I wanted to post this like, two weeks ago, but I seem to be having all kinds of trouble keeping up on a regular basis. I hate not staying regular this this stuff because i end up forgetting anything cool that has happened in the past week. The ast thing I want you to do is think that I am ignoring you. I'm really not trying to, I'm just having problems with time.


So, the reunion came and went. Nothing special to talk about. I got trashed, and ended up getting talked into going out to cotton's, which lasted for about ten minutes. I had a bottle of water while I was out there, and called in a chip for someone to come get me as I was uncomfortably Drunk(i.e. I was about to eject all that prescious beer I drank). Was good to see people I haven't seen in a long time, and i wish i would have had the foresight to get some phone numbers off of people so I could call them up at drunk o' clock in the morning.



Okay, I'm lying. There is something that did happen at the reunion that I was glad that happened.


I settled the past with a couple.


It had been something that has been more or less unsaid for about the last six months to a year, but we went ahead and made it offical. I always imagined it being much more cataclysmic as that seems to be my style with dealing with exes, but it really wasn't. there was catching up with each other families, how shitty our old places of work are becoming, lamenting on how Brandocrap dosen't work further south, how much i miss playing spades and getting fucked over by said Brandocrap, all intersparced with much needed doses of getting shit off my chest, burying the axe and starting the process of letting it rust.


cybrpunk is doing some zombie fiction of his own. I'm waiting for day 3. maybe if all three of my faithful go over there, he'll keep with it. come on readers, I feed on this zombie stories and if Neil had any other way than paypal, I would totally have long since made my donation to up my allowed reads per week. Anyway, boring shit for the most of you, I'm sure.


Once again had a run-in with another guy who was helping the poor people who are stuck in the 3rd world country of Japan. This time, I didn't get asked if I knew where Japan was, though. Still had the same flier with LARGE INSPIRATIONAL WORDS on it, though. No chintzy bracelets this time, though.

Since I'm running familar ground, I'm going to go ahead and call North a flat-out liar(P.S. I like you, seriously), as No ID girl came in yet again and failed to produce an ID. Except now she's almost 23 and can't believe that I'm still carding her. boo fucking hoo. If she would have had her ID this would all be done and over with by now, but carrying an ID in her white trash daisy dukes along with her cash is appearantly too fucking complicated of a concept for her. Or, MAYBE she's a Sleeper Cell terrorist that is looking to bomb the Rend Lake Dam now that the lake has become a Wonder of Illinois, complete with David Phelps and Ken Gray singing God Bless America. Which I don't understand at all. I mean, I get why Gray was there, and politicians in general, but WTF with the patriotic hymn? I mean, God and Jesus didn't create it, it's man-made. poorly, I might add. but hey, it's drinkable and it gives me a place to go when I'm pissed off and want to be alone. I'll save my "I'm not a Lake Engineer but this is FUBAR'd" critique for another blog.


ANYWAY, back to NO ID girl, If I knew her name(which I don't because, well, you should be able to figure that out), I'd totally nominate her for the female catagory of the 1st annual " Livingdead's Customers Who Deserve Centipedes in thier Vagina and/or Dickhole" award. I already have a very good front runner for the Female category though with another demonic bitch of a customer. Maybe she's a shemale and I need to expand my categories. Anyone willing to take one for the team and find out? I won't tell if you won't.



Also, remember the 90's flowchat? I found out where that came from. Go check it out if you're into geek humor and stick figures. I'll stick it into Linkage soon enough. as soon as I find time. Also, photo album is seriously needing to be added(which I know by now is turning into a long running joke, but like Zapp Brannigan, I do plan to finish someday).

As Commentors know, I had to turn on the "approval required" option for commenting a while back to combat blog spam. I'm cautiously glad to report that i haven't been spammed at all in the last week and a half. I would love nothing more than to let down the gaurd and allow anything to go through without approval, but before I do... I want to hear how anyone else who has had this problem has been faring. I know most people on bloghorn have thiers taken care of almost automagically, but if you run a blog and could spare some time to drop a comment or an email, let me know.

boy, did I go on a rambling yarn. covered a lot of ground. Time for sleepzors. Or warcraftzors. or further hacking apart my chocolatezors. Or maybe doing something useful with all the spare computer parts I got laying around. Zors.


