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News: October 21st to November 3rd, 2002 (10 entries)
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3:00 p.m. [GMT-8:00]
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3 Nov. 2002 (Sun);
Post #216
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Last night Hanwool (and his little sister) came over and we watched
this movie, "Shiri," while drinking chocolate-bannana
shakes from Jack in the Box. The movie was in Korean w/ English
subtitles — it was very good. My first
ever eBay auction is up right now. Mostly, I just did it to
learn how to sell stuff on eBay. It's a pretty good deal
too, though, if you ask me. Four Stalking Tigers for a dollar...
But no bidders yet. Hm. It prolly won't sell since it's just a common
card, but at least I know all about setting up auctions now. Maybe
I'll try an' sell something good next time. I bought a bunch of
Magic cards on eBay on Friday and last night... I'm making a really
good Black/Blue deck. Actually, the auction for a Demonic Tutor
card I bid on just closed — I won. Woo. Oh, since I keep referring
back to this, I'm just going to link it right here: Magic:
The Gathering Cardlists. Well, later.
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4:45 p.m. [GMT-8:00]
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2 Nov. 2002 (Sat);
Post #215
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Okay, I wanna make this post short. Three things: 1. We had a sealed
deck magic tournament at Ryan's last night — Drew won overall
(prize: ten random non-land, non-rares from other ppl's stockpiles),
I won the loser's bracket. There's an image below that shows the
ladder, the winner, and beefy, click it to see the whole thing.
I played a Black/Green/Red deck (we had two 7th Ed. boosters and
an Onslaught tourney deck to work with). 2. Hanwool got Civ III:
Play the World off IRC, but it's such an early beta that it's basically
unplayable. Have to wait till Monday/Tues. to buy the real thing.
He brought Hitman 2 over; extremely fun game. Looks incredible too
(course, at 1280x1024 with 4x anti-aliasing, etc. ...). 3. I received
a complaint that there wasn't enough Shea on the site. Remedied.
Also, a lack of cow-bell was noted, but I'm still working on that.
Tschuss.
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11:07 p.m. [GMT-8:00]
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30 Oct. 2002 (Wed);
Post #214
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Very cold again tonight. I've got rolled-up towels stuffed into
the base of a couple doors to close the small gap air passes through.
Gonna bring the dogs and the cat in again tonight. A good episode
of Law & Order just ended. Now the local news is talking about
new voting machines our county's getting and improper records kept
by the guy who probably sold that sniper guy a gun. My mom brought
some really good hard candy back from Las Vegas. They're called
"Spicchi"
and are made by some company called Perugina. Anyway, they had them
at the Rio (hotel/casino)... they taste just like Mandarin oranges.
Apparently they're Italian ("spicchi" translates to "segments").
I'm more than half-way through the Cho book. It's pretty good, but
at least a couple chapters seem to be spent going "Oh, I was
so ugly and I hated myself. When I stopped hating myself, other
people stopped hating me too. But I really hated myself. Oh, life
was so bad for me. I hated myself." It gets kinda old after
a while. Anyway, I'm on the part where she got her TV show on ABC
(All-American Girl). Hopefully I won't have to wade through more
pages of self-pity and remorse. I've almost totally regained my
sense of balance, I think. I was walking down the halls at
the university and having to steady myself against the wall to keep
from falling down, but now I hardly ever need to. Left side of my
face still won't move at all. I have to rub the muscles there so
they don't atrophy too much, but it hurts a lot. Today's MP3: Azumanga
Daioh - Raspberry Heaven.mp3 (3:29). Nick tells me I need to see
a movie called Donnie
Darko. It looks kinda similar to Harvey, the play Beefy and
I saw at the Richland Player's, in some ways. I mean, six foot tall
rabbits who are imagined by guys... seems too weird to be a coincidence.
Whatever. L8er.
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12:17 a.m. [GMT-8:00]
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30 Oct. 2002 (Wed);
Post #213
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Not much going on. After finishing that Powers trade paperback I
talked about yesterday, I immediately read the other one I borrowed
from Beefy, "Powers: Roleplaying." Not as good as the
first one ("Who Killed Retro Girl?"), but still worth
the time. Then I began Margaret Cho's autobiography (I'm the
One That I Want)... I'm on chapter four. It's surprisingly well
written. Anyway, it's pretty short (224 pages), so I'll prolly be
on Beggar's Ride by Friday at latest. My sickness (the cold
thing) seems to be going away. I'm gonna let my dogs (Pembroke Welsh
Corgis named Looker and Zorro) sleep in my room tonight since it's
so cold out. It's supposed to get down to 16° Fahrenheit tonight.
