Rappablords Online

Nov 23, 2000

First off, I'd like to draw everyone's attention to The Discussion Board as it is seeing the most activity it has ever seen since the day it was conceived. My only question is, where the hell is Dr. Razor in the midst of all of this?

Another amusing video from CampChaos.com. Check it out!
I don't really have all that much to say today except that I am looking forward to the end of the week so that I can catch up on my sleep. Oh, I'm also pretty excited about getting a new monitor, although I'm not sure when it is going to get here. Could be anytime before next thursday but I'm hoping it gets here before the weekend, as I have had good luck in the past receiving things from Onvia.com within 2-3 days of ordering...

As of the past month or so I have become extremely adicted to the god of all pop: Mountain Dew. Some of you who knew me from school may remember me getting hooked on Orange Crush while I was there, in fact I practically lived off of it...but those days are no more, for I have realised the superiority of the Dew.

Some quick facts about Mountain Dew that you may not know:

Pepsi purcahsed Mountain Dew from the TIP corporation in 1964
In the 1960s, many Mountain Dew bottles were sold with names of employees from local plants engraved in them, to help promote a 'personal' feel to the beverage.
Mountain Dew contains more caffine than Jolt cola, except for in Canada, where law prevents non-dark sodas from containing caffine.

Goodnight everybody, its time to go to bed. I hope to see you all back here again for the next exciting Rappablords update!

Nov 22, 2000

Spitfire

Last night a made it out to see Charlie's Angels (on cheap night of course), and Dog Pound insisted that I do a review so here it is...

This movie was a lot like you might expect it to be (from the previews). There was a decent plot (surprisingly), and even the acting was alright, but what made this movie as good as it was happened to be the same thing that earned the TV series its short fame as well, kung-fu action babes and lots of booby shots. In some sort of cross-breed between a James Bond movie and the Matrix, this highly-predictable film is still worth a look, but make it on a Tuesday. I should also note that Bill Murray was in it and he is always hilarious...

This movie gets 3 Dog Pound heads. Its large amount of skin and explosions earned it this rating more than anything else. Oh, and it also had Drew Barrymore and she's my girl.

Well, I have been contemplating the future of this page for a very long time now. RBlords has grown a lot larger than I once intended it to be, and as such it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage. I am finally in the process of converting the page into a database-driven architechture which would make updates faster, and easier for other people to update as well (like DP or Razor). This could take some figuring, so if you notice any funny things going on with the page, it is probably a result of me moving things around and I apologize for any inconvienience.

Not much news today, except that I finally broke down and ordered myself a new monitor on Tuesday. I have been living with a 14" monitor that was found in the garbage until now, but I will now be able to join the world of 19" wonders. Damnit I wish monitors weren't so expensive...but to anyone out there actively seeking out a new monitor please take a look at Onvia.com. If you're Canadian (like me), just hit the 'Canada' button at the top of the page to have all prices printed in Canadian dollars. Their prices are very competitive and they offer FREE shipping. You know how much it costs to ship a 19" monitor across Canada? Neither do I and I don't have to worry about it either :)

Only other thing to mention today is that I finally got around to taking my film in to get developed from my trip to Edmonton. Hopefully once I have the pics scanned, soul_d will provide a breif summary of everything interesting that happened to us (remember YC came along on this trip).

And don't forget to join the fun on the Discussion Board...

Nov 21, 2000

Spitfire

Good day, and welcome to November the 21st.

In geeky tech news today, the long awaited Pentium 4 chip has been officially released and will be in stores near you very soon. The new chip boasts compatibility with a 400Mhz Bus architecture using new, and more expensive PC800 RDRAM. To soften the blow of having to buy this hard to find and expensive RAM, Intel will be packaging 128megs of RAM with some of their CPUs, straight out of the box. Another important thing to note is that these processors are available in a 1.5Ghz model, making it now finally ahead of AMD in clockrate.

