Mind Control Victim

I always thought it was an exaggeration when people talked about being dumbsruck after seeing something. I was proven wrong today. I was walking through the Bellevue Square Mall Today( because it was bloody hot outside) when these late teens early twenties girls walk by. Being a guy I notice them. Then my brain shut down for approximately five seconds. The skirt was white. I don't know if it was the lighting or if it was on purpose but the knee length skirt was translucent and the thong was stringy and black. I think I noticed her head first but those thoughts succumbed to the thong. I finally snapped out of it once they wen't around the corner...

We also bought some stuff at the Art Festival but that was the highlight of my day.

Nintendo DS stuff

So I got an Electric Blue DS+Mario DS for 130 which was awesome. I also picked up Meteos for 18. Also got the obligatory Nintendo swag. Didn't have any new DK stuff unfortunately but they did have 1UP boxers for half the store price!

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned why I don't like the PSP but I'll reiterate. Load Times are stupid and I loathe memory sticks. That and its just a ps1 1/2. Not that that's a bad thing mind you, it's just not what I want in a portable.

Meteos Rocks. Literally. Okay fine technically they are explosive asteroids made out of the material Meteos sprung from the Planet Meteos bent on destroying the universe...
Shakespeare this is not.

But it's a puzzle game and puzzle games need no plot. Connect similarly colored bricks together and remove them from the screen before they overflow the screen.

Sounds boring but its really bloody fun. It's even better when you have a four player game going. Pure bliss.

You can also download play with three other people that don't have the game or you can send them a demo that they can play till they power off their DS.

Buy it. Buy It Now!

Mario DS
Its Mario 64 with bad controls.

So Digipen has been fun...

I've been at the Digipen Programming Level 3 Summer Workshop since last Monday. It was harder than Level 2.

So to start out... No cute girl like last year. Made some new friends. Got a DS at the Nintendo store. Learned the intricacies of ctrl-C and ctrl-v. learned that i hate capitalization while coding stuff. Discovered that the controls for Tetris Worlds for the Gamecube SUCK. Also got gipped on the SSBM tournament. Found out you can run Windows XP in a old Toshiba Pentium 1 ToughBook. 65% percent of the Junior workshop kids are immature little brats.

It seems oxymoronic but it helps if you have prior programming experience. I didn't. The students also tell you this if you ask them about prep for the first year.
I made a 3D pong clone this time. We had to use an engine that was similar to Wolfenstein-3D. It was fun for the most part.

The prepaid lunch was still hit or miss. Wouldn't have recommended chili if you are going to have a bunch of guys locked in a room for the next seven hours. The famous strawberry biscuit from last year didn't make an appearance thankfully. (Funny just checked archives and I never mentioned them. The name speaks for itself...)

BlueNile

The Greatest Picture Ever...

Is Right Here
Its just magnificent...

The world Is Stupid...

First Up We Have A Case Of Suicidal Sheep...

Turkish shepherds look at dead sheep in the town of Gevas, near the city of Van, eastern Turkey, Thursday, July 7, 2005. First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, according to the Turkish media reported on Friday July 8, 2005. In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher.
Source: Yahoo news... And The Pic

French Maids Sued For CarPooling...

They might have been congratulated for their "green" efforts in an area of heavy air pollution.

Instead a group of French cleaning ladies who organised a car-sharing scheme to get to work are being taken to court by a coach company which accuses them of "an act of unfair and parasitical competition".

The women, who live in Moselle and work five days a week at EU offices in Luxembourg, are being taken to court by Transports Schiocchet Excursions, which runs a service along the route. It wants the women to be fined and their cars confiscated.
Source: The Guardian