Wednesday, July 27, 2005
From the top…
Last week was fairly normal. It looked for a while like I might be going out to Florida for work, (for secret work that I can’t talk about, so don’t bother asking :) but it was ultimately decided against. I’m missing a clearance that would instantly transform me from ‘not useful’ to ‘useful’, so I wouldn’t have really been much help, as it turns out. Ultimately, I think it’s probably not that bad a thing. Mostly it would have been work that I really couldn’t help out with, and Florida in the summer is pretty daggurn hot. And muggy. And hurricane-y, if you’re unlucky.
I went and saw a co-worker performing on the drums with his ‘band’. It was fun stuff, good music, and an all-right time. Met various co-workers, too.
Then, for the rest of the weekend, I did nothing. Well, I played some video games, which are always good fun, and ‘watched’ my class. The teacher made the mistake of saying that the material from last week and this upcoming week would not be covered on the midterm. So already my interest was at an all-time low. Then he went about explaining D/A and A/D conversions of images, which is absolutely DSP 101 kinda stuff. I don’t think I paid attention to a single word of it. Especially when he started explaining the Nyquist sampling rate. People, I get it. We have to sample at at least two times the highest frequency of the signal if we want to be able to regenerate the data from its signals. Fine. Good. We’re done. I don’t need to have this explained to me every single time I take a class that has anything to do with a digital signal. Well, regardless, I didn’t pay attention. It was dumb.
Oh, and speaking of video games, I’m never, ever, ever voting for Hillary Clinton for anything, ever again. Take-two, a video game publisher, is getting slammed up and down the news for allowing code to slip into their game which includes an over-18 mini-game in an over-17-packaged game. Despite the fact that the actual game doesn’t allow you to access the material, and you actually have to go out to the internet, download the patch, install it yourself, and then you finally can stumble, eventually, upon this badly-rendered little game. Senators, spearheaded by Hillary Clinton, have been ranting and raving all over the news about how this is so bad and so awful and have even gone so far as to insinuate that Take-two was actually intentionally putting in this unused code to be sneaky and evil and undermine the moral fabric of our young, innocent, little children.
These people are idiots, to a man and woman. For starters, Take-two did not peddle this crap. Unused code gets kept in builds all the time. That’s why they call it unused code. The fact that you actually have to go out and download what amounts to an illegal hack to run this thing should make it obvious that Take-two had no intention of this bloody thing ever getting out. Add to that the fact that the Grand Theft Auto series is the only, and I mean only video game that these senators ever get up in arms about and it should be obvious that these people are grandstanding for the sake of their constituents, trying to appear moral and upright and the like, all the while slowly gutting economic and social reforms and taking money from special interests and having their policies written by lobbyists. Grand Theft Auto is not the most violent video game out there. Not by a long, long, loooong shot. But it’s their talking point. It’s the only video game these idiots know. They hear the phrase ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and they’re just on a roll.
I may not be the most politically polarized man on the planet, but I am very, VERY, pro-video games. And if these twerps are going to try and tread on that, I’m never giving them my vote, or even my consideration. They’ve proven themselves to be fools, enacting laws on a subject they know nothing about. I know video games, and yet they’re the ones telling me how the games should be. Imagine if they’re like this on *every subject they have to vote on*. I suspect they are.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to investigate Take-two and Rockstar, 355 to 21. Idiot quote of the day: "It appears that the publisher has blatantly circumvented the rules in order to peddle sexually explicit material to our youth." Right. Except that you're completely wrong. See above. Someone tell me how to figure out who those 255 were, because I’m never going to vote for any of them again.
Today was the software center picnic at work. It was good stuff. Lots of food which was delicious, lots of friends to hang out with, and some entertaining games to play. I believe I held the distinction of being the first person out of the entire dodgeball tournament. I am horrible at any sport that involves throwing things. Baseball, basketball, dodgeball, all of that. Really bad.
I also tried a new form of running today, which I have dubbed the ’20 minute run.’ Which is almost a complete misnomer, considering that it actually takes me ~40 minutes to do. The idea was to run in one direction for 20 minutes, then turn around and run back. I ran out of road at about 17 minutes, but it was a good workout nonetheless.
I’ve grown tired of porn. It’s done nothing but mess up my days for far, far too long. I end up staying up too late at night downloading and watching the trash, and I end up not having time to do the things I like to do, want to do, or even sometimes need to do. Well, okay, it’s never been quite ‘need to do’ bad, but definitely ‘want to do.’ So it’s no good, and I’m done with it. Today I deleted all the porn I own off my hard drive (with the exception of stuff I’ve written. :) No more of that, we’ll hope. Not to mention that I freed up crazy-lots of gigs of space off my hard drive.
I tried to do this once before, a while ago, it didn’t really work out. I suspect this won’t be easy to give up, but I also suspect its necessary.
