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 | Dec 19, 2000 | Spitfire  | 
| | Damn was it cold this morning!! Last night it wasn't all that bad so it lead me to think that this morning would be the same. Not so! I just about lost my ears walking the 6 blocks to work from my convienient
parking spot. Anyhow, I had the opportunity today to boost a friend's truck at work that wouldn't start so that makes 3 vehicles that the Volare has saved as compared to 4 times that it has needed to be saved.
I hope this ratio gets a little better...helping people is good for its (and my) Karma.
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Hey we haven't had a contest around here in awhile, and Razor has decided to kickstart one! Its a design-a-rappablords-winamp-skin contest and everyone is elligible
to enter! The prize is one shiny, glazed doughnut. So get your submissions in!
The first submission is by none other than Dr. Razor himself. If you need to know how to make winamp skins, then figure it out damnit! |
YC sent me an email this morning which I found quite amusing. It read as follows:
"I made a cake last night :) Haha but before you get impressed all I had to
do was mix water, oil, eggs, and powder together and put it in the oven
and
somehow a cake came out 30 minutes later."
Ahhh YC, I never tire of your antics...
While looking for a wicked cool case for my computer tonight with Blue4130 I came across ColorCases.com. If you are looking
for some decently priced, orininal case designs you need look no further! Not to mention the site has this awesome huge interactive flash interface with repeditive, annoying dance music which alone wins a place in my heart.
Have a look, I'm sure you'll find something you like...
Oh, I also realized that I was broke so I'm not getting one, so all of you can add that to my christmas list! I know you all had your heart set on cash...but this will do as well...
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I think I want to go to Calgary on the 29th, anyone going that wants to give me a ride? Somehow I don't think that the super-volare would make such a trip. The car might, but the crappy tires wouldn't. Maybe I'll just steel
Blue4130's Del Sol...
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 | Dec 18, 2000 | Spitfire  | 
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A sad day indeed...Unit3 phoned me saturday afternoon to ruin my day by informing me that 3dfx Interactive is officially
going to be bought out by nVidia. Technically, nVidia will be buying all patents, patents pending, stock and
the Voodoo name from 3dfx, and will then become a video card super-monopoly and rule the world with rediculously high prices and crappy hardware. Well, maybe not.
Perhaps now that they own the patents to some decent FSAA technology they can use it to make some cards that produce some respectable picture quality....
The 3dfx legacy has ended. See here for the official press release. |
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I think I am about ready to proclaim Extreme Jerks officially a dead/retired site. I think that JayB has run out of the
magic kind of energy that it takes to run a super-cool webpage. I hoped that Skinny Elvis would be able to take over to fill in the gap of JayB's laziness, but alas he is as unreliable
as any other american and probably hasn't even checked the site himself (except for the 10 minutes it took him to update yesterday).
I've been keeping a close eye on my counter lately and realized that my traffic has decreased significantly over the past couple weeks. Are people finally getting bored of reading my senseless ramblings or has the spirit of christmas finally
pulled people off their asses to go buy gifts for their loved ones?? That reminds me, for all of you that have been wondering what to get me for christmas this year, cash will be fine. I'm only saying this because I know that Razor
has been really stumped lately even though he won't admit it.
"Well. i love adam. hes my idle.I mean it to. hes really cool. I only have 2 idles and the other one is Jim carry. oh man hes the funniest thing that i know. "
- Travis (on how much he likes Adam Sandler)
One more full week of work and then christmas is on its way. Maybe its just me but it seems that nobody has gotten into the spirit of christmas yet...maybe its just all of this damn cold. Everybody is so busy wishing it would get warmer out
that they don't realize that there's only a week left before they get a visit by the big fat man in the red suit (and I don't mean Unit3). Anyhow, not much more to say. Have a good monday and I'll see you again
tomorrow! Same bat time, same bat MOTHERFUCKING channel. Hehehe...
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 | Dec 15, 2000 | Spitfire  | 
| | Super-Volare made it to work and back without complaining so I'm hoping that it got all that rebelling (and built up carbon deposits) out of its system..
We haven't had any good pr0n on the site for awhile, and for the most part I have stopped putting it up simply because thats the job of The SDB Server.
However, today is you're lucky day because I just happened to have a large amount forwarded to me at work today. How about a group photos of all of the German Playboy Playmates?
Or if naked cheerleaders are your thing maybe you should take a look at The Viking Cheerleaders, or our own local husky cheerleaders. Had enough?
