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Well, last time i announced I was back I disappeared in less then a week. As it would happen, my computer stole victory from me at the 11th hour, completely killing my ability to use any keyboard, and getting rid of my hard fought Linux wireless setup. This time, I've built a computer and I'm fairly sure that it won't break on me (although I already got blue screened with it being active only 6 days, though this being windows, I'm almost surprised it didn't happen sooner. So all said and done, I really truly believe I am back for good this time. I even answered basically every single message in my inbox (though i ignored most of the pictures because there were just too many). So hopefully I'll be seeing everyone around, and I should be in chat at some point every day, so I'll talk to you there!

Right, so my computer got a little mad at my victory over it in the wireless department that it decided to start breaking the little things, and now, three installs later, I still can't get everything working, so I decided that it was time to switch distrobutions. I'm going to try out Ubuntu today, and I'm hoping that'll fix it. I'm really sad to be leaving suse though, as I fell in love with the layout, so I may go back to it once I get a new computer and this one is no longer essential. I still recommend suse if you have a newer computer though, because I think my problems were all because I'm on a pre 2001 computer.

On another front, I ordered Final Fantasy VII a couple weeks ago, and started playing it, and it's actually quite fun. I had my reservations at first when I saw the style, but i'm rather enjoying it at the moment, although becouse of school and the like I haven't gotten very far yet.

And lastly, I've started aquiring old xboxes in my attempt to make an Xbox-Linux super computer cluster. I currently have three nodes, and all the tools I need to mod, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do the software part or if I'll need an action replay for that, which I haven't even begun to look for. Hopefully I won't need it, but in case I do, any of you lot have one that I could buy for a reasonable price?

Hi everybody, I'm finally back. I was having some computer problems, but it's all been (mostly) resolved, so i should be around a lot more now. Yeah, I'm really happy to be back, and missed this place, but i have a ton of messages and pictures to sort through, so i may be awhile before i can actively start going into the forums again. But until then, hopefully I'll be back in chat daily, so I'll see you around.

Yeah, so ɤWeapongod and I are having a serious debate over who is better and more awesome between Captains Kirk and Picard. He decided to make a poll out of it (I already made one out of our tea vs coffee argument today), so if you could all please vote so we get as many results as possible, I'd really appreciate it.

Right, so I have internet set up, my car back, and I'm getting settled into school, so I'll be on a lot more again this week.

Hey everybody. I'm moving down to school, and we need to get our internet set up which includes a minimum of three days to get fully set up, so I have to get on the school computers. I will probably not be on much until it's all set up, especially now that classes have started, so I'll talk to you all in a couple of days.

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I finally got a hold of the internet people, and my connection should be up and running by next tuesday evening, so I'll be able to be on more then.

We went to Socorro today to look for a place to rent for the summer and next school year and finally found one. Very awesomely, it has three bedrooms for the three people we had to fill it. Most importantly, it will have internet fast enough to enjoy the internet and play games online. Anyways, here are a couple of pictures:

So I was talking to ɤWeapongod the other day and the topic somehow turned to Celtic knots, so I decided I would post them up here to show him. Being the obsessor I am about Ireland, I generally know some of the significance behind some Celtic knot work, so I decided I'd share my wisdom (well, honestly, it's more knowledge than actual wisdom >.>) with all of you.

Celtic Cross

The Celtic cross has some of the most obvious symbolism out of all the knots. Now used to symbolize the Christian cross, it actually developed from the ancient Celtic market cross. Market crosses lacked the cross beam and also had a round ball set at the top of the pillar and a square stepped base at the bottom. The ball then represented the heavens, the base represents our world (earth), and the pillar represented the link an barrier between the two.

Trinity Knot (caution: major religion references)

The Celtic Trinity knot is the standard stereotype when it comes to Celtic knots. It consists of three leaf edges separated equally. In it's basic form it represents the whole of the holy trinity: the father, the son, and the holy spirit. A ring (as seen in picture one) signifies the infinite nature of God, that he never begins or ends. Either doubling the knot itself (picture two) or the ring (picture three) is done to signify the dual nature of Jesus, both fully human and fully divine. Ultimately, the versatility of the trinity knot can lead to some interesting mutations (picture four).

Lover's Knot

The final knot I have for you is the lover's knot, which is actually a misnomer. The lover's knot actually has no name, but when I learned how to do knots my teacher called it the lover's knot so I just follow the tradition. This knot doesn't have any modern meanings, but is very common in places such as the Book of Kells.