Fun little flash game. Just listen to the songs and take your best guess.
I thought I would do better, but man I got my musical butt handed to me.
1st attempt at Video Game Music: 120 points
1st attempt at Movie Themes: 120 points
1st attempt at Love Songs: 20 points (not a typo... yes, 20 whole points).
Enjoy!
Post your scores back here in the comment section - since there's no chance any of us are making the leaderboard
6.28.2006
6.26.2006
Photo Monday (6/26)
Shots from the "old hood" (puyallup), some of me attempting to learn my camera some more, and of course, the house.
As always, click here to see these pictures in larger formats
As always, click here to see these pictures in larger formats
6.23.2006
6.22.2006
Self-indulgence
Okay, so once (maybe twice) a year I get to do a bit of self indulgence and post a little wishlist. Seeing that's its that time of the year (ugg, I'll be 26 this year ><), I figured I'd post this list before my mom is bugging me =)
$254 Flash for my Rebel XT (aye, sorry its spendy. The rebel uses ETTL-II; so ETTL-II flashes are a bit more.) (ETTL-II basically is the camera telling the flash how far away the intended target is)
$20 A Crown of Swords - Book 7 in the Wheel of Time
$34 A Toaster - Exciting I know. Going to need one *shrug*
$10-40Old Jazz Posters - Need some old jazz posters for my music nook. Old Action / Candid shots are my favorites (Example 1, Example 2)
$2500 56" 1080p HDTV - Hey, how am I supposed to know when you win the lotto?
$59 Xbox 360 games. Yes, I'm still a kid. Hitman - FIFA 2006 - Fight Night - Top Spin 2
Just about anything else you can think of for the house. All I have right now is silverware, cups, a kitchen table, pots & pans, and a bedroom set. That's not nearly enough for 2300 sq/ft :-)
$254 Flash for my Rebel XT (aye, sorry its spendy. The rebel uses ETTL-II; so ETTL-II flashes are a bit more.) (ETTL-II basically is the camera telling the flash how far away the intended target is)
$20 A Crown of Swords - Book 7 in the Wheel of Time
$34 A Toaster - Exciting I know. Going to need one *shrug*
$10-40Old Jazz Posters - Need some old jazz posters for my music nook. Old Action / Candid shots are my favorites (Example 1, Example 2)
$2500 56" 1080p HDTV - Hey, how am I supposed to know when you win the lotto?
$59 Xbox 360 games. Yes, I'm still a kid. Hitman - FIFA 2006 - Fight Night - Top Spin 2
Just about anything else you can think of for the house. All I have right now is silverware, cups, a kitchen table, pots & pans, and a bedroom set. That's not nearly enough for 2300 sq/ft :-)
6.19.2006
6.15.2006
The plan...
The plan today was to see my super about my house (done) then..
The plan was to get to work and have a nice shorten day and go home..
The plan was to get home and post some new pictures from my house for you all.
The plan has been destroyed.
As I walked into work, coffee cup in hand, filled with jubilation about my house, Jim Squire (out network admin) literally pointed at me with part glee, and part "ahahaha you get to fix it now" (I think they are a very closely tied emotion).
Why you ask? Oh, there's this thing called email. It lives on a server. Usually. Ours is dead on a server. ><
So, as network admin (squire) he'll fix it right? Well.. sort-of. About 11am they decided it was far beyond just a couple scripts and such and needed to go to tape. Now, in the tech world, "going to tape" is like calling in a relief pitcher. Sometimes he's great. Sometimes he gives up a grandslam, and you wonder why you even have him around.
Wednesday's tape was easy. He didn't even get to face a batter. Why? Oh because maybe I forgot to change tapes last night. Oops. Strike one Bryce. Though I know I stuck Tuesday in... right?
Yes... but Tuesday died mid backup and gave itself a digital hernia. Sexy.
Monday. Okay, I checked the logs for Monday - Successful. Nice. I grab the database (they are full) and I do a restore. "Restore Failure - File has bad stuff" @ exactly 13,999.50 MB. Okay.. So now I have Microsoft in one ear (our email software) and Computer Associates in my other (our backup software)... after three more failed restores; we give up. ALl three have died at 13,999.50 telling me that its not something I'm going to get past. I cry a little.
What now you ask? We tell all our users we are starting over. Hehe, kidding. They'd kill me. We do what's called a "hard restore", and its called that, because its long and hard (never claimed us tech folk were creative) ... I cry a little more.
