May 3, 2008 – Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods

Gaming

Well, I’ll be frakked.

By Earl
May 3, 2008
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Well well well. A little bird has landed on my windowsill with news that a certain gaming gathering taking place in a certain major Oklahoma city between OKC and a certain Arkansas border is back on this year, maybe second-weekend-of-a-certain-August-ish-month. So it looks like anyone interested has another chance to pick up the PDF:DVD live and in person (but hey, by all means, don’t deprive yourself until then – you can get one here too).

Anything more specific than that, I don’t know, mainly because Obi caught and ate the bird. But it was a helpful bird. And tasty, or at least so I hear. Mark your calendars!… Read more

Gadgetology Gaming

Oatmeal? Where we’re going, we don’t NEED oatmeal.

By Earl
May 3, 2008
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And now, the news The first batch of PDF DVD orders is out the door! Thanks to everyone who’s spending their stimulus checks with me. I hope you find the results stimulating. Wait, there’s got to be a better way to word that…

I’m waiting for the arrival of another new pair of Avid drive cables to test out a new (to me) pair of Avid drives that I just got. I’m a bit nervous about the drives in question because the fellow who sold them to me put both of them, with ABSOLUTELY NO PACKING MATERIAL, in a standard Priority Mail box and shipped them off. No “fragile” written on the box, no nothing. WTF!? It’s bad enough that, due to having a slightly older generation of Avid hardware than what’s in use now, I have to buy other people’s used drives. It’s even worse, however, when those other people turn out to be total freaking idiots.

Speaking of massive hard drives, the project to transfer my media files to the 1TB drive is more or less complete. I’m terribly terribly pleased with this drive thingie. It also passed the “breakout test” on Friday morning as a nasty storm blasted through – I got it shut down fairly quickly, and the plugs pulled. We didn’t have to take shelter or anything, but I also didn’t want it to get zapped by lightning. I could’ve very easily picked it up and walked off with it at that point.

I finally finished my official write-up on the Oklahoma City show; you can read that here. Rob also has his review posted here, with a bit on the afterparty here, which as usual I couldn’t stick around for long because I had to be back home the same night. If I’m ever well-rested for one of these shows, or I’m actually Hey kids, it's Mr. Fusion! able to stick around for a while afterward, fear for your lives, for it is a sign of the apocalypse. Speaking of which, one thing I couldn’t find a place to mention in my review without it being a total non-sequitur was that, just as we were about to get on the interstate from Alma (which is kinda sorta more or less where we both live…near…), Kent and I saw a Delorean toodling down highway 71. No Mr. Fusion, just a Delorean. What makes it even funnier is that we both stared to see who was driving this thing through Alma of all places, and almost in unison we looked at each other and said “Wilford Brimley.” 😯

Nothing else immediately spring into my sleep-deprived mind at the moment, so I suppose this concludes this core memory dump. Please check back later, I may have something coherent to say. (Though I’ll admit that the likelihood of that is very low.)… Read more