Losing Ideas, Slow week, People

Okay, so I’m sitting here on my bed at 12:40am getting ready to post on my website, and I’ve realized that I can remember only a few of the vastly exciting and interesting things that I was going to post. I don’t know if it’s my lifestyle, my diet, my schedule or just the way in which this black-smoke puffing brain of mine works, but for the life of me I can’t remember most of the cool things. And there are a lot. Like A LOT. I think I’ll start a list. I got a call from Jordan Weil today. He left me a voicemail, which I did not receive until late in the night, and I have thus not called him back. He says he’ll be in the springs tomorrow (!?). Why in the *fuck* he would call *me*, I have zero idea. Not even a smidgeon. I must call him and schedule time to see him. Somehow. Ahh, Jordan … maybe we’ll get a beer. Hey, I’m free Saturday night … that’s actually a great idea. This work week has been brutal. Not brutal in how much labor has been exacted from my body, but the total opposite. I feel like I’ve been fighting to just keep my head above water – not but surely not making any progress towards land. It is wearisome and maddening. I think I’ll make some goals and attempt to accomplish them next week. I think it’s the lack of accomplishment that’s getting me down. The same lack of accomplishment persists at the store. Maybe it’s the weather. It’s been a week of getting by, which is very bad for my fledgling baby. We’re having a big lockin 12/20 – [L=http://cos.everlan.com]http://cos.everlan.com[/L] I spoke to Matt Byrne after he apparently freaked out Emily. He seems much less crazed. In school, has a job, yada yada. However, he went nuts on me and told me “shut the hell up” and I told him to grow up and the conversation ended. Only mildly related, Emily unblocked me, saying that she no longer has the energy to continue her bitterness. My response: “WTF? Why with the bitterness?” I’m a pretty nice guy and I (selectively?) recall only being peaches and cream to her since we met forever ago. hmm … Janelle came home from Italy 2.5 days ago and is apparently still unpacking. Must schedule time for seeing her as well. Entirely unrelated, there is news brewing at home. More about that as it develops. Also, Yay for having frozen pipes! I was talking to Sammi tonight (have to put in something about Sammi in ever post, it seems), and mentioned Jordan and the perplexing “call randal” scenario and we have this little banter: >>> [b]rand0m:[/b] now why in the hell he’d call me I have no idea. <<< [b]Sammi:[/b] because you are the colorado springs constant >>> [b]rand0m:[/b] that is sad. >>> [b]rand0m:[/b] ๐Ÿ™ >>> [b]rand0m:[/b] nice, sure. >>> [b]rand0m:[/b] but sad. oy. <<< [b]Sammi:[/b] it's nice for the rest of us. coming home and feel out of touch with everyone in colorado springs? get in touch with randal. he'll know what's up. sorry if it makes you feel... i don't know? what's sad about it? >>> [b]rand0m:[/b] makes me feel like the small town guy who never goes anywhere with life. which is … well, depressing for one, but it’s totally the opposite of what I [i]want[/i] to be. *Shudders* ——————– Decided to look at some numbers and found these interesting stats. Since 1/1/2003 12:47:24 AM (Thinking I cleared the logs?): 310,783 hits to http://rand0m.org/images/bimmer 148,974 hits to normal rand0m.org pages. In those 345 days, that averages out to: Just think, every 3 minutes, 24/7, someone reads rand0m.org. But Softcore Porn generates more than twice that. Super.

2003-12-12 08:13:47 – Neth
The last time I saw Jordan, we were in Chicago after mysteriously managing to leave on the same Greyhound bus to Chicago. That was a good trip, primarily because we knew each other, and didn’t have to go the entire way without anybody to talk to. Man. It’d be cool to see him. Anyway, I am going to the Return of the King on midnite tween tuesday and wednesday, at the cinemark out east. Any one else up for it? It’s 3:20 BEFORE the previews.
2003-12-12 16:00:47 – The DIsco Nova
Lol, Colorado Springs is not a small town.
2003-12-12 18:07:20 – Master Ha-reed
Its got much more of a small town feel to it – due to the culture and values of the majority that live there. Contrast this with somewhere like Boulder – which even if it was 50 more miles away from Denver would still have that "we’re Boulder – watch us be hip white environmentalist yuppies. yeah baby", which in fairness, is still better than "we’re Colorado Springs – watch us be unhip white mostly Christian yuppies. praise Jesus."
2003-12-12 20:53:17 – Evil Bad Man
I shudder to think of the walmart hit count… I have a pirate ship.
2003-12-12 20:58:37 – pinky
PRAISE JESUS.
2003-12-13 12:46:55 – The Disco Nova
Hail Satan!
2003-12-13 14:28:56 – Master Ha-reed
You know Randal, the gaming for "A’s" promotion might come back to bite you in the ass. The percentage of gamers who are also nerds is pretty high. Then again, if it nets you just one regular customer it might be worth it.
2003-12-13 14:47:01 – rand0m
That is not the primary reason we are doing it – it’s mostly an attempt to please the PHS administration.
2003-12-13 17:10:05 – Master Ha-reed
Then wouldnt it be smarter to do Renaissance card shit? That also gets you free advertising in places.
2003-12-13 17:24:31 – WC
I am so glad Boulder has a *ton* of pot in it. ‘cuz I live close and ‘moke is "yay!"
2003-12-13 18:08:34 – Master Ha-reed
Cheyenne Arapaho hall is supposedly on the Top 10 list of easiest places in the country to get pot according to High Times.
2003-12-13 19:13:11 – rand0m
We did look into that, and renaissance sponsorship happens in the summer (fall semester), and then again in mid-September (spring semester). Unfortunatley, we missed both of those and will have to wait until the 2004 fall semester before we can get in on it.

Thanksgiving, Lockin, General Ease/Unease

So Thanksgiving was on Thursday. As was Keen’s birthday. Before we actually got to Thursday, though, we went out to Tony’s on Wednesday night and enjoyed some brews. We met this nice woman named June (?), who although not 21-23, was smart and hot. That was cool. So we got a little buzzed, went home, and passed out until Thursday, noonish. That was so nice. You have no idea. Went to my parents place and got to enjoy a lot of turkey, a lot of casserole, and a lot of pie. Mmm, home cooked food. I hadn’t had any in so long that I nearly forgot what it tastes like. My sister and my bother fight like cats, seeing who can claw the most fur off in the least amount of words. It’s humorous, but gets old really quickly. It didn’t seem like the food-spread was as big as usual, though. All in all, it was a rather enjoyable day – lots of time talking … which I’ll write about in a bit. We threw a lockin on Friday night. And Saturday night. I was off Friday night so I could attend James’ party, which did not happen. I’m still really fucking pissed about that, you bitch. I took time off and inflicted vast amounts of stress onto myself to make sure that I could go, and 3 hours before it’s supposed to happen, I find out that it’s off until next Friday – precisely when I can’t come. I’m mad. Still. Argh. Anyway, the Lockin on Friday night went pretty well. I slept. Then I got to work around 9:30am on Saturday. And didn’t leave until ~9:45am on Sunday. It was long. Too long. Although the lockins went really well, I am unsure if I’ll be doing the whole 24-hour shift thing ever again; I can still feel the exhaustion now, even after getting sleep (never enough). I got an IM from Janelle tonight saying that she’d be home in a week. I don’t know what to say about that, but it was nice that she thought of me. I thought Tore was here for Thanksgiving, but I didn’t see nor hear anything from him. Either he didn’t come, or he has other priorities. No biggie. On that same vein, issues persist with Steve. He is still mega pissed. He came by to pick up his Call of Duty CD and I got the total cold shoulder. I had figured that this would have blown over by now, but apparently it has not. There isn’t shit I can do, either, because it’s his grudge. That sucks. It freaked me out the other day. I was at the store, talking with Keen about Japanese culture, and I very much regurgitated the things my mother said on Thanksgiving. I wanted to rip my tongue out with a pair of meat tongs to cleanse myself of such an attrocity. And to think that I’d kinda locked away that 18-year-long chunk of my life. It seems like I’m losing people. Like people are slowly drifting out of my life and I’m not stopping it from happening. And by not stopping it, I’m helping it. I feel that way about nearly everyone, except for the few people that I associate with on a daily basis. It’s very, very frightening. Cowboy up and chalk it up to life, or hang on for dear life and don’t let people slide? Toughy. [b]Update[/b] – Just because I have them laying around, here is Playboy’s December 2003 Women of Wal-Mart spread (not work safe) : [L=http://rand0m.org/images/walmart]http://rand0m.org/images/walmart[/L]

