I was reading the RSS feed from slashdot, when I saw this sentence: "Sometimes getting a grasp on what Open Source is and how it can be leveraged is difficult."

Let's just fix that up a little bit: "Sometimes getting a grasp on what Open Source is and how it can be used is difficult."

That's better. Just a pet peeve of mine: use the correct word and don't shoehorn an additional new meaning onto an existing word. Death to CorporateSpeak™. I'd send them an email about it but I'm almost certain that it would be ignored.

When I have a peeve or grievance to voice with a company or person that I think won't listen .. I send the angry response in giant letters .... so that whoever reads the letter will at least take notice.





You could try that; unless huge letters are a petpeeve of yours too.

I hate big letters, they're annoying.

What also annoys me is that I will have 1 free day at Thursday. %#$&!%$@!... ne lipsi magarce do zelene trave...

Sorry for the huge font, I know its considered rude but that's why I do it to people who probably are going to ignore you like corporate gaming companies who've charged you for a wrong month or something like that. It does get their attention and they probably think they are dealing with a lunatic and its better to just give in and get rid of you.



Milanius, was that Serbian cussing? Looks fascinating. Are they working you too many hours now? I hope not.

Too many hours and too many kilograms.

That was a saying, actually: "Donkey, don't drop dead yet, green grass is near!" [approx.] - we use it when we're toiling at something that crushes both body and spirit to mock ourselves *shrugs*

As for the kilos thing: there are 6-packs of 2l/2k plastic beer bottles [12 kilos], 6x2.5l [15 kilos]
and big bad Coke/Fanta/Sprite 8-packs [16 kilos, god I ****ing hate Coke]. By the end of this month I'm going to hate the very sight of beer and soft drinks.

p.s.: with one free day in 2 weeks [in theory - in real life, people there wait for a month before they get a day off] that totals to 52 work hours per week. Overtime during religious festivities is obligatory. Overtime isn't paid. Salary is equivalent to poo.

Well, I applied for college Saturday. I sent off my transcript and AP scores... I'm hoping OSU gets them soon. I can't wait to be accepted!

Then I have to pay 30 more bucks for Resident Hall sh... crap. >.<

I'm hungry, and my father's too lazy to make anything. If I put lasagna in, it won't be done until 9 or so....

Yeah, oh snap.

Awww, that are teh suck, Milanius. And fifty-two hours a week... holy crap. That sucks.

Whoa, Zarr, you got a Mass Effect avatar; I thought I was the only one here who was interested in it. No one ever paid any of my posts about it much attention...... I was thinking about writing the review for it in the new forum.

I can haz Mass Effect?

It's right under Half-Life and the Orange Box on my list of "teh awsumst gamez evr."

Wrex is my favorite character. Garrus is right under him. I think turians are cool looking. They're like birds without the feathers.

I paid for my resident hall application today. When I get my contract in the mail, I have to pay an additional 150 bucks for my dorm contract. Holy crap. But it's worth it if I'll get a dorm to myself. No way am I having a room mate. Not going to happen.

I have one of two recommendations I need. I'll write my essay tomorrow afterschool. Only 100 Oklahoman students get it,but it's worth the try.

Funny thing happened... I put in the lasagna today and thought "Hmm, my mom will probably come home with tacos." About thirty minutes after I took it out of the oven, my mom came home with Taco Bell...

I would be interested in Mass Effect the only problem is that I don't have an X-box 360. Until I do, I won't put much thought into potential games I want, my laptop isn't really of the gaming variety so PC games aren't all that gripping either.

Well, I can cross my fingers and see what X-mas will bring me I guess. Other than that, I'm quite happy that I don't have to go to classes tomorrow and I can sleep in. Sleeping in is awesome!

I hope you can get one for X-mas, MM, or maybe on you're next birthday, if not. I would nominate Mass Effect for GOTY status; the soundtrack was very well made for the game.

