Weeeee! let the games begin!!

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Medium

Boohoo!

i applied for the departments Geek squad and got denied. The letter happily states that 'they have found someone who is best suited for their needs'.

oh well a Palmier and a glass of milk is all i need.

i've removed all those silly polls. You guys are sure that you will finish that bowl of soup on a rainy day!

Labels: Silly Work Stuff

Back in the day when things were more innocent. Where we did't worry about bills, rent, jobs, the gang used to do what i called Superstore Window Shopping. It entails the crew, going to any superstore (i.e. target, wal-mart, even Safeway or Albertsons,) stroll up and down every isle. Usually we'd pick at some items just to look at them, once in a while actually buying something (usually candies) while chatting it up. Well thanks to technology theres a really lazy way do to this in China:



Does it come in a 6-seater? And whats up with the small basket?

Labels: Superstore window shopping

Yesterday we got busy. At 6:30am my brother comes over and the silliness begins. Evans on Turkey Duty, Fluffielady is decorating and i'm the rest, whatever it is. Fluffieladys parents come over fairly quickly, they left at 5:30am and arrived around 10:30am or so. Alot better then 2 years ago, it was a madhouse drive. Turkeyday is the worse driving period for LA and Highway 5. I find it quite funny, everybody in LA heading towards the Bay Area, and everybody in the Bay Area heading towards LA.


We do this.. Table Ready..


Man can you say Food Coma.. There was ALOT of butter involved i this one.


Uh, we need milk. Wherecha wanna put it?

Today:
We all just hung out n was lazy. We don't do the Black Friday Sillieness, nada. Anyhow theres nothing to get in the first place.

And since my '97 Specialized AIM was retired. My original intent was to have it hanging on the Fireplace Mantle. But Noooo, someone had to override my decorating ideas. At least that someone was ok with my bike hanging on the stairway. Yep, hanging. 25Lb Test line should work on this 4-6Lb Frame right?
Tommorrowz our new washer and dryer is to be delievered.

Labels: Bicycle, Thanksgiving

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: None

More PS3 Shenanigans. First someone on Ebay wins an auction for "Playstations, 3 Of them" for 900$ Instead of a PS3 that person got 3 PS1's! hah. Now some clowns are selling a PS3, but not the standard all-out-hyped-just-released console. It's a PS1 + PS2 = PS3. Does that make sense??

Feel the power of the Dual Core!!

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Medium

Ahh yea and so it begins. Reports of Battle Damage with the New Nintendo Wii (Scroll past the first part of the page).
It comes down to, 2 buddies playing 24hours straight. Went to play Wii Sports: Bowling, Buddys turn to bowl by using real life bowing motion. Outta nowhere the wrist strap snaps and controller goes flying into the Tele.

Doh!

You will gain the knowledge of the world if you touch it. Touch it!

Yesterday Fluffielady and i roamed off to Redwood City to hang out at Carol n Matty's Gobble Gobble Pot Luck DinDins. Carol went on an all out foodfest and cooked enough for many a families! We finally got to see their new digs, fatty boat and of course an *almost* a full service fish n tackle shop in Matty's Romper Room. He thinks its slightly getting out of hand. Just Slightly.
The food was very yums, it's one of those fill-up-your-plate-and-eating-halfway-through-your-stuffed kinda deals.
Afterwards a brave gentleman who waited 28 hours at a target, got his hands on 2 PS3's and couldn't resist the urge to break one open. He was handling it as if it was the Gutenberg bible (one of 12 on display at the Huntington Library!). He forgot the Cotton Gloves, but the packing wrapper will do. After turning it on, settings upon settings took place. It looked like the PSP menu system, but waaaay more expansive, theres a million options to go through. Silly thing is after that, patches were installed! Firmware patches, wireless driver patches. Holy cow it was patch-o-rama. Finally Loaded up Resistance: Fall of Man. I'm hoping that it was since we were all in a haste and wanted to play that we used RCA video cables just to see the goodies that it didn't have the rendering and shading effects that i wanted to see. It didn't seem like there was any HDR, shading, shadows of any sort. Maybe i'm just spoiled by playing F.E.A.R., Battlefield 2 with most of it's visual effects. The main thing i don't like about these WWII style games is that it's depicted in a 'WWII movie' style. Where it's kinda soft visuals with a sepia tint. Come on people, just because there was black n white movies the 1900's doesn't mean the world was black n white back then.
The effects were ok, one weapon that i had, whenever i shot it just lit up the whole screen with flame and flashes. Kinda blinding in a epileptic kinda way. Another cool tidbit was the PS3's Controller looks exactly like the PS2 except that it has a Mini-USB plug and 4 little LED's numbered 1-4. Its pretty light weight and then we realize it's wireless! The other difference was the L2 and R2 buttons arc down when you press it. Pretty cool.
Just like the PS2 everybody Oooos and Ahhhs the Obelisk that the PS3 is. For me i'm more of a Keyboard / Mouse kinda person. Anyhow the PS3 is prety much a computer. So for me i'll just stick to my computer.
But dankies go to Carol N Matty! For the yummies and for having us there. =)

