You know, every time I head into my website configuration in order to post a new entry, I find a new piece of comment spam. Some idiot out there actually devised software to post comments on people’s website advertising the same shit you get in your email inboxes, like penis enlargement pills [...]

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It’s been a good week, but I’ve been lax about posting a new blog entry, as you can see. A lot to talk about, so why not just start at the beginning?
Late last week was spent not doing much at all. I’ve been working on something in my game but thankfully it doesn’t [...]

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Well as it turned out–and I know that you’re all very happy about this–I was able to play my game after all this weekend. That’s right, breathe a collective sigh of relief for me. Or is that giant squishing sound I hear everyone rolling their eyes at once? While my new card [...]

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OK, so here I am, minding my own business this morning when all of a sudden I start hearing a repeated “Whirrrrrrrr…kaCHUNK” sound coming from my computer. I knew from the location of the sound that it was one of my three hard drives, and since I was still using my computer without any [...]

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The weather outside is starting to get absolutely beautiful. I know that it’s not going to last because the weather in Oregon doesn’t get consistently sunny and warm until about June, but while it lasts, it’s very good to get a few days of 60 degree weather. It makes me want to take [...]

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Last week was a week of McMenamins, that’s for certain. I ended up going three times in one week to two different locations–Ringlers Pub, downtown on Burnside beneath the Crystal Ballroom, once for the wrong night and once for the right night, and McMenamins on Murray, a new one nearby I’d never been to. [...]

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Entertainment, thy name is The Crystal Method.
We had a BLAST at the concert last night. Of course, getting in was no mean trick, as when we stepped out of Ringlers Pub where we’d gone for dinner, there was already a line forming as early as 7:20, and the tickets said 8 PM. As [...]

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Obviously, I was sick of the old layout my my site. I really liked the colors that it used, but there were some graphical elements regarding the layout that were really beginning to piss me off that I hadn’t been able to solve since getting this new system up and running last summer, and [...]

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Every once in awhile, someone in my family does something so stupid, so idiotic, so incredibly dumb, that the stories of their feats go down in the annals of Self history. These tales are told again and again, passed between family members on a regular basis until they become second nature and things that [...]

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