I won't get into comparing the new Pentium to its close rival, the Athlon, but if you are interested in a comparison of the two, stop by SharkeyExtreme for a summary/review of today's leading edge processors. In my opinion, I think we will see a real comback from Intel as they claim back some of the market that AMD managed to grab.

I should also note that Unit3 dislikes everything about the new P4 and believes it to be "Nothing more than a waste of money", and also denies that it could be superior in any way whatsoever. Since he also believes that any document published in html format is the god-spoken truth and un-argueable proof, I would like to direct him (and you) to this site (cudos to soul_d for the phat link)

I got to work today and the parking lot was a fucking mess. For one reason or another, people have just given up parking in their own spots and have decided that it is more fun to park halfway in their spots, sideways, or even in the middle of the parking lot. This may be because the majority of people who park in this parking lot are cops and are therefore somehow imune to any kind of law. One thing they are not imune to, however, is the long, heavy door of my Volare smashing into their brand new SUV.

I have provided a picture on the left to give you an example of how bad things have gotten. I realize that you can fit more cars in the same space by standing them on end, but it really does turn out to be more trouble than its worth...

Enough ranting and back to some new juicy news. Jay B seems to be worried that Bla-Bla (the ISP for EJ) is going to go under sometime in the near future. I would like to take this time to extend my hand to his, and offer the hosting of his site free of charge if it shall come down to that. As a payment, I would simply ask that he cover my ass when his company finds out that I am running servers using their service. Oops, I wasn't supposed to say that. Anyhow, I believe this to be an ideal solution for the both of us, and we could then sit down, have a drink, and celebrate the moment with the adding of hand to penis.

Tired of reading this yet? Tough, I got more to say. Every week I am required to attend a staff meeting at work, along with 5 other employees, to talk about the various projects we are involved in and the progress being made in certain areas, etc, along with general concerns expressed by our general manager. In this meeting today I was informed that my partner and myself are going to have to be sent for a whole day of "Cultural Awareness" training. Everybody then laughed at us because they all seemed to avoid the recruitment. I really don't care that much other than it sounds like its going to be really boring...maybe I'll just bring YC to make things interesting...

Ok, I'm done now. Bravo to all of you who have been posting on the Discussion Board. I know its lame but it gives me a chance to see that I really do have readers, and these hits aren't all from myself reading my own site like a loser from work. Anyhow, I'm outta here. Word to your mother.

Nov 20, 2000

Spitfire

This will be a fast sloppy update, but I figured that would be better than none at all. It is exactly midnight right now and I am extremely tired from my weekend trip to Edmonton. The total attendance included myself, Dog Pound, soul_d, Unit3, Blue4130, YC, Eli and Dawn (my gf). So there were 8 of us in total. Two nights in a fairly decent hotel, and a day and a half at the mall. I have plenty of pictures which I took with my new camera, but I have promised soul_d that he could have exclusive rights to preduce a summary of the weekend with the scanned images. Hopefully you will see that posted on this site within a few days...

So as a result of my trip this weekend, and only getting back an hour ago, I am very, very tired. The mall was pretty cool, although it was the 3rd time I had been there in 3 years and eventually it does start to become a little less interesting. Mental Note: Don't tell the guys at the stereo shop that you are interested in buying "The most impressive toy in the world". Blue4130 learned this the hard way...

I would like to introduce one of the best games of all time..."Funky-Head Boxing". I have never heard of, played, or even seen someone play this game before, but I happened to stumble upon a review of it just moments ago. Basically it is a shitty boxing game, and they have made all of the player's heads huge and blocky to make it look funny (kind of spices up boxing if you ask me). It is made for the Sega Saturn...so if anybody owns one of those machines, I would appreciate a more in depth review of this game.

Anyhow, I'd love to stay and rant some more, but I just know that I am going to be incredibly tired tomorrow morning so I'm going to leave it at this. Please have a look at the discussion board if you want to have some interactive super-fun...

