Programmer, Analyst, Learner, Leader, Gamer

Why oh why does my video card have to die now? Of all times for my video card to go out on me it has to be this coming weekend. We’ve spent almost 2 weeks now gearing up in Burning Crusade and I wanted to go back and annihilate some older 60 raid instances for the fun of it and fill in my spots on my kill page.

Well at least EVGA has awesome tech support and has already pre-approved an RMA based on a 5 minute phone call. I have to give them props, it’s the best, easiest, replacement I’ve ever received on a piece of hardware. I just hope that I’ll get my new card relatively soon. :-/

Finally broke down and got an 80 gig iPod. What’s great is the old 30 gigs used to be 299 and the 60 gigs were 399. Now the new 80 gigs are 330. I went ahead and jumped on it and bought one. So now I’m totally into getting my music together now and listening to podcasts again which is totally awesome.

FROM TOYOTA PRIUS!!! http://www.myspace.com/toyotaprius

Can I just say WEEEeeee! I love my car and it’s just cool meeting other who love their Prius too. I mean it’s a fantastic marvel of technology, it’s great to drive, it’s got the great gas mileage, but even if it didn’t I’d still choose it as car of choice. I mean where else can you get a giant ON button? So suffice to say I accepted the friend request and I’m even thinking of throwing it on my Top8.

to be entered

Who decided that Beltane was national protest day? I know it wasn’t some jackass Republican because they never protest. Regardless of whether I support some of the protests (some I do and some I don’t), I always respect people’s RIGHT to protest. But shit man, does it have to be on my holiday? If white people protested on May 5th, Hispanic America would riot. No one has any respect for pagan holidays and that just sucks. Did you know you have to have a sanctioned, police observed permit to put up a May Pole? WTF?!? So today I say POOO POOO to those protesting who are ruining the spirit of the holiday for us pagans.

Tonight went down to listen to the Cocktail Mix at 6 hosted live at Bettie Ford’s. Gustav of course was there and said hi to him, chatted a bit, and sat back to enjoy the live tunes created live on the spot by DJ Suffix. The crowd was a little weak, the drinks sucked (which is not normal for Bettie Ford’s), but overall it was still great. The crowd was an odd mix of older after work types who I wouldn’t usually classify as people who listen to that style of electronica. I said goodbye to Gustav on the way out, got a 94.7 water bottle, and Gustav gave me a headsup to lookout for the next SWR concert which is slated for June 28th.

To sum up the game, the Steelers shouldn’t have won, but did. I wouldn’t have minded a game where the Steelers dominated, but they didn’t. They sucked so bad in that game. They got lucky on 3 plays and barely even made first downs the entire rest of the game. It took them 19 minutes of game clock to score a first down and they didn’t get another till much later in the 2nd quarter. The Seahawks gave their all into the game, dominated, but where screwed over and over by the refs on bullshit calls that even Steelers fans say where bullshit. Sad sad day. I feel sorry most for the Seattle QB who was 100% during that game.

Small interesting world. Apparently from reading Laura’s LJ I come to find out she works for 92.3 Classic Rock. I found this out while browing her LJ and chatting with Gustav about my new iBall. So I told him that I have been talking back and forth with someone onling who works for 92.3 and asked him if it was an Entercom station (being just recently at the studio to get my iBall I thought I remembered it being one of the logos in the lobby)…

Gustav: Yes, the studio is right next to ours in the building. Who have you been talking with?
TheCyberVic: Laura
Gustav: Blonde Laura?
TheCyberVic: Yeah. Smokes, tyring to kick the habit. Likes alternative.
Gustav: Haha, aren’t we all…
TheCyberVic: Goes to a lot of concerts, A LOT of them
Gustav: Yeah, I see her almost every day. She’s cool.
…(talked about web development stuff)…
TheCyberVic: Well if you bump into Laura, tell her CyberVic says hi.
Gustav: Haha, I will!

Small world huh?

I was randomly selected this week to win an iBall from Oregon Scientific from those people who got their perfect play lists played. It’s completely cool and something that is nice because I can plug it into my computer at home and it’s a remote speaker system up to 100 feet away (aka the gym and my bedroom). Also once I get my iPod I can use it as my base unit/charger. I of course thanked Gustav personally via AIM for my prize and after giving him some info like my address and SSN, they will have my iBall ready for pickup on Monday.

I ordered this yesterday and it should be here tomorrow or Friday. Very cool, I’ve been wanting something unique and I think this just about hits the spot. I also ordered a replacement cartridge for when it runs out. David D. recommends the space pens because they always write perfect and they are so unique they are usually by themselves able to spark conversation.