Fragu, ramblings
In online gaming you normally use an alias to identify your character. Years ago when I was cutting my teeth in multiplayer FPS (first person shooter) games I came up with a nickname that I used exclusively for a long time, FRAGU. In these games, when you killed somebody, it was often referred to as a “frag”, I simply added a U to the back of it. I thought it was catchy. I thought it was catchy enough that I actually had the domain www.fragu.com registered for at least 5 years. I had dreams of the catchy name somehow blossoming into some sort of internet phenomena. Well it
never happened and fragu.com has since been snapped up by one of those lowlife domain snatching companies. However the fragu.com web site probably received the most attention from me of any I ever did from an appearance standpoint. I tried to make it just look cool. I stumbled across it yesterday, which is what brought this diatribe on. You can see the site here.
The image on the left is from Painkeep. It is a screenshot just before I got sucked into a gravity well. When I worked at Sovereign we had some incredibly fun Painkeep marathons. Those were the days.
I am still hooked hardcore into Heroes. It is getting better and better as the they are showing the heroes using their powers more and more. I only have one complaint and it is surely a result of the shows popularity, there are more and more commercials. With the Tivo commercials are skipped over in a few seconds, however the abundance of these ads cuts down on the duration of the actual show. It annoys me, I want more show.
The American Idol voting shows have started. We are now in the incredibly annoying stage of the show where it is on 3 nights a week and gobbles up five hours if you want to see it all. Last night’s male performances were not fantastic. There was a very funny moment when the fat guy that looks like Jack Osbourne, whom surprisingly sings pretty well, visibly pissed Simon off. After Simon made a comment saying how he liked the kids personality but thought the singing was only average, the kid made a smart ass comment about Simon and his involvement with the TeleTubbies and El Divo which hit Simon like a rock. He got an angry look on his face that I don’t think I ever saw before and was pretty much at a loss for words. It was a really odd moment.
I got my Sprinkler install book off half.com yesterday. I flipped through it and found several things I did incorrectly, none of which are of huge concern, however I will modify my install routine for the rest of the circuits slightly. We were pleasantly surprised when we got home last night and saw that they came out to mark the utility lines. They didn’t mark the electric however and I got a notice in email saying the electric was not affected by the proposed work. I thought that was odd since the electric line follows the path of everything else, underground from the pole to the house. My assumption is what they meant was the electric line was buried deep enough that we could go down a foot and not hit it. Regardless, digging through that area will be done by hand, a power trencher could wreak some serious havoc.
I got the latest pictures for the sprinkler project online.
WTF has happened to Brittany Spears? Man in the late 90’s and the early 2k years she was about as hot as hot could be. Now she has transformed into rich trailer trash. I have been loosely keeping up with what she has been doing on perezhilton.com I mean it is entertaining to see celebrities unwind I guess, but equally sad. I can’t believe she shaved her head. It’s a shocking visual. It would be nice if she shook off her demons and got it all back together, I’m not holding my breath.
I am going to try to upgrade the blog again today, this time I will be backing up EVERYTHING and following all the advised procedures instead of trying to shortcut it. Wish me luck.