I am sure this is going to be far more helpful than having the Dev’s respond to every thread the fanboy’s start in the forums with “soon”.
Oh, yes.
I think I have found the next thing to knock Redcliff and UV off their high horses for the next Margie-gras.
May I present, Bakon Vodka.
Hey, Kids, look there are even recipies!
And thank goodness we can order it online. =P
I mean really, no.
I for one just cannot see how a BSG MMORPG would even work.
Most established franchise based MMO’s work with the concept of not being within the *Canon* time period, since that just causes a great big huge mess. Both Star Wars games and the Star Trek MMO are either in the future or the past of the Canon franchise, so that the game designers can tweak the Franchise Universe to create classes and missions and such.
Because the idiot Ron Moore completely screwed the ending of his series up, the BSG franchise is pretty much stuck with either playing in the same time line as the shows (Oh, Pick me! I want to kill the Starbuck Angel over and over again!), or before the Cylon’s attack on the 12 Colonies.
Now, if in the Show Time line, most of your mission are going to be fraking Escort Missions, and we know how much fun that is going to be. Or, for Cylon’s your classes will be Raider, or skin job, or ground pounder….not much grouping possibility there…
I just do not get this as even a viable business concept.
Or, how I was a character in my very own Saturday SitCom.
So, Saturday after Noon, Mom called to tell me that after stewing about last the Trout Club deciding to ban Snowmobiles last year, and that because folks keep building expensive houses, so the taxes on the cabin keep going up in big chunks, she has decided to put said Cabin up for sale next month.
Which, while not shocking, was a bit sad, since it really is the last bit of connection that we have to my Step-father.
So, while still pondering that I received another phone call. From this point on the Roll of BD will be played by Jeff from Coupling.
So, the phone rang again and the person on the other end sounded a lot like Margie….as in the way Margie says hello, so my mind clicked and entered in the Concept of Margie. Now, as you could probably say while reading this that the huge series of non-sequiturs really should have been the dead give away, but, as I said, my mind had decided it was Margie and there was no turning back from that point.
So the Conversation with “Margie” went a long as one would imagine…if you were Jeff from Coupling.
“Margie”: Hey, I have a free Hockey ticket tonight, and Kate can’t make it but Vee can.
Me: De? DeAnna?
“Margie”: No, Vee.
BD thoughts at this point: For some bizarre reson, Margie has won tickets at work and some friend from the Land of “F” named Vee is going along as well, and for Some odd Reason, Kate was going but now can’t….got it, right there with you.
“Margie”: So, we are going to meet at the Light Rail station at I25 and Alameda at 5:00.
Me: Okay, sounds good.
So, all is well, I have a nice but too short talk with Mary and I get ready to go, so I call the HK’s to let Margie know that I was heading out.
Dave Answered the Phone, and in a minute long Jeff and Steve level phone conversation of much confusion, it dawned on me it wasn’t Margie that called about Hockey Tickets, but Jackie, sounding a lot like Margie. At this point, Dave handed me off to Margie who found the whole thing very amusing and got much giggling out of the situation (comedy, even).
And yes, the game was a good game…7-3 the Ave’s, with a Hat-Trick from a guy that had been sent down to the Minors back at the start of the season.
I heard a Red Wing trying to remember how to sing this afternoon, and last week it was Gamboling Calves in the meadows along 36.
Next up is the Annual Death of the Fruit Tree Blossom Festival.
In other news, The radio on the way home kept droaning on and on about snow and accidents, and accidents caused by snow and whiteouts.
~shrugs~
I am sure that this may all be true, as soon as it quits raining.
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Well….there you go I guess.
Puppet cleavage a no-no for Colorado Springs bus shelter ads
~GiggleSnortGaffaw~
Okay, so, at this point you are going to have to ask yourself, just how in the world are the folks in the Springs going to be able to handle Puppet Sex or songs like “The internet is for Porn” if they cannot handle Puppet Cleavage?
Eeep!
Somebody needs to warn Miss Piggy!
UPDATE: I seem to remember that the Springs was discontinuing their bus service due to their budget problems…so, isn’t Puppet Cleavage a moot point since no one will be at the bus(t) stops to see said Puppet Cleavage?
So, yeah, you may say to yourself that said project will be easy peasy, all it will take is a lot of upfront work…but you know, that is what working 12 to 14 hour days are for, and it is pretty much what you have done with another set of data for the past 5 years.
But, the thing that you may not be aware of when you decide commit to the project is that Microsoft has screwed you over and you don’t even know it yet. You see, in Microsoft’s infinite wisdom, they decided to not make 64 bit OBDC drivers for the 64 bit platform….well, for everything but SQL, which leaves you SOL if you want to connect to any of the following non SQL formats:
.xml
.txt
.csv
.mdb
.xls
And Oracle
So yes, you read that correctly, Microsoft failed to provide 64 bit ODBC drivers for their own products, but they were so nice to provide 32 bit drivers as part of their 64 bit platform…which does fuck all for your 64 bit programs. I know all this after first trying to connect to the Oracle Database, and then all the possible extracts from it, all for naught.
