I think I really need to play this game some time soon. It sounds like a great party game, especially since most of my friends are freaks who (at one point or another) have played any or all of Nomic, Illuminati!, and other games of ridiculitude.

Maybe I’ll be able to get a bunch of people together for a game this weekend. It certainly beats whatever my plans were before.

Update: This page is the apparent “official” home page of 1000 Blank White Cards; they have a link to the original creators’ current home page, and he refers to “Stewart’s brilliant BWC web site;” that sounds as close to “official” as it gets.

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You know, I really should listen to more Deathray. It’s ridiculous how good they are. I was heading out this afternoon to mail my 1040 (yes, I waited until the last minute; it’s not like it matters; the stamp took up more than half of the miniscule refund I’m getting), and I noticed that I was about 30 seconds from teh end of Relics of the Chozo, so I had to scroll through my MP3 player to find something new to listen to. Deathray just popped out at me, and I just had to listen to it.

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There are a couple of things that really bug me in the tech support business, and they’re all users.

1. Why can’t people remember their usernames? It not like they don’t see them EVERY FUCKING TIME they connect to the internet.
2. I can’t count the number of times a month that someone calls in for tech support with their computer turned off. What’s the point, really?
3. Yes, I can help you. Even though you only have one phone line. Trust me, I do this for a living. Really.
4. And while I’m at it, when I say “How can I help you,” don’t say “I hope you can help me.” If you’re the kind of person who says that, I can GUARAN-FUCKING-TEE that I can help you.

Sorry for the vitriol, but I’ve got a headache, and I’m talking to someone who violated #’s 1, 2, and 4 within the first minute of her call. Maybe in an hour, I’ll have had some food and I’ll be in a better mood.

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got a new video card yesterday. Since this is almost certainly going to end up on Google, I’ll use complete sentences and try to check my spelling.

Now, let me preface my little tale with the following fact: I work 3rd shift at a technical support company. This means that I was awake all night prior to this whole event. For the curious, I’ll include approximate times for the various events. And now, on with the show.

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It’s time for the new spam report! Since I run the mail server for several domains (well, 2), I have the benefit of being able to create an email address whenever I need one. For instance, if I needed to give an email address to “example.com” in order to sign up for something, I’d edit my .aliases file, and create the address “example.com -AT- logic.cx”. That way, I know, without a doubt, where a spammer got my email address.

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I can’t link to my personal install publicly, but I “discovered” a new piece of software called tasks the other day. You gotta love random searches on freshmeat. It’s done by one of the major contributors to wordpress (the software this site is based on). It is (in the words of Ferris Bueller) so choice. If you haven’t clicked on that link yet, it’s a “todo” program. Here are the major features that I use:

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I keep seeing this in my referer logs, so here goes:

If you’re seeing “LI 99 99 99 99 99 99 99” (99 ad infinitum) when you turn your computer on, LILO (the Linux Loader for the uninitiated) is fucked. You’ll either need to use a boot disc (you did make one when you installed that new kernel, right?), or reinstall. When it happened to me, I reinstalled. I didn’t lose that much (aside from my custom /etc/aliases file), but I could have, had I not managed my discs and partitions properly.

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No matter how I mess with the numbers, my income tax refund is only going to be 67 cents. That’s $0.67 . . . .

By some definitions, that means I did my withholding perfectly this year; I don’t have to write the government a check, and I also didn’t provide them with an interest-free loan. Of course, this also means that instead of saving the extra money I wasn’t paying the IRS, I must have wantonly spent it on things like DVDs and other low-dollar luxuries. It’s really a shame I didn’t save up all that extra money and get something I really want, like a Powerbook.

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I found this article linked from slashdot, but it’s still good in its own right. It’s basically a (mostly) non-partisan discussion of BSD, written for an audience of Linux users. You should read it.

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Pholph’s Scrabble Generator

My Scrabble© Score is: 15.
What is your score? Get it here.

On an unrelated note, I really think I need to post more often. Unfortunately, that means I need to do more things. It’s not like anyone’s interested in “I played Zelda for 5 hours again today. Then I checked my email and went to work.”

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