I don't normally do this, but Twitter is a very bad medium for a movie review.

Terminator: Rise of the Machines
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
What ever, they both start with a T, and "Robots in Disguise" can be applied to both franchises.
I totally stole this joke from Angry Video Game Nerd...


1. Linkin Park sucks. The song they play during the trailer is played at least four times during the movie. Plus, you have to sit through have the lame music video if you get there before the trailers. GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD, BALLS.
2. Not related to the movie, but the add for $1 drinks on Tuesdays at the theater, holy crap those drinks look small.  8 oz.?
3. This probably only bothered me, but I really hated the Cisco ad placement.  I would be pissed if I payed a lot of money for crappy teleconference software, just to have a giant Cisco watermark on it.
4. The love scenes are incredibly cheesy, and after enduring them, very disappointing that you don't get to see some boobs as a reward.
5. I would gladly replace the love scenes with more explosions.  I heard the movie had too many explosions, NOT TRUE.  NUKE THOSE LOVE SCENES, MICHEAL BAY.
6. Megan Fox doesn't know how to use an airbrush. First, you need to be using paint, not just air.  Second, you should probably be able to see what you're painting.
7. HAHA WE GET IT MEGAN FOX IS HAWT, BRO.
8. DUDE! I TOTALLY CAN'T BELIVE THAT DUDE IS WEARING A MAN THONG, BRO! The male-nudity meme is overused, and was probably killed in The Hangover.
9. Running in slow motion in a halter top is great... If your breasts are real.
10. They made the "Jar Jar Binks" mistake.  They cramed as much family humor into the movie as possible.
11. It seems you can show a close up of some guys thong, but you can't say "fuck."

So what's good?
Well, if you haven't noticed Megan Fox having fake breasts (awww sorry, but it is pretty obvious), well then the movie might be more entertaining. Also, if you can get over the five minute love scenes, more tolerable. Theres some good bits, for example, they insult douche fags/frat boys.  Sams Mom also gets stoned.  HELLZ YA 4:20 EVRY DAY, BRAH.  They also exagerate Megan Fox's hotness more so than they did the first movie.  Shia LaBeouf is more tollerable than the first movie, in my opinion, and all the cringe-worthy scenes involving him can be blamed more on the writers than on Shia. Also, on a possitive note, I'm pretty sure he doesn't say "Oh, no.. no! no! no!" like he normally does.  The comic they gave us when we bought our tickets even had him doing that.

If you miss it in theaters, it's still worth a rent, especially if you liked the first one.

5/10 (It's better than the other crap that comes out this summer)

When I took the screen shots, I didn't have immediate access to a "real" Cisco switch or router, so I cheated and used Packet Tracer.  I have tested this on a Cisco 1841 router and multiple 2960's.

The Cisco IOS has a feature where you can have a message displayed before someone logs in.

A lot of people have been very boring and uncreative with it's use.




It's fixed-width text!  Be more creative!

Sean had some nasty virus and he decided this would be a good opportunity to try the Windows 7 beta.

Last night we copied all his valuable data (or what could fit on my hard drive), and his primary partition was in FAT32. This is where I started to realize you should NEVER LET DAVID BUILD YOU A COMPUTER.

Tuesday, 2/19/09, 1:30p

Remembered that Sean was having cooling issues so I was reorganizing wires to promote healthier air flow.  While moving so wires I noticed that his heat sink was loose.  It's a weird Intel heat sink, with four black tabs on the corners, the top left corner was not secure and the top right was missing!  No wonder his computer has been locking up.

HOLY CRAP LOOK AT WHAT IT IDLES AT!
^I just booted it too.

I'll wait until he gets home before taking action, since it is his computer.  With his permission I'm going to take out his mobo, and see if the heat sink can be resecured.  If so, I'll put some fresh Arctic Silver on it and remount it.  His heating problems should cease.

5:30p

Got the go ahead.  Intel stock heat sinks are cheap and a nightmare to install.  Barely a one time use.  I might consider having him buy a good quality heat sink that uses screws instead of cheap plastic tabs.

6:15p

Still messing around with the heat sink.  Lost some parts...

7:00p

Heat sink is being barely held in with two plastic things out of four.  I lost one.  My advice to him is to find something small and heavy to put on it.

Going to Subway.


7:50p

Temperature climbing much slower.  Going to attempt to install windows.

9:15p

Windows 7 successfully installed.  He paid me $20, and now it's no longer my problem =]

I was watching a political ad, I wasn't playing attention to the beginning of it, but I'm sure I'll probably see it again before I go back to Corvallis.
It was some creepy recording talking about how if Obama wins, there will "defiantly" be some terrible event to "test his strength." The ad then goes on to say that if McCain wins, this terrible event won't happen.
Is this a threat? I guess McCain is a terrorist now.

Well, if Obama wins, and something "terrible" happens, we'll know who is behind it.

So in a fit of rage I dislocated my space bar, and it's a whole lot grosser in there than I originally thought.

For the last week or two my mouse (Razer Diamondback) has been randomly cutting out.  It's really frustrating during tense gaming moments and sometimes I just wanted to smash it against the wall.

So today I decided to fix it.
(I don't have a camera so I was unable to take pictures)

By jiggling the cable I pretty much confirmed that the USB cable is the problem.  Probably a short in the wires.

