So I decided to drop some lines last nite…what a disaster.

First, I tried to run the fish up the wall from the box at the floor level.  Fishing wire from one little hole to another little hole doesn’t work.  So I went up into the attic to find the hole there, so I could grab the fish.  No go there either.  In order to service the AC unit up there, the rafters are covered with these hard-as-fuck boards that are nailed to the rafters.  And just my luck, the wire I need not only goes under this little floor, but drops right in the goddamn middle of the floor.  Under me, that is.

So I painstakingly pull up the L-shaped support board only to find that I can’t manipulate the board up in the attic.  There’s just not enough room; I had to saw the board in half to move the part I needed to get at the wire drop.  I need to post pics of this at some point…because the amount of work involved in dropping 2 lines down a wall in this house is ludicrous. When I finally get to the wiring under my feet *grumble* I find not a straight drop down the wall, but a 3/8″ hole to drop cable down.  To make things worse, the coax is somehow stapled/nailed to the studs all the way down the wall, so I can’t just pull that up, drop two lines and split it.  No, the existing coax *has* to stay there.  This isn’t that much of a catastrophe; I’ll probably leave the cable in place so I can run satellite to the living room some day in the future…for, uh…free-to-air programming using the dish that was already on my house.  God though, what a pain in the ass.

So I reverse plan and start snaking cable down the wall.  Now if you’ve ever seen the back of a utility box, it has 4 holes in the back, in the corners, that are about the size of the cable I’m running through them.  Great.  So I went all Tim the tool man Taylor on that shit and ripped the box out of the wall, damaging the drywall above it.  That’s only an hour repair job, but still.  Anyway, 2 5 inch nails later and a lot of careful (not careful enough, apparently) wriggling of the box, the box dangles outside the wall.

Anyway, 5 hours later, I have an RG6 and a CAT5e in the wall, and a gaping hole from where the box was.  I need to pick up another new work bracket, a 3-module plate, and another RG6 module.  Oh, and some drywall repair supplies.

God I’m starting to hate home improvement projects.  I need to get this shit done so I can set up my new Airport Extreme and go back to playing Ratchet and Clank.

Why do people even bother posting anonymously on blogs? You know, I can, and do, cross-reference cable IP’s across every blog I’ve ever had, owned, managed, or hosted, and your cox cable IP isn’t nearly as dynamic as you think it is.

Please, for the sake of your own sanity, don’t spam my blog with crap like that.  Further infractions will result in your entire /24 (or /16 for that matter) being added to the deny block in my httpd.conf.

Just for fun, I may even post your email address in the clear, maybe some spam bots are hungry.

tom@ethergeek.com and pyro@ethergeek.com are now dead.  Too much spam (thanks, FreewarePPC.com), I killed them.

You can contact me here.  I’ll add it to the left column when I get time.

I can’t think of a better title for this post.  It’s just some random updates.

• Running cable is a pain in the ass.  I did one room (ya know, to make sure it can be done before making a party out of it) and it was the most grueling task of my life.  Every muscle I have hurts from climbing around like a fucking rafter monkey in the attic.  Not to mention that fishing wire is alot harder than everyone wants to say it is.  Now I just have to fish up one of the source feeds and split it.
• ReCAPTCHA is fucking awesome.  I have zero spam since turning it on and disabling my aKismet plugin.  Furthermore, I used to get forum registrations from bots with the SMF native CAPTCHA…haven’t gotten a single one since I switched the system to use ReCAPTCHA.  Fucking awesome.
• Elliot electronics here in Tucson is the shit.  Got 430 feet of RG6 coax for less than half the price it would have cost me at the Homo Depot.  I just wish Elliot wasn’t so far away from home.
• PETA is filled with retards.  They seem to think that “inserting a probe into the rectum and passing 240 volts through [a rabbit]” is the easy way to do it.  I can’t help but find that funny.  Seriously, try sticking an electrode up a rabbit’s ass and tell me if it’s easier than just whacking the little fucker’s head against a table (a practice PETA also derides, because it occasionally leaves rabbits alive to be skinned).
• Sega Superstars and Top Spin 3 are the absolute worst tennis games for the 360 ever.  At least I didn’t pay to rent them.
• Playing regular XBox games on a 360 blows.
• If you get the $21 (actually, $24 after the taxes, tarrifs, and other forms of anal-oriented sexual abuse by the government to fund the liberal need for shit like welfare) one-out-at-a-time movie/game thing from Blockbuster and get anything else with it, make damn sure the clerk understands which one is the game you want on the program, and which one you want for a week like a regular rental.  That’s 10 minutes I’ll never see again.
• Fat people need to die.  This should be a given, I just feel the need to reiterate.  Please, choose death, fat people.