Liara T'Soni was my absolute favorite character in the game, with Wrex, Joker, and Anderson being close behind. Problem for me is, I don't know how to upload avatars that aren't already available for this forum.

Well, if you use Photobucket, you could upload the image you want as avatar to there.

Once you've got that bit done, go to 'my controls', then to 'edit avatar settings' There should be a bar where you can paste in an url for an online image. Copy and paste the url of your photobucket image into it and click update avatar. I think it should work, so give it a try.

I think I've finally [self-censored] lost it. And yeah, it's official, I am a wuss I informed my boss on the work that I'd be staying with them only until the beginning of December, when monthly pay is given [since I am/was with them for 15 days only, I'll receive 50%].

I thought I was tougher, both mentally and physically; maybe I could pull all 30 days with no free Sundays too, but this is a waste of time. I want to be [as] fit [as possible] when I get to that other place where I'll get to juggle CPU's.

Funny thing is, people there commended me for my work effort. Of course, that might damn well be butt-kissing since they got to know I was somehow related to big boss's wife, but I am not so sure. Few there seem to be sincere enough. Maybe I *am* likable?... bah, blasphemy. I'll stick to my paranoia and claim it to be butt-kissing.

Of course you are, Milanius .. you are a huggly teddy bear. BTW, where is your Avvy? Well, the job you are going to sounds so much tres tres cooler .. I don't blame you at all for giving the present job short notice.



Lord Revan, get yourself a http://photobucket.com account and upload some cool Avatars and give it a try. It works just as Jack Cloudy instructed in his above entry.

As the Serbian exchange student here would say, "Duh."

You are teh adorable. And nah, I wouldn't say you were a wuss. Work like that can destroy your back. A hurty back is one of the most painful things in ze world. You don't want that. Believe me. Anytime my parents had a hurty back, well, you crawled into a corner and tried to make yourself as small as possible.

*yawn* Waking up at 6 has screwed me up. My mom set her alarm for 6. I keep my door open so I don't get cold. ARG.

I finished the <500 word essay today. Ended up with 404 words. XD Sorry, I just find that kinda funny.

All I need now is the last recommendation. Hopefully my AP Eng Lit teacher will give that to me tomorrow.

I'm going to try to convinve my parents to let us open some pressies Christmas Eve. We normally do that. I can't remember if we did it last Christmas though.

I asked mostly for cd's. I did ask for two games though. Guess what they are.

I'm striving to make an A in AP Calculus for this semester. Boy I hope that happens. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I tend to make high A's on his semester tests, so it's all good.

Hmm, I'm a little hungry. Think I'll heat up a leftover taco.

Editted for silly typos and stuff

I feel better this morning, even with 6 hours of sleep. I woke up with dry mouth, to sounds of parents vacuuming the place, but I stil feel better. Even the joints feel less tense. Now, all I have to do is get this day done.

Ibis: I kinda scraped Bulky for a while. She'll be back though. I just need a festive paperbag.

Zarrexaij: Still knocking on wood here, wherever I find it mainly for your scholarship, but also for all other things, "Mass Effect" included. For math, I don't think I need to. Anyone who can comprehend 4D Rubik's cube and that cylinder-thing can easily get A. I don't think I'd get a C in your AP class.

Both of you: Thank you for the kind words. I wish I could hug you both. But I better stop before admins here puke from all the "awwww"-nes

So I'm gonna whine a bit now...

I have just written 2, 10 page research papers and I have 3, 700 word essays and 1, 3 page essay due by next wednesday.. I'm flipping out and these aren't even my exams!? 18 credits is not for freshmen..

On a funnier/cooler note.. I'll finish freshmen year with 49 credits.. very nice.. More then a third of the way graduated already lol

That's why I try to do homework as soon as possible and why I'm not gonna taking a truckload of classes my freshman year.

Waiting for my letter of acceptance and my dorm contract... ho hum. I was also flamed to heck and back on a forum earlier, not to happy about that.

And man, I'm tired.

