Lincoln
02-05-05, 08:17
So, once again I'm up at ungodly hours this Monday morning, staring at the beautiful error message displayed on my server's screen:
"kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6
Error 15: File not found."
fuck. ><
Less than twenty minutes ago, as I was sitting there, wondering where the fuck my kernel went--and trying to make a dent in the ever-mounting pile of papers I had left to write before this term ends, I started thinking about naked women. One thing led to another I got on the topic of Neocron. I began thinking about all the crazy places I've played this game through the years and I realized that there must be hundreds of geeks out there just like myself with tons of stories about crazy places they've played the game. I pondered for a moment and came up with many, most excellent examples I was bursting to share with y'all. The two that struck me most are: in a car, and on a 70' projection screen w/1200 watts of surround sound. Side note: the latter was fucking awesome.
Ahem, where was I?
After debating for a full 3 nanoseconds, I decided that although the projection-screen-story had its merits, the car beats it out.
A car isn't that interesting you say? Nonsense! This was no normal car ride. Twas a normal, New England day. Un amigo and I twas traveling to good ol' New Hampshire for an enjoyable weekend of mountain skiing—we were staying together but really, we're just friends. Although we were sharing a room--in a romantic wood cabin. . .oh, that's why he kept taking off his pants.
Anyhoo, with the driver not providing adequate entertainment, Rabidfurball and I decided it was time to break out the laptops. Being hopelessly addicted to the Neocrack, we just had to get our fix. We devised a clever scheme allowing us to log two computers into Neocron from one internet connection, in a car moving at roughly 70 mph down an icy, New Hampshire highway. How you say? It was quite intricate, really. Mr. Furball, with his insane, 17-inch widescreen display, insanity machine (commonly called his "laptop") connects via bluetooth to his eXtreme, Motorola, color display, 1600x1200 picture taking, movie recording, mp3-playing insane machine2 (commonly called his "cell-phone"). Then with his "cell-phone," he connects to the Verizon express network (a nice 200Kbps connection—enough for NC). Then, with his internal, A+G, insanity-wireless card (this thing picks up 17 networks where I get 2), he Ad-Hocs his connection, which I then steal with my PCMCIA, A+G, slightlylessinsane card. Viola, an oblong sphere of wireless internet, moving down a highway at 70 mph is created.
Anyone beat that? =P
Signed,
Your friendly, neighborhood,
--Lincoln
"kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6
Error 15: File not found."
fuck. ><
Less than twenty minutes ago, as I was sitting there, wondering where the fuck my kernel went--and trying to make a dent in the ever-mounting pile of papers I had left to write before this term ends, I started thinking about naked women. One thing led to another I got on the topic of Neocron. I began thinking about all the crazy places I've played this game through the years and I realized that there must be hundreds of geeks out there just like myself with tons of stories about crazy places they've played the game. I pondered for a moment and came up with many, most excellent examples I was bursting to share with y'all. The two that struck me most are: in a car, and on a 70' projection screen w/1200 watts of surround sound. Side note: the latter was fucking awesome.
Ahem, where was I?
After debating for a full 3 nanoseconds, I decided that although the projection-screen-story had its merits, the car beats it out.
A car isn't that interesting you say? Nonsense! This was no normal car ride. Twas a normal, New England day. Un amigo and I twas traveling to good ol' New Hampshire for an enjoyable weekend of mountain skiing—we were staying together but really, we're just friends. Although we were sharing a room--in a romantic wood cabin. . .oh, that's why he kept taking off his pants.
Anyhoo, with the driver not providing adequate entertainment, Rabidfurball and I decided it was time to break out the laptops. Being hopelessly addicted to the Neocrack, we just had to get our fix. We devised a clever scheme allowing us to log two computers into Neocron from one internet connection, in a car moving at roughly 70 mph down an icy, New Hampshire highway. How you say? It was quite intricate, really. Mr. Furball, with his insane, 17-inch widescreen display, insanity machine (commonly called his "laptop") connects via bluetooth to his eXtreme, Motorola, color display, 1600x1200 picture taking, movie recording, mp3-playing insane machine2 (commonly called his "cell-phone"). Then with his "cell-phone," he connects to the Verizon express network (a nice 200Kbps connection—enough for NC). Then, with his internal, A+G, insanity-wireless card (this thing picks up 17 networks where I get 2), he Ad-Hocs his connection, which I then steal with my PCMCIA, A+G, slightlylessinsane card. Viola, an oblong sphere of wireless internet, moving down a highway at 70 mph is created.
Anyone beat that? =P
Signed,
Your friendly, neighborhood,
--Lincoln