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11:50 pm
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A new meaning of the word "friendly" with which I was previously unfamiliar
Chase now has "DepositFriendly" ATMs, which do not require envelopes in order to deposit -- you just insert checks or cash staight into the appropriate slots.
...or you would, if they had a "make a deposit" menu item.
Current Mood:  irritated
Current Music: Savatage, "The Wake of Magellan"
Tags: hate
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04:08 pm
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Origins 2009
Been a while since I posted here. I blame Facebook. It's so much easier to toss out a quick status update than to write something that feels worth posting to LJ.
( Anyway, Origins )
All in all, a good con, with no significant low points other than my inability to operate the Board Room. I spent more time in the Looney Labs room this year, and played no Shadowfist. (The only event I was willing to play and had a deck for clashed with Icehouse.)
Current Music: a playlist of various Katamari songs
Tags: gaming, geekery, origins
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02:17 am
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A Windows security question
I have a windows XP partition on my Mac, and I want to start using it to play networked games on occasion. (Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 at the moment.)
Currently, it only gets to speak to the internet when running in VMWare, but it'll need to run solo to play FPSes.
If I'm never running anything else (like IE), I keep up with security patches, the Windows firewall is on, and it's sitting behind a wireless router doing NAT (an Airport Extreme -- I am still a Mac geek, after all), how secure is it in practice? What other security tools will I need?
It feels to me like it ought to be secure enough as-is, but I don't trust Windows not to find new and exciting ways to screw up.
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02:03 am
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Things I am none too fond of
- The bus driver driving aggresively and likely illegally. (That's not what the shoulder is for. Especially when you're as wide as a bus.)
- The fact that if he weren't, we'd be barely moving at all.
Current Location: going nowhere slowly
Current Mood:  tired
Current Music: Boston, "Foreplay/Longtime"
Tags: prattle
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04:33 pm
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I'm going to be eaten by zombies
A 24-hour free trial period today, and a 40% discount for the weekend on Left 4 Dead, and Valve has successfully sold me a copy of the game.
Anybody already playing?
Current Mood: doomed
Tags: video games
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03:49 pm
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Oddly appropriate
My bookmarks list is full of lots of clutter, some of which is organized into folders, so I don't see exactly how much crap I've bookmarked over the years.
I was bookmarking a web site that has patches for some of the old Ultima games so they can actually work on fast machines. (Also improving the graphics and music.)
When the Add Bookmark dialog came up, it was defaulting to the last folder I added a bookmark to, which was "Avatar builders".
Current Mood:  amused
Tags: geekery, obscure, video games
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11:40 pm
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The all-time vaporware award
Reminded by a conversation with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ladymondegreen the other day, I thought to get around to checking on the status of Cliff Johnson's The Fool and His Money.
It was announced in the closing credits of The Fool's Errand, released in 1987. The website says it's in final beta testing.
Having enjoyed both the original and 3 in Three, I'm probably going to get it when it comes out.
Current Mood: cheerful
Tags: geekery
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02:09 am
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Post-LARP
The game ran. There were some bumps, it could have used at least another week to write it.
But it was good. Not as good as Ghost Fu, but good. We had good players and a solid foundation. We know a lot of what we did wrong, and it's fixable.
Current Mood: fried
Tags: gaming, larp, presque vue
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12:13 pm
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Can I panic yet?
We'll be at Intercon in a week, where we're running two LARPs.
One of them isn't yet written. Yeah; it's mostly written, but I don't think it's as finished as Ghost Fu was at this point last year, and that one was finished at close to the last minute. (Though, to be fair, Ghost Fu had a lot more components to generate.)
Current Mood: worried
Current Music: The Beatles, "Help!"
Tags: gaming, geekery
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01:29 am
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An exercise in will
It's late. I'm tired. I've been away from most of the internet since Thursday evening. I don't need to screw my sleep cycle up again.
When I get home, I am not going to check my shiny new Facebbok account. Really.
