Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 26

WHOAAA.

So it's been a while since my last post. I blame the lack of Internet access at home. (Should be back soon)

Biggest event of the time-period was the extreme windstorm that hit Washington and Oregon, power was out at my place for almost five days. And a nerd like me, well it was hell sitting around in the dark for most of a week, no matter how cool fire is.

Also, I finally bought a new Gamecube, so I've been able to dive back into Resident Evil Zero, so far so good.

Finally, in the time I've spent at a friend's house, I've managed to start a couple new characters on Anarchy Online. I don't have a lot of time to play, but if you, for some reason, keep track of it, my new characters are:
Umm.. yeah I'll be sure to get back to my regular posting cycle once my net is restored to functionality.

Don't miss me too much!

Friday, November 17

WTF?!?!

Good god, I must be bored. I just spent the better part of an hour going through every post in my blog and tagging each post as appropriate. This involves loading a week's worth of posts at a time, and opening the edit-pages for them in tabs, tagging each one, closing all the extra tabs, and loading the next week of posts. lather, rinse, repeat.

On another note, I thought i'd comment on the size of Fox Mulder's balls. I've had many-a discussion about this topic, and most people seem to agree. Fox Mulder has bigger balls than anybody on earth. Even Maddox. (oh I went there.) He's not afraid of ANYTHING. Who do you know that is capable of just walking into any situation headfirst, showing little to no signs of fear? Not even a second-guess!

Hahaha. Mulder pwns.

Thursday, July 6

eye are see

[04:03] [kingrayray] i have this "relaxation" mp3 that is like, rainforest sounds
[04:03] [kingrayray] animals and shit
[04:03] [kingrayray] but like, if i was in the rainforest
[04:03] [kingrayray] i couldn't relax
[04:03] [kingrayray] something would eat me
.....


killing time, can't sleep yet. i did find another "relaxation" mp3 that is more calming, ocean sounds and those weird drums that jamaican people play. or something. i've got my GNOME setup in Ubuntu all pretty though. screenshot is here.

on an even nerdier note, i've been finding myself quite prosperous on EVE. i went off and joined an antipirate corp and have been learning the ins and outs of PVP combat, and taken down quite a few pirates while doing so. i've got a ton of screenshots from EVE that i update pretty much daily, feel free to check it out.

ohhh. i got a job too. i work at domino's pizza! WOO! hahaha. now i have to learn how to toss a pizza crust and shit apparently. bleh. work in 11 hours, 47 minutes. going to try and sleep now.

Wednesday, June 14

BLAWGENG

okay long story short.

mom kicked me out, because shes crazy when she is drunk. now i am living with chris and jon, and its pretty kewl. need to get a job to pay rent, working on that. only been here a couple days and i am already feeling sooo great. chelz is back from school and i still haven't seen her :( she doesn't remember how to get here so i have to figure that out. bah!

ummm, yea today i got an app at fred meyer, but i don't really think that's where i want to work; cause my dad works there and that'd be kinda awkward. probably going to work at some close-by place, dunno

um.. its late and i have shit to do so i'm done for now >_>

Monday, May 8

ooooh dear

today was quiet, and mostly uneventful. more of a "w00t" than a "dam" though.

i recently broke my chair. my super awesome rocking leather chair with a high back, a swivel, and wheels. it broke. because the back of the chair is supported by the arms, i had to remove everything but the seat part. the good news is, it looks like if i use enough duct tape, it'll be fine. :)

on another note, i finally updated E17, and although the new shelf is really cool, i have for-sure decided to not really use it until it nears release. for a few reasons, mainly that i hate the default theme. i /could/ make another theme, but that is more work than i care to do. I can just use gnome, it is already pretty, and plenty functional.

i really need to come up with a rather extensive rant about something i dislike. i'm thinking... distro-wars perhaps, comments welcome.

the most common inspiration to write in this is when i am performing a lengthy compile and have nothing else to do. aim's kinda dead, and i'm tiiiired. should sleep, really want to, probably won't for a while.

