blahg

Here's a picture of me playing pudgy bunny. Man, what a cool game it is. hehe.

posted by _paul @ 5:50:00 PM 4 comments

Based on the comments from the last post, I dub thee all firefox haters. Why you gotta be hatin' on poor ol' Firefox like that? Sheesh.

I installed my heatsink yesterday. It took WAAAYY longer than it should of, but that's becuase I was "reading" the directions and watching a movie at the same time. Let me just say, for any of you who were dubious about such a prospect, that watching movies and reading important things at the same time is a bad idea. lol Suffice it to say, I didn't read far enough ahead and removed the ENTIRE mobo before finally reading the appropriate directions (I was looking at the wrong socket directions - DU~UH) and discovering I had absolutely no need to remove it. Grrr. THEN, I had it all screwed on, but I had put the bracket arms (sort of a bridge shape when correctly installed) upside down (in more of a 'U' or bowl shape), albeit intentionally, because I felt, personally that there was "no way" that the tiny screws'd reach otherwise. Well, after putting it all back together and trying, unsuccessfully, to run it (it kept overheating in less than a minute - I know, I was living on the edge. Not to worry though, I had everything backed up like a good little doobie), I took it back apart, paused the stinkin' movie, and read the directions from start to finish, uninterrupted. Then I turned the bowls back to bridges and jammed the thing on, while Kelly (one of my roomates), who had just arrived, dutifully watched over my shoulder (I couldn't get him to hold my hippy hair outta my eyes though - good help is SOOO hard to find). Amazingly enough, following the directions (more or less) worked and I haven't had a problem since, even when playing F.E.A.R., which was one of the main reasons I *needed* a new, better heatsink in the first place.

Hmmm, hope you firefox haters don't start hatin' on my heatsink too! 8p

posted by _paul @ 10:41:00 PM 1 comments

now, for a lot of you all, this topic may be boring, but, for those of you who are hip to the newest news in browsers and know, deep in the cockles and sub cockles of your hearts, that firefox is the bee's knees of the bee-rowsing bee-eauties, read on. What follows are my recommended must-have extensions to this browser of the people and for the people. Yee haw!

In no particular order:

Gmail Manager: well, if you don't have gmail, then forget it (or ask me for an invite, I got a pretty much limitless supply...). If you do have gmail, though, ESPECIALLY if you have multiple accounts or multiple gmail users on your computer (and trust the other users NOT to read your mail, or don't care if they do) then this is the extension for you - it will simultaneously log into all of your accounts and notify you every time a new message arrives. Then, with but a simple click of the mouse, it loads your inbox in a new tab et viola, you're checkin' and replyin' and archivin' and forwardin' to yer hearts content

Colorzilla: This extension is great if you're into web design at all, as it allows you to easily select colors (with an eye drop tool, just like in Paint or Photoshop) and ascertain their hex and rgb values, as well as their height and width (in pixels) and several other useful functions. It's neat.

Tab Mix Plus and Tabbrowser Preferences: these ones give you more control over one of firefox's (and opera's) strong points: tabbed browsing. From status bars on the tabs (to indicate tab loading time) to opening multiple links in tabs in a single click to opening urls in the url bar and searches from the search bar in new tabs (one of my faves) these two pretty much cover it all.

Session Saver: this one rawks! I mean, it is really nice. It keeps track of all of your open tabs and reloads 'em all when you next open your firefox browser. I like this because, well, I just leave all the sites I visit open in tabs, and then, everytime I open, they load up and I just click through 'em. Lazy? maybe. Nice? definitely. Ideal? To me, yes. On dial-up, perhaps the tried and true bookmark method is best in this case. hehe. The only downside I've found is this: session saver only saves the session you close last. That is to say, if you close you're main window first, only to discover a pop-under, you had better not close the pop-under or that's all that will be saved. The workaround is to reopen the browser, close the pop-under/pop-up/crappy ad, and, finally, close the browser again. I dunno, you'll figure it out. I have confidence. You're very smart!

Conquery: I like to use the built in search bar in firefox. It's nice that you can add several different engines to it, not just google (which comes with it), but a ton of others from amazon and ask jeeves to yahoo and webster dictionary and everything in between (found here). Copy and pasting isn't too bad for querying these databases from words found on other sites, but, dang it, that requires two hands (if you're effeicient) or else lots of clicking and pointing. Lots of clicking and pointing, that is, unless you have Conquery. Conquery simply adds the search engines to the context menu (the menu the comes when you right click), so you just select what you want to query, right click, select your search engine and, bingo bongo, a new tab is open and search results are arriving posthaste - awesome!

US Department of Homeland Insecurity Idiocy Level: this one is absolutely useless as far as functionality, efficiency, or necessity are concerned. However, it is a wonderful statement. I like it. With it, you'll always know what threat advisory level we're on, from amber (I haven't seen it off of amber since I installed it over 1.5 years ago...) to orange to red or even the idealistic green (or is it jade, since yellow has to be all churched up as amber?), all with a nice touch of irony in the mix (for example, amber isn't called amber, it's referred to as "scared").

Anyway, I highly recommend these extensions and I highly recommend firefox.

posted by _paul @ 10:14:00 PM 1 comments

Egads, it's been awhile since I've posted. I mean, I've been responding to comments, but no new posts. What is my problem? *shrug* Laziness more'n likely. Laziness and new games from Christmas which keep me entirely too occupied. Well, laziness, new games from Christmas, AND hangin' out with buddies, compatriots, companions, friends, pals, cohorts, associates, compadres, affiliates, and people I know. Have you ever referred to a friend as a "pal o' mine" - I have. It's fun. It's kind of like a horse, a palomino. Palomino's have golden or tan coats, but I like golden. It makes it sounds like more a good thing to call one's friend, as opposed to calling them a horse.

See, it has recently come to my attention that likening people to animals is, more often than not, a bad thing. A friend of mine, Cathy, from work, is making me a list of animals which I should never compare women too. No doubt it will prove positively invaluable (what if something was negatively invaluable? we'd prolly just throw it away then, eh?). It all started waaaay back in aught five, December I think it was. Ah yes, it was December 21st - a Wednesday. We were simultaneously celebrating Teppeis birthday AND Teppei's successful return from Dubai ( a member of the United Arab Emirates), when, I inadvertently (okay, purposefully, but with no ill will) likened a dear, dear friend of mine to a hippopotamus. Now, before you judge me thoroughly cruel and base, please know this; I did not call her a hippo because hippos are fat, nor because hippos have big mouths or eat tons and tons. No, I brought up a certain likeness to hippos ONLY because she had mentioned a certain lack of physical refinement at sports, excepting swimming. Swimming, she claimed, was her forte, her cup of tea. Her normal clumsy actions became svelte and smooth when submerged. Well, I dunno, that sounds like a hippo to me. Or maybe a penguin. I should've said penguin. Man I'm stupid.

Luckily for me, she has forgiven my trespasses against her. I certainly made it hard, though, as, I brought it up in equally, or perhaps increasingly, embarrassing ways. So, once and for all, I am sorry.

posted by _paul @ 1:03:00 PM 4 comments

Mario, Luigi, and company prove excellent entertainment in this skit/google video sent to me by my newly wed pal, Eli. Check it out when you get a chance. Good stuff.

posted by _paul @ 1:00:00 PM 0 comments