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Saturday, March 22, 2008

  • Art and I had a little excursion a couple weeks ago. We drove through Napa and Sonoma, made it to Bodega Bay and came back again. Fun times.

    I guess I should show a couple of pics, since I've been working on them in Photoshop and uploaded them to my Flickr and all.

    Bodega Bay:


    A gorgeous field of flowers in the Napa area:


    Black and white shot of the Flamingo Inn in Santa Rosa:


    Lake Berryessa:
    (note. The water was green. I managed to salvage some of that in photochop..)
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    One of the wineries we passed by:


    There's more on my Flickr. Almost all of the pics are from that trip, because I got to use Art's spiffy camera to take them. Photo quality in the camera I had (and can't find) just isn't comparable. 8 megapixels beats the crud out of 4.3.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

  • Oh. My. Gosh.

    I have never seen anyone do anything that musical with the washing machine. Clicky and enjoy.


    Don't worry, it's safe for the entire family.




    P.S. Pira, we will definitely be watching Wheel on March 18. Hopefully you've gotten some good use out of whatever you may have obtained that you aren't allowed to speak of. Haha.  

Friday, December 21, 2007

  • Ahah. Ahahah. Ahahahahahahahahahaaaaah.


    Art was playing Halo 3 tonight with Tim, Tim's cousin, and some other CGRer I don't recognize the name of. Anyway, one of Art's teammates commented that he just "got double-teamed by two Ghosts." To which Art responded, "There're some anime freaks who'd love that."


    My stomach hurts. From laughing.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

  • More Bash Funny.

    *giggles* Enjoy the funny.

    #180150
    *** YOU has joined #gamedev
    * YOU HAVE RECEIVED A FATAL ERROR, PRESS ALT + F4 TO REPAIR THIS IMMEDIATELY
    <Waxycat> teh
    <Waxycat> it says i recieved a fatal error
    <posit> Waxycat: oh that happens some times, you have to press alt+f4 to fix it
    <posit> *sometimes
    <Waxycat> that quits irc
    <Falnom> ALT+F4 quick!
    <Waxycat> why?
    * YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO RESTART MIRC
    <posit> you have a fatal error
    <Waxycat> otherwize?
    <posit> if you don't restart it may damage your system
    <Waxycat> it says i have 30 seconds
    *** Waxycat has quit IRC []
    <posit> damn yeah
    <Palish> bahhahah.
    *** Waxycat has joined #gamedev
    * YOU HAVE RECEIVED A FATAL ERROR, PRESS ALT + F4 TO REPAIR THIS IMMEDIATELY
    <Waxycat> what happened?
    <Waxycat> again?!?!
    <Waxycat> it says it again!
    <posit> again?
    <Waxycat> what should i do?!
    <posit> maybe a config problem
    <Waxycat> what will happen if i don't quit?
    <posit> not sure exactly
    <posit> but I don't think it's good
    * YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO RESTART MIRC
    *** Waxycat has quit IRC []

    #682409

    <Ranbert> someone shoot me please....
    <tele>   o                              \O_ Arrgh!!
    <tele>  <\==-   -   - -   -  -  - --- __/
    <tele>  / \                             \

    #412248
    <Locl-Yocl> I helped the EMTs at a car wreck and got blood all over my arms and shirt. It looked like I murdered 20 people with a fork... anyway, I walked into a convieniance store down the street and said my girlfriend needs a tampon. The guy at the counter was mortified.

    #262417 
    <foniks`> heh, if we sent all the criminals to some empty continent and just left them there to die
    <foniks`> and showed up like 50yrs later like, "sup?"
    <foniks`> whatd u think they'd say?
    <FoSZoR[bg]> something along the lines of, "G`Day mate"

    #88575
    <Stormrider> I should bomb something
    <Stormrider> ...and it's off the cuff remarks like that that are the reason I don't log chats
    <Stormrider> Just in case the FBI ever needs anything on me
    <Elzie_Ann> I'm sure they can just get it from someone who DOES log chats.
    *** FBI has joined #gamecubecafe
    <FBI> We saw it anyway.
    *** FBI has quit IRC (Quit: )

    #329292 

    <Batty> Euch, rap is just missing one letter. c.
    <zeep> rapc?
    <Batty> ...
    <Batty> Crap you idiot. you put the c on the other end
    <zeep> oic
    <Batty> Though you could also say it's missing an e
    <zeep> wtf is erap?
    * Batty bangs his head repeatedly against a wall

    #83627

    <scirDSL> I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals.