2003-12-02 05:32:16 – reverend
dude.. that first chick works at walmart here? Damn… i’m going to walmart more often!
2003-12-02 13:44:46 – Master Ha-reed
Care to elaborate on your comments on Japanese culture? And I think that "Women of Wal-Mart" thing is bullshit. With the exception of that Katie girl (because she’s not that great), I’ve never seen anyone that good-looking at Walmart. Ever. And I’ve been to Walmarts in 3 states.
2003-12-02 14:32:39 – The Disco Nova
Dude again, I’m sorry, I forgot to tell you. I don’t usually apologize more than once for something. If I can make it up to you, let me know.
2003-12-02 16:59:53 – rand0m
They are some hotty wal-mart people in Texas. Mostly because the huge majority of girls there are hot. IMO, of course. As for the Japanese thing, it was about how our cultures are different when it comes down to morals/ethics/right/wrong. Here in the West, things are (generally) clearly defined as Right or Wrong, and Good and Bad. Yay for Stereotypes and Judging! My mother makes the argument that in Japan, there is no "right or wrong" per se, but a lot more of shame & honor – which are nearly absent qualities here in America.
2003-12-02 19:53:24 – Master Ha-reed
From what I know about Japan (and this has been confirmed by people who have been there), your mother is generally right. There is a right and a wrong, but blame is shared more among perpetrator and victim – no one is ever totally in the right. For example, if your car was stolen, the guy who stole it would be in the wrong too, but you would also be in the wrong for making it possible for your car to be stolen (by parking it in a bad area, or leaving it unlocked, or not putting a car alarm, or … etc). On the honor thing – thats true at least with traditional culture, but is less prevalant among younger, more Western-influenced generations.
2003-12-03 17:16:38 – Emrikol
Is it just me, or are there three pictures that aren’t working for Katie in the Wal-Mart spread…and when is it McDonald’s turn for Plaboy? ๐Ÿ˜‰
2003-12-03 20:08:10 – Netheus
yeah, I kinda started to feel the same way (about friends drifting off) so I called Carolyn, she is graduating this spring and said she is going to come out here afterwards. Still has no idea what she is going to do with a fine arts degree (McManager? ๐Ÿ˜› ). sez she is going to Germany for x-mas. I wish I was graduating some time in the next two years…
2003-12-05 20:37:14 – Netheus
do I kill conversations, or what? Damn.
2003-12-06 21:20:03 – WC
No.. it’s because [u]nobody[/u] ever posts back to what other say. Sure they read the post but they never respond. BASTARDS! ok so … no you didn’t kill the conversation.
2003-12-08 08:44:35 – Manuel
Just would like to say that we still read your weblog all the way out here in Boston, as an everyday office enlightener, so no Randal, you are not forgotten. Boons and plenty on yo ass, MoFo.
2003-12-08 09:45:45 – The Disco Nova
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
2003-12-08 10:23:44 – rand0m
Please god, shoot me now.
2003-12-08 19:17:56 – Siaokh
Shoot you… Why? With what? Many varibles here Randal… ENLIGHTEN US! *Punch* -Tim
2003-12-08 19:34:12 – Master Ha-reed
I cannot believe I just wasted two minutes of my life watching that. I hate you James.
2003-12-09 21:49:23 – fourdegrees
I know what you mean about people slipping away over time. It’s one of the worst things to have occur to you. And no need to go shooting yourself over badgers. You should check out some of the other toons on that site. Some funny, some just disturbing. Oh, and that last girl’s breast are fake.
2003-12-09 23:18:59 – PasserBy
I don’t think anyone cares if the boobs are fake. tits are tits. and besides, it made for some great entertainment when my room mate and I convinced some drunk guys that they’d enjoy walmart chicks more than online pictionary = ]
2003-12-10 03:55:29 – reverend
great… now that f*n badger song will be stuck in my head for days.
2003-12-10 16:07:16 – garfunkalow
well.. at least you finally got some well deserved sleep out of the weekend!
2004-11-30 12:53:06 – Union4WalMart
Hey all, how yawl doing, Good I hope. So for all my fellow associates out there that work for walmart, I’ll get straight to the point. If you don’t like walmart coercing you, breaking your rights, following you around, etc…. busting your chops drop me a line or visit www.UFCW.org and speak with one of the Union Reps. tell em what’s going on, and start filing your charges, don’t just sign union cards, it means nothing to the NLRB, File your Charges!.
2004-11-30 13:05:40 – Union4WalMart
If yawl need to contact me: MetalDrummer35@aol.com or etaylor@ufcw1996.org Thanx and have a Great Day.

observations, mtv and some more

Okay, so I go to Chipotle very often. Probably 3-5 times a week, depending on how I feel. And I picked up this flyer they had the other day, where if you bought one of their burritos, you could get free admittance to a local art show. The flyer started with something like “Elegant Burritos, Fine Art”, which is unremarkable, but ended with the line “Go get your art on!”, exclamation and all. I was thinking “wow”. Just thinking that a company would be witty / cliche-ee / cheesy / that hip really took me back. I really like it though … they really don’t take themselves seriously at all which makes me happy. And then the other day I went to McDonald’s. Normally I would never go there, as I am a die hard Carl’s Jr. / Wendy’s fan, but I was at the mall, had just gotten a haircut after enjoying the shitty weather, but before waiting an hour and a half for service- which is a whole story in itself – and I got a hamburger and some nugs. Now, I’m a huge fan of nugs. I luuvv me some nugs. But these nuggets were rediculously fake. As was the hamburger. What the fuck do they make these things out of? Surely not out of actual chicken and grain and beef. I ate one nug, and was done. I took one bite of the burger, and was done. That shit was *gross*. McDonald’s officially gets a thumbs down. The white stripes piss me off. God. Welcome back to the 80s. With an extra dose of “are they siblings? Married? WTF is *WRONG* with that guy!?” thrown in for good measure. I normally don’t watch TV at all, but today I decided to watch some MTV of all things, and they were on. Man. Quality = sinking. So I’m doing well, minus a couple things. I’ll go through those first, then tell you how fine of a life I am leading. The first thing that is on the top of my mind is Steve (steve-o / grooveman) Chapin. He and I are great friends, and I totally screwed him and a bunch of his friends last weekend. We had a lockin that night, and he and a bunch of guys were coming down from Denver, and had told me this a while before. I told him that he was on the list. I guess I did not tell him that I did not *save* them seats, as they weren’t prepaid or anything, and it was a packed lockin. Short story is that he called before leaving Denver, and I had the pleasure of telling him that his spaces were already filled. God I feel terrible. I really go out of my way to not shaft my friends. Poke fun, piss off, abuse and generally agitate my friends? Absolutely. Shaft, screw, or short change? Never. And I did. I feel pretty bad about it. I mean, sure, I can totally rationalize the situation down to dollars and cents and business, but you know, that’s really callous – and I’m a person, not a calculator. So, instead of fluffing the blame off onto miscommunication and just relying on the numbers in defense, I’m going to feel bad. And boy, I sure do. Sorry Steve :-/ Ian Garfunkalow and his crew … wait, posted about that in the last post. Wow, long time between updates. Oops. I’ve read a lot of books recently. Recently meaning like 6 months. I’ve read Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Atlas Shrugged (2nd time), Runaway Jury, Unbearable Lightness of Being (2nd time), Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Microsoft: Reflections, 4th Perimeter, Politika and a couple others I’m sure I’m forgetting. Actually, that’s not that many books. Hmm. Regardless, I would like to re-read the Tim O’Brian book “The Things They Carried”, simply because Nick has read it, and it was the first book to introduce me to the word “Cooz”. I really like Blink 182. Not the music so much as the guys in the band. I watched this sorta-documentary thing about them and they’re a bunch of cool guys. The drummer sorta freaks me out, but the other two guys are not only great musicians, but also really smart. I didn’t expect that at all. But you know, I’m wrong a lot. Also, Linkin Park’s “Numb” gets played *way* too much. It’s a decent song – “All I Want to do is be more like me and less like you” and all – and the video is actually pretty good, but 2x an hour is too much. Oh wait, this is MTV. Have you ever been sitting there online, when you glance at your buddy list – as you compulsively do once a minute or so – and see somebody you really like be online? Oh, yes, they’re online, but of course they don’t talk to you because they’re busy / important / not there / whatever. However, they are there. Comfortingly there, like a little sign that “Hey, I’m not dead. I’m just too busy / important / whatever, but I am still alive and kicking. Here is my witty away message or what have you”. I don’t know why, but I very much like being able to see that particular people 1. Haven’t blocked me *cough*EMILY*cough* and that 2. They’re still around, somehow. Tore is a good example of this, as is Sammi, and a couple other folks. Me, though, I’m nearly always online, so I doubt anybody gets such a thrill from seeing me on their buddy list. So back to where I was, I am okay. The business is doing super – we’re nearly paying the bills! From there, it’s only a matter of years before we can draw paychecks! Yay, Capitalism! We’re throwing a huge lockin next weekend, so I’m sorta prepping this week by sleeping a lot – probably going to do the whole don’t sleep for three days thing. (Mona Lisa’s Smile looks like a good movie). HPI is doing well, but is more stressful than the store and I don’t know why – I haven’t given it a lot of thought, as stress is a way of life, but I think I will. The weather has been bad of late, and although I really like my winter wardrobe, the cold really sucks. Oh, and I’m going to my parent’s place with Keen for Thanksgiving. And I made a casserole tonight, but I sorta burnt the cheese layer on top. So it’s yummy, but doesn’t look too appetizing. Sounds about like everything else right now – doesn’t *look* too good, but underneath it all it’s pretty good nonetheless.

