Hey guys, figures I should write an article or something so you know I haven't yet fallen off the face of the earth. (Luckily that gravity theory seems to be holding out. )
It's finals week for me and I've spent about 5 or 6 hours today grinding through the ACS guidebook for my organic chemistry exam on Tuesday. Still got a few more chapters to go...but I can knock it out in a couple more hours tomorrrow...and then I'll go through it again to make sure I understand exactly what the...
Hello JU, how we doing? It's been nearly a month since I took a break. Due to habits I came around from time to time to take a peak at things. Looks like JU is getting back to normal little by little. I see some new names and many old ones still around. That's good, JU is a great place and would hate to see it go away for any reason (not that there was any talks about that, just me babbling).
I look forward to coming back soon; I kinda miss the good discussions, the occasional fight...
Perhaps I have been wrongbut I feel surrounded in a throngI fail to seehow you are better than meIf you cannot attackbut from my backor try to mendwhat I try to defendyou call me outand you try to shoutyou mark me as incorrectand go to erecttowers and walls to hurt mebut all you end up doing is paying a feeof hurting everyoneand killing no-oneI would apologize for what I have donebut when I look at the gunI see that it is not I who need to repent.For you are like a serpent.You are but a hypocrit...
First you attack me. Then you insist on doing it where I don't know about it until later. You know what? Come get me, head on! You can cower and snipe, or you can come out and tell me what you don't like. I'll only change if you tell me how to. If you insist on hiding and writing hate, you don't change a thing. I'll admit I've been wrong, but I will not change if you don't have the dignity to come out and actually change me. I've seen animals with more nobility than you.
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I am going insane.
There is just no other explanation.
Today I took my digital camera, the one with all my photos on it, the one that cost a fortune, the ONLY digital we have, yeah THAT one, out for some photos of our progress on the yard. To date we have 100 tons of dirt dropped and spread. I think its way too much, but that's another blog.
So I was on the phone with my aunt and taking pictures with my digital. I can remember taking the photos, turning to walk t...
So it seems that a JU poster hascommitted libel against another poster. I have linked the article foryour reference. Erathoniel wrote:I know some of you hate me(Ock, talkin' to you here)According to the legal definitionsfound on nolo.com, libel is defined as the following:
libel
An untruthful statementabout a person, published in writing or through broadcast media, that injuresthe person's reputation or standing in the community. Because libel is a tort (a civi...
There's so much going on that I have no life. Life at Stardock is changing so rapidly. It was just a couple years ago that Stardock was an $8M company. This fiscal year ends on June 30th and it's looking like Stardock is going to break the $20M mark. If all goes well, we'll double that again next year once certain big projects get launched this Summer.
The skinning world I know and love continues to evolve. The "power user" market for skinning has pretty much peaked. That i...
To tell you the truth, I love this site. Sure there are some jerks, myself included, but all in all, where else am I gonna publish my blogs? My wiki?
So I've decided to stay, just because I feel that you guys deserve me. Some in a good way, some in a bad way. I do realize that everyone believes it's bad, but I do like some of you (Zoo, talkin' to you here), and I know some of you hate me (Ock, ASaxyGirl, others, talkin' to you here), so I'm gonna stay. Yes, I am being a jerk, no, I do...
I came to JoeUser in September of 2003. Those that have been here a similar amount of time have seen my "activity" on the site wax and wane with seeming randomness. My participation has been "random" because I haven't had any goal in mind for my blogging. I originally joined when blogging was in its infancy and just wanted a place to spew whatever was on my mind. It has served me well.
Over time, I saw that this wasn't a universal goal. Some folks actua...
OK, so I've been seeing aall of these "On such and such" bullshit articles posted one after another. Whatever.
I hauled a firetruck down to Dover AFB. The route I had to take due to the oversized load was pure bullshit and it took me an extra day to get there thanks to being stuck behind farm tractors and school buses. Ah well, I did finally make it there.
From there I went up to Northern PA and picked up a wheel loader, which is basically a bulldozer except with wheels instead...
Look, I blog primarily in chunks of about fifteen minutes, and I rarely put more than five articles out in a row. I don't really put out those many articles. I blog when I can, so when I write multiple articles, it's because I have some time to write articles and JU is working well for me.
I'm not shoving out everyone else's articles. Heck, post "Week in Review" articles if you think I am. I don't care. If it's just that I write in clusters ticking you of...
I'm done with school for the year. I'm back home for the summer, oh, this'll be fun.
See, I have this problem. I make my mother cry. I don't mean to, but...I do it anyway, all the time. See, I'm kind of sarcastic, right? And she's uber sensitive about...everything. So, no matter what I say, or how I say it, I can't go a whole day without bringing tears to her eyes. This is why I didn't want to go home. I wanted to stay at school, forever, wi...
Last night we recorded the third episode of the WinCustomize SkinCast. From what Spencer is telling me as he edits this one, it's the best so far and I think we're finally starting to get a hang for recording these. Technical issues aside, it took about 45min of recording to get the 20min of quality content. Most of the 20min cut out is just us laughing anyway.
So with three episodes in the can, here are some random thoughts on creating a podcast for a community site:
- When nothing is going on of note, it's really hard to come up with a topic
The idea behind the SkinCast is to react to what's happening in the community. Sometimes though there isn't much happening. For episode 2, as an example, there were very few new skins that week. It was a lot of logons and bootskins, but no much that we could get a discussion going about. The forums were also particularly quiet that week so there wasn't even a topic of controversy to go over.
In light of the uproar over Miley Cyrus' "scandalous" photograph ,[http://forums.joeuser.com/310120/page/1/#1719278], so vastly overrated! I’m all for protecting our children and I am not certainly in favor of them being forced to grow up before their time. In other words, doing or getting involved in anything that is not for them because they are too young and don’t need to be involved with anything that would be bad for them!
Braeden, aka Sancho Nino made a comment on the blog that I wrote regarding the scandal, it was an interesting and enlightening response which made me go ‘hmmm..” and gave me more food for thought.
Today marked the day I finally made use of Stardock's new digital distribution system Impulse. I purchased the second expansion pack to Gal Civ 2 and decided rather than using Stardock's website as I have in the past I would do it through Impulse.
All I can say was the process was as smooth as can be. Once I got my payment sorted the game was instantly recognised by Impulse and I was able to start downloading it instantly. Even the serial and relevant registration info was automatically fil...