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Mon May 26 00:40:06 2003

Does it work?


Fri May 23 22:16:58 2003

WTF?!?

-FOP


Tue May 20 07:07:39 2003




Tue May 20 07:07:50 2003




Tue May 20 07:10:38 2003

I think this works again. Stupid OpenBSD, Apache, and chroot.

-FOP


Tue May 20 10:10:58 2003

Snoogins!
-bf


Sun Nov 3 03:24:45 2002

I can ball a jack
I can lay a track
I can pick and shovel too
I can do anything you hire me to


Thu Oct 31 04:55:55 2002

Big costume halloween PaRtee 111 Echo St around 6-ish
-bf


Thu Oct 31 04:56:29 2002

Oct 26th (tommorrow)
-bf


Thu Oct 31 04:57:49 2002

Even though beast seems to think that today is Halloween.
-bf


Mon Oct 28 12:14:08 2002

Bah. -Hungarian_Soda


Wed Oct 23 16:34:48 2002

I'm pretty sure many people, myself included are pretty upset about the current political situation. I could of course pontificate for pages on this subject, but I think this one picture sums everything up just nicely. If the economy continues to jump the shark like it has been, this might be me in a year or so. :>
However people reading this now might be thinking this is what I sound like right now. Boo Hoo you great big sweaty pimento loaf you big whiner.
--Hungarian_Soda


Wed Oct 23 16:37:40 2002

I'm pretty sure many people, myself included are pretty upset about the current political situation. I could of course pontificate for pages on this subject, but I think this one picture sums everything up just nicely. If the economy continues to jump the shark like it has been, this might be me in a year or so. :>
However people reading this now might be thinking this is what I sound like right now. Boo Hoo you great big sweaty pimento loaf you big whiner.
--Hungarian_Soda


Wed Oct 23 16:48:06 2002

I'm pretty sure many people, myself included are pretty upset about the current political situation. I could of course pontificate for pages on this subject, but I think this one picture sums everything up just nicely. If the economy continues to jump the shark like it has been, this might be me in a year or so. :>
However people reading this now might be thinking this is what I sound like right now. Boo Hoo you great big sweaty pimento loaf you big whiner.
--Hungarian_Soda


Wed Oct 23 16:50:25 2002

I'm pretty sure many people, myself included are pretty upset about the current political situation. I could of course pontificate for pages on this subject, but I think this one picture sums everything up just nicely. If the economy continues to jump the shark like it has been, this might be me in a year or so. :>
However people reading this now might be thinking this is what I sound like right now. Boo Hoo you great big sweaty pimento loaf you big whiner.
--Hungarian_Soda


Wed Oct 23 16:52:04 2002

I'm pretty sure many people, myself included are pretty upset about the current political situation. I could of course pontificate for pages on this subject, but I think this one picture sums everything up just nicely. If the economy continues to jump the shark like it has been, this might be me in a year or so. :>
However people reading this now might be thinking this is what I sound like right now. Boo Hoo you great big sweaty pimento loaf you big whiner.
--Hungarian_Soda


Wed Oct 23 16:54:46 2002

I think I broke the update page again... --H_S


Mon Sep 30 19:18:54 2002

Greetings from Tokyo, all! I don't really have much to say, but figured that I should post something from Japan while I had the chance.

Mike


Thu Sep 5 02:53:59 2002

BBQ on Sunday! Be there or I will have Adam beat you. -bf


Sat Aug 24 15:29:58 2002

Some waterskiing pics are up at MrSpock.org
-bf


Sun Aug 11 18:05:39 2002

Check out the HUGE number of Comic Con 2002 pictures on Mark 4
-bf


Thu Aug 8 00:57:41 2002

On our way to the Con. Mike was the N+1 passenger, so he bumped someone on standby.
-The Comic Con Crew


Sun Aug 4 09:42:04 2002

Happy Birthday, Genica!


Tue Jul 30 02:17:01 2002

They Might Be Giants are playing The Catalyst tonight. Be there or be Triangle Man.


Thu Jul 18 03:26:37 2002

LoungeNet's last BBQ was HUGE! People showed up who I hadn't seen in years, Richard, Lawrence, Heather and tons more. Thanks to everybody for making the party a success. Check out the pictures.
-bf


Sun Jul 14 11:09:25 2002

" “Sexual penetration” means cunnilingus, fellatio, or any intrusion, however slight, of any part of a person’s body or any object manipulated or inserted by a person into the genital or anal openings of the body of another, including sexual intercourse in its ordinary meaning."

I find this definition boring, unimaginative, and very focused on penetration, which is a heterosexual male active and female passive view of sex. Under this definition someone playing with breasts or providing a hand job to a penis would avoid a definition of sexual penetration and thereby not be a sexual act since this was the main line about defining sexual acts as far as sexual assault is concerned in Nevada.

The page on California had facts meant to scare and outrage saying that adults impregnate most teen mothers.

-FOP


Sun Jul 7 09:16:22 2002

Today's Sinfest brought home that Loungenet is not doing enough to promote happiness in the world. With such people as Ashcroft, Bush, and Simpson, and Horsley free on the America streets we need to do our part in getting Borris laid. To achieve this goal we sincerely request that all women provide us with:
  • Name
  • Contact Information
  • Height
  • Eye Color
  • Measurements
  • Favorite Sex Position
  • A line that always works on them
We appreciate your help in this time of terror, fear, and need.

Da lounge
P.S. If you disagree with or find any part of this posting offensive you are un-American and unpatriotic, you tax paying war mongering pinko tofu eating Muslim Christian conservative senior executive hippy.




Sun Jul 7 11:54:43 2002

I've had a revelation. A Bug's Life was actually Seven Samurai. Why didn't I notice that before?


Thu Jul 4 02:11:54 2002

Rock me, Amadeus!


Thu Jul 4 10:23:29 2002

BBQ on Sunday, Woooooo!
-bf


Mon Jul 1 05:45:07 2002

Funny $#!+ about the size of breasts and silly men.

-FOP


Sun Jun 30 08:29:07 2002

I'm done flying back from Paris, and boy are my arms tired!

Mike


Sat Jun 22 18:11:42 2002

WooHoo! USA beat Mexico, how unexpected!
-bf


Thu Jun 20 08:21:29 2002

The newest “The adventures of Barry Ween Boy Genius” is phenomenal. It collects issues four through six of the monkey tales story ark. The story is excellent because we get to see Barry being Barry. Once again there are numerous porn references and constant cussing. Barry and Sarah have interesting things happen to them and their relationship. Barry meets someone he respects and kicks a lot of ass.

A traditional Barry Ween story ark involves a crisis and Barry cleaning it up. The messes that involve his friends bring out a caring Barry and not the “fuck you and everyone you know” that exist in the other stories. This is a story about his friends and I think the best overall story so far. One aspect that helps the story is its length which is more then just one comic. Judd doesn’t have to rush to fit the entire story in one comic and this slower pace increasing the quality.

Judd’s afterword tries to diminish the story ark as a hodge podge of borrowed cultural references and “crass commercialization,” but I agree with his conclusion that this story is the best Barry so far because he’s had time to develop his characters and their stories.

I suggest picking up and reading all of the other Barry Ween stories first for their flavor and humor. Issues one to three of monkey tales are important for introducing characters.

Juss Winick has a website, check it out.

I also picked up and read “I Never Liked You” by Chester Brown. It’s a tale of someone who just can’t seem to get love and life right. He does an excellent job portraying the frustration and awkwardness of being a teen.

-Fop


Mon Jun 3 09:34:31 2002

I affirm the link between women and Jetta’s. Trina introduced me to the term “Marina Girl.” Princess, Jetta driving, Muni riding, San Fransiscoite that lives in that district. She is the popular girl that many people secretly hate and never quite left sorority life behind as the smell still waifs around her. We suspect that one ate next to us in an Italian restaurant in North Beach who had a host that alternated their attention towards Trina and I. The “Marina Girl” was tall, skinny, talked a lot, looked slightly annoyed, with sculpted trendy hair, and had a full length leather jacket, but a few of these are probably blamed on the fight she appear to be in with her companion. The “Marina Girl” was much better then the person at the next table who said Harvard every five minutes. And I’ve had a second person tell me about Craig’s list. Trina took me to it me while Heather just mentioned it. I should investigate more since Heather thought I was a freak for not knowing about it. If I am a freak hopefully it is for many reasons, not one. My newest favorite hero for her two articles on Salon maintains a blog that is quite fun. -FOP p.s. The system clock is off.


Sat Jun 1 08:47:12 2002

BUSTED!


The local press has finally caught on to our plan: "World awareness that movie food prices are too damn high and that you should buy your dinner and eat it in line instead". We're gonnna have to switch it up on 'em, you know, flip mode.

-bf


Thu May 23 08:39:50 2002

I watched Attack of the Clones today and some thoughts have percolated to this board.

I predict that movie theaters will either upgrade to digital projectors or they will tell Lucas not to film a digital movie again because the conversion from digital to 35mm sucks.

No one seems to car that the bounty hunter used to create the clone army also worked for the separatists.

No one seems to care that a clone army was created before it was ever decided that the republic needed an army.

