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This night wasn't different from any other. I was slightly drunk and walking back home from the bar. Checho, the bartender, had taken away my keys as usual. Normally, Checho's practice of taking away his patrons' keys never worked. They were always too drunk and too macho to let Checho decide if they could drive home.

I didn't question his wisdom because he didn't question my ID. I'm 18 and Checho's bar was the only bar that accepted my fake ID. Why ruin a good thing?

Melancholy perverts
Temperaments eclipse
Everything that man skirts
The ill-humor grips

 

With curses or laughter
A time will come
When now and hereafter
You shall be numb

The reason I started to learn web development stuff like HTML & CSS when I was a kid was so that I could one day make a massive multiplayer online role playing game(MMORPG). I still have that goal in mind!

For a couple of years now, I've been developing a game in my head. I've created some goals that I want that game accomplish:

  • It has to be open-ended
  • It should be realistic
  • The interface should be text-based with natural language
  • It should have different types of gameplay
  • It should be free

I needed to develop this script in order to check whether or not my streaming media server was up. At first, I tried to use PHP's system function with BASH's wget, but that wasn't working. I ended up using PHP's file_get_contents.

These are the modules I find myself installing on almost every Druapl instance I have created. If you want, you can just run the code within the appropriate 'modules' folder of your Drupal instance. The links will change as time goes on so please take that into account.

Content Construction Kit

The Content Construction Kit (CCK) allows you to add custom fields to nodes. CCK is basically what lets you create great custom content-types for your Drupal instance.

  1. wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/cck-6.x-2.6.tar.gz
  2. tar xfvz cck-6.x-2.6.tar.gz

Dear Diary.

Tonight, I came home sleepy, but hungry. I opened the fridge and, to my surprise, found egg nog. I poured myself a glass and drank it gleefully. Egg nog is delicious!

Today is going to be a good day.

I can't wait to wake up!

I think the worst honor one could give to a person is to commission an ice sculpture of them.

What a horrible thing that would be! The person would have to model in a cold place right? How long does it take to make an ice sculpture anyway? Imagine this scenario:

"Hey! For being such a great person, I've commissioned an ice sculpture in your image."

"Um, ok. When can I see it?"

"Well, you have to model for it on Tuesday. It'll take about 3 hours and you have to stand in a room that's freezing, but it'll be great!"

You will need to download and install one module and its dependencies for this to work.

Download the Advanced Taxonomy Blocks module & install it.

In your terminal enter:

  1. wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/taxonomyblocks-6.x-1.8.tar.gz
  2. tar xfvz taxonomyblocks-6.x-1.8.tar.gz

Repeat for its dependencies.

I've been looking for a game to play since I've almost used up Mirror's Edge entertainment value.

I'm not much of a gamer. I didn't really play video games growing up as a kid. Most games don't really grab my attention. But, Mirror's Edge was badass.

So, I'm looking for some demos to test out different games, but I have no idea where to start.

The Serendipity Happened...

I saw a commercial for Wet on Hulu and it looked pretty good so I downloaded the demo today. I installed it and went to start it up and heard the music and I knew it was going to be good.



So Nietzsche and Camus both use this Intel audio driver. Alsa messes up the audio for some reason and there is no sound.

I found a fix though: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-January/msg05487.html

Basically, all you have to do is open up a terminal and run this:

alsamixer