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April 22nd, 2017
 | 05:18 pm - wow
Not that I've been active on anything lately, but wow, LJ is I guess dead to me.
Seriously, the translation you can read isn't the real legally binding TOS? Agree to the Russian ones? What kind of *BEEEP* is that. If you're going to provide a translation, run it by your lawyers.
The internet, of course, is remarkably unkind to non-english speakers who often are asked to agree to a TOS they can't read, but I would expect any company that provides an official translation to be sure it's accurate.
Regret my lifetime account now, I guess. I'm going to keep crossposting for now, but all comments are pushed to my DW. So if you're reading this on LJ, hop on over to the DW. If you're reading this on LJ and there aren't any recent posts, well, ...most likely I just vanished again, but it's possible I've stopped crossposting. So hop on over.
So, I'm alive, 36, I doubt virtually anyone who used to still reads my journal, but if you do, stop by, tell me what's changed in your life in the past couple years. I'm screening comments.
As for what's up with me?
Not much, but if you really want to know, see the cut...
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March 29th, 2015
 | 08:27 pm - Another year 'round the sun
Wow, it's been forever since I posted.
Fast update: It's not even like I've moved on to other communities. Mostly, I'm just not communicating with anyone much; I've barely been on WoW for months. Work sucks. Need more RP. Life is increasingly draining. And now is the season of lawn mowing.
Today's my birthday. Happy birthday, me!
When I was born, this day wasn't influenced by DST, so I guess the actual exact time of birth is no longer 10PM, but rather 9PM. So in like, 30 minutes.
Not that it matters.
Hope everyone's doing good.
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March 3rd, 2014
| 08:17 pm - Oh, Internets...
So today while browsing around thesaurus.com for inspiration...
I found this nonsensical result.
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August 26th, 2013
| 08:35 am - windows geeks...?
Okay, I have an interesting one here. More of my friends are mac users or nontechies than not, but there's a few of you out there.
So when I got my desktop back up and running (or the computer formerly known as my desktop, though virtually every part except the optical drives and the video card are new) I had to reinstall windows.
I chose to do an 'unattended' install to seamlessly move the User files to a second partition on the drive from start for maximum functionality and the speed boost that a small primary partition provides. Everything was working just fine...
Until now when I have just discovered that though it is enabled, VirtualStore is not working. I don't have a lot of legacy programs that don't know manners, but I do have a couple (all old games, of course). While I can install those in another folder, I'd rather have it Just Work.
I rather like UAC. I consider virtualization of protected directories to be one of the smartest moves MS made going to Vista. (Though of course it wasn't really implemented 'right' until 7, much like most other things.) While there's like a dozen workarounds I can take on a per-app basis (taking full control of the folders, installing elsewhere, creating symlinks to data directories... etc.) I really want VirtualStore to just work. Anyone know how to give it a kick in the pants?
All I can find on the googles is a few people talking about how moving their user folder, in whatever method, jacked up their VirtualStore the same way.
PS: Really, Microsoft, how hard does "Save stuff over HERE!" have to be?
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July 29th, 2013
| 08:59 pm - Folks in Austin?
So I know some of my friendslist either lives in Austin or has lived in Austin and still may have contacts there.
One of my very best friends in the world recently moved from Philly to Austin for a job. He had a plan to get an apartment with a friend of his working at the same location. For various reasons which I won't get into because I don't know the friend in question and I'm trying not to judge, that plan has now fallen through. He's trying to get an apartment himself, but is short on the ready cash for first, last, and deposit, and has minimal renting history.
This is a guy I've known since I was in college, who stayed up late nights with me when I was at my most depressed and took my suicidal thoughts seriously, someone who hosted my sister at her first con, and has twice visited my home, including attending my wedding -- he came further for that event than any family member did for either of us. In short, I vouch for him, have met him in person, and even trust him with my sibling.
He may (he's not sure since he at least hopes to get an apartment, but gave me permission to check the interwebz for any contacts BEFORE it becomes a crisis) need to rent a room from someone for a few months to save up that first, last, and deposit.
So I'm just throwing this out there to see if anyone more directly linked to the area has any suggestions, or hey, a spare room and a desire for some extra cash. He does have a job. He does have a car. He's a polite guy who is not at all an axe murderer, even if he does look a little like his viking ancestors.
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June 7th, 2013
| 08:21 am - I really need a new job
Waking up with nightmares about your job and not being able to get back to sleep for concern about it = ++unfun.
