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Name: Evan
Gender: Male
Interests: Computers, computer games, cooking, eating, sleeping
Expertise: PHP, SQL, Linux, Apache, Perl, a bunch of other computer-related stuff that nobody cares about.
Occupation: Computer related (Internet)
Industry: Computers (Internet)
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Member Since:
1/21/2005
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| It's been a long time!It's been quite a while since my last post here. My life has changed so much since then. It's almost funny to go back and read the things I wrote while working in the city. That was one of the most miserable periods in my life. There's so much stuff going on, but I really hate posting personal stuff on the Internet. It always seems to come back and bite you in the ass.
I still don't understand the popularity of MySpace. Xanga is a much better site in general for posting written content. MySpace is populated by retarded kids who think embedding videos is the most awesomest thing to do on the Internets.
Anyway, I'm still around, though I rarely write or visit this site.
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| This made me laugh. Not written by me! But very funny!
We moved into a new office at work, and it's a brand
new building with brand new toilets, but I can't stand to use them.
One thing I like to do almost everyday is excuse myself and use the
restroom, and take a small 10-15 minute nap. I do this by using the
handicap stall(plus it's a small office), and I end up going number
two. Once finished and flushed(I don't enjoy the smell), I like to put
my elbows on my knees and then kind of hunch over and rest my head on
my arms.
The problem is, and I'm not trying to brag here, when I hunch over
my penis ends up touching the water in the toilet. As you can imagine,
that is gross as hell and really prevents me from getting a good quick
nap in. Hell, one time I was pooping and when I went to wipe, my hand
scimmed across the water, because the water level is so ridiculously
high.
I know how to lower the water level in a conventional toilet, where
it has the plunger and the big box thing behind the seat, but the
toilets at work don't have that.
So, aside from scrunching up my nuts and squeezing them between the
knees while I nap, is there anyway I can adjust the water level or does
anybody have any kind of experience with this kind of thing? | | |
| I am a weird dude. I still feel like there's a huge part of my
personality I'm hiding from everyone, including myself. I feel
like if I go in there it would be really weird.
When I was in first grade I won the spelling bee because two other
people misspelled the word "thief." They both spelled it
"theif." Dan Madonia won the Spelling Bee in 2nd grade.
Then I won again in 3rd grade. In High School I finally realized
that the spelling bee is a retarded competition, basically because
retarded people started winning it. Sure, if you do nothing but
teach spelling 24/7 you can win... duh. Anyway.
I'm starting a new job next week. I'm hoping it will rock my
socks. I was really unhappy at my old (current, as of today) job
and it affected me badly in several ways. Also I need to get a
haircut, I look like Dilbert's boss again. 
As I get older and older I begin to realize I should have been writing
down my memoirs over the course of my life so that I have something to
look back on when I'm older. My life was so fucking bizarre, I
don't think anybody could believe it really happened. And I
haven't gone up into the belltower yet.
In closing, 2 things. One, a quote that only real nerds like me
would get: "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I
know, I'll use
regular expressions.'' Now they have two problems." -- Jamie Zawinski
2nd, my pgp public key, send me some encrypted shit, I LOVE IT.
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| I am a player of World of Warcraft, I play as Cellen the Human Paladin, currently on the Doomhammer server. As a refugee from EverQuest I found WoW to be a big breath of fresh air after the eternal grind of EQ. As of this writing my character is level 56 and I am still mostly enjoying the game, however the game does have some serious deficiencies.
The one I'll discuss presently is the poor itemization for most quest rewards. In EQ, as in WoW, classes were limited to certain armor types - cloth, leather, chain, plate. One subtle difference in WoW is that each tier of armor-wearer can wear all the armor below their tier as well as the armor designed for their class. This means a plate wearer in WoW can wear mail, leather, or cloth. This has the interesting effect of allowing people to "Graduate" to higher tier armor once they reach level 40 (though the same thing could be accomplished in EQ by restricting an item both by class and level). Now this isn't the main problem with WoW's itemization but it does tie in, as I'll explain.
Most of the items in EverQuest had stats and effects that would be useful to any class that was able to wear the item. A leather bracer may have +100 HP, +100 Mana, +50 attack, +4 Mana regen, +10 Stamina, +10 wisdom, +50 armor. This is just an example but there were plenty of items like this. The 3 leather wearing classes in EQ were Monk, Druid, and Beastlord. Because the stats were balanced between melee, caster, and hybrid, any of those 3 classes would benefit from wearing the item.
