Thursday, November 29, 2001
Just added Neko to the list on the left. Wednesday, November 28, 2001
My archive has disappeared. WTF?!
- asmyth82 3:09 PM -
Woke up and felt crappy. And it's not even Monday. Decided to hang around today. Won't miss much and it'll give me a chance to relax. Now if only I had something to do.
One more week until Frank Millar's "The Dark Knight Strikes Again" comes out. I can't wait. I may have to take some time off that day to get to the store early. I know if I went on the 6th, it'd be sold out and I'd be screwed. It's one of the major events I've been looking forward to on the fan side of things but also as a collector. It's one of the titles that's easy to realize it'll be worth a large chunk of change later. Millar's first "Dark Knight" is still selling for about $15-$20 for each issue on average.
Monetary gain is an easy way to explain being a comic geek. I ran into a couple of friends years back as I was leaving a store where I had picked up a comic for 50 cents. They had a good laugh until I pointed out that the issue I had just bought was worth $25 on the market at the time. That shut em up real quick. It's like a geek stock market. I've listed about one fifth of my collection online and it's worth about $600 USD at present.
Look at that, I spent an entire post talking about comics.
Geekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeek. - asmyth82 11:48 AM -
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
Blogger is being a bitch in any attempt to create any blog.
- asmyth82 2:48 PM -
This is one of the few times I get early in the week to get online before 8 pm or so. The problem with this is that I'm using a Mac. I'm typing this using one of those crappy Mac keyboards they released a year or two ago that no Mac user, (all four of them,) liked. The mouse sucks too. One button and it's not even optic. God dammit. - asmyth82 1:43 PM -
Just updated the snorcomment code. I wish these comment people would stop screwing around. they need to stay chained to their computers in a basement somewhere. - asmyth82 1:22 PM -
Monday, November 26, 2001
Today is unusual in the fact I haven't added anyone to the list on the left. For a few days there it was someone new daily. This leads me to believe someone must have started a blog and we just haven't found it/been informed of it yet.
- asmyth82 9:07 PM -
Sunday, November 25, 2001
Added Nick to the list. Nick man, link envy is really pathetic, I thought you above that. :-)
- asmyth82 7:04 PM -
Friday, November 23, 2001
Just added John to the list on the left. MI.net is taking it's last gasps. There goes a big chunk of the Majestic community. What oh what is EA going to put up as it's Highlighted Site now?
- asmyth82 5:02 PM -
Added DP's blog to the list on the left.
And DP, if you're reading this, happy belated birthday. You could tell us you know. Thinking you'd force us to wish you a happy birthday if you had mentioned it is the silliest thing I've heard in a long while. - asmyth82 10:21 AM -
Thursday, November 22, 2001
The one thing I hate about holidays: The chat is dead. Nobody shows up, or nobody shows up when I'm there. What am I supposed to do with my online time?
- asmyth82 11:29 PM -
To any and all of my friends in America, Happy Thanksgiving. I guess this proves my theory that, compared to Canadians, Americans are slow on the uptake. Our Thanksgiving was a month ago. To which I guess you could reply: "We are on holidays, are you? Didn't think so, so shut it." :-) - asmyth82 11:03 AM -
Wednesday, November 21, 2001
Upon entering the Majestic chat this evening, I ran into Rev. After a quick hello, I started right in on him updating his blog. Here's what he told me:RevMajestic: well thats different. i lost interest in that...
Sigh. - asmyth82 8:51 PM -
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
It's Tuesday and I'm here waiting for any word from RMF. Today was the deadline and I'm ready to get started. Knowing my luck, everyone will get the starting info and I'll get an email stating: "You haven't sent in everything asked for! You cannot play! You are the weakest link! Goodbye!" Well maybe something like that, though I don't expect, (and hope,) RMF doesn't do an impression of whats-her-name. I hate her. I really, really do.