2003-11-24 16:33:22 – Netheus
It makes me happy when I see you on-line. It’s like going through your phonebook from high school and seeing the numbers of old friends, wondering if they are still at all connected to that phone line, but instead of wondering ifthat handle is still theirs, you know it is, and you can talk to them whenever you see it on. So I always know there is someone to talk to. It’s a GOOD thing. And someone to ask Mormon related questions. Did you see last weeks South Park?
2003-11-24 17:40:08 – The Disco Nova
I get wood everytime I see you online Randalll. And that was a great south park. I never realized Mormon’s were quite THAT silly.
2003-11-25 11:32:33 – pinky
you talk about people, just not in the mean "i want to rip out their eyes, fill the sockets with vodka and drink from their skulls way". I think that’s what makes me unique. hehehe. and, you talk about girls a lot. ๐Ÿ™‚ oh yeah, for you folks who know me, you should go to my [L=http://pinklaura.blogspot.com]busted blog[/L]. randal, feel free to delete that last sentence if i’m not allowed to plug myself, but i’m sure everyone misses me ๐Ÿ˜‰ and wants to know how i’m doing…right? RIGHT!?!?!?!?!
2003-11-25 12:25:44 – rand0m
I’m [L=http://cos.everlan.com]all[/L] [L=http://jared.seehafer.net]about[/L] [L=http://www.kottke.org]plugging[/L] [L=http://pinklaura.blogspot.com]websites[/L].
2003-11-25 16:36:18 – Master Ha-reed
Who is the guy in the third link?
2003-11-26 15:05:17 – nick
Just thought I’d mention that, not only did O’Brien introduce you to the word cooze (BTW, you forgot the ‘e’), but he probably introduced it to the unsuspecting world: [I]The story ends with a reflection of what usually happens after the narrator tells this story: "Someone will come up to me afterward and say she liked it. It’s always a woman. Usually it’s an older woman of kindly temperament and humane politics. …Sometimes, even, there are little tears. What I should do, she’ll say, is put it all behind me. Find new stories to tell. I won’t say it, but I’ll think it … you dumb cooze. Because she wasn’t listening.’ Like the story itself, cooze is an invented word, meant to sound like an obscenity. After the reading, which many in the audience took to be a lecture, and therefore "true," O’Brien was confronted with a number of angry listeners, mainly women, outraged at what they perceived as his callous arrogance toward those sweet, sympathetic women. But it was fiction, he explained. It never happened. The narrator, not the author, called the woman a "cooze." O’Brien was trying to make a point. When the offended parties understood the story was fiction, they relented – now they could appreciate the tale without compromising their own ethical standards.[/I] [L=http://nick.aesirdynasty.com]as long as we are plugging sites[/L]
2003-11-26 18:24:28 – rand0m
Cooze: [L=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cooze]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cooze[/L]
2003-11-27 12:15:46 – WC
whoa they defined rand0m on the previous link [i]It’s all about this cooze who’s a regular fuck machine. I’m talking, morning, day,night, afternoon, Dick, dick,dick, dick, dick,dick, dick, dick, dick. [/i]
2003-11-27 12:16:40 – WC
hehehehe …j/k

I actually went out!

Okay, so last night was the 2nd [L=http://cos.everlan.com]EverLAN Gaming Center[/L] Lockin. It was packed before it even started. Unfortunately, there was a lot of tension amongst a lot of people, named [SOB] (which is comprised of my good friend steve and a bunch of denver pals ๐Ÿ™ ), team [RP] and and a whole shitload of regulars who did not prepay. It’s a shame that we can only let 23 people in to the lockin – if we could have 40 PCs, I’m sure we would have filled them all. It’s not viable to pick up 20 more computers though – that’s a lot of bucks. So because of that, a lot of good guys and good friends got the shaft. That sucks. On the other hand, we made enough money to pay for rent. That’s good. Tough trade off. Corey offered to work the lockin last night and I totally obliged – I needed a night off! Ian was in from Alamosa, along with Ben from Denver. Those two, plus myself, Keen and for a little bit Tony, all went out and had some brews. First stop was Old Chicago, where I finally broke 20 beers and got my 10% off deal (w0ot), then it was off to Jack Quinn’s for a Hefe and some hot-chick-watching. That was good, minus the one chick who had the thousand-mile-stare and ended up puking on the sidewalk behind us. We then headed over to a freezing cold 15C and enjoyed some yummylicious martinis. They have the best martinis in town — but I have a really narrow scope of where to get martinis, so please advise if you know of anywhere else. Then we went home and passed out. Blessed sleep. Speaking of sleep, I slept like a baby and woke up refreshed! That’s happened twice in the past week! “WHAT!?” You say? “Randal is not tired 100% of the time!?” I know, I can see the disbelief. The store has totally turned a corner and we are absolutely ramping up — we can almost pay the bills! Because of this, I sleep better. Like, 5-7 hours a night, very little of which is filled with fretful, stress-induced tossing, turning and general unrest. It’s great waking up and not feeling really tired. For breakfast, Ian and Ben wanted to go out … it seems like they conned EDub into it too, and I followed suit shortly thereafter. We went over to King’s Chef, which is the best damn breakfast place / greasy spoon in Colorado Springs, bar none. It was super. And yummy. And filling. And just right. And then Ben, Ian and edub went home, because the weekend is nearly over. It was good seeing those guys again ๐Ÿ™‚ So here I am at work, typing away. I have some PC heat issues to fix, along with stupid Steam to deal with. POS. argh. Oh, and this is totally a side note to Sammi, right on the front page ๐Ÿ˜‰ I think you’re super, although wildly unattainable. You live like 27,000 miles away, how do I deal with that!? I can’t! You’re also a lot smarter than the average bear, and hence and have hundreds of highly intelligent, going-places and doing-things men clawing over each other to pour your coffee! I can’t compete with that! So, I’ll continue to dream and look for alternatives. You can still come here and read my drivel if you want, even if it’s under the guise of “missing home”. Ha! We all know it’s just pity – you know, like the King/Queen taking time out of their oh-so-busy schedules of golf, brunch and high-falutent conversation to address the unwashed masses ๐Ÿ˜‰

