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Quelog here in History class. In some computer lab researching for a research paper (go figure.) Ive been poking around the site some.. and.. uh.. im pretty bored. Snakes new Guardian thing has given me some problems, as Netscape doesnt allow scrolling on the mainpage. Ive got this pos Pentium Pro at 98% system resources. And.. uh… yea, if you have any profoundly useful internet resources concerning the effects of the industrial revolution on the poor in 1810-1860, hook me up.

Once again, check out my photo album for regular updates.. and i swear, Snake, im working on that column Rock on, Bitches!!

Well, this week was certainly interesting. I turned in another damn compbook, worked my ass of in school, got a job, did halloween, had my birthday, got a dcam.. and oh yea! I electrocuted Bleys (Gr)!

I turned in my “Their Eyes Were Watching God” compbook on Monday, after working my ass off all of last weekend.. i winged most of it, in true Quelogian style. Then on Tuesday i had to write a longass Timed Essay in that class, and again on Thursday. That goes along with Thursdays impossible vocabulary test, which i was double damned on because i didnt study for it. Also, i had to read my ass off and study for History, because i had a 60-question AP-style exam, and a hugeass inclass, timed essay about the development of american industry… both on Thursday! Plus for some unknown reason, we’ve actually had to start doing work in all of my other classes. Overall, ive had to bust my ass just to keep up in school! I even turned in incomplete physics homework!

Aside from that bullshit, i got a job! I work 6 hours a week at the library making $10 an hour as a “Youth Computer.. uh.. something.” I go around and make sure that the kids arent screwing things up and that they dont need help. Cant have them flooding the desk with questions, you know. I get a swooby electronic key thing, a cool shirt, and an ID tag. I can go sip coffee in the employee lounge if i want! What rocks most about it is what i had to do to get the job… nothing! Thats right, bitches.. i didnt have to go job-hunting.. they called me! I just sat around on my ass! Beat that, mofos!

And on Wednesday, of course, it was Halloween! I call it “The athiest’s christmas.” We built up the front of the appartment with a whole display.. fake stone blocks, castle front, impaled and disemboweled dummies! I hid inside of the fake castle front behind a wall with a little door in it.. wore a horrible mask and poped out at people.. i scared the hell out of them! Plus i had the amplifier on microphone, and a spider tha i dropped from the eves of the roof. It rocked!

So Thursday was my 17th birthday. Youve read above how shitty a day that was! Pretty much all i got was the Digital Camera. Kodak DC3200.. it ownz joo! Shipped in two days, and i tracked it all the way. It was there when i got home, so of course, that was nice. Ive already put lots of pics in my new section in the Photo Album. Check it out on the left.

Oh yea.. and i electrocuted Bleys! We were in A+ and he was looking at a power source on this pos we were working on.. “Look you can see inside of it!” he said, peering into the slits on its side. “Whatever, Bleys..” i retorted.. a moment later i plugged in the power source (from wall to PC). He had leaned his face out, but his hand and the metal blank (slot cover) he happened to be holding were still contacting the power source. BZZZZAP! It arced from his hand into his tongue! We both saw the big spark, which i describe as a misshapen cloud of blue and white. It turned out that he was fine, but he still claims to be able to taste electricity.

This weekend, Im opening my checking account and getting a debit card. Also gonna finally get my learners and start learning how to drive and stuff. Rock on, Bitches, because this mofo is headed for the top!

Yea, Its been awhile since ive posted, so i figured i could just mention some computer stuff thats been goin on for me and Gr-Dragon at school. I guess it kinda relates to S&L. Besides, you all love my marvellous posts, and it’ll help keep Snake off my back about my columns

It’s all got to do with the A+ class we’re taken, known as the STRUT program (STudents Recycling Used Technology.) Long story short: its a class to prepare for the A+ Certification Exam. The skinny: we chill all day and play with computers. Whats been goin down is that today we went to a middle school (or something) to help these 7th and 8th graders assemble computers, for some learning reason. We were hand-picked (along with 3 other mofos) to go on this trip, because we’re “so fuggin good.” We got to miss 2nd hour (PE for both of us) and 4th hour (math for me, who knows/cares for Gr.) We pretty much just stood around and pointed things out and helped when they got stuck. Also saw a server room which was cool, and cool so that the things wouldnt get hot. [Chief Note: Oh, yeh…the things…very detailed, Que.] [Editors Note: Yeh, the things.. the servers, dumbass] [Chief Note: Shit, you could have been talking about 24-port hubs or switches for all I knew, bitch.]

