Every other Thursday night from 7 to 9 PM, I am required to be at the office for “Tech Meetings”. The remaining Thursdays are listed as “Game Nights” but no one has ever actually had a ‘Game Night’ since I started working here four months ago.

Last night (and into this morning) we successfully had our first lan party (unnamed) at the office. It went very well but the hour drive home at 5:30 AM was definitely rough. The boss even came and spent three hours trying to get Warcraft 3 working on our LAN - taking breaks to let myself and ben own him up in Q3 matches.

Good times. Next time we’ll definitely have a camera handy.

I had to move my ftp/ssh/www server + nat/firewall box. I had hoped to be able
to leave it up but it was strung through too many powerstrips.

> uptime
Linux pcp243892pcs 2.4.17 #2 Sat Jan 19 22:25:47 EST 2002 i586 unknown

14:27:35 up 102 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00

Tears were shed.

I just wanted to extend my congrats to Paul, who is the geekiest guy I’ve ever met that doesn’t have /anything/ on the web of his own to which I could href his name.

The congrats are in order becuase he popped the question the night before last.

Now his lovely gf is his lovely fiance.

gl to the both of them 😃

My buddy Ben got a job where I work.

Aaron and I are going to drive up to Cleveland to get him on Friday to help him move to Maryland, where he’ll be my new roomate. I’m still shacked up with ol’ pink eye, so it’s going to be close-quarter living for a bit, but you won’t be able to swing a cat without hitting a computer. 😃

Good times will be had.

Back when I was an art major taking an ‘introduction to art and digital media’ class, I was given the assignment to make three animated banner advertisements.

I knew the assignment was more or less a “learn the technology” piece, which was extremely aggravating for me, as were the majority of my college art classes. The first few years of art classes focus on learning the media, then focusing on the craft. The media wasn’t new to me, and I didn’t learn the craft. =/

So anyway, my main banner ad was unintelligible sccribble with a red, then green, then blue background.

During my review, the TA pointed out that I had chosen rgb wisely and that it makes my banner ad cool. Now I’m no better artist / mind than the TA - she, and all of the other people I interracted with are extremely talented, but I just laughed and said “I was cliche-dropping wired magazine. rgb ya know?”

The so-far design of this site has been going that way so far. A parody of a designer site w/ some usability excpetions (a true parody would have 7px type somewhere). I think that, this, more than my disgust with the art department’s technology-hand-holding, was what kept me from a degree.

I’m a un-creative bastard.

The girlfriend took me ‘shopping’ yesterday. Half a newly-enlarged-paycheck later and I am suitably equipped with the first new wardrobe (half-wardrobe perhaps) since Mom took me out before my sophmore year of highschool for ‘school-shopping’.

The new threads are comfy.

I’m coming down with a mild cold. Progress will slow to a halt again until I’m fit to vim it up.

We’ve recently had our first scrim as a four man team in quite some time against a new clan full of old friends, KnS. We came out victorious on both dm7 and dm6 and would like to thank KnS for the great games.

For those of you with voodoo cards and Win2k, these new drivers might come in handy. I ripped them from a geeknews.com link and they seem to help my fps at least a little. Good luck!

Before it’s too late to be noticable, I’d like to use this forum to give thanks to a great clan, The Specialists for all of thier support during acid*sun’s brief unstable period. Thanks to their help and advice during that period, especially the counsel of [TS]Riffington and [TS]Hollow_Man, acid*sun is again a growing clan. The new and imporved acid*sun is heavily based on what we’ve seen and liked about how The Specialists run their organization. Nate and I will never forget them, and I look forward to joining them at QuakeCon in August. In summation, if you see a [TS] on a players name in q3a, you’ve just met a wonderfully nice guy - but watch out, he’ll frag the shit out of you if you aren’t careful 😉