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Comic and Rant for Tuesday, February 11, 2003
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Okay, before I begin ranting aimlessly, I’d best link to Comixpedia, a new webzine devoted to online comics. It’s a little too early to give it a review, but so far I like what I’ve seen. You might, too, so check it out.  Okay, today’s strip, like the previous one, takes place last November, which is when I should have drawn it if I wasn’t such a lazy procrastinator. The story is true (Saturday’s, not today’s - I haven’t built a Birdsnooper™, nor do I intend to). I really did buy all that stuff - plus renew my subscription to Nintendo Power via the “Super Mario Sunshine™ Bundle Pak,” which included Mario Sunshine (duh!), the Official Cheat Book, a memory card (which, appropriately enough, I now use for PSO) and a coupon for $10 off a WaveBird - and I really did promise myself that I wouldn’t buy any more video game stuff for the rest of the year. I also really did (enough italics, already!) promise myself, back when the ’Cube’s specifics were first announced, that I would get a modem when they came out, just to show my support of online gaming (where, let’s face it, Nintendo hasn’t exactly been making great strides in this country). Then, when I was in Wal-Mart, quite possible using my WaveBird coupon, I saw that the modem was out. This surprised me, as I had expected some fanfare (the next issue of NP mentioned it, but there was no pre-publicity that I could see), but whatever the case, I had made a promise, and it was less than a game would cost, so, of course, I bought it (I just can’t stop using italics, can I?). About ten minutes later, I was in Electronics Boutique and noticed that something else had also been released without fanfare from Nintendo’s monthly tool (probably because it’s “only” a Sega game)... Suffice to say, Saturday’s punchline wasn’t very exaggerated. In more recent news, I’m finally getting around to watching some of my DVD backlog, and I’ve reached one inescapable conclusion: If you have a bunch of short extras with a similar theme (trailers, for example) YOU SHOULD HAVE A “PLAY ALL” FEATURE! BTW, Jeff tipped me off that Seanbaby recently posted the unedited version of The Top 10 Naughtiest Games of All Time, which appeared, in somewhat cleaner form, in Electronic Gaming Monthly a few months ago. WARNING: Could be offensive to those easily offended! Or for that matter, anyone at all. And I thought the Maracas controllers were specialized... Moving along to a topic that in no way involves simulated butt-poking, I finally got around to setting up my AirPort Base Station. I forget how long ago I bought it, but I think it was at least two years ago. The model I have isn’t even made any longer (nor is its immediate successor, which I believe was called the “Base Station 2”). So why have I waited so long to configure it? Well, campers, when I first got it, I tried to get it to work, and either did something wrong or needed updated drivers. Whatever the case, I downloaded and printed the instruction manual. I then did nothing until Sunday (February 9, 2003, for those with no math skills), when I finally decided “Okay, that’s it! No more dilly-dallying, no more shilly-shallying! I’m gonna finally take a look at that slim manual with the type so large my parents can probably read it without their glasses and large amounts of white space written by a company known for making easy-to-use hardware and software and get that damn thing working!” So anyway, pretty much the first thing it says is “Use the AirPort Setup Assistant,” so I did, and after it updated the Base Station’s software, the bloody thing worked! Why the smegging smeg did I wait so long?! Actually, I have a couple theories why, and only a few of them involve me being a lazy procrastinator. First off, I think this was around the time that I upgraded to OS 9.2.2, which made my G4’s external fax/modem useless (I couldn’t find new drivers for it, quite likely because the manufacturer went out of business). I spent a long time trying to get it working again (including a phone call to my ISP’s tech support, where I gave him my phone number slowly, only to be told “Slow down! I’m typing these into a computer!’ - Seeing as how my current job entails not only typing numbers into computers, but also real-time dialogue, I have no sympathy at all for this jerk), and in the end (after buying a second incompatible fax/modem, which fortunately I was able to return) I gave up and bought an Apple internal modem, which is what I really should have bought when I got the G4, but didn’t because I incorrectly thought that modems would soon get faster than 56k and that it would be much more difficult to replace an internal one than an external one (not on a G4, it isn’t!). Anyway, there is actually a point to this story, and here it is: I didn’t want to go through all that again! Still, it’s working now, and as I type this I am also surfing the web, all without a physical connection (I mean to a phone line - I’ve never had a physical connection to reality. Or was that a mental connection?). Okay, I thinks that’s enough ranting for now. See you Saturday. “T’ ” is Vulcan for “ko.” |
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