-N
Last week was fairly normal. It looked for a while like I might be going out to Florida for work, (for secret work that I can’t talk about, so don’t bother asking :) but it was ultimately decided against. I’m missing a clearance that would instantly transform me from ‘not useful’ to ‘useful’, so I wouldn’t have really been much help, as it turns out. Ultimately, I think it’s probably not that bad a thing. Mostly it would have been work that I really couldn’t help out with, and Florida in the summer is pretty daggurn hot. And muggy. And hurricane-y, if you’re unlucky.
I went and saw a co-worker performing on the drums with his ‘band’. It was fun stuff, good music, and an all-right time. Met various co-workers, too.
Then, for the rest of the weekend, I did nothing. Well, I played some video games, which are always good fun, and ‘watched’ my class. The teacher made the mistake of saying that the material from last week and this upcoming week would not be covered on the midterm. So already my interest was at an all-time low. Then he went about explaining D/A and A/D conversions of images, which is absolutely DSP 101 kinda stuff. I don’t think I paid attention to a single word of it. Especially when he started explaining the Nyquist sampling rate. People, I get it. We have to sample at at least two times the highest frequency of the signal if we want to be able to regenerate the data from its signals. Fine. Good. We’re done. I don’t need to have this explained to me every single time I take a class that has anything to do with a digital signal. Well, regardless, I didn’t pay attention. It was dumb.
Oh, and speaking of video games, I’m never, ever, ever voting for Hillary Clinton for anything, ever again. Take-two, a video game publisher, is getting slammed up and down the news for allowing code to slip into their game which includes an over-18 mini-game in an over-17-packaged game. Despite the fact that the actual game doesn’t allow you to access the material, and you actually have to go out to the internet, download the patch, install it yourself, and then you finally can stumble, eventually, upon this badly-rendered little game. Senators, spearheaded by Hillary Clinton, have been ranting and raving all over the news about how this is so bad and so awful and have even gone so far as to insinuate that Take-two was actually intentionally putting in this unused code to be sneaky and evil and undermine the moral fabric of our young, innocent, little children.
These people are idiots, to a man and woman. For starters, Take-two did not peddle this crap. Unused code gets kept in builds all the time. That’s why they call it unused code. The fact that you actually have to go out and download what amounts to an illegal hack to run this thing should make it obvious that Take-two had no intention of this bloody thing ever getting out. Add to that the fact that the Grand Theft Auto series is the only, and I mean only video game that these senators ever get up in arms about and it should be obvious that these people are grandstanding for the sake of their constituents, trying to appear moral and upright and the like, all the while slowly gutting economic and social reforms and taking money from special interests and having their policies written by lobbyists. Grand Theft Auto is not the most violent video game out there. Not by a long, long, loooong shot. But it’s their talking point. It’s the only video game these idiots know. They hear the phrase ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and they’re just on a roll.
I may not be the most politically polarized man on the planet, but I am very, VERY, pro-video games. And if these twerps are going to try and tread on that, I’m never giving them my vote, or even my consideration. They’ve proven themselves to be fools, enacting laws on a subject they know nothing about. I know video games, and yet they’re the ones telling me how the games should be. Imagine if they’re like this on *every subject they have to vote on*. I suspect they are.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to investigate Take-two and Rockstar, 355 to 21. Idiot quote of the day: "It appears that the publisher has blatantly circumvented the rules in order to peddle sexually explicit material to our youth." Right. Except that you're completely wrong. See above. Someone tell me how to figure out who those 255 were, because I’m never going to vote for any of them again.
Today was the software center picnic at work. It was good stuff. Lots of food which was delicious, lots of friends to hang out with, and some entertaining games to play. I believe I held the distinction of being the first person out of the entire dodgeball tournament. I am horrible at any sport that involves throwing things. Baseball, basketball, dodgeball, all of that. Really bad.
I also tried a new form of running today, which I have dubbed the ’20 minute run.’ Which is almost a complete misnomer, considering that it actually takes me ~40 minutes to do. The idea was to run in one direction for 20 minutes, then turn around and run back. I ran out of road at about 17 minutes, but it was a good workout nonetheless.
I’ve grown tired of porn. It’s done nothing but mess up my days for far, far too long. I end up staying up too late at night downloading and watching the trash, and I end up not having time to do the things I like to do, want to do, or even sometimes need to do. Well, okay, it’s never been quite ‘need to do’ bad, but definitely ‘want to do.’ So it’s no good, and I’m done with it. Today I deleted all the porn I own off my hard drive (with the exception of stuff I’ve written. :) No more of that, we’ll hope. Not to mention that I freed up crazy-lots of gigs of space off my hard drive.
I tried to do this once before, a while ago, it didn’t really work out. I suspect this won’t be easy to give up, but I also suspect its necessary.
-N
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