everburning

T’was a good weekend. Went on a tour up to Owen Sound on Friday with Hodkinson. Proceeded to hang out with my parents for the rest of the evening.

Saturday we went over to Deacons house to setup for his 30th birthday. Got his house all cleaned up, food cooked, booze (partially consumed). Was well planned and executed (cudos to Hodkinson, Capel and Anderson for getting all the balls rolling in the right direction) and hey, how can you go wrong with a giant sign reading ‘Never trust anyone over 30′.

Oh, and I almost forgot, the tasty, tasty cake that Deacons parents brought over for us. If you didn’t catch it, it was damn tasty.

Deacon seemed nicely suprised by everything. We then proceeded to eat lots of good food and drink way too much alcohol. At about the point we ran out of beer we caught a ride into town and hit a few bars.

All in all, a good time. I decided to walk home from the bar, I guess my drunken mind didn’t quite realize it was as far as it was (it’s apparently like 20km or something). Took me around 2-2.5 hrs to get all the way home. Man was my hip sore when I walked around on Sunday. Had a couple of interesting moments during the walk with people slamming on the breaks and backing up, luckly they were just asking if everything was cool or I wanted a ride. Still, kinda freaky to see a truck go wizzing past you at 30km an hour in reverse hit the breaks again and come at you a second time. (Not to mention the fact that his headlights render you totally blind.)

Luckly I managed to escape without a hangover. I’ll attribute that to the massive walk and some 2am pizza. Can’t beat 2am pizza.

So, all in all a really good weekend. This summer has been busy but its also been a lot of fun.

So, I saw two movies today. Yea, I know, that’s a lot, but the benefit being the movie theater is nicely air conditioned and we don’t currently wish to install ours.

The two movies, well, one was, as the title says good, the other bad. What were they? Pirates of the Caribbean and Superman Returns. Which was good and which bad? That’s coming up.

First, Pirates. I saw this one at a matinee with Stacy. There were actually quite a few people in the theater. I was a little suprised by this, the movie having been out for a while. But then, maybe they were all trying to escape the heat.

What’s that you ask? The verdict? Well, this was the bad. It was just too long and spent way too much time trying to be Pirates 1. They tried to go for the same shtick as the first one, and missed. Which makes it pretty harsh when that’s what you’ve set your premise on. I just thought the dialog was lacking and the fight scenes. Well, those were pretty bad as well. The whole three way sword fight and rolling of water wheels just seemed too forced. It was way too choreographed. Just didn’t cut it for me.

The second movie, well I thought Superman was bloody good. It just seemed to all flow together. The main complaint I had about this one, the theater was too damn cold. Other then that, I liked it.

Even the cheesy cape in space thing, I barely noticed during the movie. I didn’t notice the two and a half hours going by at all. I’m not really a movie reviewer so that’s all I got for one.

The one thing I can say, coming out of Superman is more of a self evaluation, a, what can I do to make this a better place. What could I be doing. What’s it cost for flight lessons?

So, I’ve been informed that I’m getting sloppy with my postings. Spelling mistakes (and it seems just crappy typing). Well, I can tell you it won’t be correct all the time but I’ll try just that much harder. You know, like actually reading before I hit submit.

Lets see if that actually helps the situation or not, eh?

I’ve done a bit of writing for Enlightenment in the past, that’s basically how I got started in the project. My writing has dropped off a lot lately, mostly because I’ve been doing more programming. I usually find something other then writing to work on.

But, I’d like to get back into it. I’m not great, and if you’ve read this blog you can attest to that, but I can get something out there.

My main problem is, deciding what to write. To that end, I’m soliciting suggestions. If you send me your ideas I’ll try to write up one tutorial a week and get it out there (not every week, I do have a honeymoon coming up) but as many as I can get through.

What do you want to know? What do you want to know better?

(As a note, these will be programming tutorials, not user guides)

So, as you probably know, I play World of Warcraft. All well and good. I’m currently playing on a server called Deathwing. Deathwing, and a group of other servers went down last night and were out for most of the night.

I guess they went down today (and just came back online a few minutes ago).

I find it amusing just how much people over-react to this. Come on people, servers go down. They’ve gone down twice in > 30 days for me. Thats not bad. Comparing it to a car that only works for 75 miles every 4 hrs doesn’t even make sense (that’s off of the Warcraft forums, good reading if you want to see idiocy.)

But, the real reason I’m writting this is to reply to Basil and his post on the servers going down. I think he’s taking the wrong reaction. Which, for the ‘too lazy to follow the link’, is that Blizzard should have all the spare parts stocked up and their a bunch of dumbasses for not having this fixed right away. Or, they should have detailed descriptions of what went wrong and what their doing to fix it posted to their website.

Why didn’t they replace it yesterday? Well, maybe they fixed the wrong thing. Maybe they thought it was a hard drive issue and only discovered as the systems ran today that it’s a memory module failure causing corruption. Maybe the new part failed. You don’t know what the failure was so you can’t complain. Maybe they thought they could run with a temporary fix until Tuesday and scheduled maintenance but were wrong.

The part I find most amusing in this is people are getting up in arms over, wait for it, wait for it, 1$. You’re paying 15$ per month. So, 15$ for 30 days. 0.50$ per day. Oh, sweet mother of mercy, I’m not getting my fifty cents worth of service.

Morons.