A Series of Tubes

“I cannot connect to the database because: Too many connections”

Uh oh… Why am I suddenly having deja vu? This looks suspiciously like the GOAC message when it went down…Ohnoohnoohnoohnoohno!

“I cannot connect to the database because: Too many connections”

Uh oh… Why am I suddenly having deja vu? This looks suspiciously like the GOAC message when it went down…Ohnoohnoohnoohnoohno!

Update: *Whew* ok it’s alright now. 😛

If you’re having trouble viewing the images in my template (or if they have a dark outline instead of being fuzzy), click this link:
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For some reason my computer doesn’t load these images right the first time, just view them on their own and they should correct themselves.

Ok so now that I’ve received a present from every expected person, here’s the final roll call of my presents:

• $120 in cash and checks
• $50 in iTunes cards
• An Adesso CyberTablet 6400
• I, Robot (the book)
• Robot Warriors (a book)
• Godless (an awesome book)
• Shirts:
1. Urban Outfitters “Winning the war against trees”
2. UO “Obey”
3. UO “More cowbell” (too small…)
4. UO “You say potato, I say fuck you!“
5. ThinkGeek “Binary 4“
6. TG “You are here“
7. TG “2+2=5“

I may have gotten other stuff as well, but off the top of my head I can’t remember.

If you have any love for Cyan Worlds, Myst, or Uru, or if you consider yourself my friend, sign this petition. Please.

Did you know that you can set Microsoft word to check for ‘style’ in your writing? Yeah that’s right, I said style. In the style settings, you can set it to check for the following and much more: Use of And, But, and Hopefully in the opening of a sentence; Cliches, Colloquiaslisms, and Jargon; Sentence length; Unclear Phrasing; and get this – Wordiness. Compare that to Appleworks, which (as far as I know) doesn’t have a freakin’ grammer checker!

Also, you can turn on ‘readablity statistics,’ which tell you the basics (word count, char count), the above average (avg. sentences per paragraph, and avg. words per sentence), and the ridiculously above average, and a bit average (reading ease and grade level). Read – Grade Level. It actually delivers a GPA based on the document. It seems a bit off, though. I have 1 sentence and an incomplete title, and it gave me a 3.7. Yeah, not so much.

The Final Fantasy XII opening movie is quite possibly the most beautifully rendered cgi clip I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot of cgi stuff. It is just amazing. Now I just wish I could speak Japanese.

Today, being 3/14, is Pi Day. Happy Pi Day! (Pi is a number used to calculate the circumerence (or is it area?) of a circle, and is infinite. Off the top of my head, pi is 3.14159, but Wikipedia says that pi is 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781
6406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231
7253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109
7566593344612847564823378678316527120190914564856692346034861045432664
8213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364
3678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919
5309218611738193261179310511854807446237996274956735188575272489122793
8183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179860943702
7705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713
4275778960917363717872146844090122495343014654958537105079227968925892
3542019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998
3729780499510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533446850
3526193118817101000313783875288658753320838142061717766914730359825349
0428755468731159562863882353787593751957781857780532171226806613001927
8766111959092164201989…) Coincidentally, today is also Albert Einstein‘s birthday, which is cool too.

In 9 years, at 9:26 and 53.58 seconds, it will be an even more precise Pi Day, but until then,

Ve Dub. This is the first in a series of anti-bling VW commercials which involve pimp’d cars getting smashed and destroyed, then being replaced with a nice, clean, VW. Plus it’s a geeky German guy doing the smashing. Ya ees goot.

Yay! Happy birthday to me! 😀 I got a lot-o-loot, which I’ll post about later. First, I want to say that this makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

…Now I have to practice for the speech contest. 😛