- asmyth82 1:17 PM -
Monday, November 19, 2001
You know what I love? Those times when you have to come up with an idea or a solution to some problem and no matter how hard you think, you can't come up with anything. then, when you are almost ready to give up, it hits you. Boom, you have this brilliant idea that solves the problem.You know what I hate? Those times I come up with said answer then forget it before I can get it down on paper. Damn it. - asmyth82 8:55 AM -
Saturday, November 17, 2001
It's been just a slow day overall. Nothing has really been happening. But tomorrow brings a new day and a new week so we'll see what happens.
- asmyth82 11:56 PM -
So as you can see, since Reblogger's going down and I missed the Blogback boat by just a lil bit, I'm using....uh....Snor....whatever the hell it is. - asmyth82 12:21 AM -
Friday, November 16, 2001
So I gave up yesterday on adding BlogBack to the ol' blog here due to a) having non computer related thing to do and b) I kept getting stupid runtime errors. So tonight I figured what the hell, I'm sitting around, I'll throw it up, runtime errors or no runtime errors, (preferibly the latter.) So I go to the BlogBack site and I'm greeted with:"No Room at the Inn
As sorry as I am to have to say this, as of midnight tonight (GMT), BlogBack is no longer accepting any new users to the system. This is to ensure that it can continue to exist, and work somewhat properly, for all the existing users. Any installations detected after today will be deleted and banned from using the service any further.
I have no fixed date for reopening the service so, if you are looking for a comment script, then I suggest you search elsewhere. (A list of those I know will be appended at some point.)
Thanks (anyway) to Jesse, who probably understands the problems all to well, for the recommendation to Reblogger's users... and my sympathies, in advance, to Snorcomments. ;)"
I think he knew I was coming. :-)
- asmyth82 11:54 PM -
Browsing through my stats, I see that 53.8% are from the US and 7.7 are from Canada, then 0.5% come from Belgium. One visit from somebody in Belgium, whoo I feel like I'm international now. I guess one visit was enough for that person. I can assume his/her comments went something like "Stupid Canadian. Is there nothing happening in that hemisphere to write about?" The answer to that my Belgium friend is "no." This is Canada after all. Then,coming in as the second largest piece of the pie chart is Unknown with 38%. Alright! I'm providing entertainment for an unknown part of the world! Ya! Go me! Maybe I can take credit for the discovery for this unknown area of the Earth.
And today, I'm ranked the 40th most popular Canadian general homepage. Woo....I doubt out of all of them I wouldn't even be listed in the top million. Wanna know why? Because if I looked at my listing with everybody else in the list, I'd be going up against porn. PORN! You can't beat porn so don't even try. - asmyth82 11:43 PM -
Stupid Geocities. Should've figured I wouldn't have been able to link it. . - asmyth82 6:39 PM -
Thursday, November 15, 2001
I drew up what my character may look like for D&D. This is just one of many preliminary designs I've done so far. Only one I've posted though.
- asmyth82 11:30 PM -
Took Reblogger down. Tried to put up Blogback, but kept getting runtime errors. So screw it for now. - asmyth82 11:17 AM -
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
A few things of note.First off, despite the trend a few of you have fallen into, i'm not going to start singing. I'll leave that to you guys, you probably have better voices anyways. :-)
Secondly, reading Mudacom, I got hit by pang of nostalgia or whatever the hell you could call it; sadness I guess. So I went and updated my Maj. page. Been a while since I've done that. Don't know if I'll do it again. But I guess I'll leave it there, even if it's never touched again, as a warning to those who pass by.
I don't understand it. I guess it's just the end of the whole thing that's got me bummed. Well, it's probably that and the fact I'm sitting alone in TWO chat rooms. Majestic chat and Burning Ring of Fire. Nothing helps you reflect on what's gone than being alone. Stupid AIM. - asmyth82 11:27 PM -
As a follow up note, after this morning's blogger non publishing stunt, I'm not very happy with blogger either at the moment. I hate it when it pulls that little stunt where it posts what I've written, but won't publish it. - asmyth82 10:30 PM -
There are some days that I don't mind AIM. Actually, I should say there are days AIM doesn't piss me off totally. Yesterday was not one of those days. It could grasp the "logging on" part, but was totally clueless about the "opening a chat room" part. When AIM does that, it reminds me of hall monitors back in school. You know what I'm talking about. There would always be the really geeky one who'd enforce the rules and be a real ass about it. Or the student crossing guard, (sometimes the same kid,) who wouldn't let you cross the road even if there was no traffic. That was their message: "Muhaha...I have power and you can't do anything about it." And you'd chuckle, and stuff the hall monitor in a locker, or kick the crossing guard in the stomach and walk on by. AIM makes me feel like that. It's the geek with a little bit of power if you want to use it. Never mind the fact it doesn't do it's job very well.
