We had a lightning storm last night and counting backwards for things I need to replace or have.

DSL modem.

Router with wireless access point

Ethernet card on my shuttle

Ethernet card on my Thermaltake

Possibly my Xbox 360 (need to take it to a friends house to test it)

two netgear switches

ethernet card on a computer I was building for my friend.

So far, first thing I replaced the DSL modem and (obviously) I am back on line on my grunt IBM thinkpad (this thing could survive armageddon). I will replace everything else ad hoc…sigh.

Soooooooooooo……

Game night is a week off. I want to push for HorrorClix and Pirates! Mostly because I don’t play Clix enough and I’ve never played Pirates! in spite of spending a chunk of change on the game. I’m sure there will be a few rounds of Munchkin, our host got all exited by the western edition that is coming out and I am going to snag the Call of Cowthulhu.

I was thinking steaks for the day but the wind has changed and I am thinking home made chili dogs with ball park franks. I dunno, stupid hot chili and 100+ degree temperatures make sense to me in some sort of masochistic sense.

–oh wait, there is an internet component, I’ll add it in a second–

OK the internet thing. My old buddy (and former Sprint minion like myself) Grodog, directed a guy to me. I’ve since emailed and offered invites to Team Cthulhu events as well as other role playing discussion. It is weird randomness like this that makes me love the interweb.

I got and watched Babylon 5: The Lost Tales yesterday.

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Anyway, it was great to see B5 live again. I have to say though, both episodes were a bit on the short side and I felt the second act was stronger than the first. Seeing the station in new CGI was a treat, as were the smallish ship combats, etc.

The extras were great and the tributes to Richard Biggs and Andreas Katsulas were nicely done. I challenge anyone NOT to stare in horror at Tracy Scoggins’ neck every time she speaks though. I swear it was like something from a Giger painting.

Just wanted to remind everyone that even though the summer is still winding down, there is still enough time left to ROCK OUT!

Hey all, a grumble that should have just been between Joe and I, I blogged about and, well, that was not cool of me. I should have kept the discussion private and sorry if any of you saw it. All is well now and sunshine rains down on RevSF town.

No worries.

[  Mood: Happy ]
In my computer, being rocked out to right now.

I love The Thickets and will happilly buy anything they put out until they stop making music, which had better be some time after I have died.

I get confirmed fairly often that I am a nerd not cut from the normal nerd cloth.

Various examples:

-I could give a crap about Harry Potter

-The Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, while I think are ok are nothing that did much for me.

-I really tend not to like anime.

Anyway, I could go on.

My nerd obsessions went elsewhere. Obviously I am a horror genre guy with HP Lovecraft in particular. I love harder scifi, but have a grudge against Larry Niven from a con ten years ago.

Weird things like that.

The things I obsess on and love though… I love whole heartedly with gushing fanboy love. I was at the first ScaperCon fan-ran Farscape convention in Saint Louis if that says anything. I will embrace fan obsession, it just takes me a bit to get there.

I am the strange scifi fan, the niche fan among a niche market. But hey, I still feel comfortable and at home. Just don’t ask me to like Highlander the TV show.

I really liked the Silent version of Call of Cthulhu. They did a great job of capturing the feel of the origonal story I thought. So recently I bought one of the nifty movie posters for the film and had it framed. I just hung it.

I think it looks rather snazzy.

I’ve been fighting a battle the last few weeks that made me in turns annoyed, full of self doubt and filled with near rage at inanimate objects. It was, kind of, won today.

I was trying to wire up the offices of my friend’s sheet metal company. I tried wiring scheme after wiring scheme all to no frakkin’ avail. I could NOT get point A to talk to point B. I started to doubt if I even had the skill to put together a simple RJ-45 plug.

Anyone in computers knows that that is genital removing self doubt right there.

So this morning, away from the warehouse over at Two Fat Guys Lab I put together a cable, tested it and it worked. Yes, yes, I still knew how to make those. I relaxed in that comfort. I took it to the site and..nothing..something…nothing.

Then I remembered they were on a funky ISP/DSL provider that required hardcoded DNS/GATEWAY/IPs and bingo! The magic worked!

I swear this job was making me lose it though for a bit. Still don’t know why the previous cabling schema didn’t work though. I need to take a closer look at that building. I think I was getting EF interference from an arc welder or something.

Sorry…just had to vent.