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i feel like killing something
Posted Oct 15, 2007
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp
That page is a pack of lies and misrepresentations.
I wrote a totally awesome opinion piece about it for my new blog
http://stealingfromthedrawer.blogspot.com/
But right in the middle of a word, this huge section of like several pages of text was deleted somehow. AND IT JUST MAKES ME WANT TO SCREWM AND BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF THE COMPUTER I'M USING RIGHT NOW AARGH !!!!!!!!
and that's after spending 20 minutes trying to figure out why it was typing in Hindi script.
i think i might need to move away from blogger and go somewhere else.
i can't use this h2g2 journal for some of the things I'm wanting to say partially because it's a UK-based site and partially because I don't want to worry about whether the things I'm saying there are contrary to the (usually good) h2g2 House Rules ... so I dunno maybe I should move to WordPress or somewhere else ... I haven't decided yet.
Nerd42
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weird day in the life of a junior technician
Posted Sep 11, 2007
So we get in these used Dell computers and I can't figure out how to open the darn things. Instead of blundering blindly ahead and breaking the plastic however, I turned to Google. Sitting there, I couldn't believe I was asking for help on how to open something that's right next to me from somewhere across the world. This is what I found:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ban_gx1/rrsff1.htm
I have never seen a computer case that opens like that before. It's an ingenious design however. I'm becoming more and more impressed with Dell. Even though I personally custom-build, I think I'm going to be recommending Dell to people who ask me for two reasons:
1. Their hardware works and has a somewhat decent track record, unlike HP.
2. Their stuff is built to work with anybody else's stuff - a win-win for both Dell and the consumer.
3. They were smart enough to put instructions for stupid people like me to figure out how to open their ingeniously designed new cases.Nerd42
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whoah ... haven't been here in 4 ever
Posted Sep 10, 2007
I've been stuck on this really primitive planet for a long time where the government arbitrarily chooses which students should get free college and which don't on the most absurd criteria and the Internal Revenue Service telephone answerers expect people to "hold for up to 48 hours".
Worst of all, I've lost my towel. This does not look good for Nerd42.
I have NO time at this point in my life to devote to h2g2. I mean, I've been acting that way for a long time now but I think it's time now that I admitted it.
This means I won't be able to run my RPG club at all. 
I haven't abandoned the multiverse it's set in - I'm just having to abandon the online play for now. I'm still working on the novel. (which no one has seen at all, so of course nobody cares) I think that the h2g2 implementation of the Silver Sword multiverse has been very successful in accomplishing some of the goals I set for it when it began. It helped me figure out which kinds of parties work best, helped me think about how the various types of characters would react to one another and forced me to develop a system where I could plan out campaigns in which I could insert any characters I wanted to and also take them out at any time I needed to while still preserving some sense of story. (The story never got finished, but anyway ...)
Someday I'd like to code my own custom-built web site for hosting Silver Sword RPG games but I've got to finish college so I can make the money and get the 1337 skillz first. But basically, whether or not it resurfaces elsewhere someday, the Silver Sword Universe is no longer going to be on h2g2. I'll leave what we've done with it up for archival purposes but I am having to abandon all my plans to expand it.
I've also quit Uncyclopedia recently because of my dis-satisfaction with the direction their humor has been going. (Straight down into the gutter) That site would really benefit from having some rules against obscene content like h2g2 has. (Or used to have, back when I spent alot of time hanging out here - I don't know what it's like now)
In late 2006, I helped to found a new kind of wiki called Illogicopedia for people to post nonsense to. Unlike Uncyclopedia which aims for what some disturbed individuals consider "funny", Illogicopedia has no requirement for it's content to be funny - it just has to be nonsensical. (and relatively clean) "Good" submissions are articles that people consider "interesting to look at and possibly even read". http://illogicopedia.wikia.com/
I barely have any time to devote to that either. (LOL)
Another crazy crazy project I've been involved in is learning how to remix music. I made a mixtape that dropped in April 2007. http://music.wikia.com/wiki/COOLdISC_aFTERmATH
So basically I've been keepin busy, working and studying but have also used all my spare time in creative projects that also teach me about things, but most of it hasn't been online, or it's been where I don't have to concentrate really hard on it - handling this h2g2 stuff takes too much concentration.
So I'm not going to be able to contribute really all that much to h2g2 anymore. 
Now and then I might log in, check what's going on, maybe post, but I can't be "responsible" for things like my RPG club anymore.
I would like to thank the BBC and everybody behind h2g2 for providing the hosting for my RPG club all this time AND for allowing people all over the world (even in the dreaded .... USA!) to be a part of the site even though they aren't even remotely British. 
Basically I'm still around, just not around as much. 
Nerd42
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CHOCOLATE WITHDRAWL SYMPTOMS
Posted Feb 15, 2007
CHOCOLATE!CHOCOLATE!TOO MUCH CHOCOLATE!!!Nerd42
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another update to my personal space
Posted Aug 2, 2006
I just don't care anymore. I used to have this article A5971403 that just had my logo, so that my logo wouldn't have to load every time I bring up my personal space, but it's just not worth keeping track of two different pages. I have so much stuff I want to put on my space that it's a pain if I ever want to update it because I have to wade through all the junk ... how have you dealt with this, ? Besides going for the minimalist look?
I shudder to think what my page might look like in the other two skins ... but I have to go check now. 
Nerd42
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