I'm not happy about idiots on TESF either.



OOPS. Did I just say THAT out loud?

I made that mistake. Got my freshmean year off to a bad start, grade-wise and stress-wise. Firstly, for me, college classes were much harder than high school. In high school I was lazy and got decent grades anyway. College ... nope. Also, I failed to anticipate that freshman year would be full of ... errr ... partying and stuff.

Was it on the the elder scroll forums? I have not been there in days. Good luck on the dorm contract!

In other news, today is my birthday. I never entered it in my profile: there was no way I could figure out how to enter just the date and not the year. It is funny that NaNoMoWri ends on my birthday.

I have been trying a new game: Guild Wars. Been playing that a lot the past few days. It does actually work on dialup but the initial install involved two overnights of download, despite having the disk version. Some on-line friends play and they got me curious.

I'm still taking a break from writing, recovering from the stresses I put on myself during nano ... but Rashelle & Laurenna are giving me a stern "let's get on with it" look.

Did they flame our Zarr over at the TES forums??? Those people are such yetis anyway.



I only join in on the Morrowind TESCS forums and usually answer questions but lately have been asking more than answering because I am finishing packaging up a multi-author mod at the Elder Vaults website where we all are putting our own houses on an island in the game and I needed to find out about TESAME, TESFiles, TESTool and other things I generally never used before. They each worked like a dream by the way and saved endless time ... so I'd recommend them if your uploading or emailing a mod.

Yeah. It happens all the time it seems.

I got a letter from OSU. It just to tell me they were processing my application. As you can imagine, I got uber excited over it and was uberly disappointed when it turned out to just be a letter telling me they were processing my application.

Happy Birthday Blockhead.

Yeah. Can you say "massif phailur?" I'm thinking about leaving again. That or doing something really bad through the internet. SOMETHING REALLY BAD.

I'm not a party person, so it'll work out just fine. I am a "go visit the ex after homework" kind of person though.

You can not be a party person and still end up wasting a LOT of time. I just got home from college about.... 15 minutes ago, at 4:35am my time, from college.......... and that was just from hanging out watching tv at a guys dorm. So be warned

The only type of parties I'm interested in involve LANs or Dungeons and Dragons.

And you can be up uber-late without wasting time... like me up at damn near 2:00 AM after filling out a job application. I could have been playing Morrowind!


... Or writing that paper I should be writing.

Go for the gold, go for The Gold!


This morning I'm feeling aftereffects of meds. Not a pretty picture to paint. Bloody joints. And general feeling of gloom.

Ohio State or Oklahoma?

I usually just lurk now-a-days over at TESF, not really a whole lot of threads I feel compelled to post in. Maybe I'll start posting here more. I had a brief stint at UES as well but they seem overly vulgar there so I stopped posting.

Anyway, I'm flying to Colorado tomorrow to take my Police Exam. I am excited and a bit nervous at the same time but everything will be fine I'm sure.

Well its not that I didn't really do them when I was supposed to.. It was just a massive overload because exams are coming up and teachers procrastinate as much as I do..

Look at my location. It should answer the question about which university I'm talking about.

I got my acceptance letter today. W3w7.

Tomorrow I'm going to start on my essay about what interpretation of Franz Kakfa's The Metamorphosis I think is right. I'll be easy peasy. It only needs to be between 400 and 500 words in length. Basically, I'm writing a three-point essay.

Today was pretty boring. I slept longer than I should and took multiple naps. Also been very hungry. I have poptart, various candies, cookies, and some pasta. You know, that Kraft Bistro stuff. It wasn't very good, but it wasn't that nasty either.

Edit: Well, after giving TESF another chance I've left again, and this time I'm not coming back.

After what I've seen I don't think TESF's "Community" Discussion has any future except being a watering hole for flaming and trolls. But I'm not smart as Starge or you, so I'll bang my head against that wall. When I get really tired, though, I'll go. Or learn to lurk.

