Subtle Vengeance

Abandoned project is abandoned? Nope! She-who-wears-red would never forgive me if I gave up that easily. After the jump, update on the progress of the KemCal.

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Dramatis Personae:
Sekhmet – Goddess of vengeance, war and death of the ancient Egyptian pantheon
Me – A humble commoner, sworn to worship Sekhmet

Sekhmet: Hey.
Me: Hm?
Sekhmet <kicks my chair>: HEY.
Me: ACK! Um, yes?
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If you’re anything like me, then your idea of a fun saturday afternoon is turning on a rockin’ playlist, dropping a couple tabs of acid, and playing Asteroids until you fall down on the floor convulsing and foaming at the mouth. Well now, for a promotional price of $7.50, you can!

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Okay, okay, I went to the clinic yesterday. Got me some penicillin. Awesome stuff. I already feel much better.

Of course I’m not allowed to touch my wife since last time she had penicillin her heart stopped… but my mouth feels much better! :/

Such a simple statement. And one we often take for granted. After all, pain is abnormal – day to day, we are not in any real pain. That’s why it’s so painful.

Well for right now I do NOT take it for granted. I am fscking thrilled to not feel pain.

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Okay, so I’ve been working hard on this tonight. My plan is to make some form of interactive Kemetic calendar, so people like me can figure out what the heck days to book off work and get blitzed on food and booze. I’ll be releasing it as freeware, donations and gratuities thankfully accepted

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Holy crap guys.

Time to clean out my old drafts! I typed most of this post way back in December. Still relevant. I held back posting it because I wasn’t sure if I really had a message or if I was meandering about the topic. Note to self: turn on safesearch when looking for “overweight wiccans.”

As a son of Sekhmet, people often ask me if I’m going to curse them with Her divine wrath for pissing me off. Okay, that’s a lie. Nobody has asked me that yet. Nobody ever asks me the cool questions. But it’s a great lead-in to what I’m going to talk about.

Now, it’s important to note that not all Pagans do metaphysical work (aka “magic,” or “magick” if you’re a pretentious twat). Likewise, not all metaphysical practitioners (hereafter referred to as “witches”) are necessarily Pagan. I have met Agnostics, Atheists and even a devout Christian who not only believed in but actively practiced metaphysics. In fact, the Christian was the first one who actually identified my, ah, tendency toward psychic vampirism. (More on that later maybe. I’m going was talking about psy-vamps on PCP in February.)

So, I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, and I’ll tell you how I became comfortable with the idea of the left-hand path.

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(21:46:16) Emrys I am going to see what the fuss is over avatar
(21:46:21) James Reinsch ugh
(21:46:23) James Reinsch okay
(21:47:38) Emrys and the ship looks like a scrotum
(21:47:47) James Reinsch lol More »

3 days uptime and counting. Here is the total list of things that we had to do to get my new PC to not randomly freeze:

-flash the BIOS
-switch the CPU (anyone wanna buy a brand-new i3?)
-change the RAM voltage from the default 1.5v to manufacturer-tested 1.65v
-remove the 2nd vid card because SLI on Windows 7 will not happen yet for my parts

Seriously. I am far less impressed than I was with Win7, simply because of the sheer amount of research you have to do to make sure everything will run. In most cases there were no error logs, no repeatable causes, no clues at all beyond some clever google fu.

Extra credit to my beautiful wife for finally figuring out the CPU issue.