Archive for November, 2005

Vegas, Baby!

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

I’m going to Las Vegas this weekend with my some family. I’m pretty excited about it. Well, sorta. It’s one of those excited to be going on a trip, but not really knowing what to expect kind of excitement. Not like nervousness, just general ignorance.

Lots of people go to Vegas, so it must be a cool place, but I don’t really know why. I hear they have a lot of food; so that’s good. Anyway, the people I’m going to be there with are fun people, so I’m sure I’m going to have a good time.

If my cellphone works over there (it should; its Cingular), I’m going to photoblog as much as I can. So, if you want to see pictures of me doing, ummm, I don’t know what, in Vegas, check back on this site starting this weekend. I don’t know if I’m going to be leaving Saturday or Sunday yet, so I can’t say exactly when I’ll start posting.

Frustration Sets In

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

I’ve now been notified by the manager at Sears that my XBox 360 will not be in until at least this weekend. I’m going out of town this weekend.

Fontalicious Text

Monday, November 28th, 2005

As you can see here, the headers to my posts now sport fancy fonts. This is a mighty tricky trick involving some sweet sweet code and a little help from a friend called PHP-GD. Anyway, I’m only testing it right now, so if my site gets slow or something, don’t worry.

Perception Puzzles

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

An afterimage is a visual impression that remains in the retina after the initial stimulus is removed. The afterimage always has colors that are complementary to those of the original image. Look steadily at the cross in the center of the picture to see an afterimage.

See this an more of these crazy visual magics at http://www.scientificpsychic.com/graphics/.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Defeated. Even though i was one of the lucky 4 with a “voucher,” i did not get a system. they didn’t get any.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
Got a controller and a game. Just waiting on a call to pickup my system.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Hours of waiting for this coupon. They’re supposed to get them in by noon. I’m one of only 4.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Sun’s up and i’m still in line. Official word is, they’re only getting 4. I’m 4th in line.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

This is me leaning up against the wall.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Right now, i’m sitting outside sears. It’s almost 4am. In 4 hours, they will open and i hope to be far enough up in line to get an xbox 360. There are only 4 people ahead of me, but i heard there are only a few systems here. My brother works here, so i hope to be able to use him to get me in front of these other guys. I’ll post my results once i know. Hopefully, it will be a triumphant picture of me with my new system.