Thankfully when all I could see was me standing front of a group of VIP’s and explaining to them why I would have nothing to show them, 3 out of 4 of them could not make the meeting.
Huzzah!
A one month reprieve!
And the boss has gone back to our Provider and asked them to provide us with a way to do what he wants that works just the same as the 5000k per seat product that he bought from them, and it sounds like it is going to be exactly like what we were doing with the old product.
~rolls eyes~
So, thank you Microsoft.
Now, a month’s worth of work tossed out, but it will make life easier for the rest of the department to do what the boss wants to have done.
And if you are a Business type, DO NOT buy the 64 bit Win7 platform if you are going to do anything with non SQL databases.
I always chortle with delight when places like Orange County go bankrupt all because of their blind faith in a flawed political concept and I chortle even more when things like this happen to the Springs. Yesterday’s Post had a delightful little story about all the things that the City Governement in the Springs is having to cut because you have a city full of people that hate government and refuse to pay for it.
This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric.
More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.
The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.
Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that.
Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero.
City recreation centers, indoor and outdoor pools, and a handful of museums will close for good March 31 unless they find private funding to stay open. Buses no longer run on evenings and weekends. The city won’t pay for any street paving, relying instead on a regional authority that can meet only about 10 percent of the need.
“I guess we’re going to find out what the tolerance level is for people,” said businessman Chuck Fowler, who is helping lead a private task force brainstorming for city budget fixes. “It’s a new day.”
Some residents are less sanguine, arguing that cuts to bus services, drug enforcement and treatment and job development are attacks on basic needs for the working class.
I love it!
But, it get’s better.
But the 2010 spending choices are complete, and local residents and businesses are preparing for a slew of changes:
• The steep parks and recreation cuts mean a radical reshifting of resources from more than 100 neighborhood parks to a few popular regional parks. The city cut watering drastically in 2009 but “got lucky” with weekly summer rains, said parks maintenance manager Kurt Schroeder.
With even more watering cuts, “if we repeat the weather of 2008, we’re at risk of losing every bit of turf we have in our neighborhood parks,” Schroeder said. Six city greenhouses are shut down. The city spent $19.6 million on parks in 2007; this year it will spend $3.1 million.
“If a playground burns down, I can’t replace it,” Schroeder said. Park fans’ only hope is the possibility of a new ballot tax pledged to recreation spending that might win over skeptical voters.
• Community center and pool closures have parents worried about day-care costs, idle teenagers and shut-in grandparents with nowhere to go.
Hillside Community Center, on the southeastern edge of downtown Colorado Springs in a low- to moderate-income neighborhood, is scrambling to find private partners to stay open. Moms such as Kirsten Williams doubt they can replace Hillside’s dedicated staff and preschool rates of $200 for six-week sessions.
“It’s affordable, the program is phenomenal, and the staff all grew up here,” Williams said. “You can’t re-create that kind of magic.”
Shutting down youth services is shortsighted, she argues. “You’re going to pay now, or you’re going to pay later. There’s trouble if kids don’t have things to do.”
• Though officials and citizens put public safety above all in the budget, police and firefighting still lost more than $5.5 million this year. Positions that will go empty range from a domestic violence specialist to a deputy chief to juvenile offender officers. Fire squad 108 loses three firefighters. Putting the helicopters up for sale and eliminating the officers and a mechanic banked $877,000.
• Tourism outlets have attacked budget choices that hit them precisely as they’re struggling to draw choosy visitors to the West.
The city cut three economic-development positions, land-use planning, long-range strategic planning and zoning and neighborhood inspectors. It also repossessed a large portion of a dedicated lodgers and car rental tax rather than transfer it to the visitors’ bureau.
“It’s going to hurt. If they don’t at least market Colorado Springs, it doesn’t get the people here,” said Nancy Stovall, owner of Pine Creek Art Gallery on the tourism strip of Old Colorado City. Other states, such as New Mexico and Wyoming, will continue to market, and tourism losses will further erode city sales-tax revenue, merchants say.
• Turning out the lights, literally, is one of the high-profile trims aggravating some residents. The city-run Colorado Springs Utilities will shut down 8,000 to 10,000 of more than 24,000 streetlights, to save $1.2 million in energy and bulb replacement.
Though, the money quote in the piece is this:
Community business leaders have jumped into the budget debate, some questioning city spending on what they see as “Ferrari”-level benefits for employees and high salaries in middle management. Broadmoor luxury resort chief executive Steve Bartolin wrote an open letter asking why the city spends $89,000 per employee, when his enterprise has a similar number of workers and spends only $24,000 on each.
Businessman Fowler, saying he is now speaking for the task force Bartolin supports, said the city should study the Broadmoor’s use of seasonal employees and realistic manager pay.
Ahhhh, yes, “Seasonal Employees”…which, in Colorado is code for “Illegal Aliens”, so it looks like it is long past time for ICE to invade the Broadmoor.
But all in all it looks like it is just going to be good times reading about the Springs over the next year as it descends into it’s predictable storm of chaos.
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