A Series of Tubes

Here’s an annoying fact about my computers: they’re in a room with windows in it. So yeah, in the morning I get some nice sun shining in the room, and that’s nice. But at 2:15…RIGHT when I get back from school and am about to go into URU/Myst withdrawal, the sun is positioned juuuust right so that the sunlight lands directly on my monitor. It’s like using a GameBoy Wormlight. It does nothing except reflect off the screen into your eyes, making the screen even harder to see…Yes, it’s gone by 2:45, but very annoying all the same.

Hey for anyone who is using an RSS feed and doesn’t actually visit the site, come take a look at the new look! The star is rendered in 3DS Max 6, and the faded out edges were created in The Gimp 2. Cool, huh?

(Yes, this is a post about you, Yaz…)
One of my best friends (and apparently my most common reader), moved to Malaysia a while back. It was sad. But now he says he’s going to come back to the good ole USA, to Harrisburg. Visit us sometime, eh?

Well, we didn’t get a snow day. But heck, we should have.

An hour before school starts, the snow begins to fall. It starts slow, like most storms, but an hour later, it’s pouring. The snowplows are nowhere to be seen. Three hours later, you can’t see 5 yards ahead of you. At 1:00, there’s a clap of thunder, and a lightning flash. Crazy! It’s like something out of a horror story, there’s so much snow, plus the thunder…

When we get to our driveway (which is slanted upwards slightly), we can’t get in. We get out and shovel a bit, but to no avail. We leave the car half in the street (I live on a semi-quiet street), and come back two ours later, when the storm has stopped. We manage to get the car in, but only after 15 minutes of shoveling…

Like I said before, a snow day would have been good…

Lego has just today released the Vintage LEGO Sets, up for buying on eBay. They are in mint condition, and are real LEGO sets from the 70’s. One of the sets up for sale is LEGO set #135. For reference, the LEGO set numbers are now in the 10000’s! Apparently, there were leftover sets from then, so LEGO has decided to sell them off. Good luck winning one though, the current bids range from $115.00 to $1.00, but on eBay…who knows?

I’ve been wondering about this for a while now. Do supervillians have rights? I mean, if they get paid by their supervillian bosses, does minimum wage apply to them? Or do they just get a cut of what they steal? Do they get health insurance? Why don’t they get a trial by jury? I mean, why was it OK for Batman to just throw Joker into that vat of acid or whatever? Why isn’t Batman arrested and charged with manslaughter? Or is murder in self-defense now OK?

What about car insurance? Are supervillians allowed to buy insurance on their evilMobiles? Take a look at one of them some time, they must cost a fortune. Then Superman goes and throws it off a bridge. No wonder their goal in life is to get their hands on Krytonite, I’d be mad too if some guy in spandex came and chucked my million dollar car off a bridge!

And taxes…Do they have to pay income tax on the stuff they steal? Considering the fact that most supervillians are mil/billionaires, do they get tax cuts? Speaking of which, what about supervillian suffrage? Are they allowed to vote? Or serve in the military?

My brain hurts…

An odd thing just happened. I’m clearing space on my URU computer (yes, it is so that I can install another copy of the game), and I discover that my ‘other’ folder (which has my backups of the game data, saved games, images, etc.) is almost 3 times as large as the folder that holds the URU game. Wow. I mean, I don’t have every single file in the game, and many of them are zipped…I would have expected the game itself to be bigger! Oh well, now I can install at least 2 more copies of URU! 😀

The Principality of Sealand is an awesome place. It started as an abandoned WW2 British fortress, but has since been reoccupied and declared a country by Prince Roy of Sealand. They have a flag, a monetary system, stamps, passports, a national anthem…all of it! They have won two ‘wars’ (the first was against a UK navy ship, which left when fired upon, the second was an attempted invasion and kidnapping), and have a thriving buisness. It really is amazing, but the Principality of Sealand is its own country.

Today I checked out my email totals, and it turns out I’ve pressed that ‘delete’ button (that sends my e-mails to the trash, but doesn’t delete them) 2424 times. Wow. I guess I haven’t necessarily pushed the button that many times, but thats how many e-mails are in the trash bin.

Ah, nothing like home. I’m back home from turkey-ing in Connecticut, and man did I miss my files. My Blender stuff, my website pages, my messengers… Oh well, I’m home now. 😀