lørdag den 23. april 2011

living the carnivor lifestyle

*noms carrot* phew, gotta add some fiber or my digestive system is gonna kill me.
Been barbequing the last two days. Had two solid chunks of beef yesterday and assorted meats tonight. I think I got my share of proteine for the next few days =P
But it was good food, enjoyed in even better company.

I've spent alot of time fiddling with my house design and got the floor plans more or less down, so I'll be able to throw up some schematics soon and a 3D model if I can find a decent achitect program and figure it out.
Saw a very interesting on grand designs about oak frames, so I've gone and redesigned the whole upper story or most of it any way.
It's a very enganging project =3

lørdag den 16. april 2011

RUSH

wow. life's been hectic of late ^^; Been meaning to update, but just havn't gotten around to sitting down and get at the keyboard.

Anyways, here's some of the highlights.

Katzen jammer concert. Me and frost had a splendied guys night out prior to the concert, arriving early in the city and decided to have some thai food and get brought each other up on current events. Then walked around the area near Enghave station, killing time and exploring the area, appearently every other store sells old stuff ^^;
Anyways, Little Vega opened around 8 in the evening. (small oversigt on my part, when signing up for this concert, I'd neglected to note the start time) so while we waited for the warmup band, which turned out be a warm up solo artist, we had a few drinks and talked about games and girls (which tend to be about 60% of our conversation subjects)
The warmup was okay, more background music in a lounge than a real act you'd pay attention too, but she was excellent and the mood was good and positive with the crowd.
Then at 10, Katzenjammer went on and blew my socks off =D I'm not one for large crowds and big events, so the roughly 100 or so audience suited me fine and even with such a relatively small crowd, the girls pulled out the stops, had fun, threw jokes at each other and just put the pedal to the metal.
easily one of the best live concerts I've even attended and Demon Kitty Rag is a new fav song ^^



The downside to the experience is, that I'd had a rather exhausting day at work and after the concert I got home around 1 in the night ^^; and my alarm goes of at 5:30.
I wasn't quite coherent most of the day after XD
But totally worth it and I'd do it again =3

While on the subject of work. The last couple of weeks have been trying, I have had some rather complicated projects, that's almost logic defying have continued to trip me up as I tried to find heads and tails on them.
Particular a industrial, steam couldron. where I by the end of it had replaced half the parts and still the damn thing just need to vomit green to verify that it was indeed possesed >_< I had a long argument with the representive of the firm that constructed the damn thing, the poor guy just stopping short of calling me a liar as the readings I took of the circuteprints and power relays wern't suppose to be possible.
But in the end I manage to find the fault and get it working properly, though I'm gonna keep an eye on it as the guy at the company claimed the fault I found wasn't suppose to be possible ^^; 

But that's just work. The drama on the other hand *facepalm* wensday our section leaders came out of the woodwork and annouced we were over budget and 4-6 people would have to be laid off.
This ofcourse caused quite a stir, as for one it's very bad HR management to just throw something like that out, without rhyme or reason.
So we had a internal meeting and voted a sitdown, unless something that concerned patient health came in. untill the bosses came down and explained themselves.
Annoyingly I was shuffled off to a first aid course, I'd decided to skip it to be a part of the talks and hear what our boss had to say, but our crews safety representative cornered me and told me, it was illegal for me to skip a safety course, for what was basicly a strike the union hadn't approved.
So with a grumble I went to to course and incidently I did well and have tried one of those automatic defibulators. Nifty stuff.
Now here's the kicker. Turns out I could have stayed, our safety representative had tricked me into leaving. I got a rep at work for speaking my mind and not much caring for "rank". Once telling the chief of the kitchen (sorta level with the chief of my maintanence section) to go fuck himself, not those words exsactly, but the way he stormed off and bitched to my boss, I think he got what I meant.
Anyways, the guy, was afraid I'd shot off my mouth and get on the bad side of our boss and thus, get the chop when people were to be put off. So he hoodwinked me and got me out of there.
I was royally pissed when he told me, I know he meant well and did it to keep me out of harms way so to speak. But I told him in no uncertain terms that he would not make such a decision for me again, ever.
But all the same, I was quietly moved. Per might bit a little... unfocused and he talks like captain Kirk (those odd pauses) but his heart is in the right place.
and I'm amused that our coordinator, pulled him aside at the meeting making sure that HE kept his trap shut XD

anyways, turns out the whole thing stinks. the current theory is that the whole lay off/over budget thing is a smoke screen for something else. But we can't figure out what =/
personally I think they're rattling the bush and see what pokes its head out and bites, you know to figure out what strong voices are on the crews and single them out for "transfer" better to control us.
Cause the way they handled this whole thing is just to dumb to be as plain as they try to make it.

oh yeah. and my training it making head way. ran 10.2 km the other day. Yatta! =D

mandag den 4. april 2011

Bringing back the old warhorses

Saw an episode on Game overthinker the other day on retro games. which made me look back on some of the old classics that ate up a significant part of my teen years.
While the years have left the games behind and glosed over the faults, bugs and short sights in them. I still recall them fondly and as it's all the rage these days to revive old games, to squeeze a few ekstra dollars out of the nostalgic thirty something gamers.
you can't refer to the nineties with out bringing up Masters of Orion II
I don't have count of the hours I've spent putting ships together, balancing colonies and utterly exterminating any of the other races that as much as looked at me funny =3
It could do with a serious grafics overhaul, as well as the AI would need work and rebalancing of the races, that one science race was so hax it wasn't even funny ^^; also more options in the diplomacy department would be nice.


