It's Festivus today, and for those who aren't aware of it, Festivus dinner traditionally starts with the Airing of Grievances.  Since I'm not going to be sitting down to a meal with most of the people I have problems with, I'm gonna get them out in the open here. (Full traditions can be seen here: Read more... )

Damn, there's so much crap I've been working on the past couple of days. Wednesday I went and took the first two tests for this telecourse I'm taking. Since this is geography, a subject I really don't care about, I'm not absorbing the information like I'm usually good at. As a result, I don't think I did terribly well at them, but I'm reasonably ( Read more... )

I logged off for about 30 minutes to try out a different release of Ubuntu to see if the sound problems were fixed with my model of laptop. That was the only problem I had with it when I tried before, but it was a critical one. Right now I'm running Mepis, and it's got a few problems, but it's operational for day to day stuff. If I could get ( Read more... )

I honestly do not understand why it's so hard for some of my friends to take gaming more seriously.  I mean, I know the point is to have fun, but doing stupid shit is only fleetingly entertaining, and then only for the people involved ( Read more... )