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August 20th, 2008
link077
 | 09:07 pm
For a very long time I've been noticing that my t-shirts seem to gradually get slightly bleached on the collar at the front. This has been happening for so long and on pretty much all of my shirts that I figured it was just something that happened as a t-shirt got old. Collars didn't hold the dye well or something.
Yesterday, though, I had a brainwave, and solved the mystery. The culprit? Benzoyl peroxide. Every night, before getting changed for bed, I put benzoyl peroxide on my face. I do the same every morning after I get out of the shower. In both cases, I either put on or remove a t-shirt shortly after. As the shirt goes over my head, it rubs against my face and gets a good dose of freshly applied benzyl peroxide.
I use benzoyl peroxide, of course, to help control acne (I use a 5% water-based gel). It also happens to bleach clothing. It warns about this right on the package. D'oh.
I guess I'm going to have to change my routine.
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captainspam
 | 10:30 pm - One day, four states
You do understand what time it is, right? Do you? Do you?!? It's that sort of time. That sort of time where the open road calls and I answer with tires and gasoline. It's that sort of time when plans are made and plans are ruined at the last second; when people, things, places, and animals all tremble at the name of the mythical lime milkshake; when wood, steel, iron, and amusement park food all come together to form one thing: The annual amusement park assault.
There was some debate as to what to initial this one. The normal moniker of "CP2008" doesn't fit when it's not Cedar Point. We considered "CF2008" for Cedar Fair (parent company of both Cedar Point and Carowinds) or "CW2008" for Carowinds, but I'm just gonna go ahead with "C2008". Or just "C".
( TUNNEL - Remove Sunglasses )
( ...and that's the bathroom, and that's the bedroom. )
( I can use my luggage to weigh it down... )
Some time afterward, Day Two happened. I'll get to that later, of course.
Current Location: Exclaim Industries Kentucky
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://napoleon.xidus.net/test/eb/mrsaturn/accomplished.gif) accomplished
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August 19th, 2008
boggyb
 | 11:48 pm
Things I've seen and done while away last week:
Seen a deer in the wild.
Stood in the open air, and had my phone say "No Network".
Seen wild mountain ponies.
Eaten lunch at the top of a Welsh hill, with the heather for a chair.
Stood at the top of a cathedral tower.
Walked up a different Welsh hill the wrong way, and discovered a wonderful forest at the top.
Travelled both under and over the Severn.
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August 17th, 2008
captainspam
 | 08:41 pm - Mille Bornes
(Literally) Over one thousand miles of driving later, I have returned to Kentuckistan! Whether or not this is a plus is another matter. I can now add three more states to the list of states on which I have touched ground, not counting airplane layovers (TN, NC, SC).
Regardless, the quick rundown:
- TUNNEL - Remove Sunglasses
- Winding mountain roads
- The Unlabeled Lot 44
- Playing the part of Faygo for the weekend will be Ale-8-One
- The Incredible Amazing Deflating Mattress Of Brian
- All-night Worms
- The SC-NC border and you
- Creepy similarities and creepy differences
- Just shy, not antisocial
- An ill-advised round of DDR
- Water only comes from one restroom
- Air hockey with Acting Phil
- A spirited game of One Pound Of Chili Cheese Fries
- "If we walk out this door, I can almost swear we'll be on Milan Road"
- Cockroach!
- Flat, warm Dr Pepper
- Playing the part of Burger King for the weekend will be Sonic
- Calling my dad to brag about SC gas prices
All this and possibly even more in the upcoming days.
Current Location: Exclaim Industries Kentucky
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://napoleon.xidus.net/test/eb/mrsaturn/tired.gif) tired
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boggyb
| 02:06 pm
Metis has been down for the past week, due to my dyndns account expiring about 5 minutes after I left to go on holiday for the week. I'll get a longer-lasting account of some sort set up soon.
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August 16th, 2008
jonesybunny
 | 05:55 pm - Clutch sappin' mah car.
I was on my way to a party around 14:15, when my car broke down. And it was fine in the morning when I went to get groceries.
It suddenly became really difficult to shift into a gear. And only when the engine was running. When it was off, I could shift gears easily.
Obviously, I could not keep driving. So after a few calls, I drove the car back, trying to shift gears as little as possible. Thankfully I managed to stay in 4 most of the time on the small bit of highway, and rolled down the hill in neutral. Then I slowly managed to make it home, stuck mostly in second gear.
An hour later, a guy with a truck came and checked the car. He confirmed that something in the whole clutch-to-transmission mechanism was broken.