America
FUCK YEAH
Coming again to save the mother fucking day yeah

with the exception of being a bit tired and worn out, i am happy.

yeh. go read that again. Livingdead said he's happy. what the fuck?

Here's a couple of reasons.

I got to see sparky. Always a good start.

I'm on day two of my three day off stretch from work. which is fucking awesome. i made sure to buy my supplies so i wouldn't have to stop in for anything. after being there for 11 days in a row, i needed an out.

I finally got a new phone, a Chocolate, no less. And i'm hacking the shit out of it, thanks to a little help. I never plan on buying shitty ringtones or wallpaper ever again. Next time verizon, try offering better selection than Fergie, Timberlake, and 50 cent, Coldplay, and Akon. and fuck your stupid wallpaper, too.


Lastly, today is National Day of Slayer. I don't even like Slayer, but any holiday that advocates full-scale rioting is okay by me.

Now, since i sent a txt msg to Sparks that consisted of the word 'bomb' and selling kidneys the other day, I had better settle for causing trouble in the virtual world for today. and for what it's worth to me, that'll do, pig. That'll do.


Remain calm
I'm coming to your house to kill you

chillin with the D-O-double-G and Gee Oh Dee,
drinking V.S.O.P.
on the LBC
Boyz II Men
ABC
BBD
the East coast family!

plagurizing two different genres of early 90's music will not get me into The Source anytime soon.



I've been off work for an hour and a half and i'm well on my way to getting trashed. I'm working crazy hours this week and bringing in mad duckets, Yo. WTF ever happened to that arcade place? anyway, so while the manager is away, i'm on dayshift. this should be easy, right? well. sort of. first off, there's a giant burning ball in the sky that instantly gets me grumbling on my way to work. today wasn't so bad, as it was overcast. i was still grumbling, as i had closed the night before and didn't get out till 1am. this isn't always a problem, but I had to be there to open at 7:45, which turns getting out late into a litnany of 'fucks' from yours truly.

today I had probbaly four main things to accomplish without burning the store down accidentally or otherwise. things that once you sit down and get to it(or if you've done it a jajillion times before), should only take you about an hour. it took me seven. everytime i would get started and timidly step into the exciting world of entering product into inventory into our venerable database, I would get a customer. one would lead to two, and two into four, and pretty soon you have fucking tribbles and gremlins all over the goddamn place. every time I would finish one P.O, i'd get another delivery, and each company doesn't exactly have carbon-copy invoices. forms. sheets that stuff is on. whatever.

so back to hunt and pecking in what we got from whomever, doing everything i can to keep from entering in 5000 cases of grenadine @ 2999.99 cost. Then the customers come back in, and once again, I have fucking tribbles and gremlins.

so yeah. I will say that i needed the break from my regulars. last night i had another run in with No id girl and i wanted to chokefuck her with a broken everclear bottle because i'm a really horrible person and wish such things on people sometimes.

I would fully support a law that would allow anyone in retail the ability to shoot someone in the crotch once a day with a taser with no reprucussions. people would be a hell of a lot nicer if there was the chance that the person behind the counter hadn't used thier daily freebie. but since i live in the land of pussies and we just passed a law that bans indoor smoking in public places(except casinos, of course. they make money for the state and a majority of patrons there smoke, so they're cool. which is fucking horseshit), i don't see that ever becoming a reality. don't bother commenting, emailing, or flaming me about my stance on the smoking issue. you're not going to chance my mind, and I'll just think you're an even bigger pussy. you win. I get it. I can't actively kill you anymore. I'll get over it or I'll find another way.

I like Edgy Eft, but I am ready to take a ride on the Fiesty Fawn. anyone got an opinon on it yet?

Anyway, So most of you got to meet Sparky at Bradley's Wedding(which was awesome, by the way), and i apologize for not getting face time with everyone and doing formal introductions. she's Shy and I have a track record about as good as my updating routine of late about doing the introduction thing. I don't think she's going anywhere, so you'll get your chance, I am sure.

