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Friday, June 16, 2006

I just got back from seeing a few friends at NIX (the Toronto tattoo convention; thanks to Tampon for getting me in) including my old (online, now real world) friend ShawnChoo all the way from Singapore! My weekend plans have gone a little bit into chaos, but with any luck I should be there at least briefly on Sunday, and maybe Rachel as well, and hopefully Phil will be there too to take some photos for BME.

Geez, I hope I don't look that dorky in the photos they took on their cameras! Anyway, a nice big update is processing now, so I'll post that later this evening.

You know, it's funny, one of the things I hate about having memory issues is that it's really hard for people, even people who've known you for a really long time to take them seriously… I guess the general concept is hard to grasp — how can someone who is high functioning on all levels mentally have no memory of a majority of what happens to them? Anyone who's had memory problems knows how to commit something through timed repetition, changing procedural knowledge to compensate, designing one's life around “rules” and modularized action blocks. Oh, and getting better at cold reading for all the people you either don't remember, or think you remember but have never met, ha.

But anyway, what I wanted to say is that if you ever have a conversation with me (no matter if we're old friends, new friends, or strangers), there is only a chance that I will remember it or anything else that happened that day. It's not on purpose, it's not personal, and it's certainly not a put-on or deception… It simply doesn't get recorded. It sucks too because if you don't remember what happened, there are situations where you have to completely take someone else's word for it (often it's not the answer you want to hear), so it puts you under immense stress in terms of how much you have to trust other people… Well… I'm not sure where any of this was going so I'm going to finish off this update.

Both the power control unit and the new server for some of the live BME functions will be installed this weekend, and with any luck you'll start seeing some really cool stuff soon. Oh, and as well as the WordPress plugin I mentioned earlier, I finally fixed the redirect problem for non-logged in users.

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I totally forgot to mention it!

Thursday, June 15, 2006

I almost forgot to mention that Mike McQuade's (AKA beenthroughit)'s shirt is up in BMEshop. Proceeds from the shirt go to support his training, and as a point of trivia, it's the largest Team BME logo that we've ever printed! Click the picture to get one:

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Good news, everyone! (Professor voice)

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Well, it's not really that good news, but tomorrow an AP7900 Rack PDU goes into our cage so when IAM has trouble like it did earlier we'll be able to power cycle it remotely… Which means longer downtimes as we go from alpha to beta test should be very rare (because we can always do a reboot).

Please support BME if you are able to.

Other than that, I think I'm going to post today's piercing update tomorrow as a part of a double update, as well as the BME Video update that was planned for today.

Oh, that reminds me, here's some funmail I just got:


Received: from [81.9.57.202] ([81.9.57.202]) by
   mail.yandex.ru with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jun 2006
   7:01 +0400 (MSD)
Date:Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:47:01 +0400 (MSD)
From: "naum-2006" <naum-2006@yandex.ru>
Message-Id: <449172E5.000005.10465@webmail9.yandex.ru&rt;
To: glider@zentastic.com
Subject: Read through please

The stupid loony, BEACH, STUPID FAG, I SHALL see I SHALL kill Only from for you in the world awful it is created ! I Russian, I soon shall arrive, wait ! STUPID BEACH

https://zentastic.me/videos/bmevideo-3.wmv
https://zentastic.me/videos/bmevideo-trailer-2.wmv
https://zentastic.me/videos/bmevideo-trailer.wmv

STUPID BEACH, STUPID FAG , I KILL YOU , STUPID FAG

Anyway…

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What is your pleasure?

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

For those of you wondering what the new box is, it's a 3.2 GHz Dual-Core Pentium with 4 gig of memory and a combination of attached and internal RAID arrays totalling about 1.5 TB of usable space (and about 900 gig of that is on a separate server capable of doing all of its own image serving). I've watched it under a variety of load situations, and Apache rarely breaks past 10% of CPU use. Over the next couple weeks I'll be adding features and expanding the user capability, so if you have features you'd like to see put in place, now is a good time to tell me.

Fingers crossed that it's not a “too good to be true” situation, ha.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Reminder: We will be taking IAM offline this evening to move everything (well, your user files — diaries and forums mostly) to the new server. Tomorrow morning I'll give it a final round of testing (CT has already got it 99% working), and then it gets turned back on and growth and new feature development can re-begin.

Sorry to anyone who had problems accessing all the sites last night; apparently one of Cogent's main lines went out. Sheesh. Problem after problem. It sucks because it's made some of the updates this week and last a bit smaller than usual (so please, re-submit your pictures if you didn't see them post or there was in issue). Some people say the Internet is choking under unexpected types of usage…

Anyway, sorry to keep you updated with grody vaginal-esque photos of the inside of my mouth, but here's day four of my uvula piercing (I post them here because it's the easiest way for me to submit them to BME and write the captions and all that). It's doing fine, is barely sore, and my only worry continues to be keeping it clean. I've tried brushing it and scrubbing it with a q-tip but it moves around too much so I think I'm going to have to grab a clamp so I can hold it while I'm doing this. There's very little buildup so far but it's enough that it needs to be dealt with.

(That's just a spit bubble on the left side but you can see some plaque around the bead on the right).

I'd definitely say that if you want this piercing you should not only be in 100% control of your gag reflex (I can make myself vomit or stop vomitting just by thinking about it), but perhaps more importantly, have good dental hygeine. It's weird, I was talking to a friend the other day and they thought it was eccentric that I flossed, and that my gums didn't bleed when I brushed my teeth. Seriously! Brushing and flossing is important if you want your teeth to last. My teeth are a bit smoke-yellow in tone and I have a few chips (mostly from various tongue modification experiments), but they're fairly healthy and my mouth is clean I think (and simply having this piercing makes me more conscious of drinking regular amounts of water and paying closerattention to my oral health).

Anyway, I feel a little better this morning (I felt messed up on Sunday night) but I think it might be because I took a Lorazepam to help me sleep (still woke up at 4AM) and it's still in my system a little so I'm calmer. Sometimes I wonder if I should write all my medical stuff here in this little blog, because I've seen all these articles about how potential employers, contacts, whatever, tend to do searches for your name in Google so anything you write about yourself can be used against you (to say nothing of the CIA using the mega-sites like MySpace to do aggressive “social mapping”)… But I figure anyone that would ever work with me would know that I'm a bit weird, and would hire me for my eccentricities and abilities to turn those into an advantage rather than keeping me from a job.

Or at least that's what I keep telling myself, ha…

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