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[Tuesday
December 15th, 2009
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Regarding the piano vandalism article of my previous post: The absurdity of it is surpassed only by the sheer jackassery of the people that did it. Whoever did this needs to be publicly caned a good fifty or sixty times and/or otherwise made an example of.
People keep saying "I'm computer illiterate" when they drop off their virus-ridden pieces of shit and ask me to make it work. It's really getting on my nerves. I know some of them mean well, but most of these sad fuckers have no idea how to use a computer, or even what the proper term is. Literacy deals with the written language. What these people lack is competency. They are fucking incompetent and I hope they have jobs that don't require the use of computers, because if you don't know basic preventative maintenance you really need to just go flip burgers for a living.
I just used a line I've been waiting months to use: "Sir, your hard drive has come aflame."
I'll leave you with that. Good night.
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[Monday
December 14th, 2009
12:51pm
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Origin - Cloning the Stillborn <> Echoes of Decimation |
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Let's start off with some absurdity: Pianos vandalized at Ithaca college
Now then. Amidst the many musical monstrosities I--yes, Neely, I hear you--mentioned two posts ago, some are coming to fruition and others are dry-rotting. The church band won't happen, because I decided to make myself useful on their tech team instead. Johnny's Christian metal band might not happen. The jam group with Tootie and Fish (aka Scott and Mike) is on hiatus until we can find time to jam again, but something is growing out of it. And lastly, Neural Implosion still needs another guitarist.
What else. There are two NI shows this weekend. Friday is the Worth County Ag Pavilion in Sylvester, and Saturday is a place called The Levee, in Albany. Not that anyone on my f-list is ever nearby, but I mention it on the off-chance that someone is, or in case a complete stranger reads my journal and just happens to live nearby. Creepy stalker-type or something, I dunno.
My cyberpunk self has been gleeing lately at the steampunk movement. Naturally, this means that I should examine things a bit more, in hopes of discovering some awesome and fantastical things that I will undoubtedly squee about like a methed-up cartoon character. Universe, I say to thee: Bring it on.
Got a virus removal and a motherboard swap on my plate. Guess I better quit slacking off.
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| Pre-Holiday Blunderbusses |
[Friday
December 11th, 2009
12:07pm
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Lacuna Coil - Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode cover) <> Karmacode |
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Have I mentioned how ridiculously busy it's been at work this week?
My bench has been full every day since Monday.
And I still have one left to start on.
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| Update of musical doom because I haven't done one in a while. |
[Monday
December 7th, 2009
5:54pm
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Lacuna Coil -Closer <> Karmacode |
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Sometimes I collect obscure local bands from the places I visit while on tour. Two of these I've deemed worthy of adding to my ever-expanding music library. They are Gigan and Morionor.
Gigan is now signed to Napalm Records, and they have a full-length studio album out called "The Order of the False Eye." Get it.
Morionor changed their name to Jenovah, and eventually disbanded. The name Jenovah was picked up by the guitarist (I think), and he still makes music under that moniker. They covered "Disciples of Babylon" by DragonForce, and until recently it was posted on their MySpace page. According to Matt, "...unfortunately it appears that the band got their panties in a twist cause our version was faster and better, and cried to Tom to remove it. Herman Li is a baby, not joking here."
So I've unofficially resurrected the Solaris Severed project that Lucas and I were working on way back in the day. I plan on writing lyrics and recording vocals for a lot of the stuff we put together back then, and possibly enlisting some aid from somewhere.
So I'm putting out the call: Whoever wants to play with sonic weirdness with me, leave me a comment and let me know.
I'm also in another band, and I play guitar in this band. This band does not have a name yet, but we're working on our first group of songs and eventually we'll come up with a name of some kind of some sort somewhere. Yeah. I think I'll be doing some vocals in this band-project-thing as well.
My friend Johnny is thinking about starting a Christian metal group. He wants me to play drums for him. I'm still thinking about it.
I might also try out for the band at Gina's church. We'll see.
Have I mentioned that I've been on a gothic metal kick lately? Well, call it what you will, but I seem to still have some gothic persuasion left over from my youth, which is expressing itself in certain elements within the music I play and listen to. And for me, being a musician, the music helps. Right now I have Lacuna Coil and Within Temptation on my playlist, which is nicely blended with and contrasted by industrial metal (Static-X) and a sampling of death metal (the aforementioned Gigan, hooray).
The weird thing is, I don't really play doom metal that much. Or even listen to it, for that matter. Sure it's nice and gloomy, and I'd like to sit down and have a go at it at some point, but it just always escapes me when I sit down to play.
Oh well.
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| Deathsupport |
[Friday
December 4th, 2009
3:18pm
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Today I saw a woman who was so fat she could not hold herself upright.
This woman was leaned over at a precarious angle, kept from crashing to the ground only by the wheeled walker device thing that was jammed under her. She could not have been older than forty, perhaps forty-five, yet she carried herself--or rather, allowed the walker to carry her--like a person twice her age and in unfortunate possession of a debilitating skeletal disease.
The worst part, I think, is that I could not feel sorry for her.
I have witnessed the elderly riding motorized scooters because their legs have simply given up on the godzillian task of pedestrian mobility. I have seen the old and the young alike confined to wheelchairs because they were unfortunate enough to suffer a crippling accident, or simply because they were born without functional legs. But this is a middle-aged woman who has become so obese that she can barely hold herself upright.
I know there's a genetic disposition for obesity. I also know that some people are just fucking lazy. I'm taller than most people (six foot five), and heavier as well (250 imperial pounds, or just shy of 18 stone). It takes a great expenditure of energy for someone my frame, size and stature to lift themselves to an upright position, yet I'm able to do it countless times each day, despite being slightly overweight and out of shape. But for me to allow myself to become that obese would be anathema.
So, why do people not identify a genetic disposition toward obesity? Why is it that people allow themselves to swell up to such proportions and then expect special treatment that should be reserved for the disabled and the elderly?
It's because we're fucking lazy. We as a society are complacent and euphoric and fucking slobs, and it's disgusting. But we're also programmed this way, and most people are too ignorant to override their programming. It's a cycle, and it's abhorrent.
So, to summarize, today I realized that I have almost no faith in humanity left.
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| Lord and Lady Douchebag |
[Wednesday
December 2nd, 2009
1:32pm
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Origin - The Aftermath <> Antithesis |
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First of all, thanks to all of you who participated in the impromptu survey in my last entry. I rather expected those results, but it's still better to find out for one's self.
( I'm working as I write this. )
So yeah. Advertising. Nothing new; they just have new, more immediate and annoying methods. Just wait til we all have AR-enhanced commlinks. Then we won't even be able to walk down the street without being bombarded by useless crap in your 'link's heads-up display.
If any of you are wondering where those flying cars we were promised ten years ago are, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) siliconshaman wrote a pretty neat article about the whole mess, which is worth reading if you're into geeky sci-fi crap like I am.
Personally, I'm a fan of the idea. But we're obviously going to have to make stricter demands on licensing.
I have a computer up that defies all known logic when it comes to mounting hard drives for testing purposes. When it came in it would POST and then crash out. I changed some BIOS settings and now it'll boot, and it'll run just fine, but when I tested it with my Hiren's it failed every hard drive test I threw at it.
Those hard drives should not live. Yet they do. I have the feeling this guy's computer is now on borrowed time, and there's nothing I can do to unmake this situation.
Part of me can't help thinking it's his own fault. But what I did because of it is pretty funny:
And I made a userpic out of it.
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