Why My Life Sucks

I watched a lot of curling this year. The Swedish women team took gold. They are also heavy metal fans it seems.

Hat tip to AD

Other wise why all the Cat-5?

Pink Floyd meets Iran.

Music to if not scare at least cause confusion in normals

I give you “Alvin and the Chipmunks – I Am a Viking“. This is a “cover” parody abomination of “Yngwie Malmsteen – I Am A Viking” For those that don’t know what rule 34 is Go Here It’s work safe, which is odd for a rule 34 page.

This has been making the rounds of the various blogs I read. Though I would post it as well.

I’ve always liked the “Over the Hills and Far Away” song from the “Sharpe’s Rifles” series of movies. Some one has made a mash up of all of them the various movies. I need to look up John Tams and see what else he has done. Random Dafydd care to comment, he being closer to your style of music than mine.

“The Leningrad Cowboys” do “Monty Python”. It doesn’t get much stranger than this.

Normally I don’t deal well with covers of the 4 or 5 songs that make up my internal soundtrack. Blue Oyster Cult’s Burning for You is one of those.

Shiny Toy Guns have done, while not a quite a cover, a version of it, which got parts of it picked up by the Lincoln MKS commercial. Once I got the car right it was a quick google to get. While It’s not going to replace the BOC version in my internal track, it’s not 100% bad either. It’s not the same song, for several reasons, it’s more like a song inspired by “Burning for you”
Compare and Contrast with the original, more or less. Important safety note. The BOC video makes less sense than normal, even for early 80’s rock video standards.

I have always like 3 doors down before I found this track
I really like them now. Need to go out and buy some CDs when I have some money.

First my song for The Darling Wife
In Thee, Blue Oyster Cult

My current internal song

The more I listen to “Behind Blue Eyes” the more I identify with the POV singer.

One of my other internal songs is “Winterborn
” by “Cruxshadows”

Rounding out the list would be The Redheaded Girls song for me. At least at one time it was. When I’m Gone, by Three Doors Down

I thought that the half naked photo of me holding a beer bottle was scary. I know better now. This photo is scary. I had no idea my eyes did that when I raised both eyebrows. Now I know why so many people back off when I do that in a work sort of place. I also know why they think I may be an ax murderer waiting for the right moment to strike as well.

This is a list of things that Ice-rocket found for my site in the last 3 weeks or so.   Not all of them, of course.   Some of my replies are snark, some are advice, some is deadly serious.   I leave it to the reader to figure out which is which.   Spelling and punctuation to the left of the : marks are from Ice-rock.   Errors to the right of the : are mine.

Leading off the pack, once you get past all the various versions of “[why] my life sucks”   is

1. Bristol Stool Charts:   Color me a surprised shade of brown.
2. lunesta drinkin:   Dude, just don’t.   It’s a waste of a drink.   You’ll get about half to 2/3 down and pass out.
3. cannot rotate dell displays d600:   Not with build in software.   However this will fix it.   Get it.
4. winterborn acoustic:   I’ve come to like that version better than the electric. Cool song Either way
5. what is shelf life of midrin:   Don’t know.   Mine are pushing 2 years old and still work.
6. lunesta redhead:   Odd mix.     Don’t think it works as a date rape drug, so that just makes it weird.
7. firefox 3.05 sucks: Some one else aiming for a ban I see.
8. why does my life suck and what can i do about i:   Find a medical professional that you know and trust.   Listen to what he or she says.   You are not alone, even when it feels like you are.
9. why is the phone taking over my life:   There is that “off” switch.   Even land lines have a switch to turn off the ringer.   Rember, the phone is for you, not the rest of the world.
10. rants about how life suck:   You may or may not have come to the right place.
11. “classic+traveller”:     Check out Mongoose’s version.   They have cleaned up some of the oddness of CT, but it feels like CT, not TW:2000 ins space.
12. my life sucks without him in it:   This is a bad sign.
13. How stool in there life pictures of them:   I am going to assume this was a Britol Stool Chart search.   Yes, they have pictures.   Not to gross, but enough to get the idea across.
14. why does tulsa suck:   Because it can.
15. Is there anyway i can make:   What?   Seem to be missing a final word or phrase there.
16. install gsl c++ express:   I know what the GSL is.   I know what c++ express is.   I don’t know what they have in common, unless GSL doesn’t expand to what I think it is, which means I couldn’t help any way.
17. Amidrine is it good:   If you freaking need it, yes, it’s God like.   If not, it will make you feel like crap.   It will make you feel like crap even if you need it, but it beat the hell out of the migraine.
18. leopard 10.5.5 vs 10.4.11: Dude, just don’t do it.   Not worth the pain for the pretty mirror effects.   And it’s 10.5.6 now any way.
19. g5 drivers sucks:   Pretty much.
20. dungeons and dragons fourth edition sucks and D&D sucks:   Two folks aiming for banning.
21. classic traveller vs mongoose:   Hard call. I’d go with Mongoose today.   Ask me tommorow I might have changed my minds.     Both are available if you know where to look (legal copies), but Mongoose is puttting out new stuff.   Just ignore the weapons in the last 10 pages or so of Mongoose Mercenary or your head will explode.
22. why life start at 40:   You might want to talk to a right to lifer about that.   Hell, even pro choice people assume that once your out of the host body, your alive.
23. tehran sucks   and khomeini sucks:   Why, yes, it does.   Course he’s dead, but he still sucks.
24. michael kors suck:   Must Not Post Gay Joke.   But he seems so nice on Project Runway.
25. upgrading from 10.4 server to 10.5 serve:   Unless you really like pain, don’t do it.
26. author of why my life sucks: J. Michael.   That’s about as much as I’m going to give out.   Real geeks could find out fast enough, but if you don’t know how, I’m not going to tell you.
27. nambla suck:   Must Not Post Gay Joke.   And, yeah, they do.   Not the good way either.
28. don’t know who to contact at ft bliss:   The offical page is here Of course you have to play silly games with getting their SSL cert approved by your browser. Why all the browser people suddenly started to not trust .mil SSL certs is a question I’d like an answer to. Starting to chap my buns.
29. 10.5.5 trying to login into 10.4 server:   Assuming you mean the remote server admin tool that used to be so cool?   They broke it.
30. lunesta and two beer: equals a long nap.
31. macports vs fink vs gentoo.   Em.   I haven’t play with Gentoo on a PPC, but I have spent way to much time with on x86/x86_64 boxes.   If you got a working Mac,   I’d go with 10.4.11 and fink.   It’s my standard for mac machines.
32. moving Mail 10.5.5 to 10.4:   Oh, dude, I feel you pain.   I think the tool you need is mailbfr
33. damn small linux sata_via sata_via sata_via:   Why the sata_via three times?   I think it works with it.