Luckily from about 1pm until 4:30pm Jim does take over with Microsoft. Though he forgets to tell me that he's running the sound at a show from 5pm - 8pm tonight. Do YOU think the "hard restore" will be done by 4:30? Of course not. So he hand me the phone to talk to Kreshan (yes, he's East Indian). Kreshan of course is now at the end of his shift and hands me over to Ashir. Great. Now both people running this show have no idea where we were heading. Great idea. Thanks guys.
Luckily Microsoft has some great technology so Ashir can actually control my keyboard and mouse, and do what database things he needs to do. I can only describe this experience as the digital equivalent of getting into a cab driven by a guy you can't understand, don't know if he knows where he's going, and it feels like he's litterally toying with your life. I cry some more.
Right now we're on hour 10 with microsoft .. I'm waiting on some diagnostic tests to finish while I'm writing this. At this point I've had to correct Ashir once from deleting all our emails and causing at least 5-8 hrs of work. He's super.
Sorry, I haven't proof-read this and I have to get back to Ashir. I think he wants me to do click on something.. or cook his cat. I can't understand him.
The plan was to get to work and have a nice shorten day and go home..
The plan was to get home and post some new pictures from my house for you all.
The plan has been destroyed.
As I walked into work, coffee cup in hand, filled with jubilation about my house, Jim Squire (out network admin) literally pointed at me with part glee, and part "ahahaha you get to fix it now" (I think they are a very closely tied emotion).
Why you ask? Oh, there's this thing called email. It lives on a server. Usually. Ours is dead on a server. ><
So, as network admin (squire) he'll fix it right? Well.. sort-of. About 11am they decided it was far beyond just a couple scripts and such and needed to go to tape. Now, in the tech world, "going to tape" is like calling in a relief pitcher. Sometimes he's great. Sometimes he gives up a grandslam, and you wonder why you even have him around.
Wednesday's tape was easy. He didn't even get to face a batter. Why? Oh because maybe I forgot to change tapes last night. Oops. Strike one Bryce. Though I know I stuck Tuesday in... right?
Yes... but Tuesday died mid backup and gave itself a digital hernia. Sexy.
Monday. Okay, I checked the logs for Monday - Successful. Nice. I grab the database (they are full) and I do a restore. "Restore Failure - File has bad stuff" @ exactly 13,999.50 MB. Okay.. So now I have Microsoft in one ear (our email software) and Computer Associates in my other (our backup software)... after three more failed restores; we give up. ALl three have died at 13,999.50 telling me that its not something I'm going to get past. I cry a little.
What now you ask? We tell all our users we are starting over. Hehe, kidding. They'd kill me. We do what's called a "hard restore", and its called that, because its long and hard (never claimed us tech folk were creative) ... I cry a little more.
Luckily from about 1pm until 4:30pm Jim does take over with Microsoft. Though he forgets to tell me that he's running the sound at a show from 5pm - 8pm tonight. Do YOU think the "hard restore" will be done by 4:30? Of course not. So he hand me the phone to talk to Kreshan (yes, he's East Indian). Kreshan of course is now at the end of his shift and hands me over to Ashir. Great. Now both people running this show have no idea where we were heading. Great idea. Thanks guys.
Luckily Microsoft has some great technology so Ashir can actually control my keyboard and mouse, and do what database things he needs to do. I can only describe this experience as the digital equivalent of getting into a cab driven by a guy you can't understand, don't know if he knows where he's going, and it feels like he's litterally toying with your life. I cry some more.
Right now we're on hour 10 with microsoft .. I'm waiting on some diagnostic tests to finish while I'm writing this. At this point I've had to correct Ashir once from deleting all our emails and causing at least 5-8 hrs of work. He's super.
Sorry, I haven't proof-read this and I have to get back to Ashir. I think he wants me to do click on something.. or cook his cat. I can't understand him.
It's finally happening
This morning I had a meeting with my super indentent that will be in charge of building my house. We went over the build schedule (54 days with an average this time of the year of 3-7 non-build days) and other services Quadrant offers. I have to admit, besides the 4 month wait between finalization and release of my house, its been a very nice processes with Quadrant (the 4 month thing is very much abnormal).
So, after chatting with him (he has over 30 years experience) and finally feeling confidnent that my house is really going to be build, we wandered down to my homesite.
and..
