:: Monday, December 30, 2002 ::

I am 74% Internet Addict

I am pretty addicted, but there is hope. I think I'm just well connected to the internet and technology, but it's really a start of a drug-like addiction. I must act now! Unplug this computer!

Take the Internet Addict Test at fuali.com

I am 76% Geek

UBER GEEK! My mad skills would make Linus Torvalds shake in his boots. But I seldom, if ever, get laid. Well, there are always the web-cam girls!

Take the Geek Test at fuali.com

I am 11% Goth

I wanna be a GOTH. But I'm not. Smoking cloves and too much eyeliner a goth does not make. I'll go home and take your Cure CD's with me.

Take the Goth Test at fuali.com

:: Floydthebarber 12/30/2002 10:51:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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So sharp wins that cookie...congratulations or something. So that ladies and gentlemen was christmas! I'm feeling pretty incoherent right now so i'll just tell you all what I raked in this year....

Nomad Jukebox C 6 gig HD mp3 player
Metroid Prime for Gamecube
Titanium SPORK!
a nice leather wallet from Wilson's Leather
The obligatory clothes/pajamas from relatives (but hey, i'm not complaining because they were nice stuff :-D)
Pulsar Keychain light
A case of Bawls (my dad ordered them and they should be here by newyears from Think Geek
Pack Towel (absorbs like 10x more water than a normal towel....perfect for camping)

And that about sums it up...I got my MP3 player and metroid and i'm as happy as can be. What money I got for Christmas i'm about to go blow at the theatres with April and Crystal to go see Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Rock. For years i've always found Ents to be the most facinating aspect of the second book, and now I finally get to see them brough to life, I can't wait. Oliphants are animated pretty well too from what I hear. And according to every single girl on the face of the planet, Legolas is sooooooo hot! Right. Whatever.

I'm tempted to throw together a *top 20 events of 2002* speshul for the blog, depending on how many things I deem worthy to mention and when I find the time. Don't expect to see it until New Years eve or something. Oh yeah, New Years at Eric's with Ron and Sam! yay! k bye.

:: Floydthebarber 12/26/2002 03:12:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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If you are visitor 1337 I'll give you a cookie!

:: Floydthebarber 12/22/2002 11:46:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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Twas the night before the night before the night before christmas
And all through the chat
Every person was idling
Even sonic took a nap

Yes, I am a gigantic nerd....i'll finish my story by christmas, how's that? So what has happened in the last week or so, you say? Well other than exams and our party not a whole damn bunch. I took French I and Geometry on the 17th, Adv Biology and PE the 18th, and Honors English and ELP the 19th. Blech. I think I did good on all of them except perhaps French I and ELP...It's simply impossible to drive a foreign language into my brain at 7:30 am. The public high schools here severly need a setback schedule of at least an hour or two. It would improve grades dramatically for many i'm sure. So yeah.....Did some exams, then immediately started prepping for the party.

Oh, well there was a night somewhere in there that a few friends came over. Much timesplitters 2 was played, damn that game kicks ass. I've beaten it on Easy and am making a run through Normal (hey, i'm not FPS afficionado). Ryan also left his afterburned GBA here, and i've been playing a bit of Metroid Fusion. The screen on his GBA is actually detaching slightly (!) and it's seriously not my fault, I should let him know. Normally I think it'd be an easy 3 dollar replacement but since he's got that afterburner in there I think it gets way more complicated. I'm not sure. All I know is that Mrs. Berry wants to play the role of a witch by not giving me back my GBA until after new years since I was SILENTLY playing it in the back of the room when I was finished with her retarded exam.

Jon is officially gone from the staff at Nintendophiles. It was a culmination of all the asshole things he had done to people over his course as EIC there. I wasn't there on friday night when the chat was officially taken from Jon's grasp and givin to Allon and others, but essentially it led to him leaving/being fired/whatever. He deserves every bit of "pain" and "misery" he's in right now for all the terrible stuff he's done to other people. I have no sympathy at all for him. It's ironic that right now he's calling all of us "back stabbers" when he caused all this himself. N-Philes will live on and be bigger and better because of this :-D

So yeah, MP3 Player and Bawls for xmas. word.

:: Floydthebarber 12/22/2002 11:44:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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I suppose some of you are wondering about the soap opera which has ensued over the past day over at where I work. I can't fully divulge all of what is happening, since much of it could endanger people and such, I won't divulge certain things. But here we go.