Saturday, May 6

Fuck allergies!

AAAAGHHH. *points at subject* Fuck allergies! I didn't even know I /had/ allergies until about two weeks ago, and it SUCKS. ... that's it.

Wednesday, May 3

Counting sheep.

Short post today. I was just trying to sleep, and I typically resort to meditation and similar things to clear my mind. It never works very well, but it helps sometimes.

But tonight, I was trying to count sheep. You know, sheep hops over the fence, then the next, etc. Simple! But you see, every time I have ever tried this, I can't control the sheep. Several will jump over, or they'll start jumping too fast to count! This is really strange, and almost scary, because it is like I can't control my own mind.

It just makes me wonder if it is a hint at some weird deep-rooted psychological issue, or just something strange about me.

Interesting, though!

Tuesday, May 2

nothing.

the last few days, i've felt that i really should be writing in this blog more, however the last few days have been so uneventful that there is nothing to write about.

i mean i've been doing stuff. i worked a bunch on the Ninjapirate Wiki but I am probably the only person who sees that site as worth anything. Nobody else really seems to give a damn.

aside from that, mostly just the usual. playing with linux. lots of eye candy, check out the latest shots here if you care.

lately i've been reeeally struggling to come up with motivation to do the things that are actually important. things like getting my GED, getting a job, maybe even a life. i am completely sick and tired of sitting here being a nerd all the time. i don't know what my problem is, but i really need to get my shit together. looking at the last few years, i am a pathetic excuse for a person. not saying it to down on myself, but if i saw someone else in my situation, that's probably how i'd think of them. so i can be judgemental, sue me.

don't get me wrong, i take a lot of pride in the geeky things i do. i am extremely proud of my accomplishments in the linux world, however insignificant they may be. that's not going to change, i just need to start a new chapter in the story of rayray. only problem is i can't seem to get the fucking page to turn, heh.

i have "goals" but not really much of a path to get there. what do i want to do? i want to be a *nix systems administrator. its the kinda thing i'd be good at, and probably have fun doing. but getting there is going to be a lot of work, and i don't really know if i have what it takes to do it.

i can't help but think "what if i just end up in some dead end job, and the computer stuff stays as it is; a hobby?" people are always supportive though, but for some reason it doesn't seem to make a difference if other people believe in me or not. i like to think i believe in myself, but i'm starting to think that i don't; but tell myself i do. kind've a paradox there, i guess.

rant rant rant. months of silence and suddenly this huge personal outburst. i feel kinda better now though.

:)

Sunday, February 26

I'm not a ricer anymore. I got stoned and decided to download/install Mandriva 2006, the free version. So far, so good. I'm liking it. I don't have to configure *everything* by hand, unless i want to. So i'm going to try and stick with this for a while.

On a related note, my new video card will be here tomorrow or tuesday, nvidia geforce 6200, a huge improvement over my radeon 9000 :)

uuum... oh i am finalizing work on the ninjapirate e17 theme, and i am tired. sleep now, byebye.

Thursday, January 26

Today was quite possibly the most boring day ever, up until this evening. (except I talked to chelsea all day, which made everything ok. :D)

I spent at least four hours reading quotes at bash.org. While hilarious for the most part, it does not exactly make for an interesting, and fulfilling day.

BUT. Around 8pm, I ended up with a copy of Crossover Office 5.0 (Commercial WINE distribution) and a copy of Photoshop 7.0. And guess what? Photoshop runs great! :) AND. I finally saw Revolution OS a great documentary about the history of Open Source and Linux. And now I'm uh.. talking on IRC. Here's an excerpt from tonight's discussion in #ninjapirate: (excerpt == HUGE clip. enjoy!)

