2010.07.28
Shar is over for the week.
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The Padres wrecked LA tonight, we got to watch from the box.
James
WhoTF is Shar? Good looking dog. Stupid coast rules, I want a dog. Your cryptic explanations for why I cannot comment directly to your post still elude me. Dumbs it downs some.
Chris
Shar is Corey's dog. Who needs a dog at home when you have a penguin at work? Blogger decided to drop support for ftp (publishing on not blogspot). So I had to move my site off their service. Since I don't have their embedded scripting and my web host won't support scripts, there's not commenting. Except by email.
2010.07.26
This year I got on in the Manbird Invitational. C-Note Five Bill's Top Shelf Chili With Rectum Fyre didn't do well. Next year will be different, I will bring PC12303. It is an extremely potent chili and doesn't waste good steak and bacon on unrefined palates. I will not bring Seared Esophagus. They are not ready for Seared Espohagus.
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Cactus was popular. So was eastern fusion. Iced chili didn't meet a positive reception.
The sun sail came, with some help I put it up. Less leaves in the pool this afternoon, no difference in sunlight reaching the water. I'm thinking of getting two triangular ones to complete the effect.
I ran a steel rope from the deck across the yard. It'll be a good mounting point for the other shades, and maybe I can find led lanterns.
2010.07.21
My aftermarket seat arrived today. Shipped from Vegas by ebay seller itshot, response and turnaround time was great.
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Of course it's nicer and newer than my weathered stock part. The look is a bit more in line with other bikes I've ridden - more seat less saddle. So while not as sleek it'll be more comfortable. The black finish is great with the bike, I suppose the weave portion is meant to match carbon finish, of which I have ample.
There's a bit more gap between the fairings and the seat, but nothing unreasonable.
2010.07.19
Source.
Monaco is pretty awesome, but nothing beats the double rainbow of F1 and MotoGP Laguna. The Red Bull slap fight will no doubt continue, but on a course that won't be unkind to the McLarens. Maybe Schumi can step it up at his home GP. Yep, now that Webber and Vettel are bickering there are no more likeable characters capable of taking the checkered.
Source.
And Rossi is back, maybe not in total 'screw-dirt-passing form, but enough to mount a serious challenge. With Hayden figuring out the subpar Desmo and Spies getting new Yamaha parts, the Americans might have a showing. But money has to be on Pedrosa who is finally looking consistent.
I have two things on the way. First is a sun sail for the backyard - green rather than beige. I plan to string it up over the pump and shallow end of the pool. That'll deflect some falling leaves and have little impact on sunlight hitting the pool.
The Duc's seat is pretty well worn so I ordered a replacement from Sargent. It's guaranteed more comfortable than the oe, maybe nice enough to take a spontaneous Monterey trip on Friday. It is motorsport weekend 2010 after all.
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Rob
you don t have comments on your blog, so i gotta email you to tell you that you need to prune that basil so it doesn t flower.
Chris
Somebody should have thought of that a decade ago when he bought me site hosting sans script support. Funneling emails to the html generator works pretty well and there's no possibility for captcha fail
2010.07.18
I watched the Cup at Players. The place is good for sports and they had plenty of Dutch brews, but the management is just a pain. Cover cost a Hamilton, no specials, lots of annoying signs indicating seats could not be saved, and Ty got turned away because the place was at capacity by the twentieth minute.
Squares were played, though not quite as elaborately as Super Bowl. Exciting match, and ended in proper overtime, not pks.
The camera on the Jet/Galaxy is pretty bad.
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House:
- Re-epoxied the downstairs hallway.
- Trimmed some trees overhanging the pool.
- Reorganized the garage and finished the dog pen.
- Working on the study.
The plantlife is doing well, particularly the bamboo.
I have a chiminea. Jes got it for me
2010.07.05
The scripts are pretty much done, stored here. The newest piece is an html generator to do all the header/nav overhead and autogen a few things that couldn't be easily done even in an ide.
Like autoformatting a gallery. This last weekend featured a trip to Athens, Ohio for a wedding. Fate dropped sheets of rain and lightning on GB and thereby delayed our flight until just after the last pk was made in Uruguay-Ghana. The airport bar ($5.50 Guiness, $6.75 Miller Light) managed quite a gathering to see some unauthorized goalkeeping save Uraguays's bacon.
Athens is sorta like San Luis in red brick.