The other thing is this virus at school. Several of the computers in the Media Center (library) are infected and “out of order.” Me and Gr wanted to check hyperiums accounts, so being lazy bitches, we decided to fix the damn things rather than wait around or try to get one from someone else. This relates to A+ because the virus is just like the “Orphan Bomb” virus created by some not alltogether uncool guys in A+ class. Gr went and asked the library bitch-squad about it and they were like “if you can fix em, thats great.” So we went to work. We needed a boot disk (the one he had on him [hey, hackers always carry one around, right? 😉 ] wouldnt work) so we just looked the computers over, and today actually got to work. It was pretty simple after a few mins of working and stuff, the autoexec or something had commands to delete the command directory and some other stuff, then loop “CHS Sucks!” A simple removal of those lines, and boom. Unfortunately, the key files were still deleted, so it wouldnt load windows. What kind of bastards fuck up the computers so that even their fellow techies can’t work on them? Maybe we’ll replace the files next week, but the dumbass school will probably reformat.

So, i guess the moral of the story is that.. err.. um… the moral is that.. that… that news posts don’t have to have morals, bitch!

That’s right, bitches! Ive got a badass new pic! And i fixed my FDD!

The pic is actually a school picture- there is this option where you can get a copy of your image on a disk. The pics came out today, and mine was pretty good! Since I dont have my dcam yet (damn it all!) and my sisters scanner locks my system (damn it all to hell!) this was really my only way to get a new pic of myself. Fortunate that it turned out so good! In order to get this new image onto scorp, I had to fix my FDD.

Yea, so, my FDD has been non-functional for the entire life of ScorpII. I guess I zapped the drive when assembling the rig, or maybe I had it in wrong or something (entirely possible, since my FDD cable isn’t keyed with a notch, and I wasnt sure about whether or not to reverse it, because it was an old cable and an old drive.) Its wierd, though, because it worked well enough with my boot disk when I was first working on ScorpII, and it worked in ScorpI. At first, I really didnt care, because I was so happy to have my rig working at all (see the still-yet-to-be-written Scorpion II column about that.) A little while after the rig was working, I decided to try to fix the FDD. I had 5 floppy drives (I didnt know which ones worked, or if any worked,) 2 FDD cables (do those work?,) and 2 different orientations of cable to worry about. Long story short: I couldnt get anything to work! What a bummer! So, after a few attempts to fix it over the last few months, i finally got pissed off last week and decided to fix it once and for all. After some testing, I was able to find one that worked (actually, the only one that worked.) I thought that i’d fixed it. But alas! It was a funky old drive, so it wasnt made right to fit inside of a modern case- the built-in floppy-front on the bezel had a button that didnt contact the drive, because the button on the drive is flat (the plastic-cap button slides into it.) I put on the plastic-cap tab-like button into the drive and put it back into the drive cage. It worked! The disk would go in and eject properly. So i fired it up. But, damnit, it wouldnt read! I took it apart again, and the drive worked fine! After a few days consideration, I decided that the problem was the position of the drive in the cage, as it related to the bezel. It was too far back in the case, so when you put in a disk and tripped the mechanism that lowers the disk into the reading platform, it didnt go all the way down, because part of the disk was still sticking out of the drive, over part of the bezel. It wouldnt lower into the mechanism properly. It was a type of jam, and very unfortunate, because it was such a minor one. It was too far back in the case, because that button-tab was too long! A few days later (today) I finally got my lazy ass around to fixing it. I was gonna grind down the button-tab or something, but in the spirit of ghetto simplicity, i just bent part of the metal on the drive (the flat part, onto which the button-tab connected. It was parallel to the ground. I used some pliers to make it horizontal ) Success! I put it in and sure enough, it works! After months of a bunk drive, i had finally fixed it!

So, I got the new image onto my system without a hitch. It looked pretty goddamn good! When i showed it to Snake, he decided to touch it up a little. Now the picture is the most badass representation of Quelog yet created by man or machine! Congratulations and thanks to Snake! Head on over to my Bio page and have a gander.. if you’ve got the balls..

I just got my PCG CD and decided to give Red Faction a whirl. When I told Snake, he told me to write up a review on it. With an “arg,” I set off. Installation was fine, but I had to update my video drivers, which means that I had to reset my monitor settings. Anyways, check it out here.

Can it be true? Even more S&L game news? Thats right, bitches! Snake and I just played through episode one of Doom- the entire thing (well, except for the secret level,) on Ultra Violence. It took us about an hour and ten minuites to do it. What a blast! Its been awhile since we doomed it up, and these new rigs and my DSL connection really spiffified things. The only other time S&L played through the entire first episode was when Snake and Loog did it a few years ago. It took em about two and a half hours!

And also, this is the first time Quelog ever made two news posts in a row! This is made possible by the new CGI system. ‘Grats to the Chief! [Chief’s Note: TY, TY!]

Anyways, heres some Screen Shots…

[Chief’s Note: Que forgot to mention that he had the advantage of being the server whilst I had the advantage of being a Doom Master.]