EYEHEARTZOMBIES

Fable is way too short. I beat it this week with just over 11 hours in gameplay. Granted, I didn’t do everything there is to do in the game, but I did some. The main storyline is only 5 or 6 things that you have to do, and then it’s over. No “continue playing this character” option, nothing. Just “roll credits.” So that gets a big demerit. Overall, though, the game is great fun. The magic system could be better, but for hack and slash, I haven’t found anything better. It blows Sudeki away. I only hope Jade Empire is as awesome as it looks (and that it would hurry up and come out).

Not much has been going on in the Love household. I was sick most of the week; a combination of exhaustion from the last deadline and sinus problems from the change in seasons. I love Fall, but I hate what it does to my body. Same for Spring. Maybe I just need to live somewhere that the environment doesn’t change so swiftly.

I did some more work on Elaine’s site. Mostly on the Lomography section of it, getting the image categories to show up only when you click on them, but to show a general overview if no category is selected. Textpattern really needs the ability to sort items by link and image categories, as well as by article categories.

I’ve also done a little more to mine, but all behind the scenes. All that’s really left is the links page and styling the forms on the comments. I really don’t like how the Remember/Forget checkbox stretches out huge on some browsers. That’ll be a simple CSS selectoring fix, though.

Well, I suppose I’m going to go scour the ‘net some more for any useful tidbits. I’m thinking of adding del.icio.us links to my pages, but I’m not sure if I want to copy Funkaoshi and Kottke that closely. My quicklinks just aren’t working for this, though. I never post anything to it.

ADDENDUM

Man, I’m a moron. Two other things that I wanted to write about and I completely forgot them. Geez. I’ll blame it on being sleep-spelled by the rain. Yeah, that’s it.

Anyway, yesterday we went to the Tulsa State Fair. It was a lot of walking, but it was pretty fun. We had great fair food, including corn dogs, turkey legs, onion blossoms, and caramel apples (with nuts, even). Some of that may not have been such a good idea, but the fair is only once a year. We went and looked at a lot of the animals, both in the petting zoo and in the animal shows. We also watched the big horse pull. That’s amazing! Watching two horses pull a sledge with five-and-a-half TONS of weight on them (plus the weight of the driver) is just…mind-boggling. We got to see the last few rotations, including the winning pair (Bob and Bill). It’s something you have to see for yourself sometime.

Speaking of the fair, and fair food, have any of you ever been accosted for your food? We were looking for a table to sit at, walking around with drinks, turkey leg, and onion blossom, when this guy walks up to me.

GUY: Hey. Where’d you get that onion?
ME: Out the door, there’s a booth.
GUY: To the right?
ME: Yeah.
GUY: (raises his fork and looks me in the eye) Good looking onion.

Thankfully we found a seat about then and ran away from him. He looked like he wanted a bite of it, and I’m not big on sharing my food with complete strangers. That’s just freaky, anyway, coveting someone else’s food. Elaine and I talked about that on the drive home, too. It’s just weird.

Also, yesterday before the fair, I decided to upgrade my Linux kernel. I downloaded all the packages I needed, went through the steps that I found on the Debian site (since I run a Debian-based distribution) and left it to compile while we went to the fair. Too tired when we got home, I left it for this morning.

This morning, when I got up and could see well enough to work on my computer, I installed the new kernel and set up GRUB (the bootloader. Let’s you choose which kernel/system you want to run each time.) and restarted. Well, the new kernel was in the GRUB list, so I selected it and watched my system.

The boot process ran through everything. I noticed a few new items that didn’t work, but they were new, so I assume not that important. Then the whole thing ends, screen goes blank. This, by the way, is normal. After the blank, KDM usually starts and I can log into the system. Not this time. It falls back to the command line login. So, I login that way and try to start KDM on my own. Nothing. Well, something. I’m told that only root wants to run KDM. I wasn’t aware root wanted anything, since I’m also root, but whatever. So I try to run GDM and XDM, but root wants to run them, too. So I switch to root, and try running them. Nothing useful. So something’s wrong with my X server settings for this kernel. X server, is the software that runs the display, by the way. I guess I’ll try recompiling the kernel this afternoon and see if I can get the new one to work tonight or tomorrow. I really want this new one so I can have firewire support on this machine.

Well, after all that geekfest, I’ll let you find something more interesting. :) Have a nice day.