*Shock* ... they had started early on my house. A group of 5-7 guys were busy putting in my floor braces. It was so nice to finally hear the "wiiicha" of air nailers, and it to be MY house they are working on. I'll have pictorial proof up later today.
*does happy dance*
So, after chatting with him (he has over 30 years experience) and finally feeling confidnent that my house is really going to be build, we wandered down to my homesite.
and..
*Shock* ... they had started early on my house. A group of 5-7 guys were busy putting in my floor braces. It was so nice to finally hear the "wiiicha" of air nailers, and it to be MY house they are working on. I'll have pictorial proof up later today.
*does happy dance*
6.11.2006
Dad, you can finally make cookies!
"Simple" Chocolate Chip Cookies....
Ingredients:
1. 532.35 cm3 gluten
2. 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
3. 4.9 cm3 refined halite
4. 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
5. 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
6. 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
7. 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
8. Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein
9. 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao
10. 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)
To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two and three with constant agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous.
To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine and ten slowly, with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.
Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown. Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25C heat-transfer table, allowing the product to come to equilibrium.
Ingredients:
1. 532.35 cm3 gluten
2. 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
3. 4.9 cm3 refined halite
4. 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
5. 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
6. 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
7. 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
8. Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein
9. 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao
10. 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)
To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two and three with constant agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous.
To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine and ten slowly, with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.
Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown. Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25C heat-transfer table, allowing the product to come to equilibrium.
6.08.2006
Its alive.....
For the full size pictures (without the movement).. go here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38616624@N00/
6.02.2006
[Exhale] ... pajama pants
I'm trying to be a good roommate. I clean up the kitchen as much as I can, I vacuum perodically - etc. Formost, I do my best to try to stay out of the way as much as possible; including doing laundry when its available only.
Bad thing for me, Jeramiah and Amy have a tendency to do laundry in lunar periods, not days. So attempting to sneak in a load here and there is, frankly, impossible.
Well over a week ago I needed to do some laundry. I have over the last couple months been purchasing the first thing I run out of in an attempt to last longer (underwear, then socks, and you will soon see... pants). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do laundry a week ago. Or 5 days ago, or 3 days ago. ... you're starting to see the problem.
So, yesterday rolls around. My pants I had worn the last three days could now stand on their own, so I didn't think it was wise for me to continue to wear them. I glanced into my closest; and met trouble. Well not so much trouble as that one pair of pants that still look fine so you don't throw them out, but there's a reason they are the last pants on the rack.
I now, because of my lackluster workout practice of the last couple months, buy 34 inch waist pants. (34 / 32). These pants I set my eyes on to make me through the days are 31 inch waist. Not really thinking much about it at the time (I hadn't had my coffee yet), I throw them on (okay okay, struggle like a fat lady getting into an old wedding dress). It didn't really occur to me until about 8:30 sitting at my desk as the thought of pulling the old fart move of undoing the top button so I could work AND breath was it time for me to take some action about doing laundry.
I made through the day and home just fine (except for a half of dozen people knowing what religion I grew up that didn't want to know), and managed to [exhale] into some pajama pants (elastic FOR THE WIN) and do some laundry.
Bad thing for me, Jeramiah and Amy have a tendency to do laundry in lunar periods, not days. So attempting to sneak in a load here and there is, frankly, impossible.
Well over a week ago I needed to do some laundry. I have over the last couple months been purchasing the first thing I run out of in an attempt to last longer (underwear, then socks, and you will soon see... pants). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do laundry a week ago. Or 5 days ago, or 3 days ago. ... you're starting to see the problem.
So, yesterday rolls around. My pants I had worn the last three days could now stand on their own, so I didn't think it was wise for me to continue to wear them. I glanced into my closest; and met trouble. Well not so much trouble as that one pair of pants that still look fine so you don't throw them out, but there's a reason they are the last pants on the rack.
I now, because of my lackluster workout practice of the last couple months, buy 34 inch waist pants. (34 / 32). These pants I set my eyes on to make me through the days are 31 inch waist. Not really thinking much about it at the time (I hadn't had my coffee yet), I throw them on (okay okay, struggle like a fat lady getting into an old wedding dress). It didn't really occur to me until about 8:30 sitting at my desk as the thought of pulling the old fart move of undoing the top button so I could work AND breath was it time for me to take some action about doing laundry.
I made through the day and home just fine (except for a half of dozen people knowing what religion I grew up that didn't want to know), and managed to [exhale] into some pajama pants (elastic FOR THE WIN) and do some laundry.
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