Saturday, April 10, 2004
Okay, test post out of the way, time for the main course. Hang on, kids, this is going to be a long one, cause I've got a lot of things to cover today.
Catalog of the previous weekend: April 2-4:
Oy, let me tell you, I am really just wringing the productivity out of every weekend these days. I'm going to use last weekend as an example. Friday, my day off, I had planned to go into the DMV and spend as much time as was needed getting my *California license places*. Unfortunately, that deal fell through when I realized that, while I had managed to update the tags on my licence plate to 2004, I had failed to hang onto the appropriate paperwork, and so my vehicle's registration had expired 2 years ago. He he. That and the fact that the people that the people who are supposed to be doing verification, you know, making sure that the car is actually what you say it is on the little form, simply were not there. But did I let this get me down? Heck no! I bounced back like some sort of crazy 'Power ball', said 'To heck with this!' (my actual words may not have been quite so mild), and proceeded to go to Six Flags Magic mountain!
Tabitha, workmate, and Jeff, Tabi's boyfriend, had convinced me to check the place out with them, and being as I'd never been to a 'thrill ride joint' before, I figured it would be good times. (Certainly better than the DMV, at least.) And it most certainly was. We were able to go on most every single ride in the place, rides that went from crazy cool to totally freaky. Example: A new roller coaster called X. (Cause it's x-treem, presumably) They strap you into this full-body mega-harness that allows them to actually spin you, in any way they see fit, around the axis that runs from your left to your right side. It's as crazy as it sounds. You start off up the first 'crazy drop' heading backwards, so you can't see where you're going (of course), and as you start to go over the edge, they rotate you so that your head is pointing directly to the ground. *Head* to the *Ground*. Everyone now: "Yaaaaaaaaah!" Definitely wins my 'most x-treem coaster award. Favorite Coaster award goes to Scream.
Saturday, Mary came over, I gave her a quick tutorial on Matlab, we visited Derek, co-worker who lives directly above me, and Lavtrell, Co-worker who lives in the same apartment complex, but above neither of us. Then Mary split, and Derek and I practice our swordfighting for the first time in years. No injuries, mom, we used the padded swords.
Sunday, Derek and I shot a movie. It's called 'Flash and Flair'. It's a silly little thing that Derek and I have been pondering doing for a while, and we decided to shoot it because we wanted to shoot something, and due to the nature of the story, we would be able to shoot it with just the two of us and a tripod. We did all the filming within two-and-a-half hours (which is pretty doggone amazing) and Derek Edited it like crazy for the next couple of days. We have a working version now, but it's 700 MB. Pretty big. Once we get it encoded down to a reasonable size, we'll post it somewhere on the net and I'll link it for you. It's certainly not our greatest endeavour, but it's not bad times at all.
All that in the span of just three days. Pretty cool, eh?
I tested for my next belt this week. Green belt with Blue stripe. Another couple of promotions and I get to move into the advanced class. Hopefully they'll let me work on my spinning hook kick there. It's totally fallen apart since I stopped practicing it. (Sorry, Kevin.) I was terribly unimpressed with my performance during the sparring part of my test, I'm still working on my counters, they still don't work. I got tagged quite a few times. But, I still passed, so I can't have dont that bad, right? And the board break. Oooh...that went *really* well. Knife hand neck strike. (I'd type out the Korean, but Kevin would laugh at me.) I got my hips all the way into that strike and sent my hand through that board and into the next zip code. I think I'm ready for bricks now! Booyah!
Easter! Almost. And I'm so proud of myself. I was always *completely horrible* when it came to remembering not to eat meat on fridays in Lent. Even when I was back home and I had parents to remind me. But I was *totally on top of it* this year. Not a single scrap of anything remotely-meaty came near my lips. Perhaps this means my memory is getting better. Likely it just means that I've fallen in love with the gardenburgers. Delicious! They're no substitute for a good hamburger but they're darn tasty. Here's a good recipie I've discovered:
Ingredients:
1 Gardenburger (tm r copywrite etc...) Patty
1 Bagel
Some Greens
Cream Cheese
Split the bagel, spread on the cream cheese, grill the patty and slap it and the greens between the bagel. Simple, yet soooo tasty. A little bit bachelor-esque, perhaps. But no one said these recipies had to be complicated. Goes great with Katsup and/or Tobasco sauce. Serves 1. Serves 1/2 if you're me.
*~~~~~~*Random Link of the Week*~~~~~~*
Making Fiends. This is a fun little flash animation site that's silly, strange, and incredibly funny. If the webpage asks you to install 'Flash' or 'Shockwave', go ahead, they're animation programs that are totally harmless and pretty common around the internet these days. I'd be a little surprized if you grandparent-ly types don't have them already.
