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Twilight:New Moon, Someone please kill me now.

I found this on the rifftrax forum, this is epic. I love it.
 



P.S. Go see the Raven's Riff's riff of the original Twilight, because I'm in it and it is awesome ;)

Extremely overdue post

Not entirely sure that anyone really reads this, HOWEVER, if someone should, I'm terribly sorry I've been long overdue for a post. I've basically spent all of my time doing homework the last 4 months because I've been trying to graduate! And that time has... for the most part... finally come. I have one class left that is finished in March and another I have an extension on because I got totally overwhelmed (hence the no posting the wonderful and strange goings on that are my daily existence). So basically I went through the ceremony etc for graduation, but I don't get my piece of paper until March 2010-ish. Darn the luck! Oh well at least now I will have a little bit more time for posts. I've got several new LKH books that I've got to read and I just finished R.A. Salvatore's The Ghost King, his most recent addition to his Drizzt series. He's probably one of my most favorite fantasy characters next to Aragorn and Anita Blake.(If you don't like Drizzt, that's great, I don't care and I don't want to hear about all the reasons you think I shouldn't, kthnxbai) Also, might try to find myself a D&D game to join for a few months before I move. Haven't played 4th Ed. yet and would like to give it a try but not sure that will be feasible as I haven't found any decent groups around here lately. Which is rather sad because I REALLY enjoyed playing and just got an awesome new set of dice and a dice bag to match! Also got the Serenity and Firefly blurays for xmas and those will need a much more thorough inspection. (SQUEE!!! Did you know that Alistair from Dragon Age Origins is based on Xander from Buffy and on Captain Mal from Firefly!?!??! LOVE IT!!) 

Anyway, tangents aside, hopefully in the next month or so I'll be able to put up some more posts about books and games. Or I might just do a random blog about killer zombie space ducks. You never know!

Virtual Meanderings

So tonight I had one of my classes, we're studying network security and "anti" or "ethical" hacking. Classes just started, so we haven't gotten too far into the book yet. So far we've covered laws, contracting (get it in writing!!), and TCP/IP. Fun stuff! I'm finding this to be super interesting right now, and since I'm going into network administration, extremely helpful. I'm looking at this class as my ounce of prevention. Tonight we had fun getting some virtual machines installed and installing some services on the virtual server that we've got. We also got to use some FTP software and a we saw a demonstration on how packet sniffing works. Is it just me, or does packet sniffing sound like someone huffing Sweet n' Low? I had a lot of fun when we started doing the installs of various Linux flavors. We installed Mint, and Ubuntu so far, not so sure if we're going to install any more or not but it might be fun to try a few. I've played around a little bit with Kubuntu and I was a little bit disappointed. For all its hype, I tried installing a video driver and it ended up crashing the WHOLE SYSTEM!! I think thats a little ridiculous, I've never had that happen to me on any other platform. Needless to say, that was deleted quickly and I just installed Ubuntu instead. So far pretty impressed with it, and have been using it to practice PHP. Might take a class in that next semester just for the hell of it... maybe. 

Anyway, the actual point of this post was to talk about this awesome new VM software that I found that I've got installed on my Mac! I did a little searching around and while I've heard VMware Fusion was the answer for all things virtual machine related to Mac, I was not about to shell out a bunch of money for it, since I'm rocking the poor college kid thing. The software is called VirtualBox and its free! Best part? Its made by Sun Microsystems, the same people who make Open Office and Java. Pretty neat! So far at home I've got an image of XP installed, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu. Its been a fun night in geekette land!

It's a frickin' Laser!

Short blog tonight, but I just found this article on boeing testing their laser cannon!!! How cool is that! My geek senses are tingling.

