Server: Mandalore the Indomitable

Assemble here

WHAT? I was complaining about how much adding voice commands to the copier must have cost when it was just a prank to get people to talk to themselves? I can’t laugh that off I must now redirect my misplaced cost savings anger and compose a memo about how inappropriate humor is in the workplace regardless of occasion!

I have been working as a computer janitor recently so my new favorite thing to do is expose everyone’s troubleshooting flaws by taping a picture of goatse to the bottom of their optical mouse. “Man I tried unplugging it and rebooting but it just won’t work! It worked yesterday. I’m going to get another one.” That is when I toss out the maybe the “laser” is broken and watch the horror as they flip over and see the Receiver!

Oh good times are had on this day. It’s the day when your inner evil can peek its head out disguised as a good sense of humor to those dopes who struggle to get through the day without drawing attention to their own stupidity. Overall, it’s a day where hidden talent can shine in my opinion.

Speaking of talent shining, hit the jump to see a wicked “amateur” TF2 fan animation movie trailer. I put amateur in quotes because I suspect this guy has about 15 job offers in his inbox already. Be warned, this may make you want to go rent download a Jamie Fox movie.

The trailer Mad linked a few articles down already has an extended cut.  Also, if you were not aware, ODST (a French version at least) leaked last week. Microsoft, for maybe the first time ever, is addressing this leak and saying don’t worry, if you bought it legit, play away. What this actually means is the rip that is out does not match up to its retail counterpart and Microsoft will be able to flag anyone who plays it. Play and get your console banned from live for life, pretty much, so if you are a pirate and were interested, I’d hold off till you see some verification drop on abgx.

Other fresh Xbox news is the crazy amount of NHL 10 unlockable attribute and equipment purchases that hit the marketplace. EA is realizing how successful the EASHL was and is going the Tiger route and making items purchasable for the lazy or busy who don’t want to be bothered unlocking gear that improves your character. They are also giving out stat bonus codes to those who preorder from gamestop. Hey NHL, take note, Tiger has always been able to do that without having all its shit flooding the marketplace area of its title. How are we supposed to find themes, picture packs, and trailers now?

Here are some facebook fuckups I have saved.

I have to say everything about Windows 7 I am digging. Especially the new start menu and task bar. I wrote up some info on Windows 7 in the forums if you want to check it out. One thing I don’t like is they had to go and fuck up some of the good things Vista brought in that were very good. They took out a bunch of quality stuff, like Windows Calendar and tried to integrate it all into these Windows Live tools. Ugh. They ruined them AND you have to go download them because they aren’t installed by default.

Now, as far as I can tell, the Windows Calendar only works with your hotmail account and no longer will support any iCal feeds like you can get from your google calendar. Since Apple and Microsoft refuse to get along this was the only way to sync up my iPhone calendar with my PC while avoiding full blown Outlook. Oh well, I fucking give up honestly.

This new outlook express, called Windows Mail, can lick my balls too. I have hundreds of emails that come in and hit filters from all the webmaster stuff I do on the side that I want logged and then other random things like scoring summaries from NHL games on xbox. These are all marked as read by the filters. Read in Gmail itself, read on my iPhone, yet Windows Mail thinks they are unread. So my unread emails view across my email accounts is hosed making the whole app useless. Why is this? It works with the hotmail filters I have in place of course. I give up on that too.

I’m done trying to organize my life with these Microsoft tools. And forget doing it with backups in case of disaster. In 5 years I won’t be using the same shit, I’m sure so what’s the point? Back to doing everything in a browser again. I refuse to accept one company’s way of doing things so I guess that means I waste time with inefficiency. 

Enough of my rant, I updated our twitter feeds page a while ago but I don’t think I told anybody. If you are in the clan and I forgot your feed PM me on IRC and I will update it.

Enjoy this image which was in my clipboard. Holy shit I don’t even have to FTP this thing into my directory anymore. Yay for saving time somewhere. Still debating if I’ll be the first to start the “I’m downgrading to Vista” crowd.