Random Ramblings: DragonCon is when?!?!? Edition

Only a few days left.

I think I'm ready. I'm not really ready. I'm doing shit at the last minute like I always do. At least the rental car, hotel room, and tickets are all taken care of. New corsets hopefully will be in before I go.

I should update this blog more often.

No I shouldn't. Well really I should. I have a youtube channel with videos on it that might be worth checking out. Been putting more time in to that. Maybe that can be more profitable than this. Fuck it, I'm just doing as a damn well please with it.

So after the Con...

I was considering looking for a new job. Then I thought maybe not. But maybe I will.

And also after the Con...

My fat ass is so hitting the gym. Every fucking day. I have put on way too much weight as of late.

I think I need a new social network.

Facebook seems to be overrun with ads as of late. Google+ doesn't like my name. What's a weirdo to do?

Random Ramblings: So I was riding my bike,,,

Why the fuck did you point it out to me?

So yesterday I was riding my bike to my mom's house and this guy on the sidewalk says to me, "The bus is coming."

So I said "So."
Then he says, "Fuck you!"
Then I said, "Fuck you too, buddy! And have a nice day!"

Really, why the fuck was it so important to this guy to point out to someone speeding down the side walk on a bike that the bus was coming? I mean holy shit, if I wanted the bus, I would have been waiting at the stop.

There will be rape. Or prostitution.

So later on in the day I had to pick up some things from Target. On the way back, I see the girl, carrying a dog and wearing a skin tight top, a really short denim skirt and a pair of about 5" heels. She shouted at a couple of guys in the near by Perkins parking lot, "Hey! If I pay you will you give me a ride?" These guys were in the standard issue douchebag uniform, complete with popped collar. All I could think was "Dumb bitch. Whether it was your plan or not, you will pay with every hole in your body and possibly your dog too."

Is it just me or is she really that annoying?

The lady in the Progressive Insurance commercials. She just gets more annoying and unfunny with every commercial. I'm not getting Progressive Insurance ever.

I'm going to be rich.

Diablo 3 will include a cash auction shop. My goal is to sell enough stuff to idiots that I can afford to quit my job. Of course when the gravy train runs out, I have no clue what I am going to put on my resume.

Fun Fundie Quote of the day.

On the Burning Man -

Know what be hilarious?
if SAC bombers on a training mission flew off course and carpet bombed the whole festival into oblivion.
You know their be some smelly hippy-tards in a stolen tent 20 miles away thinking "best Burning Man, ever." after witnessing the destruction.

Is that what Jesus would do?

So today is...

My mother's 60th birthday. So anyone that knows her should call her or something is you have not yet.

Random Ramblings: Seriously WTF?

Cheap Home Depot Outdoor Safety Goggles > Cheap Wal-Mart Sunglasses

They are, and they are cheaper too. I found my pair of cheap Wal-Mart sunglasses broken today. Less than a week old. Broke in a weird place too and I'm not sure how. Usually I just get outdoors safety glasses from Home Depot and now I'm reminded why.

You want my bag? I want your wallet. 

Or some collateral. I ride a bike. I keep everything in my backpack. Things I've purchased. Things I'm taking from one place to another. Things that would normally go in my pockets. Things I need to fix my bike. Things I can't leave home without. With all those things inside, I'm not about to just hand it over to some store clerk. So I demand something of theirs, preferably a wallet. They never want to go for it. So I go somewhere else.

I'm going to try another experiment.

Not with Eve Online, but with TheologyOnline.com this time. I'm just coming back from a ban and I want to see how long before people that are offended by my "immoral, perverted, lifestyle" start talking about my "immoral, perverted, lifestyle." This should be fun!

You know what's difficult?

Typing a blog while a kitten is running around all over your laptop. And batting at the mouse. And pawing at you. And biting.

For the Record

Riding a bicycle in the rain sucks.

On the road to DragonCon.

Well, not yet, but soon. Hotel, passes, and rental car are all paid for. New corsets on the way too.