Labels: Crew, Thanksgiving

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: None

Today i recieved the D-Link DSM-320RD Media Bridge. All i wanted to do is to play videos that either 1)i've downloaded or 2)from the digicam and show it on the Tele. The mp3 playback and slideshow thing is a plus as well. It's a neat little package, it has a 5-in-1 Card reader, USB reader, built in DVD player. The main thing was that it was one of two that i know of that supports 802.11G with WPA-PSK-TKIP. I go on Amazon and some other sites to see how people rated it. Most were decent, 7 out of 10's. Alot better then half a year ago when these bridges only used WEP-128 bit and the software really sucked. And since it was on sale for 130$ i went for it, half a year ago i was thinking about going for it when they costed ~220$

Installation wasn't as hard as some reviewers had it. I read one where the device fried the router. When i had the software installed i thought the same had happened, so i went and resetted my WRT54G v5 and nothing happened. I realized it was only the Wireless card that got jumbled up, so reinstall the drivers and it worked beautifully. The device even updated itself! Hardest Part of the unit connecting to the network was my 24 character upper-lower-upper case password.
So How is It?The remote is kinda cheap feeling and you hafta point directly at the unit to work. It was pretty easy to set up the server software onto my laptop to host the vids / pics / songs. Mp3's were easy to play but theres a way to put songs in a playlist. There were no streaming problems or cuts in the playback. But the video is where it sucked. It claims to be able to play XviD with mp3 playback. My naruto cartoons are in that exact format but when i push play, at first it would load up and then on the screen show 'end of movie' (??). Then it updated itself and i got this screen:


Why are Error Screens in Blue nowadays? (BSOD?)
And of Course my Canon videos are in MJpeg and that DEFINATELY cannot be played. So that was a fun 2-hours, it's going to be sent back. i'm not in the mood to convert my videos to be able to be played. Might as well convert them and burn onto DVD. If i could only install the CCCP Codec Pack onto the machine, that'll rule. But then isn't that what about Viiv and Media Center PC's are about?
Verdict: Still in its Infancy. Will i buy another? i'm having doubt about buying another one of these. If i could find a easy TV-out method. I think i might have a solution! It might involve, my x31 and a ATI USB2.0 TV Wonder..

In other news, It seems that Floyd Landis has some hacker buddies infiltrate the lab that does all those doping tests!

Labels: Geek Stuff

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Medium

My blogger account has now been transmuted into my google account, and promises to be better. Another googlfication!

Fluffielady today ate dindins with a buddy from fresno whos visiting. When she got back she asks, 'oh can you put the leftovers in the fridge. It's in my purse..'
The purse has now gone to the next level of storage. I hope the next stage after will become a rifle caddy, that'd be neat. Get the M1 Garand, its in my purse.
Eh??

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Short

Oi, Silly Delilah. Shes doing fine, but should get on with her 100k mile service soon. Well when she turns 100k that is. It's the only major maintenance for the VR6 engine, the other one is every 60k for timing belt change. The 100k service entails taking out the engine and replacing the timing chain, the chain guide (a very important piece of plastic), coolant flush, and while we're at it, a clutch + flywheel replacement. It's gonna cost around 1400$, if i want to i could add a LSD, but i dunno. Another 1200 for the LSD and install and it might entail a tranny rebuild as well, which is more $$.
Lets see, Delilah is about to get it's 95k oil change. Since i don't drive it much i wonder how long it's gonna take for the other 5k.
Time to list things out (if i remembered correctly):
Brake Fluid Flushed, ATE super blue - 90k
New Tires installed, Bridgestone G 009 - 90k (minus the one)
ECS Cadmium Slotted Rotors installed - 70k
Porterfield RS4 Brake Pads - 50k
Red Line MT-90 Tranny Fluid Flush - 60k
Timing Belt Replaced - 60k
New Dimensions Oversized Spark Plug Wires - 60k
Bosch +4 Spark Plugs - 65k
Bilstein + H&R Stage 1 suspension - 60k

