So I picked up a flight sim game because I hadn’t played one in a long time and I’ve been playing the Battlefield 1942 scenarios over and over where I could easily get into a plane. I’m not so sure I’m all that keen on the PF deal, but I did find out I could make quick-and-dirty skins for the planes without a whole lot of effort and thinking, so I kind of threw camoflauge to the wind and made some skins for random planes as they came up.
   
I do like the fact that when your fighter gets shot up it starts showing the damage.

So I saw a couple weeks ago or so on Slashdot (I think) that there was a website that you could upload your picture and it would show what celebs you looked like. I picked out a fine shot and waited for the results. I’m pretty sure it’s just random, and not comparative. But if you wanna give it a try it’s here: Myheratage.com
But if you want to see the results
The picture of me I submitted:

My Doppelgangers

Top Row: Joseph_Conrad, Werner Herzog, Strom Thurmond, Perl Buck, Matthew Perry
Second Row: Paul Wittgenstein, Morton Stanley, Michael J. Fox, Melvin Calvin, Bing Crosby
Ya gotta feel sorry for the people that matched.

So the times (again) they are a-changing. Since the fall of 1998 or so I’ve had a dedicated webserver at home. I guess it made me one of the really cool nerds, but in reality it just sucked away money down a hole. I had grand plans of a ceramics portal website where I could showcase my work along with the other artists I know, and possibly make some sales on the side. The truth of it is, I’m lazy and don’t have much in the way of sales skills. The Cone Ten ceramics site started to get bogged down with personal minutia so I registered this site as the Eclectic Archipelago just to make things cleaner (and harder to spell). With the coming of the Archipelago I started blogging (before blogging was blogging) and made a couple entries in the first two years before, once again, the site got bogged down due to laziness.
I finally came to the decision to wipe my home server and host where it was more economical. I have to thank Jack for providing non profit space for me as well as my brother as well as keeping the blog services going where I’m more inclined to shut comments off rather than deal with spam and updates. Perhaps (before it becomes a new years resolution or some other nonsense) I’ll make more of an effort to do something with my sites. Hopefully, I’ll at least fix the style sheet.

So it gets to be 4:00 a.m. and bing! I’m awake and can’t go back to sleep. It’s times like this that I wish I could at least fix something at work, but I checked in and everything seems to be running smoothly. Of course the emails I get at night are only log stuff so they just browse really quick with nothing surprising. But that’s better than finding out we’ve been hacked, I guess.
I found out yesterday that of the three pieces I entered into the inter collegiate show the helmet actually made it in. From what I remember from the stats, there were over 170 pieces entered from the U alone, and a handfull from Utah State, BYU, Weber State, and one from one other school in Utah, I think. Or maybe the single one was from Weber State. Anyway, they accepted 71 of the pieces for the show. For some wierd reason I always feel self concious about getting a piece in, especially when so many of the good pieces that other people I know didn’t make it in. Anyway, it was wierd because all night at class I had people coming up to me congratulating me for getting in and telling me how good the helmet looks. I guess the wierdness comes because I really wasn’t aware that so many people know who I am, or made the connection between the helmet and me. I do still feel like an outsider in the program, but that isn’t unusual. I feel like an outsider almost everywhere.
If I ever get the pictures off my phone I snapped today in the gallery I’ll post one of the helmet here. And someday I’ll take a real slide of it.

So I went out today and picked up a bunch of stuff for the small metals class and to make up some assignments for foundry. I think the silver stock is pretty cool, maybe I’ll have to just carry one around awhile.

So I finally got my webcam doing something other than occupying space at work. Not that it’ll be a heavy usage but if anyone is interested to see if I’m picking my nose, slacking off or having lunch here is the way to do it.
http://www.chpc.utah.edu/~erik/webcam/
updates once a minute…

I think the weather channel is running a conspiracy to keep people from slitting their wrists. Every day it’s the same report. Foggy today, highs in the low thirtys, rain and snow tonight, warmer tomorrow. It’s a lie, every day I wake up to fog.

So I went tonight with Kirk to his radio show and he let me pick out most of the playlist from my old 70’s and early 80’s music. We got a ton of calls and had people requesting all kinds of stuff, a lot of which we didn’t have, but we were able to at least make second or third choices on most peoples things. It was really fun and if I’m able to get the show we recorded ripped to mp3’s I’ll try to get them up somewhere they can be downloaded.
It was much better than my first effort at the show a couple years ago.

Played for a few hours in the Molvik (35-39) battleground after going to a party at Guy’s house. The party was pretty fun and there was a lot of good food. Brian smoked up some of Guy’s elk and Guy barbequed some Salmon. Steve brought shrimp and California rolls and I brought Jumbalaya. Wayne and Irv brought pie and we ate tons then played some wordgames.
The battleground has been much more frustrating than the Thidranki one 15 levels ago, now I seem to die as often as I kill. But tonight just to take a look at it I logged up the whole thing and ran it through Neill’s log parser The output can be found here if you are at all interested.

The actual log can be found here.