Sixteen freakin' degrees and it's not even November yet!
That's a very low temperature for this time of year in my area.
Anyway, I've been working on a totally new design for the site;
it's still far from completion, but the image below gives you an
idea where I'm thinking of taking things. Today's MP3: Greenday
- Basket Case.mp3 (3:03). L8er.
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11:16 p.m. [GMT-8:00]
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28 Oct. 2002 (Mon);
Post #212
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Agh, I'm sick. Been sick. We had a thing this weekend; Ryan, Shea,
Drew, JD, Kevin, Beefy, Nick, Hanwool, and Phillip came over. Magic,
CS. Yadda, yadda. My lungs hurt. I finished this great comic book
compilation/graphic novel, whatever you call 'em, that I borrowed
from Beefy — it's called "Powers" [publisher's
site]. It's prolly the only real, non-satirical "heroes
that fly and wear costumes" comic I've ever read. I generally
avoid that whole genre... it just seems too cliché. I mean,
they've been writing schlock like that for nearly 60 years. Who'd
wanna keep reading the same stuff, rehashed a million times over.
They wear spandex, shoot lasers or fly, and fight people. Okay,
I get it. So? That's why I generally stick to KODT, Nodwick, PvP,
The Tick, Dork Tower, and the Dungeons & Dragons comic (the
latter is prolly a little like the plethora of generic something-Man
comics that get churned out by the hundreds each month). Anyway,
Powers is a little different. It takes place in the super-hero world,
but focuses on basically normal people dealing with problems. It's
about this detective and his partner who work in the Powers division
of the city police. Anyway, it's good. The picture below is from
it. The KVM
switch I bought from Directron arrived today; it works extremely
well. I'm considering getting one for my own systems. Well, that's
all for today.
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11:10 p.m. [GMT-8:00]
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24 Oct. 2002 (Thu);
Post #211
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Shea, Kevin, Drew, Beefy, Ryan, and JD came over today. We played
Magic: The Gathering; had a 2v2, a 3v3 and some 1v1's (pics below).
It was fun. Then Ryan changed into his Tae Kwon Do uniform (I think
it's called a "gi") and beat up Shea. No, not really.
Kidding. It only looks that way. He went to his class, JD got food
for us, Kevin left to do something. Anyway, Apparently, we're BBQing
venison tomorrow. I can grab spices, sauce, and what-not from my
parent's house cuz they're in Las Vegas till Monday. There's some
big polo convention down there that my dad had to go to since he's
a delegate for the local club. I updated profiles for Shea,
Ryan, and Drew.
Oh, and that's how I link to ppl's profiles now — I link the
first letter of their name. It's more subtle than the old, intrusive
style where I put a "[profile]" link after the person's
name. Today's MP3: Rufus Wainwright - Complainte de la Butte.mp3
(3:05). Oh, I put up this page
for our LAN group (SparkSSter at TCLP wanted something to link to).
Anyway, it'll be accessible from the Esoteric
menu, or TCLP's main site.
Well, tschuss.
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11:19 p.m. [GMT-8:00]
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23 Oct. 2002 (Wed);
Post #210
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I changed the template for the HTM/HTMLs on the site. See the GIF
in the upper-left corner? It's a random image that rotates between
6 source files. If you refresh, you should see a different image
(though you might have to do it a couple times b/c it is
random). The GIF source files aren't set in stone, so e-mail or
AIM me (s/n: hjo333) if you have some ideas/criticisms. Kevin had
a [PaPeR] clan match against ERS (Counter-Strike) which sort of
flopped when nobody could find a server they liked, or something
along those lines. Phil,
Kevin, and Beefy
are all working on websites. Last night, Kevin came over (to get
his RAM), and we worked on the template for his site. Then he came
over again this afternoon/evening to grab a Win 2000 CD I made for
him (I wrote "Gay Kevin's Win 2K CD" on it, but I don't
think he noticed). I've been reading thru all these KODT
comics I got... I'm on #71 so far. After those, I've got Beefy's
Powers graphic novels to read, then either Margaret Cho's
autobiography or Kress's Beggar's Ride. BTW, I found Nancy
Kress's website. It's a little dated, but really good if you're
a fan. The picture below is of her. Oh, I renamed the website. I
never really referred to the name much anyway -- it used to be "The
ÜberSite," but there's a website out there already named
that. I've been meaning to change the name for a while, but it involves
updating a bunch of HTM/HTML files, so I procrastinated. Anyway,
it's called "The HJO3 Project" now. A search of Google,
AltaVista, and WebCrawler shows that no other sites out there already
use that name, so I should be safe. If anybody doesn't know what
"HJO3" stands for, it's my initials (Henry J. Oliver III).