Which begs the question-

How much weight can I lose in a month?

I'm pissed

I'm pissed because once again I have to replace a tire tube on my bicycle. I just replaced one a few days ago.

I'm pissed because right now it's raining. The one day I have to do work at my parents' house. Long list of shit to do, all of it outside, and it's fucking raining.

I'm pissed because a few weeks ago I had to take a cab to work and after I complained to the bus company, all I got out of it was 2 day passes. I spent fucking twenty fucking dollars to get to fucking work that night and all they would compensate me with was 2 fucking day passes! Day passes cost $4.50. WTF????

I'm pissed because when I was taking the bus to my mom's place, the driver passed my stop, making me have to walk an extra block. I didn't even get an "I'm sorry" or even a "May bad" out of him.

I'm pissed, and I want to hurt somebody.

Updates and diarrhoea of the mouth

FUCK!!!!

I just wanted to start off with that. So at the beginning of my shift at work tonight I took a call from someone who just wanted to bitch about the hotel where I work using a central reservation service that was in a 3rd world country. Funny, I thought it was in South Carolina, but what ever. I couldn't really get any word in with her. It was kinda like Thundrf00t talking to people from WBC, but incredibly less intelligent. Look I'm sorry that you talked to someone that had an accent. Actually, I'm not. I don't give a flying fuck. And calling me just to bitch gets nothing resolved and gets you mocked in my blog.


And now that I have started by bitching about my job, I'll bitch a little more. How hard is it, for instance, to put a copy of a receipt for a Visa payment in a box labelled Visa? So sick of finding receipts in the wrong place. I mean really, don't these people know that doing this takes time away from playing video games, writing blogs and making youtube videos? Bad enough the guests bother me all night.

Seen my Youtube channel? I'll make more vids. I'll even make vids that do not involve Eve Online, I promise. I want to get a vid capture card and editing software. Then I can make better vids and take them off the Xbox. You can watch me epic fail at games other people are good at.

So I'm thinking - Take a colour wheel, throw 4 darts at it, get hair dye to match those colours, divide my hair into 4 not quite even sections, dye each section a different colour. I think the results could be pretty epic. Considering how badly I suck at darts, it's almost a given that the colours will be random.

The last Harry Potter movie has been released. This is the last one, right? I'm not a fan.

 I need to ride my bike more. And work out more.

What am I going to do with my life?

I rambled a bit about it in a youtube vid while playing Eve.



I don't have an answer. My girlfriend pointed out out me how giddy I get on days that I teach. Maybe that's the answer.

Christians - How do you live with yourselves?

That was the question on my mind after watching the reactions of Grappling Ignorance and Proportional Response to the Jesus Camp documentary. How do these people live with themselves? Not Grappling Ignorance and Proportional Response, the people that run this Jesus camp and others like them, and the parents that send their kids to such camps. Take a look at their videos.



After watching the videos, I was disturbed and rather curious. Could it be as bad as they made it out to be? So I looked. I watched the documentary. The first thing I picked up on was that it was Pentecostals doing all the things that Pentecostals do – the big show, the singing and dancing, the speaking in tongues, the fake seizures and the people “getting full of the holy spirit”. Now I have to say, when it's adults, I have to laugh. It's a display of P.T. Barnum being proved right. They do their big act. They slap some guy in a wheelchair on the head, he has a seizure, he gets up and dances, and then it's all "Thank you Jesus!" and "Praise the Lord!" At the end of it all they parted a bunch of people too stupid to know better from their money, and that is their problem. It's different when it is kids. Not just that they do not know any better, but because they put all their trust in to their parents and those their parents trust with them. For religious charlatans to parade their show in front of children and brand it as real and as the truth, it's just wrong. It's not much better to do it in front of adults, but like I said, adults should know better.