	Nov 17, 2000	Spitfire
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Nov 17, 2000

Spitfire

Just to clear up the dirty rumours once and for all, I AM NOT QUITING THIS SITE. I guess it must have all started with the evil Dr. Razor spreading rumors again...

Whats new? Not much. Edmonton trip is tomorrow so I'll be gone for the weekend. YC made a very bold and daring comment on the Discussion Board today and I guess that was kindof interesting. Also, someone died the other day at Harry Bailey (a swimming pool run by the city) during a diving/scuba class. He was trying to see how long he could hold his breath under water and he just never came up. Its pretty sad, but the interesting thing is how much politics is involved downtown when this happens, most of the managers in my department were busy in meetings and writing reports on the subject to straighten out all the details and try to combat any exagerations that the media is known for publishing...

I have a fun little site to link to today which was submitted to me by YC. The site is called "Am I Hot, Or Not?" and basically allows you to vote on a series of submitted pictures, depending on how hot you think they are. You can vote on women, men, or both. Its fun to waste some time with, and I think I saw a pic of Razor in there somewhere...

I also have another mildly amusing link to visit if you have a few seconds. Just click here to waste some time!

Well I promised an article today so an article you will get. I don't have anything from Blue4130, as he said that he would send me an article but he didn't! However, we have a sweet article written by Audiophile which is worth a look. I mean hey, its an article about Dog Pound getting beat up, can you do any less???

Wow, I'm tired. Good thing I can sleep tomorrow during the ride up to Edmonton. Have a good weekend everyone, I'll take some pictures of the carnage that Unit3 causes...

Nov 16, 2000

Spitfire

OK OK, I can't believe it - I didn't update yesterday and people actually complained, how flattering! I've just been really busy planning this whole Edmonton trip for this weekend...and we finally found a place to stay so everything should be settled. Whew.

To overclock or not to overclock?

For those of you crazy l33t overclockers out there looking for a CPU to overclock take a look at overclockers.com. They have a really extensive database of overclocking results submitted by readers. I found this very useful when choosing my pair of 366s a year ago...so check it out.

It seems the new big overclocking revolution is centered around the Duron chips, although I would like to get my hands on a couple of Celeron 533s...

I know that some of you have heard of the new Alice in Wonderland game coming out from ea, those who haven't I guess now is your chance. Blue4130 sent me the trailer for this long-awaiting game which promises to be very evil, twisted and gorey. Sounds pretty good, lets see if it can live up to all the hype...

Anyone who uses the RBlords mail service mail have noticed that it wasn't receiving mail over the past few days. I'm not exactly sure when this started but it has been fixed, and all of the email that had been sent in the meantime should have been delivered shortly after so there should be no loss. I haven't exactly figured out why this happened, it seems that once every month or so, oden (the server) just starts rejecting email for so reason and the only way I have been able to fix it is to reboot, which I should never have to do! Ugh. Oh well.

Man, Dog Pound must be having a fit with all of the politics going around lately (he's really into this stuff). First we have the election in the states (see pic on left), now we have an election in Canada. This is just nuts...

I for one am probably not going to vote. Maybe I will, if I feel like it. When asked why I don't want to vote I usually reply "because it would be in the public's best interest that I not". This usually confuses the other person, but honestly if I were to vote it would be the old 'einy meiny miney moe' pick, and who's going to benefit from that? I'll leave the voting to people who have reserched it and know what they are doing. This combined with the fact that I think that all of the parties are lying to us anyways about what they want to do is what has turned me this way....

On a side note, I'm not sure if anyone has noticed but Razor's page has kinda died. I'm hoping for a glorious comeback. The Dark Project is also down due to The Saint's lack of hard drive space (hard to believe as he has 1023402gigs). __SPACE__'s page is live and flourishing, so I suggest you have a read. Other than that, the internet is dead. Oh, and I should mention that SDB Blue has been updated...

Wow thats the longest update in awhile! Stay tuned for articles in the near feature from both Audiophile AND Blue4130. And don't forget to leave your comments on the Discussion Board...

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