    #669898

    whatshisname: Why does the media insist on calling intelligent design an 'alternative' to the theory of evolution?
    That's like saying pancakes are a good alternative to an internal combustion engine.
    What units do you use for measuring Godliness?
    mediaho: Cleanliness?
    whatshisname: I was thinking more along the lines of Jehovahwatts: "It took 47.3 Jehovahwatts to turn that water into wine"
    MrNeutron: "Wha. . . what the hell is a Jehovahwatt"
    Smallberries: About 103 Jews.
    pwhp_67: Are Jehovawatts metric?
    jimmyhaha: Commie.

    #734472
    <SpuD|work> augh, I hate MS Office and people's expectation that "IT'S PART OF WINDOWS SO I WANT IT FREE!"
    <SpuD|work> for starters, IT'S NOT PART OF WINDOWS, also, IT'S NOT FREE, and it's not even cheap, and NO IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOUR MATE PIRATED IT FOR YOU LAST TIME AND YOUR PC DIED AND YOUR MUM GOT SCARED AND SAID YOU'RE MOVING WITH YOUR AUNTIE AND YOUR UNCLE IN BEL-AIR



    And as a bonus: the quote I submitted to Bash just last night.

    #799112

    hapa_Rach: Breen, find yourself a basketball player to date. ;)
    beanbag: hahah
    beanbag: have you *seen* the basketball players this year, Rach? :P
    hapa_Rach: Actually, no.
    beanbag: well
    beanbag: you wouldn't say that if you had ;)
    hapa_Rach: But judging from the ones I've seen at before, yeah, no prospects there.
    hapa_Rach: But you're near other schools.
    beanbag: I am not going to go out looking!
    beanbag: I'll just sit and wallow in my emotional distress :P
    hapa_Rach: Shopping, dear. Doesn't mean you need to buy or even put one on layaway. :P
    beanbag: I hate window shopping though
    TimD: Don't we all.
    beanbag: I prefer to go shopping and just buy on the spot
    hapa_Rach: What, you want to try them on first?
    beanbag: well, at least examine off the rack!
    beanbag: and from closer than outside the window!
    hapa_Rach: Well, you can always go in and check them out yourself.
    JonD: i like to go in the store, and see how they look on me
    beanbag: I'd rather be the one checked out
    hapa_Rach: You like when boys look at you on the rack? eeeew.
    beanbag: HEY! that is not what I said!
    TimD: Haha.
    JonD: you know, take them to the corner room, lock the door, and see how snug they can get...
    hapa_Rach: EEEWWW JON
    beanbag: hey now, I am not a dirty girl Jon
    TimD: Bad boy Jon. Go have an intimate session with one of your guitars.
    JonD: sometimes, i look in the mirror, and see how many differnet way i can wear them
    JonD: reversible, and such
    JonD: i also like to try on a couple at a time or more
    JonD: see how they look together
    JonD: remember folks: you should take off what you had before, before you try something new on, otherwise it can get uncomfortable when they're together

    Currently Listening
    Heavier Things
    By John Mayer
    Something's Missing
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Saturday, August 11, 2007

  • Blargh.

    CGR is down, predictably. Art and I get back from his weekend, and of course I can't get my CGR fix. Figures.

    So. Another fun "weekend" at the in-laws', and another day of recovery afterward. I actually remembered to bring my swimsuit and so I went swimming with my bro-in-law, his girlfriend, and my nieces and nephews. I still need to go somewhere and do dives to get that craving out of me, but I had a lot of fun back-kicking (my stroke kind of sucks, and the pool's not that big) and trying to touch bottom at the middle of the pool. I'm just barely taller than it is deep, which isn't a pleasant discovery in relation to my lack of height. Ah well.

    I am incredibly disappointed in Mae's new record. It releases on Tuesday, but you can stream it from their Myspace now. I had high hopes for them after they got signed to a new label, but now they sound so generic. What happened to the lovely guitar riffs and incredible piano solos? Now it all blends into each other like banana blends into a smoothie: it overpowers and takes on the the one predominant flavor. In Mae's case, that flavor is fast approaching homogenized radio sound.

    I think another reason I have such gripes over the disc is that I am not incredibly fond of synthy keyboard sounds. A number of the songs are rife with them. I don't understand why they would use synth sounds when a good guitar or keyboard solo could fill the position just as easily and sound arguably better. I always enjoyed the keyboarding on We're So Far Away, and wondered often why similar piano lines weren't incorporated into more of their songs. I also don't understand why they've backed away from using catchy guitar solos a la Anything or Suspension. Why take away a good thing when it's working for you?


    CGR needs to hurry up and get back up, before I start deciding I need to kick some more Zerg ass. [/starcraft]



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