2 Bit Hacker

Not much going on in the life of Chip at the moment. The weekend was pretty quiet, since Delia was off at a Realms event on Saturday and working on Sunday, I was forced to amuse myself, which resulting in a lot of video games and a little bit of furniture rearranging. It seems she’s finally decided to move in with me, which means I need to figure out where my stuff is going so that her stuff can fit too. It doesn’t help that I really need to clean as well; there are piles of junk all over my room. I have been doing better about cooking at home though, making 3 dinners at home last week, and Delia cooked for me last night, which was nice.

Seems kindof strange that it’s nearly July already, seems like this year is flying by. Lots of plans this month too, starting with my birthday on Saturday, which Delia seems to be planning some sort of scavenger hunt for. Then on the 16th-18th is FoR LAN 10, which I’m looking forward to. The weekend after that I’m apparently going to a wedding of a couple of Delia’s friends, and from there we’re planning to drive out to Michigan to see chipsdad before he goes in for surgery (even if it will only be for a day.) I’m not sure how much he’s going to want us hanging around after the surgery, so I was thinking of heading down to Indiana to visit jtn and mrsjtn again, adding some hardware to Hindenburg in the process. Then we’ll be heading into Canada to go to some sort of games, then back home.

So, it’ll be a fairly full month. I was supposed to be going to Vegas with a couple of loftninjas for the last weekend of the month for DEFCON, but it would mess up going out to see my dad, so I guess it’ll have to wait till next year. I would like to a conference of that sort sometime though. They need to hold more things in Boston. grr…

Personal lan party

I was planning on writing up a description of our trip to Hampton, but Delia has already beaten me to it. I had a good time, did a lot of wandering around and playing arcade games, had some good seafood for dinner. I’m a little disappointed that we spent a day at the beach without every actually going onto the sand, but it should make a good excuse for me to drag her back out there sometime this summer.

Other than that, not a lot going on at the moment. My leg has been bothering me more in the past week, I’m thinking I should probably go see a doctor about it, but that means I need to figure out my insurance info so I know which doctor to go to without having to pay huge sums of money for it. I’m still thinking it’s a tendon problem, but I have no idea how long it should take to heal.

Oh, and in interesting news today, SpaceShipOne has just become the first private manned vehicle to travel to space and back. Apparently later this year they’ll be trying to the X Prize, where they need to sent up 3 people twice within a certain timeframe with the same launch vehicle.

Personal daytrip, spine

Snagged from vormav.

The rules:

• bold those you’ve completed
• italicise started-but-never-finished
• strikethrough those you own but haven’t gotten to yet
• add three of your own

1. Final Fantasy VII — Playstation
2. Metroid — NES
3. Fallout — PC
4. Halo — Xbox
5. Resident Evil — GameCube
6. Dark Cloud — Playstation 2
7. Sonic the Hedgehog — Sega Genesis
8. Sewer Shark — Sega CD
9. Super Mario World — SNES
10. Star Wars Trilogy — Arcade
11. Final Fantasy IX — Playstation
12. Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front == Playstation 2
13. Suikoden II - Playstation
14. Inuyasha — PSone
15. Kingdom Hearts — PS2
16. Arc the Lad II — PSone
17. Threads of Fate — PSX
18. Metroid Prime — Gamecube
19. Chrono Trigger — SNES
20. Final Fantasy IV — SNES
21. Final Fantasy X — PS2
22. Xenosaga — PS2
23. Super Smash Bros Melee — Gamecube
24. Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask — N64
25. Sonic 3 & Knuckles — Genesis
26. Devil May Cry — Playstation 2
27. Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles — Gamecube
28. Balder’s Gate II — PC
29. Lunar: The Silver Star Story Complete — PSone
30. Myst — PC/Saturn/PSone/DVD
31. NiGHTS into Dreams — Saturn
32. Illusion of Gaia - SNES
33. Earthbound - SNES
34. Silent Hill - PSone
35. Arcanum (PC)
36. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (PC/X-Box)
37. Final Fantasy VI (SNES)
38. Skies of Arcadia
39. Legend of Dragoon
40. Xenogears
41. Koudelka (PS1)
42. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (Game Cube)
43. Rise of Nations (PC)
44. Final Fantasy X-2
45. Ultima Collection
46. Legend of Legaia 2
47. Arc the Lad - PSone
48. Arc the Lad 3 - PSone
49. Wild Arms - PSone
50. Eternal Darkness (GameCube)
51. Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2)
52. Shadow Hearts (PS2)
53. Secret Of Mana - SNES
54. Final Fantasy III - FAMICOM
55. Castlevania: Aria Of Sorrow - GBA
56. SaGa Frontier - PSX
57. Unlimited SaGa - PS2
58. Dance Dance Revolution - Arcade
59. Valkyrie Profile - PSX
60. Neverwinter Nights - PC
61. Megaman X-4
62. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night — PSX/Saturn
63. Vagrant Story — PSX
64. Metal Gear Solid 2 — PS2

I changed underline to strike, since I hate it when non-links are underlined.

Quizzes

I am getting really sick of getting sick. Wednesday I developed a stuffed up nose and a sore throat, and in the evening started running what felt like a pretty high fever. No thermometers were to be found, so I have no idea how high it was. So I stayed home from work yesterday, and am feeling mostly normal today, though my nose is still a bit off.

