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I just found the wardrobe changer in GTA: San Andreas. One of the customizations I can choose is tighty-whitey underwear with socks and shoes. I am going to play the whole game in that outfit. It is hilarious. I am constantly chuckling.

I dare you to come up with a more scientific analysis of zombies.

So maybe I'm one of the last to know this, but the America's Army game involves a medical training section. What's fucked up is that the training involves - I kid you not - a virtual classroom with a very real, and very boring powerpoint presentation, and virtual written test. Worst Game Ever.

History is pop culture.

When you can't get something, no matter what it is, you want it more.

Humphrey Bogart's last words:

"I never should have switched from scotch to martinis."

If you lived in a fantasy story, would you pine for cheap goods produced by assembly line?

You're really bad at planning things.

According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.

I LOLed.

A short summary of Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely shows some of the ways in which we act irrationally.

A Pentagon report shows no direct link between Saddam Hussein and Al Queda, despite the White House saying in 2003 that they had evidence linking the two.

One of the reasons I don't like Hillary Clinton is that she won't release financial information about her campaign, when it's common practice to do so. That is another thing that leads me to believe that she sees power as a game; that she doesn't believe in right and wrong, only in powerful and not. It seems like she believes that the rules don't apply to her, as long as she doesn't get caught.

What scares me is that she may be proven right, and she may be elected.

I read a small number of ...technical... blogs, but every so often something comes up that is general interest, so I think I'm going to start posting those entries on my livejournal. I dunno. Maybe somebody else'll see something they like.

Today involves:

Organic chemistry research seventeen years ago, with pen and paper. (gasp!)

You don't have to be obscenely wealthy, but it's important to know when to cut your losses, and how to not lose.

Okay, so this is easily the best story I've ever read on thedailywtf.com

DDR Couples made my day.

I have no idea if they're actually playing the song correctly, but I like to imagine they are.

Kira and I totally rickrolled the Dickinson All-college Formal last night.

So I've always known that Garfield gets funnier when you remove Garfield's lines, but what about when you remove Garfield entirely?

The NSIS scripting language is my personal enemy at the moment.

Note:
This entry is mostly for my benefit, so I don't have to figure this out again in a year or whenever I want to know it again. Also, it's here so Google can index it for when someone else wants to know it.

Tunneling Team Fortress 2 traffic through a proxy:

You'll need Cubehub Tunnel, which routes UDP traffic through one or more TCP connections. It's designed around Quake 3, but it can be made to work with Steam, TF2, and Counter-Strike:Source. I assume it also works with other Steam games.

First, locate a computer outside your network that you can route traffic through. Run the server on that. The command line I used is:
java -jar tunnel.jar --server -t 0.0.0.0:1194
If the server is behind a router or nat, make sure the correct port is forwarded (I use 1194).

Then, run the client on your local computer. The command line should look like:
java -jar tunnel.jar -t ip.address.here:1194 -s 0.0.0.0:1194 -n 25

Next comes getting Steam to use the proxy. For that, you need ProxyCap. I've tested with 3.05, 3.0, 2.01, and 1.03. I've only gotten 2.01 to work. 3.0 and 3.05 connect to Steam very well, but when I try to connect to a game server through the tunnel, the server drops me, and I can't play. So download ProxyCap 2.01, and start it.

Right-click on the new ProxyCap tray icon and click preferences. Click "Proxies", the "New" button, and the input following information:
Proxy Type: Socks v5
Address: 127.0.0.1
Port: your port (I use 1194)

Then click on "Rules", and add a new rule for each application for which you want to go through the tunnel. If you want any Steam games to be tunneled, then you need Steam to work through the tunnel as well. So under "Application", click browse and find the Steam.exe, and add Steam to the Rules list. Do the same for the hl2.exe that's in the Team Fortress folder. Then go ahead and add the other game executables that you want tunneled.

Next, start up Steam. It make take a few tries for Steam to eventually accept your username and password, but it will eventually work, and then you can browse for servers, and connect to one.

Do not click this link unless you have a lot of time to spare, and reading other people's problems doesn't make you depressed.