Month: September 2005

Did I tell you penguins were evil or what? Here is video proof that they are comunists. http://subpop.dev.slam.cc/downloads/free/So_Says_I_-_Hi_Res248.mov
EZ seems to like the music. The animation is not excellent, but it’s decent if a single person did it all.

I guess it turns out I didn’t need that extra drawing tablet after all. I had brought my original one to work, but my work no longer exists…

I got a call from my boss at 6:30 yesterday morning saying that we hadn’t paid our rent, and the new owners of the mall were going to try to lock us out. They told us when they took over that they were going to find any reason they could to kick us out. I guess we gave it to them. (The rent on the building is $13,000/month, and generally we don’t make that much…)

The boss said don’t worry, it would probably be all taken care of by the time I got in to open at 9:00. I tried to go back to sleep, but obviously couldn’t. I got up and took a shower, and when I was getting dresed I noticed that I had missed a call from the boss. So I call him back, expecting him to say that the people came and went, and eveything is all set.

Instead, he says that Dom has rented 3 Uhauls, and that we’re going to pack everything in the store up, even the projectors and sound racks. Those things are permenantly wired in there. So I drive AM and EZ out to the village, then drive all the way back to Rimrock, about 2 blocks from my house to pick up one of the Uhauls. I got the smallest one, and it still seemed huge trying to get on the freeway with our crappy little on ramp.

So dom went to winsong to get some mexicans to help, and I was in charge of the projection room. The boss said to just cut all the wired, and we’ll just have to splice them if we move back in. I cut probably 1500 wires, there is no way I’m rewiring that thing if we somehow get our jobs back.

Getting the projectors down the stairs was insane. When they put them in to begin with, they cut a hole in the wall, and just used a fork lift. We had a little dolly and 3 mexicans to try to manuver this 6″ tall, 2000 pound projector down a VERY steep set of stairs. We ended up laying it down and sliding it, but I had to pull with all my might to keep it from sliding too fast and squashing the mexicans. I am soooooo sore. We did 2 projectors, 2 sound racks that were even heavier than the projectors, 2 platters, 2 makeup tables, and various other tables. I can’t believe we got it all out in one day.

The boss said he will give me a job working for the tour companies, but I’m not sure that’s what I want to do. If anyone out there has a computer job open, let me know. Maybe I better get working on my hosting company Sly Fox Hosting

While not nearly as good a find as my $5 Lego Robotics or my $5 Tivo, I found a drawing tablet this weekend for $25. I already have a wacom tablet, but I brought it to work, and I need one at home now. This one is an Aiptek HyperPen 6000. It’s slightly bigger than the wacom, although the drawing surface is nearly the same size. The one thing that’s not as cool as the wacom is that the pen requires a battery. A AAAA battery. I’ve never even heard of AAAA. It looks like a AAA, only about 3/4 as thick and 3/4 the length. The cool thing about this tablet is that it doesn’t need an a/c adapter, it has a plug that goes in your ps/2 port and draws the power from there.
I’ve already put the tablet to good use, drawing the logo for my new web hosting company http://www.SlyFoxHosting.com.

EZ also found a couple of deals this weekend. He got a talking, vibrating light saber for $0.25, and a Blues Clues plate for $0.50.

Ok, I’m looking for some site ideas. I put a couple of new banners up, added some GIMPed pics, and now I don’t know what to do. I was thinking about puting up a “how to” sections with instructions on things like upgrading a TIVO and setting up serial PPP, case mods, halloween costumes, etc. But after I do those 3/4 things, then what?

I need to get some content so people will come to the site, but I need someone to come to the site so I can get some ideas of what to put on here.

Maybe nude pictures of Bea Arthur…..

F.U.