Because the damn out of the box version of the ATI Radeon X11 driver doesn’t support xrandr, at least not on current release of ubuntu, I’m going to attempt to get Godzilla working with the stuff I need on it via Gentoo.   Stand by for something like a live geek blog.   Granted, even with this box, I don’t expect Godzilla to be a working box for at least a week, working being defined as “I can read a US Army supplied .DOC file, Read a PDF, Write a pdf, (ideally from Lyx) run DigiKam and Gimp 2.6, ssh into other machines, and run Firefox 3.x, all in portrait mode, with out going nuts on how freaking slow the video driver is.     Displaying a flash animation with sound is optional.   Also must be able to boot in to windows.     Being able to read/write   the NTFS partition would also be nice.

Just got the stage 3 tar ball down.     The fun starts now.
Because I need another test flash file, and well, because it’s Godzilla I’m working on:

First edit 10:18

This is not a good sign.   It takes over an hour to download and untar the stage 3 and portage tarballs?   Gack.

I’m going to live on the edge, mainly because I want Gimp 2.6, so I’ve turned on the ~x86 keyword, in a global fashion.   Done before any compiles or what not, so it should, repeat, should work OK.

Chrooted and about to type emerge –sync   It’s 10:25

It seems to be deleting an whole lot of freaking files, like if I didn’t know better, I would say all of them in the metadata/cache directory, which is what took a ghod damn hour to un tar.

And now it’s putting them back.     You would think something called “current snapshot” would in fact be the current snapshot.   This does not seem to be the case.   Sigh of heaviness.

Finished at 11:03, then wanted to emege it’s self.   Which fail.   My error.     It seems gcc 4.1.2 doesn’t know what a Core2 arch is.   Got to go fix that.   OK, set to noccona for now, and emerge portage went fine.

Told it I’m a ‘mercan that speaks lish and I live in fly over country and we are about to suck down the kernel source.   It’s 11:15.

Didn’t take as long to snarf and barf as I thought.   It’s 11:28.   Now the fun starts for real. Making a kernel.   Oh Joy.

First, of course, get and compile the genkernel tool.

At 11:52 the compile starts.   I did turn on a freaking ton of modules, but then again, that’s why I used genkernel to start with.

That was fairly quick It’s only 12:07 and it’s done?   OK then.

Going to load up vi now, just because I hate nano.

Did the other tools (cron, etc) and grub.   Grub seems to have problems with the lack of a floppy drive

OK, 1:00 exactly and it dual boots.   Granted the Linux side is useless, but that will do for now.   Just short of 3 hours to get the bare bones installed.   Now the real stuff.

Start with X.   It’s 1:31.   Just started to attempt first compile of X11   That’s 101 things it has to download and compile.   Of course, ran into a circular dependency based on having the HAL turned on.     That’s Hardware Abstraction Layer, not some thing that says “Dave” a lot.

