>I’m spending a very cool Saturday inside, it’s wonderfully sunny and I’m doing Javascript, for fun. I found the greatest Javascript tutorial ever and I’ve been reading and coding the examples. It’s a little advanced, but I need that. I need large steps and a challenge to get from what they just showed by example to what they are proposing for self-learning. I used the examples they gave, but had to incorporate those with different variable and function names, and implement them into a demo page. I’ve already learned a great deal. I’ll probably be able to streamline a lot…

>Why Ethanol Isn’t Actually the Answer Leave it to some Professor to figure out that it’s not really efficient to use corn as a fuel.Apparently factoring in farming costs, transportation, and related costs, it costs 70% more energy to produce Ethanol then it will produce.Ethanol was originally established to make fuel burn cleaner, not replace it. People are getting confused (as usual) and are expecting this to be a gas substitute. Where it’s true that the flex fuel vehicles can run on 85% Ethanol / 15% straight gas, it’s really not efficient to do so.The professor’s main point is that…

>I love this chick’s music: Imogen Heap It’s by the same guy who produces Frou Frou, and it sounds similar, but it’s also really good stuff. Heard Matisyahu yet? Check it out. I found this one by accident: Tori Amos – Fade to Red: Video Collection I adore Tori, and the videos are always so artsy 🙂 I also found this WinXP64 site: WinXP64.Blogspot.com Not too much yet, but looks promising. He’s got Win3.1 themed wallpaper, wha wha? throwback to the wizzie!

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>******************RANDOMBLURBS******************I keep reading about the sectarian violence in Iraq. They want to disband militias and integrate them into the national forces. As they’ve proven on several occations, this only gives them access to sensitive areas.They don’t actually disband, they just appear to, they keep up with their “brothers”, their meetings, and plan a greater attack. They’re able to use their uniforms, or steal them for others, form a plan, and attack. That’s how they pulled off the mosque bombing that started this whole doubleishious.It’s impossible for me to fathom having to be responsible for resolving this sort of enigma.****One year…

>The time has come, pick up your routers, run your cable, and point your dishes. We need to make this information independent of those who wish to control it. Congress has voted to relinquish control of the freedom we’ve come to take for granted, information available at the push of a button. Just as the digital divide gets smaller and smaller, commercialism will elevate those who can afford it.Quick paths, higher bandwidth, and priority to those who pay the premium is what lies ahead once AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner, Comcast, and what’s left of the telecommunications industry take the reins.…

>Bush is going to put a “temporary hold” on the emergency oil reserve. I originally noted this a while back. I’ll get that search script working soon enough so you can actually see these things when I say them, instead of just taking my word for it. For though I know I said it, and you can probably find it, having it right there leaves no doubt.Anyhow, he’s going to decrease demand by not hoarding. I believe this is what has driven our prices up. It’s just a theory, but they already know it controls us all… the price of…

> Today is friday.See the date? See the time? It’s the beginning of a Friday. I just got to work, ate my breakfast, and read that the unemployment rate (nationally) is the lowest it’s been in 4.5 years. From that I’m making an inference that about September 2002 the economy started gonig down. It was about then that RCN went under. I was no longer working a year after the terrorist attacks, almost exactly a year.I know it had a big impact on the economy, not right away, but after… and it bothers me that I can’t remember accurately. I’d…

>You’ve got to check out this aspiring artist.

>As I wait for Oblivion to reinstall: [ screenshot 1 ][ screenshot 2 ][ screenshot 3 ][ screenshot 4 ] (apparently my save files got damaged, this is a last ditch attempt to not have to start another game)

>They just found the missing chain of evolution, screw the missing link — we gots da chain!

>wow, I’m boring. I haven’t gone outside much, all I can rant about it what I’ve bought, or what game I’m playing, or in the case of games — both. I don’t talk about people much. There’s not much to talk about people, I don’t see many people. I see people at work, and people that I know sometimes on the weekends. I see Jay, but he’s doing well, I’m doing well — there’s not much there. Where does the interesting come in, maybe it doesn’t. Maybe our lives quest is to be mediocre, be enthralling and timid. We all…

>I don’t know what is more frustrating… not being able to get a game to work because the save games are seemingly damaged, or not being able to get a console working because the hardware is faulty. I know the first case, not so sure about the seccond, but I’ve heard of it happening with the XBox 360. I keep comparing because they’re comparable. They’re about the same quality, but there’s more oomph in the 360, they just haven’t been able to take advantage of it yet. Once they do it ought to take off, once they fix the issues…

>I’m so ticked off with Auto Assault. But first… ummm… damn, forgot what else I was going to rant about. In any case! I bought the beta, $1 at Target to get in a week and a half before hand and I only get a week. I’ve played probobly 3 days worth.I can’t figure it out, and it’s due to good old RTFM… World of Warcraft ruined me. Here was an MMORPG that didn’t take any skill at all, it didn’t take any thinking, it didn’t take any reading of the manual to get me going in the right direction.…

>I read today that Hitachi(?) shipped their first vertical laptop HD. Not vertical so much as they put it on it’s end, but they put the bits on the end. Normally bits lay down flat, bit to bit to bit, all around a hard drive platter. Jay sent me a musical “get vertical” cartoon about it a while back. I think it’s probably around in my archive somewhere .:takes a quick look:. [that sidetrack took 4 days, or maybe it was last weekend?]

>I wonder if these 3D Glasses have evolved at all. I had a pair way back with my ASUS GeForce 3 card, and they worked, but the performance wasn’t there. Now I wonder how they’ll look with some of these new games – like Oblivion. Might even get me to play Doom again. I’m currently waiting for Auto Assault beta to patch. You can get it here:I’m not sure if you need to set up an account to do it, I had to buy a preorder from Target (for $1) but it’s well worth it to give it a shot.…

>A note for those who don’t care about video games…why the hell are you here? Go see if you can find the archive page, there’s enough interesting tidbits from when my life was exciting to keep you occupied while everyone else reads about video games. I am going game crazy lately, I picked up a copy of Oblivion over the weekend. Jay had gotten it for XBOX360 on Saturday when Nicole and I stopped by. It had just come out, and it looked and sounded amazing. It was really made for the console and the optimization shines on the 360.…