I was totally crushing on Halo2 last night. I was playing rumble pit by myself while charlie2 was studying and Boner was taking an exam. I started ranked a 4 but I was totally owning these guys and by the end I was ranked 6. I swear I had a game where I had 25 kills and 2 deaths… but then… Boner got home and we had to play Team Slayer, or as I like to call it. “Boner yells too much and makes me want to punch him in the crotch” we usually don’t do terribly bad at these games but it’s just so close all the time. plus there are only 3 of us and there are 4 people on a team. So half the time we get matched up with a total loser, and that just sucks. I don’t really get the total importance of the ranking system like Boner does. If i’m having fun at the particular time then I’m ok, the ranking is just a bonus. Having said that I don’t want to loose my ranking. Tonight I hope that I will be able to get in some good gaming, I’ve made a playlist that should help me mop the floor with the competition.
Moving along quite nicely
Projects, websitesThis thing is rollin! most everything is working much better that I thought it would. Unfortunatley the RSS reader is broken. But I wil try to fix it tomorrow. In the last hour I got the moblog software to work. Now I can send pics from my phone directly to my gallery. This is awesome. I’ve told wade to like to my blog, maybe he will actually do it… when i get home i will link to it from my aim account, that should bring in some traffic. till then…
I dont really know what I’m doing
Projects, websitesI think i do, but i think i’m just scraping the surface. When I get one thing working on this site i seem to break a couple of other things. The RSS feeds on the right side of the page may or may not be working properly. It would be cool to have them there, but if i have to then I will remove them. I REALLY want to get this MFOP thing to work, its a mobile blogging application that allows you to email pics from your phone right onto the web, it posts them automatically! I would gladly pay the 10 cent email charge to not have to deal with uploading them myself, and it would work from anywhere. But apparently I have chosen the perfect time to get excited about this because his server is down, or moving to a new one. but I will eventually get it working.
The Original Post
Projects, websitesSo I worked on this thing most of the day, and its finally, mostly done! I need to get some little cool points fixed but I think that its good enough to start. I was so excited to start that I’m writing this at 1am when I should be getting in bed cause I have to work in the morning. It seemed easy enough to set up, I had some trouble with some plugins but I was able to fix them. I really want to fix the random gallery image plugin tomorrow… but I am getting tired now… and there is sleeping to be done.
This is Me…
Life, Randomness
Hi, this is me. Mark Schumaker. I am and live in Oakton Virginia for the time being. right now I am a Software Developer (JAVA) for a government contractor in Washington, DC. It’s really boring work there and I probably won’t talk much about it… ever. But being a code monkey allows me to have money, which allows me to live the life I have become accustomed to.
I like things, I tend to buy them. I like to watch horrible sci-fi movies and almost every movie made in the 1980’s. I really don’t have favorite movies, when I’m asked to come up with a list the only one that ever comes up is Star Wars. But that is the default Geek answer. Now since I don’t like being the default anything I have a hard time with that answer. I would say something horrible like “Hudson Hawk” or “Meet the Feebles”. But either A. nobody’s going to know what those are. or B. You are going to be lumped into that “emo, too cool for school, I only play old school NES… myspace” category that I really don’t want to be involved in. So pretty much my favorite movie is whatever one I just finished watching. Because if it’s good enough for me to sit through I probably liked it.
I also have a strange affection for limited edtion things, mostly candy and soft drinks. You can see some examples under Life>>Random. I think that comes from being A. a consumer whore. B. an art major who loves well designed ad campaigns. and C. Easily influenced by advertising. But since I really don’t care I’m fine with it.
So what makes me cool is that I take things from all the groups that I’ve been associated with and mix them all together. I like old school hip-hop, 80’s hair bands, Kelly Clarkson, Punkish Electronica Goth stuff (MSI), Female Metal (Kittie), Christian Rap and I like most of the people who listen to each of those types of music.
I’m just trying to say that I’m unique… just like everybody else.