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VicariousE
Wanted to be a simple man of the Earth, enjoying art and literature, the bounty of the Earth. Instead, I have to fend against governments and principalities, global conspiracies and bad social engineering, ree, my autism

Age 51, Male/Penis

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Posted by VicariousE - October 30th, 2013


My father horded tools, machines... metal. The farm auction will be in less than 2 weeks, and tons (quite literally) have to get shifted into piles. Therefore, my mind will be saturated with organizational details, and unable to cope with the intellectual discourse of having an open, commentable post.

All in-progress and prospective art commissionaires, please use the PM system. I'll stop by everyone else's post when I can, but I'm just floored with pain and stress. My sis couldn't take it, her immune system went batty after flying in 2 days ago.

EDIT: The auction is Saturday November 9th, and I desperately do not want to be here, for any of it.


Posted by VicariousE - October 23rd, 2013


The following are rhetorical questionz, pertaining to said story
Who are you?
What do you want?
Where are you going?
You do you serve, who do you trust?

What magic from your past, has positively influenced your life now?


Posted by VicariousE - September 15th, 2013


Although more popular in Europe, I followed Asterix the best I could. The bulk of the comics were created before I was born. My brother worked for an importer, who laminated British imported copies of this august series. Grateful for my brothers', expertise, he generously gave him one of each. He gave them to me (instead of pawning them). I gave some away, at least those I had multiple copies of, and the rest, I have to this day, over 30 years later. Many a ketchup sandwich and chocolate milk were had over those pages.... there were some rough times, and Ma always had a gallon of milk.

It took almost 2 years to attain 6 comic books from the British distributor... tariffs, mailing to the US and direct sales weren't their bag it seemed. My mother hand-wrote a letter to them on my behalf, along with an amount of US currency (mail order or check, I disremember which). They called twice to politely protest the request, but eventually relented and sent a few of the copies I requested (that were in stock), along with the British equivalent in funds not used. It's a shame, but I think the 2-3 letters of correspondence with them has been lost.

Asterix in Switzerland: Page 1, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11- Asterix and the Normans (odd page), Asterix and Cleopatra (odd page), Asterix and Cleopatra (last page), Asterix and the Soothsayer (random page). List of Asterix comic books so far.

Asterix.


Posted by VicariousE - September 1st, 2013


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Posted by VicariousE - August 9th, 2013


I've futzed around with many primitive (and damned expensive) computers in the past, like the TI-99/4A, the Apple IIc (was so chuff that it had 128kb of RAM) and the TRS-80 III. But it's the IBM compatible PC's that really opened the window (so to speak) to so many possibilities. Here's the heartfelt list of what I had.

*PortaBox WDC 65C02 1.023 MHz, Apple IIc, cassette tape and floppy drives... everything was glued together, and no expansion slots at all on mine. In a classic boner (Genesis/32X//Saturn) move, they made a different version which could accept upgrades, but only after the Apple IIgs came out. I wrote my first copyrighted piece on that turd, and played many games, more advanced than what 's in the Game Portal right now!

*The Box Pentium Pro 200 MHz, Matrox Millennium 2 MB video card (that could be expanded to a whopping 8 MB), 2GB hard drive, 4 MB of RAM on an awesome Legacy motherboard, which took a pounding from very unclean electricity and still kept ticking. This box was my life's blood for many, many years. I probably spent months watching porn on it.

*Box II AMD 2.4 GHz 64 bit single-core, eGeForce 7100GS (which always claimed it was a 512MB card, but on the back of it, it says 128MB!), ASUS motherboard, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB hard drive, 500 Watt power supply, yadda-yadda... This box was the first one, I ordered parts over the internet to build... borrowed my Ma's credit card to do it. This thing kicked the shit out of the PS2, and ran Fallout 3, F.E.A.R. and Half-Life and all it's modded goodnesses. Took forever to install WIN XP from just a copy of the install disk (has to be bootabale in a very specific way) - ended up installing Server 2000, just to be able to get around the 'bootabale disk' part of it. Necessity is the mutha of all invention, ftw.

*PortaBox II Pentium M 1.60 GHz (yeah, right, an overclocked 800MHz, is what it is) Dell Latitude, 512 MB ROM, utter POS ('piece of shit', not 'point of sale'). Can barely run WIN XP Pro and play a 720i video without choking on its own cud (using the HD as onboard memory, biiig turn-off). This 10 y/o turd was given to me, by a tenant who skipped out owing a few grand :\ Had to use it after Box II got fried on an old, faulty sound card. It's currently microwaving my left hand all to hell >:(

*Box III Under Construction It'd be a high-end six-core AMD, either 16 or 32 GB of RAM, a video card that doesn't cost over a 100$, 2TB SATA hard drive, a whatever size solid-state drive for the OS and browser (thx Tony!), a motherboard (that hopefully can also accommodate older IDE hard drives) that cost at or just over 100$. DVD, big flash drive to extract the info from PortaBox II, a wireless N card and antenna (if they do those sort of things) and an analog to digital A/V converter. And some coleslaw and a pickle (dammit).