2003-11-16 15:54:06 – WC
1) I feel bad I couldn’t make it up to see Ian. :-/ Ohh well. 2) King Chef == the win! 3) Overcrowded Lockin and friends getting the shaft == bad 4) Paying the bills because of it == good (people should prepay and garauntee a seat (you need a page on cos.everlan to do this)) 5) I am glad you are sleeping better randal, cuz there for awhile when the store first opened you looked like shit(tm). 6) Media Play has a sale that ends today with certain DVDs 2 for $20 bux. I picked up Ronin, Sniper, and Predator 1 & 2. Seemed like a good deal but I dunno with Meda Plays jacked up prices its hard to swallow. 7) ./whois edub? 8) Racheal is sick. I feel bad for her. She has to work and goto school all the time and that doesn’t make her feel better about being sick, and that sucks because I can’t do anything except just "be there". 9) wo0t! Another post!
2003-11-16 16:31:30 – Master Ha-reed
Where is King’s Chef?
2003-11-16 17:07:14 – rand0m
A prepay online thingydoo is sorta en route. Having a problem with it, as we don’t have any really good options: Paypal is hella expensive (like 10% or something), and we do not want to foot the bill for our bank to do online CC transactions … so we sort of up a creek without a paddle. Edub is Ian’s friend from Alamosa – he participated in the whatever-event they were here for w/ Ian. King’s Chef is located between Nevada and Tejon on Costilla, just a hair south of downtown. Their QwestDex entry lists them as being in Mobile, Alabama? Odd. But the food is super if you’re into gut-wrenching, hangover-curing stuff.
2003-11-17 00:30:32 – pinky
wow. i come to the site and there’s two new updates for me to read. yay! bye.
2003-11-17 09:27:07 – rand0m
That’s what you get for not being faithful ๐Ÿ˜‰
2003-11-17 19:30:05 – pinky
first he bitches that we come to his site too much and now that i’m not being faithful. i’m so confused ๐Ÿ™‚
2003-11-19 08:45:10 – Netheus
I wish I knew how to play computer games….
2003-11-21 10:05:39 – WC
… me too …

Adding News

So the general gist is that my life is a string of days that all run together in a haze of work work work, with the occasional attempt at sleeping more than 5 hours a night. Blah blah blah pitty party for me, blah blah blah. The store is going really well. Two mondays ago, the store made a total turn around in progress. We ran a lockin the weekend prior, and ever since, things have just been booming. We’re full+ during lunch hours, but it slacks off to nearly nothing after 5pm. That sure sucks, because I’m the post-5 guy, but I have to console my self with the fact that we aren’t going out of business due to our strong daytime. Despite that, we have an odd reboot while playing issue that has me stumped. EverLAN was this last weekend. It was really long, but a really good time. It was just huge, the biggest EverLAN yet. You can read all about it at http://www.everlan.net. I am really impressed with my roommate Matt Keen. He’s a stand up guy and has been absolutely invaluable in making the store go. He also puts up with my near-incessant bitching / whining / demands, all without a word. Because of that, we’re going to do whatever we can to keep him around. <3 keen. My truck lost a drive shaft bolt on Monday night around midnight. I drove her home, but am waiting for my $1.44 each bolts to arrive at Toyota so I can pick them up. Other than that, no other issues at all. Yea, incredible that my POS truck still works, huh? I was at Old Chicago the other night and got to enjoy see that not only is the food good and the beer excellent, it’s also a huge drug hotspot! If you’re looking for some drugs, you absolutely need to go to Old C’s, cuz they’ll hook you up. Our wait totally scored some weed while we were waiting for our food, and then sorta pranced around all happy about it. I’d like to put in a section about Girls, but I have even less to say here than about any other section. I haven’t spent any time with any girl at all, which is unfortunate, but you know, when you’re hella busy, that’s breaks. I guess I’ll just keep dreaming about Sammi ๐Ÿ˜‰ It’s almost 2am, I’ll post something more indepth tomorrow as it crosses my mind.

2003-11-13 01:28:25 – WC
NEWZZZz!! NOWwW!!!!
2003-11-13 01:38:43 – WC
Pinky: Looked this up for you: "is"- Is, v. i. [AS. is; akin to G. & Goth. ist, L. est, Gr. ?, Skr. asti. [root]9. Cf. Am, Entity, Essence, Absent.] The third person singular of the substantive verb be, in the indicative mood, present tense; as, he is; he is a man. See Be. [b]^ That is the definition of ‘is'[/b] OK this really pissed me off making me want an ATI even more. Ok get this. nVidia who [u]used[/u] to make really good video cards and drivers for them released some shitty drivers recently. I updated them thinking everything was fine and went to go play Desert Combat only to find me missing textures, seeing through walls, crashing into invisible mountains, see stuff that really isn’t there (like walking through walls). Kinda irritated me since I had to deal with it the entire time at EverLAN, since it only affects DC .5b. Fuck! So reading the forums tonight I found the only fix is to wait for the nVidia fucks to fix their broke ass shit. grr. I hope randal has something interesting to say ๐Ÿ˜‰ he only has a month of updates to do :-D. I’m out.
2003-11-13 01:49:16 – Master Ha-reed
Now the real question, is what does "be" mean?
2003-11-13 09:33:16 – GrooveMan
News, Real News… OH YEAH!!! Randy I have [SOB]BigHead, [SOB]GrapeApe, [SOB]FireHawk and Me [SOB]GrooveMan coming to the lock in this weekend. Prepare to get PWNED. I may be able to get one more person to come as well, maybe [SOB]Spaz or -=hpsf=- Pheonix. BTW how in the world do you reserve a spot for the Lock-In? Your site tells you to reserve a seat however there isn’t a link or anything. You should make one w/ a seating chart or something, imho.
2003-11-13 13:22:13 – Netheus
You can pawn randal? How much do you get for him?
2003-11-13 14:44:22 – WC
wo0t! news!!! Last time i read this post it said "adding news, hang tight" yay!!! PWNED = OWNED & POUNDED
2003-11-13 14:59:43 – rand0m
or maybe it’s just a mistype of "owned" because P is next to O.
2003-11-14 15:42:49 – The Disco Nova
Heya GrooveMan, I will be at the lockin as well. I have been honing my 1337 C130 and bombing skills.
2003-11-14 15:52:52 – rand0m
Only because you’re not good enough to play regular BF.

Long awaited update, but still mostly worthless

Well here’s another news post. Eat eat, you damn jackals! Things to talk about in this post: Store, Betsy, Columbus Day, Grooveman, Emily/Party. This post is going to take a while, as I’m sitting at the store on IRC, AIM, MSN messenger while eating chinese and reading my book. The store is going pretty well. I am over the freaking out. I am thinking that with enough freaking out and panicing, I’ll eventually be able to see it coming and sort of dodge out of it’s treacherous claws and not totally lose my mind. That’s a pretty good skill. Had a run in with Andrew and got into a sorta pissing contest, but that worked itself out. I just wish people wouldn’t beat around the bush so much … if you have an issue, just spit it out. Not delivering it is just going to piss me off. So yes, the store is open, we are not bankrupt. We have at least a few more months to make it work. Betsy. Ahhhh, Betsy. I hadn’t seen Betsy in almost 2 1/2 weeks when I saw her last Sunday. It was nice. I don’t think she *likes* me. At all. But she does insist on having dinner sometime, even offering to come over to the store with some sort of take out. She might be interested, which is a-okay by me … only that I work like 173 hours a week and have only some select times during the weekend with which I can actually talk to people. I think she’s super, but alas, no time. Columbus Day was today. I did not get today off, as I am not a government-anything, which is sucky. However, I did get to hear people yammering on all day about how terrible c.columbus was, and honestly, that’s fucking irritating. Does everyone think the whole imperialism/slavery thing is a new discovery? Well, it’s not … I’m sure the founding fathers knew of it when they decided that columbus day should exist … it’s pretty hard to cover up slaughtering millions of people and yada yada, but somebody who has had a lot more of a hand in the history of the country than I do decided that hey, despite all that, it’s a pretty good thing that he found America, because if he hadn’t, we wouldn’t be here. So yay! for discovery! Boo for evil slavery / white men / whatever you crazy hippies Boo at! Still, Yay for discovering America! Now STFU. I was talking to Steve-o the other day and he almost had a Randal-esque breakdown as we were talking about his super-extraordinary sister. He got to the whole “what have I done with my life? I’m useless yada yada” thing that I do on a pretty regular basis, and I’ll tell you what, it scared the shit out of me. Steve is one of the people that I totally depend on to be absolutely immovable in every way. Tore is the other. These two guys are the kind of people that have an unshakable sense of self worth, and goddammit, when I see that get a little shook up I start to freak out. So please, people, don’t lose it like you do, because I’m depending on you. I sure hope to god that nobody depends on me like that ๐Ÿ˜‰ I saw Emily the other day for the first time in a looong time. I mentioned a while back that she blocked me on AIM, and she hasn’t unblocked me, still. I don’t know why. Maybe she hates me, or maybe she’s being an icey bitch. Hell, I don’t know, and I don’t even care that much. Anyway, I saw her on my way to work the other day, so I pulled over and talked to her for a minute before getting back under way. And then I saw her over at James’ party on Friday night, which was a little odd. A little bit of a shock to go from her not talking to me to seeing her twice in a week. That was okay, though. Her roommate, Lauren (?) is a fox. I’m sure that I made a complete ass of myself and have zero chance though, as that is the way that it always works out. 11:03pm, time to close the store and get the hell outta here … gonna go read my book, drink some hot cocoa and hit the rack. Fucking jackals.