Jedi came across as evil secret police in this movie. They walk around in dark robes, have a special library, a huge citadel, and get to say 'Jedi business' and everyone seems okay with that.

There was a good chance Yoda had a clone of himself made. He is way to important to be left alive.

-FOP


Tue May 7 22:21:31 2002

Yum. Creamy. -HS


Sat Apr 27 13:46:30 2002

Apparently my housemate's decided that he wants to live in Korea for a year before he takes off to Grad-School, so there'll be an opening up here soon at Loungenet Annex North. (That's Pretty much Berkeley) Anyone know someone decently clean and not a poop-head who's looking to move Bayward let me know. -Hungarian_Soda


Sat Apr 13 11:29:35 2002

We're getting the floor refinished here at the lounge. We've been scattered to the four winds while men with belt sanders and flammable chemicals do horrible things to our living room. Should be exciting. And we get to be extra vigilant about Kyle's no-shoe rule.


Mon Apr 1 21:26:18 2002

Our very own Johnnie makes us proud in his very own blooperz reel. If you don't recognize him, he's the skiier that thinks he can fly.

-bf


Wed Mar 20 18:20:09 2002

If you love ninjas and think they are totally SWEET (and love them with your whole body, even your pee pee), click here:Real Ultimate Power!!!
(Genica sez: "don't forget to listen to the ninja sounds, they're sweet!!"
Adawg


Tue Mar 12 00:22:46 2002

The new smaller and more interesting version of Kyle's B-day is up here
-bf


Sat Mar 2 09:23:48 2002

Check out Kyle's b-day pics in raw content, I'll make a page with smaller pictures at some point.

-bf


Tue Feb 26 14:12:26 2002

I'm throwing a shindig at the Averitt house in Santa Cruz on March first. Snacks, drinks, games, talking, people, and a good time. Since a lot of people have work and such things over the hill things will probably get going around 8 or 9.

See you then.

-Kyle


Fri Feb 22 11:57:01 2002

A rant/FAQ worthy of loungenet. Goth, scarry, right?

-FOP


Tue Feb 19 18:24:34 2002

You should all read Death to all Cheerleaders if you didn't check out the link on Slashdot. It's hilarious in a disturbingly realistic sort of way.

-bf


Sun Feb 17 17:19:55 2002

Hi from Divij, Marina, and Lucas. Divij and Marina each are currently living in San Jose, but Lucas (being a Berkeley alum) lives in Hayward. Do any of us ever leave the area we came from?


Thu Feb 14 11:56:17 2002

Wishing everyone a happy venereal disease day.

-FOP


Wed Feb 13 15:54:32 2002

Becky finally developed the pictures of when my apartment burned down. I had remarkably little to do with them. Michael bought the camera and took the pictures, and Becky got them developed because she noticed the mind-bending speed with which I was getting the job done.

Now I just have to con Brian into scanning them in and making yet another LoungeNet gallery for people to look at.

SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...




Wed Feb 13 16:57:22 2002

The weather is good, the ladies are hot and the beer is cold...Tell everyone I say "Wassssaaaapp!"
-Boris


Fri Feb 8 00:13:23 2002

"Are we not Men?"
"No! We are Devo!"


Wed Feb 6 20:07:12 2002

Praise be!

The protected left-hand turn at Mission + Laurel is now fully functional! Three cheers for progress.
--k


Sat Feb 2 00:19:18 2002

Introducing the Anti-V-Day party put on by the Omino crowd. Wear something that glows.
-bf



Fri Jan 25 13:30:37 2002

We lived through the trip to San Francisco to see Concrete Blonde. I had fun, and I think everyone else did too.

Between Adam's general cluefulness and my recent adventure here, we didn't even need our Zen Navigation to get in or out of the city. I'm sure this pleased Genica to no end. =)

SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...




Wed Jan 23 01:48:38 2002

Save Invader Zim !
Sign this petition to Nickelodeon

-BF


Wed Jan 23 01:50:11 2002

If you haven't seen any Invader Zim then check this page out
-bf


Fri Jan 11 14:22:01 2002

Fire on campus! They've closed down 'bout half of Science Hill, creating much confusion amongst... everyone.

Of course, my classes are all in Earth + Marine... yay. No holiday for me.
--k


Fri Jan 11 20:28:12 2002

The campus newspaper has a more complete story,complete with blazing pictures and commentary.
--k


Wed Jan 9 21:07:15 2002

Check out Fatboy Central for some more SC people you may or may not know. You can even get an account for the low price of YOUR SOUL! (Loungers get a special half off price)
-bf


Mon Jan 7 23:45:38 2002

ski pics are up Here
-bf


Sun Dec 30 22:38:24 2001

The beast needs ntp, almost as badly as the beast needs content. On the last power outage, the beast thought it was two weeks in the future.

Too bad it feels too much like work. Don't people maintain these web-type-things for fun out there, somewhere? How do they do it?
--k


Wed Jan 16 14:25:37 2002

Mandatory for all Loungers: You MUST go see Lord of the Rings at least twice!

->BF


Sun Dec 23 20:29:32 2001

Note to self: Don't put one of those little zip-ties around your finger. If you do, make sure there's a set of wire cutters handy. Trust me.

SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...




Wed Nov 21 03:14:06 2001

Ah Hah, my promises are not empty, I've added Sarah's b-day pictures to Mark IV
-B


Tue Nov 20 10:47:26 2001

I will hopefully be adding more pictures soon!

-B


Wed Oct 31 10:27:18 2001

RAR!!! HALLOWE'EN is sCarY!!!


Sun Oct 7 20:24:48 2001

Are you proud to be an American?

Why?

Think about that, and please remember it. If you have any patriotic sense remaining, cling to it, and flesh it out. Reason with it, until it makes sense.

Think about what is now being done in the name of America, and remember it. Remember that this tarnishes the image of America as a whole. Remember that there is no simple answer, regardless of what you want that answer to be.

Reconcile this with your patriotism. This is a very important thing for you to do. If you cannot, you may not be alone; if you are not alone, there may be a lack of support for our government; if there is no support for our government, why is it acting in our name?

If you can make that reconciliation, congratulations. I don't know whether you're in the majority or the minority, but at least you took the time to think about it. Not many people are doing that anymore. Thinking, I mean.
--k


Mon Sep 24 21:21:35 2001

Simple things to remember when one goes about one's daily life:

(1) The bathroom is never colder than when one is without one's towel.

(2) If you can't see something, it can't see you.

Please note that both of these situations imply that you should strive to be a frood, and always know where your towel is.

(3) Graduate-level physics requires some sort of prior knowledge of advanced physics.

(4) A hammer is an essential tool for the skilled technician, no matter what field they work in.

Please note that both of these situations involve bludgeoning.
--k


Sun Sep 23 02:44:40 2001

They Might be Giants were awesome in concert! And by the way, how did Nicole bounce for 4 hours straight, I think she even out-bounced Sarah!?

-BF


Wed Sep 12 20:42:13 2001

"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..."
-John Lennon

-BF


Wed Sep 5 01:58:58 2001

It's all you guys' fault. I had to go out and buy Diablo II and the expansion pack. You bastards. Necromancers rock. -Hungarian Soda


Tue Sep 4 23:45:38 2001

The Lounge recently experienced a few technical difficulties, probably due to some good healty Santa Cruz power spikes. But thanks to a new AT power supply and some hot screwdriver action The Lounge is once again as fresh as an anchovie cottage cheese sandwich on a hot summer day. Mmmm mmm! -B


Tue Aug 28 14:33:04 2001

I think you should try to convice them that SSX is much more productive than Java Beans training. Maybe you could work on making web-based SSX for the Palm Pilot.
-BF


Tue Aug 28 23:54:36 2001

Yo y'all, check out geek.org, it's like a community of Santa Cruz geeks or something -BF


Mon Aug 27 13:47:37 2001

Ugh. I have to be at work tomorrow at 8:30am for Enterprise Java Bean training. Oh, the humanity! Woe! Woe is me!

SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...




Thu Aug 16 12:44:55 2001

Greets from SIGGRAPH 2001! So far so good here. I've been having a good time and going to lots of interesting lectures.

High Points:
"Procedural Modeling of Cities" paper...highly nifty
Visibility class...a little redundant at times, but informative
99% naked booth babes (really...all they were wearing was thong underwear)
Eddie George's 6500 rushing yard season (I've been playing lots of NFL 2K1)

Low Points:
Messed up short film with a sliced in half guy crawling around and bleeding a lot
DirectX 8.0 marketing pitch cleverly disguised as a class
$7.00 ham sandwich from convention center cafeteria

That's my week in a nutshell. Be home soon. Bye and stuff.

-Luke



Wed Jul 25 23:18:55 2001

New picture in Mark IV, check it out.
-B


Tue Jul 24 15:33:44 2001

Does anybody read this thing anymore? I'm just curious, you know?

SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...




Tue Jul 24 17:43:01 2001

Nope. Don't read it anymore.
--k


Tue Jul 24 23:55:21 2001

You will BOW DOWN to the PS2! We might even have an entertainment center this weekend.

-B


Wed Jul 4 14:19:07 2001

Whelp, it's true. Modem connections still suck rocks.

