School Of Hard Knocks

So in Canada we have this multilingual keyboard layout for the Aspire1, it's horrid, they have basically split the left shift key in half. Good job! The solution (If your using Windows) is to use the Windows built in keyboard remapper. If you don't care and just want the fix, make a new text file, call it whatever.reg and put the following text inside, save, run and reboot. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,2A,00,56,00,00,00,00,00 If you want to use this mechanism in your own personal life you may read more about it here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/w2kscan-map.mspx and find out keyboard mappings here: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.mspx Basically I'll break down the above: If we take the comma's out, and then separate them into 8 bytes segments we get: 00000000 00000000 02000000 2A005600 00000...

YOGA FLAME! that's the flame you get in your muscles after going to Yoga for the first time. It was good and all, but daaaamn, that ish was pretty intense. Best 10 dollars I've ever spent. (Well, $5, I borrowed $5) For some reason Eve was acting all dumb on me and gave me this error message when I tried to enter the station Entering Station: Setup Station: Isikemi VI - Moon 5 - Caldari Navy Logistic Support What? So I tried all the normal things, rebooted, cleared the cache, tried some Merge 'ITEMS' and 'SHIPS' into Station trick, nothing... I decided to go into the Display and Graphics and turn off the cache size, shadow quality and bloom, and changed from windowed mode to full screen mode. The client had to restart and after that it was still in window mode, but I still had faith, I typed in my password (It's "password" actually, go ahead try it) and selected my character, and presto, it loaded. :)

This weekend was amazing. Went to Hess village for the first time (You would think living 4 minutes walking distance from Hess I'd go more often, but I'm not much of a drinker -- Here's to you drunk guy who came from Richmond hill after being booked by some undies) but it was decent, I'll need to go back, I might live in Hamilton a bit longer just to take advantage :) Saturday was just really nice, if not for the star trek across 8 cities, went to Niagara Falls for the day, rode on a retarded huge ferris wheel (I'm not too big on heights) and just walked around until about 1am (*shakes fist at the closed IHOP*) All in all, it was a great weekend, almost a smoke free weekend, almost... (Well, not Friday, Friday was quite the session) I'm not sure how, but I lost a good 4 lbs.. damn it...

For anyone that's actually used Linux, you just need the console, it just doesn't feel like Linux without the console, but where was it hiding? Getting to the console: 1) Click on Files 2) Click on My Documents 3) Open the File Manager 4) Go to File 5) Click on Terminal Next, enable the right click menu so we can get to the terminal easier: 1) Open the xfce settings $ xfce-setting-show 2) Click on Desktop 3) Click on Behavior 4) Put a check in the box beside "Show desktop menu on right click" 5) Click on Close More good stuff here: http://jorge.ulver.no/2008/08/06/acer-aspire-one-tips-and-tricks/ I like the regular desktop, there's a good tutorial here, except he doesn't back up any of his files before he goes on his modification spree.

I especially like it when some kind gentleperson in some rust bucket hits my car, then takes off without leaving any way to reach them. That makes me ... happy inside.  The repair bill was to the tune of $1000 which I'm excited to pay for out of pocket. I wish people would have some respect for other people's property.  The weekend was pretty boring actually, but on the flip side I have money in the bank, and I'm tempted to either buy a car alarm, a 32-42" LCD TV, or maybe a tiny computing platform like the Acer Aspire One.  I acquire things when I'm bored, maybe I'll just veg out until the weekend and then find something to do. How mundane.

I had hoped to go to Walmart and get some cleaning stuff, maybe a picture or two for my place, and some nice smelling refills for my air fresheners, but my plan backfired when  A) I had no idea where Walmart was and  B) I had no battery life left in my GPS I drove up the mountain and realized I was pretty lost, so I drove around a bit then turned back, got some Tims, some gas, and came home. Job well done! I feel pretty excited that I got up the mountain and back without assistance. Rain and AWD makes for fun, I can't wait for winter!!

