uruloki’s lair

There’s really only two ways that I can be convinced to stay in shape. The first is through excessive sports playing. Whenever I can, I average being on two to three teams at a time, playing basketball, soccer, and volleyball. With some swimming thrown in there at the same time, I’ll get and stay pretty fit.

The other reason is stress. This is the reason I’m staying fit during this rotation. There’s nothing like running and weights to get out the anger and frustration which can pop up from dealing with fscking morons all day, every day. In fact, if I didn’t exercise, people would be much more worried about the fact that I control access to the ammunition and weapons for the entire staff. Even though a little slaughter may be the best way to ensure a prompt change of command, I’d like to come out of it alive and unincarcerated. Which is why I run. My current goal is 3 miles in 21 minutes, and it looks like I’ll be making it by the time go home rolls around. At that point, I’ll have to fight the pull of yummy crappy fast food to maintain a good shape instead of the roly-poly one I’d assume on my own…

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Wow, that’s a great idea you have to invite Protocol and Public Affairs into the weekly staff meetings. It makes me wonder why it’s never been done before, like maybe during the previous rotation… Oh yeah, it was done then!

Here’s a hint: noone wants to be in your meetings because all they do is cause brain hemorrages. PR and PA chose not to attend your meeting, it wasn’t an oversight on your part in “not inviting them.” They honestly don’t care because, let’s face it, those snooze-fests have no bearing on their jobs. It’s also just a guess that PR already has a good idea how commander interactions are supposed to go, what is surprising is that you don’t have a fucking clue.

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I’ve been making large use of del.icio.us and Google Reader lately. The benefits for using these sites is that I get to use my bookmarks on pretty much any computer (as long as a flippin’ firewall isn’t up) and I get to read all the blogs/headlines I want to on one site.

On the browsing side itself, I upgraded the home computer to Firefox 2.0 the other day. Still using FirefoxPortable at work, so the issue becomes getting all the settings from FFP to the new install. Lesse, what am I doing… Well, I used a load of the hints from Lifehacker to clean up the menu and navigation bars. No forward, back, or reload buttons as everything is taken care of in All-in-One Gestures. I finally figured out the Scroll Wheel Navigation (as in I can do it on purpose instead of accidentally now) and already used a mouse gesture to reload anyways, so three buttons gone. TinyMenu puts all the text menus into a single drop down, and then using the “Customize” option on the toolbars lets me move eveything up to the top menu area and get rid of the entire navigation bar. Search shortcuts makes the search bar superfluous, and the damn throbber and go button vanish as well. Finally, all my sites with the nifty favicon.ico get their text description wiped out on the bookmark toolbar so I have a set of plain buttons that I can click and therefore have more space for other random bookmarks before I del.icio.us them. Now, if certain people would stop crying and let me visit forums…

Anyways, that the geekery for today!

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Look bitch, answering your damn phone is not my job. You aren’t paid to hobnob with DVs and then sleep in your fscking tent. You’re paid to get them from one means of transportation to another, ideally without them ever coming in eye shot of me. If I have to talk to them, you’ve failed. Stop sucking whatever it is you’re sucking downtown instead of staying on base.

Oh yeah, that “great” move that you engineered of your desk? Congratulations, you now sit next to the emergency phone. When it rings, YOU FSKING ANSWER IT. I don’t care if most of the time it’s a test, you’re the genius who sat there and now thinks it’s time to walk outside when it rings.

Thanks for paying attention to your job description too BTW. See it really is your job to come up with itineraries and show people who want to see us what’s going on. You do a really good job at passing it off to other people though. Too bad it means nobody respects you. When people are more surprised that they can find you in the workplace than that you’re not there, somethings wrong.

I’d say “let’s not get started on your minion,” but I’m going to do just that. Have you ever thought that her lack of respect and thinking that she’s one of the DV’s stems directly from your lack of respect and thinking that your one of the DV’s? Hmmm, the pot and kettle shop is in full operation. Every time you complain about what she’s doing, all I’m thinking is “why don’t you just STFU hypocrit?”

God, I just want beat you in the face with a two-by-four. Bitch.

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One or two obsessions ago, I played MtG. I happen to be a classic Spike (with a little Timmy) with a particular weakness for combo decks. At the time (Mirrodin block), the goto weapon of choice in a combo deck was Arcbound Ravager. I liked to use it with Myr Retriever and Disciple of the Vault for recursive pinging and gigantic beatdown at the end. Now, it wasn’t quite the combo I was looking for as the Holy Grail combos in MtG all have that point where they “go infinite.” This means that there isn’t anything the other guy can do about what you’re doing to kill him and you win. (Aside: yes, technically it’s an “arbitrarily large” amount of mana/damage/pain you’re doing, but everyone knows it’s infinite even if the rules say it isn’t. Level I Judge FTW)

This terminology carried over to MTGO, which is ePaperCRACK and another one of those things I was hooked on for a bit. In addition to the original meaning, “going infinite” came to mean something else online. The tournaments online were paid for through a combination of card packs and tix (tickets). Once you started placing in the top three in tournaments or nightly drafts, the rewards were card packs. You could exchange the card packs you didn’t need for more tickets, which would get you in the next draft where you’d (hopefully) win even more stuff and just keep the cycle going. Going infinite in this case meant you never paid to play ever again and pretty f’n stelllar as far as I am concerned.

Now, we come to EVE. CCP (the makers of EVE) actually make it possible for you to go infinite here as well. They allow the purchase of GTCs with ISK, the in-game currency. So, if you can generate enough ISK, you can pay for the next month or three (30,60, or 90 day GTCs) out of your in-game earnings. Which means of course that you have officially gone infinite and there is no reason for Otter to get on your case about paying for two games since WoW is still you first love. Not that I would know anything about that… Of course, there may be an initial outlay of funds to start the cycle going which I am sure can be dealt with rationally.

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