Got this one from schnookiemuffin:
Do a google image search on the word “Halloween” and the year you were born.
Post your favourite picture.
This is so not me… but it just amused me.
Archive for October, 2006
Well, it’s another halloween. I love this holiday.
I still need to track down pictures for 2005’s furry costume. I know we took them. Just need to find’em
I seem to have gotten into a rotation of Make, Buy, Fake
As always… I should do some catch up:
This is oddly the 1 yr anniversary of the Microsoft interview that didn’t pan out.
Also… as you read… Sunday I managed to ding myself rather bad.
Interestingly, no one at work seems to want to ask. They look… they notice… But they never ask. Which was sad because my wife had two answers prepared:
Her: Did you tell them that I’ve been beating you?
Me: This? Oh.. um… The first rule is that I can’t talk about it.
no one asked. 🙁
So.. now the recap for the newer readers
Again.. I love Halloween:
2005: I went furry. Tiger mask, tail, fuzzy slippers. Pictures forthcoming
2004: Gene Simmons (AGAIN) (details)
2003: 70’s disco hell. This costume was sadly renamed ‘Ron Jeremy’
2001,2002 – My fuddy-duddy not doing Halloween Years
2000: My personal favourite: The scary conservative without a costume
Costumes in the 90s included: The Crow, Dream (Sandman), more Gene Simmons (better pictures eventually),
and a personal favourite: Wakko Warner
Wakko was exceedingly (and surprisingly) hard to do. Finding a powder blue turtleneck in September/October teaches you what fall colours and styles are. I did the ears by using pipecleaners and hairbands in my hair. A friend made the tail. I bought the hands and feet.
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Sadly, however… Many people thought I was Mickey Mouse. Which (due to that link especially) is understandable.
So this year.
This year was my, “Throw money at it” year. I knew what I wanted to do… And I tracked down all the pieces online.
Personally, I’m certain security will ask me to remove an obvious part of the costume. (No, not weapons)… But I think it’s the best work I’ve done… Better pictures soon. For now…
Tired, Punchy and my head hurts
First the news… Yes… it’s been a week since I’ve posted. Work, Baby… Family… you do the math.
Today was filled with a DIY project that was filled with so much promise. And met with failure. We have a room with no phone jack that direly needs one.The room has a cable jack… But we don’t use the cable.
I had an idea… what if I ride the phone signal on the unused cable from a room with both phone and cable to the room with just cable. I got two wall plates that each had a phone jack and a cable connector. I got a 3′ long coax cable to sacrifice for connecting the back of the cable connector to the back of the phone jack. I figured I’d cut in half, strip the cut end and attach it like I was wiring a phone. I also got a little multimeter… hoping that might help. Granted I know nearly -0- about electronics (I’m a software guy)… so the multimeter was more of an amusement.
I walked into the parking lot of the hardware store. Booty in hand. I was looking at the multimeter walking about 2 feet from the row of cars and pickup trucks. BANG!
Did you know that a 15 ‘ 2 inch diameter wooden dowel, hangs more than 2 ‘ out of a pickup truck and right at forehead level? Neither did I. This would be the part where my head hurts.
Well, I got home… Watched Rothlisberger forget that black doesn’t mean Steelers on the West Coast. And tinkered. I cut the coax and stripped the cut ends. On each plate I attached the copper core {D} to the Pair 1 ring terminal (red) and the copper screen {B} to the Pair 1 tip (green).
My first test was to connect the two plates with coax. Then attach one plate to a phone line and the other to a phone. This would test two things.
- Was I wired correctly?
- Would coax carry a phone signal?
The test worked.
So, I ran phone wire in one room over to where the cable jack was on the wall. I connected a small piece of coax to my makeshift jack and connected the other end to the wall jack. Then I connected the phone line to my makeshift jack. Then I picked up a good phone. The phone still worked.. so I hadn’t shorted out our phone. Theoretically, my phone line was now on the cable in the house.
I went to the cable jack in the room with no phone. Hooked another piece of coax to it and to my 2nd jack. I assumed that both cable jacks in the house were on the same line. This assumption proved wrong. Nothing came over the line. My guess is that there is a splitter somewhere before where I am patched in and the signal is not propagating.
the idea seemed good, but I’m back to square one.
Ah well. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
First off, my mood is fairly happy.. albeit tired.
Short from:
Friday: Halloween Party
Sat: Horion Fall Fundraiser
Sun: Mass.
I also wrote “Conway’s Life” this weekend in Cocoa. This is something I’ve been trying to do for years. Not only was I able to do it… I was able to do it in Obj C in a weekend. (Yay)
But the real story… the pictures from Halloween.
I just got my first set of shots… And I have a new favourite picture.
Thank you faerievixen2 for the pictures!
October 9, 2006 Google announces purchase of You Tube (PR)
October 15, 2006. Youtube site is down
That didn’t take long. Guess there are changes being made already.