Rantings of a Lunatic

So I was reading this article, http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/joanna-rutkowska-rootkit,2356.html, and the third question caught me as awesome. So I went and took a look, which was when I happened across http://www.videogamehouse.net/, which has all sorts of information about the old TI-99/4A games I used to play as a kid. Every time I go to my parent’s house I look to see if I can find that old beast. I am sure its there somewhere.

Hunt The Wumpus - I actually found a text version of this game on the Android Marketplace. And it has surpassed Dope Wars as my not online gaming game on my phone.

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Alpiner

Tombstone City

I didn’t run Ulduar tonight, and I haven’t logged in in a week now. And I am ok with that. Instead, I continued to pour over the wiring diagrams on my motorcycle, and figured out what one of the previous owners did to the electrical system. I was worried that the missing wires and cut and spliced wires were going to be a difficult situation to replace. Luckily though, it appears that the turn signal relay had gone bad, or something, and that was removed, and the rear brake light switch was shorted in there. If my assumptions are correct, it will only require a new relay, (already ordered off ebay for $8) and reconnecting the red wire that was cut and spliced away. If thats right, then the turn signals will start working again, which is something I am looking forward to. After that work, then I will have a few more tasks, like the cooling system flush. I am kind of worried about that, the amount of rust and sludge that were in there were pretty sickening to me, but hopefully it will all be ok after I run a flush through it. That will also be when I first fire it up after the valve-job that I did on it. All said, what I expect is about another 2.5 hours worth of work once I get the new relay in. Then its off to ride more. Unfortunately I am not sure if I will be able to take care of it yet this week, or if it will have to wait until next week.
I missed the ROT rally last weekend, I saw the riders coming in, and riding out, but I was in Houston over the weekend, so I wasn’t able to go take part in the festivities. Its interesting though, I don’t know any people from the Austin area who went to take part in it.
In Houston, I was hanging out with my family. My mom and I went and took a welding class, then we all went and celebrated Amanda’s birthday. It was good to see my family again.
Also my garden has been going well. We picked some veggies the other day. The Japanese Long cucumbers are averaging 8″ long right now, and the crooked necked squash is doing pretty well. Unfortunately the snow peas are all gone, they only lasted a few minutes after being picked. Kelly missed the pole beans altogether. They are averaging 14-18″ right now, so they look more like the stalks of the plants actually. I will probably pick those tomorrow, and we can have them for dinner. In all, the garden has been an interesting experiment, but I will make more changes before next year. I am reading about permaculture right now, and am interested in ripping up most of the back yard in an effort to turn it into an urban food producing jungle. We will see how that works out. I know that I will need a tiller for one thing, because I am not going to try to turn the soil over by hand again. That was a ton of crazy work that took a long time.
Photos will be coming shortly.

There is a pleasant surprise in my email this morning:
Package Progress
Location Date Local Time Description
AUSTIN,
TX, US 11/14/2008 6:08 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN

And the expected delivery date for this is 11/19/08, and it should be at my door today…
Unfortunately I had planned on it not being here, and am heading out of town for the weekend. Oh well, it will all still be there next week, and from the look at the servers last night, its probably for the better.

So, after working late today, Kelly and I went to dinner, and as we got home, her new comp was on the doorstep. I thought it was odd, but, apparently shipping doesn’t require signatures anymore. The computer was there, so I guess leaving a box clearly labeled Dell on the side wasn’t that bad of an idea, I would never have left it there myself. Anyway, thats part one, I wasn’t expecting it until the 21st, and its Kelly’s birthday present, which would have been early then, but I guess I shouldn’t complain about quick service. Now its just a matter of waiting on the other two parts, which I preordered, so I should see them on my doorstep on the 19th. Thats next Wednesday, which means the servers should be a little calmed down by then. Tonight, our server which rarely has a queue was queued up to about a thousand users. In fact, every server I have toons on was queued up between 700 and 1800 users.

And with a swift blow, he thought he had defeated the Tyrant Devilsaur.

He had been wrong before.