Author: Robert

Robert Belknap has been writing online sporadically since 2001. See the colophon for more details.

Way past my bedtime

Uhm – It’s about 3:00am my time, and after 4 hours, I’m just now getting back online after deciding tonight would be a good night to wipe my computer and re-install the OS.

Couldn’t get the stupid freaking modem to be detected properly… not to mention the 3 or 4 times the system has “forgotten” about other pieces of hardware.

[Quote] What do you MEAN there’s no nVidia chipset?! I just got done installing the drivers for that damn card… Hey, why isn’t my cd-rom drive working? [Quote]

It looks like I have everything mostly under control now. I can get online, and that’s all that really matters. I’ll worry about installing the rest of my essential software tomorrow night.

-Hool

Edited on Sep 25th 2002, 10:02 by Hooloovoo

I think I may have found my reason to start playing JG regularly again…

I’ve basically been out of JG for the last few months. I’ve logged in a few times in the last couple of weeks, ran a couple of trannies, shot a couple of squids and then logged out. I haven’t seen anyone from my squad online with me since July or so.

Saturday afternoon I logged in to see what was going on, (right after browsing through the forums) and GM_Archon poped his head into help right as I was on my way from Tripoint to QC. He wanted to get some pilots together to try a game of dockball. (I had just read his post about it in the JG Forums)

BloodGod and I spoke up almost instantly, so we became team captians. Once I docked at QC, I hopped in the sim (and f5:dock) so we could figure out how things would work. We picked teams and ships and headed out into random asteroids. After a shakey start (RANGERS are fast, but ya need to be able to manouver as the docker) we participated in the offical game of DockBall.

It was a blast, even if I basically lost the game for my team. After the game, I decied I needed some practice, so I got hornet to come out into the sim and shoot at me as I tried to dock. I did about as well as in the game, but I’ve got a strategy I want to try out now.

I want to play again – but I’ll stick to being a Flanker/Striker untill I get some more practice docking in that sim.

Hell, I might even start up a Dockball Team Squad.

Chipset could give sight to the blind

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958402.html

I had a friend in gradeschool who was blind since birth. This technology might not be able to help her, but it is an interesting medical technology nonetheless.

Maybe someday Geordi’s VISOR will be a real technology.

rfoy: gocrf ;oml

edit edit: moved my fingers over to the left…

Edited on Sep 18th 2002, 18:46 by Hooloovoo

Edited on Sep 18th 2002, 18:46 by Hooloovoo