monolith in seattle. 1:4:9 baby.

funny quote of the day: If PacMan had affected us as kids we’d be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to electronic music

oh this is hilarious. diablo2 apocalypse going on.

You appear to be in a cave. It is dark. 

north 

You go north. 

You appear to be in a cave. It is dark. 

You are likely to be eaten by a grue. 

west 

Sorry, you can't go that way. 

north 

You appear to be in a cave. It is dark. 

cast create light 

You fumble over the somatic gestures for create light 

look 

You appear to be in a cave. It is dark. 

Someone says "0wn3d j00 d00d!" 

cast detect in 

Your eyes tingle. 

3l33t d00d says "0xDEAD 0xFFFF 0xBEEF" 

3l33t d00d casts Buffer Overflow 

You have been killed! 

Play again? (Y/n)? 

N 

an in-n-out double-double meal is about 1300 calories (even more animal style i’d imagine.

just got back from seeing traffic. i recommend it. it’s going to be in wide release starting friday. until then, in LA at least it’s still showing in only one theatre (if you’re planning to see it, buy tickets way early). while in line, we spotted hollywood luminaries like jack black, john c reilly (with huge hair going on), tommy davidson (pansy with friends saving his spot in line) and tyra banks.

oh course, as everyone has been saying, the movie is really good. you don’t need me to tell you to go see it.

since i’ll be busy all day and into the night (helping a friend with this and going to this), this’ll probably be my last drivel of the year. funny how time flies.

hopefully i’ll get more done in the new millenium.

so i used up my free ofoto photos just now (they expire today). i used the photos to print out two large assemblies, one of them consisting of 24 photos, and one of them consisting of 130 photos (dimensions will turn out to be around 60″x52″ give or take a little).

now, creating the assemblies really really really sucked. i went through a whole bag of tricks trying to find out the best way to make them (the large one, in particular). that one is actually derived from a really really really large web page.

things i learned:

bitmap printer drivers apparently do exist, but i wasn’t able to find them

boy i really wish i had more ram.

imageready has the slicing tools but simply cannot handle large files. (it kept cycling memory ad nauseum when i tried to load the 300MB file). also the slicing and export tools for photoshop suck.

apparently you can’t scroll a scrollbarless browser window.

from dark horizons – Spider-Man: Live in LA and want to be a part of the Spidey extras shooting at Culver City in mid-January? Metropolis Comics at 8323 Firestone Blvd. in Downey are trying to get together a group of 45 or more people aged over 16 to come to their place where a bus will pick up people from the store’s parking lot to take them to the events. In order to be a part of it, you have to sign up on the call sheet in their store ASAP.

the critic is back… in flash.

now might also be a good time to mention how much i love wget