But enough of whining! Some good news: I quit that stupid job today. Payments are due Tuesday - I'm expecting about 100 euros, which will be used for car repairs and perhaps some house needs. In the meantime, I'll see if I can start working at the PC dealership firm on December 10th.

Yay! See, karma is good sometimes!

I guess karma had to balanced itself out with me when I got my acceptance letter.

On TESF I generally hang out in Lore or in the art/photography threads... enclaves of relative decorum, for the most part. I did get involved in one of the global warming threads a short while back, which was exhausting, as I was playing the part of the explicator. But I generally avoid anything I think might lead to flaming.

Everything leads to flaming in TESF. Even discussions over cats and dogs. That's the sad part.

And the people there just don't give a rat's butt.

I manage to somehow avoid flame wars over there. I avoid political threads (global warming, etc) and that seems to help. I did almost get into a flame war over that modtown 2007 project but my final post (I said "you all have fun with that") ended it.

It may also be the strange things I say over there. I suspect that they don't know what to make of me: am I kidding or not? However, all the strange stuff I post is 100% true.

Sadly, some people don't have such luck.

I am beginning to actually hate that place and some of the people there. It's real, ulcer-inducing hate. Because there are more and more of lazy, careless, rude, insulting individuals.

I'll keep them company, though. No more Mr. Nice Puppy.

Well in my opinion thats always been the TES forums.. Maybe it was better around the release of morrowind I really can't remember though

I guess it's one part nostalgia and one part the fact those forums have grown out of proportion since, and with large groups of people you will always get a number of vocal idiots that spoil it for everyone.

That's why we make such a huuuuuuuge effort to keep this community small and friendly!

I haven't been there in over a year. But yeah, I also think it's mostly a matter of scale. It has simply gotten too huge for its own good.

And while we had our share of undesired elements, it has never really gotten out of control too much. I do think the 'peace' here is in part due to the fact that while we have over 3000 members, only a very small portion of those 3000 are actual posters. This small portion is simply too dedicated to ruin everything by starting a flame war and stuff. At least, that's what I think.

You're right Jackie! I regard us here who post as friends...ppl we could meet if we like....or just continue talking to here.

I barely ever go to TESF, and if I do I just read some posts....and then decide to go back here. I kinda don't feel like posting there.

The profile I started two years ago there has scored about ten posts at best, when I discovered Chorrol, I just never went back to the forum. During the time I was there, I never clocked much time on it anyway. Chorrol owns the Official Forums!

I mostly visited the TESF for fanfics, and when all the best writers came here, I followed. I still visit the official forums sometimes, mostly to check the mod forums for new releases.

Not at all.

Back when I joined, there were still intelligent discussions.

Basically. And the people you thought were friends or were on good terms with? Crap, they don't give a rat's patooty!

Well, I got four hours of sleep last night... today was kinda blur. Nothing really important happened. Not sure how I survived Calculus with four hours of sleep, but I managed to get ahead of everyone on the assignment about implicit differentials.

I hope I get more sleep tonight. Gah.

Thinking about leaving the academic team because it's come more about who gets the most points rather than, you know, whether they actually know it or not. Half of it is memorizing stuff, the other half is just buzzing in before anyone else. I think the teacher should take away two points for each time someone does that. It's extremely annoying, not to mention most of the time they get it wrong. And "coincidentally" the person with the most points has also gotten the most wrong.

So, basically, it's a bunch of male cow fecal matter.

I haven't been for TESF for a very long time, but it always had trouble in size & structure. There was a lot of flaming when I was briefly there but probably not like it is now, there were mainly problems in that the regulars usually weren't that helpful because they were sick of newbie questions and sorta elitist and everyone else was newbies who had no intention of staying there long so they either posted stupid ideas or the same questions which could have been answered with a search.

