According to a friend, Neil Gaiman once spoke about people approaching him with ideas for books. To him, an idea for a book alone is worthless regardless of what the idea was. The only value is in the talent, skill, and, most importantly, the actual execution of the idea. People who come up with ideas and don’t execute them are what my roommate calls shit-talkers. A shit-talker is someone who doesn’t do anything, they just say shit.
So I haven’t posted since before vacation. Everything I’ve come up with to post since then has been more appropriate for the forthcoming blurb-log than for the blog. I’m not done coding my new blog system yet, so I was trying to hold off. I’m still not sure whether to call the blurb-log part of the system a “blurg” or not. See more on that in the next blog post. This blog post is a bunch of blurbs about what’s been going on since last I posted. I don’t usually do posts about my life, but a lot of things have happened that may interest other people. And if I wait for my new site to be finished before I post, there will be a long time of waiting.
Tomorrow I am not going to work. I am going to The Otakon. This will be my fourth Otakon. If you’re going to be there and you want to see me I am guaranteed to be at the club summit panel. Also, look out for me and my crew cos-playing as the axe gang from Kung-Fu Hustle. Sometimes I think I work all year just so I can pay to go to Otakon. Of course, now I make so much more money that I could really work maybe one week and still afford to go.
Over the weekend I rebuilt the software on my computer. I reinstalled Windows XP, as is necessary once in awhile. Windows for me now is just a Steam machine, so hopefully it will be a long while before I do this again. Luckily the legally free key I got in college is still good, and I didn’t even have to call in to MS to re-activate. Two things were finally fully confirmed for me during this install. First, Windows performance does indeed degrade over time. The older the install of Windows is, and the more it is used, the slower it gets. Secondly, a completely unpatched Windows XP is wicked fast. Every layer of updates you apply makes it slower. But I guess you have no choice if you don’t want to be hacked to bits. If you have Windows only to play single player games I highly suggest you disable all networking and use the original unpatched XP.
I’m in the midst of a computer build-fest. I built a server to provide internal services to our home network, a media center PC for the living room and a new desktop for my parents. There are lots of computer parts flying around my house. It’s a geek paradise.
So there are all kinds of blogs on the net. And they carry different levels of content. Some have huge heaping piles of links, some post every day, some post every hour and some every minute. Some have podcasts, some have videos. You get the idea.
With so many of our founding fathers and visionaries agreeing how can we so blatantly go against all of their teachings? It’s quite simple when the population is poorly educated and afraid. When will this madness end? I don’t know. But many of the people smart enough and brave enough to recognize it are more keen on leaving for greener pastures than fixing the problem domestically.
