If you watch my flickr stream you’ve seen pictures from shows at a local place i frequent of people playing music. Pictures of people playing music isn’t very fulfilling so I’ve also been videoing with my non video camera camera. There had been promise of flickr allowing video uploads and I had wanted to integrate the video into the picture sets. However, with flickr this week releasing the video upload section, it doesn’t quite work as I had pictured. 90 second limits aren’t enough for a 5 minute song. So I’ll just stick with youtube. I did look at other video services such as veoh and viddler and the now defunct stage6 but youtube can boast the greater audience level, one of the main reasons I picked flickr for my pictures. Either way, I’ve uploaded the first of these videos, and linked above. Here’s my old friend Mercy singing at spinners. Apologies for the background noise, although amusing, detracts quite a bit. I have more to come with some cleaner audio. When I get rich one day I’ll buy a new video camera.
My scammers seemed to have disappeared. I guess they realized they weren’t getting easy money from me. I get the random occasional chat message still, I received one the other day from pamela.campbell that simply said i love you. I guess I didn’t get whatever lulz I was expecting. But it’s enjoyable to waste their time and about the only real direct thing I can do to them.
For those curious I did not buy my full time job. Rumors are all around about all sorts of things, and rumors are fun sometimes. An official announcement has yet to be made, but may be done so pretty soon. I’ll dispel any rumors and clue you in that I will continue my job at the circus with Jasper my pet monkey. Myself and the bearded lady plan on raising our own tent as it seems our traveling circus may not have a place to travel to once we pass the over the niger river.
I had to go back through flickr to see what I’ve actually been up to. This past week I finally surpassed 15,000 pictures. I now have 15,630 pics on my flickr photostream and I’m at 58,707 views as of tonight. Not a lot to write about… I’m in more of a technical mood than a writing mood. Hopefully I can write soon
I’m at the health department today, I’m working on some lady’s computer and I’m waiting on something or another. So, I start looking around the desk, the walls and whatnot. See what people have. On her desk is what looks like a food pyramid type sheet. But, upon closer inspection, it’s an activity worksheet. At the bottom of the pryamid, are the things you’re supposed to do a lot of. Things like walk your dog, play in the snow, ride a bike etc. And at the top of the pyramid, in the section where you’re not supposed to do hardly any of it, are play video games, use the internet, sit for more than 30 minutes etc. I want to be that little worker, who hoisted up those huge rocks to the top, got to the top and enjoyed it so much he sat his ass down and watched the aliens wave goodbye.
I had to renew my drivers license last week. Or maybe the week before. Anyway, my birthday was the 5th so that week. Now 30. I keep all my important stuff in a box, and every once in a while if I get bored, or if I need something I’ll go through it all over again. I seem to always find something new, even though it’s been too full to add anything for years. This time though, I’m armed with a digital camera so I took a few pictures. Here’s maybe the first picture of me in the newpaper. This is me in 5th grade so maybe around 1987. You know it’s a small town when you get your picture in the paper because you ate some chinese food!
Then here’s me again about 3 years later:
And finally me again another 3 years later securing my geekdom and single status for eternity:
Here’s some realllly old class pictures from 1982 and 1985.
Then I’m not sure how old I was here but pretty sure this is at the dentist:
There’s lots of gems in my little box. Ok it’s not so little anymore. But that box is about the only thing I’d care to save if something were to happen to my place. Despite what insecure previous’s said about it being my computer. There’s pieces of my life in there from about the entire span of me, birth certificate (which I’ll prob move to a more secure location), report cards, awards, papers I wrote, journals I kept, artwork, old left over prescription pills, high school and college diplomas’, my baby teeth are in there even. A few things from previous’s, but mostly each gets her own separate little box. I did find two little gems that gave me clues to some old friends I’ve been missing greatly, and I’ve already been able to locate one of them. Now, why do you have to be all the way in Ohio? aha. Anyway, point being it’s a ton of stuff I’d love to put up here and share. I’ll do so when I can get around to it. aha
For future reference, dancing does not include stumbling around drunk, or rubbing your ass on some guy’s cock. That kind of stuff can cause a relationship to be over before it ever started. Here’s a girl that’s got some moves:
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I posted this up on zee’s blog, so without anything else of interest to put here I’ll copy here.
