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The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss – Early drawings of Dr. Seuss’ adwork before he wrote children’s books. Some pretty neat stuff.

Today is Sandy’s birthday! She is 24, uh, 21! Yeah!

And, I finally finished my homemade digital picture frame on the weekend. 5-minute epoxy is my friend. The frame is on so it looks nice, I just have to figure out how to mount the power switch nicely on the front and cover up some stuff with black paper. The software is still Linux using an SVGALIB graphics viewer and my RangeLAN2 wireless card, but I might switch this over to something based on Bart’s Network Boot Disk so I can take out the hard drive and achieve silent operation. This would mean delving back into Proxim NDIS driver hell again though.

I just spend an hour trying to figure out why my script wasn’t writing any output and not producing any error messages. I left out one tiny little damn statement. Grrrr………

I didn’t go to Sleater-Kinney on Monday. I am somewhat kicking myself for this, and if you’d like to come and give me a swift kick in the ass and yell “WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, MAN!!!!!” then be my guest. But when the friend you were going to go with informs you a hour and a half before the show that she is having serious problems, it sucks. I hope you’re alright, J. No hard feelings, seriously. It just kinda put me down for a while. And since I had driven all the way in that morning, I had to drive all the way back to Guelph, which took 2:40 during rush hour. During the first hour, I moved a total of 6.5km.

Okay, so now that I think about it I REALLY REALLY wanted to go to that show. A lot. At least Wes went, so I can read his take. Cool. Damn, maybe if I had gone I would have found him and at least remotely known someone there. Fuck. I need more caffeine this morning. I get paid tonight, but I have less than $20 right now because my parking ticket cheque just went through. I guess it’s a good thing that it didn’t bounce. So anyways, I can’t take out cash to buy coffee and I only have green tea here at work. this. sucks. i. am. grumpy. and. i. need. to. launch. this. site. today. Maybe I should just stop listening to Rage Against the Machine and get along with my life?

Enough griping. There have been good things too, I just need to vent. On Monday I finally got my Zelda Bonus Disc! This is given to everyone with a pre-order on the new Zelda GameCube game, and it has Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the previously-unreleased Master Quest on it, as well as movies for current and upcoming games. First thing I did was watch the movie for F-Zero, and immediately after I almost creamed my pants. WOW. If the game really actually looks like that, it will be insane. The draw distance alone… anyways. I also started playing Ocarina, which I have never played before. I’ve never played a 3D Zelda game before, so its taking some getting used to, but not as much as Metroid Prime. I’m not used to the non-linearness and the hella inflexible camera. But it’s fun. And it’s a new game, and who can beat that? I wish I had more time for games. And everything else.

Also, yesterday Sandy got me a present that totally floored me. Thanks, Hon.

I will write more later.

This morning I had a rather harrowing experience on the 401 (very long, large highway). I was on a ramp that was joining with some other ramps to create the collector lanes on the 401 Eastbound around Dixie Rd. in Mississauga. As such, there was lots of nice empty pavement in front of me and the few cars around me, and so we were accelerating up to around 110kph. Suddenly, ahead of me in the lane on my left, cars started swerving out of that lane rather quickly. I caught a glimpse of what they were dodging from between bumpers: a concrete barrier, about 1.5m square, was skidding along in the middle of the lane. I was forced to move into the lane next to me to avoid cars that were swerving into my lane and decelerating – I’m lucky that the lane was there and that it was unoccupied. As I passed the commotion, I noticed a pickup truck that was pulling over onto the shoulder – which had another of these concrete thingys in its bed. Evidently, the barrier had fallen out of that truck somehow – I didn’t actually see it happen, so I have no idea how. It didn’t even look like two of these things would have fit in the pickup’s bed, so maybe it was balancing on the edge of the tailgate or something…

Anyways. The only reason I drove all the way into the city today was because I’m going to the Sleater-Kinney show tonight. Seeing that they only play north of the border every few years or so, I jumped on this once I saw the announcement in my weekly TicketBastard mailing. And I’m going with Jordan, which will be fun. Damn, that’s an old photo of her.