lol

congrats kokiri!

aerobic conditioning... **** you, you merciless bloodpumping bitch

my endorphins usually kick in at about the 8 minute mark and i start feeling much better.

by the way, my abs are back! it took starving myself for 18 days, but i did it.

Has anyone seen Sleepy Hollow? What you think about first episode? Worth to watch?

DONT LET ME GET IN MY ZONE

kokiri, congrats on the job!

rant:

i've been part of several open source game communities

what seems to happen is this

original devs all use windows because they have better things to do than wrestle with their OS all day, at least when windows breaks it just breaks as opposed to linux when some autistic jerk comes in two weeks later and is like "OBVIOUSLY ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS CONSOLE AND DJRBASPT YASLKN TALSKN.GFY /SKDLD /PRTTASKC, YOU IDIOT YOU WERE IN /YSJXHZ". because coders are primarily concerned with coding, and 14 year old autists are primarily concerned with the minutiae of Linux.

said linux autists proceed to flood the community, and despite contributing literally nothing of value, lodge daily grievances that this open source product that people are developing in their free time is OMG NOT AVAILABLE ON THE MASTER RACE OS LINUX

devs go out of their way to respond to "the community" and make it work on linux

autists then victory-spam the boards with posts that can best be summed up in both content and toan as "LUNIX ROOLZ WINDOZE DROOLZ OLOLO!!!11one"

some poor unsuspecting soul goes and installs linux (distro irrelvant, assume mainstream) and politely wonders how you go about installing the product

autists swarm and are like "OMG LUNIX SO SIMPLE ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TYPE THESE 3 INCOMPREHENSIBLE CONSOLE LINES, SO MUCH SIMPLER THAN WINDOZE WHERE YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY CLICK SOMETHING TWO TIMES IN A ROW, JESUS JUST ABT GRP CRP GFY /LOLWUT AND YOU ARE LITERALLY ******ED FOR NOT KNOWING THIS"

all the normal people then leave for greener pastures, and the once-promising project is now embroiled in SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS about the proper interpretation of some of the lesser-known clauses of GPL.

/rant

also my phone broke, I could rant about that too, the key point is that I just got the screen replaced yesterday for A SECOND TIME and in the past 18 hours have gingerly transferred it from pocket to hand to softly padded resting surface, and now the screen is cracked in two again because lolHTC

the one and only time I played fantasy soccer was Euro 08

i messed up my draft and was like "**** soccer" and drafted a bunch of greece players and the greece coach because greece is kind of cool and I like underdogs

accidentally won the thing, unfortunately it was just for fun.

I won the only time I played fantasy football

it was only 12 players but it was fun to beat a bunch of diehard sports fans after going into it knowing nothing

felix stop ranting and answer your PMs

i am on the phone with my grandma

highlights of the first minute: the LORD awoke her from sleep to examine her plumbing

The Lord is handy.

waitaminit whaddya mean examine her plumbing

One of my favorite things about the Lord is how he punishes the wicked with stuff like floods and terrorist attacks, but when the faithful have something bad happen, like a fire or a flood, that's just a test.

God sure is funny that way.

surely the second coming is at hand?

somewhere a rough beast slouches

I thought y'all debunked all that religious foolishness once and for all last night.

Seriously, preach on baby!

You're all going to hell.

ooh, are we going to discuss theodicy?

was it a sequel to theiliad?

felix seems to be right, I knew a lot more about lunix when I was like 15 than I do now

I am a good Christian. I regularly wield plastic swords while yelling "the blood of Jesus commands it!".

Who knew LARPing was God's chosen hobby?

The lunix is a tool, you know, if you have a server with >1 million hits per day you might be tempted to consider the efficiencies of the lunix.

There is a class of people who believe that the lunix is the solution to all the world's ills, this tends to be precocious 14 year olds who are socially awkward and really pitiable and have mastered the intricacies of the lunix console despite having no valid reason to do so.

I used to be conflicted as to how to approach these idiots, after all they're only 14 and we should cut them some slack right?

Then I reflected on how being berated on the Internet for my lolAspie* posts helped to shape me into the man I am today, and decided to cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war.

*Fairly sure any shrink would have had a field day with me before age 12 or so. I was a psychotic kid. No joke. Definitely matched all of the symptoms of Asperger's, and probably would have been placed into a higher category of autism since I also was aggressive and resistant to authority. I was a seriously ****ed up kid. But you know what? My parents soldiered on - my mom was fine with allowing me to do whatever, my stepdad was raised in a strict household and took personal offense when I didn't jump when he said "frog" and that caused some tension - but by the time I was 14 we were OK.

Impassioned plea to the parents of POG: don't ****ing medicate your kids, for the love of god. They are children. They will act in unpredictable and sometimes self-destructive ways. You can't judge them, because you are not a kid. I certainly could not relate to or even handle me at 11 or younger; if I were babysitting me, I would have called my parents in the middle of their date and told them that the deal was off.

But you know what? I hit puberty, the chemicals did their thing, I chilled out. I may be the only child on earth whose parents said "thank god he's been so much better since he hit puberty". I had the typical teen conflicts with my parents and neither of them had any freaking clue how to deal with it because it was just me being normal. I grew up to be a pretty typical person. No, I'd say I'm even more socially aware than normal people - and I can pretty confidently say I only developed into that in my late teens and early twenties! I think I finally reached "this is me, this is who I am, only minor adjustments will be made" sometime after I was 21.

Parents of POG, please just let your kids be kids. This is not to say you categorically shouldn't seek help. My second oldest little brother had speech problems, and his regular sessions with a child speech-language pathologist really helped (it would help even more if my folks would recognize that he still doesn't speak right; I think they confused "improvement" with "success"). If your kid is actually ******ed in the colloquial sense, seek help. If your kid has suicidal tendencies before age 12, seek help. (After age 12 you can seek help in the form of a counselor or psychologist, not in the "omg diagnose my kid's disease and dispense pills" sense.) If your kid can't enunciate his basic sounds after age 6-7 seek help. But for the love of deity, if your kid is "disruptive in the classroom" and "does not make friends on the tightly-regulated playground" and "displays unacceptable behavior" and whatnot, take solace: your kid is a kid; you did not, in fact, give birth to a desert tortoise that will calmly carry on through thick and thin after its hatching.