I think I'm just going to stay home this weekend and veg out. I can't really afford to go anywhere, and realistically, I have a ton of house work to do.  Work was good, some special person thought it would be fun if they transferred a case to me from their own specialty, maybe he was just trying to test my skills. Yes, that must be it!  I think my next week resolution is to cook some food, but I'm so not wanting to clean my stove. I think I'm going to find a driving range tomorrow, but it's not the greatest weather, so maybe not.  I think I should get to putting up these pictures and blinds, but then I tell myself, no, no, I'm moving to Oakville soon... The life and times ...

I was forced to rent a Toyota Corolla, which wasn't bad but defiantly certainly wasn't near the same as a quality German vehicle.  I got inside and realized I wasn't in Kansas anymore. It just didn't feel comfortable to sit in, maybe it wasn't' designed for long drives, or maybe they couldn't afford to put in more comfortable seats at this price point. Pushing on the accelerator it would squeals out like I'm at Nascar! (Maybe my foot is heavy?) Don't get me wrong, I enjoy burn outs as much as the next guy, but not when I'm just trying to move away from a light.  I realized that the cabin wasn't ergonomically designed, I had to reach wayyy over to get at the radio. The blind spots were quite large for such a small car, and going down a winding road, it wasn't really confidence inspiring. When it comes to creature comforts, it's fairly bare bones. No leather seats, no power windows, no climate control, no moonroof, no auto dimming rear ...

So they have turned on the LHC, and from my understanding they have only accelerated a particle in one direction (they have yet to smash them together) which should occur at the end of the month.  Some people are worried about what might happen in a year with strangelet and mini black holes, but I don't think we'll see the fallout until ohhhh December of 2012 (That makes the Mayan's right, and why not!)  Here's some LHC humor: http://xkcd.com/474/ and http://gist.github.com/9810 Ha jokes. :)  Tonight the A6 goes in for her timing belt change, lets hope nothing else is wrong, my friend just took in his S4 (same engine) and got rewarded with a $5500 repairs bill.  The only thing more expensive than owning a new luxury car is a used one :D

I think I got like 6 hours of combined sleep this weekend, work was okay I guess, I don't recall any crazy oddities. I think I might just stay home next weekend,  I have to get the timing belt on the A6 done, that's a good $1700, I could probably do it cheaper elsewhere, but I'd rather take it to Audi. I don't mind taking the car to other mechanics for smaller jobs, but I don't really trust anyone with such a large job.  I watched some Grey's Anatomy (My current sitcom, I finished House) saw the one with the poles in the two people from the train wreck, and I was just thinking I never see anything really cool happen in Grey's, but then this. I have to admit I was a little ... disturbed at the choice of life, and the girl being unselfish and letting the other guy live (or at least have a better chance of)  I skipped going to the gym this morning, boooo urns. I was out of time and didn't want to be late to add to the fact that I accidentally missed work ye...

I don't what came over me the other day, but I found some poetry that i was just really feeling, in no particular order: Shihan ( This type love ) - Def Poetry Jam J Ivy - Dear Father J Ivy - I need to write Julian Curry - Niggers Niggas & Niggaz Smokey Robinson! - A Black American - Def Poetry Jam

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... I decided that I had enough of my RSX and decided to spin it out and smash it into a guard rail (At least that's what the Government WANTS you to think) and anyway, that was a write off, and I can't lie, that car was my baby, I took such good care of it, except the leather, I cleaned it, but it got kinda worn on the driver side seat near my thigh. Anyways, once that was destroyed, I went looking for a new used car, I felt the sting of buying a new car with the RSX, and the ridiculous depreciation, so I figured I wanted something luxury, something a bit bigger, 4 doors, all wheel drive, and some power, my hunt lead me to the Audi A6. The bi-turbo 2.7T was a little less popular, but she's got the power to move the 3700+lbs of beast off the line and on the highway. I'm seriously considering chipping this thing and throwing on some new mufflers and take out the resonator (So it sounds like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7...

So I got this annoying error whereby EveMon decides to stop updating my character, I try the new beta binary, and then even deleting my cache, and still it refuses to pull up my character. I finally decide to nuke the entire directory then it allll starts working again! @YAY! BTW: that directory is : %AppData%/EVEMon (Just throw that in the address bar and delete everything, you may wish to back it up first.) Presto! MMM, I can make proper plans now. :)