to totally geeking out on it, and getting it all working. what is working now is:

quake3, sound, sata, mythtv(except the tv card cuz i'm too lazy to boot up my other pc and see the specs), video-xwindows-xmms-internet-etc.

what isn't working:

dvd playback, savage(this is a 3d accellerated video problem), 3d accelleration.

to do:

put my ogg drive in, put a 20gb drive in my old machine and put the 120gb drive in as my video/tv drive, put in my porno drive.

hey, my parents have retired and are on the road. i will make them post to their blog bronsonpage.com while they are here in vegas. they haven't been posting from other places, but they've only been on the road for 1 week, so i guess i'll cut them some slack.

dumbass dell bastards

dell decided to use non-standard power supplies in their computers in 1998. if you read the article, they decided to use the same connectors, so there is no indication that the ps is different, leading to the likelyhood that when you try to replace the ps you will blow up the motherboard. dude, your getting fucked again by dell!

losers.org

i just love how people who have little cute websites talk about themselves in the third person as if their web server is talking about them. for example:

Kyra is doing just fine, thanks. However, the information previously on this page was so incredibly out of date that we decided to take it down until Kyra has time to put up more information. Kind of a cop out, I guess... but we'll try to get more information up as soon as possible.

You can contact Kyra at kyra@kyra-mike.net

so anyhow, check out the titlesake site from this post for more such lovelyness.

spam comments

hey, todd, ryan have you been using mtblacklist? does it seem to work? i need to move my old movabletype blogs over to the new version of mt before it would work for me, i just wanted to know if it's working for you. i've also been looking into a random code generator thingy like wesley crusher uses for comment authentication

something i want

i'm sure i'm the only one who wants this, but i want to be able to right click on the background of a web page and have a list of 10 or 20 sites i go to really often available to open in the current window. i know that i could always use the bookmarks, but i store lots of things in my bookmarks that i don't go to regularly, where as i go to these 20 or so sites everyday, and i'm just a little too lazy to move my mouse pointer all the way over to the bookmarks file menu. so if you're reading my blog, and i know every mozilla dev wouldn't miss reading it, get on the stick and make that a feature.

i also want inline autocomplete available in firebird. why did you ever take it out?

i've gotten the bulk of my cd collection ogged, but for some reason kplaylist doesn't let me stream ogg files outside my network, and has quit letting anyone download files, and quit letting me update the database. maybe 5500 songs is too much for kplaylist to handle, or maybe it's a samba problem. i really don't know, but i don't care enough about it to try to fix it. it's more important to me that i can have 5500 songs on endless random loop at home. especially now that my upstairs neighbor has cancelled his cable, which i was stealling, so i have no tv right now. if anyone would like to digitize the daily show and send it to me let me know.

mike dagen called me a couple of weeks ago and asked if i would like to continue the tradition of sending him my stereo pair w/ the stereo bar so that he can record the winter carnival. i of course procrastinated until wednesday evening(the carnival is on saturday) and as a result had to next day the mics at a cost of ~$50. sometimes i make myself feel like an ass, and sometimes i make myself feel like a complete fucking dumbass. anyhow, i hope mike received the mics this morning, and is able to record the show, cuz i'm looking forward to hearing it.

so nyf was good, there are photos up on the lvultimate site. we did ok, our new offense worked when we weren't busy dropping easy passes, and throwing the disc into the dirt. i guess it's time to work on those skills. it's also really time to lose some weight, as my knees can't take it. you would think that playing ultimate 3 days a week would help, but i think i'm just eating twice as much to compensate.

if anyone has or knows someone who has some tech turntables that they want to get rid of, let me know. i have things on vinyl that i need to listen to, and i'm not liking the idea of buying a turntable that isn't at least as good as a technics 1200. that's kind of been my mo recently, i guess i've decided that if i can't buy relatively top end, i'm just going to do without.

i've been playing rocks-n-diamonds recently, and it's a nice flashback to weekends spent playing balderdash on my c-64. it's a great rewrite of the game, and it even includes all the old levels, although some of them aren't finishable(b-II level 7), pluse a ton of user created levels, and a level editor on top of all of that. it's available for linux, win32, and os x(makes sense since it's bsd).

speaking of os x, i actually got to do some mac work recently, as one of our clients has an i-mac that they needed to be able to print to the printers on the win2000 server. not too tough, but i was the only one at our office willing to work on a mac. made me feel special, and my linux experiences paid off as i knew what they needed, and only needed to translate it into bsd/macese. cups and gimp-print, and creating an account for the mac user in the domain, and we were off and running. only problem was i mistakenly printed a 15 page document to their inkjet as a test. oh well, i just cancelled it once i got to it(after 5 pages). i like that i-mac. it's the 17" lcd version. i only wish it had been the new 20" version. now if only someone would buy me one(hint, hint) ok, that "hint, hint" was to anyone, since i don't know anyone who would be buying me an i-mac, but if there happens to be a kind, rich philanthropist out there who really wants to give things to a guy named dan out in the desert, i would be more than willing to accept it.

wow i guess i have a binge posting problem. i feel like an addict who has fallen off the wagon and can't get enough, but i better get this posted before something dreadful happens, like my computer crashing, and i lose it all.