You can’t buy deodorant at Burger King.
soap bubble experiment rev. 2
Show me an option these days without some flavor of antiperspirant (from the Wiki: “Aluminum chloride, aluminum chlorohydrate, and aluminum-zirconium compounds, most notably Aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly and Aluminum zirconium trichlorohydrex gly") and I’ll take it. I am not a sweaty man. I don’t need antiperspirant… even in the summer. I just want plain ‘ole deoderant. It’s not too much to ask really.
I’m hungry. I mean… really hungry. There was no food in my house so I ate pie for lunch. One of my accounts sent me a pecan pie in a small wooden crate with a thank you card for the holidays, so I cracked it open and dug in. Mang oh mang was it sweet. I can’t handle sweet. Spice, yes… sweet, no. But, when you are a Starvin’ Marvin, you make concessions.
Soap bubble round two went better than round one, but the frustration is now in the dish. I changed to a longer Pyrex baking dish rather than the psuedo-ramikan shaped sauce dish I used for revision one. Also, I needed to move the whole thing closer to the ground to get a different (read: better) angle from the tripod to the bubble surface. I still don’t like how they are turning out, so I’m going to wait a while before I do a third attempt. It was just a photographic distraction anyway. In other photo news, I’m planning a book for the Spring. I’ll share more when I have something worth sharing.
Since Team Fortress 2 and The Orange Box, I’ve also purchased Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare and Unreal Tournament 3. UT3 is just like UT2004 with better eye-candy. I think it will be fun at a LAN party, but I probably won’t play much outside of that environment. I totally dug Portal and Team Fortress 2 still has supreme fun factor for just giggly good times online, but I feel the need to describe the new Call of Duty installment here… holy. fucking. shit. Assuming you have the horsepower to play it with the bells and whistles enabled, this game will rock your socks. The attention to detail in everything from the environmental physics to audio, graphics, and game dynamics is just off the charts. There is a very intense single player campaign as well as massive online map support that is just delightful to sink into… smooth, solid gameplay with 50 player ranks supporting multiple unlocks that can be 5 finger discounted off corpses by lower ranked soldiers for sneak peek fun. Nothing but good stuff to report with CoD. I logged into WoW for the first time in a couple months to checkout the diffs. I did a few dailies and said hi to old peops. Same ‘ole stuff. EVE is in a quasi-holding pattern other than mining ops in high sec because of my 600 million ISK in cybernetic implants in my main with no jump clone and a skill plan taking me into January before I can get back on track. I did the Power of Two thing and have an industry alt going, so that has at least kept me engaged. No console news primarily because I hate them all, but I hear Assassin’s Creed is nice… not nice enough for me to drop 50 bones on it since, well, I hate consoles.
No new tech stuff to share outside of that… oh, I got my Slingbox back online. I needed to firmware patch my Ethernet bridge connecting the Sling to my 802.11g network. Apparently there was a bug that dropped WPA-PSK TKIP clients for no reason. So, patched and reconfigured the bridge and all is well… back to controlling/watching my home cable and DVR on my cell phone from anywhere again. w00t!
I’m going to break into a bottle of wine and de-stress from the day with my birthday boy. Ciao.
pee ess… Did you know the the tusk of a Narwhal can grow to over 10 feet? PWN!
I’m with you on consoles. I picked up a PS-3 to watch HD movies. So far I haven’t found any I want to buy though, lol, so I figure I’ll surf youtube on it in the living room. Funny thing is, it doesn’t maximize the video as smooth as my little AppleTV, lol. Oh well, it does F.A.H. well and someday there will be movies I wanna buy.
WoW’s actually changed in big and subtle ways since you’ve been gone. Alterac Valley is very different now. There’s a lot more PvP in it than ever. I remember 2+hour slog fests but how about 100 kills in 39 minutes, and not all in front of the Horde cave?
Our Subtelty tree got tweaked and now Dirty Deeds turns our finishing moves into a warrior’s Execute. Shadow Step can be used out of stealth. Hemo (until next patch) is 125% weapon damage and is normalized, with its debuff bumped from 10 per charge to 36 per charge. Sword Spec overtook, then got put into par or just under Dagger Spec for raid DPS. Hemo is actually RAID VIABLE now with very little DPS difference than Combat Sword.
New PvP trinkets and capes are available for Heroic badges. There are both battleground and Heroic daily quests. Armor Penetration has been introduced as a new stat. Blind is a physical effect that cannot be dispelled other than with trinket and blinding powder is no more. Poison charges last 1 hour now. There’s a new weapon enchant that stacks that reduces armor similarly to Sunder or Expose Armor.
Cenarian has a Hippogryph mount you can buy. You’ll see folks running around on bears soon from ZA. I saw a fellow from <RAGE> on a pheonix in Shatt a couple weeks ago.
Brewfest was a lot of fun in October (had a new ram mount) as was the Hallow’s End quests involving the Headless Horseman in SM. The battles over control of the SM lobby were legendary. I got the epic ring and flyer from that one. I’m hoping they’ve got similar plans for Christmas with a new “end game” level seasonal boss or epic loot. We’ll know in a couple weeks.
The Greench won’t cut it this year after what they just did.
As always, your tech info leaves me confused… so I just skip over that part. I’m sure its useful and if I had a brain I would give it a shot.
Happy Birthday Henry!
ps why do you call him bunny? Is it the ears?
PS> I dunno what you’re talking about with these soap bubble pictures, they’re pretty frikkin’ cool looking.
For further experiments you might want to consider the possibilities of oil, saline, food coloring and a syringe? Peter Parks shouldn’t be the one guy known for artistic macrophotography.
Hey those bubbles are cool. If you look really close, you can see the reflection of you nose in the bubbles. lol
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