malkav11

Ze computair is ...kinda...running again. I had to reformat the main drive and lose all sorts of stuff, do all the crap that comes along with installing XP...and now I can't get it to see my other drives, as the IDE card driver locks up the machine on boot. Frabjous joy, I tells you. At least I can do *some* of the stuff I've been...
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I fear Grant Morrison. Whatever that man has living in his brain cannot be of this earth. First he breaks my brain with The Filth, then I go and I start reading the Invisibles, and... each consecutive volume ups the weirdness factor, and it started not much short of Filth-level. Sure, not everything he does is quite that brain-bending, but even Animal Man, after the...
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Among other things, I got the Katamari Damacy sequel for Christmas. This has prompted me to go back and actually play the original more than the little I did when I got it. It's such a charming, well done little game. Rolling up stuff is almost hypnotic, and there are so many weird objects and everything is so bizarrely stylized...so much fun. The thing that...
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You know, I've never considered zombies particularly scary. I've seen a bunch of the movies, and..no scares, really. Jump-in-your-seat shocks, occasionally, Horror, certainly. I mean, rot and entrails and all are *gross*. But scary they're not. Not to me. I tend to reserve that category for the unstoppable, reason-free murderous ghosts of Japanese horror movies, or the twisted, outre things that shamble in the streets...
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Saw the new Chronicles of Narnia movie today. I wasn't really impressed. Oh, it seemed pretty faithful to the book, and it was technically very well done. The opening puts it in a context that I had not previously been aware of (though I imagine it's in the book), to wit: during WWII, and the children wind up at the professor's house because they've been...
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Won a game today after I realized that, due to an arbitrary end point, money was more valuable than property. Therefore I sold another player a property of minimal value but which completed their set and would make astronomical amounts of money for them. I did this maybe 5 minutes before the end, and I did it for all their money and some useful property....
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Normally I don't find that the bus is as full of freaks as some people seem to think....but every now and then...

I get on the 21 on my way home, and this girl is bitching out this older woman for having gone through someone else's purse (which they'd left behind) and stolen some money. Of course the older woman vigorously denies this and is...
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Oh, and I installed Elvira. Had to manually copy all the files over into a directory I made, and run the installer there. I don't think I've ever encountered an installer before where those steps weren't automated, but I think it has to do with the game also having a version that runs off floppies (not for PC, but for Amigas or somesuch.). I was...
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Well, I did go on a bit of an "old computer" kick. More or less beat the first deck of System Shock and haven't gone back to it because I'm not really sure what to do next. I don't even remember where the elevator was, and I forgot to add a message saying. I think I'm something just short of halfway through Strife, but it's...
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Windows 3.1 is such an amazingly useless OS. Every time I go in I keep stumbling over the fact that you really can't do much of anything you can't do in DOS, it's just slightly easier to remember how. And one thing I can't figure out how to do in either is identify what's eating up all my hard drive space. Since neither DOS nor...
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The part that sucks the most about not having a car is grocery shopping. Doing it by bus means carrying a lot of very heavy stuff several city blocks not to mention balancing it around the bus, making sure the bag doesn't rip, etc.
And that's in normal weather. In hot weather, much sweating is involved. In rain...well, let's not go there. In snow...well, who...
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Got to go home from work early today thanks to the incredibly random paid holiday system we have. Apparently the day after Thanksgiving is also a paid holiday, even though we're open, and even though there is no other point in the year where we have two consecutive days of holiday, not even at Christmas. I'd never noticed before because previously if you didn't work...
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