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Mar. 17th, 2009 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_gneechLast night was spent largely diagnosing and fixing (we hope) the router problems, or at least mitigating them some. The network still drops GORT with annoying frequency, but I suspect that's largely because it's the last holdout XP machine on what is becoming a Vista shop. [1]
Once that was done, I finished getting most of my files transferred, although there are still some important bits missing that need to be migrated before I'll be finished and ready to start working on art again. Mostly settings and files that are hiding in strange places instead of being in "My Documents" where they belong.
In cat news, Buddha still can't bear the presence of another cat. We picked up a large crate-type pen to put Buddha in so we can let Dasher run around the house, but all it did was make Buddha paw at the bars and yowl. Dasher, for his part, has clawed a big hole in the guest-room rug and is generally going stir-crazy locked in solitary confinement. I'm wondering if kitty quaaludes is the only viable answer besides "find another home for Dasher" at this point.
In gaming news, I ran another session of Star Wars on Saturday night, which went quite well I thought. It was a pretty major battle, so the session was pretty much "Fight! Fight! Fight!" But that said, it also advanced the campaign story, gave everybody a cool moment or two of "screen time," and enabled the characters to go on a mission with Luke Skywalker — at least until one of the campaign Big Bads popped up, knocked Luke off the building, and went chasing him through the city streets.
Finally, a great moment in bad ideas: The Sci Fi Channel finally admits that they hate their core audience. In other news, ESPN is going to be renamed "The Athletic Supporter's Channel."
-The Gneech
[1] Not by choice, particularly. I constantly want to tell Vista to "SHUT UP!" It seems to think that every time I change something from the factory default, the world might explode.
Once that was done, I finished getting most of my files transferred, although there are still some important bits missing that need to be migrated before I'll be finished and ready to start working on art again. Mostly settings and files that are hiding in strange places instead of being in "My Documents" where they belong.
In cat news, Buddha still can't bear the presence of another cat. We picked up a large crate-type pen to put Buddha in so we can let Dasher run around the house, but all it did was make Buddha paw at the bars and yowl. Dasher, for his part, has clawed a big hole in the guest-room rug and is generally going stir-crazy locked in solitary confinement. I'm wondering if kitty quaaludes is the only viable answer besides "find another home for Dasher" at this point.
In gaming news, I ran another session of Star Wars on Saturday night, which went quite well I thought. It was a pretty major battle, so the session was pretty much "Fight! Fight! Fight!" But that said, it also advanced the campaign story, gave everybody a cool moment or two of "screen time," and enabled the characters to go on a mission with Luke Skywalker — at least until one of the campaign Big Bads popped up, knocked Luke off the building, and went chasing him through the city streets.
Finally, a great moment in bad ideas: The Sci Fi Channel finally admits that they hate their core audience. In other news, ESPN is going to be renamed "The Athletic Supporter's Channel."
-The Gneech
[1] Not by choice, particularly. I constantly want to tell Vista to "SHUT UP!" It seems to think that every time I change something from the factory default, the world might explode.
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Date: 2009-03-17 01:41 pm (UTC)Have you tried lilac scent in the house? I don't know what your allergies may think of it, but if you put lilac scent where the boys like to spray...it may help them relax a bit. I've been trying to remember what we used to do when we had cats, but I'm not having much luck.
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Date: 2009-03-17 01:43 pm (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2009-03-18 05:31 am (UTC)I'll wait to see if and when Eureka comes back and I admit to a guilty pleasure out of watching Ghost Hunters, but I haven't watched Sci-Fi Friday since January.
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Date: 2009-03-17 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-17 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-17 02:49 pm (UTC)They don't want to serve sci fi anymore? Then they are just one of the 300 other crap channels on my crap cable that I have no interest in and do not watch. Stick a fork in them -they are done.
I may just follow Jaxx's lead and cancel cable and just watch You Tube instead. Far more entertaining.
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Date: 2009-03-17 03:09 pm (UTC)Show them the door, be sure to tell them why.
I'm debating getting rid of my satellite....
Date: 2009-03-17 04:08 pm (UTC)MLD
Re: I'm debating getting rid of my satellite....
Date: 2009-03-17 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-17 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-17 03:18 pm (UTC)Someone at Sci Fi... errr... SyFy needs to be punched in the face for this marketing decision. Plus, this just proves that marketers are pure evil.
--Salen
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Date: 2009-03-17 03:21 pm (UTC)In a few years, the channel's name will be Tyttys&Byyr.
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Date: 2009-03-17 05:09 pm (UTC)I did get into The Prisoner thanks to their Labor Day marathon one year, but again, that was Harlan Ellison's doing.
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Date: 2009-03-17 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-17 07:15 pm (UTC)And that's just LAME. Syfy sounds so AOLspeak. Forget the core audience, I don't know ANYONE who'd watch a channel named that. XP
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Date: 2009-03-17 07:35 pm (UTC)-TG