<+twisted`> I totally picture myself
<+twisted`> in this big mansion
<+twisted`> and this big ass jacuzi
<+twisted`> and shitloads of pr0n stars
<+twisted`> and got like LCD screens and keyboards that are waterproof next to it
<+twisted`> and IRC everywhere
<+twisted`> w00t

Thursday, January 19

Where's Devilhorns when ya need him? :P

I can't fucking theme anymore today. I just spent around two hours trying to get the config panel fully themed, and as far as i can tell, it *is*. but it's just not showing up.

fuck that shit :D
Sometimes a mild case of sleep deprivation, with a smooth layer of marijuana resin over it makes me want to write.

I've been up all night. Mostly trying to get SuSE Linux to install on my mac, with no luck. Every disc I burn doesn't validate when i verify the checksum, so I'm thinking i downloaded a bad ISO.

But that's not a huge deal, I couldn't find a PPC version of SuSE on DVD anyway. Burning 5 CDs, when I have a DVD burner seems kinda pointless.

However, I found a Fedora Core 5 Test 2 PPC DVD ISO, so I'm downloading that, hopefully it'll work out better, eh?

That download will take most of the morning and afternoon, so I need to find something else to occupy me. Nobody's really online, so I wandered around the house a couple times taking pictures. Here's a couple links.

I don't remember why my leg was bleeding..
Around 5:30am I made breakfast.
And around 6:30 I decided to shower

Andddd..... that's it. :)

Monday, January 16

zomg!!1

The last few days have been so interesting that I haven't really had a chance to blog about them yet!

Friday night, there was a party at Dane's for Caleb, and I guess a couple other people too. Happy birthday!

I went with Chelsea and Susan, and it was pretty fun. Intoxicating substances, and plenty of intoxicated people to converse with. Further note, dont' drink everclear. You can't mix it with anything. It's unreasonably strong, you just can't drink it. However, rum and coke you can have. Have all you want. My favorite mixed drink. <3

Juippis: kingrayray: shit! This ninja-theme si awesome!
Juippis: and fast
Juippis: fast as a ninja

Tuesday, January 10

A typical day in the life of Rayray

... but also potentially the most boring day possible. ;)

Got up around 11:30am.. sleeping in too much due to sleeping pills. Spent the next hour reading email, checking news, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee. Around 12:30-1:00 the guys in #ninjapirate start bugging me to work on my latest theme some more, so I do. After spending nearly 7 hours tinkering with images and Edje code, I save my work, compile, test, and distribute. Lots of work got done today, as far as the user is concerned, everything is themed, so I am satisfied. I spend the rest of the day chatting and making a few touchups to my theme.

Around 7 or 8, Nathan came over to hang out for a bit. He left to catch the bus around 8:30, but he missed it. So he is staying the night. For the next few hours I just fucked around and talked to Nathan, blah blah. Around 10, I decided it was time to take a couple Tylenol PM, to get to sleep. I took six, generally a normal dose for me, but today it was too much. I spent 10:30-1:30 tripping out slightly, unable to sleep. Nothing too unusual.

Nathan and I discussed moving in together, with Chris and maybe Willy. Assuming we all had jobs, we could easily rent a 3-4 bedroom house, with plentyof cash left for bills and all that. Good stuff. I'm going to go apply for some jobs on Wednesday.

And here I sit, 3:15am and trying to get tired.. no luck so far though. But I did make this: A ninjapirate!

Sunday, January 8

Chill out!

This post is for all you people who completely lose your grip on reality when I am gone for a couple days. :P

I AM NOT DEAD

So calm down. If you really get so worried about me, send me an email! :P

I spent the weekend laying on Willy's floor stoned. Good shit. By the way, if you ever have the chance, get really stoned and watch the movie "Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter". While completely retarded and poorly edited/filmed, it's perhaps one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time.

Also, I was witness to the funniest method of waking someone up. Nathan, as usual, passed out very quickly. We had to do something about it. We started by taking some gloves, and repeatedly challenging Nathan to a duel, by slapping him. This went on for about 10 minutes, but he didn't move. Willy took the initiative here, and immediately put on a Spider Man mask, and Nathan's absurdly large jacket. Chris and I were laughing too hard to breathe, due to the absurdity of the situation. But we had no idea what was coming next. Willy told me to grab the amplifier, and suddenly it all came together.

