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| Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 01:53 pm Stuff! |
If you haven't already been corralled, I need victims... err... beta testers.
Please note: You don't have to like Mah Jongg or even know how to play. What I need is some simple tests, such as "Can you shut off/change the music", "Do the open tiles get a highlight when you click them?", "If you click two open and matching tiles, do they disappear?", "Do you see anything strange? (not being fond of the anime doesn't count)"
Just answer this post with which browser and version--I think I've got the last few bugs out.
http://www.zolaweb.com/mahjongg/mahjongg.htm
If you've been following "Beck Strikes Back" at fanfiction.net, there's a new chapter up.
That is all. |
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| Jul. 5th, 2009 @ 05:13 pm Thank you :) |
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I very much appreciate the subscription. :) |
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| Jul. 3rd, 2009 @ 03:17 pm In the news |
Awww. Mrs. Slocum passed away. :(
Mollie Sugden
Other News:
My LJ subscription expired and I can't afford to renew it :(
Last night, a 12 year friendship came to a permanent end. :( :( :(
I hope things start to improve, this is getting depressing. |
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| Jun. 27th, 2009 @ 09:42 pm I am boring. |
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We now return you to your regularly scheduled LJ. |
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| Apr. 19th, 2009 @ 11:34 pm New Forums up at Life With Zola |
We're starting to get a nice supply of new comics, and the forums are up and running
http://www.lifewithzola.com |
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| Apr. 11th, 2009 @ 04:40 am Zarozinia 1994-2009 |
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| Mar. 31st, 2009 @ 08:00 pm Apparently chickens like to sunbathe... |
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| Feb. 17th, 2009 @ 03:54 pm The eagle has... I mean the chickens... |
We have our first eggs!
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| Jan. 26th, 2009 @ 04:26 am Writer's Block: Robotic |
Definitely gotta be R. Dorothy Wayneright... :) |
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| Jan. 22nd, 2009 @ 12:03 pm Thank you, Alan :) |
While Civilization III was beautiful, I found certain aspects of the gameplay lacking.
Civ IV, which I have thanks to a certain madman across the pond, looks a lot better already. :) |
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| Jan. 20th, 2009 @ 06:38 pm Bad Calamity! No cheezburger! |
So I was working online...
Suddenly my dsl died. This does happen on rare occasion.
I sighed and cycled off the modem and waited.
Turned it back on. The "ready" light was going blinky-blinky.
Cycled it off again. Unplugged it. Unplugged the network cable just to make it easier to deal with. Waited a minute. Checked the wall and modem phone line connection, both secure. Plugged the power cable back in. Blinky-blinky.
Sighed again. Called Verizon repair and endured the automated system with the useful suggestions to go online to get help. Waited.
Amazing 1: The wait was only about two minutes.
Amazing 2: The call center person, though clearly at a call center in India, spoke good English.
Amazing 3: Did not ask me to repeat cycling modem. Quickly asked about a few common causes and believed my answers.
Amazing 4: When line tests came back good and all seemed in order, asked just for heck of it if I had another phone cord just to check.
Amazing 5: I had just cleaned out my cable storage boxes a few weeks ago and could lay hands on a new telephone cable in < 1 minute
Amazing 6:
Amazing 7: Hung up from a Verizon Tech Support call in a pleasant mood.
I think it's time to get a new bottle of Bitter Apple spray, that would have been the end of Calamity and straight into Catastrophe if that had been an electrical cord. |
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| Jan. 14th, 2009 @ 06:06 pm Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) |
RIP Ricardo Montalban
He was 88 years old, so it's not as though he didn't have a full, long life, but I for one will miss him--he was really an amazing person, a gentleman in the old-fashioned sense of the word, and did much, much more than Fantasy Island. |
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| Jan. 1st, 2009 @ 01:10 pm Too funny not to share |
I've been following xkcd for a while, and have come to the conclusion that it's the Far Side for Gen X'ers...
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/party.png |
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| Dec. 31st, 2008 @ 01:35 pm 2008 in review |
First, I must say that I am very glad to see the end of this year.
It isn't that anything particularly awful happened, overall it's been pretty calm.
But there are times when the universe seems to flow with you, and you are able to make plans and carry them out and things run smoothly, and then there are times when the current flows against you, and it seems like you're paddling upstream the whole time.
