I didn't know a human could do this

This is so cool it's disgusting:
Finger Finger Revolution

☺ Golden hours are coming to you ☺

They told me to bring my minis to the Sci-Fi meeting so I did. Jodie made a Wookiee chorus line. Chris tryed on my goggles (not googles). After the meeting Jodie and I went to Bomgaars to find some PVC pipe. No, they didn't have any but I know where I can get some online. We then went to Magic Wok where I haven't been in like 2 years. We then got some groceries and I got some actually healthy food. I even resisted the caffeine.

I am so excited for Halloween! I'm going to love freaking people out at with my costume. Anyways, for no other reason, look Rachel:

A Life Interrupted

Today I journeyed up to Sioux City with Rachel, Jodie, Sarah, and Steve to get stuff. We went to ACME and looked at the stuffs. They had DnD Clue! I picked up a box of Minis and got an Acklay and Luke on Tauntaun. We then went to Michael's to pick up crap. Then, the mall. I got my Clone Strike Ultimate Missions and found the goggles. Hehe! We went to Jo-Ann and got fabrics for my costume and found a pasley. We then went to Walmart and found another pasley. I also got a bunch of other crap.

By the way, gas prices in Sioux City were 2.39 per gallon. That kicks Nebraska's prices of about 2.54 across the river. I know there's other places that are worse but how did they get such good prices? Oh well, buy gas. Time to watch the 4400.

(Holy crap! That last five minutes of that episode is a mind orgy! They crammed so much stuff in those few moments! It's awesome!)

Sugar and Caffeine Rushes

Last night I played a game of poker. That's been a while. I was the third to last out but I went out on a straight but the full house got me. I woke up today and found a 4400 marathon in progress. That was nice. I then went with Rachel, Sam, Sarah, and Jodie down to Wisner for Natalie's goodbye party. That was hyperactive. Everyone was wet by the end of the night. She also ran off. That was great. I brought my action figs for the rides and we discovered the fun of bending things. Well, that's all for the moment. Tomorrow I'm off to Sioux City to find ACME, and go to JoAnn's, Hancock, and probably the mall among other places for the costume.

Megan after "the fall"

How we say goodbye to people

Morey is Falling Apart!

When I moved up, I had the fun of noticing that my cable is out. I realized later that my phone was out too. My closet light also would not turn on. I got rid of the bulb and asked for a new one. I got my new bulb and realized that it takes several clicks to turn on. Later, my sink light went out. I fished out the old probably-non-broken bulb and fixed that. They put in batteries in the smoke detectors and tested them. Then a couple of days ago the alarm would go off for no reason until I removed the battery. I noticed that 3 other rooms had the same problem. I don't mind if the smoke detector isn't working I guess but I want my cable!!!

Another DDR

Every year there has been a new DDR for me to enjoy:
Freshman = DDRMAX2
Sophomore = DDR Extreme
Junior = DDR Extreme 2

Halo Targeted for Summer 2007

20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures have closed the deal on making Halo into a movie. Universal will take care of it over in the US while Fox is taking the international market.

Click here for more: Coming Soon! - Latest News: "Halo Targeted for Summer 2007"

The End of a Morey Era

Well, I am back in Morey this year, but down a floor. I have found out that there is really no one from third floor still living there. Out of Nick, Josh, Alex, Matt, Gabe, Luke, Jordan, Aaron, Eric, Dave, Nino, Curt, Sean, Panama, Kyle, Jase, Heath, Brandon, and Tony only Curt remains. I really like Morey 316 as a room. It has a great position in the hall and a great view, but when I decided where to live I knew that if I put there it would not be the same. I have moved down a floor and I don't fell like I'm starting over necessarily, but I am enjoying it. College can be one of the most depressing times ever. It has so much change. You meet friends but you neglect to realize you've got at least 3 years of still seeing them at best. Even less when their older and even less when they move out. And then a surge of freshmen come in. Next year is going to be wierd.

On to College

Well, today was fun. They didn't want me in. They said I wasn't on the list. I am. All of my stuff is in here now and my room is awesome. My cable doesn't work yet so to pass time while I unpacked I watched The Empire Strikes Back. Infortunately, once I started I had to finish. I went over to Rachel's to see the rest of the Princess Bride and then watched the first part of Harry Potter. I showed them my goodies! Too many kinds of high. Water and gravity are now evil only when combined.

I shall call him...Mini-Wonka 

I am the Rulemaster!

(Those who don't really give a crap can go ahead and ignore this post like you've been ignoring the rest of this blog. Hehe!)
Last night at Dragon's Lair there was a Star Wars Miniature dispute that I was able to mediate. They were wondering if Sly Moore's Dominate ability works on enemy players and General Grievous.

Dominate (Replaces turn: Target non-Droid character takes an immediate turn, which does not count as one of your 2 activations this phase, even if it has already been activated this round; save 11. The target character cannot move this turn.)

OK, now it doesn't say anything about enemy players or anything but the rulebook contains additional information they couldn't list on a card. It says:

Dominate: Instead of taking its normal turn, this character can take control of a target non-Droid character, even one who has already been activated this round. (This does not count as an activation.) The target character takes a turn as though it were on the acting player’s squad but cannot move. It can resist this effect with a save of 11. Determine legal targets normally for enemy characters; any allied character in line of sight is a legal target.

