It’s the last 3rd of the last month of the 3rd quarter of the 8th year in this 3rd of the decade. For those of you who do not know what this means I will not waste any time trying to explain why it means absolutely nothing at all. Because of this, or perhaps not in any way related, I have resumed working on my ArCab. I have laminated and trimmed the dashboard in the past week and I have begun shopping online for the various bits of hardware I still need.
While doing this I have also been researching the art of rolling my own Linux. I plan on putting together a minimalistic install geared exclusively towards emulation. The idea is to have a system that boots right into a multi-emulator front-end which will make game selection easy to do with the spinner knob or track ball. Anybody who has experience doing exactly this can feel free to e-mail me with links or tips. You could also mail me large amounts of money, but I really don’t see why anybody would do that.
Keeping busy with things like this are helping me ignore the fact that on the whole I’ve been going pretty much hungry the past two weeks. Any attempt to eat has been interrupted by the general discomfort caused by having had spacers between my molars. This week I’m getting used to my braces and any attempt to eat solid food is thwarted by the general annoyance of getting stuff stuck in between them. It’s kind of shitty living on slim-fast (slime-feast) and noodles. It isn’t that I don’t like noodles; I love noodles. It’s just that eating ramen every day gets old quickly. At this point I’m opting to simply go hungry because I find hurrying off to brush the shit out of my teeth somewhat annoying.
I have attempted to eat sausage with very poor results. Cutting it into very small bits is essential but chewing it is still a nightmare. So, for some time I will be doing without bratwursts and hot dogs. That’s quite a shame, too, because I have grown to really enjoy my Friday morning Extra Long Chili Cheese Dogs from Sonic.
Now that work has eased off of the overtime and my dental work is far along the way I have been able to better manage my time for other projects. This includes a renewed enthusiasm for my physical training. In a few minutes I’ll be getting ready to head off to the dojo. I’m going to start making an attempt to attend class three days per week starting next week. I’ve been going one or two days per week for the past month and while two days is fine, one day is simply not enough.
I have been doing a good job forcing myself to spend time on the elliptical, though. I think I might start forcing myself to do the full 20 minutes every day. Between that and living on slime-feast I should either be in really poor health or really great health soon. Maybe it won’t matter one bit. Who knows? Who cares? That’s what I’m doing. FNORD
As for video games, I’ve been playing a little bit of Spore lately. On the whole I recommend the game. It isn’t perfect, by far. It is, however, a fun little toy. Would I say I’m let down by it? Yes and no. The procedural aspects of the game do not cover all of the areas I had hoped for but there really is a large amount of control given to the player over the evolution of their critter. There are some things that should have been given some more attention (such as the evolution of entire ecosystems based on your choices early on in the game) but I realize there are limitations which are imposed by things such as processing and memory requirements. Also, I acknowledge that the fundamental purpose of game development is to make the game fun to play and if attention had been given to such specific details it could have taken away from the overall enjoyment.
Either way, if you’re looking for a fun time-waster Spore does a pretty good job wasting time. Mac users should also take note of the fact that the game is a PC game that uses Wine/Cider out of the box to run on OS X. This isn’t a bad thing by far, but it does mean that since it is running through an emulation layer you’re going to need a pretty beefy Mac to play it. Dual Intel cores and a gig of ram are required on the Mac compared to the P4@2.0 ghz with 512 megs of ram on Windows XP. The positive side to all of this is that finding the game is as easy as finding the PC version. They both ship on the same disc.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to get ready for class. After that I’m spending the day doing yard work. Anyone who wants to come play with my newish weed-eater can feel free to come over, but I don’t see why anybody would do that.
So, uhm, yeah. I’m going to get in shape and lose weight even if I have to die on the elliptical and rot where I fall in order to achieve it.
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I spent the first two weeks of September in self-deprivation mode (less than 1000 calories a day). It was hard at first, but near the end of the second week, I hit this phase where I wasn’t hungery at all anymore, and went a couple of days without eating. It was almost like a vision quest. My thinking became clear, my purpose focused. I’d do it again, if it didn’t suck so bad for the first five or six days.
Hah! I wrote hungery instead of hungry. I’m an idiot!
You can edit, you know. The tiny “e” next to the time? Yeah, that.
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