There's more to it than just the show. It's like Grappling Ignorance said, they are totally brain washing these kids. This goes well beyond the indoctrination that many Christian Fundamentalists claim happens in public schools. Worse yet these kids are spoon fed lies that are branded as truth. I'm not talking about anything from the Bible. I'm talking about what they say about non-believers and public school teachers. And it's not just the Pentecostals that are guilty of that, I see member of other denominations spouting the same lies to their children. This is akin to the lies that KKK members spoon feed their children about blacks and Jews.

I've heard a few claim that where ever they send their children to be educated, they will be indoctrinated, therefore they want them to be indoctrinated in their ways. Even if that were true, if you have to indoctrinate it in to them, especially at a young age, does that not tell you what kind of a heap of bullshit you are forcing on them?

In the end of it all, I still have to ask, how do you live with yourself?

What have I been doing that does not involve video games?

Glad you asked, because you know you wanted to.

Last Friday I gave a home to a kitten my friends rescued. We named her Tali, after the Quarian in Mass Effect. She's totally cute.

For a holiday weekend, it was pretty light at my work during my shift. Until the 4th rolled around and I was by myself with an unstocked supply cabinet. Got a workout that night.

Aside from the madness at work, my 4th of July was pretty uneventful. Did see some nice fireworks on my ride in to work though.


Got stopped by the police while walking to the Wal-Mart with Kathy. There were some robberies in the area and being out late at night and walking with a backpack was reason enough for the police to investigate. It's not like we are strange looking people acting strange or anything. Contrary to popular assumption.

Why is it that hotel guests always nag me right when I'm about to submit the credit card deposit or start the audit? These things have specific times when I am to do them. And why to they always assume they caught me in the middle of something non-productive?

It's probly bad that I refer to hotel guests as nagging, isn't it?

Some days I just want to say "FUCK IT!" and dye my hair a bright unnatural colour.With each day I give less of a fuck when management or customer has to say about it.

I really detest when I have something to do and it gets totally held up by someone. Especially when it is happening right fucking now.

Attn anyone at CCP that actually gives a shit:

I didn't come here to play dress up. If I wanted to piss away real money on virtual clothes, I'll get an account on Second Life.

I came for the spaceships. I came for the epic fleet battles. For the combat.

Get your priorities straight and quit breaking my favourite game.

http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=936

Holy shit! Fan mail!

More like hatemail. I pissed of a scammer in Eve tonight. I wouldn't buy a week old char a 2 million ISK Faction Energized Plates. Claims he was on a trial account and couldn't buy it himself. I can't see a reason why a newb would need it. So here's the mail he sent me after I left the chat he opened.

sorry
From: Tracey Morgan
Sent: 2011.06.28 05:24
To: Persephone 66, 

go diddle urdikeself

How sweet.

So Incarna has gone live, so let's talk about it.

I may do a short youtube vid about this as well. That is if FRAPS wants to behave for me. I'm not sure if I can say all I want to say without doing a series of videos, but that's not a bad thing.

For starters, the new turrets and new effect are really nice. I am pleased to see mining, salvage and tractors were also updated. Added even. Very cool. The animations and effects look great. My strip miners look very cool. Bravo to CCP on this one.

The new agent finder was quite useful in my loyalty point whoring endeavours. Nice job there.

The Captain's Quarters is nice, though my laptop can't really handle it. It's not terribly useful. The 3 screens should be customisable or at least have some sort of a channel changer option. There's no advantage to using it over the existing NeoCom. It's cool that I can turn it off, but what I really want is an option to get out of my ship or have something like a “Fly-Thru Window” on the NPC stations. Getting in and out of my Hulk every time I drop off ore is very inefficient. It looks pretty as does my character. I think it's a good start on making walking on stations a reality.

The Noble Exchange has to be the biggest disappointment. It looked like there was more items on the test server. There's not many items, they don't look very nice and they are ridiculously expensive. Expensive to the point where the real money being spent on these items is close to the real money that would be spent on a real item. Spending 2, 3 even 4 PLEX (for a fucking cyber monocle! 12,000 aurum do the math!) is just insane. I think they really shit themselves on this one. Needless to say, my experiment is not going to happen.