Last night I was chatting it up in #n-philes when Jon mentioned something about playing Need for Speed at the Cube Club. I said something which he didn't agree with, so he decided to kick and ban me, as long as removing me from chanserv on the channel. So there I was, a staffer for a website banned from his own site's chat because one staffer who was the Registerer of the channel simply didn't want to listen to me. Keep in mind that Jon does this sort of thing all the time; If you say something which doesn't agree with what he says, he blocks out you, basically. I had discussed this sort of stuff with the director of our site before, and he had always offerend me sound words of encouragement. So after discussing with a few of my friends online, I sent our Director a letter.

Basically he told me he would take care of it, but he was busy at the moment. I was cool; After all I knew I was in the right and i'd be unbanned shortly. So at this point i'm left to chat amongst the other staffers via AIM and other IRC channels. The basic consensus was that Jon was being a problem, and it would be dealt with. It was around 9:30-10 when Jon AIMed me (I'm only putting in excerpts):

MrMoo237 (10:08:14 PM): respect is a two way street
nphiles (10:08:18 PM): No it isn't
nphiles (10:08:20 PM): it's a one way street

This is how Jon gets.....He's done it before. He'll say things he simply doesn't mean, anything to get his way seem right in a conversation. Even if that requires banning and threatening for no reason.

MrMoo237 (10:09:50 PM): it's technically Ethan's
nphiles (10:09:51 PM): It's mine.
nphiles (10:09:54 PM): no
nphiles (10:09:57 PM): it's not ethans
nphiles (10:09:59 PM): I own the chat
nphiles (10:10:05 PM): all people must pay due respect to me
nphiles (10:10:11 PM): next im, it's a warn; than it's a block
nphiles (10:10:16 PM): thank you for your time
MrMoo237 (10:10:24 PM): yeah, but if your going to do crazy stuff like ban staffers then i'm sure Ethan could just as easily move the chatroom.

If anybody could explain to me how what I said was wrong, just let me know by all means. Basically Jon is just showing how ill-prepared he is to run a professional, roxx0ring, nintendo website chatroom. I'm hoping somebody listens to my idea on how to take care of this whole chatroom ordeal. At this point he blocked me on AIM so I had no way to communicate with him. So at this point, we have Me banned from the chat, and I sent a letter to ethan about all of this. The whole AIM conversation with Jon originated because he went into ETHANS mailbox and read my letter to him. Soon Ethan got online and apparently had a discussion with Jon, because Jon promptly sent a letter out to staffers announcing he was retiring. Personally, I think this was a non-clever bluff by Jon to try to pitifully work the pity factor on some staff. You know, have them say "well that's ok Jon if your going then we'll go too". In fact, Jon asked the head of the GBA dept if he wanted to leave with him. When Jon found out nobody else was leaving, from what I can gather he came back to ethan asking for his job back. Less than an hour after he had sent out his letter announcing his "retirement" he sent another saying he wasn't so sure. Typical Jon. So anyways. Jon unblocked me later to give me words of encouragement:

MrMoo237 (11:10:43 PM): because i needed somebody to talk to all this about. what better person than my director
nphiles (11:10:45 PM): simply put, I hate your fucking guts and I hope you burn
nphiles (11:10:51 PM): I am your director.
nphiles (11:10:56 PM): All lower staff talk to me through ethan

He constantly degrades me and acts like he's so much better than others. I think you get my point that I and other staffers were sick of this attitude.

nphiles (11:12:50 PM): I can't have idiot staff like you in my chatroom
nphiles (11:14:36 PM): ive told u many times not to be liek you are

Maybe he just WANTED to dig himself into a deeper hole via immature name calling.