When he was driving the car up onto the truck, we could smell something really nasty, so there was definetly a problem.
I went with him to get my temporary car. However, I will not drive it other than to and from work, so I can't go to that party again, nor make other personal trips. Monday I'll make more calls to figure out what to do.
Current Mood: okay
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August 15th, 2008
captainspam
 | 12:54 pm - Outside the protection of Meijer
There's people out there who never read their email unless they're specifically told to do so. Does sort of make communication drastically difficult, moreso when you can't get hold of them to tell them.
But, enough about that! Live, from Spamwagon Mk 4, it's time to hit the road as my inexplicable march on the South continues, reaching depths of South Carolina! FOR SCIENCE!
Oh, this does mean I probably won't be reachable online until late Sunday.
Current Location: Exclaim Industries Kentucky
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://napoleon.xidus.net/test/eb/mrsaturn/anxious.gif) anxious
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captainspam
| 01:35 am - Random musings of a paranoid developer
In coding, I do understand the concept of worrying about optimization after getting a working program, and only after you know a bottleneck actually exists somewhere along the line. If you worry about it too early, you wind up overthinking things and either making them Wrong(tm) or way-too-clever, resulting in a flaky program.
But in the Beakertron 2.0 code I'm working on, I do somewhat have to wonder if it was the best idea in the world to add an extra database query to make sure a given userpic exists before adding it to a response object. Or assuming that when a response is first created, it always uses the default userpic (forcing an UPDATE if the userpic isn't the default in that case). Or make every object-creation routine entail a database call straight-up (granted, I suppose that makes sense for fetching something, but not so much for making a new object, as maybe it would be better off updated BEFORE the initial INSERT).
I suppose this is why I don't seem to get things done very quickly. Maybe if I didn't bother with optimizing or security, I'd have made my first million in some manner of post-dot-com venture capital by now.
Current Location: Exclaim Industries Kentucky
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://napoleon.xidus.net/test/eb/mrsaturn/chris_contemplative.gif) contemplative
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jonesybunny
| 12:43 am
Happy birthday to someone special, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) matraia :)
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August 13th, 2008
jonesybunny
| 10:26 am - Quick update.
Things have been going better. Depression never seems to really stick with me for long. Thank you, everyone who responded.
At work, the workload itself is bouncing up and down. I have busy days, I have slow days. Next week I hand over some of my responsibilities back to the original guy who went on vacation on the 1st of July. I hope that all that I did (and I did wat I could, considering lack of resources and people being away) was enough.
Still playing TF2 a lot, and the upcoming Heavy update makes me excited and worried. Excited because it's new stuff. Worried because everyone and their dog will play a Heavy for a few weeks.
I also tried Stong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People yesterday. I actually bought the first episode for the sole reasons that a) I like Telltale's work b) I'm a fan of HR and Strong Bad to the point of having a poster (which I haven't put up since I moved...) and all sorts of small figurines and DVD's. Back to the game: It's nice and certainly has that trademark HR/SB humor going on. But the locations feel a little barren due to the style of how it's all usually drawn. Still, the minigames are fun, especially the retro-ish Snake Boxer 5 and Teen Girl Squad, in which you get points by making the girls perish in creative ways. And no, so far I haven't gotten any of them to be ARROWED!
Also last evening on a whim with some nudging from eradragon, I tried out ASDA Story. It's a free MMO looking anime-ish and playing like a simplified WoW. Let's see if I will keep coming back to it. Especially considering I play TF2 more and I still have a subscription to City of Heroes/Villains running...although I play the game once a month for a few minutes, only to try if they've come up with something new enough to refresh that tired old game.
Also, today I am going to enjoy Bionic Commando Rearmed. It is coming out today. It's a remake of the original NES game but on XBLA, PSN and PC. I will be getting the XBLA version. Although there will also be a version on Steam.
See? My life does sort of still revolve around games, but I don't play as much as I used to.
In the last week of August I will be out of the country, by the by, going to Poland for a family gettogether. I haven't seen most of them in about 8 years. It ought to be interesting. And no, I'm not going to Eurofurence, in case anyone wonders.
That's all.
UPDATE: Awesome Otakon 2008 TF2 cosplay pictures.
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August 10th, 2008
captainspam
| 04:07 pm - Nick's Mix Six Pix Sticks
It's been a while since I've made one of my infamously badly-planned NixMixes, hasn't it? Granted, a lot of the reason why not is because my car now has an MP3 CD player, thus removing much of the reason to cram together a single-CD set of mad ch00nz, yo. But, at any rate...