I think I had a point in that ramble somewhere. - asmyth82 8:09 AM -
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
So here I was, reading through the ring of fire pages that have become a daily, (ok, hourly,) ritual for me and I'm sure most/all of you. I read the comments on 27's latest posting, and lo and behold a comment from Dayna. Nice to at least see she's still alive and not in some DAoC coma or standing in a ditch by the highway screaming "Camelot! Camelot!!!"
- asmyth82 1:43 PM -
Monday, November 12, 2001
Today was quiet, a little too quiet. The calm before the storm? Hello paranoia my old friend. I've come to hide with you again. Because those delusions softly creeping left their seeds while I was sleeping. And the device planted in my brain still remains.......Wait...that's very majestic-like. That's over isn't it? Ah well.
- asmyth82 6:41 PM -
As you may or may not have seen, way down at the bottom of this page is the link to the burning ring of fire chat room. Thanks to Dusty for the awesome image. - asmyth82 7:44 AM -
Saturday, November 10, 2001
I don't know what to do. Reblogger is down, and switching to BlogBack isn't a viable option due to the fact that a) it would mean work and b) it's down just as much. I feel like I'm talking to a wall here without comments, and I could do that offline. (And have a few times recently due to the slump the Maj community has been in.) Now while walls can listen, they don't respond, which is exactly the way this site is without comments. Sure, it's not really a big deal, but I just like to know you people are still alive out there. (Note: Being alive does not constitute having a life. A lesson I've learned the hard way.)
- asmyth82 11:47 PM -
I know this feeling I have. It's like a premonition. I keep feeling like today is Sunday, not Saturday. Whenever I've had this feeling, it never turns out well. The day goes badly. And on top of that, I have the feeling I'm forgetting about some work or something I need to do. Like that feeling you had back in school when you felt you were forgetting something but paid no attention and then realized there was a huge project due on the day it was due. I've gone over everything I need to get done over the next two weeks and I can't think of anything I'm forgetting. This is just going to bug me now.
Hopefully the comments are working again. This whole on again, off again stuff is really getting annoying. There's nothing worse than coming up with a great comment to somebody's post and writing in the comments, trying to post it, only to be told of an internal error or some crap like that. Plus I like to know if anybody's reading what I write here and not just skimming by it. I'm egotistic like that. - asmyth82 12:28 PM -
Friday, November 09, 2001
One minute before I started writing this, I finished Majestic. My beta time is over. Now while some, like RMF, will say that I've wasted my time due to one anti-Majestic reason or another, I will have to disagree. The last episode was the most fun I've had from Majestic since the pilot. But I'm not going into what's good and bad about Majestic. I don't feel like bothering. I just finish things I start, just the way I like to operate. But now it's over, and my mood has just gotten a little more depressed. I can't help but think of the future. Sure there are many players who bought the retail version, but we have no contact with them, (or want contact with them, I suppose.) By the end of next week, I'm sure every beta will be done ep 4, the betas who are still playing, I should say. Possibly even a bunch of paying players who've been around nearly as long as most of us non paying people. That is if there are any paying players left.
But once again, I'm getting away from my point.
I'm thinking of the future. What will happen to us? The community? Or what's left of us. Will we just slowly fade away? One of us just fading into the darkness never to be heard from? I sure hope not as I have met some amazing people while a part of the Maj community. I'm talking about everyone reading this and even a few more who aren't, (or maybe they are, I don't know.)
