Eriq’s Blag

In 5 minutes I’ll be 17. Well, probably not exactly, but it’s easier this way. I’m betting that 17 will suck just as much as 16.

Ok, holy shit. Today there was a comment in moderation and so I looked at it and it looked ok. Then, I noticed that Askimet apparently had caught 72 spam comments, but these aren’t the normal viagra shit. Here’s an example:

Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American… [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people. TENCH COXE, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
Room service? Send up a larger room — Groucho Marx

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost — Russell Baker
A militia, when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include all men capable of bearing arms. RICHARD HENRY (LIGHT HORSE HARRY) LEE, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788) at 169.

They’re all similar to that, just a bunch of random quotes. I went to write this post, but then thought I’d see when they were posted. In doing so, I noticed that the askimet spam counter was not at 72, but 719…holy shit. This, I think, makes more sense. I guess I never noticed because the spam had been way down as of late, but it looks like they were all posted on the 20th, so I’m thinking that someone was trying to take down my site by using up my bandwidth (I’ll check now to see how much they used)…hmm, maybe not, my bandwidth usage is only at 128 megs, which is nothing. Maybe they were trying to use up my cpu quota, whatever it was, it looks like they failed. Odd.

So, today didn’t exactly go well. It was fun, but…we didn’t exactly win any games. We put up a good fight, but not good enough. Midway through the second game, my left calf cramped up and took me out for the rest of the day (2 more games). It was weird, it’s never happened to me, I was running and I felt some pain that went away quickly, but then a few seconds later my calf locked up completely and I couldn’t stand. It was less than fun. I’m still limping. Plus it was raining, so I was sitting on the sideline freezing my ass off. And that’s just day one…

Fuck, I have to get up at 5:15 tomorrow to go to an Ultimate tournament…fuck.

[EDIT] 5:30

Just got Discovery, Homework, and Human After All from Vicky.

Why isn’t it longer?

I never got to see it in theaters; disappeared too quickly. I must say, that was fucking awesome. At first the plot seems rather simple: guy with baby gets shot at, but then it builds up, all the while filled in with extremely well choreographed fight scenes…and carrots.

Back in, oh, December, my friend Will was visiting from Canada. Before he came he had offered to buy me Unreal Tournament 3 (he really likes to spend his parent’s money on his friends), I however feel guilty accepting these presents so I said no. Then, a few days before he left he called to tell me that he had something for me, but I couldn’t go get it because I was busy that week. So, he gave it to his friend, that goes to my school, to give to me and told me that it was a mousepad. My thought was, “huh, why a mousepad,” the only thing I could think of was that it might be Half-Life themed. I talked to the guy he had given it to, who apparently knew nothing about it. A few days later he came to me and said that he did in fact have it, but not with him. He then forgot to bring it for a while. That is, until today. Guess what…I was right. It’s a fucking huge-ass Half-Life 2 themed mousepad or “Fragmat” as it is titled. This thing is bigger than my screen, which I suppose is good for gaming because it means you have more surface for looking around. In short, it’s fucking sweet, thanks Will.

I had to get up this morning and go to a 4 hour college counselor talk. I could have been sleeping during that time!

My Companion Cube will never leave me…right? Yesterday I found this [can't find it] picture which inspired me. Anyway, I was up late into the night making my on Companion Cube model (cg not physical). Unfortunately, today when I was almost finished with it, I realized that a while back I had made a huge mistake. Thankfully, I save incrementally so if I fuck up (like I did) I can go back to and fix it. It actually turned out to be a good thing because the model worked better the second time. Here’s the final product: