{"id":57,"date":"2002-10-02T02:13:04","date_gmt":"2002-10-02T02:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2016-09-18T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:00:19","slug":"the-waiting-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"The Waiting Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been changing skins again. The latest would be The Waiting Room<\/b><\/a>. This has to be my most designer-like trend-following skin yet. Before this it was the Blueprint<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I always wanted to make a skin that was based on any of my failed Quake\/Half-Life maps but never got to… until now. It’s a case of having assignments due wayyy ahead. Heck I even handed in an assignment a month early, not knowing the real submission date! (I took it back after finding out how many mistakes there were in the rush job.)<\/p>\n

The textures are default Half-Life (thank you Valve for making such pretty textures) and the map was constructed using QuArK<\/b><\/a>. Yes, you can actually click on the items! The relevance of each item to its link is doubtful, though. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

8a1 16g2 16d3 16#d3 8e3 8a2 8g2 8e2…<\/b><\/p>\n

I feel darned proud for figuring out how to convert bass guitar tabs into Nokia<\/a> ringtones! I don’t even know how to play a guitar, much less a bass one, but after a Google<\/a> search, I took a crash course in it and figured out my first – Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Walkabout<\/b>! I assure you this is as catchy as bass lines go.<\/p>\n

I’m sorry Ericsson users – the more complex bass lines use three<\/b> octaves. Ericsson phones only support two<\/b> octaves. Dunno about the others though… \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Now to irritate people!<\/b><\/p>\n

Me<\/b>: (Pretending to receive a phone call while testing the ringtone…)
\nMe<\/b>: Hello? Hello? Hey you’re (still) breaking up, I can’t hear you!
\nMe<\/b>: (Looks shocked and stares at phone…)<\/p>\n

Repeat as necessary until battery is drained, or physically reprimanded. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Now to serious stuff.<\/b><\/p>\n

My online (and recently real-life) friend Icegurl passed away from a terminal illness. She was a well-known Xfresher<\/b><\/a> in the forums and chatroom. While I can’t drop a tear for her just yet, a lot of people have. Then there’s the sensitivity backlash from strangers who suddenly had something to say about her. I pity those who did<\/b> know her well, because they got lumped inside this category. It’s so easy to confuse these groups and call people opportunists that it’s best not to pass judgement.<\/p>\n

Death is already sad enough. Like I said in the last blog post<\/b><\/a>, certain types of suicide are not good and a waste. Of course, I’ve never had suicidal tendencies, so I can’t say that all forms of suicide are completely stupid. I can only say that if you have to eliminate something or someone, let it be your obstacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been changing skins again. The latest would be The Waiting Room. This has to be my most designer-like trend-following skin yet. Before this it was the Blueprint. I always wanted to make a skin that was based on any of my failed Quake\/Half-Life maps but never got to… until now. It’s a case of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11698,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/11698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}