Yep, you’re absolutely right…

I think that’s all I have for now.

These are thumbnails; click them for larger versions.

My fucking god…at least she isn’t wearing something tight like the last fat cunt (zoom in, I mean that literally) I featured in the cow of the week club.

This sort of foraging beast is all that could have caused this.  Or obnoxious teenagers.  Either way, it took them 20 minutes to finally send the unwed-mother-to-be 16 year old rent-a-maid to clean it up.

I put a reCAPTCHA on the comments page.  Feel free to test it.

Edit: I also disabled the aKismet plugin for the time being, so if spam shows up somewhere, that’s why.

Edit 2: I’m now using reCAPTCHA on the forum registration page also.  Yatta!

Spotted this Latina Land Whale while waiting for Sarah to get off work.

Why do these Mexicunts insist upon wearing such tight clothes and nauseating the general public?  She needs some fucking liposuction and a “chef’s pleasure bag” to be even socially acceptable.  In case you are wondering, yes, there are indeed, three chins there.

*gag*

I has one.  It’s here.  It’s also on the front page of the site on the left.  I can even update and browse it from my iPhone.

Anyone remember that God Warrior woman from trading spouses?  I think I just saw her fat ass at the Walmart.  Jesus Tapdancing Christ.  Hopefully she’ll get wedged in the tub and starve to death in a heaping helping of poetic justice.

Why is it you simply cannot stumble upon any article about C++ inheritance without someone throwing in “in C++ your friends get to see your privates! *giggle* *snicker* *etc*”?

I thought this was funny when I heard it the first time — when I was in high school.  It’s just not funny anymore!

I just jailbroke my new 3G iPhone! Now I can install my own apps on it without coughing up a 99, albeit measly, bucks to Apple.  Take that, rules!

I need to get the SDK fired up and port Checklist Tree over to the iPhone…somehow.

So I just beat Indiana Jones for the 360!  1000 Gamerscore.

Fuck yea!

So I’m driving in to work today, and I have to cross the city…like every other day.  I notice at Oracle and Ina that all four corners of the intersection are *packed* with anti-Bush protesters.  Now for this liberal shithole (Tucson), this is fairly normal…though it usually manifests itself downtown with the rest of the liberal nonsense that goes around down there…

Anyway, I keep going on my way to work (after telling the protesters to get a fuckin’ job before driving through the intersection) and I notice a literal cavalcade of police.  TPD, MPD, PCSO…every agency nearby has what looks like every motorcycle they have, parked at 3 places along Ina road: Oracle and Ina (which I thought this police presence was to keep the dirty liberals in line), Ina and Orange Grove, and the Westin La Paloma Resort.

At this point I’m curious what’s going on, so I pull up KVOA on my iPhone 3G, and apparently the president is here to support a local candidate by hosting a 500k/plate breakfast with the president.  Cute.

It bothers me though, why would throngs of protesters gather on a day where the only people who will see their signs are either a) people like me who drive through that intersection any other day, or b) Bush supporters and like minded republicans on their way to have breakfast with the president.

Retarded liberals.  They need to go to work.  In a camp.  A death camp.  Yeah.  They need to go somewhere they can concentrate.  Or drink some Kool-Aid.  Or hole up at a compound in Texas.

I’m redesigning the preferences backend, adding some *much* needed features and clearing some bugs I’ve collected since 1.2 was released.  I’ll try to peel myself away from my new iPhone to get this released quickly.

I just got my SwapMagic 3.8 CODER discs from Modchip.ca in the mail yesterday…the CD version (for playing CD PS2 games) was fine…the DVD version was warped, and won’t load.

I sent them a help ticket and they suggested that I didn’t know how to properly load a PS2 disc.  Yeah…right.  Not all of your customers are idiots guys, and those who are that stupid…well, I’m not sure how they manage to use a computer to order from you in the first place.

Anyway, long story short, they want me to send the disc back to them (shipping at my own expense, of course) to get a replacement.

Fuckers.  Maybe I’ll just machine a steel ring and glue the disc to that.