Over Tuesday and Weds yolanda and i went to bellingham WA to visit our friends tim and stef. We went to an irish pub there that they frequestn and played some trivia. We didn't think that we were doing too well, but we tied for first, which netted us 8 bucks a piece in prize money! that could have been 16 bucks, but i said that one of the answers was "Jicama" though i thought that it wasn't. Yolanda knew the answer was "Jerusalem Choke" but stef didn't change it. oh well, still number one. I kept us alive in sudden death by knowing that the name of the horse in Neverending story was "Artax."
I started reading some of the "Oz" books as an easy read over the break. I read the Wonderful Wizard of Oz and enjoyed it. Pretty different then the movie. A lot more cool creatures and a lot more heads getting cut off at the hands of the tin woodman. Also, everyone in the land of oz is actually sort of gullible and simple. Enjoyable, nonetheless. I've been reading them on my old palm device which is an excellent e-book reader, and they are all public domain these days and our available via project gutenberg. Yolanda reminded me that I had used the DS as an ebook reader, and read a lot of the tintin books, which i thought were all right, but couldn't really get into (at least on the DS). So I looked into it and there are a couple of programs that convert .txt files to books. The DS works great as an ebook reader since you can turn it sideways and use both screens as pages. totally awesome and much more comfortable than the handspring visor, though it requires a little fuddling with the .txt files, where the visor I just have to download it and throw it on there, and is really not bad, not as bright and rechargable as the DS. I have to use windows for both devices. I use a program that runs windows in Mac OSX and it works well, but i can't run IE in it because it ALREADY has viruses that go to XXX sites. Ridiculous.
Friday, December 21, 2007
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