2003-10-14 00:13:44 – pinky
::bad mood::I’m glad you don’t go to CU either. We don’t need anymore of you crazy conservatives up here. ::bad mood:: i’m glad to see everything is going so well for you, though!
2003-10-14 10:36:38 – WC
*zZZZZzz* *cough* *cough* What? OMG! A post! Shesh I feel asleep waiting for it. 1) Yay Store!!! 2) Meh Betsy – you know … if she doesn’t like you there are other fish in the sea. Hell if you ran out of chicks in COS then you can always move somewhere else. 3) YAY Columbus Day!! I still think Columbus day needs to be as important as 4th of July. – It is the day of discovery 4) YAY Steve-o. That guy is the shit. Even though you sold him the video card I was going to buy from you before I could get home and get you money sent via check, wire, money xfer. Ohh well GO Steve-o! 5) Boo Emily – I really hate icey bitches 6) Yay!! 11:03 – Closing Time "You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here" – Semisonic
2003-10-14 10:37:22 – wc
feel = fell*
2003-10-14 11:03:15 – Netheus
we aren’t jackals, but an advanced form of lemmings who hang on your every word.
2003-10-14 16:38:40 – Master Ha-reed
"Anymore conservatives"? In Boulder? WTF? Aside from the College Republicans, there aren’t many outspoken conservative groups at CU. The Libertarians have a pretty small following, but libertarians aren’t really "conservative", since they are conservative economically and liberal socially. That said, I think CU needs an Objectivist Club. That would rule. We could bring Yaron Brook here and he could argue for defending Israel and then we could get protested by everyone under the sun. Hehe.
2003-10-14 18:17:03 – The Disco Nova
Emily is not an Icey Bitch. You just caught her by surprise when you pulled over like that. I’m sure that you both will deal with your issues in time.
2003-10-15 16:11:07 – WC
OK !!! FireBird is hawt. Not only does it render pages REALLY fast but its intuitive. Tabbed browsing and alternative stylesheets are hot!!! You all should download it right now.
2003-10-16 13:18:30 – Siaokh
a [L=http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/]link[/L] would be helpful craig
2003-10-16 14:36:04 – Netheus
Halloween is soon. Or Samhain, or Day of the Dead Eve, whatever. Who is doing what?
2003-10-16 16:34:02 – Master Ha-reed
yeah, /me thinks its time for another Weber Street partay
2003-10-16 22:22:53 – tony
hmmmmmmm, party……
2003-10-20 11:03:07 – Girlie
stopped by store, store rocks. good job dood.
2003-10-20 21:48:51 – reverend
Did you say party? thats so weird because I’m having one this saturday at my new house. We’ll have 3 djs, 4 kegs or so, some liquor, bartender, and women that might even sleep with someone like tony! 9pm-whenever, saturday 0ct 25th, $3 for bottomless beer Located at: 431 S. Weber (NE corner of cimarron and weber) Also, you must come dressed as a nerd, thats right, everone else has pimps and hoes parties, or 80’s, well this one is for the geeks out there. ~Mike
2003-10-21 19:07:19 – Netheus
so for most of us, it’s a come as you are party….
2003-10-21 20:14:35 – rand0m
damn, that’s gotta suck for ya’ll.
2003-10-22 01:40:56 – WC
Damn too bad I can’t make it Mike. But I’ll be in the Springs on Nov1 or Oct 31-Nov1.
2003-10-29 11:04:14 – WC
So besides the stale posts from the webmaster, anyone know what is going on in the springs this weekend?
2003-10-29 11:34:45 – Master Ha-reed
Randal’s head will EXPLODE from all the stress LIVE on Pay-Per-View. Get your tickets now.
2003-10-29 15:28:58 – rand0m
Yea, it’ll be a good show. No really, what the fuck am I supposed to post? "I worked for 16 hours today. I’m glad it was 18. I still dream about totally unattainable women, and I need a drink." I would post that every day if I were to keep ya’ll updated — there is nothing new or exciting in my life, and there won’t be for a while. Maybe I should put that up as a hiatus message and take the site down for a while? Maybe it’d quiet you jackals ๐Ÿ˜‰
2003-10-29 16:07:54 – Master Ha-reed
Hmm, if you’re life’s not exciting – maybe you should make it exciting. How bout driving 50 over the speed limit everywhere you go? That’d be a start.
2003-10-30 02:44:53 – reverend
Get a puppy.
2003-10-30 10:43:52 – Master Ha-reed
Companionship and chick-magnet at the same time. You can’t go wrong!
2003-10-30 10:57:22 – rand0m
*blink blink*
2003-10-30 11:12:53 – WC
Puppies are defientely chick magnets. When I was walking Bishop down by CC was always fun. Hell we used to get girls coming to the house just for Bishop. Sometimes that leads to drinking with them and ‘escorting them to bed’.
2003-10-30 17:03:14 – reverend
hahahah.. craig is pretending like he has game… isnt that funny? hehehehehe man.. i am suck a dick
2003-10-31 13:32:06 – Netheus
yeah… get a puppy… another iota of responsibility. Maybe you need to go to a concert or a movie…
2003-11-03 11:46:20 – WC
"[i]I am suck a dick[/i]" LOL!! I bet you do.
2003-11-03 13:26:15 – Netheus
its cold
2003-11-04 15:48:25 – reverend
man.. i couldve sworn i spelled that right <— has a nasty case of foot-in-mouth-itis regardless… craig still has no game.. ๐Ÿ™‚
2003-11-04 22:23:30 – The Disco Nova
From that post it looks like you have dick-in-mouth-itis. Craig has a little game, we saw him with a tasty little 19 year old halloween.
2003-11-06 03:42:06 – WC
*uhh-hem* Craig has a lot of game. If you don’t think so you have ask that little 19 year (I think you met her Mike) old whom I have been dating for a year now. BTW Mike she could kick your ass so you better watch out. Ohh! Hey Mike show your über-l33tness and get through all 16 levels [L=http://scifi.pages.at/hackits/]here[/L]. Randal (well he is on #15) and I completed it. You should too ๐Ÿ˜‰
2003-11-06 15:03:08 – rand0m
w0ot, got it.
2003-11-07 06:46:38 – WC
w3rd!! try{ string today = System.DateTime.ToShortDateString()) if (today == "11/7/2003") tomarrow(everlan); } catch { wait(); }
2003-11-10 18:01:24 – Master Ha-reed
Wednesday will be one month since Randal’s last post. Anyone suffering withdrawal symptoms yet?
2003-11-10 18:14:24 – a nice girl
dear randal, i’ll admit it. i don’t come to your website very often. but when i do, it’s because i’m homesick and seriously crave a randal fix. so then when it’s been a month since your last post and i don’t get my new randal info, it makes me sad. i don’t care if you say that you work too much and dream about unattainable women (i.e. me), i just want to hear how you are. i miss you. love, me ps – i’m just kidding about you dreaming about me. honestly. pps – i’m not just kidding about missing you.
2003-11-11 10:11:53 – WC
Ohh I see how it is. You say your going to post on Monday, blah, blah, blah, after dude tells you at Old Chicago’s. Yeah what an empty promise that turned out to be. You could at least eplain all the yahoo the everlan created if you don’t wanna talk about your real life. I wanna hear about the kitchen. I wanna hear about how the store is going, I wanna hear about ppl you hate at the store, I wanna hear about theft and deception. Anyway I gotta eat now, breakfast burritos are here!
2003-11-12 09:38:31 – rand0m
OoOOoh, here it is Wednesday and it hasn’t been a month. OOoOoh, Owned! That is all. Will update with everything sometime today.
2003-11-12 11:51:20 – Netheus
please don’t lie to me randal… I will cry!!!!
2003-11-12 16:27:12 – Master Ha-reed
That all depends on your definitions of "month" and "hasn’t" ….. which is a really evasive way of saying "I can’t count"
2003-11-12 21:25:12 – pinky
what is the definition of "is"?