Ah ha! "For enemy characters!" So that was settled. Now General Grievous, he counts as a Cyborg with both Droid and non-Droid attributes. Does this mean having droid attributes would not allow him to be targeted? Well, we go back to the trusty rulebook:

Cyborg: A Cyborg character counts as both a Droid and a non-Droid. This means it benefits from effects that target Droids (such as Repair) in addition to other kinds of effects (such as Heal). However, a Cyborg character is also vulnerable to harmful effects that don‚’t normally affect Droids (such as critical hits) as well as those that specify Droids only (such as Ion Gun 20). Cyborgs can be affected by commander effects.

Not a whole lot there but something caught my eye...Heal works. So I whip out the Polis Massa Medic card with Heal and it says:

Heal 10 (Replaces attacks: touch; remove 10 damage from a non-Droid character)

So if Heal works on Grievous becuase of his non-Droid attributes, therefore Dominate must work because of that same non-Droid status. Boo ya, nerds! Basically the point of Cyborg is to take advantage of both attributes and not be hindered by one or the other.

Chris Miller Funday 2005

Yesterday, the Class of 2003 went down to Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun. OK, let me see if I can get everybody: Me, Chris, Max, Kyle, Brandon, Zach, Eric, Ashley, Megan, Angie, Kayla, Steph, Kelly, and Sara B. were going. It started off well. Zach showed up with a hangover so that was fun to watch. Kyle drove the Millers' van, Brandon drove himself because he had to get to Des Moines afterwards, Steph drove her car, and Chris drove his car. I rode in the van with Kyle, Zach, Ashley, Megan, and Angie. We didn't get far into Iowa when Zach had to puke. He puked again in Missouri, then again outside the park. Good thing he was going on rides. In Missouri, we were going about 100 mph and suddenly a cop pulled out behind us. We're all thinking seatbelts when the cop passes us and goes for the car inbetween us and Steph. We were freaked. But it was fun.

We got outside the park and we decided to eat, I think, beforehand so we turned around and went to Wendy's. Our van couldn't find everyone else because Zach was puking. We called and found out they went in anyways. We got our tickets after selling a few extras to some people. They said "Chris Miller Funday" hence the title of the post (and probably future gatherings). They went on the Boomerang while a few of us waited. Most of the group went to Oceans of Fun while Ashley, Megan, Angela, Eric, and I went to more rides. They went on the Mamba because I'm not too keen on rides overall. They make me yak. But I love being there. We then went on the Monsoon, one of the rides I actually go on. They then went on the Detonator and then we wondered around for a while until we got to the Spinning Dragons. The line was long so I took off toward the sugar. They had Wonka bars! You don't find those anywhere. We then went on the Viking Voyager, another I like, and then we chilled out. We got bored and went to Oceans of Fun. Megan and I didn't have suits so we just waited in the oppressive heat.

After a while, the whole group was ready to try Worlds of Fun. They wanted to go on Mamba but it was broke. They went on Detonator while I had my own thrill ride. I visited the Detonator gift shop and was looking at the glassware when one of the glass shelves above me broke shattering crap everywhere. I was so embarrassed. Luckily, they said it was OK as I said that I think I will leave the store now. Not my best moment. They then went on the ThunderHawk and hated it while I found a DDR Extreme game. They really wanted me to go on it so I played some chick from the park. That was fun and exhausting. It's been a while! They went on Spinning Dragons again and most of the group got tired. Some headed back to the cars while the others went on Boomerang again. We cranked the A/C and waited and navigated the most poorly designed lot ever. We then left and went to eat. They wanted Perkins but we brought them down to CiCi's. Brandon left for the army and we were off. Unfortunately, Kayla's car was off in the wrong direction. Glad I wasn't.

The drive back was fun and reminiscent. Zach was going about 80 mph and the group wanted to stop constantly but we kept going. They wanted us to stop for 30 minutes to catch up but we didn't. Almost into Nebraska, Zach has the great idea of passing a guy in a disappearing lane and then suddenly having to slow up to not hit a truck. In Omaha, Kyle wanted Zach to take I-680 North and cut the median to get to Center faster. He wasn't going to do that in the Millers' van so we took that to Pacific and got back to Center. We tried to get gas at Fantasy's but they were closed. The other called us at about the Platte River saying that they were at 160th and Center. No way. We went to Cubby's for gas and then headed back to Mead. We left gas money I had to get gas in may car. Christ showed up not too long after wanting to know how long we've been back. They must've totally sped bad. Oh well, that's the whole of it! I can't wait for the next one.

www.flickr.com swfanatic_2000's Worlds of Fun 2005 photoset

My iPod Experience

I thought it would be fun to get an iPod mini for this weekend and finally give in to one of my sever urges. I picked up a green 4GB iPod Mini from Best Buy and was somewhat happy due to the fact that I don't like shelling out $200. I got it home and installed it and the installer crapped out during the connection part. It gave me an error reporting alert. So I tried again, same thing. Error 1628! It was driving me nuts. I took it back yesterday and exchanged it for a new one. I opened it up and tried again. Same frickin' thing! I was getting angry. I installed it on the main computer and it went. It was all formatted so I installed the software only and tried to get it to run. Nope! It hate my computer. So I took it back to Best Buy all defeated and so now I'm up $200 and down one iPod urge.

If anyone knows how to solve this, let me know. Or if anyone knows how to install an iPod and then have it simply work with iTunes with little installation, please let me know...cough...cough...Oliva...