This is especially true if one cannot make a connection faster than 14.4. Yessir, really slow.
--k


Mon Jul 2 11:36:26 2001

Well, lads, I'm all moved into Da Lounge. It's kinda funky to head for my room door and not the front door when I go to sleep. It also took my half of a dryer cycle to figure out that nobody was going to gank my clothes if I left them there until morning. *sigh*

Moving Kyle and Jennifer's stuff was an adventure. Getting that boxspring up those tiny stairs was quite the challenge, but we loungers prevailed as we mostly do. They've got a window they can climb out of to camp out on the roof of their new house. I'm jealous.

SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...


Sun Jun 17 21:34:25 2001

Ahh yes, my fellow Loungenetter's now as it seems just about all of you have developed a taste for Anime, let me share a little something. Apparently, it looks as if Disney may (heh) have decided to "borrow" most of its newest animated film Atlantis from an Anime done back in 1990, by those people from Gainax, Nadia of Blue Water. Check out the similarites: Here What do you think? -Hungarian_Soda


Sat Jun 2 14:54:25 2001

Mike's apartment, like, went up in smoke and stuff. Nobody was hurt, and a lot of the personal belongings came out OK, but events like that are known to put a crimp in one's month.

Our little community has, of course, over-rallied to his aid. At least our thoughts are in the right place.
--k


Wed May 23 14:54:00 2001

FEAR THE BREADTH OF MY PANTALOONS!


Thu May 10 17:09:32 2001

I did have some sort of worldly topic I was going to rant about, but that was a couple of days ago. I've long since forgotten what it was, but I promise you, it would have been cool.
--k


Mon Apr 30 09:02:10 2001

The loungecam is now the lounge-driveway-cam due to the Big Brother effect. Now loungers can frolic around naked without worrying about closing the shutter. -BF


Thu Apr 26 03:10:05 2001

I bet it was Brian and his mom. Goodbye Pants, Helloooo Nurse! -Hungarian_"Sociopathic Fungus"_Soda


Thu Apr 26 03:10:18 2001

I bet it was Brian and his mom. Goodbye Pants, Helloooo Nurse! -Hungarian_"Sociopathic Fungus"_Soda


Thu Apr 26 03:11:21 2001

Heh. I think I broke it. -H_S


Thu Apr 26 03:17:07 2001

Oops, I think I broke it. Silly me. (Tee hee) -H_S


Thu Apr 26 21:10:03 2001

Yeargh! I'm caught in the evil clutches of Star Trek: Armada. I can tell the clutches are evil because I've given up Fallout: Tactics for it. Can you believe it?

Somebody did a mod for it called Battlestations v4.3 which is quite cool. They re-textured everything, fixed a bunch of models and added bunch of new ships. The end result is a game that's more professional looking than the original cut, and more interesting. The different races are also more distinct, which is nice. They were awfully alike before.

Now, if you'll excuse us, we think we see Worf and the Defiant over there. He will make an excellent drone. The collective must grow. Resistance is futile.

42nd of 1024, Assimilator of Burritos




Wed Apr 25 19:55:12 2001

I doubt anyone is going to check this page in the next 20 minutes, but if they do....tell whoever is on the phone to get the hell off....dammit. Grrrrrr. I'm trying to call the Averitt St. house and I've been getting a busy signal for the last 30 minutes. I hate that.

Luke "Surly little shit" Phillips


Fri Apr 6 10:56:43 2001

Yes, well, Fallout Tactics is all well and good, but what it's really all about is TRIBES 2. I loved the original Tribes. Like a brother. Tribes 2 has its problems (I think there's been 4 patches and the game has only been out a week), but overall it is gaming paradise. Aaron and I logged on to a server together and hunkered down inside our team's generator room and got to some serious defense. I would watch the overhead map on my command circuit and when I saw the little red blips coming in I could call out incoming and Aaron would take up a position in the corner and pull out an appropriately explosive weapon and let loose all hell when the poor soul finally jumped into the basement. That's gaming, dammit.

While I call Tribes 2 paradise, Black & White is nirvana. I think I'll call B&W a "triumph of design", but that doesn't really do it justice either. Whatever. Black & White kicks ass, end of story. Except when my monkey killed a village accidentally. I don't know what Miracle he was trying to do, but he screwed it up and become a simian Angel of Death. You know a game is good when you're away from your computer and you think, "What is wrong with that monkey? I need to be a better role-model to him." Well, that makes a good game for me anyhow.

Finally, there's that game Majestic that's coming out at some point. Frankly, I don't what my game calling me on the phone or paging me. That just seems irritating. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this.


Fri Apr 6 10:58:11 2001

Oops. Bad link. The Majestic link should point here.


Thu Apr 5 20:45:35 2001

Ah yes, the mystical Fallout Tactics. I've made the mistake of being a "tough guy." For those of you that haven't tried it, you don't get to save your game unless you're in a BOS Bunker. That's right, no saving during the missions. Ever.

Thankfully, they're fixing the memory-leak-esque bug that I encountered in the fourth mission... even better than that, they're going to increase the "tough guy" experience bonus to 100% (over 30%). Hot damn! That means I get to start my game over again... that's another good four or five thousand experience right there! And believe you me, when you don't get to save, you need every freaking advantage you can get.

Honestly, I think it adds something to the game. I've noticed that my style of play is totally different from my comrades in arms, those that have the luxury of saving often. The unfortunate side effect is that if I sit down to play Fallout Tactics, I'm sitting down for the next 4-8 hours. That, or my computer stays on overnight. My computer is loud. That makes it hard to sleep. Even though I'm going to start over, I'm going to start over with another tough guy, even after going through four missions of do-over hell. Actually, it wasn't that bad, until I hit the memory leakage in mission 4. I got bitter about that.

You've made it this far; for the tip-hungry out there:
  • You can remove the "bandaged" kick by using the doctor skill. This only works if you are wounded. It will not work if you are at full health.
  • You can trade items with your party members by dragging the item to their name or to their icon on the screen, so long as you are close enough. After the patch, you'll be able to use the steal skill (ala Fallout 1) to move things in bulk amongst your party members.
  • The EAX audio support contributes mightily to the memory leak problem. Besides, the 2-channel stereo mode sounds better.
  • Shotguns rock your gourd.

--k


Fri Mar 30 01:17:12 2001

Yes, I can officially verify that Fallout Tactics can be deemed "Captian Time Kill." The third mission sucks. If anyone has a better way of managing your team's inventory other than just dropping stuff on the ground and picking it up, could you hit me with that appropriate clue by four. Thanks.
-Hungarian Soda


Tue Mar 27 12:31:26 2001

Woot! A full week after getting my copy of Fallout: Tactics, I finally had enough free time to play through the first mission as a Tough Guy. Now I just have to not be eaten by radscorpions...

SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...




Tue Mar 20 12:08:20 2001

Fallout Tactics has arrived...
and we are changed.

-Fist o' Pain


Mon Mar 5 21:24:20 2001

hehehehehe... must stop laughing to type URL... hehehAHhehaheehee... Institute of Official Cheer... HOOOhaaHAAHAAhoohaa! -B


Sun Feb 25 03:31:06 2001

Hey look everybody it's time for the adventures of Allen Greenspan H4x0r Economist w00t!. -Hungarian_Soda


Sat Feb 24 15:08:13 2001

How are you gentlemen !!

I finally got the DNS stuff switched over to my real ISP, so poor Kyle's abused boxen don't have to do it. Therefore, you should be able to get to Cosmonaut.org without any trouble. Not, of course, that there's anything to see.

All your base are belong to us.




Wed Feb 21 10:30:24 2001

I haven't updated the webpage in a long time. It's about time I did.

-A-dawg


Tue Feb 20 08:01:14 2001

Heh.

All your base are belong to us.
--k


Sun Feb 18 04:34:13 2001

Oooooh....Shenmue II screenies are starting to pop up on the web. I like this. I like this a lot. Shenmue was a game for the Dreamcast. You had to avenge your father's murder...in Japan...in the 80's. And you had to not get caught up helping old ladies and getting a girlfriend and setting the neighborhood punks straight and drinking sodas and buying lightbulbs...but I digress.

The great thing about Shenmue was that it did a good job of creating believable characters and environments. At one point in the game you need a lightbulb because the one in the basement is burned out and it's dark...I tried stealing lightbulbs from every light fixture but never hit on the obvious solution: go to the store and buy a damn lightbulb. I dunno, I just liked that. Oh, and there was the forklift races. That was cool too. And so was all the fighting.

Anyway, Ryo Hazuki is back, and he's in China, and he's going to continue kicking ass and stacking crates...well, I hope he's over the crate stacking thing because that got a little boring.



Fri Feb 9 16:14:33 2001

Huzzah! Grace returns from the body shop three days early. They did a really good job, too. It looks good as new. Check it out if you get a chance!

SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY




Wed Feb 7 11:56:49 2001

What a week.

There's this flu/cold thing running around claiming victims by the thousands in Santa Cruz. Er, OK, maybe not thousands, but it's hit 4 out of 5 people in my unit at work, Jennifer's had it for the past week, Genica just got sick with it, Adam's got a cough... when will it end? Is this the armageddon that 12 Monkeys foretold?

Probably not. None of us have flopped over dead. Yet. If we do, I'll blame Terry Gilliam. He's cool like that.