Update, Life, Tired, Store, Panic

I don’t know why it struck me just now that I should post, but here I am, posting at just after midnight with god knows what on my mind. Life in general is pretty good. MikeLee tells me that my website is a waste of the internet, and is totally surprised to hear that I still get hundreds of hits a day. Honestly, it surprises the hell of out me too. Shit, I haven’t posted in nearly 3 weeks, yet you ravens are still here, picking at the corpse of rand0m.org. I digress. Yes, life is good, minus the total lack of sleep and over abundance of work. I think Betsy (Pikes Perk) likes me, but honestly, I can’t tell through the haze of confusion that follows me everywhere I go. I haven’t played a good night of pool in forever, and the closest thing to “fun” I had was on the opening night of the store when I got totally sloshed and almost got into a fight backing up Mike. Oh yea, and I don’t sleep. I am tired. That is the byline of my life. All I do is work. From 9am until midnight+ every day. I can feel my soul slowly creeping out of my body, wishing me a fond goodbye as it wisps away into the realm of “not burdened by a shuffling husk of a man, totally beaten down by his unnerving ability to not sleep”. It really isn’t *that* bad, but it’s bad. I get 6 hours a night. Maybe. I’m aiming for 7 tonight. Please Jesus, give me 7. I come home from the store and it’s like midnight+ and I walk around the house. I don’t know why. I just pace. For like 15 minutes. Then I try to calm down with some tea and my book … but my book is at the store. Or it’s at HPI. Fuck. I guess I’ll just post here and then pace and then go to sleep. HPI. HPI is good. We hashed some things out. It’s good. Everything is moving forward — wireless, CoLos, the whole shebang. It’s neat. The Store. The Store opened up on Friday of last week. It was a nice, big hurrah of an opening and we had a few truckloads of people come through the store … although that is fine and dandy, the word is still not out. We have not made much money in our first week of business. Yes, we know that we’re not going to be millionaires our first month, but goddammit I was really hoping it would just go nuts on us. Like, just sit at the desk and take people’s money all day. Thousands of dollars a day like, you know? That is far off. Very far off. We are spamming the city with flyers trying to get people to come. But there are complications, as always. I am having a panic attack right now. Andrew and Baker came in tonight (‘nother story) to hang the EverLAN foam sign thing. It’s neat. Some dude came in while they were here and wanted to play Counter-Strike v1.6. We don’t have 1.6 because of Steam, Valve’s new “Content Distribution / Ability to take away cybercafes’ ability to make money” system. He left. But not before talking to Baker for like 20 minutes. What for? I do not know. Baker gave me shit about not using CS 1.6. I almost told him to fuck off, but decided that the more diplomatic “well, we’ll have to look into that” is a better approach. So tonight I looked into the whole Steam Licensing thing, and now I’m having a total panic attack. We’re not going to make money, ever. Big corporations like Valve and Blizzard and id are going to license us to death. Or sue the shit out of us. The money isn’t coming in. The word isn’t out. Everything is just not what I thought it would be and I’m totally freaking out. I guess that’s why I’m posting …. this is the most severe emotional hangup I’ve had (time for). But it’s purely emotional, so I can get over this. I just need some sleep. In other news, I finished off Signs By Tomorrow’s network / phone system on Sunday. It’s like sex, if sex came in the form of cat5e, jacks and punch blocks. I’m glad it doesn’t. Janelle is in Rome, Italy doing her semester abroad. I say “her semester abroad” because it seems like every intelligent, going somewhere girl that I really like out there does “their semester abroad”. Sammy did. Lilly did. Betsy did. Amy did. Janelle is. See!? It’s a trend! Anyways, her first weekend in Italy, Janelle got to experience a country-wide power outage. Don’t worry, it was only like 22 million people (smaller than our outage), because Italy is small. huzzah. This website will soon be moving to login-based system, where you will be required to have a valid username and password before being allowed to view any content. Yes, you’ll be able to signup on the web. No, it will not cost anything (laugh). Cheers!

2003-10-03 13:37:04 – tony
Some days are better than others. But if you are doing the same thing every day with no variety whatsoever, you become a mindless drone. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Prisoners can be drones, and slog it out till their release date, being a drone in the military can suck, but you can eventually leave. There are obviously good reasons to open your own store, but by working a second job to support the habit, you will question your dedication to running your own business. All the other people I’ve talked to who have been doing their own business all say the same thing, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Screw it, I don’t know what to say. You’re crazy for working 2 full-time jobs, you’re going to go crazy getting stressed out, and to top it all off, you’re not going to have any free time. Pffft! My suggestion, keep running your own business, but get a part-time job, or hook up with a consulting company, like RHIC.
2003-10-03 18:05:58 – WC
Remember you can always sell Matt’s body on Nevada for money, become a full time drug dealer and use Tony as your Meth consultant, and Mike Lee as your Distributor. ๐Ÿ˜‰
2003-10-03 23:35:27 – Siaokh
GRRRrRRR! 1) you’re concerned someone is stalking you, and if they are, you should feel flattered, and put some bogus info up to see if they nibble at it 2) YOU’RE ALREADY TRACKING US BY PAGE VIEWS BY IP… you dont need no steenking login system ๐Ÿ™ In other news the history channel r0x. All these technology / military shows just plain rock. That and your ravens demand pictures. of ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. WEBCAMS in teh CAFE. ok it’s late. I’m done being a jackass for the evening (or am i). *punch* -Tim
2003-10-04 12:34:11 – WC
I KNOW whoiS STaLkInG YoU! It’s this wierd person named Tim. We need to ban him and ban again until he can’t access even the general interweb! Intelligence reports that he is an expert in Terrorist activities, so its in your best interests we notify the proper authorities and take affirmative action. WebCams!! NOW!! Follow the US Homeland Policy! – MORE DEVICES to make you feel EVEN MORE paranoid! – Craig
2003-10-06 17:09:02 – mark
wow. required logins? thats a good way to alienate about 95% of visitors and reduce the frequency of visits from the other 5%. ‘Rand0m’, this is a plea from the lazy: logins = bad idea.
2003-10-06 20:09:58 – rand0m
what if I set it up so that it would plant a cookie on your HD and you would only have to login once a year (if you don’t delete the cookie) ?
2003-10-07 01:35:05 – The disco nova
That would workj.
2003-10-07 11:37:35 – Netheus
1. I delete my cookies. 2. I have not yet gone abroad, so this definition of yours must be exclusive to the girls you are interested in. Emily just got back from greece/ japan. 3. Can I stop by your store some night and bring you dinner? You sound like your at point blank. 4. My brother is probably going to move to Jersey because my mom is a complete f*ck up. 5. Monday nights at Industrial Nation are a flesh circus. Boobies with electrical tape over the nipples (and that’s it for coverage) people getting tied up and flogged with cat’0 9’s, saran wrapping people to crosses, skimpy underwear, and industrial/darkwave/techno all night long. and well endowed topless girls in skimpy underwear trying to sell jello shots and cherry bombs. And pixie boy mark tied up and blindfolded and getting randomly touched by random people (okay, not quite, but I assume that will happen soon).
2003-10-07 14:06:30 – tony
Netheus, if you still want help with your computer, I’m game.
2003-10-07 20:05:37 – WC
Tony, I bought an ipod… so you gotta ho0k me up with those crazy cool songs now when I come over! .. or when you come to town next!
2003-10-07 21:48:53 – Netheus
thanx tony, but I took it to the shop, and my 40 gig was corrupted and my motherboard fried by power surge. so I am looking for proggies and reg. codes. and a way to get my land lord to pay for it. but my computer is on a dedicated circuit. so he thinks that absolves him. ergh… irrationalism…
2003-10-07 23:49:15 – tony
netheus, let me know how i can help out… hate to see a fellow internet junkie without a working compie386
2003-10-13 21:17:37 – The Disco Nova
NEW CONTENT!
2003-10-13 21:39:56 – WC
AGREED!