Current Mood: tired but happy
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02:10 pm
[Link] | I'm in a six-player RPG. We have a Julian, a Julia, and a Julie.
This could get confusing.
Current Location: Dreamation
Current Mood: tired
Tags: prattle
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06:24 pm
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facebook
After a few incidents in a row that suggested I might want to be on Facebbok, I took advantage of my wasted afternoon and sat down to play with it.
Last I looked, I had five friends, had made requests of a bunch more, including several people I'd lost touch with, and had one friend request from somebody I sort-of knew in high school, who appears to have detected me by magic.
I'm still figuring out the interface, but it's not completely horrid.
I also still need to add a picture to my profile, to help differentiate me from the other Julian Lighton out there.
And I just realized I can make a dedicated email address on jl8e.org for all the notification emails.
Current Mood: pissed off
Current Music: Jonathan Coulton, "Skullcrusher Mountain"
Tags: mindless trend-following, prattle
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01:20 am
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One of these things is not like the other...
From visiting a few Circuit Cities today, I ended up with five new CDs:
Disturbed
Nine Inch Nails
Disturbed
Still more Disturbed
and...
Paramore
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: None, believe it or not
Tags: music, prattle
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03:32 pm
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Maybe nostalgia is what it used to be
Even though I live in the town I grew up in, I very rarely run into people from my school days here. (Maybe one every couple of years, not counting the one reunion.)
This year, I've had three so far, and the two where I know who I ran into are with people I liked. (The other one was too brief , and since he told me to say hi to my brother, I assume he was a couple of years above me.)
I may actually do something about looking people up. It helps that it seems like the first step is to get a Facebook account, since I'm getting the impression that everybody's on Facebook these days.
Current Music: Liaison, "Can You Hear Me Now?" (internal)
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05:27 pm
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Not the definition of "fun"
Being on a bus heading toward the Lincoln Tunnel, sitting right above the squealing brakes, which are being used every 5-10 feet.
Ow.
Current Location: 163
Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Disturbed, "Land of Confusion"
Tags: prattle
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12:11 am
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Coraline
No spoilers here, but I make no promises about any comment thread.
It's very good, whimsical and creepy. The 3-D is well-used. When it goes out of its way to draw attention to itself, it's used to good effect.
The writing is well done, the animation as well.
There were quite a lot of kids in the theater with us, and they were pretty quiet -- it didn't seem like they were either bored or traumatized.
Well worth seeing, probably the best movie I've seen in theaters recently, which is, admittedly, not that many. I don't think it's as good as the first half of WALL-E, but better than the entire movie.
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Souxie & the Banshees, "Face to Face"
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12:33 am
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Potential for irony
On my way home, I walked past a building that had, in preperation for the coming storm, scattered enough rock salt on the sidewalk to melt a small iceberg.
This made traction on that stretch of sidewalk rather poor....
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: The Beatles, "Come Together"
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04:01 pm
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Brownies
Since it looks like my standard means of communicating this recipe ("It's on the back of the Baker's Chocolate box. Use more and better chocolate.") is no longer accurate:
( Brownie recipe )
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: The Beatles, "Blackbird"
Tags: baking, chocolate, cooking, recipe
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06:22 pm
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I'm still too vulnerable to shiny things
Did I need my own domain? Not really.
Will it be useful? Yeah. Wikis, mailing lists, non-isp web space, source-control repositories, etc. If LJ folds I can host a blog there.
It was, at least, pretty cheap. The host has a special offer that comes to $4.44 a month.
Bonus points for anybody who isn't mnemex who guesses the domain (It's in .org)
Current Mood:  geeky
Tags: geekery
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02:07 am
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Words of Wisdom
Just because it wasn't the forecast freezing rain in the city, that doesn't mean that it isn't paying attention to the forecast out in the suburbs. (Also: Ow.)
When the glove you pulled off on the porch to fish out your keys seems to have vanished into thin air, it's in your umbrella.
Current Mood: banged up
Current Music: Credence Clearwater Revival, "Fortunate Son" (internal)
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