--k


Wed Feb 7 21:29:43 2001

Not just Santa Cruz dood, just about everyone at my place of employment is either getting it, or getting over it. I'm just getting over it today. :/ -Hungarian Soda


Mon Feb 5 15:34:57 2001

After a year of running around with a nasty scar, Grace is finally going to get that cosmetic surgery done. She'll go in on Wenesday, and come back some time next week. Everyone remember to send a get-well-soon card, okay?

This means, of course, that I need to clean all the random junk out of the trunk, so the guys at the body shop don't have to fight all that stuff.


Mon Feb 5 15:36:53 2001

That's it. I'm implementing a preview function tonight.

SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY




Fri Feb 2 14:53:13 2001

Nosferatu (sung to the tune of "Oklahoma")
NOSFERATU! Where the blood comes sliding off the fangs (Nosferatu!)
Where the waving bats sure are fat ...

Well, I don't know any more words, but you get the idea. Nosferatu, the original silent file is showing at the Nickolodeon (local theatre) and I'm kind of jazzed. That's might just be because I've been grading programs for the last 12 hours off and on, but hey, jazzed is jazzed.

On a more pathetic note, I'm considering writing up a web page for our new D&D 3rd ed. campaign. It's been high fantasy mixed with low comedy (ex: the thief, in an attempt to make a grand getaway, leaps out of a second story window and gives himself a mild concussion when he hits the building across the way). Anyway, I feel like doing it, no matter how lame it might be. So there.

Ok, I'm done. Time to grade more...ech.

Luke


Thu Jan 25 12:49:54 2001

I've decided to finally post to LoungeNet (translation: I remembered the URL for the update page). Since I hardly ever code HTML, this will probably look like crap. Oh well. Anyway, on Kyle's recommendation I went to PopCap and played Atomic. That was ok, but Mummy Maze rules. I've been playing that for an hour or so now and all I can say is "Fucking mummy". That thing keeps beating the crap out of me.

Anyway, Mummy Maze owns me, the mummy sucks, and Tribes 2 is never going to come out so please just set my head on fire.

Um, peace out and stuff.

Luke



Wed Jan 24 16:40:28 2001

Hey, everybody! It's time to get on the bus and go for a ride!

BEEP BEEP!

-M




Wed Jan 24 18:20:20 2001

I haven't been feeling so good the past couple days. At first, I thought it was a minor case of food poisoning, but those usually go away overnight. This stuck with me for a good 48 hours, so it ain't food poisoning. It's weird tho, because I already had my "disease every two years" last year. Maybe I'm getting old.

At any rate, that's not really what this update is about. Well, I guess it's related. I was half-working, half-slacking on the couch yesterday, and I told myself that I could play one game of Atomica. I stopped after two hours, wrote an e-mail, and picked up my game again two hours later. I didn't actually finish the game until almost 9PM, just before we watched an episode of the Sopranos.

Play the game for a minute or two. It's simple and addictive. Get a feel for how it works.

Then, come back here, and look at this screenshot. Ever played Joust? Ever played it for so long that the game just didn't get any harder, and there was no way you could lose unless you set out deliberately to do so? Well, if I hadn't been sick and tired, I probably could have played through until the early morn. As it was, I made enough mistakes and got sufficiently unlucky for the game to finally win.

I think I should move on to a different game.
--k


Mon Jan 22 22:01:25 2001

I think this guy tried to sell me a car...
Why am I the only guy posting here, I'm a great big loser people! Help me out! ;>
-Hungarian Soda


Wed Jan 17 17:04:44 2001

Herr Lanclos has been hoping/predicting that the Silicon Valley will "explode". Well, with this new power situation, and these rolling blackouts that are occuring, and will probably continue to occur every time a power station needs to go offline, he may just get his wish. It's a bit difficult to run a computer industry when on J. Random Day, at J. Random Hour, your power may be cut off, for a sixty to ninety minute period of time. Can you say productivity = 0; I knew you could. In other news, as a sad note for those of us who read The Onion they stopped the articles by Publisher Emertis T. Herman Zwiebel. I'm also not too incredibly happy about Suck's recent buy out and it's attempts to start a funded bulletin board called Plastic, which is similar to Slashdot except for the popular culture set. It's this sort of blatent corporatization, and commercialization of the internet that's driving most of quality content away. Bah. -Hungarian Soda P.S. I have, and I promise to keep these clean. Honest.


Tue Jan 9 21:58:09 2001

I win I win! I are graduated! -B


Mon Jan 8 18:17:32 2001

I actually know the people who do this webcomic. Check it out. Spellshocked (Or I will *kill* you until you die from it!!!) -Hungarian_Soda


Sun Jan 7 23:17:02 2001

Ahhh! The man is trying to swallow my soul!!! Help! Help! -Hungarian_Soda


Thu Jan 4 19:49:05 2001

I have fun stuff!

-fop


Wed Jan 3 14:03:43 2001

I wonder if I'll get my computer parts today?

-FOP


Sun Dec 31 10:54:00 2000

I'm on a quest. Can you help?

--k


Fri Dec 29 11:03:29 2000

Kyle is a...
LOSER!


-FOP


Fri Dec 29 11:05:56 2000

I forgot to mention that she was gorgeous.

-FOP


Fri Dec 29 16:05:33 2000

Samba is fixed, YAAAAY! -B


Thu Dec 28 15:08:06 2000

Some update is better than no update, right?

Right?

Someday, we need to have a major update. Folks, fire up your favorite e-mail client! It's time for you to tell el Puńo del Dolor that you want him to set up, once and for all, his postgres server; at the same time, you should give the Schwartzinator a swift kick in the ass.

I mean, how else are you going to motivate me to convert the good shiznit in our website to PHP? Kicking me in the ass isn't going to get anything accomplished.

--k


Thu Dec 28 18:42:04 2000

See, the problem is that I have this fear of using this damn update form... every time I make a mistake I can't correct it and you all (eili;mniwei) get to see a little tear in the facade that is Adam. I don't want to burst anyone's imaculate views of me... I mean after all, you all look up to me... what if I was to make a mistake... how would that make you all look...

Cheers

wliel;mnv;eiioej;lkfeiljs;lk


Thu Dec 28 21:13:39 2000

There's always the possiblity for anyone to work on the update form and add a preview mode, he he -B


Tue Dec 19 17:13:14 2000

As I watch the Mission Street Widening Project from my window at work, I notice that all the workmen have Santa Claus hats over their hard hats. The dude driving the steam roller has the full Santa beard thing going. Best of all, there's a guy with the red suit on (under his yellow reflective vest) waving some kind of flaming gas powered wand at the new asphalt, presumably to melt it into the right shape, or maybe dry it out faster. That thing is just begging for misuse. Heh, heh.

I wonder if they'll let me drive the steam roller...

-- Mike




Mon Dec 18 01:23:25 2000

Since when was Iron Maiden considered butt rock? Man, I'm getting old. :/ -Hungarian Soda


Sat Dec 16 01:11:38 2000

THE CHICKEN RETURNETH!!! pretty soon -ryan


Wed Dec 13 16:28:40 2000

Hi all you loungers, the loungecam is temporarily down due to my computer being temporarily down. The camera is working fine, it just needs to be pointed at the right directory. I believe right now you can go here and find the updating page. BLARF! -B


Tue Dec 12 11:55:10 2000

My grandmother dies this past weekend.

-Kyle


Fri Dec 8 23:00:31 2000

Go Johnnie, or should I say Math Master Johnnie, woot! -B


Fri Dec 8 23:00:52 2000

I want my damn final score! -B


Fri Dec 8 23:05:50 2000

Here's to hoping that Brian doesn't fail!!! Huzzzahhhhh!!!!

Go B-dawg...


Wed Dec 6 00:53:04 2000

It's all about Junkyard Wars -B


Wed Dec 6 15:29:01 2000

Fixed the update form again, this time there was something wrong with the file path -B


Thu Nov 21 10:42:55 2000

Hey hey, guess what? I'm an uncle again. This time, it's a "Lia." Pretty nifty, eh?

I found a metal thing in the road today. I was on a crowded bus up to UCSC, and I just happened to get a seat at the Crown bus stop. I looked out the window, and lo, there was this cylindrical metal thing sitting in a divot left behind when one of the road reflectors grew legs and went somewhere else. I thought to myself, "will this metallic treasure still be there if I come back after work?"

I stared at it for ten or fifteen seconds.

I looked up, and people were still getting on the bus. I decided that, rain or no rain, I should get out and snag that metal thing while the getting was good. I got off the bus, trudged through the rain to the middle of the road, and rescued my little treasure.

As I went on to work, enjoying the rain in my shorts and sandals, I held the metal guy in my palm. I thought to myself, "I'm going to have a niece today. Will she, someday, like this little metal cylinder as a present?"

I don't know, maybe she will. Either way, it's still a cool metal thing. Either way, I'll still associate it with her zero'th birthday.
--k


Thu Nov 16 10:42:55 2000

$()((^!#; stupid drivers. -FOP


Thu Nov 16 11:07:44 2000

So I am happy about the way the election turned out. A little chaos is good; it is almost reminiscent of Jefferson suggesting that a revolution every twenty years is healthy for a country. I think it is starting to take a nasty turn, but at the same time I am impressed that it took so long to get nasty. The real reason for this rant is however is me commenting on the people how want the election over now and other silly ideas I have heard in relation to this election.