wild trip to boulder, bryce case, exploits & tools

So last night Keen and I went to Denver and Boulder to buy software. Not just any software, but Battlefield 1942, the bestest game by Electronic Arts. It’s normally $44.95 a pop, but CompUSA was selling them for $19.99 … when you’re buying 25 copies, that adds up really fast. So instead of waiting around and buying them at the high price, we decided to buy them at the low price. The local CompUSA only had 4 copies … after talking to the manager there, David Pierce (props!), we pointed us to the Aurora/Denver store, and then to the Boulder store. So we drove up to the Aurora store, which is right off of 225 & Alameda and bought 12 copies there … which isn’t enough. We left there at 8:15pm and made a mad dash to Boulder to get them there … showed up at like 3 minutes till closing — all the employees knew who we were and that we were coming ๐Ÿ˜‰ … we purchased our final 9 copies there, ate some good food at Siamese Plate To Go, picked up some beer and then headed home, with a short stop to Paris on the Platte in Denver, which, I might add, is a very awesome coffee shop / cybercafe place. I wish we had something like it here. I spoke with Mr. Case at length today on AIM. Talk about being quite the pimped out MOFO. He get props on Too Short’s latest CD, went to Vegas and met Aria Giovanni, drives a Benz, has a mad job at MCI … just wow. He has pics to back it all up too. I think he is one of the most successful people I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. There is a new openssh exploit out there running around and it affects everything currently out there, including all OSs(open/freebsd, all linuxes, *all of them*). The patch is like 4 lines … [L=http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/crypto/openssh/buffer.c.diff?r1=1.1.1.6&r2=1.1.1.7&f=h]Here is the diff[/L] between the old and new buffer.c … just replace, recompile and install. Also, nmap 3.45 is out today and it’s freaking awesome. Get it at [L=http://www.insecure.org/nmap]http://www.insecure.org/nmap[/L] Quick Update – just realized that my [L]ink parser was broken so I fixed it … you can use & and ? without fear now.

2003-09-16 19:03:25 – WC
Hey Randal! I think I may have a solution to your ATI problem you have with your video cards. When the 9900 gets released (for those of you not in the know, the 9900 should ship with HL2) hopefully soon after ATI will add it to their [L=http://ati.com/buy/traderebate/tradeup.html]Trade-In[/L] program. Check that out. My Grandfather passed away yesterday morning. It was sad. I saw him die in his death bed. Suck. Hey you should have called me last night. I would have hung out with you. I needed cheering up. ๐Ÿ™‚ But no one else calls when their in Denver… Tony’s Pizza sounds good.
2003-09-17 00:54:12 – Mr Mountains
Its unanimous, Battlefield is the best video game out there right now. I never play computer games, but that one is enjoyable to say the least. Almost makes you wish you were in WWII!
2003-09-17 10:36:17 – WC
OK I tried twice to post this yesterday. Have you seen the new Apple 15" [L=http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index15.html"]Powerbook[/L]? I think that is very [b]H[/b]awt. It just makes me all wet with that backlite keyboard. Not only that but the keyboard and screen auto-adjust their luminosity the ambient light in the room. OMG! BTW whois Bryce Case?
2003-09-17 15:17:15 – Mr Mountains
What I know about Bryce is limited. He went to Palmer and wore very baggy jeans and listened to some sort of hip hop (a hip hop looking fellow). I understand that he was the shit with computers, but wound up getting busted by the FBI for hacking or something like that. Haven’t heard about him or seen him in a while, not that I saw him in high school much, or was even on a "hello" basis with him. He was just some guy, why do you ask?
2003-09-18 08:02:45 – Siaokh
Craig… you are fired as a link poster. You can’t have double quotes in the href= field… it just doesnt work. I dont know HOW you broke it, but you most certianly did. Randal, that’s badass how you’re pimping out CompUSSR for their game bits. It sucks that they couldn’t cut you a deal for purchasing 25 copies of their software. I certianly hope along with this game (and all it’s updates … *gah*) you’re going to install the desert combat mod *drool*. It’s very VERY fun. You might also want to consider making some joysticks avalible for renting if people are playing this game. The helicopter is almost impossible to fly without a decent joystick (rudder control). Or if people bring in their own joysticks. *shrug*. I really wish i could be out there for your grand opening. It should be off the HOOK *woot*. -Tim *punch*
2003-09-19 13:29:09 – tony
As a gift to Randal and his store, I’m buying an 8-gallon keg of beer for one of his grand-opening parties. Cheers.
2003-09-24 03:59:10 – tony
Lesson learned tonight? Before you are about to test out new group policy settings that may affect the entire domain (hint, includes domain controllers and domain administrators), do not say the following before applying new group policy: "What’s the worst thing that could happen"
2003-09-25 00:37:57 – Siaokh
Murphy Strikes Again! *punch* -Tim
2003-09-25 01:40:36 – tony
at the cafe got the beer in place, mass transit beer lesson for the night, beer and computer monitor, they do not mix, not now, not tomorrow, not never
2003-09-25 08:58:27 – GrooveMan
Oh Yeah, Tomorrows the big day. Lets Get It On!!
2003-09-25 12:17:00 – The Disco Nova
I would like to point out Randall spilled the first beer, killing a monitor, soaking Everman, and opening the door for all of us to say "You spilled the first one"
2003-09-25 17:43:24 – rand0m
lol, true, true
2003-09-27 03:20:53 – Nick
I’m drunk. Randal is passed the fuck out on the love seat. The A chick won’t tell me how to spell her name. There was something about a fight. I’m going to bed. Goodnight mother fuckers.
2003-10-01 11:26:22 – WC
*tink* *watches pieces fall to the floor* wo00o! I broke the ice! Now hopefully people will be unfrozen from their boring lives and start chatting again. And maybe people, we can get the infamous rand0m to post wtf is going on in his life. I really miss reading a fresh post a whole 15 days ago. Anyway I know his store is open and that he [u]is[/i] alive. Hooray! BTW the new Radeon 9800 XT is out if anyone cares. The world’s fastest and most advanced video card (for right now). BTW if you buy one you get a free game of Half Life 2. (You better since the card is $500 bucks) ~Peace until the next posting.
2003-10-01 11:27:50 – rand0m
No I’m not! I’ll be stone dead in a minute!
2003-10-01 11:52:01 – WC
I hate your underling thing. Jesus. *sigh* I am going back to bed.
2003-10-01 23:23:19 – Netheus
Yay!!!! My computer works again (knock on wood)!!!

Store Pictures and more crazy girls

I took a bunch of pictures of the store, feel free to take a look and ask me any questions: [L=http://cos.everlan.com/gallery.php?gid=1]EverLAN Gaming Centers Pre-Opening Photos[/L] I was talking to Janina the other day, who is [b]W[/b]hitney (who formerly was dating [b]M[/b]ichael)’s roommate. She tells me that she’s engaged and happy and yada yada yada. She then proceeds to tell me that she’s really sad that I never asked her out or showed a lot of interest. I did have interest, still do … just that she’d been seeing this Travis guy, and I wasn’t about to compete, but honestly, I should I have grown a pair and asked her out. I told her that although I’m male, I’m not blind and that she should have dropped a few more clues that *she* was interested. She agreed to this, and then it seemed like we both agreed that we should have gone out together. And then I added (mentally) that she shouldn’t be engaged. Went out and got lit up on Friday night and paid for it on Saturday. I also went and got a haircut on Saturday, and gave my number to this nice girl Leah … I seriously doubt she’ll call me to go out and get a beer, but hey, I can hope. I figure that if I blanket the city’s population of women with my number, at least one or two will call me. [b]Update – Quote of the night[/b]: (overheard at Tony’s Bar) – “In every relationship there is a bull and a cow. I am the bull and you are the cow. Now show me your udders.”

