Darude - Sandstorm

Punisher: War Zone

Saturday night we watched Punisher: War Zone and we both loved it! The movie had a nice balance of drama, action and comedy. The cast was pretty well picked too. Punisher: War Zone had lots of shooting and blood and no liberal propaganda. The movie was at times too cartoonish, but it didn't take away from the enjoyment.

Before watching the movie, I highly recommend watching the specials, specifically, "Creating the Look of the Film" The crew talk about having scenes contain no more than three primary colors in order to make the movie look more like the comic book. The colors are used to both project the emotion of the scene and to hint at what will happen. This use of colors gives this movie a sort of an artistic angle and makes it more unique.

While watching the specials, I was very surprised that the director was female. Yes, I know, it's sexist of me to say that, but women don't usually direct these kind of movies or make sure that it's full of blood, bullets and decapitations. I looked up the director, Lexi Alexander, on imdb and everything immediately made sense. She's a former World Karate and Kickboxing Champion. But, not only is she good at kicking ass, she is, in my opinion, a very good director as well. Not only that, but she's also a writer and a producer and this is only her fourth movie. I would love to see what Lexi would do with something the size of a James Bond movie.

How to restart a server, in 30 steps or less

A conversation I had with a "programmer". It took her only 25 minutes to figure out how to restart a server.

(1:48:05 PM) virwulf613 was on another computer, you need to get gmail, yahoo doesn't allow multiple concurrent connections

(1:48:21 PM) virwulf613 u sent email?

(1:48:21 PM) "programmer" ok

(1:48:23 PM) virwulf613 where?

(1:48:40 PM) "programmer" upstair on the [inhouse soft]

(1:48:50 PM) virwulf613 huh?

(1:49:07 PM) virwulf613 u sent me email?

(1:51:17 PM) virwulf613 ?

(1:51:39 PM) "programmer" i send you yahoo message

(1:51:52 PM) virwulf613 [another coworker] said u emailed me?

(1:52:36 PM) "programmer" no

(1:53:50 PM) virwulf613 so what was teh message?

(1:54:22 PM) "programmer" the sytem is very slow upstair

(1:54:43 PM) virwulf613 so restart sever

(1:55:11 PM) "programmer" how can i do it

(1:55:52 PM) virwulf613 start-turn off-restart

(1:56:06 PM) virwulf613 u don't know howe to restart a computer?

(1:56:09 PM) "programmer" she should only start her computer

(1:56:24 PM) "programmer" or we should start the server by [owner] office

(1:56:26 PM) virwulf613 what?

(1:56:36 PM) virwulf613 is it slow by you?

(1:56:47 PM) virwulf613 if yes, restart server you're logged into

(1:58:01 PM) "programmer" i told lhem to restart them computer

(1:58:22 PM) virwulf613 who?

(1:58:25 PM) virwulf613 what computer?

(1:59:54 PM) "programmer" They claims that them computer is working great with other site only on our application it is slow

(2:00:04 PM) virwulf613 yeah, so

(2:00:08 PM) virwulf613 i know

(2:00:31 PM) "programmer" WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO

(2:00:47 PM) virwulf613 restart server

(2:01:19 PM) "programmer" THE SERVER BY [owner] OR THEM LOCAL MACHINE

(2:01:22 PM) virwulf613 why would you think restarting upstairs computer do anything

(2:01:35 PM) virwulf613 i said restart SERVER

(2:01:39 PM) "programmer" OK

(2:01:41 PM) virwulf613 you know what server is or not?

(2:01:50 PM) "programmer" THE SERVER IS BY [owner] OFFICE?

(2:01:57 PM) virwulf613 do you know of any others?

(2:02:04 PM) "programmer" NO

(2:02:05 PM) virwulf613 the one you're logged into

(2:02:19 PM) virwulf613 are you logged into it?

(2:02:53 PM) "programmer" 192.168.0.5?

(2:03:12 PM) virwulf613 no, 127.0.0.1

(2:04:16 PM) "programmer" YES . I SHOULD CONNECT TO THE SERVER WHERE I WAS WORKING ON AND RESTRATE IT

(2:04:35 PM) virwulf613 i think i said that at least 3 times, no?

(2:04:54 PM) "programmer" I AM SORRY PLEASE EXPLAIN BETTER

(2:05:20 PM) virwulf613 i said restart server, there's only 1 server

(2:06:00 PM) virwulf613

"programmer" 1:56 PM she should only start her computer

56:24 or we should start the server by [owner] office

virwulf613 1:56 PM what?

56:36 is it slow by you?

56:47 if yes, restart server you're logged into

(2:07:49 PM) "programmer" OK WE ARE GOING TO [owner] OFFICE AND STOP THE COMPUTER THEN RESTART

(2:08:12 PM) virwulf613 why are you going to [owner]'s office?

(2:08:20 PM) virwulf613 I told you, login and restart it

(2:09:08 PM) "programmer" PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW CAN I LOGIN

(2:10:53 PM) "programmer" CAN YOU RESTART FROM YOUR OFFICE

(2:11:19 PM) virwulf613 why can't you restart it?

