How can we expect cable companies to deliver a 3-D signal when they can't even send me a true, un-fucked 1080p signal? And no, $9,000 for a 3-D TV does not merit the headline "How close are you to having 3-D TV?" Let me answer that. I may as well be on the fucking moon.

So, for a time I basically had two computers sitting around minus a powersupply to run the second. I bought some cheap shitty power supply to run the second one (I don't know, $50) and a copy of Windows 7. Should've waited to buy Windows 7 when it dropped in price by about half during the Christmas Season. Had everything all ready to go to get a second PC running and I insert the Windows 7 CD in and nothing happens. Turns out, I had both DVD drives I owned in the Daddy and only a CD-ROM in the POS. So, I had to donate an organ on behalf of Daddy to POS and I finally, after a few months of sitting on it, got the POS running. It's sort of loud right now since I never put the fan regulator back on it but that's also because the CPU cooler I have on it is like 10 years old. Fans don't run as well after 10 years I guess. Now I just need to buy another DVD burner or somethign to put in Daddy, and set-up the POS. I forgot there was a time when drives could not play both DVDs and CDs. Oops.

I lost my dog brush. My dogs hair is everywhere. What a bitch. I gave her a bath last night though so at least she doesn't smell anymore.

Planning to go to D.C. soon. I'm going to freeze my ass off. Oh wait, I am already freezing my ass off. I think I've figured something out about myself. I like the idea of travelling, but I don't actually like to do it. I like to put pictures of nice colorful, exotic place up as my PC wallpaper, but I abhor the idea of say, actually travelling to the Amazonian rain forest where I won't have a cell signal, running water, or respectable shit hole. I'll leave that to the professionals. So, if you couldn't figure it out from that, I'm only minorly excited about D.C. It doesn't help that I see travelling as a money hole. I think I approach life from the perspective that I am going to build my "home" up to this really nice, comfortable place for myself. Travelling is sort of like the anti-thesis of that. I like my nice chair, my computer set-up just so, my Xbox, my giant ass why did you buy such a fucking big TV, and my new car. In all likelihood, my travelling will not have these same comforts. And that isn't to say I don't or wouldn't travel, just that I don't particularly like it as I understand some people like it.

No Liveurinal at work = less posting. My phone is just a lot less convenient. Good for twitter, superior even, but worse for LJ.

Currently, diddling around in:

Company of Heroes
Dragon Age

I like Company of Heroes. It's RTS with an emphasis on the S. Lots of micromanagement in the way of flanking and taking cover. Very different feel from other RTS but a pleasant one.

Dragon Age - I can't get into it at all. I find the entire interface obtuse. I want to like the game but so far? I don't think I do. I might have liked it better on the PC because I would've had a mouse. As it stands, your default starting party is dumb as fuck. They stand around while getting bombarded by arrows and whacked on. I assumed that "out of the box" my party would not be so handicapped, and I mean that in the insulting sense. "Out of the box" they were useless. This would be fine except for the fact that you need them to do shit because you can't win battles on your own. So I had to sit there and figure out how the hell to program them to respond. An irritating task since even after that one of them still just stood around scratching his ass. Except now he followed me around doing it. The other two actually became useful. More irritating? I have a fucking rogue in my party that can't open any of the chests or locked shit. What the fuck is the point of that I ask? That is the sole purpose of rogues - to break into shit. Well, this jackass has no points in lockpicking. Generally, I like my RPGs to be intuitive enough that I can take them out of the box, put them into the disc drive and just play. I can't do that with Dragon Age. It irritates me. I hate, hate, hate RPGs where I have to sit there and babysit THREE OTHER FUCKING CHILDREN. Even Baldur's Gate was smart enough to make your party capable out of the box. This is 2009. Why the fuck do I have to remind my party to wipe their ass after they take a shit?

My prediction for this winter: It's going to be bullshit.