Fuck. I just ruined a brand new tie in the wash. god damn it.

goddamn this hacker pschorr is fucking awesome.



i really want to write more, but now that i am rather soundly sloshed, i'm going to go get on WoW and spam "WTB 2 man suicide Molten Core run" on the channels. or get on as my hot blood elf and promise virtual sex for gold. wait. that's second life. or something like that. Maybe i'll kill more people In GTA liberty city stories. I don't care. I'm drunk enough to where i'm ready to fright someone, rip thier nuts off, eat them raw, then shit them down said person's throat. All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. I told u I was hardcore.


And there you have it. Yet another xoxxed.com, The art of Self-Destruction, Livingdead's Blog, what the fuck ever you call it, update. Made in Fucking Southern Illinois. Fucking made in Southern Illinois. Made in Southern Fucking Illinois. Made in Southern Illinois fucking.



Erase me

More Linux Fun. Apologies in advance to the more casual readers.

I'd rather be using my day off to grind another level on my Warrior in WoW, but the geek in me got that all sidetracked last night.

up until last night, I had Linux and Windows on two completely seperate hard drives, which made installation more or less a cinch, but made using Linux A bit more of a pain, as I would have to swap out the physcial drives in order to play around in Linux. Also, I Want to listen to my Mp3's While i'm dicking around in Linux without having to copy all of them from my CD's all over again.

In most cases, physcially swapping that would be fine and dandy, but remember who you're dealing with here.

So, I started by editing my boot.ini file to add Linux as an option to boot when I turn on my computer. then I threw in my Slackware Install CD so I could somehow reconfigure my linux drive to show up as /hdc instead of /hda(which I probably didn't need to do, since I think mount assignment depends on it's position on the IDE cable, but I wasn't sure) ended up reinstalling Linux to the Drive, and Dicking around in LILO, where I think I ended up placing it within the Master Boot Record on the linux drive(which was what I think I was wanting to do). So, reboot the compy, and get my choice of what to boot into: Win2000 or Linux. I choose linux.

Nothing. Black screen of death.

It takes me about two minutes to figure out that while I made a selection available in the boot menu, I never made a boot.lnx file on my windows partition. Fuck. Livingdead 0; Frankenputer 1.

Okay, simple enough. I'll just shut down, disconnect my windows drive, and boot directly into Linux, grab a copy of boot.lnx, and put it somewhere where I can grab it(like on this website, or in an email attachment) when I boot back into windows, place it where it needs to go, and viola, dual booting via the Windows boot loader instead of LILO or GRUB. Or so I thought. I boot up the Linux drive by itself, and after it goes through the BIOS POST, I get a screen full of 99's.

Son of a Bitch. Now not only am I not dual-booting, I've FUBARed my previously working Linux drive. Livingdead 0; Frankenputer 2.

At this point, I realize I should have grabbed my boot.lnx file before I started doing all of this would have at least got me a bit further along in getting this to work, not to mention most likely not fucking up my Linux Drive to begin with.

final Score: Livingdead -1; Frankenputer 2.

This will not stand.

So, new plan:


Dump Slackware distro, Wipe Linux HD Completely, Install Unbuntu Distro. While I felt like I was starting to get a feel for Slackware(and admittedly, thought it had a superkickass name and that's why I chose it, nevermind the fact it's geared towards powerusers) I better ease myself into this a bit more with something a bit more user friendly, like Ubuntu.

I'll let you know how that goes.

Batman beat the hell out of me and knocked me to the floor

Allow me to knock off the dust on this here web site thingy.

So, The burning question that my four loyal readers are asking: What have you been doing, and why haven't you blogged about it?

The answer? boring shit. A list for the truely curious would include World of Warcraft, Partying with Brandocrap and Mick(of the jacksonville crew fame) up in springfield for new years, World of Warcraft, preparing myself for rejection(s), Watching Reba(not too proud to admit that, but I know some of you watch golden girls religiously, so there), World of Warcraft, hating existence in general, and getting rich like a mofo in my imaginary little world. I sold my [Cloudkeeper Legplates] for a nice mint in the auction house and now have enough money to do just about whatever I want. at least i'm rich in one of my worlds.

I'm of the understanding that the last part was most likely not all too "user friendly" and exciting to read for the general audience. one should go and ask my exes how "user friendly" I was and see what you get. So, in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator(confidential to Brooke: I'm just ribbing you. don't take it seriously), Allow me to tell you of my latest goings on: Upgrading my nerd badge by installing Linux onto my computer.