Well tough thats all I got.
There are many things in life that you probably shouldn't do...like drive $100 cars in the winter, sleep in your garage with the car running, and picking a fight with a bear over some food that he worked very hard to catch. Yesterdays update should
have given you sufficient reason to steer away from the first situation, the second situation I may be wrong about (try it and get back to me), but the third one is what we are here to learn today.
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In case some of you haven't heard yet, it seems that the automotive giant General Motors have announced that they
will be phasing out the Oldsmobile division. After over a century of existance, Olds will finally see the end of its line of vehicles. I am assuming based on the fact that Olds has always focussed on sport-luxury sedans, that the SUV market has a very large
role in their loss of sales. Too bad, because I really liked the Bravada...
   

I really hate to be a whiner OR a sell-out but please click on my sponsors to help fund the site. It would really mean a lot...
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 | Dec 14, 2000 | Spitfire  | 
| | Aaach!! I hate downtime. IP changed as a result of being switched to another router yesterday and took awhile for the new dns entry to come into full effect. WHERE ITS AT!!!
Today probably should have been the worst day of the year for me, and I'm going to explain why. Last night I didn't get to bed until around 12:30, which is later than I would have preffered
but I got caught up setting up the new dns entires for rblords. I didn't realize until I was almost asleep that I had totally forgotten to have a shower, and since I hadn't had one in about 3 months
I figured it was long overdue. This causes a lot of problems seeing as how I have a 15 year old sister who (as far as I can tell) gets up at 3 in the morning and occupies the bathroom for 6 hours.
I set my alarm early and managed to beat her to the shower....problem solved, but I was a little tired.
I grab my keys and run outside to start the super-volare. It BARELY starts...after a couple pumps the damn thing floods and I mat the gas peddle to the floor in a desperate last attempt and she actually
fired up. This probably should have been a sign, but I quickly ignored it. When I was about half way to work, driving down college drive I remembered that I had neglected to fill the tank with gas the
night before and I was quite low. This normally wouldn't have been too big of a problem until I got stuck in the middle of an intersection because the traffic had stopped as a result of a 5 car pileup on the
university bridge. Here I am stuck in the rightmost lane surounded by other cars. Without a word of a lie, I sat there for 15 minutes without moving an inch...then when traffic FINALLY began to move, 'PUUUH'
the car runs out of gas. I cranked it over to make sure that it didn't just stall, and the battery dies. Super.
So here I am in the middle of INTENSE traffic, lined up several blocks behind me. These people are already pissed off that they have been sitting for 15 minutes, and now they have to squeeze into 2 lanes
instead of 3. I flipped on my 4-ways and ran into the confectionary across the street and phoned a tow truck. The company informed me the wait would be about 1/2 hour. About an hour and a half later the guy
shows up (I had already phoned into work by this time) and is like "Man, you're not having a good day today are you?" then I look at my car and the freaked tire is flat. Now I'm out of gas, with a dead battery and
a flat tire. Pretty sweet.
Anyhow I get home and call a cab to drive me to work, and I'm not going into detail but I can say that my entire day was nothing but a reflection of what had happened earlier. Nothing was working out for
me today at all. Must be all that bad karma I racked up by hitting pedestrians...
Anyhow, I didn't expect rblords to resolve this quickly so I'm caught a little off guard and didn't have any real content to give. Kujo picked up a new computer
today (Duron 700) and can now join the hi-tech community with pride. All this is starting to make me want to build up another machine, but I really seriously have to stop buying shit until spring or I'll never
get myself out of debt!
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 | Dec 12, 2000 | Spitfire  | 
| | Well today I am going to update from work because lately I have just been finding it far too hard to come up with good things to talk about when I'm falling asleep...so this should be a real quality update. Quality???
Whats that???
Well first off I would like to admit to everyone that I have not yet bought a single christmas present. No wait, thats a lie I picked up something for my father yesterday but other than that I haven't started. To top that off
I'm all out of money until payday (Friday) so that leaves my christmas shopping to this weekend. Every year I try not to leave my christmas shopping to the weekend before christmas but it just always seems to turn out
this way. After all, whats more exciting than driving around for half an hour looking for a parking spot, only to find the mall just as crowded?? That combined with the fact that I have no idea what to get any of my family this
year could make things very interesting. Everybody likes those singing fish things right???
 SDB is still kicking. Simply Uncomprehendaba!
