Score one for Everyone, except Eric, and then Eric
So I played a rousing game of Blood Bowl with Denis last night. The Lothlorien Arsenal trounced the Appleby Mashers by a score of 4 -1, with one death on the pitch. This is the first game of BB I have played with another opponent, besides myself, that has actually finished using minatures in probably over 5 years. I had a blast!
Point:Eric
Hogshead Publishing, the fine folks who took over the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay license from Games Workshop, and the fine producers of Nobilis, are calling it quits. It is sad. The license reverts back to GW, and they will probably sit on it and let it die instead of sell it or use it themselves. Boo. Here is the sad quote from the Hogshead site on the matter:
"GAME OVER! As of 30th November 2002, Hogshead Publishing Ltd is leaving the adventure-gaming industry. Please note that the company is not going bankrupt. It is refreshingly solvent. However we are bored, creatively frustrated, and increasingly despondent about the future of the specialist games industry. After our successes in 2002, particularly the mould-breaking and critically acclaimed games Nobilis and De Profundis, we think we've gone as far as we can, and this seems a suitable high-point on which to call it a day."
The quote in an of itself makes me sad, seeing as Wizards has taken a large chunk out of the total creativity of the gaming community and destroyed much of the niche gaming market for smaller, upstart companies. Instead of making a whole new game for whatever cool idea someone may have, they just make a D20 sourcebook for it instead. Boo.
Point: Everyone, except Eric, for the demise of WFRP.
Point: WotC, for keeping their chunk of the market large and ever growing by elimi-date-ing the competition.
Saturday, December 07, 2002
San jose Sharkees
Oh, Enron, you suck ballz. One for nixing the basketball game, but second and more severe is sleeping before midnight, especially when I call you! That's a sine.
just kidding enron, your good in my books. Anyways tonight, my company had some free tickets to the San Jose Sharks game, so I went. 55 bucks a pop and 15 dollars to spend on food and beer and good stuff like that. We usually get the VIP box seats, but today I guess they were cutting cost. Anyways, the game was pretty exciting. The game was close all the way until the end, in fact OT, when the sharks who was trailing the entire game, made a comeback and scored the winning goal. So they WIN! Go sharks! While there, I met an interesting girl, she's thirty though, but very cute. Pretty high standards, into the leather pants and stuff. Not really my type. So anyways chatted up with her all game, and I think I'll email her. She's a pretty cool cat. Wish she was a few years younger.
I'm a little drunk. I had two beers, but that's enough to get me going. ok.. I'm going to bed, but maybe not before I get in a good game of warcraft III.
Night all.
Oh, Enron, you suck ballz. One for nixing the basketball game, but second and more severe is sleeping before midnight, especially when I call you! That's a sine.
just kidding enron, your good in my books. Anyways tonight, my company had some free tickets to the San Jose Sharks game, so I went. 55 bucks a pop and 15 dollars to spend on food and beer and good stuff like that. We usually get the VIP box seats, but today I guess they were cutting cost. Anyways, the game was pretty exciting. The game was close all the way until the end, in fact OT, when the sharks who was trailing the entire game, made a comeback and scored the winning goal. So they WIN! Go sharks! While there, I met an interesting girl, she's thirty though, but very cute. Pretty high standards, into the leather pants and stuff. Not really my type. So anyways chatted up with her all game, and I think I'll email her. She's a pretty cool cat. Wish she was a few years younger.
I'm a little drunk. I had two beers, but that's enough to get me going. ok.. I'm going to bed, but maybe not before I get in a good game of warcraft III.
Night all.
Friday, December 06, 2002
The Action Team: It's LEARN-tastic!
Nice work on the job Eric Hessington! Gainful employment at last. I suppose this means an end to our afternoon makeout sessions. Hopefully the market won't crash again in three days and take out your job. Then you'll have to go back to your usual entertainment.
ERIC: More tea and cookies, Mr. Kitty?
STAMPY: Meow!
Also nice work on the router/hub edutainment. I guess this blog is turning into "blow Eric" so I'll touch on some other points real quick.
1. I know none of you have a GameCube so this is totally fucking moot, but Metroid Prime is good. Real good. I've been spending my free time alternating between playing it and working on a story ("my story?"). Basically it's like any other fps except it's the best game ever. Plus did you know Samus is a chick? Wow!!
2. Number one was pretty much it. Gee, my life is sad.
Nice work on the job Eric Hessington! Gainful employment at last. I suppose this means an end to our afternoon makeout sessions. Hopefully the market won't crash again in three days and take out your job. Then you'll have to go back to your usual entertainment.
