Krispy

Am I blogging to myself, or anyone actually browse this hidden forum?

Obligatory.

I have a set of speakers connected to my PC that I have used for around eight months without problems. Today the left speaker began emitting continuous static sounds. The right speaker is unaffected. Both speakers continue to play sounds from the PC, but the left speaker also emits static sounds. The continuous static (which occasionally changes in volume on its own) is not affected by any Windows volume controls, nor is it affected by the volume knob on the speakers themselves. Disconnecting the speaker wires from the left speaker halts the sound, as does turning off the speakers or unplugging them. I have tried using headphones instead, plugged into the same PC port I use for the speakers, and the headphones do not emit static. I have not made any changes or additions to my PC hardware or software. Please advise me, Doomworld.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is a piece of shit.

I "upgraded" from 11-something, and after the "upgrade" it had no USB drivers (so mouse == dead) and no network drivers (so you were pretty much rectally sodomized). It also fucked up the GUI and left the consoles unusable but that might have had something to do with me not using Unity.

Installing from disk didn't help either: same issues. No USB drivers, no network card drivers. Fuck that fucking shit.

Edit: kernel version 3.0.24 is fucked up. Version 3.0.23 still has funcitonal USB & Ethernet drivers, but both have no functional ATI display drivers. So, still, fuck that fucking shit.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is a piece of shit.

I "upgraded" from 11-something, and after the "upgrade" it had no USB drivers (so mouse == dead) and no network drivers (so you were pretty much rectally sodomized). It also fucked up the GUI and left the consoles unusable but that might have had something to do with me not using Unity.

Installing from disk didn't help either: same issues. No USB drivers, no network card drivers. Fuck that fucking shit.

Edit: kernel version 3.0.24 is fucked up. Version 3.0.23 still has funcitonal USB & Ethernet drivers, but both have no functional ATI display drivers. So, still, fuck that fucking shit.

I'm done with my current lifestyle. It's just too shitty, boring, and depressing.

For the longest time I've been literally drinking nothing but soda (rarely any plain water) (I gave myself this name for a reason). I've also been eating far too much junk food. I used to be severely underweight, at this point I'm still mostly slender, but I've gotten a slight beer belly and small moobs, and I don't want this to get any worse. I've spent most of my days for the past few years in front of my computer just browsing the internet, playing games and neglecting my real life responsibilities. I never socialize outside of the internet (used to have an active social life, but it's pretty much nonexistent at this point). I never exercise or do any physical activity, and I have no muscle. And I blamed all of this on other people, like the jackass I am.

I'm changing this.

Starting today, I took a 25 minute walk around the neighborhood, have given up all sugar (and am otherwise changing my diet to a large extent), and just exercised by stretching and lifting weights. I'm also going to try to reconnect with my old friends. And most importantly, taking responsibility for my own faults and responsibilities. I am also going to go job hunting to do something meaningful with my time (might just see if my dad can get me hired by the same company that he works for, it's fairly small).

I'm ready to stop being a total waste of space just fucking off all day, and make something of myself instead.

Don't really know why I'm posting this, I just felt like expressing it.

I'm done with my current lifestyle. It's just too shitty, boring, and depressing.

For the longest time I've been literally drinking nothing but soda (rarely any plain water) (I gave myself this name for a reason). I've also been eating far too much junk food. I used to be severely underweight, at this point I'm still mostly slender, but I've gotten a slight beer belly and small moobs, and I don't want this to get any worse. I've spent most of my days for the past few years in front of my computer just browsing the internet, playing games and neglecting my real life responsibilities. I never socialize outside of the internet (used to have an active social life, but it's pretty much nonexistent at this point). I never exercise or do any physical activity, and I have no muscle. And I blamed all of this on other people, like the jackass I am.

I'm changing this.

Starting today, I took a 25 minute walk around the neighborhood, have given up all sugar (and am otherwise changing my diet to a large extent), and just exercised by stretching and lifting weights. I'm also going to try to reconnect with my old friends. And most importantly, taking responsibility for my own faults and responsibilities. I am also going to go job hunting to do something meaningful with my time (might just see if my dad can get me hired by the same company that he works for, it's fairly small).

