Jay Lucky

So I’ve been playing the Halo 3 Beta for the last few days, and I must say it’s pretty cool. The graphics look awesome on my 50″ HDTV and it’s definitely a blast to play. However… the downside to this is having to listen to 12 year olds scream into the headset every fucking chance they get.

“GET THE FLAG GET THE FLAG GET THE FLAG OH MY GOD YOU SUCK!!11″

Holy jesus is this annoying. Seriously, if your kid is like this, beat him/her now. The rest of society shouldn’t have to put up with this crap.

On another note - I suck at this game. At least, the online part of it; I’ll own the shit out of the single player game, this is just a fact. I don’t know what it is… maybe I’m getting older? I thought this might be the case too, but then I loaded up Half-Life 2 and proceeded to own the fuck out of everything. To be honest, I just think that there really is a difference in control between keyboard+mouse and a console controller. I don’t feel like the controller is precise enough and using my thumb to aim really fucks me up. It’s more fluid with a mouse for me.

Perhaps it’s because I “grew up”, per se, on computer FPS’s. Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Unreal… these were all the games I played in what I would consider to be my formative FPS years. Or… maybe not. Either way, getting insta-killed every time you spawn fucking blows.

Seriously. What kind of bullshit excuse is this for not showing up to the firing of pretty much most of the staff of your company?

f13.net: And the next party… god, I am a fucking cynic. Why weren’t you at the firing party?

Brad McQuaid: Well, this is going to sound corny but it’s true. I would have broken down in tears.

Go die in a fire you fucking pussy. You can read the whole interview on f13.net, if you dare. But I warn you, it will only piss you off. For anyone that doesn’t know who Brad McQuaid is, he’s the guy behind the original Everquest and of recent design, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

I thought I would pass on this little tidbit since it took me awhile to find out the specifics. Using the MIME::Lite module, it’s actually pretty easy. The only problem I had was figuring out the correct MIME type to use for the attachment.

my $SUBJECT = q(Example Spreadsheet Email!);
my $MESSAGE = q(This is the main message text body.);
my $XLSPATH = q(/home/foo/spreadsheets);
my $XLS = q(Example-20070517.xls);

my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
        From    => $FROM,
        To      => $TO,
        Cc      => $CC,
        Subject => $SUBJECT,
        Type    => q(multipart/mixed)
);

$msg->attach(
        Type     => q(TEXT),
        Data     => $MESSAGE
);

if($XLS) {
        $msg->attach(
                Type     => q(application/msexcel),
                Path     => qq($XLSPATH/$XLS),
                Filename => $XLS,
                Encoding => q(base64)
        );
}

$msg->send;

See, pretty painless =)

I may actually try to post here more often now.  Stay tuned if you dare.