{"id":723,"date":"2004-07-03T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/723"},"modified":"2009-02-06T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T21:09:40","slug":"killing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/723","title":{"rendered":"killing time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really been enjoying my time of nothingness. Really, I<br \/>\nhave. It&#8217;s<br \/>\nso welcome. I should try actually doing something, though. Anyways,<br \/>\ntoday, I killed some time browsing lj communities and such; I&#8217;ve never<br \/>\nreally done that before. I can&#8217;t remember exactly how I found them, but<br \/>\nI found some that are practically exhibitionist communities. yes, I<br \/>\njoined them &#8211; who knows when I&#8217;ll be bored next? Maybe I&#8217;ll even<br \/>\nwhip out the digi-cam and try some artsy self-portraits&#8230; &#8211; don&#8217;t<br \/>\nworry, I highly<br \/>\ndoubt it.&nbsp; eheh<\/p>\n<p>And, on a related note, I can&#8217;t believe how many communities follow<br \/>\nthis simple formula:<br \/>\n1) Look at me!<br \/>\n2) You&#8217;re pretty.<br \/>\n3) Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing really wrong w\/that, I guess&#8230;.&nbsp; always good to have<br \/>\nan ego-boost.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I found one group in particular that is fucking<br \/>\nawesome:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/userinfo.bml?user=ninjasvspirates\">ninjasvspirates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s<br \/>\nright.&nbsp; It&#8217;s for people to talk about why a ninja is better<br \/>\nthan a pirate, or vice versa; it&#8217;s a pretty tough call.&nbsp;<br \/>\nPirates<br \/>\ndefinitely have a unique fashion sense, and they&#8217;re allowed to drink<br \/>\nand have fun.&nbsp; But ninjas&#8230; c&#8217;mon&#8230; they&#8217;re<br \/>\nNINJAS!&nbsp; True,<br \/>\nninjas probably only eat enough to give them sufficient energy to hang<br \/>\ntheir 30kg frames from ceilings using their thumbs &#8211; and even then,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s probably beans and tofu type substances &#8211; and not starve. BUT if<br \/>\nyou take it literally, &#8220;Ninja VS Pirate,&#8221; the pirate&#8217;s fucking dead<br \/>\nbefore he gets his hand on his cutlass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But pirates have guns!&#8221; you say&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pirate: &#8220;Oh shit!&nbsp; A<br \/>\nninja come to kill me!&#8221;&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pirate reaches for single-shot<br \/>\nhandcannon&#8230;.<\/span><br \/>\nNinja: smoke bomb.&nbsp; blow dart to the neck.&nbsp; Ninjas<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t miss.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pirate: Dead on ground with gun<br \/>\nstill in his pants.<\/span><br \/>\nNinja: Gone.<\/p>\n<p>And now, GeekyStuff&#8230;<br \/>\nI gave up trying Gentoo on a 166 w\/32 MB of RAM.&nbsp; I had it<br \/>\ninstalled from the liveCD, but when I did the following:<br \/>\nemerge -u portage<\/p>\n<p>It commenced on a never-ending-page-swapping horror story.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter<br \/>\na couple days of it stuck on the same place in a configure script, I<br \/>\njust rebooted it.&nbsp; But there was something wrong with the hard<br \/>\ndrive, and linux wouldn&#8217;t fully boot.&nbsp; Maybe I coulda fixed<br \/>\nit,<br \/>\nmaybe not.&nbsp; I just thought I&#8217;d give Debian a try,<br \/>\ninstead.&nbsp; I<br \/>\nthink it&#8217;s more suited to the hardware.&nbsp; So I&#8217;m currently<br \/>\ninstalling Debian.&nbsp; At least I won&#8217;t have to compile<br \/>\neverything&#8230;. ^^<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, I finally bought a gamecube.&nbsp; Got one at the<br \/>\npawn-shop for $80 CDN.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve borrowed six games off my<br \/>\nfriend:<br \/>\nStar Wars: Rogue Squadron, Zelda: Wind Waker, Resident Evil, Metroid<br \/>\nPrime, Burnout, Tony Hawk 4<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t played all of them, yet, but I know they&#8217;re good<br \/>\ngames.<\/p>\n<p>I must buy <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Smash<br \/>\nBros<\/span>&#8230;.. the greatest game on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really been enjoying my time of nothingness. Really, I have. It&#8217;s so welcome. I should try actually doing something, though. Anyways, today, I killed some time browsing lj communities and such; I&#8217;ve never really done that before. I can&#8217;t remember exactly how I found them, but I found some that are practically exhibitionist communities.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/723\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">killing time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ljimport","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-bF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}