Surreality TV

Seriously, FOUR? It took four hours to drive from Reston to FedEx Field for last night's U2 concert. If they hadn't started late, instead of missing the opening act (Muse, whoever the hell they are) and the first U2 song, we'd have missed half the main act. Google Earth is confirming the route I took as the shortest at 37.4 miles (with an estimated driving time of 46 minutes, ha ha, I gave us two hours) by taking the Dulles Toll Road to the Capitol Beltway and taking the north side of the beltway to the stadium exits for the north side parking lots.

Dear Maryland: Fuck you and your lack of capacity (we were moving fine until we crossed the Potomac, then everything went to shit, and it was primarily normal commuter traffic).

At least it was a good show.

Fuck you Sun. Fuck you too, NetApp. You can both die in a fucking fire.

Go to Hell, don't come back.

Fuck you Sun. Fuck you too, NetApp. You can both die in a fucking fire.

Go to Hell, don't come back.

...To stop fucking with Java. I have this NetApp that is administered via Java applets, most of which don't even pretend to work with versions of Java six months prior to whatever release of ONTAP you're using on your NetApp. I've spent the last while building a VM that I will not patch, and can only hope the NetApp will feed me whatever Java version it works with when I connect to it. If it sends me to Sun, I'm going to jump off the fucking balcony. Or, better yet, I'll throw the fucking NetApp off the balcony.

I'm not sure who I hate more, Sun for breaking shit with every subsequent Java release, or vendors who rely on this fucking shit and make my job impossible without it (there's a lot I can do from the command line on this thing, but some things can ONLY be done via the Java GUI that of course doesn't even pretend to try and work).

Until I recently bought the GeForce 9800 GTX+ I have now, I hadn't given you any of my money since back in June of 2000. My recent purchase reminds me WHY.

The fucking thing is unstable as hell. The Witcher? I will apparently never get to finish this game, since you will not run it for more than about half a minute before you crash to the desktop with a driver error. Crysis? As long as I only want to see it in DX9, everything is great! DX10, not so much. Anything running on the HL1 engine is random; sometimes Counterstrike will run for hours glitch free and then I'll be looking at driver crashes every few minutes. HL2 based games run fine, however. Other things are just as random, where they either run fine, run fine for a while at random, or are totally unplayable. And these are games with a fucking Nvidia logo spammed into their start up cinematics, like Neverwinter Nights, which your hardware can't seem to reliably deal with.

And I'm sure by this time next year, you will have abandoned me on the driver update front as well, since you orphan hardware like it's going out of style.

Next upgrade cycle? It's back to ATi.

Until I recently bought the GeForce 9800 GTX+ I have now, I hadn't given you any of my money since back in June of 2000. My recent purchase reminds me WHY.

The fucking thing is unstable as hell. The Witcher? I will apparently never get to finish this game, since you will not run it for more than about half a minute before you crash to the desktop with a driver error. Crysis? As long as I only want to see it in DX9, everything is great! DX10, not so much. Anything running on the HL1 engine is random; sometimes Counterstrike will run for hours glitch free and then I'll be looking at driver crashes every few minutes. HL2 based games run fine, however. Other things are just as random, where they either run fine, run fine for a while at random, or are totally unplayable. And these are games with a fucking Nvidia logo spammed into their start up cinematics, like Neverwinter Nights, which your hardware can't seem to reliably deal with.

And I'm sure by this time next year, you will have abandoned me on the driver update front as well, since you orphan hardware like it's going out of style.

Next upgrade cycle? It's back to ATi.

Finding a theater that WASN'T showing Coraline in 3d. I think there my be three in the entire DC metro area.

Those of us with monocular vision require 2d screenings, and my wife says that wearing 3d glasses over regular glasses is massive suckage.

So, even if you CAN do 3d, how about do those of us who can't or would prefer not to deal with it a favor and do a 2d screening along side the 3d?

Or die in a fucking fire while I wait and just Netflix it when available.

The movie itself, while not a straight adaptation, is great.

Is just another day, really, but there's a remake of the movie by the same name opening today as well it seems.

Except, it isn't.

I keep seeing the infamous hockey mask in the ads.

The hockey mask and the undead psycho killer (run run run away) didn't show up in the first movie. The original Friday the 13th isn't about Jason. He's just the poor kid who had to die to piss his mother off enough to kill anyone and everyone in the general vicinity as gruesomely as possible.

Quit fucking with my childhood you fucking gimps.

Is just another day, really, but there's a remake of the movie by the same name opening today as well it seems.

Except, it isn't.

I keep seeing the infamous hockey mask in the ads.

The hockey mask and the undead psycho killer (run run run away) didn't show up in the first movie. The original Friday the 13th isn't about Jason. He's just the poor kid who had to die to piss his mother off enough to kill anyone and everyone in the general vicinity as gruesomely as possible.

Quit fucking with my childhood you fucking gimps.

The video card in my machine at home dying yesterday.

This is only the second hardware failure I've had in a machine that wasn't memory or a hard drive over the last 15 years.