Testing, testing, test 1, test 2, test 3

YUP! brand new logitech k120 works quite well, but I am missing the wrist rest.

qgw xwe wn ehw qrwnf hwraw (I've bet on the wrong horse)

my SteelSeries ZBoard has finally failed me.  I think it is time I retired her and found something a little less temperamental. Maybe another steelseries keyboard, I did quite like my z-board ever since it came out, despite the few issues I had.  See my first zboard was an ideazon, the first one out, and it came only ps2 and didn't work with half the keysets because they were all made for the second version and up, all USB devices.  Well aft 4 or 5 years that one finally bit the dust, and so i contacted steelseries who bought up all of ideazon, but couldn't receive the 50% off ideazon had promised me the year before because of my issues with getting  new keysets to work with my old zboard.  Still I loved my zboard so i bought a new one.  It cost me over $100 all told with delivery and duty.  Now it has lasted again only 5 years and I am actually considering other types of keyboards.

World of what?

If Pern is the world of dragons, and Nirn is the world of The Elder Scrolls, and Xanth is the land of magic, and Mars is the Red Planet, and Jupiter is a gas giant, would that my Earth the world of frogs?

There's frogs on nearly every bit of land mass in all of the world. I might be a little biased, but I think the best looking frogs are the little brown tree frogs found in the Great Northern Rain Forest on the hills and mountains of BC.  Some of the ugliest frogs are the bullfrogs and leopard frogs we find here in Ontario. Nasty little things with horrid songs.

http://frogsaregreen.com/3220/the-10-weirdest-and-most-unusual-frogs-on-earth/

3 years after fixing my inguinal hernia

Ok, well it's 3 years and 5 months later, but I would still like to tell the world how I feel.  90% of the time my right testicle doesn't hurt, which is a huge improvement over those few months when I had the hernia.  The other 10% of the time it's like I've been flicked down there when nothing has actually happened.

Ever regret something you learned?

I've tried to mold myself into a modern renaissance man, trying to learn enough about everything to hold a conversation for longer than "Oh, you do that? cool."  I want to know it all, but I know I can't.  Now here's a small list of the stuff I've learned (most of the time the hard way), but never really needed.

1. What's inside a modern golfball.  I've learned this lesson the hard way 2 or 3 times now, and every time it's been the same.  Oh and I've never actually needed the information.
2. Telnet.  Now with the prevalence of http and html I will never ever need to know the divine intricacies of telnet. However it did teach me about IP addresses, which springboarded my knowledge of the internet, ethernet and networking as a whole.
3. FTP commands. It taught me UNIX commands as well, but I just don't use command-line FTP anymore.  With all these great programs like CuteFTP and FileZilla, I don't have to Telnet into a server in Toronto in order to access FTP in order to get a demo disk for a new game which then takes all night to download and doesn't actually work because of noise on the phone line.  Things just don't work that way anymore.
4. AT commands.  Modems are automated pieces of separate hardware now.  They have their own brains and don't need me to post commands to it manually.  In retrospect it was a waste of time to learn these commands.
5. QBASIC.  I will cherish those years I spent learning the logic behind programming, even if it was only BASIC that I learned.  It's taught me many things about programming, ranging from program flow, inheritance, and sub-routines, to global constants, run time variables, and type structures (which started me on the path towards more and more object oriented programming, just like everyone else). unfortunately I now have little use for QBASIC but I don't really regret learning it either since it did start me on course for other languages.
6. how to shave my legs.  I've needed this skill only twice in my life and both times were for a sleep study.
7. how to darn a sock. I know how but that doesn't mean I do it.

Testing the waters.

There's something to be said about finding your niche in society.  For the longest time I've thought my niche was as a technician, fixing other peoples problems with technology for money.  I'm not so sure I want to continue in this vein.  My dreams have always been to program video games, since the first time I saw a video game in use.  I've deferred this dream for years and years, and it seems I've made it into something bigger than it really is.  I want to run my own studio, have my dreams published into successful games, and be able to go on Electric Playground, like most of my heroes have done already.

Now back to the topic at hand, testing the waters.  I've had some fun modding Oblivion and Skyrim, changing textures, building rooms, and using the tools provided.  I quite liked it.  This is leading me to believe I would enjoy working in the video game sector.  Now all I have to do is learn how and just do it.  Any suggestions?