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It’s been 7 months since I updated this thing. Here is a quick one.

So i’m at work on Sunday nights, as I usually am, but this week is the AFC and NFC Championship playoff games and I found myself compelled to watch them even though I don’t follow any team in them. My Titans are out, so normally I wouldn’t care, but dammit, I want some football. And here is where my delimma starts.

At work, we have two big screen TV’s, but we cannot change the channel on them. I mean, we CAN, but we could get written up and/or fired if we do. So me and my co-workers can’t watch some football today. So I go on a hunt for streaming it on my work computer (which they don’t care about for some reason).

So first off, I go to the usual sites, CBS.com (for the Colts/Jets), Fox (for the Saints/Vikings ), NFL.com, Direct TV (i’m a subscriber).. but no go. I go to the ESPN site, but no go either because i’m not paying for it. I then go some other sites i’ve heard about before Justin.tv and Ustream. Ustream turned me off at first because the first ones I went to didn’t work. Then I went to the Justin.tv site and found a couple of streams, and picked on that looked promising. I was enjoying watching the Colts manhandle the Jets, ignoring the insipid banter in the chat room that you cannot turn off, and then suddenly, the stream stops and goes to a page saying that the stream has been taken offline because of a DMCA takedown. And all the others are like that too. Even the crappy quality ones.

And this goes on for the entire Colts/Jets games, and then into the Saints/Vikings games. In fact, it seems that the DMCA notices came at extremely inoppurtune times, such as at the 2 minute warning in the Saints/Vikings game (I couldn’t find another one working until OT had started).

So here is my plea to the NFL… give us some streaming options, for free. Add in some commercials like the TV shows do. People will watch them.

Only remembered to take a couple of them last night, so they are below:

So i’ve been playing in the Open Beta for Star Trek Online, and I have to say so far I am very impressed. I’ve played some other Cryptic made games before and none of them struck my fancy, but STO is really doing it for me. Maybe it’s because i’m getting sick of the fantasy genre (You can only kill so many orcs and kobolds in your life) and looking for something new, or maybe it’s my repressed liking of the original Star Trek and TNG coming out of me. Maybe the space genre is primed for a new game (sorry EVE, you are WAY to niche and time consuming for most people). I will be posting some screen shots when the server gets back up from crashing <LOL>.

So some friends finally decided they wanted to play D&D, and i’ve chosen to bring them into the fold with the Living Forgotten Realms campaign under the RPGA flag. I specifically chose this because I am a Herald Level DM even though I have never DM’ed a game before, so this should be interesting.

With the LFR setting, we are in the Aglarond area, so i’m going to be using the Aglarond stuff for their characters, starting with ALGA 1-1.

So more to come on this development.

Whatever holiday you celebrate, have a good one.

I suck at updates this blog. I really do. Between playing stuff like Forza 3, Torchlight, and back to playing World of Warcraft (the new LFG tool is awesome!), and not to mention finding time to work, I just haven’t been updating.

But I am now Cisco Certified! Well, my CCENT anyways. Still studying for my CCNA.

Trying different things with the site too, just to fiddle around with it. Not that anyone besides me ever comes here anyways, which is fine with me.

This post brought to you by Apoptygma Bezerk – Kathy’s Song (VNV Nation Remix)

OK, so apparently Toys R Us is having this buy 2 get 1 free deal on all their games. Well, I went in today and picked up NHL 10, Wet, and Resident Evil 5 (PS3). Going to return Wet and RE5 on Tuesday and going to pick up Brutal Legend and Uncharted 2.

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This post was brought to you by the following video:

So I was browsing Hulu.com today looking for season 3 of Heroes (cause season 2 pissed me off) and I came across ROBOTECH ON HULU.COM!!!!

Yep, viewing this site on a mobile phone (iPhone, Palm, etc) will bring you to a mobile version now.

YAY!