I'm ready to stop being a total waste of space just fucking off all day, and make something of myself instead.

Don't really know why I'm posting this, I just felt like expressing it.

Just post what you're listening to:
Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

Hello, everyone! I've been browsing this forum for years now.I've played a lot of wads since 2003, both good and bad. But one thing you guys can do, is make maps, so I just play the them. Not too bad for a grandma, huh? By the way, my grandkids don't know. Soooo... you all keep up the good work, and have a good year!

http://www.securitronlinux.com/files/magpie.jpg

Look what I found. I was going for a walk and I found this Magpie lying on the ground. It was nighttime, so I think he might be unwell. I put it on the floor and it just laid there and toppled over. Its wings and feet are not damaged and he is not bleeding, so I am not sure what is wrong with it. I will have to wait until the following day and call WIRES wildlife rescue to have him seen to.

I know I could go to a random tech site and ask this, but I feel an answer from here would be more personal.

How does a Nvidia Geforce 6200 256MB compare to a ATI radeaon 9600XT 128MB? I found with the 6200 it allowed me to play doom 3 on max settings, but other games I'm getting shit performance. I thought that because the VRAM was higher, the 6200 would be better, but I'm having doubts. I heard that some 6200's have 'TurboCache'. From what I know, the card actually only has a small amount of RAM and uses system RAM for most of it's processing.

With that, it might not matter. I may be getting some 512MB card (no idea on brand/model), but the price will be free, so can't complain.

So my PC occasionally makes these odd grinding sounds in the CD player area which coincides with when I get a windows update, even if there's nothing in the slot. Also the light on the floppy disk drive goes on. I can make it stop by opening and closing it, but it may come back. What's the dealio?

I know Doomworld knows a good bit about cooking stuff so I figured I'd ask.

Whenever I go to the grocery store and pick up condiments and sauces to add to my meals, I usually always end up with a ton of leftover sauces and dips and they end up stinking up my refrigerator for weeks. Well it doesn't stink that bad, but it's very annoying to open up the refrigerator after I haven't gone grocery shopping in a while, and find all I have left are bottles of ketchup, mustard, barbecue sauce, french union nacho dip, salsa, sour cream, maple syrup, horseradish sauce, relish, buffalo sauce, and nacho spinach dip, and nothing else edible.

I'll get one bottle of this stuff and it will last FOREVER. Sometimes I just wanna throw it away but a lot of it I've only used once and the bottles are almost totally full. Are there any good meals I can cook or prepare that will make good use of this stuff? Preferably not millions of hot dogs and hamburgers and giant bowls of nachos please.

Just post what you're listening to:
Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hprasOq9gpA

What do you think?

Old Title: My Father's Going To Get Heart Surgery Soon

I was thinking of making this blog earlier than before, but I'm making the blog now. Back in December 2011, I went to Pizza Hut with my dad. He told me there that he was going to get heart surgery in April because of how bad his heart was (it's not TOO bad right now). I didn't know what the exact date was going to be at first after I found out about it, and I eventually found out the date for the surgery is April 25th and the surgery will be this year. I've been nervous about my father ever since he told me about the upcoming surgery and I got a bit more nervous after my aunt died on 2/15/2012 because of how death can come at anytime for anyone. I'm praying for my father that he'll be OK after surgery.

I'll let you know how the surgery went on this blog so you can stay subscribed to this thread if you want.

4/26/2012 Edit: The surgery was a success! Read this post for more info.

As of late I've been on a house hunting quest with my loving fiance. We've looked at a few houses in person and we only have a few prospects now that we're considering putting an offer on. One of the things that we are really hoping for is at least three bedrooms, or two if there's enough property to add on the house.

As of now, my fiance agreed that before we have kids, It is okay that I use one of the bedrooms as a "Doom Room" / Office. A room to myself where I can put together my PC and Widescreen TV combo that I play with a gamepad, and optional split screen with three other PCs on Odamex. Also a dimly lit room with bulletin boards and sketch paper and a wide desk to draw over so that I can continue planning and making doom maps. (At the moment my life is just way too full of distractions to map comfortably.)

