Month: July 2005

I just got back from a Christmas in July party. I got a lamp. I gave a roll of scotch tape. Now don’t I feel silly.

That’s my hypothesis anyway. I’ve yet to see any concrete evidence that it does, in fact, exist. I’ve met a few people who CLAIM to be from there, but they were unable to produce as much as an old I.D. to back that claim up.

If I ever meet J.K. Rowling, i’m going to punch her in the face for what she just did to me.
That @#$^ actually managed to make me cry. No work of fiction has ever managed to do that before.

SNAPE FRIGGIN KILLS DUMBLEDORE.
Right in front of Harry, of course. And I pretty much saw it coming since the very beginning of the book. Actually, I pretty much knew Dumbledore was gonna die since book 4 came out, just not how it was gonna happen. And it still got to me.

DAMN YOU ROOOOOWLIIIIIIIIIING!
And now I have to wait for God knows how long for the last book in the series =p

Because Livejournal told me its your birthday

Anyone reading this know anything about the software mod for the Xbox?   I got mine modded and a 300gb HD installed while I was at Anime Expo, and it all seemed to be working just fine at the time.  But now that I’ve got it home, Xbox media center doesn’t seem to want to load anymore (it hangs at the “now loading” screen) , and certain games run from the HD don’t display any graphics.    In addition, when I try to FTP files to it, i’m able to connect to the FTP but I can’t put any files on the F drive  (which is where the majority of the storage space is).  I WAS able to succesfully FTP some files to it while I was in the hotel, so I know it worked at the time.  Anyone have an idea what the problem is?


Edit: Turned off TSR from the settings menu and it worked just fine. Apparently I did something when I was investigating the various trainers that came with it.

So we all woke up this morning and started talking about how we were going to spend the day.  In the middle of this, Paul walked out the door without a word to anyone, and hasn’t been seen since.    I lost the USB cable for my camera some time during the night, so now in addition to it not working, i’m not even sure where it is.   Jason did have an SD card reader, though, and he let me use it to get the pictures off my card.  I’m currently in the process of uploading them here.  Anyway, after the pictures were transferred, Hunter and I decided to make a run to the dealer’s room.   In a further demonstration of stupidity by the anime expo staff, they made us LINE UP to get into the dealer’s room by taking an escalator down to the convention center basement, lining up in one of the exhibit halls down there, riding an escalator back upstairs to another exhibit hall, exiting through a door RIGHT NEXT to the escalator we had taken down in the first place, down a hallway (right behind the AX merchandise table, where any persn in line could have just grabbed a stack of t-shirts or whatnot and gone completely unnoticed), and up to the door of the exhibit hall. They were stopping people from going directly into the hall, but they were NOT setting any limits on how many people could be in the room or anything like that.   It’s like they have to have a “system” for EVERYTHING, whether or not there’s a good reason for it.  They didn’t even pull it off well, as there were plenty of places where someone could have just cut in line with no problem.    Anyway, I ended up buying a bunch of Manga as well as the first season of Magic Knights Rayearth on DVD.  Tokyopop was having a special deal where if you bought the first issue of some new manga series (whose name eludes me at the moment)  they would give you a coupon to get a free in-and-out burger from a truck they had set up outside the con.  I’d never had an In-and-Out burger before, and the creator of the manga was there signing copies, so I went ahead and bought a copy and had it signed.  Then I went and got my free burger and went back to the hotel.  That was the best damned cheeseburger i’ve ever had.   I wish they had those places on the east coast.   Anyway, that brings us up to date for now.  Hunter, Jason and I are sitting here in the room watching the Azumanga Daioh DVDs that Hunter bought in the dealers room.   Received a call from Paul a few minutes ago, and he apparently just decided he wanted to do his own thing today, so he’s been out wandering the con.  Jesse seems to have gotten himself eternally lost in the dealers room, according to Jason.  Arty is off at some panel for some manga artist i’ve never heard of.   We’re not quite sure where Leland is.   We don’t really have any solid plans for tonight.  We’ll probably end up trying to sneak into AX Idol.  Failing that, we’ll sit here and watch more Azumanga Daioh and play games.  

I expect to have those pictures up shortly.