http://vitriol.ntbti.com Another moron ranting Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:48:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I headed down to the Fabulous Commodore Ballroom™ to check out the guitar orgy that is Dragonforce. While I don't normally plunk down $40 for a single ticket (well, $32.50 plus extortion charges from Ticketmaster. Do NOT get me started), I felt this was a special case. I go ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2009/09/23/dragon-force-your-way-to-sitting-through-a-show/ With the addition of the lovely Mac a few weeks ago from my good friend (congrats on the new job! Like you read this!), I have the trinity of operating systems running: Kubuntu, my primary OS, the Mac running Tiger, and XP in a virtual machine for when the other ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2009/06/29/windows-7-codename-lipstick-mascared-whore/ Or a girl. Or possibly a hermaphrodite. Its really hard to tell on these things, though I am leaning more towards female now that I think about it. The VGA, DVI and ethernet all appear to be "innie" connections. For arguments sake, we'll say my G4 Powermac is a girl ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2009/05/04/its-a-boy/ You know what's awesome about DELL? No really, I'm asking because I have no goddamn idea. They sent a flyer around back in August. My beloved laptop had died, and I was in the market for a replacement. "Heck" I thought "DELL can't be THAT bad. They must certainly better than a ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2008/10/13/dell-rhymes-with-hell/ Its odd. Good cooking generally misses one or two members of a family. I bet almost no one has a grandma that wasn't a completely kick-ass cook. Mine was (well, one of them anyway. Sorry other grandma. I love you to death, but those boulder cookies you made when I ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2008/08/31/uncle-ben-touched-me-in-the-bad-place/ My trusty laptop. My old friend. We have parted ways. Though no nuptials were involved, I took a quiet vow until death-do-us-part, and I took it seriously. You were there for me those long 4-years (5 maybe? Good times pass so much quicker than bad) as I moved from Windows ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2008/07/30/time-of-death-424pm/ Spitz are a fickle mistress. They stare at you from the store shelves on every trip you make for sustinence. You've overcome her before and been clean for months. You haven't even had the urges. The ugly, ugly urges. You've beat it before and shunned her...and this is a one-time ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2008/05/19/fickle-mistress/ I spent last Easter weekend doing very traditional Easter things. Such as stuffing pieces of spun-glass fibre in between pieces of wood on a wall, then covering that with plastic. And drywalling. Not traditional you say? Well, historians now believe that Jesus (being a carpenter and all) was actually brought ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2008/04/01/flip-that-stolen-house/ It is with a certain amount of pride that I have never had a cavity. In my whole life, not a single one. I'm also proud I have all my vestigial pieces (well, okay, not the tail as thats only during embryonic development. But how cool would THAT be) ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2008/04/01/joys-of-dentistry/ Last evening around dinner time, I was visited by the perennial pain-in-ass people known as the the Jehovahs Witnesses. They usually come on Saturday afternoons, but I guess conversion have been falling in this 3rd quarter, so the outreach program has been ramped up. "Goal oriented" are words I would ... http://vitriol.ntbti.com/2008/02/20/wanna-see-my-watchtower/