Aug
30
2008
Aug
22
2008
It’s a small world after all!
The guy who runs that business? The one two blocks from where I live, right under the kickboxing place I go to (he complained when they jumped rope over his head)?
That’s Malone. From Cheersoft. Yes that Cheersoft.
I’ve been punching and kicking a bag right over my former employer. This world is waaaay too small.
Also, if you’re a BBSer from the central Jersey area that isn’t in this group yet, you need to join. We’re having a grand old reunion.
Aug
14
2008
What you crave
White Castle finally makes it to India.
Only thanks to a guildie will I make it to Blizzcon. Who else managed to beat Failoc and the SCV to snag tickets?
Two nights ago, csmole updated graye and I on some CS drama. It’s no warcraftdrama, but what is? We were just delighted to hear that things are just as inbred and hilarious as ever. I stopped really coding/creating/pushing buttons on cybersphere shortly after 9/11, but still keep tabs on things. There’s some systems that still report to me, and plenty of people who still IM me when things go wrong. Many of my online friends are former or current players, mostly in the former camp these days. I’m just really glad to see that people are still moving across the country, making important life choices, and otherwise living life with CS as a deciding factor.
One time, quite a few years ago, incognito______ and I were the only two people actively coding who knew how MOO code (and specifically, how to work with the ancient fragments of code from those such as ogun and Quinn (beauty crafted from their genius and insanity)). We had a long discussion about how we would have to, well, find some new blood and get them rolling. We joked about what the MOO would be like if we just left it. “I’m sure I’d just log in one day, years later, and still find people playing it. long tailed rat would be the administrator logged on fixing code, as the MOO would just become self-aware.
While it’s not an AI running what was once “my baby”, a baby I had merely inherited from a long line of those who came long before me, it is kinda cool to see it still pooping its pants, crying, and wrecking people’s lives. Long live CS, which has been “slowly dying” and “not the same CS” since at least 1994.
Aug
8
2008
Olympics
Most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. Holy cow that opening ceremony was fucking fantastic. Every time I thought they couldn’t top something, they did. Wow. The printing blocks to great wall to flowers to people? Holy cow. Mindblowingly amazing show.
Drinking game for the parade of nations: Every time the Scottish bagpipes play (7 so far), take a drink. Every time the athelete focused on is competing in judo, take a drink.
Fairly interesting political display, with the giant Chinese cheers for the US, North Korea, Switzerland, Germany and Iraq. Putin talking with Bush, probably about Georgia, before the parade…
Poor hot Chinese dancers with their little drink bottles, dancing in high heels all night through the parade.
As usual, some really awesome outfits and some really horrible ones. Bagpipes number eight, btw.
Srsly, I just want to see that intro again.