12:06 am: Tweets

• 16:56 @ ORF - had to tweet cause everyone else does. #
• 21:58 On the ground @ midway. Rain. Drinks. And suprises on my mind. #

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12:07 am: Tweets

• 09:07 Laptop with external drives to the right of me, Ubuntu desktop to the left. Cellphone lit up. Cuppa Caffeine. Stack o' audiobooks. Awesome!! #
• 09:39 Sooo, I'm trying to get a server up and running Gallery + Jinzora (& LAMP), install 1HD & attach 1 USB HD, & make my iPod run portable apps. #
• 10:58 Why the hell is it such a PITA to get Foxmarks working??!! I've never had this much trouble with it #
• 11:21 I installing Portable Apps on my iPod...agian. I think I uninstalled it when I had to format it a couple of weeks ago. That could've sucked. #
• 12:07 I got rid of Firefox 3b and installed Firefox 2.??.?? on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) box thanks to - urltea.com/37q6 #

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12:10 am: Tweets

• 21:53 turning my Ubuntu machine into LAMP + gonna add gallery + jinzora so I can my stuff from anywhere the web is #
• 22:26 Ok. I've got Apache (2.0) and PHP up and running, now if only I could get mysql configured #

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12:10 am: Tweets

• 08:00 So here's my tought, take all of that corn we're eating and push it towards fueling our cars (ethanol) and heating our homes (pellet stoves) #
• 09:23 My 4 yo just broke my dvd player :( - Oh well it was on its last legs anyway I guess #
• 10:22 My coffee + carnation instant breakfast (chocolate) != mochachinno bliss, but it does == decent breakfast drink #
• 11:07 @mollywood oh yeah Mr Clean Magic Eraser is super awesome for getting marker off walls and other kid related messes #
• 12:38 @hotdogsladies Why'd they change it I can't say. People just liked it better that way! #
• 15:44 Got my partially recycled crocs - not stylish - but they are comfie! kilt + crocs = eat your heart out Mario Batali #
• 16:21 Wait...Jott is people??!?!! NFW Really??!!?? #

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12:11 am: Tweets

• 08:46 @alexlindsay I think the most interesting thing came in the comments and the link to Tweetstats (mine urltea.com/36j2) #
• 09:00 @digitalkitty have you seen the Riddick Triliogy they are selling in stores? First two movies + directors cut of Riddick FTL #
• 09:02 @parnellk63 I refuse to watch the news or paper. Journalism is not what it used to be. I miss local stuff because of this which makes me sad #
• 09:22 @parnellk63 thanks for the heads up on those news feeds. I'll check them out. #
• 11:32 @kiltederic no idea how you spell duzey, but it gets the point across #
• 12:19 I just drove across town & shopped at 2 stores to realize i left my wallet at home. #

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12:11 am: Tweets

• 08:53 The ZeeVee - Cause haven't you been chomping @ the bit to "localcast" ??!! Thanks to @THErealDVORAK (tinyurl.com/3gf248) #
• 09:00 "The power behind ZvBox is its pioneering ZvCast technology." WTF The device sounds kinda cool, but that is wrong. tinyurl.com/3gf248 #
• 09:54 We at a Japanese Hibachi, Steak Houe last night in Elizzzabeth City, NC. +1 we got the best chef, -1 no liquor license (no tiki for me) #
• 12:21 I haven't ever been a huge IRC user, but in the last few weeks I've found myself hanging out in 4 different rooms on 3 servers, interesting. #
• 12:26 mmmm....left over scallop fajita omelets for lunch, yum. (yes I'm serious) #

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12:08 am: Tweets

• 06:37 Did you know that they show videos on cable TV? Yeah I left the tv on VH1 last night (they were showing Roll Bounce) and videos in morning. #
• 20:44 Had to follow up for highway Reading Captain dogs, stop at Tmark(?), what else could you do? tinyurl.com/47sux3 #

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12:04 am: Tweets

• 18:25 @drtiki For shame! Coronas @ a Tiki convention??!! #

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11:29 pm: Whoopie done been made.
Some of you know my friend Drow. Hell some of you introduced me to him, and/or have known him a lot longer or better. However, I'm not sure how many of you know he is now a daddy. Not only that his sons (yes plural) made the local news. (I couldn't figure out how to steal embed the video, let me know if you've got an idea how).

The interview is true is done in true Drow fashion.

09:58 am: Happy St Patrick's Day! All Saints is coming!

03:16 pm: The death of a legend
Sad News:

Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, according to Stephen Chenault, CEO of Troll Lord Games. (my emphasis - weso)

Gygax designed the original D&D game with Dave Arneson in 1974, and went on to create the Dangerous Journeys and Lejendary Adventure RPGs, as well as a number of board games. He also wrote several fantasy novels.

"I don't think I've really grokked it yet," said Mike Mearls, the lead developer of the upcoming 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. "He was like the cool uncle that every gamer had. He shaped an entire generation of gamers."