2003-09-14 23:34:17 – fourdegrees
So as for the not-making-a-move-on-a-girl-that-had-potential-to-respond-favorably thing…were you not paying attention to the advice your dad gave you that night, oh so long ago? get a pair, you ninny. ๐Ÿ˜‰ (I love you, Randal.)
2003-09-15 00:31:13 – keener2u
pairs cost money…
2003-09-16 15:10:49 – Formerly known as chester
I know what you mean, dude. My first true love is currently married to some soccer playing jock/prick. Whatever. Amsterdam is beautiful, btw.
2003-09-16 21:42:17 – Zaxx
That’s what you gotta do man, get out and blanket the area with your info. You’ll get the right ones interested. Speaking of chic’s, who is the chic on the BMW in her skimpy outfits? If there are any videos on this earth of her, I need to know. E-mail address is above! You have a pretty cool site, take care. -Zaxx

Mistake, Store, Withdrawals, Misc & HPI

Shit, I got about 4 lines into this post and I realized that I had alread posted info about the beer expo and such. Well shit. I got my first WeberStreet Networks, LLC paycheck today. Man, that was such a rush. Seriously, carrying the sliver of paper that entitled me to lots of moolah was rather thrilling. Let’s hope to god there are a lot more of those coming to me down the road, you know? Honestly though, it’s all been worth it. Even if the big bucks are still a ways off, just knowing that it’s coming soon (Sept 26th, maybe???) is a big upper. Oh, FYI, there is an informercial page at [L=http://www.weberstreet.net/everlan]http://www.weberstreet.net/everlan[/L]. Please let me know what you think of the design & content. And yes, I know that the pictures link does not work. Thanks. (I just realized that I think we’re going to run into an IP crunch. Oof) I had some women withdrawals (sp?) today. I got to thinking, get this, not about Janelle, but about some other fantabulous ladies I know and I felt bad that I totally puss’d out and didn’t attempt anything. That’s a bummer. More inspiration to actually give the meeting girls thing a try? Maybe. I don’t know how much damage my bruised, overworked, tired ego can withstand …. I do hear that chicks totally dig guys who own their own business, though …. ๐Ÿ˜‰ I finished [i]Cryptonomicon[/i] by Neil Stephenson tonight. It’s been a loooong time in finishing, but man, that tome of a book was totally worth it. Honestly one of the best fiction books I’ve ever read – I highly recommend it. In fact, I’m so enchanted by the quality of the writing that I picked up another Stephenson book, [i]Snowcrash[/i] – I’ll let ya’ll know how that one goes. I replaced the starter on my truck yesterday. $54 and about 45 minutes later, which includes trying to rinse that orange pumice lava rock cleaner stuff out of my eyes (the memories bring back the pain! aghhghgsgh!), my truck now starts on the first crank every time. I still need my exhaust to be fixed up. I am once again seriously considering a motorcycle. Maybe as an additional vehicle? I haven’t talked about HPI in a long time, so I will now. HPI is doing super, barring internal personality conflicts. Seriously, it’s pretty fucked up … I start prepping myself for the inevitable “bail on HPI” move, and all of a sudden HPI starts doing well. This throws my long term plans into a blender … I need to think on what I’m going to do long term. The wireless out in Falcon is going really well – we have installs every day of the week, and so far we’ve only hit a few roadstops. Our Co-Location program is going really really well with new, big $ customers coming in a lot more often than they were. Today, I began our migration to a FreeBSD anti-spam gateway setup, as detailed in [L=http://www.hpi.net/whitepapers/]the whitepaper[/L]. I also got to enjoy climbing around on buildings and transitting antennas all over down. As enjoyable as things are, it seems like HPI is rife with indecision and lacks cohesion. I don’t know where this will end up.

2003-09-11 01:45:40 – WC
I thought you hated your store and never wanted to talk about it again. What is this new news!!! BTW you gotta see my neato C# .NET text editor I made. I call it "Your Mom’s Text Editor". Ok, I know I got bored. But what else am I supposed to do all day long – alone – in my room – without any female companionship – NO YOU SICK BASTARD I WILL NOT DO THAT! – At least I Get Signal. AYBABTU
2003-09-11 12:14:02 – Netheus
I am at school, typing from a nasty public computer. Why? My PC is just…. argh…. anyway, whilst visiting this page, the virus scanner thing has registered 7 new virii. all that worm blaster one that took out my computer. argh…..
2003-09-11 12:15:26 – Netheus
oh, and i almost forgot- happy kiss your Constitutional Freedoms goodbye day/ anniversary!!!
2003-09-11 14:29:47 – WC
Neth, WTF are you talking about? [i]"happy kiss your Constitutional Freedoms goodbye day/ anniversary!!!"[/i] ooohk, BTW neth when you go clean your computer make sure you get the latest patches from MS. Blaster II Worm just found its way on the internet.
2003-09-11 20:14:12 – Master Ha-reed
Website looks pretty good Have any plans for other advertising (Independent, and so on)?
2003-09-12 04:08:08 – Siaokh
Pictures. We demand pictures of your swanky new store. It might not be finished, but pictures of the in-progress build up would be even cooler. You know what’s overrated… Floppy drives on computers. These littel USB Keychain-thumbdrive things. They are the bestest. 99% of computers have USB these days, and as long as the proper permissions are set up, these little flash drives can be used soooo much easier than 1.44meg floppy disks. (it’s 5am… bite me). My suggestion is to not have floppy drives on computers any more, and just use these. It’s like $30 for a 128meg drive. Sneaker-net never saw it coming! look, i even took a fancy [L=http://henge.org/~snack/usbkeys.jpg]picture[/L] of it. Congrats on bringing everything together! -Tim
2003-09-12 09:13:37 – rand0m
Well, we sort of botched the whole picture thing. We should have taken a bunch of pictures of the store while it looked like shit.but we didn’t. I did go take 27 pictures last night, though — the walls, the bathrooms, the server rack, the cabling, the gaming area. Those are going to be developed some time today, and hopefully scanned in shortly thereafter.
2003-09-12 13:39:44 – element
first time rand0m.org poster, w00t! I hear ya on the job front. I’m starting to wonder if working for a small business will ever get you anywhere. I’m about ready to jump ship myself. Snow Crash is pretty sweet. There is something about a ninja-hacker pizza delivery driver that I find distinctively cool….
2003-09-13 21:45:38 – Netheus
That is Snow Crash?!?!?!?! I love that book! I got about 1/3 of the way into it, and then my piece of sh*t bf at the time stole it. Hiro Protagonist and the mafioso pizza delivery…. and living in a storage shed…. mmmmm…..good book…..
2003-09-13 21:51:13 – WC
*Chanting in background* Whats that sound?? It must be the natives calling for store pictures!
2003-09-13 22:27:42 – rand0m
The first set of pictures I took the other day didn’t come out because I didn’t know that you *HAVE* to use the flash when using a disposable camera. So … I took another set of pictures and have them developed, sitting here on the table, waiting to be scanned. They’ll be ready to go tomorrow, promise.
2003-09-14 00:31:51 – Siaokh
ROFL. Omg dude, you totally rock. I didnt even notice it untill i was looking through your everlan website (well i knew it, but this just reinforces the fact). The phone number. Who did you have to sleep with to get that? Way funny. For all of you who havent seen it yet. 719/667-1337 – Direct Too funny. My main reason for this post is why are you using the old logo for Ubisoft? their new logo is much… more…. hypnotic *drool*. -Tim
2003-09-14 09:53:22 – WC
USE TEH NEW LOGOzZZz. I agree that new Ubi Logo is very hypnotizing. And I agree, your phone number is hawt! … and you were complaining about sex the other day.
2003-09-14 17:56:26 – tony
Got an error looking at the pics: PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ECHO in c:sitesweberstreet.neteverlangallery.php on line 50 http://www.weberstreet.net/everlan/gallery.php?gid=1&picnum=7 On another note, I want to make a website that when you visit it, it pop ups an alert that says "This doesn’t exist", then either sends you back one page to your previous page, or just closes the window. Why? It would be a much better way to tell people they got a 404 at your site. Especially if they are trying to hack your site.
2003-09-14 18:35:29 – rand0m
hmmm, looks like it’s working okay … must have hit it while I was working on the code.