Masters of magic:
hmmm Civilisation with magic, monsters and units that get experince and you can augment. I played this long after it was no way in hell fesable to play on my computer ^^;
But this game just so damn addicting and I love the fact you units gain experience and get tougher, so even the lowliest spearmen would have a chance against heavy cavelary.
well mine would eat heavy cavelary =P as I'd turned them into firebreathing werewolves, with stone skin, magic weapons and wings XD
Again a grafic upgrade and some decent ochesteral music ^^d possibly some ai tweeking and downpowering the hero units, which in the later lvls took out armies with one arm tied behind them ^^;









søndag den 3. april 2011

Sharing the plague

So, I got this one stuck in my head. so I'm sharing it with you guys, so I won't be the only one.
I might be a little partial cause I find her gourgeous =3 But it's a rather nice song, even if you're not a Zelda enthusiast.

lørdag den 2. april 2011

Return of the dark wastes

And my computer crooked on me >_<
not utterly, not smooking pile of melted circutes blue screen of death.
But my grafic card overheated, taking something in vista with it. causing it to crash each time it tried to initiate the drivers.
so I could only get my computer to work in safe mode ^^;
Anyways, some fiddling and trial and error later. I've managed to circumvent the drivers and got windows back up and running. albiet with artifacts all over the place (or so Kenneth called them.) manifests as frozen matrix lines of data pixels and not really cool at all, just annoying. that and I can't run any vids on my computer. online works just fine luckily.
so, gotta get myself a new grafic card and new OS as vista is ripe for a reinstall.

All this amounts to me being out of the online loop for a while, almost two weeks. and without a computer to distract me, well except my attempts to get it to work, My grey matter has had more free time than usual.

I think I'm starting to believe it karma. Not quite the head over heels "Everything happens for a reason and you cannot escape your destiny" karma. More the "everything is connected and everything carries a lesson" karma.
Can't really put my finger on what sparked this pseudo ephifany. Things have just ... come together lately. hard to explain and I don't wanna jinx it =P

*insert sound needle skipping vinyl record* and now for something completly different.
While waiting for a late train the other night, I observed a beggar on the station. Kinda strange how you know people and yet suddenly see them for the first time. Not that I knew the guy personally, but I know him, he's been hanging around that particular station for years and years. Friend of mine made habit of sparing him some change everytime she met him there and had some to spare. 
But he's just sorta just always been around and I've always noticed him when he stood with hand stretched out, hoping you'd add some coins to the small pile in his hand. As I passed him by.
I've never really spared him much thought, just another homeless guy. But getting a good look at him, it was harder to dismiss him as just social debri. Tall, with a long beard, ruffled hair and worn, if strangely delicat hands. and sad eyes in a lined face. tired and sad.
I can't help but wonder what his story is, what put him on this path and ended him on a corner on a station hoping for strangers to spare him some change or an empty bottle. Is he a mental patient? has alchohol or drugs destroyed him. Did the loss of a loved one break him?
It occures to me that in all the years I've seen or noticed him, I can recall what his voice, let alone if he's ever spoken. he's a ghost really, an echo of a person that died years go.
I waited for the train for a good 20 minuts, in those twenty minuts atleast 200 people walked by him. I counted 4 sparing him coin and one giving him her empty bottle.
What a lonely existance.
I usually don't spare beggars much thought. I don't know them, they can't or won't help themself, why should I. But I genuinly felt sorry for this guy. The way his bent frame picked up a little when people came by, holding out his hand. you could almost see  the hope that they'd spare some money and then he'd just sink down again and look forlorn around as they passed him by without even glancing at him.
A lonely ghost.
I had a few minuts before the train came to the station by that point, so I walked down to him, said hi there, as he noticed me and looked him in the eyes as I gave him most of the change I had in my wallet.
I don't know how much I gave him, but before the train came and I got on, he'd disappeared.
whole experience left an impression for some reason.

In other news and less serious. I managed a good run today. My foots been shot for a few days now and I've had timeout from running. mostly due to me being an idiote, I got a blister on one foot, which I punctured and went running on and ignored when it started hurting like hell and just ran on.
So, what I've deduced is that, the blister tore open while I ran and then the underskin started to blister and then that punctured >_<
ouch I say. so no running for me, for a good 7 days.
so can I learn it.

onsdag den 16. marts 2011

Dragon age 2. what a ride.

