Virtual Vandalous

Hope you all have a wonderful and safe New Year's Eve!

Vandy PSA:  If you post Twitters to your LJ and don't LJcut them, I will remove you from my friends list so I don't have to see those posts.  They really clutter up my friends page and since they usually don't make any sense aside from the people who were having the conversation, I don't need to see it.  Kthx.

It's a major pet peeve of mine.  Those are usually 1 on 1 conversations so why would you share them with the world, especially your LJ, where many of your readers may not follow Twitter?

 

Go Dodgers!

It be talk like a pirate day, matey! :)

Thanks to everyone for all the well-wishes. We're doing pretty good with the baby. She gets up like clockwork every 2.5 hours and eats and poops and then goes back to sleep. lol!

If you're not on my Facebook and want to see pics, check out this gallery.

Sameenah Joy Olaes (Sameenah is hindi for "happy")
7 lbs 9 oz
19.5 inches
Born 11:50PM CT on 9/11/08

Baby and mommy are doing well.

Calling all geeks. Pics of my mATX case build are up. Go forth and sate thy geeky requirements.

Remember the show That's Incredible and the wicked cool domino stuff they'd have? Flash forward 25 years and see what they use now...

Link to video

Geeky!

Hello from soggy Roswell, NM.

vandalous Howdy from Kingman, AZ!

I hope all of you have safe travels from wherever you're coming from and have a great time in San Jose!

/me hugs all of his Fanime friends. :D

And to everyone reading this: I hope you all have a safe Memorial Day weekend! Enjoy the official beginning to summer!

Last month, someone created a mod in Half Life 2 (a very popular PC game) that simulates the Tower of Terror. It's a very well done mod. Check it out! Note that it's a first-person shooter so if you're susceptible to motion sickness from these types of games, be warned.

Still in CA. Real post to come later...

Unless the Dept of Fish & Game has a sudden change of heart after signing the permits and whatnot, my property is sold and I'll be moving to TX on or around 5/19.

I'll be online sporadically from now until after we get settled in TX since I'll be working, packing, looking for houses, or moving.

For my Sac friends, we're still planning a goodbye gather on 5/4 but we don't have any details set yet. We should have something figured out soon.

If you can't make it on 5/4 but still want to say toodles, let me know and we can try to figure something out. Please understand that my time is becoming extremely scarce but I'll make every effort to meet up with you.

I hope to have a better, faster internet connection in TX so that online gaming will be an option for me again. We'll see how that goes.

Thanks for the memories, CA. It's been a fun 21 years but it's time for a change (I moved to CA in 1986 from Guam when my dad was reassigned to Moffett Field in Mountain View). You're too expensive for us to build our dream house here so adios. We love the weather but hate the expenses.

I'll be back in April 2008 for my cousin's wedding but that'll be in San Diego. Toodles!

The gauntlet has been thrown. ;)

I was going to go to the Friday night game at ATT Park on 4/6 but that's Easter weekend and there's just too much going on for me to go. Le sigh...

I'm a sheep and decided to do the "How Well Do You Know Me" quiz. Baa!


Create your own Friend Quiz here

In other news, I've started training for 5K and 10K runs. I've been busy on the treadmill working my way up to being able to run for a full 5K. My 1st actual event will be Shamrock'n next Sunday. Should be a good time. Wish me luck!

Hi everyone - if you're in the market for PC upgrades, please check out my For Sale post over at HardOCP's forums.  If you're interested in anything, let me know.  I may be able to work a discount with you since I know ya.  ;)

Link to sale

They make me LOL.

Here's one before I go to bed... 

Haha - BBC has a very interesting article up. Check it out...

It'll be from 6pm-6am, free entry and snacks, and it's in Rancho Cordova. If you're interested, comment here with your preferred contact method and I'll give you the details.

That's hilarious! Don't worry, it's SFW.

Happy Day of the Ninja!

Happy Father's Day to all my friends who are or have fathers in Thailand.

Only cuz you don't got skeelz like this guy. Wow!

EDIT01:
Speaking of MS Paint skeelz: Check this one out.
Or this one. Artist sez that only a mouse was used, no tablet or copy/paste. Wow!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope y'all have a safe and yummy Thanksgiving holiday. Good luck to all y'all that are gambling on Black Friday bargain shopping tomorrow.

Someone posted a big list of usernames and passwords for myspace on a very public forum and I've been reading how people there are messing with people's profiles and stuff.

Change your password immediately! I checked the list and my name isn't on it but it's a very long list and it's very possible that you're on it.

Anyone have industry connections or otherwise can score 4 good tix to the 12/5 show for "High School Musical - The Concert" at Arco Arena? The tix left at Ticketmaster are lame and though I've got leads on decent tix on eBay and StubHub, I wanted to run this by my friends list before I get gouged.

I'm willing to pay for the tix or trade some of the computer stuff I have listed here. Thanks!

Hi all - I'm selling some computer stuff. Please click here to see what I've got and comment here if you're interested. Prices are comparable or below Newegg plus you'll save on Tax and shipping.

Link to stuff on sale...

I'm switching to Intel and getting a Q6600 (quad-core FTW!), eVGA 680i NForce mobo, 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 750W PSU, and a BFG 8800GTX.

Thanks!

Borrowed from celtic4...

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

Borrowed from iguanagrrl...

How White and Nerdy Are You?

Borrowed from djsyndrome...