MrMoo237 (11:21:03 PM): i think the problem is that you run the chatroom like a dictator with too much power, and you need to be kept in check. the problem isn't your work, hardly. you do damn fine work. it's your people skills.
MrMoo237 (11:21:14 PM): so......we both have said what we think the problem is
nphiles (11:21:19 PM): the problem is you're a little fucker who cantunderstand my problem is to dictate your ass
MrMoo237 (11:21:20 PM): so what can we do about it?
nphiles (11:31:15 PM): yeah
nphiles (11:31:19 PM): ill elave alright
nphiles (11:31:23 PM): I sure will leave
nphiles (11:31:25 PM): I hate you
nphiles (11:31:28 PM): no one likes you
nphiles (11:31:30 PM): not even your mother
MrMoo237 (11:31:33 PM): hahaha

That last line had me laughing for like 5 minutes out loud. Comedy Gold. He was really going at me at this point, trying to find SOMETHING to fault me for and give reasoning behind his banning me in the chatroom. Ok, so I think you all get the idea about this side of the events. I get a letter next from Ronald, or GBA dept director.

Basically he told staff to disreguard what Jon said, that if Jon left the site would go on (Jon had threated that the site would collapse without him) and if he stayed that he wouldn't have as much power as before. That's what I was hoping and expecting, and as of right now I don't know exactally which powers Ronald meant. I'm hoping to bring the issue of the chatroom up to Ethan. If all goes according to plan, the chatroom won't be completely Jon's anymore and there'll be a system of checks and balances set by other, less power hungry and more IRC experienced staffers. That's what i'm hoping.

Then of course I have 2 letters i've received from Jon today......both of which insulting and basically making himself sound like he's so very special and vital to N-Philes....gimme a break. He also said that he would "come back to n-philes on one request: that James is fired". This statement has been proven false, I just can't listen to Jon anymore. I take the stance of Ronald.....he's not a friend or enemy, he's a coworker; nothing more, nothing less. Right now I'm waiting for folks to get online so the immediate problems can be worked out. So there you have the soap opera up until this point, in its entirety enough so that you catch the drift. I'll update you guys later.

Those who understand all that, bravo!!!!

:: Floydthebarber 12/12/2002 09:55:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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I have declared tonight They Might Be Giants night, wherein I shall proceed to download every single TMBG song. Ever. Word. I'm also asking for Dial-a-Song for Christmas. In other news, Ryan Tedrick got me addicted to the best 11 minute cartoon shorts ever to grace TV - Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law! These videos are hilarious, and if you have the patience you can find all 7 episodes on Kazaalite for a hefty 40 mb+ per one. But trust me, it's worth it. And with a second season of 7 just around the corner in January, I'm on the edge of my seat ready to collapse off again from this stuff. Comedy Gold. ok i gotta go. bye. sorry for the abruptness.

:: Floydthebarber 12/10/2002 10:09:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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School let out early today, and if this wintery wonderland mix keeps up, I can pretty much guarantee no school here tommorow. Hooray! Like any respectable pyro would do, my first task this afternoon was to build an old fashioned fire. There's something inexplainably rewarding about MAKING FIRE. bwah ha. So now the house is all toasty warm, and i'm left to my own devices on the computer. And as such a blog update has finally come about!

There's so many damn cool presents floating around this season just waiting for me, it's nearly impossible to arrange them by priority. I guess that Nomad Jukebox C would be at the top, since this stupid 48-CD wallet just doesn't cut it for portability. Everything else is a mixed bag, whatever I get will be great. Of course, I must not forget about presents for friends and family...hmmmm. There's still plenty of time left to shop.

Amazingly enough, I got off my lazy intarweb-surfing ass and went along and typed up a retro review. I think if I find the time to contribute more articles like this they'll be along the same lines, various games I and love, but don't get the spotlight they deserve. Ever since september when I joined, working at N-Philes has been a complete blast. I get a voice, albiet a small one, in the gaming community, learn about the inner workings of the gaming industry, and interact much more with friends in the chatroom and forums. Special shout out to Sharp, THC, and Bane recently for helping me out so much on various things and staying up to ramble with me when nobody else was. Just wait until the pain of my trivia questions on saturday...bwah ha ha ha.

It's crunch time in school with exams in what, 2 weeks exactally? I've never taken exams before but i'm sure if I study a bit and drink plenty of Bawls they'll be a breeze. I mean, I'm not a COMPLETE idiot. School is so boring overall, but then again it's nessecary. Nobody that's reading this really cares though. So then.

I guess I should plan something special for all you dedicated readers for the one year anniversary of this blog, shouldn't I? Maybe a new layout...hehe we all know how many times i've delivered on that promise. But seriously, who knows. I have very capable friends to help.... :D

:: Floydthebarber 12/04/2002 05:47:00 PM (0) comments [+] ::
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