Going to bed.   Will launch Xfce4’s emerge in the morning before going to work.

A double dose of Adderall in the morning is not a good idea.   Did that yesterday.   Some random notes about why this is not a good idea.

1. I think I was talking as fast as Redheaded Girl reads.   Maybe faster.   For those that don’t know her, she reads faster than I do.   I read some where around 3 or 4 pages a minuted (pages being defined as standard paperback pages)   Back in school I read faster the the fastest speed on the SRI reading speed testers that they used at Patrick Henry Elementary school,   back when it was the beta test school for that sort of stuff.
   

   Side note, all 3 of my siblings went there as well, and we all do ridiculously well on standardized test.     We should, we’ve been taking them from kindergarten on.   It’s like we have been trained to take them or something.

2. Sleep does not come easy after doing that, which is weird, because I normally take the same amount, granted spread out over the day.   Normal dose is 10mg, then 5 and 5 later in the day.
3. My eyes still feel like I was in a desert.   Very freaking dry and some what irritating
4. When you listen to “Through the Fire and Flames” by Dragon Force and think that a speed metal version would be cool, your speeding just a hair.

If this doesn’t scare you, you need to have your scare meter calibrated. And, no, AD, it does not need more Cowbell

OK, I’m a geek. I know that.

But this dude needs to get out more.

On the other hand, it’s sort of impressive in weird sort of way.   4 part harmony for a single voice.   It is, well, odd.

Have you ever noticed how much rock music is about, well, rock music?   Either tributes to other rockers, bitching about being on the road or just plain about rock.   This effect is spread over a wide area, both good and bad bands do it.     It seems to me that this sub genre of seems to account for about 10% or so of all rock.

Not a rant, just a note.

Depending on your status as a normal this may or may not be scary.

You go to a mainstream church if the words in your head start with “What Child is this”.
You’re in or were in the SCA if the phrase “is all you know” goes through your head while you listen to this.

I heard this tune as I was driving into $WeSellUsedMacs. Of my cow-orkers , well, crap, none of them were alive when this was taped.

I need all of you punks to get the hell off my lawn!

AC/DC – It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll – .

Even allowing for Mà ¶tley Crà ¼e’s suckage, the rock (vs the pop music) of the late 70’s to mid 80’s did, in fact rule. Heh, I suspect I’ve lost enough weight in the last 6 months that my old high school ear “Disco Sucks” tee shirt would fit again. Of course it should say “Disco Still Sucks”.

So, I find my self driving back from the shrink, playing XM 41 as normal.     A song comes on.   I turn it up and start singing along.

Yeah, so, why the going to hell?

The song was “Every Rose has it’s thorn” by Poison.     I can’t believe I

1) know that song well enough   to sing along with it and

2) I thought that singing along with Poison would be a good idea.

Poison, for crying out loud.     Back in the day they were the band we called “Poser”.   The shame of it all.

On the medical front, the shrink changed my Cymalta dose to 40mg a day,   vs the 60mg I have been taking for the last 4 weeks, in an attempt to get my falling over dizzy spells to stop.

I’m coming up on a birthday. A fairly important one, most likely my last prime square, but not a LRN just yet.

So, Yeah, I’m an old fart. What music station do I find my self using most? XM radio 41. “The Boneyard”.

It’s for classic metal,   things that sound like classic metal, and prog-rock. It’s target audience is high school class of , ‘76 through ‘86, more or less. It’s old music, or at least an old style. It’s mainly listened to by old farts. You would not know this if you listened to the self promo spots they run. You would think it’s for class of 2015.

Adults, as a general rule, don’t really have to make a semi-sexual pun on “bone me” several times an hour. That’s a twelve year old thing.

I’m going to try to post at least one post a day for the next year. I have to get doing something and this seems like a good idea as any thing.

Any rate, this is Albannach, a really trad Scottish band.

Don’t forget that the bagpipe is a weapon of war. This will show you why..

So I’m posting a bit more tonight.   Then I’m going to read Classic Traveller background material getting ready for my Mongoose Traveller game.

As an aside, I fully support Mongoose Publishing and their attempt at making MGT open gaming.     Their licensees are fair and easy to use, which is more than I can say for the Wizards of the Coasts current license, the GSL

Like I   said over on Fly Over Thoughts, “It’s All Carter and Clinton’s fault“

I don’t know if the bail out plan is the perfect move, but I do know it wasn’t GW Bush’s fault.

Who ever it is that is doing the song about ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, please, just go a way.  At least get of the internet radio station that plays in my shop.   5 times a day is way too freaking often.

Not Safe For Work, like any thing I do is.

This was sent to me by a cow-orker that was making a reply to this one.

While I have linked to a Dred Zep song before, I didn’t include it in the “Scare Normals” list.

I give you Dread Zeppelin – Immigrant Song 3:38