Ice Cream Scooper

Look at that picture, tell me what yous see...

That's right, a certain little fatgirl has made it to first place among some 10+ guys in Soldat. Somehow Giselle is Soldat gifted and its funny hearing a bunch of my tourney friends call her a hacker when she plays with them! :D Yea, I've actually been Soldat'n quite a bit. Its really cool when you got a full Soldat server thing going. Now with the third computer (the one I built) I can host a dedicated server there while my mom does some minimum browsing. Then, I don't know why, but I guess it has to do something with Linux, the port actually stays at the one its suppose to be (27073) :D Combine that with my DNS routing at no-ip.com, you can pretty much just click soldat://stealthbarp.no-ip.com:23073 and it should bring you to my server (whens its up of course :P). Its really fun when I get the toureny guys to play, and with 8 people, 2 of em being my sis and I on the LAN with 0 ping, its a blast. I especially love hearing Bleh whine when I throw a knife at him. *Aw...no way..." >:)

I knew it!

It was eventually gonna happen, just like every other blog/journal/diary thing I've tried. I get bored, or distracted and eventually stop. I don't really know why...I do like blogging, but apparently my life isn't exciting enough to write a blog on ^_^. I could write articles and stuff, venting out opinions on stuff, but I don't want to waste my time when no one reads my blog anyway :P I liked the way the blogging at JoeUser.com worked, if I wanted to express an opinion, it would be over there. The main site has a sidebar to the right showing the latest blog posts by everyone. I don't know how blogger chooses its latest blog but I know other people aren't gonna be finding my blog on there. Anyway, I'm usually playing Battlefield 2 and do that for the whole day. So as I said before, my life isn't exciing enough to blog about. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing either. I don't expect to go through dramatic things in my life and if I did, I'd probably talk to God about it and forget to mention it on here :P So yea...right now I'm watching "America's Funniest Hoem Videos" and listening to this guys remix of the "Moon Patrol" game's song. It sounds like he's doing it all with his mouth. You can find a bunch of cool classic game remixes at Ocremix.org.

However, what has happened recently worth mentioning could be:

I have joined the Pasadaran company for this beta campaign of BF2. They're are the spec-ops group of the division. I had to leave Bandar, formerly known as Al-nida, which sucked, cuz they're a lot of fun to be with. But hopefully Pasadaran will allow me to work up some more skills, or allow whatever skill I have to be put to use.

I have gone through...3 distributions of Linux on my laptop already. I had updated my laptop only to get its wireless connection messed up. So, I tried Suse 9.2, only to find it didn't want to start up the X display, which meant I had to do everything through a command prompt. Screw that and I downloaded, burned, and installed the 3 CD Mandrake 2005 LE. This is a nice looking distro, unfortunately it had trouble with my wireless adapter (Intel PRO/wireless 2200BG) and the support for the distro really only comes if you pay for it (it is a commercial distro) so I wasn't able to figure it out. Then I tried Debian, the small FTP install version, only to find that it wasn't detecting my CD drive. I could've installed it using an older 2.4 kernel, but I wanted the newer 2.6, and following a guide I found online didn't worked so I screwed that one too and reinstalled Kubuntu, which has been the only distro to detect everything fine. The only thing is that I have to update my wireless card's firmware and drivers, which is easy with this nice HowTo this guy on the Ubuntu forums made. Ubuntu has an amazing community with a bunch of info on everything you need, its nice to see such a new distro be supported so well, and all for free. Either way, I updated it again and I lost my eth1 (wireless card) network connection again -_-. This time however, I posted it on the forums and expect a solution. I'm eagerly awaiting the next release of Ubuntu, Breezy Badger, which has a goal to completely support Dell laptops (Toshiba, IBM, and HP too). I'll definitely be downloading that off BitTorrent as soon as it comes out in October.

I'm learning to program with a proffesional language ^_^ I have bought "Learning Python", a book published by the wonderful O'Reily people. I'm about half-way and have learned enough to make some simple programs. In fact, I'm gonna try to make my first one soon. It'll be a playlist converter, that takes the standard .m3u playlists files and turns them into the playlist format used by my Samsung MP3 player, because for some reason, it needs a special type that I can't find a program that does it for me.

And so concludes this long post...I wanna welcome back all my Youth Group dudes and dudetts who came back from Guatemala yesterday! :D HI!

Reached Ultimate Goal in BF2

Toook me 3 weeks and a day, but I have finally gotten my Expert Knife Combat badge ^_^ !!!

Another "out-of-the-blue" update:

Once again I have taken the time out of BF2 to do other things that need to be done, I thought I'd have enough interesting stuff to write about now, hence, why I felt like updating my blog. ;)

First off, as usual I have been playing BF2 :P I have achieved part of my goal and gotten every basic badge! You can check out all my badges from that link I posted some days ago.

Next on the list is on my new expeditions into the programming world with Python. I'm trying to learn this language so that I can then step up and learn Pygame. Before I used to use Game Maker, which is awesome and stuff, but the built-in language won't really work outside of GM. Although I have to say, that learning how to code in GM does help quite a bit in learning a real language like Python, because I know a lot of the terms involved in programming and have a very basic idea on common syntax used. When I learn Pygame I plan on writing up a tutorial for all the GM users who'd like to transition to something they can use in the future. :)

Ok, what else...uh...Casbar is evil. He actually killed me in a head to head knife fight. I am ashamed and shall make trying to get him as my number one victim a priority. ^_^

I upgraded my laptop's memory, and now have 1GB of PC4200 DDR RAM. I got it mainly because Battlefield 2 is a resource sucking game, and 512 wasn't cutting it. It runs awesome now, no more sound stuttering, and loading times are just as quick as my desktop! I also bought another Intellimouse since I hate using the touchpad.

I'm sure there was something else...but I can't remember. So I'll just end with a farewell and blessings to all my Youth Groupians who are leaving/left to Guatemala on the mission trip, prayers to all the British families who have been affected by the recent attack, and some BF2 screenies...

Inside some building... 


Crane map with...stuff 


City map, buildings on fire, fogginess of awesome :D 


Some funny thing that happened to the car!  


Notice the kill stuff on the top-left, I shock paddled a guy during our scrim 2 weeks ago ;) 


I guess I'm taking a picture of the water....dock? I don't know, but look, that's my unlocked medic gun! :D 


Look at the awesome fog/mist effects on this jungle map as I man the guns on the Blackhawk...