Tuesday is Driving, Dinner, DDR, I Dunno Day
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orangey is the lucky 100th person to befriend me. (Yay more CMU alumni! Now if only mwallace would get an LJ as well...)
Today I drove Eli to Shadyside and we visited the jewelry store and learned that jewelry is expensive. We also ate crepes and got a salad shooter. Crepes and salad shooters, fortunately, are cheap. I got the experience of parking in a parking lot! It is fun, except the part where I can't aim worth shit at the ticket thingy and both times had to open the door and undo my seatbelt and lean way over to get the ticket and to put the ticket in. Other than that I think I'm getting pretty comfortable with normal driving. I need a lesson in parallel parking sometime though...
I went to Squill and picked up my pictures from Fotoshop. Fotoshop vaguely screwed them up - they gave me 3 reprints of other people's pictures and they also accidentally reprinted a shot I didn't want reprinted. At any rate, they did do everything I asked them to, and I don't think they charged me for the extra prints, so... I caught a bus back from squill and went to Wean. Put up the prints of Marks Stehlik and Tomczak in clown suits on the lounge bulletin board, and then went to Mark Stehlik's office and gave him copies of the pictures as well. I think he liked them.
I played some Tigris in the lounge with Dan, Neal, and Pete S. Neal was just screwing up and I played my "Mister Infrastructure" strategy which meant I didn't really attack anyone. So I lost, although I was really balanced (like literally 5/6/6/6). After the game I went into Oakland for dinner with a billion people (ok, so it was me,jcreed, Dan, Neal, Tom 7, Pete, Kaustuv, and combinator). We got pizza at Sorrento's and ice cream at Dave&Andy's. You know, I think outings like this are the sort I don't really appreciate quite enough for what they are... pizza is soooooo cheap, and D&A actually had Kahlua Cookies'n'Cream, but it was yogurt instead of ice cream. I got it anyway, but I think it would have been better if it was ice cream.
I walked home after that. IMSO was tonight. Rebecca, Joanna, and Bayani were here. Rebecca brought Goo Goo Soundy, which is this game by Konami around the same time as DDR 1st mix. People bill it as "a game that lets you make up your own DDR songs", but what really happens is that you put in a CD and it makes up its own DDR arrows to the song and if you dance well you make your character happy and they dance a lot and crap. So it's sort of a lot more like Bust-a-(Gro|M)ove. It had instructions in Japanese, but even as far as I could tell, it didn't let you make up your own arrows for anything. Joanna was like "look, I romanized the instructions so we could figure out what they say," except that since she studies Japanese at Pitt, her romaji writing is incomprehensible to me, so I ignored it and got out my WordTank and translated stuff directly. We did have fun putting in a lot of random stuff (Bayani, of course, only brought Ska music) and seeing what it came up with. For the record, it utterly couldn't parse Weird Al's "Alternative Polka". :) We did sort of have a little fun with songs like "Wannabe" and "Walk Like an Egyptian" and "Barbie Girl" and some of my random J-Pop and such. After that, Rebecca also showed off that she has DDR Tokimeki Memorial Mix. No joke. Apparently there's this one Tokimeki game that has these two girls you're going after that are twin sisters and one is good at DDR and one isn't so you see them play DDR a whole lot. After a certain point in the story you can choose to play DDR Tokimeki Mix. It has like 6 songs and they're all sort of mediocre, though apparently if you play the game they're cool because it's like "oh this is the song they played while we rode the Ferris Wheel!" and such. After that we played Konamix so people could unlock songs for me. I only had one pad set up, so Rebecca played Thumb-Thumb-Revolution style and Bayani played on the pad and every now and then I got a song in edgewise. To be honest, I wasn't really into IMSO tonight. My legs still kind of hurt and I wasn't really in a great mood for whatever reason. Sometimes I get really bugged by random stuff. At least I won't be hosting next week, since it's my birthday and all. Whee!
