Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Doug's Wedding

Here is a picture marquee of what happened this weekend.

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Went to Doug and Steph's Wedding




There was a nice Cake





Kathy and I tried to act like the cake





I went to High School with much of the wedding party





Todd blew bubbles all night





Bob and I danced like we were 15 again.



So it was pretty good. We all had a good time and I got to see my friends and Family.

Speaking of Friends and Family. I joined a clan on Socom II online. It rules. The guys are real patient with us and they don't mind taking us around and showing us the maps. I have been up late a few times this week playing. Which probably explains why I was late Tuesday morning by 2 hours (I was supposed to escort the Foreign nationals). DOH!

Plus now I am sick!

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Hydrogen Cars near me

One thing that I dig about being where I am is that EVERYTHING happens here. I enjoy the concerts that are here even though I haven't attended. I like how in 1 month, M Manson, Howie Day and Green Day all play in the same spot. Its a small club also. Maybe 1000 people I hear. And I like how everything happens here first. My new favorite example is the new Shell Hydrogen Station which is like 15 miles away. That is good. I wonder what effect this will have on the environment.

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

SoCom II

PS2:
I was looking into getting a PS2 cuz I really like first person shooters. Socom 2 came out and it has a headset so you can talk using VoIP to the other players.

I looked on Ebay and I found people who were selling them used for more than a new one. Totally lame. So I went out to BestBuy and got me a shiny new thin PS2. It is seriously about the size of a dvd cover. Its pretty decent. Built in network card works like a charm.

So I got it and my sniper fantasy came true via life-like yet not actually living victims.

Headset:
The headset is great cuz you can talk to both the AI and the other users. It is TOTALLY SWEET. The AI I assume recognizes inflection and syllables(sp). Its really pretty cool. Cuz they talk back and stuff too. I love it.

You can also play with the guys online too. I can talk to them. They are all nasaly and kinda nerdy. I assume they are total tools. Its funny to hear them talk.

Ranking:
So they have this system where you can not play against someone who is a different rank than you. Or at least, there is the option that you can play only people of the same rank. I figure since I have never played that I should be an Ensign(sp)(worst type of player)(bottom 15%). Makes sense. However, these nerds I was playing with made it so that we were all on the same team. So we just killed each other. This is fine but it puts this unreal skew in some kill/death ratio which makes me a lieutenant. That sucks. Now I can not play in the room with ensigns only. So I will just get creamed constantly. Hate it.

The game was fun though. It is really fun to imagine yourself as a SEAL and move in under cover to get these guys. It rules.

Plan:
I have a plan with this game. I want to go through each of the levels of the scenario and MASTER them. So I will get like 100% stealth, accuracy, health and all that. This way I will be able to compete with the lieutenant and stuff. Sounds like a stock plan. But I have never executed a plan like this. I guess that is cuz no games have drawn me in like this one. We will see how it goes.

A Daim this game is sweet.

Friday, November 05, 2004

Mild Updates

Chineese Food:
Went to this chineese restaurant. I love going to restaurants like that. I love the atmosphere. I especially like the comments on Chineese women's hair and how it falls at the back of a ponytail. Fun.

They had sushi at this place. That was cool. The place is near Lake Forest Mall. The food was good.


Picture rearranging:
I spent alot of time rearranging my pictures in my gallery. Why? because there were some pictures in there that went way beyond questionable. And my new webpage references ALL of the pictures in my gallery, regardless of the permissions given to them. Which leads me to a hole in Gallery... Interesting.

So needless to say, I was working a little on my webpage at work. That was fun, I learned quite a bit about CSS and stuff...



Work related:
My task is odd. I wonder how much of the system I am learning with this module. I suspect maybe 5%(?). Total estimate:

My other task (my first DR) (blah). It was the one I wasn't able to test. As it turns out, it doesn't work(duh). That is frustrating.

I started the investigation yesterday. Met with my guy. He is an X-Cop. Wednesday I found out that Becky and Bryan *edit*(are done waiting). Great...Now I will be ALL ALONE for months and months. That got a bit depressing. I don't like the *edit*(waiting) process. It is quite weak if you ask me.

Thursday, November 04, 2004

CNN is so Redundant

Keeping in mind that bush just won the presidential election by the smallest margin ever(*), does this sound funny to anyone else?

A post-election poll indicates most of those surveyed are hopeful the country will be drawn together during President Bush's second term. Just over half -- 51 percent -- said they were pleased with the outcome of the election...



Basically what just happened here was that CNN took a poll of voters for the most public poll of all time. They determined that 51% of people voted for Bush. I hope they didn't put too much money into that poll. I am pretty sure those results are BY DEFINITION (OR TRANSITIVITY) EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ELECTION RESULTS.





Lost rules. Who the hell hit Sayid in the head?


(*)I think...It was 51%

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Way to go Ohio.

I would like to look at it this way.

2004 marks the 228th year that US has been a Democratic-Repulic nation. I think that is a pretty good run. Maybe we can hold off the Mongolian barbarians until 2006 giving us the milestone 230 years.

But seriously folks...
It is REALLY difficult to find ANYTHING that he has done in the past 4 years.
So here is a list of things that he WILL do in the next 2-4 years. So all is not lost.

Thanks Wes

Thanks Ohio. You really messed things up. Way to not want Jobs.