When the election is decided the winner is not the president. They are the president elect. Bill Clinton is still our president and will be our President until January when the new president takes over.

Elections are not meant to be decided the day the happen. Votes are counted and the state assigns its members for the Electoral College based on those votes and the Electoral College decides the president. That is when the election is over.

Elections in the early years of this nation, when communication was bad, used to take up to a year before they were completed. It is only in this modern telecommunication fast transit country that we life in that the winner of an election is being announced based on exit polls before the voting has stopped.

So if the votes for a state take a few extra days, what is the harm? Should not we be more concerned about getting it right then rushing to a quick decision and having that decision be the wrong one?

I personally am glad that things got messy in Florida, it reminded us that our country is not as great as some of us delude ourselves to believe it is. This will only force us to do it better next time. It is unfortunate that some people see this election as a flaw and not a good healthy thing. I better response to Florida would be, maybe the other states are just as messy and we should recount them too.

Before I finish my election talk I want to mention the 19,000 ballots that were thrown out. If almost the same number were thrown out four years earlier we should not say that this is a health normal thing, but that something is wrong and we need to fix it. On the issue of people saying the Florida ballot is not confusing, have you ever paid attention to old people? They get confused easily. ATM’s can be difficult to them. Publishers clearing house and other scams steal their money on a regular basis. We should not chide them for getting confused. We should instead rise to the occasion and say, “We are sorry, how can we fix this so it will not be confusing?

So ends my blabbering.

-Kyle


Thu Nov 16 17:28:56 2000

Heh, I get confused easily and I'm not even old yet -BF


Wed Nov 15 12:20:57 2000

Hey, check out God's webpage -BF <--- Look, last initial!


Wed Nov 15 12:22:30 2000

Oh, and by the way Kyle T. moved into the lounge replacing Ryan -B


Wed Nov 15 12:23:55 2000

...F, I meant BF, heh


Tue Nov 14 12:50:14 2000

Hidie-ho little buddies, I hope everyone is doing well these days. Is anyone else completely stupefied by these here election proceedings? I for one think it's all a bunch of hooie and they should just have a damn run off election. I would put up a little thing to take a poll and see what all ya'll out there think but I'm pretty sure I know what all three of you think already.

I don't know what it is but I feel inexorably drawn to the election coverage in just about every form imaginable. I hate the TV, I hate the news anchors, I hate the advertisements/advertisers and yet somehow I end up watching ungodly amounts of CNN and on occasion I even stoop as low as MS-NBC when the fashion report intrudes on the latest gab about which presidential type guy did what to whom. It's almost like watching "Washington Hills, 90210"... on this weeks episode "dubya" calls Albert and bad name and hurts his feelings. I think maybe it should be like that fettering boil that is "survivor". Maybe we should be able to take an internet poll and see who the American public don't like this week... then at the end of the month one of them will be thrown to the dogs. Yes... an excellent idea... after they're voted off we can have Sox and whateverthehell Billy C's dog's name is fight over the limp lifeless body that's left after Bob Dole kicks the ever loving crap out of them...

What, me bitter? I think not... I'm just tired of CNN's tireless grasp on me... I think it's actually James Earl Jones... damn him for doing that voice-over.

"Enough for today" I hear the fans chanting so I digress... and I digress some more...

--A


Tue Nov 14 18:30:34 2000

Yup, we've wasted a good hour or so BS-ing about the election stuff. You can alt-tab to an extra netscape window that is pointed to CNN from just about any cube in the company these days. The Presidential tabloid seems to have everyone's attention, tomorrow we will hear "W" confessing that he is Gore's long lost brother. Good to have someone actually updating the page, thanks Alex. -B


Tue Nov 14 19:13:47 2000

Uh... hate to burst your bubble there Brian, but that phat "A" in the by-line up there stands for "Adam." You know, that other tall guy that lives here. Cheers. --Kyle (but WHICH ONE????)


Tue Nov 14 21:14:38 2000

No one ever said I moved in! I feel so unloved. Email me (Kyle) to show me I'm loved. Later. -Kyle (The tall one.)


Fri Nov 10 10:30:21 2000

Great Sig file from /.:
"Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for this change to take effect."


Wed Nov 8 23:56:54 2000

ZZZzziippp...WOMP.


Tue Nov 7 19:11:25 2000

Woot! ©Mike Sims


Mon Oct 30 13:47:24 2000

Sheesh, it's like nobody every updates this page anymore! -Brian


Thu Oct 19 19:28:57 2000

So... Busy... must... update... page... -B


Mon Oct 9 12:56:05 2000

4 years of loyal problem free usage and CATS is just going to boot me. No flowers or candy or even a simple "Thank you for being such a great user, take as long as you want to backup your files" Nooooo, just "Move it or Lose it!". And do they offer alumni accounts? nope. Mail forwarding? nope. Comfort for all my soon-to-be-dissapointed web page fans? nope. What a cruel world. -bforsse@advertiseyourdotcomhere.com


Sat Oct 7 02:26:32 2000

And for Tonight, and Tonight ONLY, LoungeNet presents the AlexCam! -B


Fri Oct 6 08:20:14 2000

I'd like to thank all our loyal viewers for boosting our ratings by 33%, we went from 2 viewers to 3, WooHoo! I guess 24-7 LoungeCam access is irresistable. -B


Sat Sep 30 19:28:07 2000

Check out the new LoungeCam, (currently in my room because the cord isn't long enough) -B


Tue Sep 26 11:52:27 2000

The house has bough Crimson Skies, look out Diablo II, you have competition! -B


Tue Sep 26 17:44:08 2000

bough = bought
I really need to work on a preview mode for this program (before kyle Zopes my program to death) -B


Fri Sep 22 00:32:27 2000

And classes start again...the 5th year as an undergrad, sheesh! You ever get that feeling that you've been in a place too long? Anyways, back to procrastinating (yea, I know, I should be studying). -B


Fri Sep 22 00:33:56 2000

By the way, we are supposed to be added to the Sluggy.com links page sometime soon, Woot! -B


Mon Sep 18 10:14:06 2000

Brian is the first in the house to beat Diablo II, and have his character knighted (I guess it's an accomplishment?) -B


Thu Sep 14 23:27:05 2000

Ahh, one last vacation before school starts. Huzzah!!!

The Adaminator is off on another wild adventure with his adventure loving Father and his Fathers fearless girlfriend. This time we're venturing to the lost state of New Mexico which, if I'm not mistaken, is the birth place of our very own Michael "siminator" Sims. I'm taking lots and lots of film so I'm sure you'll all be forced through a long viewing session with hundreds of images of sand and dirt... and maybe even more sand. If you're lucky I'll get a picture of a cactus. Woot!

All things are quiet on the home lounge, Kyle is back home, doing his Kylie type things, Brian is still playing Diablo, and Big Kyle is hard at work resisting the urge to play the game of all games, Diablo 2. I'm taking a break from research this week and leaving Chris The Grad of the Gods to make our glorious solar cells of the bear. (+150 to undead damage and knockback) Poor Chris, he tried to take a week off but when he told the professor he is suposed to TA for (not to name any names but it sounds like "switfleas") that he'd like to miss the first class, he went postal and practically ripped his head off. That's no way to treat your Grad students... shame on him. Shame shame shaboogie as my old chemistry teacher Ms. Carlock used to say.

Well, I have more to say on this topic, but packing is at hand and I must be off to prepare the troops for battle. With love and only a slight sense of loathing,

Adam

(Are you happy now Brian... see, I signed my name like a good little boy)


Wed Sep 13 00:20:11 2000

Finally, new pictures, phew, took us long enough! Check out Mark 3 and Mark 4. I found an old roll of film that hadn't been developed, it turns out that it had a bunch of great pictures on it. -B


Sun Sep 10 03:50:31 2000

Hmm... maybe I should include a preview option in my update CGI to make Adam's life Easier. What do you think? -B


Sun Sep 10 03:52:38 2000

Don't forget to check out the Napster commentary linked to from our linkz page. -B


Fri Sep 8 01:47:14 2000

Okay, so this is the second time I've updated the page tonight. The first time my glorious computer crashed on me. I've been meaning to send the damn thing back for the last few months, but if it's not one thing, the the other. Right now I can't send it back because I won't be able to play Diablo II if I do. What ever will become of me without Diablo? My poor little mouse fingers will wither and atrophe. How sad that would be. So, for now I put up with the massive crapitude of my gateway to "the internet"/hell.

Enough of my whining though, on to more important things:
This Monday night the one, the only Kyle (Little Kyle/Kyle T/K-dawg) and his amazing side kick Jenifer will be returning from "The Big Apple". Yes, he's back with a vengance, ready to slap down injustice with a mighty blow... and fix our computers. They've been gone for over two weeks now and it's really quite odd not having them around. No Ryan, no Kyle... for a while it was just Me and Brian, A and B tryin' to connect the dots. Strange having only two people in the house, normally it's between 5 and 8 at any given time. Kyle will be back soon though and all will be right with the Lounge.

The cow tries to Moo There is no sound but the wind Why does it bother?

