Christmas Eve

Oh, this is bad...

I haven't done a post in a while,

Oh no.

There is still lots to be happy about though!

For one thing it is Christmas Eve!

For another, Christmas is tomorrow!

I want a back massage right now... ^~^;

I just made up that smiley face thing right now. I am very proud of it.

OK, what else is there to talk about?

OOH! i got a new camera from my auntie. It was my moms boyfriends camera, and my aunt just found it in her house.

It is a Nikon F3

That's funny, i almost typed in Canon F3 O.o DUH-HUR

I think that this will be the first blog post where i actually don't put a picture up :(

OK, thats enough from me.

Good night, and god bless you, every one. (I'm Agnostic ^~^;)

WHA?

apparently this is what happens when you throw a crappy cell phone onto your bed:

Anyway, I'm sorry that I am not able to do so many posts as i hoped that i would. I have had so much homework and so many projects, that i haven't been able to do much.

bye for now

LIONEL!

I was digging through my basement earlier, and i found my old Lionel train set. I set it up and i made a nice figure 8 track thingy.

I also took some cool pictures of the train. next to my camera, this is one of my favorite toys. the only bad thing is that they are so loud>:(

more pictures of it on my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/taizocurry/

Happy Thanksgiving?

So, how was everyones Thanksgiving?

I thought so.

Mine was great, thanks for asking.

We didn't do much, but that was nice anyway. We just sat around at home and at my dads hotel. We got to go swimming in the nice pool that they have there. It was all good fun. We watched the Macy's Thanksgiving parade march all around downtown.

So, look at what arrived in the mail the other day:

Any guesses as to what it is?

No?

Well, here is a hint:

That's right. It's a HUMUNGO floppy drive. A Commodore VIC-1541. It takes floppy discs that are 5 1/4 inches across. And the sad part is: that little floppy disc, the one we all remember from the '90s, actually has more capacity than the larger 5 1/4 inch ones. The big boys actually can only hold about 360K, while the normal ones that we are all familiar to can hold 1.44MB, or 1474.56K. I hope that i will be able to find some programs on floppies which i can play games or something eventually... Christmas ;)

Whatever.

See you next week or something.

Das Commodore 64

Well, there's not much to say except that THE COMMODORE 64 HAS LANDED!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!

I was having lots of fun just messing around with it and making random programs. There was this one that i made earlier today where i had to find the time it took my virtual boat to go from place to place on my marine biology project chart thing.

So to solve this problem, i wrote in this.

10 INPUT "ENTER DISTANCE: ";D

20 A = (D/4)*60

30 PRINT A;"MINUTES"

40 GOTO 10

Now while this may mean nothing to you, it tells the computer to first: ask me for the distance of the leg the boat needs to travel. to then divide that number with the fixed number of knots that my boat was going (4kts) and then multiply that with 60. After that, the next line told the computer to show me the answer on the screen. Next, it told the computer to repeat that whole process.

That was the first real useful thing i got it to do.

thats all folks!

mushroomz?

so all that really was interesting today was that i found some little mushroomz growing above our garage.

Here they are:

I thought they were pretty awesome.

So here comes a story. Are we ready? Then we shall begin.

once there was a little boy. he fell in love with an old computer that he found on ebay. this little boy wished very much to get that computer on ebay. so he bid on it. it did not work :)

but this little boy did not give up so easily. so in his fit of rage at loosing the auction, he clicked his way to the nearest computer of the same type on ebay, and clicked the buy it now!?! button next to it.

the end.

nobody knows what happened to the little boy after that. some say he would fall into poverty from ebaying so much, and he eventually would die a poor old man. others believe that when his parents would find out, that there would be hell to pay for the him.

now, i kinda think that that last one makes more sense.

here is a photo of the little boy:

OMG!!!

OH MY GOD!

i caught myself almost not blogging for almost a week!!!! AAAAAUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

oh well. here i am again.

so what i have been obsessing over recently:

Getting my mitts on a COMMODORE 64 COMPUTER

possibly the most amazing thing on the planet... for this month at least. just kidding.

so here comes the torrent of whining. are we ready? then lets begin.

1. I F___ING HATE MACS!!!
2. from what i can tell, the reason for auctionsniper not working for two of the auctions that i bid on was that i was using it with our stupid apple MINI.
3. so thanks to this little mess up, i now have no commodore 64.
4. (i think the mini didn't wanna be replaced)
5. ..........well, there really is no number five.

so let me leave you with this.

SOME DAY... i shall present you with a commodore 64 computer and take some beautiful pictures of it, and you shall love it.

guten nacht

oh and by the way, i am now officially Canadian. i'll show you in a picture on my next blog post.