E3 was a blast. I tagged along with the mforma group who've, over the past few years, perfected getting the best swag. A wealth of ho-hum games meant this was this was the best source of fun after the initial tour of the halls. The high profile releases were a bit tougher to get at. 2k wouldn't even display a looped demo of Civ V to passers-by; practically their whole booth was restricted to media. Too bad for them, there's little in the way of legit media and lots of weenie bloggers who managed to fake or trump up their rep to get a media badge. Likewise Bethesda would only show Fallout Vegas by appointment only. Otoh Nintendo would show 3ds, Metroid, Zelda, etc. to anyone willing to brave the massive lines.
The other annoying company, and perenially so, was Square because they always say photos aren't allowed at their booth. Sure. Wouldn't want the whole world to know that you've changed platforms to the iphone for everything but Final Fantasy N. And I'm going to let a scrawny mid-tier developer tell me so - oh no, not after pilfering a luchador mask two booths down. The shocker (for out of touch moi) in Squareland is that they've taken over the Tomb Raider franchise. It looks like Diablo with a rack.
The Civ demo left me looking forward to its fall release.
This was the first E3 that's I've seen feature free beer. One booth that was hawking something having to do with pro sports had a solitaire beer pong table set up. Kevin and I, of course, cleaned up (even though they didn't give any rollbacks). But our crowning brilliance was starting a beer line a few minutes before they were schedule to tap the keg. We pre-empted the announcement of free beer by creating a line that quickly grew and by process of collectivism, became official. With us at the front.
We capped the convention trip with dinner at Road To Seoul. Great K-Town bbq.
House looks the same. May - June was characterized by longer-than-forty hour weeks. This appears to be very much not the norm in the division, but luck of the draw had me on a project that required it.
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Like autoformatting a gallery. This last weekend featured a trip to Athens, Ohio for a wedding. Fate dropped sheets of rain and lightning on GB and thereby delayed our flight until just after the last pk was made in Uruguay-Ghana. The airport bar ($5.50 Guiness, $6.75 Miller Light) managed quite a gathering to see some unauthorized goalkeeping save Uraguays's bacon.
Athens is sorta like San Luis in red brick.
E3 was a blast. I tagged along with the mforma group who've, over the past few years, perfected getting the best swag. A wealth of ho-hum games meant this was this was the best source of fun after the initial tour of the halls. The high profile releases were a bit tougher to get at. 2k wouldn't even display a looped demo of Civ V to passers-by; practically their whole booth was restricted to media. Too bad for them, there's little in the way of legit media and lots of weenie bloggers who managed to fake or trump up their rep to get a media badge. Likewise Bethesda would only show Fallout Vegas by appointment only. Otoh Nintendo would show 3ds, Metroid, Zelda, etc. to anyone willing to brave the massive lines.
The other annoying company, and perenially so, was Square because they always say photos aren't allowed at their booth. Sure. Wouldn't want the whole world to know that you've changed platforms to the iphone for everything but Final Fantasy N. And I'm going to let a scrawny mid-tier developer tell me so - oh no, not after pilfering a luchador mask two booths down. The shocker (for out of touch moi) in Squareland is that they've taken over the Tomb Raider franchise. It looks like Diablo with a rack.
The Civ demo left me looking forward to its fall release.
- No more unit stacks - one unit per tile. In this way combat becomes considerably more tactical since unit placement and attack order is a huge consideration. Also this should make larger games far more managable. I wonder how it'll balance with the existing gameplay, e.g. perhaps units will cost more.
- They've introduced independent city-states that do not compete for territory or victory. Only danger here is if they spent time on a feature that has little bearing on the game as a whole.
- Hex tiles.
- Territory can be purchased instead of cultured into your nation.
- More resources, tech, units, etc. etc. etc.
This was the first E3 that's I've seen feature free beer. One booth that was hawking something having to do with pro sports had a solitaire beer pong table set up. Kevin and I, of course, cleaned up (even though they didn't give any rollbacks). But our crowning brilliance was starting a beer line a few minutes before they were schedule to tap the keg. We pre-empted the announcement of free beer by creating a line that quickly grew and by process of collectivism, became official. With us at the front.
We capped the convention trip with dinner at Road To Seoul. Great K-Town bbq.
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House looks the same. May - June was characterized by longer-than-forty hour weeks. This appears to be very much not the norm in the division, but luck of the draw had me on a project that required it.
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