Archive for September, 2008

Hepatitis sucks a lot, don’t get it.

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Words to live by I guess. I find out in 3 more weeks if I’m all better and back to normal and if I am allowed to imbibe alcohol again. I am just glad I’m not yellow and in a ton of pain anymore. I am glad it cleared up in time for the rest of my travel this year, though it did screw up PAX for me pretty bad. Maybe I’ll get a chance to go again, though not next year if both China and Australia work out.

(To be clear, I’m talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis being an injury to or inflammation of the liver, not the viral Hepatitis A-E strains)

Baby, I’m coming home…

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I am almost done with my week here in San Francisco. It has been really good and most importantly relaxing. I got out a bit today and did the touristy stuff today down by the Fisherman’s Wharf. I took a few pictures.

Internet stalking update:

Things I demand…

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Dear Roku / Sony
Hulu.com support now please. If the PS3 gets it first I may still buy a Roku box once NetFlix has a better selection of stream-able movies. Though if the Roku box gets Hulu first I’d buy the thing RIGHT NOW. And while I’m ranting, Sony, you still have to address all the other things I bitched about

BBC iPlayer Guys:
I would subscribe to get access to iPlayer right now. Please figure out a way to take my money!! I would also like PS3 streaming akin to the Wii one, it shouldn’t be hard, the dude at PS3 iPlayer made it work.

Also: a pony.

Relaxing in San Fran and a little play with HDR

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

SFO HDR Composite It is now mid day 4 of my vacation here in San Fran and the last two days have been pretty relaxing so far. I got to hang out with mjw and jrrs a bit and got a belly full of yummy sea food and sushi for my birthday. I figure tomorrow I will do some random touristy stuff just to say I did before I have to fly out Tuesday afternoon. So far I think this is a pretty neat city if not a tad expensive but I guess most real cities are more expensive than home.

So I figured that I’d play around with taking a few pictures today while doing the relaxing thing, and the above is a 2 image ‘HDR’ composite of the view out of one of the windows of my gracious host’s apartment. I think it came out better than the 3 image version so I left the light mask off. This was taken with my Lumix DMC-FZ7 using a stack of hockey pucks as a tripod. The original image, and a larger copy of the composited version is on my flickr photostream. Hopefully tomorrow when I do the tourist thing I’ll grab a handful more snaps so I have some actual proof that I was here other than a credit card bill.

Yarrr

Friday, September 19th, 2008

talk like a pirate day

That is all.

I failed at Seattle, let’s try San Francisco

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

So I tried to go to PAX in Seattle 2 weeks ago (the few pictures I took are at http://www.ub3rgeek.net/gallery/pax08) and ended up getting extremely ill and being basically unable to leave the hotel room the whole time. It is a testament to the Seattle Sheraton that I had as good of a time as I did, the hotel is gorgeous and the staff is extremely kind. Thankfully Tim got to go go PAX, so I expect he’ll have something posted over at midlifegamer.com. Of course by now everyone who wants to read about PAX probably has.

So the plan now is to go visit some people out in San Francisco this coming week which happens to be my birthday. I have been going through a bunch of medical tests to find out what I had over the last trip and to see if I am better, so depending on what the doctor says tomorrow we will see what happens. Hopefully he’ll clear me to travel… and clear me to drink again so I can enjoy my birthday with a bit of whisky.

So if all goes well, you can once again internet stalk me thanks to Flightaware

Wish me luck! The NetApp guys say I have to get down to Fisherman’s Wharf, I’d like to catch a show at DNA Lounge, and I hope rmance, or mjw can find me some yummy sushi.