I think the whole internet has died. JayB has stopped updating EJ...I tried to go to EIF today
only to find a public apology by Craig, and a declaration that the site will be down forever. Razor doesn't update his site anymore, and even __Space__ has been slowing
down in her updates lately... Whats with this?!? Oh yeah, and I dropped by StileProject yesterday too (haven't been there in months) to find out that it has now become a huge marketting sell-out, with banners
all over the place and even less content than it used to have. You might want to check out Mr-T once in awhile, as Unit3 has been updating fairly frequently.
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Damnit, it was cold, cold, COLD today, and it looks as if it will be this way for at least another week. I'm not sure if the super-volare can take much more
of this pain and suffering....although I have to admit it started very well this morning and even after work without a single complaint...however it was was giving
me a hard time driving home considering THE FLAT FUCKING TIRE. Ugh...changing tires at -32 in the dark for an hour with a crappy jack was great fun.
Oh, and BTW if you tried clicking on the YC World link I used yesterday you may have noticed that it was down. This
was my fault, as I seemed to have deleted YC World from the server in my mad panic to get rid of the damage done to my
server over the weekend. My apologies, hopefully YC can re-upload the site and it can remain drawing bandwidth from this glorious site! |
Amongst all the busy server installs, wild parties, Mountain Dew cans and volare nightmares I have just realized that my room is quite a mess. In fact, its getting quite hard to even open the door anymore. I think while I'm out christmas
shopping this weekend I ought to find myself one of those big steel snow-shovels, that should get rid of my problem. Then again, half of my problems lately have been Dog Pound. Every
time I talk to him on the phone (and I phone him quite regularily to see how he is feeling) he hangs up on me. What a jerk, after all I have done for him...and all I ever got back was a broken heart and a fractured foot...
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 | Dec 11, 2000 | Spitfire  | 
| | Busy busy weekend, it hardly seemed like a 3 day weekend at all! Between trying to catch up on some sleep, recover from a cold, and
re-install oden I haven't really had a lot of time to spare to pay attention to this page, so I apologize for the lack of updates late last week. I
assure you this shall not become a trend!
If you're looking for something amusing to give you a break from work, have I got the link for you!
YC sent in a link last week to the site Pornolize.com. This site will allow you
to convert your favorite webpage into a huge mess of adult, offensive language. Highly amusing, but not for the kiddies...try it out,
RBlords has never looked better!
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Wow, I just took a look around my room and counted 15 odd Mountain Dew cans. I really like Mountain Dew.
Soul_d scanned me a sweet image from an old comic of his featuring O.J Simpson and his "Spot-Built" runners. You have
to check this out. This has all brought back memories from the time that OJ was announced innocent and soul_d drove all around town in his red 1/4 ton pick-up screaming "THE JUICE IS LOSE!" as loud as he could...
I just got out of having an in-depth discussion with Dog Pound about linux proxy servers. Man that guys knows his
shit...
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Since I'm tired, I'm going to leave this update a little early. Just remember: if you ever have old aunts pinching your cheeks at weddings saying "You're going to be next!", you
can shut them up by waiting till the next funeral, pinch their cheeks and repeat the same phrase...
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 | Dec 09, 2000 | Spitfire  | 
| | I know, I know not much updating lately but I had Friday off and was feeling lazy.
Just so everybody knows, the security of oden was once again comprimised last night by an 'anonymous' assailant. This is really starting to PISS ME OFF. As a result oden has suffered a fair amount
of file loss and damage to some system files. Quite literally, it is standing on its last legs right now. To be honest this machine has been barely running for the last week because of a few screw-ups on my
part in the recent re-install of RH6.2, but I was hoping to wait it out until I could re-install it this weekend. HOWEVER, thanks to this latest hacker who liked to run multiple instances of the SETI client on
my machine, the machine not only crashed (as it does with SETI usually) but took a good chunk of itself down with it. The webpage will remain up for now, but don't be surprised if I have to take the system
down for another re-install.
To any of my other, loyal, users who rely on oden for their webpages, email, file storage, please by advised that so far there has been no loss in /home. This means that your files SHOULD be ok. If you are
concerned about the security of oden, please email me and we'll discuss it further. I expect this to come to a stop in the near future, or we may see a possible
retiring of RBlords period. I don't have the time to waste on issues like these.
Telnet and ftp are down temporarily, hopefully they'll be up by Monday
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