Tim Tomas of Tomas MotorSports is my hero. All i gotta say is when all you need to do is listen to the engine and then placing your hand on the engine cover and knowing whats happenning to the engine. Thats what i'm talking about. I can sorta do that to bicycles, but nothing like how Tim does it.

Labels: Tomas Sport Tuning

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Medium

Man time flies. It flew past our 2nd year anniversary. It only felt like a few days have passed, but man! Since it was a monday we celebrated by heading out to some Thai Food at Bangkok Garden by the Westlake shopping center. Food was pretty good, except that they didn't have much curry. They only had chicken and duck curries. Anyhow food was quite dense and flavorful. Yumz!

Silly Delilah, the Check engine light turned on while crossing the bay bridge on Saturday. Poorpoor thing, i wonder whats going on with delilah this time around.

After work today i voted, man it was like taking the SAT's or MMPI test (1100 questions in 4 hrs)!. Page upon page of madness!

Took off the Flikr Badge and stuck in the nifty new Slide.com Scrolly thing! Wee!

So thats what a shooting diary is for..



Dear Diary,

Who actually reads a diary, like this blog, who reads what i've posted on oh, July 7th 2004? It's one of those set-it-and-forget-it type deals. Maybe, i wanted to go look at a posting of My theory of happy bees or something but how often is that??
At High power, i do look at the past 2 maybe 3 months to see where my shots went. Which usually doesn't give me much. Life is all about hindsight and it's resulting 'shoulda-woulda-coulda'. I think it's kinda purdy to see them all splat at a relatively nice grouping. But the chart above shows that since the latter half of 2004 i'm up at the range heading towards the master class (Aqua colored Line.) I seem to have hit the plateau from way back. And if your wondering about that giant dip, it was serious rifle malfunction that kicked me out of 2 strings equaling in a 200 point loss. Those were the noob days.


As in reloading and shooting my father in law says it best. It's a lifetime science experiment and he's still experimenting 35 years later. Each firearm is different and to create a bullet specific for the firearm to maximize it's design and capabilities. Or i could just go spend another 1500$ to upgrade my rifle.

Like the past 2 years, the cycle continues.

The weather was poor, ultra foggy at my house. At Richmond it was overcast.
Slow Fire 200 Yard Standing: 180 (The most 9's i've ever shot)
Rapid Fire 200 Yard Sitting: 91-2x (didn't feel right)
Rapid Fire 300 Yard Prone: 99-6x (With a weird cartridge jam alibi)
Slow Fire 600 Yard Prone: 93-2x
Total: 462-10x

Ugh, everytime i get a master score, the next one is some bunghole score. So i went to my past 3 years of shooting this crap and noticed that i've already been shooting at this level. So the strategy becomes either 1)i maintain this yo-yo above / below scoring and hopefully win the high expert due to the yearly average score. Or 2)somehow magically get 2 master scores in a row and then whatever.
This new jacket is cooking me from the inside. 14 pounds of leather is wicked!

Afterwards, as fluffielady was having her jewelery show, i snuck off to oakland to the NCAPOA for their annual dinner. I picked up 2nd place individual as well as 1st place team association, with Capt'n D and Uncle Lau. It seems that if an association member is on your team, all of a sudden your an associated team. Since Uncle Lau's the member, he gets the plaque. And theres nothing wrong with being named Team: Bad JuJu!

Labels: High Power Rifle

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 1 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Short

Question of the Day:
Why does a Caesar Salad Cost so much? Some places charge 7-10$ per plate. The only thing i could figure out that it has to be the shredded cheese. Yea thats it, blame it on the cheese.

Forgot to scribble about Halloween, it was alright, handing out the candies. We even had the UPS guy knock on our door around 7pm. He wanted to deliver more than getting the candies. There were a ton of 13-16+ ranged peoples. Where are the lil kiddies? Anyhow, around 8:35pm is when we ran out. No Candy For U!