....and some mutha-fuckin speakers. Not only a shit-ton of satellite speakers and a box woofer, but also a wireless set (L, R and bass box) that I can keep in the kitchen or move outside :) Figure they have to be at least 200-300 watts capacity, more so for the remote system.

I'd appreciate any suggestions, as to what individual components I should buy. Really need to hear from someone who's very thoroughly impressed with their current speaker system. The cost of this rig, is aimed at the lower high-end, of the retail spectrum.

Time to build another box


Posted by VicariousE - July 28th, 2013


Still feel pretty crappy, but I'm taking actions to correct that. Sorry about word-blocking my past 2 posts... I should realize at least 70 human beings get notified of my cryptic shit-posting, every time I hit the Submit button.

So, over 3 days, I had about 60 responses to what I had said on other people's blogs. Didn't read them. Guess I should. But for genuine love I will, not out of any sense of obligation or reputation. Love, is the only thing that transcends death, the only thing that matters. No gizmo or machine can hold a candle to what love can do, yet it's the hardest thing; to learn, to practice, to truly understand when sometimes you just want to be a cold, unfeeling animal, spared from the pain of it all.

Howya doin? Play any good medal games lately?

Hyper-depression zombie mode


Posted by VicariousE - July 27th, 2013


Dread mon, truly dread.

Still in hyper-depression zombie mode


Posted by VicariousE - July 23rd, 2013


I was told some slightly shocking things the other day by a family member... I need some time off from conversing with you all to let it sink in, and form a response. I do not like the truth or critical information being kept from me, especially by my brother and sister. If they want me to help sort things out here on the East coast, I need to have all the facts, and not be treated like a child, a potential liability or a thief. Whatever prejudices they've formed of me, have finally hit the light of day, since my father passed away late last year.

My brother and sister are both 20 years older than me, and have lived on the other side of the country for almost 40 years. I'd say more about it, but I wouldn't know where to start. I guess they figure I haven't (in the past) been earning my keep, and while that's partially true, I'm the only one in a position to do most of the dirty work, while they 'administrate'... maybe that one fact has gotten them both rattled, IDK......

The mindset of the Baby-boomer has always intrigued me, and after leaving high school, I read up on their period of history. They believe they have rights and entitlements, as citizens and workers, and that is simply not the case. We are subjects of an empire. While there is some due process available, your rights and freedoms are dictated (not accommodated), by the amount of privilege you have earned: (the) amount of verifiable schooling, money and political connections. But that's off topic and I just wanna play some games and watch a few movies... for a few days.

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Posted by VicariousE - July 15th, 2013


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The pain came on very strong within 90 minutes. I thought it was the late night chicken I put in the toaster oven (so fucking hot out, why run a big gas stove?). I pooped just a tad, but the pain above the left side of my hip persisted. Then I noticed the few drops I peed were just blood. Scary and mortifying. That was around 11:30 PM Sunday night.

I sweat profusely, like I was outside in the humidity and sunlight. Guess I'm used to strong pain, so I haven't thrown up yet, though the urge is there. Luckily, I had a full strength Vicodin pill left over from my back surgery, otherwise, I would not be able to type this now. I have some half strength stuff with acetaminophen, but I have to watch how much of it I take. These pills only last for a little while - they peak and taper off quickly.

Called my sis and she called my bro, who's had this happen 3 times before... looks like I'm breaking the family record for holding onto a stone, since the longest he had one was for 5 hours. I've had the pain for 5 hours already |:

That's what I get for sweating my testicles off outside... because I know if I come in the house to cool off and hydrate, I ain't going out again till I stop sweating, and that usually takes over 1/2 an hour.

Ow. This really sucks. Hope this passes. It's just past 4:30AM. I really don't want to have to ask the neighbor to bring me to the hospital I can't afford.
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5:30pm - Oh this fucker burns man!!!
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Just after midnight... pain stopped. Didn't realize it, even as I managed to sit down and watch canned content, without severe discomfort. Didn't want to jinx it, so I finished watching, then went downstairs to pee in a cup. And I did! Caught some bits of stone, and the rest of the urine went into the john. Had I known how little urine I was holding, I would've drank more, but I guess I sweated most of it out :|

Hopefully, that's the end of this insanely painful and paralytic saga. Almost a full 24 hours of internal pain.
To anyone who's gotten kicked in the kidneys or the testicles: felt like both and then some.
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HOPEFULLY, THE LAST WORD ON THE SUBJECT: Almost precisely 6 days after the first signs, I guess I passed a solid chunk of stone, while taking a healthy tinkle. Halfway through weeing, there was a noticeable restriction, like someone ran over my garden hose! Definitely felt something GTFO, binging off the sides of my urethra.

That pesky thing was hiding out this whole time!!! The rock basically shed some of its parts, to appear as though it had left my body. Took me completely by surprise. This is what I get for watching too many sci-fi and submarine movies - a piece of rock that knows the art of war O_O Hope I can spot this little bastard in the ceramic bowl.

Got tough stains in the toilet? Try using a false teeth cleaning, fizzy tablet.

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