Cat scratch fever... well maybe just scratching

When I was a youngster, about 11 or 12 years old. I started developing hay fever. ( I have cats too but surprisingly I'm not allergic to them or the dog, and I'm crossing my fingers that I never develop an allergy to them either) At first it wasn't too bad but eventually I would go for days where I couldn't stop sneezing and rubbing my nose raw. Over-the-counter medicines did absolutely nothing, and I eventually went to the doctor and they gave me a prescription for Zyrtec. I was ecstatic when it started being sold over the counter as well. I take it probably daily probably from about April to November. About two years ago I started to get allergic reactions to pollen and mold in my eyes, thank goodness for Pataday, though it is exorbitantly priced. Today, I was fine up until about 11PM when I went out to dinner with a friend and fellow night owl after work. And then it hit. I'm not sure what the hell IT even was. Perhaps it was pollen or some cleaning solution they use at the restaurant we were at but I just started to feel like I'd been rolled up in a wool sweater. My arms, scalp and back just itch like hell right now. I took more medicine as soon as I got home but this is ridiculous! My allergies are getting progressively worse as I get older and I'm starting to run out of options. I hate having to miss the nice days of summer for fear that if I got outside I'm going to be miserable the rest of the day. Or even opening the windows! We've had to keep the air conditioning on just so that the air in the house gets the allergens filtered out. I'm really hoping that this skin itchiness goes away and doesn't become permanent. Constantly feeling miserable from allergies and medications is becoming a real drag. Hopefully this skin thing is just passing and doesn't become permanent. I wonder if there is some kind of herbal antihistamine that can be taken that doesn't knock you on your ass. Will have to research it, in between clawing my skin off and sneezing, that is.
Lately, I've also become extremely wary of bees and wasps. My brother and I had a lot of bee stings as kids so we are both afraid of them. There is something kind of funny and sad about two twenty-something adults running away from a bumble bee like small children. With my increased allergy sensitivity I'm doubly wary because I have no idea if I've become more severely allergic to bee stings or not. I'm not about to go out and try to test the theory either. (who gets killed by bees? Fuck bees! Tee hee Dane Cook :D) Not only that but I also had the misfortune of being a target for spiders too. The insect world has apparently been against me from birth.

Gaming related hilarity:The Guild and Tangents

So, after coming home from a wonderful 10 hour day at work today, I sat down to peruse my various social networking sites (Side note: I want a super app named "twitmyface" thanks Bradley for putting that idea in my head, though I'm pretty sure you'll never read this, I'm giving credit where credit is due). I wandered over to www.whendonesque.com and they had this lovely little gem of a Youtube video there . Go ahead, watch it, I'll wait... done? Wasn't that AWESOME! If you liked that I highly recommend the web series they have on youtube called The Guild. Felicia Day is in it and she is SPECTACULAR!! Also, just because I feel like shamelessly plugging stuff that I like, you should also check out Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. And, while not a Joss creation, my favorite spaceship Captain is starting the second season of his show Castle!!! I'll probably blog like crazy on night of the Second season premiere. Anyway, now that THAT tangent has played itself out, where were we? Ah yes, gaming! For those of you who don't know I used to be a big MMORPG player. I've been playing for about 10 years but in the past 6 months or so I've temporarily hung up my gauntlets because of work, school and real life commitments. Not to mention being in a bit of a rut when it came to the games that I was playing and I just wasn't,"feeling it" I guess. Also, it really doesn't help keep the carpal tunnel at bay when you are working on computers for 8 hours day and then gaming on them for another 5 or 6 at night. Typing not so bad but mouse hand says OUCH! Anyway, I think thats all for tonight.

Blogging you say?

Well, I'm going to make an attempt at this blogging thing. Not sure what I'm going to make it about yet. School? Work? Paganism? Video Games? Dieting? My cats? All of the above? All I know is that tonight, of all nights, I've decided that this would be an extremely good idea! Perhaps that little urge to write that I get every-so-often will be sated by giving it some kind of direction... some kind of focus. That and my typing is infinitely better than my handwriting, which would make even the most fervent chickens rife with envy. It may not save me impending carpal tunnel... but I'm hoping that it will help the wheels in my brain stop spinning so much. Or maybe at least... start spinning in the right direction?