Just a quick funny

Hey guys, as most of you know I read /. and pvp on a daily basis. I read Penny Arcade on Mon, Wed, Fri and 8 Bit Theatre on Tues, Thurs, Sat. Now add to this a new comic I found called Extralife, very funny stuff, enjoy!!

Kleedrac

Life & Times

So there are lots of times in a man's life where most everything changes at once. School, High School, Graduation, College, getting a girlfriend, losing a girlfriend, and (as I've found out through personal experience lately) having a child. I know that people tend to say things like "When you get married/girlfriend your friends will change" and that tends to be true to a small extent, couples begat couples as it were, plus there are the people who don't do well with non-single friends, and the people who don't get along with your significant other. Well the same thing seems to be happening now that I'm a father. Now I realize that technically I'm the one who's changed, so it's not fair to put all the blame on the friends who are falling by the wayside. But a man tends to change when there are people in his life he cares about more than himself, and a child tends to fall into that category. Things like me quitting smoking, ME, the guy who actually smoked because he enjoyed it and tended to argue against anti-smoker propoganda. Some people can't deal with those type of changes. It's not that they like me less now that I'm done smoking. It's the kind of people who doesn't wear change well anyhow, they tend to think the friend they knew is gone now, or when the change affects them (in this case the fact that my residence which has been an automatic smoking zone for the last 6 years is now NO-SMOKING.) And then there are the other changes, for one thing I haven't slept right in over two months now. I feel like I'm catching up on sleep from then. I'm handling it well, I think, but others may have a differing opinion. This has also left me with a shortage of patience (something people who know me realize that I've never had an abundance of in the first place.) This has led to problems at work, at school, and apparently with old friends. Bob and I have been arguing since the day we met. I've never taken it too seriously, we've never argued about anything I cared about anyhow. It was always meaningless shit like Half-Life vs Unreal or ATi vs nVidia. Mostly opinion but I tend to back up my opinion with what I (and others) think of as well reasoned, logical arguements. It might not look like it as I swear alot, especially when I get frustrated. Lately Bob and others whom I've been arguing with for years have started to get on my nerves. And as I've always done I warn people when I'm getting upset. I'm not subtle about it either, it's usually something to the tune of "Let's drop it cause this shit is pissing me right the fuck off." Like I said I swear alot and two curses plus in one sentence is usually a good indication that I'm upset. Anyhow, some of my friends have been great about it, spinalcold especially has been not only supportive, but has put up with my lack of patience and generally just carried on being the brother he's always been. Bob hasn't handled it so well. I don't know, the big problem between Bob & I has always been just a difference of opinion, blown out of proportion because we don't debate the same way. Realistically the only things Bob does to piss me off are to stop the debate in the middle to tell me I'm swearing too much or he doesn't like me using the word "gay" to mean "bad" and the fact that I feel he doesn't use reasoning to back up his arguement, and then he accuses me of the same damned thing!! He then decided that it would be a good idea to post parts of the conversation on his blog (I say parts because according to my chat log there are about 93 lines missing) including altering the conversation by adding my real name in place of my handle as well as moving my words around to make his points stronger!! He also tries his damnedest to come off as a benevolent innocent victim while painting me as an unintelligent, unenlightened asshole. For one thing this was (or so I thought) a private conversation between friends, posting it to a blog and editing the shit out of it to make yourself look good is down-right fucking low. Then to top it off I read the comments of his friends and family, there was one person applauding him while the rest (including his own brother and the person who agreed after re-reading it) felt he was in the wrong! I check back a while later and suddenly there's only one post?! Three guesses which post the bitch-boy decided to leave intact, the first two don't fucking count. So I talk to him about it and explained to him why I didn't appreciate it, he decided he wanted to continue being the benevolent asshole and said to block him if "I thought it was the logical thing to do." Fine ... don't try to save five fucking years of friendship ... blocked and done. So while I realize that Bob, Mars, and the I-lost-track-of-how-many-others aren't completely at fault, they are out of my life now. I just wonder if there are any more changes down the road, and if I'll lose more friends along the way. C'est la vie. I'll just take comfort in my wonderful and beautiful wife, and my perfect son. In the end ... I feel I win.

Kleedrac

Blog those blogging bloggers!

Now that I've moved from my own blog on my own webserver (that died with said webserver) to livejournal.com (that ended after their server outage the other day when they said they fixed it but it may recurr) and finally to blogger/blogspot here, I figured it was time to talk about blogs. Blogs can be alot of different things depending on the author. Some people seem to think that they like the idea of a diary that anyone can read (I remember my sister's used to protect that shit like their lives depended on it!) like a friend of a friend's blog that turned into a fan script for the Young and the Retarded or some such shit (http://www.livejournal.com/users/troopa if you're interested ... look for the entry with a shitload of comments ... just pop the corn first.) Then there's people who mostly link to kewl shit they see in their travels (http://www.livejournal.com/users/autopsychotic/). Then there are people like me who just comment on society (geek society is still technically a society :) .) And, last but not least, there are blogs like http://www.kevinrose.com/ which is not only entertaining and informative, but you may end up like me adding the RSS feed to your favorite aggragator. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with any of these formats, well maybe a little wrong with the diary thing ... how would you guys like it if I posted descriptions of Gabe's shits ... mebbe with pics? And personally I'm not a big fan of the teenager blog written in K-Leet or Homie-speak, but they must have an audience (even if it is their middle school) so whatever. But blogging has so impacted our [web]society we've turned more than a couple heads in the process. I just found out today MSN has their own blog service (though you need to be logged into MS Passport to make/view a blog.) It's very quickly moving into the same category as webmail, that is to say that though there are plenty of pay-to-blog sites, unless you need the features, most will stick to the free blogs out there. Just my 2 cp of course.

gmail.com geek chic?

Well gmail.com is still in beta, but does it really matter anymore? My wife and I are sitting on a total of 21 invites if anyone wants one!! I remember hearing about gmail ... about the beta ... and asking (well begging) around for invites!! I remember I wasn't the only one. Through a matter of bad timing I got mine about the same time as EVERYONE else I knew!! I gave one to my folks (hey it's better than canada.com addy :)) I gave them to my cousins. But now no one wants one?! I was hoping to find some poor geek not unlike myself ... some poor geek who's been wanting one since the first post on /. about it. But alas ... like dodgeball as a child ... it seems I was chosen last!! Oh well ... if anyone wants one of these ... just ask :) And check out the photo album (should be the other link off of http://www.cs.usask.ca/home/kpp424/ )

First Post

All right so I need to stop being such a /. junky. Anyhow, welcome to my blog. v2 I guess as the old blog got taken down with my old webserver. My life's been kinda hectic lately. I've started my second term towards my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I'm working 30+ hours a week at London Drugs. And my son is nearly three weeks old and still not sleeping through the night!! But I can't complain really. I'm happy. Tired, well exhausted, but happy. Seriously though how could you ignore this little guy!! And here's one with mommy :) Anyhow ... I'll probably post once a day. And now I'm tired and going to try and take a nap before the little guy wakes up to eat in the next hour or so. Thanks for watching :)