Step 1: Disassembling the bitch
Flip your Diamondback on it's back.  Theres three white pads.  Remove the biggest one (the one opposite of the cable end) with a razor blade or knive or something.  I used a finger nail.  Sometimes the sticky stuff will stick the mouse, if this is the case, locate where the screw hole is and clear the debree.  Unscrew the screw.  Squeeze the end of the mouse until it pops open and lift the top part of your mouse.  Carefully remove the top part, because theres plastic hinges at the front.

Step 2 (Optional): Clean the mouse
Blow it out with some canned air.  Remove the hair with tweasers, whatever.  You may notice that it's gross and there and you may want to take the time to clean it.

Step 3: Get rid of the wire.
Follow the wire and carefully remove it.

Step 4: Grave robbery
Repeat steps 1 and 2 with a different mouse to steal the cable from it.

Step 5 (Optional): This isn't like the other one.
I stole a cable from a Logitech mouse, and after getting everything plugged in and settled, it didn't work because the pin layout was differnt.
If the wire colors on the cable you stole aren't the same, you'll need to reanrange the wires on the stolen cable to match the Razer cable.  If there are completely differnt colors or multiple colors (in otherwords it's impossible to match the Razer cable) then find another mouse to steal a cable from.

Step 6: Remove the circuit boards:
Carefully remove the circuit boards.  You probably already did this in the process of cleaning and removing the original cable.

Step 7: Being creative
The new cable you picked is probably a lot thicker than the Razer one (mine was).  You may have to get creative when running the cable through it, because it probably will not fit the same way that the original Razer cable did.

Step 8: Mother Bitch!
Make sure there arn't any mistakes.

Step 9: Reassemble
Reassemble the mouse.  On the top part of the mouse there is a little notch that goes over the cable.  Put that where you think it goes and then the rest should (with a bit of a stuggle) snap into place.  Rescrew it and reattach the glide pad thingy (it may not want to reattach).

You're done.

I can't stop laughing at this.  I know it's not really up to par with what I normally find funny, but LOLIOZLLOZLZOLZOLZOLZOZ +10 internets


Also, the new Electric Retard is actually funny and not horribly offensive and gross.

I love the jokes surrounding the LHC and the end of the world.
LET THE NERDINESS COMMENCE!

LHC RAP


Live webcam feed

CERN has a sense of humor.

HasTheLargeHadronColliderDestroyedTheWorldYet.com
The comments in the source are funny too.
"if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated
please email mike@frantic.org to receive a full refund"

You can buy anything in eBay, including what they are spending billions on trying to find. Watch the video in the listing.


GORDON!

And finally, Crowbar, headcrab, and Half-Life strategy guide shipped to CERN

If I were to get one, I think this one would be greatly considered...


Yes it's my design.  I haven't seen anyone combine the two yet.

So I'm in the Warhammer open beta.  It's actually not that bad if you give it a chance.

The length of the beta is lame.  I heard they're just testing the servers but it really just seems like a crappy scheme to get people to pre-order the game, kind of similar to the TF2 or Hellgate betas.

The server was really laggy, but that's because it was launch day and there was a whole bunch of people trying to play at the same time.
The graphics are defiantly dated.  It almost looks like they are using the Dark age of Camelot engine.

It also crashes... a lot.
Some quests, NPCs, and mobs are really buggy.  I have two quests that say completed when they really aren't (and darn it won't let me turn them in) and I have one quest that I completed but it won't let me turn it in.  There is a lot of work that still needs to be done but I imagine over the next six months post release they'll really smooth it out.

But it's fun and I some how managed to log ten hours playing it last night.

If you're in the open beta, I'm on the server Helborg on the Order side.  I'm Meinfuhrer the Witch Hunter.  David and Matt are also playing (and I'm sure other Waldportians are too) they are Rannoch/Maigrey and Waltino.  Sean and David are playing but they're chaos so who cares about them?

The GM's love me.  I once got banned for three days for spamming a /rude /spit macro and someone reported me (I now only do this to alliance that are pissing me off).

For some reason I was trying to do my island dailies, and tards kept whispering me trying to get me to kill Alliance for them because apparently I'm the only geared person there.  I decided to have [perhaps too much] fun with one of them:


Well it turns out he actually reported me.  About an hour later I got an email from Blizzard:

[PASTA]Hamachi GunGame DM

How to join (method 1, probably won't work):
Add pastasauce.dyn-o-saur.com to your favorites.
Join and have fun.

If the server doesn't respond...
How to join (method 2):
Get Hamachi.
Follow their instructions on how to download and install.
After Hamachi is started, join the clanpasta network.

Network name: clanpasta
Network password: yerevan

you should see pastadvr online.  If you don't the server is probably down due to a power failure, maintenance, or, more likely, my dad.

Now that you are in the network, start up Counter-Strike: Source if you haven't already.
Go to find servers and go to the LAN tab.

You should see the [PASTA]Hamachi GunGame DM server.

If you have any problems let me know and I'll try to troubleshoot them with you.

Server is up.  Expect frequent server restarts though.  I'm still tweaking settings.

You need Hamachi in order to see it. (Hamachi is free)

Network Name:
clanpasta
Network Password:
yerevan

If you have any problems let me know and I'll help troubleshoot.

I have began working on getting a counter-strike source gun game server back up on my old server.