Oh, so speaking of which, I'm about to go redo my wish list on Amazon. Whee.
orangey is the lucky 100th person to befriend me. (Yay more CMU alumni! Now if only mwallace would get an LJ as well...)Today I drove Eli to Shadyside and we visited the jewelry store and learned that jewelry is expensive. We also ate crepes and got a salad shooter. Crepes and salad shooters, fortunately, are cheap. I got the experience of parking in a parking lot! It is fun, except the part where I can't aim worth shit at the ticket thingy and both times had to open the door and undo my seatbelt and lean way over to get the ticket and to put the ticket in. Other than that I think I'm getting pretty comfortable with normal driving. I need a lesson in parallel parking sometime though...
I went to Squill and picked up my pictures from Fotoshop. Fotoshop vaguely screwed them up - they gave me 3 reprints of other people's pictures and they also accidentally reprinted a shot I didn't want reprinted. At any rate, they did do everything I asked them to, and I don't think they charged me for the extra prints, so... I caught a bus back from squill and went to Wean. Put up the prints of Marks Stehlik and Tomczak in clown suits on the lounge bulletin board, and then went to Mark Stehlik's office and gave him copies of the pictures as well. I think he liked them.
I played some Tigris in the lounge with Dan, Neal, and Pete S. Neal was just screwing up and I played my "Mister Infrastructure" strategy which meant I didn't really attack anyone. So I lost, although I was really balanced (like literally 5/6/6/6). After the game I went into Oakland for dinner with a billion people (ok, so it was me,
jcreed, Dan, Neal, Tom 7, Pete, Kaustuv, and combinator). We got pizza at Sorrento's and ice cream at Dave&Andy's. You know, I think outings like this are the sort I don't really appreciate quite enough for what they are... pizza is soooooo cheap, and D&A actually had Kahlua Cookies'n'Cream, but it was yogurt instead of ice cream. I got it anyway, but I think it would have been better if it was ice cream.I walked home after that. IMSO was tonight. Rebecca, Joanna, and Bayani were here. Rebecca brought Goo Goo Soundy, which is this game by Konami around the same time as DDR 1st mix. People bill it as "a game that lets you make up your own DDR songs", but what really happens is that you put in a CD and it makes up its own DDR arrows to the song and if you dance well you make your character happy and they dance a lot and crap. So it's sort of a lot more like Bust-a-(Gro|M)ove. It had instructions in Japanese, but even as far as I could tell, it didn't let you make up your own arrows for anything. Joanna was like "look, I romanized the instructions so we could figure out what they say," except that since she studies Japanese at Pitt, her romaji writing is incomprehensible to me, so I ignored it and got out my WordTank and translated stuff directly. We did have fun putting in a lot of random stuff (Bayani, of course, only brought Ska music) and seeing what it came up with. For the record, it utterly couldn't parse Weird Al's "Alternative Polka". :) We did sort of have a little fun with songs like "Wannabe" and "Walk Like an Egyptian" and "Barbie Girl" and some of my random J-Pop and such. After that, Rebecca also showed off that she has DDR Tokimeki Memorial Mix. No joke. Apparently there's this one Tokimeki game that has these two girls you're going after that are twin sisters and one is good at DDR and one isn't so you see them play DDR a whole lot. After a certain point in the story you can choose to play DDR Tokimeki Mix. It has like 6 songs and they're all sort of mediocre, though apparently if you play the game they're cool because it's like "oh this is the song they played while we rode the Ferris Wheel!" and such. After that we played Konamix so people could unlock songs for me. I only had one pad set up, so Rebecca played Thumb-Thumb-Revolution style and Bayani played on the pad and every now and then I got a song in edgewise. To be honest, I wasn't really into IMSO tonight. My legs still kind of hurt and I wasn't really in a great mood for whatever reason. Sometimes I get really bugged by random stuff. At least I won't be hosting next week, since it's my birthday and all. Whee!
Oh, so speaking of which, I'm about to go redo my wish list on Amazon. Whee.
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