Aerocaester

I don’t always use my Twitter account

Vestrel — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:04:42 +0000

but when I do, I use it to go into Internet Activist mode, and to flame (more accurately: make my thoughts plain to) people and organizations/companies.

For example: Sent a message to Virgin 95.3 telling them I heard a new Rihanna song and something by some guy (the dude mentioned Kanye West afterward, but I don’t know) on the radio tonight, and they “are god-awful and should not be played”.

Fuck pop radio.

Hurry up, Canada Post

Vestrel — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:58:50 +0000

My hat is still sitting in Mississauga, Ontario, like it has been for the whole weekend.

HURRY IT UP

Oh NO WORDPRESS

Vestrel — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:45:53 +0000

WordPress got a Reblog button.

GOD NO

FUUUUUUUU

WHAT IS THIS?

NO NO NO NO NO NO

BAD REBLOG BUTTON

BAD!

Click it and it puts a post on your blog and a comment on the original post saying that you reblogged it.

WTF

WHEN WRITING ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE ON A BLOG AND THEN LINKING IT ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH:
HIT “I’M A LAZY-ASS FAT BUTTON” INSTEAD.

Goddamn it.
They inconvenient-ized the top bar by taking off the New Post button from being right there, and now you have to click the name of your blog and get “New Post” in a lame drop-down menu.

Y u break something functional, WordPress? It wasn’t even bad and now it takes two clicks instead of one to access New Post…

Ordering online…

Vestrel — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:19:33 +0000

Put in order for limited edition LIGHTS toque at end of December.

Wait two weeks for money transfer
Send e-mail to support, get reply “once eCheck is cleared, order will be shipped out immediately”

Wait week and a half. Send email to support asking for tracking number.
Order gets processed that day. WTF

Must wait another week for item to arrive; expect to receive toque near end of month.

ONE MONTH, WHAT THE SHIT GUYS

Finished Final Fantasy XIII

Vestrel — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:34:11 +0000

Finally I’m done this game. Whew.

It was meh. Kinda like a movie that didn’t blow your mind, but it wasn’t awful, so you enjoyed it anyway.

Ending didn’t make the most sense in the world but happy-ish ending, whoo ok.

But Fang ;_;

Played as Lightning with Fang/Hope allies for the most part but switched to Fang with Lightning/Hope for the end because Highwind IS SO GOOD. Trade-off is having two AI allies trying to heal and they’re retarded at healing. ohwell

Tri-Disaster is also really really good and when I discovered its magic I was like :O why didn’t I use this sooner?

Anyway, any good feelings I have about this game are balanced by echhh-it-was-boring feelings because of the first… 10 chapters of the game? Probably won’t play XIII-2 unless I get it as a gift or something, in which case I’ll look at the box like this: :|

Tomorrow is SOPA Strike Day

Vestrel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:16:05 +0000

…and then we prayed,

“I HOPE THIS WORKS.”

I feel like not enough people are aware of the whole SOPA thing, or that enough people concern themselves with the whole SOPA thing.

Well, if it passes, it’s partly their fault for not joining the protests.

I’m going to do a mini-blackout on Aerocaester tomorrow as well… which is in about 2 hours.

America, don’t screw this up for the rest of us. Frickin’ old people don’t know anything about the Internet…

Minor update, and streaming

Vestrel — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:25:37 +0000

I hurt my head trying to figure out an audio setup for my stream. Apparently, I can’t properly use my nice headphones with my nice-sound box while having a microphone, and if I use my nice microphone then I can’t have any other sounds, and if I use my headset microphone then I can’t use my nice headphones.

So basically I’m stuck with my headset, which is ok, but I would’ve liked to be able to wear my nice headphones and to be able to use my nice microphone while streaming :|

So anyway stream is located at http://twitch.tv/vestrel (opens in new window)
Stream link is also under the Links in the sidebar.

I added a couple of things to the right sidebar as well. There’s the Stream Status up there under Announceblurbs, which I’ll update whenever I start streaming. (Probably also replace the stream link that’s under there to say whatever I’m streaming, most likely StarCraft II)

There’s also the Follow Blog by Email button down at the bottom, in case you didn’t know there was a subscribing feature ._o

Also updated the Obligatory About Page because it’s supposed to be good for traffic or some sh*t like that.

In for some long days for the next few months

Vestrel — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:51:40 +0000

Today I left the house when it was dark, and I came home and it was dark. I get to do this on Wednesdays too.

It’s pretty depressing…

Internet is fixed! Broadband 100 yeeeah!

Vestrel — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:28:12 +0000

Now we’ve got Broadband 100! The advertised speeds are “up to 100 Mbps download, up to 5 Mbps upload”. Attempts to get this computer hardwired to the router/modem ended in vain, as apparently there’s not actually anything coming through the cable plug in my wall, and because the longest ethernet cable we have isn’t long enough to reach my room from across the hall. D:

The other option I haven’t tried is to run a 50ft coaxial cable from my parents’ room, where the cable jack is, and put the router out in the hall to the furthest electrical outlet that it will reach. (with the help of extension cables, I suppose, as well.) Then, I’d run the long ethernet cable from there into my computer. It’d be so ugly, but it would be the only way I could hardwire my computer.

This is all to make use of the Gigabit LAN adapter in my computer. x.x Otherwise I’ll have to get myself a Wireless N card for the next-best thing… which is probably what I’ll end up doing.

Uploaded a video as a test and the upload bar actually moves! I was so excited to see the progress meter moving.

The new internet also means I can stream! I tried streaming before but I could only manage a really low resolution. Now my computer is the bottleneck instead of the internet speed. Maybe we’ll see how that works later, eh?

I just took my first pee of 2012

Vestrel — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:27:08 +0000

and now my computer says it’s 1/1/2012. Whoopee? Whoopie hooray suh.

This year instead of holding a cup of sparkly liquid beverage aka not-champagne-juice-stuff I just toasted everyone with a glass of orange juice because all sparkly things taste like crap, and who wants to punish their taste buds first thing in the new year?

A bunch of people, apparently.

Anyway, happy new year blahblahblah it’s 2012 we’re all going to die lolol blahblahblah not really blahblahblah there’s a lot of fireworks going on outside and they’re really loud blahblah.

…yeah!