March 7th thru the 13th, 2004Previous Week | Archive Index | Current Blog | Next Week Sunday March 7th, 2004 Today is my brother's birthday. Happy 30th! DDR'd lots. I am getting better-- I managed a B on a 9-footer (after much practice) and survived a few others. I'd like to get an A on all the Heavy songs by the end of March. I think that's realistic.
Monday March 8th, 2004 Hello. Monday mornning and all that. Here is today's philisophical thought: To know something is to destroy it. Now, be sure to note that, the Philisophical Thought of the Day (the PTotD) is not something you try to prove correct or incorrect. It is not an opinion with which you agree or disagree, a theory, or even a point of view. It is a morsel. Assume it is true, and meditate on the implications of that truth. THEN, if you still must, declare it as true or untrue. But don't dismiss it out of hand. Not if you want to play. But, you don't have to play if you don't want to, of course.
Tuesday March 9th, 2004 Hi. I am awake. And how are you. Good I hope. I am listening to Michelle Branch. What are you doing?
Wednesday March 10th, 2004 I woke up this morning convinced of the existence of the word epistigram. Brains are weird, dreams are weird. Anyway, it doesn't exist yet, so I guess I get to decide what it means. An epistle is a kind of letter, especially a formal one, and an epigram is a shorty witty statement. The word-part -epi means "upon" as "to put upon" and -sti means "to send," and -gram means "message" -- -graph means "to write," so its the -gra which means "of writing" or, more generally, "of rendering symbolic for the purposes of communication outside the flow of real-time." All together, this means an epistigram is "a short, brief note sent to someone." It's differentiated from an epistle by its being very brief, and it's differentiated from an epigram by its necessarilly being something that is sent. It makes sense that the chief medium for the distribution of epistigrams would be e-mail, though one might use postiit notes on a cubicle too. I think it should be noted that stopping by to see someone, finding them missing, and leaving a short note to say "hey, I dropped by," is NOT the same as leaving an epistigram, since the word should have the connotation of being motivated by the need to communicate a thought, not as a reaction to a missed act of communication. How many epistigrams do you get in your e-mail in-box every day?
Thursday March 11th, 2004  Coworker is sick, porcelein steering wheel-style, so I had to solo a con call first this
morning. No wories. And then, or before, or during, take you pick, this: I want to be able to play import
games in my PS2, and as such, need to modify the console I have now, and as such, have been looking around
at ways to do that, and as such, will need to buy those import games, and I could get them on the interent,
but if there was a store here in Seattle, that would be even better, and so I went to Penny-Arcade to get their opnion, since those dudes live in Seattle, and
while there one of them mentioned anticipating UT2K4, and how it will assuage him till the new
version Tribes comes out, and I've
alway wondered about Tribes, so I downloaded the demo, and played it, and, well, I'll stick to
UT2K4. Maybe, if no one requires my presence this evening, I'll play UT2K3 online for hours
and hours and hours and maybe get a wee bit better and in that way be able to hold my own with the new one
when it hits da streets.For real, its like sometimes I find I would like to do something just so I can report on it in a colorful way here. Like I'll get a UT2K4 identity, kick some ass, take some screen shots, make up a web-page showcasing my experience, and show it off here. And you know what? I would even tend towards that even if I KNEW that NO-ONE reads this blog. Its like I am motivated by the idea of... well, of sorytelling, I guess. Hmm.. It bears meditation. Someone ask me about this later. What else did I do today... Not much!
Friday March 12th, 2004 A day of DDRing in between work sessions. Made my way through all songs on Ultramix in light mode, and standard mode. Heavy remains. Ultramix fails in a few aspects: there is no continuous or oni mode (just a "challenge" mode). The in-game commentary is even worse that Max or Max2. And I think it is less forgiving on steps, especially on jumps if your feet land at different times. But, Ultramix excels in other respects. The game-mode allows you to go from one song to the next continuously, without needing to "start-over" after 3 songs. Also, all 3 level grades are displayed on one line in the music select screen, making it much easier to track your progress.
Speaking of Terry Pratchett, finished The Truth, and just have Night Watch left to read before I can read Monstrous Regiment, but like I said before in a different blog entry, I think I might wait for the paperback version.
Saturday March 13th, 2004 Got home at, what, 2, played some damn video game for half an hour, slept on the couch, got up at, like 6:30. You betcher bottom I'll be napping later. I DDRd a lot. Damn. Finished all of the standard songs on Ultramix and most of the double-light songs on Max. Pumped up, I decided to take it to a whole new level. Check it out: 
 
 Do not try this at home. Untrained spazamatron wildly risking life and limb for the sake of his blog click on an image for a larger view Since Madrigonia was done with the big Pharmlaw exam, we went out to celebrate. "We" being, herself, myself, Willow, Xander, and Anya. We tried Tango Tapas, but the hostess was rude. So we walked up the street to The Six Arms. We asked the waitress there if she had ever tried Tango, and she said yes, but she also said more than once people have come in and complained of how rude they were at Tango. So there you go. Tango sucks ass. Then we walked over to Dilletante's for chocolate cake. Mmm.
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