In other news, yesterday I caught a stoat, Norway rat and starling (which had gone in there for the bugs) from the 60ish traps. Today I got a subsidized breakfast at a cafe, then got bought some gear and a random book to fill out. Then walked around & cleaned up some rubbish scattered around the park. Both pretty lax days really. Oh and I have the park/wetland to myself on Fridays, I'm going to kick all the public out

I must confess to being a recovering academic team buzzer speed-freak. Of course, I was right a hell of a lot more often than I was wrong. Done right, the obscenely fast ring in demoralizes the opposition. I always enjoyed getting stuff after the moderators had two or three words out of their mouths... so unnecessary, but when you can have an opponent utterly demoralized after just the opening question, so wonderful.

I do agree that academic teams often/usually become cesspools for male nerds' unvented testosterone.

Alright, enough braggadocio--making myself ill. Practical knowledge, Mike, practical knowledge. No more trivia. Why oh why did Jeopardy come up whilst I was channel-surfing? Being faster than all the people playing for money agitates me...

Alright, on to another topic. I'm applying for various national park jobs here in the West, mostly in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California... also applied to Yellowstone, which I have a love-hate relationship with because while it is beautiful, especially when you can get out away from all the other visitors, the traffic is enough to cause an aneurysm. If you aren't an easygoing soul (thankfully, I usually am) I don't recommend visiting in the high season. Actually, I just don't recommend visiting in the high season.

Wow. Props for that... spoiler functionality thing, Starge. You're my hero. No, honestly, you are. I will probably die a hack and without a damn A+ certificate.

In any case, how's my day?


In addition, I just want to say God Bless Ibuprofen. If I didn't drink one 400mg capsule this morning I would've collapsed ages ago.

So when is everyones exams starting and what not?

Mine are next week thank god.

Next week, starting on wednesday. Not the last one, mind you, but the last before the last one. Oh boy, I'm getting nervous already.

My exams are next week. I got three of em: AC Theory, AC Practical Lab Exam, and Math. I do really feel that nervous going into those since I've been doing very well in those three classes (I'm actually sitting at a 100% in Lab, and that's without doing the bonus labs). The thing that's stressing me right now is my 10 page essay due at the end of this week. Once I finally finish that, it's easy street for me.

Thought I'd jump by and give a short update as well, as it's really now or never lol - time is a value I don't really have at the moment. Because of the current course I'm taking here, you have a huge pressure about picking things up immediately as we only have like one or two lessons per subject and because of all the pratical work we do, wiring stuff up, installing different systems in business buildings, troubleshooting different equipment like amplifiers, speakers etc. you really just wanna curl in and sleep on the train home lol. And to make things worse, our current government has turned the whole school system upside down - so at the moment we're suppose to learn only practical work that will come in handy once we're out in the field you could say, but everything else, like the basic understand of what we actually do, formulas etc. - things you'd need to know if you would like to become an engineer is left out...

Along with that, they (being the government) also promised free books and laptops for some, for VG2 classes (which I'm in) this year, which was great news. But of course they screw this up too, so took about one whole semester to get them and we still haven't gotten the books for our main subjects lol.

My english exam is conquered hehe, but still got several left from now til January. Due to the whole book issue we have to look through our notes and papers we've gotten, and for those who have like been sick for a week really have problems as they can't really lean onto any books and check them.

Hopefully things will go a bit smoother when this semester is done. Whine completed

Other than I'm all well and healthy, I've picked up on kickboxing and tkd now, five trainings a week, can't say it helps my schoolwork but gets my mind of things and is of course really awesome. Also work now and than, come to an agreement with this job as a kind of sidekick - so when I got the time, need a bit of money and stuff I'll work there.

Before I reach the end of my reply, I also want to whine about the current wheather here - this friday we had great wheather with lots of snow. Me and some friends even made a small snowman (looked like a gnome) whilst totally drunk, even had a carrot nose which I have no idea how we got lol.
Now it's just rain, with freezing tempratures during the night, making lots of ice and it's all slippery.

All from teh Fuzz!

Yeah, and I'm great at taking credit for things Rane did, too!