ERIC: More tea and cookies, Mr. Kitty?
STAMPY: Meow!
Also nice work on the router/hub edutainment. I guess this blog is turning into "blow Eric" so I'll touch on some other points real quick.
1. I know none of you have a GameCube so this is totally fucking moot, but Metroid Prime is good. Real good. I've been spending my free time alternating between playing it and working on a story ("my story?"). Basically it's like any other fps except it's the best game ever. Plus did you know Samus is a chick? Wow!!
2. Number one was pretty much it. Gee, my life is sad.
Oh my God! I killed so many people virtually tonight. As Dennis and Eric whooped it up at Blood Bowl, I whooped it up myself by murdering countless civilians and police officers, many of them suffering head shots. Then I got the Katana blade and cut those fuckers up! Grand Theft Auto Vice City is a really fun game. Another Friday night... wasted.
Gnarly Ga-hrilla
Sorry I have been lagging on the Blog. To make a long story short I am in the process of looking for a new apartment. Current roommate=bizzatch. So I have quite busy between work and the quest for the holy grail. Johnny I think I am going to have to nix the Basketball action jackson. I will be running around like a nut this weekend. I hope that very soon I will be moving. Looking at moving into places right away. The sooner the better. I think I am going to start packing up non-essentials this evening.
Rude-dog, the Netgear Roto-Routers are pretty good too. The one I have is pretty old (In terms of SOHO routers) and it has a pretty good interface. The old routers were tough to configure. They seem to be even more user friendly now and pretty damn affordable.
Congrats on the Jobby-job Elric. What is the name of the company? Lemme guess. www.axewound.com? You dirty man. Does Leslie know you are working for a internet porn service? You should try and have that job while you work at a school. Good combo once a student finds out and blackmails you to sell crack to him at a cutt-throat loss. Then forces you to run a prostitution ring out of your backyard. Have a brothel set up by digging tunnels under your house. Grim future Elric. Maybe you outta quit while you are ahead.
Rudy I have a 3DfX VooDoo Banshee card. Its real fast. Like I bet you could get 1.2 fps in wolfenstein. Want to buy it at a low low cost of $250? Didnt think so. PCI video cards are pretty rare these days. You can find them here and there, but most manufactures do not offer a PCI version.
Bortz
Sorry I have been lagging on the Blog. To make a long story short I am in the process of looking for a new apartment. Current roommate=bizzatch. So I have quite busy between work and the quest for the holy grail. Johnny I think I am going to have to nix the Basketball action jackson. I will be running around like a nut this weekend. I hope that very soon I will be moving. Looking at moving into places right away. The sooner the better. I think I am going to start packing up non-essentials this evening.
Rude-dog, the Netgear Roto-Routers are pretty good too. The one I have is pretty old (In terms of SOHO routers) and it has a pretty good interface. The old routers were tough to configure. They seem to be even more user friendly now and pretty damn affordable.
Congrats on the Jobby-job Elric. What is the name of the company? Lemme guess. www.axewound.com? You dirty man. Does Leslie know you are working for a internet porn service? You should try and have that job while you work at a school. Good combo once a student finds out and blackmails you to sell crack to him at a cutt-throat loss. Then forces you to run a prostitution ring out of your backyard. Have a brothel set up by digging tunnels under your house. Grim future Elric. Maybe you outta quit while you are ahead.
Rudy I have a 3DfX VooDoo Banshee card. Its real fast. Like I bet you could get 1.2 fps in wolfenstein. Want to buy it at a low low cost of $250? Didnt think so. PCI video cards are pretty rare these days. You can find them here and there, but most manufactures do not offer a PCI version.
Bortz
Bitch Switch, Glub Hub
Switches and hubs are used in conjunction with routers to share internet connection, or for connections on LAN's only. They don't understand IP's, they use something called a MAC address, which is basically a computer serial number. The internet doesn't understand the MAC (for all intents and purposes), and the switch/hub doesn't understand the IP.
A router keeps something called a "routing table", which is just a list of IP's and their "hostnames" linked to MAC addresses. So the router can assign an IP to a computer and keep track of their MAC address as well. Here is another fine ASCII diagram:
{internet} <--> DSLModem <--> [router:with routing table] <--> switch <--> Computer #1 with IP, Computer #2 with IP, etc.
This allows the computers on the LAN (local area network) to communicate with each other through the switch or router, and allows the LAN to connect to the WAN (wide area network, aka internet) through the router. To make a long story short, a switch/hub is basically a wire splitter. You can share the same signal though multiple computers with a switch/hub. There is much, much more to this story, but that is basically it.