Ahaha! Back to work...

Dance, by Acclaim

Interesting...

OLR - did you hear about this already?

Dear Relic Entertainment,

Please keep making Real-Time Strategy games for the PC.

Wuvs,
V

Dude, Company of Heroes is the best Real Time Strategy game evar! They took the awesome engine used in WH40K: Dawn of War and pimped it out with higher graphics and made it all WW2-sy. Result: Game of the year. Taking Omaha Beach was nuts and the transitions between prerendered cutscenes and in-engine cutscenes was just about transparent. Well done, Relic!

Tough on the hardware though. My gaming rig is an X2-4800 dual core CPU, 2 GB RAM, 2x7900GT in SLI, and Audigy2 Platinum and with AA on and all GFX setting at the max at 1280x1024 resolution, I can only manage a "Good" rating in the performance test with avg FPS of 40, max 127, and min 15. Pretty brutal.

Taking the fam to Apple Hill today. First stop, Bodhaines Orchard for the yummy organic farmer's market!

Went to a Serenity/Firefly-themed wedding yesterday. Pics will be posted and we had a grand ol' time at the shindig!

My office is 90% done. I just need to hang the can lighting under the shelves and install my printer when it arrives and it'll be complete. Pics coming...

My Dodgers got swept by the despised Mets and now I owe my brother a hat. How lame is that? Tee hee...

Kids' rig is all done and, man, is that thing is fast. 7900GS + Opteron 148 + 1 GB RAM = gaming goodness!

This is way cool... Don't worry, it's SFW.

... is that they encourage being mobile or working remotely, if your job allows it. That means that I can work anywhere there is an internet connection. IBM tools are very robust in this arena so I vary my workplace between several coffee shops, bookstores, other public areas, and friends' homes. I come into the office only when necessary.

Like right now... I'm at a coffee joint but attended a few meetings and got a bunch of work done without the drama of the office.

Anyhoo, hope y'all are doing well.

Oh, and it's time for my bi-annual trolling for friends-list adds! If you use any of the clients below, add me!

AIM - tjolaes
MSN - tjolaes@hotmail.com
Yahoo - terry_at_work

;)

So I caught a fever at Rio de Janeiro/Ipanema last weekend. I'm quite miserable and need the Portuguese version of Nyquil so that I can get some sleep. I've got some Dayquil but it's not enough to help me sleep. I've got a vicious headache and high fever. This is some really bad timing because this is such an important weekend at work but I can't go in and risk making everyone else sick.

This sux!

Link to story...

A thin-client PC that is small enough to fit on a wall-socket? Wowza!



Some article excerpts:
"This can be used as a standard PC on standard power," MacLellan told ZDNet UK, "or it can be used with power-over-Ethernet, and that really makes it efficient."

A basic Jack PC costs £209 without monitor or keyboard. At a low price and using low power, MacLellan believes the device is "one of the biggest developments in PCs that we have seen" and is one of the "ever-growing range of thin clients, which are rapidly replacing PCs as a more effective desktop computing solution for modern businesses".

The Jack PC runs Windows CE, is designed to connect to "any terminal server-based environment" and has Citrix ICA and Microsoft RDP clients built in.

It runs Internet Explorer 6.0 to connect to Web-driven applications, and runs an "up to 500MHz" AMD RISC processor, which the company says is equivalent to a 1.2GHz x86. It can come with up to 64MB of flash memory and 128MB RAM.

Analogue or digital monitors are supported, and the system can include support for dual-screen and 16:9 screens. It has four USB 2.0-compatible ports, 16-bit audio in/out and support for 24-bit (true colour), 1280x1024 graphics. The Jack PC will also support wireless connectivity.

Courtesy of iguanagrrl...

This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.

I got "N" from her so here we go, in no particular order...

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Most Pathetic XB360 Setup?

Come and vote. These are hella funny!

Link to tutorial.

Seems simple enough. Too bad I sold my PSP but that would be groovy.

Clicky!

Don't worry, it's work-safe. The jingle gets annoying after a while though. Best 12m54s I've spent online in a while. :)

It's along the same line as the Honda cog video from a couple years back.

Wikipedia meme thang (go to wikipedia, search for your birth month and day, record interesting events/births/deaths)

Wikipedia for August 7

Events:
1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.

1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.

Deaths:
461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated)
1957 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor
2005 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor

Births:
1560 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer
1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy
1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress

Wow, I just noticed that my LJ is 4 years old now. That's just way crazy... I'll try and post something a bit more meaningful later.

Check out this rejected ad from the Super Bowl. They even have a link to the letter from ABC. Funny...

I've got 3 parakeets (two blue/white and one yellow/green) in a large cage that we need to get rid of. They'll come with toys, food, and the cage. No idea what sex they are as we rescued them a few years ago. They're not hand trained but are your typical parakeets that chirp, play, and chase each other around the cage. If you want them, they're yours. Let me know and I'll meet you where you are to offload them.

Thanks!

For those who believe or who aren't hung up about Political Correctness: Merry Christmas!

For those who are Jewish: Happy Channukah!

For those who are Wiccan or otherwise venerate nature: Happy Solstice!

For those who aren't any of the above: Happy Festivus!

For those who are Jehovah's Witnesses: Have a nice weekend!

For those who are looking for something different: Happy ChrismaHannuKwaanzaKah!

:)

What's going on tonight?