Wow. Look at that Blog. Pretty impressive. Okay, back to the video games.
-N
Catalog of the previous weekend: April 2-4:
Oy, let me tell you, I am really just wringing the productivity out of every weekend these days. I'm going to use last weekend as an example. Friday, my day off, I had planned to go into the DMV and spend as much time as was needed getting my *California license places*. Unfortunately, that deal fell through when I realized that, while I had managed to update the tags on my licence plate to 2004, I had failed to hang onto the appropriate paperwork, and so my vehicle's registration had expired 2 years ago. He he. That and the fact that the people that the people who are supposed to be doing verification, you know, making sure that the car is actually what you say it is on the little form, simply were not there. But did I let this get me down? Heck no! I bounced back like some sort of crazy 'Power ball', said 'To heck with this!' (my actual words may not have been quite so mild), and proceeded to go to Six Flags Magic mountain!
Tabitha, workmate, and Jeff, Tabi's boyfriend, had convinced me to check the place out with them, and being as I'd never been to a 'thrill ride joint' before, I figured it would be good times. (Certainly better than the DMV, at least.) And it most certainly was. We were able to go on most every single ride in the place, rides that went from crazy cool to totally freaky. Example: A new roller coaster called X. (Cause it's x-treem, presumably) They strap you into this full-body mega-harness that allows them to actually spin you, in any way they see fit, around the axis that runs from your left to your right side. It's as crazy as it sounds. You start off up the first 'crazy drop' heading backwards, so you can't see where you're going (of course), and as you start to go over the edge, they rotate you so that your head is pointing directly to the ground. *Head* to the *Ground*. Everyone now: "Yaaaaaaaaah!" Definitely wins my 'most x-treem coaster award. Favorite Coaster award goes to Scream.
Saturday, Mary came over, I gave her a quick tutorial on Matlab, we visited Derek, co-worker who lives directly above me, and Lavtrell, Co-worker who lives in the same apartment complex, but above neither of us. Then Mary split, and Derek and I practice our swordfighting for the first time in years. No injuries, mom, we used the padded swords.
Sunday, Derek and I shot a movie. It's called 'Flash and Flair'. It's a silly little thing that Derek and I have been pondering doing for a while, and we decided to shoot it because we wanted to shoot something, and due to the nature of the story, we would be able to shoot it with just the two of us and a tripod. We did all the filming within two-and-a-half hours (which is pretty doggone amazing) and Derek Edited it like crazy for the next couple of days. We have a working version now, but it's 700 MB. Pretty big. Once we get it encoded down to a reasonable size, we'll post it somewhere on the net and I'll link it for you. It's certainly not our greatest endeavour, but it's not bad times at all.
All that in the span of just three days. Pretty cool, eh?
I tested for my next belt this week. Green belt with Blue stripe. Another couple of promotions and I get to move into the advanced class. Hopefully they'll let me work on my spinning hook kick there. It's totally fallen apart since I stopped practicing it. (Sorry, Kevin.) I was terribly unimpressed with my performance during the sparring part of my test, I'm still working on my counters, they still don't work. I got tagged quite a few times. But, I still passed, so I can't have dont that bad, right? And the board break. Oooh...that went *really* well. Knife hand neck strike. (I'd type out the Korean, but Kevin would laugh at me.) I got my hips all the way into that strike and sent my hand through that board and into the next zip code. I think I'm ready for bricks now! Booyah!
Easter! Almost. And I'm so proud of myself. I was always *completely horrible* when it came to remembering not to eat meat on fridays in Lent. Even when I was back home and I had parents to remind me. But I was *totally on top of it* this year. Not a single scrap of anything remotely-meaty came near my lips. Perhaps this means my memory is getting better. Likely it just means that I've fallen in love with the gardenburgers. Delicious! They're no substitute for a good hamburger but they're darn tasty. Here's a good recipie I've discovered:
Ingredients:
1 Gardenburger (tm r copywrite etc...) Patty
1 Bagel
Some Greens
Cream Cheese
Split the bagel, spread on the cream cheese, grill the patty and slap it and the greens between the bagel. Simple, yet soooo tasty. A little bit bachelor-esque, perhaps. But no one said these recipies had to be complicated. Goes great with Katsup and/or Tobasco sauce. Serves 1. Serves 1/2 if you're me.
*~~~~~~*Random Link of the Week*~~~~~~*
Making Fiends. This is a fun little flash animation site that's silly, strange, and incredibly funny. If the webpage asks you to install 'Flash' or 'Shockwave', go ahead, they're animation programs that are totally harmless and pretty common around the internet these days. I'd be a little surprized if you grandparent-ly types don't have them already.
Wow. Look at that Blog. Pretty impressive. Okay, back to the video games.
-N
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