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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
6:31 pm	How to get mIRC to (stop) autojoining IRC channels when you connect. I've had another hair-tearing bout of stupidity and frustration trying to find out how to get mIRC to stop joining certain channels automatically when I connect. I'd set it to join them long ago, but had forgotten how. Looking through the options and help files didn't help, and the no-doubt correct advice from the #mIRC channel I was too stupid to translate into action. I figured it out finally. So I'm posting it here in case it might help someone else with the same problem in future. (Digressing, I want to say thank you to all the kind people who have posted stuff online to help clueless twits like me.) Anyway here is my take on the answer: ( Read more... ) Current Mood: bitchy Current Music: NPR news (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
3:36 pm	Happy Birthday, jrasku! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
6:17 pm	I need to STFU online Other places online, I mean. Not here, although I've been doing a pretty good job of that lately. ( Read more... ) Where does LJ get their stupid interface tricks from anyway? A cut disappears just because you remove the default text from it before pasting in your own?  And the preview doesn't tell you anything about how the cut version will look. Damn kids with their intertubes and their presliced cheese food and their Tony Jacquelin glof club sets... Current Mood: fed up Current Music: none (Comment on this)
Friday, December 19th, 2008
5:28 pm	Macafee site advisor annoyanceware. I like the Mcafee site advisor, or at least the idea of it, but they made a serious effort to lose my business today. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: none (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
9:07 pm	Ruri from Martian Successor Nadesico saying baka bakka I just got incredibly frustrated looking for something that I was sure would be on the web in all sorts of places.  But I can't find it. So I'm going to do something about that, I hope. I was chatting online with a friend and mentioned Ruri's catch phrase "baka bakka" from Martian Successor Nadesico.  It means something like "a bunch of fools".  See the links for more about that. I went out to find an audio or video file of it.  I couldn't find one anywhere.  I spent at least a half hour looking. What am I, STUPID? So anyway, since such a file is not easily findable, I decide to make one and put it up.  Maybe the next person will find it here.  Hey, it worked for my HP printer post.  So here is an mp3 sound file of it. Baka Bakka There is a bit of the previous word at the start, sorry.  This is from my US release DVD # 2 "Mission to Mars".  It is from the teaser of Episode 5, "Ruri's Navigation Logs". Like everything I do it is half-assed because I don't really know what I'm doing, I'm just using stuff other people made.  Thank you, everyone. (If you want a job done half-assed, do it yourself.) I'd better also put "baka baka" and "baka-baka" because people might search for those forms. Anyway I have to get on to other stupidities... Edit: Fixed a typo and changed "preview" to "teaser". Current Mood: frustrated Current Music: "You Get to Burning" by Yumi Matsuzawa (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 31st, 2008
6:37 pm	Another comment here because blogspot hates me Putting a comment here because blogspot won't let me post it there. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: nostalgic (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
9:49 pm	Fufilled my Civic Duty. Did early voting today. Had to stand in line for 2 hours. A poll worker said they had had something like 12% of the county's registered voters in so far. Of course, since this was on a Diebold machine, I can't be sure who I voted for. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 24th, 2008
6:19 pm	Putting a comment here because blogspot won't let me post it there. ( Read more... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
2:13 pm	Saw The Princess Bride again Hello. I am the Dread Pirate Roberts. I leave no survivors. Prepare to die. Current Mood: Whimsical (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
6:09 pm	If there is a credit crunch... Why do my credit card companies keep nagging me to take more cash advances? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