Gygax was not directly involved with Dungeons & Dragons after 1985, and his relationship with his former company, TSR Inc., was not friendly at first. The company sued him over his competing game Dangerous Journeys, and in a 2004 interview with GameSpy he stated that he was "pleased to say" that he thought the cost of the suit and settlement drove TSR to sell the rights to the game.

While reportedly unimpressed with the current edition of the Dungeons and Dragons game, he created adventures and settings that could be used with it, which were published by Troll Lord Games.

Gygax went well beyond the role of game developer and became an icon to gamers, appearing as himself in episodes of Futurama and Code Monkeys and participating in discussions on roleplaying-related message boards.

Gygax had been in poor health for some time, according to his wife Gail. Chenault says he will publish more information, including funeral arrangements, on the Troll Lord message board as it becomes available.

Via Wired's Blog

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06:32 am: What's in a name?

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: His Most Noble Lord Wesley the Extemporaneous of Lower Bumhampton Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

09:10 am: Yeah Secret Energy Meetings
"In the late spring of 2001, Vice President Cheney held a series of top secret meetings with the representatives of Exxon-Mobil, Conoco, Shell and BP America for what was later called the Energy Task-force. Their job, ostensibly, was to map out America’s Energy future. Since late 2001 several public interest groups, including the very conservative Judicial Watch, sued to have the proceedings of those meetings opened to public scrutiny. In March 2002, the Commerce Department turned over a few documents from the Task-force meetings to Judicial Watch, among which was the map of Iraq’s Oil Fields, dated March 2001 (above) and a list of the existing “Foreign Suitors” for Iraq Oil. Since that time, Cheney’s office has fought fiercely (and so far, successfully), right up to the Supreme Court, to keep the proceeding secret and to keep any of the private industry officials from disclosing any information about the meetings. Since we all now know the Bush administration’s energy policy, there can be only one explanation for the extraordinary efforts Cheney has taken to keep this secret–he was discussing the potential for a takeover of Iraq’s oil  with the companies that might manage the resource, even before 9/11 gave him the excuse to do it."

I found this via Dilettante via Boing Boing

BTW I also post to my Tumble Blog - Recipe for Thought

03:47 pm: ( Who comments the most on this journal? )

06:53 pm: Jaime?!?!
But I like anything that calls me a "badass."

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09:56 pm: Applebees ain't nothin' special
As I mentioned in my last post I'm doing Weight Watchers. Nicole reminded me that Applebee's has a Weight Watchers friendly menu. Excellent, we usually eat out on the drive to my Mom's house and there was one less than 5 miles out of our way. So we stopped.

It wasn't the limited menu or the health choice quasi-forced on you (that is the point of Weight Watchers). No, it was the fact that I paid $9.49 for a 3oz steak, 1 cup of steamed broccoli, & 1/2 steamed potatoes (about 1/2 of a red potato). Where as I could've gotten a House Sirloin @ 9oz, 2 sides (broccoli and a baked potato minus the butter & sour cream) for $2 more. You're telling me that 6oz of meat only costs $2??!!??

I know people want a meal at about 7 pts (my meal) but I don't feel that it should cost as much as a whole freaking steak when they are only serving 1/3 of one! Oh yeah and apparently the cook didn't fraking understand MEDIUM-RARE mean that there should be some shade of pink involved, preferably red.

Since I now have 11+ points left I'm going to go see about some ice cream. Gnight.

11:30 am: No Resolution - Just Life
Well Wednesday I joined Weight Watchers. Last January my Dad had a major event with his diabetes and it scared me. So I started trying to loose weight on my own. I think I did pretty well for 3 or 4 months. But I didn't have a scale that went high enough to weigh me and I didn't notice a physical change. I was definitely eating healthier though. The slowly, as always has happened in the past, I got discouraged at the lack of progress and gave up. Since I the move, I've been kinda down, which has encouraged bad eating habits to come back with a vengeance. Last week my Mom told me that she and Pat (stepfatherish) were joining Weight Watchers and would foot the bill to help encourage me to join. So I put it off for a couple more days and finally stopped making excuses/procrastinating and joined up.

01:47 pm: It's Snowing!!!
I know for those of you in Michigan or Illinois or other mid-western states it may not seem exciting, but for me here in Virginia, it is! Nicole and Xavier has reported seeing it snow other places in the city but I haven't seen it here at the apartment. YEAH! If it had just done it on Christmas I would've been completely happy.

08:48 am: Pics of our trip to the Virginia Living Museum & SPCA petting Zoo
( Some recent pics of me & my family )

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11:05 am: about what I thought
91% John Edwards
90% Barack Obama
88% Hillary Clinton
87% Chris Dodd
84% Dennis Kucinich
84% Mike Gravel
81% Joe Biden
81% Bill Richardson
40% Rudy Giuliani
30% John McCain
27% Tom Tancredo
26% Mitt Romney
24% Mike Huckabee
15% Ron Paul
12% Fred Thompson

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