PS
Oh right, if I change my LJ name, I also need to change the account on DW to get crossposting...
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June 6th, 2013
| 07:28 am
Hey, lookit, now my LJ and DW names match. >_>
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May 21st, 2013
| 08:41 am - Female fronted rock?
I've been trying to train up a pandora station that plays nothing but strong female-fronted rock. I'm doing this looking for songs that have the potential to be character themesongs for my various Exalted characters, but it's been fairly slim pickings.
Anyone have female-fronted bands they like to listen to? I love Metric, but I'm mostly looking for a harder edge.
Here are my current seeds:
Empire by the Alpines -- one of my current Bennu songs
Unbreakable by Fireflight (CCM, but I don't mind that.) -- Also a Bennu song but really more a Phoenix Maiden song. This band has an -excellent- sound but very few songs that have lyrics that work very well for most my characters.
The Mission by Puscifer -- TOTALLY Ara (Airship captain, dual flamepiece wielding eclipse. And yes, this isn't a female fronted band, but this one song is.)
Halestorm -- Unfortunately their lyrics are either 'standard romance' or more Abyssal or Infernal, but definitely the -sound- I'd like.
Bands that are coming up a lot, though none of them are quite perfect, include:
Paramore (a little to pop-y for my purposes, but not bad.)
Icon For Hire
Evanescence (Not always very hard, but.)
Dirt Poor Robins
It feels like every time I hear an even slightly harder song and thumbs it up, the damn thing goes back to pulling in male vocalists 75% of the time.
Any suggestions to listen to/add as seeds welcome!
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May 18th, 2013
 | 08:31 pm - The Once and Future Prison Game
Last year, many of you will remember, I ran an Exalted 'one shot' (that took all summer and into the fall, because I fail).
The original post was here.
As per usual, the game did not happen quite like I originally planned it mostly because I plan very poorly and what I grabbed off the top of my head when it came to the crunch ended up being ...different. But I think most the players had fun.
I plan to resume the game during the summer. Since both of my current Saturday games have gone on hiatus, I suspect we will probably play on Saturday afternoons, though a weekday evening is still possible as per the original game.
First dibs on slots go to the original players - original players, please let me know if you have the Saturday Afternoon slot free (or if you don't - if enough don't, we'll pick another time.) If you don't have Saturday Afternoons, do let me know if there's a weekday (after 7 pacific) when you can afford to play to 11pm or later. Note that Friday evening is already gone.
If you weren't in the original but are interested in playing in the resumed game, please leave a note. For those of you that weren't along, a combination of aggressive Twilighting (and Twilight...?ing) got everyone out of the prison just before the Eclipse social attacked the Prison to fall into Lethe. This tore a hole in the Underworld and the players ended up ...falling somewhere... (Meanwhile, the Zenith powered the Escape Device, also beat stuff up, and the Endings Sid beat a lot of things up.) So the game will no longer be set in the Infinite Prison and the GM has not yet been forthcoming about when and where everyone might land.
If I don't have at least four players with a common time slot, I probably won't go ahead.
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Current Location: The Underworld
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February 12th, 2013
 | 11:13 am - Amusing... yeah right.
Well, that was one of the more interesting phishing/scam phone calls I've ever received.
Very heavy Indian type accent. Not expert enough to place it for sure, but we'll call it "The Dell Support Accent" for lack of better precision.
This is [something I couldn't quite hear, maybe Ceylon for all the lack of sense that would make?] technical support, calling about your computer.
I gave them half a chance. I did recently send my laptop in to ASUS to be repaired, maybe ASUS was trying to follow up on that and find out if I was happy with the repairs.
Your computer is not responding to online updates.
Okay, you still haven't said anything that indicates a previous business connection and you're offering me entirely unsolicited support for online updates? That I know I get, BTW, because they come in automatically and I just checked this morning and saw there were none, anyhow. At least, default OS ones. Which, it seemed, was what he was talking about.
So I asked again what company he was from. Still couldn't hear the answer. What computer was he talking about. The Microsoft Windows one. What brand? He doesn't know.
Gosh, thanks. You know my phone number, associated with my non-updating computer, but have no further information about my computer, who I am, or anything else?
Right. And I'm the queen of the flying pigs.
I hung up about then, so I don't know if it was an attempt to get me to install viruses or pay for technical support services I didn't need. (Or both!)
But very interesting.
ETA: Call came from a blocked number. "Private Caller" - that makes it WAY less likely it's anything legit, too.
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