Month: February 2006
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Permit Required
I brought my camera with me to work so I could snap a few pictures of the new Charlie Ticket vending machines on the way in. I wanted to make a write up about the new payment system being put in place. As I was taking my first picture, a large man approached, wearing a…
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Snowed In
It was forecasted that we were to get well over a foot of snow this past Saturday evening. In true BH tradition my roommates put together a last minute 4-bar pubcrawl ending at our house where everyone would sleep over and be snowed in with us (and have their cars fill our driveway so we…
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Flash Game of the Week: Marvin Spectrum
This one was confusing to me at first because I never read the instructions how to play any of these games. Here’s how it works, for each obstacle you either jump (up), duck (down) or roll (right) through the obstacles. Depending on the color of the area you move through, you have to change your…
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Valentine Foreboding
Whenever I see my mom, she usually gives me some sort of candy or food. I think its just so she feels better knowing that I’m at least eating something, even if its not so healthy. I used to forget to eat a lot when I was younger. I picked up the ability to ignore…
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The Penalty of Stability Part 4
5 installs of Windows XP and service pack 2 later, I have returned the victor! To make a long story short, it was the graphics card driver. I uninstalled it in safe mode restarted and it went right into Windows without so much as a pause. I’ve loaded up some of my applications including those…
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Flash Game of the Week: Type the Alphabet
This is basically just a speed typing exercise. How fast can you type the alphabet? My fastest time was 4.757 seconds. Link.
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The Penalty of Stability Part 3
All media files have been moved. All logs have been backed up. All bookmarks have been saved. All application settings have been noted. All drivers are in hand. Let the reformating of Abominus commence! Taking suggestions for the name of my desktop after reformat. For reference, my server is named Tar Valon. I am considering…
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Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride came out on DVD on Tuesday this past week. I saw it in the theaters shortly after it came out. Being a fan of Tim Burton‘s The Nightmare Before Christmas, I was quite excited knowing Corpse Bride was a return to his stop-motion animation style. The story is based on a Romanian fairly…
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Covert Ops at Work: Loungin'
Pictures have been taken and smuggled out. Brace yourselves men, there is a lounge in the womens’ bathroom! After weeks of hearing rumors and being a naysayer, I have come into possession of conclusive evidence that, there is in fact a lounge area in the womens’ bathroom here at work. I refused to believe, even…