Between this and some recent leaked communications and a dev blog that really doesn't clear anything up, I'm no longer happy with CCP and EVE Online. I'm at odds with cancelling my subscription or just staying on to see if they fix it. I guess I could always come back if I go the cancel route.

I've grown to the point where I don't mind leaving work late

But some days, I really do want to leave on time. Today was one of them.

I wanted to take the bus that leaves at 7:05. Instead, at 7:00 am I was checking in a guest that had just walked in. My relief was a few minutes late and by the time I was out the door, the bus came and went, 5 minutes ago.  Thanks, did me a real solid there. I need to get my bike fixed so I am not dependant on the bus and my co-workers arriving at work on time. That's not going to happen until Monday.

I wish that was all that's pissing me off, but at the time of writing this I'm on the Beach Trolley. It showed up a few minutes early. Which is cool but the driver seems to be under the misconception that he's driving a sports car on the Autobahn. Driving like a total maniac, tailgating other vehicles, speeding. Didn't even give me a chance to sit down before taking off. Looks like another complaint I'll be filing with PSTA. Getting really sick of this shit. In a way, it beats being late, but I don't like having the sensation of a roller-coaster ride on my commute either.

Let the muckraking begin.

Yes I said muckraking. I'm going to finally be embarking on something new and different, at least to me. While I will still be using this blog for written blogs, I'm also going to be making use of my youtube channel. My goal is to produce gaming related videos as well as rants that use the various games that I play as a backdrop. I think it will be cool. I've been threatening this for quite some time, but now I have taken a step toward making it happen. The headset and copy of FRAPS have been purchased. So now it's just a matter of making the videos. Hopefully people seem to like it.

So far EVE related videos are a definite. I like EVE. Though I have to say I might like it a little less when Incarna goes live, but I'll be getting to that. Actually that's what I plan to start with. Of course if anyone has suggestions, let me know.

My other intents for video blogs are more of the usual nonsense you see posted here. Politics, religion, news, general bitching, maybe even a storytime session where I talk about some of the crazier things that have happened in the experience that is being me.

So stay tuned.

Tune in, tune out, recline, practice being dead, this is Channel Hell.

Ladies, gentlemen, and the rest of you, please welcome my latest stalker

What the fuck is it with fundies? Why do the spew high levels of hatred toward a person, then go and stalk them? Previously, Adam Briggs (remember him?) went to my MySpace page and who knows where else he stalked me. Then Lighthouse reared his ugly head in my blog. And OK, maybe those two I more or less invited by talking about them here and instigating shit with them. Now lets take a look at this -

Let try his identity is wrapped up in attraction to men pretending to be pale skinned chicks. I've seen his facebook and the facebook of his 'girlfriend'.

Source.

And that rather creepy statement comes from someone who has described me as repulsive, repugnant, disgusting and claims to hate gays, lesbians and especially transgenders. And that just makes it more creepy, and a bit screwy. Why would anyone stalk someone they hate? And stalk their girlfriend?

I'm going to conduct an experiment when Incarna goes live

Here's how it is going to work. Prior to the release of Incarna, I'm going to buy a PLEX. Maybe with cash. Maybe with ISK. I have not decided yet. After the release I am going to convert that PLEX to Aurum, the new currency. Then I am going to buy items with Aurum and sell them on the market for ISK at a profit. I am going to calculate the projected cost of PLEX after a week, maybe 2 weeks, double it, then divide it by the number of items. This will give me the selling price for these items. After the items are sold and if my calculations are correct, I will be able to purchase 2 PLEX. I am going to repeat the same process with those and turn them to 4 PLEX. Then 8 and if I can keep it up, 16.

Now why would I do this? It's to prove that with the new currency in EVE, one can become an ISK generating machine, complete with a free account, with out having ever left a station or really even played the game. An initial investment of 1 PLEX can now easily not just multiply, but grow exponentially. It's to show CCP the error of their ways and how they may have ruined the in game economy if not the whole game. Not sure if they will care, but I may never have to pay for EVE again.

I'll post the results as they happen.