If that dosen't get you all wet and excited, I don't know what will.


I'll tell you this much, If Linux was what I had to learn on when I first started using computers instead of DOS 6.)/Win 3.1, I probably could have been making serious bank with all the technical expertise I would have by now, thus increasing my chances of mating with a female and ultimately, Happiness(everybody knows money is the secret to happiness, right? right?). That, or I would have said "Fuck this. This computer shit is hard. I'm going to go snort some crank and go knock over a Liquor store." it really could have gone either way.

I'll spare you the installation details and get straight to the FUN:

login deadhouse: root
password:***


Last login was 18:36 on Jan 18 2007

"that which does not kill us, makes us stronger" -Friedrich Neitzsche
(okay, that was a cool MOTD to see, if not a bit ironic and foretelling)

root@deadhouse: cd ..
-bash: unknown command cd ..
root@deadhouse:dir
/dev /null /etc /bin /lib /kde /bin /usr /abunchofotherdirectoriesetcetcetc
root@deadhouse: cd kde
-directory is now /kde
root@deadhouse:kde
-bash: command kde not found
root@deadhouse: ?
-bash: unknown command ?
root@deadhouse: wtf?
-bash: unknown command wtf?
root@deadhouse: goddamn you linus torvalds this is complicated
-bash: unknown command goddamn you linus torvalds this is complicated

To make a long story short, there was problems. all syntax errors aside, things had changed since I last used Linux, and I was using a different distribution this time around. I finally got it up and running, and am actually typing this out in KDE(windows like interface) and browsing the internet in konqueror. everything looks good, despite the fact that KDE decided to lock up on me while i was trying to grab a copy of opera to install and then had to reboot and run fsck to repair the hard drive tables(at least I think that's what it did), but that's okay. I still feel a sense of accomplishment. Joe Average can crash windows without even trying; It takes a special Person to make Linux say "Fuck You, I quit."


All in all, I'm having a blast with it. All kinds of neat shit to try out and break. It's like having a new girlfriend-A whole new body to run fumbling hands over, feeling out every nook and cranny, gently caressing supple digital curves. only this girlfriend can't tell you no and scream rape. All she can do is internally shut down and go into a catatonic state when you push too far.

Wait, What?


I can't make her real
(I won't let this build up inside me)

Not much to say, sorry.

I'm going to be a Manager! W00t!.

To counterbalance that, I came home from work to find out that my MP3 Drive is roached. all my music is gone.

FUCK.

The luck giveth, and The luck taketh away.

Could be worse, I suppose. I could have found out that i just won a Bazillion dollars and then find out i'm going to die in a few weeks from a Deadly Strain of Herpes or something.

Anyway, off to the Sunset Concerts to celebrate.

Silly monkeys
Sive them thumbs
They forge a blade

Okay. Got some things implemented that i've been wanting to do for a while. Code is up to date, and added my first affiliation. I now eagerly await the dozens of thosands of viewers that will very obviously be beating my server to death now! Or not.

Other things:

Spam filter software is working like a charm. or they got tired of dealing with my agressive nature of deleting it as soon as it popped up.

Don't ask me how, but if you're into RSS feeds, I got one going, if you're into that kind of thing. Seriously, it's like a monkey is just banging away on a keyboard sometimes with me. Sometimes it works, most of the times it dosen't. This time it did, for the most part.

I got to look over a couple more scripts for the photo archive, too. I'm having trouble deciding which one i really want to go with.

anyway, a real update later. I got real world things to do at the moment.

wow. I didn't say "fuck" anywhere in that update.

EDIT: categories not showing on individual updates. Goddamnit. I'll fix it later.


Thank you very much mr. roboto
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to

First off....

Dear Nintendo,

what the fuck? Wii? Are you fucking serious?

Sincerely,

Livingdead


And now for Something completely different.

That big change I was talking about last week? Still working on it. In addition to something else popping up and having been taken care of, I've been trying to wage a small-scale war against spambots who are commenting on old articles. It was sort of fixed with the new base code, but instead of making huge comments like they were, now they're just dropping a name, email, and website, since the text gets filter blocked.