Good night world, I'll see you in the morning... I hope.


Fri Sep 8 01:52:44 2000

Okay, you see? This is what happens when you try and write haiku at 1:30 in the morning, damn HTML... I believe it will make more sense like so...

The cow tries to Moo
There is no sound but the wind
Why does it bother?

One more to ease the pain

Chickens have their wings Why is it they cannot fly? Aaah, too hard to catch Wow, I'm so deep. A-dawg in the hiznowse


Fri Sep 8 01:57:19 2000

Okay... for the last time. I'm not going to miss my BR tag this time, I swear...

Chickens have their wings
Why is it they cannot fly?
Aaah, too hard to catch

There, after much pain and suffering, the update is complete. I even included the BR tag this time. I'm so proud.


Thu Sep 7 16:11:08 2000

Well, here it is... the first time I've updated this blasted page in several months. So much has happened since last I wrote here. Where shall I begin? We'll start easy here for the first update since I need to get back into practice.

As you all know the fair Ryan Day has moved on, much to our dismay. For the few days his room was empty there seemed to be a great void in the superterestrial portion of our house. First Heather the brave left, then Ryan of Day dissapeared to the pacific north west. Physically the Lounge has begun to spread out, first Nathan moved to SoCal, and now Ryan has left our graces. Soon we'll have Lounge franchises all up and down the west coast; later, the world!

In all seriousness we miss Ryan and Heather already and we wish they didn't have to leave, but we know they're doing what they need to do, and thats the important thing. Broadening their horizions and all.

Speaking of broadening horizions and all, The Lounge has a new internal member, Kyle T., affectionately known as Big Kyle. This however, presents a slight name problem. Kyle L and Kyle T in the same house could be trouble. It was bad enough with Ryan and Brian... their names just sounded the same... now we have people with the exact same name. Because of this we have given Big Kyle and new name, or rather he has given himself a new name, by which hense forth he shall be called: The Fist of Pain. Don't worry you'll get used to it.

Okay, I'm going to stop while I'm ahead. Plus lab work calls and I must answer.

I'll be back.


Thu Sep 7 18:00:42 2000

Too bad adam forgot to initial his update, nobody knows it was actually him, it could have been anybody, maybe even The Fist of Pain. -B


Thu Sep 7 19:46:48 2000

Testing the form again!!


Mon Sep 4 14:02:37 2000

Today, a salute to Admiral Ryan Day. We hope the next 5 years of Seattle is as fun for you as the last 4 years of Santa Cruz has been. -The Lounge


Fri Sep 1 15:25:26 2000

Hark! Sir Nathane annouces his intention to visit the Lounge!


Fri Sep 1 14:35:32 2000

$5 says Ryan is playing Diablo II right now.


Fri Sep 1 10:00:19 2000

The Chicken-Of-Death rides again, but this time he's invisible.


Thu Aug 31 23:08:13 2000

"Why think when you can play Diablo?" -Ryan Day, Wise Prophet of This Modern Day (he payed for a solid 12 hours today)


Wed Aug 30 03:47:41 2000

Santa Cruz Billiards R.I.P.


Wed Aug 30 12:34:33 2000

Check out Sarah on the Sluggy.com Convention site


Tue Aug 29 14:50:31 2000

Hey YOU, yes YOU, stand still laddy! Pretty backgrounds at Resources Themes.org -B


Mon Aug 28 15:01:26 2000

Santa Cruz Billiards goes away tonight. Their lease is up apparently, bought out by a dotcom or something. There goes half the nightlife in Santa Cruz. It's gone from pool or bowling to just bowling. But we loungies don't need entertainment right? We have the internet, oooh the internet. -B


Fri Aug 25 09:51:47 2000

The Lounge Abides.


Fri Aug 25 09:53:47 2000

Send us your grad photos!! -B


Fri Aug 25 13:13:04 2000

Good Quote:
"it's now a Nerd's World...the rest of us are just paying rent." from Suck.com


Wed Aug 23 00:23:59 2000

For the last 2 years, we haven't been allowed to as much as look at the upper quarry. Tonight to my surprise, I drove by the quarry and heard the din of a crowd and a loud band floating up through the redwoods, so we had to investigate. Once again to my amazement, there was a path lighted and cleared through all the construction on the Baytree, "what a curious thing" I thought. There were people with badges and tacky yellow north face type vests running all around, and security guards doing their security things. The quarry had a fully set up sound stage, with two huge racks of lighting. There were caterers, technicians, bouncers, and performers bustling around. And on the stage was a huge mural that said "Forum 2000" next to a bunch of coorporate sponsors including Intel and Compaq. Why is it that the Dot Commies get to use our campus and we don't? I mean we paid for it and all, why can't the students have an event like that? They were serving alcohol too! Very non-UCSC administration if you ask my opinion. Thy must've greased the palms of some heavy hitters to pull this one off :) Apparently it's a yearly SCO convention, but the funny thing is that I didn't see any students there, just people who looked like silicon valley working stiffs/administrators who probably paid a healthy registration fee, or were covered by their company. I guess I'm just jealous, after 4 years of selling my soul to the Regents I figure the students should at least have access to the quarry. -B


Mon Aug 21 01:10:14 2000

Added Kim and Amber to the List of Loungers -B


Sat Aug 19 17:37:56 2000

Heather has departed for San Diego, Loungers are just spreading out everywhere, we will soon be coming to a town near you. Don't worry though, you can e-mail Heather at HeatherBost@hotmail.com if you need to get a hold of her, I'll update the lounger list.


Sat Aug 19 17:53:32 2000

I think it works again...


Wed Aug 2 15:02:41 2000

Brian: The infamous Boris departs today for LA where he will, like so many of us loungers, be job seeking. And of course he will carry on the great tradition of LoungeNetting and punching holes in dogmatic principles. But have no fear, you can take the boy out of the Lounge, but never the Lounge out of the boy, blood in - blood out. LoungeNet 4 Life Biiiacch! So, Boris, any parting words as you venture forth from the world headquarters here in SC, off into the wild blue yonder (or grayish brown in the case of LA) to spread the gospel of The Lounge?
Boris: I just want to say to all of you out there, it's been a great 3 years, thanks largely to the members of the Lounge and beer. Thanks to: Brian, for teaching me html and proving that nerds CAN fight. Adam, for letting me beat him lo those many backgammon games. He lost so many, it had to be on purpose. Ryan, for not killing me in my sleep. So to all those who knew and loved me, we'll meet again south-side. .....PEACE! I'm outta here! P.S. Adam is a (fill in favorite derogatory term)


Wed Aug 2 18:03:16 2000

Boris has left the building


Thu Aug 3 16:41:05 2000

Brian is no longer unemployed!! In the words of Mike, Woot! -B


Tue Aug 8 10:55:25 2000

And yes, my script once again isn't working correctly -B


Tue Aug 1 16:33:10 2000

Greetings.


Mon Jul 31 01:48:30 2000

New graduation pictures are up on Grad Photos 3. Boris really got into making webpages tonight, who knows, maybe he's a promising webmaster, watch out HTML, here comes Boris. Luke had a LAN party on saturday, what a group of wild crazy computer geeks! Pictures soon to come. -B


Mon Jul 31 01:53:07 2000

Also added a dos2unix script for the update form, for those of you who update, or tell me you're going to at some point.


Fri Jul 28 01:23:42 2000

Well, it's Ryan's last month in the Lounge. He's off on a mission to start his own little lounge in Washington, a LoungeNet-ette even. Adam's living on campus in the lab, like most the people around here, myself not included. I think Kyle's grad school shopping. Boris is moving back to LA. I'm just bummin' around, broke as an expensive hooker in a monastery, writing cool scripts to update this non-entrepenurial sub-pre-IPO anti-business venture we call LoungeNet. Ya know being unemployed really sucks, being unproductive violates some kind of fundamental law. -B



July 18th, 2000, 12:15 AM.

According to Genica, Adam has a hecka slammin bod, but his face is Phantom-of-the-Opera UGLY! Allison has a new website, you should check it out.



July 8th, 2000, 1:15 AM.

Ok, for your viewing pleasure I separated the thumbnails so they'll load faster, and I'll organize them even more if you send me more pictures. I don't care if you graduated last year, send em anyways, it'll be the big loungeNet Grad photo album thingy. -B



June 28th, 2000, 2:21 PM.

Check out the GradPhotos, if you were anywhere near a graduation ceremony this year chances are that you'll see yourself there. Alas, many a grad from LoungeNet hath gradumanated. If you have good pictures send me good pictures. We're off into the world of trying to make money. Speaking of money, do you know of anyone who needs a new computer, smaller better faster? Then e-mail me, I once again got the hook ups. And yes, I did go to Hawaii, and yes there were tons of hot girls roaming the beaches, pictures to follow shortly.



June 13th, 2000, 1:22 PM.