And no, you don't need the exact brand of D-Link Router, but man, it's cheap and its a great router. It's the only one that I have really found that allows firewall configuration and port tinkering out of the box. I think Enron mentioned to me awhile back that my old Linksys could do it to, but I needed to flash the firmware, and I just never did. Again, think back to the computer mantra, "more or less, you get what you pay for." If you skimp on the router, who knows what kind of service it will give you and for how long. Food for though, Mr. Mannings.
Switches and hubs are used in conjunction with routers to share internet connection, or for connections on LAN's only. They don't understand IP's, they use something called a MAC address, which is basically a computer serial number. The internet doesn't understand the MAC (for all intents and purposes), and the switch/hub doesn't understand the IP.
A router keeps something called a "routing table", which is just a list of IP's and their "hostnames" linked to MAC addresses. So the router can assign an IP to a computer and keep track of their MAC address as well. Here is another fine ASCII diagram:
{internet} <--> DSLModem <--> [router:with routing table] <--> switch <--> Computer #1 with IP, Computer #2 with IP, etc.
This allows the computers on the LAN (local area network) to communicate with each other through the switch or router, and allows the LAN to connect to the WAN (wide area network, aka internet) through the router. To make a long story short, a switch/hub is basically a wire splitter. You can share the same signal though multiple computers with a switch/hub. There is much, much more to this story, but that is basically it.
And no, you don't need the exact brand of D-Link Router, but man, it's cheap and its a great router. It's the only one that I have really found that allows firewall configuration and port tinkering out of the box. I think Enron mentioned to me awhile back that my old Linksys could do it to, but I needed to flash the firmware, and I just never did. Again, think back to the computer mantra, "more or less, you get what you pay for." If you skimp on the router, who knows what kind of service it will give you and for how long. Food for though, Mr. Mannings.
shoot my face
Well, thanks for the info Eric. It was only $20 bucks, and I don't wanna swap out my ethernet card to save 10 bucks. Hey- what the FUCK does the switch do then? I'm gonna keep it- if it just gonna be a paper weight? Fuckin' switch! Also, I'll go to frys tomorrow- I saw a shit load of those D-Link router types o things. If they don't have that exact brand, I just gotta make sure it says "router", right?
Jael: Ya, lets play, but now the next big obstacle I hit is my computer itself. I'm pretty much just below the min spec of most games these days. Anyone have a PCI graphics card for sale? :(
Thanks guys...
Well, thanks for the info Eric. It was only $20 bucks, and I don't wanna swap out my ethernet card to save 10 bucks. Hey- what the FUCK does the switch do then? I'm gonna keep it- if it just gonna be a paper weight? Fuckin' switch! Also, I'll go to frys tomorrow- I saw a shit load of those D-Link router types o things. If they don't have that exact brand, I just gotta make sure it says "router", right?
Jael: Ya, lets play, but now the next big obstacle I hit is my computer itself. I'm pretty much just below the min spec of most games these days. Anyone have a PCI graphics card for sale? :(
Thanks guys...
49 bucks thats el-cheapo!
Prices have sure dropped since I bought my router, or maybe it was just the linksys. For the price that i paid $249 vs what it does, yeah I would say that that's pretty pale in comparison to the 49 dollar unit. I don't know too much beyond that as I only use the basic features, and never really had to mess around with the DCHP and proxy stuff. To it's credit though, I've only really had problems with the outdated firmware, which I downloaded new patches for. And since then I haven't had any connectivity problems.
Rudy: Glad that the installation was simple. I guess they've made it a little simpler than when I had the installs or they just made it look complicated???
Let's go meet up and play some online games!
Jael
Prices have sure dropped since I bought my router, or maybe it was just the linksys. For the price that i paid $249 vs what it does, yeah I would say that that's pretty pale in comparison to the 49 dollar unit. I don't know too much beyond that as I only use the basic features, and never really had to mess around with the DCHP and proxy stuff. To it's credit though, I've only really had problems with the outdated firmware, which I downloaded new patches for. And since then I haven't had any connectivity problems.
Rudy: Glad that the installation was simple. I guess they've made it a little simpler than when I had the installs or they just made it look complicated???
Let's go meet up and play some online games!
