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Monthly Archives: November 2003

olde nawlins.

by Rob Friesel

Back from New Orleans. Alls I can say is: Good times. Photo recap: Hanging Gardens of the French Quarter. Bourbon Street. Just plain… Phew. Anne Rice’s retired orphanage converted to guest home. Or something along those lines. Weirdo. Little secret gardens abound. What town would be complete without graffiti? Seemed to me that every bar […]

birfday!!

by Rob Friesel

So TODAY is my birfday! 24 today. A’s slick ass managed one killer surprise party last night though. Now that you know the punchline, here’s the story: She called me at work and lured me out for pizza for dinner. “Too lazy to cook tonight. How ’bout you?” Not so unusual. Went out. Ate. Yun. […]

online games suck.

by Rob Friesel

stumbled across this while (ironically?) trying to track down info on the very first online game that I got (well…) hooked on. Fair bit of interesting. Particularly like his points about the social nature of games/gaming and how the internet could involve itself in that at a new level: The game of Magic: The Gathering […]

boston.

by Rob Friesel

can’t find a transcript but I just caught a sound bite from the news uttered by dem candidate john edwards :: talking about how “the last thing the south needs” is “someone like [howard dean]” telling them that he understands them or can speak for them. (something along those lines, like i said, waiting on […]

evening round-up.

by Rob Friesel

Popecountdown.com? Uh. Um. OK. Some selected tid-bits: “I’m hoping for you your ideas about heaven are true; it would suck dying while having wasted your life.” “if u have to die do it on my B-Day” “I wish for him that he goes to heaven, just like everybody else” “Could you maybe canonize me before […]

weekend codewarrior.

by Rob Friesel

so i got past the first phase, ascertaining that although it should work, it does not: … mouseOut.pageItems[i].pathPoints[j].anchor[0] -= 180; … Consequently, my elegant solution was axed in favor of a much clunkier (though functional) one … but before I could even get that far … it also became necessary to realize that the object […]