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December 31, 2006
Happy 2007 (travels)
(my dad shouted out HAPPY NEW YEAR and Toby just kinda cowered in the corner, not sure what was going on.)
December 30, 2006
Stranded (travels)
Grounded (travels)
We got to the airport without incident (aside from a few idiot drivers who decided they needed to prove that they could still drive normally in 18 inches of snow with more falling), and now I'm waiting at the airport.
Pictures below the cut.
18 inches (travels)
My travel back to Seattle might be a bit more difficult than anticipated.
Especially since I'm connecting through Denver. on United.
December 29, 2006
I like AdiumX now (geekery)
December 25, 2006
Presentses (random)
- My brother got a 5-in-1 TV Game (arcade in a joystick) with Ms. Pac-Man, Xevious, Mappy, Galaga, and Pole Position
- My mom got a USB massager and a USB coffee cup warmer
- My dad got a bunch of gourmet chocolate
- My mom and dad got a CD of "the last year in music and also a bit of last year too" (with a bunch of music I worked on, including all of the Octothorpe songs I've been a part of which is where the "bit of last year" came into play). They liked it.
- I also brought a big chunk of fresh smoked salmon, some coffee from a local roaster (no NOT Starbucks), and uh... I think there was something else but I don't remember.
December 24, 2006
Animation 403 (meta)
I also have a 404 one in the works, and an oh-so-cute idea for a 500 page (for those rare but sunny times that I break something). I can't do the 500 one until I'm back at home though since I don't have my Logic XSKey with me (and so I can't record the song for it).
Sanity is overrated (travels)
Uh, I'm not entirely sure. I just know that I've done a lot of stuff tonight.
December 23, 2006
New site section (meta)
(It was also yet another stylesheet experiment, which is more fun than the content itself.)
sweet, my old domain is being squatted (random)
good thing it has so much google juice for "fluffy" due to all the broken inbound links from several years of existence. it's so nice having random garbage getting a higher search result than me.
A fresh look for beesbuzz.biz (meta)
There's still some hinky broken stuff (especially the meta-pages which I haven't gotten around to styling) but I think this works better in general.
December 21, 2006
December 19, 2006
Connectivity (random)
The maximum is 15 but it's probably somewhat lower.
December 18, 2006
December 17, 2006
sick (random)
Pseudoephedrine + guaifenesin = my favorite friends right now
December 15, 2006
MT's comment system sure is better now! (geekery)
Not good enough to go through the effort of moving back to it for my weblog (and anyway my weblog now uses phpBB for a lot more than just comments, like for friends-locking and so on) and I also don't like how the registration system is TypeKey-centric (I wonder if any of the OpenID modules are any good) and uses scary JavaScript, but for fully-public sites like sockpuppet.us it's definitely viable now.
The US Mint still doesn't get it (rant)
The problem wasn't the faces on the coins. The problems were:
- The Susan B. Anthony dollar looked and felt like a quarter
- The Sacajawea dollar looks like an arcade token, and being gold made it seem inherently like a collector's item
Also, the article implies that the back won't have an inscription, which makes me wonder how they'll indicate that it is legal tender in the value of $1.
December 14, 2006
You'd think Seattle would be more used to heavy rain (rant)
I should have taken the #28 instead of the #15. I would have if I'd known about the traffic problems which were on the 15/17/18 line. The utterly shocking thing was that during the trip, the bus driver didn't know anything about what was going on. Where were the goddamn traffic bulletins? HELLO you guys have a RADIO for a REASON, and he was actually contacting the base several times and they didn't have any idea what to tell him.
COME ON people.
December 12, 2006
Personal ad (random)
Project RAW (music)
December 11, 2006
IE6 support: hot or not? (meta)
I could make it just serve up a special IE6 stylesheet or something (that's easy enough to do) but I really can't be bothered to deal with it right now.
December 10, 2006
Plaid Siren (artwork, games)
December 09, 2006
The Office (UK) (media)
I presume that the NBC version eventually got different writing, considering that it's gone on longer than the BBC version ever did, but this makes it kind of hard to watch the original. Even though I rationally know the BBC version came first, it feels like a ripoff of the NBC one simply because I saw that version first.
December 08, 2006
Now I remember why I don't do open mics (music)
Also I never realized that my song "Gin Or Ginseng" could actually go over a lot of peoples' heads. I guess only performing it at Song Fight tends to skew my audience towards people who give a shit about video games and are at least somewhat aware of how shitty it is to work in that industry. I think only like ONE PERSON (aside from Spud) actually sung along during the bridge (***SPOILER WARNING*** it's the SUPER MARIO BROS THEME, people!) so I guess I need to learn my audiences better.
December 06, 2006
More iPod rebooting nonsense (geekery, rant)
On the WinAmp forums someone had discovered that the problem was with id3v2 tags where the comment was over 254 characters long! He also included a Perl app to find such files, but it was really badly-coded (and didn't actually work), but I rewrote it and it works great.
December 05, 2006
December 04, 2006
Bigger != better (games, rant)
I ordered an Intec S-Video cable for GameCube from you, and what you sent instead was a Hip Gear Universal Cable. Although at first glance it would seem that the Hip Gear cable was a better product (since it supports more game consoles), I tried it out and the actual video quality on this cable is significantly WORSE than the quality even on the composite cable which came with the GameCube. These all-in-one products tend to be manufactured with lower quality standards than the dedicated cables, and so I would really like to exchange this item for the one I actually paid for to begin with.Thank you.
December 03, 2006
Ice Cream Snake Eater (dream, games)
(Goro like ice cream.)
Weight States (random)
When I was in grad school I started on a strict DDR regimen, and got my weight down to 178 (pounds, not kilos!), and I more or less maintained this weight while I lived in NYC (since I walked a lot and couldn't afford to eat very well), but as soon as I came to Seattle I started to pile on the pounds again (I'd eat both breakfast and lunch at the gourmet cafeteria at work, which I drove to, and I didn't play very much DDR). At my peak I was up to an astounding 197 (ugh), and I'd been sitting there for a while.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (games)
This is the first time in a long time that I've had to force myself to stop playing just so I could get to sleep, usually prompted by Mario dying two or three times in a row (making me realize I'm making bad decisions). Darwinia was also this captivating but it was also much, much shorter.
BEST. GAME. EVER.
