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| Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 | | 1:40 pm |
| | Monday, February 8th, 2010 | | 8:19 am |
Its a busy week.
Monday: Meeting -> Exam -> Lecture -> Mental Health -> Urgent Care (wrist) Tuesday: Exam -> Something -> Another Class -> Big phone call (yay) Wednesday: Class -> Meeting -> Meeting Thursday: Class -> Class -> Meeting Friday: Class -> Fall-over-and-sleep. Saturday: 12 hours of gaming. Sunday: Prep for 'next' week. Whee! This week begins in about 40 minutes. Commutes by bus not included. | | Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | | 12:32 am |
Clicky... level 100
Hey, I have a really tough task to ask of you. I would like you to click this here fella to get him all the way to level 100. That's it. Just two more agonizing levels. And then, I might reward you with another clicky post. Or something worse... that might have something to do with Star Trek.  | | Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | | 3:30 pm |
Lots of stuff!
1) Happy Birthday (tomorrow) to ashlupa! 2) Paradice Games did another fun news-y update: http://www.paradicegames.com/?p=663) My take on taxes: Recently in Macroeconomics, I learned in a detailed manner how the Federal Budget Deficit affects the economy. I'm gonna oversimplify this here, but here's the easiest bit on it: When the government increases taxes, but doesn't increase spending, this helps businesses invest in employees, get facilities and tools to make/do/whatever that they do. Simply, the economy does better, because the government is borrowing less money. In 2002, 20% of discretionary spending (on loans, medicare, social security, defense, etc) went to paying just the interest on the national debt. $600 Billion out of about three trillion dollars was just interest payments. We're doing better now (just 8% of the budget) going to interest, but that's not because the national debt has decreased, but rather because interest rates right now are much lower than they were then. When the government changes taxes and spending in a balanced amount, the economy continues on, mostly balanced in the effects. This is perhaps best. When the government lowers taxes and does not lower spending, it helps the economy enter a recession, much like what we have now. The situation I'm referring to was done under Bush, but is continued to some degree by Obama. The government has to make up the gap in what they tax and what they spend by borrowing. By the gov't borrowing huge sums of money, that is money that private companies cannot borrow, and therefore, fewer companies are able to purchase new property, better tools (production technology), and our economy stagnates; wages stop going up, etc. | | Thursday, January 28th, 2010 | | 4:35 am |
| | Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 | | 10:19 pm |
Parties Parties Parties
Ai ai ai... So far in 2009, I've managed to miss every party perfectly. This is really starting to get under my nerves, as I'm now at the point where I don't even know how to fix it. Not that I go to a lot of parties in the first place; but because there was a last-minute meltdown in transportation, the release party for the Portland Outsider went on without me, and the many folks who invited may have gone, and I might hear about it sooner or later. Anywho, I'm wondering now how and if I should even try to make it to anything, since my time seems to betrothed to who I live with (which is good, from a psychological standpoint - my house mates keep me grounded - but at what cost to what I want to do? I just got the first big draft done of a statement describing my situation to the VA (you know, why they shouldn't be reducing my disability, and the like). So, hopefully by Sunday I'll have the advice of the house mates on it before I send it off to my legal defense. What's going on in your world? | | Monday, January 25th, 2010 | | 3:58 am |
| | 3:33 am |
PDX Area Gamers
Hey folks, I just wanted to let you know that this Friday and Saturday, there will be three LARP venues happening at my house that I'm aware of. Thankfully, I usually have a chance to pull away to get work done when I need to, and this weekend is looking especially good for being able to be there... so here's the gist of what's happening... All of this is World of Darkness (The Shining Host, The Apocalypse, The Ascension) Friday Night (6 or 7pm to around midnight?): Changeling Saturday (Noon to 6pm): Werewolf Saturday (7pm to midnight?): Mage If anyone would like to join in on the fun, you have my invitation, but I should get you introduced to the appropriate story tellers with enough time available for you to create your characters, etc. This post is only half evil. It is 3:33 am. | | Monday, January 18th, 2010 | | 10:36 pm |
Sharing some condolences...
Xiroteus' father died earlier tonight, and I forget if he and I are on LJ much. Should he not make a post here, I posted on the forums something you can add your condolences to, if you desire. | | Sunday, January 17th, 2010 | | 5:17 pm |
| | Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | | 8:33 pm |
Prioritizing things...
I'm having a difficult time prioritizing what I need to do tonight. Its a matter of too much to do, I think. I keep thinking of taking one thing at a time, then wind up bouncing between five things. Ugh! | | 1:15 pm |
IRC Golf benefit for Return to Honor
Someone decided that they will be sponsoring the Return to Honor program (www.returntohonor.org) for the 2010 season of IRC Golf. This sponsorship is being kept somewhat quiet, since this person wants to surprise Return to Honor with his donation at the conclusion of the 2010 IRC Golf Season. The donation will be made in January of 2011, after this year's season is done. The donor will pay ten cents per point that is scored within the league, up to 10,000 points. Last year, the league scored (in total) 1149. Joining the IRC Golf League is free, and if you would like to do something like this donor has, I'm sure some arrangement can be figured out. I extend my personal invitation to join the league. If you'd like to watch or play, games take place at: Server: irc.paradice.net:6667 Channel: #paradice Joining the forums isn't a requirement to play, but I am one of several administrators there to contact if you'd like to be able to register. "The national average for repeat crime (recidivism) is nearly 70%. Just a 10% reduction would be nearly 500,000 people. For altruists, who want to save lives and futures, that's a lot of lives. For economists, who want to save money, that's a lot of money. For all of us, that would be a huge step toward mending lives, families, and our communities creating not just a return, but a return to honor." - Don Kirchner | | Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 | | 10:11 pm |
Poor old Saint Nicholas
Well, it seems that PETA finally had their way. They must have stripped Santa of his beloved reindeer because he was driving the bus I rode to college this morning. Freaking PETArds! They loved doing what they did, and now the deer are stuck in the wild, will probably wander south to Alaska, and get shot by Palin! Y'know, now I know why I always identified with Scrooge... | | Monday, December 7th, 2009 | | 10:39 pm |
| | Sunday, December 6th, 2009 | | 2:11 pm |
| | Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | | 9:37 pm |
| | Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 | | 1:59 pm |
Gotta love New Zealand
You ever get that feeling like you're living in the wrong part of the world? Well, sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't spend much more time in New Zealand. Literally half of the CDs I sent out from my recent little post about CDs went to that country. Therefore, I am more popular in New Zealand than any other country in the world! | | Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | | 9:50 pm |
Registrations Disabled Part 2:
So, within 2 days of disabling registrations, I already have made an exception to the rule. The way I did it was in IRC, I opened up the doors for user registration, waited for the user to register, then as soon as he had, I closed the doors again. Granted, its a real hit-or-miss deal. So, I'm getting ready to draft a change to how forum registration goes now - because if I have folks contact me via email, that's great. I don't have time for the forums to get overrun by bots (like they have been in the past), not to mention that some email domains no longer accept emails from the domain, counting it as spam. So, as a stop-gap, I think I'll put invitations every now and again, and if someone wants to join, they just need to contact me asking to join, and I'll reply to their comment or message and let them know as soon as I've opened up registration. However, once registration is done, I will go through each new user account and delete any users who didn't request to join (by name). Its not that its a private club or a private group - its easier to square away this way. What do you think? | | Friday, November 27th, 2009 | | 8:19 pm |
| | Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | | 6:17 am |
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