What's new at FireboxRight, having played GH:III (Wii version) for several more hours now, I thought I’d re-write the previous entry:
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I’ve had a bad few days. Pretty much everything has gone wrong.
Thursday night I realised I had a few missed calls on my phone and a voicemail, it was my credit card company. Checked on-line and there was a pending amount of about £2k. I haven’t had a job since May and so was 100% sure I hadn’t bought anything. So, phoned them, they asked if I’d purchased some AEIS GiftCheques… err… no, what are they? (I have looked them up since and so know what they are). Also, had I spent £2k at dabs… No. Shit, not again. I had my card in front of me and only ever use it on-line so this must have been from the silly little bits of software I’d bought for my phone. Last time this happened it was from buying software for my Mac. Anyway, got my card cancelled, those charges denied and the police called.
Then the whole GH:III farce. Play said they dispatched mine about a day before my friends ones. Yet all theirs turned up Friday. Mine didn’t. It was sent via ParcelFarce so there’s not even any decent tracking (it generally only updates when you’ve signed for it). So I phoned ParcelFarce… and spent ages on the phone repeating the tracking reference over and over before giving up and having to speak to a real person. Looks like it vanished into the ether. So, much angry crying later, I was given the option to borrow a friends one. You see, I couldn’t even tell Play not to send me another and to refund my card because - YES! My credit card was cancelled so nothing could be refunded to it. Grrrr…
Anyhoo, I don’t know happened but now I have another copy winging its way to me. Yay!
I’m not sure what it is, but right now everyone seems to be on about web-hosting. I’ve had countless conversations lately about which hosts are good (Site5) and which are bad (34sp).
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Arrrgghhhh! CostCo now sell crates of Relentless…. so now I have a crate of it in the garage… along with 2 crates of RedBull…. No sleep for me!
No I don’t think these drinks taste like cough medicine or earwax or syrup, I actually like them.
I really want one of these for Christmas… *hint* *hint*
These look soo coool!
Been making these quite a bit recently. Ridiculously quick and easy to make, yet taste as good as any you could buy.
With my time off work this year I’ve really got back into my cooking and baking. I love cooking. Lots. My Mum has always baked cakes at least once a week ever since I can remember, so I must’ve got the baking gene from her. I probably also got the preserves/chutney/salsa gene from her too as she always makes her own jams and chutneys and my Cajun Salsa is pretty much legendary.
Anyway, I’ve decided to bung up the recipes for things I’m cooking on this blog. I won’t be copying these posts to all my other blogs though. I might cross-post them to LJ, but I’m not going to bother elsewhere.
Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI.
The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software. These coils were constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson. Video was captured by Terry Blake.
Link nicked from Josie’s blog.
