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I am annoyed and want to strangle the tax lady because of it.

I go to your chain vs an actual accountant for a reason, you believe everything I say and put it down as such. You don’t need to insinuate that I’m lying because I don’t have a receipt for a tank of gas I got in March of last year. You also don’t need to ask me “you mean you don’t remember?” like I’m a moron because I can’t remember the exact amounts on my 2010 tax schedule for the business. I also don’t appreciate your ruse where you lure me into a false sense of security like I should be…

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NFS Shift 2 Gameplay Video (actual gameplay this time)

I did this recording using FRAPs – it’s a Chevy Cobalt (can’t actually turn for shit) with slicks, the best I could upgrade without sending it into the next performance level. It’s one of the first couple tracks available in the game. I was using an XBOX360 controller so I had to turn the control preferences down. I normally run Elite with the wheel but I have to set it on Experienced with the controller, no assists other then ABS – and that ought to be standard anyway. It’s recorded using SHIFT 2 on PC running at Max, normal AA,…

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My Identity

So I got a call from a debt collector. I’ve been wondering what it’s for for a while, but it was always an automated call so I’d call them back at the number provided and leave a message – without ever getting a message back. It didn’t sound familiar the company they were citing, and I’ve been paying everything pretty well so I wasn’t expecting anything. Finally I called back the number that called me, and surprise I got someone right away (should have thought of that sooner). Low and behold it appears that my old apartment never had my…

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>An Open Letter to EA About PC Games

>Stub for letter to ea games. [there are the points – I shall flush out the letter henceforth to forthwith, vis a vie.] So I was very excited for two new recent game releases for PC. Both happened to be sequels and both were Electronic Arts (EA). I have never been a fan of companies that get so large they depend on formulas, plans, and financials to fuel their game decisions rather then ideals. I had seen it happen before, but couldn’t directly relate an actual example when prompted. No longer need I search — Crysis 2 and NFS Shift…

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>Crysis 2 Review (PC)

>I got my hands on Crysis 2 for PC yesterday. I was very excited having seen it and played it on multiple machines at PAX East several weekends ago. It came on one disk, which was good in regards to time to install, but I’m still impressed by GTA IVs 2 DVDs / 18G worth of textures and data. I started it up and it was 4:3 by default… no one plays in 4:3 anymore, so straight to the options I went. The first thing I noticed was the lack of settings, though with some further reading I have heard…

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Peeping Through New Peepers

I set out to write a very melodramatic account of getting glasses. I’ve always been able to see rather well, or so I thought. It’s been over 10 years since my last visit to the optometrist and I’m sure my vision had degraded somewhere in there. Everything was different. They used to have the lights and the poofs, but it just felt different this time. There were 3 machines when I went in for my pre-exam. There was an autofocus machine which determined what I was looking at as a scene appeared before me, constantly flicking in and out of…

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Climbing out the Murk

So here’s my first real entry since the whole blogger fiasco. I still want to convert everything to wordpress but for the effort I got the old template working with some strange google domain name service redirection magic to subdomains. That’s probably more then any good security expert would divulge, but I believe I’ve lost many of my readers anyhow at this point. A lot has happened in the past couple years. It’s going on 2 years since my son was born, and it was a good 9 months before that where we were preoccupied with newfangled life experiences. It’s…

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>Title of Post

> Attempting to use desktop integration, still need to fix the template, sorry if you reached this – looks kinda lame.   Interested in an email address @ synthetic-x.com ? send me an email (josh).

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Post Nostalgia

Here’s me going on about my 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege – it was good but not crazy fast, not crazy powerful, and I blew the clutch being a hothead kid.http://forums.mazdaworld.org/101-323-protege-protege5/44750-mazda-speed-protege-3.html

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>lame – blogger stopped allowing ftp publishing so I was trying to find a way around it – not too much luck so far, looking into an alternate way. I’m sad I haven’t been able to publish anything lately, and don’t like that my text is no longer stored on my server. I’m going to try and get something going again, I’ve got lots to share, and facebook is very unpermanant for my tastes

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