Steve

cindrax @ 2003-12-04T01:31:00

2003-12-04T06:31:42Z

Ah well. I managed to go three entire days into December before getting totally fed up with Christmas music. That's about an entire day longer than last year. Guess I haven't been listening to enough radio or something. :)

In other news, I've recently encountered the joy (ha!) that is BitTorrent. Technically, it's an interesting way of serving files such that they don't overload the server they're being hosted on, while allowing large numbers of people to access the data. The downside, of course, is that the tradeoff for making things easier on the host server ends up being that much more of a pain in the ass for the person downloading them. My last download was about two gigs of data. It took me roughly 6 days. Two gigs in 6 days. That's an amazing 4k per second. For those non-techies out there, you know that blue-haired fellow that I use for my LiveJournal avatar (his name is Laharl, incidentally)? He's FIVE TIMES that size. Hell, I could almost YELL "one zero one one zero zero one" down the line that fast (well, not really, but it's funnier that way).

So yeah. Speed efficient it isn't. But ah well.

Blarf.

2003-11-10T22:22:41Z

So I've been trying to figure something out for a while now, with no real success. I've had this nagging feeling for quite some time now that something's wrong, or something is missing, or that I've forgotten something important. How's that for vague? It's not always there, either -- it's fairly easily overridden by talking to people about...well, really anything, or by going out somewhere, or playing a computer game, or reading, or just about anything else.

So I've got something that makes me feel odd, I've had it for a long long while now, and I don't know why. And I'm really starting to get sick of it, to be honest. It could be psychosomatic, I guess -- I've gotten more and more concerned that whenever I have involvement in a situation that everyone else involved is happy about what's going on, so maybe I'm subconsciously worried that I've forgotten whatever thing I can't think of that would make everyone happy with whatever's going on.

That's not my job, however, so I'm not sure why I get like that. It's not like I *want* it to be my job, to be honest -- it's not that I don't care if people around me are happy or not, but well, there comes a point when if they're not, I'd like whatever part of my brain that cares to just stop doing so, and not make me be all uncomfortable and worried and such.

I'm not all that sure what posting about it will do, but maybe I'll get some insight on it from you guys.

Hell, for all I know, this is just my brain's way of saying "er, didn't you used to be really shy? What ever happened to that?" and overcompensating for the difference. :)

Sonuva...

2003-11-03T07:20:41Z

Bah, I just took that "What animal..." quiz that daerath posted, and for some bizarre reason, I too apparently would turn into a snowleopard, if whatever conditions that would make me turn into one came to be.

Snow leopards are cool and all, but that's not really the point here. Ah well.

Silly quizzes.

Nostalgia

2003-10-28T04:36:48Z

I just love it. Nostalgia is a wonderful feeling.

I've been looking into ways to open up and play those old games I've had for years now, that don't work on Windows XP, or that don't like new sound hardware, or don't deal with large harddrives, or don't deal with optical mice, or...yeah. I'll stop now. And that doesn't even get into the old MOD players, loaders, demos, and random shareware junk I've had stored away on disks or in my ever-growing (and oh-so-creatively named) Steve directory on my system (which has been dutifully copied from every system I've ever had, back into the days when spending $40 for a 10 *meg* hard drive -- half-height, no less -- was a good deal).

For those of you that have had similar interests, you might go check out DOSBox, which is doing a *damn* fine job, plus it's open source (yay SourceForge!) so you don't even have to like Microsoft to admit it's always had the best game support. Heh.

A little better

2003-10-22T02:40:01Z

My second post, and already I rant. :)

<rant>
What the dainty blue hell were the guys that designed these themes *thinking*? Or the people that hired them, for that matter? Ever think about checking that they know what they're DOING first?

The only themes that I could find that were anything other than eye-bending or dull had all their colors, fonts, and so forth hardcoded. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, they provided a nice handy color configuration system that their style designers just elected to ignore for half the styles (read: the good ones). I have to override the styles manually to get my page to look like anything other than southwestern expressionist artwork. Or, if I choose "Style Mode 2" or whatever it's called, the only styles in THAT one that don't make me angry aren't even in the list of options available to me. Grr...
</rant>

Ah well. At least Vem and Spirit are getting along a little better. (For those of you that have no clue what I'm talking about, bluemeg and I have adopted a cat that would have otherwise been sent to the pound, and as he's already ten years old, and a bit of a grumpy old codger, probably would have had a life expectancy of twenty minutes. But well, that whole grumpy old codger thing keeps cropping up -- he's not thrilled with the change. To his credit, he seems to be trying, and I'm astounded that Spirit is actually trying to keep some of his territory and not just roll over and let it all go, him being a fraidycat wuss after all. (Don't worry, Spirit, I love ya. Bah, why am I typing this, cats can't read.)

God my eyes!

2003-10-22T02:02:14Z

Fear the inconsistant and sloppy customization features. My eyes hurt. And that was before I looked at some of the "color" choices for default styles. I'm sure I saw colors not found in the natural world, and now my retinas are paying the price.

Anyways, here I am, finally having a LJ account. Whether I write enough for it to be relevant remains to be seen. But it seemed like it'd be interesting, so here I am.

But enough of my basic grumblings.

Um...but I don't know what to put yet, I've still got "I haven't finished customizing my account" twitches. I'll just have to make do yet, I need this post to be able to properly view my customizations anyways. :)

Hm...let's see...oh, right, the name. As I'm sure surprises no-one, CheshireKatt was taken. And well, it was close to taken *already* by cheshirrrecat(hug) so it's probably for the best to stop confusion before it starts. Additionally, my guaranteed "nobody would have used this" name was ALSO taken, by a guy in Australia. Ah well. So, after fooling around with a few name possibilities, I decided to use Cindrax, since well, I like it. And it wasn't taken. And putting numbers in my name to make it fit makes me grumpy, so that option was right out.

So yeah.

Big hug to pictsy for the LJ code, so blame her if you didn't want to ever see me posting here. Hehe. :)

Hm. That's really it for now, the urge to go back and try to find a style for my journal that has color arrangements that don't defy the laws of optics is coming back.