We added a slogan randomizer, kinda hacky, but it works for now. Maybe one of you official geeks can make a custom one that reads from a text file instead of listing all the slogans in the HTML. Whoever makes the coolest one with the most features wins a Cookie*! I removed even more of the heartier slogans (A.K.A. most of Alex's) in hopes of not skewing the perspective of any first time visitors, we have to slowly lure them in, and then WHAMMO!! But don't worry, they're all listed on the sloganz page to purge your sick curious minds. Graduation pictures to come shortly.-B


*Cookie offer available for a limited time only with coupon mail-in self addressed stamped envelope rebate. Sales tax applies where applicable, employees of Microsoft® and Canadians are not eligible. We reserve the right to withhold the Cookie from any perspective winner without notification. Upon entry all applicants must supply at least two credit card numbers, social security number, their mother's maiden name, their first born child, a young feisty virgin, a newt's eye, and a digit of their choice.



June 9th, 2000, 11:22 PM.

Phew! Done.



May (pronounced: "June") 5th, 2000, 1:30 PM.

F-F-F-Finals...



May 31st, 2000, 1:20 AM.

Well, today we found out that our rent has been raised, always a fun thing to hear. But the race will soon be over, at least for a while, and a big B.S. for the four of us loungers here at the house, and many others. Finals are over in about a week and a half, and then the fun begins. Jobs, vacations, graduations, goodbyes, and new beginnings. I love the end of the school year, it comes with a great feeling of freedom and transition, I'm gonna miss it (at least for a while). Don't forget to watch out for that porn, a friendly message from your local religious fanatics. -B



May 24th, 2000, 3:20 AM.

It's the end of may and it's foggy and rainy, that's ok though, they wouldn't let me outside anyways. So we need a slogan for LoungeNet, and we've decided to let you, the people, the loyal subjects, the fanbase, the 2 or 3 people, submit and vote on our slogan. Check out the Sloganz page for more details. -B



May 13th, 2000, 10:40 PM.

Mei Garden is some darn good food. It's so good, it might even qualify as "food for thought." That's all the warning you're getting... stop reading now if you want to avoid slapping your forehead in disgust.

I'm sure most of you Lounge readers out there are familiar with a particularly exciting bit of steller evolution known as the supernova. For those of you that aren't, or that just plain can't remember through whatever haze you're experiencing right now, a supernova is the violent death of a star via a runaway fusion reaction. What's fusing, how it's fusing, why it's fusing, and all that other stuff doesn't matter terribly. There is one important thing to remember... when the universe was created, we had no elements other than hydrogen, helium, and a pittance of lithium.

Nothing else. No carbon, no nitrogen, no oxygen, no heavy stuff, nothing.

Look around you. Look at your computer screen (you already are! hah!); look at the wall. Look at your table. Look at your left hand, or even your right hand. You, your room, your family, everything on this planet, and a large chunk of all the planets in the solar system are all made from elements heavier than those that the universe started with.

Where did all this stuff come from? If this were a Hollywood production, you would follow the same formula to find out whodunnit: what else have I introduced, but not tied off yet?

Supernovae. You, me, the computers involved in you reading this webpage, the world around you, the solar system around it-- embers. Embers from the final, explosive gasp of a super-massive star.

If you're really up on your wide-spread astronomical lore, you would know that a large blue star went supernova in 1987; some very clever people dubbed this event "supernova 1987a." (SN1987a for short).

Imagine yourself watching that explosion in the sky; imagine yourself pondering the sheer magnitude of this star's last grasp at fame.

Imagine that, in 6 or 7 billion years, the embers of that giant cosmic fireball will get up and start talking to each other. Seriously! Some mad fat star blew up a damn long time ago, made interstellar charcoal, condensed back into us, and here we are, contemplating the nature of the universe.

Mei Garden really knows how to cook their charcoal.



May 6th, 2000, 9:41 PM.

Capture the Flag, Oh yea baby! Just like old times. At App. Sci. 12:00 am, (ok well actually about 1 until we got enough people), the adreneline was pumping. You're either hiding in a shadow somewhere scanning for sneaky dark figures moving in the orange streetlight. Or you're applying your honed subterfuge skills trying to penetrate enemy lines and when they least expect it, make a dash for the flag and try to return to your base unscathed. Some new elements came into play in this game, the Soc-Sci bridge is closed for construction, and all up around natural sciences the construction is hard to get around. Also, when we were all done we decided to go to Tinys, little did we know Tinys won't accept a group of over 10 people without reservations, so don't ever go to Tinys with a group of over 10 people. So we ended up at dennys until about 5. By the way, watch out for those seals! -B



May 5th, 2000, 1:05 PM.

Monster Smash is getting more and more popular, we have two more rolls of pictures coming up soon, so be on the lookout, they're really funny. -B



April 30th, 2000, 11:45 PM.

HAHAHAHAHAHa hahahaha HEHEHEHE hehe hehehooHoo HoohooHOOhoohuhu HUHUhu heh heh....eh -B

May 2nd, 200, 10:22 AM

Well, I was going to remove Brian's update to the oldrantz page, but it's a good example of how I feel. For those of you who don't know, Brian has been spending waaaaaay too much time in the lab (now he knows how us chem geeks feel) so he's a little on the edge. Anyway, what I was going to say was that K-dawg, the little one, found this cool wassup comercial revamp. Let's just say it involves Keanu Reves and some computer stuff.



April 23rd, 2000, 10:45 PM.

Back from a traditional Easter at the Forsse household. We of course spent an obscene amount of time looking for eggs in the morning, because my dad keeps finding new creative ways to bury them in our backyard (the yard is only about 150 feet by 50 feet). After the hunt was over we were emptying our eggs out and my brother and I had this moment of realization, a moment of clarity even, that these plastic eggs were the perfect projectiles. So at the same time we started throwing them at mom. Well, she had to hold her ground so she started returning fire and it was ON! After a few more rounds of gathering and throwing I felt this bonk on my head and turned to see dad laughing hysterically from the other room, so naturally I retaliated, pretty soon the house was wizzing with plastic eggs exploding on walls and dollar bills from the eggs that hadn't been emptied. Nichol, caught often in the crossfire, was trying to clean up the eggs and put them back in the baskets, but her efforts were futile. My aunt took refuge in the car... I have a feeling that this might turn into a tradition, I just hope my brother doesn't get that 1000 piece tool set that he wants for Christmas! -B



April 20th, 2000, 2:30 AM.

Hello all you loyal LoungeNet fans! Yes we will continue to update this page daily at some point, especially over the summer when we don't have to, like, graduate from cowledge n' stuff. On top of trying to gradurate, ForsseBerg Web Design is taking off and Adam and Brian are a hell of a lot more busy than you would ever believe! But one day the television said unto me, "Let There Be Slacking!", and there was, and it was good. And then I knew Bambi, and Bambi knew Roger, and Roger knew Sharon and Mary (at the same time no less), and Sharon knew the old goatherd and Mary knew his sheep and so on, and so on... So just send $19.95 and your firstborn children to LoungeNet, PO BOX 666, PayMe CA 98765 and you will be absolved of all your sins. Can I get an AMEN! -B



April 12th, 2000, 12:30 PM.

Donate food to hungry people each day by clicking a button at The Hunger Site!! -B



April 11th, 2000, 12:30 AM.

Added a Linkz page today.



April 5th, 2000, 12:50 PM.

The Lounge Monster Smash pics are up! -B



April 1st, 2000, 1:42 PM.

Wassup!?! SupaFly!! You thought we would never update this page again eh? Well, April Fools! We're back from a well deserved spring break, in which the Lounge went down due to some mantenance (Kyle Stuff) for a couple days. I do believe we passed all our classes last quarter, amazing huh? Well, this is the Last Quarter, the Final Showdown, where the Lounge goes mono-a-mono with UCSC, odds are in favor of Lounge, but the Regents always have tricks up there sleeves, those shifty-eyed high up executive types are always keepin' a brotha down.

It's frickin gorgeous here in Santa Cruz, so GO OUTSIDE! Even us wide-eyed pale skinned freaks can't avoid the day-star forever. Drawn to it like moths to a flame, we thrust ourselves into the outdoors only to crumple to the ground screaming "The sky is so big, it burns, it burns!". -B

April 1st, 2000, 7:48PM

Just for completeness's sake, I did a little bit more research on the "Wassup" commercial, since I really wanted to know where the heck it came from. The one linked above is a Cartoon Network parody of a Budweiser commercial. Having now seen the Budweiser commercial, the parody makes a whole lot more sense.

They're both pretty funny, but I gotta give the nod to the Cartoon Network for their parody. I always thought that their commercials were far better than any of the actual shows they air... kind of like the Chimp Channel on TBS. That, and Bud sucks. Try a Weihenstephaner instead... and tell us if you like it. They're supposedly good.
-K



March 19th, 2000, 12:32 AM.

Finals are over for most all of us in the lounge. We have a week to cram in some serious relaxing and re-focusing before diving right into the last quarter. Yes, that's right, our generous dictators have allowed us 8 whole glorious days to ourselves. Praise the Regents.

I can feel the mood around here changing, a huge crossroad in many of our lives is just up ahead. It's time for people to start talking in metaphors and reminiscing. 4 years of insanity (not to mention the 12 or so years before that) will be rewarded with a walk on a stage, a piece of paper (sent in the mail), and lots of goodbyes. The challenge is to absorb as much as we can with the time we have. Some people will leave, some will stay, some will go to grad school, some to work. It's times like these that we snap into focus and learn more about our friends and about ourselves.

