Gaming

I'm chalking this one down on a few categories just for kicks. 

Anyway, I bought a new monitor the other day. So far it's been my 19" Samsung 930BF that I got for Christmas in '05 along side my old trusty Sony Trinitron 17". The 17" from Sony was the first monitor I ever bought while actually caring about what I got, and it's served me for 6 years now. It had a brief 1 year hiatus, where I thought I had lost it, but on the very day I was going to throw it out, I decided I might as well yank the backcover off, and have a look inside if I could fix the problem. Turned out, I was able to fix it afterall. Messing around a bit, I found a little fuse that I figured I'd try changing. Lo and behold, the monitor worked like a charm after that. But now, it's over... and I'm gonna miss it. Had some good times with that monitor.. good times indeed. Remember when I wanted to watch an episode of Scrubs, and the monitor played it for me? Yeah I remember too.. like it happened yesterday. Good times.

Anyway, the 226BW 22" monitor from Samsung will pick up where old Sony left off, and so far things are looking splendido. Found out tho, that I only have one DVI and one VGA exit on my gfx card, so.... when I buy a new comp, I need to make absolutely sure the fucker has two DVI exits.. because running vga on a nice tft monitor just doesn't quite cut it.

I'll post an image later on, when I've decided it's time to yank up the old cam and snap a pic. Got around to vacuuming the place, and I must admit, it sorely needed it. So now that I have a new monitor for working with 3D, step 1 in my masterplan to better my skills have been completed. Step 2 is a little more daring, as it requires me to fork out quite a load of cash, but I daresay it's for the best. Step 2 is buying a whole new comp. I'll update you guys on the specifics later on. For now, I'm gonna marvel at this gem... crystal clear image, crisp colors and a sleek design. Yeah.. I'm happy.

Bored stiff these days. Work is pretty shite. If I don't do anything, I'm bored. If I start up a project that I'd like to do, I'm told to do something else. I don't really get it. It's lame, and I'm fed up with it. Got the lamest assignment today. I dunno if it's on purpose or what, but it seems like the best thing is to find the least suited person, then insist on him/her doing that specific job. Just fucked up. 

On a happier note, dieting and working out at the gym is on bigtime now, and it's feeling pretty good. Had a good run in on Monday with a lot of working out (not just lifting weigths) and I felt well cool afterwards. Wanted to go again yesterday, but different things drew it out, and I ended up not going. Today was planned as well, but we just had a fuckload of snow here, and Ranc had to stay late at work, so it's been postponed to... tomorrow I guess. I'm hoping we/I can go three days a week. Seems like we're getting somewhere.

Got a reply from the journalist on Politiken about my "case". Pretty interesting. I don't have any hopes for anything really, nor do I care if the case is re-opened, but it's amusing anyway, to have a case that's active again after a full year. Looking forward to seeing what that's about.

And finally, I've taken up a bit of gaming again. Oblivion. It's 60% fun I guess. Keeping me off the streets anyway. And that's always a positive thing.

Oh well, nothing really interesting. If I get the time, I might try and do up a logo for this blog. Something nifty. I'm getting used to this blackish darkish look. Kinda liking it. The green orange one was just... I dunno. Didn't fit me, I don't think. RIGHT... dinner time. Toodles.

Yeah.. in an interesting twist, I may have just joined up in the developement of an open source first person shooter computer game. It's just in the startup phase, but... still pretty interesting. 

I was idling in #3dsmax on Quakenet when I this guy joined, and asked if anybody was interested in joining him and 7 others in developing a game. Since I'm desperately looking for any experience in this particular field, I figured an open source project with no deadlines, no money etc.. would be a perfect place to get it. No demands, no angry investors. Just people doing it for the fun of it.

Anyway, the project is called Varzeneh: Chapter 1, and can be found over at sourceforge. Will be following this vehemently and with great interest. Hoping to see my name in the credits some day :)

Well... today I finally decided to uninstall StarWarsGalaxies from my box.. a full year after I stopped playing it. I know I should've removed it long ago, but I just couldn't bring myself to it. It probably sounds really geeky, but it was pretty close to me, and helped me through rough times, so I didn't wanna let go. But I've come to the conclusion, that it's for the best... besides I need the harddisk space :p

SWG, thanks for the good times, sorry SOE fucked you over. Here's to you!