Day: May 24, 2005

Another screenshot, followed by new annoyances…

D'Arque Bishop

I just took a screenshot of the home PC's desktop. Like I said, I'm on something of a Nova kick right now.

<a href="http://drkbish.darquecathedral.org/images/screenshot-20050523.jpg"><img src="http://drkbish.darquecathedral.org/images/tn_screenshot-20050523.jpg"></a>

Fun fun… I get to go to Houma and Jennings next week to upgrade the engineering fileservers. I wish I didn't have to, but unfortunately I'm the only one familiar enough with Linux, Samba, et al to be able to do it properly. *sigh* Good thing Monday's a holiday… the more break I have between trips, the happier I am.

Oh, well… now to check in on a situation developing on #mortalkombat… *sigh* Sometimes I seriously consider resigning from the site. It would save me a lot of stress over the long run.

Anyway, going to get a beer and deal with this… fun…

I may hate what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

D'Arque Bishop

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/3195455

<em>WASHINGTON — A congressman says comedian Bill Maher's comment that the U.S. military has already recruited all the "low-lying fruit" is possibly treasonous and at least grounds to cancel the show.

Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., takes issue with remarks on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, first aired May 13, in which Maher points out the Army missed its recruiting goal by 42 percent in April.</em>

My response?

HOUSTON – A citizen says Congressman Spencer Bachus's comment that Bill Maher's recent comments are "at least grounds to cancel the show" is possibly borderline government censorship and fundamentally anti-American.

Nova mania…

D'Arque Bishop

I seem to be on a Nova kick. Well, Nova from <a href="http://www.blizzard.com/ghost">Starcraft: Ghost</a>, anyway. My main PC at home is using a drawing of Nova by Gabe of <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/">Penny Arcade</a> as its wallpaper. My two accounts on my Powerbook also have Nova wallpapers. The personal desktop is using a drawing from the official website. My work desktop is using a render from the official site.

If you're interested…

<a href="http://drkbish.darquecathedral.org/images/screenshot-20050523-work.jpg"><img src="http://drkbish.darquecathedral.org/images/tn_screenshot-20050523-work.jpg"></a>

I'm actually looking forward to this game when it comes out for consoles. :-) I just gotta decide whether multiplayer is important enough for me to get the PS2 version over the GC version… heh.

Another day in the daily grind…

D'Arque Bishop

Hrm.

I can't exactly say I'm having an exciting day right now. My main project right now consists of adding two new users to the network and setting up their account profiles so that they're ready to go once they log into the system for the first time. It's really not that much to do, really… just get it set up and let the sysadmin know the accounts are ready. Other than that, it's fairly slow right now. Oh, well… it could be worse. I could have absolutely nothing to do… heh.

Before I go any further, a quick hi to those people who are joining us from the link to <a href="http://www.dianto.org/blog">Sean MC's blog</a>; if you're easily bored, this may not be the place for you. Otherwise, welcome!

Okay, that said… Aunt Norma finally arrived last night. She's staying tonight, and tomorrow she and Mom will be going to Vegas. While I was gone at Los Angeles, two Doctor Who books she ordered for me arrived: "Winner Takes All" and "The Monsters Inside", which are both Ninth Doctor books. In addition, when she arrived, she brought with her the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie on DVD. :-) The only problem was that it was Region 2 and 4, which means it would only play on either region-free players or players made in the UK and Europe(?). So, I had to run it through DVD Decrypter and then burn it to a DVD-R in order for me to be able to watch it on my DVD players. I also supposedly have the final Eighth Doctor Doctor Who book on the way as well… unfortunately it wasn't released before Aunt Norma left for the States, but it should arrive at some point soon. Now, I just gotta return the favor: Aunt Norma missed Saturday's episode of Doctor Who, so I'm going to let her watch it on my computer system. It's not that big of a deal, really… I recorded the season finale of CSI: Miami for Mom on my TiVo anyway, so she needs to go in and see that too.

Bleh… need to go and do some printer troubleshooting… fun fun. Might as well sign off for now seeing as I don't know how long this will take. Oh, well…