Jael
Router Router Router
You need a router. Thats why. Switches and hubs don't understand IP addresses, so when DSL comes in, you get one IP address and that's it. Which means only one of your computers will get the IP to use on the internet. An IP address is like a mailing address for the information being sent over the internet, if you have no IP, you cannot recieve any information, ie no internet. You should be able to communicate between the two machines on the hub using "hostnames" or the name of the computer, if you care, probably not, but you will only be able to go on the internet with the one computer that was given the IP first, meaning the Mac.
If you have a Router, the router uses the one connection to the internet and assigns its own IP's to all the computers on the network, effectively sharing the IP you are given and dividing it between all the machines on the network. Looking kinda like this crappy ASCII diagram:
{internet} <---> DSL IP - [router] <-->IP#1, IP#2, IP#3, etc., etc.
Hope that helps, you need to drop some cash, or your parents do, to get two computers on the internet using a router. Or routo-rooter as Enron would say. Get something like this, its what I have and its great. Don't bother with a Linksys, they blow Lich's.
You need a router. Thats why. Switches and hubs don't understand IP addresses, so when DSL comes in, you get one IP address and that's it. Which means only one of your computers will get the IP to use on the internet. An IP address is like a mailing address for the information being sent over the internet, if you have no IP, you cannot recieve any information, ie no internet. You should be able to communicate between the two machines on the hub using "hostnames" or the name of the computer, if you care, probably not, but you will only be able to go on the internet with the one computer that was given the IP first, meaning the Mac.
If you have a Router, the router uses the one connection to the internet and assigns its own IP's to all the computers on the network, effectively sharing the IP you are given and dividing it between all the machines on the network. Looking kinda like this crappy ASCII diagram:
{internet} <---> DSL IP - [router] <-->IP#1, IP#2, IP#3, etc., etc.
Hope that helps, you need to drop some cash, or your parents do, to get two computers on the internet using a router. Or routo-rooter as Enron would say. Get something like this, its what I have and its great. Don't bother with a Linksys, they blow Lich's.
I HATE COMPUTERS b/w MY DSL WAS REAL EASY TO SETUP
This has been one of those *real* frustrating computer days. I work until 8pm, Fry's closes at 9pm, so I raced down to M.B. and just got into Frys before they closed. I had heard my DSL modem came in the mail, so I wanted to pick up a cheap Ethernet Card - tried Radio Shak, and they had one for like $25 bucks. Ha, no. So, I found this bundled ethernet card AND switcher/hub thingy for $20 bucks, so thats what I got. I don't really need the hub, but my folks do, so I thought I'd kill 2 birds with one frikkin stone. FUCK. I can't for the life of me get my Dad's computer hooked up through this switch. I spent almost 2 hours fucking with it, and nada. My mom's MAC was working fine through the device, but I had NO LUCK with the pc. Any ideas? Any fuckin website I can go to that will explain it to me?
My computer. The DSLExtreme bizatch told me I'd be "live" on Dec 10th. Well, heh- its working right now! I can't tell how fast it is- i mean, its hella faster, but I haven't fully tested it, so we'll see. Dude: After I installed my new ethernet card (easy as shit), all I had to do for this dsl was plug in a filter they gave me between the wall plug and my phone. Then plugged the modem into the computer. Then it worked. Thats it. I went in to my control panel and setup my email, etc, and POW. So, WHY THE FUCK COULDN'T I GET IT TO WORK AT MY DADS HOUSE! WE HAVE THE EXACT SAME COMPUTERS! :(
Alright- gotta test this shit out- LATE
This has been one of those *real* frustrating computer days. I work until 8pm, Fry's closes at 9pm, so I raced down to M.B. and just got into Frys before they closed. I had heard my DSL modem came in the mail, so I wanted to pick up a cheap Ethernet Card - tried Radio Shak, and they had one for like $25 bucks. Ha, no. So, I found this bundled ethernet card AND switcher/hub thingy for $20 bucks, so thats what I got. I don't really need the hub, but my folks do, so I thought I'd kill 2 birds with one frikkin stone. FUCK. I can't for the life of me get my Dad's computer hooked up through this switch. I spent almost 2 hours fucking with it, and nada. My mom's MAC was working fine through the device, but I had NO LUCK with the pc. Any ideas? Any fuckin website I can go to that will explain it to me?
