So I’d been meaning to write a new post but just haven’t. After talking to Chris yesterday I figured I’d better write something. I know you are waiting with baited breath so here goes….
I bought a (crappy) webcam for $5 off of Craigslist. It is crappy and doesn’t work very well. Oh well you get what you pay for. Here is a picture I have taken with it.
Goofing for the webcam
It seems like you need a million candela light for the little guy to see anything. I bought it because I wanted to play with some Augmented Reality stuff. I saw this video and was pretty impressed and so wanted to see if it would work on my computer. I haven’t gotten that far as I have little faith that the webcam can perform.
I bought a piece of art last week. I’ve had it on my Xmas list once or twice. Mom & PJ did get me some of his sketchbooks a few years ago. Umm actually the postmark was 2002 
. The piece of art came really quick. I’m pretty happy with it. For $35 all told I can’t complain. The cool thing is that the guy made a video of him drawing the piece and then posted it on his website. I think that is almost as cool as the piece of art. I always like to see the drawing process of artists. Go check it out here. This guy’s art and creativity is awesome. Here is another cool post/picture Now I want to buy a whole bunch of more people’s artbooks and original art. I think it’d be cool to frame it and stick it somewhere. I have been in someone’s bathroom (a Mayo Dr’s?) that had some original cartoon strip art framed and put up.
My nifty piece of original artwork! Jake Parker's Missile Mouse.
I started a Twitter account. I don’t know why. I guess just to try it out and really see what use it would be. So far I haven’t really found a use for it. I totally don’t understand why people use this service. But hey why would you really want to listen to me babble on?
I think something psychosomatic happened. I think it is Anne’s fault (I know you are reading this as well)! She asked if my hands ever peeled like they use to when I was growing up. Of course I said no, well, because they haven’t. Well just this week they DID peel. Here they are at the end of their snakeskin shedding.
Hand snakeskin shedding
I went and saw G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra this week. Well it was entertaining but not a very good movie. Too much computer graphics porn. So much so that it made it a bit campy and cheesy. Anyway it was obviously made to have a sequel. I can say that the two lead females provided some excellent eye candy. Two thumbs up (for the ladies that is). If you must go get the student discount
Were they this hot in the cartoon? Hubba hubba....
So I’m more or less settled into my place. There are a few boxes that need to be dealt with. Now that Cameron has moved all his crap out of the garage I don’t have much of an excuse. It will be nice to have a spot for my car again. I’m happy about that. I still bike so much that the car doesn’t get very many miles on it. Really I think that there have been less than 3K miles put on the thing all year. I can’t say I’m all that disappointed in that. But I do need to get her out to stretch her legs and get the fluids flowing every now and again.
Ercan and I just tooled around on Sunday. We grilled out. That was something he really wanted to do.
Ercan about to enjoy his hamburger
We then also hit up Best Buy and some other places for him to do some shopping. We even hit up Wal-Mart. He was truly amazed at how low their prices can be. He bought a pseudo dress shirt for $7.
I think I am slowly breaking myself of my twitch reaction to noises when my room door is open. I caught myself a while back hearing a noise and thinking a cat had snuck into my room and was going to get into my stuff. Ahh….it’s nice to not have furballs tearing things up as well as their fur polluting the place. No more vacuum canisters full of their icky hair!
Last night I hooked up one of my old hard drives and gleaned all the valuable pieces from it and deleted everything else. One of the more valuable pieces is this little gem. I’m partial to the bottom two frames.
Andy in the CMU Dungeon early 2000s
I also think I destroyed a different hard drive by unplugging power from it. Meh. I knew more or less what was on there and it wasn’t anything special. This is another good one gleaned from the HDD.
- Evan Dorkin’s Milk & Cheese dispense some wisdom
Ok. The next post will be sooner. No more 1.5 months in between posts.
