So I was reading this on cnn.com:

“I mean, look at the local weather guys, they know what they’re doing, not those Weather Channel people. The local people say it’s gonna move north, and that’s enough for me.”

Before Gonzalez goes back inside, he turns and mutters, “Too expensive, anyway.”

Do you remember Katrina? You got pwned.  Bigtime.  They said “it’ll turn north” about Katrina too.  It did turn north, problem being, you’re north of it, stupid.  You’re still north of it.  The local news is telling you to fucking leave.  The governor, the mayor, and everyone on your street who left, is FUCKING LEAVING.

GO DIE.  Don’t fuck any fertile women on your way down, either.

So I was at Cracker Barrel for breakfast…I had to pee while I was there, and saw a man reading the Bible at the urinal.  Yes, that’s right.  He uses the urinal right next to mine in clear violation of the understood bathroom etiquette by which all men implicitly agree to abide, and pulls out his Bible and sets it on the urinal cap for the whole 15 seconds it takes him to do his thing.  Now, mind you, I’ve done this with a Calculus book, 10 minutes before an exam…but that was important.  How is reading the Bible so time-critical that it can’t wait while you go pee?  Maybe there’s a Psalm in there for kidney stones? Or bad urinary infections.  Who knows.

I added my PSN tag to the gaming thing on my homepage.  Just looking at the two side-by-side, you can tell which network has more money…Sony needs to open up their PSN API so I can have a real gamercard with all my trophies on it!

Heavenly Sword for the PS3 is awesome.  I love this game.  Grid on the other hand, blows.  It’s more fun to see how hoopty I can make my car by running into shit (and seeing if it can still run after that) than it is to just finish a race.

Blech.  I just saw this Liberator (not to be confused with the diabetic marketed, and Wilfred Brimley’s Liberty Medical) medical supply commercial about the catheters.

“I was so tired of boiling and reusing catheters every time I had to cath”

Are you serious? This is an issue?  You can’t afford the tubes you need to stick in your pee hole?  You get infections from boiling them and reusing them?

The funny thing is, I see her squatting in the commercial playing with a cat.  If you can squat to play with a cat, there’s no reason you can’t pee normally.

So since I switched my gamerpic to the McCain one (after seeing it on Jason’s gamertag, of course I had to have it) 2 of my friends have changed theirs, and 5 friends between the aforementioned 2 have changed theirs.

Score!

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.

Yep, you’re absolutely right…

I think that’s all I have for now.