Fuck NOAAH or whatever that stupid acronym is and fuck the farmer's almanac. Here's my prediction: It will be cold. It will rain. It will be cloudy. It will snow. It will be fucking gay.

Bah! I just spent the better part of my morning installing BitDefender on Windows 7 only for it to shit on me after a restart saying I needed to install BD2010. Have now spent the better part of two hours configuring anti-virus software. Not fun! On the plus side, my computer is now wearing rubber so hopefully it won't catch the cyber-syphilis.

Installed Windows 7 upgrade to my Mom's computer last night. Sony mailed the install disk plus another disk that had a bunch of Sony drivers. Unfortunately, there's some kind of "flaw" in the Sony drivers and an error message kept popping up declaring her battery to be unfit for her laptop. The worst thing about the message was that it would take focus and re-center every, oh, 5 seconds. So, you literally could not do anything. I had to take the battery out and use the laptop on plug power only to find the task and prevent it from starting up. Of course it was some mysterious Sony driver that I just had to take out of the boot.ini. All seems well, so hopefully I don't get a call about it later.

Technology simplifies! NOT.

wow. my hero's battery life is really good now. it used to not even last a day. with the recent patch it is lasting almost 2. it has thrown off my whole recharge schedule.

Ahh yes... the world proving that it is hurtling towards Orwellian bullshit heedlessly.

America, fuck yeah!

of course when I want to look at my credit crap Chase is down... assholes.

A feature that used to work perfectly fine in both Vista and XP in WMP11 doesn't work. At least for me. I figure out how to rebuild my library but now it has fucking disappeared again. I don't really want to rebuild my library everytime I launch WMP... Can I downgrade to WMP11? Don't know but I sort of want to find out now.

after seeing capitalism, a love story I can't help but see the evil on banks everywhere. not the theory of them, but the modern application. combined with their simple incompetence when it comes to actually protecting my money, I wonder what's the point. 53 recently applied a 500 dollar adjustment (down) meant for someone else's account to mine and then had the gall to ask if I had actually put the money into the deposit envelope. now Chase has left me a nice 600+ dollar mystery charge. I wonder what I spent 600 dollars on...

... Anyone else had the exciting issue where WMP 12 doesn't show everything in your library? Just happened to me with ALL of my songs. Someone suggesting renaming your folders and than naming them back, but with over 75 artists and who knows how many albums that's not feasible. Had to go to Tools->Advanced->"Restore Media Library". Not happy about this. That combined with the complete lack of an Equalizer in Library view is epic WMP 12 fail.

So, I'm completely fucked if I get swine flu. To the hospital with me!

Bah, I just looked at graphics cards and it still costs 400-500 to improve significantly beyond a geforce 260 core 216. the market has barely moved....

I think I am going to install windows 7 tonight. trying to figure out if I should do the 64-bit or 32-bit version.

ugh. one thing about the genesis coupe forums, is that you realize people will express any dipshit opinion they have as fact. anything from Obama death panels to convoluted ideas about vaccines. they never bother to supply evidence- their persuasive tool of choice the personal narrative. for better or worse I've decided to call them out. it irks me me when people spread misinformation that can be harmful to more than themselves.

it says something about the phone that I implemented the work around for the 100% usage issue and still have 54%. namely, how bored I am at work. if there are no caps in my mobil posts it is because mobil livejournal does not turn on caps automatically. I've discovered an app called comics. it fetches 25 online comics for your reading pleasure from penny arcade to dilbert. it is a favorite of mine. what are your favorite Mobil apps?

Yeah. I had to start a new insurance plan. It costs 250 more a year. that made me miss Kentucky. also fun: dealing with lazy twat hr people. next up? the Ohio DMV. between getting a new phone and paying a new six month insurance premium I am one poor motherfucker.

words I've taught to my new phone?
twat, fuck, bitch, motherfucker, and zit.

an amusing thing: the hero auto fill already knew "HTC".

figured out the HTC sms and mms app prevents the phone from sleeping. how did they miss that? easy fix: download another sms app.