It’s The Small Victoiries That Count

You know, as humans we try conform computers and related technologies to be has human-like as possible. Programmers, well the good ones, try to make interfaces as nice and smooth as possible, pleasing to the eye and easy to use. Heck, we have even designed entire virtual worlds to mimic human life in the form of games. It has been interesting to see how online gaming has evolved from being a mirror to having its own unique persona if you will. However, in most cases the concepts that have evolved in virtual world don’t translate back into the real, unplugged world. Well…most of them don’t…

This brings me to the point of this post. Doing laundry at my place has always been a hassle. We’ve got six washers and two dryers and a lot of people with dirty clothes. Yeah, you do the math. A few weeks ago one of the dryers crapped out. In a matter of a few minutes, the situation went from bad to worse.

So yesterday I went down to wash some clothes that I desperately needed to wash. I pimp my way down to our laundry room and all six washers are going, the dryer is spinning, and two people are waiting in line. This does not look good for Homestar Runner. So for the next two hours I went down every thirty minutes to see if a washer was open. Finally I went down and found one washer open and everything else was full. As I was loading the dryer, I pondered ways to get back down here and secure the dryer. That’s when it hit me: camping.

From Wikipedia:

Camping is computer gaming jargon for the practice of a player staying in one area of the game world waiting for enemies or useful objects to appear or to come to the player rather than actively seeking them out. Players camp in order to gain an advantage over their opponents. Camping in most games are considered a negative trait and is often frowned upon, and among some players is considered tantamount to cheating. Inflammatory language often results after the accusation that someone has camped. People look down on camping because of the often unfair advantage a camper has to an arena in the form of unfairly accumulated resources or a beneficial position on a multiplayer map, and also because it makes the game more slow-paced.

Yes…I’m going to camp the laundry room. It shall be my arena and the dryer shall be my unfairly accumulated resource. Muahahahahaha…ahem. Now the typical load in a washer takes about thirty minutes and the dryer’s timer says thirty-four minutes. Excellent. I ran back to my apartment and bided my time. Then I grabbed my box of dryer sheets and book and bebopped my way down there. At t-minus fifteen mintues I camped out on the counter in front of the dryer. A couple of minutes later this guy comes bouncing down the stairs with his dryer sheets probably thinking that he has siezed the day.

Guy: “Ummm…are you waiting for the dryer?”

Me: (looking up from my book) “Yep.”

Guy: “Ohh….” (turns around and leaves)

pw0n3d !!1111!

Needless to say, I scored the dryer. If you have any questions, see #5 from yesterday’s post.

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Today’s post goes out to all them college graduating this semester. Good luck!
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Peace out.

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