2008 has been like that, and I'm glad to see it gone.
Here's to a much smoother 2009! Happy New Year all! |
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| Dec. 27th, 2008 @ 02:57 pm All's well that ends well |
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The Xbox problem turned out to be the unit itself, and we were able to exchange it for a new one instead of having to wait weeks for a repair.
One of the things we noticed when we fired up the new one, aside from the plug fitting much more securely, was that the new one was much quieter! So everyone had a chance to at least begin to check out their games. I have The Last Remnant, so far so good, although I really wish that I could see a game with a big battle scene that didn't look like a cross between Clone Wars and LOTR...
 There's even a being who looks (Ben, I could have lived without that mental image) like the love child of Kermit the Frog and Jar-Jar Binks:
So far, all of the characters have been fully clothed, which in and of itself is rather surprising given that it's Square-Enix...
More as I progress further through the game. I leave you with this picture of Charcoal, who apparently intends to be a part of the Xbox Experience.
PS: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rineva, I don't know if you have played Last Remnant yet, but if you have, IM me or something because I have a wise-ass comment to make about the first bar that will probably amuse you. |
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| Dec. 25th, 2008 @ 05:04 pm Bah HUMBUG |
Current Mood:  cranky
We got the X-Box 360 for Christmas this year.
Got it hooked up but we were having trouble with the video connection. It worked for a short while, but when Ben and I moved it just to straighten out the area where it was set up, we lost the video again.
At first we thought it was just a bad connection, but further investigation proved that the connection at the xbox itself is bad--the plug doesn't seat snugly, and if you wiggle it in place, you get picture but if it isn't aligned just so, you lose the picture again.
I don't know if it's the console or the plug, but the plug itself looks just fine, so I suspect the internal plug in the console is bad or mis-aligned.
Pissing me off even further is that if I want to find out quickly if it's the xbox or the cable, I will have to go and purchase a new plug but they won't refund my money if it turns out its the unit. They'll send me a new cable in 8 to 12 business days, but if it proves to be the console, I'll have to send it in for repair which will take 8-12 weeks.
At this moment I am seriously considering just eating the loss of the $150 worth of xbox games we just purchased and returning the stupid thing to the store. Since one is unopened and the other two were never played, just looked at, I can probably recoup some of the loss on E-bay.
Then I'll spend the extra $200 to get a PlayStation III--those at least work when you take them out of the box and plug them in. |
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| Dec. 21st, 2008 @ 11:03 pm schadenfreude |
This word seems to be showing up a lot lately.
Heh I like this Danish quote the best:
Egen lykke er at foretrække men andres ulykke er dog ikke at foragte: "(One's) own happiness is to be preferred, but the misfortune of others should not be scorned." |
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| Dec. 14th, 2008 @ 09:27 pm Far out... |
From several on the f-list...
Your result for What Planet are You From? Test...
You are from Pluto!40% Pluto 
Well, well. So you are from Pluto, eh? I’m not surprised at all. Pluto was once considered to be a cold and distant planet and the furthest away from the sun. Now it is one of the dwarf planets in our solar system. It was discovered in 1930, and has been quite an enigma. It’s named after the Roman god Pluto who was originally the god of metals and then also took on the role of god of the underworld. He had a way of digging things up and bringing them out to the open. If he was an alien on the planet I’m sure he became quite popular and perhaps even a little bit scary. But what does this mean about you? Well, first off it means that you don’t like secrets. You will dig until you get to the truth, even if it means that you have to stir things up a bit in order to do it. You would probably make a great detective. You tend to notice things around you. You have a life altering personality about you. If things aren’t going well you have no trouble pulling out what you think is bad and rebuilding. You could probably go somewhere totally new and be able to make a new life for yourself without the same problems other people might have. You have a strong will and are very motivated. My only hope is that you don’t try to take over the world. It would never be the same again. But, on the other hand, maybe that’s not such a bad thing after all.
Take What Planet are You From? Test at HelloQuizzy
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| Dec. 2nd, 2008 @ 06:49 pm It's that time! |
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Want a card this year? Even if I have it, post your address so I know you want one :) (Comments are of course screened) |
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| Dec. 1st, 2008 @ 11:58 am Mystery.... solved! |
In which the reason for the telephone's erratic behavior, especially when it rained, is quite literally uncovered:
(Calamity assisting)
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