Archive for December, 2005


Well, I went through the first post of the month to see what my life has been like the past 12 months. I can say in all honest review that the single posts of the month don’t give the slightest impression of life.

Moments in life seem to be remembered when they mark special moments. But much like poker, one card on the table can be a savior, a dud, a lucky draw, or an amazing fortune. The only thing to remember is the odds of getting one card are the same as the odds of getting one other card.’

Picking twelve random events (well topics that prompted me to type) could have been very indicative of my personality and my history. It could have been many things. It wasn’t really a reflection of my past year. Some would argue that it wasn’t completely random as I pulled the first post of the month. This of course assumes that the milestones of my life all neatly package themselves into a neat order.

I supposed if I woke up on the first every month and did a quick summary of the last month… there might be some lack of randomness. But many people who know me will agree; I’m not that orderly in affairs of my own life.

I do however think that this month is a good time to look over the wealth of bandwidth I used (costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars). Assess the past year of postings. What did I say? Did it matter? Was it of any value? What haven’t I accomplished? What have I accomplished?

To put it into simple terms of one of an old colleagues favourite movies, “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”

This will take some thought 🙂

This is a cross post to a review I made on MacNN the Macintosh news source.

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From MacNN article:
Briefly: Online gambling; FCP users group
http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/12/08/online.gambling.fcp.group/

In brief: macpacificpoker.com is bringing online gambling to Mac and Linux users, offering games such as Texas Holdem, Blackjack, Craps, Slots, and more….

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My response to Macnn

I went to Mac Pacific Poker’s site. The mac page auto loaded. Initially I thought this was a good thing.

I went to the registration page. I typed in my information and then got to “Terms and conditions.” Call me crazy but I actually hit the link to try to look at the terms and conditions.

Safari generated a new page which…auto forwarded to the Mac front page. It would seem that all the pages were set to auto forward to a “we don’t serve mac” page. So to simplify, the new Mac entry page was put there.

As a result, the registration screen will not get you to terms, help, or anything else. So I turned to calling tech support. As online Poker players know… most of this is overseas.

After two failed calls (Yes, the calls actually ‘failed’ insofar as they rand and went dead mid-ring) I got a tech-support grunt. He explained to me any combination of answers that included, “We don’t support mac”, “The Mac page takes you to the mac page that doesn’t have all the features” and my personal favourite, “We don’t work on the mac because our pages are made for Normal Computers.”

I was told that I’d be sent a link that would take me to the correct mac page. (I’m assuming he means the same front page that suddenly makes them “Mac Compatible.”) So far I have received no email.

To me making your PC application Mac compatible doesn’t stop when the application compiles for the Mac. There is tech suppor education, legal documents, and support pages.

At this time I would VEHEMENTLY reccommend that you DO NOT invest time or especially MONEY into MacPacificPoker.

-Andrei

I picked this up from a posting by solcita.

Presenting my iTunes signature (.wav, 3.8 MB, :22 sec), a collection of some of the songs I listen to the most on my library (not counting the songs I paid for on iTunes)

If this is nifty to you. Then you’ll probably want to try it yourself 🙂

See if you can figure out what songs are in there before looking at the cut.

Here is the key to my tunez (sic)

OTO is Agape!

Seeing how it has been a running trend I thought I would make one as well.

The banner:

The code:

<div align=”center”><a href=”http://lordandrei.livejournal.com/407946.html“><img src=”http://www.apolo.net/images/OIA/OIA.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”OTO is Agape” /></a><br /><a href=”http://lordandrei.livejournal.com/407946.html“>OTO is agape.</a></div>

The symbols:

Red – OTO Lamen
Orange – Rose Cross
Yellow – Liber Oz
Green – Stele of Revealing
Blue – Star of Babalon
Purple – Tree of Life

Please feel free to use this on your LJ or anywhere else for that matter. If you do, I please ask you to leave your comments here. Thanks.

This has been a hell of a day… week..month

Last night or early this morning at 12:05 while over with friends I went from healthy to doubled over in pain in about 15 seconds. It was a sudden manifestation of flu had occurred and brought with it a whole new form of pain. Basically it felt like I’d been stabbed or shot in the gut. (Left side).

shimmeringjemmy drove us home and I climbed into bed. I told her that I wanted to ‘sleep in’ to try to heal up. I took 2 fingers of Pepto and climbed into bed. I didn’t sleep exceedingly well. At 6 am I woke up suddenly. I was nauseous. Now for the sake of argument there are 2 different forms of nausea. There is the fake nausea that most of us have. It’s that queasy feeling that makes food repulsive to us. Then there is the real kind. The kind where the body feels chilled like the blood has drained from the body. Where you feel cold, clammy, and moist all at once. This is the body’s 30 second warning that something is about to happen and you damned well better find an acceptable receptacle. For ten to fifteen minutes I took time to appreciate that I hadn’t eaten in about 8 hrs.

I climbed back into bed with that delusion that I felt much better (despite the continuing stabbing pain) and fell asleep. That was when the nightmare hit. I’ve had nightmares that have horror type overtones. This was nothing like it. This was the hopeless nightmare of losing someone. I woke up clinging to H shaking.

I lay in bed for about 2 hrs now awake. I figure… if this doesn’t improve in 2 hrs then I’m going to the clinic. And 2 hrs later I’d driven the car the 2 1/2 blocks to the walk in clinic. A nifty factoid about the free-roaming Andrei. Andrei has a blood pressure of 125/72. For those who know blood pressures you will marvel at what could be viewed as a near perfect measure for just below average. It’s a healthy bp. My bp may at anyone time vary as much as 3% on either side. I explain this because at the clinic they read 90/72.

The doc interviewed me for a while as I try to deal with the lack of energy, killer headaches, dizziness, mild fake nausea bordering on the real stuff and of course the stabbing pain in my left side from hell. He ordered up X-rays, blood work, and my favourite cup. He even did that really personal test to have me cough for him. He said he had his suspicions.

It would seem that I am the proud winner of Diverticulitis. (Those of you who remember SNL’s Whiners can now laugh hysterically)… Let me tell you… this is not fun. I am going to spare the details of what this little ‘ailment’ is. But, the upshot is that I’ve been prescribed even more Vicodin. My house is becoming a warehouse for pain killers. And two killer antibiotics. Reading the drug warning labels has been an exploration into terror. While I’m pretty sure my eyes aren’t going to pop out, as for the other possible side effects. I think I’d be better off with the Dungeon Master’s Guide’s list of all the curses of the Teeth of Dahlver-Nar

These puppies are so strong that I am forbidden from drinking alcohol for the next 2 weeks. That’s right. I am going to do mass on Sunday with Juice.

>:-(

No offense but um… Can I make a call out from friends and loved ones to help me appeal to the gods to find out what the hell I did and how to appease them? Thanks