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<karlmex> So a friend of mine got back from Amsterdam a few months back, after spending a stint there with a bunch of his mates. Told me quite possibly one of the funniest stories I’ve heard. They had picked up some shrooms and acid, and decided to take it in the wee hours of the morning, and spend the day exploring the city while they tripped…sure enough 20min into it, one of the group vanishes. So, after 7 or so hours of struggling to search for their lost friend, they decide it’d be best to head back to their hotel, sober up, regroup, and go looking when the gears worn off and they’d be of more use.
<tubs> lol k
<karlmex> Anyway, upon arrival at the hotel, surprise suprise they find their friend standing in the lobby, dazed and staring at the ceiling muttering to himself. Understandably they were all pissed off with him for making them worry and bringing their trip down as a result of their half assed search. However all the friend can reply with is “this fucking town is full of gremlins!”… They tried to calm him down and tell him that it was the acid making him hallucinate, to which he replied “I knew you’d say that so I captured one and locked it in the bathroom…”
<tubs> lol?
<karlmex> as you’d expect they thought he was losing the plot, but he insisted they come to his room and look for themselves. So, they head to the room, and sure enough, the bathroom door is baracaded shut with chairs, lamps, mattress and the bed…they’re getting a little worried now, so they cautiously move the furniture away and inch the door open…
<tubs> and??
<karlmex> …Laying on the floor is a 10 year old kid with Down syndrome grinning ear to ear.
<tubs> lol dude that’s fucked up
<karlmex> The mate had come across one of those outing groups or retarded kids - freaked out, balled up one of those poor little bastards carried him back to the room and locked him in the bathroom for proof…
<tubs> lol god man
<karlmex> anyway, luckily the kid had one of those ID cards saying “hi my name is Ted, I live at blah blah” lol so yea, took the poor kid to the lobby, called the cops and did a runner before they arrived lol.

Thoughts.

The entries on this site have changed over the years. In the beginning they were short, note-like ramblings, and often hard to understand unless you knew me well. Then they started to get longer and a lot of emotional beans were spilled. This was in particular when I dated Stine, we were on and off a lot and I sorted to writing to vent my frustration. Probably not the most masculine thing to do, male frustration should historically be vented by starting a war, but writing worked for me.

After I moved to Oslo and Stine finally left my life for the last time - and directly into the arms of her new boyfriend, I have later learned - I started to find my dates on the internet. This was back in the days when internet dating was not yet kosher so it didn’t really attract the most well balanced individuals. In the end, most of the girls I met turned out to be the kind of people who should perhaps spend more time in therapy than on internet dating sites. Don’t get me wrong, some were very nice, not that interesting, but nice.

Then I started dating Gine, my internet adventures became a thing of the past and my entries were completely stripped of anything personal. Why? Because I knew she was reading everything. And by “everything” I mean everything. She knows the archives better than I do myself. We’ve now been together for three years, through good times and bad times.

Now, over the span of those three years, there is of course a lot of personal stuff I have not shared with the world. Some of you might argue that that’s probably for the best, the world could not care less and some things should be left unsaid and unwritten. I totally agree with you, still I feel it’s time to return to the old days of just letting it all out.

I think I’ll keep you hanging there for a while.

OMG! The Server is Downz!!!!!11!

People have a very strange relationship to technology. They expect it to work twenty four seven, three sixty five. I’ll let you in on a little secret. It doesn’t. Sometimes technology goes tits up for no apparent reason. In some cases, it can be disastrous, like when a hospital’s life support equipment stops working. That’s bad, of course, because people on life support tend to die when this happens.

Sometimes when technology start to misbehave, you would, based on how people react, think that hundreds of people are about to die because of it. It’s like entire countries are about to get wiped off the map unless technology starts working properly again right this minute! But that’s rarely the case. It almost happened once, though, back in 1983, when Stanislav Petrov positively identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm. Technology fucked up and the world was almost destroyed. A human saved the day.

Right now the poor people at CCP are struggling with a network issues and EVE Online is unresponsive and offline from time to time. Of course, all the morons are ganging up and screaming at the top of their lungs that CCP fix the problems or it will be hell to pay. Have a look at the forum thread about the issue if you dare. It’s interesting to observe what the interweb anonymity does to some people.

Yes, I can understand that it can be annoying that you can’t play the game right now, and I know that you paid for access. But shut the fuck up and go for a walk instead.

Dead Space Los Angeles.

Even though I’m now 30 years old and have left the happy twenties behind - and probably should focus on getting grown up hobbies like stamp collecting and gardening - I’m still a somewhat active gamer, either flying around in the EVE universe on my Mac or wrestling the PS3 controller.

On the console, I tend to play racing games and after I got the marvelous Logitech G25 racing wheel a while back, it has not turned out to be any less fun to put it that way. The only drawback with the three-pedal, stick shift G25 is that it takes about ten minutes to rig it, so it’s not very friendly to those 15-minute casual gaming sessions, it require a little planning.

The most recent racing game to catch my precious attention is Midnight Club: Los Angeles by Rockstar Games. I played through the demo of the previous Midnight Club game, DUB edition, but it was too arcadeish for my taste. Midnight Club: Los Angeles looks like it might be more of a simulator than an arcade game. It also has a couple of other things going for it. Continue reading "Dead Space Los Angeles."

Beefcake!

I’ve now been going to the gym for almost a year. Ever since I started, my focus has been cycling and running, but now I’ve decided to walk down to the first floor of the building and work on my upper body muscles as well. Just writing that feels unnatural in a way. I’ve always been that skinny guy, my bones are unnaturally small for my age and when I registered to do my mandatory military service when I was 19, the guy handing out equipment told me I had the smallest head he’d ever seen. Way to go to boost a guy’s self esteem, dude!

Despite the size of my head, though, the army managed to teach me how to maim and kill.

At the gym it’s possible to get instructions from people who know how to work out correctly. When you feel you need it, simply book half an hour with one of them. And it’s all for free. Then again, with the monthly fee they are charging, I should be able to have someone do the actual workout for me as well. I’ve had a half an hour session with one of the guys and he showed me what kind of equipment to use and how to use it. For now I’m mostly trying to do things right and to get a good balance between the number of repetitions, sets and the weights used. Continue reading "Beefcake!"