Ego Manifestation

You’re not as anonymous or random as you think.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

The Curious Nature of Comments

Comments are like opinions: everyone has one and not all should be heeded or treated as truth.  How does this apply to this site and its thinly-veiled attempts at making trivial things in my life seem far more important than they really are? Well, considering that the site isn’t known to many people as actually existing nor having a considerable amount of content, it does not strike me as surprising that the majority of the comments I get in this section are from spambots bent on attempting to spread their questionable URLs to the world at large. These get marked as spam and are not seen as being much of a bother in all honesty.

What strikes me as odd is when I get comments from not only what appear to be very real but are from people who not only claim to live in the same region of the world as I do, but also happen to be, in at least one case, people who I actually know in person. This would not be so shocking if I had actually alerted these people of the existence of this URL, but in the case in question, I am not aware of how they became aware of it.

The only unfortunate part about it all is due to past experience, I’m inclined to believe that either someone is messing with me because they think they are funny, or that it is all a lie. I’d like not to, but such is life. I suppose we will have to see. The only thing that throws me off is how a couple of them expected to find sex toys here. I guess that is just one of the many mysteries of life.

posted by David at 1830  

Friday, October 17, 2008

The Prospects of Unlimited

As of this writing, I volunteered to be one of the early-movers for when my hosting company moves their users over to the new servers. I don’t anticipate any problems occuring for the most part, but keep this in mind anytime you try to access this site and it fails to respond.

The Pros:

  • ‘Unlimited’ Disk Space/Bandwidth: Growth can proceed on without much worries as to whether or not we have enough space (should we ever decide to truly grow)
  • More happiness, less frustration: Maybe.
  • More paintings/images, fewer headaches: Not that there were any to begin with. :D

The Cons:

  • Possible downtime during transition: Luckily this only affects at most 25 users of the internet, so there should be no worries.
  • Unknown transition time frame: As of this writing, there is no set date/time for this transition to take place. Stay tuned for further updates as they happen.

Until next time, remember that a healthy immune system needs some dirt to stay strong.

posted by David at 2316  

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Nuisance News @ 0400, 17 July 08

Greetings, socially inept populace of the Internet and welcome to another installment of NN@0400, this time at a place that doesn’t reek of teen angst and pure wretched self-obsession in the form of pre-rendered CSS hacks and other garbage. While the readership may be low at the moment ( a few web bots and a couple of personal referrals at the time this went to press), all hope is not lost. There’s always tomorrow.

Now for the headlines:

Level three hurricane hits newly founded colony of Downtown-n-Riverside, deaths in the single digits. While the origins of this hurricane are unknown at this time, the damage left behind is readily apparent. Although a more thorough investigation is planned for the near future, initial reactions from the inhabitants of this recently settled area tend to lean towards a potential increase in overall pollen count as the possible cause of this disaster.  Casualties were limited and are believed to be mostly transients and what are believed to be dissidents who regularly protest the presence and activities of the giant population. As with all major stories,  Nuisance News will keep you updated on this situation as new information becomes readily available.

First major city established. Boxabrix, with a current population of roughly 300,000 known citizens, is the first major settlement since the colonization of this area but one month ago. Though it is still a rough and relatively untamed area, order and full control by the Polizia is expected to be fully operation within the month, even as rumors of a complete citywide relocation spread wide among the populace.

Murder in the Great Plains shocks few. An uneasy truce between the Movingtransport Corporation and the native ground-dwelling inhabitants of this region was reached just moments ago after the tragic loss of a valued member of the Dakrat tribe, the responsibility for which differs depending on who one asks. Like all matters of this nature and severity, the House of Internal Matters (HIM) will be conducting a full investigation and is expected to make a final judgement in the upcoming week. When an inquiry for further details was made to HIM, the spokesperson whom we contacted declined to comment due to possible pending legal action by the Dakrat tribe.

Services for the fallen Dakrat member are expected to be held within the next few days, the specifics of which were witheld from our reporters by Dakrat officials. Our calls to their local morgue turned up interesting results, as the technician who answered knew nothing about the incoming of one particular “Eekeek Skeepfft” nor had any mentions of such an individual be made in the last 12 hours. It is this reporter’s professional opinion that the cause behind this mysterious cadaver disappearance is due to its rumored use in a secret ceremony in order to appease their highly mobile, chain-smoking and utterly merciless deities in an effort to reduce the number fatalities suffered by local tribes while in the process of commuting from the main burrow to that of the latrine fields, which often require trips across the black stoneless roads of sorrow.

That’s all we have for tonight, so until next time, remember: when a can of Spam reaches its expiration, it is best to throw it away, as no amount of repetitions of the Spamquiem will aid in the extension of the spoilage.

posted by David at 400  

Friday, April 4, 2008

Senior Airman, Google SketchUp 6

As of midnight tonight, I’ve officially been in the military for three years. It is hard to believe that a mere three years ago, I was getting ready to experience one of the most life-altering events many like me have done before and many more will do even after I’ve died many years from now: the first night of Basic Military Training. An experience that was, at the time, one of the most frightening events ever to happen to me and one that at the time I was sure that it would be the end of me.

Luckily, that was not the case as a mere three years later, due to not being put up for SrA Below the Zone and the length of my contract, makes me a senior airman. I’m still in Minot, still doing what it is I normally do on a Friday/Saturday night (at least, for the time being) and still generally not caring one way or another what happens to those who live around me, which is more than likely what they think about me. Such is the way of things.

In other news, I just downloaded and installed Google’s 3D modeling tool SketchUp 6. So far, the only complaint I have is the application really loves snapping the line/face/prism to anything and everything that may be around it. The worst part is that as of this writing, I can’t turn it off. Sometimes snapping to grid/object is a godsend… not this time.

posted by David at 2329  

Monday, March 3, 2008

Escape From B.O.B

So there I was, caught in the treacherous, fiery depths of the BOB wasteland, despair written on my face in only the darkest of indelible ink, cast aside once again since the powers that are had decided I was to return to BOB as I was not deemed yet worthy of the grace and mercy of PRP due to administrative blunders.

Slaving away on the infernal lamination apparatus, my hope was dimming by the moment, and I still had roughly300 pages of super secret pages of information to laminate. Just when life could not get any worse, a ray of light punctured the dark balloon of despair with a message:

Be in my office at 1445 for pre-PRP certification briefing.

As suddenly as my life had been overshadowed by grief and damnation, this messenger had restored hope and confidence where there previously was none. As this news was delivered, the land of BOB began to shake, which signaled the beginning of my escape from potential damnation and scorn from above.

posted by David at 1514  
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