Free pictures
It seems that everyone is handing out coupons for free pictures. I don't know
what prevents people from using multiple coupons but check out the retail
value. With the coupon below you get ten free prints but you could buy them
for $2.70. That's nothing. It costs you more in time and effort to take the
picture, find it on your CD's and go to the target than it does to print them.
That's a pretty good deal. The nice thing is that places like Wal-Mart is
competing in this market so the lot of them are slashing their prices to get
you to go to them instead.
Poi
I finally got the poi I ordered.
Hopefully I'll get some time to play with it before the day is over. I ordered
the soft training ones so that I don't set myself on fire the first time out.
I ordered the flaming tips for when I get a little experienced. The site has
some really cool animated images explaining how to spin the things and the
beginner kit I bought comes with a DVD. In includes spinning instructions and
one of the Circle of Light videos.
The matrix
Among the dvd's I picked up yester I included the third episode
of the Matrix Trilogy;
what a piece of crap. It was nothing like the first one. I saw the second
movie in the theater and remember being really disappointed. I figured they
must have just slipped up doing the second one but the third movie is even worse.
I can't believe I spent ten bucks on the dvd. There's no real plot, it's just
another typical hack and slash movie: lots of special effects, lots of robots,
lots of bullets and lots of one dimensional characters. In fact, this movie
was worse than a typical hack and slash because the battle scenes didn't
even have any motivation. In the movie, the sentinels, there were millions
of them, were attacking zion but they didn't seem to have any strategy to their
attack. If they wanted to they could have taken the city out in seconds.
Instead, they just swarmed conveniently overhead so the zionites could blast
them away with their big robots. There are so many flaws with the movie that
I could go on forever enumerating them. Like, if they could make these big
robot suits, why didn't they bother putting some armor in front of the suits
so that the guys driving them didn't get blasted by their own shell casings.
Whatever.
Fry's
I went to fry's today. I picked up a
wifi card, a sd card and some movies. I couldn't believe the selection! I've
been looking all over for a copy of
Henry and June. Fry's was
the only place that had it and they were selling it for ten bucks! I watched
it and liked it so much that I think I need to collect my thoughts before
I comment on it.
2nd annual pumpkin drop
I'm having the coolest morning! KFRC had their
2nd annual pumpkin drop
this morning. Jim, a buddy from work walks in, mentions it and off we go. They
were doing it right down the street from where I work. They had a 400 lb pumpkin
and they were dropping it 100 ft up from this crane. We walked up, and were
grabbing some coffee when they asked for a volunteer to pull the rope. I happened
to be standing right where they were looking for volunteers. They picked me,
asked me for my name and wanted to know if I had any experience pulling ropes.
After a little radio small talk they gave me the countdown and I pulled the rope.
I pulled it, then I pulled it again. I'm tugging on this stupid rope putting
all of my weight into the damn thing. All the while they're waiting for the
damn thing to drop. They started sending some people over to help and I realized
I was about to look like a dolt. So I put all of my muscle into it and give it
one last heave. The thing drops for like two whole seconds. When it hits the
ground it explodes instantly. There wasn't much left of it after that. We
got a tee shirt and took off. We
couldn't have been there more than five minutes. If fact, we were out of there
so quick that, because of the delay, we heard it on the radio as we were
leaving. Too too cool!
Dick is a killer
These songs are funny as hell. I got sucked in by 'sunday bloody sunday' as
sung by George Dubya Bush. The rest are at least as funny.
SF decompression 2004
I'm at the San Francisco post Burning Man decompression. I regret not going to
the burn this year. I guess I could have if I really wanted to but the trip to the Azores really
consumed most of my mental resources not to mention cash, vacation time, etc. I wouldn't trade
it for anything though. The roller skating people were there, just like last year; no skates for the
walkers by though. At least I didn't see any. Might have been the beer impairing my eye sight. It
could just be that they're probably still recovering from the burn. It takes quite a lot out of you.
There's just so much going on that I imagine when they get back all they want to do is flop on a
bed and recover. To be honest, I'm impressed they can find the motivation to do as much as they
do.
The exhibit in this picture is actually a bunch of neon strings hanging from a framing structure. I walked through it and took this picture of somebody who was walking the other way. Just to the right of where I was standing there was this crazy magnifying glass thing that focussed the sun's light onto this cartoon carved from plywood. When they moved the lens just right the man would flame up. The fire started almost immediately after they aimed the lens. Can you imagine the amount of ants you could kill with something like that?
Club Kokomo (strange that they don't have a web site) was running a video that seemed to have been taken only minutes before. They had a slide show of pictures from the burn. They had some tasty Indian food. It was kinda pricy ($9) but I figured the money was going to end up back at the burn, one way or another. Anyway the atmosphere was well worth it. There was a show at some point. Again, the beer clouds my memory. I think it was sci fi? Yeah, I don't really remember it very well at all. I remember enjoying it though. Huh.