[WARNING SPOILERS]

So, finished DA2 today. almost 38 hours of play spread over 5 days. I had some vacation I had to get out of the way before the new vacation year started, so I used the oppitunity to grind through the game =)
as Dragon Age Origins left me somewhat fatigued for more than a week as I played late into the night and had to get up for work ^^;
so decided to get it over and done with ^^

Spetacular game. lots of laughs, hard choices, challenging battles and a few sniffles too =3
impressive vistas and interesting story.
But what really carries it is the characters. your group of people, their interaction with you and each other is what really sets the game appart and raise it up.
Take that away and it's just an average adventure game, with plot missions and tagged on side quests of "kill this" or "get that"
and the frequent recycling of area maps for new missions grated on the experience "you have to go to this place in the hills, there be bandits" apperently it's the ONLY place in the hills, cause I've been here three times before killing Qunaries, highway men and darkspawn.
It's a small detail, but it ruins the over all picture.
I'd like more mission that isn't just mob grinding.
One of the coolest missions was the haunted house. walking through a deserted mansion, stuff shaking or subtly moving about, voices jammering and doors opening or slamming. between the eeriy mood and your companions nervous chatter. this isn't even a horror game and I found myself on edge ^_^
Also I really didn't like that they'd changed the design on the dark spawn, seemed kinda pointless and wasn't explained.
And there were a few bugs in the last segment of the game. scripts that didn't activate on a few side quests. nothing serious, but annoying all the same.

But that's just really nit picking. between the story, the massive piles of choices and consequeces and endearing characters and superb voice acting. this is a real contender for game of the year =)

As for my character. Maleus Hawke. I went with a mage, for a change. partly because I wanted that awesome sword staff I'd seen in the trailer and secondly, I always play as a warrior. Time I tried something new ^^


 Here's a screen shot just from the beginning of the game.
 Towards the end, when I'd finally found the kickass armour ^^d
 and a really cool sword staff I also picked up =3
My favorit group. I'd have liked to bring the savy, saucy pirate Isabella. But between my magy skills and Varrics rogue range skills. I needed some stopping power. so Aveline, serious buisness redhead with shield and sword. my group tank and Fenris, dour, haunted mage experiment, escaped slave elf bishi damage dealer.^^

My playthrough went quite well. I played towards a  nice guy, who didn't take shit, but was ready to give people a chance. but just the one.
Few things I might have done differently ^^;
For one, the little Elf bloodmage (whom I incidently ended up with, through courting Isabela for most of the game. but she just wanted sex ^^; ) whom I tried to help with a magic mirror that'd gotten her cast out from her tribe, I tried to advice against it, but that'd just piss her off. so ahead we went. Sure that in the end we'd restore it, pretty sure there'd be a demon lurking somewhere in there. but confidently I could deal with it and in the end she'd be redeemed and welcomed back.
That one bit me in the ass ^^;
Turns out, there was a demon, trouble was, to save her, her old teacher had taken the demon into herself and we had to kill her >_< leaving little Merrill heartbroken, outcast, her teacher's blood on her hands and nothing to show for it. That was sad =(
Tried to reload the encounter a few times, to see if I could wing it. I do this occationally with big choices, just out of curiousity to see what the alternatives would yield and the go back to the original choice and play on. One of the alternat choices here forced me to slaughter the whole elven tribe to save our lives ^^; so I guess we got away easy.

but damn what a awesome ride. gonna miss sitting in on the chitchat between the various characters ^_^

torsdag den 3. marts 2011

I live, again!

So, returned to life after a rather dull week of downtime with a throat infection. First time I've ever tried penicillamin o_0 that shit knocks you out.
After having had a rather sore throat monday and tuesday, I called in sick wensday having had no sleep as I'd felt like I'd been swallowing glass all night and visited the doctor for a throat swab, turns out it was a good call as I had infection and got a prescription for the drug and strict orders how not to pass it on to other people and to stay home and recover.
So, I suck at this sort of inactivity ^^; wensday and thursdag I was quite smashed and actually stayed in bed. finishing one of the books I got for my birthday party and assasins creed: brotherhood.
Buuuut then I started to get antsy, only som much anime and horror movies you can watch. and sitting too long at my computer left me woozy.
So I've also drawn a lot a sketches for my house project, but still throwing around ideas really with the set up, nothing concret.

Sunday, I felt resonably well and went to a get together at Karina's place, which was awesome =) Through I pretty much got it hammered home that I was noway fresh enough for that sort of strenous activity. feeling excesivly woozy at one point and sweating buckets.
Luckily I feel worst when I'm sick late noon, so when we went home in the evening I was okay again and good to drive.

anways. returned to work today. Busy catching up and had an interesting lecture about installation measurements and short circuts calculations.
And our instructor asked if I'd considered studying to master degree or enginer. must admit I've never given it thought, but then again. the pays better and it's less hard on the body. But on the other hand, it's freaking two years on the school bench on SU *stroke chin* But it doesn't hurt to plan ahead.
worth giving some thought.

finally. WH40K NERD ALERT. another project I've thought up while ill, Titan size comparion (Titans are giant mechs in the warhammer univers) and there's alot of internal debate in the comunity about the sizes of these contructs. So while home sick, I've been compiling info on this stuff and as soon as I get hold of photoshop again, I'll start shopping them into the copenhagen city scape for size reference.
might even have to go on photo safari to get the proper size referenes =3

oh yeah. I'm getting back into writting again ^^