Normally, I'm pretty anti-religion, I mean, if you want to worship a God, or a Goddess, or a velvet Elvis painting, that's fantastic.  What you shouldn't do is assume that you, or your religion is better than anyone or anything else.   Here's a fun little video featuring some fine examples of Scientology (assuming it hasn't been pulled): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1083100102009309014&q=Scientology

 

Sadly, they could be members of any religion because they're all full of self righteous douche bags trying to make you the bad guy.  Granted the guy on the other end of the camera isn't much better, he's there for no other reason then to prove he's right, and that's just as bad.

 

So worship your God, your Goddess, your velvet Elvis, but shut the fuck up about it, and try not to be a hypocrite.

I've only just begun act one, and compared to NWN 1, it's a huge leap forward graphically.  Game play wise, it's pretty much the same game with some nice new features.  I'm especially looking forward to the influence system, and turning my friends into cold blooded killers.

My only gripe is the Collectors Edition.  It's $10 more for two rings, a cloth map, and an art book.  The two rings, I really don't see what value they provide and are pretty useless (until you throw them into a fire and read the cool message on the inside).  The art book, meh, it's mostly online, but the pictures are pretty.  The cloth map?  Ok, that thing is complete crap, more a napkin than a map.  In the old days, and I mean before Ultima sucked, and then moved online, when you got a cloth map with the game, it was big, heavy fabric.  The NWN2 map is pretty much a napkin, only thinner.  In the UK, I was reading that you get the full NWN1 with both expansions included with the Collectors Edition of the game.  Here in North America, you get crap.

The game however, and keep in mind I'm only just really beginning act 1, seems pretty good.  Characters are more alive, the party system is greatly improved, and your henchmen are much more usefull and controllable.  I'm playing through as a Paladin, at least till I get bored.  I usually play games like this at least twice, taking the good and evil routs.  We'll see how it goes.

What a day yesterday.  The controller on one of the CNC machines wasn't working so I tried to fix it, kind of outside my skill set, but troubleshooting is the same no matter what the computer looks like.  I actually had it fixed too, I knew what the problem was, I new what needed to be done to fix it, and in the process of trying to do that, I made it worse, and now it's completely unusable.

 

Worse than that, there are two managers here that I actually like and respect, and I think I disappointed them.  It's been so long since I cared about this place, I was a bit surprised to find out that I felt bad for letting them down.

 

Enough with the sappy, and on to the whining.

 

I'm cold, I ache, I'm tired, and I just know I'm coming down with something.  This sucks; my forehead is several degrees warmer than the rest of my body.  Meh, did I mention this sucks?  I just want to be held while I shiver, and moan, before passing out.

 

 

I think I have separation anxiety, being away from my new baby. Where to begin? It’s FRICKIN’ HUGE! It’s so much bigger in my tiny little living room, compared to the open spaces of Best Buy. When they delivered it I thought it was the wrong TV, it was so big, but oh so beautiful.

After some initial missteps with hooking up the audio, it’s working beautifully. Hi-Def cable is so much nicer than ye olde regular cable, and everything is widescreen. Honestly, if I never set foot in a movie theatre again, I wont care. I can’t lay on the couch under my cozy blanket at Silver City, or press pause when I have to pee, or get a snack, and at 65”, I’ve got the big screen experience at home.

I watched Advent Children with my friend Mark, an Anime film based on the Final Fantasy video games, and what a ride that was. There were fight scenes that were so fast I was getting dizzy, it was beautiful. I also watched all my usual shows in HD over the weekend, and they were stunning.

It’s just beautiful.

My new HDTV comes tomorrow, sometime between 8AM and 12PM.  65" HP MD6580, 1080p, dual HDMI, it's pretty sweet, you can read about it here:  http://www.hp.ca/democentral/md6580n/?jumpid=reg_R1002_CAEN

First movie is looking like it'll be FF: Advent Children, a nice anime feature, lots of bright colours, and fast action.   I can hardly wait.

So I got to play on my first dual core athlon X2 system recently, and while I knew about setting the processor affinity for applications, there's a few things I didn't know.

For instance, if you set the affinity for a running process in task manager, it's not permanent, and will reset itself the next time the application is run.

You can set it permanently, but you need a tool, IMAGECFG.EXE (google it, you'll find it) to do so from the command line.  This is the important bit, when you force the processor affinity permanently, it really is permanent (kind of), there's no undo option.  The only way to change it back is to replace the EXE you modified.  As always, it pays to make a backup.  Just copy the backup EXE over the modified EXE and you're processor affinity will be set back to normal.

Learn something new every day.

I think this is about the 3rd, maybe 4th web presence i have, dedicated to just me.  One more space I can ignore and never update, but perhaps I can change that.  Maybe if I dedicate myself to keeping my life an open book, posted on the web for all to ridicule, I'll become famous!

Then I can sell ad space, make a mint, and retire before I'm 40.

Yeah, prolly not.

Hmm, just discovered MSN Spaces, now I'll have a third blog to never post in, but at least the theme is interesting.

That's pretty much all I got for now.  I should add some photos of friends or something.  I should go download random photos and say they're my friends....yeah, that's it!  I'll even add some photo's of exotic places and say I went on vacation there. 

Stay tuned...