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Welcome to Hrocdol.netThis is Jason Sherman's personal web site. Just a place on the web for me to share my thoughts, ideas, and stuff on the web. I hope you find something useful or interesting or entertaining here. Why Hrocdol.net? I've been asked about the name on occasion, and perhaps if I mark it up here, I'll get asked less often. Hrocdol, as a name, originated as a Diablo 1 character; a warrior, who ended up as a fearsom axe-wielding monster slayer. It was... Early in my college career, as I recall, and I thought it a unique enough name that I kept using it for other things to avoid conflicting with other names; at first games, then eventually instant messaging, web forums, and now, finally, for my web site. Check the links at the left for interesting stuff. My blog exists below. I intend to use it as a journal of events in my world and my thoughts on them, as well as a place to point out the latest interesting thingy on the web. If you want to respond to anything in my blog, feel free to e-mail me at hrocdol@hrocdol.net. Blog entry 20080731-1759So I've been reading Sinfest again (one of the comics in my Comics link at the left) and I found one I could really relate to... A picture is worth a thousand words, right? check it out It's kinda sad how far behind I am on all the comics I used to keep up on...Blog entry 20080715-2230My raid team in WoW went and killed all 5 bosses in Mt. Hyjal tonight. Felt a little grueling down toward the end (Archi is always rough with all the randomness), but it was accomplished in under 4 hours.Nice work, guys. Blog entry 20080630-1354Hoo, the blog lives... Well, sorta. At least the site hasn't been hacked and all my files trashed. heh.So I've been watching YouTube again; yes, that dangerous passtime... Philip DeFranco (userid sxephil) has a terrific ironic sense of humor, and I've watched (and laughed heartily at) a lot of his material today. Links, links, it's amazing the things you can find if you wander enough... So I caught a link from Phil's material to the vlogbrothers channel on YouTube, which prompted me to investigate this 'Nerd Fighters' concept... And, as I progress, I become increasingly convinced that there doesn't exist, exactly, a definition... At one point, I found myself watching someone (a rather cute girl, as it happened) watching a video response to her video response to someone's original video. And it was all on YouTube. I'm amazed by all these interactions, and I'm at least equally amazed by the interest I'm taking in them... Total 3rd party observer, not involved, sitting here for hours, watching this stuff. Why? I. Don't. Know. Haven't got it figured out yet... Not sure I'll ever devote enough thought to figure it out. So, watching so much YouTube got me thinking "Hey, I'm a kinda clever tech guy, I could do this stuff. I have the camera, I have the computer, I have the network connection..." But thinking about video editing stuff (and I would neeeeeeed some editing) I remember the last few encounters I had with video editing... And, as I thought about it, I thought, you know, I have some really neat audio editing software, and it's a lot easier to sound pretty than to look pretty. Or at least it is for me. In my opinion. So I think I'm going to pursue another kind of project... Recording only my own vocalizations, using loops and overdubbing, I'm going to see if I can make an audio track that I'd actually enjoy listening to. If I can put together something that I think won't embarrass me totally, I'll post it up here... And pray that it doesn't 'go viral' and bury my internet connection. We'll see. So, anyway, I'm off to toy with Audacity and see if I can sort out how to do what I think it can do... Probably more later. Blog entry 20080115-0804So I went to bed last night around 9PM. Laid there for about an hour and realized that my hands and feet were freezing and I wasn't going to fall asleep like that. Also realized that when I pulled back the covers I started shivering. Bad sign.Went and jumped in the shower and turned it on as cold as I could stand (which was disturbingly hot) and stood there fighting off shivers for a while. Started feeling a bit faint, so I got out and sat down for a bit. Realized I was really thirsty, so I went and got some water. Never before has any bit of nasty tasting city water been so mistaken for a cool refreshing draught! At a single sip, I felt the faintness vanish, and eagerly drank deeper. So then I had the bright idea I better put a cup of water next to my bed, and that turned out well, too. I actually slept most of the night (only woke twice that I recall, compared to the night before where I woke every 2 hours like clockwork), and I feel significantly better this morning. Better, but not yet well. Pitch in some more cold meds, and some more water... And maybe some juice here in a minute... And then maybe go crawl back in bed. |
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