While the topic has come up some times before, My fiance would most certainly like to have kids at some point in her life. I agree and have no qualms with that. However, the topic of exposing my children to Doom at a young age, teaching them to map and play the game very well, My fiance has proven to have a rather averse stance on that subject. The first time I mentioned it she said "Our kids are NOT playing doom."

I chose not to get confrontational and I figured with a little more Dooming she might think differently in the future.

Another time it came up, I happened to be staying over her house with my laptop and her young cousins, a boy and two girls ages 3, 5, and 11 were visiting as well. They're very loud and hyperactive kids at times, and it was very funny to see how intrigued they were with the game as I was playing it. I was especially interested in how quickly they were able to figure out that colored doors are locked without the colored key, and tell me what places to go that I haven't explored yet, especially in such godawfully ugly '94 maps I was playing. I let them get a chance at playing a few levels too, and they adapted to using the controller pretty quick. The three year old played the best! It was also funny to see them shouting "GET THAT ONE THATS A BIG GUY" and "EWWW! HE'S UGLY!!" and telling me not to go in the hallways that are too dark!

Later that day my fiance seemed kinda iffy about me letting her cousins play the game. She said the game is really violent and scary, and that I was out of my mind if I was gonna let my kids play it. She even went on to say she doesn't want our kids to become psychopaths! I tried to deconstruct her argument saying that I started playing the game when I was 3, listen to grindcore, and watch gore/slasher movies, but everything else about me is completely normal. I went on explaining that the graphics are so colorful and pixelated, that it's comical compared to the melancholic gore that they're no-doubt going to be exposed to when the other kids at school are playing Gears of War 6 and Grand Theft Auto 8. And that violent video games have been scientifically proven to pacify a person's mind and make them less prone to commiting any violent acts (Which can be good and bad, I wouldn't want kids that are TOO passive)

Unfortunately, she didn't seem to buy into any one of my points and is still holding her stance. She doesn't seem too strong about this subject as I've seen her on other topics of interest, so I'm not really heartbroken about it. I'm sure there's gonna be a point where I can get her to crack and admit defeat. There's no way in hell I'll censor my kids from my favorite things.

The thought of that makes me wonder if my mom wouldn't let my dad be interested in the things he likes in front of me. As far as I know, I don't really have any grasp on the genres of music he likes, his favorite movies, what he likes to do. He's difficult to interpret sometimes. Not that I've ever had any problems with him, I just feel like there's more to know about him than I already know. I wouldn't want to be a closed book towards my kids, show apathy to virtually everything, and pretend to like things that I dont.

Any ideas of what I can tell my fiance about Doom to help change her mind? Or better yet, a source to direct her to so that she may see it differently than her naive TV-news-influenced thoughts lead her to believe?

I am reading Moby Dick and enjoying it. 19th century novels often seem to romanticize "the other", which I quite like. EDIT: although sentences like these can be a bit bothersome:

So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with Scripture names - a singularly common fashion on the island - and in childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language - that man makes one in a whole nation's census - a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/moby/moby_016.html

Stumbled upon this news item just now and it tickled me because of how it ends:

"As it stands now, Floyd Mayweather, should he ever stop dancing away from a $40 million purse, would be favored against Manny Pacquiao, largely because of how they looked against common opponent Juan Manuel Marquez. Pacquiao-Marquez III, which many people believe was really won by Marquez, is still fresh in everyone’s memory. But what if Miguel Cotto gives Mayweather trouble on May 5? There would be an even fresher memory, and everything would change. After all, thoroughly dominated Cotto couldn’t even reach the final bell against hell-bent Pacquiao."


Read more: http://www.boxinginsider.com/columns/cotto-mayweather-may-unsettle-odds-for-floyd-versus-pacquiao/#ixzz1rn6CD9bD

I have poison ivy on my face (the 'systemic' variety) and half my face is swollen. The poison ivy started in my eye and I set to work over the last 4 days of keeping it clean and repeatedly applying Caladryl. The swelling finally went down, but now my cheek is swollen. Unless you actually remove the oils from your skin, poison ivy is one persistent beast hellbent on my suffering.