The solution is using a random number image generator(i.e. Like what Sarah has on her commentbox). This also has it's own drawbacks.

One, I have to migrate all my linkage and other errata over into the new theme and make it look right(not that hard, just time-consuming). I have new Guilty parties to add, and i'm still working on the photo archive.


The second problem is that anyone who is visually impaired won't be able to make comments. I don't really wish to discriminate, but I don't think I have any blind readers.

Lastly, anyone using a text-only Browser is going to be in the same boat as the second problem. I'm going to take a WAG and say about maybe one percent of one percent of my dear readers have ever used Lynx(or currently use an old version of Mobile Browser) before, so I assume this won't be much of a bitching point.


Anyway, enough for now. I gotta work in the morning. I need sleep, and the only reason i'm still up was because Gma was yelling for me. more this week as i remember the various topics i was going to talk about.


Something's wrong and I guess you've blown it
Thanks a lot cuz now I own it

Awwwww fuckjizzles, 'tis friday and I'm all ready to do... something.

If there is one game I figured I would have been tired of by now, it's God of War. I re-rented it earlier this week, and goddamn I can't get enough of it. There's something therapeutic about kicking right into a game where the goal is absolution, revenge, and killing every motherfucker that stands in your path that just rings true to me. After a long week of dealing with the public, it satisfies in a way that no Snickers bar ever could.

Also, I found a 40 gig Hard drive just hanging around, and slapped it into Compy 2.0. Now I have space to spare for my music. Beforehand, I had about 7 megs left on a 15 gig drive, so I couldn't rip any of my new CD's and keep it all centrally located. I'm happy not to have my music in one place instead of scattered across an array of three drives. So now, I have a 15 gig drive free that I'm thinkin of either slapping into the original Compy and installing Slackware onto, or somehow converting it into an mp3 server. and wiring it to the stereo. Why? Becuase I'm fucking hardcore nerd, yo.

Also, I'm becoming an effective Zombie-killing Machine on Urban Dead and I Love it. So now you have more reasons why I haven't done that thing i've been talking about with the pictures and the sidebar box. can you say 'procrastinator'? Also, can you say shitty sentance structure?

Now I am going to go find something to do that is most likely nonproductive.


To be there is all I could do
Is that so wrong
Just one care is all I could find
Now it's gone

today's been pretty boring. Mostly consisted of A couple of phone calls and Brushing up on my mad Quake 2 Skillz with bots on maps i've never seen before. it's really nice to have a decent framerate and be able to load huge maps on the fly. What would be even cooler is if we could get a couple more players and have a four player co-op play going on. Me and BrandoCrap Killed a lot of time Saturday night trying to slug through it. with four people, i'm betting we could realy ratchet up the difficulty level and absolutely beat the shit out of the game.

Anywho, digression. to continue yet another theme, I was thinking about this last night when i was Making that Long-ass update about something no one really cares about. I would have tacked it on at the end, but yesterday's update was long enough.

Bittorrent. While it is mostly used to grab ill-gotten gains, you know what would be a really good use for it? The Promotion of Taped Live concerts. This isn't really a new idea as there are some torrents out there for some groups, but by and far, it's still considered low-priority.

Think about this: Think of a kickass Live concert You've been to, Or a Concert by your favorite Band That you heard that played a variation of your favorite song that you have searched high and low for but cannot find on legimate released CD's. Bootlegs are the answer. We even have a great medium to disperse and Share the music.

I have a decent bootleg collection of a couple of my favorite bands, mostly consisting of Counting crows and Nine inch nails. before the advent of BitTorrent, my only recourse was to pay through the nose for a bootleg CD that is nothing but PURE PROFIT for the scammer who got a copy of the recording and burned it to disc. nowadays, if someone's got a copy of it on BT, all i have to do is download it. What a kickass way to promote LEGAL use of filesharing! so why isn't it being done more?

I've kinda ran out of steam on this one, and i think i kinda got away from my point. So, let me put it into a nice math equation:

Live, unreleased Concerts on BitTorrent+lots of peers Sharing Said content=Enriching the Lives of Music Lovers Legally.

blah. wow, two updates of half-assed content instead of the usual dreck. Hold on.