My computer. The DSLExtreme bizatch told me I'd be "live" on Dec 10th. Well, heh- its working right now! I can't tell how fast it is- i mean, its hella faster, but I haven't fully tested it, so we'll see. Dude: After I installed my new ethernet card (easy as shit), all I had to do for this dsl was plug in a filter they gave me between the wall plug and my phone. Then plugged the modem into the computer. Then it worked. Thats it. I went in to my control panel and setup my email, etc, and POW. So, WHY THE FUCK COULDN'T I GET IT TO WORK AT MY DADS HOUSE! WE HAVE THE EXACT SAME COMPUTERS! :(
Alright- gotta test this shit out- LATE
Thursday, December 05, 2002
I Got a Job
Today I got a job. I start Monday. IT crap at a startup with a VERY successful "boss" who has sold previous companies of his for upwards of 25 million. So maybe ground floor will be promising for me, or it will turn out to be a shite job. I'm the third employee. Great.
Man, Jael, you're breaking my heart passing up a rousing game of PBI to go to a Golden State (7-11) game? Sheesh, you might as well be wasting your time at a Laker (7-13) game or something. PBI dude!
ADDED:Also, in celebration for getting a job, I just ordered a pizza for dinner on the web. So easy, its sick. Pizzahut.com guys, check it out and see if they deliver to your area!
Today I got a job. I start Monday. IT crap at a startup with a VERY successful "boss" who has sold previous companies of his for upwards of 25 million. So maybe ground floor will be promising for me, or it will turn out to be a shite job. I'm the third employee. Great.
Man, Jael, you're breaking my heart passing up a rousing game of PBI to go to a Golden State (7-11) game? Sheesh, you might as well be wasting your time at a Laker (7-13) game or something. PBI dude!
ADDED:Also, in celebration for getting a job, I just ordered a pizza for dinner on the web. So easy, its sick. Pizzahut.com guys, check it out and see if they deliver to your area!
San Francisco The number 1 single city in US
Continuing on my SF story last night, ate dinner at a bar. My cousin and I were happily discussing different topics important to life, Basketball, Sex Life and money making business concepts. While we were on the topic of Sex life, I had mentioned it's been a while since the pipes been cleaned. It's a little rusty. But I was sharing my new philosophy of serious relationships and finding "the one". I didn't want to stay on the dating track anymore, not that it has ever been a runaway success, but I just felt, it's time to switch gears. Hence the reason why I've been single for so long. My cousin pointed out that that afternoon he had gotten 2 telephone numbers AT LUNCH, and that SF is the bustling place to pickup asian girls. After years of being non-dating I guess he's switched to the dating scene. Good for him.
Anyways we moved on to a topic of Basketball and two guys started talking to us. This indian guy was pretty cool and professional looking and he ended up inviting me to a Goldenstate warriors basketball game on Saturday. I was looking forward to a good PBI game but Enron if youre interested in a basketball game, we can do that for a while and play PBI later. Anyhow email me sucka! I pity da fool! I got one free ticket and I'll split you the cost on the second.
Jacko roody: My experience with DSL is when they were installing the filter, they just put something behind the jack in the wires. I can't remember. It's been a while. But the hard part comes when your not getting the signal and you have to fiddle with something outside, and then you have to log into the DSL company website for access. I'm sure they'll provide some instruction, but it's not a quick and painless process. Usually takes the guy 30-45 minutes to do the job. It might take you hours. But give it a shot!
jael
Continuing on my SF story last night, ate dinner at a bar. My cousin and I were happily discussing different topics important to life, Basketball, Sex Life and money making business concepts. While we were on the topic of Sex life, I had mentioned it's been a while since the pipes been cleaned. It's a little rusty. But I was sharing my new philosophy of serious relationships and finding "the one". I didn't want to stay on the dating track anymore, not that it has ever been a runaway success, but I just felt, it's time to switch gears. Hence the reason why I've been single for so long. My cousin pointed out that that afternoon he had gotten 2 telephone numbers AT LUNCH, and that SF is the bustling place to pickup asian girls. After years of being non-dating I guess he's switched to the dating scene. Good for him.
Anyways we moved on to a topic of Basketball and two guys started talking to us. This indian guy was pretty cool and professional looking and he ended up inviting me to a Goldenstate warriors basketball game on Saturday. I was looking forward to a good PBI game but Enron if youre interested in a basketball game, we can do that for a while and play PBI later. Anyhow email me sucka! I pity da fool! I got one free ticket and I'll split you the cost on the second.
Jacko roody: My experience with DSL is when they were installing the filter, they just put something behind the jack in the wires. I can't remember. It's been a while. But the hard part comes when your not getting the signal and you have to fiddle with something outside, and then you have to log into the DSL company website for access. I'm sure they'll provide some instruction, but it's not a quick and painless process. Usually takes the guy 30-45 minutes to do the job. It might take you hours. But give it a shot!
jael
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