{"id":257,"date":"2003-10-23T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=257"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"doom-and-the-wonderful-intarweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2003\/10\/doom-and-the-wonderful-intarweb\/","title":{"rendered":"Doom and the wonderful intarweb ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>o\/` Portishead &#8211; Wandering Star o\/`<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a very thursday thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we watched the West Wing. It was on and NBC didn&#8217;t do anything to screw it up, yay! It was a nice evening.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I caught up on some email. Someone in #13thHour was trying to install <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/prboom\/\">prboom<\/a> (a clone of Doom) in Mandrake. He was having all sorts of trouble. So just for fun I installed it in debian (it&#8217;s in apt). Had it up and running in a couple minutes. Yay Doom! I first played Doom was on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/home.aspx?user=MorganHorse\">friend<\/a>&#8216;s computer way back a long time ago. My parents couldn&#8217;t afford a computer good enough to play Doom. We had many fun afternoons of Doom-playing. This brings back great memories %)<\/p>\n<p><lj-cut><br \/>\nI guess he finally got it almost working, said that it was too small, which is true, the default screen is 320&#215;200.<\/p>\n<p>-$nick- how do i increase the size of the screen?<br \/>\n-PrincesSlaya2- RTFM!<br \/>\n(note: I don&#8217;t say this often, but this kid drives me insane with his reluctance to do so)<br \/>\n-PrincesSlaya2- man prboom<br \/>\n-$nick- so i would tell it prboom -height 800 -width 600<br \/>\n-PrincesSlaya2- try it<br \/>\n-PrincesSlaya2- you got your height and width mixed up btw ;)<\/p>\n<p>This comment led into another chatter in the channel piping up and saying:<\/p>\n<p>-$nick2- I thought there were more pixels going height wise than width wise<\/p>\n<p>Oh dear. This began a conversation where this person actually wanted to argue that pixels are rectangular and there are more for height than width. After a couple minutes I asked if he was just joking around with me. He said no, and stood by his theory. After about 10 minutes I gave up trying to &#8220;prove&#8221; to him that I was right because it was stupid and useless. Eventually (after 2 other people in the channel supported me) he conceded that I was correct, and blamed his lack of sleep. I honestly hope it was just his lack of sleep. I hadn&#8217;t had a conversation that stupid in weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I was hanging out in the Oper channel on Xelium like usual, and one of the younger Opers was just talking and talking and then said &#8220;I wonder how old the youngest father is.&#8221; Of course in this world of the internet no one should ever &#8220;wonder&#8221; anything so simple! And I can never resist going to google. I got to thinking about how much it would suck to go back to a world without the internet (this being one of many reasons). I&#8217;m so used to having billions of pages of knowledge at my fingertips. Maybe we don&#8217;t have access to as much depth in some subjects as you&#8217;d find in a library, but for the most part, you want to know something, you can just go online. It&#8217;s great.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, by the way, the youngest father was 12. The youngest mother was 5 years and 8 months old. Freaky.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s about it for now. *wanders off*<\/p>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>o\/` Portishead &#8211; Wandering Star o\/` It&#8217;s been a very thursday thursday. Last night we watched the West Wing. It was on and NBC didn&#8217;t do anything to screw it up, yay! It was a nice evening. This morning I caught up on some email. 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