Archive for the year 2003
Backup Plan
Posted on May 24, 2003 by Ching under Babies, Games.
Thunderstorms have been forecasted for today. We may not be able to go swimming. Our backup plan is playing video games in Ashley’s apartment. Brian and I have been commissioned to bring our DDR game and dancepads, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance and Tekken — just in case we are stuck indoors due to inclement weather. Ashley loves Galaga too just like me (she has the game) so I now have someone to play Galaga with. It’s kind of boring playing by yourself. I just keep trying to outdo myself, to get beyond the highest level that I can reach, but after a while that just gets frustrating. When you take turns it’s better. More fun.
Anyhow, I made a video clip of Felix. I had to store it at our family’s website because they have 500 MBs of storage and this file by itself is 3 MB. I didn’t want Jen (my host Jen, not my sister) to get mad at me for using too much space because I use a lot already. So you dial-up users have been warned. Give it time to load (or if you’re on dial up, you may want to skip this video altogether). But broadband users :must: check it out because it’s cute. LOL! I should take him to Stupid Pet Tricks!
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TV Sightings
Posted on May 22, 2003 by Ching under Life.
You’ll never believe who Brian and I saw on TLC’s A Dating Story yesterday. I think it might have been a repeat because he looked very much like he did in 2001 and I don’t think I looked like I did a couple of years ago (people’s physical appearances change over time, that’s nature), which leads me to believe that it was definitely one of the older episodes re-run. It was none other than Jack Murnighan of Nerve.com fame. They set him up with Marie Claire’s eligible bachelorette of the year. Which year? That I don’t know because I don’t read Marie Claire (I probably will when I turn 30 but right now I don’t).. My bet is that it was 2001.
What upset me (nothing to do with the show folks, the episode was abosultely delightful which is more than I can say for Shipmates my guilty pleasure) is that when I saw him it reminded me of The Naughty Bits (Jack’s book that I own) and when I thought of that I thought of my other Nerve.com book, Full Frontal Fiction (I had it in hardcover too, “had” being the operative word), which I had stolen from my bookshelf at work. It just magically disappeared. I looked up there one day and it was gone. The sad part is I don’t even know how long it had been missing. At least I’m not as psychotic as I once was. That event would have triggered a full-blown nervous breakdown. Ask Brian. I had to tell myself several times, “It’s just a book. It’s just a book.” But I was able to calm down and get on with my life.. err, with my day.
Anyway, I was seriously thinking of selling out again and adding a commenting system to the blog. I found Haloscan (it seemed like a pretty good commenting system) via theharpoon.net and I really seriously thought about it. But then I realized how much I hate getting flamed. At least this way when someone flames me I’m the only who sees it, instead of it being out there for the whole world to read. Yeah, I don’t much like being ridiculed for my stupid, outlandish opinions either. This is my blog, I’m entitled to it. Â
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Erin’s Birthday
Posted on May 21, 2003 by Ching under Life.
The pictures that we took at work on Erin’s birthday (or should I say the rest of the pictures) are finally here! Sorry about the delay in posting them.
P.S. If you like these, wait till you see the pictures that we take on Saturday! We’re going swimming, baby! Hot girls in bikinis — what more could you ask for? Just be glad that I’ll be behind the camera taking pictures rather than in front of it. LOL!
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Gala Invite
Posted on May 16, 2003 by Ching under Family.
The Filipino gala is almost upon us and I am proud to say that I got my very first official invitation this year. My family has attended the event every year without fail since 1995 but I’ve always gone as a tag-along to their invitation.
This year, Brian and I got our very own in the mail addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Brian Brubaker. I feel like such a grownup!
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My New Camera
Posted on May 15, 2003 by Ching under Toys, Wishlist.
I haven’t been blogging because my Canon Powershot G3 arrived on Tuesday and I’ve been busy playing with it ever since. The other night Brian and I set it on a table and played with the wireless controller. It’s so cool because the wireless controller not only gives the ability to remote detonate ..err, snap pictures.. It actually gives you the ability to zoom in and out, and also navigates the various pictures stored in the camera like if you had the camera connected to a TV (it came w/ A/V cables) so you can show pictuers one at a time before moving on. The camera itself has a slideshow option but we’re just talking about the wireless controller right now.
You wanna know something stupid? Dell carries the G3 now. They’re a little late because I’d already bought it! I was just telling Pia last night (she’s thinking of buying a new desktop from Dell) of how much I love that company (their tech support is crap but that’s besides the point, they have good deals). Almost everything that we’ve got is through them. Brian’s desktop, my desktop, the cd burner I bought for Brian’s computer, my QuickCam Pro 4000 (which incidentally I had bought when it was still $99.99 and now it’s on sale everywhere you go — probably because the new QuickCam Cordless is now available — I want that one next) etc etc. Anyway I told her that I would have bought the G3 from Dell had they offered it but I didn’t see it on any of their catalogs or website. Now, after the fact, it’s there.
So last night I was tinkering with my computer as I was chatting with Pia on Y!M. I decided that I didn’t need some of the software bundled with my webcam so I uninstalled them from my computer (being careful not to uninstall the driver along with it). What followed next was a rigorous test of almost everything that I use with my webcam on a semi-regular basis. Webcam32 and the webcam option on Y!M still worked. I wanted to make sure that my Logitech IM Video Companion (which works with AIM and MSN Messenger) thing still worked. I signed onto AIM to see if there was anyone available who could test it with me and, lo and behold, a Ritchie sighting! We never run into each other online!
Pia doesn’t have AIM but she had MSN so we switched to MSN so the three of us could chat together. I needed to test it with MSN anyhow. I couldn’t get it to work for the life of me! I don’t know what the deal is. Crazy chat program! The good news is, after I got off chat with Ritchie and Pia, I had Brian log onto AIM on his computer and test it with me. He says that when I send him the view my webcam link it takes him to a page to install the program needed and then after it’s installed it works. He could see me. So the Logitech IM Video Companion works. The problem lies with MSN Messenger which I can understand because it’s one of the newer instant messenging programs so the could still be some bugs that need to be worked out.
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