Back when I was a teen (back when, I’m sounding old) me and my friends (Marty and Scott) would go to the mall to hang out. There’s not a lot to do in Louisburg now, much less 10+ years ago. We’d go to Crabtree, the most popular and biggest mall in the area then. We’d walk around, browse the shops, eat in the pavilion, and hit up the arcade. I remember spending hours and hours in the arcades there. Me and my friends never looked for trouble anywhere, but if there was one excuse for going to the mall, it kept us out of it.
When Triangle Town Center opened up I was speaking with some of the people who worked there. I told them I’d come to their mall more often if they had an arcade. I was told specifically the mall management would not open an arcade because they didn’t want to attract the kids. I believe the arcade is now gone from Crabtree very recently. Leaving the only good arcade I know about to be the one at Adventure Landing on capitol. It’s full of kids games though, some grown up games. Gillians in downtown has a huge arcade, but they’re all lame shooting games. When I get rich, I’m definitely opening up a arcade somewhere.
— i’m adding to my post on her blog now, had some more ideas
When I get rich, I’m definitely opening up a arcade somewhere. In a huge building, throw in nice PA system, hook up a dj booth and techno the place out. I’d have a side stage with defunct chuck e cheese animatronic band up there, all retrofited to date.
And I specifically wanted to mention that because
So on youtube there’s these guys that have copies of old chuck e cheese and showbizz pizza videos and shows from when they were big. They’re posting the old videos they played in the restaurants, and they’ve even got recordings of the animatronics doing their thing. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, chuck e cheese was a family restaurant back a lonnnng time ago, like 80’s or early 90’s at the latest. They had a decent kids and teenagers arcade, sold pizza, and had a big room where you could see a cheese animatronic band play the latest tunes and kid songs. Most of these are now gone, you can read up on a pretty dramitic history of it at wikipedia.
My mom used to take me there in Raleigh. It was on falls of the neuse road, right where it turns into wake forest road i believe. There’s a bojangles there now, and I think a CVS or something. But in the shopping center right behind there was where chuck e cheeses’s stood. I don’t know whats in that spot now, but I think the shopping center is still there. Anyway, I remember they had the person dressed as a big mouse and he’d come out and greet the kids and things. When you’re like 5 this was awesome. So, I remember mom’s driving me home one day and I spot on that road, in a white convertable, chuck e cheese himself cruising down falls of the neuse. His big ass head sticking out the top of the car, I dont know how the guy kept it up. But he was waving at all the cars and my mom honked and he waved!! aww the rat waved at me! Of course, then I probabaly thought he was real, so I was pretty excited.
Well anyway, i’m rambling
Anyway, the animatronic show was pretty neat, it had several characters on 3 different stages. They would ‘play’ the song by moving and wobbling around. I was so fascinated by the whole thing. Even now. To look back that long ago and remember that stupid show, technicaly it was pretty impressive. Others thought so too. People have been buying up the old units and setting them up in their houses and garages, retrofitting them and getting them all working again as a hobby. This guy has this whole setup in his house, it gives you a good idea of the main stage. Keep in mind these things are huge. It still plays the old songs:
Well, some guys have been trying to reverse engineer the animatronics and making their own shows. They finally managed to create a custom interface for a USB port and some software that interfaces directly with the original system. Here’s one of the first full shows they put together, which is pretty awesomely done:
Well, sorry but it seems the video that was at http://www.youtube.com/v/_OjudpMRDF4 of this show has been copyright claimed by Creative Engineering, Inc.
The other night I found this hilarous one, It’s just so funny thinking this playing to a bunch of kids! hope you enjoy:
And unfortunately the same thing with this video that was at http://www.youtube.com/v/p57NykGoXLs. This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Creative Engineering, Inc.
To provide something, here is a video of a studio for these old animatronics for you to enjoy