When I first showed up in the Majestic community, I didn't give any information about myself. I just stuck with my screen name and didn't mention any personal details, such as my first name, (it's Adam, for those who don't know or have forgotten.) I figured that I wouldn't really meet people I liked. I have never been so wrong in my life. I found myself making time to come to the Majestic rooms. First, the Majestic Alliance room at prelaunch, then the Majestic room when the game started. I used to be in the chat room for hours every single day. Now there are days I don't show up or only stay for an hour or two, but I chalk that up to real life and seperate priorities, such as work and whatnot.
So to those reading from the maj community, I would like to say this. I consider you good friends. We may not have ever met face to face, but you are some of the coolest people I have ever known. While some of you may claim Majestic wasn't worth it, it gave me something. It gave me the chance to meet all of you, and I will always thank Majestic for that.
So there it is. My farewell to Majestic beta. Reading over, it sounds like I'm leaving. Pulling a Jaya. But you people aren't getting rid of me, you just don't have that kind of luck. :-)
Here's to the future, friends. - asmyth82 10:52 AM -
Thursday, November 08, 2001
So I was reading the papers earlier today as I've been known to do, and I came across a couple of different stories. To begin with, for those who don't know, here in Canada, a Senate committee voted to ask Parliament to leagalize marijuana. I have no problems with this. I may not use it but I know many who do and they are perfectly normal people. (As normal as people that I know can be.) But in today's Globe and Mail, I read a story of a federally funded experiment where 125 junkies in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal will be given heroin for a year. The screening process? They must have been addicted to heroin for at least a year and have had to try to go clean at least twice. The junkies will be injected twice, or if they wish, three times a day and in return must stay in the hospital for 30 minutes after being injected. Or, if some junkies prefer, they can be injected with methadone, in an attempt to cure their addiction.
Now as I am trying to get over that shocking news, I read a story in the National Post, in which a Senator in Vancouver during a meeting of the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs announced he believes cocaine and heroin should be legalized and sold in liqour stores. He believes the war on drugs has been lost. Now as I've said, marijuana I have no problems with. It doesn't turn people into thieves and muggers to attain enough money to get their next fix. The worst pot does from what I've seen is cause the person using it to attack a bag of Doritos unmercifully. That and sit staring at the wall giggling. But cocaine and heroin?!? That's going a little too far. Of course, this news involves scientists and senators. Two groups who enjoy spending my tax dollars with aplomb. - asmyth82 10:50 PM -
I've noticed Dusty seems to be in a bit of a funk. A depression. A funky depression, if you will. I know I've had the same one recently. If an elitist group is what is wanted, why not set up a chat for the elite?
And for God's sake, would somebody slap Dayna's picture on the side of a milk carton already? Turn on the light in the lighthouse? Put a candle in the window? Tie a ribbon around a tree? Set out landing lights? Go to her house and smash the DAoC CD with a sledgehammer? Dibs on the last idea. - asmyth82 12:34 AM -
Tuesday, November 06, 2001
Sorry Eh. I actually had added you this morning and put up the post below, but blogger wouldn't publish. (Damn java errors.)
- asmyth82 8:04 PM -
OK, I just added CanEHdian Chic to my links. Why does no one tell me personally when people start up a blog or whatever? - asmyth82 1:29 PM -
OK, I got the 3rd ed. handbook and I have created and sent in my character. But you don't hear RMF kissing my ass...And I thank him for that. - asmyth82 1:15 PM -
Monday, November 05, 2001
The next couple of days are looking extremely busy. I doubt I'll be home before 8 today or tomorrow. Hopefully after that it'll settle down, but I don't want to get my hopes up. Why is it before the week even truly begins, I'm longing for a weekend? Living for the weekend is no way to live.
- asmyth82 9:46 AM -
Saturday, November 03, 2001
Ah, lazy weekends. Sure there is work to be done, but that's where procrastination comes in. Don't you just love it?
- asmyth82 11:42 PM -
Thursday, November 01, 2001
OK RMF. I've installed the Python stuff and OpenRPG and have screwed around in it. I've also done a character sheet. I just hope I've done it right since this is pretty much the first time I've ever done this. Never played and actual pen and paper "Roll the damned dice!" RPG. I guess I'm not as big a geek as I thought. Just think how much I could n00b this up. :-)
- asmyth82 10:31 PM -