Was feeling well enough by last night for absinthexl to come over for some games. He, doornail and I played a couple games of Nuclear War, which Dave had brought with him. It was Delia and I’s first time playing, but it’s pretty easy to pick up. Delia didn’t seem to be having much fun until she killed me, which apparently made the game much more enjoyable for her. We also played a little bit of Apples to Apples. Unfortunately, it’s somewhat rare that I get enough people together to play Munchkin, since I really like it, but you really need at least 4 people to make it interesting, and Delia refuses to play.

As for the impending weekend, doesn’t sound like much is going on tonight, but tomorrow Delia is going to drag me out to the seacoast to Portsmouth and Hampton, instead of going to a Realms event like she had originally planned. I’m looking forward to it. Then Sunday I’ve got the D&D game in the evening, so I might try and do something productive before that, like clean out my car.

Personal card games, illness

Yay! I got my first birthday present yesterday! Delia surprised me after breakfast by having me drive to Petco, where we proceeded to pick out a nice little betta fish. I don’t have a name for him yet, so if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to comment. I was kindof thinking of Eric the Betta Fish, but I’m not so sure. I do have a fishiecam up, currently using Yahoo Messenger, so if you use YM, you can add the fishiecam and watch him swim around.

This was a rather early gift, seeing as my birthday isn’t until July 3rd. That means there’s still plenty of time for the rest of you to buy me things Now seems like as good a time as any to post a list of things that I wouldn’t mind owning. I don’t really expect receive anything, but if you want to get me something for some weird reason, here’s some ideas:

• Something from ThinkGeek
• One of these shirts, though they don’t go up to 3X, so it would have to be another incentishirt. (Soon…)
• Can’t really think of anything else right now. I’m sure I’ll come up with something and add to this.

Personal gifts, pet

Well, I just had to renew chocobo.cx, and noticed the price, $50AUD. That works out to about $35USD, which is over double what I pay for 2bithacker.net. So, I’m thinking come this time next year, I’m not going to both renewing my .cx. I originally went with a cx domain because it was free and the registry was nice and simple. Then they got all popular (being free and all) and turned into this tiny registry trying to act like a big registry, with registrars and fees and all sorts of annoying crap. Now, I just don’t see the point of keeping it.

So, sometime in the next year, I’ll be moving all my stuff over to 2bithacker.net, I think. I’ve been liking that domain name more and more anyway.

Geek Stuff domains

Hmm… I really haven’t been posting much, have I? Well, not that much has been going on really. Work has been going pretty slowly latety. It seems like I’ve been caught on the same stupid modem problems forever now. I wish we could just throw the whole voicemenu system idea out the window. It currently works such that we can either use the modem in our remote systems to do a voice menu system to access data via a normal phone, or we can get a data dial-in, but the modem at this point is refusing to switch over into data mode correctly. It’s a major pain. I hate modems.

Outside of work, things have been going fairly well. Delia and I went up to my mom’s place in Maine a few weeks ago. Delia ended up doing pretty much all of the driving on the trip, which surprised me, though she did get pulled over for speeding by a state trooper (“Ever been stopped for speeding in Maine before?” “Uh, not in Maine, no” I had a good time on the trip. Ralph was out of the hospital, and seemed to be doing okay. Delia seemed to like it up there, with the lake. I was hoping for a clear night to be able to see the stars so far away from the city lights, but the clouds were against me.

The weekend after that was Delia’s concert with the Merrimack Community Chorus. She attracted quite a group to go see it, including myself, Dan, Dan, Dave, and the one I’m not allowed to mention on LJ. I enjoyed the concert quite a bit, and look forward to getting a copy of the CD. Unfortunatly my leg was hurting quite a bit that night, which sucked. Hopefully it stops doing that soon. Delia looked extremely silly in her mismatched tights, skirt, orange shirt, and pimp hat. Unfortunately none of my pictures came out well.

I think that catches us up to Memorial Day weekend. I ended up spending most of the weekend at home working on computer stuff in the apartment. I swapped around a bunch of motherboards, upgrading Delia’s work computer, putting a DVD+/-RW drive into Vincent, dismantling Terra, getting a DVD-ROM into Shadow (which is now ready to go back into the entertainment center), and building a new Interceptor, this one running OpenBSD. It’ll replace the sparcstation 10 running NetBSD that I’m using as a router at home currently. I mainly just wanted to play around with using OpenBSD in a firewall/router situation, since I’d like to switch over the firewalls at work to it. We’ll see how it goes.

Saturday night I went with absinthexl and shiftless to see The Day After Tomorrow. I thought it was an okay film. The effects and CG were pretty, the whole thing looked nice, but the story was pretty flat and predictable. It was good to get out of the apartment though. We went to TGI Friday’s after the movie, and Ryan kept choosing the same things I was thinking of ordering. For some reason I have this thing where I can’t order the same thing as someone else at a restaurant. Seems like it takes all the fun out of it. But eventually I gave up, and we both had jalapeno burgers. It was tasty.

Sunday and Monday I accomplished approximately nothing, which I’m not exactly happy about. Ah well. Delia came back from the Realms event she was at on Monday morning, then had to work all day, and was dead tired by the end of the day. She had a great time, apparently, and is all excited about upcoming events. She keeps mentioning how she tried to get me to go. I probably should have, or at least gone to the Loft or something.

Now it’s Tuesday, and I’m back at work, and the modem is mocking me again… Where’s my hammer?

Personal, Travel, Work gifts, movies, openbsd