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11/30/2005 03:41 #32370

Soon you may have word games
Category: estrip
Depending on how motivated I feel over the next few days you may have word games. I spent the entire evening progrmaming the backend of a sitewide hangman game which works off the journals.

It is the first game I am building around the surebert API . Basically the game should be in a continuous state of play when you come to the site. People can guess the letters until they kill hangman or fill up the word. I haven't decided how scoring would work but somehow I am thinking about implementing a journal scoring system that counts for other things too. You can gain points by doing things like winning games, posting images, posting journal entries, inlinking, etc.

It gives me a reason to use all the code I had written for my color coordinated grading system now that I am no longer a professor.

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Now hangman just needs some fancy graphics.

11/29/2005 21:18 #32369

I think I found a mate
Category: mobile
So after deciding that life cannot go on with the nokia's lame camera, and speaking with (e:chris) I decided that I might need a Sprint PPC 6700

The problem is that I am not sure if I want to go with sprint and that the phone really kind of ugly. I need to go check it our tomorrow.

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At first I thought oh how lame that its a window mobile but then I realized that my whole life is about to goes windows style so why not just embrace it.
metalpeter - 11/30/05 19:40
I don't know much about mobile phones but maybe you should look into ones not made by phone service companies. For example I keep seeing an add for an LG phone that is a camara and has a note pad. I also remember seeing someone a couple years ago with what looked like a cell phone but it poped open and had a key pad and screen. I know there are companies that make phones but don't offer service. That way you can get the phone you like the most with out being comited to a service plan.
twisted - 11/29/05 22:33
I hope you'll be very happy together, lol.

11/28/2005 23:47 #32368

The Server Has Risen
Category: estrip
The server is almost ready for deployment. I had to take everything apart and upgrade. God, I hate my stupid camera phone it sucks so bad that I am going to have to buy a new one.

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11/28/2005 16:52 #32367

TB shot for Paul
Category: walk
I took the subway to Roswell from Utica. I was the only person in the stop - it was freaky.

View toward south campus
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View toward Downtown
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I home from getting a TB shot at the place I will soon call work. I find it overly depressing at Roswell. I hope that where I work it will be slightly more isolated from the hospital portion because I think the sadness might overwhelm me otherwise.

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I go my last TB shot and go in for the results on Wednesday. If I don't have TB, which I expect that I don't I will be all set to start work. Walking home from work only takes 20 minutes. I just go down Allen to Franklin and then straight down Linwood.

Although the trees are bare, it is so warm out. All the snow is gone and I didn't realy even need a jacket.

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For some reason all of the businesses at the corner of Main and Allen are vacant including the corner store that was there.

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I always wonder what this staircase went up to before it was the edge of a blacktop parking lot. The address was 295 Franklin maybe.

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I wish my camera was no in 256 color mode!!


imk2 - 11/28/05 19:59
hey paul,

when i had my tb test i actually came back positive. they tried to put me on some heavy duty meds for like a year! but what they didn't understand is that since i was born in poland, i had a vacination for tb and that is why i was probably testing positive. they tried to tell me that even if i did have the vaccine it would have worn off by now. but i personaly think they are full of shit.

ps. the vaccines were never used here because they were thought to be not very effective. who knows.

11/27/2005 19:06 #32366

Kostas and the lamb racket
Category: food
We ate the tasty fresh Calamari at Kostas again.

Has anyone else noticed that the price of rack of lamb has skyrocketted. It started at like $9.99 about 2 years ago and it seems like every other month it goes up. Even at Wegman's the raw price is way over $10.00. Tonight at Kostas it was $19.99, which is ridiculous for a not so fancy restaurant. I guess I did get a $55 rack at (e:mikes) gratuation party but that place was definately not a diner.

I got the turkey club in the end. Now that I completed the mobile XHTML version, I can write more again.
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iriesara - 11/28/05 12:09
Hi Paul - Hope you had a good thanksgiving. Your user pic looks strangely familiar...