SPIDER-MAN WAS GOING TO WAKE NATHAN UP VIA GUITAR

After a few minutes of preparation, Spider-Man started to jam, with the amplifier right next to Nathan. It took him a few moments, but eventually Nathan got up, and normality returned.

The end.

Sunday, August 28

Plz?

I haven't updated anything significant in a long time, figured I'd attempt to recap all of the nothing that has happened recently.

The lack of updates was due to me formatting my pc. If there's no blogger shortcut on my firefox shortcut bar, I never remember to update. The button is back now, so hopefully I'll update more.

I haven't done anything worthwhile, however. Until today, I suppose. Applied for a couple jobs, one being at Blockbuster. They seem pretty desperate for new employees, so my hopes are kinda high.

Uuum. As you see on the previous post, bluedefault 0.5 is out, i encourage everybody who wants a working clock to grab it.

On an unrelated subject, the "new" Mountain Dew Pitch Black II (Yes, apparently soda can have sequels), is just plain whack. It's last years grape crap, except now it's sour. WTF?

And I'd also like to add that Neverwinter Nights is fucking addictive as hell. Great game.

Um. That's all. Bye!

Wednesday, August 3

Gentoo is fun

I'm helping Nathan do a Stage1 install of Gentoo on his pc, it's taking forever, but we have caffeine and herbal time-passers to assist. Not too bad, we both have other stuff to do while it works. We just finished bootstrap about half an hour ago.. now we're emerging system.

Anyway, this is kind've funny. Check it out.
http://www.nata2.info/humor/pictures/americans.gif

This is a lighthouse. Your call.

In E17 news, I've made yet another modification to Slate, making it a blue-ish color. Tentatively titled "Chilled Assistance." It's a play on words, the theme was inspired by Kool-Aid, but I didn't want to infringe. =P

http://kingrayray.wallooza.org/ if you're interested.
Out

Thursday, July 7

WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING!?!?! .. only a professional could respond to such a query. Luckily, I'm the right man for the job. *Cracks knuckles* The name's Ray. But that's King Rayray to you.

er.. yeah, had some fun last night. went on an adventure with Chelsea and Nathan, got stuck at an undisclosed location, and AAA was required to breathe life back into the vehicle. We got a jump, and promptly went to Denny's for food and coffee. Nathan is insane, by the way.

Oh, and before I forget, Chelz is awesome. And she didn't tell me to say it, I swear!

As for now, I just recompiled E17, not a whole lot new today.. but there's a new .eap theme out, called CrystalClear. Very sexy. Has the Mac appeal, without the element of gay.

And to finish off the geekiness of my morning, I just compiled Evidence. The Enlightened file manager. Compliments E17 very nicely. Of course, I had to make sure to grab the Gant theme for it from Get-E I'll be sure to post up a new screenshot soon, clouds are pretty.

And now I glance at the clock, only to find that it's 6:00am. How the fuck did it get to be 6? Oh well.

Saturday, July 2

GLIBC can fuck off. fuck right off i say!

I fucking hate compiling glibc! Fucking Valknut won't run because I need to update it, fine! emerge glibc, get version 2.3.5, simple enough BUT IT IS GOING TO TAKE A FUCKING MILLENIA TO COMPILE. The only downside to Gentoo, ladies and gentlemen. Compile times when you need the shit NOW. Haha.

Wednesday, June 29

jeez.

I lost everything. Total system format, and I didn't even realize I formatted my home partition. Talk about bummer. Every file I had is gone, nothing remains. I'm posting right now from the gentoo install disk, extracting the stagefile right now. Hopefully this won't take too long. What the fuck was I thinking, installing Windows, just to play GTA? *shakes head* Fuck this shit.