Father’s Day Mug
Today I had breakfast with my son at his daycare. It was interesting to watch him interact with the other kids. I’m so happy he gets along with them so well. Part of the breakfast was the teacher giving me a mug Kiarnan had made the day before. It’s a plastic mug with a paper insert. On the paper is some very abstract finger painting swirls that I really like. It’s a combination of purple, blue and a pinkish-purple color. I like how it turned out quite a bit. In the coffee mug was a slip of paper with the following printed on it:
“My Father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
The paper brought tears to my eyes, and I quickly blinked them back as I didn’t want the other dads to see. Yeah. I was a little embarrassed by the sudden emotional surge. I guess it’s because my dad didn’t live a life worth watching, and I’ve promised to not to do that to Kiernan. I’m not a great man by any means, but I do my best to live in a manner that Kiernan can be proud of when he’s old enough to know what’s really going on.
Here’s to hoping and praying I can pull off such a tall order.
S9Y Gone
Posted by Beosig in Technology on June 18th, 2009
Serendipity (S9Y) is going away on my site. I’m removing it forever because I have migrated everything to WordPress and I’m very very happy with the results.
S9Y served me well over the long years this blog has been around, but it’s anti-spam features are, quite honestly, lacking and poor. WordPress has rocked in this area, so I’m sticking with it.
Goodbye, S9Y.
WordPress Is Up
… and I’ve migrated from Serendipity to WordPress with zero loss of data (other than comments on some old posts, big deal.) It was probably done in record time. I think it took me all of 20 minutes to get the entire process done from the time I downloaded the WordPress tarball to the time I typed this.
I’m hoping to get some plugins installed (a theme is already up) to prevent spam and maybe add some features. We’ll see how it goes. Maybe now that I have a new interface to work with, I’ll start posting a little more often.
An Open Letter to Gaming Store Employees
If a potential customer walks in your store to do nothing more than browse and maybe buy something, don’t ambush them with stories of yore. We don’t care about your favorite RPG unless you’re trying to sell us a copy. If you’re talking about an out of print book, then don’t hype it up. It just makes us want to walk out and spend our time in the nearest used RPG book store to try to find what you’re talking about.
This is especially true if it’s around noon-time. This means I’m in your store during my lunch hour and I have limited time to get through my browsing/purchasing.
Case in point: I was in a FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store) a few days ago to look and see if anything new came out. I came across a copy of Twilight 2013, and I wanted to see if they had the same background items Twilight 2000 had. It did, but they were toned down, I think. I didn’t get a good chance to read through the character creation because I ran out of time. Without enough time to read the pertinent parts of the book, I didn’t make a purchase. Why didn’t I have time to make a purchase? Because I was ambushed in the corner of the store by an employee who just had to tell me about his favorite out of print RPG. sigh He even went on to detail the races, the combat system, his favorite three characters, and some back story about the author of the RPG.
Had I not been trapped by this over-eager employee, the store probably would have made a $40 sale that day. Their loss.
Learning Ruby
Posted by Beosig in Technology on April 21st, 2009
For some reason, I’ve picked up a Ruby book (I had a free book coming to me from a local tech book store.)
I’ve been reading through it, and I’ve gotten up to page 80. Ruby is a slick little language, and I can see why it’s so popular. After I’m through some of the more complex concepts in the language, I may see about rewriting some of my existing applications in Ruby… Just for the fun of it.
We’ll see how it goes.
OSCON 2009
Posted by Beosig in OSCON 2009 on April 14th, 2009
I’m heading back to OSCON this year. Woo Hoo!
This is the 3rd year in a row my wonderful employer has agreed to send me to the wonderful conference where I learn wonderful things. Isn’t the breadth of my vocabulary wonderful today?
An Open Letter to Trackback Spammers
Posted by Beosig in Uncategorized on February 19th, 2009
Your trackbacks are failing. They have been for quite some time. You’re just annoying me ever so slightly with your attempts to hawk your wares to my non-existent reader base. I hardly ever want to post here any more because you’ve pretty sucked the life from my blogging experience. Thank you for that.
Maybe I’ll start posting again if the spammers will take their crap and go elsewhere.
Then again, I may just shutdown this domain and be done with it.
Graduated
BTW: I graduated from college a week ago. I’ve just been too damn busy to tell much of anyone about it. I’ve also been too busy to tell anyone much of anything here on the blog. Maybe that’ll change in the future, but I doubt it will be anytime soon.
Quarantine
Posted by Beosig in Uncategorized on October 10th, 2008
Here’s what I had to say on IMDB regarding this movie:
This movie should be quarantined from the general populace. It’s not worth wasting your time going to see. The “first person” camera work is intentionally shoddy in an in-your-face kind of way, which cheapens the effect. No professional camera man would go out of focus that many times.
Another problem with the movie is that it is only 90 minutes in length, and I walked out exactly at the 30 minute mark. The movie was pure boredom and full of predictable dialogue the entire time. I was afraid the scary parts would be the same (this is the only fear I felt the entire time) so I walked out.
Sure, maybe I missed the good parts, but I paid for 90 minutes of quality, not 60 minutes. It wasn’t worth my money, and probably isn’t worth yours either.
To comment on the rest of the 2008 movie season… It’s been utter crap so far. There have been some gems in the steaming pile, but they’ve been rare. As a matter of fact, the only movies I’ve seen so far this year that I’ve loved (or mostly loved) from start to finish were Cloverfield, Untraceable, Hancock, Death Race, Eagle Eye, and Iron Man.
I’m just hoping Kevin Smith rescues us in three weeks with a great comedy. I hope Zack and Miri Make a Porno is the normal quality humor Smith can crank out at will. Strange thing is, I’ve only see the web trailers and a TV trailer for the movie… Yep. TV. Kevin Smith on TV. How very strange….
OSCON Tattoo Pics
Posted by Beosig in OSCON 2008 on August 15th, 2008
I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to get these up here. It’s been crazy since OSCON ended. Here are some links to photos of the tattoos as they were being done.