( NixMixSix: Socrates Must Die! )
Yes, it seems considerably heavily weighted towards certain groups (most notably TMBG), but they're not called "badly-planned" for nothing.
Current Location: Exclaim Industries Kentucky
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://napoleon.xidus.net/test/eb/mrsaturn/boredv2.gif) bored
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captainspam
 | 02:58 am - You haven't seen one of these from me in a bit, admit it
Would you like a silly meme? Of course you would.
( The Dungeons of CaptainSpam )
The complete lack of any healing items makes this a lot more ridiculous than it needs to be, I think. But between smiting monsters with the Sceptre of Tygerlilli and the Dagger of Monty Python, it has its moments.
Current Location: Exclaim Industries Kentucky
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://napoleon.xidus.net/test/eb/mrsaturn/chris_giggly.gif) amused
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jonesybunny
| 12:01 am
Happy birthday to the ever awesomely bloo kitty, tommicat!
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August 8th, 2008
fod
 | 04:04 pm
Today was unique, in a bad way.
It kind of seems like I could have avoided it, in retrospect. I was going about my daily routine, playing video games, reading, whatever, when someone knocked on the door and rang the doorbell. I ignored it, as I always do when not expecting someone, because it's always a salesman. It did seem whoever it was was being fairly insistent, ringing the doorbell twice or thrice more, but I continued to ignore it (we sometimes get neighborhood kids who go ring people's doorbells just to bother people). I went upstairs to go to bathroom shortly after they left the porch. While I was there, I heard odd noises that sounded like they could be coming from inside the house. Noise really carries around here, so I thought it could have been an outdoor noise, but I was still a bit suspicious of it, so I hurried to finish. I washed my hands (didn't flush the toilet) and hurried out into the hall. As I reached my bedroom door (the bathroom adjoins to the bedroom, but not the hall) I saw someone with a green plaid shirt at the top of the stairs. I yelled out "WHO ARE YOU?! GET OUT!!" as they turned and ran down the stairs. I followed, and heard the backdoor slide open as I reached the middle landing (this whole thing makes a lot more sense if you know what our house is like). When I got to the bottom the backdoor was half-open and the back window was completely open with the screen removed. That must be how he got in. Anyway, nothing was missing so I hurried around closing all the windows, making sure they were locked and checked the doors to make sure they were also locked. I didn't call the police, since nothing was missing and I couldn't tell who it had been. Instead, I called mom at work. She was pretty surprised, since I almost never have called her at work before. I told her, calmly as I could (my adrenaline was, and still is, running pretty high) that someone has broken into the house. Mom was fairly surprised by that too, because I'm always home (and though she didn't say so, also [I think] because it's broad daylight and we thought we lived in a pretty safe neighborhood). I described how he got in, and how I chased him out and then suggested maybe we should think about getting a security system. That actually wouldn't help much, I think, but you know. I wasn't really thinking too clearly yet. Really what we should do is keep in habit of having the windows locked, but we had several unlocked because it is summer and we were trying to keep the house cool. At any rate, I told her I didn't want her to worry and then said I'd see her in a few hours.
Now I'm a bit jumpy. I'm sure the guy won't come back, knowing that I'm here now, but I still keep walking around double-checking everything is OK. I'm not worried for myself, but I want to keep all our stuff, you know. :) Putter is pretty scared too. I'm not sure where she was when this was happening, but I yelled pretty loudly (kinda scared myself a little too), so now she's cowering and hiding in the closet. Poor kitty. :(
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captainspam
| 03:18 am - Objective greetings
Today's accomplishment was managing to bludgeon together a console Hello World program in Objective-C on OS X. Without knowing the specific oddball gcc flags to throw at the thing (-framework Foundation), this is a bit more of an accomplishment than it sounds.
Regardless, given the whole language seems to be a thin layer on C, this doesn't seem too hard. Well, assuming I unlearn my C++ and Java object orientation syntax. Next, further study of Cocoa.
Or maybe next is finishing up Beakertron 2.0 before I dive headlong into a new language and library.
Current Location: Exclaim Industries Kentucky
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://napoleon.xidus.net/test/eb/mrsaturn/nerdyv2.gif) geeky
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August 6th, 2008
fod
| 08:53 pm
Yesterday we had a raccoon visit our backyard. We've seen them around before, but only after dark. This time it wasn't even mildly dark yet. It came to eat birdseed, apparently. It was pretty cute, and didn't mind at all that we were watching it. I made sure to bring Putter inside so she wouldn't be tempted to chase it off and possibly get bitten or scratched. After hanging around for half an hour, it went back down into the gully behind the house.
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