8:18 pm	Jerky video playing DVDs on my computer I've finally fixed a problem with my computer that I've been wrestling with all week. So I'll go on about it here in the hopes it may turn up on someone's search and help them with a similar problem. (I got a thank you on my earlier one about my HP printer!) When I tried to play a DVD directly on my computer the sound and video was very jerky. I figured I'd fouled something up when I was turning off Autoplay on my CD-ROM the week before last to get around the "Macromedia Splash Screen" BS that Motorola put on the CD-ROM with their cable modem to make it impossible to use the CD-ROM. I went down my usual false trails of thinking it was an issue with the VideoLAN VLC media player I use. It wasn't. Checked that by copying the DVD to my hard drive. VLC played it fine from there. Did some more searching and found the answer thanks to various kind people who'd posted stuff about it. It turns out that on Windows XP machines there is a bug. If the machine is having trouble getting data from the CD-ROM it drops down to an older and simpler data transfer protocol, "PIO". And then it gets stuck and won't switch back to the faster "DMA" protocol. There are various ways to fix this, and you may have to try several to get one that works for you. Anyway, here are the web pages I found helpful. My sincere thanks to the people who wrote them. http://www.techmind.org/dvd/index.html http://winhlp.com/node/10 http://sniptools.com/vault/getting-back-to-dma-mode-in-windows-xp#comment1891 (What happened to the button for creating URLs here? What have I messed up now?) (Edit: Those buttons are only in the "Rich Text" mode, not the "HTML" mode.  But they weren't showing up for me when I was switching before.  Maybe the net was laggy and I was too impatient.) Disclaimer: I'm just a half-assed dilettante messing with this stuff. Don't mistake me for someone who actually knows what he is talking about. Use at you own risk. May contain nuts. (Hey! The Firefox spell check right click menu works right in here now. Thanks to whoever it was that fixed it.) Current Mood: pleased Current Music: Cowboy Bebop episode 1 (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
11:56 pm	I was hoping for "The Haughty Intellectual" But I can't really argue with this. Fortunately (?) I didn't own a trench coat back then. Your result for The Personality Defect Test... Spiteful Loner You are 86% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 0% Arrogant. You are the Spiteful Loner, the personality type that is most likely to go on a shooting rampage. In high school, you were probably that kid who wore all black and who sat alone in a corner of the lunch room, drawing pictures of dead babies. You are a rational person and tend to hold emotions in very low-esteem; not only that, but you are also rather introverted, meaning you probably bury any emotions you feel deep inside yourself, like all of the bodies in your backyard. Combine these traits with your dislike of others and your brutality, and it seems that you would be quite likely to shoot innocent people in a rampage. Most likely, you also have low self-esteem. Hell, I get low self-esteem just looking at you. This is only yet one more incentive to go on a shooting rampage, because you wouldn't care if you died as a result. Granted, you probably haven't gone on a shooting rampage and probably never will, but all the motivations are there. All you need is for someone to push you over the edge, calling you names and belittling you. Like me. But don't shoot me. I have a 101 mile-long knife, you know. In conclusion, your personality is defective because you are too introverted, brutal, insecure, and rather unemotional. No wonder no one hangs around you, you morbid, cold-hearted freak! To put it less negatively: 1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive. 2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted. 3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle. 4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant. Compatibility: Your exact opposite is the Televangelist. Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Capitalist Pig, the Smartass, and the Sociopath. * * If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits. The other personality types: The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does! About Saint_Gasoline I am a self-proclaimed pseudo-intellectual who loves dashes. I enjoy science, philosophy, and fart jokes and water balloons, not necessarily in that order. I spend 95% of my time online, and the other 5% of my time in the bathroom, longing to get back on the computer. If, God forbid, you somehow find me amusing instead of crass and annoying, be sure to check out my blog and my webcomic at SaintGasoline.com. Take The Personality Defect Test at HelloQuizzy Current Mood: cynical Current Music: Don't Look Back (women in the red and black) - Chris De Burgh (1 Comment |Comment on this)
