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Urn Will Totally Get This

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Annie: What in the world is a WYSIWYG editor?
Scott: Oh, it stands for “What You See Is What You Get.” It means one of those editors where when you make text bold or increase the font size, you can see the changes on-screen, like Microsoft Word.
Annie: Oh… I had no idea what you were talking about. That post made no sense at all.
Scott: Yeah, sorry about that. I guess that post was really aimed more at people in my industry than family and friends.
Scott: I try to balance between the two groups, and I guess I just figure that when I post about work stuff that family members will just skip over those posts, and that my coworkers skip right over the posts about Zoe.
Annie: Makes sense.
Scott: You know, really, I guess my blog has a target audience of one: Urn.

Actually, my target audience includes guys like Dave and Daniel, but the joke was funnier this way, so too bad.

Villagers Need Flowers

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Sorry for such a long delay in posting, but I just bought a copy of Black and White, so I’ve been playing pretty much non-stop. I felt guilty for not posting much, so here’s several various tidbits.

  • I would like to repeat, once again, my undying love for annna from Things I Hate. This article has only strengthened my feelings.
  • I sat down at my friend Urn’s work computer and found this note taped to the monitor: “Urn- Some woman called and said something- could have been about you, or someone else, or something like that. Call her back. I think her number was 1-900-something, but I can’t remember. -Colin”
  • Netscape sucks. I feel bad saying this, since up until a year ago, I was a strong supporter of the “Netscape is better than Microsoft” mentality… Until Netscape proved me wrong. IE is faster and more stable (on my system) than Netscape 4.7, and WAY more stable than Netscape 6, which is awful. This is old news, though. What’s new to me is that I recently discovered that Outlook Express is better than Netscape’s mail client! I put it on Annie’s computer in desperation to find something that would crash her computer less than Netscape Mail. Outlook not only loads faster and crashes less, it was WAY easier to set up. The configuration just make more sense.
  • In Black and White, the villagers express their needs to you by raising little flags around the village store. These flags have little icons on them to tell you what they mean. Little pictures of grain mean they need food, the little heart means they need to breed, and the little tree means they need wood. So I was walking around campus in a bit of a daze, and I saw this banner they have hanging from all the light posts, which just has an image of a flower on it. My first reaction: VILLAGERS NEED FLOWERS.
  • A few years ago a coworker of mine from Egghead set up a website called the Psychic Dog Network. In a freakish coincidence, Jill just gave me a link to the amazingly similar, but wholly separate Psychic Puppy Network.
  • Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus!
  • Oh, and also, Annie and I may be moving back to Portland in mid-June instead of late July. More on that as we get details firmed up.

I Have Seen the Light

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Friends, I have seen the light! After carefully reading a pamphlet given to me by a man at the bus station, I have been born again, and I am making changes in my life. I have renounced my wicked ways, and I have taken a vow of celibacy to atone for my former sins.

And as one who has seen the Truth, it is my duty to try to save my friends, who are on the path to damnation. I call on each of you to follow the one true path into the light.

Miles: Isn’t it obvious that philosophy is just another tool of the Devil to trick you into renouncing the True Faith?

Steve: I know the pornographic website we ran together brings in a lot of money, but all the money in the world will not save you on Judgment Day!

Urn and Pat: As the best customers on our shameful website, your souls are in danger as well!

KT, Annie, and Jester: Stripping may pay the bills, but it is still a SIN and you will pay for it in the here-after.

Alex: Your girlfriend may not know that you’ve been wearing her underwear, but God does!

I’m sorry if that was painful for any of you, but it was necessary! Having seen the light, it is my duty to attempt to save you all from yourselves! It’s not to late to change your wicked ways!

Taking Things Too Seriously

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Some people take things too seriously. It always amazes me when I see how stressed out people get over the smallest things in their lives. It’s like “HEY! You’re alive! You’ve got friends! You’ve got food to eat and a roof over your head! Lighten up!” But of course, I don’t say stuff like that to people, because I’m a big fscking hypocrite. :)

On a completely unrelated note, our first radio show went amazingly well. I was pretty nervous when we got into the studio, but by a half hour into the show, I felt 100% better. We still have plenty of room to improve, but WE CAN DO IT, which I wan’t entirely sure of, before. This show is going to rule. Next project: Fliers and a website for it.

Computer status: Annie’s is still toast, as I’ve found no time yet where I could get Urn to help me without getting him in trouble. ;) My computer is working fine, despite the complete and total lack of all my graphics files. :(

Jester contacted me, and the themes have been approved with one final revision to be made, which I’ll have to do tonight. Then, as soon as they get the installer made, they’ll post it on the website. Hooray!

Also, I need to start making new hammerspace strips. I’ve got a bunch of ideas. :)

Back Once Again With The Renegade Master!!!

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Yarr, that’s right, I’ve returned! Christmas was a blast. Annie and I went to Tacoma, and hung out with her family for awhile, then I went to Portland with my family for awhile, and then back to Tacoma for a week of network gaming fun with Annie’s brothers and cousins! Hooray!

While in Portland, Steve and I hooked up with Miles and went to Chu’s, and discussed our top-secret plans for Studio Fojar. Oh, and Miles got me the coolest geek gift ever, although I’m not sure he got it due to the geek qualities of it. He got me a ninja throwing star! It’s totally cool, so I immediately hung it on the wall over my computer like the guy in Neuromancer did. It’s a totally rad gift, and it made me feel like a complete ass for not getting him anything. But I’m making plans for a birthday gift. Oh ho! I will not be defeated! When did this turn into a contest? I don’t know, but I’m going to win!

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Network gaming was awesome as well. I think at one point we had 8 computers hooked together and 6 guys playing Quake 3. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, and I think we might do it again on the next break that everyone’s home for.

I bought the expansion pack for the Sims, and discovered, to my dismay, that it doesn’t work on Windows 2000, even though the regular game does! Solution: partition my hard drive and create a 98/2K dual boot, which I’ve been meaning to do anyways.

In the process of upgrading my machine’s drivers to prepare for this, I was upgrading Annie’s computer as well. While trying to flash the video card’s BIOS to a new version, the computer crashed and now the video card doesn’t give a signal to the monitor at all. Tech Support says all I have to do is put the card in a friend’s computer (who has a different video card) and flash the bios again. I’m gonna get Urn to help me. “Come on, Urn, I doubt the same thing would happen twice! I’m sure your computer will be fine!”

Tomorrow, I return to work, sort of. We’re starting the process of moving everything to the new location. More nerve-wracking than that, though, is the fact that Urn’s and my first radio show is tomorrow night. I’m really nervous about it, and it doesn’t help that Urn is nowhere to be found, so I don’t know how prepared he is, or if he set up our first interview. :(