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07/24/2006 18:26 #21070

Tempus Irae
Category: art
After two days, still waiting for the chalk to dry...


leetee - 07/24/06 19:51
damn the humidity!!

07/22/2006 17:04 #21069

Hi ho, Hi ho, to paris I will go
Category: art
Time to go make some chalk.

In all likelihood, this is probably going to blow up in my face and turn really messy. In fact, I probably should just stick with the target and dollar store suggestions people made in their comments.

But I'm just too dang curious to see if this will actually work.

07/19/2006 01:19 #21068

Chalk experiment this weekend
Category: art
After an unexpected shortage of chalk at the last (e:strip) chalking and having found sidewalk chalk a whole lot more difficult to come by in your average grocery/office supply store, I've started doing some research into making homemade chalk and found a decent-looking site detailing some of the recipes



I really want to try this, but I'm going to have to wait till the weekend; it seems messy and the last thing I need to being doing is cleaning up chalk residuals at 3AM before work the next day (which, left to my own devicing, I would gravitate towards doing).


theecarey - 07/19/06 16:29
Make a mess.. make some sidewalk chalk!!

(and run to $ Tree and Tops for back up..)
leetee - 07/19/06 11:03
A few days ago, (e:Uncutsaniflush) and i got a 4 pack of crayola chalk for 99 cents at the Tops on Grant and Amherst. I keep it in my purse in case of chalk emergencies... used it on the corner of Forrest and Elmwood to quickly scrawl estrip.org....
ladycroft - 07/19/06 10:59
try the dollar store. they usually have loads of sidewalk chalk.

07/12/2006 01:02 #21067

I hate having to change plans
Category: weekend
I really wanted to go to BarCamp is Rochester, but they start the thing on Friday morning (I goofed and thought it was a saturday). By the time I get out of work (~5:00PM) and spend the next 1+ hours driving to Rochester, probably no one's gonna be there; it's such a small group, they'll probably get bored to tears and leave before 11:30AM. Damn, I wish Buffalo could support an unconference.

Luckily, I have a backup thing I want to do this weekend--see "Pirates Of the Carribean II". I looks like a fun movie, and after missing the Black Pearl and getting all these "are you living under a rock" responses from people who saw it (I eventually did see it, a year or more later), I want to be able to keep up to speed with everyone else.
metalpeter - 07/12/06 18:47
Yeah Johny Depp is a preaty good actor. Yes he is a little weird corky and strange but in a good way. By the way what ever happened to His look alike Skeet Ulrich or what ever his name was.
leetee - 07/12/06 17:36
Not sure if it makes you feel any better, but i didn't see the first Pirates film... well... until last week when it was on Canadian tv. How shameful is that from someone who thinks Johnny Depp is not only pretty, but a pretty good actor?! *hangs head in shame*

07/11/2006 00:04 #21066

Wrong Steve
Category: computers
I meet Steve.

I show him my program that downloads all the NCSU online course registration web pages and searches them. The program I stayed up two days straight working on to get finished before he arrived and which caused me to receive an F on my Anthropology paper the following Monday.

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No intercession from Steve whatsoever.

He comes back to visit NCSU again a year later to get his honorary doctorate. I show him my Shakespeare note-taking program. He tells me "that's what computers were meant to do!".

Again, no intercession of any kind.

After reading the posting by (e:Twisted) and the comment by (e:Zobar) , I realize the error of my ways; I was petitioning the wrong Steve. I guess I'll have to e-mail the other Steve if I want a job in Apple's social software division or their super-secret death-ray department.

(p.s. I'm kidding. I'm actually quite happy with the way things turned out, for the most part).




twisted - 07/11/06 11:07
You met Woz! Cool!
zobar - 07/11/06 07:38
Yeah, see ... if you need a Steve to help you out or loan you a death-ray, you need the one who actually still owns the company.

- Z