Most items in WoW don't follow that pattern. A typical quest reward item in WoW would be a leather bracer with +17 agility, +17 Strength, +100 armor. At the high end (level 40+) game, the only leather wearers are Druids and Rogues. This bracer clearly only benefits rogues - it provides nothing for a spellcaster; and while druids are definitely capable of meleeing in their animal forms, very few druids would gear themselves as melee characters and neglect the mana/casting side of their characters. While my character is a Paladin, I play mostly duoing with a Druid, and I've seen firsthand how few quest rewards offer any benefit at all to Druids, especially those that choose to gear up as healers (casters). Almost all weapons and armor that are usable by a druid give little to zero benefit to mana or casting. Around level 40-42 when we completed the Scarlet Monastery instance, and my druid companion got Whitemane's Chapeau , a cloth hat, which was by far the best item at her level. To make clear: the best item for a druid - a leather wearer - at that level is a cloth item.
Anyway that's the basic problem with itemization. There are too many one-sided items for members of a class when there should be more balanced stats on all of them. Instead of +17 agility and +17 strength, the bracer described above could have +17 Agility and +17 intellect, or +12 agi, +12 str, +12 int. Or add a healing/damage bonus for nature based spells, etc. SOMETHING to make the item appealing to anybody of that armor tier.
That's all for now! Kek!
Cellen! | | |
| Yesterday was probably in my top 5 worst days ever in terms of commuting. When I left the house around 8:15 AM it was about 35-40 degrees. Sometime around 11-12 it started snowing, and by about 2 it was blizzarding heavily. The wind was insane. Snow stopped around 5 PM and the sun came out - wee!
So I end up leaving work at the normal time, 6:45. There's ice all over the street. I get into Penn Station and my train is operating about 2 minutes late, which is pretty good considering the weather.
As the train approaches Jamaica we come to a dead stop. After 10 minutes of sitting, the conductor comes on the PA and announces that we're waiting for track space in Jamaica. Another 10 minutes and we've moved about 30 feet or so. This is a PACKED LIRR train - people are standing shoulder to shoulder pretty much, as usual these days.
So we finally roll into Jamaica 20-25 minutes late, and of course my connecting train has long since departed. So once again I get to pass the time in the "New" HORRIBLE FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT Jamaica Station LIRR waiting area. Whoever designed this fucking thing should be sued, and then hunted down and shot. The way Jamaica used to work was that there was an enclosed overpass that connected all 8 train tracks. If was a decent waiting area because it had a TV and - get this - HEAT!
The new Jamaica LIRR waiting area is a fucking eyesore and is probably the most poorly designed structure I've ever had the misfortune to enter. Now, instead of a nice enclosed tunnel, we are expected to stand in this cavernous steel/glass enclosure that is *OPEN ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH SIDES*, creating a sort of wind tunnel. It had stopped snowing around 4 PM but in the LIRR waiting area of Jamaica Station it was like a fucking blizzard with the snow blowing around and around. There are these glass panels up there that keep you from jumping down onto a train - these glass panels were pure white, covered with snow, despite the fact that there's a 50 foot ceiling over them for 100 feet in all directions. Someone took the liberty of writing "The MTA HAS NO CLUE" and "THIS FACILITY SUCKS!!" in the snow on the glass panels. Oh, also the waiting area has 3 or 4 heat lamps - enough for maybe 7 or 8 people to stand under - as its only heat source.
I have no idea if the Jamaica station is "done" or if there is still more to build, but assuming it's "done" in terms of leaving the north and south sides completely open, whoever designed it should have his/her/their architecting license revoked and then burned. A FUCKING WIND TUNNEL AS A WAITING AREA!
So then my train finally rolls in around 8-8:30 PM. We pull out of Jamaica and all is well until the train stops and the conductor gets on the PA to inform us that the switches are frozen and we have to wait for them to thaw. So I'm thinking, man when am I going to get home, April?
Anyway to cut the story short I got home around 9:30. Let me reiterate how happy I am to be paying 5% more to the MTA for this great service. I can deal with weather issues and can cut them some slack, but don't raise the rates and then give shittier service. One day I'll have to get into the issue of the fucking "new" M7 trains that the LIRR keeps touting as being so wonderful, but they are uncomfortable, poorly designed trains that smell like shitters on wheels.
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