Umm. Sparks is doing individual LAN group pages so I get to make
one of those for 'Uber's House of Doom.' 'Uber-HJO3' or 'Uber|HJO3'
is the alias I use in most games. Anyway. Had a #4 w/ a Mr. Pibb
at McDonalds for lunch. L8er.
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6:16 p.m. [GMT-8:00]
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22 Oct. 2002 (Tue);
Post #209
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Wrote two new nanofics. Hey,
didja know today is the 158th anniversary of the Great Disappointment?
This is the day, in 1844, when Jesus was supposed to return to Earth
(the second coming and all that). At least, that's what the Seventh
Day Adventists believed. I went to a Seventh Day Adventist school
for 7 years (grades 2- 8), but I'm not of that religion myself.
Hey, my order from Barnes & Noble came today. So did Kevin's
RAM (he had to RMA the first stick cuz it was DOA). A man just came
to the door looking for a 'Robert.' Upon realizing his 'mistake'
(I said "Um, no one named Robert lives here."), he explained
that he was looking for 2912 Road 88, not 92. Hmm. I wonder
if he was a secret operative sent from the U.S. government or the
Illuminati to spy on me. Oh well.
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1:36 a.m. [GMT-8:00]
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22 Oct. 2002 (Tue);
Post #208
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I mailed three nanofics to the 55
Fiction contest. If I win, I could get my story printed in the
New Times and Steve Moss's next sequel to "The World's Shortest
Stories." I'm not gonna get my hopes up though. If I were
to get published though, it wouldn't be my first time; I've written
three articles for Horse Cents (a local equine magazine) and one
for Polo Magazine.
I wanna make a "prison/decking" deck for Magic. I wonder
how much Ambassador Laquatus costs... I'm thinking Green/Blue. Anyway.
Here's a picture of my letter and primary system for no real reason.
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10:45 p.m. [GMT-8:00]
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21 Oct. 2002 (Mon);
Post #207
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Ack. The house is a mess... I need to pick up. Got a lot of homework
too. I got my English 356: Electronic Research and the Rhetoric
of Information midterm back; 40 points — a perfect 100% score!
It's especially pleasing because this snotty know-it-all who sits
behind me only got 36 points. I had a 2-page essay due in my Communications
420 class (7:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.); I wrote it during the hour-and-a-half
break between classes. Easy as pie. Next time Beefy
asks for pics, I'm editing them before I upload; he posted all these
bad pictures of me on his website. With this goddamn palsy, I can't
smile or talk normally. When I laugh, it's really not pretty; only
one side of my mouth opens and it looks like I have bad teeth cuz
the opening is off-center... generally, I just look retarded. The
pic below shows my smile — lopsided. Weird. Anyway, I finished
Alien Light. It was good, but the sequel setup was a little
more sharp/obvious than Kress's later books. I actually liked Brainrose
better than this one, even though it (Brainrose) was her
first novel. Oh well, now I get to start on Beggar's Ride (pictured
below), which I've really been looking forward to as it concludes
the Sleepless saga. Arrgh, I just remembered: I havn't received
my order from stupid Barnes & Noble yet. Gah. According to the
order status, it shipped on the 11th and is enroute to my local
post-office. Yeesh, last time I use USPS for packages... FedEx is
so much faster, even with the "Super Saver" shipping.
Oh, there's a neat article at The Tech Report comparing Nvidia's
new AGP 8x cards with the old 4x ones — apparently the 8x cards
arn't really any better; in fact, in some tests, the 4x cards actually
beat the 8x! Here's stat charts for 3DMark2001
SE, SPECviewperf,
and Unreal
Torunament. Wow. The whole Radeon 9000 series AGP 8x/mobo incompatibility
thing had encouraged me to wait on getting any new video cards or
8x mobos, this revelation only strengthens my resolve. Anyway, there's
a new nanofic in the Micro/Nanofiction
section. It's kinda lame, but I like it. Archived the old news;
you can still read it thru the "Old News" link on the
left though. Well, TTFN.
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"Men
never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
from a religious conviction." — Blaise Pascal
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