Endings and beginnings all kind of intertwine with each other. The combination of sadness and excitement is one of my favorite feelings. It's comforting to know that LoungeNet will be a connection for all of us, no matter how it mutates. -B



March 17th, 2000, 1:32 AM.

Happy St. Patty's day all, don't forget to wear some green or a LoungeNet goon will come to your house and pinch you. Really... we're serious.

Some of you may have noticed that the Lounge was down yesterday, we'd like to apologize for that. We were hacked by some guy named Tom. Tom, if you're out there we'd just like you to know that you have no penis and you are one hell of a crappy hacker. This guy left footprints the size of his big fat head. LoungeMan Kyle spent several hours reformatting and fixing the computer Tommy boy screwed up and we are greatly appreciative of Kyle's efforts. Thanks Kyle!

We just don't understand why anyone would want to hack the little ol' lounge. We don't really have anything worth hacking other than a possible jumping point for hacking other things. Unfortunately this guy couldn't hack his way out of a box so that's not it. We here at the lounge just came to the consensus that he has no penis and he wants us to know it. So now everyone out there knows that Tom is penisless except for his big dick head.

Okay, that's enough ragging on our friendly neighborhood hackerman, let's just say we've made sure it won't happen again. Good luck to all you would be hackers out there, but please don't hack our site, we know where you live.



March 15th, 2000, 3:32 AM.

OhMyGodTheFinalsArePain!! Must...update...page...before... too...late... One of the Absolutely Brilliant* University executives decided that it would be a wonderful and revolutionary idea to cram 5 days of finals into 4 days of Hell. And the others, in a spurt of Pure Genius** (trying to contain their evil snickers and gleeful snorting) queried: "Why don't we start those 4 days on a Thursday so the finals run into the weekend?". And it was so, and the students trudged on with broken spirits bearing the blatant knowledge that there was nothing they could do but study harder until the day that they grew powerful enough to crush the Regents and sever public universities from corporate America once and for all.

Interested in conspiracies?(and we know you are Luke) Check out a special interpretation of the works of Jack Chick. Also, for you gamers out there, if you haven't already seen it, check out Chick's interpretation of D&D: Dark Dungeons. We all of course love fundamentalist pamphlets telling us which religions to hate and how to avoid being misled by the devil. This picture enforces that good ol' saying that engrains itself so deeply into our beliefs (I'm glad someone is making fun of fundamentalists). -B

*"Absolutely Brilliant" is the adjective self-assigned to the political leaders of our beloved university system who give themselves generous raises every year.

**"Pure Genius" is the illusion that a member of the upper management has somehow birthed an idea from creativity and foresight.



March 13th, 2000, 12:04 AM.

Ever get that feeling that maybe this whole school thing was a bad idea? Sometimes I just sit around thinking, hey, manual labor couldn't be that bad... but then I look at my white collar hands and think about the last time I dug a ditch and realize that maybe school isn't so bad after all.

I've got to hand it to the people who go out every day pick our food and build our houses. In some ways it seems like they should be paid more than say... ad execs.

What do ad execs really do anyway? They sit in a little room and make up catchy tunes that will get stuck in my head making me wish I had a sledge hammer to smash them out.

Who decides who makes how much money anyway? It certainly doesn't have much to do with work. It's all about the education, marketable skills, whoring your body...

One of these day's we'll all be joining the mass of drones spitting out regurgitated HTML, or whatever it happens to be that you've spent all this time doing. Why are we doing this again? Oh yeah, oh... I forgot again. Oh that's right, this way we can get jobs we like... and make money or something.

Maybe we should just form the LoungeNet commune. Yeah, we could be like a cult... just remember don't put on the Nikes and don't drink the Kool Aid.



March 11th, 2000, 11:04 AM.

Yes, yes, I know-- "What's with this crap? You call this a late-night update? You bunch of lazy bastards... what gives?"

And I say-- "Cut us some frickin' slack. It's the week before finals. Everyone and their mom has something due on Monday. Maybe, just maybe, there's other things in our lives besides some puny index.html on some webpage. Even the Lounge has to sleep sometime."

And if that doesn't do it for you, tough titties. It's a perfectly nice day outside, one that's just begging for the Lounge denizens to go running around and break themselves in every which way possible. You'd think we were all related to Boris or something.

Even still, I know full well that any amount of playing/lounging/breaking I do today is completely and utterly for the benefit of the great god Procrastination. If it were not for this mighty deity, you would not even have this poor excuse for an update. So get down on your knees, and find something else to do-- anything else to do, as long as it's not what you're supposed to do.

The powers of His mightiness, Procrastination, increase directly with how much Real Stuff(tm) you have to do. I have an awful lot of stuff to do.

I've always wanted to learn woodworking... maybe today would be a good day.



March 10th, 2000, 2:15 AM.

Long day today, been out of the house since 12:00pm, definately looking forward to the weekend, aren't you? It's the last weekend to cut loose before finals begin, or conversly, the last weekend to catch up on 8 weeks of slacking. For those of you passing your classes, kudos, and for those with doubts, don't forget your D4s and your lucky shirt. As for me, I think I'm doing ok this quarter.

On that note, check out my PredatorPrey Applet because it's really cool! Given, I spent too much time on this assignment, but I'm the only one this whole quarter who has gotten a 7 on the homework, so there.

Alex has finished settling down his new computer, 700Mhz and all, beefy! Adam just ordered a new laptop so I'm told, I guess that means he will be doing massive things to his Schwartzberg Photography page. -B


March 9th, 2000, 3:35 AM.

Okay, so hump day is over... again... and here we sit, B 'n A writing yet another rant about some damn thing. We can't talk about election much more, that's old news, we can't talk about Boris any more, so what do we talk about? How about comic books... I've recently read Too Much Coffee Man, an extremely worth while comic book. They've got a pretty good we page at www.toomuchcoffeeman.com.






See, now isn't that funny? Aren't you glad that we here at LoungeNet are broadening your horizons? We're here for you man. By the way this is Copyright Shannon Wheeler, just so we don't get sued for illegally giving them free advertising... like this:



No, we here at LoungeNet would take no money for such blatant advertising, we did it for free... mostly because they didn't offer us any money, but that's beside the point.

So read Too Much Coffee Man, it's good for you and it will make your coat nice and shiny.



March 8th, 2000, 3:35 AM.

I just finished the Battle Angel Alita series, very cool, a good distraction from schoolwork. I guess I'm just getting in some good slacking before I bear down for the next two weeks. The week before finals week, some schools call it dead week. A whole week dedicated to studying, sheesh.

Today Ryan, in an attempt to fly by will alone(he does things like that), broke free of his restrictive dual-wheeled harness and soared for what I'm guessing was a brief interlude. Unfortunately, in negotiating the landing he experienced a little turbulence. He picked up a good amount of road rash and managed to break his wrist, must've been a pretty harsh tumble. Get better soon Ryan.

In other news, Prop 21 and 22 passed as you may know. Only two or three counties actually voted no on both of them. Sounds like the future of California holds more convicted youth and less rights for gay and lesbian couples... By the way the proposition for the ban of dihydrogen-monoxide passed and will go into affect as of next week, sounds like dangerous stuff to me, we should never subject our society to such terrifying chemicals.
-B

March 8, 2000, 2:30PM

Just as a side note, Prop. 22 didn't actually change anything having to do with allowing or disallowing same-sex marriages in California; same-sex marriages were already ignored by the state via prior legislation. Prop. 22 was just a measure of thoroughness on the part of the peevish and pissy. Previously, it was possible for alternative lifestylers to get married in another state, move back to California, and have their out-of-state marriage recognized by law... as of whenever this law goes into effect, California won't recognize same-sex marriages under any circumstances.

You'd think people had better things to worry about. Back to your daily drudgery... -K



March 7th, 2000, 1:55 AM.

We're trying to keep this update as an every day thing, but we are occasionally distracted from our slacking by pesky midterms. So I have to apologize to our dedicated fans, and somehow make up for it right? Well we've put in massive amounts of slacking in the last couple days and now have a newer, faster, bigger, and all around beefyer server to host LoungeNet.

In the hands of it's meticulous creator, the Berlin Wall was carefully fed, conditioned, and trained, thus emerged the Beast. The Beast hides in dark unknown places where your imagination dares not go. It requires a weekly sacrifice, preferably farm animals or small children, and in return rewards it's benefactors with immortality, MuHaHa! But beware, one day when the weekly sacrifice has been forgotten the Beast may roam free and destroy all in it's path! (in other words me 'n Kyle put a new 'puter in the attic huhuhu)

In other news: the use of our LoungeSlug has been approved!(as long as we don't use it for profit) Thank you UCSC IEEE Student Chapter for allowing us to use our little parody of the CyberSlug Logo.

Also, I finally found a place on the web where you can view Tim Burton's Vincent, it's pretty cool, check it out.
-B



Well, the old rantz page has gotten too big for notepad so we have now annexed the old rantz page into old rantz and old old rantz. Enjoy!




Please don't steal our stuff, we like it a lot and it would make us very sad if you used it without asking first. In fact it would make us so sad the we would, in grief, tell our lawyer and he would get so mad that you made us nice guys sad that he would sue you for all you are worth. Please don't make our lawyer do that. Okay? Thanks, Loungenet.