(2:11:28 PM) virwulf613 you claimed you know what you're doing

(2:12:04 PM) "programmer" i NEED TO GET INTO THE REMOT ADMINISTATION WHERE I CHANGE MY PROGRAM AND THEN DO A RESTART

(2:12:24 PM) "programmer" I KNOW HWAT I AM DOING BY I DO NOT KNOW ALL THE DETAILS OF YOUR SYATEM

(2:12:51 PM) virwulf613 there is a computer, server, you do your work on it, restart it

Rammstein & Tatu - Moskau

Sometimes the customer is right

The Jewish Side introduced me to the awesomeness that is Not Always Right.  The site is a collection of stories submitted by tech support, store employees, etc. about idiot customers.  The stories usually include location and city/state/country.

I came upon one interesting story.  I'm pretty surprised close to 800 people gave this a thumbs up...

That’s Nothing A Little Duct Tape Can’t Fix

ELECTRONICS STORE | UNKNOWN LOCATION

Customer: “I want a computer where I can type in Russian and it will print in English.”
Me: “Sir, I’m afraid we don’t have Russian keyboards.”
Customer: “No, that’s fine. I’ll just tape Russian letters on.”
Me: “Sir, it will still be an English keyboard.”
Customer: “Okay, so what if I glue the letters on?”
Me: *thunk thunk thunk* “Still English.”

Now here's an example where the customer is right while the salesperson or whoever submitted this is a moron.  Keyboard is an input device that has letters glued on it.  There is no such thing as an English keyboard, the keyboard doesn't send letters to the computer, or even codes of letters.  The keyboard sends the location of key pressed. In Windows, there are files which map keys pressed to letters.  These can be in any language as long as you install it.  More so, you can even reassign letters to different keys.  In my Russian keyboard, letters are assigned based on what they sound like.

I really hope this wasn't the owner of the place...

NY vs Bounty

Web Comics/Manga

I've been putting this off for a while, mostly because some of these are hard to categorize.  Instead, here they are in alphabetical order:

Alien Dice - sci-fi, cute animals, girl meets alien boy
AppleGeeks - sci-fi, gaming, cyborg girl, comedy
Blip - fantasy, demons, angels, witches, cyborgs, vampires, all rolled into a comedy
Candi - slice of life, comedy, college

Charliehorse - comedy, succubus summoned to help a guy get a date, sometimes borderline NSFW

Ctrl + Alt + Del - gaming, insanely funny, robots, parody
Ctrl + Alt + Del: Sillies - a more insane daily version of the above
DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary - slice of life, comedy, occasionally NSFW
Devil's Panties - slice of life, comedy
Dilbert - if you don't know what this is, you suck
The Dreamland Chronicles - fantasy, dreamland, comedy, 3D
El Goonish Shive - sci-fi, furries, comedy, fantasy
Errant Story - fantasy, elves, half-elves, comedy
Faans - sci-fi, fantasy, secret organizations
Flipside - fantasy, occasionally NSFW
Get Fuzzy - syndicated, talking cat and dog, somewhat anti republican but still funny
Girls with Slingshots - slice of life, comedy
Girly - fantasy, slice of life, comedy, sometimes borderline NSFW
Kevin & Kell - slice of life, comedy, world of talking animals with a wolf married to a rabbit
Marilith - female assassins, enough said
Least I Could Do - slice of insanity and comedy
Lizzy - sci-fi, cyberpunk, FLASH, occasionally NSFW

The Lounge: Sexy, Cute, and Purrific - slice of life, comedy, occasionally borderline NSFW

MegaTokyo - slice of life, fantasy, sci-fi
Menage a 3 - slice of life, comedy, frequently NSFW
Misfile - slice of life, racing, fantasy, comedy
Moose Head Stew - slice of life, comedy

The Noob Comic - gaming, mmorpg parody, comedy

Off The Mark - syndicated, parody
Okashina Okashi - sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, occasionally borderline NSFW
Otaku no Yen - slice of life, comedy
Over the Hedge - syndicated, comedy, talking animals
Penny and Aggie - slice of life, comedy, drama
Penny Arcade - gaming, comedy, parody
Pinky TA - sci-fi, occasionally borderline NSFW
PvPonline - gaming, fantasy, friendly ogre, parody, comedy
Questionable Content - slice of life, comedy, robots
Sherman's Lagoon - syndicated, talking fish, comedy
Sinfest - fantasy, parody, occasionally borderline NSFW
Sore Thumbs - fantasy, comedy, occasionally borderline NSFW
Trying Human - sci-fi, comedy, greys, occasionally NSFW
UserFriendly.org - tech support, fantasy, comedy
VG Cats - gaming, parody, comedy
Wapsi Square - slice of life, fantasy, mythology, comedy
Weregeek - gaming, slice of life, comedy
xkcd - no one can be told what the xkcd really is, you have to see it for yourself
The Zombie Hunters - fantasy, zombies
Zortic - sci-fi, parody, comedy