Thursday, May 08, 2008, 08:18 AM
My Prrrrrrecious
Admittedly, I’m not a big gaming person. Whether this is because they are a pointlessly frivolous waste of time, money and effort, or due to the fact that I always get pwned by my wife’s cousins in Halo because I never could get the hang of these !@#$# post-N64 joypads is irrelevant.
I like StarCraft.
So much so that, while attempting to install Linux on nearly every other piece of electronic equipment I owned, I made sure to keep a working copy of Windows on my desktop so I could play it whenever the mood struck. This was promptly ignored when I learned how to install StarCraft on my Linux boxen using Wine, and it has been smooth sailing ever since.
Or has it?
Earlier this week, the desire to turn swarms of zerglings into piles of warm goo led me to realize that I never reinstalled StarCraft after last year’s massive hard-drive failure. No problem, right? I’ll just check my Wine configuration, head over to my CD stack and ... where did they go? Both StarCraft and the Brood Wars expansion CDs are missing! Wracking my brain over where I had seen them last, I embarked on an hours-long search for my errant CDs.
Finally, success! Sort of. I found Brood Wars—at the bottom of the DVD case of all places; none the worse for it’s misadventure. StarCraft itself, however, is an entirely different story. I found it’s jewel case, empty, at the bottom of a stack of music CDs.
LOST! MY PRECIOUS IS LOST!
Saturday, April 26, 2008, 07:51 AM
Take a peek…
At the 2008 Student Art Exhibition
Among the seventy-some-odd pieces selected (out of nearly 300)
There is a painting by yours truly.
Guess I’m better at this art thing then we thought (too much more of this, and I’ll be forced to get a flash diffuser).
Sunday, January 27, 2008, 08:19 PM
The Prophet Died Today
I am sad.
That is all.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 11:31 PM
Personal failings?
Is it odd that I like Tom Petty, but not Bob Dylan?
How about the fact that every time the news guy comes on the radio and says “... and the power of Fox News!” I have a mental image of the priests from The Exorcist waving their crucifixes at Linda Blair whilst chanting, “The power of Fox News compels you! The power of Fox News compels you!”
Yeah, I thought so too.
Friday, October 19, 2007, 03:47 PM
… OK
Dear Congress--
Despite the constant whittling away of personal civil liberties America’s seen over the past half-century or so, I happen to enjoy living in what’s left of this great Republic of ours. Please stop trying to turn it into a socialist state. I sympathize with your desire to offer medical insurance to as many poor children as possible, really I do, but trying to extend coverage to a family of 4 making $80,000 a year is going more than a bit past the mark, don’t you think? Surely an inability to afford insurance when making 80K is more indicative of inappropriate priorities and bad planning on the part of the parents than a need for the government to step in and fix things?
There is a point where personal responsibility needs to step forward and handle these things, and it should come earlier in the timeline than you post-New-Deal types are wont to place it. Our unalienable rights are to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,” not “an existence, strict limits on what one can think, say or do, and ease,” so knock it off!
Dear everyone else--
My little nephew, but a month or two old, has just been admitted to hospital with what appears to be a strep infection. Any and all prayers for his well-being and swift recovery would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Update:
I don’t know what the problem was, but he’s doing much better now.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 08:05 AM
Yeah, yeah; I know, I know…
I hain’t done no bloggin fer a terrrible long time.
I’m sorry.
I’m going to school full time this semester (13 credits), and that’s kinda chewed up my blog time, especially in light of the fact that most of my classes are at the U’s main campus rather than down the street at the Sandy Annex like last semester’s classes were, so I have a 2-hour commute on school days. This week is Fall break, so I decided to post an update whilst taking a break from preparing for the myriad mid-term examinations, tests, quizzes, and critique sessions that await me next week.
Mondays and Wednesdays are First Year Studio 2-D (or drawing stuff on paper) and First Year Studio 3-D (making stuff outta 3-D shapes) at the main campus, then back home for a 1200-level biology class at the Annex. Friday mornings have First Year Studio Visual Language, an odd little class where we all just sit and not take notes (at the professor’s insistence) while the professor shows us slides of various pieces by various artists and we all wonder just what, exactly, she’s planning to test us on.
In 2-D we’re studying draftsmanship—or the ability to draw things exactly as they are with a minimum of distortion—so I’m using up vine charcoal (if you don’t know what it is, just google it, for all love) at a frightful rate. Fortunately, I use hard charcoal for my gesture drawings and initial triangulation (again, google), or I’d be in real trouble.
In 3-D, we studied the effects of lines with bailing wire, the use of planes with foam core, and Monday we will critique each other’s efforts to demonstrate open and closed shapes with folded paper.
I will post pics of some of my portfolio pieces when I get around to putting batteries into my digital camera.
In Biology, we’re studying DNA transcription and translation, and in Visual Language, we’re apparently studying fat-headed “ar-TEESTS” who are more skilled at deluding themselves that their “art” is meaningful and avant-garde than they are at making stuff that’s worth looking at.
*COUGH*
Anyway, last month saw the arrival of three new nephews, none of which I’ve seen yet, but I’m assured that each one is incredibly, almost impossibly, cute; pics when I get them.
Additionally, the Ex and the Spineless Wonder decided they were going to try to buy a house in Ephraim “because [the Ex] doesn’t feel safe in their current neighborhood while TSW is away at work (he works 2-week shifts at the oil fields in Vernal)” despite their inability to meet their expenses just about a year ago. I is my understanding that they are currently a: unable to qualify for a loan with anything close to a decent interest rate, and b: unable to get approval for said crappy loan until all their bills have been paid. Big shock.
To put the distances involved into perspective, they currently live in West Jordan:
He works in Vernal:
They want to move to Ephraim:
I told the Ex that if they do make this move, she won’t be seeing the girls anywhere near as often as she used to. She doesn’t seem to believe me.
Yet.