I hate my life. it sucks more than ever. i'm going to destroy you all for fucking me over.

there. Best of both worlds, for those of you that come here for that kind of thing.

mdame



You look into her eyes and it's more than your heart will allow
In August and Everything After
you get a little less than you expected somehow

heh heh. me make funny.

heya...If you are using an old version of winamp, i highly suggest getting the latest version. crisp, clean, and actually runs faster on my system than my old version. i was a bit skittish at first, since my computer's last major overhaul was literally last century, but it actually is pretty snappy. almost no stutter for me anymore when i stitch to another program(granted, this isn't a problem for you kids with those gigahertz processor thingys and gigbytes of RAM), but wow...it's like my files sound cleaner than before. maybe also that's becuase the EQ on the previous versions was all kinds of wonky.

anywho, just a quick shout out for the new version of Winamp before i go to work. nothing else really exciting to tell.

Confidential to Crackerjack: Get ahold of me on MSN or email.


mdame


I wanna live
I wanna love
But its a long hard road out of hell

Woohoo! at the cost of all my USB gadgets, i got my compy working finally! you know what that means... i can now continue to work diligently to bring you more stuff like this.

and once you're done looking at that, go take a look at how to get rid of spyware, or better yet, how the RIAA plans to Fuck you.

I rented Resident evil: Outbreak, and hopefully i'll get to play it later tonight. but after reading Penny-Arcade, i may want to boot it up now so maybe it'll be ready to play when i get off work.

anywho, that's today for ya. I can't concentrate too well right now becuase the drunk fuckhole is still here.

mdame

You know your worth when your enemies
Praise your architecture of aggression

For all the dirty Welshman out there... Represent.

Anyways, I am sitting next to my Friend Jenny Mad Mad in the Compy 386 lab talking about various things until i decided to Plug my Ears up with some MP3 hotness.

So... about this rainbow Animations, that Cracka's got up... I thought i saw horrible horrible things before, but no... Ducktales is forever ruined. If there is to be a happy ending in having forever fucking up my Childhood, it's that the song that plays at the very end of the Animation was awesome, and i found it. by now, i think i've played it about twenty-five thousand times.

Anyways, let's see what i can bitch about today, shall we? I really should be catching a nap, but that's what Math class is for.

A long time ago, I used to be in the Emulation Scene. it was good times, as it meant getting to play all the old games i wanted to for free. There was no intentional Harm in it, or anything like that. I got introduced to quite a few games by way of emulation. it's how i found out the game of that cool Star Wars game i used to play in the barroom when i was three(mom was a bartender, and it was the 80's, when no one accused everything of being morally Corrupt). times were good, and games were easy to get.

Then, some Jackhole had to go and Make an emulator ro an existing System(it was the N64) and nintendo got all kinds of pissed. They went and formed some stupid Corporate Software Equivalant to the RIAA(not quite, but i was stuck for an analogy) which helped get The DCMA Bill pushed through, which, if you have been keeping score for the last couple of years, has totally fucked up finding anything on the web.

anyways, The Emu scene was awesome good times, but nowadays i just stick with the Real stuff-Old consoles, games, and whatnot. Not so much becuase i fear legal Reprucussion, But my Controller on the Puter Sucks these days.

anywho, Sorry for rambling on about Tech Geek shit that a lot of you don't care about. I just miss the Days of NESticle and Genecyst. Good times, good times.

Oh, I gotta drop one more link(props go to The Lady for this find) Because STD-ster is teh hotness. if i ever learn how to program P2P Applications(not likely) or get a bajillion dollars to blow on Women and Crack(also not likey), I'm going to create(or have Created by someone who knows how) and create BradongSter. Becuase it's something the world needs.

Dawn of the dead TOMORROW, fuckers. Watch it or be left behind when the Zombie Apocalypse does happen!


mdame


I guess I didn't know

It was late and I'm tired.

If there is ever one piece of technology in the world i wish to never EVER have to fuck around with again, It's the Dot Matrix Printer. It is obviously clear that the only reason we advanced in printer technology is becuase someon techie had it up to here with Satan's Device.

That is all. i'm going to beds.

Confidential to Dreaders: That link was the Shit, yo.

mdame


Can't get those parasitic creatures off my face
And there's more comin' every day
I never said that they could camp out on my body
I wish they'd pack their tiny little bags and move away