11:45 pm	How the Hell do you get quiz HTML to show up? How the Hell do you get quiz HTML to show up? (Actually I've figured this out now, but I'm posting anyway in case it might help someone else with this problem.) I couldn't get the HTML from online quiz sites to show up. And in my usual stupid way, I couldn't figure out why. So I was writing a bitchy post asking how people do it when I had an idea and tried it. It worked. Classic "rubber dummy theory" in action. The crucial bit is that the LJ editor doesn't pay proper attention when you change from the "Rich Text" tab to the "HTML" tab. Anything you have already typed is not treated as HTML. You have to change to the HTML tab FIRST and then enter the HTML. If you have already entered it, do a select all, copy, paste, and then try the preview again. Or something like that. It make take a few tries to get it to do it right. (I suppose this might be a feature instead of a bug, so you can mix both kinds in one post. But it that case there should be something in the FAQ about. I checked, and if it is there it isn't in any place I'd think to look.) And while we're at it, apparently Livejournal also likes to fuck you over if you have two post windows over at one time, like say, if you are checking how the editor works or something. It flushes the older one. And doesn't save it as a draft. (And the firefox spelling checker right-click correction still doesn't work.) (All this is on a WinXP machine with Firefox 2.0.0.16 .) Are Microsoft and LiveJournal in a bidding war for bad interface writers or something? Alternatively, I'm just being a stupid FH again. Current Mood: pissed off Current Music: none (Comment on this)
Monday, June 16th, 2008
5:00 pm	Got free money, need to decide what to do. I got my stimulus check today, along with an unexpected but trivial refund.  Now my inner selves are waffling over what to do. Self-interest says pay off debt. Good citizen says buy something, that's what it is for. Altruist says give it to charity, they'll spend it on something that someone actually needs. Paranoid says give it to a presidential campaign. Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: Nemo - Nightwish (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 13th, 2008
12:39 am	2001: A Space Odyssey - my theory People were talking about this over on the SJGames Pyramid boards, so that seemed as good an excuse as any to dredge up another old USENET posting. Original Post Here This is my interpretation of the ending of the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey ( Read more... ) Current Mood: geeky Current Music: none (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
1:48 am	Murphy averted, at least momentarily I wants to note, for the record, that for once I found something one of the first places I looked, instead of one of the last places I could look. A video switchbox , as it happens. Current Mood: calm (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
6:09 pm	Goddess PsychoHistory has fallen, and she can't get up! For lack of anything better to say, I've dredged up an old USENET post of mine from the long ago days of the 20th century. This was in response to james_nicoll asking why there was so much Alternate History SF around. I was a bit proud of what I cranked out, at least by my standards: (I've left it as is except for fixing typos and formatting.  Obviously some of this stuff is dated.) (Why is LJ text editor so sucky?  If I put blank lines in there, maybe I want them there!) Because the Goddess PsychoHistory has fallen, and she can't get up. More precisely, Eris has tripped her, and jumped up and down on her with spiked shoes, scattering tiny little bits to the five winds. ( more blathering ) Current Mood: nostalgic Current Music: none (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
5:51 pm	Panties for Peace! In Burma, that is. Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma's military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against the regime's recent crackdown: sending female underwear to Burmese embassies. There's got to be some snarky remark about fanservice or vending machines or something here, but I can't quite get it to jell... ( Read more... ) Current Mood: weird Current Music: none (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
11:15 pm	Lost in Dreams If you lost in dreams and then realize that you don't want to find your way out, are you still lost? Current Mood: blank Current Music: Streets of Fire background music (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 9th, 2008
10:16 pm	Book cataloging update In case you were wondering, I mostly finished cataloging my stuff.  Books and games are all done (4595).  Videos are done (662).  CDs are done (165). Still to do when and if: Comic books.  6-8 long boxes.  not sure if I should get a special comics db thing or just shoehorn them into Readerware somehow. Magazines, slick and pulp.  A few hundred, maybe. Audio cassettes.  Dozens. LPs.  Three or four boxes.  And no way to play them. IPU knows if I'll ever get to the rest or put stuff up on LibraryThing. Conclusion: I have way too much crap. Secondary conclusion: My speeling sucks. Current Mood: apathetic Current Music: Linkin Park - My December (Comment on this)