Okay, this is where good taste and morality get tossed out the window like stank mop bucket water. I link this monstrosity to just emphasize the dark side of gaming development. I do not condone it or even presume to know what the hell these morons were thinking. I will, however, also link you to an online petition to hopefully appeal to whatever shred of common decency these guys have left. Thanks to Dave from the FES gaming group for the heads-up on this.
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They don’t need no steenking badges
Well, we are packing up our stuff and and progressively realizing that we have a lot of it.
As for today’s title, some county deputies popped into my building last week to serve me a subpeona about a case I very, VERY marginally was involved in a couple years back. Basically, as is an ongoing thread at this university, the occasional odd professor here likes to use lots of bandwidth to download his smut. Yes, I have probably created some liability by saying that and also violated the “Oklahoma Loyalty Oath” they made me sign before starting to work here. Yes, I’m miffed about this too.
Thus far, the district attorney’s office does not seem to care that my input is horribly minimal or that I will be moving soon.
Tomorrow, we attempt to call someone with authority at the Shilo Institute for Customer Disservice. We sent a letter last week. Hopefully the gal we wrote will be the first decent managerial type we’ve dealt with thus far.
Would you like tartar sauce with that McChicken?
Well, I’m probably gonna have to post a special rant on the Message Board to even cover all the stuff we have run into over the past week. Concerning the page title, that’s a whole long story. As for this entry title, absolutely avoid the McDonalds in Colby, KS if you value your digestive tract.
We did manage to have a good time and meet interesting people and travel to some really fun places. It is just the horrifically stupid imbeciles we dealt with along the way that I am now taking to time to laugh at…now that its over. Point yourself over to the Rant section of the message board if you want to know more about our adventures.
For your entertainment value, an odd page about the sounds you see in comic strips. Also, a link to the most demented system technicians alive (I forgot to link it before we left).
Roadtripping
Leslie and I are off to Utah (and for me, on to Vegas from there) for the NAFSA Conference, at which Leslie will be a presenter. I, of course, am heading out for some job searching so wish me luck. So, no updates for awhile – not that I’ve been really up on them over the past couple weeks anyway.
Links and schtuff
Got a visit from Jeff Hallock – in town for his brother’s graduation. Leslie and I went out for dinner with him and caught up on all kinds of things. Then he showed up the entertainment majesty that is Homestar Runner. Of particular mention are the Strong Bad email section and the Trogdor game (which makes more sense when you check out one of the emails).
I also got an email from Justin Mooney (hi!) that linked me to a story that I had just finished reading on Wired. Check it out here and hopefully get a chuckle.
And in case any of you missed the notice, Leslie got her Certificate in International Studies in a ceremony Friday evening. Go ahead and flood her with congratulatory emails.
It’s Vegas baby!
Well, after weeks of interviews and campus visits and anxiously awaiting job offers (all of which came in an overwhelming rush), Leslie has accepted a position at UNLV. Basically, we move in just over a month.
Of course, this means I have to bust my hump and line up a job for myself too. So, all those updates you were expecting to the site (HA!) are likely not gonna happen. Stay tuned for sanity checks as we pack ourselves up for a haul across the plains and desert.
Facelift and other such things
Alright, I messed around with the color scheme of the page (at least the main page for now). I also worked on a new style sheet so hopefully the text doesn’t go wacky on pages. If you hate the new look, let me know. If you hate the logo, let me know. If you hate that I haven’t got all the pages up and/or converted; well, I already know that so you don’t have to let me know. Also, went back to a DHTML type menu. The other one was causing all kinds of oddball errors depending on your browser and version.
A couple of treats for you.
This is a test called What Country of the World are You? Take it if you are really bored.
And THIS particular nugget is a highly irritating and addictive game that was linked to me a few days ago. I loathe ever seeing the page and figured I’d share it with all of you. Enjoy it and don’t blame me if it drives you crazy too.
More on our buddy
If you haven’t noticed, our pal Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has become quite the Internet celebrity. Here is one site pertaining to him (beware that it is INCREDIBLY slow loading).
A little basic help for ya
I have squandered a lot of time trying to figure out how to make simple explanatory pages for people on how to use their computers and the net. So, I went looking and I found some people who can do it a whole lot better than I can.
If you know people who need help learning the basics of the internet, point them to BBC’s Webwise page. There’s also a really basic tutorial on computers too. They’ll thank you for it.
With Leslie being gone over the past couple of weekends on interviews I have been tinkering about with some ideas for pages and content. Hopefully you’ll see a bit of that in the upcoming weeks.
Misinformation
I don’t know how much of the war you all are watching…hopefully not enough that it affects your normal lives. I am a bit of a news junkie myself so I know the symptoms. In any case, if you have been catching any of the lovely speeches given by the ultimate spin doctor, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi Information Minister, you will have noticed something verging on the comical. I mean, this guy should get his own late night talk show when this is over. Al-Jazeera could host it, except that he’s made them mad too. Of all the dire and serious events going on, for this guy to go ranting about anything and expect to be believed in ridiculous.
Which is why the following makes me chuckle:
Also, I managed to get someone at Central Command to send me the world map wallpaper you may see plastered all over the plasma screens at the Doha, Qatar media center. You can download it from here.
